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THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1890. Washington Office—lso3 Pennsylvania Avenue Telephone f all*. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 86 TKH>IB OK SUBSCRIPTION'. DAII.Y BY MAIL. Bally only, one month I." 0 Bally only, three months 2 00 Daily only, one year 8.00 Bally, including Sunday, one year 10.00 Sunday only, one year. 2.00 WHEN FURNISHED BY AGENTS. Daily, per week, by carrier 15 cts Sunday, single copy 5 cts Daily and Sunday, per week, by carrier 20 cts WEEKLY. Per year.. SI.OO Reduced Hates to t'lnbw. Subscribe with any of our numerous agents or send subscriptions to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Indiana polls. Ind. Persons sending the Journal through the mails In the United States should put on an eight-page paper a ONE-TENT postage stamp; on a twelve of sixteen-page paper a TWO-CENT postage stamp. Foreign postage is usually double these rates. AH communications intended for publication In this pa|>er must, in order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name and address of the ■writer. - - —- THE INDIAN A POL 18 JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: NEW YORK—Astor House. CHICAGO—PaImer House, P. O. News Cos., 217 Dearborn street. Great Northern Hotel and Grand Pacific Hotel. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos., 134 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. 1 leering, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Book Cos., 236 Fourth avenue. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D C.— Riggs House, Ebbttt House and Willard's Hotel. After all, the two most important measures befote the Legislature are the bills for the improvement of county and township government. If the Legislature should create any considerable part of t!le boards now asked for anew Statehouse would be required for their convenience. When Representative Johnson compared Aguinaldo to George Washington he should have gone a stVp further and compared William McKinley to George* 111. It probably makes little difference Rcp-re-a ntative Johnson that he does not speak the sentiment of the Republican party in Indiana, but such is the case. The British House of Lords may have its failings, hut it never encouraged the enemies of England as the United States Senate is now doing with Aguinaldo and his gang. The Legislature lias made an excellent beginning and a good impression throughout the Stale as an industrious, business-like body. This should be an incentive to keep it up. No senator has yet claimed that the acquisition of Alaska by the Uaited States and bringing it under the American flag from the Russian, without consulting the people, was an act of tyranny and enslavement. It is by no means certain that the Aguinaldo government, what there is of it, represents a majority of the Filipinos. It has not been submitted to the people nor passed through any of the usual stages of popular government.

The fact that the court-martial has completed the testimony in the ca*e of General Hagan proves that such tribunals waste no time in pettifogging—an example w’hich civil courts might often adopt to promote the ends of justice. President McKinley is between two fires. A mile cast of the White House the Senate is opposing the ratification of the peace treaty and a few thousand miles west the Filipinos are threatening to make war on the United States. The preliminary report of the director of the mint as to the output of gold during the year 1898 makes it $3X>,000.000 in the world. This is $62,000,000 in excess of 1807. The estimate of the director is believed to be a very conservative one. For instance, he puts the product of South Africa at $80,000,000, but the returns from those mines show that it was $88,000,000. General Orosvenor was right in his contention that the future of the Philippine Islands rests entirely with Congress. The President could not annex the islands if he ■wished to. Any overt act of his in that direction would bring on a collision with Congress. The moment the treaty is ratified the whole subject of the disposition of the islands passes under the control of Congress. A bill is pending In the Pennsylvania Log* lslature which will reduce the legal rate of interest from 6 to. 3 per cent. A law of this kind is probably necessary to apply to matters In litigation involving the payment of money, but in business no law' seems to be able to prevent men from making a rate to suit themselves. The general price of money would be as difficult to fix by law as the price of wheat. It is stated on good authority that the president desires the country to understand that the ratification of the peace treaty does not commit the United States to a colonial policy for the Philippines, but that he fears If such a declaration should he made in connection with the ratification of the treaty the Filipinos would misinterpret it. 2t is probable, however, that some formal declaration may he made before ratification of the treaty, to the effect that ratification does not involve a colonial policy. If such a declaration should be made. Senators Hale. Hoar and others would probably vote for the treaty. One gratifying feature of the deplorable War investigation and army scandal is that it has not raised a breath of suspicion as to the integrity of any public official However grave General Eagan's offense may have been In the use of violent language, his official integrity is unsullied, and Secretary Alger's positive assertion that he never was interested to the amount of one cent in any army, camp or military contract should put an end to the yellow scandal mongers so l'ar as he is concerned. Mistakes may have been made in the conduct of the war, as is the case in xll wars, but no evidence has been adduced reflecting on the integrity of any public official. Legislative aid for the widow of Governor Morton should not be based on the fact that he turned into the state treasury a large sum of money as the profits on an ars nal established by him. That was one of the least of his services to the State, and to base the relief on that would give it a mercenary aspect. It would be far better to base it on Governor Morton’s distinguished services to the State In time of war. These were so exceptional that there is no danger of establishing a precedent, whereas if tfie relief la baaed on a mere business

