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If the war investigating commission in its report should censure General Alger for weakness in his dealings with General Miles, as the New York Herald predicts, those who have denounced it as a whitewashing committee will have cause to drop the habit of prophesying. Under the present laws the township trustee can make levies about as he pleases. Because they can do so scores of those officers have in their possession more money than is expended in the year. Are there men in the Legislature who desire to perpetuate such a bad system? The St. Louis Post-Dispatch asks if the President believes in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence in regard to the consent of the governed. One may ask if the Post-Dispatch had that doctrine in view' when it approved the disfranchisement of a majority of the voters in Mississippi, South Carolina and other States by constitutional amendments not submitted to the people for ratification? W. R. Castle, late minister to the United States from the Hawaiian Republic, delivered a speech at a club dinner in Boston a few nights ago in which he said that Hawaii is like another New England, and New England peoplo feel at home there. “The Hawaiinns and Americans there, taken together,” he added, “have less illiteracy than Massachusetts.” That statement should make anti-expansionists open their eyes. A visiting Pennsylvanian predicts the reelection of Senator Quay on the ground that if the Democrats in the Legislature should undertake to jo-n the independent Republicans to elect a senator, enough of the Democrats would vote for Quay when the break should be made to secure his election. The Democratic party in Pennsylvania, he added, is divided into two factions, each of which is a tail to the two factions into which the Republican party is divided. Old residents of Wisconsin recall the fact that in ISSB the late Mr. Dingley, then quite a young man, came out to Hudson, in that StatP, with the view of starting a newspaper. For some, reason or other the plan failed and he returned to Maine and entered on the career which was to make him a force in national politics. Wisconsin was a very new State at that time, and with his studious habits and taste for mastering economic questions Mr. Dingley might never have got into public life from that State. Since the death of Mr. Dingley the question of the House leadership rests primarily with Speaker Reed. Whoever he may appoint chairman of the committee of ways and means will be leader of the House, provided he is equal to the position, but something will depend on his tact and leadership qualities It is assumed by the friends of Representative Payne, of New York, that he will succeed to the position, because he is second on the ways and means committee; but that does not follow, as the speaker may go outside of the committee for anew chairman. It would seem, after the experience of the past few years, that those who assume prominence in parties should have learned 'feat demagogy which seeks to array people

in one walk in life against others by appeals to prejudice has had its day in Indiana. The fight for cheap dollars was made mainly by appealing to farmers, wage earners and people of small means generally to vote against the bankers and the British money "combine. ' On that appeal the Bryanites were beaten by the votes of the men to whom they appealed. The wonder is that after that experience the demagogues in both parties should not have learned that such pleas are no longer effective. The people have learned the difference between reason and appeals to prejudice. Those speakers in the House who assail reputable citizens in connection with township reform by appealing to class prejudice have made a mistake. REPUBLICANS AMI REFORM. Avery common position for ttie opponents of any reform to take is that they are not opposed to the reform itself, but to the particular plan of reform proposed. They are in favor of “some bill, but not this bill,” but generally in opposing the plan under consideration they do not offer any other, has been the position of the opponents of civil-service reform in Congress for years past. They always claim to be in favor of civil-service reform in general, but they do not like the present law and they would prove their friendliness for real civil-service reform by repealing the present law or abolishing the Civil-service Commission. They are in favor of the principle, but opposed to its application. Republican members of the Legislature who are getting ready to oppose the pending bill for reform in county and township government seem to have taken about the same position—they are in saver of reform, but not of the proposed measure. Representative Reser, in his remarks on Tuesday, made two points against the bill outside of personalities. One was that it is too radical, and the other that "a change is not always reform.” From this it would seem he would favor a reform bill that is not radical and that does not involve any change in the present system. The Journal does not believe that ik the kind of reform in local government that the people want. It may be the kind some of the present and prospective county and township offices want, but they are not a majority of the people of either party. The whole is always larger than a part, and sometimes very much larger. It can hardly be possible that both of the state conventions misinterpreted the wishes of the people on this subject, and that nearly all the commercial clubs and business organizations in the State have fallen into the same error. Chairman Hernly, of the Republican state central committee, was in close touch with the people in all parts of the State during the last campaign, and he became so convinced of the popular demand for reform in local government that he became one of the earliest promoters of the movement. In a communication published in the Journal of last Nov. 16 he declared his hearty approval of the plan for the appointment of a commission and said: In accordance with this determination I will at once call a meeting of a commission, to be composed of representative citizens, whom T will hereafter name, together with committees frorm your organization and other organizations prepared to give the needed assistance. The contemplated work is of such magnitude and importance that it should be undertaken with as little delay as possible and I. therefore, appoint Tuesday, Nov. 22, 1898, at the Commercial Club assembly rooms, in the city of Indianapolis, as the time and place for the first meeting of the commission to organize, outline the scope of study and assign branches of work and make such other arrangements as rrtay be necessary. I feel that this work will appeal to the good judgment of all the citizens of the State on account of the importance of this much-needed legislation.

