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THB YaAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY, JANUARY 29. 1898. Washington Office—lso3 Pennsylvania Avenue Telephone Calls. Business Office 23S I Editorial Rooms...A 86 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY BY MAIL. Dally only, one month $ .70 Dally only, three months... 2.60 Daily only, year 8.00 Dally, Including Sunday, one year 10.Ou Sunday only, one year 2.00 WHEN FURNISHED BY AGENTS. Daily, per week, by carrier..... 15 cts Sunday, single copy o cts Dally and Sunday, per week, by carrier 20 eta WEEKLY. Per year SI.OO Red need Hut os to Club*. Subscribe with any of our numerous agents or aend subscription* to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Indiuitapolin, Ind. Person* Bending the Journal through the malls in the United Stales should put on an eight-page paper a ©i>K-CKNT postuge stamp: on a twelve or sixteen-page paper a TWO-DENT postage •tamp. Foreign postage Is usually double theat rate*. All communications Intended for publication in thla paper must, in order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. Tilt: INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: NEW' YORK—Astor House. CHICAGO—PaImer House. P. O. News Cos., 217 Dearborn street, and Great Northern Hotel. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos.. 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Deering. northwest corner of Third and Jeffer.-on streets, and Louisville Book Cos., 256 Fourth avenue. ST. LOUlS—l.’nlon News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON, D. cT—Riggs House. Ebbitt House and WlHard’s Hotel. There is something pathetic in the efforts of Senator Teller to maintain the impression that he is a Republican. The shinning of the free-silver senators does not seem to hurt them much. They produce another one very quickly. If the free-silverites do not like the Indianapolis plan of currency reform let them offer a better. What is their plan, anyhow? The time seems to have come when it should be established by legislation that the United States of America means more than any small free-silver State. AH the while he was in Mexico Mr. Bryan did not learn that Mexican wages are about one-fourth those of the United States, purchase power considered. In the light of the skinning which Senator Fairbanks gave Senator Teller yesterday it Is fair to assume that if the Colorado senator had it to do over again he would not tell Senator Fairbanks to “sit down.” It is somewhat remarkable that in a Senate which has not an actual majority of the President’s party, not one of the 2,346 nominations he has made has been rejected or withdrawn through fear of rejection. The eccentricities of American politics are illustrated by the fact that while one United States senator from Indiana represents the progressive sentiment of the State on all the live issues of the day the other is hanging on the tailboard and screaming in seven languages, "Whoa, whoa!”

Not many years ago the Democratic party was large enough to go alone and elect a President; now Mr. Bryan, the leader thereof, is spending his time in efforts to bring the Populists and other elements to his support In 1900, thus confessing that the Democratic party has lost numbers under bis rule. Legislatures have frequently criticised senators for not obeying instructions, Jmt the criticised have always survived. The Mississippi Legislature once instructed Senator Lama?* to vote for free coinage, hut he refused. Heretofore, however, legislatures have been courteous, so that it has been left to the present Bryan Legislature in Kentucky to call Senator Lindsay “a •tall-fed traitor.” Mr. Lindsay is, next to Mr. Carlisle, the ablest Democrat in Kentucky. The votes in the Senate yesterday showed beyond any doubt that a majority of the members of tnat body arc opposed to the gold standard and presumably to any measure of real currency reform. This means that the upper house of Congress, the one least in touch with the people, is also least in favor of the present popular movement in favor of reforming the monetary system of the country. The American people are in hard luck when one branch of the national Congress plants Itself in the way of financial reform. Senator Fairbanks’s speech yesterday was well timed and well directed. He rendered a public service in exposing not only the fallacy but the unpatrlotism of the efforts of such men as Senator Veller and his coworkers. He made it very clear, if any demonstration in that direction was necessary, that the Tellerlte movement is simply one In the interest of silver mine owners. Rut that has been made clear before, and it is not likely that anew demonstration of it will huvt the free-silverites. Indeed, they are almost beyond the point of being hurt. The United States Senate never made a more disgraceful record than it did yesterday in the successive votes on amendments to Senator Teller’s free-silver resolution. By these votes the Senate, as now composed, put itself on record in favor of almost every conceivable phase of national repudiation, even to the extent of laying on the table a declaration that government obligations should not be paid In depreciated money. When the so-called higher branch of Congress reaches such a depth of demoralization as this it is Indeed lime to consider whether the method of electing senators should not be changed. The announcement that deficits have been discovered in the accounts of two ex-treus-urers in a large county will not occasion surprise, because such announcements are so frequently made. The Journal has called attention to them several times and has endeavored to point out some of the causes. The general impression Is that the defaulting officials are dishonest and have made uso of public funds in speculation. It may he said that as a rule such men are not dishonest. Few of them have any expectation or purpose of defrauding the counties. Probably very few of them uso the money they loso in their own business, it will be found, in most cases, that the money has ls(u loaned to friends who have claims upon them growing out of canvasses for nominations and elections. To get both, they coil upon friends to devote their time to secure delegates or to bring out the vote. Successful, these triends have “claims” on them. Consequently, when such friends ask for loans of money for a short time, many cannot deny the accommodation, remembering their promises and obligations. These friends frequently cannot repay, and the transaction cannot

be covered up when any scri of an investigation is made. If men knowrn to be competent were always selected for these responsible offices, and chosen because of their competence, there would be few r defalcations and irregularities. THE PRESIDENT’S SPEECH. The address of President McKinley before the organization of manufacturers in New York is one of the best of the? many thoughtful utterances he has made since his nomination. Whatever individuals may think of the President’s views, all candid men will agree that his speech is characterized by strength and dignity fitting the great office he holds. It is gratifying t the national pride to feel that no living ruler, born to the position, can speak upon natior al and international themes with anything like the power and breadth which characterize the last speech of the President. It presents a wide contrast with the pettiness of the speaking witli which the time of Congress is being wasted. In the first part of the address the President outlined the duty of progressive government. It can aid commerce, but the enterprise of the people must promote it; It can make reciprocal treaties, but these will not be effective unless labor, capital, skill and energy combine to utilize them. The President assumes that the onward movement of tho productive forces of the country must be directed to securing a prominent place In the world’s markets. What the President says regarding the money of the country is clear and emphatie—we must keep to the best, pay all obligations in the best. The victory is not yet won, and will itot be until a sound currency is secured by law. He warns the timid that the work of providing the country a stable currency must go on. Even if failure results at the present time, the result will prove that the party and the men who stand for sound currency have done their duty. At the present time these earnest and high-minded expressions of the President will give confidence to all those people who believe in broad statesmanship and have positive convictions in regard to the duty of government. Consequently, many thousands of thoughtful men who do not agree with the President on a number of points will respond with alacrity to his patriotic, high-minded and courageous expressions. They will not call themselves Republicans, but faith in the leading expressions of Mr. McKinley will cause them to come to the support of the measures and the line of action he now advocates.

