Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 250, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 September 1899 — Page 4

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Rejected manuscripts will not be returned unless pottage is inclosed for that purpose. 'THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: KHW YORK Astor House. , CHICAGO Palmer House. P. O. News Co., 217 pearborn street. Great Northern Hotel and Grand Pacific Hotel. CINCINNAT1-J. R. Hawley c Co.. 154 Vine street. L'ISVILLE C. T. Deerlnr. northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, ana t-ouisviue Book Co., J. Fourth avenue. CT. LOUIS Union News Company. Union Depot. WASHINGTON'. D. C Rlgss House, Ebbltt House and Wlllard's Hotel. The quality of harmony which Altgeld Is manufacturing in the East bears a bludgeon for a trademark. .'If a levy of 70 cents was necessary to afford a revenue of $i;il4.000 In 1S99 how can a levy of K cent bring a revenue of $1,131,000 on about the came valuation? If the United States 13 fighting civilization In the person of Aguinaldo, as the antiexpansionists say, what are they fighting In the person of President McKlnley? - MBSBSSSSSMBBSBBBBSBSHBMBSMBSBBBBBBSBBBBBaSBBBSBBSBSSBSBBSS . Probably no person ever got himself elected President of a republic with less trouble than General Jlmlnez In San Domingo. He did not even have to run the gauntlet of a nominating convention and hla campaign expenses were nil. BlllBBBBBBBBSSBBSHBSBaBSMMBMWBMBSBBSBSSBBBSHBSSBlBWaaSB ... - Another and stronger appeal Is to be- made for help for the Porto Rlcans. Something wore than a mere appeal will be necessary. There should be some organized machinery or method of reaching the people. Why should not the government utilize its postoffices or the national banks? - llSBawBaSBBwBSSlSlllWSBSBSiaSBBBBSBBSSBSBaSBSBSSBS The McKIsson organ in Cleveland, O., as might be expected, is supporting McLean. McKIsson was McLean's candidate for United States senator against Hanna when he saw that he could not get the office, McJClsson ran for mayor and was defeated by Republican vote3,. and now his evening paper is supporting McLean. - Whether General Otis remains In command in the Philippines or whether General Miles or General Merritt is sent to relieve him the one thing needful is to do whatever Is necessary to Insure a short, sharp and decisive campaign next fall and winter." The situation does not admit of any personal consideration or army politics. .:..-. If President McKlnley had not his detractors, and viliflers he would be the first President in time of wai to escape them. Washington, during the revolutionary war, Madison, during the war of 1812, Polk, during the. Mexican war, and Lincoln, during "xtiBncIVir war, were all held up to public execration by the Atkinsons and Boutwells of their day. A clergyman la Boston who bears the D. D.. which should stand for intelligence regarding common matters, has preached a eermon In which he declared that Aguinaldo was fighting to break the power of Romanism In the Philippines. Yet the man cannot And a word In. any 'of that leader's speeches which can be construed to have that meaning. It is very hard to believe that such men are' honest. . If they are honest they ere the victims of unbridled imagination. Because he sees a Roman Catholic priest In the Philippines, the preacher declares that "God Is" for Aguinaldo." The United States government owes It to Itself to Investigate the charge, positively and strongly, reiterated, that its consular representative at Sonneberg used his official position and the official envelopes of the office to carry on the spying business for the German government. As a German subject he la not amenable to American law, but the government could peremptorily dismiss him from office. If the story Is true, as It has every appearance of being, It shows the danger of appointing aliens to represent the Unite! States In even the smallest consular positions abroad. The requisite number of signers having been obtained to the petitions In favor of the candidates for school commissioners proposed, by a committee of citizens designated for the purpose, the petitions have been filed and the names will go on the . ticket with others that may be petitioned for. The persons proposed by the commit tee are Albert A. Barnes, Frank T. Edenharter, John M. Emrlch, Arthur Gillett Charles E. HoUenbeck. Aqullla Q. Jones, Albert Rabb, Andrew M. Sweeney, Charles J. Schmidt and George W. Weelburg. These selections were made with reference to fitness end location, are equally divided politically and will make an -excellent list to choose from. There will be five commis loners to elect. v The death of John Y. McKane, of Coney Islind. New York, recalls the career of a somewhat remarkable man. He was for years a political boss In Gravesend. Coney . Island and Kings county. He was Interested la property at Coney Island, and from constable he rose to be the man of authority In his locality. Not a man of ability In any marked sense, he exhibited a wonder ful influence locally. He was expelled from the Democratic? party organlzalon in 1S7 and helped the Republicans in 1SS. turning the vote nearly as strongly Republican a? it had been Democratic. A McKane Republic an wy a distinctive feature in Coney island politics for a year or two, but when Mc Kane went back to his old place with greater power these men followed him. This wa3 probably due to the patronage which he dlspen5d, for people were taxed and im provements were made to make votes. Be sides, McKane had devised an extensive system of repeating by false registration. It was thU that caused his downfall. He was required to show his registration and

refused. It was. secured In some way, be

was Indicted, tried, convicted and rent to the penitentiary for six years. Every effort was made to secure his pardon, but in vain. He came out of prison with the loss of citizenship. Irregularities in his official conduct were discovered which lost him the mot of his property. Mr. McKane all these years was a leader in the Methodist Church, superintendent of the Sunday school and a sturdy pillar. He did not let his vocation interfere with his religion, and certainly "whatever religion he had did not jo Into the affairs of the six secular days. He was not worse than some other men, but he was one whom Justice overtook. A NATIONAL CALUMNIATOR.