A few days later, before leaving for the East, Chairman Hernly announced the following appointments of members of the Legislature on the commission: First District—August Leieh, Jacob Messick. Second—Thomas J. Brooks. J. M. Huff. Third—N. E. Smith. Oscar G. Minor. Fourth—W. W. Lambert, James Marsh. Fifth—J. D. Early. J. M. Barlow. Sixth—C. C. Binkley. George W. Williams. Seventh—Harry S. New, Larz A. Whitcomb. Eighth—Walter L. Ball. Joseph B. Powers. Ninth—C. S. Goar. Braden W. Clark. < Tenth—N. L. Agnew, Henry W. Marshall. Eleventh—George C. Miller. A. O. Somers. Twelfth—N. W. Gilbert, Adam Gans. Thirteenth—A. M. Burns, Wilson Roose. Replies w r ere received from most of these gentlemen indicating their sympathy with the movement. The State Federation of Labor and the Indiana Bar Association also selected seven representatives each to serve on the commission. Are Republican members of the Legislature prepared to deny the right of the people to originate reforms in this manner, or will they dare to put the party in the position of repudiating its pledges by killing the movement under the pretense of favoring it? That would be a political blunder amounting almost to a crime. PI RE-FOOD LEGISLATION. The National Pure-Food Congress, which met in Washington yesterday for a four days’ session, represents the growing sentiment against the adulteration of foods and the sale of imitation articles for genuine. The evil is one that seems inherent in highly organized communities. Civilization develops some crimes of its own, as well as diseases. In new countries and communities the abundance and cheapness of foods leave little inducement for their adulteration, but as population increases competition becomes sharper, manufacturers and dealers grow' less conscientious, and the demand for cheap food offers an inducement for adulterations and imitations. This has been the experience in all countries, including the United States. Thirty or forty years ago such a thing as food adulteration w r as almost unknown in this country. Now r it is very general. As long ago as ISSI a committee of the California Legislature presented a report, in which they said: The extent to which poisonous adulteration appears to be carried on in the L'nited States is such that it would hardly be an exaggeration to say that murder had become one of the commonest incidents of trade and manufacture. Nothing can be more horrible than the cold indifference to consequences with which manufacturers of all kinds appear to employ deadly and noxious materials. We are forced to conclude that there are in this country thousands upon thousands of men who are perfectly willing to spread death and disease broadcast over the community. If in so doing they can make a little larger profit. Swindling, cheating, substituting bad and sham for good and genuine materials, are methods so usual as to be almost the rule. Adulterations enter into almost everything that is eaten or that is drunk, and disease and death go hand in hand with adulteration everywhere. Those who are best Informed concerning the extent of the evil are least likely to regard this as too strong a statement. What is true in California is true In other States, and the evil is greater now than it was when the above was written. It is not confined to this country. Most European countries have had laws on the subject for a long time. That of Great Britain was passed nearly fifty years ago. As long ago as 1577 the report of the Canadian commissioners of inland revenue stated that out of 180 specimens of groceries ninetythree were found by analysis to be adulterated. The variety of these adulterations is only equaled by their ingenuity, the aim

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in all cases being to cheapen the article without regard to whether the adulteration is injurious to health or not. A manufacturer or dealer who is dishonest enough to adulterate his goods does not care whether he poisons people or not. Several of the States have long had laws on the subject, and others are agitating the matter. Massachusetts, New York. New Jersey and Illinois enacted pure-food laws as early as 1881. and other States have done so since. The Illinois law, which is based on the British statute, applies to liquids as well as solids, and provides that no person shall mix any food or drink with any ingiedknt so as to render the article injurious to health or to depreciate its value, and that no person shall offer such articles of adulterated food or drink for sale, that no ingredients, even when not of a harmful character, shall be incorporated in any article of food or drink unless the true name of the ingredients shall be stamped upon the package, or unless the purchaser shall be informed by the seller of the true name of such ingredients. The penalties for violation of the law are very severe. A bill on the subject will be introduced in our Legislature at the present session, and it should receive careful consideration. Any law on the subject should include drinks as well as food, and probably medicines also, as reputable physicians say that lives are sometimes lost through the adulteration of drugs. A great deal of the whisky and much of the wine and beer sold in Indiana is adulterated. If a law is passed on the subject the health board or some other authority should have ample power to enforce it. A case occurred in Stuttgart, Germany, not long since, in which a rich and prosperous wine dealer was found to be selling adulterated wines. Ills whole stock was confiscated, the heads of his barrels knocked in. Hooding his cellar and the gutter in front of his place, and he was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment and disfranchised for life. That is the way European governments treat what they regard as a crime against society. At the congress which met in Washington yesterday thirty-four States are represented by delegates. Six departments of the government are represented: The Department of Agriculture, the Fish Commission, the Internal Revenue Bureau, the medical departments of the army and navy and the Marine Hospital Service. Addresses will be delivered by the secretary of agriculture, by Prof. Wiley, chemist of the Department of Agriculture, and many representative people from all parts of the country.

