Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 44, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1903 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOMS JOUIWAI FRIDAY, FEBRtJARY 13. 1003.

Democr itic senators turn upon him, and not only oppose the bill himself, but do everything In his power to cause other members of the minority to fight It- lie hinted that these peculiar alliances of Mr. Fleming with the Republicans were not relished by the Democrats of the Senate. The speech was full of vitriol, and although Fleming laughed It off and gor back once or twice with satirical allusions, he -could not con-c-val that he felt the force of It and that he i3 alarmed for his leadership. When the test came the bill was recommitted on a strict party vote. Every Republican voted to recommit the bill and every Democrat, with the single exception of Fleming, voted against recommitment. In addition to the fight on the railroad Mil the Senate was interested greatly In the discussion of the fee and salary bill introduced by Senator Oliver Gard, of Frankfort. The bill 1 known as Senate bill No. F. and is one or the most Important pieces of legislation occupying the attention of the General'Assembly. Briefly. It seeks to Increase moderately the salary of every county officer In the State. It was introduced principally for the relief of officials In the smaller counties, who, under the present system, are barely able at times to make both ends meet. The officials in the larger counties will also benefit, but not immoderately or disproportionately. The bill bases the compensation of officials on the population of counties. Each officer shall receive so much, for the first 10.000 of the population, and a smaller sum for each succeeding 10,000, in addition to 10 per cent, of fees collected and. special allowances in tho case of certain officers. The bill has been carefully studied by the senators, and the impression is that it is Just and satisfactory to everybody and should pass. FEE AND SALARY BILL. Yesterday It was called up on second reading, and after prolonged discussion It was radically amended. Senator Gard made a speech explaining tho purpose and the provisions pf the bilL lie outlined the Situation In many counties "of the State, and pointed out that there Is an absolute necessity for relieving the county officers under the present system. He said his bill had been prepared after the most careful Investigation, and that It had been worded only after exhaustive discussion with men representing all parts of the State. Senator Wolcott Immediately offered an amendment for the purpose of helping out county auditors. As originJly worded, the bill made it very pleasant for the other officers, but the county auditor was somewhat left out in the cold. In many counties his compensation under the new bill would not have been so great as under the present system. The Wolcott amendment, which was adopted, provides that the auditors are to be paid out of the county treasury a sum equal to 10 per cent, of the school fund Interest collected and paid into the county treasury and in addition a sum annually not to exceed $500 for special services performed by the county. The amendment met with favor, and was at once accepted by Senator Gard. Senator Starr's amendment was important, lie introduced it partly because of an unpleasant rebuff he got one day In questioning a county officer about the prof-

C0LD WAVE C01HKG. Drop In Temperature To-NlRht Ilaln or Snow In Southern Indiana WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. Forecast for Friday and Saturday: For Indiana Fair In north, rain or snow and colder in south portion on Friday, with cold wave at night; Saturday probably snow and much colder; fresh to brisk north winds. For Ohio Fair on Friday, except snow on the northwest lake shore; Saturday rain or snow and colder; fresh to brisk west to north winds. For Illinois Snow and much colder on Friday, except fair in northwest portion, cold wave at night on the extreme southwest portion; snow and colder in east, probably fair in west portion; fresh to brisk north winds. For Kentucky Fair and colder on Friday, except probably rain or snow in extreme west portion; Saturday probably snow and much colder. For Lower Michigan Fair on Friday; colder in north portion; Saturday fair in north, snow and colder in south portion; fresh to brisk west to north winds. Local Observations on Thursday. Dar. Ther. R.H. Wind. Weather. Pre. Ta.m.. 23.91 40 95- S' East. Cloudy. 0.00 7 p.m. .3.96 40 83 North. Cloudy. 0.00 Maximum temperature, 52; minimum temperature, 36. Comparative statement of the mean temperature and total precipitation on Feb. 12: Temp. Pre. Normal 22 Mean 44 Departure froin normal 12 Departure sinco Feb. 1 71 Departure since Jan. 1 1S Plus. 0.13 0.00 0.13 0.40 0.03 W. T. BLYTIIE, Section Director. Yesterday Temperatures. Station a. m. CS 2G 46 42 24 Max. 7 p. m. J-YUWtllt. ifl k i 1 1 44 33 Amarillo. Tex 30 74 62 4 28 64 2 m 34 60 44 56 26 22 14 2$ 20 16 74 66 28 36 26 20 10 70 30 12 63 64 20 66 16 63 62 70 52 64 16 34 70 63 58 52 16 4 13 44 16 20 46 70 36 40 12 63 60 28 22 68 Antonio, Tex Atlanta. Ga Bismarck, N. Buffalo. N. 53 D. 4 36 Y Cairo. Ill 42 26 24 2 31 40 34 26 20 10 2S 12 28 54 24 60 .J 58 m 34 64 Calgary, Alberta ................. Chattanooga. Tenn Cheyenne. Wyo .. Chicago. Ill Cincinanti, O Cleveland. O "Columbus, O Concordia, Kan .... Davenport. la ..... 26 52 22 20 8 20 26 8 68 Denver, Col Dodge City. Kan Dubuque, la ........ Puluth. Minn Kl Paso. Tex Galveston. Tex Grand Junction. Col Grand Haven, Mich 60 16 32 Havre. Mont Helena, Mont 6 8 ....... 52 28 V 16 n m 56 28 2 Huron. S. U Jacksonville, F!a .... Kansas City. Mo .... lender, Wyo J Uttle Rock, Ark Iouisvllle. Ky Marquette, Mich Memphis, Tenn Modena. Utah 2 46 40 20 46 14 40 34 48 42 41 18 22 IS 43 43 43 28 14 -10 6 28 16 12 20 46 28 28 10 42 W 28 64 56 14 60 10 . 62 58 Montgomery. Ala Nashville, Tenn New Orleans. La New York. N. Y Norfolk. Va North Platte. Neb Oklahoma. O. T Omaha. Neb Palestine. Tex Parkersburg. W. Va.... Philadelphia. Pa Pittsburg. Pa Pueblo. Col Qu'Appelle. Assin 60 48 56 10 32 18 66 50 60 50 14 0 12 36 12 Kapid City, B. D St. Louis, Mo ... Ft. Paul. Minn ... Salt Lake City. Utah 16 Santa Fe. N. M Shreveport. La Springneid. Ill Springfield, Mo 44 38 10 62 50 28 Valentine. Neb Vicksburg. Miss Washington. D. C Wichita. Kan Storm Area Extended. DENVER, Co! Feb. 12. The storm which broke over Colorado yesterday continued to-day, and. according: to telegraph ad vices, extended over the entire Rocky mountain rcRion. inc aDsence of wind savca tne rauroaus irom any serious delay. MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS. BROWHEAD, Feb. 13. Passed: Teuton lc, from New York, for Queenstown and uverpooi. MOVILLE. Feb. 12 Arrived: Numidlan. from St. John, N. B., for Liverpool, and proceeaea. CHERBOURG, Feb. 12. Sailed: TCron prlnz Wilhelm, from Bremen for New xorK. GLASGOW. Feb. 12. Arrived: Ethiop'a. from New York; Buenos Ayrlan, from Pitlaaeipnia. NEW YORK, Feb. 12.-Salled: Algeria. QUEENSTOWN. Feb. 12-Salled: Cedrlc. from Liverpool for New York. . SCILLY. Feb. 11-Passed: St. Taul, from New York for Southampton. HAMBURG. Feb. 11 Arrived: ratricla. from New York. THERE IS OILY OXE LAXATIVE BROMO-QUININE. Call for run nam ana jwh xor signature of E. W. Grove on box. The renudy that cures a

