Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 87, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1901 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, MARCH 28. 19)1.

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While the secretary of the Democratic täte committee i3 announced as being about to furnish Democratic papers with a fceries of articles showing up the wicked'jiess of the Indiana Legislature, the Demo cratic Chicago Chronicle commends Its example to the Illinois Legislature. The aggregate amount of gold money In this country March 1 was $1,117,;.0,000, o.nearly twice rs mch as we had five years r.go. This is due largely to the growth of our export trade, which in a fw year?, if it is not now the case, will make New York the monetary capital of the world. If Secretary Hawkins, of the Democratic state committee, could give a true story of the causes which led the Democrats in the Senate to vote solidly for the three 'combine" bills which caused so much scandal, he might not help his party, but he would afford the public Interesting reading. It. Is authoritatively rtated that Philander C. Knox, of Pittsburg, will bthe next attorney general. The Philanders have not figured much in public life. The name is J from tho Greek and means "a lover of men," but probably Mr. Knox was selected for attorney general more for legal than philanthropic reasons. Since the appointment of ex-Representative Jlodenburg, of Illinois, as a member of the Civil-service Commission friend? of the reform are surprised to find that a year ago in Congress he voted to Strike out the appropriation for the support of the commission. He could explain that vote by faying he never expected to be a commissioner himself. When Governor Odell received a dispatch from New York containing Senator Piatt's statement that those in attendance at the conference In that city had decided not to press a state police law and was asked If he had any comment to make he replied that he had "nothing to say." When a man has nothing to say he is often doing a lot of thinking. The little unpleasantness between the United States and Morocco seems to have been given a very favorable turn by friendly assurances from the Sultan, and Instead of running out her guns in Moorish waters the New York will proceed a once to Manila. The government authorities seem to think the incident will be closed wlihcut further friction. Wu Tlngfang. Chinese minister. Is reported as saying that American Intervention at this time would be the most effective aid China could have against dismemberment of the empire. Mr. Wu Is a very, smooth! diplomatist and has been making some good speeches of late, but he should not delüde himself with the chimera of American intervention in China. A statistical expert formerly connected with the Department of Agriculture advances the novel theory that in case of war between England and Russia the latter could starve the former Into submission by cornering the American wheat market, thus cutting off England's supplies and practically nullifying her powerful navy. Tho originator of the theory says it would only cost about $l3o.0tX000 to do this, but the Czar might think the present state of his finances would not justify even that trifiing expenditure on so doubtful a chance. The Philippine Information Society of Boston has issued a pamphlet setting forth the evidence that the outbreak of hostilities between the Filipinos und the Americans on Feb. 4. lsn was due to tho trespass of four armed Filipinos upon territory conceded to be In charge of the Americans. The society refutes the charge that the Americans began hostilities to secure the ratification of the treaty. White thes. statements are true they cannot be regarded as startling Information, except to anti-imperialists, who have been maintaining the contrary for two years. Representative Overstreet seems to have been remarkably successful in obtaining extensions of free rural mail delivery In Iii district. He has the assurance of the postal authorities that by July 1 routes will be established to many r.ew points, mak'ng the aggregate of such service In the district o.r m) mil.s, of which nearly two-thirds will be in this county. With free mail delivery to almost evtry neighborhood in the county, and with electric railway lines completed or projected in all directions, lnd!ana;NIIs may be aid to be getting very eloe to her neighbors. Discussing the question of Cuban Independence the News discriminates beLvftn Cubans and Spaniards. It says the former are practically unanimous la their desire for independence and thinks th ir wishes t to outweigh thobo of the

Spaniards in Cuba, who are admitted to be In favor of annexation to the United States. The discrimination Is not justified by existing condition?. Under the treaty with Spain all native Spaniards then in Cuba were givrn one year in which to doflare their allegiance to Spain in some court of record, failing in which "they shall be held to have renounced it and to have adopted tho nationality of the territory In which they may reside." Thousands of Spaniards renounced their allegiance to Spain and by remaining In Cuba have become Cubans. They are by far the best clasa of people in tre island, representing its business and commercial Interests, and though not a numerical majority are entitled to extra consideration on account of their Intelligence and the material interests they represent. The Cuban problem presents some difficult aspects, but we. must not make the mistake of giving greater weight to the wishes of native Cubans, who are for the most part a bad lot, than to those of Spaniards who have become Cubans by voluntary and deliberate choice.

