Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 112, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1899 — Page 4

THE INDIAXArOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1899.

THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1800.

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Till: i:TJlANAPOLIS JOI RN'AL Cn he found at the following places: NEW YOKK. Aster House. CHICAGO Palmer Houm. P. O. News C7., H7 Jerborn street, eircat Northern Hotel anl Oranl Pacific Hotd. CINCINNATI J. R. Hawly fc Co.. YA Vine rt rr-rt . LOUISVILLEC. T. Deeriny, northwpft enrrer of Third and JefTert-on street, ani Louisville Took. Co.. Fourth avenue. KT. LOUIS Union News Company. Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D. C Rlsga House, Ebbltt House and Witlards Hotel. If Mr. Reed resigns there will bo a fight for tho speakership between the East and the West, largely on geographical lines, and the "West will win. The statesmen who aro casting wistful eyes on Speaker Reed's old shoes and tho chair he occupied should remember they aro both uncommonly large. If Admiral Dewey sends an expedition to Baler to avrnce the capture of Lieut. Gilxnore and his men there will not be any more Americans captured. Now that Mr. Reed may not be spsaker egain. a number of iapers which have maligned him for years have discovered that ho is a very great and Rood man. The really heroic conduct of convicts In caving- property and lives during the burning of the prison building on Blackwell's Island shows that manhood may survive tinder convicts stripes. Foreign enemies have ot been able to Inflict any injury on the United States, the present administration or the army. If was left for unpatriotic Americans to attack end revile them after the war closed. The traveling aspirant for the K-to-1 t.omlnation for President has discovered that 70.0C0 men are engaged In fighting the TagaI03 about Manila. Yet General Otis has just cabled that 3),X men are all that he needs. Four out of poven members of the Fillrdno Junto In Europe having started for Manila with the avowed purpose of bringing about a settlement on the basis of the recognition of American sovereignty, It looks as If the end of the rebellion, were near. The. possible retirement of Speaker Reed from. Congress has started conjecture as to his successor. His district consists of two aunties, and each of them Is paid to have three aspirants. They would do well to remember that Mr. Reed is a hard man to cucceed. The Aguinaldlsis. are claiming that every American ? olJler killed in the Philippines increases popular hostility to the war and the administration. It is more likely to crouse just anger and strengthen the popular determination to put down the rebellion Et all costs. An exchange gives as one of the reasons for electing an Illinois man speaker of the House tho fact that the ofllce has never been filled by a man living west of the Indiana line. The speakership is too important a position to be made a question of locality. The one question should be, who Is the best nan? The Memphis Appeal and other Southern Democratic papers are not pleased because Mr. Bryan sat at the dollar dinner while tw colored men were guests. "Here in the South," says the Appeal, "we do not recognize the poclal equality of the negro, nor do we recognize the social equality of the white man who recosnlzcs the social equality of the negro Since the passige of the anti-trust law in Arkansas ell foreign fire insurance companies, sixty-three in number, have withdrawn and ceased doing business In the State, and policies are not now obtainable except In two mutual companies organized end Incorporated under the State lav. As these companies are weak and poorly managed, it will not take much of a blaze to wipe them out aud the people will be the fufferers. A New York special announces as a new departure in prison management that the convicts in Sing Sing will soon begin the publication of a weekly newspaper. 'Warden Sage, the originator of the novel plan." says the dispatch, "will be the managing" editor of the new publication." The plan Is not so very novel. The convicts in the Indiana, southern prison, now Reformatory, have been publishing a paper for nearly two years. A resident of St. Louis who served for a while. in the Cuban army has received a letter from a Cuban who was formerly private secretary to General Gomez, in which the writer says: I am fighting hard for the annexation of the Island to the United States, for I have always favored that policy. There are many t.upporters of that policy here already, and the idea is getting to be a unanimous one. The Cubans are seeing the wisdom of it now. The annexation sentiment Is evidently growing, but the United States cannot afford to depart from its original purpose of establishing stable government and then leaving the people to themselves. A vote cn annexation while the military occupation by tho United States continues would ' te subject to criticism. Those who have followed the testimony in the cae of the Quays in Philadelphia cannot to surprised at the verdict of not guilty. Tint the Quays hid mony of th State through the failed bank there Is no doubt, but there was nothirg in the testimony to prove that it was obtained by a conspiracy on the part of father and fon. It was not proper that the Quays or any ether person should have the money of the CUte without ample security and the pay

ment of Interest, but to far as the loaning of thi3 money was an actual violation of law the offense was that of the state treasurer. In most States senators asking for and obtaining such favors cou'.d not le reelected, because the people are opposed to such practices and are becoming more and more opposed as the years pass. It should be added that the result of the trial Is not creditable to the State's lawyers who brought It about. They had no case and they must have known It. It is not too much to add that the prosecution ha Its inspiration In the purpose of several iollticians to defeat Senator Quay. It became persecution, and therefore did not harm him. It Is vastly mere to Mr. Quay's discredit that the Legislature found evidence that several of his supporters attempted to bribe members to vote for him for senator. That is a living accusation.

