Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 107, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1901 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUHNAL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1901.

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That was' an interesting dream which Iresldent Joseph Smith had revealing the will of the Lord regarding certain matter of Mormon Church policy, but it is noticeable that the revelation was not adopted without submitting it to the approval of Jhe high church authorities. Scarcely a day passes that foreign correspondents or papers do not compliment the American troops in China or American methods In our new island possessions. It is only the irreconcilables at home who persist in smirching and belittling everything done by the government. The fact that Agulnaldlst editors and agitators are allowed to abuse and vilify the administration to their hearts content without let or hindrance Is a sufficient answer to their charges of imperialism. Without intending it they are living object lessons of the vitality of free government. The action of the Arkansas Senate in passing a bill which makes it unlawful for uny .person to drink intoxicating liquors unless he has u license has the quality of rovelty, but if there is no ponalty attached to selling liquor to persons having no license to drink novelty will be its only virtue. The Chinese minister, Wu Tingfang, has a remarkable faculty of saying something whenever he opens his mouth. His published interview criticising the Christian powers for their slowness and disregard of business Interests is a strikir.g instance of turning' the tables on supposedly superior peoples. It does not require much ."kill to take an Associated Press dispatch and out of a bare statement of facts construct a much padded and highly colored special full of innuendoes and insinuations. We say the manufacture of "fake' specials of that sort does not require much skill, but it is insulting to the public and shows a very low standard of Journalistic honor. The Postal Department is getting advice vithout stint concerning the second-class mail abuse, which, if not all In the line called for, is worth its attention. If a decision will hold against those papers vhicn offer premiums and which would not be subscribed for but for the premiums, v. hy could not a decision of the department reaching serial novels, advertising sheets published hi the Interests of a single firm oi In the interest of two or three firms hs made effective? The testimony of Garnett Ripley in his own behalf gives no support whatever to the theory of a conspiracy for the murder of Goebel. As to two of the alleged conrplrators Ripley swore that he did not know them till some daj's after the shooting, three others he never knew at all, and a jixth he never saw till he met him in Jail. Conspiracies are not formed by strangers. IUpley's explanation of ex-Governor Bradley's statement is entirely reasonable and deprives it of all weight. President Schurman, of Cornell University, is qualified by attainments and experience to speak understanding regarding the rights and duties of the United States in Cuba. After careful study of the situation at first hand he says: "The United States must insist on acceptance of the Piatt amendment. Opposition of the Cuban delegates must l overcome." He means by persuasion and tact, not by force. Evidence accumulates that all Intelligent Cubans are In favor of accepting the amendment. The appointment of a gold Democrat to be district attorney in South Carolina to tucceed a Republican recommended by tho republican commlltte of that State four years ago has u pnlltlc.il significance in that it may mark the beginning of a policy of appointing sound-money Democrats of Influence- in the South. It Is .said that the new district attorney representing the white t'ement hostile to Tillman in South Caro lira will undertake to organize a white Republican party in that State. It is given out that he will make a speech before the Arroclatlon of Cotton Manufacturers in Charlotte, X. C. next ACtk, In which he will outline the policy of a white party Ijoj tile to Tillmanlsm. This is not only prac tical but sound politics. Pursued with tiscretlon, there will be a Republican party of character and influence in th; South in 1901. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ha added another to the decisions protecting Individuals from persecution or interference l.V their business either by loycotts, con spiracies or labor unions. It eern surprlili,g that in a country whose institutions are based on personal liberty there should be o many people who cannot understand that the law guarantees to every individual t- rizht to manage and conduct LU own

business In his own waj provided he does not interfere with the rights of others, and that attempts to break up or injure any man's business by dictating methods ol management under any pretense whatever cannot be tolerated. In the case alluded to the court he'd that a manufacturer had a right to adopt in his own business a system which barred his apprentices from membership In a labor union, and that members of the union had no right to Interfere with his business by soliciting hi3 appi entices to join the union. This does not deny the right of any such apprentice to join the union, but it affirms the right of the employer to say that he will regard the act as hostile to his own Interests, an! it prohibits outsiders from trying to cripple his business by Inducing his employes to join the union.

