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THE DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1899. Washington Office—lso3 Pennsylvania Avenue Telephone tails. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 86 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY BY MAIL. Pally only, ant; month f .7° Daily only, three months 2.00 Daily only. Dne year B.o*l Daily, including Sunday, one year 10.00 Sunday only, one year... 2.00 WHEN FURNISHED BY AGENTS. Daily, per week, by carrier 15 cts fcunday, single copy 5 cts Dally and Sunday, per week, by carrier 20 cts WEEKLY. Per year SI.OO Reduced Hate* to (labs. Subscribe with any of our numerous agents or send subscriptions to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Indianapotia, lnl. Persons sending the Journal through the malls lit the United States should put on an eight-page paper a ONE-CENT postage stamp; on a twelve of sixteen-page paper a TWO-CBNT postage stamp. Foreign postage is usually double these rates. AH communications intended for publication In this paper must, In order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. e=— " ■ ■■■ ■ ■■ THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: NEW YORK—Astor House. CHICAGO—PaImer House, P. O. News Cos., 217 Dearborn street. Great Northern Hotel and Grand Pacific Hotel. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos., I*4 Vine street. LOUISVILLE —C. T. Deering northwest comer of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Book Cos., 256 Fourth avenue. BT. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Riggs House, Ebbitt House and Willard’s Hotel. The death of Governor Dingley, following that of Representative Milliken, deprives the Maine delegation of half of its experience In the House. Foreign governments are at “outs” about almost everything else, but they all agree that American manufacturers are capturing the markets of the world. Senator Hoar and Mr. Boutwell do not go nearly as far In opposition to national expansion as a former generation of Massachusetts statesmen did to the war of 1812. The opponents of national expansion seem to have overlooked the fact that there is nothing in the Constitution of the United States authorizing American manufacturers to capture, seize and hold the markets of the world without the consent of other nations. The articles in newspapers telling Senator Quay that the time has come for him to retire from the senatorial contest in Pennsylvania are a waste of space. Even marked copies addresed to him will not he effective, elnce the best papers in the Keystone State have been giving him that advice for several years. Speaker Reed is reported as saying that money might as well be appropriated to public buildings as to other and less worthy purposes. Mr. Reed is right; and if he should visit Indianapolis he would without doubt assist Mr. Overstreet in getting an appropriation for this city, which is in sore need of a better federal building. It Is hardly necessary to await an authoritative denial of the absurd report from Madrid that the American troops at Manila had mutinied and refused to go to Iloilo. The story was so plainly incredible that it excited no attention in this country. American troops may grumble and criticise, but they obey orders.

If the three “envoys” from Aguinaldo who have arrived at San Francisco, on their •way to Washington, have come to dictate terms to the United States, they will soon discover that they have come on a fool’s errand. If they are wise they will recognize the good intentions of the United States and accept the Inevitable. The Merchants’ Club, of Chicago, has taken steps to obtain from the Legislature authority to organize a company the purpose of which will be to loan money to workingmen at a reasonable rate of interest on chattel mortgages. The Intention of those in the movement is to deliver a class of worthy people out of the grasp of pawnbrokers. Senator Allen, of Nebraska, who is nearing the end of his career In that capacity, desires a war investigating committee of five, to be made up of not more than two from any one party. This means that Mr. Allen would smuggle a Democrat into the committee upder the guise of a Populist. There are hut two parties In the Senate, the Populists having joined the Bryan Democrats. The repeated official denials by the German government and by our ambassador at Berlin of the rumors that Germany is meddling in our affairs and showing an unfriendly disposition towards the United States ought to put a quietus on such reports. Nothing could be stronger than Ambassador White’s last statement on the subject and it is comprehensive enough to cover future rumors of the same kind as well as those It denies. The speech of Senator Gray, of Delaware, delivered at Wilmington, Saturday night, does him great credit and is a strong vindication of the action of the peace commissioners and of the President relative to the Philippines. As one of the peace commissioners Senator Gray knows what difficulties they had to deal with, and he says in effect that it was impossible for them or the President to have adopted any other course than the one they have pursued. No critic of the President nor any anti-expansionist has yet pointed out what other course could have been pursued without national dishonor. For many years past there has been more or less scandal connected with the decennial censuses of the United States relating either to the manner of taking them and thi inaccuracies, or to the delay In publicatlo. . An effort should be made to avoid any ground for these complaints in taking the census of 1900. and if the application of civil-service rules in the appointment of census enumerators and clerks would aid In that direction it should be done. The disagreeable echoes of the complaints regarding the last census have scarcely died out and care should be taken not to give ground for their renewal. A bill has beer, presented in the House looking to the relief of the widow of the late Governor Morton. It is generally known that she is in reduced circumstances and that she has no one on whom she can depend In her declining years. The proposed relief would not be felt by the State, but it would be everything to her. It is generally understood that Governor Morton left a voluminous correspondence embracing every letter of importance that he received during the war. This correspondence has a historic

value, and should belong to Indiana and be put where it could be made available. Congress purchased the correspondence of Jefferson and other prominent men, and now has it in safe keeping. If this monthly stipend could be made as payment for the correspondence the precedent of state pensioning could be avoided because a value would be obtained for the money. This suggestion may not be feasible, but, whether it is or not, the Legislature should devise some plan by which the last days of the widow of the greatest war Governor, whose efforts to save the Union gave him a place in history close after Lincoln, Grant and Stanton, may be days of comfort. A PROPOSED CHANGE OF RASE. One of the latest reports from Washington is that the opponents of the Spanish treaty in the Senate will offer an amendment to the effect that the Philippines shall not be annexed to the United States and that they shall be turned over to an independent government of the natives as soon as it can be safely done. In other words, they desire that the Philippines shall be treated the# same as it is proposed to treat Cuba. If this is their purpose why do not the anti-expan-sion senators present their amendment at once arid have a vote on it instead of indulging in a time-wasting discussion that will tend to embarrass the situation in the islands? When the proposed amendment shall be rejected it will ,be time enough to fight the treaty because of their hostility to an annexation which there is no reason to believe the President and those sustaining him favor. It is further declared that the senators favoring the alleged amendment will agree that the United States shall hold sufficient territory in Luzon for a naval station. It may be that those who advocate the ratification of the treaty desire no more than such a possession as a naval station that we may have a foothold in that quarter. There is good ground to suspect that this announcement of a purpose to amend the treaty is due to an unwillingness on the part of those who have been the loudest opponents of the treaty to assume the responsibility of its defeat, which involves the repossession of the islands by Spain or the leaving of them to the despotism of Aguinaldo or to anarchy. If those senators fear to be confronted by such responsibility they are sensible. There is reason to believe that the people of the United States desire the same policy for the Philippines as for Cuba. Indeed, there are more reasons why we should desire that the Filipinos should have an independent, self-sustaining government than that Cuba, so near us and so closely allied to us by trade, should be independent. The United States will leave Cuba to the Cubans whenever it shall be made fairly certain that they can maintain a stable and independent government. Even when that shall be accomplished the United States must stand to the world in the relation of a sponsor or defender. There is no reason why the same policy should not apply to the Philippines. If the anti-expansion senators are anxious to change their position from absolute rejection of the treaty to its ratification with a condition that the Filipinos shall have an independent government on the same terms as Cuba, why do they not execute such a change of base at once?