31 U. U LAY'S APPOIXTJIENT. The appointment of Mr. Quay to the senatorshlp to which the Legislature refused to elect him has precedent against It, and. apparently, the Constitution, which reads as follows: If a vacancy happens by resignation or otherwise during the recess of the legislature of any State the executive thereof may makt temporary appointments until the meeting cf the Legislature, which shall till such vacancies. The earlier decisions of tho Senate in cases tvhr-re the Legislature failed to elect and the Governor appointed were, without much discussion, decided by seating the appointees. In later years the decisions of tho Senate, while made, by close votes, have been against such appointments on tho ground that a vacancy caused, or, rather, continued by failure of the Legislatue to elect does not occur by resignation or otherwise during a recess of the Legislature. In this case there was a vacancy in Pennsylvania on and after March 4, 109, when Mr. Quay's term expired. Tho legislature being in session six weeks after the vacancy occurred it could not have occurred during its recess. Tho Legislatures cf Montana, Washington and Wyoming failed to elect United States senators during the sessions of Thereupon the Governors of these States made appointments. The credentials were referred to the Senate committee on elections and privileges, of which Senator Hoar was chairman, and a majority of that committeo reported In favor of seating the appointees two Republicans and one Democrat. The report of the committee was rejected by the Senate Aug. 2. 1S00, but not by a party vote, thouqh. more Democrats than Republicans voted to reject. The Republicans voting to reject and in favor of rejection by pair were: Aldrich, Culloro, Gallinger, McMillan. Piatt of Connecticut. Proctor, Stockbridge, Washburn, Morrill, Dixon, Dolph, Mitchell of Oregon, and two or three others. Among the Democrats who 'voted to seat were: Martin of Virginia, Morgan and Push, of Alabama, Senator Sherman, who had voted to seat years before, voted the same way this time, as did Senator Teller. Senator Voorhces voted not to seat, but his colleague, Mr. Turpie, wa3 paired with Mr. Gorman in favor of seating. It Is evident that the subject will come up at once in the Senate after its meeting. The Governors of three other States may make similar appointn-ents, namely, California, Delaware and Utah. The Governors of the last two named arc Democrats. To tho plain reader it must appear that none of these vacancies occurred during the recess of the Legislatures, but exist because the Legislatures could not or would not elect. THC ACHIEVEMENTS OT tilt 12 AT LEADEHS. John Sherman favored the resumption act, and, as secretary of the treasury carried it Into successful operation. That great achievement was his. Since the war there is no single achievement which had the farreaching magnitude of the return to specie payments. In importance the successful negotiation of the di?pctes between the United States and Great Britain growing out of the Alabama claims was tho great achievement of President Grant's administration, which belongs to himself and to Mr. Fish, the great diplomat who was his secretary of state. It was a great achievement because a disastrous war was escaped and the principle of arbitration established between the two governments for all time and a precedent set for adjustment between tho United States and all first-class nation?. Strange as it may now seem, both the resumption act and the Washington treaty were denounced at the time as compromises. The whole of the anti-Grant following in the Senate, Sumner, Schurz and others once rrominent, who went into obscurity, denounced the proposed treaty as a surrender. A number of Republicans in the House, including Mr. Hoar, did not vote for the resumption bill, because It was a compromise in that it dcliyed specie payments four years. All the Democratic leaders who favored specie resumption opposed the measure after It was a law. To-day both have vindicated themselves and the statesmanship of their authors. They came to great success because the men who proposed them. Grant and Sherman, did not shrink from the assaults of opponents or responsibility for the results. Ir the same connection the reports that ex-Speaker Reed will serve no longer in Congress lead to a review of his career and call up his great achievement, krown as the counting of a quorum. It seems that in a few local legislative bodies quorums had been counted, but those who found the records were the anxious party friends of Mr. Reed trying to find a precedent for his rather startling Innovation. The application of the proposition to count silent members in their seats to make a quorum was Mr. Reed's. There is reason to believe that some of his Republican associates were somewhat dubious regarding the propriety of such an innovation. It is probable that If the speaker's proposition had been sub mitted to a caucus of the Republican mem bers of the House it would have been rejected. Fortunately Mr. Reed counted a quorum one day and the question came on an appeal from the decision of the chair, and the Republicans stood by the speaker. Subsequently, it was incorporated into the rules of the House. It was very Important, in a House with but eight majority, to count a quorum. Ftr years previous to that House, the popular branch had, by practice. If not by rule, fallen into the power of a minority, so that a small minority could prevent legislative action. The rules which Mr. Reed led In framing deprived a half dozen filibusters of tne iower to prevent the House from acting. In tho two preceding Houses a half dozen mn hsd defeated the will of the majority by days of dilatory tactics. The Reed rules arid ruling put an end to control of the Hoiire by a minority, and made the majority responsible for legislation. Mr. Reed was widely and bitterly denounced at the time by hi. political opponents and criticised quietly by men of hla

own party. But" he fought the battle to victory, and the succeeding Democratic Houses counted a quorum and adopted the Reed rules to check filibustering. Therefore, if Mr. Reed should not appear in Congress again he will have the credit of achieving a great reform in that he restored to the majority in the House of Representatives tho power to legislate, which it had lost when he came to the speakership. MEXICO AMD THE SILVER STANDARD.

