Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 22, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1903 — Page 4

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C.-Riggs House, Ebbttt House, Fairfax Hotel. Wtllard Hotel. DENVER. Col. Louthaln & Jackson Fifteenth and Lawrence streets. DAYTON, O. street. V. Wilkic. S3 South Jefferson COLUMBUS. O. Viaduct New Stand. 3Si High street. Such political fights as that now going on In the Colorado Legislature may seem defensible to the participants, but from a distance they appear disgraceful. It seems that the proposition to codify the laws of the State relating to corporations provides for too great an outlay of money. Five lawyers to be paid at the rate of 51,000 a year means at least $20,000, and it may mean nearly 110.000, to say nothing of clerks and stenographers. It is too much money for what seems a limited service. The woman who called a member of Congress a liar from the galleries because he made a prediction about the future attitude of Cauada towards the United States had not studied the ethics of lying. A mere difference of opinion regarding some sup posititious event In the remote future does not furnish just cause for a charge of mendacity. The bill providing for the furn'.shlng of dead bodies to medical college? has been Tkported favorably by the comnItce to which it was referred, and should pass. It provides that under certain conditions the bodies of paupers and those which are un claimed by relatives may be sent by local authorities to medical colleges for dissection. In the interest of medical science it is Important that the needs of colleges in this regard should be provided for by law and . the door closed -against an Illegal traffic. While most of the addresses Incident to the presentation of candidates on Tuesday were creditable to the speakers, two or three were probably the worst ever uttered on such an occasion. For instance, noth ing that can be put together could be more disgustingly ridiculous than the re mark of a member to the effect that If a delegation of angels should be sent to In diana to select the greatest man in the State they would fly to South Bend and select Mr. Shlvely. That is not oratory: It Is Incoherent gush. The suggestion that the coliseum soon to be constructed here be called the Indiana Coliseum is In keeping with the liberal spirit that animates the movement. The building will, of course, owe Its construction to the people of this city and its bene fits will be largely local, but It will repre sent a spirit cf progress that pervades the State as well as the city, and the capital can well afford to share the credit of it with the State. In carrying out the details of Its construction possibly an arrangement might be made for other Indiana cities to contribute windows or tablets which would identify them permanently with the build ing and give It more than local significance. Anyhow, let It be called the Indiana Coliseum. If any prosperous and growing small city of Indiana has visions of municipal ownerchip of natural utilities let It take warn ing by the experience of Mlshawaka. Tho water and electric light plants were taken over by the city, bonds were issued and the prices of water and light were reduced. Unfortunately, no provision was made for keeping up the plants or for the payment of' the Interest on the bonds. The result is that the city's creditors are clamoring for what is due them. The plants are run down and the cheap service has become both cheap and poor. Having exceeded the constitutional debt limit, Mlshawaka is asking the Legislature to authorize it to eil the water and light plants for what can be obtained for them. Senator Bacon, of Georgia, has announced that he will vote against the Cuban reci procity treaty, as a iree-trader ms explanation of the motives which lead him to vote against a measure which will reduce the duties on many articles 20 per cent, and will give us the advantage of 20 per cent. In th Cuban market Is incoherent. In his explanation he begins with a statement that "if a treaty can be made which will not Injure the Industries of my section I will vote for it." Then he breaks in with the declaration that he is opposed to protcctlve tariffs. When he says that he will oppose the treaty because it discriminates against sugar, rice and tobacco, products of the South, he gives the reason of a protectionist. Taken together, the Georgia statesman is a free-trader limited, as ans many other free-traders. He Is for pro tection for the industries of his own section and for free trade for the rest of the country. In the course of his Interview Senator Bacon says that one-half the cotton manufactured In the country Is manufactured In the South. The probability is that Senator Bacon Is In 'error. But if he la r'.sht the fact should make him in favor

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I of a treaty with Cuba which would" give the cotton goods of Georgia 20 per cent, advantage in Cuba, where there is an excellent market. Like most Democrats, Mr. Bacon will oppose the treaty because it is proposed by Republicans. His hostility is the Inspiration of partisanship, not of statesmanship. A POWERFUL ORGANIZATION. The annual reports of the officers of the United Mine Workers furnish the public with some interesting information concerning the strength and resources of the organization. It appears th'at the paidup membership has fallen off somewhat during the last year to be exact, from 232,233 in December, 1901, to 108,090 In December. 