Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 93, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1904 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, APRIL 2. 1904.

THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY. APRIL 2, 19:4.

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Governor Dockery averts that there Is absolutely no boodllng In Missouri. No; It is called grafting nowadays. SSBBBBBSBBBSJSaiaSSSBSSBBSSBSBBBBBBSBBSBBBBBBIBBSlÄ The Baltimore fire loss Is now put as low fts $22.000.000. The Japanese war news Is tübmltted to the same kind of a sliding scale. Mr. Bryan is suffering from throat trouble. The Democratic party has been suffering from Bryan throat trouble for going on eight years now. The British exchequer finds Itself with a deficit of 1:7,000,000 and the war tax on incomes Is tab restored. England win not buy any canals this year. Five men were nearly convicted of murder On the testimony of one small girl in Chicago. Then the girl confessed that she had fceen lying. That shows what a perjurer cau to. be he or shenever so little. Leopold of Belgium says he wants a fair hearing: on the Congo affair. Leopold must be a brave man; there are those who say that a fair hearing would result in severe punishment for Belgium's ruler. If one of the "important engagements" of the Russo-Jap war should result In as many casualties as do some American railroad accidents both sides would possibly throw down their arms and sue for peace. Mr. Bryan loses for a second time In the Bennett will case and Is now in a very equivocal position. The decision cannot be Interpreted otherwise than as convicting the peerless leader of sharp practice. A bill is before the Massachusetts Legislature to legalize Sunday fishing. Once in a while one of the preposterous old blue laws Is done away with, but tho attempt always encounters strenuous opposition. Somebody has now mentioned Speaker Cannon as candidate for Vice President. It Is highly probable that Uncle Joe will laugh at this, as he did at his presidential boom but for quite a different reason. , The Japanese say the frequent attacks on Port Arthur have not injured their battleships In the least; the Russians say the town has not been hurt at all. If these statements are true there has been a lot of energy wasted over nothing. The use of public buildings In Adelaide, Australia, has been refused to Elijah Dowie, because he Insulted King Edward. How foolish! He insulted sovereign citizens f the United States' by the thousand and we lent him our rubllc buildings and asked him to do It again. eSSSBBBBMBnBSBSBBBBSBBBBBBSMSBBBBABBJBMBBaaS The occurrence of two local floods within a week, both of dangerous proportions, emphasizes the necessity of prompt and thorough protection against such floods in future. Another such may not occur In twenty years, or it may occur next year or next month. The removal of forests has rendered the entire country more subject to floods than it was formerly, and the opportunities for damage increase from year to year. These conditions must be met by core efficient protective measures. A statement Just completed by the clerk ef the Criminal Court makes a startling showing of the statistics of crime in the City. It appears that during the year 1303 thirty-nine men were sent to the State Prison at Michigan City and seventy-three to the Reformatory at Jeffersonvllle. Seventeen women were sent to the Women's Prison. Of lesser sentences ninety-six persons were sent to the workhouse, sixteen to the county Jail, 130 received sentences of fines and imprisonment, or fines only, and forty-three boys received suspended tentences. This statement docs not Include boys sent to the Reform School nor girls to the Industrial School; nor, of course. Is there any allusion to the army of Juvenile delinquents and Incipient or hardened criminal not yet in the clutches of the law. Yt the figures furnish, convincing proof that crime Is a permanent factor in city life and la on tho increase. That It chould Increase with the growth of popu

lation is natural, but there is reason to fear it Is Increasing faster proportionately. No complaint can be made of the police, and yet the city papers show that a great many lawbreakers escape arrest. The excellent persons who fondly hoped that a change of city administrations could somehow or other result in a diminution of crime wlllhave to admit that as yet there are no Indications of the coming millennium. The criminal classes and those who are In training for admission to the class are evidently not trying very hard to make good the prophecies, promises and pledges which were made in the Interest of our present reform mayor. CONCERNING Tili: OM!