Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 26, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 January 1903 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JO URN AT, 31 ON DAY, JANÜARST 26. 1003.

r.eforroatory In December: that his statement Is based on information obtained during that Investition, and he had not felt the commllte w.nil.l be actlns within Its Instructions in Rivinj? out any part of the rcjnilt of investigation of the various institutions in advance of Its ofilci.nl report to the Governor and General .s5embly. t -Senator (Jodwlne is not h 'grein hand. He nerved two years ago on what lie is rleased to call the 'IfRtslatlve committee, lie is rurly familiar with the law authorizing the appointment of such a committee and -irescritir-K Its pow. rs and duties. In order that all may understand the mat- . .tor as vr,n tin he does I will state that by the act of KO the Governor U authorized fini lirrrt.! fr.rtv-iive days before the

rneetlnc of tho IvKislature. to appoint a lionpariian committee to recommend appropriations to the General Assembly. The law expressly states what this committee 1 to do. It Is to visit the state Institutions dr.rlnj? the forty-five days previous to the rsemblv of the Legislature and in-vt-ttlcare carefully their i:ceds and necessities and report Ij the Legislature the amount of appropriations which they deem absolutely necessary to meet the wants of the Institutions. Now the senator would have us believe that In reporting to the Legislature tho amount of appropriations which his committee deems absolutely necessary to meet the wants of the Iteformatory he will set forth reasons for passlntc the Goodwine bill! Our credulity should not be eo heavily taxed. The senator declares that 'the most serious charge against the board is in connection with tho charge in the contracts for contract labor and that In his opinion Mf there were no other criticisms against the board this is sufficient to justify the introduction and passage' of the Goodwine bill. What has already been said fully disposes of this 'raoft serious charge and there would seem to no necessity for discussing It. or the balance of the statement, any further. In Justice, however, to our predecessors, the able and honorable Rentlemen who sIjC years ao did procure changes in th contracts, we feci constrained to say that the senator is mistaken In his statement of tho changes that were made and in his mathematics. AGAIN MISTAKEN. 'ln like manner tho senator is mistaken In thinking that he saw a prisoner In ono of the solitary cells who had been hung up with hi3 hands through the bars of his cell door, lie doubtless saw a prisoner whose hands were hand-cuffed to the door of his cell, but the prisoner was not 'hung up I cannot attempt now to enter Into any statement in detail cf the discipline enforced at the Reformatory, nor of the punishment inflicted. It Would take too long and would serve no cood purpose. Kverybody knows the Goodwine bill was not introduced and Is not to be passed because punishments at the Reformatory have been too severe. The aim of the board has been to make them as light as possible and the system in force has been no secret. It has been open at all times to the Inspection and criticism of the Board of State Charities. "The senator declares that the manner In which supplies are bought for the institution 'is in violation of the policy of the State and contrary to business principles, for which no excuse or defense has ever been offered to the investigating committee which visited the Reformatory The suppiles are all bought strictly in accordance with the law, and we challenge the production of any proof to the contrary. No excuse nor defense has ever been offered simply because there was no occasion for any, anil so far as I know no committee has visited the Reformatory with any authority to inquire into such matters nor to whom any explanation of the method of buying supplies was due. "Any complaint about the payment of $12,500 to the contractor who built the new cell houre , is simply absurd. When the cell house was completed the contractor presented a preposterous claim for extras. There was no question that there was still something due the contractor. The board Anally decided the balance due was $12,500, and offered to pay that amount in full settlement. The contractor refused It. The board saw no reason for withholding what was admitted to be due and permitted the appropriation to lapse. "NoDody has ever suggested that the amount paid was too large or that the contractor was not Justly entitled to it. A s claim has been filed against the State by I the contractor in the Superior Court of . Marion county for the balance claimed by him to be due and it is being defended by the attorney general. It is not possible that Senator Goodwine seriously believes his bill should pass because the board paid an honest debt to the party Justly entitled to receive it." . 05E ELEMENT OP OPPOSITION. II any Influential Men Are; Fighting; the DIU Under Cover. A formidable element of tho opposition to the Reformatory bill is represented by WEATHER FORECAST. Fair and Warmer To-Day and Rain Throughout Indiana on Tuesday. . WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-Forecast for Monday and Tuesday: For Indiana Fair and warmer on Monday: Tuesday rain; fresh south winds. For Illinois Fair and warmer on Monday; Tuesday rain and colder; fresh to brisk south winds, becoming west. For Ohio Fair and warmer on Monday; Tuesday rain or snow; fresh south winds, Increasing. . Local Observation on Sunday. Rar. Ther. H.H. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7 a. xn.. 30.10 2d 94 West. Cloudy. 0.01 7 p. m.. 3Q.lt 32 SS South. Cloudy. 0.00 Maximum temperature. S2; minimum temperature. 