Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 104, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 April 1899 — Page 2

TOE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1899.

rights and political status of the native Inhabitants therein ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress. The discretion and decision are legislative, and not executive. The Iresident's war power, growing out of the war with Spain, is at an end. If he does not assemble Congress to do what the treaty ordained, and the public welfare shall thereby suffer, the responsibility wi!I be his. "L'TJallty of rights and duties were ever his Jefferson's theme. The Democratic party has no reason for existence if it does r.ct always and unitedly strive for such equality, of which the essence is freedom from restraints ami burdens unequal because not imposed on every one under like conditions. That Democratic rule, fearlessly applied In each State, may solve the present problem of trusts and spoliation by unjustified taxation. a'.I agree that the Democratic party sliould have for its corner-stone the dnctrirts indicated by Jefferson. One wis "The tupremacy of the civil over the military authority.' but that does not require a national Democratic convention to prescribe to Congress the size of a standing army. Another was 'Honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none. but that would not Justify a national Democratic convention In dictating to a Democratic Ireldent the detail of his diplomacy to preserve such friendship and avoid such alliances. A third was 'Honest payment of our debt., sacred preservation of tne public ftth. encouragement of agriculture and commerce.' but that does not compel a Democratic national convention to endeavor o prevent Democrats in any congressional rti:-trict from expressing their preference reHarding the details which will best enforce the doctrine. "There was a glory reserved for him which no other President nas had. For more than thirty years the executive department at "Wasr.inpton was. with the exception of four years under John Quiney Adams, ht!d by the Democratic followers of Jefferson. "We should take into account the exceptions! popularity of his pacific and debtpaylrg policy among the voters who, at Jefferson' second election, gave him fifteen out of seventeen of the States and all excepting fourteen of the 170 electors. When be hal Insisted upon retirement to private life at the close of his second term the voters elected as his successor Madison his secretary of state, by twelve out of seventeen of the States and 122 out of the 17G electors. Some would have had Jefferson urge upon a people, largely agricultural, the buiiulng of a large navy, the creation of a great standing army and a huge national debt, and in his second term would have had him plunge the country into war with England, or France, instead of trying embargo and nonlntercourse, yet can we wonder that he preferred a policy preferred by the voters because of their desire to cultivate Icaco? "It will be said that Jefferson was a man of peace. So was the Democracy he founded a party of peace, excepting when war becomes necessary, as it did a year ago. Then Democrats In Congress and in the field upheld the flag of our country with their otts and with their lives. "I'eace, small expenditures and low taxation were no doubt a passion with Jefferson, but hi diplomatic notes as secretary of state, displaying the wonl as a reluctant agent of peace, are a proud possession of his country because they brought out of darkness the rainbow of hope. The hope of our country to-day is in the party whose fundamental principles were established under the wLse and conservative guidance of Jefferson." AuKutu Vnn AVyck's Address. Mr. Uelniont Introduced Augustus Van Wyck by referring to the lattcr's canvass for Governor. He said Justice Van Wyck had conducted a campaign with honor to himself and credit to the Democracy. Justice Van Wyck was greeted with great applause. He said: "Commerce, one of the civillzers of the world, is a necessary element in the preservation of the prosperity and the happiness f our country. It must be fostered first by the freest competition between our own people in all home enterprises, securing for them untrammeled business intercourse and enlarged opportunities for individual advancement. .nd, second, by the freest competition between the internal freight lines from and to the seaboard, securing the lowest practical freight rates to the ocean for all kinds of products. 1 venture to affirm, however, that something remains to be desired in th.e two particulars. I mean in respect to Just laws and the spur to free competition. The laws are not Just which burden the many to the end that favorites may grow fat, as in the case under our socalled protective tariff; and when monopolies are suffered to lay their hands on the throat of individual enterprise the spur of Xree competition is blunted if not destroyed. "We have seen in thetie more recent days a disposition evinced in certain quarters to dismiss the Declaration of Independence us no longer applicable in its leading principle to the conditions of moelern society. In putting themselves in this attitude toward the basic doctrines of the Republic the supporters of a tariff for the enrichment of the few and trust for the killing of equal opportunity are not open to a charge of inconsistency. It Is the foulest mockery of reason to profess in one breath devotion to the doctrine of the equality of ail men before the law of the land and in the next to applaud a tariff system which squeezes the blood out of the average man for the fattening of select individuals who have mastered the art of depraving all federal government and erecting a new feudalFORECAST FOR TO-DAY.

Fair and Colder Weather, vith Brisk Aorthvveat Winds. WASHINGTON. April 13, S p. m. Forecast for Iwenty-four hours: For Ohio Probably showers and cooler on Friday; high southerly, shifting to west winds; Saturday fair. For Indiana and Illinois Ff.tr and colder on Friday; brisk northwest winds; Saturday fair. Weather conditions and general forecast Since Wednesday night an area of low barometer has moved from Manitoba to upper Michigan, attended by local rains in the northern lake regions. Showers have also occurred in the States of the upper Missouri valley. Elsewhere fair weather has prevailed. The temperature has risen from the lake regions otr New York and New England and Is above the seasonal average except in the States of the upper Missouri valley, where a decided fall In temperature jias occurred since Wednesday night. During Friday the low-barometer area will move eastward, probably attended by showers and thunderstorms from the lower lake region over the middle Atlantic and New England States. A marked fall in temperature will occur in the lower Missouri and upper Mississippi and Ohio valleys. Saturday promises to be fair and cooler in the middle Atlantic and New England States. Along the Atlantic coast the winds will be southerly and probably will become high from Virginia northward. , The following changes In the Mississippi river (In feet and tenths) have occurred: Above the tlanger line and falling Memphis, 2.2; Helena, L0. Above the danger line and rising-Greenville, 2.6; Vicksburg. 1.9; New Orleans. o.5. A further rise of about 0.1 foot per day is indicated from Vicksburg fcouthward during the next day or two. Local Observation on Thursday." Har. Ther. It. H. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7 am. f2 South. Clear. 0.00 7 p.m. T3 73 74 South. I't. cl'dj. 0.00 Maximum temperature. 0; minimum temperature. 5?. Omparatlve ftatement cf temperature and precipitation cn April 13: Temp. Pre. Normal 5", .12 Slean tf . Ipartur from normal H .12 ivparture since A i rtl 1 S2 1.27 Utparture ince Jan. 1 404 1.C5 Flu. F. R. WAITE.NHANS, Local Forecast OKlciaL