TUB PASSUNG OF THE PRESS. The failure or suspension of a dally newspaper attracts more attention than that of any other business enterprise of equal magnitude because, in the nature of things, it occupies a larger space in the public eye. That of the Indianapolis Press is further emphasized by the circumstances under which it was started, the prominence and standing of its responsible managers and its own journalistic methods. It was started quite as much for the purpose of hurting the News as in the hope of making an Independent place for itself, and in the belief that the public would sympathize with this motive. Thai was a mistake to begin with. A successful newspaper cannot be founded on spite. The public cares nothing for anybody's personal grievances. The proprietors of the Press arc gentlemen of large experience and high standing personally, socially and financially, but in this commercial age mere personality does not count for very much in business enterprises. The Press lacked essential elements of success from the beginning, and It wa3 further handicapped by the necessity of rivalling in excellence and elements of popularity two afternoon papers already well established. Even this difficult undertaking might possibly have succeeded if the paper': methods had been such as to commend it to public confidence. These methods might have succeeded in another community, but they could not here. The people of this city and State are rather conservative and do not take kindly to horn-blowing, gong-beatlng and fire-alarm methods in journalism or anything else. They give their confidence slowly, and they are not captivated by the stand-and-de-llver style. Beins a practical Fort of people they remember that while a gourd may grow up in a night and a pumpkinvine cover a great space in a single season, it takes time for an oak to become rooted. The Press attempted to bear fruit before it had blossomed, and even its blossoms were announced prematurely and were too gaudy when they came. The public declined to have success blown into its ears with tin horns or crammed down its throat with a variety of new-fangled syringes. To drop figures of speech, we may say that the failure of tne Press to become a paying enterprise is another illustration of what may be accepted as a wrell established fact in the history of newspaper-making. and that a well-established newspaper with a clientago and a patronage cannot be materially affected, much less driven out of the field, by a new venture. Mr. Holliuay had an established reputation as a newspaper manager, and few men have ever lived in Indianapolis who have had a larger share of the respect of its intelligent people. Major Richards has been a most successful publisher, energetic and resourceful. They had ample capital for the enterprise, they surrounded themselves with a largo corps of newspaper workers, most of whom were capable men; the field was canvassed thoroughly and systematically. Nevertheless, with personal influence, experience and talent, ample capital and complete organization, the Press was unable to make any inroad upon the patronage and circulation of its contemporaries. The old advertiser in this, as in a score of instances that could be. cited, stays with the paper he has known. Even readers, after a little, drift back to the newspaper that has become familiar to them for years, even If they occasionally find fault with it. They cling to it because they have long been accustomed to it. i1nally, if the Journal may be pardoned a personal word, it will say that for some tlmo it knew positively that the last issue of the Press would bo on Tuesday, the ICth. It knew that the absorption of the Press by the News was a fixed fact and practically consummated, but it refrained from making any allusion to the fact from considerations of Journalistic courtesy. Iong after midnight of the 15th Inst, the proprietors of the News and Press, respectively, were not willing to have the announcement made on their authority. They preferred to make It themselves, and the Journal respected their preference. The Journal does not meddle In the affairs of its neighbors and it respects their wishes. As for its dead contemporaries, may they rest in peace, and may its live ones live long and prosper. The Journal will abide. practical betterment or the CIVII SERVICE. At the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Civll-servloe Reform Association in Roston last week Hon. William Dudley Foulke told those who assailed the President that their only chance as friends of re-fo-m in the civil service is to stand by Mr. McKinley, as Mr. Bryan Is formally committed against the merit system. In tho course of his remarks, Mr. Foulke said: Our wisest course for the future is to lay every abuse which we discover before those in authority, and to seek a remedy there. If possible, before any appeal is made to the public. Wo must urge further Inclusions, stricter rules, and the enforcement of the law. Among the Inclusions let us ask for the labor service of the government, the consuls, the Indian agents and the fourth-class postmasters tinder some plan like that formerly proposed by Postmaster General Wilson. If we will only keep at it long enough and hard enough, we are bound to mceeod. This is certainly a better course to pursue than to do nothing but find fault and rail at the President, denouncing him for appointing an ex-representative as civilservice commissioner who voted at one session agaln?t an appropriation for the commission. These critics seem to forget that Mr. Cleveland, in 1SS5, appointed Mr. Edgerton. of this State, civil-service commissioner, a known opponent of the merit system, and that while in office he became a valuable official in carrying out the purpose of the law. One does not get the views of many men who are conversant with the workings of the present rules in the departments at Washington without learning that serious evils exist under the present system that.

among other things, the idea of life-posl-tlon is a very serious obstacle to efficiency. It may be different when the employes who were in the department when the protection of the law was placed about hundreds of men fifty years of age, who did not get into the service by merit, shall have died, but the result of that action fifteen years ago is that there are hundreds of men in the departments too old to render any service. The head of a bureau declared not long ago he could do all the work assigned to him with less than half .the employes if he could select them upon the basis of fitness. Even those who claim to be the only civil-service reformers fail to give the last House credit for overwhelmingly defeating a bill which provided that men pa-st the retiring age of the army officer be appointed to places In the civil service without examination and secured against removal except upon investigation because they had been Union soldiers. The one idea of the men who claim to be "it" in civil-service reform is to extend the protection of the clvll-servlce ruies so as to cover every branch of "the public service with the thousands of men who are not in position by passing an examination. It seems to many men who believe in an effective civil service based upon competitive examination that the time has come to inquire if the term of service should not be limited to a given number of years and that a special system of examination be adopted inside- the departments to the end that the inefficients and the slothful be weeded out. The problem is certainly a difficult one to solve, but the solution cannot be found in simply extending the blanket of the civil-service rules to cover more thousands of men who hü.ve not and cannot pass r.ny examination, and who are incapacitated by age or other defects for effective service.