2. Comparative statement of the mean temperature and total precipitation Jan. 25: Temp. Pre. Normal ; 29 0.10 Mean : 29 0.01 Departure frcm normal 0 0.09 Departure since Jan. 1... 99 0.17 W. TRLYTHK. Section Director. Yesterday Temperatures. Stations. 7a.m. Max. 7 'p.m. Abilene. Tex 44 63 C2 Amarillo, Tex 30 cs 56 Antonio, Tex 40 CS 66 Atlanta. Ga 12 54 ' 4 Bismarck. N. D 16 45 38 Buffalo, N. Y 16 28 2a Cairo. Ill 32 48 44 Chattanooga. Tenn 40 r6 60 Cheyenne, Wyo 33 54 42 Chicago 22 32 2S Cincinnati 20 35 34 Cleveland 24 26 ' 26 Columbus. 0 26 36 32 Concordia. Kan 22 Davenport. Ia 26 32 32 Denver, Co! 40 62 50 Dodge City. Kan. 2S 52 46 Dubuque. Ia 20 30 2$ Duluth. Minn 22 .7) 30 El Pa.o. Tex 33 70 62 .Galveston. Ter 52 60 5 Grand Junction. Col 18 36 34 Grand Haven, Mich 12 21 22 Havre, Mont 34 33 30 Helena, Mont 30 36 23 Huron, S. D 14 34 31 Jacksonville. Fia 60 70 52 Kansas City. Mo 30 4S 4S Lander. Wyo 32 62 44 Little Rock. Ark 36 56 52 Louisville. Ky 32 36 36 Marquette, Mich is 26 20 Memphis, Tenn 34 54 52 Modena. Utah 22 49 42 Montgomery, Ala 40 60 56 Nashville, Tenn 33 4a 44 New Orleans 42 62 54 New York 20 23 26 Norfolk. Va 32 26 34 North .Platte, Xeb 30 50 40 Oklahoma. O. T 33 64 63 Omaha. Neb 23 4 3 44 Palestine. Tex 40 CS 60 Parkersburg. W. Va 34 33 36 Philadelphia 20 23 23 Pittsburg 24 si 3 Pueblo, Col 36 61 56 Qu' Appelle, N. W. T.... 12 11 24 liapld City, S. D 23 54 34 St. Louis 23 46 41 St. Paul. Minn 26 32 30 Salt Lakt City. Utah.... 46 62 36 Santa Fe, N. M 18 4 43 Bhreveport. La 36 C4 53 Bprtngfleld. Ill 24 34 31 Hprlngfleld. Mo 2S 5S 62 valentine, rieb 22 .32 41 VICKSDUrg, Miss T6 64 66 Washington. D. C 22 20 2 Wichita, Kan 22 53 54 MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS. QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 25-Arrlved: Ivernia, from New York, for Liverpool, and rroeeeoea. waueo: öuxonia, rrom Liverpool, for New York. NEW YOIUC Jan. .-Arrived: Ethiopia, from Glasgow and Moville: Etruria, from Liverpool; Hanover, from Bremen. CH.EKBOURG, Jan. S.-Salled: St. Taul, rrom boumampion, for New York. MOVILLK. Jan. 23,-SalIed: Anchorla. jrom tiiaegow, ror jsew York. Livritl'oou Jan. .-Arrived; Ceorgic. Crem Nw York.

men who. while laboring quietly against the measure and using every endeavor to have it killed in the House, do not find it advisable to have themselves quoted in the newspapers ns actively opioelng it. There ore many men in Indianapolis representing in a marked degree conservative public opinion who declare that the bill contemplates an outrage; but in many Instances it happens that these very men are activehesitate to say that the Governor might ly interested in important legislation. They fear that should they express in the puhlic prints their condemnation of the bill the administration forces would turn against the bills they themselves are Interested in. Some who have talked about the matter go a little farther and do not veto bills if they were to be put on record as lighting a measure which it is known he is Intensely in favor of having passed. Most of these men. while refusing to be interviewed, are not wasting their time, however, and they are doing yomin work to stille the reformatory measure. One of the most important citizens of Indiana who has appeared as a candidate for a high offlce said yesterday: "While I be-. Heve that the bill Is vicious, yet I do not think it would be wise for me to go on record publicly against it. It happens thero are other bills in which I am vitally Interested, bills for the public good which should pass, and the fear ries In my mind that these bills might bo Jeopardized should I give an interview on this subject." ATTITUDK OF MINISTKRS. It is asserted positively that there Iz not a pastor of an Indianapolis church that favors turning out the board of managers of the Indiana Reformatory without first giving them a hearing on the charges alleged against them. Ministers of Episcopal, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Daptist churches, when approached on tho subject, say In practically tho same words, "Yes, we are firmly opposed to the bill and believe that the progress made by the State in caring for Its institutions should not be Jeopardized even to gratify the Governor's sense of injury; but we are ministers of the gospel and It would be in bad taste for us to espouse one cause or the other in the newspapers." On the other hand, these ministers, in conversing with leading and influential members of their congregations, do not htstitate to say that the bill is bad and should be killed. At least one prominent divine asked a potent member of his church to work actively against the bill. Father Francis II. Gavlsk. of St. John's Catholic Church, is one who has no reluctance in coming out with the plain statement that be believes the bill bad from start to finish. Father Gavisk' "attitude has assisted in molding public opinion in some quarters of the city. Still another feature of the complex situation is that there are many men who, while on terms of Intimate friendship with