-MAX POWRR. A large part of Senator Gorman's recent speech attacking the President was given to depicting the dangers of "the one-man power" In the hands of a rash and strenuous President. He deprecated what he called "a well-directed effort to build up a one-man, czar-like government' lie said: "The American people do not want oneman control." They certainly do not, nor do they fear it from President Roosevelt or any other person who may be elected to that office. There is not the slightest probability that any President will ever attempt to exercise the one-man power to a dangerous extent, and if he should do so" the Constitution provides an effectual check in impeachment, if Congress should choose to resort to that rather than trust the people to turn tho President out of office at the end of his term. As the Constitution vests the entire executlve power of the government in the President and subordinates appointed by him, it stands to reason that he must have very large powers, not only such as are distinctly defined by law, but many others which come under the head of discretionary powers. The government could not bo administered without the frequent exercise of discretionary power by the President. By clothing him with the whole executive power of the government the Constitution assumes that he will exercise discretionary power whenever, in his Judgment, it is required. The oath which he takes is: "I do solemnly sweir that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." In the observance and execution of this oath the President Is not subject to criticism by Congress unless he violates the Constitution. It is probable President Roosevelt understands the constitutional limitations of his office quite as well as Senator Gorman does. Mr. Gorman's criticism of the President was based mainly on the President's recent order construing the disability pension law. The explanatory statement of Secretary Hitchcock shows that rules of the kind were necessary to give practical application to the law, and that several previous administrations had construed the law on the same lines that President Roosevelt did, with the exception of an immaterial difference as to the age limit. Thl3 was a matter of detail concerning which different administrations might differ. It was an exercise of discretionary power which belonged to every President. If it was usurpation or an unauthorized exercise of one-man power by President Roosevelt, it was equally eo by President Cleveland, who mado the first ruling on the subject, and by President McKinley, who continued it during his entire adminlstratlon. We have never had a more arbitrary President or one who hesitated less to exercise discretionary power than Andrew Jackson. He was somewhat Impetuous, but thoroughly honest and patriotic, and by no means a dangerous man. His action in removing the public deposits from the United States Bank was by far the most arbitrary act ever done by a President. The existing law required the public moneys to be deposited in the bank and its branches. Jackson directed the secretary of the treasury to remove them, and when the secretary declined Jackson removed him. A new secretary obeyed his order. When the Senate asked the President to communicate to that body his reasons for removing the deposits he declined to do so on the ground that "a proper sense of my own self-respect and of the rights secured by the Constitution to tho executive branch of the government" forbade it. In his annual message he admitted that in the performance of this duty much responsibility was incurred which would have been gladly avoided if the stake which the public had in the question could have been otherwise preserved." He said he relied on tho patriotism and intelligence of the people to vindicate his action. President Roosevelt can safely take the same position regarding the new construction of the disability pension law, in which, as far as the principle is concerned, he has followed the precedent established by the last two preceding administrations. His action was not nearly as great an exercise of one-man power as wa3 that of President Jackson, and he has not flouted the Senate as the latter did.

HIN0R TOPICS. Scientists say they can tell where a man lives by the color of his lungs. Chicago men have mud-colored lungs, a New Yorker's breathing apparatus Is sea green, Tittsburgers show coal black. An Indianapolis man's lungs probably partake of the hue of the. particular chimney whose soot he breathes. Czar Nicholas has sent 8,400 bottles of wine to the soldiers in Port Arthur. If figures heretofore received are true that will give the soldiers about one thimbleful eacn. But perhaps the Russians have a bottling scheme as well as the Japs. Says the Kansas City Times: "Indianapolis Is confronted with the problem of how to keep the White river from 'KawIng.' " Our real problem Is how to keep the river from the cellar. For the summer campaign Russia has decided to equip her army with the British style of cork helmets. We may now expect a big order from Japan for ü consignment of corkscrews. Glass hoises are to be built under Niagara Falls for the benefit of tourists. Nobody will live there, however, so no caution will be necessary as to the throwing of stones. The Panama navy is now for sale. Japan might do worse than to make an offer for it; It would make a good dispatch boat 'or It might be sunk with tho other bottling works. A man with whiskers eleven feet long will be on exhibition at the St. Louis fair.

He has probably been engaged as a proof that, the Topulist party is not yet dead. It appears that Port Arthur was really bottled all right, hut that It was quickly decanted. And now tho Jap fleet Id out hunting for a cork that will stay put. The newspapers are devoting a good deal of space to Representative W. R. Hearst's inability to make a speech. He doesn't have to money talks plenty loud enough. Fifty thousand dollars' worth of Easter hat3 were burned in a New York fire the other day. The owners of those hats just hope It will rain all day to-morrow.