THE MODE OF ELECTING SENATORS. As members of Congress, senators as well as representatives, are officers of the United States, their qualifications, duties and privileges being prescribed by the national Constitution and their salaries paid by the national government, Congress may control the manner of their election. The Constitution says: “The times, places and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time, by law, make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing senators.” It further provides that the senators from each State shall be chosen by the Legislature thereof, and it follows that they must he chosen at the capital where the Legislature meets. This simple provision regarding senators was not reached: without a great deal of discussion on many propositions. The framers of the Constitution were agreed that the Congress should consist of two branches, an upper and a lower house—one distinctly representative of the people and the other in some way representative of the States; but they had much difficulty in agreeing on a basis of representation and the mode of electing senators. The first rough draft of a Constitution, proposed by a Virginia delegate, provided “that the members of the upper branch of the national Legislature ought to be elected by those of the lower branch out of a proper number of persons nominated by the Individual legislatures.” Other plans proposed by different members provided for the election of senators by the lower house, and the proposition was very fully discussed. Other propositions were that they should be appointed by the President, “out of a proper number of persons to be nominated by the individual legislatures;” that they should be elected by senatorial districts, but they should be elected by electors chosen for the purpose and serve during good behavior; that they should be apportioned among the States according to importance; that they should be apportioned according to wealth, and so on. It was only after prolonged discussion of these various propositions, and many others relating to senators, that the provision as it now stands in the Constitution was adopted. Even then many members of the convention yielded their prejudices and assented to it without believing that it was the wisest or best. Whether it was or not, the good sense of the American people and their aptitude for self-government have caused it to operate on the whole very satisfactorily. The present law regulating the election of senators was passed in 1866. Previous to that there was no uniformity among the States as to the time or manner of electing senators, except that they must be chosen by the Legislature and at the capital. No time was fixed for the election, and the voluntary action of both houses was necessary to a joint convention. The whole matter was subject to political caprice. The result was that in a closelydivided Legislature one party or the other, by factious opposition, refusing to go into joint convention, breaking a quorum, refusing to vote, etc., might and sometimes did prevent the election of a senator indefinitely. These factious proceedings resulted in many contested election cases. A notable case of this kind occurred in this State in 1859. when Henry S. Lane and William M. McCarty claimed to be the legally-elected senators in place of Graham N. Fitch and Jesse D. Bright, who had been elected in 1857 for the terms ending, respectively. March 3. 1861, and March 3. 1863. That waa one of the great political fights of the day, and doubtleaa contributed, with other similar cases, to the enactment of a law regulating the mode of electing senators. The

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present, law provides that “the Legislature of each State which Ls chosen next preceding the expiration of the time for which any senator was elected to represent such State in Congress, shall, on the second Tuesday after the meeting and organization thereof, proceed to elect a senator In Congress.” This puts it out of the power of either house or any party or faction to stave off voting for a senator and requires the Legislature to take a first vote on the second Tuesday after its organization. The law further provides: Such election shall be conducted in the following manner: Each house shall openly, by a viva voce vote of each member present, name one person for senator in Congress from such State, and the name of the person so voted for who receives a majority of the whole number of votes east in each house shall be entered on the journal of that house by the clerk or secretary thereof; of if either house fails to give such majority to any person on that day, the fact shall be entered on the journal. At 1? o’clock meridian of the day following that on which proceedings are required to take place, as aforesaid, the members of the two houses shall convene in joint assembly and the journal of each house shall then be read, and if the same person has received a majority of all the votes in each house he shall be declared duly elected senator. But if the same person has not received a majority of the votes in each house, of if either house has failed to take proceedings as required by this section, the joint assembly shall then proceed to choose, by a viva voce vote of each member present. a person for senator, and the person who receives a majority of all the votes of the joint assembly, a majority* of all the members elected to both houses being present and voting, shall be declared duly elected. If no person receives such a majority on the first day, the joint assembly shall meet at 12 o’clock meridian of each succeeding day during the session of the Legislature and shall take at least one vote until a senator is elected. Under this section nothing but an extraordinary combination of circumstances can prevent an election of a senator, either on the second Tuesday after the organization of the Legislature or soon thereafter. Where either political party has a majority in both houses a caucus nomination insures an election on the first ballot by the two houses separately, and if the majority is on joint ballot the election will occur in the joint convention on the following day. The present law is a wise one, and it is surprising that so long a time elapsed before it was enacted. Os course, neither the Constitution nor the act of Congress takes any account of caucus nominations, and the disbates in the constitutional convention show the members expected that senators would be selected for very different qualities from those pertaining to members of the other house. During the debates Mr. Dickinson, of Delaware, who moved that senators should be chosen by the several Legislatures, said: He had two reasons for his motion: [rirst, because the sense- of the States would be better collected through their governments than immediately from the people at large; secondly, because he wished the Senate to consist of the most distinguished characters —distinguished for their rank in life and their weight of property, and hearing as strong a likeness to the British House of Lords as possible; and he thought such characters more likely to be selected by the state legislatures than in any other mode. It would not be considered a strong argument nowadays for the election of senators by the Legislature that it assimilates the Senate to the British House of Lords. Nor does it in fact, for legislatures record the will of the people.