John P. Altgeld, In his speech at the Cooper Union meeting in New York a few nights ago. said: "As matters stand to-day the American people seem to exist only for the sake of being despoiled." It is a great thing for people to know when they are being maltreated, misgoverned and robbed. It is bad enough for a people to be despoiled, but to be despoiled without knowing it is far worse. Therefore, perhaps the American people ought to be grateful to Germany for having" contributed Altgeld . to the list of statesmen and prophets who are able to tell them how badly off they are. But for Altgeld the Chicago Anarchists might never have been pardoned, and the American people might not have known that they exist only to be despoiled. But Mr. Altgeld should not have stopped with the general statement; he should have particularized. Of course, not all of the people are being despoiled, because some must be despoilers, and in the nature of things the despoilers must be pretty nearly as numerous as their victims, or, if not as numerous they mu9t have come means of holding up the victims, or lidding them down, otherwise the worlr of spoliation could not go oa As Mr. Altgeld did not specify what class or classes of people are being despoiled it may be worth while to Inquire. It cannot be the farmers, the most numerous cingie class In the country, ana outnumbering any other class many times over. All authorities, including the farmers themselves, agree that they never were as prosperous before as they are now. Men who are paying off debts, wiping out mortgages, making betterments on their farms and carrying bank accounts are not being despoiled. The several million farmers In the United States can testify that Altgeld's statement does not apply to them. The next largest single Industry to agriculture is manufacturing. Does the statement apply to those engaged In that Industry? Are manu facturers cr their employes being despoiled? Let the current news of the day answer. Never before in the history of the country were so many manufacturing establishments so profitably employed or so many persons earning good wages as now. During the last year wages have been voluntarily raised In all the leading Industries of the country, the advances ranging from 10 to 25 and 30 per cent, over two years ago. State Labor Com missioner McCormack, of this State, says there is not a man in Indiana who cannot get work of some kind if he wants it, and that the opportunities for steady employ ment have "increased incredibly." Nowhere is there complaint of lack of employment, but In many places there is complaint of lack of labor. Nobody connected with the manufacturing Industries of the country Is being despoiled.. The same is true of the transportation business, which gives em ployment to nearly 1.000,000 men. All the railroads report enormous business and steadily Increasing. Their earnings are larger than ever before, and they are giving employment to more men at better wages. In mileage, in equipment, in receipts, in number of passengers carried, in amount of freight handled, In number of persons em ployed and aggregate salaries and wages paid the latest reports of the railroads show a great advance over any previous one. They and their employes are not being despoiled. And so one might go through the whole list of gainful and productive occupations, mechanical Industries, all branches of business and trade all are sharing In the general prosperity. Mr. Altgeld says the whole American people are being despoiled, but he cannot name a single class that is. He Is a common ccold and national calumniator. AGUINALDO AND HIS FRIENDS. Mr. Boutwell. In his speech at Springfield Tuesday nigl t, said that "Wherever we have touched the Philippine Islands we have round civilization, domestic comfort and a form of government that was popular in its nature and agreeable to the people. This is a gross exaggeration, to say the least. There are some civilized and edu cated people among the Filipinos, but -to say that we have found civilization every where is untrue. As for popular government, nothing of the kind exists. The only government exercised by Aguinaldo is military despotism. Continuing his misstatements, Mr. Boutwell said:. In all the principal islands there are local and municipal governments, on which the framework of a general government can lest and be maintained in stability and isror. Such a government, bashed on a declaration of independence, has been set up. with Aguinaldo at its head and with the authorized concurrence of the representative men of 131 provinces and cities and towns. We are engaged In war with an organized, civilized body of men. who number eight or ten millions, or even twelve million possibly In all, and who can command a righting force of two millions. These statements are not sustained by any authority. In fact, they are flatly contradicted by all who have any personal knowledge of the situation. There is abundant evidence that Aguinaldo represents only a small faction. In August, 1S0S, General Greeno said In an official report: There is no reason to believe that Aguinaldo?. government has any elements of stability. It does not command the hearty sup port or tne large bony of the Filipinos, both In Manila and outside, who have propertv. education and intelligence. This is purely a xagai insurrection. A statement from M. Andre, Belgian con. sul at Manila, dated Aug. 29, 1SS3, said: The present rebellion only represents a half per cent, of the inhabitants." It cer tainly does not represent any more now than It did a year ago. A dispatch from Manila in yesterday's Journal stated that a body of 500 natives, Macabebes, had been organized to act as scouts for General Lawton. Commissioner Schurman said in a re cent statement: The Tagals have sent out little bands of men to the chief towns of many of the Islands. They send seventy-five or one hundred armed men. and it is easy for them to keen the unarmed population of several thousand in a passive state. The principle is the same as when three or four armed highwaymen hold up a passenger train. By sheer force or nerve and guns they make the rasseneers all submit to being robbed. The Tagalos are equally high-handed in their method " That Is the kind of "popular government" Aguinaldo Is establishing and which Mr. Boutwell praises. Mr. Boutwell says Aguin aldo represents 131 provinces and ten to twelve millions of people. On the 6th of August, 1S38, Aguinaldo himself only claimed to control fifteen provinces, with a popula tion of 2,000.000, or about one-sixth of the i entire population of the Islands. He con-

trols less now than he did then. Mr. Bout

well allows his enthusiasm for Aguinaldo to run away with him. NO CLAIM FOR A THIRD TERM. There is but one class of citizens ' who have a really good reason for voting the Taggart ticket on Oct. 10, and that class Is composed of the men who hope to gain something by maintaining the Taggart con trol in Marion county. AH. those men who expect to continue their places in the Taggart regime are naturally for him. The large number of persons who are candidates for county and other offices, who live by politics so far as they may be said to have a living, are for Mr. Taggart because he rules, the party to an extent that no 4 man can hope for a nomination unless he has the boss's approval. The considerable body of voters to whom the statutes of the State are an impediment are for Mr. Taggart. In the four years which Mr. Taggart has "been mayor he has done nothing to entitle him to the votes of any other class of citizens than those mentioned. He has done nothing for the city that any other mayor would not have done, and he has done many things which a considerate mayor would not. If Mr. Harding had been elected two years ago the city would not have paid more than a price and a half for the Taggart park lands. That was not a business transaction. And yet it Is the only distinctive act during his administration that Is entirely the mayor's the only one. The mayor's friends are claiming great credit for him because he has reduced the city levy to 59 cents. They had better leave that matter alone. If be caused a TO-cent levy to be made after three years experience In office on the