Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 6, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1899 — Page 5

THE WORLD'S IDEAL. Dr. Price’s Cream Basing Powder combines all the elements of ideal excellence. It is highest in leavening power. It is free from the least taint of impurity. No trial can be too exhaustive, no test too exacting, for its admirable qualities. Cake and biscuit made with it retain their moisture, and are extremely light, flaky and fine grained—not coarse and full of holes as when made with alum baking powders. Alum baking powder leaves a bitter taste in the bread or cake and food prepared with it dries up qrnckty. The severest tests were imposed at the World’s Columbian Kxposition and the California Midwinter Fair, where Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder eclipsed all competitors. After full examination and competiion it secured the highest honors and a special gold medal. These awards stamp it as <4 the foremost baking powder in all the world.**

with the state veterinarian to prevent the spread of diseases, and that officer should have power to quarantine and condemn. The Governor sholild still have power, by proclamation, to quarantine the State against the importation of diseased animals. I’n role I,nw, These laws, enacted two years ago, embody that which the Constitution of the State, since its organization, contemplated, that "The penal cede shall be founded on the principle of reformation, and not vindictive justice.” The wisdom of these laws finds ample justification in practical reilts, as shown by the reports of the penal institutions. In order that all prisoners convicted of like crimes may share equally in the administration of punishment. 1 recommend that the boards of control be empowered to apply the grade system and the parole law to all prisoners convicted of crimes that admit them to the provisions of the indeterminate sentence law'. I recommend the enactment of a law that will give to the trustees of the Boys' Reform School the power to transfer incorrigibles to the Indiana Reformatory, where they shall, in all things, he subject to the law' governing that institution. I believe the time is opportune for the placing of all the penal and correctional institutions for males under one board of management. Transfers can then he made from one to another without any friction and with less complication and expense. TnbercnloMlM in Pennl Institutions. As far as possible, consumptives should be kept separate. In erecting new’ buildings, provision should be made to this end. A little more than a year ago I paroled twelve consumptives from the Indiana State Prison. I am informed that all of these have since died. I shall feel impelled, by a sense of humanity, to parole, under a medical certificate, all serious cases of Tuberculosis, unless some arrangement can be made for keeping such cases separate, so that the germs of the disease cannot infest the cells and spread the dread malady. Insane Hospitals. It will he your duty to provide additional accommodations for the unfortunate insane wards of the State. My attention has been called' to the lax provision of law for admission to the insane hospitals. No insane person should he admitted as a ward of the State who is not a legal resident of the same. I would recommend additions to the present hospitals, instead of anew hospltal located on anew site, as this would necessitate augmented expenses on account of the purchase of new location and anew board of officers and managers. flood KmiilM. Good roads are indispensable to progress nod development. The highest attainments in rural life, socially, mentally or financially, cannot be attained when bad roads abound. Discontent with country life Is the fruitage of the thralldom of mud roads. Two years ego I said to the General Assembly that, ‘‘while the road laws needed improving, their execution needed revolution.” The same need exists to-day in an aggravated form. The law requiring the road supervisor to work all able-bodied men on the highways during the months of April. May and June, in many Instances, is not faithfully enforced, and in some cases absolutely ignored. The average road levy by the township trustee is about 20 cents on the SIOO. This raises a vast revenue, which is not expended with judgment and fidelity. The railroads of the State are assessed, in round numbers, at $154X00,000. This would create a revenue of nearly $300,000. This is “farmed out” between the railroads and the supervisor. A discount is made to the railroad, the "gobetween” makes his thousands, some of the Supervisors profit by the method, and the cause of good roads suffers. The farmer is allowed to work out bis road tax often by a slipshod method, which, it' pursued by a road contractor, would end in bankruptcy. The sunervisor should be held under bond to faithfully execute the duties of his office. He should be given power to compel every man owing service to the highways under the law to perform the same. All road tax should he paid in cash, reserving to the payer the right to work out the same, for which he should he paid in cash, provided he res|Kinds to the call of the supervisor when given the opportunity to perform sueh work, and accepting the lawful price for sueh services. SiiMiem' Monument. The State has shown great liberality in the vast amount of money it has expended in the erection of a monument to her brave eons. In the years to come this monument will do more than commemorate the valor and sacrifice of our patriotic soldiers; it will also attest the appreciation of such service by all the peopfe of the State. This monument bus been so long in construction that the managerial expenses amount to a vast eum. An appropriation should he made for the completion of this work, with a specific provision that It shalli be done within a stipulated time, in order that the expense of supervision of construction may cease. The legislature has the right and power to determine for what purposes the State Capitol shall be used. It would relieve the custodian of much embarrassment if the Legislature would direct him as to his duA PURE GRAPE CREAM OF TARTAR POWDER •ESR; CREAM BAKING mmm Awarded Highest Honors, World’s Fair Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair

lies in granting and refusing the legislative halls to organizations requesting their use. Primary Election Law. The safety and perpetuity of a free government is in the keeping of the people. If corrupt men are selected to make laws, and if incompetent men are chosen to fill official positions, then evil results are certain to follow. The nomination of candidates for office should he as far removed as possible from the dominance of political leaders and ring politicians, giving to all voters an equal, free and untrammeled right to be heard in the selection of candidates. I therefore recommend the enactment of a strict primary election law. VoiqmrtiKli n Institution*. Never in the history of the benevolent institutions of the State has the management been more efficient or so free from scandal. The per capita cost of maintenance is less than ever before. The highest efficiency can only he maintained through the most competent and experienced management. Partisan control cannot assure either. Competency grows with experience. Partisan management of state institutions means a change in the government of the same with each transfer of political power in the State. If the management of these institutions is' to he given as reward to politicians, then, as a logical sequence, the larger the salary the better the reward; the more places provided the more workers rewarded. Extravagance and Incompetency result, scandal follows, and the people at the polls rebuke the debasing system by defeating the party responsible for it. Criminal Insane. There are now four insane convicts in the Indiana Reformatory and fifteen in the state prison. The law now makes provision for an insanity inquest and the removal of the insane convicts to the insane hospitals. This cannot be carried out for lack of room. It is unwise, even if there should he room. I recommend that a place be provided for these insane criminals in connection with one of the insane hospitals, where they can be cared for and kept separate from other prisoners and away from the inmates of the insane hospitals. Lobbyists. The lobbyist who seeks to dominate legislation adversely to public weal is an enemy to public good. Hired lobbyist*? are a menace to free government. The timp is rapidly approaching when the hired tools of corporate greed will be excluded from the halls of legislation. The just lav/ that commends itself needs no schemer, with doubtful methods, to secure its enactment. Labor is the creative power of wealth. Workingmen from the farm, the mims and the shops cannot become lobbyists. They have not the means to this end. Business men and the common people have not the time. It becomes. therefore, the sacred duty of lawmakers to look after tho interests of the people and to see to it that no inroads are made upon their rights. Trusts. The report of the labor commissioners of this State reveals that “no proposition involving settlements <f labor controversies present as great obstacles as those in which trusts are parties to agreements. In every encounter with labor, the workingmen, however just their cause, emerge from the conflict tho greater sufferers. The opportunities of trusts in regard to wage reductions are exceptional, and their desires are always equal to their opportunities. They are not trammeled by state laws, and they defy federal authority.” Not only is the trust potent in controlling wages, but in lobbying their interests in law-making bodies and in controlling the price of their products. Any combination or trust formed for the purpose of arbitrarily controlling the price of any product or article of manufacture or commerce, or any insurance combination, by which a compact or organization, or conspiracy or confederation, is entered into for the purpose of controlling and determining the rate of insurance, should be prohibited and severely punished as a conspiracy against the law of supply and demand and as antagonistic to fair competition. The law enacted two years ago is not sufficient. and the attorney general of the state did not feel justified in attempting prosecute trusts under it provisions. I would urge upon this Legislature the need of a law drastic enough to prevent these conspiracies against fair competition and just wages. State Entomologist. The appearance in the orchards of this State of the San Jose scale and other dangerous insects, and also of fungus growths, thus endangering the horticultural interests, made it necessary, in obedience to the demands of many men. to appoint, in the absence of law. a state entomologist. Nurserymen could not, in some Instances, ship their stock without the State unless accompanied by a certificate from a state entomologist that their stock was free from the San Jose scale. Necessity having thus become a law, T t appointed Prof. James Troop, of Purdue University, to this office for the time. I therefore recommend the passage of a law creating such an office and defining the duties and powers of such official. Imported Orphan Children. For many years Indiana has been the dumping ground for the dependent children of other States. Within a few years several thousand of these have been placed within our borders. They occupy the places that should be filled by the children we are supporting in orphans' homes. In addition a certain part of them become dependent, and some in prisons, insane hospitals and other institutions remain a lifetime burden on the State. Indiana children are certainly os desirable ns those from elsewhere. \\ e should provide for them. Only persons or organizations duly authorized by the Board of State Charities should be permitted to place children from without the State in families within our borders and a sufficient bond should be required to indemnify the State against any expense by reason of any such child becoming dependent. The work of the Board of State Charities, through the state agency, in accordance with the provisions of the socalled dependent children's law. In relieving the public of expense and placing children in family homes Is commended. Intllflun State Soldier** Home. The report of the board of trustees of the Indiana State Soldiers' Home has been printed and put upon your desks. I would recommend that the legislature authorize the selling of fifty acres of ground belonging to but not adjacent to the home. The dlscom.ectlon with the. home makes the land of hut little value to the same, except the small income from rent. The proceeds from such sal© may be properly used in needed