The ninth annual report of the Board of State Charities, covering the year which ended Oct. 31, 1898, contains a large amount of valuable information regarding the charitable, corrective and penal institutions of the State. The review of the condition of the State institutions made by the secretary of the board, Mr. Amos W. Butler, shows that they are being managed with intelligence and upon business principles. The portions devoted to the county jails and asylums show shat these institutions are carefully looked after and that many of them are not what they should he. There ls reason to believe, however, that improvement is being made from year to year under the inspection of the Board of Charities and the wider interest manifested by those who see the need of radical reform. The orphans’ homes owned by counties appear to be in a much better condition than the poor asylums, which is probably due chiefly to the fact thaf they are largely under the control of benevolent organizations. More than seventy pages of the report are devoted to statements and statistics relative to the relief of the poor by townships. The statistics embrace the levy for the aid of the poor in every township in the State, and they constitute an interesting study. Why one township should be assessed 75 cents on each SIOO for poor relief and another but 1 cent is not explained. The cost of out-door relief—that is, the persons not in county poorhouses, was $375,206.92 during the year which ended Oct. 31, 1898, which was $13,136.75 less than during the year previous. One of the results of the war with Spain and our larger interests in distant lands is a renewal of the interest in favor of a merchant marine under the flag of the United States. Heretofore our export trade has been confined to food products and raw materials like cotton. Now we are a rapidly growing competitor in the more important lines of manufacture. During the last fiscal year our exports of manufactures exceeded our imports. The strides the country has taken in that direction have surprised Europe. Under such conditions and with such an outlook it is time the United States should enter the list as an ocean carrier. A beginning was made, but the policy adopted by a Republican Congress under the Harrison administration was set aside, yet not until sufficient progress had been made to vindicate its wisdom. To extend our ocean carrying trade Congress must offer encouragement, as have those governments in Europe whose shipping monopolizes the ocean carrying at the present time. It is not possible for this Congress to give attention to the subject, hut it will be sure to come up in the next. There has been a feeling that the encouragement of the ocean carrying trade is a matter that chiefly interests the seaboard States. Such is not the case; Indiana has as much interest in a merchant marine under the stars and stripes as has any State in the Union, for the reason that it has, in proportion to its population, as many products to sell to foreign countries. Those persons who are wont to complain of the burden imposed upon the people by the State tax should find a quietus in the figures in Sunday’s issue showing the amounts paid by each county as school fund and the amount apportioned to it to expend for schools. Fifty-three of the ninetytwo counties paid into the school fund a smaller amount than they have been awarded for expenditure. In several others the excess of their contributions over the amount received is so small as to he of no consequence. One county, whose representative has been demanding that the burden imposed by the State must be reduced, received $350 more from the school fund than it has contributed. The circular letter issued by the bishop of Havana to the Catholic priests throughout the island shows intelligent appreciation of the new conditions established by

American rule and willingness to accept the situation. It recognizes the fact that the connection between church and state in Cuba is ended and that hereafter the Catholic Church will have to depend for support on the voluntary contributions of the people, just as that church and ail others do in the United States. The bishop's advice to the priests is timely, and besides making the task of the American authorities easier ought to make better Catholics out of the Cubans. People think more of a religion which they support themselves than they do of one which is supported by the state, ready made. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. Too Unto to Try It. Watts—Ever get shaved by a woman barber? N. Peck—No. I was married before I ever saw one. Fame. “Who,” asked the horny-fisted man. after the rest of the crowd had departed from the grocery, “who is this here .loan O. Depew that they was talkin’ about?” t'nat fi Doubt. “I have hot an enemy on earth,” she said, proudly. At that moment, as if to refute her assertion, the letter carrier arrived and delivered unto her a box of candy. The Cheerful Idiot. “You would not take tin for a man the detectives were after,” said the Cheerful Idiot. “Wouldn’t take who?’ asked the shoe clerk boarder. “The new boarder. I understand his name is Clews.” INDIANA’S NEW SENATOR. Mr. Beveridge is a young man in years, but has ability the equal of any who aspired to the senatorial honors, and will be an honor to the State and Nation.—Oakland City Enterprise. No selection for United States senator was ever received throughout the whole country with more universal expression of approval than that of Albert J. Beveridge. —Madison Courier. Mr. Beveridge is a man of superior ability, and Indiana Republicans may well be proud of him. He was the second choice of Judge Taylor's friends, and this part of the State has no reason to find fault with the nomination.—Angola Magnet. We regret that Hanly was beaten for senator. He was personally the choice of the Republican. But if he had to be defeated we are glad that it was done by the gallant young orator of Indianapolis. After Hanly he was our choice.- Laporte Republican. While J. Frank Hanly has many admirers and friends in this vicinity, yet the selection of Albert J. Beveridge for United States senator is in no’wise a disappointmtnt to Republicans of this part of the State. He will honor and dignify the high position to the full satisfaction of his friends.—Thorntown Argus. It was thought by some of Mr. Beveridge’s friends at the beginning of the senatorial campaign that he was in no sense a politician, and that with an opponent like Major Steele he would be at a disadvantage, but during the sixty days preceding the caucus it was developed that Mr. Beveridge was the best political manager of them all. —Seymour Republican.