ground that such a levy was necessary, and, when four years in office, discovered that a 59-cent levy is sufficient to meet an increased expenditure, Mr. Taggart confesses that he took 11 cents on each $100 from the taxpayers this year above the amount necessary to run the affairs of the city, and such an admission Is a confession that he is a blunderer and that he has laid a needless burden upon taxpayers. If it shall appear at the close of the fiscal year that he has expended nearly all the money derived from a 70-cent levy his 59-cent levy convicts him either of trying to deceive the 'people or of wasting 11 cents on each $100 the present year. If he is trying to deceive In this matter the mayor Is a trickster; if he means what he says, and 39 cents is sufficient, the mayor is a blunderer. The man who is either a trickster or a blunderer is not entitled to a third term by the votes of intelligent citizens. i It would be interesting to know what in fluence caused Altgeld, Judge Tarvin, of Kentucky, and Representative Lentz, of Ohio, to go East to make! speeches. Three more radical and narrow sllverites cannot be found. As for Lentz, he is vying with Atkinson In his unpatriotic utterances. To a Rhode Island audience he said: If the flag is to stand for murder and re pression, for the extinction of that liberty which is the foundation stone of this Republic, for a denial of Justice and God-given rights to a struggling people, then I say down with such a flag, and make another which shall be more in keeping with the spirit of our republican institutions. In closing his speech Lentz paid a tribute to Aguinaldo, saying that he "Is one of the most heroic men of this age and generation." Has any committee representing the Democratic organization sent these three men out to make silver and seditious speeches? If such is not the case. Chairman Stone should repudiate them. Ultra silverIsm is bad enough, but, to use the language of the Democratic Memphis Appeal, the man who utters such talk as has been quoted. Is a traitor. The Journal Is not advising the Bryan leaders, but if it were, It would urge them to call off such men as Lentz, unless It Is their purpose to load their party down with the advocacy of a shameless policy. One of the most valuable functions of the federal courts is to set the state courts right when the latter undertake to override fundamental constitutional principles. The United States District Court, at Little Rock, Ark., has Just done this by setting aside an injunction granted by a State court forbidding the bringing of miners from an other State into Arkansas. The order of the State court was evidently in sympathy with local sentiment. . In dissolving the in junction the United States Judge said: A State has the right to prohibit the im portation of convicts, lepers. Idiots and persons afflicted with contagious diseases, but it nas no ngnt to prevent the incoming of men from other States not within the classes enumerated. The fourteenth amend ment to the Constitution of the United btates guaranteed equal protection to all, and under that amendment persons had a perfect right to ,go from one State Into another In the pursuit of employment, and it was not within the power of a State to stop inem so long as tney am not belong to the Interdicted classes. Of course this is good law, and the sooner local Judges and other local authorities un derstand It the better. The right of free locomotion and the right to live and work where one pleases must be guaranteed to every American, subject only to punish ment for crime o" to such restrictions as those above indicated by the federal Judge. It is announced in Washington on what is called unquestionable authority that the case of Captain Carter, which has attracted so much attention. for months, will be decided adverse to that officer within two weeks. It is given out on this authority that the attorney. general. can find nc flaw In the proceedings of the court-martial and that revelations of a sensational character will be made in that officer's report. For fourteen years Captain Carter had the direction of the improvements "in Savannah harbcr, during which period It is claimed that he defrauded the government of over a million dollars. When Captain Carter was assigned to the Nicaragua commission his successor made the discovery. He was defended by able counsel and every effort made to clear him. Since his conviction some of the most powerful political Influences have been brought to bear upon the President to have the finding of the court and its sentence set aside. The President having no time to devote to consideration of the several thousand pages of testimony, had It examined first by ex-Senator Edmunds and since by the attorney general. If the facts are as stated Captain Carter will , not get clear. The most daring trade combination that has been announced for years is one in London which proposes to crush out all competition in the wall-raper business and raise the'priee 25 per cent.- If this combination shall succeed, one-third of those now in the business will be thrown out of employment. This will lead those who have been taught to believe that a protective tariff Is the mother of trusts to use the language of the head of the sugar trustto inquire how It comes about that la freetrade England a trust can be formed a real trust controlling the supply and making the price of an article that a half-dozen countries produce In abundance and can

put upon the British market without paying a cent of duty. It seems Impossible that such a trusty" can be formed, but, as there are a score or more similar trusts In Great Britain controlling articles of quite as general use as wall paper, it is not improbable that this combination will succeed. The tariff Is certainly not the mother of the British trusts, but it must be admitted that there are a' great many orphans in the country of free trade. The banding together ''of hoodlums and young toughs to annoy and terrify peaceable people in different sections of the city Is so well known a fact that many citizens understand it, even if the police do not. Because those who have : participated in such lawlessness are not checked the evil Is spreading. The latest report is that a band of lawless persons has actually been enlisted in the northeastern part of the city whose purpose Is to drive all the colored people of that section out of it: That there is talk of such a movement should cause the police authorities to investigate the reports, and, if evidence Is found that such a conspiracy exists, to arrest the ringleaders before they shall carry their plans Into execution. Negro hunting may. do in sections of the South as a Democratic pastime, but it would be embarrassing, to Mayor Taggart Just now, when he is asking so much of the colored voters. The Board of Public Safety should waste no time in suppressing the hoodlum element which has been making so many local demonstrations of late. Political Salubrity. Under the head "Cities that Aro Full of Pride," an article in the. Chicago Tribune gives sketches of several. citi3s which are noted for one thing or another. Baltiiaore gets credit as the greatest oyster market of the world; Leavenworth, Kan., as the greatest apple-packing center; Denver as having more bicycles in proportion .to Tts population than any other city; Albany, N. Y., as laving a $2),000,WX) Statehouse. and so on. Of Indianapolis it says: Indianapolis boasts of the finest climate in the United States in respect to political salubrity. A few years in its atmosphere will convert a farmer boy into a 1 'reside nt or Vice President, while its output of ambassadors, consuls general and the like Is merely regarded as an incident to the more important wtirk in hand of turning out national presiding omcers. At present IndJanapoiitans hola many Important European consular posts. One is minister to Austria. Just now the postmasters at Havana, Ponce and ban Juan, the three Important cities of our new acquisitions, are all. from Indianapolis. But the city has a more unique record than this. It has had representation on national tickets for the longest unbroken perioyi of any city in the country. In a period Jof twenty years, beginning with 12.