A Baltimore physician has discovered the germ that causes mumps. It is extremely small, but it has a resounding title and is altogether a very swell affair. The Czar has decided to go to the front. In fact he decided on that some time ago, but he appears fully to realize that haste is undigniiied. , Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis says that servants cn never be sufficiently paid. Good servants can't; but where can they be obtained? Large discoveries of asboftos have been made in Greenland. And of course there isn't a single theater in the entire country! It Is proposed to form a new union of professional ball players. That appears useless too many go out on strikes now. A lioness died of loneliness in St. Louis the other day. That seems strange; March hadn't gone out yet. It is reported that'old Geronlmo has four wives. Demand an Apache investigation in the Senate. THE HUMORISTS. Of No Importance. "And were you ever engaged before, dearest?" he af ked. "Oh, never in earnest," she replied. "Only occasionally, you know, at the summer resorts and winter resorts." Chicago Post. The Chnrm of Philosophy. "He pretends to be a philosopher." "Yes; but I notice one peculiar thing about his philosophy." What's that?" "It's only other people's hard luck that he la able to accept philosophically." Chicago Post. Better Than u String. Mother Johnny! On your way home from school, stop at the store and get me a stick of candy and a bar of soap. Father What do you want of a stick of candy? Mother That's so he'll remember the soap. New York Weekly. In These Glorious Days. "Tou must remember that a man is innocent until ho Is proved guilty." "Oh, you're too conservative. In these glorious days a man la Innocent not only until he Is proved guilty, but until all the courts get through trying to discover a technicality which will serve as an excuse for letting him escape from Justice." Chicago Record-Herald. Percy and Lionel. "Yes, It's pretty hard to tell just how to nam babies so their name will be appropriate when they grow up. There was my Uncle David. He had two sons, and he called them Fercy and Lionel. Percy Is a blacksmith "now." "What's Lionel doing?" "Lionel? Oh, he's doing well. Runs one of the biggest sausage factories in St. Joe county." Chicago Record-Herald. An Approving Opinion. "Wot are you grlnnin' about. Smiley?" "It's wot a doctor says In this here paper, Weary. I don't go much on doctors, but here's a feller that's all right. He says nobody should bathe after a hearty meal. That suits me exactly." "But he don't say you shouldn't ever hatha. Smiley." "No, he don't. But If I wait for a hearty meal. Weary, there ain't no danger of me ever bathln'." Cleveland Plain Dealer. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD. Didn't Need to Pray. Colonel "Dick" Bright, sergeant-at-arms in the Senate when the Democrats were In the majority there, tells of a revivalist who came to a little town In Virginia some years ago. The revivalist was earnest and enthusiastic and went about the village when he was not preaching to drum up people to come to his meetings. Meeting: an old man on the street he said: "My friend, I do not see you at our revival, meetings." "What would I do at a revival meeting?" asked the old man gruffly. "Don't you ever pray?" "No, sir," said the old man as he moved away. "I carry a rabbit's foot." New York World. Watched All Points. The late Senator Hanna had a keen mind, and In contests of wit he was seldom defeated. There is a certain Cleveland lawyer whom Senator JIanna liked to tantalize, though the two men were really good friends. At a banquet in Cleveland Mr. Hanna nodded toward this lawyer and tald: "Gentlemen, you see Crown there? Well, I was In r.rown'a office yesterday when his client in that contested will case called to square accounts. The client stood out in the hall and handed his bill In to Brown to be receipted. " 'Come In,' Rrown called to him, cordially. Cut the client shook his head. " 'No, thank you.' he said: 'you'd charge me for rent if I did.' "New York News. A llnssian Victory. The war between Russia and Japan has given rise to many reminiscences on the part of those who have met socially the representatives of both nations. A Philadelphia society girl, who has Just returned from a visit to Washington, tells an amusing story of her Introduction, at a semi-official reception, to ore of the attaches of the Russian legation. "Of course, I didn't catch his name." she said. In telling the story. "It seemed a mile long and twice as hard to pronounce. It sounded like "bottle of whisky,' with a count In front of it. Well, when I was introduced to him I said, in a Jocular sort of way: 'Count Dottle-of-Whisky, how do you dosky? He looked at me quizzically and then remarked: 'Cully-govltch.' And maybe I didn't feel cheap." Philadelphia Record. lleard Something Xew, Bishop Potter was preaching one Sunday evening in a small town in the Adirondacks, where he has a summer camp. When the services were over a tall, gaunt man with the air of a backwoodsman 'came up to the bishop with outstretched hand. "I've heerd ye preach twice afore this," he said, "an I like yer preachin. I alluze Tarn somethin' new from ye. I rid ten mile tonight to hear ye, an' I'd a' rid ten more, fer as usual. I heerd somethin new to-night that I never knowed afore." "Well, I'm Riad of that." said the bishop, shaking the outstretched hand, "and what was it you learned to-night?" "Why, bishop. I found out fer the fust time In my life that Sodoru and Gomorrah wuzn't twins." New York Times. Added to the Language. "Speaking of the Maybrick case began the Literary Man. "Cut nobody was speaking of it," somebody else protested. Then let's begin." the Literary Man cheerful)' replied. "Speaking of the Maybrick case." he continued, "not many people are aware of the fact that It has been renponslble for the introduction of a new word into our slang that first came forward at the trial and has renowadays of a iuan who 'yapped' or of one who I

we think will 'yap;' at times we make a noun of It and say so-and-so never opened his "yap, or that such-and-such a fellow Is a yap.' Well, that's the word I'm speaking about. "Alice Yapp was the name of the servant who gave such damaging testimony against Mrs. Maybrick. her employer and friend, and whose manner in giving it resulted In '.prejudicing apainst her many who believed that she toll the truth as well as many others who believed that she didn't. Her name became a synonym for gabbling so much so, in fact, that we have come, to use it now quite as freely as we say that a. desperado was lynched. " Philadelphia Press.

