Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 50, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1901 — Page 4

TUE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, FEPIlUAItY 19, 1901.

THE DAILY JOURNAL TUKS DAY, FEBRUARY 19. 1001.

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Although the ship subsidy bill has been displaced and will not be voted on this tessioa. Senator Pettus was permitted to tfiacuss the dead measure yesterday. It Is eaid that eight hundred Choctaw Indians, .who are dissatisfied with the plan for the dissolution of their trjbal government will emigrate from the Indian Territory to Mexico. Probably the United States can stand It If Mexico can. The vote of the House yesterday striking cut the enacting clause of the bill creating an epileptic village was so emphatic that there Is good reason to assume that the other two bills which went through the Senat with It will suffer the same fate. The combination of the Democratic side Cf the Senate with a few Republicans has been ruined by overwork. If it had been content with one measure a week It might have lived through the session, but two on two succeeding days were too much. The Chicago Board of Charity has dUcovered that there are 2.000 families whose Leads have deserted them. As there seem no adequate penalty for husbands who desert wives and families, some one suggested the whipping post. That punishment would elevate the wife and family to the level of the chicken thief in Delaware. All. accounts -from the Philippines agree that peace and order are rapidly being established In the Important Island of Panay. which has been the storm center for a year. Between Nov. 22 and Dec. SI 33,806 natives took tho oath of allegiance to the United States. At this rate defending Agutnaldo will be like watching a last year's hornet's :.est 'In our great prosperity," said President McKinley to Congress last December, "we must guard against the danger It Invites of extravagance in government expenditures and appropriations." In all legislative bodies the danger of extravagant appropriations Is greatest In seasons of prosperity, Just a? people are more liberal in their expenditures when times are good. A bill Is pending in the New Jersey Legislature forbidding the chartering of companies with capital steck exceeding 51X,iCO.OOO and also prohibiting corr.panles charttrcd urder the laws o! New Jersey frcm Increasing their capital itock. As New Jersey derives the most of the money required to run the state government from the tax cn its loose corporations it Is doubtful If he measure will be enacted. In' addressing the Bankers Club of Chicago Hon. George E. Roberts, director of the mint at Washington, gave it as his opinion that "this country ought to have great banking corporations with branches In every part of the world to facilitate exchange end increase the opportunities for the development of commerce." Mr. Roberts seems to be more of a trade promoter than a constitutional lawyer. The President does not propose to assume the responsibility of making an adjustment with Cuba, but will call Congress to take Its share. This I as it should be An extra session is undesirable, but in the case of Cuba the matter Id so important us to warrant it. Besides, the Cuban convention, when It finds that Its relations with the United States are so important that Congress Is called to consider them, will bo more deliberate and cautious in Its action. The . Journal has not devoted space to urging the passage of Mr. Ovcrstreefs bill providing for the erchange of gold for silver at the demand of the owner because It believed that there was no possibility of the passage of the bill during the present sersion. It is a most important measure, and should receive the early attention of the next Congress. What silver the United States has and It has In dollars and fractional silver more than $500,QC0,O0O should be as good as gold, now that gold Is the standard money of the country. The Journal Is surprised that the ways nd means committee of the House nas voted to recommend that the State purchase 131 y.cre- of land for the Indiana Agricultural Society a private, self-perpetuat-lng organization which seems to exist mainly for the profit or amusement of Its members. Why should that organization be given the State's money any more than a dozen otht-r corporations of a private nature? It Is a most Indefensible proposition. At bet only a few counties near In0 dlanapolis ran have the least interest in the unr.ua! fhows of ths State Agricultural Coclety. In. his remarks opposing the bill creating cn epileptic village Mr. Stutcsman made jtjtlons entitled to thoughtful r "" ratlin. The Idea which fcs elab