the Governor and the men who are taking the leadership in pushing tho bill, believe strongly that the bill should Hot be passed. They do not care to talk for publication, but in confidential conversation with friends whom they know may exert an influence they say that the bill is nei ther lair nor Just. One of the men. whose name would be a power for public use against the bill, said yesterday: "There is no question in my mind but that public opinion almost universally condemns tho till. If the members of the House "are given time to feel that pulse they will be careful how they vote." TIMOTHY MCIIOLSO. He Opposes the Goodwine mil and Indorses 31 r. Ilyers. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: To one who has for over thirty years done what he could to eliminate partisan politics from the management of our State institutions It Is exceedingly gratifying to observe the remarkable unanimity of the newspaper press in so vigorously defending this policy against what it considers an attack upon this principle. Upon the first in timation that a bill was to be introduced to revolutionize tho State Reformatory, I sought Senator Goodwine, the reputed author of the bill, two days before it was introduced In the Senate and earnestly protested against such a drastic measure as not only unnecessary, but one that was, in my opinion, radically wrong, and hence would prove detrimental to that and every other State institution of Indiana; that if there were mismanagement by the former superintendent and the board of managers, as intimated, the proper investigation by a committee of the Legislature, or, what would be better, by the Governor (who on more than one instance has shown great ability as an investigator) and the Hoard of State Charities, would discover and expose mismanagement, and the remedy was amply provided by law. I felt that the very Introduction of such a bill would stir up u fearful and disastrous political dissension, from the result of which it might require years to recover; that the proposed action was wrong, and hence would prove "bad politics" and recoil upon the heads of its promoters. Neither I nor any other member of the Board of State Charities, nor our secretary, had received any information of the resignation of Alvln T. Hert. or of his intention to resign, nor of the appointment of Joseph P. Dyers as his successor, previous to its announcement in the press; but I was exceedingly gratified by the appointment of the latter, whom I have known for eleven years as the remarkably efficient secretary of the Ohio Board of State Charities, as an officer for several years of the National Prison Association, and last year and this year the general secretary of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections, and I know of no available man in the United States better equipped for the position to which he has been appointed. Last spring the superintendent of the New Jersey State Iteformatory resigned, and Charletcn T. Lewis, a distinguished lawyer and a member of that reformatory board, asked me at the Detroit National Conference of Charities and Corrections my opinion of Joseph P. Bycrs's fitness for the poFltlon. I replied that I had so much confidence In his Christian character, his unusual knowledge" of public institutional methods, in his executive ability and in his excellent Judgment that I would unhesitatingly recommend him for any position he would accept, and at Charleton T. Lewis's request I gave him a written statement to this effect. The New Jersey Reformatory Board Invited Joseph I. Byers to visit their institution, that they might Interview him. After this interview the Governor, who in that State is a member of the board, was so favorably impressed that, laying aside the state pride or selfishness which seems to dominate some of our Indiana politicians, he strongly urged the appointment of Joseph I. Byers, and so did Charleton T. Lewis, and they voted for him, but not for political, but for religious influences another person secured on? more vote. Joseph P. Byers's father was a highly esteemed minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and secretary of the Ohio Board of Charities from Its organization in 1S67 until his death in 1891. He was president of the National Conference of Charities held in Baltimore in 1S90. Joseph is a distinguished son of an honored father. But if the Goodwine bill becomes a law ho is to be expelled from the State Reformatory. TIMOTHY NICHOLSON. Richmond, Ind., Jan. 24. Wrong In Spirit and Purpose. ' To the Editor cf the Indianapolis Journal: The 'ripper" bill should be decisively defeated. It hfis no merit and no sound reason for its enactment into law has been advanced. It is wrong in its inceptionwrong In Its spirit-wrong in principlewrong In purpose. It is being furthered by means and methods' foreign to legitimate legislation. If it was born of a supposed snub and is being pushed by Injured official pride It is a species of legislation that will come back to eternally plague the party that puts it upon the statute book. If there is wrong Jn the management let there be a searching investigation. Probe it to the bottom. If the board Is Incompetent or corrupt there Is ample power to remove them for cause; they should not be removed without cause by Governor, General Assembly or any power whatsoever. The Reformatory board is composed of men of high character, of approved competency, having the public good at heart. They are entitled to a hearing before summary removal. The humblest man In the humblest place Is entitled to that. Shall that board be summarily ousted upon ex parte statements by a special bill for a special purpose at the special instance of someone or more specially grieved or interested and that without hearing or Investigation? It can only be done Justly upon the theory that the board Is unworthy. Incompetent or corrupt; that beneath the surface there is such corruption, such mismanagement that It can only be remedied by heroic measures, namely, wiping out all present laws for the management of the Reformatory and wininjj: out