Yenlfnlay'n Temperatures. Stations. Mln. Max. 7 p.m. Atlanta. Ga S 73 72 liifrnarck. N. D 43 M 33 UufTalo. N. T 38 C2 6) lxary. Alberta. H 44 3i Cairo. Ill 60 7 72 Cheyenne. Wjo 42 U H CMcairo. Ill U SO 73 Cincinnati. O (4 K 74 tVnccrdla, Kan 2 IS 64 ae.ii"rt. la 60 7S 72 1 Main-. Ia 6-) 74 62 (ialveston. Tex M 70 6 Helena. Mont 4 40 Jacksonville. Fla IA M 72 Kar?a City. M fO M 72 little r.k. Ark 62 74 74 Marcjutte, Mich 40 64 4S Mt-mph!. Trnn 63 il 72 Nashville. Tenn tA 74 7 Nir Orlenn. La 62 7 70 New York 41 C (3 Oklahoma. O. T 63 2 'i Omaha, Net) l 72 I ritteburs. Ta 44 fO 74 Qn' Anne. Arfln 24 32 ' SH JtapM City. rt. I 3a 44 41 Fait Uikr City, Utau 44 li 12 r"t. Iuls. Mo l) 10 74 Ft. Paul. Minn 12 70 C2 FprlncneM. HI FS 0 7 hprtnxneid. Mo $9 75 7; M- )cburif. Min 61 76 JVatlflaicn, 1. C 44 IW ' St)

Ism which purposes to subdivide the land Into plutocratic dukedoms. A SOURCE OF MONOPOLY. "In respect to these matters citizens who think as the founders of the Republic did take their stand firmly on the ground that equal before the law means equality of industrial opportunity In so far as the action of the government Is involved. The tariff has been one prolific source of monopoly and the monstrous misuse of the franchise-giving power another. Our Iron, steel, coal and sugar trusts may be taken as examples of what the tariff has brought to pass, while in the consolidation of our railroads, gas companies, electric light companies we have illustrations of what has been and Is being accomplished under the legislative power to bestow valuable public rights upon private corporations. Into the details of our existing tariff I shall not enter at present, but I shall challenge any of its supporters to name a single considerable branch of industry over which its socalled protection ha been extended which is not now controlled by a confederacy of conspirators against competition. The infant industries have become giants who have taken it upon themselves to rule for their own ends the nation which nourished them under the impression that when matured they would be the best of servants and the very pillars of economic liberty. That the Democratic party must address Itself to the correction of these far-reaching evils if it is to hold the allegiance of the Democratic masses Is not doubtful. The cause of tariff . reform was never more urgent than it is to-day. and never before was It less disputable than at this hour that no real relief can be looked for at the hands of the Republican party. "Concerning trusts in general I find somo information in a recent number of the Journal of Commerce of this city hat sterns to me to be worthy of the widest publicity. After showing that the number of these great combinations had increased in the past twelve months from 2i) to 3T3. the

writer or the article proceeds as follows: 'It will be seen that, at the end of February.