orated Is the danger of turning the StaU j

into a vast eleemosynary institution by assuming tho care of persons whose relatives should be made to support them. The point seems to be well taken. The present laws regarding the out-door poor have reduced the number of half-dependents very materially. Those who urge the necessity of the State's looking after and supporting the defective classes base It -s much upon the necessity of protecting the whole population from debasement by these people as upon the moral obligation to care for them. Ostensibly their remedy is to isolate them from the rest of the people 2nd thus escape the contamination which comes from them. The wonder is that social scientists do not discover a more practical and heroic method of escaping the evils with which the defective classes threaten society than the expensive plan of collecting them In Institutions to bq. kept most of their lives at public expense. AN ISSUE Full TUB OPPOSITION. The Democrats in the Legislature seem to be in a bad way for an Issue which will "be useful to their party. When they were beating about for an Issue they suggested the Investigation of two or three institutions against which no charges had been made. It failed. In the Senate the next movement of the Democrats to make an Issue seems to have been the rallying of the entire party to carry the Columbus epileptic village, the Vincennes claim and the Muncle normal Echool bills. For the last named of these bills the Democrats voted solidly, furnishing the majority of the votes for both. The Democratic solidity for these measures contributed to their defeat by arousing suspicion, so whatever hope the support of these measures afforded has gone glimmering. After this ill luck, the Journal suggests to the Democrats an issue. Because of Republican policy given the force of lav the best money in the world has become so plentiful that the rates of Interest have fallen materially during the past four or five years. Because of this decline in a the price of money the school funds which the county officers are required to loan at 6 per cent, or pay the interest thereon when the money 19 Idle, hundreds of thousands of dollars of such funds are in the hands of county officers which they cannot loan. Citizens desiring to hire money on mortgages can rind an abundance of it at 5 per cent. Very naturally those who would borrow on the best security will not take limited amounts of money at C per cent., consequently much of the school fund is idle at the present time. Once it was a privilege to have a limited amount of school funds at 6 per cent. because money could not be had at a less price, but that condition no longer exists. Now, what the Journal proposes is that the Democrats introduce resolutions charging upon the Republican party the conditions which make the school funds a drug at 5 per cent., when, fifteen years age, citizens tumbled over, each other to get a limited amount of school funds at 6 per cent, for the reason that the price of money for mortgages ranged from 7 to 9 per cent. This reduction of the rate of interest In school funds could be charged upon the hydra-headed monster, the octopus, and all the other evil beasts for which the money power stands. What an arraignment of Wall street Senators Winfield and Stillwell could make by showing that it had entered into a conspiracy to rob the children of Indiana of schooling by sending Us millions here to loan at less than 6 per cent. This conspiracy to reduce the rate of interest of school funds might be developed further, but that can be left to the Democratic leaders, to whom the suggestion of an Issue In the reduced school revenues from interest on the funds is respectfully suggested. A GIANT COMBINATION. All the combinations of capital which have heretofore been made take their places among the small things compared with the vast combination of the ere, gas, coal, transportation lines and steel plants of the Morgan-Carnegie-Rockefeller syndicate. These vast industries and properties represent ROOO.000,000, and employ 200,000 men. The result of such a combination will bo watched with the keenest interest. Many atthe outset can see nothing but evil and danger in a combination so vast. To them it means simply an advance of prices and the exercise of dangerous Influences. Only a few see positive good in it. Yet all who have noted the result of large combinations, or even the substitution of one large plant for several small ones, have discovered that the larger and more embracing the plant the cheaper production has been, with the possibility of lower prices. The Carnegio Company led in the production of steel on a gigantic scale at lower prices until it was able to make the prices here and abroad. Now all of the competing concerns In the central West have been combined. No wonder England fears the result, since a vast combination owning the best ore regions in the world, the ships to carry the ore to th coal region, the coal region making the best coke, and a large part of the gas lands worth having, can produce steel and ajl Its products at a lower cost than in any other country. England fears the combination; if that competition should bring lower prices to the world than have prevailed, how can this combination harm the people of this country? It cannot make cheaper prices abroad and higher prices at home. Already there are those who assume that all of the Iron interests Jn this country are combined. This Is not the case. The Iron Interests of the central West, vlth a few exceptions only, are embraced In this combination. The iron interests of the South are not In It. So there is yet a field for competition; but the important fact is that, to control the markets of the world, the great combination must sell steel goods lower Instead of higher, unless an international combination is made, which is a remote probability. There are those who will declare that such an extensive, combination should have been made impossible by law, yet those who are loudest In this asseveration are dumb when asked to outline the legislation which would make the uniting of all these interests under one head Impossible. Doubtless the tariff has favored the small Interests which havo been gradually drawn into the Carnegie and other companies, but with ihe protecting process came the discoveries which have caused a decline In rrices of steel goods more than W per cent. To-day the tariff cuts no figure, unless hereafter It shall be used to ths prices In the United States ctzvo tha "lsvel cf the world. The repeal

of the duties on the products of the combinatlon would prevent such discrimination.