A QUESTION OP ARITHMETIC. Of course. In saying that the expenditures of the city have Increased 52 per cent, from 1S03 to 1000. the Journal takes the figures from the table presented by Mayor Taggart, which accompanies his message to the Council. The expenditures, by the mayor's account, for 1SU3, were $S11.70J.CS, while during 1900 the expenditures reached $1,27'J,022.16 an increase of II3S.312.78. Now an Increase of 513S.312.7S on $s41,90i.3S is an increase of over 52 per cent., according to the system of calculation now in general use. The mayor and his able accountants may manipulate this so as to make it appear to the satisfaction of those who accept whatever emanates from the mayor's office without question that the difference between 41,909.3$ and $1.271.022.15 is $2ss,41:).42. The Journal would like to oblige the mayor by accepting his figures, or those which have been furnished to him, but it must most reluctantly cling to the arithmetic as taught in the schools more or less years ago before the arithmetic In the mayor's office was in vogue. Everybody, or most everybody, except a few hundred 16-to-l and other Democrats whom he has either snubbed or been unable to put in office, likes Mayor Taggart for his kindly manner. The Journal confesses it is included in the liking list, and, because it is, suggests to his Honor that some of his subordinates are taking advantage of his unsuspecting nature in claiming that the difference between the expenditures as quoted for 181)3 and 1900 is $28.3,000. That the readers of the Journal may have the expenditures these years by departments, we copy them from the mayor's tables: Department. Denny, Taggart, 1MQ. Finance $1S2,0H7.84 $344,711.31 Law 'J,0."i3.r8 5.744. H Public Safety 23:,(tW.23 33rt.764.01 Public Parks 1!215.23 107.2S0.S! Public Works S13.u3S.2l 432,333.06 Total $341,909.38 $1.279,022.16 Most of these Increases are due to the extension of the area of the city and the natural growth. This is true of the expenditure for fire and police. There aro other increases which are the result of the mayor's policy. The expenditure for parks is one of tnese, and It is an expenditure that will grow as the years pass, because the making of a park out of the Whlterlver lands involves a large expense. If the expense is not made, the money paid for that most unfortunate purchase will be money entirely thrown to the mayor's friends, instead of being a gift of one-half or more. It is fair to say that the collection of garbage and the sweeping of the Improved streets, when it is clone, are necessary expenditures that were not paid by the city in 1S:", but were special assessments. Put these explanations do not change the fact that city expenditures have been increased 52 per cent, under tho Taggart regime. PL'IILIC HKiHTS AM) COItPOItATIJ FRANCHISES. The Supreme Court of the United States has just handed down three decisions which have an important bearing on the question of the relations of quasi public corporations to the people and the right of the latter to fix reasonable rates and prices for commodities served by such corporations. It has been a mooted question how far a municipality may go in the regulation and control of quasi public corporations, by which is meant those which control public utilities, as water, light and transportation. Some good lawyers have always doubted the power of a city council to bind future councils by fixing the price of gas or water for a given number of years to come. One legislature cannot bind a future one nor deprive a future legislature of the right to legislate in the interests of the people when necessity or occasion may require. This may be done by formal contract, but not by ordinary legislation. It Is a dangerous power to be exercised, even by contract. The decisions Just rendered by the Supreme Court are under an Illinois statute, but they enunciate certain principles of law of general application. An Illinois law passed in 1S72 provides "that the corporate authorities of any city, town or village be and are hereby empowered to prescribe by ordinance maximum rates and charges for the supply of water furnished by such individual, company or corporation to such city, town or village and the inhab itants thereof, such rates and charges to be just and reasonable." The original con struction of this law was that water rates once fixed under it for a term of years could not be changed during the life of the ordinance. In lV.d the Legislature passed a law that rates fixed under the original law might be changed during the period for which they were fixed. In 1SS the Town Council of Rogers Park granted a water works company the exclusive right to lay mains anil sell water at a fixed rate under an ordinance covering a period of thirty years. In Rogers Park was annexed to Chicago, nnd in the City Council of Chi cago passed an ordinance materially reduc lng the water rate. The facts in two other cas were substantially the same, except that In these the rate was reduc d by a later council of the same municipality that fixed it in the first Instance. In each case counsel for the water company held that the law by which towns nnd cities were au thorized to make contracts with water com panics for a period of thirty years meant that the contracts should be binding during all of that period and that the rates orig inally fixed could not be changed until its expiration. The question before the Su preme Court was as to the constitutionality of the law of 191. The court hoMs It con J stltutional. While the Illinois law and the cases before the court rch.tcd only to wattr

rates, the following extract from the opinion of the court seems to have a broader scope: This licence was granted because it the companyj way engaged in a bu.-ines of ex