the board by the supreme and Incontestable power of the General Assembly, the court of last resort. If such a condition exists how easy for the General Assembly to ascertain It. Make It clear by investigation and thus clearly Justify its proposed action. This is the manly. Just and right method. There Is none otFler that will approve itself to the people. Gentlemen of the General Assembly, you are ' representatives of the people: they arc Just but inexorable. In the conduct of our public institutions, in your dealings with them, the people will hold you to strict account. Pass this blli, and then make your peace with the people. GEORGE W. GRUBBS. Martinsville, Ind., Jan. 24. Would Bnek Governor with Troops. To the Editor of th Indianapoll Journal: Why all this controversy about the Reformatory muddle? Every loyal Republican of southern Indiana commends the Governor for the stand he has taken in this matter. It appears to me that the Governor would have been Justified in not waiting for the Legislature to have taken action in this case after the studied Insult he received at the hands of the board of managers for it was nothing more or less but, if necessary, to have called out the state troops In order to get a clean hou?e. The Journal says the passage of the Goodwine bill will pave the way for future legislation of a like nature. Very well; In the event of the State going Democratic at any future general election about how many Republicans does the Journal think would have a voice in the management of any of our penal or benevolent Institutions? I commend Senator Fortune in his far-sightedness in getting his little amendment tacked on, as that gives his party an equal chance at the pie counter. Another question to the Journal: Would a Democratic board of managers send to Ohio In order to

get a competent man for superintendent? Step out on the street and ask this question of the first intelligent Democrat you meet, and, my word for it, it will be no. Thore is one good, redeeming trait with the Democratic party: when they gain a victory they don't distribute the patronage of it among their opponents. CHARLES A. M'COMB. Sellcrsburg, Ind., Jan. 21. t Think, the Hill Is night. To the EJifor of the Indianapolis Journal: We have a great State, full of competent and worthy people, not excelled by any commonwealth In our confederation of States men by the score who would grace the presidential chair, and by the hundreds that would make competent and worthy governors, senators and congressmen. Yet the trustees, or board of control, appointed by the Governor in obedience to an act of our Legislature for the State Reformatory at Jeffersonville found that the State had no competent material for a superintendent and went to another State for one. Is not this a libel on the fair name of our State? Yet these same trustees go into spasmodic fits when their acts putting this humiliating odium on the fair name of this State are questioned and rush through two and a half columns of slush to bolster up their untenable position. The Governor is right, the ripper bill is right and nine-tenths of the people of this State of all parties will uphold it. If the theory of these trustees is correct, then we might go to our neighboring States for our Governors, bur state officers and throw state pride and state lines to the winds. The Senate acted as Indianians when the fair name of their State was In question. The young man from Indiana who writes such glowing eulogies about his State has only to go to his father and have the old gentleman give him a few lessons in state pride to cause him to go back to a position that will be in harmony with his writings. W. M. COCKRUM. Oakland City, Ind., Jan. 24. State Press Comment. It begins to look as If the ripping which tho State press has been giving that ripper bill has made Its projectors timid. Yet the Intent of the ripper bill is evidently not half so bad as it appears" to be. Anderson Bulletin. The ripper bill Is going to furnish some man the opportunity to rise above the party organization and become a leader of the common people. Who will be large enough and courageous enough to embrace the opportunity? Richmond Item. The bill has a swing now that promises to destroy the usefulness of the session and leave the way oren for damaging criticism. Speaker Marshall owes it to his party and the people that the power of the speaker be used to sidetrack this bill and permit wiser legislation to be enacted. Fort Wayne News. The Republican State central committee has made a grave error in assuming to speak for the party in the matter of the Reformatory ripper bill. The action should relegate to tho ranks j.he men who pushed It through. It is simply patlsanshlp running amuck and violates one of the most solemn of the platform pledges. Terre Haute Tribune. It Is our impression that there are at present more Democratic employes In State Institutions than Republicans. There is therefore no particular need of losing sleep over the declaration that the political equilibrium is liable to be disturbed by the "ripper" bill. We do not think the Interests of the State would be seriously Jeopardized by putting a few more Republican employes in these institutions. We are In favor of nonpartisan management, but not of slopping over. Richmond Palladium. There isn't a bit of need of rushing the "ripper" bill. The Republican press, which to a unit during the late campaign, was eulogistic In praise of the, management of the State institutions can't at this time very well be expected to take kindly to a measure that is in direct contrast to their opinions then a bill that would open the way for the very things the Republican press urged had been shelved and taken out of the way. And the Republican newspapers had a great deal to do with the late victory. Greencastle Banner. We are not willing, without proof, to accept the dictum of a few politicians who claim to be on the Inside and arg unwilling to take the people into their confidence. We are not willing to go back on the record of the party, on the pledges and promises and on the high protestations of virtue made by our leaders In the last campaign. We are open to conviction, but we want the proof. If the