lucre was not a national flection -wnen the city was without representation on one of the tickets. If Schuyler Colfax, whose home was at South JtiendV but who spent much of his time in Indianapolis, is considered an lndianapolitan. this oe.iod is extended another four years: and on top of this, an lndianapolitan was a aatlonal candidate for View President in the days before the war. The unbroken stretch of twenty years, when bona fide residents of the city were on national tickets,' is as follows: In 1S72 five electoral votes were cast for George W. Julian for Vice President and tony-two votes for Thomas A. Hendricks for President; 1876,-Hendricks was the Democratic nominee for Vice President; IW, William H. English was the Democratic nominee for Vice President; 14, Hendricks was the successful candidate for Vice President; lbS8, Benjamin Harrison was the successful nominee for President; lt&2, Harrison was the defeated Republican nominee for President. In 186S Colfax was elected Vice President. In 1S52 Julian was the nominee for Vice President on the Free Soil Democratic ticket. Barring some slight Inaccuracies, this is not altogether bad, though it falls to mention some things for which the city should receive credit. Neither Schuyler Colfax nor George W. Julian could fairly be credited to Indianapolis as candidates, -for the af ormer lived in South Bend" and the latter did not become a citizen, of Indianapolis until long after he ran for Vice President. The postmaster at Havana , is an Indianapolis man, but those at Ponce and San Juan are not. Thanks, however, to the discriminating Judgment of First Assistant Postmaster General Heath, who Is an Indiana ' man, there are several Indiana men in responsible positions in the postal service of Porto Rico. They were brought up in practically the same political atmosphere as that of Indianapolis. It might have been mentioned that this is the only city in the United States that is the residence of two Republican United States senators, one of whom is the only senator who has visited the Philippines in person and who,, since his return, has proved inaccessible to the reporters of enterprising newspapers. If Albany has a $20,000,000 Statehouse, Indianapolis is the only city that has a Statehouse that Vas. built within7 the original appropriation and without a suggestion of jobbery in connection with it. It should have been stated, also, that Indianapolis has more miles of asphalt streets and cement sidewalks than any city of its size in the United States, the most expensive and beautiful soldiers' monument In America, and the reputation of furnishing more and better ice cream soda for a nickel than any other city. It is an old saying that "two heads are better than one." Maitre Laborl believes that "two crowned heads for one's client are better than a lot of republican heads against him." Any person wanting direct' communication with a human being bearing the title of the Undisputed Whole Thing would do well to write to General Jiminez, San Domingo. 3Iore than Its Share. Philadelphia North American. "Some curious things were shown by the publication of a list of pensioners who receive more than $i!i a month," said S. C. Werner, of Peoria, 111. "There were less than 4,000 altogether, which, under the law of averages, would give less than one pensioner to each town of 500 people. Yet, in the Jlttle village of Golconda, in Illinois, there are five, of whom four receive $72 each a month, and one $30. Some people thought they had explained this when they found that a former pension commissioner, General Raum, lives at Golconda." Morgan County Gold. Martinsville (Ind.) Reporter. Morgan county is destined to become prominent as a gold field. Gold hunters arc at work constantly, except ta the driest or the coldest weather In Sycamore creek, in Clay township. Gold was found in paying quantities, according to a scientific test, made by a Colorado mint, in the shale at the Adams Brick Company's plant at the north edge of town. Gold is found often in the little streams In the "Polk" Fisher neighborhood, five miles south, of town. Chlcken-Ilalstng in Jay County. Portland (Ind.) Sun. A young lady in this county embarked in the poultry business last spring with sixteen Plymouth Rock birds. She now has one hundred chicks, besides selling enough eggs to more than pay for the expenses and time in looking after the flock. She expects to keep forty hens during the winter and reap a large profit from the sale of eggs. The Sun is asked not to publish her name, as her enterprise is new and she Is unwilling to undertake the support of a man and the poultry at the same time. Should He Curbed. Baltimore American. Among recent suicides was that of a young woman who could not control an Intense curiosity to experience the sensation of death. The investigating young mind of the present needs to be gently but firmly collared and led back relentlessly to the path of healthy thinking, from which it has mown an alarming tendency to stray into the byways ana thickets or abnormal roily. Theory and Practice. Chicago Post. - "I'm willing to give you $3 for that article on 'How to Live on 15 Cents a Day,' " said the editor. - "Great mackerel!" cried the contributor. 'Why. that won't much more than provide us with our regular Sunday dinner.