POVERTY OF THE OPPOSITION. It must appear to newspaper readers that Arhat is termed the opposition in the House has but two ideas, the free coinage of silver and the necessity of acknowledging the independence of Cuba. During the past three weeks the House, in committee of the whole, been considering the regular appropriation bills, item by item. Judging from the reports of what is said from day to day no one would suspect that tiie House has been engaged in any such business. Not long ago almost three days were devoted to a discussion over a proposition to Inject into the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill a resolution acknowledging the independence of Cuba. If it had been a proposition designed to bring the troubles in that island to an end there would have been some s£nse in it, but the opposition made it the occasion of a series of bombastic harangues based upon the assumption that the Weyler regime of cruelty is yet in force and flatulent declarations aimed at decayed monarchies and those equal rights which some of these speakers practice by disfranchising colored voters. Another appropriation bill being under consideration some days subsequent, free silver coinage speeches were injected. There was nothing in the bill having reference to such matters, but being members of Congress with no interest in public affairs, no information which would enable them to speak intelligently upon special items of any appropriation bill, these gentlemen of the opposition deliver the old campaign absurdities in favor of coining 50-cent dollars. Men who represent districts which have no silver mines, but whose people are interested in many industries, talk of free silver as if the country had nothing else so important to be legislated upon as the Mexicanizing of the money of the United States. The opposition should- be able to get some other issue than that of the silver mine owners as the one thing to fight for in the House; these speakers can get but little out of the conditions in Cuba. The South, which furnishes the bulk of the opposition, should be interested in some scheme of sound banking which would enable the banks of that section to issue notes. From the business men of that section conies the complaint that the South needs more money. To this cry their representatives are deaf, but they can shout for the free coinage of silver when not an ounce of the metal is produced in the South. They do not seem to care whether free coinage will furnish the South the money it needs so uutg as it affords them a hobby upon which they expect to secure re-election. LATEST PHASE OF THE DREYFUS CASE. The latest phase of the Dreyfus ease is the most serious one for the French government it has developed. In fact, the ease is peculiar in that it has grown more and more serious from the beginning. Starting with the secret court-martial and conviction of an army officer on a charge calculated to make him universally odious, and putting itself on the ground of protecting the honor of the army, it seemed as if a great and powerful government could venture, without any fear of embarrassment, to make him a victim and scapegoat and send him away to die in an iron cage on a desert Island. But there are some things that even great and powerful governments cannot do with impunity, and one of these is to perpetrate gross Injustice. Ever since the trial of Dreyfus the feeling lias grown in France that he was unjustly convicted, in fact, persecuted, and that he was railroaded to Devil’s island in order to cover up the corruption or criminality of somebody else. There is sentiment enough among the French people to make that sort of feeling, once aroused, dangerous. That it has become so is shown by the recent riotous proceedings hi the Assembly*, the mobs In Paris and the intlammutory appeals of Zola. But the latest phase of the case is the most embarrassing. The statement of Baron Von Bulow, German minister of foreign affairs, made officially to a committee of the Reichstag, that there were never any negotiations of any kind between Captain Dreyfus and any German officer or agent, knocks the foundation from under the contention of tiie French government and leaves the Dreyfus prosecution hanging in midair. The French government bus based its action on the assertion that documents compromising Dreyfus and showing that he hud

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sold military secrets were found in the waste-paper basket of the German embassy in Paris. Baron Von Bulow pronounced this sheer fabrication, and Intimated as much regarding the story of Dreyfus's alleged visit to Alsace-Lorraine and the special favors shown hihi there by German officers. In short, the German minister denies every material point in the alleged evidence on which Dreyfus was convicted. This makes a very embarrassing situation for the French government. If it persists in its declarations that Dreyfus was bribed by agents of Germany It makes an issue of veracity with Minister Von Bulow and insults tho German government; while if it withdraws those declarations the Dreyfus prosecution falls to the ground. There is only one other way out, and that is to insist that the incriminating documents were really tound in the waste basket as alleged, and if they were not in Dreyfus’s handwriting they were forged anil placed there for a purpose. That would be in harmony with the theory of persecution and injustice maintained by Dreyfus’s friends, but it would boa very humiliating concession for tiie French government to make. Altogether, Captain Dreyfus in his iron cage on Devil s island Is likely to cause the French government far more trouble than he ever did or could have done at large in Paris. The liutter into which tiie McEwen letter in the New York Journal threw the Bryanites had passed away with the assurance of the