1902. a total of 34.199but this does not Indicate . a real loss of membership. The secretary explains it by saying that there were 184,000 men on strike for two months and about 160,000 for five months during the year, and the laws of the organization da not require local unions to pay per capita tax when the members have been on strike one month or more. This would indicate that the falling off In paid-up membership is only temporary and will probably be made up during the coming year. The secretary's claim that the actual membership' of the organization is more than 300,000 is probably correct. That It is growing is shown by the fact that during the year 1902 there were 313 local unions organized, 120 reorganized and 211 abandoned, making a net gain of 222. The average paid-up membership Increased from 9,721 in 1897 to 173,367 In 1902. When It is remembered that this organization extends through many States, that its district and local unions are all in touch with one an other and all thoroughly disciplined and under the leadership of one man, its power for combined action becomes apparent. But perhaps a still more remarkable showing than this of numerical strength Is that of the union's finances. 'The treasurer's report shows that the total receipts during the year 1902 were $3,010,877.82 and the total expenditures 12,080,803.41, leaving a balance on hand Jan. 1, 1903, of $1,027,120.29, and a balance now In bank in this city of $1,033,452.65. The three principal items In the list of receipts were from per capita tax $210,433.91, from assessments $134,651.21. and for defense fund $2,643,324.52. The largest Item in expenditures was for aid to strikers. $1.890,201.53. All of these fig ures astonish by their magnitude. When it is remembered that the union is not or ganized for commercial purposes or profit, that it is conducted solely as a mutual aid society and to promote the interests of a single class of laborers, and that every dollar of Its Income Is contributed volun tarily, the astbnishment Is Increased. To come out of a year that has witnessed two great strikes to which the union, contributed as an aid fund $1,890.201. and to begin the new year with a cash balance in bank of $1,033,452 shows splendid organization, great resources and honest management. Such an organization can do a great deal of good or a great deal of harm according to its motives, aims, management and leadership. Its power should make it conserva tive, and It should remember that, impor tant as its interests are, those of society at large, of .which it Is but a part, are still more so. GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION. The president and the vice president of the Mine Workers both devoted consider able space In their annual addresses to denouncing "government by injunction." President Mitchell declared that it is "a clear violation of the right of trial by Jury;' that "it is not only hostile to or ganized labor, but it is hostile to const! tutlonal liberty;" that the reasons given for issuing them In labor cases "are al ways misleading and generally false," and that "the whole system of government by injunction grows from the distrust of ultra capitalists for democratic Institutions." Vice President Lewis followed much the same line of denunciation, as, of course. the resolutions adopted by the convention will. The denunciation was directed against the various injunctions issued by Federal Courts prohibiting picketing. marching, coercion and other forms of intimidation used by strikers to prevent employers and owners from operating their works. In some instances those who have violated these Injunctions have been ar rested, fined and put -in Jail. It is natural that these proceedings should seem harsh and oppressive to those against whom they are directed, but it Is a mistake to suppose that they declare any new principle or Involve any new de parture in law. "Government by Injunc tlon" has not been devised for the purpose of oppressing or persecuting labor. As a principle of law it Is older than any exist lng labor organization, and It has been exercised thousands of times by thousands of courts in restraint of wrongdolr.g or for the protection of the rights of per sons and property. It will never be abolished, and never should be. As a prin ciple of law It Is essential for the protec tion of every Individual and every Inter est, as important to the poor man as it Is to the rich man. It may even be In voked by labor against capital and by the people against corporations, only a few days ago the attorney general of Illinois expressed his opinio.) that it could be used effectually in the enforcement of anti-trust laws by enjoining corporations from combining to restrict production or control prices. The writ of injunction is about as old as trial by Jury, which Mr. Mitcneu said it violated, ana one is as little likely to be abolished as the other. It Is possible that some of the restraining orders which have been issued by the courts may, through looseness of expres sion, have pushed the doctrine too far, but if so they can be rectified. The way to do that would be by an appeal to the Supreme Court and not by denouncing government by injunction. Mr. Mitchell intimated, that this might be done. He said the national executive board of the United Miners had appropriated $10,000 from the funds In the national treasury to be used in carrying to the United States Supreme Court, if ' necessary, an appeal from the decision of Judge Jackson, of West Virginia. That would be a legitimate mode of proceeding, and should be carried out. It would be well to have an authoritative exposition of the law of injunction by the highest court of the land, and a definition of the powers of the courts in applying and enforcing it. Such an exposition might clear away much of the present misunderstanding on the subject. Mr. Mitchell is an able man. and the Journal believes him to be thoroughly honest. There are other able

and honest men among the labor leaders, but they are not lawyers and they may