Its of the office. He asked simply to get

useful information as to what the omce was really worth. The treasurer replied with scant courtesy that it was none of the senator's business. That led Senator Starr to the conclusion that there should be some way for the people to find out Just how much a man was getting out of a lucrative county office to which the people had elected him. If he would not tell of his own free will ho should be made to tell, said the senator. The amendment was the result. The amendment, which was also adopted. provides that on the first day of January of each year and at the end of hid term every county officer shall make out a sworn statement of all receipts and expenditures incidental to his office, as well as the salary received' and paid out to clerks, and thi3 statement shall be filed with the clerk of the Circuit Court. The amendment was gladly adopted by Senator Gard. who saw the point that was made. Senator Barcus put in an amendment that is in reality an emergency clause. It provides that the law shall go Into effect the first Monday in April. The purpose or the amendment is to place the law in op eration at the beginning of the second quarter of the year, so that there would be no confusion in accounts or mix-ups oi any kind. The amendment was adopted. The bill was further amended by Mr. Ogborn, who. put in it a provision that In all counties of less than 7,000 population the clerk and sheriff shall receive for extra services required by the county commissioners an extra sum not to exceed $200. The amendment applies to only two coun ties in the State Ohio and union wnere the officers named have a hard time to scrape along on the small salary paid. The bill was then ordered engrossed and reprinted and when it comes up on third reading will probably receive a large ma jority of the votes in its favor. Senator Gard believes that it will go through the House without a great deal of trouble and will eventually become a law. He says the law is a good one from every point of view. that it seeks to relieve hard-worked omclals, not extravagantly but reasonably and without looting the public treasury. He submits the bill to public opinion and says he is willing to stand or fall by Its ver dict. Something of a stir was caused in the Senate yesterday morning by the introduc tion of a resolution prepared by Senator Johnston and providing that the representa tive or an afternoon newspaper should be excluded from the floor of the Senate until the editor of the paper had retracted certain violent expressions concerning the character of the Senate and senators. The resolution was discussed at length and referred finally to a committee consisting of three members. The Dausman bill to give township advisory boards the right to regulate the number of Justices of the peace and con stables and to determine the salary of Justices was so loaded with amend ments that it was distasteful to Its author and he urged the senators to vote against it and put it out of its misery. Sentor Johnston moved that the Senate adjourn until to-day out of respect to the memory of Abraham Lincoln. The Republicans, led by Senator Llndley, protested vigorously, claiming that the motion was simply intended to put the Republicans in the hole and for little else. Pointing to Senator Fortune, who was galling him with sarcastic quips and quirks. Senator LlndleywJeclared, "I am tired of the twitterings of this little fellow. I don't blame the Democrats for wanting to ad journ until to-morrow; I suppose they are asnamea to look at Lincoln's picture." Senator Llndley previously had moved that the picture of Lincoln be hung over the president's chair. Johnston's motion was killed and Lindley's was passed. RARCIS REPLIES TO LASDIS. Senator Points Oat Why Memory of Gen. Clark Should De Honored. Senator James S. Barcus does not like tho criticisms of his bill offered by Representa tive Charles B. Landls and printed in the Journal yesterday morning. He says the representative from the Ninth district is unfair and that he is badly off in his historical allusions. "It strikes me," said Senator ' Barcus last night, sarcastically, that Landls might make a better Governor than historian." He argues for his bill in the following: "On the main proposition that George Rogers Clark, was a hero and a great military genius all are agreed. That he was more than any other one man responsible for the being of the State of Indiana no one denies. The only objections made, and these chiefly by Democrats, are, first, that people would be inquiring who was George Rogers Clark? second, that he was not technically a resident of the State of Indiana; third, that his views in later life on the question of our attitude toward foreign countries were not in accord with the views of George Washington. These objections seem too trivial to warrant reply, but for the sake of embarrassing the Republican 'members of the Senate the objections are persisted in and perhaps should have a moment of attention. FJrst. the Republican members of the Senate who supported the bill believed that the people knew who George Rogers Clark was. To even suggest that there is doubt among the intelligent people of this State or in this Nation as to what he has achieved is to assume that the people have not read history, and to those who display such lack of knowledge I would commend all the histories of the United States in general, and in particular the histories of Indiana written by John B.Dillon. William H. English, Julia S. -Conk-lln and Jacob P. Dunn. QUESTION OF RESIDENCE. "But if it is true that the people do not know what George Rogers Clark has accomplished then that truth is the most potent argument in favor of the bill, for it Is high time that such Ignorance should be dispelled if it exists; but I do not believe it exists. The majority in the-Senate knew that Clark was not technically a resident of the State of Indiana when they voted the memorial, but they rose above such unworthy consideration, unworthy because it is conceded that Clark stands second to no man in his contribution to the being and welfare of the State; and this being true, the denial of such recognition would amount to a mere quibble. He had his home on the soil which is now Indiana for thirty-five years from the time he conquered the Northwest Territory in 1773 until 1S14. when In