transaction it may furnish ground for some future claim on account of money saved to the State by a Governor, an auditor or an attorney general. The bill had better assign no reason at all than one which may be duplicated in future experience. A GRAVE RESPONSIBILITY. The uncertainty regarding the ratification of the treaty with Spain is due to the determination of Senator Gorman to show that he is more potential with Democratic senators than is Colonel Bryan. The latter went to Washington to advise Democratic senators to vote to ratify the treaty. Senator Gorman resented this assumption of leadership, and became the advocate of a proposition to amend the treaty by inserting a declaration to the effect that the United States does not intend to annex the Philippines. Mr. Gorman has twenty-seven Democratic senators wno are pledged to his proposition, while but six, and possibly but two, will follow the advice of Colonel Bryan. This is a great personal victory for Senator Gorman over Colonel Bryan, but it is a very costly one for the United States, since the known opposition involving the possible rejection of the treaty is very embarrassing to our authorities in Manila. At the present time the situation in Manila causes much anxiety in Washington. The Filipinos could be easily treated with hut for the outside hostile influences. It is the threatened defeat of the treaty which has emboldened Aguinaldo’s representative in Washington to send to the State Department a demand to be informed why the United States is sending reinforcements to Manila and whether military operations are to be directed against “the existing government of the Philippines.” That person would not have thought of that impertinence had not some astute opponents of the treaty put him ui> to it. Not only is there reason to suspect that Aguinaldo is receiving encouragement from Europe, but that American citizens are secretly advising Aguinaldo’s agents in Washington. Therefore, should there be collision and bloodshed these Americans, with Senator Gorman and his combination, will be responsible for it. In a recent dispatch Admiral Dewey declared that Aguinaldo is fast losing strength witn the natives and “could be disposed of as a disturbing factor in a hurry were it not that he is bolstered up with false hopes that Congress will refuse to ratify the treaty And that in some way he will personally profit by the stand he has taken for independent recognition.” The admiral thus indirectly charges upon Senator Gorman, a few' Republican senators and the few r private citizens who are lighting the ratification of the treaty the disturbed and threatening situation in Manila. It may be that they will sop that the responsibility is greater than they will care to bear. THE STOCK MARKET. A New York exchange attributes the unprecedented trading in the stock market to the improved conditions which have caused an advance in the value of most stocks and to the weeding out of many valueless securities in connection with the abundance of money, which can be obtained at low rates of discount. There is doubtless much in this explanation. Railroad properties have increased in value because of their greater earning capacity since 1896. The sale which the administration made of two of its Pacific railroad properties proves a decided appreciation during the past two years. The fact that the railroads of the country reporting Interstate-commerce Commission showed a net profit of about $25.000,0C0 during the year 1897, when there was a deficit of over a million the previous year, further indicates a general appreciation. Nevertheless, the accounts of the transactions in Wall street show that much of the trading is in stocks w'hich are not paying dividends, and. that the fluctuations are due mainly to speculative manipulations. The New' York Tribune tells of a distant customer who ordered his broker to purchase 200 shares of the Canada Southern at the market rate. He did so, the price being G 6. In a few minutes the ticker showed an advance to 70 and the purchaser ordered his broker to sell, but directly the stock took a plunge, and when the order was executed, fifteen minutes later, the price was 61. On the same day a customer was carrying 2,000 shares of Panhandle. When the price was 69% he directed his agent to sell at the ruling price, but before he could make the sale the price had jumped to 80. Stocks such as are mentioned have not been paying dividends, and it is a matter of uncertainty when they will; consequently those buying them are not purchasing for investment, but to make what they can out of a fictitious fluctuation of the market. Those W'ho have the money and are adepts in the art of manipulation will make a great deal of money in the end. They understand when to be bulls, when to be bears and how r to be both. A few of those Vho speculate may be successful for a time, but the majority will contribute their small stock of money to the fortunes of those who know the business and are usually able to put a nondividend stock up or down as their interests require.

The legislative correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, in writing of the prospect of the bills for the better government of counties and townships, says: It is expected that they will pass the Senate with little or no opposition, but a fight is anticipated in the House, because the township bill closes all avenues to the treasury, and a great number of people benefited by the loose methods of transacting township business are always bringing influences to bear on the representatives to compel them to vote against it. Why it should be thought the members of the House should be more open to the influence of the few persons who desire to profit by loose methods w r ith the people's affairs and money than members of the Senate is one of the things which cannot be understood, and the Journal dues not believe this is the case. Public sentiment is decidedly in favor of the reform bills, as they are called. Indeed, the protest which has inspired the movement to seeiPi better methods has its origin largely with the taxpayers in townships, as hundreds of letters to committees will show. In every township there are ten taxpayers who will be injured by unwise expenditure where one will profit by it. Ul BULKS IX THE Alii. On tlie Fence. Watts-Made up your mind on the Philippine question yet? Potts—No, I ain't. I read somewhere that they have machine guns of their own. and If that's so, they appear to be already civilized. The Cheerful Idiot. "That's queer.’* said the Shoe Clerk Boarder. "That quake In Mexico was accompanied by intense cold.” "Huhi" Mid lb* Cheerful idiot. "I've had