be mistaken as to the law of injunction. The bill which 13 pending In Congress, to limit the power of the federal Judiciary in Issuing Injunctions in labor disputes would not stand before the Supreme Court if it controverted well-established principles of law. What is needed is an exposi tion of the subject by the Supreme Court. nou.n to nc dissatisfied. The professional trust-busters in Wash ington, the statesmen who denounce all combinations in production as monopolies which must be destroyed, but who will not present a plan by which the destruction may be accomplished, are said to be greatly di5gusted because all the prominent men who are connected with extensive manufacturing combinations are In favor of the legislation proposed by Congress .for the regulation of trusts, as they are called. They have been expecting and predicting that everfy combination would send a lobby to Washington to defeat any legislation which shall seem to be a recognition of the right of Congress to regulate such really interstate combinations. These men are surprised that the great railroad corporations are more than willing to have a law enacted which will prohibit the granting of rebates and even the solicitation of them. It makes them suspicious, for they cannot see that the railway company which issues rebates usually does so under compulsion and parts with a portion of its earnings as often as it does so. They will not see that a manufacturing combination whose business is on a sound basis desires publicity for the reason that it prefers to have its stocks sell at par. They Ignore the fact that the managers of weak trusts, burdened by issues of watered stock, shrink from an exposure of their assets and their transactions, and the speculators who de clare that publicity will keep them out of the stock market are those who now deal in "industrials" of doubtful value. The truth is that the trusts which are in the nature of monopolies have been made so by railroad rebates. The Standard Oil Company attained its commanding strength by rebates. It not only had a rebate of a goodly size upon the oil it shipped, but, strange as it may seem, competitors' oil was made to pay the same rebate Into the Standard's treasury. All of the meat combinations are the favorites of the system of railroad rebates, and while they have teen made a monopoly by lavish rebates the revenues of the railroads have been correspondingly decreased. These facts have no weight with the demagogue who sees politics In the trust question. He will continue to rant about monopoly and offer no remedy except some impossible one like placing trust-made goods upon the freo list, which would be equivalent to putting all the great staples manu factured in the country by independent competitors as well as by combinations upon the free list. Nothing else will satisfy him. A few years ago, when Republicans in the Legislature were supporting bills to remove tho state institutions from politics and place them under nonpartisan control, they were able to give good reasons of a public nature for their action. No such reasons were given for the passage of the Goodwine bill in the Senate yesterday. The public is therefore left to infer that there are no reasons of that character and that the real reasons- for desiring the passage of the bill are such as its supporters do not care to give. It Is to be hoped the House will not be stampeded or dragooned into passing a bill that comes to it under such circumstances. Its friends say it will be rushed through the House as a party measure. What kind of a party measure Is that which reverses the Republican policy of years past and the declarations of three Republican state conventions ajid ' disre gards the voice of a majority of the Repub lican press of the State and the opinions of a large majority of the leaders and the rank and file of the party? The fact that Democrats helped to rush the bill through the Senate should warn Republicans of the trap they are walking Into. The House should defeat it. Aguinaldo's plan for the development of the Philippines and the relief of the people is unique and Interesting. That he should appear at all as a petitioner before the United States authorities, with assurances of a desire to do all in his power to aid tho Americans in developing the islands, is sig nificant and important. It shows that he has become convinced of the good faith and good intentions of the United. States towards the Philippines and has concluded that their future prosperity rests with the Americans. It Is probable he abandoned his dream of Filipino independence long ago, but this is the first public evidence he has given- of it. His plan for developing the islands shows considerable originality and talent for financing on paper, but is too complicated and risky, even if Congress had constitutional power to engage in that sort of business. It shows, however, that he recognizes the imperative need of action of some kind and should stimulate Congress to devise a better plan. On the same day that a medical scientist In California announced that it is electricity generated in the lungs that purifies the blood, one in Chicago declared in a class lecture that alcohol is constantly being manufactured In every human body. What kind of machines are we, anyhow? Rudyard Kipling having characterized the Germans as "shameless Huns" and Chancellor Von Buelow having declared that Kipling has "turned savage," honors are about even. THE HUMORISTS. Abont Ghosts. The King. lie u you Know, it i were ever to see a ghost, don't eher knew, I believe I should be a . a m hopeless Idiot for the rest of my life! She (absently) Have you ever seen a ghost? No Backing: Ont Now. ChlcaRO Tribune. It was a resolute voice that spoke through the telephone. "Colonel Blgmun." said the owner of the voice. "you know you . proposed marriage to me laut evening?" "Yes. Miss Quickstep." "Well. I accept. Central, are you llstenlnc?" "Yes," replied the girl at the telephone ex change. "That's all. Ring off." Symptom of Insanity. New York Tlms. Bmith Too bad about poor Jones becoming lnene. Gray Acute mania, isn't it? Smith Oh. certainly! Why. he Imagined the metex In the house was slow and he ixulfted on

the company examining It, as he was afraid he was using more gas than he was paying for! A Crying: Necessity. Judge. "What the world needs Is more poets." "More poets? Why, there are so many poets now that they can barely make a living.' "Yes; but if there were more of them they couldn't live at all."