Arguments in favor of the whipping post as a punishment for a certain class of crimes do not attract much attention, yet the sentiment seems to be gaining ground. The associated harlties of Los Angeles. Cal., have recommended it as a punishment for men who beat or desert their wives, and the Chicago Bureau of Charities was divided between that punishment and confining si:ch offenders at hard labor and applying their earnings to the support of their families. It is claimed that in Delaware, where the whipping post prevails, wife desertion is one of the rarest of crimes. At all events, It is evident the tubject Is attracting more serious attention than formerly, perhaps through a desperate hepe of finding something that wdl lessen the increase of crimes and misdemeanors of all kinds. The Sun does well to call attention to the unnecessary obstruction of Pennsylvania Hlreet by the contractor who has begun the building of the Claypool block. The fence Includes all of the sidewalk and extends some distance into the street, and somebody Is turning a thrifty penny by renting it for billboard use. The space left between the fence and the street-car tracks Is narrow, and pedestrians are compelled to dodge all sorts of vehicles as they pick their way through the mud, and are frequently in danger. It Is a busy corner at all time3, and the taking possession for private purposes of so great a part of a thoroughfare so much used is an inexcusable Imposition on the public and should not be permitted by the authorities. That such monopoly of the street is entirely unnecessary has been repeatedly proved in the construction of buildings on Washington street. A department of dentistry has lately been added to the army, but the adjutant general of New Jersey would go still further and add a corps of chiropodists. Why not? The condition of their feet. Involving as it does their fitness for marching, is so Important to soldiers that it is a matter, of wonder that specialists In this line of minor surgery have not been provided before. FBOM HITHER AND YON. Reqnleacent in. Pace. Chicago Times-Herald. Bing What's become of your dog? I haven't seen him about lately. Doker I took tho precaution to try some of themedicines on him that were recommended to me for the grip. Snre Enough! Judge. Little Nephew Is It true, uncle, that the bark grows thickest on one side of a tree? Old Uncle Grout Yum! Little Nephew Which side, uncle? Old Uncle Grout The outside. Uses of the Day. Detroit Journal. "The proposition to abolish ladles day at the club was voted down." "Yes?" "Yes, It develops that there Is hardly a member who does not, in point of fact, enjoy meeting his wife occasionally!" Very Strnnire. The Smart Set. Brooks Itardupp. eayi he took a stranger for you yesterday. Rivers That's funny. Now to-day he took me for a stranger. "How's that?" "He wanted to borrow $10 from me." Johnny's Questions. Baltimore American. Johnny Say, paw, Saturn has eight moons, hasn't it? Paw Yes. Johnny Well, raw? Paw What, my son? Jdhnny When It is dark of the moon in Saturn Is it eight times a3 dark as it is here? EDITORIAL WAR. One Hawaiian Newspaper JIan Shoots Another The Uuuor Queatlon. HONOLULU, Feb. 12. (via San Francisco, Feb. 18) Edwin S. Gill, editor of the Republican, shot and seriously wounded MoTtimer II. Stevens, a member of tho staff of the Advertiser in the office of th-s Republican on the evening of Feb. 6. Stevens called at the office of Gill's paper with a complaint about an article Gill had published concerning some young women who were stopping at the Hawaiian Hotel and to ask that no more be said on the subject. The interview led to hot words. Gill was struck by Stevens and he shot Stevens in the leg, inflicting a dangerous flesh wound. Gill has refused to make any statements since the shooting under advice of his attorney. The Advertiser made the affair the occasion of an exceedingly bitter attack on Gill and the latter has responded with interest. The Advertiser attacks Judge Humphreys, first judge of the First Circuit Court, who it accuses of having inspired the Republican's editorials. The South Carolina dispensary system is very likely to be put In force in Hawaii as a solution of tho liquor problem. It is known that many of tho legislators-elect cf the Independent party are in favor of the scheme, and investigation shows that a bill to introduce it here, already prepared. Is very likely to pass. Local liquor dealers have begun preparations to fight the South Carolina system in the LeKislature. The coming session will see much discussion of 'the Question. ONE DEAD, TWO WOUNDED. Result of n Shootlii Affrny nt u Disreputable Slontnnn, Resort. GREAT FALLS, Mont., Feb. IS. One man is dead, a woman is dying, and a poPcc officer is seriously wounded as result of a shooting which took place Sunday. Rudolph Smith, a railroad laborer, entering a local resort, met an Inmate known us Marie Reil, whom he shot. Officer Hogan appeared on the scene. The would-be-murdercr, when Hogan appeared, opened fire on the officer. He fired two shots, both of which took effect, one In the leg and the other Just abovp the hip. As soon as he was wounded Hogan dropped on his knees and opened fire, sending five bullets into Smith's body, killing him instantly. Policeman Hogan will likely recover, but the woman is fatally wounded. RESTS WITH THE JURY. Frank II. Hamilton's Fate In the Hands of Twelve Men. MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. IS. The fate of Frank II. Hamilton, tried on the charge of murdering Leonard It. Day, now lies with the Jury. The closing: addresses by counsel were, concluded nt 4:?J m. Judge Brocks gave his charge to the jury immediately. It was a clear exposition of the law and evidence and was listened to attentively by the jury, which was thin sent out for deliberation. At midnight the jury was still out, and Judge Brooks left for his home. The verdict, if reached to-night, will not be known until court meet3 to-morrow morning. The Missouri Trnuon, New York Press. Tho Missouri Legislature acted up to its noble reputation in defeating a bill providing for the display of the American flag from the Statehouse. Its huge sympathy with the rebel Agulnaldo haa naturally made its sympathy with tho Nation look lika thirty cents.

A LOBBYIST REBUKE!