FACTS FOR MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE. Are the members of the House ready to join one of their number who declared that he desired to let the laws affecting township government remain as they are? Are they going on record to the effect that the law shall put no check upon township trustees? Do they desire that these officials shall have a wider discretion than the President of the United States? As the laws now stand the township trustee who cannot be re-elected can impose whatever tax he sees fit upon the people—how many members of the House desire to go on record in favor of a continuance of such an indefensible system? Are they going to stand by a system under which township taxation for special school levies ranges from three to fifty cents on each $100? Do members of a Legislature elected upen a pledge to reform township and county government propose to repudiate party pledges and permit a system to continue which enables one township trustee to levy fifty cents on each SIOO for roads, while another finds five or ten cents ample? The statistics furnished by the trustees themselves show that scores of them levy taxes that are unnecessary simply that they may have the people's money to spend. There are scores of such trustees, and when the report of the state statistician is placed before the members they will see figures showing that trustees have assessed twice and even three times as much money as they have expended. Cases are on record where trustees begun the year with more money in their pockets belonging to townships than they expended during the year, and yet they went on and made anew levy. It is probable that the amount of unexpended balances in the hands of trustees in this State at the close of the last fiscal year aggregated several million dollars. Is there a member of the Legislature who wishes to go on record as a protector of this legalized robbery? , Again, the compensation of township trustees is fixed by a system which permits great injustice. In Clark county the average compensation of trustees is $335 to each trustee: in Vermillion county it is $626; in Elkhart, $162.50; in Warren, $283.80; in Washington, $167.25; in Lake, $401.51; in Dubois, in Perry, $435; in Morgan, $315.75; in Montgomery, $200; in Franklin, $256.88; in Owen, $198.77; in St. Joseph. $287.88; in Vanderburg, $617.25; in Tipton, $519.66; in Jasper, $226.16; in Posey, $386.70; in Kosciusko, $255.38; in Howard, $327.63; in Clinton, $400; in Huntington, $267.06; in Hamilton, $550; in Orange. $231.75; in Clay, $456.72. Is u system w’hieh permits such inequalities to he indorsed by a majority of the House? Are those who are in conspiracy with supply dealers to defraud the people to he encouraged to continue? It is not claimed that any considerable part of the township trustees are dishonest, but it will be found thit the long existence of a vicious system has made many careless, and it has caused many abuses to become precedents with the force of law. The time has come for a change. A DEMOCRATIC POLICY. It is reported that the Democrats have agreed upon a line of policy in regard to the Spanish treaty. It is to amend it so that a declaration will be made that the Filipinos shall he treated the same as the Cubans. This means that whenever the former shall give evidence that they can sustain an independent government, the United States shall withdraw. It may be that there can be no objection to the injection of such a statement into a treaty which relates exclusively to an agreement between the United States and Spain, but it would not seem to he a fit place for it, nor would it seem to have heavy force upon anybody, it being a simple declaration in a treaty with Spain. It is not probable that Spain cares what is done with the Philippines. The course we may pursue is certainly no affair of Spain's, consequently It is simply a declaration of a policy which can better be made by a resolution of Congress than inserted in a treaty to which the avowal of our future poltey in reference to the islands is entirely irrelevant. The truth Is the Democrats in the Senate have learned that it will not do for them, as a party, to vote against the ratification of tlie treaty, so they propose to prevent ratification by offering an amendment which they hope will not be adopted. Failure to have their amendment incorporated will give them a pretext to vote against ratification and in

favor of returning the Philippines to Spain. The President's policy is much better. It is to ascertain the wishes of such of the natives as can be reached by an intelligent commission, to the end that there may be co-operation with them. This is the much-talked-of consent of the governed. A STRANGE COMPLICATION. About ten days since the Journal, without giving the name of the county, made the statement that its commissioners tlrew $6,000 or more as compensation the last fiscal year. There was some comment upon the statement, which led the commissioners of Tippecanoe county to infer that allusion was made to them. Thereupon the auditor of that county sent the Journal a statement under his seal, showing that the commissioners'were paid during the last fiscal year as follows: Commissioners, $1,(493.50; auditing board, $94.50; gravel road directors. $1,246; total, $2,436. Upon this certified statement the Journal made full retraction. Knowing that the figures originally published came from the state statistician, his attention was called to the apparent discrepancy. Thereupon Captain Conner produced the original return made to his office by the same county auditor in effect, except that it was attested by his deputy. In the return to the statistician the compensation of the county commissioners is given as $6,150.30 for the last fiscal year, and those figures will appear in the report of the Bureau of Statistics, already in type. The Journal pimply calls attention to this discrepancy in the statements of the same officer to show that it had authority for its original statement and that it promptly retracted upon the certified statement of the county auditor. In this connection it may be stated that the Lafayette Courier severely reproved the Journal for recklessness and maliciousness in making the original statement, with sundry remarks as to the duty of a newspaper to the public in reference to statements affecting the honor and integrity of officials. The Journal is not aware that the Courier published its correction upon the reception of the auditor’s statement, hut now that it is certain that the former statement was made from an official return made to the state statistician it may be able to inform the public how the mistake was made in the office of the auditor of Tippecanoe county. Or if the Courier cannot explain perhaps the auditor or his deputy can. The address of Senator-elect Beveridge to the Legislature yesterday was worthy of the occasion. It is the expression of a man in the presence of