treme necessity to the inhabitants o: tne village. It is not a private, but a quasi ubiic corporation, and is subject to be con trolled by the public with relation to the rates to be exacted for the commodity it was created to supply to the public. Power s possessed bv the State to prevent extor tion by such quasi public corporations and to restrict them to the exaction of reason able rates and charges. lhe appellant company stood charged with a legal duty to supply water to the innemtants of tho village for a reasonable compensation. It the original thir ty-year Rogers Park ordinance was a mode of regulating and enforcing the discharge of a legal duty not a proposition looking toward a contract. No contract was necessary to create an obligation on the part of the corporation to supply water at a reasonable rate, for that rested upon t as a duty. A rate or price reason able and just when fixed may in the future become so unreasonably high that the exac tion of such rate or nrlce is but an extor tion. The duty of the corporation does not, nowever, change, but remains the same that is, to exact only reasonable compensa tion. Whenever the evil of extor tion exists the power to eradicate it may be successfully invoked. lne suggestions omit from consideration the controlling fact that quasi public corpo rations are created by the state for tne good of the public to serve the public and tnat they accept corporate life subject to the power retained by their creator to regu late and control them for the public good. " lhe best Interests of the public will not be subserved by denying fair and reionaoie profit? and gain for services to be rendered by quasi public corporations to tne people, for the reason that if insumciently remunerated such corporations cannot exist. The deductions from this are that quasi public corporations, or those which control public utilities, are subject to a kind and degree of control not applicable to private corporations; that in dealing with such corporations the rights and welfare of the peo ple are a paramount consideration; that a license to do business or an ordinance fixing rates and prices for a stipulated period granted or passed by one council Is not binding on subsequent councils as against public interests, and that power is possessed by the state or municipality to pre vent extortion by quasi public corporations and to restrict them to the exaction of rea sonable rates and charges. The statement of the court that "quasi public corporations are created by the state to serve the public and that they accept corporate life subject to the power retained by their creator to regulate and control them for the public good" is not new. but it has not been so broadly and authoritatively stated before. In affirming the general principles on which the Illinois law is based tne court goes far towards establishing the wholesome doc trine that all quasi public corporations are subject to continual oversight and control by the municipality from which they derive their existence and franchises. It is even a question under this decision "whether any so-called contract between a city council and a quasi public corporation is binding as to prices and rates on future councils. ir. John Kneeshaw, traffic superintend ent of the New South Wales government tramways, is making a tour of American cuies to investigate their street-railway systems. He says government ownership and operation of street railways In Sydney has proved an unqualified success, having resulted in Improved service and cheaper fares. The fare is 2 cents for every "section," a section being about a mile and a half in length. That system prevails in some European cities, but it would not do for the long distances In American cities. Political as well as social conditions are so aifferent that no argument can be drawn from the success of municipal ownership in other countries In favor of its introduction here, at least until conditions shall materially change. A report Issued by the Census Dureau states that there are now thirty-one beet sugar factories in successful operation in this country nine In Michigan, eight in California and fourteen in other States and Territories. All of these factories arc doing fairly well, but they have been established at considerable cost in the way of bounties, etc., and the industry can hardly be said to be beyond the experimental stage. A glance at the window of almost any downtown drinking shop enables the passer by to learn that Mrs. Carrie Nation, crusader, will lecture on a given date; "Ail seats reserved 23 and 50 cents." Reform with a hatchet seems satisfactory to ail concerned the hatchet-wieldcr receives indorsement from radical prohibitionists and the saloon keepers cheerfully sglve space for the crusader's advertising. It seems to increase the profits of both sides. The selling of the Chicago Record to another publisher would be a distinct loss to decent newspaper-making if the public were not promised that the successor will continue the best features of the predecessor. The Record was a most enterprising newspaper, and it became one of the papers of largest circulation because it made reliability Its prominent feature and eschewed yellowism. "I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that Is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging tho future but by the past." Applying this rule of a deceased American statesman to a living American politician, Mr. Taggart's positive announcement that he will not be a candidate for re-election as mayor may be taken as assurance that he will be?. Cannot the baseball magnates be Induced to quit squabbling ove r leagues and the like? Would they quit if they knew how rapidly tho multitude is increasing who are very weary of their cunllicta In tho newspapers? FROM HITHER AND YON. An Imiurtunt One. Tuck. Thcmron has made a discovery." indeed?" ''Yes. He says that he has di.vovcred that the more button thre are on a woman's ceat the greater the probability that it : tally f.utcnj with hooks and eyes." Not Hist XVuy. Chlcaco Tribune. lttiorter (worming an Interview out of him) You mak a distinction, if I understand you, between the use and the atruse of wealth? Uncle Ru.ap-I do, young man. I consider that Mr. Cartn-ie i abusing his wealth in a most ridiculous ri.nn-r. The- Agreril. Clevclan 1 Ii In Dealer. "Mr CjrnisU' I the greatest and !rt fensltle philanthropist tne world ever knew." "1 aprce with you. sir. An! new, may I ask your bulrest?" 'I am a lo..k. ller. And you?" "I am a msker of hnrlwioj bock fhelving." Ill pert fit c nrit. New York Pre.. Mrs. . I vwd I sincerely hope you have not ainwed a little thimr like the recent spamt cf virtue In i.ur rl'M to c t'Jso jou to top flaying card, ray i'iar Vrs I'.rljwt. I am sure you till lis? eialre. il:t. Djijwist-tp? Not I. indeed! Euchr?

I couldn't forbear to give up my ret game, especially as 1 am acknowledged to be the best eucharist in our club.