SCHOOL AND COLLEGE. Induration Motes. Frof. George Kantayana, assistant professor of philosophy of Harvard University, will deliver the commencement-day address before the graduating class of O'oerlin College next June. Benjamin Wood Davis, a well-known Cincinnatian, who died recently, left $H'000 to various educational and charitable Institutions, among others $10,000 to the Jewish Hospital of Cincinnati. Count De Guberntais. professor of Italian literature in the University of Rome, is In Chicago and has given to the University of Chicago an invitation to send an official representative to a celebration of the 600th anniversary of the birth of Tctrarch, to be held In Rome next summer. Lord Strathcona has given $20,0-10 to Manitoba University to extend Its scientific work. Jo.in A. Creighton has given a further sum of about 250,000 to Creighton University, a Catholic institution, at Omaha. Neb. "Way to Provide Schooling. The town of Cayonne, in New Jersey, recently elected a mayor who promise! to remedy the disgrace of seeing a good part of "the children running about the streets because there were no school accommodations for them. After looking over the situation he found that there were more than 2,000 children unable to gain admission to the schools, and nearly as many more who were obliged to attend half-day sessions. . - He, therefore, arranged to convert the Council chambers and committee rooms and the rooms of the Board of Education in the City Hall Into schoolrooms. He also proposed to use the assembly rooms In the large schools for the same purpose, and If that does not suffice he will press the upper rooms of the engine houses Into the service. - This determination that there shall be no unused rooms In the city's Jurisdiction exempt so long as there are children running about the streets In search of school accommodations has furnished room for every' child, and the people think that they have at last put the right man In the right place. Boston Globe. Hour n Great College Invests. It were well if every college, as a public Institution, made a full .statement of Its financial affairs each ytar. Harvard College does make such a statement. It Is Interesting to know some of the forms of the Investment of the funds of our oldest university. Railroad stocks and railroad bonds represent a favorite' investment. A hundred thousand dollars In the Chicago & Alton 4 per cent, collateral notes, a hundred thousand dollars in the Chicago Northwestern Railroad general mortgage 3i per cents, of 19S7, J200.000 of the Louisville & Jeffersonvllle Bridge Company first-mortgage fours of 1943, a hundred thousand of New York Central Hudson River Railroad three-and-a-halfs of 1DSS and a hundred thousand dollars of Schenectady Railway Hrst-mortgage four-and-a-halfs of 1311 are entries found in a single column. A score of the great steam railways of the country are represented in the list of securities. Many street railroads, too, as those of New York, Minneapolis and Massachusetts ejeetrlc companies, are found In the list. The notes also of great manufacturing companies, such as the Manchester cotton mills and the Merrlmac Manufacturing Company, are a favorite form of Investment. Manufacturing and telephone stocks and real-estate trust stocks - are not absent. Real estate, too, for purposes of investment, makes an impressive presentation it amounts to a value approaching J3.000.000. The pieces are located in Boston, in parts in which land Is valuable and at the present time Is Increasing In value. Leslie's Weekly. Training for Meclianics. I thoroughly believ? that It is the duty of every manufacturer to do his utmost to educate competent workmen though the apprenticeship system, but on account of the peculiar conditions obtaining In manufacturing In these days, the range of work in the shop is not always great enough to educate the apprentices properly. I. therefore, hold, with Professor Sweet, that there should be "shop schools" established by the various trades for Instance, that the National Founders' Association should establish one or more schools In different parts of the country, under the direction of a properly constituted committee, this school to be supplied with work, from the different members, in such proportions as are suggested by the committee, the members sending the work to pay therefor at such rates as Will assure a profit for the school, or, not telng able to do this, to make a money contribution. Undoubtedly as organized labor is now conducted there would be much opposition to these schools, but this is a matter which should not deter the manufacturers. It seems to me there are only two questions to be decided In this matter, vis.: "Is It right?" and "Is it good business?" If so, then the manufacturers should forward the work and advocate th3 Idea, as they have had in the past o introduce many advanced Ideas and Improved in titutions, against the opinions of organized labor. They should press tne policy with all the vlj-or at their command, with the certainty that in the long run the rlan will succeed and the benefits Inure to the fraternity. Such schools as this would be of great advantage to each trade In many ways known to every " manufacturer, outside of simply turning out competent workmen, and it is my belief that the establishment of such schools cannot take place too soon. P. W. Gates, in Engineering Magazine. i The Children of the Childless. By Permission of the Author. The Children of the Childless! Yours and mine Yea, though we sit here in the pitying gaze Of fathers and mothers whose fond fingers twine Their children's locks of living gold, and praise. With warm, caressing palms, the head of brown. Or crown Of opulent auburn, with its amber floss In all its splendor loosed and Jostled down Across The mother-lap at prayer. Yea, even when These sweet petitioners are kissed, and then Are kissed and kissed again The pursed mouths lifted with the worldlier prayer That bed and oblivion spare Them yet a little while Beside their envied elders by the glow Of the glad firelight; or wresting, as they go. Some promise for the morrow, to beguile Their long exile Within the wild waste lands of dream and sleep. Nay, nay. not even these most stably real Of children are more loved than our idealMore tangible to the soul's touch and sight Than these our children by divine birthright ... These these of ours, who soothe us, when we weep. With tenderest ministries. Or, flashing Into smiling ecstasies. Come dashing through our tears aye, laughing, leap Iwto our empty arms. In Fate's despite. And nestle to our hearts. O Heaven's delight! The children of the childless even these! James .Whitcomb Riley, in Collier's Weekly. Facts About Japan. The empire Includes 3.000 Islands, stretching nearly 2,9t0 miles. Area. 161, 1"3 square miles as large as the North Atlantic States. Coal the chief wealth 9,000.000 tons mined In l'jfl. Textile production Increased from $3, 000. 000 worth In 1S6 to SSfi.oriO.OOO worth in 1S0L The population In 1'., 41.S05.8C7. Day latorer3 receive 20 cents a day. women servants S4 cents a. month, men servants $1.35 a month, women farm laborers tf.'j), nun farm laborers $13. &6. Four hundred and eighty dally papers. The World's Work.