ci itin.NG Tin: divorce scamiad. A recent decision of the United States Supreme Court, reported in Tuesday's Journal, will go a considerable distance towards curbing the divorce evil which has grown up under the loose laws and practice in some States. The doctrine heretofore recognized by most courts that a divorce legally decreed and valid under the laws of the State where granted was valid everywhere has become a cover for great abuses In some of the newer States. Taking advantage of this doctrine some of the new States have passed divorce laws notoriously loose in their provisions, and their courts have construed them in such a way as to encourage persons seeking easy divorces to come from distant States, knowing that after very short residence they could procure a divorce on very slight grounds. Thi3 kind of immigration and business has been encouraged for the money that was in it, regardless of its demoralizing influence. A local newspaper in North Dakota put the matter thus: "A canvass of the hotels and boarding houses in Fargo shows that there are about 150 members in the divorce colony. This means from $3,000 to $3,000 for the hotel men of the city. It also means from $5,000 to $10,000 for the local attorneys. In addition to these expenditures, the stores receive directly, perhaps, $2.000 a month in the way of divorce trade. The sentiment of the citizens is entirely in favor of the 'industry.' The matter is looked at purely from a business standpoint." Much the same conditions existed in every city and large town in North Dakota and in those of some other States. The recognition of these easy divorces in other States has aggravated the divorce evil to such an extent as to create a strong demand by social reformers for a federal divorce law which should be uniform in all the States. The decision of the Supremo Court is at least a step In tho direction of restraining the evil. It holds that a divorce granted in any State for any cause is invalid in other States, unless the parties to the decree had become fully domiciled and were legal residents of the State. This will put an end to the granting of divorces to birds of passage. In Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming only six months' residence is required, and even this provision has been scandalously relaxed. The decision of the Supreme Court makes good law harmonize with good morals. TAXES AXI EXPORTS. The decision of the Supreme Court holdlag the stamp tax on export bills of lading unconstitutional comes pretty near foreshadowing a like decision regarding the law imposing tariff duties on goods exported from the United States to Porto Rico. The provision of tho. Constitution is explicit that "no tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any State." The Supreme Court holds that what cannot be done directly cannot be done indirectly. The war revenue act Imposes a stamp tax on foreign bills of lading. Common sense would say that the taxes are not imposed on the paper on which the bill of lading Is written, but on the transaction which it represents, that is, on the goods shipped. This is the view taken by the court. "We are of opinion," It says, "that a stamp tax on a foreign bill of lading Is In substance and effect equivalent to a tax on the articles included in that bill of lading, and therefore a tax or duty on exports and in conflict with the constitutional prohibition." The principle of this decision seems to apply to the Porto Rlcan tariff. Porto Rico is either a part of the United States or it is not. In the former case it comes under the constitutional provision requiring taxes to be uniform throughout the United States, and goods shipped tnlther from any other part of the country should be as free from tax as goods shipped from Massachusetts to Indiana. On the other hind, if Porto Rico is a foreign country in tho tense that goods shipped thither from the United States are exports then they cannot be taxed at all. The constitutional provision that "no tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any State" protects such articles from taxation at any stage of the exportation, t ither at the time of shipment or the time of landing. The Supreme Court is not likely to hold that Congress may do indirectly what tho Constitution prohibits from being done directly. (inße "Will "Keep House." Washington Letter In New York Post. While the President and most of his Cabinet are away on their long Journey to the Pacific coast, Secretary Gage will stay in Washington and "keep the office open." Mr. Gage has been over the Southern Pacific in recent years, and does not care to make the trip again so soon. He visually spends the summer here. He occupies -.tp. resontatlve Newland's house In Chevy Chaie, and Is often seen on warm evenings riding on the suburban electric cars. When the President decided to take the Western trip he intimated to his Cabinet that he would like to have one member stay and act as his substitute. He said that he did not feci that there would be any occasion

for this substitute to do any important public business outside of his regular department, but it would be pleasant to know that there -was somebody at the executive center in case of an emergency. He found a willinsr volunteer in Mr. Gage. The President will keep In telegraphic communication with Washington, and will thus try to attend to all the larger affars of state himself. Matters which cannot wait will be handled by the secretary of the treasury. FROM HITHER AND YON.