SPHAKEIl AUTJIAX THREATENS TO HAVE HIM KJKCTED. Ills Words Cnnseil a Mild Sensation In the II')tise of Representatives. THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION IT MUST BE BUILT IN ST. CLAIIt PARK UNLESS THE CITY BUYS IT. The Epileptic Villa- Bill Killed The Senate Considers Senator "Wood's Medical Hill The Proceedings. Speaker Artman found it necessary again yesterday to deliver a sharp rebuke to the lobbyists. Ills remarks created quite a sensation in the House, as they were directed at Oil Inspector Zaring. Mr. Artman caught a glimpse of the oil inspector In tho House in the afternoon and declared that he would have to ease calling members from their seats or the doorkeepers would refuse him admission to the House. The speaker did not use Mr. Zaring's name, but referred to "the oil Inspector." It was intimated that the Inspector was Interesting himself in the bill now in the hands of the Judiciary committee taking the power of appointing the oil Inspector out of the hands of the state geologist and placing it In the hands of the Governor. It Is announced that the committee will report favorably on this bill. The House transacted considerable business yesterday. It took up the bill providing for the construction of a Governor's mansion and advanced the measure to engrossment. The bill is amended so that the Governor's mansion must be built in St. Clair Park unless the city purchases the ground. The appropriation Is reduced from $73,000 to $50,000. The House also disposed of Senator Lambert's epileptic village bill by striking out the enacting clause. This kills the bill. Senator Harrison's electrocution bill was tip for second reading and It WaS also kil IpH I'cnrtcontotlvn CT 1111 fixing a minimum wage rate for public school teachers was among the measures passed by the House. n h-e Senato the bill Introduced by Senator AVood regulating the practice of medlUI C " ie oiate was considered In the afternoon ns a The Senate committee on public health had leiurneu a aiviaea report tin the bill. After a prolonged debate the Senate adopted the majority report, which recommended the passago of the bill. During the morning the Senate considered the fish and game bills. Senator Livman', roma Kill vj. ouaaaw IkCat n UO passed, there being but six votes against it. oeuaiur xjau s nsn Dia was up on second reading. . , , THE SENATE'S SESSIONS. Senator Wood's Medical DUI Takes Up Much Time. The entire session of the Senate yesterday afternoon was taken up with a discussion of Senate bill No. 268, Introduced by Senator Wood, which regulates the practice of medicine in the State and provides that all applicants for a license shall first pass an examination before the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination before they shall be entitled to ' practice. The committee on public health returned a divided report on the bill last Friday, and owing to a lack of time In which to discuss its provisions It was made a special ordor of business for yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The majority report, which was signed by Senators Keyes, Qard and Ogborn, recommended the passage of the bill, and a minority report, signed by Senators Fortune and Fleming, recommended its indefinite postponement. The bill as originally Introduced required all applicants for a license to practice medicine to pass a uniform examination, but so much opposition was manifested towards it by the osteopaths, who maintained that they did not prescribe medicine, and therefore should not be required to pass an examination in materia medlca, that tho bill was finally amended enabling the state board to grant them limited certificates authorizing them to practice osteopathy only by passing a successful examination on the subjects which they pursue at their college. The bill has excited a great deal of Interest, and the lobbies and galleries of the Senate were crowded yesterday afternoon In anticipation of the debate which would ensue over the adoption of the committee report. SENATOR FORTUNE HEARD. When the question arose on the adoption of the minority report Senator Fortune was the first to obtain recognition from the chair. Ho stated that he had signed tho minority report, recommending that the bill be postponed, because ho believed that It sought to Interfere with religious liberty. He said it would prevent the Christian Scientists and others from practicing the things which they believed in. and though he did not believe in the teachings of the Christian Scientist or of the osteopath, yet ho had no desire to Interfere with their beliefs. "If this bill passes," he said, "It will r.ot be Ions before this Legislature will Intrude upon the sacred rights of every rellgious order, regardless of denomination, In the United States." Senator Card paid the bill did not seek to shut out nny class of practitioners, but had for its object the elevation of the present standard of the medical fraternity. Ha Bald there had been medical laws on the statute boo'.ts for years, and they had done much for the elevation of the physician, but time had disclosed many weaknesses, some of which it was the duty of the present Legislature to correct. Senator Klttingcr was opposed to the bill because It soucht to restrict human liberty. He said if a man wished to be rubbed instead of taking medicine he had the right to do as he pleased so long as he paid for if. It was a God-gtven right, he said, to have some one pray for him If he wanted them to. Every move the doctors make, he paid, from the time he takes out his fever thermometer until he makes a post-mortem examination is protected by some sort of legislation, and he thought it was time the attention of the Legislature was directed to some other subjects. He designated the bill as an attempt on the part of the doc tors to form a trust. SENATOR WOOD'S CLAIMS. Senator Wood declared there was nothing In the bill that limited, restricted or prohibited the right of worship according to the dictates of one's own conscience. The only purpose of the bill, he said, was to elevate the standard of the medical fraternity, and it simply provided what should constitute a practicing physician. The lawyers, he said, had sought to elevate the standard of their own profession by amending the Constitution at the last election but had failed because of the Ignorance of the voters. They could not now consistently vote against a bill which sought to elevate another profession. He said the cteopaths were well satisfied with the bill and had so expressed themselves to the committee, and he saw no reason for anyono else to compliln. "If you will examine the bill," he sail in conclusion, "with the name care and attention that you have liFtened to some of the cranks that have infested this house you will ste that there are no objectionable features In It." Senator Winfleld also thought there was an attempt being -nade by the authors of the bill to restrict religious worship, and he could not. therefore, vote for it. Tho doctors, he declare 1, were Feeklng to have the bill pssed In order to keep their patents from petting away from them. Senator Johnson said the bill had been so amended that the osteopaths would not be required to take an examination In materia medlca, but, nevertheless, they were In a worso condition than ever, as they