FOR THE GOLD STANDARD

RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION. Reports of Committees on Education) Credits and Fidelity Insurance The Charging of Exchange. CLEVELAND. O., Sept. C-The American Bankers Association put itself on record unequivocally In favor of the gold standard to-day by adopting a resolution, the meaning of which nobody can mistake. That action, taken hi connection with the placing of Col. Myron T. Herrick, President McKlnley's close friend, In line for the presidency of the association in 1900, made it quite a day for the national administration. The adoption of the gold standard resolution was not, perhaps, a surprise. The association is a sound money body from end to end. Heretofore all attempts to induce the association to take action which might be regarded as of a political character have failed, but to-day the view taken was that the money question was one which ought to be elevated- above politics. So when the resolution v as brought forward the association forgot its historical conservatism and voted for the declaration enthusiastically and unanimously. Walter Hill, of St. Louis, will be chosen as the next president of the association. The nominating committee decided at its meeting previous to the opening of the convention to-day to recommend his name to the convention to-morrow, when, the annual election takes place, and the recommendation will mean an election. Mr. Hill has been vice president of the association during the past year. Alvah Trowbridge, president of the North American Trust Company, of New York, will be recommended by the committee for first vice president. He, too, will undoubtedly be elected. Mr. Trowbridge has acted as chairman of the executive committee during the past year. The report of the committee on education was presented at this morning's session. The committee reported that It had examined the operation cf the Institute of Bankers, in London, and that the formation of an institute of American bankers on similar lines should be a comparatively easy matter. That the working forces of the banks were willing and desirous of entering such an association was, the committee said, shown by the petitions. The proposed institute would bring to them much knowledge of the theory and prac tice of banking to be acquired otherwise only by experience cr individual investigation. As a means of education and training, the committee said, it must be as valuable to the banking houses as to the employes who enjoyed its benefits. The percapita cost would be slight, the collective value immeasurable. By a systematic local organization in each American city the institute might obtain large membership and influence within a year. Its aim must appeal to those who believe in a more intelligent application of banking practices in this country. General Whiting, of Alabama, Introduced a resolution, which was passed, recommending that the committee on education be continued and that it be instructed to present to the executive council a plan for the organization of such an Institute as that In London, described by Mr. Cornwell. The committee on credits appointed at the meeting in March last reported as follows: First, that a committee on credits be made one of the standing committees of the association; second, that the association establish in the city of New York an agency to be known as the 'Bureau of Bank Credits, whose duty shall be to collect Information in regard to the standing of all parties who, either as makers or indorsers, sell their paper on the market, and to perform such other duties as the association may from time to time prescribe. In the .bsence of Chairman A. C. Anderson, of the committee on fidelity insurance, Mr. Caldwell Hardy presented the report of that oommlttee. The fidelity insurance committee reported that po replies had been received from a considerable number of members who are private bankers and brokers in the large cities and do not bond their employes. "We find from 2.2SC replies." the report said, "that 1.2S2 banks do not use corporate fidelity suretyship, while 1,004 of our mem bers carry such Insurance, and they are at present covering between 9.000 and 10.000 banK employes, wnose Donas aggregate 814.310; that there was paid for such insurance during 1S93 $213,552, while the cost of such protection for the six years, 1893 to 1808, inclusive, has been approximately $1,281,314. The total losses reported for these six years, including 40.uuo now being contested by the companies, amount to $171,084, or an average of less than $30,000 per annum returned on an annual outlay of over 2tK.000. It will be seen that these figures lndl cate a loss of 52 cents per annum on ecch $1,000 of Insurance In force, which Is a smaller percentage of loss on bank risks than we had been led to expect." .A uniform bond was submitted, the object being to prevent litigation. The convention, by a rising vote. decided to continue the fidelity insurance committee. The report of the committee on warehouse receipts and bills of lading was next presented by Maurice M. White, of Cincinnati. At the close of the reading of the reports. B. O. Leach, of New York, vice president and cashier of the National Union Bank. got the recognition of the chair, t.rd in a brief speech presented a set or resolutions which indorse the gold standard. Mr. Leach said that the resolution would stay the hands of the members of Congress. After a hot debate, it was decided that the resolu tions must be referred to the council. Cbairman Trowbridge called the council to order right In the convention, and in a moment of time it was recommendad ror presentation to the convention. The resold Ions were then voted upon and unanimously adopted. They follow: "The bankers of the United States most earnestly recommend that the Congress of the United States at its next fisnlon ensct a law to more firmly and unequivocally es tablish the gold standard in this country by providing that the gold dollar, which, under existing law. is the unit of value, stall be the standard and measure of all values in the United States; that all the obligations of the government, and all paper irrney. Including circulating notes of national banks. shall be redeemed in gold coin, and that the legal-tender notes of the United States. when paid into the treasury, thall not be reissued, except upon the deposit cf tn equivalent amount or gold coin. The representatives of various clearing house associations who assembled in con nection with the bankers' convention de clared unanimously in favor of charging exchange for the handling of checks and drafts from other cities, and steps wero taken to carry their recommendation Into effect. The conference was attended by sixty delegates, representing twenty-three of the thirty-one cities invited to partici pate. The following resolution was unanimously adopted: "Resolved, That the practice of charging exchange for the handling of out-of-town Items is Just and proper and within the scope of legitimate banking; therefore all bankers, botn city ana country. -are en titled to receive the benefits of the same. "Resolved, That we recommend to all the clearing-house associations in the United States the adoption of a by-law or an amendment to their constitutions as follows: The clearing-house association shal have Dower to establish rules and regula tions regarding collections by members of the association or oanxs or trust com pa nles, or others clearing through such members, and the rates to be charged for such collections, and also providing for the enforcement of the same. It may, from time to time, make any additions to cr changes In such rules and regulations as It deems Judicious. Any rule or regulation upon the subject must receive a majority vote of all the members, and . when once established It shall not be altered or rescinded until it has been in force, at least three months, and then only by a majority vote of the clearing-house association.' Fifty representatives of tru3t companies attended the meeting of the trust-company section of the Bankers' Association. The meeting was presided over by Breckinridge Jones, of St. Louis, the chairman. The report of the executive committee, read by Anton G. Hodenpyl. of Grand Rapids. Mich., showed that the companies belonging to the section have a capital of $94,000,000 and a surplus of $57,000,000, while their cash deposits are JS10.000.000. William G. Mather of Cleveland. Atllla Cox of Louisville. Ky., and Breckinridge Jones, of St. Louis, were elected members of the executive committee to succeed John H. Holliday of Indianapolis, George IL

Southard of Brooklyn and Anton G. Hodenpyl of Grand Rapids, Mich., whose terms expire. SCURVY CAUSES DISTRESS.