A Common Thine Chicago Times-Herald. "It seems that th-j new postmaster of Chicago pot hin start in life in the milk business." "Humph! That's nothing. I know dozens of men that pot their start in life on milk." INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES. Nearly all of Mr. Carnegie's donations are accepted by return mall, all of which goes to show that the people stand ready to assist a man who is in earnest. Huntington Herald. Count Von Wajdersee went to China to take a position "as head of the fighting forces, whereas now we have the paradoxical experience of having him reported as the peacemaker for the quarrelsome factions. Lafayette Courier. The Senate, having taken the Nicaragua canal matter out of Mr. Hay's hand ani having placed us exactly where we were before, turns the problem back to Mr. Hay. That gentleman may now cheerfully begin his task all over again. Marion Chronicle. Some of the missionaries in China are putting in extravagant claims for indemnity from the Chinese government, putting a high price on the manuscript sermons which were destroyed. This Is not a gooi commentary on a free gospel, while it is unpleasant to note that many missionaries are among the eagles which gather where the carcass lies. Terre Haute Express. If Mr. Carnegie earnestly views the situation and makes an offer for a public library building commensurate with the historical and commercial importance of Vincennes. it will not be less than $30,000. . It will take fully this amount to erect a suitable structure. This would call for an annual levy of 10 cents on the $100 for maintenance, which would produce $5,(KX a year and be ample. Vincennes Sun. "It's nothing to me where they locate the new library building, but anybody can see that there's only one lot in town suited to the purpose and that lot is" . Have you ever heard anything that sounds like the foregoing? Have you ever given utterance to any such sentence yourself? If not, you are a shameful and shameless back number and have no place with the rank and file of our patriotic and wholly disinterested citizenship. Crawfordsville Journal. If you see a girl with one lock of hair hanging down over her shoulders like she had used a comb which had several of Its front teeth pulled out, take off your hat to her, for she is the height of fashion. Tha stray lock is the Janice Meredith curl, which Is absolutely the latest thing out. We predict that the next thing will Re a stray lock on each shoulder ami then there will be one down the back and the evolution will probably go on until It will finally become the style not to comb the hair at all. Then it will be time for the men of the land to rise as one man and kick. Decatur Journal. The Lafayette Journal has written itself down among the slums of journalism by the following, which lately appeared in its columns: "The rankest hypocrisy that ever appeared in type is the fulsome eulogy of the late Renjamin Harrison found in the Republican papers of the present week. They strain themselves vying with each other for the strongest words of praise for them- an who has Just died. Rut they are secretly, tickled immensely that his death came when It did. General Harrlson'3 attitude on the present Republican policies was rank condemnation, and the politicians who will throng at his grave are enjoying the funeral." That an Indiana newspaper, or what calls Itself a newspaper, could b3 so venomous as to insult the dead for tho sake of spiting its opposing party is hardly credible. Elkhart Review. BOERS FLED IN HASTE GCX. HAI1IXGTOVS HOLT OF THE E.K3IV AVAS COMPLETE. British I.ot Only Two Dead nnd Seven Wounded, "While the Dnrgher.i Suffered Severely. LONDON, March 25. A dispatch from Lord Kitchener to the War Office, elated Pretoria, March 7, says: "Our casualties in General Rabbington's action were two killed and seven wounded. The Boers left twtmty-two dead and thirty wounded. A.s their pursuit was rapid, many more Roer casualties are likely. The operations on March 23 drove the enemy north from their positions at Kaffirs' kraal. On March 27 the pursuit was continued by mounted men only. The enemy's rear guard was driven in by a combined movement on both flanks. Their conyoy was then sighted at Leeuwfonteln. The Greys, New Zealanders and Rushmen pushed on. The enemy attempted to take up a position, but the Greys and other troops rode down all opposition and gave him no chance. The convoy was ridden into and the enemy's retirement became a rout. The pursuit was continued vntil tho horses were exhausted." A dispatch from Capo Town, dated March 27, says: "Incessant encounters at widely separated points are reported dally. Fighting took place yesterday at Tarwastad and Hennlngfonteln, both in Cape Colony. The casualties were few. A commando numbering two hundred, under Commandant Fourie, was dispersed at Thaba N'Chu. According to reports received here the hills above Dewetsdorp. just reoccupied by Gen. l'.ruce Hamilton, were also the scene of a tight lasting several hours yesterday." Krnuer Will Not Visit Amerlcn. NEW YORK, March 2S. Chas. D. Pierce, the representative of the Orange Free State, to-day said that there was no truth In the story circulated In Paris that Mr. Kruger was to come to this country to give u series of lectures. IT IS NOW M0SSINING. Name of Xevr York Prison Village Clinugcd by the Legislature. NEW YORK, March 27. The name Sing Sing, so far as the prison village Is concerned, is no more. Governor Odell signed the bill last night changing the name from Sing Sing to Osslnlng. The bill was introduced in the Legislature by Assemblyman Apgar In response to the vote of the lesldents, who believed that the property of the village was injured by its association in men's minds with the Sing Sing Prison. The name Sing Sing has become synonymous with prison, and the outside world seemed to look upon the village as merely a penal colony. Manufacturers could not be induced to come here on account of the fact that the Impression had become so general that all goods manufactured In Sing Sing were "prison made" goods. KIPLING MAY RETURN. Iluildinu Lot on Spofford Lake PurfliaHCd by the Author's "Wlte. CONCORD, N. H., March 27. Information hns been received here which lead3 to the belief that Rudyard Kipling will return to America and become a summer resident at least of New Hampshire. Soon after Mr. Kipling married an American girl, the sister of Wolcott Ralestier, the writer, he built a beautiful home, the Naulahka, near Rrattleboro. Vt. lie left that place us the Hfult tu a quarrel with his brother-in-law, P.eatty Ralestier, and has since sold the Nau'anki ami has lived In England. Ia?t week a large real-estate owner in Chesterfield, this State. old a building lot on the shore of SpofTord lake at Cnesterfield and the ded was made out to Mrs. Rudyard Kipling.