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improvements of the grounds. The board deems this method of securing funds for needed Improvements wiser than asking for an appropriation. Common School*. ‘‘Knowledge and learning generally diffused throughout a community being essential to the preservation of free government, it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to provide by law for a general and uniform system of common schools wherein tuition shall be without charge and equally open to all.” Herein is the education contemplated in the State Constitution. If intelligence Is a safeguard to liberty, then the State should reck to prevent illiteracy. Upon this h gical reasoning is predicated the theory of compulsory education. I fear the weakness of our present law is the multiplicity ts truant officers. Through the co-operation of the township trustee and the teachers the provisions of the compulsory law can lie enforced in the township and district schools. It seems to me that a broad and liberal spirit demands some change in the school management of the State. The United States commissioner of education does not confine educational statistics to state schools, but to private institutions as well. In many of the States the superintendent of public instruction is required by law to gather all information, from whatever source, state or private schools. Sueh a report would reflect the true educational progress of the State. In former years the report of the superintendent of public instruction of the State contained such statistical information. Without counting the parochial schools, normals, and not taking into account other higher educational institutions, male and female, the statistics of -vhich are not at hand, but computing some facts from eight private colleges, shows that they have more than $3.vu0,000 invested in plants and securities. These colleges have in their libraries more than 100.000 volumes. They have an enrollment of over two thousand students, with an alumni of upwards of five thousand, besides from twelve to fifteen thousand more who have attended but did not graduate from these colleges. These institutions, with their magnificent work, should not be excluded from the educational reports of the State, although they are carrying forward their great work unaided by the State. There is a growing sentiment of commendation for these institutions that ask no aid from the State. There are some serious objections to the present composition of the State Board of Education. One of these objections, founded upon justice, is that the counties have no representation on this board. It is in the township and district schools that the poorest school advantages are offered, and these have no champion or representative on the hoard. The three state institutions, numbering perhaps three thousand students, have three representatives. The school enumeration ol the State shows 754,945. Os this number approximately 40 per cent, belong to the city schools and have three representatives. while GO per cent., or 435,165, belong to township and district schools, and have no representation on the state board. Indiana’s Insurance Laws. The fee and salary law of 1895 repealed the law allowing the auditor of state 10 per cent, of all fees collected from insurance companies. During Mr. Daily’s four years’ incumbency of the office there has been collected, in the insurance department. $684,249.98. Under existing laws, prior to 1895, 10 per cent, of this amount, or $68,424.98, wofild have been a part of the auditor’s emoluments. Under laws now in force, it has only cost the State the salary of one insurance clerk, at SI.SOO a year. Upon inquiry of the insurance department of Ohio, I have received a statement showing the cost to the State of the insurance commission to he $17,500 annually, and that, the. amount collected during the last fiscal year was $130,000. A statement, in answer to a similar Inquiry directed to the insurance commissioner of Illinois, reveals that the. cost in salaries of the insurance commission is $21,000 a year, the amount collected being $175,323.99. In Indiana the amount collected last year, through the insurance department of the auditor of state’s office, was in excess of $208,000, at a cost to the State of only SI,BOO. It is clearly manifest, therefore, that Indiana does not need an insurance commission, with its multiplied expenses. 1 would, however, recommend that one additional clerk he furnished the insurance department cf the state auditor’s office. This will enable the office to make a more thorough investigation of the securities filed nhd of the financial standing of all companies doing business in the State, thus guaranteeing to the people safety, as far as possible, against irresponsible companies. There were paid in premiums to foreign life insurance companies for the fiscal year ending July 1, 1898, $1,209,009.47. and there was received back to the State on policies $1,294,555.57, or a loss to the State of $2,914,453.80. Fire insurance companies should be held responsible for the actions of their agents. When an agent accepts and agrees upon a cash value of property and writes a policy based upon this value, and the insured pays premiums in good faith, then, in the event of total loss, the company should be compelled to abide by their agent's appraisem< nt and pay the loss in full. There was paid last fiscal year in premiums to foreign fire insurance companies $3,606.542.40. and received back on losses $1,536,306.64, a net loss to the State of $->.{•70,535.76. Sanitation Laws. Conditions conducive to good health are always of great importance. Pure food and good sanitation laws should always receive careful consideration. Judicious laws for the stamping out o f infectious and contagious diseases are deserving of attention. Apathy and neglect of sanitary conditions are superinduced by the temporary absence of infectious or contagious diseases. The State Board of Health should be given such powers as will enable them to afford immunity as far as possible from epidemics and to stamp out contagious diseases. Equity in Taxation. The Constitution (Sec. 1, Art. 10) stipulates that "the General Assembly shall provide by law for a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation and shall prescribe such regulations as shall secure a just valuation for taxation of all property, both real and personal, excepting such only, for municipal, educational, literary, scientific, religious or charitable purposes, as may be especially exempted by law.” "Following this constitutional mandate, the General Assembly provided by Sec. 8410, R. S. 1894, that ‘All property within the jurisdiction of this State, not expressly exempted, shall be subject to taxation.’ And by Sec. 8412, R. S. 1894, the General Assembly exempted the classes of property designated In Section I, Article 10, of the Constitution above. In pursuance to the constitutional and statutory authorities cited, and in the discharge of the duty imposed 'to see that all assessments of property in this State are made according to law,’ 'and to see that all taxes due the Stfite are collected,’ this board in 1897 instructed the assessors of the State to list and assess at their true cash value for the purposes of taxation, all ’paid-up’ life insurance policies. “At the suit of certain holders of such insurance policies, this board, and the taxing officials of the State, were enjoined from listing and assessing such policies by the Marion Circuit Court, the action of which court was afterwards affirmed by the Supreme Court. 150 Ind., 216. "Notwithstanding such action of the SuCourt, aforesaid, in holding that such policies are not subject to taxation, that court unanimously held that such policies were property, that they were not expressly exempted by law from taxation, but that they were not subject to taxation for the reason that the General Assembly had made no provision or regulation for assessing or valuing such policies. "In addition to this finding of the court that they were property and not especially exempted, plaintiffs’ counsel admitted the same facts, which, being true, clearly bring them within the intent and meaning of said Section $4lO, R. S. 1891, above, and make them subject to taxation, hut for the decision of the Supreme Court, aforesaid which found all the facts necessary to warrant action of this board in seeking to list and assess such insurance policies, and avoided their liability to assessment, solely because the General Assembly had made no provision or regulation for assessing or valuing them. "The same can be truly said with reference to many other articles of property found on the tax lists. It is a matter of general knowledge that vast sums of money are Invested in such life insurance policies in this State, and in a large number of instances. as an investment pure and simple, and by this means large sums of money are annually diverted from other sources of investment, where they are taxed, and bear their just proportion of the burdens of government. In view of the decision of the Supreme Court that the power to tax such policies lies with the General Assembly, and that is is solely by reason of the nonaetion of former general assemblies In regard to providing regulations for valuing such policies. this hoard respectfully calls attention to this matter and the questions involved, and recommends that such legislation be. enacted as will provide methods for arriving at .valuations of such insurance policies, as required by the decision of the Supreme Court aforesaid.” I desire to call the attention of the legislature to the foregoing statement from the icport of the State Tax Commissioners and to urge Its careful consideration. State Farmer** Institute)*. The farmers’ institutes of the State, under tho supervision of the faculty of Purdue

University, and under the direct control of Prof. W. C. Latta, superintendent of the experimental farm at Purdue, have accomplished much good for agriculture and horticulture. In these institutes practical questions are discussed, thus preparing the farmer to meet in an intelligent way the new conditions and to solve the problems ronfrontin? the husbandman to-day. The amount appropriated for this work is $5,000. 1 recommend that this amount he increased to at least $7,500. The appropriation, thus increased, will be but half the amount appropriated by a majority of the surrounding States for carrying forward this work. The good being thus accomplished is deserving of the highest commendation. Poor Farm Scandal*. The scandals growing out of the deplorable conditions existing in many of the jails and poor farms of the counties of the State, call for legislation upon this question. I therefore recommend the enactment of a law authorizing the circuit judge to appoint for each county a nonpartisan committee, to be composed of men and women, who shall visit at least once every three months all the charitable and penal institutions of the countv and report to the State Board of Charities their condition; said committee to serve without compensation. Amendment to School Law. The law requiring the State Board of Education, or the “Board of Commissioners,” to advertise for twenty-one consecutive days in one daily paper of general circulation in the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cincinnati and St. Eouis, at each letting of a contract of schoolbooks, should be amended. Advertisement in the great metropolitan journals outside the State is a useless expense. The superintendent of public instruction, in view of the approaching letting of a contract, is already deluged with letters from publishing houses desiring to make bids, and this, too, before any advertising has been done. The SI,OOO appropriated to meet this expense is held not to be continuous, while the statute makes the advertising mandatory. Where the statutes command work requiring the outlay of money in its performance they should also make provision for the money to meet the necessary expense. Appeal* for Appropriations. It is manifest that the appeals for approuriations for the erection of new buildings, etc., in connection with state penal, benevolent and educational Institutions, will be for an unusually large, amount. It is the duty of the General Assembly to give earnest attention to these requests and to scrupulously guard against anything in the nature of extravagance. It should lie borne in mind that a large proportion of the taxpayers of this State, who will be called