Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1899 — Page 4

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THE DAILY JOURNAL FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1890. Washington Office—lso3 Pennsylvania Avenue Telephone Call*. Business Office 238 i Editorial Rooms 86 TERMS or SI list RII*TIO.\. DAILY BY MAIL. Daily only, one month $ -'0 .Daily only, three months 2.00 Daily only, one year 8.00 .Dally, including Sunday, one year 10.00 Sunday only, one year 2.00 WHEN FURNISHED BT AGENTS. Daily, per week, hy carrier 15 cts Sunday, single copy o cts Daily rind Sunday, per week, by carrier 20 cts WEEKLY. Per year SI.OO Kednced Unto* to Clol)*. Subscribe with any i our numerous agents or send subscriptions to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Indiana poll*. Inti. Persons sending the Journal through the mails In the United Htates should put on an eight-page paper a ONE-GENT jxistage stamp; on a twelve of sixteen-page paper a TWO-CENT postage stamp. Foreign postage is usually double these rates. AO communications intended for publication in this paper must, in order to receive attention be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. es 11 1 : . '■ THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: NEW YORK—Astor House. CHICAGO—PaImer House, P. O. News Cos., 217 J>earborn street. Great Northern Hotel and Grand Pacific Hotel. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos., 134 Vine street. LOU 18VIDLE —C. T. Deering, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Book Cos., 2.36 Fourth avenue. BT. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot. Washington, and. c.—Riggs House, Ebbitt House and Willard's Hotel. There are a few men who are opposed to the present expansion of business, but they are not saying much about it just now. North Carolina Democrats are going to disfranchise the colored men in that State after the plan of Louisiana Yet one hears of no protest against this outrage by those who talk of the “consent of the governed.” The report comes from Texas that its Legislature came very near voting the State out of the Union because of some requirements of the federal internal revenue law. but wiser heads held the majority in check. . Mr. Johnson said Mr. Dolliver's speech might be summarized as “Three cheers for the flag, and God save William McKinley.” Even that was a better speech than “Three cheers, for Aguinaldo, and down with William McKinley.” There are enough capable and fair-minded men in the State qualified to appraise the value of real estate which the State may desire to sell or to purchase without imposing such a task upon the Governor, as is proposed in several bills before the Legislature. It Is predicted that a large number of “lambs" will be sheared in Wall street before the present advance in stocks shall come to an end. Most stocks are worth more than they were two years ago, but it is dangerous for an inexperienced person to speculate in them on margins. The Republican publishers and editors are holding their annual meeting in this city. With the passing years their .influence increases, and there is reason to believe that those of them who look after their papers to the exclusion of other matters are prosperous men. During the year death claimed one of the ablest and most successful of those who have taken an active part in the annual gathering—Thomas H. B. McCain, of the Crawfordsviile Journal.

Whatever law is passed for the taking of the census, it should contain a provision requiring that all those who may be employed in the w’ork of enumerating should pass an examination to show that they have the in-telligence-necessary to do the work as it should be done. Even if Republicans only are employed, they should make it appear before they begin the work that they are competent. In ISW) and 1890 many men were employed who were not competent. Senators are usually on so good terms with each other that they desire the reelection of their associates. In regard to Senator Stewart it is different. Senators have heard his one speech Qn 16 to 1 so many times that the 16-to-l senators would have preferred some other man of the same faith. Mr. Stewart's offending is that he has one very long silver speech which was put.together years ago. and on every occasion when he can get the floor he repeats it, no matter the subject under consideration may be. This is the season of the year when farmers' institutes are being held, and the Journal’s exchanges from various parts of the State contain reports of the proceedings. By comparison with former years the reports show that the proceedings grow more interesting from year to year, dealing with practical subject? in a practical and progressive way. In nearly every case the reports show an increased attendance, and in some instances the largest ever known. There can be no question ns to the growing usefulness of the Institutes. The annual report of the New York commissioner of labor statistics shows that the total membership of labor unions in the State on the Ist of April. 1897, was 142,570, and the numbertof unemployed 42.654. while the total membership on the Ist of October, 1898. was 171,067 and the number of unemployed 22.485. The ilgures show a considerable increase in the membership of labor unions and a decrease of nearly 50 per cent, in the number of unemployed. These Ilgures do not include unorganized labor, hut as far as they go reflect general conditions and are indicative of prosperity. The bill before the Legislature providing for the construction of a hospital for incurable insane should receive careful attention. The hospital reports of Pennsylvania, which lias one of those asylums, show' that the experiment is not regarded with favor. It turns out that many who are sent from the asylums to the asylum for the Incurable insane have been found on subsequent examination to be curable and had to be sent back to the other hospitals. The last year the number of Incurables received was not much larger than the number sent hack as curable, w hich has caused a large expense. Officers in the Massachusetts hospitals are said to regret that the State has committed Itself to the experiment, as it requires a large expenditure for a separate plant and corps of officers and employe*. It has been found that the Incurables can he better and much more economically cared for in annexes to the regular asylums which can be superintended by the same officers. Land for farms on which to give the Incurables who are able to work the exercise they need can be obtained cheaply within a few miles of existing hospitals, while much cheaper buildings ( :> u be constructed for that class of insane.