The result of the caucus proves highly satisfactory to the party, and Indiana will never have need to regret the choice made. Mr. Beveridge is not only one of the most brilliant orators of the age, but he is also a scholar, a trained thinker, a lawyer of acknowledged ability, and with it all. only thirty-six years of age, with a vigorous body and intellect and a great future awaiting him.—Mishawaka Enterprise. The choice for United States senator fell upon a man of brilliant promise. The supporters of Major Steele are pleased with the result, while they are disappointed that their choice did not win and completely round out a life of public usefulness and earnest devotion to duty. Albert J. Beveridge, in slang parlance, “is all right,” and the people have faith that he will highly honor the State that has honored him. —Faimount Ntws. We still believe that Major Steele was the one man best qualified for the. position to which he aspired, and we regret that it was not to be so considered by the members of the Legislature, but under the circumstances the outcome is one of which no man can complain, and the Republican parry of the State is to be congratulated upon the result. The new senator will he satisfactory in every way, and will add luster to the fame of the State.—Marion Chronicle. Mr. Beveridge was not, as the saying goes, “born with a silver spoon in his mouth,” neither was he reared in the lap of luxury, but, like nearly all who have won fame, he was educated in the school of hard knocks. Whatever he has undertaken to do he did well, whether it was plowing corn, hauling logs, herding cattle on the plains, pleading the cause ol a client in the courts, delivering an oration or making a political speech, he was always industrious and painstaking.—Kokomo News. The election of ASbert J. Beveridge, thir-ty-five years of age, a purely self-made man of very humble parentage, and who had to struggle hard for an education, to the United States Senate is evidence that can be added to the list of possibilities and opportunities offered in free America to self-willed, energetic, clean character, let him be ever so poor. The State of Indiana can well be proud of her new senator, and he will make his mark In the halls of the upper house.—Mount Vernon Republican. As Republicans of Grant county we would like to have seen Major Steele nominated for the United States senatorship. He is eminently qualified and his long and useful service to his country and his party merit any reward that could have been bestowed upon him. However, if Major Steele could not have been nominated we are glad that it was Albert J. Beveridge. He will represent the State of Indiana in the Senate in a manner which will reflect the highest degree of credit upon himself and upon his constituents.—Gas City Journal. The selection of Indiana’s new senator Tuesday night came as something of a surprise to the people of Terre Haute, although Mr. Beveridge’s merits as a public speaker, and his ability to enthuse a crowd were familiar to all those who are in the habit of attending public speakings here during a campaign year. The truth is that his nomination was a great surprise to the people here, although, to hear a great many persons talk, there were many original Beveridge people here. “His selection was just what they wanted.”—Terre Haute Mail. The selection of Albert J. Beveridge for United States senator by the legislative caucus is received with satisfaction in Rush county, where he is well known and has many warm admirers. For a good many years he has been a favorite campaign speaker in this county. His past career is a guarantee for the future. Still a young man. he has given unmistakable proofs of his high character and unusual ability. Mr. Beveridge has made a gallant struggle ;n life, under hard conditions, and has won success on downright merit.—Rushville Republican. Mr. Beveridge’s success has been worthily won. His honor is no greater than his merits. He has the ability to maintain his position, and the people of Indiana will hear good reports from Senator Beveridge. He is an orator of recognized ability; he has a thorough education as a foundation upon which to build a career; he is a great student and thinker, and he has the advantages of youth and enthusiasm. His record is clean and he has before him a brilliant future. In honoring Mr. Beveridge by electing him to the United States Senate Indiana has honored herself.—Marion News. Among the most admirable things said by Mr. Beveridge in the speech printed in the Courier yesterday was the plea that his auditors, and necessarily the people, have patience with him. That was a promising recognition of the importance of the duties before him and a most satisfactory acknowledgement that lie did not expect to at once assume to fce the leader of that august assemblage. In this first speech—those made during the night of his success in the caucus not being considered—the young man grasps fully the magnitude of the position to which he is about to be elevated, and his words and apparent sincerity are the best hopes for a brilliant future record.—Lafayette Courier. The Indianapolis Sentinel charges that two Elkhart county Republican members of the senatorial caucus deserted Taylor after the lust ballot. The accusation is untrue. Eik-