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the same sensation myself, when I was living in the ague belt.” Sll villlt. "Wouldn’t you like to be a hero and save some one’s life?” “I'd rather save a fortune.” Warlike. “Yes, the old man caught me Hobsonizing his daughter ” “And " “And then he Eaganized me.” STATE PRESS OPINION. The General Assembly has so far proved to be a very industrious and effective body of business men. Having started in on this gait, it will not do to fall down. Keep it up.—Muncie News. Wouldn’t our legislators show a little horse sense in letting the circulating-library fad severely alone? They imagine the rural folk of Indiana are going to the dry rot of ignorance, and hence the circulatinglibrary nostrum.—Noblesvilie Ledger. The Republicans in the Legislature have lined up in favor of reform in county and township administration. The party will redeem its pledges in this respect, and 1t will make no mistake in so doing, for he w'ho serves his State and country best serves his party best.—Vernon Journal. Many railroad companies have proven their receipts average only a trifle over 2 cents per mile for each passerger carried, owing to the many occasions for which they are expected to grant rates which seem below the paying basis. It is a gross injustice to further hamper them with legislation which cannot fail to be disastrous to their interests, as a two-cent-tare law will undoubtedly be.—Cambridge City Tribune. The need of a more uniform method of township government throughout the State is more and more apparent as the discussion of the subject goes on, and if the proposed law can even secure uniformity it will be a step toward true reform. It proposes to do much more than this, and if it accomplishes all its promoters hope for the taxpayers will have reason to remember this Legislature with gratitude.—Monticello Herald. As soon as a legislator can devise a satisfactory way of preventing a farmer from buying the farm of another and then from buying a third or fourth farm he will be prepared to frame a just and satisfactory bill to prevent the formation of trusts. Suppose there are three manufacturing plants in the United States for making rubber Mfcjods. How will you prevent the proprietor of one of them from buying the other two? If he buys the other two he will have made a monopoly and a trust, and how will you prevent him from doing this without trespassing on the personal rights of all the people?—New Albany Tribune. Under the law as it now stands each representative is allowed 10 cents per mile for going to and from Indianapolis to attend the Legislature. Our representative draws S3O and many of them as much as SIOO. This law was enacted when transportation was in the main by stage coach and cost as much as 2o cents per mile each wav Now any member can travel at 2 or 3 cents per mile, many of them using passes, and the law should be changed to allow them 3 cents per mile ;lnd then compel each member to file his sworn statement that he does not use a pass before he shall receive anything.—Winchester Herald. The county and township government reform bills that are before the Legislature have the unqualified approval of a vast majority of the people of the State belonging to the tw'o great parties. The bills were drawn by men of large ability and familiarity with the subjects treated and in obedience to the popular demand. Step by step they were constructed in the interest of the taxpayers, by the taxpayers and for the taxpayers, and they were approved by committee after committee of the best men of the State. The bills were drawn in advance of the meeting of the Legislature to save time, so that the Legislature could consider them at once and legislate them into laws as speedily as possible.—Brookville American. There have been people in this county ready to crucify the editor of the Review because he dared to criticise the methods used in auditor’s reports in vogue here. But now r that public attention has been awakened our position is proven both timely and consistent. In the very last report of the auditor of this county credit is taken for a large sum. apparently in cash, for a highway. In another place in the same report an indebtedness of exactly the same amount, for the same purpose, is shown. And w T e are told that the hur.dred-dollar-bond tax that has been assessed against the people is to pay this debt. Now. this may he a good system of bookkeeping for counties where the purpose is apparently to show how things are not done. In a private business it would be tabooed as confusing and misleading.—Laurel Review'.

IN MEMORY OF WAR HEROES Services Held Last Mght lit the Mar-ket-Street Temple. The Jewish Synagogue, on East Market street, was well filled last night for the services in memory of the soldiers and sailors who lost their lives in the late war with Spain through all the variqus causes. The services were held in response to an invitation by a special subcommittee of the national monument committee having in charge the erection of the national monument to the slain in both army and navy in the late war. This special subcommittee, which made the request that the church observe "Soldiers’ Memorial day,” includes Gen. Nelson A. Miles. Rear*Admiral Thomas Q. Selffldge (retired), Frederick D. Grant, Chauneey M. Depew, Julius Freiberg, Isaac M. Wise and Joseph Silverman. This request was promptly and willingly complied with, and Jan. 27 (last night) was set aside in the Hebrew churches as the time for these services. The memorial service displaced the usual Friday evening service. The memorial programme included thb reading of the resolutions adopted by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, in convention at Richmond, Va., on Dec. 6, asking the churches to hold the patriotic services: a number of fine musical selections and an address by Rev. Dr. Messing. Rabbi Messing’s talk was a brief one. earnest and patriotic. “Footprints on the Sands of Time” was the subject of his discourse. He declared that the man who leaves footprints which attract the attention of other generations is not only the one who is heralded by the world for a wondrous deed, but the lowly man whose influence is surely, though temporarily and but slightly felt, leaves a mark that cannot be erased. In this respect, he said, the silent heroes of the war whose names have not been individually' heralded have left their mark. He traced the history of the war and of the enlisting and death of the 3,00) who died from wounds or disease. Their names, he said, are permanently chiseled in the memory of the Nation, and their examples of sacrifice and patriotism should be instilled in the rising generations. The music of the services was rendered by S Morris Meek. John Lipman. Miss Dulu A. Fisher and Mrs. Walter Fugate. The selections given included the following: Quartet— "Rejoice Ye with Jerusalem”... Wiegand Alto Solo and Quartet—" Abide with Me" Biederman Mrs. Walter Fugate. Sporano Solo and Quartet "God and Father" Rossini Miss Lulu A. Fisher. Quartet—"O What is Man Omnipotent” Lipman Quartet— "Why Art Thou Cast Down?” Rowe Quartet— “Thy' Glory.” Fight Between Cook and Waiter. David Chenault, a colored waiter at the Hotel English, and Charles Andrews, a cook at the same place, quarreled over the serving of an order yesterday noon and it is charged that the latter threw a butcher knife at the former, who retaliated by hurling a cleaver at the cook. Both missed the mark and Bicvcle Patrolmen Schroeder and Houser Interfere and in time to prevent a resumption of hostilities. The prisoners were slated for drawing deadly weapons. A Way Out of the Diltlcult y. A way out of the difficulty that has been confronting the County Commissioners with reference to granting a right of way over the National road to one of the three electric companies that were asking for exclusive rights, was suggested yesterday. Representatives of the various interests appeared and informed the board that a consolidation had virtually been agreed on. The board decided to wait further developments before taking any action...