poverty and with wrecked body and mind he was taken across the river to be cared for by his sister, Mrs. Croghan. Clark's detractors have cited his will as evidence that he had chosen Kentucky as his home, but they have carefully neglected to tell us of the bill in chancery which prayed among other things that he was afflicted with paralysis produced from apoplexy, whereby he was deprived of the uso of his limbs and his mental faculties weakened and deranged, and that In response to that prayer upon the proof given the court entered a decree annulling the will. The decree reads in essential part as follows: A verdict has been rendered in this case by a Jury upon an issue out of chancery to try the validity of the will "that the writing purporting to bo the will of Gen. Clark is not his will," and it is now ordered and decreed that said writing bo set asido and annulled. NO IMPROPRIETY. "But even assuming that Clark had never been a resident even of Indiana soil there would be no special impropriety in our offering such a testimony in behalf of one who has done so much for the State. The bill itself provides that the commission to be appointed by the Governor shall, if need be, ask for a special act of Congress. No special act of Congress, however, will be necessary because Statuary Hall is peopled by contributions from different sources and the States themselves have not been technical in choosing their subjects for this honor. Roger Williams, of Rhode Island, was accepted without question, though he died in 16&5, 114 years before there was any State of Rhode Island in the technical sense. Connecticut presented Jonathan Trumbull, who died five years before there was any State of Connecticut as part of the United States government. Wisconsin presented Father Marquette, and his statue is in Statuary Hall now, though he had been dead one hundred years before the Declaration of Independence and more than l."iO years before there was any State of Wisconsin. I can see no reason why this matter should bo postponed further unless some one of those who are objecting to Clark wants the place reserved until the objector himself Is dead. In answer to the third objection it might be said merely that at that time public opinion greatly differed as to whether the United States ought to side with France as against England, and also whether or not wo should lend aid and comfort to Spain. Thomas Jefferson and George Rogers Clark were among those who believed that we ought to repay our debt to France and her favored son Iafayette by helping France in her war against England. Inasmuch as Jefferson's theory met with sufficient popularity to be one of the causes which moved the people subsequently to elect him President then we ought not to deny to Clark this simple homage when his vK-ws were not more offensive than those of Jefferson himself.

Jefferson and Clark were friends until after Jefferson's term as President, as shown by their personal correspondence. "Roosevelt has been quoted against Clark, but quoted by Clark's detractors and quoted only in tart. and in Buch detached and garbled statements as to do injustice to Roosevelt, to Clark and to Clark's detractors. Roosevelt calls Clark one of our national heroes. and he says in the 'Winning of the West:' 'Clark, Sevier, Robertson and Boone are emphatically America's worthies. Any one who reads all that Roosevelt has said of Clark will not fall to agree that Clark is entitled to all the honor that this State can bestow upon him. "The chief purpose of suggesting substitutes is to play politics and to put the Republican side of the Senate in an embarrassing situation. The victory for putting some one else there, if It were done, would be claimed by and accorded to the Democratic minority. There is no reason In history t morals or politics why they should be permitted to succeed." GRAY RAILROAD BILL.

Committee Slay Present a Divided Report This SIornlnK The Senate railroad committee will bring In a report this morning, in all .probability, on the Gray railroad bill, generally known as the new railroad consolidation bill. The committee was to have met last night, but two or three of the members were absentSenators Matson, Ball and Klttlnger and the meeting was postponed. A meeting of the committee will be held this morning before the Senate convenes, and it is more than likely that an understanding will be reached one day or the other. The belief Is that the committee will present a divided report to the Senate, with the majority of the members recommending the passage of the bill. A minority report will also be presented urging tho Indefinite postponement of the measure. . . Senator Gray has been working effectively In favor of his bill, and he stated last night that he has no doubt of its ultimate passage. "I believe the committee report will not be a divided one," said Senator Gray, "although there may be one or two members who are opposed to the bill. I would like to call attention once more to tho fact that this bill does not resemble in its main features the Joss railroad consolidation bill, and that my measure is for the purpose of allowing the Illinois Central to get clear title to the links of Its system in Indiana. The more the bill is scrutinized by the public and examined the more satisfied I am that it will pass. There Is nothing about it to conceal, and nothing detrimental to , CHARGE AND DENIAL Accusation Slade by Senator Fortnne Denounced by Harry D. Gates. Harry B. Gates enters a 'fiat denial to the assertion of Senator James W. Fortune, of leffersonville, that he tried to induce Fortune to "deliver" four Democratic votes for the Wood garnishee bill favored by merchants' associations. Mr. Gates declared the whole story Is made out of whole cloth and the result of a highly developed imaginative faculty of the senator. Not even in Joke did he tell Senator Fortune, he says, that he would stand ready to reward him materially for the service. , Senator Fortune yesterday came out with the assertion that Mr. Gates had sent for him one week ago last Saturday and had asked him, in Mr. Gates's office, to line up ac least four Democrats in favor of tho bill. As told by Fortune, Mr. Gates said: "I must have four Democratic votes for the garnishee bill. Can you get them?" Fortune says he took the matter as a Joke at first and laughingly replied: . "What is the limit r "There is no limit," Gates is alleged to have answered. "I do not care how you get them, so you do get them, and I will stand for what you do." Fortune declares that Gates asked him if there were any way to break the Democratic caucus action on the garnishee bill. After starting the conversation in that manner, he says, Gates came directly to the point. He says his story is true, and that he does not propose to conceal the facts about an attempt to use him for such purpose. Mr. Gates stated