A recent dispatch from the City of Mexico stated that Finance Minister Limantour, after several years of severe labor, "the result of which has been the restoration of the financial equilibrium of the nation," was about to start for Europe for rest and recreation. The dispatch continued: It is reported again In official circles that on the return of the minister of finance resident Diaz will take a short trip to the Unite! States and Europe. That this can be considered as probable indicates the profoundly peaceful condition of the country. It is again rumored with some Insistence that prominent American and European bankers have offered to finance a. loan which would place Mexico on a gold basis. The manufacturing element is firmly opposed to any change of the standard, as Mexico Is prospering as never before, and tho silver standard Ms credited with the country's ability to compete in manufactures in many lines with Europe and tho United States. The great planting interests are now largely exporting and are opposed to the gold standard. ; It is very unusual for a Mexican Cabinet minister to vhdt Europe, and for a Mexican President to visit the ITnited States would be unprecedented. The fact that these visits should be spoken of at the same time indicates an unusual cause, and it is further suggested by the speculations regarding the monetary situation. President Diaz is too able a man not to know that the drift of the commercial world is steadily away from the silver standard or even the double standard. Being solicitous for the prosperity of Mexico and anxious to have his country take its proper place among nations, he must see that sooner or later Mexico must adopt the monetary standard of the commercial world, in some respects Mexico has prospered on a silver basis, but in other respects it Is a great drawback to the countrj. Mexico pays 6 per cent, interest on the whole of its public debt of $lS3,2i.0O0. while tho United States pays only 3 to 4 per cent. Of course, the Mexican interest account has to bo paid In gold. In 1ST7 this item amounted to 13.630.0G3, and In 1S?S, although the debt had been reduced several million dollars, reached 114.732,210. This Increase of JL16.U77 in interest account in one year was caused by the fall in the exchange value of the Mexican silver dollar. Minister Limantour has managed Mexican finances well, having brought the revenues up to a point where they exceed expenditures, but he must see that, no matter how individuals may be prospering, the country as a whole. Is suffering great disadvantages under the silver standard. In the presence of European statesmen he will hardly claim to have "restored the financial equilibrium of Mexico." when a fall In the market price of silver can add $1.162.GCO to its Interest account in a single year. President Diaz must see tho same thing, and It Is more than likely that they are about to investigate tho operation of the gold standard In other countries with'a view of estab.ishing It In Mexico. The spirit of progress is too strong in that country to permit it to be kept subservient much longer to a monetary standard that has been discarded by the whole commercial world. Professor Jordan's opposition to President McKInley's foreign policy seems to have obscured his sense of propriety and his appreciation of veracity. Nothing could have been In worse taste than his charge in a lecture before students In California that one of the United States peace commissioners who attended a banquet In Paris "expectorated tobacco Juice on tho floor." In denying the charge Mrs. W. P. Frye, wife Cl the senator, who was one of the commissioners, says: What do you mem by your suggestion that "it would be better to send men abroad who aro familiar with the usages of good society?" Were you ignorant cf the facts all were graduates of our colleges, all had vastly greater experience in polite society and familiarity with social ethics than ycu even could dream of? Not one of these gentlemen chewed tobacco, not one of them attended a banquet while abroad. Now, do you not think that you had better apologize to your students for your gross and unnatural statements? As a naturalist Professor Jordan Is great, but he seems to be temperamentally disqualified to deal justly with public men and affairs. Hereafter, in enumerating Indiana's notable men, one must not forget W. S. Stratton, who has recently sold his Colorado gcid mine In London for $10,000,000. Stratlon was formerly a carpenter in Jeffersonville, Ind., where he still has relatives whom he has remembered generously. It is said that when he visited his possessions in Cripple Creek he used to throw gold pieces to children and give $100 bills to poor people just to make them happy. He Is a typical Hoosler. There are thousands of men In Indiana who would do that if circumstances would permit. DIBBLES IX THE AIR. Juat Think. He Dearie, you aro worth your weight in gold. She That amounts to only about $23,000. He Indeed? But just think how vast a sum that Is to me! Expert Opinion. Weary Watklns Here Is a guy in the paper after me own heart. He says whisky is all right in proper quantity. Hungry Hlggins I've heard of them guys before. "Proper quantity" means not more'n half enough. Circnnistances. "Is It true, professor, that the English call hornets 'wasps?' "That depends, my dear young lady, on circumstances. An Englishman stung by a hornet Is apt to call it about the same names an American would." Mixed Emotion. "How did you feel when they read your letters in court?" asked the friend whose Intimacy was great enough to warrant Impudence. "Well," said the young man who had just emerged from a breach of promise suit, "I was divided between chagrin at the aslninity of the ideas and admiration for the literary style." The- IllKht Method. New York Evening Post. An interesting story comes from Springfield. Mass.. of the way in which James D. Gin, collector of internal revenue, has tilled some places in his office. When the warrevenue law required the employment of a new man to handle the new stamps Mr. Gill pfeked out a man in the Springfield poatortlee whose dexterity in such work had attracted his notice and got him by offering a larger salary. When he needed another h placed a "want" advertisement In a Boston newspaper for an experienced doubleentry bookkeeper, who must be well recommended, tho salary being $1,200. asked to see about, a dozen of tho.-e who replied, and finally relented a man whose politics he ntver asked an interesting Incident of this quest being the fart that both his tirst and his second choice were men who had been receiving only $;:, and whose employers raided their pay to $!.2n0 rather than lose thern. When the cashier, who had been in the department for a quarter of a century. resigned, Mr. Gill went to a well-known banking house and asked them to pick him out a good cashier from among the younger nun of their orKce force. The most cxv tCii-ordlnari- feature of all this is the fact

that It should seem extraordinary to anybody, as it does to almost every one. Collector Gill simply did what should be the natural and proper thing for a man in his position to do, but what is so seldom done that the public is astonished when It hears of an official voluntarily applying the principles of business and common sense. THE BELCiICA EXPEDITION.