Reformatory managers are corrupt, it Is the duty of the Governor to remove them. They are his own appointees and the Legislature has no business to interfere in his work. Noblesville Ledger. In the first place the bill ought to fail. In the second place it will fall and leave Its boomers and the Governor In bad odor. Last spring the board elected their superintendent as the law directs, but they did not consult Governor Durbin, nor elect one of his pets. This "ripper bill" is nothing more or less than his attempt to teach all boards that they must cater to him. He hardly dared dismiss them himself, so he asks Senator Goodwine, who has the gubernatorial bug buzzing In his ears, to do it for him. Fountain County News. Now come these politicians hungry for spoils upon which to perfect a machine and they demand the system be overturned, and because their ipse dixit Is affixed to the infamous proposition, their mouthpiece, Mr. Whlttaker, proceeds to announce to the State that it is a party measure and must bo passed. It is not a party measure. It Is a measure of Governor Durbin's for the purpose of perfecting his organization. It Is immaterial whether he or his lieutenants wrote the bill, it is his bill. And It is immaterial to honest, God-fearing, publicserving men whether the State committee assumes the paternity of It or not.. It is most damnable and should be defeated. Richmond Item. Progress of the Plague. Mexico City, Jan. 25. The charity commission at Mazatlan has received up to date $13u.uiu for use in combating the plague. Money la still pouring in from all parts of the country. The official bulletin from Mazatlan reports four deaths and four new rases for Wednesday last and for Thursday reports five deaths and two new cases. The total number of cases in the hospital was forty-four, five of which were serious. At the pavilions are housed 520 persons, none of whom is sick. Earthquakes lu Mexico. MEXICO CITY. Jan. 25. News has been received here by the minister of the Interior of earthquake and volcanic disturbances near Urique, the State of Chihuahua. Nentana mountain has been riven In twain and the atmosphere Is filled with fine volcanic dust. An earthquake at midnight on the 231 was terrifying to the inhabitants and the people were filled with consternation.

QUAY'S DIRE THREAT

HE 3IAY TRY TO FORCE THE SENATE TO SIT COXTINUOl'SLY. Determined to Defeat Senator UeverIdse'a Statehood. Hill nnd Will Demand Night Sessions. LINES ARE DRAWN CLOSELY AND niPOnTAN'T DEVELOP3IEXTS AHE EXPECTED THIS WEEK. Reform In the Loner House Eulogies on Deceased Representative Delivered on Sunday. WASHINGTON-, Jan. 25. The feature of the week in the Senate will be the continuation of the contest over the statehood bill. The lines are now more closely drawn than they have ever been on this bill. They are. Indeed, so taut that all onlookers realize that they are about to break; but few unprejudiced persons would undertake to say positively on which side the disaster must fall. The advocates of statehood were much encouraged by the vote of last week, and, contending that it has been demonstrated that there is a majority of the Senate .favorable to the bill, they declare thit it is preposterous to ask them to yield, while the opposition urges that the vote was not a test at all and no real indication of the attitude of the Senate. They say that the bill is standing In the way of other legislation, and contend that It must get out of the road and remain out when the appropriation bills begin to press to the front; as they will soon do. It Is probable, however, that with some exceptional limes the bill will hold its place in the front ranks during the week. It is the Intention, however, to use the appropriation bills only in case there should be an effort to hold night sessions in order to secure action on the statehood bill. Senator Quay has more than once indicated his Intention of asking the Senate to "sit continuously," which means that he is contemplating night sessions. The general understanding among the friends of the measure is that the prolonged session test will come early in the week, possibly about Tuesday night, but the Pennsylvania senator has so far failed to make authoritative announcement on that point. Senator Quay now asserts his Intention to press the bill more strenuously than in the past, and the .opposition Is Just as pronounced in its declaration of intention to resist its passage. They say that the bill cannot pass, and some of them announce that they would rather take the responsibility for an extra session of Congress than have the statehood bill become a law. When the question Is again taken up Senator Burnham will proceed with his speech, and it is now the plan to have Senator Kean follow him. Senator Beveridge also will be heard in opposition to the bill. Several senators will antagonize the bill and be prepared if necessary to introduce extraneous matter for the purpose of preventing a vote. For Instance, one of them has on his desk a copy of the encyclopedic speech delivered by Senator Quay during the consideration of the Wilson-Gorman tariff bill, which he threatens to read, and another has at hand a voluminous history of New Mexico. If night sessions are attempted the opponents of the bill will resort to the usual methods to kill time.. On the other hand. It Is admitted the supporters of the bill will take a bold stand ugalnst allowing any other business to proceed until a. vote shall be secured on the' statehood bill. Some would even go to the extent of excluding appropriation bills. There Is some apprehension on the part of the bill's supporters that there may be an effort to unduly discuss and delay consideration of the appropriation bills in order to delay the statehood bill, and such a course will be