hart county's representatives and senator voted for Taylor on every ballot until they saw danger of Hanly’s success by drawing from Steele and Posey on the ninth ballot. Then all three secured some of the Taylor and Steele votes for Beveridge, who has been the second choice of Elkhart county, so far as expressed, from the outset. On the tenth ballot they succeeded in getting all of the Taylor and Steele men to go to Beveridge. These statements are made as facts that belie the Sentinel’s story.—Elkhart Review. Perhaps it would be well for those who are railing at Indianapolis because both senators will be from that city to give thought to the fact that Mr. Beveridge’s election was distinctively in spite of the machines and the politicians who are constantly using their pencils in addition and division of salaries. He was chosen in spite of his place of residence. He was the only candidate who had a genuine personal following of enthusiastic Republicans. They wanted him for senator because they admired and believed in him. Every other candidate had professional wire pullers, the best in the State, doing all that was possible: but Beveridge got the votes of men who said their ’■people at home” wanted him for senator, and those "people at home" were in all parts of Indiana.—Terre Haute Tribune. Hon. A. J. Beveridge, who will be elected successor to Hon. David Turpie as United States senator, may be young, but he is no ordinary man. It required pluck of the most heroic kind for him to be a candidate in the first place, as he is a resident of Indianapolis, and the present senator is from that city. Then the speaker of the lower house of the General Assembly of this State is a resident of the capital city. To cap the climax, Hon. A. C. Harris, of Indianapolis, was appointed minister to Austria-Hungary the afternoon of the day on which the nominating caucus was to be held at which a candidate for senator was to be selected. It required nerve of the strongest kind for a man to remain in ihe senatorial contest, let alone enter it, under all the circumstances enumerated. Me. Beveridge possesses many elements of political strength. He is popular with both the poor and the rich, with the laboringmen, the foreign element ind the younger portion of his party. —Laporte Herald. From Other States. Senator-in-prospect Beveridge isn't necessarily a mixer.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. A native of Ohio succeeds to the senatorial toga of Mr. Turpie, of Indiana, as might have been expected.—Chicago Journal. Mr. Beveridge, Indiana’s new senator, was once a logger. He will find several men in the Senate who know a whole lot about logroiling, too.—Chicago News. Mr. Beveridge, the gentleman who is to succeed Mr. Turpie as senator from Indiana, took the wise precaution, early in life, to be born in Ohio.—Cleveland Leader. Senator-elect Beveridge, of Indiana, has a taking name, anyhow. He is known and liked by not a few New England Republicans who have heard and applauded him. —Boston Globe. It seems a pity that a bright, reputable, innocent young man such as Mr. Beveridge, of Indiana, appears to be must be thrown into daily contact with ( the United States Senate. —Milwaukee Sentinel. Massachusetts had a hand in that Indiana senatorship contest. The Hon. A. J. Beveridge, who has just received the Republican nomination, was our lively Middlesex Club’s candidate. —Boston Journal. Mr. Kean and Mr. Beveridge have been named to represent New Jersey and Indiana in the United States Senate. It may turn out that Mr. Kean is dull and that Mr. Beveridge doesn’t drink a drop.—St. Paul Globe. The successor of Senator Turpie, of Indiana, is to be Albert J. Beveridge, who will be one of the youngest men ever elected to the Senate of the United States. Though a young man, he now has as fine a legal practice as any Indiana lawyer, and as an orator has a very high reputation in the West—Rochester Post-Express.

The Right Kind of a Boy Orator. New York Sun. The Hon. Albert J. Beveridge, who has just been elected a senator in Congress from Indiana, is a fine example of the success that is in the reach of every American who deserves it by working for it. Mr. Beveridge, who is only thirty-live, was born in Ohio with a wooden spoon in his mouth. His people moved to Illinois in the hope of finding fortune kinder. At twelve he was pegging away on a farm. At fourteen he was working on a railroad. Working, mind you, and not shirking and imagining himself to be a blighted being ruined by corporations. Graduated from the railroad, he became a teamster. At sixteen he was boss of a lumber camp. Studying in such times and with such means as he could get, he fitted himself for the De Pauw University, where he worked to support himself. He overdid it a little, so he went West and took up cow punching. Then he went to Indianapolis and studied law. He picked up a good practice easily, and now he is a United States senator at thirty-five. • He was a boy orator at college, and he won cash prizes that he needed. But he is not a boy orator now. He has not remained a permanent boy orator. He has not devoted himself to wandering about the country, abusing a great part of the citizens, windily proclaiming that there is no chance for poor folks and making a living by speeches that go to show that you cannot make a living on aceount of the "wrongs” and "oppressions” of the rich. He has been a good stump speaker, but his best’ speech is his life, the resolute and strenuous labor which conquers difficulty and ill fortune. If he had spent his time in envying and denouncing the prosperous, he would never have made himself prosperous. To the numerous persons who believe that eructations against the gold standard and the trusts are a sufficient substitute for a day’s work, we commend the history of Albert J. Beveridge. STATE PRESS OPINION. Tippecanoe county legislators will join in no movement to rend the metropolitan police law. They have carefully noted its practical appliance in Lafayette, and it has made so good a showing in comparison with the old system that any disturbance of its workings would be regarded with marked disfavor hereabouts.—Lafayette Call. The Indianapolis Sentinel bewails the fact that Senator-elect Beveridge does not know that the gold standard and a protective tariff are mischievous delusions and that imperialism is contrary to the principles upon which our government was founded. Why does not the Sentinel go as a friend to Mr. Beveridge and tell him of his error? The Gazette will guarantee decent burial to the remains after the interview.—Fort Wayne Gazette. An attempt will again be made during the present session of the Legislature to pass a bill that will authorize the exemption of mortgage Indebtedness from taxation. The subject has been considered at the last two sessions and the State Board of Tax Commissioners has always been able to defeat the many bills presented. In the House Mr. Ross, of Delaware county, put in a bill to permit a mortgage or to deduct ssoi>. The sentiment in favor of doing something on the subject appears to be strong in the General Assembly.