Entirely Different. Baltimore American. A distinguished looking Individual applied at the pearly gate for admission. "Are you one of the Just made perfect?" asked 8t. Peter. "No," replied the distinguished looking individual. "I am one of the plain-clothes men Just made patrolmen." Turning to an assistant St. reter said: "Give the gentleman from New York a transfer. He's been misdirected." The Sinn Who Says Xothinff. It's not by eternally gabbin' An'- blabbin That th best reputations Is made; It's not by eternally pratin An statin' What your private opinion may be; It's not by contlnyally talkin' An squakin' That solid foundations Is laid For people's profound admiration An reachln' your coveted station Or at least it appears so to me. For I note (And I dote On this thing that I quote) 'Taln't always th' chap that Is brightest And . rlghtewt Who's dead anxloua his notions To vaimt. And th' man who sets back an' says nothln' Just nothln', Is the man whose opinion You want. Baltimore American. THE G00DWINE BILL. This Writer Attempts to Justify the Chnnge It Proposes. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: ''If it were true, as the opponents of the Reformatory reorganization bill allege with the Insistence of authority, that the measure Is intended either to avenge the private grievances of Governor Durbin, or to batter down the floodgates which stand between the institutions of the State and the spoils system, it would not be necessary to appeal to the majority in the present Legislature to prevent Its passage. Not only are the Republicans of Indiana committed to honest, businesslike and nonpartisan methods in institutional management, but they have behind them a record on this proposition which speaks louder even than thf words of thp nrnfaelnnül rafnrmar Tint .T .w" the animosity of an individual or the greed of a political party. Sweeping aside all else, let us consider the admitted facts. When the former wardent, but was the result of well-calculated from the office to accept the superlntendency of the company with which he had before been dealing within the walls of the prison as the representative of the State, his resignation was accepted, and a friendly successor elected, without the Knowledge of the Governor. The Governor's ignorance of the situation was not an acci dent, but was the result of well calculated rnnrpa Impnt nn ttm i-oi-- nf nil ir the T ransacTion : innvtlnn w occurred between members of the board and the Governor on the eve of the eleetlon of a new warden other matters of less importance were gone over, but the impending cnanee in the nfanatrempnt rf tho I insutution, which must have been uppertu me minus ui nie inemDers or ine of the contention of members of the board tnat their action was based on the ground inai mis was a matter in which the Governor had no legitimate interest, a position never Deiore taicen oy tne board of management or any Indiana state institution. It is further disposed of by the contention of mends or the board, who state that the trustees feared, if the facts were made known, that the Governor would endeavor to rorce one or his "henchmen" upon the institution. Where, in the history of Governor Durbin's relations with the institutions of the State, was found the warrant tor this board s theory that the State's chief executive was not to be trusted with Information given to many individuals in private life, because he would seek to prostitute the Reformatory to personal ends? And, if the board actually cherished me rear it now proclaims, was there not time for the assertion of courageous in dependence after the Governor bad de parted from his precedents and attempted to fasten some "henchman" unon the in stitution? Suppose a railroad division superintend ent, unfriendly to the general manager of ine roaa, snouia place in the hands of the general superintendent of the system his resignation, and that by secret arrangement between them a successor should be selected and appointed: suppose that while the arrangement was pending there should De consultations between the general su perintendent and. the general manager, and mat wnne otner matters of lesser import were gone over the change of division superintendents should be concealed by the general superintendent. Suppose that if, after the appointment were made, the general superintendent should offer to the general manager the explanation that he feared that, if the facts had been known, some incompetent person, a friend of the general manager, would be forced upon him? Suppose that the general superintendent should refuse to resign, on the demand of the general manager, on the ground that under the rules of the road the authority to appoint the division superintendent was his? Would the board of directors tf such a system as the Pennsylvania, for instance, uphold the general superintendent in such a course? The people of Indiana are stockholders in a great corporation. They have chosen a general manager of its interests in the Governor. They hold him responsible for the maintenance of proper conditions in the state Institutions. Some of his authority he delegates, under the laws or the State, to boards of trustees, which are expected to give attention to the details of manage ment. These boards appointed, it is not true that the Governor has no further right to exercise a right of supervision; it is not true that the board which gratuitously in suits and Ignores the representative of the people who appointed It, which conceals from him Important facts. Is performing its duty In a proper manner. If a board today assumes the right to do a thing it claims to be right on the theory that it is none of the business of the people of Indl ana. as represented in their Governor, it may to-morrow assume the right to do a thing every one admits to be wrong on the same ground. The floodgates of the spoils system opened by this action? If so, they were opened when upon the Governor of Indiana was Imposed the duty of appointing boards of management of state institutions. If we had a Governor seeking to prostitute the