MR. SMITH WILL STAY

POSTMASTER GENERAL HAS NO INTENTION OF RESIGNING. 11c Makes Emphatic Denial of Stories to the Effect that He Would Leave the Cabinet Soon. RESPITE FOR THE MOORS CRUISER NEW YORK HAS BEEN ORDERED TO PROCEED TO MANILA. Saltan of Morocco Will Meet Consul General Gumraere $3ft,OOO,0)O of Spanish War Claims. WASHINGTON. March 27. Postmaster General Smith to-day gave an emphatic denial to tho stories that he intended to resign his office. He said: "Whenever I have been asked the question, and I havo been asked it a good many times, I have replied that I do not intend to resign, and at no time during my service as postmaster general have I had such intention. If you wish to, you may say again that I do not Intend to resign." Mr. Smith made this statement with quiet emphasis. "You will not say," Mr. Smith was asked, "that you will not resign?" "No," he answered, "no public man could make a statement of that character with confidence in its accuracy. We do not know what the future holds in store for us. 1 will say again, though, that I don't Intend to resign, that I perceive no reason which would impel me to, resign, and that every one of these stories setting forth that I contemplate tendering my resignation Is without foundation in fact." LEFT TO DIPLOMACY. Sultan of Morocco Will Not lie Humiliated by Americans. WASHINGTON, March 27. Secretary Long to-day cabled an order to Admiral Rodgers, on board the cruller New York at Tangier, to proceed at once with that vessel to Manila. This is an abandonment of the plan to have the New York convey Consul General Gummere from Tangier to Mazagan in the attempt to collect "American claims. It is the purpose of the State Department to endeavor to adjust these claims and other outstanding issues against Morocco without any show of force and in the ordinary practice of diplomacy. It Is said the United States consul general, who had conceived that obstacles were purposely placed in the way of his access to the court, has received assurances that the actual reason for the departure of the court from Morocco was to pay a long-due visit to another section of the country. It was also promised that the court would return within a month or six weeks and would receive Mr. Gummere, probably even at Mazagan, thus obviating the necessity on his part for an overland journey to the capital. In this view of the case, and the New York being badly needed in the East to take the rlace of the Newark as a flagship, it was decided to let the vessel proceed at onco on her voyage. Mr. Gummere will now probably enter into fresh negotiations with the Moorish government to secure another appointment lor the 'meeting. INCOME TAX FAVORED. Report of George CInpnerton, an Industrial Commission Expert Agent. WASHINGTON, March 27. The Industrial committee has made public a report on the taxation of corporations prepared by its expert agent, George Clapperton. The report makes a volume of 178 pages. The greater part of it is devoted to a summary of the tax systems of the States of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Texas. Mr. Clapperton says he found thj general property tax system prevailing In all the States, but that there are distinctive features in the various States which are especially marked in the taxation of corporate property. He does not indorse the system of levying a fixed rate on net earnings, which is in vogue in Delaware and Virginia, finding that while the system is theoretically satisfactory, "it does not meet the required business developments of corporations." He also finds the general property tax unsatisfactory. On this point he says: "It is clear that under this system there aro numerous forms of wealth that do not and cannot be made to bear a just share of tho public burdens and which in large part evade or escape taxation, and some forms, when reached at all unter the prevailing general property tax, are not equally and uniformly, but unjustly and disproportionately taxed, as compared with other property. The inevitable result Is that real estate and some forms of personalty are unduly burdened with taxation." Upon the whole Mr. Clapperton concludes that an income' tax is the most equitable, saying: "There is a growing olass of citizens who receive large incomes and salaries and enjoy all the advantages of society and good government who, though possessed of abundant ability to pay taxes, are, under existing systems, practically exempt from taxation or inadequately taxed. This class is receiving and must continue to receive especial attention in the revision or reformation of taxing systems in the several States. While a tax upon Individual Incomes is generally conceded to be just and equitable in principle, it has been received with disfavor and regarde'd as impractical in its operation. It Is apparent, however, to the careful student of common wealth taxation, that because of its Justice and the increasing efficiency of State administrative methods that are being evolved, the idea of a limited supplementary State income tax Is growing in favor and coming to be more generally regarded as a practical measure under State supervision." REVENtE LAW CONSTRUED. Ruling of the Commissioner In Regard to Rucket Shops. WASHINGTON. March 27. The commissioner of internal revenue