Experience has shown, it is said, that not more than a hundred of this class of insane can be cared for in one institution. REFORM IS NEEDED. The contest between the people and the commissioners of Shelby county as to whether the former have any rights that the latter are liound to respect has assumed anew phase. As readers of the Journal are aware, the contest grows out of the action of the commissioners in awarding a contract for the construction of six bridges at an exorbitant price, without any previous surveys, advertising or publicity of any sort. The citizens held a mass meeting, and, believing that the transaction was irregular. decided to bring suit to enjoin the performance of the contract and raised money to employ a lawyer. A few' days after the suit was filed the commissioners met, and, by consent of the contractors, annulled the contract for the six bridges and employed a local surveyor to make the necessary surveys for the bridges and report. 'fhis was on Saturday last, and on Monday the surveyor made an alleged report covering six surveys in different and widely separated parts of the county, and on the strength of the reports the commissioners entered into new contracts with the same contractors for the building of the bridges at the old price. This, of course, killed the suit brought under the first contract. as was the plain intent of the proceeding. The Shelb.vville Republican calls attention to the fact that the person employed to make the surveys had only from Saturday till Monday to do the work, and says that an employe of the auditor's office worked nearly all of Monday night in order to make up the commissioners’ record of the transaction. It is further stated that the $29,000 bond given by the bridge company under the new contract and accepted by the commissioners is signed by three nonresidents of Shelby county and the city editor of the Shelbyville Democrat, the local organ of the commissioners. As Shelby county has now a bonded debt of SIOO,OOO, and as the six bridges contracted for are expected to cost more than $30,000, it is not surprising that the taxpayers should feel inclined to test the legality of the arbitrary and starchamber proceedings of the commissioners. The Republican says: Another mass meeting will be called to be held at the courthouse or th'e opera house, when the conditions as they now exist will be explained. If the taxpayers say go ahead with a new r suit it will be filed as soon as the papers can be made out. A member of the executive committee said this morning that there will be no laying down on the part of the taxpayers, but that the fight will now be to the finish. It ought to be to the finish, for it concerns the people of the entire State. The fundamental question involved is whether county commissioners, and for that matter other public officials as well, are answerable to public opinion and the people, or whether they may defy both with impunity. It has not been long since a judge in southern Indiana held that a county official might deny citizens access to public records, and now we have a board of commissioners resorting to all sorts of questionable methods to defeat a movement of taxpayers to prevent public funds from being squandered. Truly, reform is needed.

THE COMMERCIAL REBUILDING OF CUBA. Foreign countries and the commercial world everywhere will watch with great interest the progress of American efforts to establish healthy business conditions in Cuba. The result of these efforts w’ill be a criterion by which American methods will be judged, and, owing to the difficult conditions, it will be a severe test. Merely to enforce order in Cuba, to suppress lawlessness and brigandage and to establish a new r form of government will be easy compared with the restoration of confidence and the rehabilitation of domestic and foreign trade. There is reason to believe that the island has never enjoyed anything like the prosperity and trade it entitled to by reason of its great natural resources of soil, climate, products, etc. It has been more prosperous at some times than at others, and during some of its longer periods of peace its trade has reached comparatively fair proportions, but it has never been what it should have been and would have been under good laws and a stable government administered by honest officials in the interest of Cuba, instead of a bad government, administered by cormorants, bloodsuckers and thieves in the interest of Spain and themselves. If the United States succeeds in pacifying Cuba not only in a military sense, but in a business sense, restoring confidence and trade and rebuilding the industries and commerce of the island and giving it the place in the commercial world to which its natural resources entitle it, the whole world will recognize the achievement as a signal victory for American methods and American talent for organization and administration. It will take a good while to accomplish this, but it will be done. A start has already been made and some results are beginning to appear. Almost every day brings irformation of some new reform. Yesterday it was stated that on Feb. 1 there would be established in Havana a system of bonded warehouses, hitherto unknown there and which would be largely patronized and prove a great convenience to cotnmerce. This is only one of many new features already introduced by Collector Bliss at Havana. In fact, since Colonel Bliss and his staff took charge of the customhouse at Havana it has been completely reorganized. Long-standing abuses, the results of Spanish incompetence and corruption, have been reformed and new methods introduced. An estimate made hy the customhouse officials a few days ago showed thal the receipts are now at the rate of $13,000,0J0 to $15,000,000 a year, against about $8,000,000 under the Spanish regime. “The warehouses are packed to overcrowding with goods." says a correspondent, “and a number of ships have lain at anchor in the bay for many days over their regular time because of the absence of a sufficient flotilla of lighters with which to transship the consignments from craft to dock.” Business men in Havana are beginning to understand that the days of smuggling, bribery, extortion, blackmailing and corruption of all kinds are past, and as they become acquainted with American methods they appreciate the change. In time this feeling In Havana will spread to other places and throughout the island. It already exists in Santiago even to a greater extent than in Havana. The conduct of comparatively a few malcontents or unreconstructed insurgents cannot prevent the spread of this feeling among I lie mass of the people, especially among the better class, who, with the bucking of the Americans, will be the ruling class, including Spaniards as well as Cubans, and it will not be long till confidence will begin to revive all over the island. With the sugar and tobacco Industries restored and the planters protected, as they will be, business of all kinds will Improve and Cuba will enter on a career of development and prosperity such as she has never known before.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1899.