STATE SCHOOLS WIN SUCCESSFI L OVER THE NON STATE PEOPLE IN THE SENATE. Warm Fight on the Question of Reorganization of State Hoard of Education. RESULT IN DOUBT FOR A TIME ‘•EDUCATION MAKES DEMOCRATS,’’ DECLARED SENATOR SHEA 1 In Earnestly Argiing His Point— Good wine Hill Ordered Engrossed —Senate Committees. The senators began, yesterday morning, where they left off the day before, on the bill to recognize the State Board of Education. and, until a late hour in the afternoon, the. tight was warm and the result in doubt, until tlie last name had been called on the vote to advance it to engrossment. As was the case Thursday the state school people came out of the light ahead of their nonschool opponents, although to do so, they had to concede an amendment to the bill amounting to the substitution of an entirely new measure. The effect of it was, however, to practically allow the state school interests to retain control of the board, while allowing three new members to be added to it. Following the precedent set on the day before, quite a wrangle occurred before it was finally decided that the special order of Thursday held over until yesterday. Senator Drummond, who obtained recognition as soon as the invocation had been offered, was asked to give way temporarily in order that the reports of committees could be heard, but, immediately after the reports had been read, Senator Brooks offered an amendment, providing that the Governor should appoint seven persons to membership on the Board of Education, one of whom should be the president of a normal school not receiving any aid irom tlie State, one the president of a college, not in receipt of aid from the State, and one a city superintendent of schools, to be elected from among the county superintendents, tlie other members to b(* the state superintendent and the presidents of the State University, Purdue and the State Normal School. Before this auiem.ii.~ui. could be acted on, Senator Hawkins arose to a point of order, saying that, in his opinion, the consideration of the educational bill was not a matter before tlie Senate, and that tlie adjournment of the day bet ore had ended the special order under which the former discussion had been held. Senator Hubbell upheld this view of the matter, but other senators took issue with them, with the result that, while the wrangle over the special order was going on, Senator Drummond asserted his rights to be heard, claiming that, as he had obtained recognition tirst of all, amt had given way in order to allow committee reports to be heard, his claim to the floor was valid. The president thought so too, and the senator from Marshall thereupon introduced the “compromise” bill which broke the strength of the nonstate school supporters, and brought the matter through the amendment stage without any damage being done to the sate school inerests. His amendment provided for the striking out of all of the Hogate bill, except the enacting clause and the substituting therefore of Senator Goodwine’s bill, which provides for keeping the present State Board of Education intact with the auchtion ot three new members to it, ail of whom must be actively engaged in educational wqrk and one ot whom must be a county superintendent. In offering his substitute bill, Senate* Drummond said that it did not meet with his own approval, as he believed linpiiciuy in the state board and tne work it hau done, but he wanted to tind some ground on which tlie opposing forces could meet without tearing oown the grand work of the present board. A "RING” IN EXISTENCE.

Senator Newby said that Senator Drummond was mistaken when he assumed that the interests of the educational system of the State were wrapped up in the present state beard. He said that he felt implicitly that there was a "ring” in existence in which the state school people "and the Indiana School Book Company were the central figures. He asserted that all the great universities of the country were nonstate institutions, and that generally it could be found, as in the case with the State University of California, as compared with the Stanford University', that privately suported universities were ahead of the state schools in the matter of equipment and results. The purpose of the substitute bill was, he said, to intrench the state school interests behind the influence of the three largest cities of the State and the districts m which the state educational institutions were located. The "compromise” offered was, in his estimation, like the handle of a jug—the big end against it all the time. Senator Shea, for the state schools, said it was the duty of the Democrats to "stick to the state schools, because education makes Democrats.” He said that, under the state school system, school books were new' furnished to pupils at one-fourth the price extorted under the old contract plan, and Indiana pupils now paid less for the highest grade of books than the children of any State in the country. Senator Brooks then asked that Senator Horner’s educational bill be offered as a substitute for an amendment made the day before by Senator Newby, but. after a long wrangle as to the legality of admitting such an amendment when another amendment was pending, it was decided to rule it out of order. Senator Wood spoke briefly before the vote was taken, on the substitution of Senator Goodwine’s bill for the original bill, and said it was evident that the nonstate people would be satisfied with nothing less than the complete destruction of the present state board, from the fact that, although the amendment by Senator Drummond was offered as embodying all that was asked for by the nonstate senators, they refused to agree to its adoption. VOTE ON THE AMENDMENT. On the vote for the amendment, twentythree senators voted aye to twenty-one voting no, and Senate bill No. 107 became No. 53. Then the worst complication of the day’ arose, when Senator Brooks asked that the vote on Senator Newby’s amendment of the day before be reconsidered. It seemed to set every one at sea, and. before it was finally straightened out, the Lieutenant Governor had reversed himself three times in as many minutes. At first he held that bill No. 53 was out of existence and had then become*No. 107. Under the press of senatorial argument, however, he finally decided that No. 107 was simply an amendment to No. 55, and that No. 55 was still in existence. Senator Hubbell finally came to the rescue by moving to table Senator Brooks's amendment, which was done by a vote of 24 to 22. Immediately after the Senate reconvened in the afternoon. Senator Shea moved that the bill be advanced to engrossment. To