great responsibility. More than his .words, the bearing of Mr. Beveridge, when speaking, was that of a man who realized the great honor, and, above all, the great responsibility which had come to him. There is no tone of triumph in his words, far less was there in his bearing anything of personal elation. There are sentences in his speech which are full of instruction. ”No class has a monopoly of citizenship,” is one of them, but more timely, and more to be held in remembrance, are his words defining the phrase, "Vox populi, vox Dei.” Those sentences need not be quoted here, but they are so true and may be so useful that they should be read and reread. Another thought "which ran through the address is nationality. The United States is a Nation, not living for to-day, but for the centuries to come. “The American people are tlifc propagandists, not the misers of liberty,” is a sentence to be remembered, for in it is the answer to these who believe that it is unsafe for the American people to take a part in tie work of uplifting humanity. If. in this address, Mr. Beveridge has stated the truths which he will champion, and the rules of his public conduct, he will honor the State,as one of its senators.

The of the doorkeepers of the House to provide seats for the members of the Senate and to keep them for the. occupancy of the members of that body at yesterday’s joint session was inexcusable. The members of the Senate were there not out of curiosity, but as a necessary part of the proceedings, in accordance with the Constitution and the law. The election of a United States senator should be attended with all the dignity that the occasion demands, and the spectacle afforded by one-half of the members of one branch of the legislative body by which it was conducted scrambling about for standing room in one coiner of the chamber was by no means compatible with the requirements of good order and decorum. There is no disposition to criticise the public for usurping the space that should have been reserved for the senators, for they very naturally took the places allowed them. The fault lies with those officers of the House whose duty it was to see that the affair was properly conducted. The Journal would fail in its duty of fairly representing the sentiment of this community if it permitted to go unchallenged the attack made under the protection afforded by state laws to members of the Legislature upon the character of William Fortune, president of the State Board of Commerce, The statements of Mr. Reser in the House cn Tuesday were evidently based upon misinformation. Indianapolis people are familiar with the controversy that shortened the life of the late Eli Lilly, and suffice it to say that the courts have thus far sustained the action of Colonel Lilly and his committee in voting compensation to Mr. Fortune. To say that Mr. Fortune "stole” or “diverted” public funds is not only absurd. but cruelly slanderous. On the contrary, he is a man who has rendered public service of the highest order without cherishing a thought of public office, and has time and again proved himself highly valuable to the community. On Tuesday, while Mr. Reser was attacking the local government reform bill, he was interrupted by such questions as “If the members of the commission are to draw up the laws, why are they not members of the House?” A fair rejoinder would be “If members of the House can draw up a better bill, why don’t they do it?” It would he a great mistake for members of the House to assume that they monopolize all the lawmaking wisdom of the State. There are a number of bright and able men in the House, but there are also some outside. There has been a good deal of talk in recent years in favor of the initiative and referendum in legislation. This means the right of the people to originate measures and to ratify or reject such as are passed by their representatives. The Legislature must not forget the people. Commissioner General Peck wants Congress to increase the government appropriation for the Paris exposition from $650,000, the present limit, to $1,000,D0. He says Germany has recently increased its appropriation with the evident intent of outdoing the United States and he thinks we should not be content to take second place. There is some force in the argument. The Paris exposition will be a great event, and with the prestige of our recent naval exploits

and commercial expansion we will be expected to make a great show there. It would be an additional feather in our cap to beat European countries on their own soil. The daily news from Cuba is of the most encouraging character. The American authorities are getting matters well in hand, the Cubans are co-operating, there is very little disorder, business is reviving and a feeling of genuine respect for American authority seems to be taking the place of distrust. Unless some very unexpected complication should arise the work of pacifying the island will soon be complete and that of establishing stable government will advance rapidy. BI lIBI.ES' I> THE AIK. Aothinfr Else. “Yes.” said she, looking at herself in the mirror from sheer loneliness, “I am the bride of a //ear. And that is all.” Worked. Though Chollie's English - accent Was something of a fake, Whoever called him “deah old chap” Could work him for a stake. Slightly Different. Watts—Say, was it you who told me Browne had a habit of thinking aloud? Potts—Not I. i told you he had a Jiabit of talking to himself. Stern Justice. “What do you suppose they will do with that tramp who killed the telegraph operator at Turnip Siding?” “Hang him, sure. Mis act. delayed freight movements for three hours.” The Cheerful Idiot. “I see,” said the prosy boarder, “that the inhabitants of Havana have been ordered to turn in their arms.” “The military, however,” said the Cheerful Idiot, "will continue to turn out their toes.” ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Intercolonial penny postage between Great Britain and her colonies came in on Christmas day. and already the Canadian mails have doubled. The safety of Europe Is now assured. Mark Twain writes to William T. Stead at Bondon: “The Czar favors peace and so do T. We will have no difficulty with the rest of Europe.” The late General Garcia was a man of stu dious habits and seldom let a day pass by in which he did not find some time to read. He always had a few books with him in the lield, one of which was invariably Caesar's Commentaries. Chauncey M. Depew says that he was the other day accosted by a beggar, to whom he gave a dollar. “May I ask your name?” said the mendicant. Mr. Depew laughed. “Oh. I'm Grover Cleveland,” he replied. “Who are you?” "Well, I'm only Chauncey Depew.” Senator Elkins, speaking to Senator Burrows, of Michigan, about the latter's assured return to Washington, said the other day. “Pingree made you dig potatoes, didn't he?” "Yes,” said Mr. Burrows, "but i found a great many more potatoes than Pingree expected.”