resented. HEFOHM IN THE HOUSE. Eulosles on Deceased Members Delivered on' Sunday. WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. The House of Representatives to-day inaugurated the experiment of holding memorial services for deceased members upon the Sabbath. It will be followed hereafter during this session end probably will become the general practice in the House In the future. Heretofore, except on very rare occasions the House has broken In on its regular work Friday and Staurday to listen to eulogies on deceased members, but the time has seldom been propitious and lately the practice has been meeting with growing disfavor. At the session to-day tribute was paid to the life and public services of the late Representatives Russell, of Connecticut, and- Shepard and Degraffenreld. of Texas, each of whom died during the Congressional recess. The attendance in the galleries was quite large and there was a numerous assemblage of .the friends of the deceased on the floor. The coming week probably will witness the passage by the House of the Fowler currency bill. The House managers have arranged to bring in a special rule making that measure a continuing order until disposed 01, beginning on Wednesday next. While it Is anticipated that the bill will precipitate a very lively debate its friends believe that Its passage is assured. The anti-trust bill will not come up until next week. CARS ARE TIED UP. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE. but these, however, are In two of the families already having the disease. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Green have contracted the disease from their son, and Mrs. Dudley Lants from her daughter. WINCHESTER. The City Council here has concluded the purchase of a 12-room house and two acres of ground in the west part of .the city to be used as a house of detention in the present emergency and later as a city hospital. There is a movement here to ask the Legislature to provide for hospitals in each county in the State. Blflr Deal In OH Property. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MONTPELIER, Ind., Jan. 25. John Smith, of this city, local manager and one of the heaviest stockholders in the BelleView Oil Company, has closed a deal .with the Ohio Oil Company whereby the latter becomes the owner of all of the Belleview property in this State. There were 1,850 acres of leases, with 104 wells, with a good daily production and some of the finest equipped leases in the State included in the sale. The Belleview Oil Company is owned principally by Mr. Smith, of this city, and C. A. Backer, of Boston. The company has large holdings In Pennsylvania and is capitalired at $ 600.000. The price is not known, but is said to be about $2u0,000. Enterprise at Shelby vllle. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHELBYVILLE. Ind., Jan. 21. A thirtyyear option for, a valuable piece of ground has been closed by the Citizens' Water, Heat. Light and Power Company, with the provilege of purchasing it at the end of that time. The companj will erect its electric light and hot water heating plant on the site secured. Their water works plant will be erected on ground yet to be secured. The plants, when ready for operation, will show an investment of about J3Ö0.0ÜQ. Boy Hunter Accidentally Shot. Special to tb Indiana poll Journal. BLUFFTON, Ind., Jan. 25. Vaughn, the fifteen-year-old son .of ex-Commissioner Sylvester Lounsberry, was Instantly killed late yesterday afternoon vhlJe hunting with a companion of his own age. They were on opposite sides of a log watching for a rabbit. It suddenly darted out and Lounsberry's companion fired without looking to see where the latter was. Louns-

berry was struck In the breast by the load if shot. The funeral will be held on Monday.

Alleged to lie Short. Frcclal to the Indianapolis Journal. ALEXANDRIA, Ind., Janf 25. Horace S. Dunson, who has been the ticket agent and operator at the Big Four passenger station in this city since the 1st of November has boen missing since yestsxday. His accounts are alleged to be about $270 short. He K ft a note saying he could have covered up his shortage for the time being, but that it would be found out later and rather than face the disgrace he fled. Rohert Klnnlrd Takes Morphine. HUNTINGTON. Ind.. Jan. 2S.-Robert KInaird, at one time general passenger and ticket agent of the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati & Louisville Railroad, with headquarters at Fort Wayne, committed suicide here to-day by taking morphine. Five years ago he was general auditor of the Santa Fe Railroad at Wichita, Kan. No cause is known for the act. Xo Local Trains To-Day. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Jan. 25.-AU local freight trains on the Terre Haute & Logansport, the Terre Haute & Peoria and main-line divisions of the Vandalia will be annulled to-morrow. The crews and locomotives will be used on special trains in relieving the congested condition of the freight trafiic. Two Firemen Injured. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LEBANON, Ind., Jan. 25. The overturning of the hose wagon this afternoon while making a run to a fire resulted in the inJury of "Abe" Mclntire, assistant fire chief, and of "Art" West, a fireman. Mclntire was injured Internally and it is feared will not recover. West's Injuries are not serious. Stricken In the Pulpit. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY. Ind., Jan. 25.