institutions of the State to personal ends. there is nothing In the present law to pre vent the attainment of his purpose, for in his hands rests the right of appointment of boards of trustees and In theirs the right to name the officers of state institutions. If we had such a Governor, would we have such boards of management as now are in control of almost all of our state instltu tions. at least? Would there be three or four superintendents of state institutions In Indiana who are Democrats? Would Governor Durbin have appointed a Demo cratic member of the Michigan City Prison board recently when the law does not re quire that the board be bipartisan? The contention is disputed by the facts themselves It is to be hoped that the Legislature will demonstrate the fact that we still have re sponsible government in Indiana, and time will show where the right lies In the pres ent dl?cussion. SINCERITY. Indianapolis, Jan. 22. Don't! To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Regarding the Reformatory proposition now before the Legislature, there seems to be little difference of opinion amongst thoughtful Republicans, and a very general protest against the proposition is almost sure to be heard. Everything may not be perfect in the Reformatory, but a "reform" of it so drastic and unusual does not commend itself to our partj in Indiana. Nearly two generations ago the Supreme Court of Illinois was Whig, wnile the Legisla ture was Democratic. Under the lead of Stephen A. Douglas the Legislature abol ished tne court and provided lor a new

bench of Judges to be appointed by the Democratic Governor. It is worthy of remark that Douglas was one of the new Judges, and that in this way he got his title of judge. This act was regarded then and ever since as a piece of sharp practice, and the precedent has not been followed by the Republicans in the long years of the party's life. The people have this warning word for our solons Don't! J. B. LEWIS. Pendleton. Ind., Jan. 21. State Press Opinion. The backers of the "ripper" Reformatory bill have at last consented to talk, and what miserably poor excuses they offer. Every Republican legislator who votes for this bill Is an enemy to his party, for he will put his party on the defensive in the next campaign if the bill passes. Crawfordsville Journal. It Is suspected that the Indianapolis Journal and News have a "stand in" with Tobe Hert on the State Reformatory contracts, and therefore oppose the bill for the reorganization of the board of managers. The people of the State favor the bill for the reason that they believe Indiana is capable of furnishing a man who is competent to fill the position of superintendent. Connersvllle News. The bill is the first step toward putting the State's penal and benevolent institutions back into the realm of politics, from which they were taken with the passage of the law of 1S97. That step should never be taken. It has been demonstrated that the only successful way to manage such institutions is on the nonpartisan basis. Let it not be charged up against the Republican party of Indiana that it destroyed a product of its own hands. Knightstown Journal. The Courier is unqualifiedly in favor of maintaining the rights of the Governor by ridding the board of the members who deliberately set about to run things without his knowledge, and we want in advance to applaud those members of the General Assembly who have recognized it to be their duty to promptly, reorganize the institution. Unless this action is taken we shall have our State Institutions running at haphazard and will have created a feeling among the boards that they are greater than the Governor, a condition which would be very much deplored. Lafayette Courier. The law at present governing those institutions is recognizedly among the best of all the States and the Republicans have claimed and got credit for the able management of those institutions during the last six years. No one has pressed that claim more urgently than Governor Durbin, and no reports have so eloquently attested the worth of the management of those institutions as reports made by committees

of which Senator Goodwine was a mem ber, and Senator Goodwine introduces the present Ill-conceived bill. It Is a. gratifying fact that the Indianapolis Journal and other State papers are opposed to the bill, and also nearly all the other papers In the State. It Is a splendid time for legislators to stand pat and let well enough alone, and particularly In reference to the law governing the State Reformatory. Anderson Her ald. TEMPTED AND TORTURED HENRY E. YOUTSEY AND HIS ' RE CENT ALLEGED CONFESSION. Ex-Secretary Finley Tells of the Means Adopted to Indnce Him to Tell an Untruthful Story. To th Edltor of the Indianapoll, Journal: The Press dispatches state that Henry E Voutsev has rerentlv been before the Frflnkiin countv Kentuckv grand Ifirv and ranKlin counij, iveniucK, grana jury, ana nas maue a eensauunai siaieineni in cuiinectlon with the now notorious Goebel mur i .t - x. ... i ...v, statement was, but the evident exultation of the Gobelites justifies the inference that .1 .t ..1. tt., ,v, "1C . "u" -uuwwi-w uccm u yivyvi mat uic yuu should know something of what has pre ceded Youtsey's "confession" and probably determined its character. Some things I write have been pulished in Kentucky papers, and are matters of common knowledge. Some are known and talked in Frankfort by w5ell-lnformed peo ple, but have not got into the newspapers, and some have come ,to me from sources and through channels I cannot disclose without exposing others to the same malignity which has kept Powers and Howard in dungeons three years without bail, with packed juries and suborned perjury to convict and persecute them. Youtsey tells, as the correspondent of the Indianapolis News writes from Frankfort, that "his life in prison has been a hell." This is true, if human testimony is worth anything. Henry E. Youtsey is from Newport, Ky., adjoining Senator Goebel's home county. He is about thirty-three years old, and has a streak of Insanity in him. He was devoted