OF STATE CGHSTITUTIOH Judge Rabb, in Decision on County Officers' Case, Points Out Flaws. ABSTRACT OF FINDING In his decision holding: unconstitutional the act of 1903, extending the terms -of certain county and judicial officers to the end that the terms of all such officers might begin on the first day of the calendar year, Judge Rabb. of the Warren Circuit Court, finds that the law violates the following provision of the Constitution of Indiana: "There shall be elected in each county by the voters thereof at the time of holding' general elections a treasurer the treasurer shall continue in olnce two years and no person shall be eligible to the orlice of treasurer more than lour years in any period of six years." The judge says it is the first duty of the courts to support the Constitution. It Is always to be considered that the language of a Constitution is used with greater care than the language of a statute. But, above all, the purpose of the frameis of the law and Constitution is to be considered. He points out that when the present Constitution was adopted there was already a Constitution in Indiana providing for certain officers, among' them a county treasurer, and there were laws regarding the election of the country treasurer. When the new Constitution was adopted it recognized "these oitieers and the manner of their election it expressly provides that the terms of the county otllcers provided for in the Constitution should begin upon the expiration of the term of those already holding such offices under the then existing laws, and among other officers thus recognized is the county treasurer." The Judge finds that the Legislature has the power to pass election laws, but has not the power to repeal absolutely all election laws and leave us without any law under which constitutional officers could be elected. Another important reason he finds for overthrowing the law of 1903 Is that "It must be held by its express terms to extend the terms of office of the incumbents in office beyond their constitutional limit." He points out that the law refers to "successors" and "no successors" to be elected until a certain time. Speaking of the purpose of the act of 1903, he says finally: "The avowed nurnnso fnr which thij art was passed, that of fixing a uniform time ior me term or an public officers therein named to begin, and to fix that time at the beginning of the calendar year, is not a purpose that addressed itself to the wisdom and Judgment of the framers of our Constitution. It is clear from the provisions of that Instrument that they regarded it of no importance whatever to the public that there should be uniformity in the time at which the term of county officers should begin. "As I have already shown these offices were already in existence when the Constitution was adopted and the terms of their incumbents began at various times without any pretense of uniformity, scarcely any two officers in the same county beginning their terms of office at the same time, and the terms ot officers of the same character throughout the State beginning in different counties at different times. "And yet the Constitution expressly provided that the terms of the county officers therein provided for should begin at the close of the term of the then incumbent, and thus arose the condition that has ever since prevailed, and our Supreme Court has declared that under the Constitution as it is framed it is impossible to enact laws that will make the terms of all of these officers begin at a uniform time (see Tureel vs. State, 111th Indiana, Page 521), and In this view I fully concur and the demurrer to the alternative writ will be overruled." In order that a final decision of the highest tribunal may be rendered at the earliest possible date, an appeal will be taken at once to the Supreme Court. While this is pending the county offices, who have effected an organization to fight for the constitutionality of the act, will Institute proceedings for another test case, this time in Hendricks county, where the situation as regards the office of treasurer is different. In Warren county the treasurer is now serving his second term, and if the act should be upheld he would hold the office more than four years. In Hendircks the treasurer has Just entered upon his first term. BROWN BACKS OUT. List of Appointees Modified Pour Republicans. A compromise was reached by the Tark Board at yesterday's meeting in the appointment of custodians of the smaller parks and a list of custodians considerably modified from that which President Brown was expected to submit was appointed. Of the nine appointees, including two florists, five are Democrats and four Republicans. The Democrats are D. W. Uro wer, for Spades place; William Porter, for Fletcher place; A. R. Anisic, for Morris square; James McDonald, for Flower Mission Park, and Joseph Schneider, for Indianola square. The Republicans are John Mann, for Highland square, and O. E. Davis, for Highland place, custodians, and B. P. Wamsley and A. Youngman, florists. Only two of the seven custodians appointed have ever had experience at park work and one of the florists is reappointed. Suj)erintendent Power reported to the board that the total damage done the city's parks by the recent floods would amount to not less than $10,0u0. BBlHSBBBBBBSMSBBMBBBSMB For Rhodes Scholarships. The written examination for the Cecil Rhodes scholarship for Indiana will be held in Indianapolis, Ind., at the office of the state superintendent of public instruction, on Wednesday, April 13, lDOl, and will continue on Thursday and Friday If necessary. The examinations will be held from 9 until 12 o'clock and from 2 until 5 o'clock on each day. The examination