$3.llS.5flO,0Ui) of capital stock ari I714.2S9.00O of bond obligation. These figures show an increase over those we published a year aro of 76 per cent, in the number of .institutions and fio per cent, in the combined stock and bonded debt, which indicates the extraordinary rapidity with which the movement has spread within the last twelve months. What proportion of the entire manufacture of the United States has passed in this new form of organization may be Inferred from the fact that the census of 1S90 values the entire capital then employed in the manufacturing and mechanical industries at K525.0no.000, which includes all the minor or retail work done by small individual proprietors. This means that the total capitalization of these combinations is equal to 90 per cent, of the entire manufacturing Investment of 1SJO.' FRAUGHT WITH MENACE. "And to the people who have not followed the record from month to month, and practically from day to day, of the industrial evolution here Indicated, It may well seem Incredible that a change fo fraught with menace to the welfare of the country, and the preservation of our liberties and to the dignity of American labor, has been accomplished. Not only is it, as the writer further, whom I have just quoted, says, .a reversal of all that economists have expected as fundamental axioms of trade but It strikes, as with the dagger of an assassin, at the very heart of that individual enterprise which, next to love of libertv for its own sake, is the energizing force of American Institutions. "If the process of consolidating under the control of a single individual, natural or artificial, of the various branches of the business of a kindred nature continues in the same ratio as here indicated, it will be but a short time when rive or six hundred corporate entities will control the entire manufacturing and mechanical industries of this country, in number many times fewer than those engaged in similar business on their own account when this country had a population of about three and one-half millions and was strugKllnsr against tho mother country for political, commercial t-e .o t-uimuria nons nan issuer a lorni or land business independence. Such a condi tion might well suggest some sense of alarm to the thoughtful patriot when it is considered that substantially seventy millions of people will be excluded from participation upon their own account in these branches of Industry and are converted into a mass of employes without the inspiring hope of bettering their condition by mental and physical alertness. What individual not belonging to the class of multl-mllHonalres to-day would dare to engage on his own account in the establishment of a tobacco factory, or a baking powder company, or an oil refinery, for how well he would knowthat it would only require a moment's attention directed against him on the part of the trust in chartre of the line of business thus invaded by him to crush the very life out of hi9 enterprise. "Deprive the young mn from twentv-on to forty years of age of the opportunity of indulging in the reasonable hope that by due diligence they may attain individaul advancement by going into come line of business on their own account, and you will destroy the esprit de corps of the people of this country so essential to its continued progress, and In time paralysis will set in as it has done heretofore in the republics of the past, and it will be first felt by the impoverishment of labor and those of moderate circumstances, in the end destroying the forced customers of these Riant trusts, resulting incidentally in strangling the prosperity and happiness of a great people. "When we are Invited, gentlemen, to find reasons for the continued existence of the Democratic party we can, I am persuaded, accommodate the inquirer out of the easily verified body of facts here called attention to. I do not go so far as to say that there are no other questions of large significance to which the Democratic party In th'i national field ouaht to give its best thiught. There are olher questions, but if there be not in these (of the tariff and of the trusts, with their death to free competition and individual enterprise) ground enough for a successful appeal to an enlightened people, political experience in the United States Is much at fault." OPPOSES ALTJAKCE WITH BRITAIN. Judge Van Wyck took strong grounds against an alliance with Great Britain, basing his opposition principally on the fact that Britain is our principal competitor for the commerce of the world. In concluding he said: "Suffer me In bringing these remarks to a close to indulge the hoje that the Democratic party will act in its national councils vith a lively recollection of what is due to the commercial interests of our country that the resources of our soil may be brought more and more under the command of our people, that labor in every department may have an increasing and not a lessening reward, that our merchant Hag may be restored with honor not less illustrious than that which accompanies tlie standard of our fighting ships, that the inventive genius of the land shall be prolific of good to the millions and not merely to the millionaire, that the typical American, full of self-reliar.ee and scorning all governmental paternalism, shall assert himself, that the credit of the Nation shall be untarnished, and. as In the past, liberty and property shall be alike secure. It is indispensable that the commerce of our country be rooted, as it was. in justice, fanned by the winds of liberty, kept purged clean from the parasites of monopoly and watered continually by tne sweat of free individual enterprise and competition. I care not by which party the evils that I have suggested shall be remedied or prevented, I prefer that the party In power shall do so. because It would hasten the remedy for these growing evils, and an ounce of preventive is worth a pound of cure, but if the party in power fails to answer the call of the people In these respects, it will be but a little while when they will be replaced by the party whore history discloses that they have always been in nearer sj'mpathy and touch with the struggling masses. "A word to th'e Democracy and I have firIshed. Iet not the mere selfish thought of probable or possible party success absorb your time and thought. Instead of the desire to prevent evils that may threaten our country. Remember the grand mission under a representative form of government of the party in opposition is a noble and lofty on.'. The organized exercise of an Intelligent and eternal vigilance, the price not only of liberty, but good government. Let this function be performed Impassionately and faithfully for the purpose of watching over the acts of omission or commission of the party in power. If the evils become dangerous and oppressive, such as the habitual violation of the principle of home rule by the national or state government, fostering of trusts by the sale to them of the tariff-taxing power, or tne relief of th.-lr franchise values from fair contribution to the support of government, the destruction or impairment of our waterways at the Instance of railroads, the extravagant or corrupt waste of puolic funds, or incompetency and radicalism, thm the demand f.r change will be so lmpratlve that unity will rv-Un supreme among the rank and file of our party." At the conclusion of Justice Van Wyck's speech many persons left the hall. John R. Stanchtield, responding to "Thomas Jefferson." bad much difficulty in making himself heard. The hall was half emptied when Mr. StanchfieM finished his speech, but the noise had not diminished. Informal receptions la the boxes added not a little to tho

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general confusion and made the task of th speakers more difficult. Frederick C. Schraub, who spoke on "The State Democracy," was heard much better than any of the other speakers. There were scarcely four hundred diners in the hall when Mr. Schraub concluded his speech. Roosevelt on Harmony. Robert R. Roosevelt responded to the sentiment: "Harmony In the Democratic Party, North, South. Kast and West the Only Salvation of American Institutions." In the course of his address he said: "There never was a time when a great party so needed a great leader. It has been said that the man always arises to meet the occasion. Here Is the occasion; where is the man? Personally I have hoped that the young Lochiuvar would come out of the West, What are the essential principles which must govern him? Let us be careful to follow no false prophet, be led to no false shrine. He must revive and express the ideas of the fathers, the greatest of whom we he nor to-night. What are those ideas His w ords, standing out now as clear and bright as ever, will answer "Equal and exact Justice to all men." No unfair and pernicious combinations of capital that deprive some of their fair chance to get on in the world ard increase the cost of living to others. In determining what are unjust and dangerous combinations of capital there tre many and close distinctions to be drawn, but the general story is popularly expressed by oppositions to what aro known as "trusts," combinations which interfere with the ordinary laws of trade, which deprive many of an opportunity to do business on the line grasped by the monopoly, which destroy competition and consequently are opposed to "equal and exact Justice to all men." In condemning them, however, care must be taken not to attack beneficial organizations for the proper co-ope ration of men of moderate means, who by uniting their capital become the equals of the great capitalists and have many of their advantages. "I hold in my hands the announcement of what is called a bipr smelters' combination. I presume they would say 'A big combination of smelters,' for the object of this trust, as trust It clearly appears to be. is to raise the price of silver. Its modest initial purpose as announced in the prospectus is to increase this only 10 per cent., but if it successfully follows the example of its brother trusts it will not stop there, and wo may look forward to the glorious day when silver will once more be worth Its revered ratio of 16 to 1 of gold or may even surpass it. Then the crime of 73 may with jun retaliation be repeated on the yellow metal, and it in its turn may be branded with the disgrace of depreciated value. ThtLs through this trust may tho Democracy be once more united and its fundamental principle of honest money for honest men be reallirmed." Mr. Roosevelt was followed by Gen. Isaac Catlln, who spoke on "Democracy of. Brooklyn." Congressman Amos J. Cummins spoke on "The Army and Navy."