Further tv from the Explorer of the Antarctic. New York Sun. The cablegram from Dr. F. A. Cook, of Brooklyn, the surgeon of the Antarctic exploring expedition on the Belgian steamship Bclgica. dated Montevideo. April 4. gave the scene of tl-.e Belgica's discoveries as Weddsll sea. As this name bad been given to no part of the Antarctic waters, the inference was natural that it referred to that part of the South Polar ocean in which Wed dell made his notable advance south of latitude 74 degrees. In 123. It appears, however, frcm the brief dispatch which Lieutenant De Gerlaehe. the commander of the expedition, has sent home, that the Belgica's winter quarters and the limits of her southern journey aro considerably to the northwest of Weddell's farthest, and that the extreme latitude reached was 71 degrees 36 minutes, longitude i2 degrees west, south of Peter I island, and very near, but south of the region reached in 121, by Bellingshausen. In fact, the Belgica skirted the western coast of Graham Land which lies under the meridian of the Falkland islands and about one thousand miles south of them, and then took a detour to the west about twenty degrees of longitude to the west of Alexander I land, which Is supposed to be a part of Graham Land. Iisc. in 1V.2, In the opposite direction, made practically the same journey that De Ceriache now reports, although he did not reach a latitude so far south. Captain Evensen, also, with the steam whaler Hertha, made a similar journey along tho wet coast of Graham Land in November, ISM, discovering no new lands, but attaining 9 degrees 10 minutes south latitude and 7 degree 12 minutes west longitude, the most southern point reached up to that time by a steam vessel. Captain Larsen, in December. skirted the east coast of Graham Land and mapped a considerable stretch of hitherto unknown shore line to the south. It is thus seen that the Belgica. according to the cablegram of her commander, has not made any new discoveries of great importance in that region. He did, however, what none of his competitors accomplished, by landing repeatedly on the west coast. He- visited the shore twenty times in all. made large land collections, including numerous geological specimens, studied the hydrography of the land mass, entered Hughes gulf, the largest indentation known on the coast, and landed on the mountainous promontory of Palmer Land. The Belgica's pirty spent the first winter white men have passed in the Antarctic regions. It was not a matter of choice, but the ice conditions compelled them to winter thre. De Gerlache says there was much bad weather, but the cold was not Intense except during the month of September, an Interesting fact, for the coldest month in the Arctic regions is March, and there is therefore some evidence tending to show that the coldest periods in both the polar regions come about the same time in their respective winter reasons that is to say, quite late in the winter. The lowest temperature in September was 13 degrees centigrade. The ship was forced from the pack on March 14 last and arrived at Punta Arenas, Patagonia, on March 2. Lieut. De Gerlache says nothing of the active volcanoes that were mentioned in Dr. Cook's dispatch, and it may be that no new discoveries in this line were made, as Cook perhaps alluded to volcanoes previously seen in that region. Biidgman island, between the South Shetland group and Graham Land, is marked on the charts as a volcano, and in 11 Capt. Lr.rscn discovered two acilve vo.canoes on the east cois? of Graham Land, which he -named Chrisienscn and Lindtnberg. TJilck, biack smoke was issuing from thn top and slopes cf IJnder.berg through funnel-like holes, and on Chris tensen island tho ice had been melted away in places by an eruption, and there were a large number of volcanic stones that had recently boen ejected. All the evidence collected in this decade with regard to Graham Lmd seems to print to its Inimj an archipelago, instead a part of a tontinenfal hc;dy of land, as some geograprcrs have been inclined to believe. TALK AIMHT RE EI). Theory that He Means to Be n Candidate Ajv:.i-iJt MeKialey. Washington Special. Many politicians in Washington believe that political significance attaches to Speaker Reed's docU-ion to resign his seat in Congress ar.d Mko up a residence in New York. They U.eorUo entertainingly and proto think that 4r. Tlced. instead cf wishing to retire absolutely frcm politics, is shrewdly maneuvering for an advantageous position" from which to org.ini.Te a personal campaign In opposition to President McKinlev. They hOid that, in pursuance of his pr"esidrtniial ambition, he desires to place hiras-clf so that lie cm be held in no manner responsible for the mistakes of the administration, and be so situated that he would naturally attract and concentrate all elements of opposition in the Republican party. They recall that he has been an uncompromising gold man frcm the beginning: that he 1 as been an anil-expansionist, and th.it his iniluer.ee was against the war. against the annexation of Hawaii and against the more recently developed American policy for the acquisition of ihe Philippines and West India islanos. They figure also that Piesident McKinley will lose Irish Republican votes on account or his attitude on the question of an Anglo-Ame-ricnn alliance, and that ho has lost the frinuiy regard of a considerable German-American element. Thev also ligure that Speaker Reed will divide with McKinley the favor of the substantial interests of the East, which constituted a potent influence for the Republican presidential candidate three vears ago. They also figure that protection will cease to be the commanding lactor in the future that It has been in the past, the great Increase In exports of American goods during the last few years showing that American manufacturers and producers are able without artificial heln to compete successfully with foreigners In their own markets as well ashere. Those who are ldulging in this kind of political sacculation find no trouble in making Mr. Reed the beneficiary cf all these enumerated cruses of considerable discontent within the parly. The arguments may be far-fetched, but they are nevertheless heard on every hand, and threaten to make Speaker Reed as conspicuous alter his retirement to private life as he has been at any time in his history. To offset this speculatkm is tho plain statement by Mr. Reed and his friend that his sole motixe in quitting public life is to devote the next few years to making money, in order that he may have a competence upon which to live in his old age. AMERICAN RAILROADS. Management I Superior to That of English Linen. Leslie's Weekly. Tn nothing has American inventive genius been more successful tiian in devising safe, swift and comfortable means of passenger transportation. The American traveling public has fully appreciated the ingenuity and the regard for the general convenience which characterize the methods and facilities of our great railroad systems. Tourists from abroad also have been quick to approve the superior accommodations for journeying afforded In this country. But it Is none the less a pleasing surprise to find printed In a recent Issue of England's most influential newspaper, the London Times, a frank and critical comparison of English and American railways which is very flattering or. rather, which is simply just to the latter. The main points dwelt upon in tho article are speed ar.d punctuality, and it is shown that in these respects the better class of American railways have outstripped the foremost English lines. But transit which is rapid lacks a very desirable something If it be not regular and uniform. The writer in the Times regards the almost absolute punctuality of these American trains as still more admirable than their bursts of speed. He states that want cf punctuality is the weak point in the English railway service, and he attributes the contrast to the good management of the American lines. He considers the attainment of punctuality a greater feat In America than it would be In England. There is, he states, as much traffic on American as on English lines, only it is handled more efficiently. England, he shows, has more double lines of track than the United States, and he cites the fact that the Pennsylvania limited, from New York to Chicago, runs for nearly l.V) miles on a single track. Moreover, American train?, owing to level crossings and the fact that they run through the streets of important towns, are subjert to more stops and slacks than are the English trains. The Times writer rode on the Empire State express from New York to Albany. No stops were scheduled, and yet the train had to slack down eight times. To emphasize the contrast in favor of American nilway management, the writer gives an estimate of the relative weight of English and American expresses, miking the latter, on the average, at least IS) p?r cent, heavier than the former. This tribute to the American railways from a souree so hisrh. and one where partiality would naturally be expected, is a good offset to the complaints ar.iir.st the railroad service f th! country which are common In certain quarters. A Point In HeKtnnrnnt Lore. New York Commercial Advertiser. A restaurateur, who sells the best of food at less than moderate prices, will tell