this Senator Horner offered an amendment, to strike out the section ot the bill providing for the membership of the board and substituting therefor a provision that the seven members of the board should be two county superintendents, three city superintendents and two other persons of prominence as business men. This amendment was ruled out by the president, and Senator Horner moved to table Senator Shea’s motion to engross the bill. In the end the engrossment was ordered by' a vote of 23 to 21. and the matter ended. The next step, according to what a nonstate school senator claims to be a prearranged plan, will be to kill the present bill when it comes up for passage. All the educational bills before the Senate have been merged into the present bill, and the state school faction is In the attitude of fathering it. but when it comes up for passage enough of the state school following will. It is said, deflect from the support of the bill to vote it down and. all bill* being disposed of. tho

State Board of Education will remain the same as it is. Aside from the statement of the nonstate senator, there are no indications that tiie scheme has general support. As soon as the education bill was disposed of. Senator Charles called up the bill drafted by Dr. Hurty, of the State Board of Health, and a Hood of amendments. important and otherwise, poured in. Had they ail passed, nothing but the skeleton of the bill would have remained. The bill provides for the accurate collection, of vital statistics by compelling the county health officers to make full and complete returns to the state board of all deaths and births In the different sections of the State, and also provides that health officers shall be appointed In all the cities and incorporated towns of the State, who shall report local statistics to the county health officer. Senator Newby offered an amendment providing for the appointment of health officers in all townships where there are no incorporated towns, such officers to be paid a yearly salary of at least $lO. It further provided for cutting down the terms of health officers from four to two years. Senator Gilbert objected to the amendment because it would create nearly one thousand new' state officers under salary and thereby in his opinion endanger the passage of the bill. Senator Goar, the chairman of the committee w'hich recommended the passage of the bill, said he was In favor <Jf the amendment. Senator Nusbaum. in advocating the passage of the bill, called attention to the fact that the State Board of Health was working without salary and had asked for no more in the way of appropriations and was entitled to have its bill passed as it was drafted for the reason that the members of the board were giving the health of the State the closest study and knew better what was needed than the Legislature. Senator Hawkins also advocated the passage of the bill as drafted. PAY OF HEALTH OFFICERS. Senator Patton offered an amendment to cut down the amounts to be given the health officers in cities and towns, but no one took kindly to his scheme. Senator Heller, after several attempts to work in an amendment to cut down the pay of the small health officers, linally succeeded in getting one through. It provides for the payment of $lO a year as a minimum salary for local health officers. Senator Newby then moved to strike out the section of the bill providing that it shall be illegal to bury any person until a certificate shall have been issued by the health officer setting forth the cause of death, but this, along with several other amendments, was lost and the bill was ordered engrossed. The following bills were passed on third reading: . No. 07. By Senator Agnew: Providing for the drawing of fifteen petit jurors instead of twelve, in order to avoid calling in •‘professional” jurors and court hangers-on. No. 19. By Senator Brooks: Prescribing the manner of paying claims against cities and towns. No. 110. By Senator Hogate: Permitting building and loan associations to go into liquidation at any time. No. Kill. By Senator Oulbert: To compel the recording of all assignments of mortgages in order to show who is the real owner of a mortgage and liable for taxation on it. No. 127. By Senator Campbell: Regulating the method of paying orders drawn on city treasuries and making them legal tender for city taxes. Senator Hawkins asked to have the bill amended so as to not include cities of over 35.000 population, as it conflicted with the charter of those cities. The amendment was made by consent and the bill passed. The following engrossed House bills were referred to committees: Judiciary. 191 and 210; cities and towns. 216 and 193; city of Indianapolis, 279; building and loan, 101. New bills were introduced as follows: No. 268. By Senator Wood: Fixing the salaries of prosecuting attorneys in the different counties; judiciary. No. 269. By Senator Gochenour: Extending the law applying to the obstruction of drains, to running streams; swamp lands and drains. ♦ STILWELI/S THEATER BILL Will He Reported Favorably by Senate Committee on Agriculture. The Senate committee on agriculture, contrary to expectation, will report favorably on Senator Stilweli's bill to tax the theaters of Indianapolis S2O for each performance given. It is one of the strangest bills ever offered in a General Assembly, and is as follows: ‘‘A bill for an act taxing managers of theaters and providing for the distribution of funds arising therefrom, and for the aid and encouragement of agricultural societies. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, that in all cities having a population of 100.000 or more, there shall be paid jnto the county treasurer for license to exhibit any theatrical performance the sum of S2O for each performance. Section 2. It is hereby made the duty of the sheriffs of the counties in which such cities are located, to collect said sums and pay the same into the county treasury, and for any failure on the part of such sheriff to collect said sums, be shall be liable on his official bond to the State of Indiana in the sum of S2O for each failure to do so. Section 3. The money arising from the exhibitions mentioned in the foregoing sections shall be paid over by the sheriff to the county treasurers, in which such collections are made, and by such countv treasurers to the State Board of Agriculture, to be by them distributed among the county agricultural societies, in proportion to the population of the various counties of the State. Section 4. Whereas, an emergency exists for the immediate taking effect of this act, the same shall be in force from and after its passage.”