SINGLIS TAX CLUI1 DIXKR. Henry fJeorjro Apotheosized by Dr. Mc-fdjnn-Letter from Davltt. NEW YORK, April 13. The Manhattan Single-tax Club held its seventh annual dinner to-night at tho Marlborough Hotel. The attendance was large. Men and women were present in about equal proportions to do honor to Thomas Jefferson, ostensibly, but It appeared subsequently that a greater idol was "our contemporary Jefferson, Henry George," as Dr. McGlynn. the dead philosopher's friend, put it. A feature of the dinner was the democracy of dress that was observed. Tho men wore everything, from evening dress to plain gray business suits. The women were a unit in their avoidance of anything like evening dress. Much disappointment was caused by a telegram received from Tom L. Johnson, of Cleveland, expressing his regrets at not being ablo to be present. A letter was read from Michael Davitt, in Ireland, in which, after referring to the question of homo rule for Ireland, in tho sentiment "Ireland for the Irish and the land for the people," he said: "I sincerely hope that the members of your club who are rightly honoring the name and memory, and. above all, the principles of Thomas Jefferson, will not hesitate to proclaim America for the Americans, Cuba for the Cubans and the Philippines for their people. 'Jefferson's glorious and immortal principle uflirmed and declared that all governments derive their Just powers from the consent of the governed, and the Republic of the United States ought to be the last of civilized nations to adopt the unjust, aggressive imperialism which the fathers of its independence fought against and conquered under Washington." A letter was also read frcm A. Henin. a member of tho second chamber of Sweden. Henry George made the first speech and was followed by Dr. Edward McGlynn. When the exercises were practically concluded Frank Stephens, of Philadelphia, was called upon, and in reply Mr. Stevens made a bitter attack on the administration for its course In th Philippines. In this all present showed with the speaker and all applauded vigorously when he said, referring to our soldiers in the Philippines: "I pray that God of battles will send upon them swift and overwhelming defeat." TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. At the annual conference of ministers of the Swedish Kpiscopal Church of the United States, held in Chicago, a new ritual for Sunday schools was adopted. The bill to create a sinfrle-headed police commission in New York city has been defeated in the New York Senate in committee of the whole by a vote of 23 to 25. Governor Powers, of Maine, has issued the warrant for a special election, to be held on June 11. to choose a congressman from the Second district to succeed the lato Nelson Dingley. Will Tutt, colored, was hanged at Mayfield, Ky., yesterday. His crime was the murder of his wife. The particular provocation was that she went to a baseball game with another man. Hiram Hall was hanged at Crossville, Tenn.. yesterday, for murdering his young wife by pushing her Into a, well. On tho scaffold he said: "Don't kill anyone; don't drink: take warning by me. I'm going to heaven." Marble has been discovered on the lands of McGuKin & Co.. at Olive Ftirnace. O. There are two veins, one four feet thick and the other two feet. The marble has been analyzed and will hring in the markets W cents a cubic foot delivered. A meeting of steel range manufacturers at Cleveland, attended by delegates from Cleveland, Detroit, Toledo and Akron, O., yesterday decided, on account of increased cost of materials, to rigidly maintain tho recent advance of 10 to 15 per cent, in the price of ranges. Steps have been taken which will result In the formal dissolution of the Central Ohio Fuel Company on May 1. The reasons for the dissolution are said to be the change of scale and the new basis of wages for the ensuing year. The pool controlled the output of the Sunday creek valley in Ohio. Orders were received yesterday at the Springfield, Mass., armory from Washington, to discontinue the manufacture of the new army rifle sight, recently subjected to exacting tests at San Antonio, Tex., by a board of experts. One hundred men were discharged, no explanation of the order was given. ' The Arkansas Legislature yesterday not only refused to do as requested by a business men's convention, which condemned the anti-trust law, and appealed for more liberal insurance legislation, but passed a vote of condemnation on one of the members who had taken part in the proceedings of the convention. At San Dieco yesterday in a runaway accident, c-aused by the driver of a vehicle containing six men dropping one of the reins, nil were thrown violently to the street and John i. Shannon, of PittsburK. Pa., formerly United States district judge of Dakota, received injuries which it As feared will result fatally. Lieut. Collis G. Calkins has been appointed to till the office left vacant by Lieut. M. G. IIiiKhes. who was transferred from the San Francisco branch of the United States hydrographlc office to the Philadelphia, now at Samoa, to take tho place of Lieutenant Iansdale, who was killed in the battle with the Mataafans near Apia on April 1. Judge Thomas II. Peabody, of the Court of Criminal Correction, St. Louis, publishes a card denying that he rendered a decision justifying wife-beating or chastisement by a husband of a wife under certain circumstances. Judge Peabody adds that he has always severely punished wife-beaters and abusers of children arraigned before him. The committee of the National Educational Association, representing the colleges and secondary schools of America, from Cambridge to Berkeley, met in Chicago yesterday to discuss the question of collt-ge entrance requirements. jt. A. F. Nightingale, superintendent of the Chicago high schools, presided and President Harper, of the University of Chicago, delivered the address of welcome. Three sessions were held, but nothing was done except routine business of crganlaztion. Rentitirul Complexion hy Vulnpr Champltr.'s Liquid Pearl. BOc. pink or white. Delightful, marvelous reculu; unequaied.

