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Daily By Acclamation Will the Indiana donkey prove itself to he an ass? That is about the only question which the Democratic convention wlit have to settle when it meets ten days hence. The situation created by the Republican convention is so plain and clear that the Democratic party has to use imlv ordinary common sense to elect its candidate as Governor of Indiana. Tiie real Republicans of the State, who have voted for principles rather thau labels, kuo that they have no party. They thoroughly understand that nistead of the promised clean-up, there again is the cover-up, and that the different breeds of Klansmen, drawn together by a fear of loss of power, nominated the candidate for Governor. The followers of Stephenson and the followers of Bossert finally controlled aud ruled. This State has been due for a dean-up in its political affairs, long overdue in fact. The independent voter had hoped that the Republican party might cleanse itself. Yet it showed nothing but timidity where it should have had courage, and expediency where it should have had principles. The fact that it sends Governor Ed Jackson, fnom the penitentarv under the statute of limitations, as one of its delegates to the national convention which will select a presidential candidate is its own commentary upon the State of affairs. There could be no greater affront to conscience and to decency. Os course tremendous influences are at work within the Democratic party to see that it makes its usual blunders. Graft and corruption are not the qualities of either party. They work through both. It now will be the purpose of those hidden forces which used the Klan and the AntiSaloon League and the bootlegger so successfully in the Republican party to see that the Democratic convention is disrupted by confusion and dissension. There will be plenty of money to see that this is done. Fortunately, the primary in the Democratic party was so decisive as to be a mandate to the delegates, insofar as the nomination for Governor is concerned. With eight candidates in the held, Frank Dailey received a plurality of more than 50,000 votes, and lacked but a few thousand of a majority over the other seven. Two of these candidates since have resigned in his favor, and the votes that they obtained, added to his own, would have given him a clear-cut majority. Every independent voter and very mauy honest Republicans are looking to that Democratic convention hopefully and prayerfully. They are hoping and praying that the delegates will have the good sense, if no higher motive, to nominate Frank Dailey by acclamation ,and to make the issue in Indiana so clear and unmistakable that no one can understand. As between Frank Dailey, the Nemesis of corruption, the prosecutor of the briber, the foe of the evildoer, and Harry Leslie, heir to the era of hate, can there be any choice*

Stewart Still Sticks On April 27, John D. Rockefeller Jr. wrote 1o Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the board of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana: “Your recent testimony before the Senate committee leaves me no alternativve other than to ask you to make good the promise you voluntarily gave me some weeks ago, that you resign at my request. That request I now make. ’ ’ Rockefeller’s request was made because he objected to Stewart’s part in the oil scandals. “I have lost confidence in Colonel Stewart’s leadership,” said Rockefeller, nearly a month ago. But Stewart remains head of the Standard Oil of Indiana, and if any real progress is being made toward ousting him, the public does not know about it. A New Gift of Tongues When the International Labor Conference of the League of Nations meets at Geneva late this month, no time will be wasted waiting for translations of the speeches that are mad?. Edward A. Filene, the forward-looking Boston merchant, could see nothing but inefficiency in the old method of holding up the sessions after every speech while translations in all of the various languages represented were read. So he enlisted the aid of Thomas A. Edison and the following system was devised.: On each delegate’s desk there is a headphone. The delegate puts it on and adjusts a dial on his desk to the language he wants. When the speaker begins to talk, a row of interpreters on the platform translate his words, each into a different language. Their words go over telephone wires to the headphones of the various delegates. Thus each delegate will hear the speech, as it is delivered, in his own language. This will mean much to the league. Lingual difficulties have caused it to waste much time in the past. Tha league owes a debt to Mr. Filene and Mr. Edison. Prince Carol, ordered to leave England, went to Belgium. Too bad he couldn't come over to America ’j —the fiction writers would have seen him through.

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What Chicago Is Discovering Evidence increases that Chicago’s lawlessness exists through an alliance between organized crime and politics, in which the liquor traffic is the chief factor..Chicago citizens, appalled at murders, bombings, gang warfare, vice and gambling, and the apparent impotency of the law, have been trying to find out what is back of it all. The latest light on the situation comes in a survey made by specialists of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, now being published by the Illinois Association of Criminal Justice. The survey discloses “an amazing story of interlocking interests of gambling, bootlegging, vice and politics.” Judge Andrew A. Bruce, president of the Institute, says “gambling, prostitution and liquor selling can exist only on a profitable basis by consent of officials.” Crime has been organized as a big business, and its overlords remain in power year after year. They and their official protectors are enriched by millions of dollars annually. “Organized crime is presented in its most sinister aspect, as an armed force of desperadoes in the community, carrying on a tremendously remunerative, unlawful business; enforcing its decrees at the point of the gun and with the cowardly bomb; fearing not the law because they have procured immunity, and contemptuous of an outraged public opinion because they believe the people to be impotent,” says Judge Bruce. "It is this condition which has brought the great city of Chicago into disrepute throughout the nation ” Perhaps Chicago will improve conditions, now that there is serious effort to get at underlying causes. The effort should be interesting everywhere, for while Chicago is perhaps the wickedest of our cities, the corruption bbrn of prohibition is not confined to the shores of Lake Michigan. a What Will the Senate Do? Scorning the power lobby, the House or Representatives has passed the Boulder Dam bill. What will the Senate do? It becomes more evident each day that the Senate's action in regard to Boulder Dam, or its failure to act. is indeed to be a test of the ability of Federal officials to function in the face of great opposition from private interests. Week after week an underground fllbuster has delayed action on this bill. The power lobby has used all its influence to defeat it. But with victory in sight for this necessary measure, there is no excuse for failure of the Senate to act upon it. With the discohifort of one or two all-night sessions, and three or four more days in Washington, a vote can be had. There is no other pressing business awaiting action. The way is clear. Public interests demand tnat the Senate vote on the Swing-Johnson bill before adjourning. Looking Past Your Nose Prizes in the world of business go to the man who can look far afield and do a little pioneering. This old truth is illustrated afresh by a bulletin from the Department of Commerce, pointing out that some American shoe manufacturer can make a fortune for himself by getting busy and cultivating the New Zealand market. New Zealand imports some $5,000,000 worth of shoes annually. At present, however, it buys 85 per cent of these from Great Britain. The department believes that American manufacturers could get the bulk of this trade, since American styles are so distinctive and American quality so widely known. New Zealand is a long way off. But some farsighted manufacturer will read that bulletin, bestir himself and reap a big profit. And his less active competitors will probably say, “The lucky stiff.”

