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THE DAILY JOURNAL TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1809. Washington Office—lso3 Pennsylvania Avenue Telephone Call*. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 86 TERMS OF SIHtM'RIPTIOS. DAILY BY MAIL. Daily only, one month 1 .TO Daily only, three months 2.00 Daily only, one year 8.00 Daily, including Sunday, one year 10.00 Sunday only, one year 2.00 WHEN FURNISHED BY AGENTS. Daily, per meek, by carrier 15 cts Sunday, single copy r. cts Daily and Sunday, per week, by carrier 20 cts WEEKLY. Per year SI.OO Reduced Kates to (Tabs. Subscribe with any of our numerous agents or send subscriptions to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, IndianapoliN. Ind. Persons sending the Journal through the malls In the United States should put on an eight-page paper a ONE-CENT postage stamp; on a twelve of sixteen-page jiaper a TWO-CENT postage stamp. Foreign postage is usually double these rates. ATI communications intended for publication In this paper must, in order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. # C-. .. ■ ■ * !-. THE IXDIAXAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places; NEW YORK—Astor House. CHICAGO—PaImer House, P. O. News Cos., 217 Dearborn street. Oreat Northern Hotel and Grand Pacific Hotel. CINCINNATI —J. R. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. I>eerlng, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Book Cos., 256 Fourth avenue. BT. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D. C— Rigga House, Ebbitt House and Willard’s Hotel. There was never an opposition so entirely without an argument as Is that lighting the county anti township reform bills. It la unfortunate that the French people are so forgetful of the past and so little fit for self-government that some of them go wild over the demand for an emperor. The new political party of farmers that a few men are trying to organize in Illinois will he found to consist of a few men who have failed to get office in the other parties. Whatever else the anti-expansionists in the Senate do or fail to do, they are receiving the hearty approval of Mr. Aguinaldo, who threatens to attack our army in Manila. Both parties are pledged tc give the State some system that will insure more satisfactory results from primary' elections. Next *to township and county legislation a primary election law is important. The Washington Post, whiefc would like to help the Democracy if it could because of the past, remarks in its disgust at its latent antics in Congress that "the Democratic party is still engrossed in the pleasant pastime of hamstringing itself." The New' York World says that thousands are getting rich out of stock speculation. Inasmuch as the speculation does not add a dollar to the real wealth of the country, the thousands must be getting the spare cash of more thousands who are losing money. Aguinaldo, who has twice sold out his native country to Spain for a substantial sum of money, and was in rebellion when our shins entered Manila because the amount paid was not as large as promised, has been hailed as “the George Washington of the Philippines.” The opponents of Senator-elect Clark, in Montana, declare that he spent $250,000 to insure his election and that they have evidence to show where SIOO,OOO of it was expended. They will contest his right to the seat before the Senate. Both sides are opposed to "the crime of 1873.” Those persona who are alleged to have incited Aguinaldo’s agent, Agcncillo, to send the pretender dispatches advising him to attack our forces in Manila by' furnishing him funds with which to pay the expensive telegraph tolls should read the United States atatutes defining the crime of treason. If those who are opposing the township legislation would express their motives they would confess that they are in favor of a system which enables township trustees and their favorites to make more out of it if they are unscrupulous than it will be possible when all appropriations are voted by a township council. The report that a New York combination with abundant money will be here soon to get control of the natural gas companies in this State, with a view of securing from the Legislature a meter law, seems to lack the element of reasonableness, but in these days of wild promoters and crazy booming there may be something in it. A bill was introduced in the Pennsylvania Legislature by one of Senator Quay's friends which deprives the State of the right to have jurors set aside in misdemeanor cases, and Senator Magee remarked that “it is unfortunate that this bill should be in the Legislature while a distinguished citizen of Pennsylvania is under indictment." The senator is right, IME.MIt ES TO HOMICIDE AM) LYNCHING. It will not do, in discussing the remedies for lynching and homicide, to forget the important fact that our constitution, laws and their enforcement are not designed to check the commission of such crimes. In criminal cases the jury is judge of the law as well as the fact. This means that the provisions of the law relative to homicide and murder are often ignored, the jury assuming the functions of the legislative branch of the government. In one case in this county in which a young man killed a special policeman without provocation, in the presence of a multitude, the first jury disagreed and the second gave the murderer a period in the state prison often exceeded in the case of horse stealing. Again, as has often been stated in the Journal, the whole revenues of the county are at the command of the man who commits murder unless he is wealthy. He can employ expensive counsel and they can delay the trial from time to time. They are allowed to bring testimony to establish “emotional insanity." which is nothing but anger. In one case the defense was allowed to submit testimony affecting the character of a murdered wife, the assumption living that unfaithfulness on her part was u warrant for murder. To say that a considerable purt of those who take life escape punishment, and that a majority escape punishment adequate to the crime, is to express a current opinion which statistics will support. The uncertainty and inadequacy of the punishment of the crime of murder, with the delays in bringing murderers to trial, are the leading pretexts for lynching in Indiana. In States like Massachusetts and New York, where the trial of those indicted for

murder is reasonably prompt and the penalty is set by the law and not left to the jury, there are no lynchings. The person found guilty of murder in the first degree in both those States is reasonably sure of hanging or electrocution in a brief period after conviction. Make punishment adequate and •certain, and trial prompt, with no expert counsel paid by the county to evade justice, and there will he few lynchings, and fewer homicides. Make the death penalty certain for murder in the first degree, and for others emphasize the enormity of the crime of life-taking by isolating them from other convicts in the penitentiary, an 1 every issue of a paper will not contain an account of a murder. MYRON W. HEED. It is probable that within an equal length of time no other man ever created so deep an impression or left so lasting an influence on the people of Indianapolis as did Rev. Myron W. Reed during his seven years’ residence here. All classes of men with whom he came in contact were drawn to him. His church was filled by those who went to listen to him, and in his audiences were always to be found many who could never be persuaded to attend the regulation religious service. The intellectual and the illiterate alike found something for themselves In his sermons, for they were remarkable productions both for their thought and their style —epigrammatic, full of poetry, pathos, humor, wit, wisdom