you that there Is no rrofit for him In the practice, and if he does so. he will be speaking the truth. Pressed a little further, however, he would have to admit that the profit on his wines more than compensates rdm for the sacrifce. No one ever found a place in which wines and liquors were not sold ottering choice food at modest rates, but on the contrary, the place where the wines are expensive, and of known virtue, is the one where the temperance customer can get the most for his money. The explanation is simple. The high liver who loves good wine and good eating too is so pleased to find a tempting dish set before him at a modest figure that he considers it an economy to come here, because it leaves him so much more to expenel on the inevitable bottle. So that the bon vivant with his bottle is really helping to pay the bill of the temperance man at the nexi. table who Is reveling in a culinary masterpiece served to him at a ridiculous rate. In other words, the man who drinks puts delight Into the stomach and money into the pocket of the man who doesn't. There's a total abstinence argument that ought to beat the texts.

Mil. REED'S NEW FIRM. Hi Opportunity to Practice Lnvr Cnme from nn Old Classmate. Washington Post. Considerable curiosity was expressed In Washington yesterday as to the circumstances under which Mr. Reed has resumed the practice of law. Intimate friends of the speaker said that Mr. Simpson, who is at the head of the firm which has secured Mr. Reed's co-operation, is an old classmate and lifelong friend of Mr. Reed. The two were graduated from Bowdoin together and have kept up a correspondence ever since. Mr. Simpson has achieved great success as a lawyer in New York. It is said that when Mr. Reed left Washington at the close of the congressional ficssion ho had received no intimation of the offer which he has since accepted. It came to him very suddenly and unexpectedly, and would undoubtedly have been declined had it not been for his personal acquaintance with the leading member of the firm. He is rather rusty on law. having paid little attention to it for several years past, although when as a young min he was attorney general of his State, he had a high reputation. It is expected that his wide acquaintance with prominent men in New York will, however, easily secure for his firm a large and remunerative practice, and to this extent his partnership will be valuable. It b hardly likely that he will be able to take charge'lmmedlately of cases involving wide acquaintance with modern decisions. A Mimic an Juun Hill. Leslie's Weekly. As the troops marched in two by two. singing "There'll be a Hot Time in the Old Town To-night." and then rested and frolicked, he exclaimed: "All that is exactly right. The trails down there were so narrow that tho men had to march in twos a good dal of the time, and they were always sirging that old music-hall song. And on the night before the battle they were full of the devil, tossing fellows up in blankets and wrestling and playing tricks, instead of saying their prayers. And just look at tho.-e tooth brushes!" ho cried. "A lot of the boys, carried 'em just like that in their hats. It was about all they had," he added grimly. Of course, a line effect was achieved when the lights went out and the boys quieted down, and. King on the ground, lifted their voices in "My Country, "Lis of Thee." I could see several of the ladies around me wiping their eyes. Then the fun began. The iceberg curtain was drawn open, and we saw revealed the celebrated San Juan hi!!, with the blockhouse on the summit, the Spanish soldic-rs swarming around it. Undo Sam's scouts, j tole cautiously forward, and the guns began to pop. Tie popping grew more frequent, then louder. A wild cry arose. The boys, dashed madly up the hill. Gut of the dm came a steady bang-bang, and the machine gun ilowed with fire. "There's nothing the matter with the old machine gun. is there?" cried the Englishman, excitedly. On both sides men v.cre falling, and at the bottom of the hill the strechers began to receive the dead and wounded. One after another the Spaniards dropped, and presently the Americans had possession of the blockhouse. There was just one feature that the boy seemed to enjov even mere than the battle. That w-s I.udalo Bill's exhibition of sharpshooting. Cody was in great form that night and missed only one bail. After Buifaio Bill, his deepest admiration was given to the Mexican horesmen. who threw the lasso with a skill thit seemed absolutely unerring. For the Filipinos and the Hawalians he expressed no admiration whatever. , ,., "What do we want to have people iike that in our country tor?" he said, with an expression of something like disgust. "Oh, ju.