upon to hear a part of the burden of increased expenditures, are compelled to practice that rigid eceonomy in their homes that deprives them not only of convenience and luxuries, hut many of the common necessities of life. This large class of worthy citizens will have no one but their chosen representatives to look after their interests in the Legislature, and 1 nave confidence in the ability and integrity of this body to deal conservatively and wisely with these grave problems. Hoard of Stale f'lturitic*. The board is deserving of much credit. It has rendered efficient service to the State. The high standard of excellence attained in our charitable and penal institutions is due in no small degree to the wise suggestions of this board. Indiana'* Part in War, In the course of this message proper I will not undertake to enter into a detailed recital of Indiana's part in the Spanish-Amer-ican war. but for the information of members of this assembly and all others concerned a review of this State's creditable participation in the stirring events of the period is submitted as an appendix to the printed edition of this communication to your honorable body, r direct attention especially to the reports of the paymaster general and the surgeon general, respectively, detailing the operations of those departments. It will be observed that the paymaster general corrects a popular misapprehension in stating that no deductions on clothing account were made, except in the case of officers, all of which is in strict compliance with law. Most of the uniforms furnished the Indiana national guardsmen when they enlisted in the federal service were comparatively new. Some of the soldiers were furnished uniforms badly worn. The government receipted to the quartermaster for these uniforms. Subsequently a board of survey was appointed to fix the value of these uniforms furnished by the quartermaster general of the State. Some of the volunteers desired the quartermaster to furnish this equipment without charge. This he could not do and render a proper accounting to the State. I therefore call the attention of the Legislature to this matter, and if it shall be shown that an injustice has been done prompt and ample reparation should be made. The Indiana volunteers for the war with Spain have made an honorable record, and the patriotism and devotion to duty they have manifested on all occasions are deserving of the highest commendation. Convict Labor. A bill has been prepared, and will be presented for your consideration, looking to the furnishing of work for the convicts in the state prison. From humanitarian considerations the bill should become a law. It will afford temporary relief unut some better plan can be enacted into law. In conclusion, gentlemen, I trust that a spirit of concord and good will may characterize your deliberations. Important matters have been suggested for your consideration. The time allotted for your important work is brief, thus rendering it of the utmost importance that earnest attention be given to legislative matters from the beginning of the session, thus obviating the rushing haste that usually attends the closing of the session. I trust the Divine Ruler of the Universe will guide you by the light of His unerring counsel and inspire you with wisdom in the performance of your arduous duties, that His blessing will be upon your homes and upon all the people of our beloved State.

COURT NOT OBEYED. Standard Oil Company lias Not DisMolved It.** Trust Certificate**. COIjUMBUS, 0., Jan. s.—ln the arguments before the Supreme Court this morning, on motion the attorney general to dismiss the master commissioner and continue the investigation of the Standard Oil Company, in open court Hon. Virgil Klein, of Cleveland, attorney for the oil company, was forced into making some very positive statements and admissions. He declared, in the first place, in response to interrogatories of the court, that the company will not, under the former order of the court, produce any books other than those already given in evidences. In the second place, he admitted that there are still outstanding about $27,000,000 worth of trust certificates of the Standard Oil Trust, which the court ordered dissolved in 1892, but W'hich the president of the Standard Company has all along been trying to get in and is still trying. Asa result of the developments to-day Attorney General Monnett this evening filed a petition to oust the company from its charter in Ohio. The petition sets forth eight instances in which it is alleged the Standard Oil Company has violated its charter since its organization in 1870, specifying the various companies comprising the alleged trust and their capital stock. The company has tiled an affidavit that none of the records or books ordered produced has been destroyed and that its officers have declined to produce none except strictly private papers. LYNCHING IN ALASKA. Saloon Keeper Hanged nnd Toughs Scattered—Suicide of Actress. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 5. The steamer Rosalie has arrived from the north with one hundred passengers, all from Dawson. The party made the trip in seventeen days. The steamer had JC0.030 in gold dust on board. The passengers bring news of a sensational lynching which took place at Eagle City, Alaska, on Dee. 11. Jack Jolly, a saloon keeper and gambler, had collected a gang of toughs around him and was terrorizing the mining camps. He was waited on by a vigilance committee of twelve determined men and ordered to leave town. He refused and the next day the vigilants hanged him to the limb of a tree. The toughs and gamblers who had made his place their headquarters immediately left town. On the day the steamer left Dawson Myrtle Broocc, a variety actress, committed suicide by shooting herself in the head. She was a native of IJndsay, Ontario. The Argentine Wheat Crop. CINCINNATI. 0.. Jan. s.—Charles B. Murray, publisher of the Price Current and superintendent of the Chamber of Commerce, to-night received a letter from James M. Ayers, United States consul at Rosario. Argentine, stating that the wheat crop had escaped frosts, rains and all eoldweather troxibles and the locusts, that warm weather now prevailed there and that the wheat yield in the Argentine Republic would be fully 20 per cent, larger than ever before.