Tito Point of View. Puck. Sue Sam mus' hab money to weah sich clothes. Dinah How kin he hab money an weah sich clothes? f Due. Judge. "I'm half dead," said Mr. Dickers, as he cameIn and threw himself down on the sofa. "Good." replied Mrs. Bickers; "now I'll collect half your life insurance." Iii for the Limit. Brooklyn Eagle. Kind Old Brooklyn Lady (visiting Sin Sing, beamingly) So you convicts have a social club here in Slr.g Sing? How'nlce! Jimmy "The Rat" (proudly) Yes'm. "And do you belong?" "Oh, yes'm I'm a life member!" ) An Indiscreet Saleslady. Pcr.ch. Customer (trying on new hat. to assistant) Don't you think there's a little too much of it? Assistant (in tone of absolute conviction, with a note of admiration in It) Oh, no, ma'am. With fuch a profile as yours you can stand anything. Her Excuse. Baltimore American. "I would give you my seat, sir." said the fair young girl to the- palo man who was hanging to a strap in the street ear, "but I am very tired. I have sat through a matinee performance of liantftn, the actor." "Never mind, madam." said the pale man, taking a fresh grip on the strap, I am Rantem, the actor." TO CURB SPECULATION TREASURY DEPARTMENT SEMIS A WARM.NG XOTE TO HAMvEHS. Danger of n Crash if Lare Stilus of Money Continue to He Diverted from Regular Trade Channels. Washington Special to Chicago Tribune. Treasury officials are concerned about the result of the overppeculation in Wall street. They have reporter! the matter to the President, and the Influence of the Treasury Department is being exerted more and more to induce the New York banks to act in a moro conservative manner. Treasury people talked with say that while there is not the shadow of a doubt In regard to the general commercial prosperity of the country, there is cause for alarm In the conditions manifested in Wall street. There has been, these officials say, a perfect mania for the organization of trusts, and the securities of these mammoth corporations have been dealt in with feverish activity on the Stock Exchange. The Treasury Department is not at all concerned about ordinary stock jobbing schemes, so far as they affect the speculating element only. The financial officers of the government have been preaching conservatism for some time. They say there has been a large overcapitalization in many of the industrial enterprises, and a day of reckoning is, certain when an effort is made to squeeze the water out of theso securities. The thing which is troubling the treasury officials is not the fact that there haa been frantic speculation in Wall street, but rather the fact that money which belongs to legitimate commercial enterprises has been diverted into the avenues of speculation. This money must get back into the ordinary channels somehow, and a great fear is expressed by the trtagury people that a possible panic on Wall street may havo a serious effect upon general buiintsb. One of the most trusted officials of the government, in explaining the situation, said: "The Tribune is doing wisely in calling attention in its news and editorial columns to unfavorable financial conditions, which ought to be corrected before it is too late. It will not do for legitimate business men to say that they havo no concern with the kite-fiying in Wall street, for it is, unfortunately, the fact that the speculative enterprises In New York have had and will have, sooner or later, a malign influence upon the general money market, and this in turn will cause distress to legitimate commercial operations. "Tho overspeculatlon in Wall street is brought about by the remarkable prosperity of the country. Ordinary business, manufacturing and agricultural enterprises nave been remarkably successful. The middlo West in particularly has been prosperous, and money from the banks in the Mississippi valley has been thansferred to banks in New York city. The New York banks have been paying for a great deal of these deposits on u 2 per cent, basis. "The surplus of the country has been so large that It has been difficult to Invest it all in legitimate enterprises. As a result tho New York banks have put immense sums into Wall street. Next fall, when the time for moving the crops comes, the West will need its money and will ask for it. As long as the New York banks have a surplus in excess of the -5 per tent, required by law they can supply this demand. When this extra surplus is exhausted they will have to call ia their loans. The result will be a stringency in the money market, and funds which should properly be used to move the crops will be in great demand to bolster a falling stock market." "This same thing happened two years ago," said the official, 'and thre is no reason to believe that events will take a different course this year. Tho only tiling which could be clone at that time to relieve the stringency in tho money market was to increase tho deposits of government money in the national banks. For doing this, Secretary Gage was severely criticised, and yet it may as well be understood now as later that if the stringency anticipated shall arrive again this year the secretary will have no other course to pursue. "The secretary cannot buy bonds, because, whenever the prices of other securities drop, government bonds become mor? valuaLle, not only for investment, but because the banks must have them as a basis on wnicn to receive tne government deposits. "Once the government money gets Into the subtrjasury it cannot be taken out again except to pay debts. The secretary will therefore have to resort to a system of deposits of current receipts. He may decide to make those deposits In several different cities as well as in New York, but he will have to increase, the line of deposits in the national banks by manv millions to supply the demand which the Western and Southern States will mak? for money to move the crops. "The Treasury Repattment Is exerting its Influence to stop this pouring of good money into the Wall-street rathole, but it is not accomplishing much as yet. The safest thing perhaps is for the large Western banks not to remit quite so freely to New York, but rather to accumulate an unusual surplus In anticipation of the crop moving time, when money will be In demand by their customers, but will not be so easy to get out of the vaults of the New York banks. "There Is not the slightest danger of a commercial panic. Business and agriculture are prosperous, and the country is on a firm foundation, but there Is danger of a speculative crash in Wall street. The treasury 1 doing what it can to prevent that speculative panic having an effect on the commercial world, but Its efforts should lie seconded by conservative banking associations, and the newspapers of the country will do the country a service by sounding a note of warning before it is too late." I'reneher Killed lr n Full. YORK. Pa.. April 16 Rev. George R. Reeser, pastor of the Emanuel Reformed Church at Hanover, to-day fell from tho scaffold of a new church which his congregation is building and died in half an hour. He fell a distance of fifty feet and landed on a stonepile.