last night that he did not send for Fortune to come to his office. The senator came there of his own accord, he says, and told him in the course of discussion that he would see what he could do about breaking the caucus. There was no suggestion of money, seriously or in fun. Mr. Gates maintains, and the talk was simply along the lines of requesting Senator Fortune to do what he could in a legitimate way to get the bill passed. Mr. Gates says that all talk of using money in connection with the bill is absurd for the reason 'that the Retail Merchants' Association has absolutely no money to devote to influencing legislation. He Is closely allied with the association in business, he says, and favors the bill for business reasons. A man who has been about the Legislature a good deal said yesterday evening that Senator Fortune had told him he was Joking when he first told of being approached by Gates. He got the idea from the senator that he didn't attach much Importance to the matter. HOUSE KILLS THREE DILLS. Members Knifed the Veterinarians, Barbers and Surveyors' Measures. Three bills of the character described by Representative Boyd, of Putnam, as "bills to create professions" were done to death in the House yesterday afternoon, and when that body adjourned most of the members were felicitating themselves that they had done the best afternoon's work of the session. The bills killed were House bill No. 194, providing for the examining and licensing of veterinary surgeons; Senate bill No. 3, providing for the examining and licensing of barbers and making sanitary regulations for barber shops, and House bill No. 121, providing that the county surveyors in every county should be given . all the civil engineering work of their respective counties. The veterinary surgeons' bill was the first one handed down in the afternoon, and a motion was promptly made to advance it to engrossment, but there was an extended debate. Mr. Boulden said that he was opposed to the bill because it discriminated in favor of graduates of veterinary colleges In that no man not a graduate of such a school would be permitted to take the evaminatton for license. Mr. Bamberger, of Marlon, spoke for the bill, and said that its friends were willing to submit to an amendment whereby any man would have the privilege of taking the examination. Mr. Boyd spoke against the bill, making one of the most logical and most effective speeches of the session. "I am opposed to this bill he said, "because it is a measure that transcends the true legislative function and authority. It is a measure to create a profession, and as such it does not come within the province of a legislature. Why, if we pass this bill and the numerous others of like character this legislature will go down in history as the legislature that created a dozen or so professions. We are asked to create a horso shoers' profession, a barbers' profession, a dentists' profession, an embalmers profession, a profession of optomery, and I don't know what other bills of this kind wc may expect before the session is over. BOYD'S STRONG POINT. "Gentlemen, a profession should succeed on its utility; its practitioners should rise or fall as they are useful to humanity. And In practical life this Is the universal experience. Quacks in any profession never achieve permanent success; they can't fool the people very long. "This bill requires veterinary surgeonshorse doctors we call them down our way to pass an examination for licenses, and who Is asking us to pass it? The people who have suffered from the quacks r, No; a few veterinarians and the veterinary colleges are behind this measure. In my boyhood days when I was but a little fellow I always went through the orchard and filled my pockets with apples before I went to school, and I always met a big. husky boy on the way who would throw his arms around me and say, 'Jack. I love you. Then he would reach into one of my pockets and get an apple and add.. 'but I love your apples better That la the .way with the veterinarians. They are vet solicitous for our stock, our horses and cattle, but they like the big, fat fees better. "The beat horse doctor in Putnam county Is a mtvn who can neither read nor write.

but he has a practice that extends for miles around his home. He never could pass an examination If he were permitted to take it.

and he couldn't graduate from a college in a hundred years, yet he will discount your college veterinary on every case. In veterinary surgery, as in every other profession, the struggle for existence will weed out the man. I'm opposed to this bill because I believe the horse doctors should be Riven a chance, and let the veterinarians take care of themselves." A lively parliamentary scrimmage - followed Boyd's speech. Mr. Stookey llrst moved to Indefinitely postpone the bill, and unsuccessful efforts were made to table the motion. Then as motions to amend take precedence of a motion to postpone a half dozen amendments were offered and tabled. all of which consumed much time and did not help the bill any. Finally the previous question was demanded and seconded by the House, and then Stookey s motion was adopted on a rising vote. ' THE BARBERS CAME NEXT. Only a few bills were considered before the barbers' bill was handed down on second reading, and the members still had their knives out and ready for action. Little argument was indulged in. Mr.- Slack took the floor to protest against the House committee's amendment to the bill, which changed the provision that the barbers should renew their certificates every year, and Mr. Van Fleet, the chairman of the committee, answered him. The committee amendment was concurred in and then four or five members jumped up with motions to put a quietus on the bill. Mr. Stookey, of Kosciusko, whoso chief claim to fame In this session Is that he has offered more motions to kill bills than any other member, was recognized. He was evidently tired of motions to lndenniteiy postpone and to strike out the enacting clause, so. he offered something new, a motion to amend by striking out every section of the bill. His motion numbered every section from 1 to 14, and was somewhat confusing to many of the members. It was carried by a vote of 34 to 47 before many of them realized that it killed the bill, as it left nothing but the title. The situation was a novel one, and the speaker and the members were at a loss what to do with the title until Slack raised the point that as the enacting clause was included in section 1, which was among those stricken out, the bill was dead and done for. The affair ended with a laugh over a motion offered by Mr. Bamberger to pass the title to engrossment. MEMBERS THIRST FOR BLOOD. When the surveyor's bill came up tho members were yeMn a homicidal or blllIcldal mood, and it was speedily disposed of. Slack made a short speech against it, in which he