CASE OF CAPT. CARTER

ITS PRESENT STATUS EXPLAINED BY ATTORNEY GENERAL GRIGGS. 15,000 Typewritten TaBen of Testimony nnd Over flOO Separate Exhibits to Re Reviewed. WASHINGTON, April 13. In answer to Inquiries made of the attorney general' today with reference to the case of O. M. Carter, captain of the corps of engineers. United States army, it was stated that as much progress as- was possible was being made with the consideration of the case. "It will be remembered," said the attorney general that Captain Carter was tried by courtmartial, convened at Savannah, in 1S98. and the findings of the court wete sent to the President for his review. This rendered U necessary for the President to acquaint himself with the facts in orde" to determine properly whether the findings of the court should be approved or not. The testimony taken covered fifteen thousand typewritten pages and over six hundred F' pa rate exhibits. It was manifestly Impossible for the President or any one else to read or understand this testimony, except by the expenditure of weeks of time. The numerous duties of the President made it Impossible for him to give personal consideration to the case and he, therefore, turned it over to the attorney general, with instructions to rsview the evidence and arguments for him. The attorney general has called on the counsel of Captain Carter for a brief, which was furnished to-day. He has sent a copy of it to Cel. Thomas F. Barr, tho judge advocate whr cenducted the case before the courtmartial for the government, with a request that he rile a reply. When that is received it is possible, though not yet definitely decided, that the attorney general may call upon counsel for Captain Carter and the Judge advocate to argue the case orally before him." The State Department to-day made publio the following message from President Loubet, of France, In reply to that sent yesterday by President McKInley: "I am deeply touched by the sentiments which your Excellency was pleased to express towards me on 'the occasion of the signing of the (ratifications of the treaty of) peace between the United States and (Spain and I heartily thank you therefor. I especially desire to assure your Excellency of the sincere desire of the government of the republic and its President constantly to draw closer the bonds of traditional friendship which have so long united the two great republics." The Postoffice Department, In furtherance of its plana in extending the service in Alaska, has arranged for communicatiQn between Unalaska and the mouth of the Nuahugak river, where salmon canneries are located. Three trips will be made by steamer during the summer. The distance is about 450 miles. When the United States government recently proposed a modus Vivendi on the Alaskan boundary to overcome the possibility of a lawless outbreak pending the final adjustment, the British authorities referred the proposition to the Canadian officials at Ottawa. The Ottawa government has responded with an acceptance of the general Idea of a modus vlvendl. although some changes in the original proposal are suggested. This must go to the British Foreign Office, after which. If approved in Ixndon. the response will be officially submitted here. Director of Census Merriam has requested senators and members In the various States to send in names of persons they want appointed supervisors of the census. It will be some time before the entire three hundred are selected and there are strong probabilities that when the list is completed recess appointments will be made by the President. Leave of absence for ten days has been granted Lieutenant Colonel Victor M. Backus, of the One-hundred-and-sixty-first Indiana Infantry. . Elmer F. Montgomery, of Indiana, has been appointed a messenger boy in the Pension Ottice, at ?1 per annum. The Iresident has directed the appointment of Wm. II. Robinson as first lieutenant and Joseph F. Jones as second lieutenant of the Ninth United States Volunteer Infantry (colored Immunes), now In Cuba. These officers are negroes, and are promoted In recognition of their merit and efficiency. The President to-day gave Mr. Charles Ayre Whipple, of New York, a sitting for a full length portrait of himself. The portrait is being painted in the private apartmeits of the White House. Mr. Whipole palmed the portraits of ex-Fresldcnt Harrison, General Miles and Secretaries Sherman, Herbert, Tracy and Elkins." Vice President Hobart was reported tonight to be improving, though he has not yet sufficiently recovered to leave his room. Representative Balrd, of Ijouisiana. showed no material change to-night and his death is hourly expected. Secretary Long has appointed the following-named volunteer officers of the marine corps as first lieutenants In the regular service, they having passed the entrance examinations successfully: Henry W. Carpenter. Randolph C. Rerkley, A. J. Adams, Charles O. Andresen, Charles Smith Hatch, J. Carson Breckinridge, Arthur T. Marix, Philip S. Brown, Harry Lee, Robert E. Carmody. W. C.Pearce, a miner of twenty-five years' experience, now secretary and treasurer of the United Mine Workers Association, was the only witness before the industrial commission to-day. Ten years' experience as an official of the association, he said, enabled him to declare that the organiaztion never attempted to force men, to strike. They influenced miners only through missionary work. Mr. Pearce criticised the use of screens in mining as causing considerable friction between men and operators. Ills organization favored conciliation and arbitration wherever possible and denounced the injunction as a breeder of violence and strike. Company's stores and company houses, he said, tended to prevent strikes, because they helped to make the miners dependant on the company. The tendency of wages was down and this decline was checked only partially by the efforts of labor organization. He thought there should be strenuous laws against the employment of child labor in mines. The eight-hour labor law was a great boon to the miners. In the four States Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania where it had been in force for a year, neither the operators nor the miners desired to return t6 the longer hours of labor. He did not think the immigration of English, French, German and the northern races of Europe generally was injurious. They believed in maintaining a high standard of living and morals. The immigration of Slavs. Poles. Hungarians. Italians and the southern races generally was detrimental. They were of a lower caliber mentally and morally .and did not assimilate readily. Colored miners received as much consideration as white men. The main difficulty about colored miners was that they were used, through their ignorance, he thought, to break strikes. Education, he added, would do more for the laborers of this country than trades unions. The reappointment of ex-Representative Ewart as judge of the Western district of North Carolina has been definitely decided on and official announcement of the appointment will be made soon. Mr. Ewart has been twice named for this office, but charges were made against him and the Senate failed to confirm him. The Interior Department has received a communication from an American firm, which has business in Germany, saying that American manufacturers run a great risk of having their machinery duplicated if introduced into Germany before it is patented in that country. A report from their manager in Germany states that machinery has been sold to residents of Germany, taken to the shops there, duplicated and the Imitations sold for a lower price than that asked for the original machine. Referring to the visit of the cruiser Detroit at Port LIrnon, Costa Rica, the Costa RIcan minister. Mr. Calve, atates that there Is absolutely.no foundation for the report that American or other business interests or residents from this country or elsewhere are in trouble there. The Detroit, he exp!pjn.. is going to Port Limon simply to take coal and communicate from ther with the United States representatives la Nicara

gua. In Ccsta Rica peace and quiet prevails throughout the country. A statement prepared in the office of the adjutant general shows that fourteen officers who entered the army at the beginning of the war of the rebellion and served throughout that struggle are still on the active list of the army, having served with credit through the Spanish war which has Just .closed, the period of serving during both wars, from April 11. 1S61, to April 11. being exactly thlrtj'-eight years. The list follows: Col. C. H. Alden, medical department; Col. A. E. Arnold. Eighth Cavalry; Col. R. T. Frank. First Artillery; Brig. Gen. A. B. Carey, paymaster general; Col. H. M. Robert, corps of engineers: Col. E. L. Guenther. Fourth Artillery; Col. J. M. Whlttemore. ordnance department; Col. A. T. Smith. Thirteenth Infantry: R. H. Hall, Fourth Infantry; Brig. Gen. J. M. Wilson, chief of engineers: Maj. Gen. Wesley Merritt; Col. A. C. M. Pennington, Second Artillery; Maj. John P. Baker, pay depart-