EMPTY HONOR FOR STEYN

ItK-ELCCTKD PRESIDENT OF T1IK (JRAAGE FREE STATE. Report of Lord Roberts on the Trans port Service American Brick Wn gom Better Than Other Vehicles. LONDON, April IS. A special dispatch from Cape Town, under to-day's date, says forty Boers recently met at Boshof and solemnly re-elected Mr. Steyn President of the Orange Free State. - Another dispatch from Lord Roberts on the subject of the South African campaign, dated in 1900, has been published in the Gazette. It largely concerns the transport service, and says that the mule transports consisted of what are called in South Africa buck wagons, carrying a load of 3,500 pounds, drawn by 10 mules, each with two native drivers. After mentioning the serviceable wagons made in Cape Colony, and the frequent retiring and other repairs which the English-made wagons required. Lord Roberts said: "Six brick wagons were imported for trial from the United States. These proved to be superior to any other pattern, of either Cape or English manufacture. The wheels were of hickory, the bodies of black walnut and the metal work of steel. The superiority of theso vehicles was doubtless due to the fact that the mule wagons are largely used in America for the carriage of goods, as well as for military transpoits. The manufacturers have, therefore, learned by practical experience what is the best type of wagon and what are most suitable materials ia building them. It may be added that the wagons in question cost considerably les-5 than the British pattern wagons." The best mules, Lord Roberts thinks, are the Cape mules, and the next best are th3 Indian mules. The mortality among the oxen was greater than among the mules. Lord Roberts, in nis dispatch, goes over all branches ot the service, and in reviewing the hospital department, mentions tho American hospital ship Maine, "litted out and maintained by the splendid generosity of private individuals and the committee of American ladies." Lord Roberts heads eleven pages of special mentions by cordially acknowledging the services of Sir Alfred Milner and General Kitchener. Paragraphs complimenting almost all the division and brigade commanders follow, including Generals White, Methuen, Baden-Powell, Kelly-Kenny, French, Arthur agent and Pole Carew. General Duller is mentioned first after the staff officers, but merely in formal terms, without commendation. Detailing the stores handled, he says there were 1,031,(m) rounds of artillery ammunition, 12L'.oO").;CO rounds of ammunition for rifle and machine guns, and 2,000,000 pairs of horse shoes. Sir Alfred Milner, according to the Daily Chronlcle, Is coming to England early next month, and will remain two months to recruit his health, which has been severely tried by his arduous labors In South Africa. Most of the morning papers comment upon the effect which his absence at a critical moment is likely to have on the campaign, recalling the fact that General Botha made the .objections to Sir Alfred Milner one of the chief reasons for rejecting the peace terms. It is expected the Boers will impute Sir Alfred's absence to political motives. A dispatch to the Times from Middleburg, Transvaal, says: "Operations in the eastern Transvaal have been begun. There is no doubt that acting President SchalkBurger, General Botha, Mr. Steyn and Gen. De Wet had a meeting at Ermelo, but their subsequent movements are obscure. Raids on the railway have become less frequent. RETURN' OF 3IOXTAGU WHITE. Former Roer Consul Snys KriiRer Is Too Feeble to Visit Amerlea. NEW YORK, April 16. Montagu White, who was consul general for the Transvaal in London, is in this city. When interviewed to-day Mr. White was noncommittal regarding his object in coming to thi3 country. He said he intended visiting the leading cities here and obtaining the views of prominent Boer sympathizers regarding the present situation, but he denied that his visit was for the purpose of consulting Secretary Hay in the matter of the proposed visit of President Kruger to this country. "Is it true,'-' he was sisked. "that an address to the American people was outlined by you an address which Mr. Kruger was expected to approve and sign?" "It is not." he replied. "During a short conversation with a friend of mine at Paris recently I was asked my opinion in the matter of drawing up some such address, but it was not actually done. I was summoned to Holland and Brussels to attend a sort of conferences if I can dignify th informal meeting of four or five men by that name, but the discussion there was merely of a general nature a sort of considering of the situation." "Do you think President Kruger will visit America?" was asked. "I think he is too feeble to attempt any such thing." "Do the Boers ask for absoluto liberty as a stipulation for peace?" "That is too strong a phrase," M. White answered. "We heard some time ago that General Kitchener demanded unconditional surrender and Botha demanded absolute liberty; but those are two extremes. I can only say the Boers would rather die fighting than give unconditional surrender. I am quite unable to sav what the terms should be. That must be and can only be settled between General Kitchener on tho one side and on the other by President Steyn and Generals Botha and De Wet." Meetlnt? of Pro-Roers. CHICAGO, April 16. Queen Wilhelmina, of the Netherlands, was toasted, and Joseph Chamberlain, of England, denounced at the sixth annual banquet of the Holland Society of Chicago, which was held at the Grand Pacific Hotel. About