-Rev. E. E. Neal, pastor of Grace M. E. Church, suffered a stroke of paralysis while delivering a sermon this morning. The congregation was dismissed and the pastor taken home in a cab. His right side Is paralyzed and his condition Is regarded as serious. Deaths In the State. EVANSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 25. Anton Ressel, the first man to operate a tannery in "the Pocket," died to-day at the age of eighty-three years. He was a native of Germany. Mr. Resscl was the oldest Odd Fellow in this city. Indlr.na Notes. HARTFORD CITY. William N. Entler, editor of the Warren County Sentinel, at Pine Ridge, who committed suicide at Lafayette, was at one time editor and publisher of the Weekly Telegram in Hartford City. A few years ago he had charge of the Elkhart Truth, Colonel Conn's paper; Huntington Democrat, Athens (O.) Journal, McArthur (O.) Enquirer, Mannlngton (W. Va.) Advocate and Sullivan County (Ind.) Democrat. ALEXANDRIA! The Alexandria Council, Knights and Ladles of Columbia, held a social session Saturday night at Red Men's Hall and initiated a class of twelve candidates and their regular Installation services. Supreme Deputy W. S. Peterson, of South Bend, was present and directed the work and Installed the officers. The initiatory ceremonies were performed by the Aflderson Council, and about thirty Anderson members were present. MUNCIE. At a meeting of the library board Saturday - it was decided to spend $0.000 in the furnishing of the new Carnegie library, which will be completed and occupied the coming spring. Cathedral glass will be placed in the dome and the rotunda will correspond in beauty and design. The Jackson-street gable will be adorned with a statue which is to be chosen later. LAGRANGE. The farmers of Lagrange county held their annual Institute here last week. The attendance ranged from 500 to 1,500. Many of the ablest men and women in the county were on the programme and the state management was ably represented by O. F. Lane, of Balnbrldge. and G. Erwin, of Bourbon, as lecturers. : FREETHINKERS ADJOURN? Close of the Annual Congress of the National Liberal 'Party LEXINGTON, Ky., Jan. 23. The first annual congress of the National Liberal party closed to-night. St. Louis was selected as the next place of meeting, during the exposition. Following are, the new officers: President. Dr. J. B. Wilson, Cincinnati; vice presidents, Mr. Josephine Henry, Ver sallies. Ky., Mrs. Harriet M. Closz, Webster City, la., and Dr. J. Barnes, Hinds boro, 111.; secretary. Morris Sachs, Cincinnati; treasurer, Morgan Warmsley, of Cleveland, O. A dispatch was received stating that Judge Parrish It. Ladd, a noted freethinker, was dying at hi3 home in Alameda, Cal.f-and a telegram was sent to him. The platform adopted deplores war, opposes government protection to missionaries, condemns the liquor traffic, also race prejudice, asks investigation by the government that may lead to rendering strikes impossible, advocates equality of sexes in rights of citizenship, a fuller liberty of speech and press, favors initiative and referendum in legislation, that all money be issued by the government and that church and State be kept separate. The resolutions invite the co-operation of socialists, single tax advocates and lovers of liberty, deplore diplomatic relations between the United States and the Pope regarding friars, oppose closing St. Louis exposition gates on Sunday, denounce the Comstock agency as a means of intimidating free speech and condemn ecclesiastical encroachments on public schools. INTERSTATE BALL LEAGUE. Five of the Ten Clnlis Will Hove Their Home in Chicago. CHICAGO, Jan. 23. At a meeting here today managers of star semi-professional baseball teams of Chicago and near-by towns organized what will be known as the Interstate Baseball League. Towns' In Wisconsin and Illinois, with five of the clubs to be located In Chicago, will make up the circuit; A temporary organization was formed at the meeting and the names of the clubs and towns to comprise the circuit announced. The five clubs to make Chicago their home are the Spaldlngs, Gunthers, Marquettes. Athletes and the M. & D. Ranges. 'The out-of-town clubs will be tho Elgin. Aurora and Sycamore, of. Illinois, and the Kenosha and Racine, of Wisconsin. This ten-club circuit will stand only temporarily. It Is the desire' of the meji back of the league to have a twelve-club circuit, and it is expected that the additional clubs will be listed at the next meeting of the organization, which will be held here Feb. 8. At this session the organization will be made permanent and officers of the league elected. NEW YORKERS WIN IN WHEAT. Shrewd Wall-Street Coterie, "Let in on the Ground Floor of the Stay Advance Has Already Cleared Fortune. NEW YORK, Jan. 21-Those New York brokers, led by Wm. M. Townsend & Uro., and their clients, who follow the Armour banner in wheat pit deals, and have been preaching the big advance to their clients since last November, while practicing what they preached by purchasing the staple on every recession, have already cleared up more than $300.000. They have known every plan for the big corner since Its Inception last fall, and have steadfastly stuck to the battle cry. "Dollar Wheat." The market is acting exactly as it should in these "Excelsior" movements, and every bit of information, public and private, points to a phenomenal final advance in prices. Mr. Wm. M. Townsend. the acknowledged authority on wheat, when seen at his offices In the Produce Exchange building, said: "It is not our fault that all the Investmentreeking public ir not In this big May adVance. We have had Inside information from the start, and have outlined it freely in our weekly market letters right straight along. The letters have set forth the fltuation calmly and plainly, and the hundreds of strangers who have written to us for them have received every line of Instructive detail as we have received it. "We are kept posted evry day and shall continue to keep our friends and clients posted. I am as certain as of anything In my life that Mr. Armour will soon hav May wheat at tho dollar mark."