OBITUARY. F. II. Sargent, the English Historical Painter. LONDOX, April 13.-F. H. Sargent, the English historical painter, died to-day. It was his demise that occasioned the report of the death of John Singer Sargent, the American artist. Jnniiee Field Funeral. WASHINGTON, April 13. Impressive funeral services were held over the remains of the late Justice Stephen J. Field at the Church of the Epiphany at 10:30 o'clock this morning. The church was crowded with a distinguished company gathered to pay their last tribute of respect and honor to the memory of the great jurist. Among those present were President McKin'ey, Secretaries Wilson, Long and Attorney General Griggs, the British. Russian and German ambassadors, the Chinese minister and the diplomatic representatives of other foreign countries. ex-Postmaster General Don M. Dickinson, ex-Senator Edmunds, many senators and representatives and other distinguished people high in official and social life. Rev. Satterlee, the bishop of Washington, assisted by Rev. MackaySmith, the pastor of the late justice, officiated. The simple burial service of the Episcopal Church was read and the choir sang, "Lead. Kindly Light." "Bock of Ages" and "Nearer, my God. to Thee." Chief Justice Fuller and his associates on the Supreme Bench acted as honorary pallbearers. The remains were Interred in a vault at Rock Creek Cemetery, where they will remain temporarily until Mrs. Field decides where they are to be permanently buried. Capt. John T. Blake. KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 13.-Capt. John T. Blake, aged sixty-three years, a capitalist, died at his home here to-day of consumption. He was a freighter on the old Santa Fe trail; later was appointed postoffice inspector by President Lincoln, raised a company In isr,i and fought in thirty battles in Kanaas, Missouri ar.d Arkansas, winning considerable recognition for his gallantry. EngllKhmnn Die of Wounds. PRESCOTT, A.T., April 13. T. G. BarlowMassichs, a wealthy, young Englishman, died here to-day from the effect of a wound received last May by the accidental discharge of his pistol. He was superintendent of the Catocin mine. He was the owner of the Lynx Creek Hydraulic-works, the most valuable mining property in the Territory. Cnpt. Nathaniel W. Parker. ST. LOUIS, April 13. Captain Nathaniel W. Parker, the oldest river man and pilot in the West, is dead at the residence of his daughter in this city, aged ninety-one years. He was born in Shelbyville, Ky. Captain Parker is survived by sevcn children, twenty-four grandchildren and fourteen greatgrandchildren. DEMANDS THEIR RETURN. South Dakota Governor Ankn President to 3InMer Out Volunteoer. ST. PAUL. Minn., April 13. A dispatch to the Tioneer Press from Pierre, S. D., gives the text of a letter from Governor Lee, of South Dakota, to President McKInley, demanding the return of the South Dakota volunteers from the Philippines. He recites the facts of enlistment to fight for humanity against Spain, declares that such war has ended, and his State feels that "the South Dakota Volunteers have fulfilled every obligation which they owe to their country and its flag," and should be allowed to return home. He says: "We view their present or future retention as unconstitutional and a violation of the law which called the odganlzation into being, and feel sure that they will not be retained against their will, against the law and against the moral sense of the people of our State without offering some sound reason for so doing." Heknoa of no war exigency at the present time, says Congress has not declared war against the inhabitants of Luzon, and "that the Constitution does not permit your Excellency nor any commission appointed by your Excellency to make a declaration of war." He declares the present course "repugnant to the fundamental principles of this government, a violation of the Declaration of Independence, a repudiation of the theory upon which we engaged in the war with Spain, and utterly inconsistent with your Excellency's splendid announcement respecting the policy to be pursued towards Cuba." He is unable to "reconcile the slaughter of our soldiers in the Philippines" with "our code of political ethics or with the tenor of our Christian religion." He speaks for the volunteers as "impressed into a service the purpose of which is the direct opposite of the motive which caused them to enlist." Return of ConimlNnioner Hire. SAN FRANCISCO, April 13.-W. M. Rice. United States commissioner of emigration at Victoria, B. C, arrived to-day on the steamer Rio de Janeiro, from Japan. Mr. Rice was sent some months ago to the Orient to study the labor conditions of Japan and the probable menace to this country by the threatened Influx of Japanese into the United States. Mr. Rice will go on to Washington and submit his views to the administration, and It is thought, as a result of his recommendations. Congress will be asked to take steps to keep out Japanese laborers and mechanics. Catholic College Association. CHICAGO. April 13.-At to-day's meeting of Catholic educators the committee on organization made a preliminary report outlining in a general way the plans arrived at. The new organization was christened tho Association of Catholic Colleges of the United States. The body vill meet next year and decide later whether the sessions will be held annually or every two years. The committee on organization was made a standing committee to arrange for future conferences and pass upon educational matters referred to it. Receiver for a Newspaper. TOLEDO. O.. April 13.-As a result of a friendly suit, at the request of the company, a receiver was appointed to-day for the Toledo Commercial. The total liabilities are about S'W.Ow, of which over 2.01 is due the family of the owners of the paper. The receivership was the result of an effort on the part of outsiders to get control of the property. President May Vialt Unit Imore. BALTIMORE. April 13.-President McKInley to-day accepted, conditional on public business, an invitation from Baltimore merchants to deliver an address at the opening, on Monday next, of the P.altimore sportsmen's exposition. The exposition will be held at Prospect Park, and will continue during the week beginning April 17. Kipling; Out Driving. NEW YORK. April 13. Rudyard Kipling was out driving to-day for the first time since his recent illness. The drive was through Central Park. He was accompanied by Mr. Doubleday and a nur.e. Mr. Kipling has engaged a suite of rooms in a hotel at Lakewcod, N. J., and will go there with his family on Monuay. Sick llooftiern Return. FORTRESS MONROE. Va.. April 13. Members of the One-hundred-and-sixtleth Indiana Regiment who arrived here yesterday on the hospital ship Missouri were: Privates John F. McLean. Wilbur E. Iiyman. Aaron J. Duff, Burt Anson, Christian Brockenhammer, John S. Williams, Charles Slusser. Politician Murdered. MIDDLES BO RO. Ky.. April IT Austin Mullins shot and killed George Seward, a prominent Republican politician, near Pond Gap. Va., last night. The killing was the result of an argument. Mulilns cscaptd.