one hundred members of the society were present with a number of invited guests and the affair was the most successful and brilliant of its kind ever given under the auspices of the club. President George Blrkhoff. jr., Henry E. Dosker, of Holland, Mich., Judge Peter Grosscup. Prof. Edmund James. John Venne wa and C. B. Haagsma were the speakers. DISCOVERIES IN EROS. Little Planet Has a Vnrlnble Light, Chauvins; Every Few Hours. NEW YORK, April 1C. A special to the Times from Boston says: "Eros, the little planet that has been watched so closely by astronomers lately, on account of Its nearness to the earth, has recently taken on additional interest. Until within a short time Eros lias been observed simply on account of its position, by means of which it is hoped to determine more closely the distance between the earth and the sun. This spring the planet has shown marked changes in light, and is the first of the asteroids in which variation of light has been firmly established. "It has been found by the Harvard observers that the intensity of the light changes sometimes two or three times In as many hours. This is accounted for in two ways. Some astronomers think that one side of the planet is dark and the other light and that as it revolves first the light and then the dark side is presented to the watchers on earth; other observers, and especially those in Europe, believe that the planet is double and that the two spheres so revolving around one another first present their combined light and then only the light of one. The planet is believed to revolve In five hours." C. D. Landls Will Speak. NEW YORK, April 16. The speakers at the Grant dinner to be held at the WaldorfAstoria on General Grant's birthday, April 27, will be Congressmen C. R. Landls. of Indiana, who will respond to the toast of "Grant;" Clark Howell, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, who will respond to the toast "Grant's Life as a Peace Lesson;" ex-Senator William E. Chandler, of New Hampshire, who will respond to the toast -National Hopefulness," and Brlff. Gen.

Joseph Wheeler, of the United States army, retired, who will respond to the toat "Progress of Our Country During the Last Third of a Century." BATTLESHIP SILVER.

It Is Tied Up by a Replevin Suit at Chicago Prices and Cost. CHICAGO, April 16.-A replevin suit to recover the solid silver service of the battleship Illinois has been commenced in the Circuit Court, by the Towle Manufacturing Company. The corporation claims that the silver service is a part of its goods and chattels and that they were taken possession of by the defendants. The service is now in the possession of the Northern Trust Company for safe keeping. The defendants to the suit are William Penn Nixon. Harlow Higgingbotham, Charles L. Hutchinson and the Northern Trust Company Bank. The Towle Manufacturing Company says the property is valued at $3,'JO0. It consists of one large punch bowl, one tray accompaniment, one ladle for the same, one small punch bowl, two small ladles, two seven-light candelabra, one centerpiece and two fruit dishes. William Penn Nixon, Harlow N. Higglnbotham and Charles L. Hutchinson are the members of the committee appointed to secure the silver service for the battleship. They originally let the contract to a company of manufacturing silversmiths, which is now in the hands of a receiver. This company transferred the contract to the Towle Manufacturing Company. The receiver of this first company, alter the contract was completed, filed a creditor's bill in which the members of the committee were included as being debtors. The committee was thus stopped from paying the Towle Manufacturing Company for the service which it had completed. NEW OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS. Reorganization of the Carnegie Corporation LiiTeeted. FITTSBURG, Pa., April 16. The reorganization of the Carnegie corporation was effected to-day at a meeting of the stockholders, and the Morgan interests assumed control. As showing the changes made in . the officials the following statement is issued by the corporation: ' "The postponed annual meeting of the stockholders of the Carnegie company was held in East Orange, N. J., April 15, and the following board of directors elected: C. M. Schwab, E. H. Gary, W. E. Corey, J. B. Dill and W. W. Blackburn. The directors of the Carnegie Steel Company met in Pittsburg to-day and accepted the resignations of the following members of the board: George Lauder, A. R. Peacock, L. C. Phipps, James Gayley and W. B. Dickson, The following were elected members of the board of directors of the Carnegie Steel Company: W. E. Corey, James B. Reed, E. H. Gary and J. E. Schwab. The directors of the Carnegie Steel Company elected the following officers: W. E. Corey, president; H. V. Hope, first vice president; W. W. Blackburn, second vice president and secretary; W. K. McCausland, treasurer. "Mr. Thomas Lynch, president of the H. C. Frlck Coke Company, has been elected by the directors of the United States Steel Corporation as general manager of the coal and coke properties of the constituent companies of the United States Steel Corporation, with headquarters in Pittsburg." TRUSTS OF THE STATE. RtilliiK of Ohio Supreme Court on Insurance Companies Deposits. COLUMBUS, O., April 16. The Supreme Court to-day harfded down an opinion in the suit of the Union Savings Bank and Trust Company of Cincinnati as assignee of the Cincinnati Life Association against former Commissioner of