to out-door sports, bicycling, riding and snooting, being an expert ritle-shot. He was stenographer to State Auditor Stone dur ing the latter part of his incumbency of that office. He is one of those men who never seem grown up. always boyish and Immature. He was charged with compile ity in the assassination of Senator .Goebel some time after that event and arrested. After his arrest, and while he was in jail. a prominent Gobellte attorney of Frank fort made a visit to Winchester, Ky., where loutsey s father-in-law and brother in-law both Democrats reside. He urged them to use their influence with Youtsey to induce him to make certain statements bearing on the crime, saying: "If Youtsey will swear such and such things It will hang Taylor and damn the Republican party. Of course, he will have to leave the State, but. then, there's the $100.000; it's going to somebody, and he had just as well have a share of It as anybody else. He can get enough of that to sweeten his exile and make him cofortable for life." The two gentlemen referred to spurned the offer with contempt, and gave the whole matter to the press. It created a sensation at the time. In the cold-blooded proposition just quoted are the elements which have pro cured so much perjury ror the prosecution in these cases, that is, promises of immu nity from punishment (to the fellow al ready indicted or threatened with it), and guaranty , of xecuniary reward. "Youtsey will have to leave the State, of course, but he can get enougn or tne siuu.ooo to sweeten his exile and mane mm comfortable for life," is an assurance of a pardon and promise of affluence. By and ny Youtsey was put on trial in Cantrell's court. The sheriff, an ardent Goebelite. was directed to summon tales men from wnom to make up a lurv. He went to the most ignorant and most malic nantly uoeDente section or tne county and summoned 1-0 men; ju were venomous Goebelltes and one was an old, deaf Renub lican wno couia not postioiy nave served as a Juror. Out of such material Youtsey's attorneys were rorced to accept a Jury It goes without saying that it was made up to the perfect taste of the prosecution. A DRAMATIC TRIAL. The trial proceeded till 'a certain witness on the stand was detailing a conversation he claimed to have had with Youtsey, which, if true, was very damaging to him. While he was proceeding with his story Youtsey suddenly sprang up like a madman. crying, "You're lying! You're swearing my life away!" and fell in a-fit. He never regained consciousness during the remainder of the trial. The attorneys made a motion for a continuance of the case upon the ground that the Constitution of the State provides that one accused of crime shall be present in court when tried and face his accusers, and that a man who was totally unconscious could not do so in the sense intended by the Constitution, be present. The story was started by the Gotbelites that his fit and subsequent unconsciousness wrre feigned a mere ruse to arouse sympathy and escape going on the stand as a witness in his own behalf. A physician ascertained upon examination, however, that his pulse was up to 140, that his temperature was several degrt-es above normal, and that his eyes were crossed and set in his head. Nevertheless, the motion was overruled and the trial proceeded. Day after day Youtsey was brought into court on a cot and placed in a small room Just off the main courtroom, through the open door of which he could be seen lying pale, mowonles and utterly dead to passing events. This went on day after day until the end

of the trial a trial which has no parallel

n thp hlstorv of Anglo-Saxon jurispru dence, and which shocked and appalled the country. In that condition youtsey was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. To the surprise of everybody he took no appeal from this sentence. Powers and Howard, as often as con victedtwice each have as often appealed their cases to the Supreme Court, and as often been granted new trials. Youtsey's verdict would almpst certainly have been set aside and a new trial ordered had he appealed. Why did not he do so? That is a question not yet answered to the satis faction of tne puoiic in Kcniucgy or elsewhere. YOUTSEY IN STATE TRISON. Soon after his conviction he was taken to the State penitentiary at Frankfort to be gin serving his life sentence. He was not a strong man intellectually or physically. He had never done manual labor. He was a stenographer only, and a good one. When he was admitted to the prison at least two of the contractors for prison labor put in a request for his services, each declaring that he needed in his office to do office work a man of Youtsey's stenographic capabilities. Undoubtedly he should have been put to work at something, of th.t sort; for he knew how to do work of that kind, but no other. Instead of putting him at a work he was familiar with and fitted and able to do the warden put him In tne lurnace room with a lot of negroes to f.re the furnaces. But for the fact that the negroes were more merciful than his captors he must have died. They did a part of his task for him. Even at that he was eventually overcome by the heat and unusual exertion, and collapsed in a deid faint. After remaining in the hospital a wnue he was put at work in a room containing a lot of machinery of which he knew absolutely nothing. Here he was kept till one of his hands was mangled. In short, from the day he entered the prison he was sub jected to a persecution without parallel in the history 01 tne jveniucKy penitentiary. The warden of the prison has Killed at least one man. He Is the same Dully whom the Goebelltes elected doorkeeper or the Senate in 1896 at the same time that Jack Chinn was elected sergeant-at-arms, there by making them, respectively, doorkeeper and sergeant-at-arms of the Joint assembly when the two houses met to ballot ror United States senator. He was with Goebel at the time he was shot, and Is altogether a fit person to do the work assigned him by the conspirators make Youtsey swear something that would "hang Taylor and d the Republican party." From