The French have adopted anew wordsmart—and for the last few - weeks not a case-concert nor boulevard sheet but has given it asylum, and celebrated it as the legitimate successor of chic, of which the Parisians quickly began to tire when they learned that it had become part of the argot of London. Gen. John M. Palmer, who was the gold Democratic nominee lor the presidency in 1890. is eighty-two years old, and has permanently lost the sight of his right eye. His hearing is also affected, and as he is unable to continue his law practice his friends have asked Senator Cullom to secure the passage of a hill by Congress which will award him a, pension of SIOO a month. Major Theo Sternberg, of Ellsworth, Kan., who is paymaster in the army in the Philippines, lias this to say in prophecy of an evolution which may he expected to take place among the Manila fair sex: “1 saw a native woman, whose scanty skirt barely came to the knee, wearing garters. No stockings, no shoes—only garters. Now that woman was on the road to civilized dress. She will have to wear stockings, in order to dress up to those garters: and then shoes will have to come to protect the stockings, and there you are. I notice that American skirts and shirt waists are worn more and more.” After General Miles returned from Europe in 1897, says \Y. E. Curtis, he designed for himself a resplendent new uniform after the pattern of those worn by military officers abroad, and very much more elaborate than is common in our army. Among other very pretty features in the design is a cluster of laurel leaves upon his collar. The other evening at a reception given by Secretary and Mrs. Alger to the military circle in the city, this new uniform was seen for the first time by the wife of a subordinate officer who had spent most of her life upon the frontier, and she asked a friend concerning the significance of the laurels. “I fancy,” was the reply, "that the laurel wreaths have slipped over his head.” When Freedom from El Morro’s height Unfurled her standard to the air. The various brass bands in attendance played “El Capitan March,” "Row I Love My Lu,” “He’s Up Against the Real Thing Now,” several ragtime melodies, and "There’ll Bea Hot Time in the Old Town To-night.” And Castellanos tore his hair. —Flotsam. STEEL BRIDGE WRECKED. Carried Away by (lie Bursting of an lee Dam at Cleveland. CLEVELAND, 0., Jan. IS.— A costly steel bridge crossing Kingsburg run and the tracks of the Nickel-plate Railroad at Wilson avenue was wrecked this forenoon by a flood caused by the bursting of an ice dam a, mile or more above the structure. The disaster to the bridge has been pending for three or four days, or ever since the dam burst on last Sunday, after the heavy rains of Friday night and Saturday. The great flood of water liberated came rushing down the ravine to the culvert under the bridge. There a dam formed and the water backed up until many acres of the surrounding fields were covered. It was at first hoped that the culvert could be opened and the water let off in that way, but when the obstruction was removed the torrent rushed through with so much force that the foundations of the bridge piers were undermined one after another. Great sections of earth, some of them twenty feet deep and seventyfive fed square, were carried out and soon the water was swirling about the abutments. Four of the piers were carried away in the morning and at about 10 o’clock a fifth pier went, carrying down with it a sixty-foot span of the bridge. Two other shorter spans were bent and twisted out of shape. For a time it was feared that the Nickel-plate trestle, at the side of the run, would be carried away also, but this was saved by prompt work on the part of the officials of the company. Asa result of the accident Wilson avenue, one of the great cross-town thoroughfares, will be blocked for some time to all but pedestrians. The bridge was about three hundred feet long. It was built jointly by the city and the Nickel-plate Railroad, cost about SIOO,OOO and was opened for traffic last summer. It will cost, it is estimated, about $•25,000 to repair the damage. LYNCHED AT LYNCHBURG. Two Colored Ben with Haul Hepntntionx Put to Death. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. IS.— George Call, alias Toney, and John Shaw, alias Piglit. both colored, and who bore a bad reputation in the community, were shot and killed by unknown persons at Lynchburg last night. Their bodies were found at an early hour on Poplar street. Call was shot twice through the heart ind Shaw five times through the head and body. Both had served terms in the penitentiary for robbery. and some time ago they were whipped by White Caps and run out of town, but returned. Each was about eighteen years old. A cotton rope was found around the neck of each