—Goshen Times. There has been and is, and with much reason, a feeling of prejudice against Indianapolis. The Tribune thinks it is passing away because Indianapolis is doing fewer things to cause resentment. Indianapolis is growing bigger in all respects, with less of the overbearing and grasping trait which characterizes the city which is just attaining its rnannood as a metropolis. Indianapolis used to discuss the questions in which there was a chance tor the city to derive some benefit from people of the State at large as if it had a vested right in the tribute of all Indiana.—Terre Elauie Tribune. There is one form of petty fraud in connection with the General Assembly that should be abolished. The law authorizing a mileage at the enormous rate of 20 cents a mile should be repealed. The custom is hoary with age, but that does not exonerate it from the charge of iniquity. It should be abolished and in lieu thereof the member should be reimbursed for his actual expenses necessarily incurred in traveling from his home to tne capital by the most direct route and in the shortest possible time. An itemized statement of these expenses should bo required and the allowance could be made double the amount of the bill to cover return charges. At least 75 per cent, of the sum now paid in the form of mileage could be saved.—lerre Haute Express. Two or thrive bills have been introduced In the Legislature of Indiana making it unlawful for railroads to charge more than 2 cents per mile for passenger fare between points within the State. The expediency of such a law is doubtful, as the rate is too low to be remunerative and at the same time would not conform to the rates maintained in adjoining States. It would be very natural for railroads crossing the State

to get even by furnishing inferior accommodations for the local traffic and possibly recoup the loss by an extra charge for seats on through trains on that portion of the Journey outside of the State. The companies might make up their local trains of superannuated cars without any of the comforts or conveniences of modern railway travel and justify the action on the plea that they could not afford first-class accommodations at the price.—Terre Haute Express. The wisest policy the nonstate colleges could pursue in the coming educational fight would be to commence their campaign by going to Indianapolis and making away with some of their fool friends. The State Board of Education as now constituted and conducted is beyond doubt a mtnaee to the interests of higher education in Indiana. It turns everything to the advantage of the state institutions in contemptuous disregard of tlie fact that within the borders of the State are other institutions of higher learning. Ihe finances of tne State University have been loosely conducted, and the examinations sent out by the state board have been aesigned to force prospective teachers into the State Normal and Stute University. It is a monopoly of the most dangerous character, because it is concerned with our educational facilities. All tnis gives the nonstate college a good case. They should win their point in their agitation to have the board reorganized so that it will be representative of ail the educational institutions of Indiana. Their contention though will lose force if some of their supporters in the Legislature are allowed much more latitude, home ot the nonstate institution legislators have signified their deslte to cut off all state support from all colleges and universities. Such a move would be as unpopular and as unjust as the present method of doing business. It is no more desirable to cripple the state institutions than it is to cripple the nonstate institutions. The just way is to permit both to live and enjoy all the advantages they can without discrimination against the other.—Richmond Item. MILES AND EAGAN. General Eagan evidently was too excited to remember that General Miles also lies in a bathtub.—Chicago News. Let us hope that the Miles-Eagan controversy will not be reduced to the proportions of an individual gunning match.—Baltimore Herald. What a magnificent crop of duels the present war investigation would produce had it only occurred on the continent of Europe. —Omaha Bee. The investigating committee decided that Eagan’s testimony was too hot to handle; hence a deodorized edition of it was ordered. —Memphis Commercial Appeal. The manners of a swashbuckler and the language of a cad are not desirable quantities in one of the foremost officers of the United States army.—Brooklyn Eagle. It is for the President, the commander-in-chief of the army, to enforce such discipline as the extraordinary conduct of General Eagan merits.—Rochester Post Express. Entirely waiving the merits of the rotten beef scandal, the American people expect the President to do his plain duty, and without any loss of time to order a courtmartial for his foul-mouthed commissary general.—Washington Times. The people will join with General Miles in his desire to have the matter of food supplies thoroughly investigated. General Eagan’s passing of the lie simply argues that he has no other argument to offer and is in a mighty close place.—Denver Times. The vulgar attack of General Eagan upon the commanding general may safely be ignored by the public, and Eagan himself left to be dealt with by the officers of the army. The man who dishonors his uniform is not likely to go unpunished.—St. Louis Post Dispatch. The friends of President McKinley will sincerely grieve that this scandal should have arisen during his administration, and the President owes it to his own dignity and reputation, as well as to integrity of the government, to suppress it at once and to rectify all abuses in the administration of the military affairs of the country.—Minneapolis Tribune. Whatever course may be pursued, it is no exaggeration to say that the War Department has been placed in a most disagreeable and unenviable position, and it is to be feared that the painful impression produced in this country will find an echo in European capitals where everything relating to the United States is at present discussed in not the most friendly spirit that could be desired.—Baltimore Sun.