and the truest religion—every one touching somehow upon the very heart of life. He had no graces of oratory; it was the words, not the manner of his speech, that carried weight. His addresses read as well as they sounded in delivery—not at all a common thing. If he had devoted himself to literature, with his mental equipment and his Insight into the souls of his fellow-creatures, he might have been famous wherever the English tongue is known, but it is doubtful if he knew his own powers in this direction. It was only through the repeated urging of discerning friends that he was finally led to offer some of his essays for magazine publication and to collect enough for the little volume recently issued. One who has editorially handled many of his manuscript sermons testifies that he had but little skill in so paragraphing and punctuating them that they would best convey his meaning. But it was not his sermons, unusual though they were, that made Mr. Reed so widely loved; it was his personality, his manliness, his boundless sympathy for humanity. Like On© greater than he. men loved him because he first loved them. His heart went out to the down-trodden and oppressed, and he took up the lance in their behalf, not always wisely, perhaps, but always earnestly and unselfishly. It was his disposition to believe that the “under <7og" was always an Innocent victim deserving of rescue—an assumption by no means invariably correct—and this belief brought him in his later years into curious company. When he entered politics it was against the advice of some of his best friends, but even they never doubted the sincerity of his belief that as a congressman he could best secure certain benefits to laboring men, whose cause he especially championed. He was unconventional, unministerial in manner, a law unto himself, but he w'as a man with a great brain and a great heart, and in his course through the world he made a multitude of people glad that he lived. It is fifteen years since he left Indianapolis, but so close did he come to the lives of those who knew him that the news of his death brings to them a keen sense of personal loss. Though they seldom met him, they were the happier for knowing that he was in the world. Now that he has passed out of sight on the “onward trail,” they will not forget him.

Air. Kipling has evidently reflecting on the colonial development of the United States and in connection with that movement has considered the experience of England. The result is a poem callbd “The White Man's Burden,” which is not altogether cheering to those who are anxious for the country to assume new responsibilities. The following extracts from the poem, which appears in full in the February issue of McClure’s Magazine, indicate its character: Take up the White Man's burden— Send forth the best ye breed— Go, bind your sons to exile To serve your captives’ need; To wait, in heavy harness. On fluttered folk and wild— Your new T -caught sullen peoples, Half devil and half child. ****** Take up the White Man’s burden— The savage wars of peace— Fill full the mouth of Famine, And bid the sickness cease; ♦*** * * * The ports ye shall not enter. The roads ye shall not tread. Go. make them with your living And mark them with your dead. * * * * * * By all ye w ill or whisper, By all ye leave or do. The silent sullen peoples Shall weigh your God and you. Mr. Howells says “the best English in the world is spoken in southern Ohio.” Mr. Howells never lived in southern Michigan: in fact, if we remember aright, he was born in southern Ohio, which probably accounts for his strange hallucination.—Detroit Free Press. V The late Myron W. Reed used to say that the very “best English in the world” was spoken in Indiana. Eet us call the language belt the Central West and we’ll all be in it. It is said that Colonel Ingereoll was very near being converted to the dogma of future punishment. It was when the agent ran away with the receipts of the box office. Those who are intent on the conversion of the agnostic should attack him through the box office. The speaker of the Colorado House, desiring to participate in a debate, railed Mrs. Bee, a Denver member, to preside. It was a stormy debate, but the speaker pro tern, held the body in check and won applause for her ability as a presiding officer. An exchange approves of the opinion of a London writer to the effect that colds are the result of over-eating. There must be an immense amount of something like gluttony this season. 11l BULBS I\ THE AIR. Never. Watts—l believe lotteries ought to be run by the government. Potts Great snakes! There Is enough doubt of their honesty now. Rarely. “What kind of workingman are you?” asked the easy one, after giving up the dime. “Common laborer?” "Xaw,” said Dismal Dawson. "Uncommon ” Perhaps. Tommy—Paw, what does the paper mean by calling Mr. Bugghaus an Bxlo politician? Mr. Figg—l presume it means lie is not exactly square. International A men it iea. “You Americans,” said the Scotchman, “suffer Irom an itch for notoriety.” “An itch for notoriety,” responded the American, with spirit, “Is better than a notoriety for—” But at that point they clinched.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1899.

IN HONOR OF HEROES * SENATE HOLDS MEMORIAL SERVICES FOR VICTIMS OF SPANISH W Alt. ♦ The House Is Represented in the Exercise* I y ji Committee o£ Seven Membem. THE “STAR-SPAtIGLED BANNER” * ONE OF THE PATRIOTIC AIRS SI NG BY A QUARTET. Many Eloquent Speeches Made—Proceedings of the Morning Session—Hills Passed. * Yesterday afternoon was given over by the senators to a memorial service for the Indiana soldiers who died during the Spanish war. As soon as the Lieutenant Governor had called the Senate to order, Senator Early moved that a committee be appointed from the Senate to invite the members of the House to join in the service and Senators Early, Shea and Nusbaum were asked to extend the invitation. They returned unaccompanied by the house members, but shortly afterward Representative Shideler, acting as spokesman for a committee of three, came in and announced that the House would be unable to join with the Senate because of a great press of business and the lack of room in the Senate Chamber. The programme was hardly commenced, however, when another delegation from the House arrived, headed by Francis T. Root, who announced that the committee had been appointed to represent the House in the memorial service. They were seated around among the senators and the order of the day was resumed. On the right of the president’s stand the battle llag of tho battle ship Indiana was draped so as to show the inscription attached to it. On either side of the stand, regimental flags from the civil war were set upright, while the desks of the secretaries and the wall behind the president were covered with flags. Rev. J. Cumming Smith delivered the invocation. after which the Apollo Quartet sang the “Star-spangled Banner” to hearty applause. Senator Agnew was the first speaker and said, in the course of his remarks, that the men of to-day were not weaker than those. of former generations, because, as water will rise to the level of the fountain head, so the women of to-day have reared as fine men as those of any generation. People often said that the race or heroes was extinct, but Senator Agnew held that it was not and that to-day American patriotism and valor is the highest in the world. No more glorious army, said he, ever marched than that of ours which went into a strange land and faced strange dangers for humanity, and for this their memory should live as long as the old flag waves and the country exists. In cotjclusion he said that the noble women of America, who ministered to the sick and W'ounded, should not be forgotten but that the memory of them all should never die.