HOUSE PASSES BILLS FOI R MEASURES SENT TO THE SENATE YESTERDAY. ♦ One Provide* Certain Change* si* to the Tax In*tallment Delinquency. TWO BILLS AGAINST LYNCHING SENATOR GUTHRIE PROPOSES TO PAY ONLY ACTUAL MILEAGE. Many New Bill* Introdueed'in Semite —Afternoon iGiven to Committee Work. —— • The session of the House yesterday morning was much interrupted by the gathering of the people to witness the formal election of United States senator, and, at times, it was almost impossible to hear what was going on. Rev. Dr. Quayle. of ; Meridianstreet M. E. Church, led in pn> - r. A request for the use of the h.dl for the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 1, for a public meeting of the Anti-Saloon League, was granted. The committee reports showed some differences of opinion. On the bill by Mr. Kirkpatrick, which provides that court bailiffs shall be appointed by the judges of the court in which the bailiff is to serve, the majority favored the bill, but the minority was in favor of the appointment resting with the sheriff. The majority report was accepted. The hill by Mr. Cravens, providing for the granting of divorces where the husband is of unsound mind, by application of either party—the husband by guardian—was so amended by the committee as to he applicable only when theViusband shall be incurably insane. The bill by Mr. James, which provided for the recording of conditional sale bills of property exceeding $2" in amount, in the office of the county recorder, for which a fee of 10 cents per hundred words is to be allowed, almost went through in spite of the committee. The majority of the committee recommended indefinite postponement. The minority, consisting of Messrs. Brown, Eiehhorn and Wise, favored its passage. Aftt some discussion the motion to lay the r inority report on the table was adopted by a vote of •10 ayes to 39 noes. The ways and means committee reported the bill to appropriate S4OO to provide cases to protect the relics of the Spanish war, which were presented by the battle ship Indiana, from vandalism, and the rules were suspended and the bill passed in order that the relics may he placed on exhibition as scon as possible. The agreement on the county reform bill which was entered into by the committee was carried into effect, and, without discussion, the bill was ordered printed and made a special order of business for next Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock. The report of the majority and minority of the committee will then lie acted upon. A resolution by Mr. Louttit to petition Congress that the Constitution should be so amended as to provide for the election of United States senators by the direct vote of the people was adopted with but fifteen votes against it, and the result was greeted by loud applause on the Democratic side. FOUR BILIKS PASSED. Four bills were passed. The first was by Mr. Wise and authorizes all prosecuting attorneys and their deputies to administer all oaths necessary in the discharge of their duties, but provides that no charge shall be made for them. Mr. Canada’s bill, which provides that where the guardiun of a person of unsound mind or of an habitual drunkard or of any minor under the direction of any court may sell land, the wife of such person ‘ may by separate deed release and convey all of her interest in the land, and her deed shall forever debar her from any interest in the land. It shall have the same effect as if her husband had been of sound mind or not an habitual drunkard and she had joined him in the conveyance of land. Mr. Hedgecock’s bill on taxation was also passed. It revises Section 8646 of Burns's statutes so that the county treasurer shall, on or before the Ist of February of each year, pay to the state treasurer all moneys found due for the state revenue, school tax and other state purposes according to the certificate of settlement of the county auditor, it also amends Sections 85.5) and 8645 of Burns’s statutes so that a taxpayer may pay the full amount of the taxes on or betore the first Monday in May or may at his option pay the first installment by that time and the remaining installments by the first Monday in Decemoer following: provided that all road taxes charged shall be paid in the first installment, and provided further that in all eases where the first installment is not paid by the first Monday in May the whole amount unpaid shall become due and be returned uelinquent and collected as provided by law. The penalty added shall be 10 per cent., and if the property remains delinquent at the succeeding Monday in December there shall be added a penalty of 6 per cent, to all such taxes as become delinquent at the preceding May or December settlements. The penalty of 10 per cent, shall be added only to the current delinquency occurring on the first Monday in December. The bill by Mr. Noel which permits the salary of court bailiffs to be raised as high as $75 a month was thought to have failed of passage, but a mistake in the roll call was found and the bill was declared passed after it had been declared defeated. The bill caused some discussion as to the raising of the allowance for pay, and on the first roll call the vote w - as announced by the roll clerk as being 46 yeas and 25 nays. Speaker Littleton declared that the hill had failed for the want of a constitutional majority. Some time later the clerk discovered that he had made a mistake in the taking of the vote and that it as corrected stood 65 yeas and 24 nays. By the consent of the House the bill was declared passed. ANTI-CIGARETTE BILL.