has promulgated the recent decision of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Third district, which held that no stamp tax accrues on a presumptive resale of stock where bucket-shop transactions are settled by payment of differences. This decision will be followed by the internal revenue officii is in disposing of all similar question. The commissioner also has held that there 1 nothing In Paragraph 3 of Schedule A. act of March 2, 1901, which implies that a purchase or sale of stocks must be presumed and a written memorandum delivered when a transaction Is closed or terminated. On the other hand, the act presupposes that transactions are closed without such memorandum of purchase or sale, because they are maae with the intent that they may be closed, adjusted or se ttled according to or with reference to the public market quotations of prices, or with the Intent that they shall be deemed closed or termi-nate-d when the public market quotations shall reach a certain figure. It Is only original transactions, either by pretended purchase or sale.' that require written stamped memoranda to be delivered to the other party under said paragraph. He also provides that the provision In regard to keeping books In Paragraph 3 applies to all persons who do any such business as is described in said paragraph, whether such persons are also engaged In business other than of a bucket-shop or not. The commissioner has held that a legacy for literary, charitable or educational uses n which tax has not been paid prior to March 1. 1901, Is exempt from taxation. This decision was. made in the case of a legacy to the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. The commissioner also has accepted the ruling of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth circuit to tho effect that "Goods are offered for sale" at the place where they are kept for sale and

where a sale may be effected. They are not offered for sale elsewhere by sending abroad an agent with samples, or by establishing an office for the purpose of taking orders. SPANISH WAR CLAIMS.

Americans Hnve Filed Papers Asking About ?:kmk)o,mk. WASHINGTON, March 27. The Spanish war claims commission, of which former Senator William E. Chandler, of NewHampshire, is president, has received from the State Department a full list of the claims against Spain, growing out of the Insurrection In Cuba, which were file?d in the department up to the 13th rf the present month. These claims are also those of American citizens, for under the treaty of Paris, the governments of the United States and Spain undertook to adjust the claims of their own citizens. The grand total of these claims is about $30,noo.00i. and included in thr list are five claims in ex cess of a million dollars. Mrs. Rulse, widow of the dentist who was killed in a Havana prison, is a claimant for $75,000. 'ine largest single claim is that of John W. Prock on account of property losses, estimated at $2,162.514. Maryland Census Frauds. WASHINGTON, March 27.-Director General Merrlam, of the Census Rureau, has received information of the arrest of three additional persons in St. Mary's county, Maryland, who, It is alleged, are Implicated in the census frauds recently discovered in that county. Two of these personsJoseph Chlng, a lawyer of Leonardtown, and a former enumerator named Goyter were brought to Baltimore this morning. The charge against the former is that of aiding and abetting enumerators to make fictitious returns of the population, while that against the latter is padding the returns. The investigation, the director says, shows that Goyter had returned 19S more persons than were in his district. A telephone message; received by the director from Baltimore to-day says the two men were released on $1.5i0 bail each. Another former enumerator by the name of Bowles was arrested in St. Mary's county, but apparently has not yet been brought to Baltimore. This makes three enumerators In all of the nine who took the census In St. Mary's county who have leen arrested. Notes About Indlnnlnns. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON. March 2. A postoffice has been established at Tedigo, Spencer county, and John T. Jacobs, jr., appointed postmaster. The bond oi Harry J. Martin as postmaster at Franklin, Johnson county, has been approved and his commission has been issued to him. The following Indiana postmasters were appointed to-day: At Cerro Gerdo, Randolph county, E. F. Edwards, vice C. G. Starbuck, resigned; at New Britton, Hamilton county, Ä. E. Bell, vice Eigar Michener, resigned. Charles Zuchreigle, of Rockport, Ind., an inspector in the employ of the supervising architect's office, was to-day dismissed by order of the secretary of the treasurj- on the ground, as alleged, that his work was unsatisfactory. Zuchreigle had held the positicn, which pays $2,190 a year, about six years. Knox Starts for Washington. PITTSBURG, March 27. P. C. Knox left the city to-night at 10 o'clock for Washington, in answer to the summons of President McKinley. It is understood that Mr. .Knox will be tendered the position of attorney general by the President, and the belief is general here that if the portifoli.j is offered, he will see his way clear to accept the honor. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Naval Observatory Row Settled Internal Revenue Collections. The Civil-service Commission has ordered an investigation of charges which have been filed with the commission against the postmaster at Pittsburg. They grow out of the removal of a superintendent of a pestonice station in Pittsburg. Geologist Spurr, of the United States Geological Survey, has left here for Turkey under a rpecial commission from the Turkish government. II will, among other things, examine the mines owned by the Lultar. and report on their value. General Powell Clayton, ambassador to Mexico, who Is in Little Rock. Ark., attending a meeting of the Republican state central committee, announces that he hs promised to serve four years more as representative of the United States in Mexico. The Chilean claims commission promises to break all records in the rejection of claims. In all there were eighteen claims I resented, sixteen by the United States and two by Chile, aggregating something over $3.000,0e"0. Of these eight have been decided, and the total allowances are $3,000 against Chile and $3,000 against the United States. Secretary Long ha.j settled the controversy which has existed at the Naval Observatory between Captain Davis and 1)1lector Brown by detaching the latter irom c'.uty and placing Prof. Walter Scott Harshman, already on duty there, In charge of the nautical almanac. Director Brown had admitted wiitir.g certain letters connected with the effort to secure a civilian minfcgement for the observatory. The President has pardoned Wright Lancaster, who was convicted in 1891, with a number of others, of complicity in he Murder of John C. Forsythe in southern Georgia. The pardon is granted because cf Lhe Insufficiency of the evidence on which he was convicted. John L. Bosley, convicted of 'mbezzllng money-order funds whilo he was postmaster at Paris. Ky., s also pardoned, on the ground that no fraudulent intent was shown at the trial. Assistant Secretary of War Sanger is engaged with several officers in the War jepsrtment in preparing ror the use of the army a compilation of the army regulations. Since the last revision o! the regulations many changes have been made by ciders and circulars of tho War Department, some of which have teen made neces-s-ary tince the troops occupied distant territory, and the old regulations are scarcely available for practical work in lhe department. Among the congressional callers at the White House yesterday were Senators Culberson. Elklns. Scott. Lodge. Wet more and Mitchell; Representatives Dayton, of West Virginia; Long, of Kansas; Gardner, of Micnlgan. Senators Elklns and Scott went over a large number of appointments which are to be made in West Virginia shortly. The State, under a law passed by the last Congress, is to be divided Into two judicial districts and the marshal, judge, clerk and other officers of the court are to be appointed soon. Ex-Governor Atkinson is a candidate for a Judgeship. The total collections of internal revenue in February were $22.Gfio,437. an increase of $i,ü30,771 over the corresponding month last yar. The collections from the several scurces of revenue are thus given: Spirits. $9.t)77.74, an Increase of $1.376,212; tobacco. $1,0,115, a decrease of $11,297; fermented liquors. $I,2S7.433. an increase of $$4.0;t: oleomargarine, $ls7,t2, a decrease of $1S$.5"1; special taxes not elsewhere enumerated, $24.613. an Increase of $2.919; miscellaneous. $.,&S0,3S2. an increase of $520.802. For the last eight months the total collections weie $203,100,150, an increase over the corresponding period in 1900 of $7,431,272. It was learned yesterday that the President still lacks one name of completing the St. Louis exposition commission. The eight men who have been selected are: Ex-Senators Carter. McBride, Thurston and Lindsay; ex-Representatives Allen, of Mississippi, and Glynn, of New York; Prof. Northrop, o4 Minnesota, and E. S. Scott, o: Arkansas. This arrangement makes four Republicans and four Democrats selected. The ninth appointee will be a Republican and the contest for this place is said to lie between F. A. Betts, of Connecticut. John F. Miller, of Indiana, and another man whose name cannot be learned. Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, saw the President yesterdav with refe-rence to the details of his New England trip. The President expects to attend the class day at Wesleyan June 23 and commencement exercises at Harvard the following day. On Thursday of the same week he will visit t'oncord and Ixlngton as the guest of Senator Hoar. Saturday and Sunday be will be the guest of Senator McMillan, of Michigan, at Manchester and Monday he will tpend at Nahant with Senator Lodge. Thence he will be taken across the bay on a government warship to Ringham, the home of Secretary Long. In all it is expected that the President's New England trip will occupy about ten days. Mrs. McKinley will accompany tl e President. Passion Piny Forbidden. MEXICO CITY, March 27. The Archbishop of Mexico has again Issued Instructions to the clergy In the archdiocese forbidding In the most stringent terms the performance of the Passion Play during holy week, as has been the custom for years. Last year the archbishop took a similar course and In many places the iday was abandoned.