Senator Winfield in opening his remarks said: “In its purpose the war with Spain is unique in the history of the world. Other men and nations became famous because of their ability to consolidate nations and colonize, and all the wars of Europe, ancient and modern, were for these purposes. Ours, however, was not fought for territorial aggrandizement, but rather that Cuba might be free. Our soldiers fought and died, not for their country, but that humanity might be succored. They died for others. It is sweet to die for country, but it is also sweet to die for others. We have taken a step in advance of the nineteenth century and our heroes w'ill live forever.” SENATOR NUSBAUM SPEAKS. Following the speech of Senator Winfield, came a requiem by the quartet, after which Senator Nusbaum said that, because of the cry coming to us for years past from our oppressed brethren, and Decause of our soldiers going to the front in response to that cry, it was fitting that a tribute be paid to the heroic dead. He said that those heroes, who laid down heir lives on the altar of their country, would have the satisfaction of knowing that the sacrifice had not been in vain and, if w r ar should come again, the men of the Nation would again flock to the Hag which makes us a Nation. Senator Hubbell, who has attracted considerable attention in the Senate as an orator, was the next on the programme and spoke In part as follows: “The year 189s was pregnant with protentous events. The wrongs of a neighboring people had fired the American heart w'ith a desire to intervene in their behalf. Unholy hands were laid upon a sacred American right and a flame of resentment flashed from a nation of freemen. Our just demands upon Spain to grant freedom to her Cuban subjects were refused and from the throat of every liberty-loving American was chanted the refrain of the battle hymn of the Republic: “ ‘As He died to make men holy, Let us die to make men free.’ “With incredible rapidity an army was organized from men in civil life; the country became a military camp; the flower of American youth were enlisted or were drilling for service In response to calls for men aggregating two hundred thousand, a million offered themselves for sacrifices to liberty on freedom’s blood-reel field of battle. At Cavite and Santiago the navy of a formidable power was anihilated; at San Juan freedom's banner was unfurled; Porto Rico joyfully received our victorious army, and the stars and stripes floated in pride over the battlements of Havana’s Morro, grimly reminding the world how peace-lov-ing America resents an insult to her dignity. “With a rapidity inconceivable and a celerity of movement unequaled in the history of war. our sovereignty w r as extended to distant islands, and our power made manifest in Asiatic waters, while Europe stood amazed at our prowess and success. While the world was yet startled at the flashlight picture of marching armies and fighting squadrons, our commissioners were dictating terms of peace to the vanquished foe in the historic capital of the French. It is without parallel in history. Hardened and experienced troops could have done no more than the raw levies from civil life. Nations were amazed at our achievements. Courts and cabinets realised that anew factor was injected into the world’s affairs. Half unfriendly people were forced to give unstinted admiration and unwilling applause to the achievements of our heroic army. WON AT A FEARFUL COST. “Such were the portentous events of the year. But the undying glory of these events was won at a fearful cost of life and treasure. The material cost is of little consequence. It is the loss of life that counts. The noble young manhood of America, inspired by love of liberty and aroused to enthusiasm by the sad story of Cuba’s wrongs, fell in battle, perished from exposure and died of pestilence and fever. Mangled by shot and shell, weakened by disease, emaciated by fever, pitiable wrecks of humanity, they braved death in every conceivable form. Death! Hardest foe on earth to meet! But they died a hero's death, because they died for a principle. They died in order that the world might know that civil liberty is not a delusion; that constitutional government is not a failure and that liberty is more than a sentiment. They died to make men free. “ ‘Nor shall their glory l>e forgot While fame her vigil keeps. Or honor points the hallowed spot Where valor proudly sleeps. Yon marble minstrel's voiceless stone In deathless song shall tell. When many a vanquished year hath flown. The story how they fell.' “In the solemn sacrifices of those voiceless graves at Siboney. and El Caney, and San Juan, we are taught the lesson of a broader citizenship and a more exalted patriotism. In the bloodless victories of Cavite and

Santiago the unbroken succession of our naval victories haw been maintained and a halo of imperishable glory has been placetf upon the brow of the American sailor. And in it all we hear the voice bf exalted patriotism warning us that the fruits of victory won by the valor of American heroes, must he preserved and properly used by the wisdom of American statesmen. “No prouder people lived than Hoosiers. when the disgrace of Buena Vista was washed out in the crimson floods of the rebellion. But it was reserved for El Caney to throw a radiance almost divine around the Hoorier valor. With all due respect to the roll of honor that has been read to-day, I call attention to the four hundred men from Indiana who are enrolled In the regular army. When, at El Caney, the lines moved up the hill, a battalion of a New York regiment laid down and the Sixteenth United States Infantry passed over them. A company eoinmanded by Captain Morrison, of Indianapolis, faltered, the gallant commander sprang ahead, waved his sword, and said "Come on boys.’ A Spanish bullet killed him on the spot. A sergeant, also a Hoosier, picked him up and received a bullet between the shoulders, a private from Hendricks county carried both back and the company, animated by such bravery and courage, rushed up the hill to a glorious victory. “The Ninth Cavalry and the Twentyfourth Infantry shed luster upon Hoosier character. Never will their glory fade. From General Lawton dowm to the private Hoosier regulars did their duty—the highest tribute that can be paid to a soldier. Wars are the the thunderstorms of civilization, and this one has cleared the political atmosphere and given us a clearer and firmer grasp of the great facts that make for national greatness.” Then came Senator Gilbert, who said; SENATOR GILBERT'S TRIBUTE. “I am glad, for one moment to have the privilege of attempting to do honor, in my feeble w’ay, to the memory of these men who have honored themselves as the voice of no man can. In the authorized translation cf the Scriptures our Savior is made to say, ‘Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.’ I take it that the translators have not done justice to the original, but that the truth when fully stated is 'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for another, even though a stranger.’ In exemplification of that translation, Mr. President, during the last summer the peoples of the earth have stood by and looked upon a spectacle such as was never known before in the w r orld's history. We have had wars before—wars for conquest; wars for gain; wars for revenge; wars to satisfy ambition; wars for home and fireside; wars for one’s own flag and country—but never before since time began has a war been waged for the liberty of another people; never before has a war been waged upon the express declaration that when success should crown its eiforts, that the lands so gained should be given back to the people for whom it was waged with the privilege to thereupon establish a stable government. “We all know the boys from Indiana whose names have been read here to-day. They went from every section of this proud State; they came from every walk of life: from the farm and workshop, school and office, pulpit and eefunting room: they left home and firpside; mother and sisters, wives and sweethearts, without a tremor in their voices, or a halt upon their step, and went forth to offer up their lives for a principle new' in the world’s history. All honor to these brave men who laid down their lives under the folds of the flag. We saw them die—in camp hospitals and on lingering beds of pain. No woman's voice to ring as music in their ears; no woman's hand to cool their fevered brows, but they died as they had lived, noble, honest, brave; no tear of sorrow in their eyes; no word of murmuring on iheir lips, but with their eyes strained for a last look at the grand old flag, they passed on to the reward of Him who had shown the greatest love ever manifested in the world's history. All honor so their memories, which should inspire us and each of us to greater efforts to sustain the principles for w'hich ‘old glory’ waves. Their .ives and their death have added new lustre to the fair name of Indiana.

“In the beauty of the lilies Christ Was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me, As he died to make men holy, so they died to make men free; And God goes marching on.” NO POLITICAL DIVISIONS. Senator Stilwell said that the present occasion was one in which there were no political divisions. “There was a time,” said he, “when pojitical parties were divided by geographical lines, but to-day there is no North nor South, and if this war did anything it tore down tho. bloody shirt and raised in its place the flag of a united nation. Hobson buried part of it beneath the keel of the Merrimac, and Fighting Joe Wheeler burled the rest of it in the trenches before Santiago.” He referred to the great clamor there was among the people of the country for war last spring and said that the President was wiser than the people when he realized that the country was not prepared for w'ar. At the outbreak of the war our armies were, said he, the poorest in the world in point of numbers, but in a few short weeks one of the grandest armies that ever marched went to the front In response to the call. Mr. Stilwell declared that the late war was the first one ever fought between nations for humanity. In referring to the Indiana boys who responded to the call for volunteers, he said: "Some of them have returned, some were left on battlefields, w’hile some may never return, and it is to these that we consecrate this day.” Senator Ball briefly referred to the lreeting as unique and said that the Senate could well afford the time spent in respect tc the memory of the brave dead. He said that the American citizen was the Nation’s soldier and that the late w'ar had totally annihilated all sectional lines. Senator Drummond, who followed, was at his best, and his words made a profound impression on all who heard him. Said he: “ ‘They shall awake again in the presence of a living God,’ are the. words, that come to the mother or wife w r ho gives son or husband to the horrors of war. War is horrible, but horrors heroes are made. Titan heroes seem to spring from the head of the war god and live forever. Our history has not been just to the common soldier, but let us be so. It was the boy who left his home in sunny France and died and froze on the steppes of Russia who matte Napoleon, and the boy who left his home and occupation of peace, to die and be buried on every hilltop of the South, who made Grant and Lee, and the men who fought in the fireroom and gunroom of the battle ships made the unknown Dewey and the unheard-of Schley the Dewey and Schley of modern history. The Red Cross flag of mercy should never be hauled down to give way to one of greed and avarice. We heard the cry of a people in the clutches of a panther. We have answered that call, and I hope I can do justice to the names just read of the dead, who cannot be here themselves." At the conclusion of Senator Drummond's address “America” w r as sung by the quartet, after which Rev. A. J. Graham closed the service with a benediction. Senator Ball suggested that it w-ould lie proper not to disturb the soimenity of the occasion by the transaction of business, and the'Senate adjourned until this morning. THE LIST OF THE DEAD. During the progress of the meeting the reading clerk read the names of the dead Indiana soldiers, as reported to the adjutant general's office, as follows; Officers.— Second Lieutenant W. W. Kerr, Company B. J.yTth Regiment. First Lieutenant Charles Slade, Company C, 157th Regiment. First Lieutenant Charles D. 'McCoy, Company A, 159th Regiment. —Noncommissioned Officers.— Sergeant Arthur Jones, Company E, 157th Regiment. Sergeant Silas E. Sapp, Company H, 160th Regiment. Corporal Robert Darling, Company E, 157th Regiment. Corporal Judson Alton, Company A, 159th Regiment. Corporal Earl Fiske, Company I. 159th Regiment. Corporal Victor Roseberg. Company A. 158th Regiment. Artificer William B. Robinson, Company K, 159th Reg ment. —Privates.— Allenbach. Henry S.. Company K, 100th Regiment. Allis, Newton D., Company B, 158th Regiment . Andrews, Nalzo, Company I. 160th Regiment. Archer. Frederick. Company G, 157th Regiment. Baker, Frederick, Company G, 160th Regiment. Beaber. William. Company G, 157th Regiment. Boomershine, James, Uompany C, 157th Regiment. Boothroyd, lawvls. band. 158th Regiment. Brown, Denver. Company F. 161st Regiment. Britton. Benjamin F. Company M, 158th Regiment. Butler. George P. Company G. 157th Regiment. Calllson, t’aton. Charles, Company B. 159th Regiment. Everett, Wiliam, Company A. 159th Regiment. Haupert. Christian P., Company I>, 157th Regiment. Herring, HaYry W„ Company F, 157th Regiment. Hinds. Richard, Company C. 159th Kliment.