Insurance Matthews thpt is of vital interest to companies depositing funds with state officers. The Union Savings Bank and Trust Company brought suit to compel the commissioner of insurance to pay to It $100,000 deposited with him by the insurance company as required by the Ohio law. Tho State contended that this money was held in trust for the policy holders of tho company, and that it could not be turned over to an assignee, but must be distributed by the commissioner as trustee. The Supreme Court upholds the contention of the State. Attorney General Sheets is of opinion that the decision will affect alo the deposits made by the debenture companies. These deposits are not made with thü insurance commissioner, but with tho state treasurer. Mr. Sheets believes, however, that the principle laid down in tho decision affecting Insurance companies will apply to debenture companies. The debenture companies' deposits in the hands of the ctate treasurer amount to about $500,oaX). MURDERER AND BURGLAR. Frank Major Handed for Killing n Tltusvlile Chief ot Police. MEADVILLE, Pa., April lC.-Frank Major, alias Daniel J. Kehoe, was hanged here to-day for the murder of Chief of Police Daniel McGrath, of Tltusvllle, Pa.. In November, 1899. He was a member of a gang that blew open the safe and robbed the Titusvllle Railroad ticket office and later went to a house on East Spring street, where they intimidated and robbed the inmates. They were tracked to this place by Chief McGrath and Policeman Sheehy. The gang opened fire at once and Shechy fell, dangerously wounded. McGrath grappled with the man at the door, and after he had received his own death wound shot and killed one of the burglars. Tho other two escaped, but Major was captured the next day. The dead burglar was never Identified, and a Philadelphia medical school got his body. Major, It Is said, comes of a good family, residing on Grant avenue, Brooklyn. The execution to-day was the first In Crawford county in over eighty years. LIVE STOCK SUFFERING. WyomittK in the Throes of One of the Worst Storms of the Season. CHEYENNE, Wyo., April 16.-One of the worst storms In recent years has been in p: ogress here for the past eighteen hours. Snow began to fall early Monday morning and several inches were added to the large amount already on the ground. The snow Is light and a high wind has drifted It badly. Three locomotives wtre demolished in a freight wreck at Borie, twenty miles west of here, caused by two trains being unable to see each other on accoimt of the blinding storm. Traffic was delayed five hours. The live stock losses from this and former storms are enormous. Report, which have been lacking up to this time, show that thousands of cattle and sheep have been lost. One ranch alone lost l'..Vw) head of cattle and another lost she p. All the small ranchmen In western Nebraska and South Dakota and eastern Wyoming have lost heavily. The temperature is now near zero. HELD FOR MURDER. Grand Jury Will Investigate the Case of Lnvryer Patrick. NEW YORK. April 16. Justice Jerome to-day held Albert T. Patrick for the granj jury cn a charge of murdering the late Texas millionaire, William Marsh Rice. William W. Cantwell, of Patrick's counsel, said to-day that application In habeas corpus proceedings in the case of Morris Meyer and David L- Short, who are in the Tombs in default of J2U.000 ball on Charge of forgery In the first degree in connection with having acted as witnesses to the alleged forgery of the Rice R00 will, would be made to-morrow or Thursday.

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PAMOl'S "HAT TRIMMINGS CASH SETTLED AFTER SEVEN" YEAIIS. Coneesslons Made by Roth the Gor ernmcnt and Importers and Compromise Aeeepted by the Court. PHILADELPHIA. April lS.-The famous "hat trimmings" case, which has been the subject of a bitter legal battle for seven years between the government and a number of importers, was settled in the United States District Court here this afternoon. The settlement is a compromise on the part of both the government and the importers. The importers, Meyer & Dickinson. Kohn. Adler & Co., Tilge & Co.. Meyer, Ebeling & Co., brought suit against the government to recover, as they claimed, an overcharge of duty on their imported hat trimmings. The government claimed that, Instead of being used for hat trimmings, the good were being used for other purpose, and that 50 per cent. cuty was a proper iate to be charged. In the settlement effected to-' day the government admitted that some of the goods were hat trimmings, and a verdict, subject to a future revision by the collector of the port, was rendered In favor of Meyer & Dickinson for $5$.GaO; Kohn. Adler & Co.. J2.100, and Tilge & Co., ?m Meyer. Ebeling & Co. received no money verdict. In the early part of and during tne following three years more than 1.SJ0 suits were brought against the government by New York and Philadelphia importers to recover alleged excessive duties that had been exacted by the government in the classification of hat trimmings. Under the direction of the customs appraisers a duty of 50 per cent, ad valorem was assessed on the goods in question, and the importers claim that -0 per cent, was the duty required by law. The Treasury Department delegated Special Agent Marcus Hanlon to take charge of the case in behalf of th government, and several suits involving long and expensive trials and the attendance of silk experts and other witnesses from all parts of the United States and Europe were tried In