-t to take up the White Man's Burden," the Englishman replied with a laugh. Dnrk 11 nee of New York. Leslie's Weekly. Through ono of the most infamotis of the caies the writer went recently, just after the police had raided it with axes. The entire ground door was a drinking hell of tawdrv elegr nce. On the second llocr was a gambling room reached by devious passages through heavily barred gates. The uppt-r lioors were lodging rooms of almost unim.-Lpinable dir.8ir.ess and squalor. Throughout the entire establishment was a seiies of signal belK peep holes, falling bars, and special locks, and ready exit was given by no less than four specially constructed and supposably secret passages. The rickety old tenement had been made int a veritable labyrinth of pseudo-mysterious precautions against the police. When thu police did come, the warning was given by a- man stationed in the street for that purpose called appropriately enough a "lighthouse" the signal bells clanged, the bars fell, the special locks slid into place, eyes blinked at the peep holes, and at the last moment the aroused inmates scurried through the secret passages into the arms of the officers who were waiting for them there. That cafe went out of existence, but others arc still doing a cautious business. Allen street seems doomed to evil. A dark stre-et is a bad street. The West Side has its black way too, and with a black record. West Third street, roofed by the clevateel road. Is the thoroughfare which, nearest of all New York. v-ij rrr.rndnred the r.nen shamclossness of linden's nocturnal streets. Robbery and l 1 v-, ."Irt-. Vv-.e Vn V- - r rI ao t Vi'i t lYI urn or Iicl t? ut vn uuutr jsit in its windows or lurk at its corners. It is by no means as bad now as it has been in the past, but it is still a street that one does well to avoid after nightfall. The PeterKliurK Philosopher. Philadelphia Telegraph. Certain injunctions laid down In the will of a citizen of Petersburg, Ind.. seem to have been inspired by a wish to deprive, as far as be could, death of its terrors. He ordered that two years after his burial his remains were to be taken up and deposited in a tomb which In the interval was to be constructed, and that the occasion of tho second funeral was to be made as hearty a merrymaking as could be devised, with music, dancing, feasting, gav decorations of the grounds, etc. On ail these points he left explicit directions, and they have just been fully carried out. There will be many to frown on the incident, but others will be found to sympathize with the ideas of this social philosopher. Certainly if we could by any means divest ourselves from the ielea of the dreadfulness of death we should live In more peace. Here was a man apparently who elid not believe death was dreadful at all, but on the contrary as natural and as necessary a thing as life. And reason tells us that this is the fact and must be the fact, though we treat it mostly as if it was the exact opposite to the fact. The Petersburg philosopher not only had his convictions but was true to them. Kipling: Interviews Cnme High. New York Letter. I heard yesterday that Harmsworth. the proprietor of the London Laily Mail, had offered Richard Harding Davis any amount he cared to ask for an interview with Rudyard Kipling. The offer was made through Ilarmsworth's representative here. The Philadelphia author replied In his characteristic manner: "Of course not. How perfectly ridiculous." Mr. Doubleday, one of Kipling's Intimate friends and his "publisher, was seen by the English newspaper editor's representative and asked whether he would not oblige Mr. Harmsworth by helping him secure an Interview from the author of "Mine Own People." I understand that Mr. Doubleday, when approached on the subject, told the Harmsworth man this: "Ycu tell Mr. Harmsworth that I shall be perfectly willing to secure the desired interview for him under one condition, namely. I will give Mr. Harmsworth a thousandword interview with Mr. Kipling provided he will send mo a two-thousand-word Interview with Queen Victoria." Mr. Harmsworth had figured on the Kipling Interview as the feature lor the first Sunday edition of the Mail. l'iih. Detroit Journal. The beautiful girl had parted forever from tho only man she ever reslty loved, and she was even sadder than was usual with her upon huch occasions. Thev trii to comfort her. "There are always good fish left In the rea." thy urged. "Ye, but when you catch them they turn out to b lobsters!" she exclaimed, bitterly, thereby showing that, after all, a persons hair may curl naturally without tendering a person entirely devoid of sense.