Jennings, Ashley J., Company C. 15Sth Regiment. Kinney, Frederick, Company B, 157th Regiment. Reiter, Charles E.. Company L. 181st Regiment. Lovell. Clifton M., Company B, 157th Regiment. Lucas, Converse, Company F, 180th Regiment. Luse, Warren S., Company H, 157th Regiment. McMullen, Harry A., Company I), 158th Regiment. Mitchell, Harry. Company M. 158th Regiment. Moon. John A.. Company L. 158th Regiment. Motherwell. Michael. 28th Light Battery. Olney. Frank L., Company M, 159th Regiment. Overly, Macy. Company D. 157th Regiment. Ferkins. Harry 0., Company F, 157th Regiment. Perkins. Lafayette 8., Company B, 157th Regiment. Perry, Charles, Company C, 157th Regiment. Rosehrough, Frank, Company K. 180th Regiment. Simon, Charles, Company C, 157th Regiment. Snyder, James F., Company L, 159th Regiment. Snyder, William, Company B, 157th Regiment. Stultz. Sherman, Company B, 159th Regiment. Stevens, Ira S., Company B, 15Sth Regiment. Sweeten, Charles S., Company 51, 159th Regiment. Vauter, George, Company I, 160th Regiment. Wiley. Clarence, Company D, 158th Regiment. Wynn. Oscar. Company L, 180th Regiment. Making a total loss, so far as reported, of fifty-two officers and men, and divided as follows: Officers. Men. 157th Regiment, Ind. Vols 2 17 Ifßth Regiment, Ind. Vols 10 159th Regiment. Ind. Vols J. 10 160th Regiment, Ind. Vols 8 161st Regiment. Ind. Vols 2 28th Light Battery. Ind. Vols 1 14th U. S. Vol. Signal Corps, Ind, Vols 1 Totals 3 49 It is understood that the 160th and 161st Regiments have lost a number of men, hut as they are out of the country reports cannot be had from them. SEAATE HOI TINE. Many Now Kills Introduced and Referred—Passed on Third Reading;. The morning session of the Senate was crammed full of business and nothing sensational was done by any one. The following new bills were introduced and referred: No. 271. By Senator Agnew: Providing for the formation of drainage districts to reclaim swamp lands; swamp lands and drains. . No. 272. By Senator Agnew: Making the issuance of special rate policies by life insurance companies illegal and rendering such policies void; insurance. No. 273. By Senator Binkley: To amend the tax laws so as to allow county assessors to be re-elected during a period of twelve years following the end of their term of office and authorizing assessors to go into other counties at the instance of the County Commissioners, to search out sequestered property for taxation; judiciary. No. 274. By Senator Burns: Increasing the salaries of judges in circuits where the dockets are heavy; judiciary. No. 275. By Senator Culbert: Amending the law governing children's guardians; judiciary. No. 276. By Senator Early (by request): Repealing the law requiring the recording of mortgages within forty-five days of their drafting: judiciary. No. 277. By Senator Early: Compelling property owners to keep clear of obstructions such water courses as run through their property: judiciary. No. 278. By Senator Goodwine: Providing tor the care of partition fences; judiciary. No. 279. By Senator Jlubbell: Allowing the attorney general to bring- suit in the name of the State, without giving bond; judiciary. No. 280. By Senator Horner: Providing for the honorable burial, by the State, of any Union soldier who may hereafter die in want; military affairs. No. 281. By Senator Hubbell: Giving the power of discretion to the courts, in allowing administrators to serve without bond, when the provisions of a will require such action. The present law requires the filing of a bond by the administrator, regardless of the wishes of the maker of the will; judiciary. No. 282. By Senator Keyes: Regulating the publication of sheriffs’ notices of the sale of real estate, belonging to nonresidents; judiciary. No. 283. By Senator Leich: Appropriating SIOO,OOO with which to complete the soldiers' and sailors’ monument; monument. No. 284. By Senator Newby: Legalizing the Spiceland Cemetery Association; judiciary. No. 285. By Senator Newby: Fixing the salary of the steward of the Soialers’ Orphans’ Home at Knightstown; benevolent institutions. No. 286. By Senator New r by: Repealing the law' allowing a taxpayer to offset his credits on the tax duplicate by the amount of his debts: judiciary. No. 287. By Senator Stillwell: To enable towns to purchase municipal electric lightplants; cities and towns. No. 288. By Senator O’Connor: To settle the courthouse war in Newton countv by allowing a 65 per cent, vote of the people to settle tHe location of the county seat, instead of as at present requiring 75 per cent, and providing tHat in case it is impossible to settle the matter by vote, it shall be the duty of the County Commissioners to build a jaew courthouse in Kentland, the present County seat; judiciary. No. 289. By Senator Winfield: Making it possible, where the parents of a child are separated for any reason, for the one having custody of the child to give legal consent to its adoption by other parties. The present law requires the consent of both parents, which in many cases it is impossible to secure; judiciary. - No. 290. By Senator Hugg: Granting constabulary powers to the custodian and engineer of the Statehouse and their deputies in order to exclude undesirable people from the chambers of the General Assembly, as a measure to guard against the spread of smallpox. Passed on a suspension of the rules. NATIONAL GUARD MEASURE. No. 291. By Senator Gilbert: Providing for the reorganization of the national guard; increasing the appropriation from $4.),€00 to $100,000; providing for the payment of a stipulated sum to each man and officer, ranging from 25 cents to sl, as a compensation for each night's attendance at drills; providing for fines of 50 cents lor each unexcused absence from drills, such fines to be deducted from the amount due each soldier at the end of each year; military affairs. No. 292. By Senator Gilbert: Dividing the State into regimental districts for national guard purposes, the First Regiment to be drawn from the First, Second, Third and Fourth congressional districts; the Second from the Fifth, Seventh and Ninth districtsthe Third from the Tenth. Twelfth and Thirteenth districts, and the Fourth from the Sixth, Eighth and Eleventh districts; military affairs. No. 293. By Senator Gilbert: Appropriating sufficient money to reimburse the officers and privates of the Spanish war regiments from this State for the money deducted from their pay for uniforms ‘furnished by the State: military affairs. No. 294. By Senator Johnson, of Madison: Providing for an increase in the compensation of the officers of Madison countv; county and township business. No. 295. By Senator Purcell: To prohibit the issuing of ’’trading stamps” bv merchants; judiciary. No. 296. By Senator Gw-in: Making it unlawful for any county official, other than the treasurer, to receive any public moneys turned in for taxes; judiciary. The purpose of the bill is to protect people who have been in the habit of paying money to any county officer who happened to be handy. Recently the auditor of one of the southern counties of the State received several sums of money from taxpayers with the understanding: that he should turn it over to the treasurer. He defaulted shortly afterward and the taxpayers who paid him the money in good faith are still charged with the amount on the tax duplicate. No. 297. By Senator Gilbert: Amending the fee and salary law so as to allow sheriffs proper pay for taking prisoners to the penal institutions of the State and insane and feeble-minded people to benevolent institutions; fees and salaries. No. 298. By Senator Gili: Amending the tax laws so as to compel all those holding notes, bonds, mortgages or other evidences of indebtedness to show them to the assessors for taxation, and making the collection of money on them impossible if they are withheld from inspection: county and township business. BILLS PASSED. The following bills were passed to third reading: N<4. 91. By Senator Shea: To bring the express companies operating in the State under the provisions of the common carrier law. Senator Hawkins secured the- adoption of an amendment, striking out the section making it possible to levy an execution on the property of any member ot the corporation and restricted such executions to the property of the corporation. Senator Shea amended the bill so as to make only the president or general manager responsible for any violations of the law-. No. 12. By Senator Nusbuum: To protect the nursery stock of the State against the ravages of the San Jose scale.y Senator

Patton made a w-efik attempt to have the emergency clause striken out so as not to interfere with the delivery of spring orders by nurserymen, but it was not adopted. Engrossed joint resolution No. 5 by Senator Early: Giving the General Assembly the righ: to determine the qualification necessary to practice law. No. 138. By Senator Gilbert: For the protection of fish and the prevention of the pollution of streams. No. 120. By Senator New: Regulating the administration of county poor asylums. As anticipated the committee on public buildings and libraries reported a substitute bill for those introduced by the Union of Literary Clubs and the State Library Association. Both of the organizations expressed themselves as satisfied with it. During the reading of the report Senator Hawkins made a motion to request the committee to present a bill authorizing the purchase of a modern passenger elevator for the capitol. It was concurred in. The committee on banks will report favorably on bill No. 239, requiring all private banks to make reports concerning their condition to the state auditor, the same as is done by state banks. Fight Over Natural Gas. There is every indication that a tight will be made in the Legislature over the natural gas of the State. A citizen of this city who returned from New York yesterday announced that all the gas companies of this State and Ohio had combined in a pool to secure two things which are regarded as essential to their well being. The first fight will be brought by the local consolidated companies against the Indiana and Ohio Pipe Line Company. This fight will he, primarily, the work of the Manufacturers’ Assoication of this State, which is up in arms against the pipe line companies because of their pumping immense quantities of gas out of the State into Ohio and Illinois. It is claimed that the gas is being dragged from the manufacturing companies, which have located in this State on account of the gas, and sent out to supply nonresidents of the State, with the result that the people of the State are in want of the fuel produced in plenty within their own State. In allying themselves with the manufacterers, the gas companies will incidentally attempt to work in some legislation requiring the use of meters, fn this way, if the legislation passes, both parties to the action will benefit, but nowhere in the plan has any evidence been found which would lead to the belief that the people will benefit by it, whichever way it goes.