MATOR TAGGART'S RETURN. He Reached Home Yesterday Evening from tlie South. Mayor Taggart is home. He arrived from Louisville at 6:50 o'clock yesterday evening. He is as well as could be hoped for after the trying circumstances of the last two weeks. There was little to be added to what has already been said concerning the search for the missing launch Paul Jones and her passengers, among whom was the mayor's daughter. Miss Florence Taggart. The search still continues. Everything possible is being done to locate the hull of the little craft. Although portions of the oabin, doors, window sash and other parts of it were found, the mayor said that no trace of the hull could be found, and this led to the belief that it had either sunk with the passengers. or had drifted out into the gulf, where the passengers might have been picked up by some outgoing vessel that would not be heard from for weeks. It Is a most unusual thing, he was informed, for a vessel to sink in the channel between the main land and the islands without something more definite being discovered. All of the crew were sahors of experience, and it seemed impossible to old sailors on the gulf coast that something had not been seen of them if the vessel was wrecked in those waters, as they could all swim. Os course, if the hull was simply damaged and floated out to the deep waters of the gulf they would not abandon it, because the boats were found damaged. The mayor speaks gratefully of the kindness that was everywhere shown the searching party. A large number of craft worked night and day to bring some news to the anxious searchers. Mayor Taggart went first to Mobile, and from there the search continued down to Biloxi and afterward to Bird island and intermediate points between the outer islands and the mainland. Mr. Jones, of Louisville, and Messrs. Pattison and Bruenig, of this city, who went South and joined in the search, returned with Mr. Taggart. At the headquarters of the fire department a meeting, called by Chief Barrett, was held yesterday and resolutions of sympathy for* the mayor and his family were adopted and a committee appointed to present them, consisting of Assistant Chief Ernst, Captains Kile, Wesby and Petty and Patrick Ryan. Indianapolis Lodge of Elks has also passed resolutions of sympathy. Many Anxious to Mart. The managers of the six-night bicycle races which will be held in Tomlinson Hall next week, beginning Monday night, have received many applications from riders who are anxious to start in this race. The large purse of which will be divided among the winners of this race attracted nearly ail the women riders in the country and they hurriedly sent in their applications to enter in the Indianapolis race. The girls who will contest here next week are Anderson, Farnsworth, G'.aw, Wagner and Allen. Diphtheria Epidemic* lit Frnnlcton. The State Board of Health yesterday received information from Dr. W. J. French, the health officer at Frankton, Madison county, of the discovery in that town of tvsenty-tne c ar-es of diphtheria among school children. All were found the same day, pointing to a common source of infection. Dr. French is endeavoring to find the source of the disease, which is believed to be one well-developed case of gerraa located where all the children gathered.

ANTI-LYNCHING BILL IT IX TALKED ABOl ; T l\ THE 1101 SE AID FINALLY KILLED. J The Measure Prepared by the Attorney General and Approved by Governor .Yiount. PROVOKED MANY SPEECHES MEMBERS YIELD FLOOR TO MR. NOEL, CHAMPION OF THE BILL. Mileage Measure Amended So as to Grunt Actual Expenses Only —House Routine. Yesterday afternoon the House, by a vote of 60 aoes to 35 ayes, refused to consider the anti-lynching and anti-mob bill which was prepared by Attorney General Taylor, and which was approved by Governor Mount. The bill was for the suppression of mob violence, delined the crime of lynching and provided a penalty for it. It defined a mob as ’‘any collection of individuals assembled for any unlawful purpost- intending to injure any person by violence and without authority of law.” The definition of lynching is: ‘‘Any act of violence exercised by such mob upon the body of any person which shall cause the death of such person shall constitute the crime of ‘lynching,’ and any person who participates in, or aids, or abets such lynching, upon conviction thereof, shall suffer death or be imprisoned in the State Prison during life, in the discretion of the jury.” The second section provided that “any person who shall, after the commission of the crime of lynching, harbor, conceal or assist any member of a mob who participates in or aids or abets such a crime, with the intention that he shall escape detention, arrest, capture or punishment, shall be deemed to be and shall be an accessory after the fact, and may be charged, tried and convicted and punished, though such member be neither charged, tried nor convicted, and upon conviction shall be subject to imprisonment in the State Prison for from two to twenty-one years.” Section 3 provided that ‘‘any person accused of the crime of lynching or of being an accessory may be prosecuted either by indictment or upon information based on the affidavit of some competent and reputable person. The widow or children of a person killed by a mob, by either direct lynching or in an attempt to lynch another person, shall bo enttitled to recover $7),000 from the county in which the lynching occurs as a penalty for the unlawful killing” The bill continued as follows: “The action for the recovery of this amount may be begun in any court of general jurisdiction in the county where the lynching occurred, at any time within two years of the time of the lynching. The county in which any lynching occurs shall have a right of action to recover the amount of any judgment, with costs, rendered against it, in favor of the personal representative of any person lynched by a mob, against any of the persons composing the mob. In case a mob shall carry a person into another county and there lynen him, or shall come from another county and lynch a person brought from such county for safe keeping the county in which the lynching was committed may recover from the county from which the mob came, as a penalty, a sum equal to the amount of the original judgment and costs, unless there was contributory negligence on the part of the officials of the county in which the lyncling occurred in failing to protect the person so lynched, “In case any persons shal come together in any county for the purpose of proceeding to another county with the view of lynching any person, or in case any person or persons shall purchase or procure any rope, weapon or other instrument in one county for the purpose of being used in lynching any person in another county, such crime of lynching, if committed, shall be and constitute a. continuous offense from the time of its original inception, and the courts of any county in which any such overt act has been committed shall have jurisdiction over the person of any member of the mob committing the overt act. and such person may be prosecuted in such county and punished for murder the same as if the lynching had occurred therein. If any person shall be taken from the hands of the officer or officers having such i>erson in custody and shall be lynched, it shall be primu facie evidence of failure on the part of such officer or officers to do their duty, and it shall thereupon be the duty of the prosecuting attorney and attorney general to at once institute impeachment proceedings against such officer or officers pursuant to the laws in force concerning impeachment of officers.”