Then foreigners, who applauded the work of our fleets at Manila and Santiago and said it w’as not the guns alone, but the men behind the guns, will have to say: “Those Americans have done it again; they succeed in whatever they undertake.” SOME REMARKABLE FIGURES. The average cost of the gross maintenance of the four insane asylums has fallen from $227.58 per capita in 1891 to $166.98 in 1898; that of the thirteen charitable institutions has fallen from $229.79 per capita during 1891 to $170.29 in that of the four correctional institutions from $134.75 to $121.58 during the same period. The average per capita cost of gross maintenance in all the state institutions during 1891 was $197.27, against $152.95 in 1898. This is an average decrease per capita of $44.32. On the rolls of the thirteen benevolent and the four correctional institutions there were 8,324 names. A saving of $44.32 per capita a year means that the gross cost of maintenance the last fiscal year w r as $368,919.68 less than it would have been for the same number of persons in 1891. That is a very large amount of money; indeed, so large that the figures might be doubted if they had not been gone over time and again to verify them. They are correct. If the State had had 8,324 persons in its charitable and penal institutions during the year 1891 the gross cost of their maintenance would have been $3G8,919.6S more than it was for tnat number during the year which ended Oct. 31, 1898. There has been very little change in prices during that period, so that the saving is due to better and closer management. One of the influences which tended to general reduction has been the quarterly publication by the Board of Charities of the cost of maintenance of each institution, so that comparisons were easy and could be made odious. Trustees have seen to it t,hat goods were purchased on contracts made with the lowest bidder. The most marked decrease in the cost per capita has been made since 1894, when a Republican legislature put the larger part of the state institutions under nonpartisan control. In short, the saving of $44.32 per capita for gross maintenance is due to better methods and the publicity of printed comparisons which were seen by thousands of people. It is now proposed to extend better methods and greater publicity to county and township governments. 'When they shall be adopted there will be as large saving in the administration of township and county affairs as there has been in the management of the state institutions. In some respects Indiana is regarded by those in other States as a model to be adopted. The speech of Hon. Henry U. Johnson might almost be characterized as sound and fury signifying nothing. That it was a resistless torrent of words goes without saying, as Mr. Johnson has the reputation of being the most rapid talker ever heard in Congress. But in so far as it was an argument against annexation of the Philippines, it did not touch any pending issue. If Mr. Johnson had utilized his boundless loquacity by giving reasons why the peace treaty should not be ratified or even by designating some way out of the Philippine complication, he would have talked to some purpose. Much of his talk was a passionate protest against enslaving the Filipinos. Who is proposing to enslave them? Even if it should ultimately be decided to annex the islands, Mr. Johnson would hardly dare to call that an act of enslavement. We did not enslave Texas when we annexed it, nor California when we conquered it from Mexico. Coming under the American flag and government is not slavery. When Mr. Johnson said “I propose fearlessly, without regard to its effect on my personal fortunes, to make a plea for liberty,” he played to the galleries. His public career will end on the 4th of March next, and his personal fortunes, so far as politics are concerned, are nil. It was egotism for him to refer to the subject. The whole speech showed that he is not supporting the administration and the Republicans did right in declining to give him time for his tirade against it.

General Eagan has learned by hard experience what he should have learned by easy observation. He has discovered the truth of Abraham Lincoln's theory that the best thing to do when extremely angry at any one is to w'rite the object of anger the meanest letter possible—and then burn the letter. Stripping it of its oratory and putting it in the straightforward form in whicli it might be most briefly expressed, the theory of the Hon. Henry U. Johnson with regard to the ratification of the treaty is this: We should not have begun the war with Spain but, having begun it, we should never stop Now comes the information that a Chicago woman used a hot poker to chastise her stepdaughter. The first question that would arise in the mind of the thinking and observant person is, “Who had hidden the good woman’s hat pin?” In spite of her numerous matrimonial ventures, it. is presumable that the great soprano, Patti, will still have some voice in the management of her domestic affairs. BIHBI.KS IX THE AIK. All That Whs Necessary. “Don’t you think her grief was counterfeit?” asked the one. “Perhaps,” said the other, after reflection. “Yet it was passable.” Possibly. “If that isn't just like a woman! Here two fellows fought over a girl, and she married the loser.” "Perhaps that was a condition of the fight.” The Cynic. “I,” said the orator, “am an American of the good old stock, rooted deep in the soil ” “The only stock I ever heard of that rcoted deep in the soil,” said the farmer in the audience, “w’as hogs.” >lill Superstition. Watts—l presume you are not as superstitious as Carter, who won’t take a drink on the thirteenth day of the month. Lushforth—No, 1 only go this far: I would not take a drink during the thirteenth month of the year. EDITORIAL SLGGESTIOXS. Our county, township and local taxes are nearly five times greater than our state taxes. Is there any wonder there is a general hue and cry for reform in county and township administrations?— Bluffton Chronicle. The barbers’ bill should be defeated. It takes $5 license fee from each barber In the State to keep a few fellows in a good Job going around over the State looking after someone else's business. There should be an end to these smelling committees. —NoblesviMe ledger. It will not be “government by injunction” for the Indiana Legislature to pass a hill allowing the State to bring injunction proceedings without being compelled to give bond. The injunction law sought to he enacted is directed against the gamblers at Roby, who are defying the law and disgracing the State. Such a law' should be enacted —the more so because the Roby gang is us-