Half the People on Cllpperton Island Affected , with the Disease. SAN FRANCISCO, 8epU . The steamer Sequoia, which has arrived from Cllpperton island, reports that scurvy is causing much distress there. Five men have died and twenty-three others are afflicted with the malady. There are about fifty men on the island. Those on the island were in a'state of dire alarm when the steamer arrived, on Aug. 11. It being the first vessel touching there in four months. Only sixteen men were fit to be at work. The stores of the Sequoia were levied on and lime Juice and vegetables were dealt out to those who were III, with the result that when she sailed all showed signs of improvement. SBBSSBSIBSBSBBS1SIBSBBSBSSMBBBSBSSBBBBBSMSBBSSBWSSSBSBSBBSBBBB BISHOP HURST ARRIVES TAKES CHARGE OF CONFERENCE AND TELLS A M'KINLEY STORY. Appointment of Elders and Standing Committees for the Comtnsx Year Missionary Work. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FRANKFORT, Ind.. Sept. 6. The first business session of the forty-eighth annual Northwest M. E. Conference opened with 250 ministers present. Bishop Hurst did not arrive until 9 o'clock and Elder J. H. Clssell was chosen temporary chairman. J. A. Maxwell was made secretary and W. P. McKIn?ey treasurer. After the arrival of the bishop opening services were held. followed by the appointment of stewards and committees. Rtvarrii I. H. ClaVTJOOl. A. W. Wood. S. P. Calvin, W. P. McKinsey, J. C. Kemp, W. A. Smith. L. C. Buckles. J. H. Shell, W. R. Mickels. Trial of Appeals W. H. Bloomneld. Thomas Merialth, B. F. ivy, W. F. Clark, J. S. Hoogiana. . , rtnard of Church Extension President. G. W. Switzer; vice president. C. B. Mock; secretary, e;. i. vvem; treasurer, Brockenbough; other members, C. G. Miller and G. Godfrey. , Board of Church Location Craw fordsdistrict. J. B. Slier, H. L. Davis, Dr. J. Detchon, D. W. Garad. Greencastle district. O. P. Paxsen, W. N. Dunn, W. E. Pamontor -J S Tallpv. Tfavette district. C. H. Mock, J. E. McClelland, C. E. Wells, John C. Brockenbough. soutn uena aistrlct. J. G. Campbell, L. a. smitn. J. tu Dunn, W. W. McCollach. Valparaiso district. R. D. Utter. A. P. De Long. J. P. Hawkins, A. R. Colburn. Standing Committees American Bible Society, F. M. Pavey, J. B. Mott, Henry Ross, J. N. Harmon, O. B. Rlppltoe. Book Concerns and Periodicals, H. N. Ogden. W. N. Dunn, D. A. Rogers, N. E. Tinkham, W. A. Matthews, A. G. Ditch. Church Extension, J. M. Brown, A. J. Waller, J. A. Clearwater, A. U. Miller, A. .U. e.iarK, rranus Cox. Conference Relations, W. F. Switzer, Vf T. llnrUe- CI V. Ciramer. 8. W. Goes. David Hanly. Education, D. M. Wood, A. c. Geyer, w. m. xnnppey, j. w. rucnarus, T. J. Bassett, C. H. Leason. J. W. Walker, A. T. Brlggs, H. C. Neal, W. E. McKlnzie. Epworth League A. H. De Long, J. V. Green, L. V. Rector, J. G. Campbell, J. S. Hoogland, W. F. Hovls. Freedman's Aid Society and Southern Education Society J. R. Troxwell, O. H. Berry, E. M. Dunklebarger, B. H. Beall, J P Shagley. 'in 'Meraorlam R. S. Utter, E. P. Bennett, J. H. Clssell, A. C. Geyer, F. W. Gee, Samuel Beck, G. R. Streeter, J. W. G. McMulConference Trustees D. M. Wood, David Handley, W. H. Hickman, W. P. McKinsey, J. W. Walker, R. D. Utter. Observance of the Sabbath H. C. Riley, C. S. Shumaker. J. E. McCloud, A. M. Haginbook. M. H. Appleby, A. P. De Long, K. H. Sanders, Eli Myers. Postoffices Charles Jaker, J. T. Stafford, J. L. Wright, Lynn Bates, A. A. Dunavy. Snnrlav Srhftfl TInlon and Tracts C. W. Pastill, J. W. Kreivel. J. F. Beisel, William Davis, A. L. umpieDy, J. . Lrfjaer. Temperance J. D. Reder, D. Tillotson, J. M. Williams. C. L. Harper, H. A. Tucker, H. M. Middleton. Women's Foreign . Society C. B. Stanforth, J. B. Harper. C. O. Smcck, C. B. Allen. A. A. Randall. Woman's Home Missionary Society A. G. Yount, Fred W. Hixon, C. O. Smock, J. N. Thompson, E. D. Smith. Educational Special W. F. Switzer, H. N. Ogden. E. W. Lawhon, William Tiffy, E. W. Switzer, J. C. Kemp, F. O. Fraley, t? T PeH f M. Annlehv. Hospitals W. F. Switzer. G. W. Switzer, J. W. Walker, C. V. Stockbarger, W. L. oliirrrfi Tncuranre