TWO REPORTS RECEIVED. The judiciary committee made two reports on the bill. The majority report, signed by Roose, Hall, Artman, Bonham, Brown, Wise, Clements and Canada recommended indefinite postponement. The minority report, signed by Kirkpatrick and Noel, recommended the passage of the bill. The reports were made on Wednesday, but were not acted upon and the House ordered the bill printed and set it as a special order for yesterday afternoon. Mr. Noel, who introduced the bill, was first recognized. He said that lynch law is sometimes expedient, but Is never justifiable, it tne lynchings in Ripiey and Brown counties were all that had been in the State, no legislation would now be necessary, but with these examples as guides, the people of Indiana have recently seen a man who was in the hands of the law who was on his way to a speedy trial, who had no defense to make, taKen from the custody of the officers and lynched. “Opinions may differ,” said Mr. Noel, “as to the Ripley and Brown county lynchings, but there can be but one opinion o‘t the last lynching and that is that it was unjustifiable, and nence there must be legislation on the. subject. Indiana must go on record and must teach the people that the law is greater than the people. No man in the House dares to justify lynch law.” Mr. Noel admitted that the present measure might not suit the views of all the members. but the minority report should be adopted, he said, in order that the bill might pass to its second reading and then be amended as the members saw fit. Under the present law it is impossible to prevent or to punisn lynchings. as the recent futile attempts have demonstrated. Mr. Noel then reviewed the bill. He took up the point that prosecutions may be made, on information. It Is Impossible now to prosecute on indictments, he declared, because no grand jury can be secured which will return an indictment, as the members may have been in the mob themselves. He devoted some time to the section making the county responsible, when Mr. James objected. Mr. Noel had. by expressed consent, been permitted to run over *he five minutes allowed to him and after he had spoken ten minutes Mr. James protested. Mr. Holcomb was recognized and at or.ce gave his five minutes to Mr. Nod. "The question as to whether or not damages can be assessed against the county,” resumed Mr. Noel, “is a close one. On account of this question as to the constitutionality of .i measure framed to recover damages, this Dill is framed so that the money shall be recovered as a ’penalty’ against the county and so the constitutionality of the bill is unquestioned.” Mr. Noel occupied the five minutes given him in a discussion of the constitutionality of the law and when the Speaker’s gavd fell Mr. Murphy, of Marion, was recognized and he also gave his time to the Marlon county man. Mr. Noel declared that the effect of a law of this kind in other States has been salutary. He then took up the section providing that the sheriff or other officer shall be removed from office and while discussing this section, the speaker's gavel fell again. Mr. Hayes, of St. Joseph, was recognized and yielded his time to Mr. Noel, w io thru declared that something must be done. “Law and order, civilization an.’ the safety of our homes demand it,” a ! d he. “If lynching# against our criminals are permitted th next step will be lawless gathering* for

personal and private ends against our homes. Men can come together for personal reasons if they are permitted to do so for lynching# and we must tak* some action on it.” MR. ROUSE’S CONTENTION. Mr. Roose agreed with the statements as to the necessity for action on the question, and said that the committee favors a law to prevent lynching#, but the only thing In this bill is that the county shall pay $5,000 to the widow or children. He declared that no one could tell whether ever in the history of the State a sheriff has been negligent. Mr. Noel asked him about the sheriff in the Marion Tyler lynching, who saw the man die after the mob had left. Mr. Roose said that the sheriff claimed he had done ail within his power, and no one could gainsay the statement. He considered the bill entirely Inadequate. Mr. James said that he was in favor of a good law, but ihe only feature he saw in this bill was the clause providing that the sheriff or other official should be ousted from office in case he permitted a man to be taken from him. He said the people of the whole county would have to pay the money over, and not those only who participated in the lynching. Mr. Blankenship moved that the bill be recommitted with instructions that the money should be paid by the county to the school fund but the members were after the bill and led his motion. Mr. Artman said he wa 'avor of the section relating to the ren f the sheriff, but could see no other i .eature in the bill. He said he was o and to this bill, although he was strop*. / in favor of a good law on the subject. He did not believe it was right 'hat the law-abiding and law-respecting people of a county should be compelled to pay the penalty for the actions of the guilty few. Mr. Roots suggested a compromise that the bill should be passed to the second reading and an attempt he then made to perfect a bill by amendments, but the suggestion was not well received. Mr. Huff said: ”1 am opposed to this bill or any other bill or law on this subject. Those, who prepared this bill and brought it in here did the State a poor service. It would be a disgrace to the State of Indiana to have it go to the w'orld that it is necessary to have such a law, and 1 would feel disgraced to live in a State with an antilynching law in the statutes. There is not a section of the bill that is not a slander on the fair name of Indiana. It don’t prevent lynchings, It don’t detect lynchers. Civilization does not begin in the ’grand jury room, although there are some people who think that it does. This discussion will convey the impression that in Indiana we have lynchings for breakfast, lynchings for dinner and lynchings for supper. The only solution of this question is civilization, which the laws cannot make. Civilization must begin in the hearts and in the njimls of men, and I believe that our civilization is advancing as fast as the wheels of time revolve.” Mr. Canada said he was violently opposed to lynchings and mobs, but he did not believe that this bill would prevent them. Lynchers, he said, do not go around telling their intentions and stating to people what, they intend to do. He would have the sheriff call in the troops, bring in an officer from another county to take charge of these troops, make the death certain and have an effective bill. “I would look with glee on a bullet going through the heart of a member of a mob,” asserted Mr. Canada. Ho wants a business law r . a strong law, and one that will be effective. Mr. O’Bannon held that a man who commits a crime should alone be held responsible for It. It a man commits a murder, bo does not think the citizens of the county should he hold responsible. The present trouble is to find the evidence on which to convict. He believed that the united sentiment of the members was for law and older. but the principle of this bill was w'rong. PRESENT LAWS ARE ADEQUATE. Mr. Brown was in favor of the proper punishment of murder, but he believed that the present laws are adequate to cover the case of lynchings. He believed that the section regarding the removal of sheriffs is unnecessary, as the present laws cover that. In his opinion, the only good feature of the bill was that prosecutions might be commenced on information and not on indictments alone. He would heartily support a bill to wipe out the entire grand jury system.