COPY OF STATEMENT

OF

Indiana Fire Insurance Company OF i:DIAXAPOMS, On the 31st day of December, 189S. It is located at No. 113 East Market street, Indiana poll. CHARLES SCIIURMAN, Pretilent. THOS. R. LINN". Secretary. The amount of Its capital Is KWl The amount cf its capital paid up is 10 VT1IE ASSETS OF THE fOMPAXY ARE AS FOLLOWSl

Cash cn han-1 and in the hanis of agents or other

Real e.!ate unincumbered r.mis owned by the comanf, bearing interen at the rate cf per cent., ecurl at follows: Marion Trust Company Scottish Rite bonds Building and loan stock, prepaid, paid up and running Lan5 on bonrlsi an-i mortgage of real estate. -orth double the amount for hlch the same is mortgaged, and free from any prior lncurnbrar.ee Debts ctherwiFe secured Iebt3 for premiums

All other securities

Total assets I.IABILITIKS.

Losses a1Juted and not due IjOssps unadjusted Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks Total liabilities The greatest amount In anj cne risk. IZ.I-00.

SUte of Indiana. Office of Auditor of State. I. the undesigned. Auditor of State of the State of Indiana. hfrehr certify that the above it a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above-mentioned c.mjany on the Slst day of Dcemtr. ls. as shown by the original statement, and that the Fail original tatement is now on file in this oflk-e. In testimony whereof. 1 hereunto subscribe my name and affix my official wat this SEAL. 12th day of April. W. H. IlAItT. Auditor of State.

COPY OF STATEMENT OF TILE CONDITION OP TIIC IOWA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY On the 31st day of December, 189S. It is located at No. 205 la Salle street, Chicago. 111. C. E. MABIE, Trefident. R. E. SACKETT, Secretary. The amount of its capital Is tlw.r-'.ftO The amount of its capital paid up is luO.OO TIID ASSETS OF THE COMPANY ARE AS FOLLOWSl Cash cn hand and in the hands of agents or other persons $27,441 J Real estate unincumbered fci"0.00 Bonds owned by the company, bearing interest at the rate of 5 per cent., secured as follows: Z0 Shares capital stock Corn Exchange National Bank. Sioux City. Ia.. market value 5.M Y) 6 Bonds Arizona Improvement Company, Phoenix. Ariz., fl.ooo each, market value.... 6,"0.00 Loans on bonds and mortgages of real estate, worth double the amount for which the same is mortgaged, and free from any prior incumbrance ZZl.M'SA Pebts otherwise secured ?1KC3.95 Debts for premiums K.".732.e3 All other securities 42.1.24 Total assets 7. ?:i7,4r167 LIA1IILITIES. Losses adjusted and not due and in process of adjustment fc?.W.ort lsses in suspense and resisted, waiting for further proof 8.M All other claims against the company. Including premiums paid lr advance S.IJWf. Legal reserve U.US.S Total liabilities $3W.L'63.60 The greatest amount In any one risk, 10.OO. State of Indiana, Office of Auditor of State. I. the undesigned. Auditor of State of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above Is a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above-mentioned company cn the 3l.t dy cf I)ecemler. IS'jS. as known by the original statement, andthat the said original statement is now on file in this office. In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my official seal this SEAL 13th day of April, 1809. W. II. HART. Auditor of State.

CAPITAL AND LABOR. Letter from Ei-Major Heirltt lo th Industrial Conimlsaion. WASHINGTON. April 13. The Industrial commission recently requested ex-Mayor Hewitt, of New York, to appear before it and give hi3 views on Industrial questions. He was unable to attend, but sent abetter In which he refers to the testimony taken by a congressional committee in 1S73 of which he was the chairman and the fact that that committee made no report. He continues: "No human beinpr could possibly evolve from this mass of contradictory evidence any definite conclusions whatever as to the legislation in reference to the relations of capital and labor, except possibly the one conclusion that legislation could do no good and would probably be mischievous. Corporations have continued to grow, and at the present moment they threaten to absorb the entire industrial business of the country which is capable of being administered by centralized management. This is precisely the direction which 1 anticipated and seems to me to be In accordance with the evolution which has taken place within the last half century and which may be In accordance with a natural law. if there be natural laws involved in the progress of modern civilization. My own view Is that when Industry has been sufficiently centralized and the ownership widely diffused through the distribution of shares, the workman will gradually acquire these shares and control the property which they represent. In fact. I cannot see any other outcome for the present movement towards the consolidation of industrial enterprises than the transfer of the control to those who are actually engaged in the work of operation. How far legislation can be made to promote this desirable end I am unable either to predict or suggest. As a general proposition I regard legislative Interference with capital and labor as pernicious. Women and children may properly be protected from abuse, but I think individual interests are best safeguarded by compelling the parties concerned to settle their own differences and decide on their own interests. The corporate movement, however, seems to be altogether advantageous to society. "I do not doubt that with time, spread of knowledge through technical education and the general improvement In the intelligence of men. who, under our modern conditions of industrial life, have ceased to be machines and have be-come operators of machines, the standard of s lf-resepct. of comfort and of happiness will be permanently raised." DEALING WITH TRLSTS.