ing every device of rascality to defeat such legislation.—New Albany Tribune. A bill has passed the State Senate creating a State Board of Pharmacy, its alleged duty being to protect the people from incompetent persons selling poisonous stuffs. This board is to be composed of five persons, appointed at regular intervals by the Governor. For time actually spent in attending to the duties of the board they are to receive $5 per day each. There is enough red tape in the bill to condemn it in the minds of all thoughtful people. Shelbyville Repuiican. An argument in behalf of two-cent fares on railways is that if one-thousand-mile tickets can be sold at 2 cents per mile the railways ought to be willing to make that rate for all tickets. It has been shown that at the current rate of 3 cents per mite for trip tickets and 2 cents for mileage the average is merely a fraction above 2 cents per mile for each passenger carried, and that the net earnings on that basis are insignificant. The injustice of still further reducing railroad earnings is therefore apparent.—Valparaiso Star-Vidette. If those who are continually denouncing trusts would present some feasible plan whereby the same could effectually be abolished the people generally, as well as the trusts, might have more respect for them. All this “resolutln’ and whereasin’ ” amounts to nothing, and is only a species of very cheap demagogy. Admitting that trusts are as injurious as they have been depicted, they, in character, do not differ much, if any, from other forms of combinations, such as labor unions, etc. It is difficult to see how the one can be struck down without affecting the other. —Kokomo News. Legislative mileage, if the House has its way, will be reduced one-half—from 20 to 10 cents a mile—it having yesterday adopted a report recommending such action. This much is somewhat of an evidence that the spirit of reform is getting hold of the legislators, and indicates that some day justice may be attained. There has never been a redson why a legislator should be allowed 20 cents a mile for a ticket that cost him not to exceed 3 cents, if it cost him anything, and there is no better reason for Insisting that he should have 10 cents, further, than a too common inclination to get at these things gradually.—Lafayette Courier. The State Legislature should go as far as it can, should exhaust its power, in preventing the organization and operation of trusts in the State, but with other States left free to trusts the Indiana Legislature is powerless to accomplish much. To enact a law for mere buncombe would be worse than to do nothing. If there is one thing above another that the people dislike It is demagogy, and that is largely what is back of this talk about anti-trust legislation by the State. The only effectual anti-trust legislation that can accomplish the desired purpose must come from Congress. The States can do little unless they all act in harmony.—Middletown News. The Legislature is finding the convictlabor problem ‘a hard one to solve. It is agreed that to continue the convicts in idleness is an unjustifiable cruelty to them. They must have work because their idleness is intolerable and leads to insanity or suicide or both. The puzzle is how to employ them without making them competitors with the labor of honorable free men. ft can’t be done. There is no work that any convict can do that some honorable man could not do and would like to have to do. There are two sides to this problem. The State doesn't owe its criminals a living. To support them in idleness is a burden upon the State, as well as an unbearable cruelty to the convicts. Convicts should be selfsupporting, but those who are most friendly to free, intelligent, honorable labor will have to confess that there is no way to employ convicts and avoid competition of their labor with other labor.—Huntington Herald. Representative May, of this county, has introduced a bill in the legislature to reduce the interest on the county school fund from 6 to 5 per cent, per annum. He says •his reason for introducing the bill is because the money cannot be loaned at 6 per cent. The Republican this morning called on County Treasurer Wilson and County Auditor Carson to ascertain how far this statement is correct so far as it relates to Shelby county. These officials are agreed on the point that the law is not needed so far as this county is concerned. The school fund amounts to $115,000. every cent of which is now loaned, with applications a year ahead for any money that may be paid in. The cost of securing a loan of this kind is only $4, and the principal is never asked for so lohg as the interest is promptly paid and the security remains unimpaired. Mr. Wilson mentioned loans that were not paid in twenty years. He thinks if the subject was given close examination that it would be found that the conditions in this county are but little removed from those of other counties. To reduce the interest on this fund simply means a loss to the school fund. Mr. May’s bill should be critically examined before it receives serious consideration.—Shelbyville Republican.

ARGUMENT TO-MORROW. Evidence Nearly Concluded In ilie Stoner-Cregor Content. The last writhes of the Cregorites before the Senate elections committee yesterday were weak affairs, atjd the fact was painfully evident that the number of illegal votes proved and counted for Stoner far overbalanced anything which the attorneys for Cregor have been able to show to offset them. The Stoner side has proved that at least sixty-three Republican votes were bought in the three counties of Madison, Hancock and Rush, while, frem the best records in the case, the Cregorites have only shown, more or less remotely, that ten Democratic votes were bought by Republicans, and last night Cregor’s attorneys admitted that, with the exception of one witness in Rushviile, who is sick in bed, and whose deposition will be read in court to-day, to the effect that he sold his vote to the Republicans, they had reached the end of their evidence. In view of this evidence and the fact that Cregor's whilom majority in the three counties was only 30, it is felt that the unseating of Cregor is a foregone conclusion. * Dr. Cregor himself went on the stand last evening, after three other witnesses had been heard, and testified that he used no money to secure his nomination. He paid his assessment of $25 in Rush county, the other counties in the district'asking him for nothing. He knew of no money having been used in his interests in any of his counties, and he commissioned no one to use any for him. McCelland Jackson, living near Fortville, said “Bob” Fair gave him some money on election night, with the request that he hand it. to James A Ivey, whom he “supposed” had sold his vote to the Republicans, although nothing was said by either man to indicate such a thing. He admitted that he did not know that the money had any connection with the buying of Alvey’s vote, and said that he did not know how A Ivey had voted. Samuel Sells, of Fortvilie, said he saw Jackson give the money to Alvev, but didn’t know w'hat the money was paid for nor how Alvey voted on election day. Thomas M. Green, clerk of Rush county, produced a package of disputed ballots from Carthage, which, on examination, proved to be mutilated. One of them was a Republican ballot and tlie other Democratic. It was agreed that one offset the other, and no importance was attached to them by either party. In another package was an affidavit signed by one William Cook, who voted in Carthage, although he admitted that he had been in Anderson for six months before election and only rettirned home Oct. 3. An affidavit from his father was in the package, and set forth the fact that his son had always made his home with him and considered that he had a right to vote in Carthage. The Stoner side will close its case to-day, and argument will be heard •to-morrow. Mi** Hank’* Reading*. Miss Gertrude Hauk, an Indianapolis girl, living at present in Chicago, where she lias been praised as a reader of much merit, gave a dramatic recital at Plymouth Church last night. She was assisted by Miss Jeannette Durno. a pupil of Leschetizky, of Vienna. Miss Durno’s press notices have been highlv complimentary and she bore them out last night. Miss Hauk pleased the audience. She read James Dt Mille’s "The Senator Entangled;” a selection from Riley's "Rhymes of Childhood;” “Genevra,” by Coolidge; “Aux Italiens,” by BulwerLytton: “My Ships,” by Ella Wheel Wilcox. and “At the Photographer's.” hy Harriet Ford. Her representation of the soft, blandishing accents of the Italian countess in “The Senator Entangled” was excellent. Miss Durno played selections from the works of her teacher, Leschetizky, Liszt, Chopin and other composers. Her true touch and intelligent conception gave beautiful results.