publisher, Mr. Hoarst, that the paper would support Mr. Bryan again in 1900 “if nominated.” Now that the first letter has been followed by another by the same editorial writer the Bryanites will again have causg for consultation to consider such paragraphs as the following: Everything now points to the renomination of Mr. Bryan in 1900. It is the knowledge of that which causes Democrats of my kind to deplore that, as he comes to be better known, to be subject to critical examination when men are not excited by political canvass, he grows smaller rather than bigger, and instead of being a man of lofty and simple and utterly sincere mind, appears to bq revealing himself merely as a superior specimen of the smart lawyer-poli-tician of the corn-fed middle West, a class with which those who know Congress are familiar. The foregoing is rather harsh, but thousands of Democrats who have not partql with their wits over the personality of Bryan will admit that the characterization of the idol is one of the best that has been published. Democrats who read the free-silver New York Journal will find the following given in Mr. McEwen’s last three-column broadside: If Bryanism is to mean only 16 to 1 and no compromise, though the political heavens fall, the Democrats of the Republic who have men’s brains in their heads and men’s aspirations in their hearts will be forced to leave a party that has contracted itself into a sect in order to find breathing space and elbow* room, or else to search for leaders of a gauge sufficiently broad to understand what Democracy realty means. Mr. McEwen is no “Wall-istreet mipjon,” but a Democrat who has discovered that Democrats in’ the Eastern States and many in the West are opposed to silver monometallism. Thq Rev. William Behler AValker, of Joilet, 111., had better not write about railroads as "soulless corporations” so long as they give him half of his railroad fare as a straight gift. He doesn’t call the grocery firms “soulless corporations,” and they charge him full price for his daily food. The St. Louis theatrical manager who goes in for realism with real bloodhounds of the savage variety and wild bulls on the side should be enjoined. He may be putting on a senatorial election, a session of the Reiehsratli or a Denver barbecue next. Ohio editors are tired of the law that reverses the fundamental proposition that “all men are innocent until proven guilty,” and they are demanding anew law that gi\es the publisher of a newspaper as fair a show as is accorded to the criminal. If the stories of the barbecue riot at Denver be true, the foreign missionaries had bqtter be recalled and concentrated at Colorado’s capital. Enough food was wasted there to feed thousands of starving Cubans.

BURBLES IN THE AIR. Strength. Customer—ls this what you call a strong cup of coffee? Waiter—Sure, Mike. You couldn’t hardly break one of dem cups wit’ a ax. The Cheerful Idiot. "What is the sense of this free-seed humbug?” asked‘the Dyspeptic Boarder. “Free seeds,” the Cheerful Idiot explained, “raakq the farmer root for the congressman.” Measure us Content. Weary Watkins—This here tract the old lady gimme says that a contented man is one who has all he wants. Hungry Higgins—About a quart would fix me. One liiMtanee. “Our proud name has never been humble#! in the dust.” said Miss Parr-Venoo. “Oh, yes, it lias. Sally,” said the inconvenient and objectionable old friend of the family. “I remember it happenin’ forty years ago, when thq wind blow*ed down the sign off your grandfather’s shoe shop.” . TWO-HEADED INSECTS. Result of Experiments in Grafting Made by a Young Scientist. NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—Henry E. Campton, jr., the instructor in biology in Columbia University, who has discovered that it is possible by grafting to have two-headed butterflies, moths with two breasts or two tails, and. in fact, almost,any combination, talked to-day about his method. “I have found that insects can be grafted in almost every conceivable fashion and still live,” he said. ”1 do not claim to have made any discovery, however. I have simply carried out ideas that were propagated by others long ago. Grafting as an experiment in plants is very old, as you know. It has also been done in tadpoles and other low* forms of animal life, but never before in insects. My experiments have been carried on with moths and butterflies. I began last year, and my experiments bore fruit last spring. 1 take the moth or butterfly in the pupae stage, cut it in two, and graft sections of different pupae together. The result is a monstrosity.” Mr. Crampton exhibited some four or five hundred pupae so grafted. They are the small, wax-like, curiously shaped embryos which are found in the cocoon of the caterpillar and which gradually evolve into moth or a butterfly. "They are filled with the blood of tiie future moth,” explained Mr. Crampton. ’’After placing them In a cold place, so that tho blood will co igeal, 1 have cut off the heads of some, the tails of others, then placed tho two parts together. and held them in place with paraffin wax. That has given me two-headed moths, Siamese butterflies, and tandem insects.” Dr. Crampton exhibited a tandem moth which he had formed from welding a pupae from which he had removed the head to a pupae with its util removed. The result was a perfect tandem, with two sets of wings and one long body. Another interesting specimen was a Siamese twin butterfly—two butterflies connected by a distinct ligament. “I am also making experiments in transfusion of the blood of pupae.” continued Mr. Crampton. “By incans of a glass tube 1 remove tho blood from one pupae and transfer to the cocoon the blood of another pupae. That affects materially the color of the future butterfly's wings, and is an interesting study of heredity. That is what these experiments are for.”