TURKS ASD RUSSIANS

ROTH MAKING TItOl RLE FOR TIIEIU RESPECTIVE GOVERNMENTS. Conditions in the Ottoman Empire Ripening for Revolution and Overthrow of Abdul the Damned.' RUSSIA STILL IN A FERMENT MARTIAL LAW DISCISSED AT A COLNCIL OF Tili: 3UN1STERS. Over Fifteen Hundred Political Prisoners Inder Secret Examination by the St. Petersburg Police. LONDON, March 27. Advices received here from Constantinople are to the effect that affairs are rapidly reaching a dangerous pass there. Turkish finances ure la inextricabls confualon. All government salaries are from six to eight months in arrears. Upward of a million Turkish pounds are due for war material, while the im.itary expenditure is dally increasing, in ord?r to cope with the rebellion H the province of Yemen, in southern Arabia, and the iossible rising in Macedonia. There is no doubt the Ottoman troops received a severe check at the hands of the Arab insurgents who, in a manifesto denouncing the Sultan, proclaimed his brother, Mohammed Heshad Effendi, to be Sultan, with the title of Mohemmed V. The Young Turks party has adhered to the Arabian proclamation and the open enmity to Abdul Hamid, the Sultan, has spread to the palace and the Sultan's advisers. Izzet Bey is said to be preparing lor flight. The patrols of Constantinople have been doubled. Mohammedans and Christians are arrested hourly, and lara numbers are dally shipped to Asia Minor. lhe tension between Bulgarians and Mussulmans in Macedonia is extreme. It is itported that another band of marauder nas crossed Lu.garia, into Macedonia. RUSSIA'S INTERNAL TROUBLES. Martial Law Discussed by the Ministry Political Prisoners. ST. PETERSBURG, March 27. It is reliably reported that at a ministerial committee meeting held in the presence of tha Grand Duke Vladimir, commander of the St. Petersburg garrison, the proposal to place the capital under martial law should the indications presage further difficulties was heatedly debated. M. De Witte, the finance minister, was energetically opposed to the establishment of martial law, owing to financial reasons, not to mention tha disastrous effect which it would have ea industry, commerce and the committee' standing with foreign capitalists. The committee accordingly sanctioned the issuing of a circular which has been Issued by the ministry of the Interior. A ministerial council has been called for Friday at TzarsKoe-Selo. The examination of the 1,150 political prisoners is now being conducted in secret by the police. Thirty-six prisoners who were arrested as leaders of the student movement before the last riot probably will be released from custody to-morrow and will be excluded from the university for different periods. It is reported from trustworthy sources that the government has decided to make unofficial concessions to the students, and accordingly the military regulations against student agitators are therefore set uside for the present, though there will be no public announcement to this effect for some time. The prisoners will not be drafted into the army. This is one of the results of the ministerial meeting. Students In the Army. BERLIN, March 27. The Vorwaertz publishes "inside news" from Russia to tho effect that the number of students enrolled in the array is still increasing and now exceeds two thousand. According to the same authority an exstudent named PiratolT, who was enroled, was executed March 22 In Kleff because of insubordination and two lormer Mudents, Ryoakoff and Lanwtnik, will be tried for a similar offense. Dispersed by Police. ROME. March 27. A band of university students to-day, disappointed at not being able to give an ovation to Count Tolstoi's eon, who had previously left his hotel, attempted to make a demonstration In front oi the Russian embassy, but were dispersed by the police. NOT THE CZAR, BUT CZAR ISM. Russin ii Say They Are Merely Warring Agalust n System. NEW YORK. March 27. Fully thre thousand people were crowded into the new Irving Hall to-night, at a mass meeting of Russian sympathizers. The object ot the meeting was to discuss the recent political demonstrations in St. Petersburg. Vladimir Stalechnikoff presided at the meeting. He is a Russian nobleman, no an architect by profession, who was prominently connected with the Nihilist movement in that country, and who fled some years ago in order to save himself from being transported to Siberia. The principal address of the evening was given in English, by Abraham Cahan, and his speech, by a vote, was adopted as the sentiment oJ the meeting. He s-aid: "It is not the Czar, but Czarism. It is rot the throne, but the system. Thl system Is pet sonified in those who make .i cat's-paw of Nicholas II, for If there 1.4 one man In the empire who Is not tho master of Russia It is the Czar. The y. tein ejf which Nicholas Is the tigvrehead 1:5 embodied In PoboyfMlonoslzeff. Tht Russian government is a government of thej twelfth century, while the European culture of to-day is the culture of the tum. tleth. Russia is made up of people h) have the same hopes and aspirations as those cf other countries, and the discrepancy between the mental and spiritual status of the people and the political regime is at the bottom of the situation. But the American spirit of 177G is being revived there. The educated classes are panting for breath and the working people, want the right to struggle for the improvement ot their lot. Hence the bond between the two." LEAVE PORTO RICO. Tno More Shiploads of Laborers Start for Hawaii and Cuba. TONCE, Porto Rico. March 27 Th Ame rican steamer Callfornlan. which sailed from Guanlca yesterday for New Orleans. has on liard Kj emigrants destined for Hawaii. Of the- rumbcr Si'j are men and i.ie remainde r :re wun.ui and children. The emigrants are physically supertor to ihot of the previous expedition. Th American steamer Porto Rico, which ailed to-day. took 4ni persons who are to be employed In the ("üben Iron mines. The agents of the company engaged in constructing the railroad ftom Guayaquil to Culto, Ecuador, are In Porto Rico, t crultlng for lalw.rers. This. In connection with the departure yesterday. Is draining Porto Rico of its be?t laborers. The en lire press of the Island 1. objee-tlng to thlj emigration. Planters cannot cultivate their lands, owing te the lack of money, and consequently there Is no work to be had here. The authorities are t iking no steps to prevent this emigration. There are idxty-thre-e case of smallpox at Ponce. A slight increase of the disea in lhe rest of the Uland is reported.