Now that the war is over An' in peace we're all delightin’— When the country is in clover, All the generals go to iightin'! —Atlanta Constitution. THE PHILIPPINES. Presently Aguinaldo may hear something drop which will dispossess him of the illusion that he is the whole archipelago.—St. Louis Republic. Aguinaldo is using his golden whistle so much that he may wear it out in a short time. He should guard it with great care, as he may be unable to get another one. —Baltimore Herald. The Filipino insurgents are said to be anxious to fight the American army. It is believed the American army has enough of the bitter end left from the Spanish war to supply the Filipino for some time.—Chicago News. It is rather cool of Aguinaldo to ask that Germany be allowed to arbitrate between the outlaws and the American government. Aguinaldo is the representative and creature of Germany. That is what makes the inaction of this government so maddening. —Washington Times. Ileet Sugar Legislation. Starke County Republican. Jacob Keller and H. E. Ellingson are in Inddanapolis, working in the interest of some legislation favorable to the industry of beet sugar. Both these gentlemen have spent a great deal of money and time in the interest of this industry, and it now looks as if they would accomplish some good. In Indianapolis Messrs. Keller and Ellingson will be assisted by the legislative committee formed for the purpose of promoting and securing favorable legislation. Over in the State of Michigan they have a law which pays a bounty on beet sugar manufactured in that State, and it has given a wonderful stimulus to the industry. Millions of dollars have been invested and land and other property has increased in value in consequence thereof. While the sugar-beet industry is yet in its infancy in Michigan, still the benefit to the farmer, the laborer and all other classes has been enormous. Our land is well adapted to the culture of the sugar beet, and we should have some legislation which will Induce capitalists to come into our State and develop the industry. So long as Michigan has a bounty law and Indiana does not, that long will capital seek investment in Michigan, instead of in Indiana. Os course, this bounty law is a kind of a tariff law, so hateful to the Democratic party, but. politics or no politics, when the best interests of our county and State are at stake we should all lay aside our political sentiments, roll up our sleeves and work for home and fireside. We want a bounty law. no matter what sad memories it brings up, just so it adds to the comfort and convenience of our neighbor. What is good for one is good for all. East fall, when the Republican state convention was in session, the Hon. Charles Fairbanks, in the course of his platform speech, declared that the Republican party was in favor of encouraging the development of the sugarbeet industry in this State. So there is more than a bare possibility that we will get some favorable legislation during this session of the State legislature. To add to our chances, Hon. Charles S. Hernly, state chairman of the Republican party, is an enthusiastic sugar-beet man. His influence means a great deal, so we are almost sure to get some good legislation on this subject inside the next sixty days. District .IndgeNliip of Hawaii. Logansport Journal. Under the pending bill before Congress a judicial district wiil be created for the new' Territory of Hawaii, and the President will have the appointment of a district judge. The Journal gives its earnest and hearty indorsement to De Witt C. Justice, of this city, for the position. For almost thirty years Mr. Justice has been one of tne leading lawyers at this bar. and for many years he has been regarded as among the ablest lawyers of northern Indiana. He was graduated from the University of Michigan in IBU9. and was a school-fellow with Judge Day. In much of the important litigation here during the past twenty-five years he has figured on one side or the other, always with credit to himself and his client. His great-grandfather was with Washington at Valiev Forge, his grandfather a soldier in the war of 1812 and his father, the late Dr. Justice, was a trusted counselor and friend of Governor Morton, by whom he was often consulted during the dark days of the late war. Mr. Justice Is a man of wide attainments and will make a first-class Judge. Socially he is a charming gentleman of fine character, in the prime of life, and has never held any office. The Journal urges upon Senators Fairbanks and Beveridge and Congressman Steele to secure his aoDointmeat.

SOME OF THE NEW BOOKS. Alwyn, Mr. Theodore Wat*-Dunt<m’ Mucli-Advertixeil Novel. Mr. Theodore Watts-Dunton has for many years been well known In English literary circles as a critic and essayist, his work having appeared mainly in the Indon Athenaeum. He has also been known as the intimate friend of some of the* leading artists and writers. He lived with Rossetti until the latter’s death and now has hie home with Swinburne. He is represented by these friends as shrinking from publicity and to this modesty is ascribed the fact that this, his first novel, has but Just been published, although it was written twenty year# ago. "Alwyn” has been persistently "boomed’’ by the reviewers and so obvious an effort made to force it on the attention of the public that there is danger of creating a prejudice against it in advance in ths minds of well-informed readers. But even unbiased readers will hardly be able to accept it at the valuation of the critics, and if ths author cherished a dread of becoming a popular literary celebrity he may dismiss hi* fears. For "Alwyn” is not a great story or one to appeal to the popular taste, although it has many points of merit, not the least of which is a clear and attractive literary style. The story has faults of construction and a highly Improbable plot—so improbable, indeed, that at certain points it comes dangerously near the ridiculous. The novel teature of the tale is its pictures of life among the gypsies of Wales and its studies of the gypsy character. Sintl Lovell, a member of the tribe, is the real heroine of the story, which, as a whole, represents the struggle between inherited and acquired superstition and modern learning and common sense. There is a good deal ot mysticism brought into it, both by way of the gypsies anci oy a certain artist and writer guild which found its creed in a book of visionary tales written by the father of the hero, but which the latter regards as sheer rubbish. Several of the personages of the book are wellknown London celebrities under a thin uisguist One is Rossetti, who talks freely with comparative strangers of his "sorrow"— meaning the loss ot his wife, and this sorrow is alluded to sympathetically by his friend 9 as if it were a physical misfortune of some sort. A curse