PROSPERITY SMILING —. —♦ . • AND SPURRING THE INDUSTRIES INTO RENEWED ACTIVITY. Evidence that Confidence, she Real “Advanee Agent" of Business Revival, Now Reigns Supreme. —♦ WEEKLY REVIEWS OF TRADE DISTINCT IMPROVEMENT NOTED IN ALMOST ALL LINES. Incrense in N\ uges of 5600,000 Miners Likely to Further Better Conditions—Heavy Bank Clearings. NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—Bradstreet’s tomorrow will say: Favorable conditions in the trade situation continue to far outweigh those of an opposite character. Stormy weather throughout a large section of the country this week has checked the movement of merchandise into consumption, but a perceptible increase in the demand for seasonable goods is reported as already resulting. The last week of the month closes with increased activity in many lines; a number of price advances; heavily increased banking clearings, as compared with one year ago at nearly all cities; another considerable drop in the number of failures reported; large exports of cereals, particularly wheat, corn and flour, and perceptible confidence in nearly all branches of trade as regards the outlook for spring business. Another favorable feature of the week is the slight but distinct improvement in the cotton goods situation, in which speculative activity is awakening. Print cloths are higher and some makes of gray and medium weight cottons are more firmly held. Pig iron is reflecting the effect of tiie present unprecedented production, and a further weakening in prices is reported at Eastern points. At the West, however, consumption of pig and of the finished products of iron and steel is reported increasing so us to hold prices firm. Large sales of bar steel and rails are reported at Chicago and St. Louis, with mills refusing to take orders for delivery earlier than late summer. Boots and shoes hold the late advance, and manufacturers of heavyweights will not take orders for fall delivery at present prices. Wool is strong on large sales and firm prices abroad. Prices of most staple products are higher on the week. Noticeable instances are those of wheat, which is past the dollar mark again at many Western markets. The active demand for the Klondike trade is reflected in canned goods, stocks of which are reported very low*, with prices holding the late advance. Collections are generally reported fair, those indicating backwardness coming most generally from the South. Cereal exports are again heavy, the total shipments of wheat, including flour, for the week amounting to 5,110,624 bushels, against 3,926,000 bushels last week, 2.515,000 bushels in this week a year ago, 2,550,030 bushels in 1896 and 2,083,000 bushels in 1895. Corn exports have also heavily increased from last week, amounting to 4,962.030 bushels, against 3,486,000 bushels last week. 3,011,000 bushels last year, 3,197,#00 bushejs in 1896 and 942,000 bushels in 1895. - Business failures for the week are the smallest reported in the fourth week of January for five years past, numbering only 288. against 309 last week. 326 in the corresponding week of last year, 393 in 1896, 312 in 1895 and 340 in 1894. Os the failures reported 251, or 87 per cent., were of coneesns having $5,000 capital or less, and 95 per cent, of all were of concerns hgVVhg Jess than $20,000 capital. Business failures in Canada this week number forty-eight, against forty-six last week, fifty-six in the week a year ago and sixty-three in the corresponding week of 1896.

It. G. DUN & CO.’S REVIEW. .Business Increasing Despite Low Prices—The Cotton Industry. NEW YORK, Jan. 28.-R. G. Dun &Co.’s weekly review* of trade will say to-mor-row: The first month of the new year has brought rather more increase in business but less improvement in prices than was expected. With payments through clearing houses 7.3 per cent, larger than in 1892, and probably the largest ever known in any month, with railroad earnings 11.2 per cent, larger than the best of past years, the fact that prices are very low only shows more clearly the increase in quantities of products sold. Nor is there any disposition to refuse orders, even at present prices; indeed, the competition of manufacturers seeking orders alone prevents a rise. Most of them have all they can manage. many working night and day and one great steel concern running on Sunday, but the works not yet filled with orders are seeking contracts at as low prices as have ever been made, indicating that even these are not entirely unprofitable. The settlement of wages on a 10 per cent, advance April 1, for 200,000 coal miners of the central region, with other changes, will tend toward a larger demand for products of all kinds, though also toward some increase in cost of manufacture. Wheat has been conspicuous, rising ;>c for tiie week, with 5 1 ,- 8 c for May option. Western receipts have been 10,009,053 bushels in four weeks, against 6,045,712 last year, but Atlantic exports have been 12,003.828 bushels in four weeks, against 7.103,614 last year, and Pacific exports, without Tacoma, for the week, 4,015,583 bushels, against 3,454,995 last year. So heavy an outgo, with wheat over $1 per bushel, and w ith corn exports for the four weeks equaling the extraordinary movement of last year, discloses the strength of foreign demand even better than current accounts of disappointing shipments from Argentine and poor