Mr. Willoughby defined the law as an attempt to create anew crime-lynching. He held that a lyncher is guilty of murder, but the trouble Is to prove a person participated In mob violence. He held that the sections relating to the offense and the recovery of damages are good. He believes that the only w r ay to prevent lynching is to make it expensive for the county in which they occur. In his opinion, the bill parsed the other day giving to judges the option regarding change of venue would render these sections ineffective, as a judge would refuse to send such cases out of the county, and he did not believe a conviction could he secured. As he believed these sections would be inoperative, he was against the bill. Mr. Kirkpatrick said the bill should go to the second reading. He believed that the bill had many objectionable features, but did those opposed nave anything better to offer? He said the officials have tried to do their duty under the existing laws, and the hill was drawn by the attorney general. He asserted it was not near so drastic as the Ohio law which has been effective. Mr. Whitcomb, of Marion, said he was opposed to the redress of wrongs by mob violence. He thought the minority report should be accepted in order that the bill might be amended on the second reading. Mr. Downey said it w'ould be proper for Indiana to have an antl-lynching law. Ho granted that this was not an ideal bill and that there were objectionable features in it. Said he: “I raise my voice in support of the spirit which prompted it. We have a situation to meet. Let us meet it fairly. Let us uphold the Governor In his efforts; let us formulate a good law and put it in the hands of the Governor.” Mr. Downey insisted on the minority report in order that the bill might come up for amendment. Mr. Neal could see nothing objectionable in the bill. He said Mr. Huff had claimed that such a law would be a disgrace, but he believed it was the lynchings which disgraced the State. He demanded of Mr. Roose what he hud to offer on this subject. as he was opposed to this bill. He claimed that many of the members attacked this bill, but not one of them had made a suggestion for its betterment or what such a law should contain. “If the bill has faults, why not pass it to the second residing and correct those faults and not kill it without an opportunity to perfect a good law.” Mr. Marshall closed the debate by a demand for the previous question. Mr. Noel closed by saying that the citizens of the counties where lynching# have occurred have gone to the Governor and attorney general and have told them they were lawabiding citizens, but when the investigations were held they either refused their assistance or went on the witness stand and perjured themselves. He said Mr. Huff was the only man in the House opposed to an anti-lynch law. “If the bill does not suit you, adopt the minority report and let it go to the second reading and amend It, but don’t shirk your duty,” he concluded. THE VOTE AS RECORDED. The minority report recommending passage was then lost by the vote of 35 ayes to 60 noes as follows; Yeas—Aiken, Barlow’, Blankenship. Caraway, Durham, Downey, Fuller, Furness, Gants, Glossßrenner, Hayes of St. Joseph, Hedgecock. King, Kirkpatrick, Knotts, Ixmttit, McGary, Marshall, Murphy of Marion, Neal, Noel, <>sborn, Owen, Reece, liifenburg, Roots, Ross. Scott of Montgomery, Scott of Lawrence, Shideler. Somers, Stevens, Whitcomb of Vigo, Whitcomb of Marion, Williams. Nays—Artman, Baker of Whitley, Baker of Martin. Ronnam, r.urrler, Brown. Canada, Compton, Catley, Clark, Claycomb, Clements, Cravens ot Washington, Cravens of Monroe. Coiner. Cunningham, Cutty, Dilley, Elehhorn, Feist, Geisel, Graham, Green, Hall, Hays of Green, Holcomb, Huff, Ilerod, Herrold, James, Kerwood, Kriik, Larr, laiwrence, Leif, Manifold, Messicg. Miller, McCarty. Madden, Marsh, Morrison, Mull, Murphy of White. Myler, O Bannou, Powers, Patterson, Roberts, Roose, S-hra-der, Strong, Schaal, Shirley, Sullivan, Titus, Vogel, Wntoughby, Wise, Littleton. Absent: Beardsley, Burkknart, Heuring, May, Reser. Mr. Roberts’s bill to cut tne mileage of members from 20 to 10 cents was taken up on the second reading. Mr. Eichhorn sent up an amendment to cut it down to tne actual expenses by the shortest route and those who received passes to have no expense allowance for fare. This was adopted and the bill was ordered to engrossment. Other amendments which were proposed, hut which wero lost, were by Mr. Willoughby to make the pay of members $2 a day and a mileage allowance of 3 tents; by Mr. Willoughby to makt the nay sl.u*o per annum with no allowance; by Mr. Roose, to include members of this Legislature auti compel them to refund their mileage; by Mr. Caraway, to make the salary $750 for the term of office: and by Mr. Willoughby, to substitute a bill making the salary s6ot>. The bill was ordered to engrossment by u vote of 68 ayes to 17 noes. Those voting against the bill were: Caraway, Compton. Catley, Cravens of Washington, Cutty, Huff, Manifold, Mesalck. Miller, Murphy ol Marion, Rlfenburg. Roose. Scott of Lawrence, Strong, Schaal. Vogel and Willoughby. Must of those voting against It gave us their reason that the bill had not been Introduced in sincerity, according to their belief, and that there is no public demand for such a bill Other bills sent to engrossment were hv Mr. Williams to provide a system of libraries; by Mr. Hergecock, to amend thj kw relating to decedent** estates; and hid