IT. S. White. J. H. Rayle, J. J. Thompson, H. M. Campbell, II. M. Appleby. State of the Country H. H. Dunlavey, H. G. Ogden, U. G. Leazenby, L. S. Smith, R. D. Utter, J. Lk ureenway. Fnllnwlne the readlnr of tne list the COn frnii was hHpflv addressed by Bishop Hurst relative to his missionary experience abroad, in wmcn ne stated mat one 01 nis anna yatam a- nl1lf and On the tranSDOrt Morgan City, which was wrecked, all on board being saved. Bishop Thoburn then entered the cnurcn ana was lniroaucea. Vlcht hundred and twentv-four dollars was th nmnimt renorted to the conference as a dividend from the Book Concern. The Preachers' Aid Society also reported a check of $3,622.5, $2,200 trom tne cnarierea fund. In Bishop Thoburn's missionary address it was stated that the Asiatic field extended over four thousand miles in length. Missionary work has already been fnmmonrori n the PhilinDines by the church. Bishop Thoburn is a stanch expansionist. Bishop Hurst paid a beautiful tribute to President McKlnley, stating that a few days ago he called on tne resiaeni and airri him If there was not some small burden that he could help him bear. The President replied that there was one thing hA rnuld do keen nravin? for him. The bishop said he did not believe that there was another man in tne worm wno reuea so implicitly upon God to direct him as Pres Mnt MrTClnlev. This afternoon tho Preachers Aid Society, with President Goben, of De Pauw University, in the chair, held a meeting in the church while the various committees of the conefrence met m tne ainrerent mnmm Th cnnii.il rpnort of the Preach ers' Aid Society showed total amount on hand of $44,933.74. an increase or u. f ollowing officers were elected: Dr. Goben, president; W. P. McKinsey, vice president; if. Kindle, treasurer. Rev. A. E. Sche!l. of Chicago, preached the missionary sermon. Dr. Schell made no reference to tne ngnt Deing znaae against Ytim hv rr T-a rk hurst and others. The In dications are now that the conference will take no notice of it unless It will be to ap point an lnrormai committee to near ur. fiohall't ct-itATriprit. To-nlht Bishon Thoborn addressed the conference on mission ary work Instead of Dr. J. if. Leonard, who is absent on account of the death of his wife. Ready for Indiana Conference. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENCASTLE, Ind.. Sept 6. This city Is rapidly getting in condition to entertain the coming meeting of the Indiana Confer ence. The sessions beginning next week will be held in Meharry Hall, except the overflow meetings, which will go to Locuststreet Church. The city has made all necessary arrangements to entertain the fiOO or more preachers and guests who will attend. Bishon Goodsell will preside. In ad dition to the Indiana Conference being the largest in the State and one of the largest in the United States, great interest centers in the meeting this year because lay and ministerial delegates are to be chosen to the General Conference in Chicago next May. The annual conferences will be represented at that meeting by an equal num ber of laymen and ministers. The conference will be held in the week usually set apart for the opening of De Pauw. and the faculty of the university has postponed the fall term opening until the week follow ing conference. Wealthy Hebrevr Found Dead. ATLANTA. Ga.. Sept. (5. Sigm jnd Landauer. president of the Southern agricul tural works, was found at an arly hour this morning in a canebrake n the Chatta hoochee river, six miles from 1 ere, tn a dying condition. He lived about an hour after being discovered, never regaining consciousness. He had taken an overdose of morphine, whether with ulcilal inttnt Is not known. He had oeen in Lad health fcr some time. Mr. LAnqauer was one cr tne wealthiest Hebrews in tne city. Creek Nation Election. MUSCOGEE. I. T Sept. .-Returns from thft election held in the creek Nation estrdav are comlne In slowly. The election nassed off auletlv. and the indications are that P. Porter, of this place, the leader of the progressive element, has been elected chief of the nation oy a smau majority.