WEEKLY TRADE REVIEWS

HEAVIEST BUSINESS F.VEIt TRANSACTED AT GOOD PROFITS. No Cloud nn the Financial or Cflmmrr. einl Horizon to Mar Futnre I'rospectft Indufttrlea Iloocilnif. NEW YORK, April 21. R, G. Dun & Ce .'s weekly review of trade will say to-morrow: Nothing appears in business or money markets to prevent continuance of the heaviest trade ever transacted at good profits. The payment to Spain is supposed to have caused some rise In foreign exchange, which would imount to nothing in any case, as balances due from other countries more than cover the payment, and advance bills against crops to come forward in July and later will soon be offered. Loans on industrial securities are still at higher rates than on railway stocks, but on good commercial paper or railroad stocks money is in ample supply and at low rates. Nor have slock operations caused any appearance of pressure. The financing of new corporations has passed thus far with less trouble than had been feared, though the completion of some organizations is hindered or has failed. The usual time for financial troubles in the spring has passed, and the usual alarm about crops has done its work, and still in dustrits aro undisturbed. The one hindrance in stock speculation is dotibt about the crops, but better unofficial reports have supported inferences warranted by the heavy receipts from the farms in the West and South. Farmers do not send wheat or cotton to market in large quantity when crops anywhere near them are extensively spoiled. Wheat receipts have been 7,311.343 bushels, against 5JJii.ei2 last year, in three weeks of April, and the improvement since April 1 is open to notice. Exports have fallen off. amounting from both coasts to only 6,774,774 bushels, flour included, in three weeks, against 10.919.122 last year, and the price closes but half a cent higher than last week. Corn is about steady in price, with a decrease in exports natural at this season. Cotton rose on Monday,, with the slaughter of Uverpool shorts, and closed an eighth higher, but without reason to expect a short yield. Nothing but industrial depression is left to excite apprehension, but the industries are meeting something very unlike depression. Tho kind of "lull" that appears in tho iron market rejoices manufacturers, because they are crowded far ahead with orders, it means, very true, that many buyers do not want to contract far ahead at the high prices now asked, and also that many orders have been for a time withdrawn; It also means that mam lecturers, who are so crowded that little new business can be taken, are anxious to get nearer the end of their engagements before fixing prices for the future. Almost nothing is done in pig, though Southern is sold largely at Chicago and Pittsburg. Heavy demands for bars to be used in car and ether works cannot be met at Chicago; plate mills there and elsewhere are refusing orders. Contracts for eight thousand to ten thousand tons structural work at Pittsburg and tome at Chicago are taken, though many others are deferred, and sheets are less active because, the works ate generally loo crowded. The coke production is still close to the maximum. London speculation lifted tin to 2o cents. In spite oe 4.4I tons arnveel here, and copper is very strong and scarce, at lVi cents for lake, with .".w tons brought back from Europe, though the United States production w;.s only 11. ids tons in March. . Men who have sold wool stilMy for more than a year are elling freely at bottom prices, admittedly the lowest of the year. aks at trie tnree chief markets in two we-eks have len 1.2-)4.2:s0 pounds, of which 17.!.;7.."Vi pounds were domestic, against l.j.loo,U'i pounds in ISC Territory wool, L'-aMuo pounds was sold for export to England and l,L.i,Cj pounds Australian In lond, which has been held here for fifteen months, line wool being very high there, while crossbred is so low that It can now be imported. ith assurance of better prospects for goods, woolen manufacturers are waiting lor the effect of various combinations. The demand is not at present especially large, and considerable machinery is idle. Cotton has advanced an eighth, but exports are small, taking of spinners are small and the prospects for the next crop are not bad, while visible stocks are remarkably large. An advance of U cent In some siapie goods is considered significant and may influence other prices. Failures for the week have been 184 in the United States, against 14 last year, and twenty-two in Canada, against twenty-nine lust year. IIRADSTIIECT'S REVIEW. The General Business Situation Is One of Quiet Strength. NEW YORK, April Sl.-Bradstreet's tomorrow will say: The general business situation is ono of quiet strength, while in industrial Hi cs activity continues unabated. The well-nigh universal testimony to damage of the winter wheat crop has had surprisingly little effect on prices, as, owing partly to Improved weather conditions, strengthening the hopes of a larger area in spring wheat and also to good crop reports abroad and increased visible supplies, as compared with a year ago, thus encouraging foreign buyers in their neglect of American offers. Prospects for an enlarged demand for this country's manufactures in some degree counterbalance the failing off in the value of agriculture exports, notably cereals and cottons. For the month of March a decrease of $16,000,000 in exports of breadstuffs, cotton, provisions, live cattle ftnd mineral oil has been partly made up by a gain of nearly $1,(mJ,0j in other products, leaving the net deficiency as compared with a year ago 7 per cent. Imports reflect the increased purchasing power of the country, the total lor March, in fact, being the largest since May, H'jJ. For the nine months iK?rlod exports, as a whole, are a little less than double the Imports. In iron and steel new business is of even smaller proportions, a notable exception- being in the line of wire goods and nails, on which prices nave been very generally advanced. Quotations of pig iron, Meel billets and nearly all the cruder forms are firmly held, while for many finished products, such as plates and bars, even higher quotations are asKed. Mills tnd furnaces are reported croweled with business on earlier orders, ani the disposition of buyers to delay placing their business for the later part of the year Ij reported as viewed with equanimity. Tho cotton-goods situation is still a strong one, though the current demand from agents is light. Heavy orders booked for graygoods some time ago make for strength in this line, but converters complain that the finished goods have not advanced proportionately. Retail distribution of staple products has been improved by more favorable weather, thus encouraging hopes of future good reorders from wholesale hands Following the outburst of activity In wcol last week, business has rather fallen o.T, but values remain steady. Continued buying of hish grades of foreign wool for export is reported, and there is gome talk of highgrade American wools being bought for shipment to England. Following an advance early in the week, due to good foreign advices and smaller than expected crop movement, cotton is quieter, but holds part of the advance. The strength of raw sugars is a notable feature. Abroad quotations of beet sugar havo been advanced, while the Cuban yield Is not expected to be large, and Bradstreefs advices point to not more than half an average crop being grown in Louisiana. Raw sugar la higher on the week, but refined la'gs behind, though consumption is enormous. The demand for lumber at wholesale continues good, and the Southern Industry seems to be sharing-to the full in the general prosperity. Retailers, however, report buyers slow to pay the advanced quotations, leather and hides are strong, and boots and shos hold recent advances. Wheat shipment?, including Hour, for the week aggregate 2.!C2.'.C3 bushels, against l.OVJ.f'li last wek, 3.2.'2,1''3 In the corresponding week cf lK ,XA.o;s in P97. 7,:$u:) in and 2.4C1.CC4 in Since July 1. this season, the exports of what aggregate 212.17S bushels, against lM..VE,e5 last year. Corn exports for the week aggtegate 2.(rA.'M bushel?, against 2.",.1.T last week. 3.2eK.43 in this week a year ago, 4,73,315 in 1V7, tM.HOI in IV; and 4S2.P-W in 13. Since July 1 this reason, corn exports acr?regate .130.fi.Yr.744 bushels, asalnM 142.123,221 during the fcame period a year aco. r.uslness failures show a notable falling off from those of last week, aggregating

1S7, against T43 in the preceding week. 24 in this week a year ago, 2IC in 1S37, 210 in and 23 In ISiO.