LARGE BUSINESS TRANSFER. U. I’. Erwin *V Cos. Sell Out to Huver.itGeiltles Company, of Terre Haute. A transfer of the business of D. P. Erwin & Cos., jobbers and importers of dry goods, has been made to the Havens & Geddes Company, of Terre Haute. The new company will take possession Wednesday. It is understood that the consideration is about $400,000, but because an inventory of the Erwin & Co.'s stock has not been completed, it is not yet possible to name the exact amount of the purchase price. Mr. Erwin said, yesterday, that the reason for the sale was that he wanted to retire from the control of a great dry goods business, with its arduous details, and devote his time to his other interests. In a few days after the deal has been completed, Mr. Erwin and his family will make a trip to Europe, as lias been their custom for several years. Mr. Erwin will be a stockholder in the new company and will be one of its officers, probably vice president. Alvin S. Loekard, another member of the Erwin Company, will also probably remain in the new company. The other member of the old company is Charles S. Erwin, of New York. The Havens & Geddes Company is composed .of Elisha Havens and Robert Geddes, of Terre Haute. The big fire at Terre Haute destroyed the wholesale and department store of the Havens & Geddes Company. The company had wished to establish itself in this city and an agreement was, therefore, easily reached with the Erwin Company. Mr. Erwin will build on the site of the Havens & Geddes Company building, the property being included in the purchase price. The Havens & Geddes Company will bring to this city its plant for the manufacture of cheap clothing, which employs about 150 persons. The company’s territory extended as far west as lowa and Missouri, and the Erwin Company sells to merchants in the States adjacent to, and including, Indiana. The, combination will require an increased force of employes. The Havens & Geddes Company’s traveling men will probably be retained and added to the Erwin Company’s force. They may, however, continue living at Terre Haute. The office force of the Terre Haute company will be hroiiglit to this city. The new company will lease from an insurance company, which owns the property occupied by the Erwin Company on the Meridian-street side, and from Mr. Erwin, who owns the McCrsa-street side. The history of the business of D. P. Erwin & Cos. is almost the whole history of the wholesale dry goods business of Indianapolis. It was started by Webb, Kennedy & Cos., in 1859. Mr. Erwin came here and, in 1880, organized the firm of Johnson & Erwin. Previous to his coming here he had been a member if the firm of Loekard, Ireland & Cos., of Cincinnati. The firm of D. P. Erwin & Cos. v r as created in 1884. Three years later a widespread fire destroyed the building of D. P. Erwin & Cos. In a few days Mr. Frwin had bought in the business of Byram, Cornelius & Cos., and tn 5890 the company moved into its present house. Nos. 106 to 114 South Meridian street. Since then the business of Erwin. Daisy & Cos., of Cincinnati, has been combined with the Indianapolis concern. j AT JAIL AND WORKHOUSE. Physicians Have Ilcen Busy Vaccinating Prisoners. The vaccination of prisoners at the county jail was begun yesterday, under the supervision of Dr. Ridpath. Seventeen prisoners bared their ams to the needles and virus yesterday, and the work of vaccinating will be completed to-Clay. Ihere are sixty prisoners fn jail at present, and none has raised a complaint against the operation. Those who have scars indicating recent and successful vaccination will be passed for the present if they do not desire to be revacclnated, but should smallpox continue to spread all will be vaccinated, regardless of these evidences. The quarantine against visitors established over the jail several days ago by Dr. Ridpath will not be removed, even when all are vaccinated. The prisoners at the workhouse have all been vaccinated, the work having been completed on Sunday. One hundred and sixtyone men and twenty-one women were vaccinated. Dr. F. H, Moore vaccinated the men and Dr. Haslet the women. There was no protest from the prisoners, all “taking their medicine” without flinching. Visiting days have been suspended at the workhouse during the prevalence of the disease in the city. ___ Police Court Cases. W. Rodney King, who stabbed Abraham Turpie, in the rear of the Normandie Case, Sunday night, appeared in Police Court yesterday morning to answer a charge of assault with intent to kill. His case was continued until Feb. 3. Turpie is still in a critical condition. Willie Porter was sent to the workhouse from Police Court, the charge of petit larceny being brought against him. Sentence was withheld in the case of William Jackson, charged witu assault and battery. The case of Charles Harmoning, charged with assault and battery on his wife, was carried over until Feb. 2. Ella Fierce, charged with having attempted an assault with a deadly weapon, was sent to the workhouse. Mamie Carter, charged with profanity, was sent to the workhouse. She completed a six months' sentence Sunday morning, a few hours before she became involved in trouble again. V Good Citizen*’ Convention. The convention which has been called by the Indiana Anti-saloon league will hold its first session this evening in Plymouth Church at 7: o’clock: The convention will be opened by devotional exercises led by Rev. C. W. Tinsley, 1.-D. A quartet composed of Miss Edith Darnell, Miss Gertrude Barber, Mr. Walter Robinson and Mr. C. Scott Walker will render the songs entitled "Has Father been Here?” and "Wine is a Mocker.” President G. S. Burroughs, D. D., will discuss the subject "Our Colleges and Saloons ” The subject “The Pastor and the Needs of the Hour” will be presented by Hon. Z. T. Sweeney, D. D. There are ocher important and interesting phases of tne programme this evening, and all order-lov-ing people are invited to be present. The sessions to-morrow morning and afternoon will be held In Plymouth Chureh, and the evening aession will be held in the Capitol, legislative hall, as previously announced.