would have no representative on the State Board of examination and would never get a certificate If they tried for a hundred years. He thought the bill should be amended in. this respect and was opposed to it in its present form. INMAN APPLAUDED. The speech of Senator Inman, who followed, was marked by applause. President Gilbert, however, rapped loudly for order and said to the visitors in the gallery that applause was out of order and that If the offense was repeated he would have the galleries cleared. He said, in effect, that the day had passed for such superstitious teachings as those of the Christian Scientists. He believed in religion, but he thought the days of miracles had passed. Some of the speeches that had been made would have sounded better at the time William Henry Harrison was fighting the Indians at the battlefield of Tippecanoe than they did on the floor of the Senate of the Sixty-second General Assembly of the State of Indiana. When he had a chill, he said, he did not want anyone standing praying over him. "I want quinine," he said. It was this utterance that caused the applause. Senator Thompson said the osteopaths had been before the committee of public health and had expressed themselves as satisfied with the provisions of the bill. He said the medical profession, with the exception of the ministry, was the noblest profession In the world and every safeguard should be thrown around it. Senator Stlllwell said the bill was opposed to religious liberty and was seeking to hurl a blow at the sacred portals of ih home, and he would therefore vote against it. In order to shut on any further debate, Senator Johnson moved tho previous question, which was carried, and the minority report was then defeated by a vote of 15 to SU. The senators voting for the minority report were: Agnew, Ball, Burns, Crumpacker, Fortune, Johnson, Johnston, Joss, Kell, Klttinger, Lawler, Llndley, Minor, Stillwell and Winneki. The majority report was afterwards adopted. A TAX FOR LIBRARIES. During the afternoon a message was received from the House returning the bill lately passed by the Senate, which authorizes township trustees to levy a tax for the increase and maintenance of libraries established by donations. The message stated that the bill had been returned because it was a bill for raising revenue, and should have originated in the House. The bill was introduced in the Senate bySenator Fortune, and authorizes township trustees to levy a, tax of from 1 to 6 cents on every $100 of taxable property In the township for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the act. Senator Fortune had been apprised that his bill would be returned, and had It introduced In the House before the old one was returned to the Senate. The action of Speaker Artman in returning the bill Is In accordance with the decision of President Gilbert, relative to the Muncle Normal School bill on Friday. Just before adjournment President Gilbert handed down his written opinion wtth reference to the Muncle Normal School bill, which is printed In full In another part of the paper. Seven new bills were Introduced at the close of the afternoon session. FISH AND GAME BILLS. The entire time of the Senate yesterday morning was taken up in the consideration of the fish and game bills which have been pending since the first week of the session. Senator Layman's game bill (No. 73) was called up on third reading. In reality the bill Is a codification of tho existing game laws, the changes being for the most part slight, yet meeting with the approval of the sportsmen of the State who have been made familiar with Its provisions. The fact that there are no radical changes in the bill did not prevent

a very iun ana spirited discussion, however, and for more than an hour there was a constant interchange of views on the various amendments offered. Senator Llndley offered an amendment which makes It unlawful for hunters to enter vpon uncultivated swamp lands without permission, unless such land is at least forty rods from cultivated lands. The amendment was adopted. Section 12 of the bill provides that hunters may train dogs in the fields during the closed season, providing that they shall use blank shells in shooting. Senator Gregor, In a motion to strike out this section in its entirety, contended that this provision would be but an invitation for game law violators to get in their work. He believed that there would be a class of hunters who would avail themselves of the opportunity of killing birds out of season by simply using loaded shells instead of blanks. Other members coincided with Senator Gregor's views on this point, and while there were one or two who opposed the proposition to strike out the section, the motion to so amend the bill prevailed. One or two other proposed amendments failed to be adopted, and the bill placed upon its passage, but six votes being recorded against it. SENATOR BALL'S BILL. The fish bill of Senator Ball (No. 4). which was made a special order for yesterday morning in connection with Senator Layman's game bill, came up on second reading. Like Its predecessors it caused much discussion and there were numerou3 amendments proposed. Senator ' Corr offered the first amendment. He wanted to make the adjudgment of imprisonment for violations of the section prohibiting dynamiting discretionary upon the part of the trial Judge. The bill in its original form makes it obligatory that the penalty shall bo imprisonment. The amendment was adopted. An amendment offered by Senator Gard, making it unlawful to use minnow Feines over twelve feet In length, was aiso adopted without discussion. The bill as drafted allows twenty-foot minnow seines. Senator Legeman offered as an amendment an entirely new bill, which was read, but apparently not fully digested by the members, as they were unable to grasp its full purport on such short notice. Thii evident confusion of the two measures caused Senator Legeman to withdraw his amendment after some discussion had been indulged In. Senator Gochenour offered an amendment which allows hook and line fishing at all times in the year and it was adopted without opposition. An amendment of Senator Wood to strike out the emergency clause was also adopted without discussion. Senator Stlllwell came to the front with an amendment which allows the use of gig?, spears, seines, etc., in both forks of the White river, from their source to the Junction of these streams in Daviess county. The specific purpose of this amendment was to exempt these two streims from the existing fi.h laws, putting them in the same class with the Ohio river, the Wabash and the lakes of the State. The amendment was adopted, but later on Senator Winfleld made a motion to reconsider, and the motion prevailed. The evident purpose of the amendment was brought out in speeches by Senator Wood and others wh urged its defeat. Senator Stillwell sail that the amendment should carry. He felt that more liberty should be given the people who fish, especially should everv leniency be shown the men who make their living by fishing and upon whom the restrictions in the bill as It stood would work a great hardship. The amendment was lost, however, when the vote was taken. A SPIRITED DISCUSSION. Senator Cregor stirred up things consider, ably by reason of a proposed amendment which would allow refuse matter of a del eterious sort to empty Into the streams from factories. There ws a spirited discussion on the proposition. Senators Ball, Harrison, Charles and others stated that thousands of fish are killed every day as a result of poisonous substances whlcn flow into the rivers from strawboard factories especially. They said that thev gained such knowledge from what they had seen and were not speaking on hearsay evidence. Senator Klttinger favored the amendment on the ground that the bill in Its present state would work an injury to the factory Interests of the State, and consequently would be harmful to the laboring classes. He contended that if the factories could not turn waste matter inl the streams of Indiana they would ultimately have to seek new locations. Thero were others who spoke In favor of th amendment, but Senator Cregor, who wa Its author, failed for some reason to com to its support during the controversy and did not seem much put out when th amendment was defeated by a vote of 2$ to 14. HOUSE PROCEEDINGS. The Governor's Residence Measure Hpllcptlo Rill Is Killed. The House was cabled to order at 10:Du o'clock yesterday morning, Rev. Mr. Norton, of the Christian Church of Irvington, offering prayer. The action of the House in concurring In the report of the Judiciary committee killing Senator Uurns'a bill c er-