PLACE FOR JUDGE DAY # . BILL THAT WILL AX OPENIXG FOR THE OHIOAN. * Measure Panned Iy tlie House Veslerduy Adding: Another Juilko to the Sixth Judicial District. SENATOR HOAR’S RESOLUTION ♦ ST AT l S OF CLAIMS AGAINST SPAIN TO BE INVESTIGATED #. Protent Against Butler's Bill to Plnce Ex-Confederates on Pension Roll —Joint High Commission. # Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Jan. s.—ln the passage of the bill through the House to-day adding another judge to the Sixth judicial circuit— Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee—a start was made on a programme for exSecretary Day’s appointment to the federal bench and ultimately to his elevation to the Supreme Court. The place provided in the bill that has passed the House is as palpably for Judge Day as though he had been named in it. If the measure goes through the Senate and its approval by the President is followed by the appointment of Judge Day, that gentleman will be taken out of the Ohio gubernatorial situation, and the race for the Republican nomination will lie between Gen. Grosvenor and ex-Secretary of State Nash. Some years may elapse before Judge Day’s ambition to go on the Supreme Bench can be gratified. Justice Gray, of Massachusetts, is the only member of the court who has reached the age. of seventy, and he has no notion of retiring. Justice Shiras is? sixty-seven, while Chief Justice Fuller and Justice Harlan are sixty-six. All three are healthy. # SENATE PROCEEDINGS. Status of ClniniN Under Peace Treaty lit Be IrtveHtlgrated. WASHINGTON. Jan. s.—Little business, except that of a routine character, was transacted hy the Senate to-day. A resolution. offered by Mr. Hoar, directing the committee on foreign relations to report to the Senate whether the treaty of Paris makes any provision for the claims of citizens of the United States against Spain, which were in existence before the present war and the status of such claims after the ratification of the treaty, was adopted. Mr. Hoar also introduced a resolution requesting the President, if, in his judgment, not incompatible with public interests, to communicate to the Senate all institutions given by him to the commissioners who negotiated the treaty of Paris; all correspondence between the executive and the State Department and the commissioners; and all reports made by the commissioners, made either to the President or to the State Department. At the request of Mr. Davis, one of the peace commissioners, the resolution went over. Mr. Berry presented a protest from the J. Ed Murray Camp of United Confederate Veterans, of Arkansas, against the adoption of the proposed amendment of Senator Butler (Pop., N. C.) to the pension appropriation bill providing for the payment of pensions to Confederate soldiers. Mr. Berry said the members of the camp deemed it unwise to adopt such a proposition. They say, said Mr. Berry, that they have provided for themselves and their families for more than a generation and they regard such a proposition as that of Mr. Butler as “ungracious.” Mr. Hoar gave notice that, on next Monday. he would address the Senate on the resolution offered hy Mr. Vest relating to the acquisition of foreign territory by the United States, his address being a reply to that delivered by Mr. Platt, of Connecticut, just before the holiday recess. Mr. CafYery announced that he would address the Senate to-morrow on the resolution offered by Mr. Vest. Bills were passed to ratify agreements with the lower Brule and Rosebud reservation Indians, to grant California 5 per cent, of the net proceeds of cash sales of public lands in the State, and to classify clerks in first and second-class postofflees. Mr. Caffery, of Louisiana, then continued and practically concluded his speech, begun before the holiday recess, in opposition to the pending Nicaragua canal bill. Among the bills introduced in the Senate to-day were the following: By Senator McMillan, authorizing the construction of three revenue cutters for use on the great lakes at a cost of $200,000 each; also, increasing the salaries of judges of United States courts in New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma to $5,000 per annum; by Senator Pettigrew. for the coinage of the American product of silver and authorizing the exchange of other American products of silver with residents of other silver-using countries.