DEATH AND SUFFERING

TRIBULATIONS OF GOLD SEEKERS IN THE COrPER RIVER COUNTRY. Seven Members of a Scientific Pros pecting Company Deal-A Jewel er'i Body ricked by Ilavevs. SEATTLE. Wash., Sept. C-Otto Thews, of Primrose, la., who has arrived here from Copper river, Alaska, brings news "confirm ing the reported deaths of seven members cf the Scientific Prospecting Company, of New York. The dead are Earhardt. Miller, Allerman, Schutz, Peter Slegel, Butner and Baumgartner. Georse Hooker, .another member of the party, got out alive but is badly crippled with scurvy, which carried away the majority of his companions. Baumgartner went out hunting and was never seen again. The most affecting case was that of Butner, who was' driven insane by his sufferings. His weak companions had to strap him down, but even then could cot restrain him. One morning Thews, whose camp was near, found Butner sitting out in the snow with his clothes and hat off. The thermometer was 45 degrees below zero. Butner was taken inside, but he died in a few hours. The party was camped at Twelve Mile, Just beyond Valdes glacier. Thews also brings a gruesome story la connection with the finding of the remains of a jeweler named Smith, who perished last November on Valdez glacier. Every exposed portion of the body had been eaten away by ravens. The remains were Identified to be thoe of Smith by the clothing and effects found with them. A purse containing $250 was found among the effects. A prospector named Austed, a partner of Smith, said a money belt which con talned a sum of money was missing. Thews said he had a close call crossing the glacier. He fell into a crevasse -1.000 feet deep from the top. but the j pack on his back caught him and held him until his companions could come to his rescue. INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION IT RESUMES THE TAKING OF TESTI MONY AT WASHINGTON. History of Oil Production as Related by P. C. Doyle, of the Oil City Der- ' rick Methods of Trusts.. . V WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. The Industrial commission resumed its sittings In this city to-day. P. C Boyle, editor of the Oil City Derrick, said, in reply to questions, that he owned the majority of the stock of the paper, and that it was tho organ of the cil producers generally. He said that the Standard Oil Company had afforded no oc casion for criticism for the past ten years. He had come before the commission on hi own initiative, and not in response to the solicitation of the Standard Company. Mr. Boyle read a prepared statement of great length. It was a general'review of the history of oil production Jn the United States. . In reply to a question, Mr. Boyl said there w is now no tax on the oil production. "Would not such a tax be agood source of revenue?" Mr. Livingston asked. Tt would be a source of revenue, cer tainly," the witness replied, "but I am not prepared to say that it would be a good source either for the producer or the con sumer." ' , Coming to the year of 1S72, Mr. Boyle en tered upon the history of the South Improvement Company, one of the first efforts to form a combination of the oil interests. This organization was. he contended, the result of a movement by the railroads and not by the oil men. "The Standard Oil Company." he added, "has been much maligned In connection with this organiza tion." me purpose of the combination was to give a special differential rate, he said. . but there was so much complaint by the oil interest that the purpose was not carried out. Replying to Mr. Livingston. Mr. Boyle said he did not know that any advantages were now extended to the oil ptoducers or refiners. At the afternoon session Mr. Boyle gave a history of the construction of the various pipe lines connected with the oil industry, for the purpose, as he said, of showing how consolidation was ultimately reached. Mr. Livingston urged that the history be omitted, saying that if each witness was to be "prepared to enter upon such detail a thou sand volumes would be required to print the proceedings. The commission decided, however, to hear Mr. Boyle in his own way. Originally, Mr. Boyle said, the pipe lines were merely transporters of oil, but later they became buyers. Each paid its own price, so that by 1S77 the competition had become so sharp that none of them were able to sustain themselves. To save themselves they then began to consolidate un der the name of the United Pipe-line Com pany, with a capital of $3,000,000. Thire was no doubt that the competition had been the cause of this consolidation. The business could not have exHed irrg if the companies had not united tlelr interests. In reply to a question he :.ul ihv. .he United Pipe-line Company was a part f ti. Standard Oil Company system, and had been, practically, from the beginning of the history of the line. There had been a constant Increase of production soon after this consolidation until ISnj, when there was a dally production of 82,000 barrels, with the necessary result of a rapid decline In prices. This condition caused the organization of the Producers Protective Association, which is in existence to-day. This organization was separate from the -Standard Oil Company, though working In harmony with it. As a result of this consolidation crude oil advanced 23 cents per barrel. There had, however, not ben a corresponding lncreise in the price of the refined oil. Mr. Bovle said that while he had heard a great deal of the reduction of prices by the Standard Oil Company to destroy competition, he knew nothing of any such prac tice. Certainly no sucn practice exisiea m the oil country, and he knew nothing about operations elsewhere. He thought it probable that low prices had been made in order to dispose of surplus stock at different times. Giving the statistics of oil production to the present time. Mr. Boyle raid that in, the thirty-eight years of the history of the Industry 100.K31 wells had been sunk, at a cost of $232,121,000. the vlue of the crude oil product being JTrSl.OH Of this amount he estimated that $19 4. 000 .000 went to the land owners: Deducting all expenses, the profits of the producers for the . entire period amounted to $2G3.ooo.noO. He introduced a table to show that since !: the production of oil had increase! to the extent of 400 per cent, while the price had depreciated 75 r-r rfnt Speaking of the Pure Oil Company. Mr. Boyle said It bad become a veritable trust being In reality the only oil trust- It was, he said, far more secretive In its methods than the Standard. He declared that th Independent movement had had no effect in the way of reducing the prices of olh It had. however, resulted in improving tho fortunes of some of the refiners, who were making a great deal of money. Mr. Boyle reflected rather severely upon the Independent companies. . Whn the commission adjourned for the day Mr. Boyle had not concluded his testimony. He will continue his statement to-morrow. - . ... A The Industrial Commission will send lte Bubcommlssions on manufactures, on transportation and on agriculture to Chicago and other points West seme time during the autumn to conduct inquiries as to the conditions that severally interest them in that section of the country. The subcommlssion on agriculture found at its sitting In the West that the agricultural ills In that section are largely associated with the transportation problem, and that there is work for the transportation subcommUsion to attend to there Another Cnt In Frelaht Rates. v a a r-TTV 1n Kntf & The Bur. llngton company scored again to-day In its fight with the Kansas City. Fort Scott & Memphis road over rates on racking-house cnihaiii Thft liwrllr trt on rave notlCft of its third reduction of 3 cents per VO founds frem umana to me bouuh-isi, mng a cut of 9 cents in a little over a week. The Memphis company, determined to maintain a differential of 6 cents in favor o Kansas City as against Omaha, will rat . the cut to-morrow.