tigures as a leading element in the story, but the results of Ui*s are overcome by means of a scientific experiment which transfers the dementia or “fits" of one young woman to another! There is too much detail, too much agonizing by the hero while searching for his lost sweetheart, and too much gypsy lingo, consisting partly of dialect English and partly of language wholly unintelligible to English readers. However, with all its faults the book undoubtedly gives correct glimpses of certain unusual phases of life in England, there are good descriptive parts, and tht tale is altogether so out of the common that it has a distinction of its own. Published in this country by Dodd, Mead & Cos., New York. In the Forbidden I,mid. Tiie subtitle of this work designates it as "An account of a journey into Tibet, capture by the Tibetan Lamas and soldiers, imprisonment, torture and ultimate release brought about by Dr. Wilson and the political peshkar, Karak Sing-Pal.” The author, Air. A. Henry Savage Landor, left England in the spring of 18)7. He had at first intended to descend upon Tibet from the north, but finally entered it from northwest India, by Almora, in Kumaon. He desired to explore southern Tibet, and the course of the upper Brahmaputra. Natually the Indian authorities and the Tibetan officials, who guard their frontier from inquisitive intruders, did their best to prevent Mr. Landor from entering the country. But he succeeded in eluding them, and, with his little band of native followers, crossed the frontier. Tibet is one of the least-known countries in the world, and the city of Lhassa, which Mr. Landor desired to reach, has never been visited by Europeans, except a few Jesuit missionaries and one or two English travelers. He did not succeed in reaching Lhassa, but he made a remarkable Journey across the Himalayas, reaching an altitude of 22,000 feet, and through rugged passes and a mountainous country that offered almost insuperable uifflcultie.s. Finally, in fording a river a load containing provisions was lost, and the party was forced to visit the town of Toxem to get food. lUs was the beginning of a series of terrible experiences for Mr. Landor. The natives seemed friendly, but proved treacherous, and he and his two attendants were seized, bound hand and foot and delivered over to Tibetan soldiers. Their property was confiscated, they were hurried before the provincial authorities, and were tortured cruelly with systematic ceremony. After horrible sufferings the three men were sent back to Taklakot on the southern border of Tibet, where, through the inlluenee of an American Methodist missionary and a political officer, they were released and returned to India. Mr. Landor was in a dying condition when first received by his friends, but subsequently recovered. These personal adventures and sufferings have no great public interest, and are related with much harrowing detail. Apurt from these, however, Mr. Landor has much to tell ot the strange and interesting people with whom he came in contact, and of his geographical discoveries. The story of his Journey and sufferings mfckes two large volumes, which are copiously illustrated and published in handsome style by Harper & Brothers.

The Government of Indicnu. Mr. W. W. Thornton, a well-known member of the Indianapolis bar, is the author of a little volume briefly outlining every department of the government of Indiana, state, county, township, town and city, with some account of the duties of every important public officer. The volume opens with a short historical sketch of the State. This is followed by a summary of the present Constitution, a document by no means so easily accessible to the student as the Constitution of the United States, but with which every Indlanian should be familiar. The full text of it is given in an appendix. The distribution of the powers of the government is explained and is followed by chapters describing the work and purpose of the legislative, executive and judiciary departments. The various appointive offices and the several boards are named and their functions set forth, the public institutions and their work described, the purpose and character of the tax levy outlined, the educational system made clear, and so on through every branch of the civil service. Headings of the chapters will indicate tho ground covered: “General Assembly,” •Governor,” “Lieutenant Governor,” "Secretary of State,” “Auditor of State,” “Treasurer oi State,” “Attorney General,” “State Board of Health,” "State Geologist,” “Bureau of Statistics,” “Board of Charities,” "Commissioner of Fisheries,” “State Librarian," “State Benevolent Institutions,” “Counties,” “Townships,” “Towns,” “Cities,” “Prisons,” ‘The Poor,” “Roads or Highways,” ’Drainage,” “Education,” "Elections.” “Militia,” “Taxes,” "Courts,” “Miscellaneous.” One appendix consists of the State Constitution, a second has a register of state officers from the beginning of the State's history, and also a table of population by counties from the census of 1891). There is a comprehensive index. The book seems to have been compiled with great care, and a cursory examination, shows but one inaccuracy, namely, the assertion that a woman can no longer hold the position of state librarian. If such a rule exists It was made by the State Board of Education, and is subject to change as the board changes its membership and acquires greater liberality of view. There la nothing in the statutes to prevent the appointment of a woman to this office. The volume, which Is published In neat and attractive form by the Inland Publishing Company, of Terre Haute, should I>c in every school, and, indeed, in every home library in the State. >1 eMMUgCN nl Papers of the President* It is not often that Congress does a wiser thing in ayfiterary and educational way than it (Hci in authorizing the compilation in fiopk' form of the messages and papers of the Pr.-idents of the United States from the foundation of the government to the present time. Each one of these messages possessed in its day great public interest, and in their collected form they constitute a mine of political and historical information. The work of compilation was Intrusted to Hon. James D. Richardson, ex-repre-sentative from'Tennessee, and it has been thoroughly well done. Tne work is entitled “A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789—1X97. Published by Authority of Congress." Os the nine volumes-which will com|M>se the series, eight have already been issued. Volume 1 covers the period from 1789 to 1817, and succeeding volumes bring the compilation down to 1897. They Include all the messages of all the Presidents—annual, veto and special messages, together with all the proclamations from the first one issued by Washington to the latest one by Cleveland jiuring his first administration, and the con-