mittlr.g employes of corporations to act as notaries public was reconsidered on motion of Representative Davis, of Greene county, and the bill was recommitted to the committee. The first regular order of business was bills on second reading. One was the measure providing for the erection of an executive mansion for the Governor of the State. The ways and means committee had reported this measure back to the House with an amendment providing that the residence should be erected in St. Clair Park, the State's property, and that the appropriation should be reduced from J.o.UX) to $50,000. Mr. Whltcomb, who is a member of the ways and means committee, said yesterday that he did not sign the report of the committee, and he hoped It would not be concurred In. lie thought thit St. Clair Park should bo kept Intact. He favored the original bill, which named the Governor, secretary and auditor of state a committee to purchase a site and provide for the construction of a Governor's residence. Mr. Minturn also objected to tne amendedment. contending that St. Clair Park should be left as it is. MR. KING'S ALLEGATION. Representative King, chairman of the ways and means committee, poke for the amendments, declaring that fts this property belonged to the State the Governor's midence should be located there. He made the assertion that St. Clair Park is a resort for Immoral characters. Ho thought the State should use a part of this ground In building a residence for the Governor that would be distinctly a State institution. He would have it constructed of Indiana stone, he said. The fact had been mentioned that the city was much oppesed to the State locating the Governor's residence in St. Clair Park, and Mr. James in his remarks on the bill suggested that it ndght be a good plan for the State to dlspese of this land to the city, and build the executive mansion elsewhere. He was opposed to the amendment, he said, because if the residence was to be constructed In the park, he thought half of the ground or all of it should be used. Instead of only a small part of it as provided m the amendment. He thought the bill should be left in Its original form. Mr. Mummcrt agreed with Mr. James. He was in favor of selling the park to the city if the State did not want to use it. Mr. Scott wanted the residence built in St. Clair Park and Mr. Dilley tried to kill the bill by moving that the enacting clause be .stricken out. The motion was tabled and a vote was taken on the amendments. The House voted against the airendments 13 to 35. Mr. King then offered an amendment which carried, to the effect that St. Clair Park shall be used as a site for the Governor's residence unless tho ground Is purchased by the city. A further successful amendment by Mr. Ktlley cuts down the appropriation from $75,000 to $50,000. The bill was then advanced to engrossment. The bill introduced by Mr. Schreeder apfropriating money for the Shlloh Military ark, came up for second reading and Representative Morgan sent up a motion to strike out the enacting clause. On account Of the absence of the author of the bill the motion was not acted on. EPILEPTIC BILL KILLED. Senator Lambert's bill, providing for an appropriation for an epileptic village, was the next measure considered on second reading, and here the bill met Its fate. The enacting clause was stricken out and the bill killed, on motion of Representative King. The measure was not disposed of, however, until two or three members had an opportunity of speaking on the subject. Mr. Cox, who comes from Columbus, the place where it was sought to locate the village, made a strong appeal in behalf of the bill, and was answered by Mr. Stutesman. At the conclusion of Mr. Stutesman's remarks two or three members desired to speak. Mr. Minturn, of Marion county, was recognized, and moved the previous question, declaring that "we have heard this discussed until we are thoroughly tired." When the speaker was ready to put the vote to strike out the enacting clause It was noticed that half a dozen or more Democrats were absent from their seats. To the Republicans it looked as If this exodus of the minority was for the purpose of putting the responsibility of killing the bill on the majority side of the House. The deserting members did not care to go on record either way. Mr. Cox. who so stanchly advocated the bill. Is a member of the minority. Mr. Murphy, of the minority, tried to bring about an adjournment, but failed, -and the House voted on the motion to strike out the enacting clause. The bill was killed by a vote of 41 to 25. Several of the Democrats who remained in the House felt called on to explain their votes when their