BUSY DAY IN SENATE LONG DEBATE OVER SENATOR HOGATB’S “COMPROMISE DILL/’ Discussion Provoked l*y tin* Amendment Offered by Senator Newby Yesterday Afternoon. THE STATE SCHOOL PEOPLE * CHARGED WITH BEING INDEX INFLIENCE OF SCHOOLBOOK THI ST. ♦ Amendment Is Finally Killed—Proceedings in the House—Legislative Gossip. ■ ♦ The question of the reorganization of the State Board of Education smashed all party lines in the Senate yesterday afternoon, when the "compromise bill” offered by Senator Hogate came up for discussion on a special order of business. Nothing else was considered throughout the afternoon, and for three hours the two sides wrangled and accused each other of all sorts of reprehensible things, while party lines were forgotten and personal associations, for the time being, were swept away by the energy of the light. At the end of the debate, in which the nonstate school supporters had charged the state school people with being under the influence of the school-book trust, and the state people had retaliated by charging that the nonstate people simply wanted the State Board of Education made a part of a political machine to be the means of its own undoing, a vote on an amendment by Senator Newby resulted in a partial indication that the senators approved the present state board. As soon as the matter came up yesterday afternoon, Senator Newby arose and offered his amendment, which provided that the state board shall consist of the state superintendent and six citizens of the State, four of whom must have educational qualification and the other two to he men of known business ability, not more than four of the board to be of the same political party. It is proposed that the Governor shall appoint the members, two for two years, two for three years and two for four years, the terms of all thereafter to be four years. Something of a wrangle ensued before the amendment was really considered, as several senators held that it was out of order, for the reason that the committee had not reported on it properly. Lieutenant Governor Haggard joined in this view at first, but later changed front. Several senators took a hand in the debate, until it was finally shown by the journal that the bid had been given a second reading and therefore stood for amendment or recommitment. On being given permission to oner his amendment, Senator Newby began his statement by saying that he challenged anyone to show any other State in which state officers held office by reason of their holding some other office. He disclaimed the lobbyist's stories circulated around the Capitol that the nonstate people wanted to work religion into the schools. From his point of view it was a question of why the people permitted the nonstate schools to be throttled by "the state school monopoly.” Raising his voice to a high pitch he exclaimed: "Why are the representatives of the school-book trust, whom we meet in the Capitol and the corridors of the hotels, continually telling us to stick to the State Board of Education? We do not object to the president of the State University being a member of the board or having the entire membership of the board made up of the faculties of the state colleges, but we object to them holding office as members of the board by reason of their being presidents of state colleges.” During the course of his argument it developed that Senator Newby’s point was that the nonstate people wished to place the responsibility of the appointments on the Governor and not have them fixed by law so that the presidents of state schools will be ex-officio members of the board. A STATE SCHOOL CHAMPION.

Senator Drummond was the first champion of the claims of the state schools, and began his talk by saying that, while the senator from Henry had affirmed that the nonstate fight was to be carried on without bitterness, his attack had been most violent, and if he wanted war it would be given him. He said that for ten years the record of the state board had been blameless. Regarding the claim that it was the purpose to mix religion with study, he said the senators should give to religion all that is due to it, and likewise to the Board of Education that which was its due. Continuing, he said that all large universities in any State have ultimately been taken under the wing and protection of the State in order to secure their future. As proof of this, he said that the present State University had been plodding along for years with meager attendance and little influence until the State had taken it under its protection and made it known throughout the land. He held that it was the duty of the State to keep as close as possible to the schools of the State, and if the scheme of allowing the Governor to appoint members of the education board from here, there and everywhere was adopted, the result would be that the State would lose control of its own educational system. In conclusion, he said: “The nigger in the woodnile is that more students are going to Bloomington than to the other colleges, and the result is that these institutions are fired with an oldwoman jealousy of the state school to the extent that now. after ten years of success, when the Board of Education has brought the educational system of the State out into the light of day, the nonstate schools want to stab it in the back. If it is a question of perpetual license if the nonstate schools turn out as good students as the state schools, the proof of it only entails the work of an hour or two of examination, which is cheerfully given to applicants for teachers’ licenses.’’ Senator Hogate, the author of the bill under discussion, then took the floor and said", as a preliminary, that he had been converted. and not only accepted Senator Newby's amendment, but would go farther and agree to the proposition to have the hoard composed altogether of county superintendents. A COMPROMISE BIEL. He said that his bill had been intended as a compromise, but that compromises were unobtainable at this time on any condition, and he favored the amendment. Getting down to his subject he said: “The question that now confronts us is the question ‘Shall the State Board of Education be reorganized?’ I believe if every senator will simply withdraw for a moment, and, without reference to church, or time, or place, or circumstances, or where he was educated, he can only come to one conclusion, viz., that in the process of the development of the educational interests in the State the time has fully arrived when the State Board out to be reorganized. Clearly we have come to a time for careful thought. Clearly is the time at hand for advance through intelligent, patriotic action. “What, then, is the question before us? It is that the State Board of Education may be reorganized. But why reorganized? That there shall be absolute and impartial justice done to all educational institutions in the State: that there may be no discriminations: that there may be a symmetrical development all along the line, whether the school is a state or a nonstate school: whether it be a state university or a religious or pa--~rhe-l -•'•hoot. Whether it be the school of Protestant or Catholic, Jew or gentile, churcnrran or nenehurehtnan, state or nonstate. That which is recognized in the statute law as the school system is the common and high schools, the State University, tlie State Normal and Purdue University, and under our Constitution that is all the law could recognize; but do these schools comprise the whole of the educational system in the State? Is it possible that Butler College fformerly Northwestern Christian University). De Pauw (formerly Asbury), Wabash. Franklin, Karlhnm, Moore's Hill. Union Christian. Hanover and Notre Dame, all of which existed before the present school system of the State, are not to be thought of as educational factors, or as being a part and parcel of the educational

system? These institutions, which are the pioneers of education in Indiana, who gave us Caleb Mills and Richard G. Boone as the apostles of common school education in the State, arc they to be cast aside, and not reckoned in our system because, forsooth, they are not nominated in the law as participators in the State’s bounty? Is the Valparlso Normal School, the Tri-State Normal, the Central Normal, the MiLnell Normal outside the pale of our considerations? We cannot, if we would have a perfectly developed system of education in our State, neglect any of these, much less discriminate against them. I said certain institutions were pioneers in the inarch of education in the State. Let us see. I find the following to Ire true: Hanover Academy, the neucleus of Hanover College, was opened Jan. 1. 1827. Chartered as a college In 1834. Wabash Manual Labor School and Teachers' Seminary was opened in 1833. Was chartered as a college in 1834. Asbury University, chartered Jan. 10. 1837. opened in June, 1837. Earlham was opened as an academy in 1542. Organized as a college in 1859. Northwestern Christian University (Butler) was organized in July. 1852. Franklin College, opened as a Baptist manual labor school in 1835. chartered as Franklin College in 1844. Moore’s Hill College, organized and opened in 1854. Notre Dame, chartered and ouened in 1844. These colleges blazed out the way for our school system, and while Indiana was yet a wilderness, the men of faith and hope and courage laid deep and well the foundations of what to-day is the school system we are proud of. Shall these institutions take back seats? Shall they not still be potential factors in our system? Shall they decay and die? Shall they be discriminated against, or shall they have a chance to live? That is the question now agitating the people of this State more than any other. I think I am safe in saying that it is the policy of the State Board of Education in Us collective and individual capacity to ignore the existence of nonstate schools, and, if this be proven, then an additional reason exists why the board should be reorganized. In the bulletin issued Nov. 19. IS9S, to which I have just alluded, I find the following: "To us it seems clear that in the organization of the board * * * three things were sought: (1) the representation on this board of all branches and departments of the State’s school system: (2) such a constitution of the board as would secure the services of professional educators; (3) complete freedom from all political and other improper influences.” You can scan that circular from end to end: read and reread, and not one line or syllable can he found in it that even remotely can be tortured into the slightest recognition of the nonstate educational forces. Does the report of the superintendent of public instruction contain anything that shows a recognition of such institutions? And yet I am bold to say they constitute an important part of the educational system of the State; if not of the State’s system. SENATOR HUBBELL’S REMARKS. Senator Hubbell, in presenting the other side of the question, said that if it was a question as to the advisability of the Governor appointing the members of the board, or retaining the same as it is at present, he was in favor of the present system, for the reason that, first of all, it was. in itself, a precaution against an incompetent Governor ever ruining the educational system of the State.” He stigmatized the nonstate school position as merely an attempt to drag the educational power into the grasp of a political machine. He suggested that as it had been kept free from such influences for thirty-three years, it should be left where it would be beyond the power of either Governor or legislature to interfere' with it. Senator Hawkins said he merely wanted to suggest that, as Senators Newby and Hogate. according to their own avowal, wanted to give the people some voice in the organization of the board, they were taking the wrong course to secure it, for the reason that, when taken from the control of the educators of the State, it will become a political machine in which they can have no part, of the government. Senator Corr spoke briefly in favor of the present board. Senator Nusbaum espoused the side of the nonstate schools and resented Senator Drummond's reference to the desire of “one-horse schools” to have a share in the government of the board, saying that these "one-horse schools" w r ere the fundamental principle on which education rests, and the "little red sehoolhouse” was entitled to recognition. Senator Wood said he was in favor of the board remaining constituted as it is at present. because it has always done good work. Senator Shea said he was opposed to the nonstate school scheme, because it brought anew element into the educational system of the State and tended to make the board a political body, and lodge in the hands of the Governor a power he should not possess. He predicted that if the scheme was adopted the appointees to membership on the board must, necessarily, be brokendown politicians, instead of up-to-date educators. When the vote on the amendment was taken, the poll showed 25 noes and 23 ayes. Senator Stroup refusing to vote, as he had paired with Senator Inman, who was absent. Senator Gilbert, in voting against the amendment, said that he did so solely in response to the wishes of his constituents, although his personal opinions were in accord with the amendment. After adjournment, several attempts were made to compromise the matter, in that some of the antagonistic senators might be placated and vote on the side of the state schools, but nothing was accomplished. and the matter will come up again this morning. SENATOR GOODWINE’S REQUEST.