said that if the House had amended it so that it did not apply to the present incumbents of the surveyor's offices there would be no one anxious to have it passed, and that therefore he was op posed to it. Sherman, of Decatur, brought out anotner point against tne measure by arguing that as the surveyor's office was an elective one a man who was not a practical civil engineer, or at least not a good one, was not barred from making the race and securing the election, and that if the bill became a law important engineering work that should only be done by an expert would have to be given to a man who might be wholly Incompetent. Branch spoke for his bill, cUtlming that a man elected to the office of surveyor was clearly entitled to all the county work in his line, but he could not stem the tide, and when the vote on the passage of the bill was taken it was found that there were but 42 ayes to 47 noes and it had been defeated. Mr. Kimball, of Grant, who is father to the bill providing that sheriffs and clerks who fail to collect sufficient fees to equal t Via amnund rt tVinlt snlüriAR shall he. ro imbursed out of the county treasury, took an unrair advantage or tne memoer irom Wabash, Mr. Sayre, and had the bill handrtnwn fn thJrrt ronriinfr in his absence. Sayre was called home yesterday and could not De present at euner session, xie hb been opposed to the bill, and had he been nracamt in mnlrA nnf nf his vißrOTOUS speeches the result might have been different. as it was tne diu passeu uy o.e of 81 to A, and the vote was later reconsidered and tabled, so that no further action can be taken in the House. When the watchdog is away some one will take advantage of the chance to get Into the public crib such will be Sayre's soliloquy today when he returns. . Joint resolution No. 2-Bamberger-pro-viding for an amendment to the State Constitution whereby the Legislature may be empowered to fix the qualifications of practitioners of law, was passed by a vote of 58 to 30, although one or two members raised the point that if the Constitution is so amended the next Legislature will probably be called upon to "create another profession, to borrow Boyd's graphic phrase again, by providing for the examination and licensing of lawyers. One or two bills were reported from committee, one or two others advanced a step and the House adjourned, after a motion to the effect that when the House adjourn it do so out of respect to Lincoln s birthday had been adopted. - MUNICIPAL BILL KILLED. Defeat Attributed to Fillbusterlna; in Interest of Local Administration. The bill providing that the terms of municipal officers in cities less than 30,000 population shall be four years Instead of two was indefinitely postponed in the House yesterday forenoon by the decisive vote of 69 to 31 at the end of a long fight that occupied the greater part of the aftrnoon session Wednesday and an hour at the opening yesterday. The defeat of the measure is attributed by its friends to the efforts to filibuster against it until an amendment making it apply to Indianapolis and extending the term of the present city administration could be incorporated. Representative Mulr, of the Marlon county delegation, led a small force in this movement that held th3 balance of power between the friends of the bill and its opponents, and he was thus able to keep the House at a deadlock where the bill could neither be advanced nor defeated; but, in the end, tiring of these dilatory tactics, many of his supporters deserted him and went over to the element that wanted to kill the bill and this was accomplished on the motion of Mr. Stutesman to indefinitely postpone. Ed Logsdon. a member of the Indianapolis Board of Public Works, and C. N. Elliott, city clerk, were on hand to keep in touch with affairs in the interests of the city administration, and it was very apparent that they were disappointed at the death of the bill. Mr. Mummert. the author of the bill, says that another measure of a similar character will be introduced at once, and an effort made to secure its passage. The bill which was defeated yesterday was indorsed by the State Board of Commerce. The bill was taken up on second reading as unfinished business yesterday morning, and Mr. Miller, of Bartholomew, immediately offered an amendment, which was similar to that offered by Mr. Kirkpatrlck yesterday in that it made the bill extend the terms of the present officials of the cities that come under its provisions. Mr. Bamberger moved that the amendment be laid on the table, and his motion prevailed on an aye-and-no vote. Mr. Mummert then moved that the bill be advanced to engrossment, and again there was a demand for the ayes and noes and the motion was lost, 34 to 58. Mr. Mummert secured recognition and said that he was satisfied that the members did not understand the bill, as it had been so greatly amended and that he was anxious to have it receive fair consideration. Therefore he offered a motion that further consideration of the bill be made a special order for next Monday at 3 o'clock. This motion required a twothirds vote, but there was barely one-third in the affirmative, the roll call showing 34 ayes and 50 noes. Again Mr. Mummert tried to stave off the inevitable, this time by offering a motion to postpone action on the bill, which would leave it in shape to be called up at any time. STUTESMAN'S HAMMER. Then Mr. Stutesman came to the fore with his hammer and moved to amend Mr. Mummert' a motion by Inserting the word "indefinitely" before the word "postponed." N Mr. Mulr, who had been doing the bi'sy bee stunt among the members, promptly offered a motion to table Stutesman's motion, and he received a dozen seconds and a call for the ayes and noes, but his motion was lost by a vote of 33 to 55. The question recurred on Stutesman's amendTHERE IS OXLY ONK LAXATIVE BROMO-QUININE. Call for full name and look for signature of E. W. Grove on box. The remedy that cures a cold In one day. 25?,

ment, and it was adopted by a vote of 61 to 25. Mummert's motion to postpono was