tho United States. Court in this city. Some of these cases were won by the importers, while in others verdicts were rendered in favor of the gov ernment. As final settlement of the suits appeared, to be subject to interminable delay, both tides agreed upon a compromise. All suits outside of this city have already been settled and Judgments entered in the courts for the amounts agreed upon. The suits were instituted under an act passed by Congress in lvc3. and which was" signed by President Arthur. The act was ' based on a report made May 15, lSS2,-by a commission appointed to revise the tariff. RIGHTS OF PREACHERS. Can They- Withdraw from Ministry Without Presbytery's Sanction? CHICAGO. April 16,-The Chicago presbytery was thrown into confusion by a direct denial of its authority or Jurisdiction over its members. The Rev. Rollo It. Stevens resigned after the presbj'tery had taken a vote refusing him permission to retire from the ministry. He later withdrew his resignation to await Judicial action. Pointed speeches were made on both slds. The Rev. Mr. Stevens contended that a man had the right at any time t leave the ministry. Such action Dr. Herrick Johnson characterized as "most extraordinary." He recalled the rule of early days that only crime or death released a minister from his calling. Mr. Stevens left the ministry without consulting the presbytery to accept a position with an insurance company. The Judiciary committee to whom the matter was referred will report next Monday. SALT SOLUTION. I.Ittle Dosis for the Claims Made In Behalf of Its IRIlcaey. To th Editor of tho Indianapolis Jeurnap. The startling reports in the Monday papers should be taken with a grain or twj of the salt which Is so highly praised for its life-restoring properties. It is a mistake to attribute the resuscitation of Mrs. Sallla Allen, of Evansvllle, to the wonderful qualities of salt, so far as that compound itself Is concerned, and it is a mistake to claim that the Injection of normal salt solution into the veins to combat shock is a great discovery. Text-books on surgery ten years old refer to it. When one understands the pathology of surgical shock and the scientific reasons for employing normalsalt solution In its treatment the Evans--, vllle ca.se will seem less marvelous. In surgical shock, when not duo to excessive hemorrhage, the greater part cf the blood of the body congests In the abdominal organs, and especially In the blood vessels of the mesentery. As a consequence, of this condition tho more distant parts of the body are deprived of their normal, amount of blood; the skin is pale, the brala anaemic, and the heart, having little or almost no blood to contract upon, almost ceases its pulsations. In such cases ona of the first remedies is lowering of the head and chest below the level of the rest of the body in order that gravity may assist in restoring the equilibrium of the circulation. But when this does not suffice, and when the various drugs prove unavailing, opening a vein in the arm and injecting a pint or more of normal salt solution directly Into the circulation gives the heart a fluid to contract upon until the equilibrium is regained. This is the simple explanation of the apparently marvelous residts In the case noted it is merely filling the almost empty blood vessels and heart cavities until the abdominal congestion is relit ved and the blood once more evenly distributed. In those cases of shock lue to hemorrhage the Infusion is even more necessary, as it- gives the heart something to work uion until new blood can be manufactured. Of course, there is a limit to th amount of blood which can thus be replaced by salt solution. Normal salt solution Is water to which, six-tenths of 1 per cent, of common salt (sodium chloride) has been added. This Is done to make the water slightly alkaline in reaction of the same degree of alkalinity as human blood (hence the term "normal"), and not on account of any particular lifesustaining pro rtles of the salt Itself. 1 r, Richstein deserves the highest commendation for his prompt and energetlo use of this method of combitlng surgical shock, and but for his treatment the patient would undoubtedly hsve died, but it is a mistake to give the sa!t credit for any extraordinary Intrinsic qualities in such conditions. Warm milk would have dorm as well, though with unpleasant after effects. The memod is not a iran'i-nw Discovery, but has b en la ue In the hospitals of th larger cities for a number cf years. Too much care cannot be taken In the matter of crediting sensational newspaper reports concerning alleged discoveries In matter medical. CARLETON B. M'CULLOCH. Indianapolis. April Iß. 4 Preparing to Rnise the Maine. NEW YORK. April P. Among the pasFengers who arrived to-day on the steamer Mexico, from Havana, was Mr. Chamber, lain, who is undertaking the tak of railing the Maine. Mr. Chamberlain says h will have nil his material on hand to commence work within thirty days. He ex pects to build a coffer dam about the ximk- . en craft similar to those used In building the jetties on the Mississippi, and bulkhads across such portions of the hull at the conditions will permit, and fiont them to the new drydock, where they will be put together. Two Men Burned to Death. RATAVIA. N. Y.. April 16. Lewis Miller's saloon and bowling alleys on State street burned this morning and George Lawrence, the bartender, agei twenty-four years, and Fred Hack, a lalorer, acej tlfty-tlve years?, who slept In the building, perished.