Is not competitive but simply qualifying, and is intended to give assurances that no elected scholar will be unable to pass the responsions, the first examination which the university demands of all candidates for the B. A. degree. The examination papers will contain the full text of all classical passages used In the examination, so that no text-books will be required by the candidates. The circular. No. 1, issued by the Rhodes trustees will be sent to any one by the chairman of the committee. All candidates shobld send their names at once to the chairman of the c3nmittee, William I.. Bryan, president of Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. '? Doys Sunday Afternoon Club Easter Service. The Y. M. C. A. Boys' Club Sunday Afternoon Club will hold its Easter service in the Boys' Club rooms at the Y. M. C. A. on Sunday afternoon at 2:C0. A special programme has been prepared and all boys are invited, whether members of the association or hot. Mr. E. V. Abbott, of this city, will address the boys, his subject being "A Useless Live Man." Besides this part of the programme a little surprise is in store for the boys. At the men's meeting Dr. Richard S. Martin, the Red Cross evangelist, of Cuba, will speak. This meeting will be held at 3:30 o'clock p. m. Parses for Philippines. The United States Civil-service Commission will hold examinations, scientific and technical, in this city from April 6 to April 10 at the federal building. These examinations will include those for teachers -and nurses to serve in tho Philippines and among the Indians. As few applications have been filed for these positions and as the commission has experienced considerable difficulty in securing eligible candidates qualified persous are urged to enter the examination. Fear Imprisonment 'Will Kill. Nathan Fritz, arrested several weeks ago for performing a criminal operation on Mrs. Tinnic Gray, was bound over to the grand Jury In Police Court yesterday morning. Hl3 bond was fixed at .7X. His attorneys asked Judge Whallon to reduce tho bond on account of the af?e of th man and the fear that imprisonment would kill him.

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Representative Jesse Overstreet. who is here from Washington to attend the congressional convention this afternoon, has been cne of the busiest members of Congress this session owing to hin position as chairman of the committee on postofficcs and post roads. He has been especially active in supporting the bill increasing the salaries of rural route, carriers and cutting off the parcel delivery and newspaper agency sidelines, and he had the satlsfao tion of seeing the bill passed by the House in the form he advocated. The measure is now In the Senate, where amendments have been offered changing it materially from the form in which it was passed by the lower branch. "I would not undertake to predict the final fate of the bill," said Mr." Overstreet last evening at the Columbia Club. "It is idle to speculate on the action of the Senate. It seems assured, however, that the Senate will make some changes and that the bill will go to a Joint conference committee. "One amendment offered in the Senate, grading the salaries of the carriers according to length vt service, would, in my opinion, work a hardship on over one-third of the rural route men. There will be approximately 23,0"0 carriers when the law takes effect, and of that number, under the graded system, $,500 wculd have their salaries increased to $xy. 6.00) would get nn increase to JTiV. while 8,oO) would receive no increase." Mr. Overstreet says that it is a matter of no little satisfaction to him that the last appropriation for the federal building in this city and the first appropriation lor the construction of the army post here have been made by the House. "It is something of a coincidence that we were able to clean up on the federal building and start on the army post at the f;ime time," he said. "The appropriation bill carries an item of ?:o.tn) for the furnishings of the federal building, and another of $523.0uJ, in round figures, for the. first work on the army post. This latter appropriation will be expended during the first year and there will be additional appropriations for the following year. Some difficulty was experienced in getting the appropriation for the post in this form, as the military affairs committee asked that all money to bo expended in that department be appropriated In a lump sum. In that way llui.CM) or $510,000 might have been expended on the post here during the first year, according to tho decision of tho quartermaster general.. I contended that the appropriation should be segregated r.nd with the assistance of Representative Hemenway won out in the end." f In speaking of national politics, Mr. Overstreet said that the vice presidential boom for Senator Fairbanks seemed to be taking care of Itself. "I believe Senator Fairbanks and his friends are following the wise course in this matter." said Mr. Overstreet "I do not believe that the senator's friends should take the initiative, nor that the movement should be started from Indiana, The nomination of Senator Fairbanks for Vice President would unquestionably strengthen the ticket, and it is apparent that this is generally recognized throughout the country. The placing of the r tor on the national ticket would, howe in my opinion, be more for the party good than for his personal advantage." 