A large number of bills were introduced. Mr. Louttit, of Allen, presented a bill which prohibits the sale or giving away of cigarettes or of any imitation of cigarettes. The penalty provided for the first offense is SSO fine and for each subsequent offense a fine of from $25 to SSOO and sixty days’ imprisonment, or both. Mr. Aiken, of Bartholomew, presented a bill to fix the salaries of county coroners. The bill provides that in counties of less than 15,000 population the salary shall be S2OO per annum, from 15,000 to 25,000 $350 per annum, from 25,00) to 35.000 SSOO per annum, from 35.000 to 50,000 $750 per annum, from 50,(00 to 75,000 SI,OOO per annum, from 75,000 to 125,000 $1,500 per annum, over 125.000 $3,000 per annum. Where the population is over 50, vO? the coroner shall be entitled to a clerk, who shall receive not over $2.50 a day. Mr. Floots. of Fayette, presented two bills. The first appropriates $1,600 to care for the insane crirr.nals at the State Prison, and the second provides for a woman's prison, J*he bill provides for the appointment of a commission to consist of the Governor, one senator and one member of the House, who shall select grounds within six miles of the monument, in this city, for the erection of the woman’s prison. The sum of $75,090 is appropriated for the purchase of grounds and the erection us suitable buildings. The bill further provides that when this shall have been done the present institution shall be known as the Girls' Industrial Home. Mr. Knotts, of Hammond, sent in a bill which provides that the State shall not give bond in Injunction cases brought in the name of the State, and that when an injunction Is granted on petition of the State it shall be granted without bond. The bill further provides that it shall apply to pending litigation. BEARDSLEY'S LYNCHING BILL. Two measures were presented on mob violence. The hill approved by Governor Mount was presented by Mr. Noel It has been given In full. The other measure was by Mr. Beardsley, of Elkhart. This bill goes

into details. Section 1 provides against taking prisoners from officers or Jails, whipping them or lynching them. Section 2 covers in detail whitecapping and like offenses. Section 3 provides that damages may be recovered from the county in which such offense is committed and in case of death resulting the administrator may recover a sum not to exceed SIO,OOO, with interest at 8 per cent, from the date such treatment is received. This is intended to discourage any delay in the proceedings before the county commissioners, from whom a demand for satisfaction Is first to be made. The bill contemplates thx! possibility of the commissioners being in sympathy with such a mob. Section 4 states that the failure of the commissioners to act promptly may be considered as a disallowance of the claim. Section 5 provides that suit to recover damages must he brought in the Circuit Court in order that such suit may not be brought in an out-of-the-vvav place. The county can recover the damages it is forced to pay from the officers who are responsible for the violation of this act. There is yet another bill to l>e presented on the subject of mobs and lynehings which has not as yet been completed. This third bill will provide that the sheriff who permits a prisoner to be taken from his keeping shall be financially responsible to the administrator of the estate of any prisoner killed in a sum not to exceed $16,000. or for any amount of damages which the court may find, and that the bondsmen of the sheriff shall be held for his payment or any judgment secured against him. The bill will further give to the sheriff the right to shoot nr to call in troops, as now provided. It has been suggested that if troops are called In, the right to shoot shall be vested in the officer commanding the troops and that whenever troops are called they shall be summoned from a locality other than that in which the danger is believed to exist. This bill is under preparation now - and will be presented soon. Mr. Myler, of Crawford, presented a hill to revise the present law on the State Board of Medical Examination. The amendment* to the present law are that when a medical student who does not have a license works with a preceptor, he shall be required to go before an examining board. This is designed to prevent the practice of medicine by students under the shield of the perceptor. The bill also extends the time in obstetrics for the benefit of those who fail to comply with the law. This last amendment is for the benefit of midwives. REDUCING INSURANCE DEPOSIT. Mr. King, of Wabash, presented a bill to amend the act relating to foreign insurance companies, by reducing the amount required to be deposited with the auditor of State from $210,000 to SIOO,OOO. It is claimed that in all surrounding States the amount required is SIOO,OOO. and that for Indiana to require more will be harmful to the Indiana companies, which desire to do business in neighboring States. 