At the beginning of the Senate session yesterday' morning Senator Goodwine asked for unanimous consent to the introduction of the report of the special committee appointed by the Governor to examine the penal, educational and benevolent institutions of the State for the purpose of ascertaining their needs and reporting them to the General Assembly. As the report, in pamphlet form, was too long to admit of being read, he asked that, after the senators had examined it at their leisure, the original report be sent to the State Board of Charities for preservation. Senator Hawkins offered a petition from the Indiana Commandery of the Loyal Legion asking that prompt measures be taken by the Assembly' to make a suitable allowance to the widow of ex-Governor Morton. It w r as referred to the finance committee. Senator Leich introduced a resolution to the effect that, as many Indiana soldiers had lost their lives through the late Spanish war. and that churches throughout the State had hsld suitable meetings in memory' of the dead soldiers, the General Assembly should also pay' some token of respect to the dead, and fixed Monday, Jan. 30, at 2 p. m., as a time at which both branches of the Assembly should hold a memorial service jointly. Senators New, Shea and Leich were named as a committee to confer with the House on the matter. Senator Hogate, in a resolution, provided for a semi-wefkly issue of the Senate calendar. The judiciary' committee recommended the passage of House Bills 21 and 53 and Senate Bills ISO. 205, 162. 17s. 192 and 52. and asked that Senate Bills 150 and 156 be indefinitely postponed. The corporations committee recommended the killing of Senate bill No. 30, relating to overcharges by common carriers. The committee on benevolent institutions recommended the passage of Senate Bills 10, 204 136 and 29, and asked to have 42 and 117 indefinitely postponed. The committee on agriculture recommended the passage of Senate Bills 142 and 147 and House Bill 58. The committee on banks reported unfavorably on Senate Bill 187 to prevent extortion. The committee on cities and towns submitted favorable reports on six bills as follow's: House Bills 74 and 250, and Senate Bills 173, 135, 213 and 217. The latKir commit tee recommended the passage of Senate Bill 99, requiring a state inspection of boilers. On recommending the indefinite postponement of joint resolution No. 2, the committee on revision of the Constitution reported that as the Constitution provided that it was not legal to amend the Constitution while another amendment was pending, any action on the resolution would be unconstitutional. NEW BILLS INTRODUCED. New bills were introduced and referred as follows: No. 251. By Senator Newby: To change the present election laws so as to legalize the opening of country voting places at 6 o’clock a. m.; judiciary. No. 257. By Senator Newby: Allowing county commissioners to appropriate money for the establishment of historical associations; judiciary. No. 25*. By Senator Newby: Repealing the law allowing a taxpayer to offset his debts against his credits on the assessment sheet; judiciary. No. 259. By Senator Horner: Amending the gravel road laws; roads. No. 260. By Senator Kell: To pay the claim of John D. Hartzell against the live stock sanitary commission: claims. No. 261. By Senator Stroup: Compelling every voter who is incapable of marking his own ticket at lections to make affidavit to that fact: judiciary. No. 262. By Senator Johnson, of Jay: Authorizing cities cf over 15,(*X) to construct lateral sewers through city lots anti assess benefits for so doing; cities and towns. No. 263. By Senator Hubbell: Repealing the garnishfe law’ passed by the last legislature; judiciary. No. 264. Amending the street-railway incorporation laws pertaining to the city of Indianapolis so as to allow suburban railroads to operate over the tracks of city companies without being compelled to

charge double fare. The purpose of the bill is to compel some satisfactory arrangement between the Citizens' and the Broad Ripple Railroad Company, by which one fare can be charged for a trip to the end of the Broad Ripple line by the latter line paying the Citizens' Company a stipulated amount each year for the use of the tracks in the city. It is also provided that if the two companies cannot agree on u reasonably price, the judge of the Circuit Court shall settle the matter in an equitable manner. No. 265. By Senator Stllwell: Amending the laws against bigamy so as to permit the prosecution of any person, who. being married, remarries in any State and resides in this State. Under the present law th crime must have teen committed In this State in order to he actionable: judiciary. No. i>. By Senator Stilwell: Requiring the 'payment of a fee of S2O for each performance, cither theatrical or circus, the proceeds to go to the agricultural associations of the counties in which the prosecutions are brought: judiciary. No. 267. By Senator Drummond: Providing that where ditches extend into a city they may be repaired by the city council, which, in this reepeot, is to be endowed with the same powers as are given to county commissioners: swamp lands and drains. SECOND READING. On the second reading of bills several minor discussions arose. In calling up his bill. No. 103. Senator Gilbert said its purpose was to prevent the secretion of taxable property by compelling the recording of all mortgages given either to residents or nonresidents of the State. Senator Gill called up Senator Shea’s bill, No. 126. relating to township libraries. Senator Brooks explained the provisions of the bill, saying that its only purpose was to cut off the salary of township trustees, who appropriated to themselves a certain amount each year for caring for township libraries which had fallen into disuse, it was especially designed, he said, to fit towns and counties where up-to-date libraries had been established for public use by private donations, and it was desired to consolidate the two libraries. Senator Hogate said that his bill. No. 198, provided that, in the matter of improving streets in small towns, the expenditure and quality of pavement should be left to the vote of the people and not to the arbitrary action of a council. When Senator New's bill No. 121. was called up considerable opposition was manifested against some of its provisions among the Democratic members. It provided for the keeping o’’ uniform systems of city accounts and the appointment of a state examiner at a salary of $2,000 a year. Senate r Patten tnought this amount too large, and said there were numberless bookkeepers at large who would do the work for much less. He suggested giving the examiner $1,200, but, when Senator Hogate said he thought the competency of the man must be of the highest order, and that he thought $2,000 too small, Senator Patten raised his first figure to SI,BOO, but, in the end. it was agreed to keep the amount at $2,000. Senator Nusbaum secured the passage of House Bill 250, for the incorporation of the town of St. Joe. De Kail) county, under suspension of the rules. Other bills advanced on second reading were Nos. 97. 211, 26, 151 and 320. DAY L\ THE HOI'SE.