prospects in Russia. Cotton has risen i-tl6e. notwithstanding the strikes in Eastern mills and the official report of a, decrease of 10.5 per cent, in British exports of cotton goods last year. Receipts still run so far beyond those following the largest crop on record that estimates once deemed extravagant are commonly accepted. The cotton manufacture is in more difficulty than any other, not merely because prices do not much improve, nor as yet ihe demand for goods, though both are helped by the closing of many mills, but largely because the manufacturers and workers have considered too little the rapidly growing production at the South. The woolen manufacture is doing well, fine worsted goods having opened at an advance of 20 per cent, over last year, and the large mills are constantly buying wool, even at current high prices, which implies great confidence in the future, presumably based on larger orders than are publicly reported. Such purchases of wool have been frequent of late, even by mills supposed to be supplied far ahead, and one Providence mill appears to have taken 250,000 pounds worsted wool at Wheeling this week. Sales at three of the chief markets have been 8,080,100 pounds and for four weeks 30,421.070, of which 21.367,720 were domestic. against 36,547,600 last year, of which 23.397,300 were domestic. The iron manufacture is getting larger orders for finished products, which crowd many works almost beyond their capacity, although some others are still in the market and keeping prices down. Pig iron is steady, except that bessemer at Pittsburg is 10 cents lower, the output last year being officially reported as 9,652,680 tons, and the consumption in this country, unsold stocks considered, 9,625.383 tons, against 9.601,504 in the largest previous year, which was 1895. ami 9.394,932 tons in 1892. Failure® for the week have been 342 in the United States, against 331 last year, and 34 in Canada, against 57 last year. BANK CLEARINGS. Decreases Sliovrn at Only Two Points in the Country This Week. NEW YORK. Jan. 28.—The following table, compiled by Bradstreet, shows the bank clearings at eighty-seven cities for the week ended Jan. 27. with the percentage of increase and decrease as compared with the corresponding week lust year; X w York- 787,067,0t6 1nc..39.9 Boston • 1U8.196.792 1nc. .22.3

Chicago 86,716.983 1nc..29.2 Philadelphia 73,369,685 1nc..32.3 St. Louis 24,398.575 Inc.. 5.7 Pittsburg 21,066,901 1nc..41.1 Baltimore 17,102.244 1nc..28.6 San Francisco 14,721,434 1nc..37. 3 Cincinnati 11,600,800 Inc.. 4.7 Kansas City 10,0iM,558 New Orleans 11,525,775 1nc..19.2 Minneapolis 6.649,018 1nc..29.9 Detroit 7.821.610 1nc..74.7 Cleveland 6,523.059 1nc..15.1 Louisville 6,753.279 1nc..18.3 Providence 4,890.600 Milwaukee 5.393.642 1nc..48.0 St. Paul 3,700.930 1nc..24.1 Buffalo 4,140.129 1nc..19.9 Omaha 5,277.534 Inc.. 19.8 Indianapolis 4,476,294 1nc..27.4 Columbus, 0 4,291.8(X 1nc..32.7 Savannah 3,344,651 Inc.. 3.4 Denver 3,196,614 1nc..24.4 Hartford 2,028,025 Inc.. 5.0 Richmond 2.545,264 Inc.. 2.1 Memphis 3.422.400 1nc..55.2 Washington 3,815,009 Inc.. 8.9 l’eo t 1,182,150 1nc..15.6 Rochester 1,421,568 Inc.. 9.1 New Haven 1,653.301 1nc..29.9 Worcester 1.598,830 Atlanta 1,598,375 1nc..13.8 Salt Lake fity 1.523.776 Inc. 145.8 Springfield, Mass 1,568,181 1nc..17.3 Fort Worth 1.532.493 Inc.. 13.9 Portland, Me 1,206,261 Inc.. 7.5 Portland. Ore 1.329.847 1nc..60.3 St. Joseph 1.263,166 1nc..25.9 Los Angeles 1,244.599 1nc..43.6 Norfolk 1,157.612 1nc..23.6 Syracuse 870.298 Inc.. 8.8 Des Moines 1,052,632 1nc..45.1 Nashville 1,147,336 1nc..18.2 Wilmington, Del 679,457 1nc..21.0 Fall River 845.189 Inc.. 5.2 Scranton 1.172.455 1nc..34.5 Grand Rapids 965,488 1nc..69.8 Augusta, Ga 1,085,787 1nc..14.9 Lowell 617,328 Dec.. 3.4 Dayton, O 666,556 1nc..24.0 Seattle 1,682,446 1nc.333.5 Tacoma 555.325 Inc. 131.0 Spokane 773,462 Inc..B° 3 Sioux City 744,446 1nc..87.8 New Bedford 423,934 Inc.. 9.8 Knoxville, Tenn 493,117 Inc.. 8.5 Topeka 467,959 1nc..18.2 Birmingham 501,603 1nc..24.0 Wichita 452.569 1nc..13.8 Binghamton 279.100 Inc.. 6.0 Lincoln 382.708 Inc.. 8.2 Lexington, Ky 315,406 1nc..10.l Jacksonville, Fla 240,677 Inc.. 7.1 Kalamazoo 246,217 Dec.. 3.5 Akron 272,0 K) 1nc..16.1 Bay City 1.83,8)97 Inc.. 9.5 Chattanooga 807,457 1nc..24.8 Rockford, 111 227,401 1nc..30.4 Canton, O 152,600 1nc..13.6 Springfield, O 173.648 1nc..32.0 Fargo, N. D 179,280 1nc..77.2 Sioux Falls, S. D 114,403 1nc.280.0 Hastings, Neb ....'. 105,832 1nc..47.8 Fremont, Neb 85,783 1nc..40.7 Davenport 445,834 Inc.. 8.2 Toledo 1,891,469 1nc..48.4 Galveston 6,867,300 1nc..36.0 Houston 5,994,428 Inc.. 2.5 Youngstown 259,491 Macon, Ga 688,000 Totals, IT. S $1,283,710,195 1nc..33.9 Totals outside New York.... 496,643,179 1nc..25.2 BY fl VOTE OF 47~T0 32 (Concluded from First l’age.) Oaffery, Morrill, Cullom, Nelson. Davis, Penrose, Fairbanks, Perkins. Foraker, Platt (Conn.), Gallinger, Platt (N. Y.), Gear, Quay. Halt*. Sewell. Hanna. Thurston. Hansbrough, Wellington, Hawley, Wetmore. Hoar, Wilson—32. The pairs throughout the voting were as follows: Turley with Deboe. Faulkner with Elkins, Gorman with Frye, Jones of Nevada with Proctor, Walthall with Spooner, The first named would in each case have voted with those sustaining the resolution and against all amendments, while the last named would have voted ag Inst the resolution and for the amendments.