llAMv CLEARINGS. Inerenae Thin Week for the Whole Country, 77.1 Per Cent. NI7W YORK, April Jl. The folio irr. table, compiled by Hradtreet. fhow the bank clearings at the principal citie for the week ended April 21. with the percentage if lnerese and derreae. as compared with tho corresponding week lat year: New York ..fl.?"A41.T.54j Inc. 111. t r.otcn iri.r.57.412 Inc..4fi.l Chicaco 127.vv-c.s inc. .2.4 Philad-iphla ;0.'44..v.J Inc.-l.S St. IrtiUs 5r-.7:. Inc.lT.S inttshurjr 22.HMM5 Inc..? Baltimore 2.T15.!-Ki Inc. .74 S San FraruMsro 19. '44. 73 Inc. .2x5 Cincinnati 14.2TO.: Inc.. 7. Kansas City 12.1M.r.l Inc. .12 5 New rlep 7.2-ir! Iec.. 6.1 Minneapoll 7..3. Inc.. 7.1 Petrolt Incite Cleveland f.711.1' I no.. 2. X Iou!evilI 7.411 ?.7 Inc.. 9 Providence f. Ire. .20 5 Milwaukee 4.917.723 Inc.. . St. Peul 3.VO.n Inc.JVS H'Jtfalo 4.:.:d.70 Ir.c. M Omaha 4.m.i rvc..27. Indianapolis f..''.ea7 Inc.. S-l Cf!umfu. 0 4.S4C.to inc.. f.i Bvansviile, Ind . D-c.. 7.5 Total. Cnite.1 State tl.P7.i.Sf.2. 14 Inc. .771 Totals outfile Nw York.... tVCS.. lnc.Sa.7 DECISION AGAINST TOLEDO. Rullne: That Anet Mnyor Jonri'i Municipal Ownership Plitns. TOLEDO, O., April II. Judge Millard, of the Frobate Court, to-day handed down a decision In the famous case of the City of Toledo vs. the Manufacturers Rallroa-1 Company. The road, previous to the election of Mayor Jones, had sought to condemn certain property in the city fot the purpose of getting a right of way. The question of granting the franchise became an issue in the campaign and Mayor Jones's opposition to it contributed largely to his election. Mayor Jones is opposed to granting the use of the streets to rrivate corporations, and, the city filed a motion to prevent further condemnation of property by the railroad. The judge, in deciding against the city, stated that he did so because the law wai plain on the point, although It conflicted with his private views. The road will b compelled to go before the City Council, however, for certain privileges, and it is doubtful if the line can be built, unless Mayor Jones and his friends in the Council consent. It has been stated, since the decision of the court, that the necessity of the line to the city would cause those interested! in municipal ownership to at once prepare to further the line by introducing resolutions into the Council to permit tho city to buiid the ro.id and run it according to the municipal ownership idea. The decision of Judge Millard, in part, follows: "Hearing was had upon this motion to dismiss and the court is practically asked to send the petitioner out of court without inquiring into any or all of the grounds which, by statute, are to be parsed upon by the court to determine these Jurisdictienal questions. This is so uncommon a proceeding, so at variance with the ordinary practice in this class of cases, and with the ccurse that the statutes point out. that I approach a determination of the issues in-, volved and argued with a degree of uncertainty as to the extent that my decision shall now go. that is not satisfactory to myself. At least, public objection to granting to private corporations further privileges in our streets and a feverish political pulse following our recent upheaval here at home, may be resjonsible for this variation from the prescribed line of procedure. "Certainly no person is more opposed to giving up our streets to private corporation than I am. and were 1 the Lcplslature there would be such an overhauling of corporalion laws and reduction of rower. In theso creatures of the law as would safeguard tho individual and place all burdens upon the thing created, at least. This court, however, being itself only the creature of the law, charged solely with discharging certain duties impotl by law, and the interpretation of the higher courts of laws passed by tho Legislature, our private views must step asiie and we must decide all questions in accord with these laws and determinations cf superior courts, even though our most cherished theories are crushed thereby." TOLEDO JONES TALKS. Gives III View on Municipal Ownership and Truati. NFTW YOBK. April 21. Mayor S. M. Jones, of Tededo, who is In New York, was interviewed by a Herald reporter on the report from Ohio that he might be nominated for Governor on the Republican ticket. "I am not a candidate," said Mr. Jones, "though there has been much talk In Ohio about nominating me. I have had a loud call to be mayor of Toledo. Nearly 17,OuO of the 24,OX citizens who voted there at tho last election cast their votes for the independent ticket on which I ran, though both, tho political machines, all the newspapers and corporations in the city and a few of the eminently respectable people were against me. , "Municipal ownership of public utilities is the first step in reform. This public ownership will extend to the State and Nation and I believe that in li-. it will le hardly possible to find a railroad in the country in private hands. The telegraph will be the first to pass Into public control. The taxation of franchises is merely a makeshift compromise. 'iKwelopment of trusts is the most remarkable feature. In my opinion, of the closing years of the century. Their organization and the introduction of labor-saving-machinery have not made the hours of labor any shorter, nor have they increased wages, and they have mad it harder for men to find work." "Do you think the Issues you have mentioned will ligure in the next presidential campaign?" was asked. "They are bound to figure sooner or later," saJd Mayor Jones. "There is a process of evolution going on which Is Inevitable. There is no moral issue between the two great parties. They mu.n have Fomethin? more serious to contenel for than who fhall have the offices. That good can be done with private fortunes does rot obscure tho fact that those fortunes were obtained through a dishonest syttem, no matter how honest the individuals who own them may he. They were gathered at the cost of millions of wrecked and ruined lives." PREMIUM OF $283.82a Samuel Xewlioune, of I'tah, Vayn for a TllK Innurance Policy. NEW YORK. April 2L What is said to be the largest check ever paid in a life Insurance transaction for a "paid-up policy and, annuity was that given yesterday by Samuel Newhousc, cf Salt Lake City, to J. A. Ervln. of the Mutual Life Insurance Company. The check was for jrtt.fCS. For this Mr. Newhouse receives an annuity of J0 during his life and his heirs will receive $200,000 when he dies. While there are many Instances in this country and in England cf taking out larger policies notably those of John Wanaznakor, G?orge W. Yanderbllt, J. J. Hill and the Havemeyers no premium or single payment on the life of a single Individual, it Is said, has ever reached the amount paid bv Mr. Newhouse James J. Hill, presddent of the Great Northern Railway, paid in l?i'2 J13.17 for a policy of JPXV. witb an annuity of J12.4"J. The Havemeyer family paid In 1T0 a single premium of $i7S.."V43 for five policies of JloO.wO each with guaranteed Incomes beginning in ten years. George W. Vanderbllt. two years ago becan tho payment of $3o,oXi on a policy cf Jl.J"y.w. Another noted case Is that of an Englishman who has paid a life insurance company $i3u,0- and received an annuity of F'AM. Mr. Newhouse, who is one of the millionaire rer-identi cf Salt I-ake City, was formerly a New Yorker. He is th? managing director and president of the Ftah Consolidated copper mlr.e of Bingham. Ftah. which was iccently purchased by the Standard Oil Company. He Is also president of the Bton and Montana Copper Company. f Bingham, the Ajax Mining Company and of the lakewood ik. Golden Rrfiirttad. I'nnr Miner Sttiflneutctl. DENVER, Col.. April 21.-A special from Albuquerque. N. M., says that an explosion In V.ok .vt Whir: s coal mtne to-day wrecked th'i machinery and caused the suffocatiori of four men and a boy. The dead are: John SienwIky. Adam J-ia-wl-it. John Beya. Fred Allerl and F. E. Wapps. Th? fXp!eIon whs caused by one of the miners carrying in an open lamp. The mine Is budly wrecked.