uamra wcic taiau. xiic uin uiu uvt aj'jaii to oe a party measure, as doiii siaes ot mo House were divided in their opinion on the bill. Following Is the way the members voted on the motion to kill the bill: Ayes Allen, Bell, Bishop. Carmlchael. Clarke, Clem, Cooper, Dilley, Dudley, Gauntt, Gillette, Haines, Harris, Jack, Jackways, James. John. Johnson, King. Larr, Marshall of Fontaln, Marshall of Tippecanoe, Matthews, Miller of Ohio, Minturn, Morgan, Morton, Mummert, Ostermeyer, Pritchard, Reagan, Reser, Scott, Short, Stookey, Stutesman, Thomas, WesHng, Whltcomb, Zollman, the speaker. Total, 41. Noes Adamson, Burkhart, Catley, Cable, Cox, Cravens, Cruson, Davis of Greene, Horsfleld. Jackman. Lawrence, Lopp. Louttit, Metsker, Murphy, Neal, Owen. Parker, Passage, Reeves, Roberts of Dearborn, Roberts of Jefferson, Slack, Trout, Tucker, Waugh. Total, 26. IN THE AFTERNOON. ! Senater Harrison's bill providing for electrocution instead of hanging, where It ts necessary to inflict the death penalty was disposed of by the House early in tho afternoon session. It came up on second reading and Representative Passage offered an amendment which provided that the death penalty should be administered by means of morphine. Dr. Passage spoke in support of his amendment, reading his remarks from manuscript he had prepared. The House first adopted the amendment and then killed the bill by striking out tho enacting clause. The bill was killed by a vote of 22 to 25. The motion to strike out the enacting clause was offered by Representative Stookey. Mr. Neal's bill fixing a minimum rate of wages for teachers in the public schools was pass.d by a vote of 77 to 6. Under the provisions of the bill the minimum rate wculd be fixed by multiplying the teacher's averace at examination by two and a half. Representative Horsfield's bill fixing the salaries of janitors at the tatenouse at a month, and a bill by Mr. Burkhart making eight hours the legal work-day, were both passed. The Burkhart bill docs not affect those who perform labor nor domestics. The House adjourned a little after 4 o'clock until 9 o'clock this morning. ASKING FOR APPROPRIATIONS. Ileprcsentallve of Stnte Institutions Before the Committee. Warden Shide'.er, of the State Prison, and Col. N. D. Foster, a member of the board of trustees of the State Soldiers Home, at Lafayette, were present at the meeting of the ways and means committee last night In the interests of their respective Institutions. Warden Shldeler is asking for $100.000 in the way of maintenance. He told the committee that the prison now has 852 inmates. Colonel Foster says the Soldiers' Home requires a larger hospital. They have one now that will accommodate about twentyfive people, but they need a hospital large enough for 100. The committee will hold another meeting to-night, and will not meet again until next Monday nlghL To-night will complete the "hearings." For Navigation Companies. Representative King yesterday introduced a bill which provides for the incorporation of navigation companies. The measure allows persons to form a corporation for the purpose of engaging In commerce in navigable waters. It also provides for the taxation of these companies. The bill was prepared by the attorney g-eneral of the State. ' Mnnele Bill in the Hoase. It is predicted that the Muncie normal bill, introduced in the House last Friday and now ir the hands of the committee on education, not be reported on. A member of th committee said last night that the committee will probably not consider the bill unless Representative Carmichael. who introduced it, requests that be taken up. LEGISLATIVE ROUTIXE. New Sennte Ullis. No. 403. Senator Johnson Providing for Xhs organization of savings banks. Banks. No, 401. Senator JohnstonEstablishing certain rights of companies organized for

the purpose of constructing and operating telephone Uno. Corporations. No. 405. Senator iJurns Prohibiting tho sale of food products containing formaldehvde. No. 406. Senator Iltller-To abolish the Superior Court of Laporte county. Judiciary. No. 407. Senator BInkley P.equlring railroad companies to maintain lights at railroad crossings. Cltie?: and -towns. No. 4'ts. Senator Goodwlr.e Decreasing the number of Justices of the peace. Judiciary. No. 409. Senator Dausman Concerning the State Board of Agriculture. Agriculture. No. 410. Senator Wolcott Concerning the working of roads. Roads. Nevr House Hills. Two bills were Introduced In the House yesterday, as follows: Xo. 523. Mr. Kins Concerning the Incorporation of navigation companies and the taxation of the fame. Ways and means. No. 521. Mr. Stutesman Providing for the appointment of bailiffs in Circuit, Superior and Criminal courts. Judiciary. Senate Dills on Second llendlns In Ilnnse. No. 57 (Wood)-Making It unlawful for any person to mike a false written statement of their property valuation to obtain credit. Passed to third reading. No. 157 (Parks )To amend an act encouraging agriculture in institutions. Passed to third readir.c. No. 20 (Harrison) Providing for the Infliction of the death penalty by electrocution. Amended by fixing morphine as the means of inflicting penalty. Killed by enacting clause being stricken out.