POINTS FROM THE DEBATE. Numerous Speeches For aud Against the Resolution. • When the Senate convened this morning routine business was laid aside and the Teller resolution taken up at once. Mr. Stewart was the first speaker. He maintained that money, whether it be silver, gqjd or paper, was a creature of law, the creation of money being inherent in all Independent nations. He said that this statement had been upheld by the highest tribunals and cited historical instances of such creation of money. After a discussion of the money question, Mr. Stewart said, referring to the speech of President McKinley in New York last night, that he regretted to see that the President had not studied this question more deeply and that lie was utterly misguided. He quoted the following sentence from the President’s speech: “Nothing should ever tempt us—nothing ever will tempt us—to scale down the sacred debt of the Nation through a legal technicality. Whatever may be the language of the contract, the United States will discharge all of its obligations in the currency recognized as the best throughout the civilized world at the time of payment.” Mr. Stewart thought this was a remarkable statement, which meant simply that nothing but gold was good enough for the bondholder. Mr. McKinley, said Mr. Stewart, refers to the option of the government to pay its obligations in either gold or silver as a technicality, and he did this, too, in the face of his owh vote in favor of the resolution we are considering. Now, the President calls this option of the government, worth thousands of millions, a mere technicality. "What language for a President to use!” exclaimed Mr. Stewart. “We cannot use this money in the treasury unless it is recognized by other nations of the world as the best money. The despots and gold syndicates of Europe are to name the kind of money, regardless of what the law of the United States may be.” Referring to Secretary Gage, Mr. Stewart said he believed the secretary to be honest —a man who would not rob a bank—but. he said, it was difficult for Mr. Gage to look at this question except from the standpoint of a banker. He thought it unfortunate that the President had placed the Treasury Department in charge of bankers, but he was glad the President had thrown off the cloak and made the issue directly witli the people. CANNON ALSO SHOOTS AT M’KINLEY. Mr. Cannon, of Utah, followed in support of the resolution. He believed that the only way in which the parity of silver and gold as money could be maintained was to accord equal privileges of both metals at the mints. He held that the only way to maintain the parity was to pile up interest-hear-ing obligations upon the people. He firmly denied that the advocates of free coinage were in favor of anything but a 100-cent dollar. “We do not believe, however,” said Mr. Cannon, “in the deified dollar of Grover Cleveland, which is worshiped by the present administration.” He criticised the President for attending a banquet of millionaires in New York, there perusing his menu bound in gold, and then declaring in favor of paying the government obligations in gold, in violation of the Nation’s rights to dictate what money they should be paid in. Mr. Cannon said that if there was no other reason for his support ol’ the resolution, lie would vote tor it to serve notice upon every creditor of the United States that he should live up to the contract he hatl entered into with the government. Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, began his speech in support of the resolution by criticising the position taken by Mr. Allison, of lowa. He thought the resolution would squarely align those who held the various financial beliefs. He said the advocates of the resolution proposed to pay the full jwtund of flesh due, but absolutely not a bit more. He read a communication In a financial newspaper to the effect that there would not be much serious opposition to the legislation proposed by the monetary commission from the “recalcitrant silver senators.” Mr. Jones gave notice that the “recalcitrant silver senators” would have to be reckoned with pretty seriously before any such legislation as that proposed got through the Senate. He said he made the broad statement that no Democrat, silver Republican or Populist had ever declared in favor of paying government obligations in a depreciated currency. "Why,” interrupted Mr. Aldrich, “the senator's own colleague (Mr. Berry) said that if free coinage should not produce a rise in the price of silver, he would be in favor of paying our obligations in thut metal.” “But he 1 did not say that free coinage would not produce such a rise,” said Mr. Jones. “Oh. that is a mere refinement of language,” replied Mr. Aldrich. "My colleague,” said Mr. Jones,t “is able to take care of himself and to define his meaning.” “Well. I shall take up that matter when I speak.” said Mr. Aldrich. HOW JONES WILL MARCH. Mr. Jones, continuing, said that the newspapers unfriendly to* the cause were saying that bimetallism wan dead. “I believe,” said the Arkansas, senator, “that the people’s conviction upon this question is more

firmly fixed than ever before. They are determined to restore silver to its status before 1573. and we shall do all we can to accomplish that result. We shull march In solid phalanx with shields locked down to the day of doom in our efforts for the restoration of silver, and the Republican cries that the issue of silver is dead will fall upon deaf ears.” At the conclusion of Mr. Jones's speech, Mr. Pettigrew introduced the following resolution: “That it is contrary to the interest, policy and tradition of the people of the United States to acquire any territory so situated as to require a navy to protect it.” The resolution went over. The first speech of the day in opposition to the Teller resolution was delivered by Mr. Burrows, of Michigan. He said that the Republican party was pledged to secure, if possible. internatknuU bimetallism, aud the President would do everything in his power to carry out that pledge. Meantime the existing gold standard would be maintained. Until the international agreement was secured, the purpose of the administration was to continue the kind of bimetallism which we have now, whereby 000.000.C00 silver dollars were maintained at a parity with gold. Any proposition which looks to the abandonment of this position, which was likely to create a disparity between the coins of the country, was in violation of the public faith and in derogation of the rights of the public creditor. In conclusion, .Mr. Burrows said that the passage of this resolution fortunately would accomplish nothing. It might tend to alarm the business interests of the country and retard to some extent the advance of prosperity, but by the statements of the President of the United States last night, the country was assured that the government's obligations would be discharged in the best money of the world. Mr. White, of California, spoke in favor of the resolution and analyzed at some length the position of the Republican party upon finance. He spoke of the lack of definiteness of the President’s message on the larger questions of finance. The message had referred to Secretary Gage’s plan and had invited attention to it. There was no opposition expressed to that plan, and doubtless, said Mr. \\ hite. if the President (lid not approve the Gage plan lie would have said so. The senator then referred ironically to the New York banquet last night, at which the President spoke. He spoke of the men who had gathered at the feast to consider means of improving the conditions of the poor working man and the farmer. It had been referred to as a “Belshazzar feast.” Mr. White read in sarcastic tones the press reports of enthusiasm at references to the gold standard, and the “cold chill” which overspread the banqueters at the mention of International bimetallism. It was well established, declared the senator, that the public utterances of Secretary Gage on the gold standard gave the real attitude of the administration. There was in reality no difference between the President and the secretary of the treasury, and the latter had given out not long ago that their views were in substantial accord. In closing, Mr. White declared that behind this resolution was the great issue between bimetallism and the gold standard, which from this time on would be kept clearly in view, so that attempts to deceive the people would fkil. MR. WOLCOTT S REMARKS.