WORK OF THE HOI SK. Many Minor Hill* Passed and the Alaskan Measure Discussed. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. —The judiciary committee had the right of way in the House for three hours to-day and quite a number of bills of minor importance reported from the committee were passed. The remainder of the day was occupied in continuing consideration of the bill to codify the laws of Alaska. Some twenty-one pages were disposed of to-day, making eightythree in all. A section in the bill copied from the statutes of Oregon, providing punishment by tine and imprisonment of persons who prevent or endeavor to prevent employes from working aroused a protracted debate on the ground that it was an attack on organized labor. It was finally stricken out. The following bills called up by the judiciary committee were passed: To provide additional circuit judges for the Third and Sixth judicial districts; to regulate the terms of court in the Eastern district of Tennessee and the district of Butte, Mont.; to retire Cassius S. Foster, United States district judge of Kansas; to amend the Revised Statutes so as to allow the United States peremptory challenges in criminal cases: to permit ship owners to file indemnity bonds; to allow legally appointed guardians of insane persons to prosecute patent claims and to release the National Cotton Press Company, of New Orleans, from liability for $;.!,489 of internal revenue taxes. The hill providing for the retirement of Judge Foster occasioned some debate. Judge Foster, Mr. Broderick, of Kansas explained, had served twenty-four years on the bench and had broken down physically, but had not reached the age (seventy years) when he can be legally retired. These bills were introduced in the House to-day: By Mr. Norton, of Ohio, to transfer the officers and men of the Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry to the regular army; by Mr. Lewis, of Washington, to appropriate $100,(XX) for an assay office at Seattle, Wash. LIKE A CHINESE PI 7,7,1,E. Statu* of the (a nadian-Aaierican Treaty Negotiation*. WASHINGTON, Jan. s.—The Canadian Joint High Commission resumed its sessions hero to-day after the holiday recess. The only absentees on the American side were Representatives Dingley and John W. Foster, both of whom are sick. The Canadians were present, except Sir W'ilfrid Laurier, who is expected to-morrow, and Sir James Winter and Mr. Charlton, who will arrive later. The range of the negotiations is so wide and the subjects so mutually dependent in many cases that it is Impossible even for the members themselves to forecast tinal action on any one point. Concessions on one point are necessarily dependent on concessions in entirely another quarter, and. as one member put It, the whole treaty fabric Is like a Chinese puzzle that must he fitted together with great care to make all tho lines of contact agree. It can be stated that no conclusion has been reached on the

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question of ship building and armament on the great lakes, nor on the several boundary disputes. The Beef NVnn Good. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—C01. Henry B. Osgood, commissary of subsistence, who served with General Miles at Tampa and at Camp Thomas and Santiago, was before the war investigating commission to-day. General Beaver asked many questions as to the quality of the rations issued during the recent war. In brief Colonel Osgood said that the rations throughout the war were as good, if not better, than those usually issued to the regular army. The beef, he said, was particularly good, better than any he had ever eaten at an army post. The refrigerated beef was better than beef killed on the hoof. He declared positively that none of the beef given the soldiers was chemically prepared, and stud that all the talk to this eftect arose out of the fact that an inventor named Powell was permitted on the Comal to test a process he had for keeping beef in hot climates. None of this process meat was served the soldiers. To Amend the Canal Bill. WASHINGTON, Jan. s.—Senator Gear today gave notice of an amendment he will offer to tho Nicaragua cana! bill, authorizing the President to purchase right of way for the canal from Costa Rica and Nicaragua and providing for the construction hy the government of the United States. The amendment appropriates $140,000,000 for both purposes. Mr. Gear also gave notice of an amendment to the Indian appropriation bill withholding annuities from Indians who refuse to send their children to school. Export Bounty for Farmers. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. Senator Hansbrough to-day gave notice of an amendment he will propose to Senator Hanna’s hill for a subsidy to American vessels engaged in foreign trade. Senator Hansbrough’s amendment provides for an export bounty of $2 per ton on all American agricultural products shipped out of the country. The senator to-day introduced a bill providing for the free importation of seed wheat. Foster Cannot Get Roberta'n Sent. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. . WASHINGTON, Jan. s.—Populist Foster, of Utah, who announces his intention of contesting Polygamist Roberts’s seat in Congress, cannot make it, having let the time limit run against him. If Roberts should be deprived of his seat on the ground of ineligibility a vacancy will be declared and anew election ordered. Neither of his opponents can be given his seat. AN ELECTRIC TRUST. Conipnny with an Authorized Capita! of $23,000,000 Incorporated. TRENTON, N. J., Jan. s.—The Electric Company of America filed to-day. with the secretary of state articles of incorporation. The company has an authorized capital of $25,000,(XX). Its expressed objects are to manufacture, produce, purchase, own, use and sell to public and private users coal, coke, gas, oil, electricity, light, heat, steam and compressed air power, water, etc., and to own, acquire, construe' ad lease and operate plants in connect ‘herewith. The incorporators are Junu . Hayes, Camden; Elmer Smalling, Ph,. delphia, and Arthur Phillips, Philadelphia. The company, it is understood, is organized for the purpose of acquiring and operating the electric light plants in different cities. It is said to be backed by the Widner-Elkins syndicate, which has formed a similar company, acquiring and operating gas plants. Another Gigantic Trnst. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Jan. 5.—A preliminary step in the consolidation of enamel and tinware plants of the country has been taken. A number of capitalists headed by Ferdinand Kieckhefer, of this city, have purchased the plant of Kieckhefer Brothers in this city for $1,000,000. The plant Is the largest in the country. Ferdinand Kieekheler, who wfil be manager of the local plant, says negotiations are pending for a consolidation of enamel ware manufacturers. The firms said to lie interested are the Haberman Manufacturing Company, of New York, the Mathai-lngram Company, of Baltimore, and the St. Louis Stamping Company. The capital of the new organization will be $20,000,000. St. Louts Unit Case on Trial. ST. LOUIS. Jan. s.—The ease of the Mississippi Valley Trust Company vs. the Sportsman Park Club went to trial this afternoon in Judge Spencer’s division of the Circuit Court. Judge Spencer decided to hear all the evidt nee in the case. “After we have done that,” said he, "we will give Chris Von der Ah* ample time to take the deposition of President Young, of the National league, and we will not close the case until it is.”

SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS DEFORMITY APPARATUS. Trusts, Elastic Hosiery. Largest stock of ARTIFICIAL EYES In the State. WM. H. ARMSTRONG & CO. 'Cew No. 127) 77 S. Illinois st.. Indianapolis, Ind. ONE OF DEWEY’S SHIPS * REVENUE CUTTER M’CLLLOCH AT HONOLI LU EX ROUTE HOME. Displayed the* Starry Banner In Oriental Porta Before Sailing Eastward —Spanish Guns Aboard. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 5.-The steamer Doric, from Honolulu, to-night brings the following advices under date of Dec. 30; The revenue cutter McCulloch, Captain C. L. Hooper, arrived from Manila on the 2Sth on her way to San Francisco. Early in November she received orders detaching her from the tleet and directing her to resume her round-the-world cruise as a revenue cutter. Under Admiral Dewey's directions she was to put into as many Chinese and Japanese ports as possible “in order to show the flag.” She left Manila Nov. 16; Ilong-Kong, Nov. 23, and Amoy, Nov. 26. The McCulloch was in Shanghai Dec. 1 and at Nagasaki Dec. 4. Kobe and Yokohama were visited and the vessel sailed from the latter port after a stay of six days. Dec. 15, reaching here in fourteen days over perfectly tranquil seas. She will remain here but a few days, just long enough to take on about two hundred tons of coal and do some painting. When the McCulloch was detached from Dewey’s fleet the additional guns that had been mounted on her w r ere returned to the navy and their places supplied hy some guns taken from the Reina Christina. One of these bears on the crank handle the marks of where it was hit by American shot during the battle. The Doric brought 1>22 Japanese and nine-ty-three Chinese for his port, besides a large quantity of merchandise. Among her through passengers are six privates and noncommissioned officers from Manila, Lieut. E. R. Calkins, First Montana, and Captain Steele, of the Eighteenth Regulars. There are also a number of Spanish priests from the Philippines on their way to Panama. Aguinaldo seems to keep a watchful eye on events. As soon as it became known what the fate of the Philippines was. even before the treaty of Paris was signed, be appointed commissioners to the United States. “These commissioners,” said Lieut. Calkins, of the First Montana, “were to have comp by this vessel. But for some reason thev were delayed and they will come on the Nippon Maru. Just what they expect to do is not known very definitely, but they hope to get some sort of recognition for the Philippine government. They want a cession of some of tlie sm<jll islands of the Philippine group to the Filipinos or an indemnity of some kind. They are alive to the situation and want to make the moat of it. “When we left the naval and military forces were just commencing work on a plan to unite all the islands and all tho principal places in the Philippines by cable and telegraph. Tills plan will involve tho laying of some cable and the stringing of considerable wire. A requisition for the needed material has already been sent to Washington. There is some material on hand, enough to make quite a beginning of the Mrs. Wlnnlow’e Soothing Syrup Has been used over (Mty years by millions of r'Otbers for their children while teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens th# cvrr.s. allays pain, cures wind colic, regulates th# bowels, and is the best remedy for diarrhea, whether arising from tcvthlng or other causes. For sale bv druggists ,n every nart of th# world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 25 cents a bottle. Are you alarmed about yourself? Have you a distressing cough? Is you throat choked up with phlegm? Ikies a long breath pain you. If so you have reason to be frightened. Rut take heart, cheer up. a single bottle of Hale’s Honey of Hor#hound and Tar will cute you. Sold by all druggists. Pike’s Toothache Drops cure In 1 minute. SAVE MR HAIR How to Prevent Falling Hair v Scalp Humors and Dandruff. Warm shampoos with Ccticuwa Soap, followed by light dressings with CutxcurA, purest of emollient skin cures, will clear tho scalp and hair of crusts, scales, and dandruff, sootho irritating and itching surfaces, simulate tho hair follicles, supply tho roots with energy and nourishment, and thus produoe luxuriant hair, with clean, wholesome scalp.

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