4 One by one' survivors of the first Republican State convention are being heard from. State Chairman Goodrich yesterday received a letter from William Bussel, of Noblesville, who says he was a member of the memorable first convention, while tho Journal's correspondent at Logansport says that J. S. Sellars, of that place, Js entitled to one of the Invitations that aro being sent out by Mr. Goodrich. Mr. Bussel, of Noblesville, writes as follows: "I was at the -Republican state convention at Indianapolis in 1S56. I was a delegate. I don't think I was a regularly appointed delegate, but that convention, if my recollection is not at fault, w-as made up of self-appointed delegates. I was there, in any event, and took an active part In the convention. I was also at the state convention of the Whig" party in 1S52 and again in 1S54. "In ls56 w-as the first Republican state convention, when the Hon. O. P. Morton was nominated for Governor. Governor Morton had formerly been allied with the Democratic party, but he left that party and vowed allegiance to the principles and policy of the newly organized Republican party, and was thereafter an important factor and a tower of strength in the party. I knew him well. I have distinct recollections of a number of worthy, patriotic men who participated in the convention of 1S56, but most of them have passed over the river. I find that but few of them are left. I have attended a majority of the state conventions since that date. I was at the convention two years ago, and will be there two days this year." 4The Logansport special says of Mr. Sellars and his recollections of the convention of half a century ago: "This city contains an inhabitant who is not only able to show his rights to attend the meeting of survivors of the first Indiana Republican convention, but is able as well to tell interesting stories of that historic three days' session. J. S.' Sellars is the man, and he says that he attended that meeting accompanied by his father and sister. He was twenty-six years old at the time, just the proper age, he says, to appreciate to the fullest extent the need ofc the Nation for the new party that found its birth in the meeting in the timber. "A section of woods had been cleared of the underbrush, and the lower limbs of tho trees had been removed sufficiently that those seated in the rear could hear and see the speakers on the rude platform. Plank seats were arranged, but the crowd in attendance had been so grossly underestimated that the price of seats rose to the unprecedented pi ice of 50 cents. The lower branches of the trees were also utilized by the more venturesome and nimble of the spectators. For the full three days' sessions, says Mr. Sellars, the vicinity of tho speakers' stand was thus crowded .with those anxious to hear the expresions, for the first time in history of the principles of abolition, under an organised party. Feed NO SMALLPOX NOW IN INDIANAPOLIS Quarantine Raised on the Last Case by the City Board of Health. Indianapolis Is now without a single case of smallpox, as the City Board of Health raised the quarantine yesterday on the last case, that of Frank A. Moore, of 1C03 Ashland avenue. The city has been remarkably free from the disease this winter, as not more than six or eight cases in all were under quarantine. The resume of contagious diseases for the month of March shows that Indianar. olis had In that month three cases of smallpox, fifty-five cases of typhoid fever, twenty-two cases of scarlet fever, eighteen cases of -diphtheria and 1S cases of measles. The only changes In the number of cases as compared with the preceding month are in typhoid fever and measles. February had thirty-four cases of the former and 4Jo cases of the latter disease. BANKS REPORT. Controller of Currency Asks for Condition of Institutions. Word was received here by the state auditor yesterday from William B. Ridgely, controller of the currency, requesting statements from the state banks of Indiana, and to-day each institution will be asked to furnish a full statement of Its condition. Blanks were sent out by D. J. Mendenhall, chief of the banking bureau, for this purpose. Dr. Sarnli Stockton JVamed. Governor Durbin yesterday appointed Dr. Sarah Stockton, of this city, a member of the State Board" of Charities and Correction, succeeding Mary A. Spink, whose

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ing th multitude was no small problem, and Mr. Sellars remembers the beeves, roasted, whole, that were brought in on wagons and divided among the hungry crowds, "Mr. Sells rs's story has been called to the attention of State Chairman Goodrich, and it is understood here that he will Invite Ijogans)ort's citizen to atend the meeting at Indianapolis." e In this connection Is has been suggested that the survivors of the mass convention of 154. -which really marked the beginning" of the Republican party In Indiana, should be Included in the list of those to receive invitations to the coming state convention, and that this year's convention be made a cml-ceiitennlal celebration. A question has been raised as to whether General Grosvcnor, of Ohio, attended the convention of 1?, as claimed by W. S. 1 Wright, formerly of LogansrorU It U known that he attended the convention of 154. as he refers to that fact In a speech which he delivered in Congress. April 14. 1W on the occasion of the acceptance by Congress of the htatue cf Governor Morton, presented by the State of Indiana. In that address General tirosvenor said: "In the Fprtng of ls54 I went to Iudiana and settled at lifayttte. intending to make it my home: so that tinder the statute of that State I was entitled to vote at tho end of six months I went to Indiana a Democratic ly; but without going into any considerable detail It is c-nouRh to say that a complete revolution In the public sentiment of this country tooit place at about that period of time. "Morton was a Democrat, as I was. nn-l ills attitude at that time was a matter of speculation in Indiana. On the 13th of July. 1S51. 