House Bills on Second Rending: la House. No. 2C3 (Dudley) Concerning the reorganization of the Indiana militia. Advanced to engrossment. No. GTS Vavis, Greene) Concerning the office of county surveyors and regulating the appointment of deputies. Advanced to engrossment. No. 312 (Gillelt) Fixlrg the date when the terms of office of townsnip trustees and assessors shall begin. Advanced to engrossment. No. 210 (Sclfers) Concerning a Governor's residence. Advanced to engrossment with amendment reducing the appropriation to $50,000 and providing for use of St. Ciair Park unless the city buys It. No. SOG (Kirkman) Cof ernlng the organization and perpetuity of voluntary associations. Advanced to engrossment. No. 30 (ltmbert) Providing for a village for epileptics. Unacting clause stricken from the bill. No. 377 (Davis, of Greene) Concerning county and township burners. Advanced to engrossment. No. 170 (Erdlltz) Concerning the fore closure of tax lien. Advanced to engrossment. No. 51 (Bishop) Defining kidnaping and prescribing punishment. Advanced to engrossment. No. 413 (Airhart)-Providlng for tlte tiling of public open drains In certain cases. Advanced to engrossment. No. 3.56 (JJonham Concerning the collection of assessments for Improvement of streets. Advanced to engrossment. No 12C (LouttiO Amending rtrtaln sections of an act relating to Indiana School for Feeble-minded. Amended to provide an appropriation of $10.000. Advanced to engrossment. House Bills on Third Rending In House. No. 1S3 (Horsfleld) Fixing salaries of janitors of the Statehouse at $3o u month. Passed 7 to 1 No. hi (Bonham) Relating to the dissolution of towns, etc. Passed. 73 to 0. No. 259 (Haines) Incorporating the New Harmony Worklngmen's Institute for Manual Instruction. Passed, 72 to 0. No. 279 (Dilley) Concerning the payment of checks. Passed, 67 to 9. No. 337 (Burkhart) An act to constitute eight hours a day's labor. Passed, 67 to 4. No. 272 (Trout) Providing that persons who have had propertj attached on writs of replevin may file bonds and receive possession of such property until the Judgment Is rendered. Pasr.ed. 74 to 0. No. 276 (Neal) Regulating the minimum wages of teachers In the public pchools. Tassed, 77 to C. HIS WRITTEN DECISION LIEUTENANT GOVERN OH til LUCHT ON HIS ItECEXT III LING. He Cites Supreme Cotirt DrcUlona Hearing on the Matter Ills Own Duty Apparent. Lieutenant Governor Gilbert, who, upon the request of Senator Ball last Friday afternoon, postponed the placing upon the Journal of the Senate his reasons for hi ruling on the Muncle normal school bill, yesterday handed down his written decision In the matter and his reasons therefor and had It made a part of the record. Tho decision covers eight typewritten pages. After setting forth the section of th bill which provides for the levy of a tar for the maintenance of the school at Muncie, the opinion sets forth Article IV, Section 17. of the Indiana Constitution, which provides that "bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives." Then follow a large number of decisions showing what a bill for rala :ng revenue Is construed to be, after whica President Gilbert concludes as follows: "It has been decided by tho Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Roard V3. Coler Fed., 21). that tho preliminaries required by the Constitution of a state are mandatory, and that an ac: passed in violation of them i.s void. "In the case of Senate Rill i'U a direct tax is proposed to be levied upon all property In tho State of Indiana, and the payrtent Is enforced as are other taxes, and no equivalent is given other than the gencial pood government, it will not be contended that the bill is an exercise of tho police power, and it would re-m that tl.o Constitution ap;Ues. "It has been said that the Supreme Court of lndi.ina and the Supreme Court Of the United States have decided that after such a Uli 1 pafsal, the courts cannot inquire as to -where it originated, or the method of its passag?. and will not go back of tlrt? finatur- f the prIdent of the Senate, the fpe.ikcr of tha House and the Governor, showing tht the bill had passed, and the decisions aro to this effect. "It is of no Importance to an ofllcor Kworn to obey the Constitution of the State whether the courts are bound or no by his attestation evidencing the passage of a law. If the Constitution provides that bills for raising revenue shall criminate In the House of Representatives, and he certifies to the passage of a Mil for tho purpose of raising revenue which originated in the Senate, by so certifying he violates the Constitution and his oath to support It, and becomes a party to the perpetration of fraud upon the courts. The duty of the courts does not concern him; his only concern Is that he maintain the oath which he has taken to support the Constitution: and in pursuance of that duty the chair holds that the motion to reconsider the vote to which said bill was passed Is out of order, for the reason thst the vote to which the motion applies was upon a bill which provides for the raising of revenue by a permanent tax upon all the taxable property of the State, and said bill not having originated in the House of Representatives, has never properly been in the Senate or cons.dered by it, end that each and every vote relating thereto is null an! void." LIFE TJNDERWRITEBS. The Indiana Association Holds Its Monthly 3Ieettnc The Indiana Association of Life Underwriters held Us regular monthly meetfng at the Commercial Club last night. Theassociation was reorganized recentiy, principally for the purpct-e cf bringing about a better understanding between the members. . For the attainment of thli uid a supper is given monthly, where the members may mctt and indulge In an informal and free discusdon cf tb mutters i"r. talnlng to th ir bufcincss. and may considrr the. r medics for various evils which arilict thi-lr buliu. At thi-se meetings some prominent rp'akic cr business man Is Invited to deliver an mMrc-s on o'r.e topic. Laet night Cart. Eli UltUr ad John W. Ktn wera the ptakers.