A PRETTY RECEPTION GIVEN AT THE DENISON HOI SE BY THE COLUMBIA CLUB LAST NIGHT. ♦ Senator Beveridge and Mlnlnter Harrl* Guest* of Honor—A Brilliant Gathering;—The Speaker*. The Columbia Club was the host and Senator Beveridge and Minister to AustriaHungary Addison C. Harris were the guests of honor at a reception given last evening at the Denison Hotel. That hundreds were anxious to meet Mr. Beveridge and Mr. Harris was testified to by tho double row of ladies and gentlemen who formed in line in the north parlor and wound in serpentina fashion through that i;oom and the corridor and passed down the reception line in tho middle parlor. The introductions were made by Attorney General W. L. Taylor, Speaker Littleton and Mr. Larz Whitcomb, and the guests were presented to Senator and Mrs. Beveridge, then to Mr. Harris, Governor and Airs. Mount, Lieutenant Governor and Mrs. Haggard, Representative and Mrs. Francis T. Roots and Senator and Mrs. Newby. The ladlet were handsomely costumed. Mrs. Beveridge wore a gown of white organdie, with insertions of Valenciennes lace, made with deep Vandyke points, and a white pompom in her hair. She carried a large cluster of scarlet carnations. Mrs. Haggard wore a gown of ciel-blue brocade with duchesse lace. Mrs. Mount had on a striped moire of a delicate brown tint. Mrs. Roots wore an embroidered flowered organdie over American Beauty silk, the low corsage being made almost entirely of a duchesse point-lace pattern, and she wore pearl jewels. Mrs. Newby wore a black silk combined with white satin. The room in which the party received was draped with large American flags, and tall palms wore effectively placed. There were flowers, palms and flags in the other rooms, through which the guests passed, arfd then they met in the spacious corridor, which for a time was crowded. When the doors into the large dining room were opened the company found its way there and the chairs, in row after row, were soon filled. The gowns worn by the guests were handsome. Many ladies were in full evening dress, and others wore reception gowns and picture hats. Dr. Franklin W. Hays, president ol' the Columbia Club, was ready to do the honors, and escorted the receiving party into the dining room as tho orchestra played “The Stars and Stripes.” Among the members and friends of the club who assisted in the entertainment were Admiral George Brown, Mr. John C. New, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Morrison, Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Adams, Major and Mrs. W. J. Richards, Mr. C. E. Coffin. Mr. and Mrs. Noble C. Butler. Mr. and Mrs. Caleb S. Denny. Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Kenyon, Mr. and Mrs. V. T. Maloti, Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Parry. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Holliday, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick A. Joss, Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Hawkins, Mr. and Mrs. John S. Lazarus. Colonel tuid Mrs. I. N. Walker, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Dcfrees, Mr. and Mrs. Major Taylor, Mr. Russel M. Seeds, Mr. and Mrs. David Wallace, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Bliss, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Wasson. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Young, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Baker. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Daniels, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Foster, Judge and Mrs. Eugene Bundy of Newcastle, Judge and Mrs. William llenly of Rushville. Senator and Mrs. Hogate of Danville, Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. King of Wabash and Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Lathrop of Greencastle. Punch was served throughout the evening from huge bowls in the ordinary. Tho wide halls seemed to be the center of the gathering, which included many of the senators and representatives and their wives, and prominent citizens and their wives, with numerous young people. Invitations had been extended to the members of the Columbia, University and Marion clubs and many society people, and it was a representative gathering which braved the cold to do honor to the citizens, one of whom will serve the State of Indiana in the Senate and the other to serve the country at a foreign court. The adornment in the dining room was flags and palms, placed in front of the great mirrors at the east end of the room, and before this the speakers of the evening were seated. PRESIDENT HAYS’S REMARKS. Dr. Hays spoke briefly in opening the formal proceedings of the evening, spe?i.king of Indiana’s fortune in having two si.ch voices speaking for her, one to speak to the nations of Europe and the other in the Senate. This he regarded as more than good fortune for the State. He gracefully introduced Governor Mount, the first speaker of the evening. Governor Mount talked of “Our Commonwealth.” “We tire proud of Indiana,” said he, “for the things she has achieved and the place she has acquired befoYe the States of the Union. We are proud of what our literary men have achieved. We point with pride to a Thompson, a Wallace, a Major and our own eminent Riley. Indiana has reason to be proud. You can scarcely imagine what influence Indiana has exerted. She is In the front rank of progress in all directions. There are no extremes of wealth and poverty. We have conditions of strongest union and fellowship and tending to develop the highest types. Indiana is proud of her representatives in the United States Senate. She is proud of Morten, Hendricks and Harrison and of him who so lately has been chosen to represent, her. Let us then each feel that wise pride that will help hint to succeed in his desire for the welfare of his State.” , "Indianapolis as a power in the State and Nation,” was the subject from which John W Kern managed to create a good deal of amused applause, as he paid the tribute of the Democratic party to the distinguished guests of the evening. “Death comes so frequently,” he said, “and of late years so regularly to my party that its pangs are overlooked in the joy attending the prompt and speedy resurrection—eMents which have never yet failed us. | laughter.] I stand here to-night a living monument to tho humane impulses of a generous foe. Ordinarily the defeated party is not accorded a hearing at post-election festivities. 1 want to express gratitude that my friends of the majority, even in the hour of triumph, are not so cruel as to pronounce the doom of silence upon a stricken adversary. [Laughter.! “Seriously speaking, I think we people of Indiana are to be congratulated that party politics has lost much df the sting and bitterness which in former years destroyed personal friendship, and. in some cases, played havoc with the peace of neighborhoods. Political contests are no less serious and earnest than in former years, yet l believe you will agree with me in the assertion that on both sides we have grown broader and more tolerant of each other, until most of us can conscientiously admit that, regardless of party lines and creeds, we are a patriotic people, differing as to details and methods, but in our devotion to a common country and in ou- love for its grand old starry emblem, we are as Indivisible as the sea. With so many things in common, with an agreement as to all essential things ultlmat", it is not strange that as the years go by we are able to emerge from heated political contests, carrying with us, either in victory or defeat, none of those feelings of enmity or estrangement always so hateful to all good men. “However widely we may disagree on many Questions, we agree in this: that l like, and you like, an honest and manly political antagonist—one whom you always know where to find—one who tights in the daylight, who In the open gives blow for blow, who is never better nor worse than his party, who ’never sulks nor chews the rag,’ and concerning whom there is never anv occasion for guessing in any campaign. This is the man I like to tight In politics, and this the man whose hand I can grasp the day after the election with the same loyal friendship that I bear toward the man who has fought in [be ranks by my side. 1 believe the hope of America is not in the trimmers, the skulkers. nor in ary uncertain eUment, but in the brave, sturdy, loyal men of either side who in even campaign wage honest and fearless battle for the principles of their respective parties. “At this juncture, when the time allotted me has about expired, 1 am reminded that the subject assigned mo is ‘lndianapolls as a Power in State and Nation.' It is unnecessary iff this presence that I do more than state the subject. Indianapolis furnished to this Nation a President of whose high character, great ability ami wise an 1 patriotic administration every citizen of this city and State is justly proud. Those Intellectual giants and leaders. Oliver P. Morton, Thomas A. Hendricks. Joseph E. McDonald. Benjamin Harrison and David Turpie were sent to the United States Senate from their homes in tho city of Indianapolis. The successor of the great Voorhees lion. (Continued on Eiuhth I‘hrc.)