thus amended to Indefinitely postpone, and wnen the roll was called there were ia ayes and 31 noes. The bill was killed. The delay in the action on the bill was due to the fact that a roll call was de manded on every vote, and much time was thus consumed. Mr. Decker's bill, permitting the city of Evansville to establish a day Kchool for the deaf and dumb, was handed down on second reading and advanced to engrossment, with a minor amendment, which will permit Evansville to provide for pupils from sirrounding counties in the school. Miss Galliher, the young woman from Evansville who has been here lobbying for the bill, was present when it was advanced yesterday. Bamberger's bill, requiring fire escapes on all buildings of three stories or more in height, had a narrow escape from death, and it will have a rough road to travel when it comes up on final passage. Mr. Morgan offered a motion to strike out the enacting clause yesterday, which was tabled without a fight, but he says that he will do everything m his power to defeat the bill the next time up. He declares that It is a vicious measure, drawn solely in the interests of a firm that has fire escapes to sell, and that he will make a speech against the bill, showing it up in all its wickedness. The measure was advanced to engrossment yesterday, after a minor amendment was incorporated. The bill increasing the tax levy for the State educational institutions was ad vanced a step toward final passage, and will next make its appearance on third reading. Mr. W atson s bill, providing that gradu ates of all colleges and normal schools that provide a teachers' course that is satisfactory to the State Board of Education shall be entitled to a life llncense to teach in Indiana, was killed on Mr. Slack's motion to strike out the enacting clause. Slack made a speech against the bill. In which he declared that he was against any nnd all measures that "played favorites." lie declared that the bill discriminated in favor of college graduates against the graduates of the common and high schools of the State, and that it also favored the State schools over the non-State institutions. While it provided that graduates of any college that had a "satisfactory'" teachers course would be entitled to the life licenses, that really meant that only the graduates of the State Normal and the State University would enjoy the privilege, for. while the other schools might offer special teachers' courses, they would never be found satisfactory. Messrs. Watson, Scifers and Miller spoke for the bill, while Mr. Corn Joined with Slack in opposing it. Slack's motion to kill the bill was carried by a vote of 50 to 35. Sneaker Marshall took occasion to ex plain his vote on the bill, the first time he has done so during the session. He said that he was a stanch friend of the State schools, and, as he did not want any bill passed that would arouse any strife between State and non-State institutions, he would vote against it. STAÜSBL'UY AXD MOORES. The Representative Stands Valiantly by Hla School Supply Dill. Charles W. Moores, of the Indianapolis School Board, In a statement in an afternoon paper yesterday, ridiculed the claims of the friends of the bill creating a commission to purchase supplies for the schools of the State, that the bill would be the means of saving $1,000,000 to the taxpayers of the State every year. Representative Stansbury, who introduced the bill, said last night that he had not had sufficient time to consider Mr. Moores's statement to enable him to answer It fully. "I have not claimed that the bill will saveV a million dollars a year," he said. "I did not place my figures that high, but I am satisfied that It will be the means of saving a great amount of money to the taxpayers of the State. "However, there is one thing I desire to state that may thrdw some light on Mr. Moores's argument and the figures with which he backs it up. I am reliably informed that Mr. Moores has declared that he is representing a lobby for the State organization of school boards and that he will defeat our bill unless It is amended so as to exclude cities of over 20,000 population. If Mr. Moores is so actively interested in the defeat Jf the bill it would not be a difficult matter xor him to build up an ingenious argument against it. We do not take his figures as final. Two years ago this same question was up and Senator Goodwlne was able to support his bill, with a table that showed conclusively the great saving that would result from its enactment. Admitting Mr. Moores's claims, that the bill could not possibly bring about a saving of over $30,000 or $40,000 a year is it not a good measure if it will do that much? "There Is one thing about Mr. Moores's attitude that puzzles me. I have In my possession a letter, which I received from him the day that I introduced the bill, in which he said it was a good measure and he favored it, although he thought a few minor changes could be made in it to strengthen it, and he wished to have a talk with me about it." The bill in question" has been made a caucus measure by the Republicans in tne House, and bo, of course, it will be readily passed by that body. There is a movement to make it a caucus measure In the Senate also. Initiative and Referendum. E. A. Perkins, president of the State Federation of Labor, yesterday gave Representative Booth Tarkington a copy of a resolution looking to an amendment of the State Constitution to "increase the . power of the people by providing for the people's veto through the optional referendum and for a direct initiative by petition and at state elections." The amendments proposed are to Article 4 of the Constitution, changing Sections 1 and 28 and adding new sections from 31 to 41, inclusive. Under the proposed changes within ninety days after the adjournment of the Legislature 5 per cent, of the voters of the State may demand that one or more bills or Joint resolutions passed during the session shall be submitted to the people for final . decision at the polls, and prior to a session f the Ivegislature 8 per cent, of the voters may propose a bill either by petition or by pasters attached to the official ballots at the state election, and such bill must be enacted by the Legislature. Similar provisions of Initiative and referendum arc made for municipal legislation. . Representative Tarkington will study the proposition and may introduce the resolution. Opposition to Wood Dill. The Wood legislative apportionment bill Is meeting with small favor in southern Indiana. The tenor of the measure is to reduce the representation of that section of the State while giving the northern half more members. Senator Wood prepared the bill with the Idea that the population of upper Indiana had increased fast in the last few years, while in lower Indiana it has either decreased in some counties or remained about the same. The Wood bill, however, will very likely not be recommended in its entirety by the committee. There are several other measures for legislative apportionment under consideration, and the belief Is that a pew bill will be evolved out of all of them. The sentiment of the committee Is said to be in favor of reducing the representation of the southern counties. Superior Court Bill. A strong remonstrance against the passage of the Superior Court bill for the counties of Wabash, Miami and Huntington, which got through the House and is now in the Senate, has been sent In from Wabash. Among the signers are many lawyers. The remonstiance sets up that the court Is not needed, and that it would entall an endless and wasteful expense on the people who pay the taxes. It was committed to Senator Gochenour for use in committee and on the floor of the Senate. Hamilton Committee Aasla-nments. Speaker Marshall announced yesterday that Representative Hamilton, of Greene county, would be given the committee assignments of Mr. Schloot. who was unseated in the House. Representative Slack protested that this would reduce the minority's representation on these committees, but he was Informed that all the committees of the House could not be rearranged at this stage of the session. Richmond Council Aajalast BUI. The Richmond City Council, after holding two meetings to consider the special charter bill for cities under 25,000 population, has Instructed the clerk to forward to Senator Starr a protest against the Dill's passage. Sanator Durna Detter." The condition of Senator Albert M. Burns, of South Bend was greatly improved last