'Mr. Houring, of Spencer, introduced a bill, which provides that building and loan associations having a capital stock of SIOO,OOO or more shall be authorized to act as trustees, assignees, receivers, administrators or executors of estates. It confers upon them the fuii powers now - held by trust companies. Mr. Reeee, of St. Joseph, introdueed a bill to prevent the adulteration of candy by any coloring matter or other substance which contains poison. The penalty provided is a fine of from SSO to SIOO. and the confiscation of the goods. Mr. May desires to so amend thp fish law that there shall be no fishing from February to May, inclusive. Mr. May also introduced a Dill which requires that ail canned vegetables and fruit on sale shall bear a stamp showing in what year the goods were canned. Mr. Mull, of Rush, sent in a bill, which provides that the Supreme Court shall appoint a commission of three lawyers to revise the statutes. Mr. Geisel, of Jennings, introduced a bill which will require the township trustees to make a detailed report to the county commissioners. Mr. Holcomb, of Decatur, sent in a bill to abolish the three days of grace on notes. Mr. Schrader’s resolution to have 2,000 copies of the Governor's message printed in German was adopted. Mr, Huff presented his amendment to the constitution, for municipal ownership of puhlic works. This has been given in full. The House adjourned until 9 o’clock this morning. The following committees reported: —Judiciary.— No. 175. By Mr. Kirkpatrick: Regulating the appointment of court bailiffs; majority report recommending passage accepted. No. 124. By Mr. Cravens: Relating to the granting of divorces in certain cases; amended and passage recommended. No. 131. By Mr. McCrary: To fix the compensation of trial judges; passage recommended. No. 162. By Mr. Artman: To provide a method of collecting certain judgments against railroad companies; passage recommended. No. 97. By Mr. Caraway: To regulate the practice of law in actions for damages; passage recommended. No. 188. By Mr. Bonham: In reference to the appointment of receivers; passage recommended. No. 171. By Mr. Neal: To repeal the housebreaking law; indefintieiy postponed. No. 100. By Mr. Herod: To enlarge the rights of married women in their husbands’ real estate: passage recommended. No. 109. By Mr. Clements: To give a surviving widow or widower the right of election; passage recommended. No. 176. By Mr. Kirkpatrick: To provide against the contamination of animals used for human food; passage recommended. No. 31. By Mr. O’Bannpn: To tax glft3 and inheritances; recommitted to ways and means. No. 110. By Mr. James: Relating to conditional saie bills and conditional notes; majority report lor indefinite postponement accepted. „ . , . No. 156. By Mr. Beal: To increase jurisdiction of justices of the peace; indefinitely postponed. —Banks.— No. 103. By Mr. Scott of Montgomery: To make it a crime to draw cheeks against a bank when no funds are on deposit; indefinitely postponed. „ No 51. By Mr. Whitcomb of Marlon: Regarding negotiable instruments; passage recommended. —Education.— No. 15. By Mr. Cutty: To establish hoards of children’s guardians in certain cases; indefinitely postponed. No. 50. By Mr. Osborn: To amend the act relating to the common-school system; indefinitely postponed. No. 87. By Mr. Bonham: To amend the school law; indefinitely postponed. No. 106. Bv Mr. Gants: To provide a general system of common schools; recommitted to county and township business. No 122. By Mr. Bonham: To amend the school law; recommitted to judiciary. No. 139. By Mr. McCarty: To provide for written contracts between teachers andi school boards; passage recommended. —Ways and Means.— No 233 By Mr. Shideler: To appropriate S4OO to care for the relics of the Spanish wa r; passed under a suspension of the ruled and sent to the Senate. —Building and Loan Associations.— No 101 By Mr. Herod: To regulate the method of disbursing offices of associations; massage recommended. No 159. Bv Mr. Holcomb; Concerning building and loan associations, indefinittly postponed. —Rights and Privileges.— No 16 Bv Mr. Hedgecoek: To prevent free lunches‘in saloons; recommitted to tempexance. Mr Sh irley: Concerning mechanic's liens; indefinitely postponed. No 12 By Mr. Bonham: To protect merchants and professional men; passage recoinmended. Mr Iyouttlt; T o pay a bouiity for the killing of English sparrows; passage recommended. —Affairs of Indianapolis.— No 49. By Mr. Murphy: To pay for street sprinkling and sweeping from the geneiai fund; passage recommended. —County and Township,— No 104 Bv Mr. Baker: To amend the taxation law'; indefinitely postponed No 'l3 By Mr. Brown: To regulate the lotting' of contracts for puhlic works; passage recommended. . .. No 154 Bv Mr. Compton: To amend the act for the relief of the poor; passage recommended. By Huff: To provide for a system of county government: majority report recommending passage and minority report to indefinitely postpone. Bill ordered printed and made a special order of business for next Tuesday at 9 a. m. —Agriculture.— No. 179. By Mr. Furness: To pay a bounty on beet sugar and sugar beets; amended and passage recommended as amended. —Cities and Towns.— No 216. By Mr. Noel: To legalize the incorporation of Castieton; passage recommended. . —Roads.— No. 185. By Mr. Huff: To pay rebate on road tax to those using tires three inches wide: indefinitely postponed. No. 210. By Mr. Marsh: To condemn right of way over adjoining property for. road construction; passage recommended. —Mines and Mining.— No. 231. By Mr. Cutty: To prevent the sale of impure miner’s oil; passage recommended. —Medicines, Health and V’ital Statistics.— No. 141. By Mr Noel: To establish a State Hoard of Health; passage recommended. Bills Passed.— No. 53. By Mr. Wise: Empowering prosecuting attorneys and their deputies to administer oaths; yeas 83, nays 2. No. 64. By Mr. Canada: Relating to the (Continued on Sixth Page.)