the first a guard was detailed to look only after Youtsey. He was to endeavor to gam nis confidence, to Influence him to make a statement to their liking, to pour constantly Into his ears the story that he need not stay in prison a day longer than he chose. While this was going on tne thumbscrews were being put to Youtsey; while being tempted be was being tortured at the same time. Numberless new ; rules were made for his special benefit, that he might be entangled in them and give an excuse for punishment. Sunday alter Sunday he was kept in his cell on bread and water on one pretext or another. BALL AND CHAIN. For instance, at one time while the Legis lature was in session the wives of some of the members and their daughters were visiting the prison and asked to see Yout sey. He was in his cell at the time with a curtain hung up over the grating, a lamp lighted and taking a batfi. The guard In charge of the party walked up to his door and jerked the curtain down without ceremony. Out of a sense of modesty Youtsey blew out the light. For this he was kept in his cell the following Sunday on bread and water. t He has been made to drag a ball and chain; he has been threatened with a floggingpossibly actually flogged always, of course, ostensibly for some Infraction of a rule, usually some rule made for his special benefit. In the meantime, while this was going on. he has had thrust at him time after time a written statement ready for his signature, and he was given to understand that if he would sign it clemency would be shown him. His brother has been told that Youtsey need not stay in there a day longer than he himself chose. The prison commissioners have been appealed to to interfere and stop such a pitiless persecution. They have said in substance, almost in so many words: "Youtsey's fate is In his own hands. When he gets ready to tell what we know he knows (a synonm for 'what we want him to say he knows") he can have favors; not before." It is told in Frankfort that his wife, to whom he is devotedly attached and who has been splendidly loyal to him all through, was approached with a suggestion that she use her Influence to get hira to make a statement, and told that she could take him home whenever he chose. Up till a short while ago his wife had been permitted to visit him at short intervals. Recently, however, that has been stopped upon the pretext that she wielded a bad influence over him, and that her visits made him intractable afterward. There he has been for two years and more without the companionship of friends and absolutely within the power of men more like demons than human beings. He has been, persecuted, tortured and tempted. Why? In order to hang Taylor (and other prominent Republicans) and (thereby damn the Republican party. The press dispatches state that he has recently been before the Franklin county grand Jury and "confessed." and that a transcript of his "confession" will soon be used as the basis for another demand for the extradition of Governor Taylor. The foregoing is a plain, unvarnished tale a statement of plain facts without elaboration or embellishment. All has not been told; time would fall to tell all that might be told to illustrate the diabolical villainy of some men and the pitifully human weakness of others. I submit though, that if what I have written is true and I aver that It is any statement wrung from Henry Youtsey or any other man by such methods is a poor basis for another demand for the extradition of a man whose great and only crime consists In having been honestly elected Governor of Kentucky. CHARLES FINLEY. Martinsville, Ind... Jan. 21. ORIGIN OF HUMAN LIFE. Yale Scientist Thinks Apes nt North Pole Vee Man'a Ancestors. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 21. Dr. J. F. Wortman, of Yale, last night outlined his theory of 'the origin of human life In a lecture In which he reviewed his researches covering years, upsetting both orthodoxy and former scientific beliefs. He advocated three distinct theories more or less revolutionary: First All life began at the north pole. Second The primates. Including apes, monkeys and lemurs, who lived at the pole, were directly the ancestors of the human race. Third The evolution of the primates to human beings took place at the same time and largely because of the effect of the discovery of fire. Dr. Wortman two years ago took up the Investigations or tne late I'roiessor Marsh in paleontology and visited Wyoming, where he discovered perfect skulls of pri mates similar to those found in northern Europe and Madagascar. His theory is that these were in the tropical zone extending around the north pole, as similar skulls were found in America, Europe and Africa Dr. Wortman traced the development of the cerebral hemispheres, the prehensile extremities, the short arms and the erect spine of the primates, indicating the evolution of the primates into the human race The next step was, he alleged, the discov ery of fire by the primates, probably acci dental, and the mastery of its use, which evolved the human being. All of Yale's veteran scientists were present and burst Into- a round of spontaneous applause when the young scientist finished the elaboration of the argument which overthrew their time-honored theories. SCOUTS GAVE THE ORDER. Filipino Guides In Saiuar Killed When They Tried to Escape. MANILA. Jan. 21, Frank Remars and Harry Prescott, the civilian scouts who commanded the detachment which killed the native guides in Samar, testified to-day at the trial by court-martial of MaJ. Edwin F. Glenn, of the Fifth Infantry, charged with unlawfully killing prisoners of war. The witness said the guides tried to escape and that they ordered them to be killed. Washington Corn, a scout, corroborated Remars's evidence. All the scouts testified that Major Glenn did not order the execution of the guides. The prosecution showed that the testimony of Prescott and Corn conflicted with the statements made when the inspectors investigated the affair. The presentation of the testimony closed to-day. The arguments will be heard on Saturday.