Mr. Fairbanks, whose remarks are printed elsewhere, was the next speaker. He was followed by Mr, Wolcott, the first speaker under the fifteen-minute rule which went into effect at 2 o’clock. Mr. Wolcott thought that any senator, whatever his financial views, could vote for the Teller resolution, as it involved nothing except the carrying into effect of the government’s plain obligations. He thought that denunciation and abuse heaped on those who support the resolution were unwarranted, for he did not think the man was yet born who would betray his government by offering to pay its obligations in spurious money. He referred, with scathing sarcasm, to the sale of bonds by the Cleveland administration in 1894. denouncing it as one of the darkest pages in American financial history. He declared that the men of the West might be intrusted with the national honor. “We have,” he said, “never betrayed our government, and never will. We intend to pay all our obligations in good money, and in nothing else.” He felt that the resolution ought to be passed without change, because it meant just what it said, and its declarations were in no sense a violation of the national honor either directly or implied. Mr. Morgan supported the resolution in a carefully prepared speech, basing his support on statistics and deductions indicating “the impossibility of striking silver from among the money metals.” He felt that amid the confusion existing it was clear that the people demanded the restoration of silver to coinage, and he thought such restoration would be as the delivery of mankind from war, pestilence and famine. Mr. Foraker thought the resolution’s meaning ought to be made clear, it being evident there was a great diversity of opinion on that point. He did not think the resolution was any more than declaratory of the law, and that was as far as the declaration went. He thought the statement in the resolution that such coinage as contemplated by it was not in derogation of the rights of creditors could only mean the free and unlimited coinage of silver. He was therefore opposed to the resolution. Mr. Foraker declared himself in favor of international bimetallism, or, as an alternative, to maintain the present financial status. The enforcement of the terms of the resolution, in Mr. Foraker’s opinion, would not bring about bimetallism, but would force the government to a silver basis. Mr. Chilton, in a legal argument, advocated the restoration of v the standard silver dollar to coinage and thoir use in the payment of the government’s obligations. He held that the pretension of the bondholders that they were entitled to be paid in better money than the pensioner, the mechanic and the laborei was not warranted by facts or by law, Mr. Nelson stated that his objection to the resolution was that it ignored the duty of the government to maintain the parity between the metals, as imposed on it by law. The senator caused suppressed laughter in comparing the American silver dollar to the Mexican dollar by declaring that the former, kept at a parity with gold, could say, "I know that my redeemer liveth.” It was not the bondholder who profited by a sound money, but the whole body of the people was benefited by a well-sustained parity and was injured by a Mexicanized dollar. ALLISON EXPOSES TELLER. Mr. Allison spoke of the circun stances attending the passage of the Stanley Matthews resolution in 1878. To him, it had not meant at that time a declaration in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver. Other coinage measures were pending at that time, and when one of these came over from the House/the senator from Colorado (Teller) voted to strike out the provision for the free coinage of silver and voted for a limited coinage agreement. Mr. Allison declared that when he was being gibbeted on the cross roads of public opinion for alleged inconsistency he wanted it known that the Colorado senator and the Ohio senator who introduced the resolution of 1878, Senator Matthews, had voted to strike cut a free-coinage provision. The clear purpose of the pending resolution was to commit the country to the tree and unlimited coinage of silver at 16 10 1, when it is almost axiomatic, the senator declared, that such a course without concurrence of other nations will lead us inevitably to the silver standard alone and to silver monometallism. It is as certain as the sun at noonday, said he. that such a course will carry us to the silver standard and that our gold will be banished. And yet senators were asked to sanction this monstrous proposition—monstrous in the change it proposed. Mr. Allison reviewed his expressions for an international agreement as the only means of rehabilitating silver, and said the failures of the Wolcott commission did not bring despair to these who saw in this ultimate relief tor silver. Mr. Teller rose to explain that his vote in 1878, referred to by Mr. Allison, was given, not because of opposition to fret; coinage, but because it was not practicable at that Unit; to secure a majority and get what was wanted. Mr. Gray urged that (he resolution would accomplish nothing, and was a shallow expression so far as affecting the character of money in which our bonds were to be met. Mr. Gray did not regard that subject as in any way involved in the resolution, so that he would vote on the question wholly without reference to the silver issue brought irto the debate. Mr. Allen insisted that the free coinage of silver would restore the purity between gold and silver. Mr. Bacon took issue with the statements and conclusions of the senator from Ohio (Foraker) and the senator from lowa (Allison). discussing the present conditions as contrasted with those cf 1878, when the resolution was originally passed. He held that the resolution applies distinctly to the sil-ver-five hundred millions—already coined and to that which shall be coined in the future. The government for the past six years had violated the statutes and the Stanley Matthews resolution. He maintained. therefore, that tin* pending resolution was a most important declaration of the legislative branch as to the duty of the executive branch of tin* government. Mr. Thurston said that the legal obligation of the government was set forth in its contracts, and there is no need now to restate the terms of those contracts. He would, he said, so far as his \ote was concerned. follow his party in its declaration to maintain the parity of all the dollars of the government. He pointed out that since the Republican party came into power every dollar paid to labor, whether it was silver or paper or gold, whs as good ns the best dollar ever coined, lie thought the question involved In the tUsevssioe was not one of