night, and the members of his family are hopeful of his ultimate recovery. The illness of the senator Is of such a nature, however, that optimism is difficult. Last night he rested easily and suffered comparatively little pain. Bill Sent Back to Senate. An engrossed Senate bill came to the House yesterday with so many erasures and interlineations that the speaker sent it back to be re-engrossed. An engrossed bill is supposed to be a clean copy in which

there should be no interlineations. Protest Against Pumping Bill. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. - NEW CASTLE, Ind.. Feb. 12. The Town Council, together with the Citizens' and the Enterprise gs companies, held -a spe cial meeting this afternoon and appointed three men to go to the Legislature at once to protest against the bill Introduced Into the House by Representative Klrkman, of Richmond, regarding the pumping of gas in Indiana. The Richmond Gas Company, it is thought. Is responsible for the bill, which comes as a direct blow to the ew castie field, and would mean its almost total de struction if passed, as the Richmond Com pany has Its pumping station aireaay in the field, waiting only for the law's permission to use it. LEGISLATIVE ROUTINE. Bills on Third Reading In House. H. B. No. 174 Mummert Providing for the licensing of agents of foreign Insurance companies. Passed S3 to 0. H. B. rio. iC KimDall providing inai sheriffs and clerks shall be reimbursed by county if they do not collect fees equal to the amount of their salaries. Passed SI to 4. H. B. No. 121-Branch-Froviding the county surveyors shall be given all the civil engineering work of their respective counties. Defeated 42 to 47. II. B. No. 112-Mltchell-Legaliilng the in corporation of the town of Arcadia. Hamilton county. Passed 73 to 0. House Joint Resolution No. 2 Bamberger Providing for constitutional amendment so that Legislature may nx qualifications of practitioners of law. Passed 58 to 30. BIG PRICES FOR HORSES JOHN TAYLOR SOLD BY M. II. R CARDON FOR $3,(150. Several Other Animals Drlna; Good Prices Sale Will Continue To-Day Result of Day'a Sales. The horse sale at the Union stockyards that has been going on for the past three days under the direction of the Blair-Baker Company continued yesterday with much more interest than had been aroused on any of the preceding days. Not so many spectators were at the selling yesterday as before, but the bidding was the liveliest of the sale, and three horses brought over $2,000 each. John Taylor, owned by M. H. Reardon, of this city, was sold to J. C. Merrill, of Lock. Haven, Pa., for J3.6M, the record for a horse sale in Indianapolis. Two other big sales were those of Little Queen to A, H. Merrill, of Danvers, Mass., for $2,650 and John Thomas to the same party for $2,400. Both these animals were consigned by Mr. Reardon. The bidding on the big ones as well as on the horses that did not bring as much money was exceedingly lively, and the managers are pleased with the way in which the buyers have responded to the calls of Col. George A. Bain, of Lexington, Ky., who cried tho merits of the various horses. The sale will begin promptly at 9 o'clock this morning, and it is very likely the last of the horses will be disposed of by this evening. There are yet a large number of fast ones to be sold, and the last day of the sale promises to be as Interesting aa any of the former. Following is the summary of the sales yesterday: Little Queen, bay mare, five years old, by Lord Jlnklnson, dam Lillian Russell, M. H. Reardon's consignment, to A. It. Merrill, Danvers, Mass., $2.650. John Thomas, gray gelding, six years old, with a record of 2I29V and a trial of 2:13, sired by Kellar Thomas, M. H. Reardon's consignment, to A. 11. Merrill, Danvers, Mass., $2,400. Fred A., roan gelding pacer, trial 2:19U. by Greystone, Reardon's consignment, to A. H. Merrill, $G50. Harry McKay, pacer, bay gelding, trial 2:124. sired by Que Allen, 2:09. Reardon's consignment, to J. C. Pender, Johnstown, Pa., $S50. King Melrose, roan colt, trotter, ' with a record of a quarter in thirty-eight seconds, by Margrave, 2:154, consignment of Margrave stock farm, to George Weeks, Rushvllle, Ind., $475. May Viley, sorrel mare, trotter. 2:234. by Onward, Margrave stock farm consignment, to K. f Cox, Vlncennes, Ind., $210. Rex Simmons, black colt, by Rex Amerlcus, 2:114, Margrave farm consignment, to A. Frank, Clermont, Ind.. $200. Nancy Hawkins, chestnut mare, ten years old, by Brussels, a son of Blue Bull, consignment of J. S. Blackledge, to A. H. Merrill, Danvers, Mass., $C85. Lord Downing, bay colt, pacer, with a trial of 2:23, by Lord Harold, Blackledge's consignment, to William McFarland, Philadelphia, $200. Altar, bay gelding, trotter, with a trial of 2:184, by Willis Price, Reardon's consignment, to A. Garson, New York city, $275. Phyllis, chestnut mare, trotter, with a trial of 2:214, sired by Prospect Simmons, and Colonel, a chestnut gelding, by Alraont Boy, Reardon's consignment, to A. 11. Mer rill. $800. Lady Czar, chestnut mare, trotter, with a trial of 2:32, by Czar, Reardon's consignment, to Frank Warman, city, $250. Cambrian, chestnut filly, by Gras'don, Reardon's consignment, to W. S. Barefoot, Johnstown, Pa., $1S0. John Ader, bay gelding, by Prosperity, Reardon's consignment, to M. Klndig, York, Pa., $430. Jester, bay gelding, by Sample, consignment of William Conners, to A. C. Davis, Ladoga, Ind., $175. Herman, black trotter, consigned by Float Jolly, to John Pender, Johnstown, Pa., $400. Don' Carr, black gelding, pacer, trial 2:09. by- Arrowwood, dam by Walklll Prince. Consignment of the Oak Lawn Stock Farm, Taylorville.