Most of the Time Devoted to Hills on Third Reading. The House yesterday devoted the entire day to the consideration of bills on third reading. Among those passed was the State Board of Health hill, the State Board of Charities’ bill and a bill by Mr. Artman providing a unique method of collecting judgments against railroad companies. The English sparrow bill was defeated, as were three or four others. As soon as the House met in the afternoon the special committee appointed to draw up a proper title to Mr. Burrler's bill, providing for township subsidy for railroads, which was passed the other day,. announced that a legal title could not be framed as the bill is drawn. The bill, therefore, stands as it is, and Mr. turrier will frame another one to which a proper title can be placed. Mr. Hayes's bill to take the appointment ol’ members of police commissions, in towns of from 7,000 to 35,000 inhabitants, out of the hands of the Governor and place it in the hands of the mayors, met the fate which the Republican caucus decreed that it should, but there were four Republicans who refused to abide by the caucus orders. Mr. Hayes made a plea for the bill, and asked that "home rule" be given to these cities, and further debate was prevented by a demand for the’ previous question. The Democrats voted solidly for the bill, and all of the Republicans present voted against it except Hayes, Knotts, Reece and Roose, who voted for it. Mr. Eichhorn. before tho vote was announced, asked that the vote be verified, as he found he had been officially recorded as voting on sides on which he never intended voting on previous roll calls. The roll call as officially taken was read, and instantly members were on their feet in all parts of the hall saying they were recorded wrong and demanding corrections. Mr. Shideler, chairman of the Republican caucus, was recorded as voting with the Democrats, and with him were other Republicans who had voted against the bill. There were many Democrats recorded as voting against the bill, and for fifteen minutes there was an untangling of the rod call as officially taken. There were nearly twenty errors in it, but they were all finally rectified and the vote was announced as 42 ayes and 50 noes. Those absent were Beardsley, Cravens of Monroe, Durham and Larr. Speaker Littleton took advantage of the opportunity to lecture the members on not answering either promptly or loudly to their names on roll call, and said he frequently could not tell whether members had voted or not. Mr. Herod’s bill to require disbursing officers of building and loan associations to make monthly reports under oath of the amount of money paid out, and providing a penalty of SSOO for a violation of the act, was passed without discussion by a vote of 84 ayes to 1 no. Mr. Artman's bill to amend Section 5016 of the road laws by striking out the word “section” was passed without discussion by 75 ayes to 1 no. BOARD OF HEALTH BILL PASSED. The bill to enlarge the powers of the State Board of Health, which was drawn up by the State Board and introduced by ' Mr. Noel, was passed without any discussion whatever by a vote of 66 ayes to 18 noes. It gives the State Board greater powers to enforce rules or regulations, and provides for better collection of statistics. Those voting against the bill were: Barlow, Blankenship, Burrier, Burkhart, Canada, Catlcy, Cravens of Washington, Hays of Green, Herod, Herrold, Madden, May, Myler, Stevens, Sullivan, Titus, Vogel and Wise, Mr. Louttit's bill to pay a bounty for English sparrow heads was lost after some, discussion. Mr. Stevens objected to It because he is a friend of birds, and he was satisfied that to put a bounty on sparrow heads would result in the killing of many birds of other kinds. Mr. Loutyit said the design of the bill is to protect the other birds from the sparrows, e-' *h drive them out, kill their young ar„. .weak their eggs. Mr. Scott, of Montgomery, said he was opposed to killing birds on general principles, and in addition to that he thougnt it was beneath the dignity of the House for the members to come here and legislate on such suhjects. Mr. Huff remarked that to turn all the small boys of the State loose with guns and stings to kill sparrows will result in the cities and towns of about one person killed for every hundred sparrows killed. He was inclined to the belief that this bill was framed for the benefit of accident insurance companies. Mr. Osborn was opposed to it, as was Mr. Barlow. wpo shut off the debato and the bill was killed by 68 noes to 16 ayes. . The bill introduced by Mr. Cravens, of Monroe, authorizing the guardian of a person who has been declared of unsound mind to bring suit for divorce on behalf of his ward renewed the discussion held at the time it was up for second reading. Mr. Willoughby led the fight against the bill, and in the many speeches made on it it was claimed that it would add another ground for divorce to the already to > many existing in the State. It was claimed that it opened the door to collusion in the event property Interests were at stake, and the bill was defeated by 41 ayes to ' > noes. The bill to appropriate $2,253.29 for the Chickameuga Park commission was also defeated. The House considered that the contractor should not be paid for any losses by reason of the occupation of the park by United States troops, nor did it care for an illustrated report of the work of the eoinR ontinned on Sisth l'tiai-.)