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0 a MUSICAL GENIUS SAVED II y Dr. Felix Adler' Talent-Preaerv-inff Station in Xevr York. Brooklyn Eagle. Talent-saving station No. 1, it has been called, that dingy little three-story house at 31 Rivington street. The phrase, suggestive as it s of Uncle Sam's life-saving service, with Its stations dotting the coast at fourmile Intervals, is Felix Adler's. And the work, though an enterprise of private philanthropy rather than of governmental humanjtarianism, promises almost as much in its way as the building of the first lifesaving station. Talent-saving Station No. 1 Is Miss Emilie Wagner's music school for the children of the very poor; Miss Wagner's because b.e idea was hers, the first movement toward the realization of what was regarded as a pleasing but Impossible dream was hers, though now she is but the leader of a devoted band whose reward is the blessed certainty of something really accomplished. It was In 1804 that Miss Wagner came out of the West eager to devote herself to benevolent work in the slums. One day she attended a service at the Baptist Mission and heard the children sing. True to her name, Miss Wagner's great passion ia music. Her cultivated ear caught at once the true musical note of the untrained young voices of the Polish, Russian and Roumanian Jews. She had found .her work, she began to dream her dream and set about its realization. She began with a little mission music class. It proved so successful that since then she has worked to develop the latent musical talent of the neighborhood. She has found It simply clamoring for development. She has now a school of about 170 eager pupilsshe can accommodate no more and a long waiting list. Her work attracted the attention and enlisted the support of the neighborhood settlements; first, naturally, of the college settlement, ßlnce It was a woman's enterprise; then of the university settlement. For a long while its affairs have been administered by a joint committee from both. Rut its work has been largely and increasingly independent of either, unless just lately, while maintaining the friendliest relations, it has entirely severed its connection with them. There is not an inch of available space In the whole building wasted during the afternoon and evening, which are the busy times there. One may find a class in voice culture in the back basement or kitchen; a violin lesson progressing in a curtained oft corner of tho cellar; practicing going on in' the halls, piano or "clavier" in the tiniest or low-ceilinged closets under the roof, while on dim stair landings and in dark passageways instructions on "strings" ia being given by pupil teachers, regardless of the war of sounds going on on all sides of them. "I think," said Miss Wagner, with laughing satisfaction, "that any stranger within our gates, when things are In full blast, could not fail to be Impressed by the amount of noise we make." Of course, most of the work is done In the afternoon and evening, when school is out. It is not an absolutely free school. The children are charged 10 cents for a twelveminute lesson. And the amount of good solid work that Is crowded into that twelveminute lesson is a thing to marvel at. If they want to do this practicing there on the school's instruments tney pay 4 cents for a half i our's practice. And Miss Wagner tells with pride of a six-year-old who practiced unwittingly three hours at a stretch, quite unconscious that she was overtaxing her time, when the teacher, who should have warned her that her half hour was up, forgot to do so. "She would have practiced another three if I had not stopped her," said Miss Wagner. And one's mind reverts to the child of one's acquaintance dawdling over the piano In a well-appointed home, and whining every five minutes: "Mamma, can't I stop; do I have to keep on? I'm awful tired!" The youngest pupil at present is just four years old. a baby, but very anxious to Jearn. "You see, we have to take them young to do any good. They must learn enough before they are fourteen or fifteen, when the law allows them to leave school and go to work, to be able to make a little money with their music, so that their parents will see that they are going to be able to earn a better living and more pleasantly in that way than in a store, or factory, or sweat shop." And they have done this. They have among their older pupils boys and girls just getting Into their 'teens, pupil teachers, who aid in the school work and who make quite a little income as music teachers. The children have to set times for their lessons. With twelve-minute lessons It would be useless, for no two clocks in the neighborhood keep the same time. A certain number are told to come "as soon as school's out." The first who come arc taken in hand and given their lessons; as the others come in they are sent up as soon as their piano and their teacher are disengaged. They are Instructed to come in groups at half-hour intervals. There are generally eighteen or twenty waiting in the "reception" room, where, to be sure, a piano lc-sson is usually in progress in one corner and a violin lesson in the other. It is a case of first come first served, and the little ones watt their turns as patiently as possible. "Lmarre'' Trunk Found. Milwaukee Wisconsin. The most valuable of recent acquisitions to the museum of the public library of Appleton, Wis., is an old fur-covered trunk believed to have been the property of Eleazer Williams (Lazarre). the reputed "lost dauphin of France." The trunk was placed there by Attorney E. G. Jones, through whose effo.-ts it was loaned from the owner, John Mitchell, of Kaunkana. The old relic was secured from the attic of an old log house known as the "old homestead." located near Little Rapids, and where it Is known that Eleazer Williams made his home for some time. The trunk is about three feet square, and is covered with deer hide. On the cover are the Initials "E. W." in copper-headed nails, and the trunk Is undeniably of sufficient age to have been tho property of Williams, as the initials would seem to indicate. When found, nothing was known of the trunk by the occupants of the house, who stated that it was there when they took possession of the place, and the same was found true of occupants of the house for many years previous, all of whom found It in the attic of the house when they came to It, and attached no value to it. The evidence Is altogether convincing that tha trunk was once the property of that Eleazer Williams, whose romantic hU-

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