ELKINS'S ANTITRUST BILL

IT IS AIMED AT RAILWAYS ENGAGED IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE. Recommendation of Attorney c;enernl Knox Embodied In the- Meatare Other Proposed Legislation. WASHINGTON, Jan. rl.-Senator Elklr.s to-day introduced a bill which covers the features of anti-trust legislation as far as it relates to railroads. It contains the provisions which have been recommended by Attorney General Knox as to the punishment of those who receive as well as those who give rebates. It provides for the punishment of corporations by fine instead of imprisonment of the officials, also for Injunctions to prevent discriminations. The Elkins bill Js the result of conference among various senators, most of them being members of the interstate-commerce committee. Its purpose is to separate interstate commerce and railroads from other tfutt legislation. The Interstate-commerce Commission has been unable to agree upon measures which have been pending before it relating to pooling and fixing rates by the Interstate-commerce Commission. The new bill leaves these contested questions out and covers features which have been most conspicuous in the preparation of anti-trust legislation. The bill was referred to the committee on Interstate commerce, of which Senator Elkins Is chairman, and it is the Intention of the committee to take it up at an early day. Among those who have been consulted In the preparation of the bill besides Mr. Knox were Senators AldTich, Cullom, Foraker, Clapp and others. Among other provisions of the bill are the following: The willful failure to file tariff rates, and failure to observe them subjects the road to a fine of $1.000 or $20.00u. Granting or receiving rebates subjects the corporations or persons to the same fine. Tho Interstate-commerce Commission can Institute suits in the United States courts for supposed infractions of the law. It is the duty of United States district attorneys under direction of the attorney general to Institute and prosecute suits provided for in the act. The bill gives the courts power to compel the attendance of witnesses, both carrier and shipper, who are required to answer on all subjects relating directly or indirectly to the controversy; the court also can compel the production of all books and papers, but all witnesses shall have the same immunity from prosecution and punishment as now provided by law. Mil. LESSLEH'S CHARGES. New York Conxrrmninn Not Directly Offered n Bribe of $3,000. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. The subcommittee of the House committee on naval affairs, which is Investigating the charge made by Representative Lessler, of New York, that he had been approached for the purpose of influencing his action as a member of the committee on the proposition to author ize the construction of submarine torpedo boats, will make at least a partial report to the full committee to-morrow morning. Mr. Lessler was before the subcommittee ' again to-day and made an additional state ment. In his statement he is said to nave used the names of an ex-representative-from New York and another prominent New York politician. The proceedings or the committee were secret and all the members were unusually reticent. Mr. Lessler himself also declined to make any statement for publication. During a vigorous cross-examination, it was with some reluctance that Mr. Ixssler disclosed names in connection with the charges he made, but finally, on pressure, gave two names. One of the iersons named, he said, , threatened him with defeat . at the last election If he did not vote as de sired on certain propositions. The other name he used in connection with his charges of an attempt to influence his voto by pecuniary considerations. Mr. Lessler's charges are said to have lacked deflnlteness when he was interrogated by members of the subcommittee. The substanceof his story was not that he had been actually offered a bribe of $5.nno. but that It had been intimated to him that he could get $5.(i00 if he would vote "right." - Relics of the White House Sold. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. A quantity of furniture used in the White House for many years and discarded as as result of the recent Improvement was sold at auction to-day. A large leather lounge, which had been In the President's office for a long time, was sold to former Governor Lowndes, of Maryland, through a representative, for $15; a mahogany washHand, minus its top, went for $10. while two carved oak leather-cushioned chairs brought S5; five mahogany chairs brought $21 eafch; a solid mahogany sideboard was knocked down for $5, and a billiard table was bid in for $105. Numerous other articles went to relic hunters and dealers In antiques. National Capital Note. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. The President this afternoon signed the militia bill. The monthly statement of the collector of Internal revenue shows that for the month of December, 1902, the total collections were $20,913,852, a decrease as compared with December, 1501, of $2.069,062. For the last six months the receipts show a falling off of $22,972.931. A bill vesting in the President authority to appoint persons to govern the Island of Tutuila, in the Samoan group, to-day was reported from the committee on the Pacific Islands by Senator Foraker. Its provisions are similar to those provided for the Island of Guam, and place in the hands of the representative full authority, civil and military. The duty on goods imported into the United States from Tutuila is ftxed at M per cent, of the rates from foreign countries. Senator Foraker to-day Introduced a bill renouncing on the part of the United States all right to the church lands in Purto Rico. The bill grants the right of naturalization to the Porto RIcans and to the people Inhabiting other possessions of the United States similarly situated. A cable message rece-Ived at the State Department to-day from United States Deputy Consul Boraglno. nt Genoa, Italy, says that Hubbard Smith's case is desperate, Ms illness being dropsy of the kidneys and heart. Mr. Smith Is United States vice consul at Cairo. TRIAL OF COL LYNCH. Irishman Who Was Instigated by Satan to Taru Traitor. LONDON, Jan. 21.-The trial of Col. Arthur Lynch, member of Parliament for Galway, on the charge of treason by aiding and abetting the King's and late Queen's enemies during the war in South Africa, he, according to one unique sentence of the arraignment "being moved and seduced thereto by the Instigation of the devil." commenced to-day before the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Alverstone, and two other Justices. The prisoner plead-d not guilty. Upward of sixty years have elapsed since a treason trial has been held in London. The last was that of John Francis, a youth, who fired a pistol at the late Queen Victoria as she was ndlng down Constitution Hill. Francis was condemned to death but the stntence was commuted to life Imprisonment. He was released in 1S67. Unusual Interest therefore Is taken In the present case. The courtroom was crowded, many ladles, including Mrs. Lnych. being among those present. Colontl Lynch was pale and careworn, but he stood composedly listening to the lengthy Indictment which occupied nearly an hour in reading. Drawing, quartering and beheading accompanied the death penalty for treason until 1S70. when this was abolished. The death penalty, however, remains. The attorney general. Sir Robert Flnlay, opened the case, reciting the alleged treasonable acts as fully reported at the preliminary hearing. After the conclusion of the evidence for the crown, which did not differ from that presented at the prelimlnarj' hearing, and the reading of Colonel Lynch's statement made by the committing magistrate, tha case Wiis adjourned.