legal right, but -3ne of governmental ethics. He, concha*** \tth an appeal to the stiver mefi to permit tP.e business inen of the country for a little whfle to attend to thetr affairs in order that they might ascertain where they stand. TILLMAN PITCHFORKS ECKELS. Mr. Tillman thought this discussion wa# Eimply the maneuvering of the great political parties for position in the great contest that was to be fought In 1900. The people, he said, would win in that contest, as they had won in every fight they had ever made for freedom. Ho made un attack on former Controller Eckels for his action regarding the Chestnut-street National Bank of Philadelphia, and declared the fact thut six of the last ten controllers of the currency had graduated from the treasury ‘ pesthouse” to be presidents of national banks or trust companies proved that those men were owned by the bunks or had been bribed. Mr. Hawley said that the last original Stanley Matthews act had no force, as i* was a mere campaign threat and did not have about it enough of chemical qualities to make a stench. The American people would never consent to the payment of their debts in anything but the best money, "bnoie Sam,” he concluded, “is always a gentleman.” Mr. Gallinger believed in the payment of the Nation s debt in the best of money of fixed national us well as international value. Any other action on the part of the government would be a national disgrace. Mr. Elkins thought thut as a legal proposition the resolution could not be successfully assailed, but he could see no reason for its passage now. He said there were times when the bondholders could be treated with indifference, but lie asked Mr. Teller whether if war were declared to-morrow lie would introduce such a resolution as this. It would be perfectly evident that we could raise no money on bonds in the markets of the world if the declarations of the resolution were enforced, because their enforcement would mean the free coinage of silver. Mr. Warren announced his purpose to vote for the resolution. He gave this vote for the resolution as it stood and not for any ulterior purposes the resolution might have. The resolution meant no surrender of tho honor, credit and dignity of the Nation, but it affirmed a principle of existing law and retained for the government every option and reservation as to the payment of bonds that an individual would retain. Mr. Cullom announced briefly that he would vote against the resolution because it was a step towards free silver. He also presented statistics showing an increase of money circulation in the last eighteen months of 5214,0(10,000, which, the senator said, was a sufficient answer to the statements that recent conditions had favored the bondholders and oppressed the people. He said his tables showed that farmers’ products, particularly wheat, had gone up of late months and articles used by farmers had gone down. Mr. Butler advocated the resolution, saying that instead of destroying the parity of the metals it was intended to sustain that parity by keeping both metals, like both arms, in equal use. Mr. Rawlins said the question was simply one of paying bonds in accordance with tho legal obligation, or in the so-called “best money” of far greater value than the money with which the bonds were bought. This best money, he said, while best for tho bondholder, meant at the same time a double burden for the people who must pay the bonds. Mr. Aldrich said it had not needed the declaration of Mr. Vest to disclose that this issue was the opening of tne campaign of 1898. “We intend to meet this issue squarely.” declared Mr. Aldrich. “We are responsible to the great party we represent, and beyond that to the American people, and we propose so far as we may to maintain the honor and the credit of the government.” Mr. Aldrich closed just as the clock marked 6, the hour set for voting, and the Vice President promptly announced that the voting would proceed. At this time the galleries were filled to overflowing, and a large number of members of the House, including Speaker Reed, occupied the area back of the senators during the voting, the result of which is given elsewhere. There was no demonstration on the announcement of the last vote, and at 7 p. m., on motion of Mr. Allison, the Senate adjourned till Monday.

SINGERLEY’S PLAN FAILS. Controller Dawes Names a Receiver for the Editor’s Broken Bank. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 28.-Controller of the Currency Dawqs came here to-day from Washington to confer with the managers of the plan for the voluntary liquidation of the affairs of the suspended Chestnutstreet National Bank. The controller declined to make any modification in the amendments to the plan proposed by him a few days ago. The managers declared they could not accept the amendments, and the controller thereupon announced that he would at once appoint a receiver. To show his confidence in the ability and integrity of the managers of the plan, he selected one of thqm—George H. Earle, jr.—as the receiver. Tragedy and Assignment. CINCINNATI, Jan. 28.—C. Klein, president of the Klein Flour and Feed Company, who was found on the street fatally shot last night, is still alive to-day, and adheres to his statement that lit) was assaulted by two highwaymen on the street, robbed and then shot. The police as tenaciously cling to the theory of suicide. No new developments have) been made to-day tending to clear the mystery. The flour and feed company made an assignment to-day, giving assets at $7,000: liabilities. $29,000. It was this business embarrassment which gives weight to the thqory of suicide. Receiver for Lumber Company. BRIDGEPORT, Conn.. Jan. 28.—8 yan application made in the Superior Court today the fail' re of the W. F. Swords Lumber Compaq, probably the largest concern of its kind in Connecticut, became known and Judge Thayer appointed Frank Miller as receiver with bonds of The liabilities are said to be $150,000 and the assets $200,000. Abattoir Company Involved. NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—Jules Domecq this morning, in the I nited States Circuit Ccurt, asked for the appointment of a reeeiver for the JSTow Orleans Abuttoir Conipuny, a largfj corporation. The company is said to bo heavily involved. Liabilities jptOd.OOO; Assets, $5,1250. NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—The schedules in the assignment of Oscar Hammerstein. theatrical manager, filed to-day in the Supreme Court, show: Liabilities, $166,000: nominal assets’, $78,000: actual assets, $5,250. BAR IRON *TO BE DEARER. Price* Advanced a Ton l*y 75 Per teat, of Manufacturers. CHICAGO. Jan. 28.—The Bar Iron Association. comprising the manufacturers of this commodity in the territory west of Pittsburg, and representing 75 per cent, of the output of the entire country, voted to advance tin; price $2 a ton at *t meeting In id at the Auditorium annex to-day. This is not to he the limit of the advance, however. for it was; openly given, out that at the larger meeting of the association to be held at the same place* two weeks hence another advance of $1 a ton will be nude. There were twenty-one members present at to-day's meeting, representing furnaces at the following points: Youngstown, Cleveland, Toledo, Cincinnati, O.; Chicago, Moline. Springfield and East St. Louis, 111- 5 and East Chicago, Muncie, Marion, Alexandria. Franklin. New Albany. Brazil and Terre Haute. Ind. The meeting was presided over by Major Collins, of Brazil, with George M. Clarke, of Cincinnati, as secretary. There was no difference of opinion as to the necessity and wisdom of the $2 advance and a strong clement in the meeting advocated making it $3. but as there was some opposition to this, but merely on the ground that it should be delayed a little. it was finally decided to postpone decisive action in the matter until 'ho meeting two weeks hence. In the phraseology of the trade, to-day's advance nttans a $1.15 rate base Chicago and East St. Louis. Kentucky \ttoraey Disbarred. FRANKFORT. Ky.. Jan. 28.- Ex-attorney General W. J. Hendrick was litis morning disbarred rroin practicing in the Circuit (’ourt of Franklin county. The order was entered by Circuit Judge Cantrill and was due to an insufficient response to a rule issued against Hendrick requiring him to pay into court the sum of $1,300 collected by him fur the State during his term as attorney general. Hendrick did not pay the money Into court as ordered, hut set up the defense that it belonged to him and that the Slate, owed him more than tills sum as commissions on collections made duiing the time he was attorney general. Thereupon he wus suspended by Judge Cuntrili.