1 went with a great concourse of people to a mass convention of all the elements In opposition to the then regular Democratic party. It was hld at Indianapolis. "It was In that convention, of which I was a member, that Oliver P. Morton first publicly made known his retirement from the Democratic party and his entry Into the party in opposition. The Iemocrat in that day called the opposition party tho Abolition. Frc Soil. Maine Law. Native American. Anti-Catholic, Anti-Nebraska party of Indiana." In this address General Grosvcnor paid this trioute to Governor Morton: "I believe that it was Morton who gave more shapo and more potentiality to the principles of the Republican party in its formative days and in its days of triumph than any other man In the United States." 4- 4Senator Walter L. Ball, of Muncie, the last entry Into the race for the Republican; nomination for Lieutenant Governor, was at the English last night in conference witli a number of his friends from Delaware county. 4. Speaking of Hearst the Chicago Chronicle, the Democratic organ of Illinois says: "In the case of the Hearst candidacy there is nothing to commend it, nothing to excuse it, nothing to give it hope of success except a collossal fortune and such countenance as money dubiously used can purchase. From WillUm J. Bryan at the head of the movement down through the whole line of mercenaries to the lowest toucher whose valuable services have been enlisted, there 'is not a man engaged in this enterprise who Is not actually or potentially on the payroll." 4- 4KIrby Risk, of Lafayette, chairman of . the Tippecanoe county Democratic committee, spent some time at Hearst headquarters) yesterday afternoon. He says the delegation from his county to the Democratio state convention will be practically a unit for Hearst VI believe there can be no question as to the attitude of the Democrats of the Tenth district on the presidential proposition," he said. "I regard, it as a foregone conclusion that a substatial majority of the district's delegates to the state convention will be for Hearst and that they will select two delegates to the national convention who will vote for Hearst. Lake county Democracy is virtually unanimous for Hearst, while of tho delegates selected in White county, over half of them are pledged tu Hearst and the others are not antagonistic." Mr. Risk was asked about the attitude of Dan V. Simms. of Lafayette, a matter that has occasioned some dispute among tha leading Democrats of the State. He replied that he understood that Mr. Simma inclined toward Hearst, although he admitted that Mr. Simms was not taking an active part in the Hearst movement 4- 4- 4Smith C. Matson, a well-known Democratic attorr"?y of Greencastle, who was lr the city last evening, says there Is comparatively little Hearst sentiment In Putnam county. "No attempt has been made to organize Hearst clubs in our county." said Mr. Matron, "and we have seen little of the Hearst boom. It has been stated that there is a good deal of Hearst sentiment among tha farmers of the county, but I haven't been ablo to discover it" Edgar L. Maines, president of the Jefferson League of Indiana, is taking an active hand in furthering the Hearst movement in this State. He was at the headquarters in the Clavpcol hotel yesterday. Charles F. S. Neal. of Lebanon, who Is looking after Hearst's interests in the northern part of Indiana, was also at headquarters yesterday. He says he is well satisfied with the progress that is being made in the districts under his supervision. 4- 4 Judge W. W. Olds, of Fort Wayne, was in tho city yesterday. 4- 4C. M. Kenyon. editor of the Decatur Journal, was a caller at Republican etata headquarters. 4-4 George Parker, of Anderson, chairman of the Republican organization in Madison county, was in the city yesterday. He was called upon to explain repeatedly the turn taken in the recent stirring convention of Madison county Republicans, but he laughed good naturcdly and admitted that the "other fellows" had the whip hand. GOOD FRIDAY AT CATHOLIC CHURCHES Solemn Services at St. John Bishop O'Donaghue in Charge. All of the Catholic Churches of thla cltr celebrated Good Friday yesterday with very solemn services. Perhaps the most elaborate services were held at St. John's Cathedral. The Rt. Rev. Bishop O Donaghuc conducted tho services and was assisted by a number of priests from St John's and also from out of the city. In the morning occurred the chanting of the Passion, which lasted two hours. In the afternoon the altar was stripped of all of its decorations. No music was used at this service. To-day tho churches will celebrate Holy Saturday. Holy water and new fife to be used in the church throuchout the year will then be Llessed. After this service the churrh will be decorated for the services of Sunday. Hid for State Home. Bids were received by the County Commissioners yesterday for the erection of the building for Marion county at the Soldiers Home at Lafayette, although the contract will not be Jet until later. The bidding firms and their bids are us follows: Elliott & Gunder. Wolf & Ewing, $:.23; Edwin H. Schmoe. J.!); Will lata Kattau, $'J(&'5; Ferdinand C. Smock. Kim; Kyeliu3 fc Moore, R478; C. L. Hamilton. 5.1a. and A. IK-rzoa- & Öon. $7.770. Ilrnnk, Mot Deail. A report was sent to police headquarters yesterday afternoon that a dead man was lyinj: in a ditch near the state fair grounds. The Cltr Dispensary ambulanc with Dr. Mackey and ltlcycldmen Lowe and Bernauer were sent to the fair grounds, but no man could be found. ThA upiosh1 dead man became &o drunk that the fell In the

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