Senator Clinntller on Tlielr Kvlls nnd the En - Ilemedy. Senator Chandler, in the Independent, A very brief statement concerning trusts will exhibit the facts, the question and the remedy; and also show who will apply the remedy. Tho facts are that to-day all over the United States enormous combinations of capitalists are planning by huge consolidations to seize every branch of production and distribution; all manufactures and the sale thereof; all agricultural products and the sale thereof are to be monopolized and managed by great corporations; each separate Industry in the country is to be -.vm' rolled by one incorporated trust. In the beginning, to lull the public into inaction, the price of the product to the consumer Is to be reduced, but not to the full extent required by the cheaper production secured by the r.ew system then fore, millionaire owners in trusts are to Increase in number and when the system becomes general the r.rie?s to the consumers are to be raised and the great fortunes are to continue to multiply. The question is whether such trusts should be prr.iibitod and destroyed. It should be answered in the affirmative for two reasons, the lirst the ore already stated that as an ultimate result the consuming public, after competition is effectually abolished, will be compelled to piy larger prices than ever before in order to build up enormous fortunes in the hands of tho millionaire ch ss, and. second, because the expulsion from business of small manufacturers, producers and merchants will be highlv injurious to society. The destruction of individual enterprise and the oivision of mankind into two classes, the few very rich and the many very poor, with almost no men of moderate capital rirms of small means, as Mr. Depew calls them will, if the system continues, be fatal to popular government and result in a government by oligarchy. This will not happen, but only because the system will t destrovl. If the community Is to be divided Into ten-dolla rites and one-dollarltes the latter will rule", for they are the vast majority. It is a perilous issue to raise. The remedy for the growth of trusts will pimple and e.-sy when a majority of the people of any State seriously and firmly desire to suppress them. Trusts conducted by partnerships will not be formidable. Individuals will never place In one partnership dangerous aggregations of capital. Huge trusts can only be maintained by corporations which can make large issues of stocks and bonds. If a state legislature can destroy all corporations within the limits of the State, a fortiori. It can regulate and limit the amount of stocks and bonds which any corporation can issue and can prevent it from engaging In more than one kind of business. After regulating and limiting Its own corporations it can exclude from the State the operations of all corrorations of other States which do not conform to the local state re-quirements. Combinations between separate corporations in the same business can also easily be prevented by state laws, and thus the prohibition of combination, consolidation nnd immense issues of stocks and bond teing accomplished the evils resulting from trusts ate gono. There can never be a simpler application of the maxim "Where there is a will there is a way." As each State can effectually suppress trusts within its borders, congressional action is not Indispensable. Yet Congress, In addition, ,can do much to desroy truts by legislation in connexion with interstate commerce. The act of 1V0 did destroy the Joint Traffic Association la which thirty-one railroads bad Joined to make the xnot gi-

OF THE CONDITION

THE person in.r m 4.e:j.3i 11. CO oO 2,CfiO iS.3jT.a CI.H1.1I S. ftT5.lt .J1T0.51S.&4 IU12 l.vi.0 k. NATIONAL Tube Works WrotigaMroa pipe for Gas Steam aai Water, Boiler Tube. Cat and Malleable Iron Fittings (Mack and palvantzed). Valves, Stop Cocks. Enfine Trimming. Steam Gaucrs. ripe Tons. Iii Cutters, Visa's, Screw Plates an1 Pie Wrenches, hteam Trans, Pumpa. Kitchen Sinks. Hos. lUltInr. I'.aliblt Metal. Solder. White and Colored Wiping Watte, and all other Supplies ued In connection i(h Gas. Steam and Water. Natural tiaa Suplies a specialty, b'team leatlng Apparatus for lubllc Tlulldinss. Storerooms, Mills. Shcpa. Factories. Laundries, Lumber lry Houses, etc Cut and Thread to order any stx Wrought-Iron Tipe. from Vt inch to 12 Inchea dlamKNIGHT & J1LLS0X, ui to ir S. PENNSYLVANIA ST. The Best Things In this world are the products of hard work. Princess TATENT flour is one of the few "best things" among the many food products offered the housewife. Unexcelled, and every package guaranteed. BLANTON MILLING CO. gantic trust ever known, with SI.WMI.OjO actual capital and practical control of f 11. Ojy.wa.O'A) of capital. Congress thould also prevent trusts in the Territories and tha District of Columbia by laws similar to those which the States will enact. Moreover, the States should tax all corporations on their stocks and londs. and Congress should do the same. The taxing power, should not be used to destroy corporations, but when their capital and business and profits are large they should pay larpe taxes for the support of the state ar.d national governments. We arc to have large and expensive armies and navies! In showing who is to bring about the legislation which will suppress trusts it mutt be said that individual action cannot secure It. The piesent determination of the owners and seekers cf vast wealth to aggrandize themselves by fastening trusts upon the country cannot be defeated, except by organized action through the political parties, and these should be induced to make the suppression of trusts a part of their platforms. Kven after they make such pledge there is danger that the3' will be repudiated when the legislatures meet. In lS'j both political platforms In New Hampshire demanded legislation making free railroad passes illegal. The great railroads sent free pa.sses to all the members of the legislature, they kept them, and when the bill to fortdd free passes came up the vote was 22 for it and 21C against it! Human nature Is the same in other States as it is in New Hampshire. Therefore, tho people must be In earnest, and not only get the pledges into the platforms of the parties, but elect legislators who can be depr.4l,l upon to fulfill them, or the people should pvinish them at the next election. The Republican party must be the first to meet the new issue which trusts and monopolies are forcing upon the country. It began as the party of the people and must continue to be such. Its state conventions and its next national convention must declare against trusts and its legislators must obey its platforms. Th Democratic party cannot be trusted. Mr. Cleveland, in his last canvass, made the most demagogical and anarchistic appeals In order to ohtain votes, but when he was elected he shamefully surrendered to the money power, to the corrupting bond syndicates and the lavishhanded plutocrats. Mr. McKInley is of a different make. He recognizes bis duty to his party and Its platform?, to its principles and It measures, and he follows- and olevs in peace and war the declared wishes of the American people. Cable Contract Cnnrrlrtl. SAX FRANCISCO. Cal.. April 11-Ths steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, which arrived to-dav, brings news from Honclulu that at a meeting of the Cabinet on the 3d inst.. the contract with the Pcrymser Company for a cable between San Francisco and Honolulu was canceled. This action was taken on a letter from the secretary of slate at Washington declining to consider the matter. Prove It. Kansas City Journal. IJy way of emphasizing hi statement that he would not accept a political othVe If It were offered him. Admiral LKwey explains that he is not a Democrat. Nothing Injurious in BROW! Bronchia' Trcskco A great relief for eouchs, hoanedcii, throat and lung troubles. John L. Brown A Rn, Hotton.