--Carrie Nutplne, chestnut mare, pacer, trial 2:13, by Nutplne, dam Maggie Gothard, by 11. Gothard, to A. Johnson, Brockton, Mass., $400. Chauncey N., bay gelding, pacer, trial 2:15, by Nutpine, dam Itaska, by Congress, to Blair & Baker, city, $200. Baron Tell, bay colt, trotter, trial 2:24, by Baron De Stein, dam Arleen. by Axtell, to J. M. Knox, Araboy, Ind., $100. Ben Caldwell, bay peldlng, pacer, 2:21, by Harry Onward, to William Johnson, city, $145. . The Piker, bay gelding, trotter, trial 2:234, by Baron De Stein, dam Carrie C, by Mam mont, to A. Gaston, New York city, $310. Tatterson. gray gelding, trotter, by Baron De Stein, dam Mary G., by Dauntless, to William McFarland. Philadelphia, $145. Nadlne, brown Ally, trotter, by Baron Dc Stein, dam Artistic, by Tretender, to T. A. Darnell, Dana, 111., $123. Edwin B.. black gelding, trotter, by Baron De Stein, dam Amelia, by Wilkes Boy, to Milton Klndig, York, Pa., $175. Major Gothard. bay gelding, trotter, by Baron De Stein, dam Mary Oothard. by St. Gothard, to J. E. Cofer, Toledo. O.. $120. General Forrest, trotter, by Baron De Stein, dam Edith McGregor, by Bonnie McGregor, to Ed Fowler, city. $165. Gertie Lode, bay filly, trotter, by Baron De Stein, dam Mastcrlode, by Masterlode, to Ed Richardson, city. $125. Starlight, bay filly, by Baron De Stein, dam Brlnhilder, by Phallas, to J. C. Tendar. Johnstown. Pa., $165. Get There," brown filly, by Baron De Stein, dam Alica Nutplne, by Nutplne, to A. Pyle. Alexandria, Ind., $D0. Baron Walker, bay gelding, by Baron De Stein, dam Llda Walker, by Old Bull, to J. C. Pendar, $135. Colonel Hyde, brown gelding, trotter, by Edgewood, dam Flag, by Rysdyk's Bellfounder, to Ivan Bohard, Martinsville, Ind., $250. Bourbon J., roan gelding, trial 2:2. by Jaybird, dam by Nutbreaker, to C. C. Pilan, Newton, Ind., $3S5. Consignment of N. McLean. Morrlsonvllle, III. Mack Ward and Mack Warren, chestnut (eldings. trotters. 2:30. by Chit wood and Valtz, to W'inlnrs & Pauly, city. $7ß0. Mack Anderson, bay gelding, trotter, trial

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I am a presiding elder, traveling my districts at the rate of ten thousand miies a year, preaching on aa average of five times a week, betides many business meetings, and the multitudinous cares of my work in general Thanks to Dr. Miles Restorative Nervine I have been gaining in flesh despite this hard work until now I weigh a hundred and ninf ty-six pounds, nearly twenty pounds more than in all ray life., I preach Nervine wherever I go tothose afflicted with nerve, heart or stomach trouble. Rev. M. D.Myers, Presiding Elder, Free Methodist Church, Corrcctionville, la. All druggists sell and guarantee first bottle Dr. Miles Remedies. Send for free book on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address Dr. Miles Medical Ox, Elkhart, Ind. Spring Styles In the Archibald $5.00 Derbies Mow on Sale Finest in Quality, Exclusive and Correct in Style. GERRITTJi. ARCHIBALD fr Co 38 East Washington St. 2:174, by Anderson Wilkes, dam Rose, by Princeton, to J. C. Pendar, $433. Orphan Baron, brown stallion, trotter, by Baron De Stein, dam Ivy Leaf, by Elector, to Sterling It. Holt. city. $500. Grace Anderson, bay mare, pacer, by Anderson "Wilkes, dam Ivy Leaf, by Elector, to Henry Hawkins, J200 . Dena Anderson, bay mare, trotter, by Anderson Wilkes, dam Rose, by Princeton, to A. G. Dames, $160. Eddie Wilton, brown gelding, by Wlltrene, dam Rose, by Princeton, to J. E. Cofer. $125. Colonel Wilt, bay gelding, trotter, by Wlltrene, dam Autumn Leaves, by Wlckllffe, to J. M. Knox, $35. Rose, brown mare, trotter, by Princeton, dam Maud Treacy, by Mambrlno Howard, to William Mcintosh, $105. Rosewood, brown filly, trotter, by Highwood, dam Rose, by Princeton, to William Mcintosh, $100. Baby Wood, sorrel Ally, trotter, by Highwood, dam Grace Anderson, by Anderson Wilkes, to Charles Ridgley. $190. Ex-Sheriff, chestnut gelding, pacer, trial 2:12Äi, by Bourbon Patchen, dam Cecil, by Chestnut Star, to 11. M. Gilchrist, city, $40u. Siroc. bay colt, pacer, by American Boy, dam Carrie G, by Waymart, to It. Wlndsall, $200. Jesse P., sorrel gelding, pacer, trial 21U, by Eyellght, to Clay Knill, city, $275. Ethel A., gray mare, trotter, by Captain Jack, dam Sidney, by Gray Eagle, to M. Wason, Greenfield, $30. Bessie Gray, gray mere, trotter, by Arlstes, Jr., dam Ethel A., by Captain Jack, to J. E. Cofer, $125. From Myers Lake Stock Farm, Canton, O. Bonle Crook, bay stallion, by Bud Crook, dam Gertie Cloud, by Black Cloud, to O. A. Kennedy, Martinsville, Ind., $275. Sally Crook, bay mare, by Bud Crook, dam Polka, by Pocahontas Boy, to John Browning, city, $100. Wilkes Crook, bay gelding, by Bud Crook, dam Chippy W., by Pilot Wilkes, to Walter McCord, $100. Virgil Crook, chestnut gelding, by Bud Crook, dam Highland Maid, by Highland Douglass. Chippy W., bay mare, by Pilot Wilkca, dam by Buckeye Chief. BOY'S SENTENCE COMMUTED. Smith Jone Will Go to the Plalnfleld Reformatory. Governor Durbln has commuted the life sentence of Smith Jones, iifteen years of age, to imprisonment at the Plalnfleld Reformatory School until he is twenty-one years of age. Jones stabbed Herbert Dlckerson, a playmate, to ath two years ago. The boy's home is in Warrick county. JVevr Indiana Concerns. The Taylor Belting Company, an Indianapolis concern. Incorporated yesterday, with $25,000. The , incorporators aro William A. Taylor, Newton Todd and William J. Taylor. The Harrison Township Telephone Company, of Clay City, Clay county. Incorporated with $5.000 capital. Tho directors are J. II. Horton. John Willen. Edison 12. Oberholtxer, V. E. Brown and Levi L.. Johnson. The 1. Gans Company, an Evansville dry goods tlrm, incorporated with $75,000. The directors are Isaac. Mose and Gustavo Gans. , The Island Valley Coal and Mining Company, of Linton, notllied the secretary of state of an increase of its capital stock from $10,0oo to $4j,0u0. Tho A. W. Stevens Company, a Wisoonfin corporation, capital $0u0,000, incorporatcl in Indiana, with $20,000 represented in this State. T. A. Bushcrt, of IndianapolhJ, is State agent. Boy Injured Accidentally. Claude Foss, a small boy living at 1302 West Walnut street, was yesterday cut in the back by a playmate in the alley jutst cast of Illinois street. The boys were playing together. Fos being harnessed with a roie. He ackert his companion to release him, as the rope was causing him pain. The boy pulled out a pocketknlte to cut the rope and Foss, in trying to Blacken th rope. Jumped beck ward Just as his- companion made a slash at It. The knife-blade penetrated Foss's back near the right shoulder, making a deep, but not dangerous wound. He was taken to the City Dispensary, where Dr. Moschcll dressed the wound. To Square Toledo. TOLEDO, Feb. 12. Former County Surveyor Talmadge has been engaged by a combination of property owners and real estate men to draw plans to square Toledo, which is oblong. The proposed change. If made, will Increase Toledo's population 25.000 by the annexation of six suburbs. In addition it will bring two cemeteries and three parks within the city limits. tu unn IS ONLY oc LAXATIVE BROMO-QUININE. Call for full name and lrok for signature of E. WGrove on box. The remedy . that curej q CU1U H UU IMt.

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