-David Dietz on Science

Sailors Feared Garlic

EUROPEAN navigators of the twelfth century made use of the compass, but they had the strangest and wildest ideas of the underlying nature of the instrument. There was a common belief that the compass functioned because of an “affinity” between the compass and the north star. This belief was current until the year 1600 when the great British scientist, Gilbert, made his famous studies of the magnet. One of the commonest beliefs associated with the compass was that the odor of garlic wrnuld throw the

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aniS sailors were ordered not to eat garlic or onions for fear that the odor, as one old manuscript puts it, might “deprive the stone of its virtue by weakening it and prevent them from perceiving their correct course.’’ Many severe laws were passed, making it a crime to tamper with a ship’s compass. The crime was frequently nunishable by death. One of the old laws reads as follows: “Whoever, being moved by sedition, shall menace the master or pilot of a ship with the sword, or shall presume to interfere with the nautical gnomon or compass, and especially, shall falsify the part of the loadstone upon which the guidance of 2 11 may depend, or shall commit like abominable crimes in the ship or elsewhere, shall, if his life be spared, be punished by having the hand which he most uses fastened, by a dagger or knife thrust through it, to the mast or principal timber of the ship, to be withdrawn only by tearing it free.” The law exhibits the ferocity common to rngjiy laws of the period. But it is easy to understand why the lawmakers felt that the compass needed tevery possible protection, for obviously, the lives of ail aboard ship depended upon it in many ways. Many improvements were made in the compass | during the Middle Ages, the earliest important ones i being the work of a French nobleman. Petrius Peregrinus.

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compass out of order. One can easily understand any baneful power being associated with the odor of garlic, but a little study would have shown that not even garlic had any effect upon the compass. N e v ertheless, the “garlic myth,” as it is called, persisted for centuries

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BY LUDWELL DENNY THE politicians and prognosticators are pretty close to hysteria as a result of the farm relief battle and uncertainty over its effect on the Republican convention and the election. In Washington they are running around in cirflles, shouting claims and counter-claims, but at heart wondering where they go from here. This epidemic of “nerves” is due to the strain of the .’ast-minute rush and filibuster in Congressr with big issues like tax reduction, Muscle Shoals and Boulder Dam at stake, and due to the unaccu? corned Democratic harmony and unaccustomed Republican dissension on the eve of the political conventions. Even the usually cold Mr. Coolidge is infected by the hectic atmosphere. His veto message of the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill was not only the bitterest presidential document in a generation, but was positively shrill. When the Senators heard it read they went red and purple—or whatever Is the color of a facial storm warning. They at once set about to pass the bill over his head. But they fell four short of the necessary twothirds vote. And now every one is trying to explain what has happened and what is going to happen. THAT means the end of Coolidge and Hoover—the farm States will prevent the nomination of any farm enemy, or if they fail in lhat they will vote Democratic and turn the election.” This prophecy, as you may have guessed, is that of the anti-Administration alliance of presidential aspirants, led by Lowden and Dawes, who have staked their political fortunes on farm revolt. "Not so,” reply the CoolidgeHooverites; “the President's courageous stand against this unconstitutional and fallacious measure will win the respect of most voters and show many the economic danger and political trickery involved in it. This makes the nomination of Lowden or Dawes impossible.” Meanwhile. many Democratic leaders openly are guffawing on the Senate floor over the Republican split, and seeing visions of November victory. Some of them intimate that Hoover v>rote the un-Calvanistic Philippic, and that “the President's friends are getting ready to throw Hoover overboard.” BEHIND all the shouting of dispute and bitter partisanship, however, you find a few who stress in private certain factors which existed before the bill was passed and vetoed, and which are apt to remain the determining factors in the farm-political situation. These appear to be; 1. There is an increasing agrarian revolt, as a result of the post-war deflation, which will continue despite better crops until agricultural prices are raised by some kind of artificial protection or until removal of the protective tariff for industry increases the value of the farmers dollar. 2. Historically the American farm vote, though potent as a minority irritant, never has been strong enough by itself to control a Republican convention or a national election. 3. The unsuccessful Senate attempt to override the Coolidge veto demonstrated anew that this is not a party issue, but a class and sectional conflict. Os the fifty Senate votes for this panacea, twenty were Republican, one Farmer-Laborlte, and twenty-nine Democratic. Os the thirty-one opposed, nineteen were Republican and twelve Democratic. Such Democratic leaders as Walsh of Montana, recent presidential candidate, and Reed of Missouri, still a presidential candidate, are on the same side of the fence as the Republican Collidge and Hoover. 4. Even though the farm rebels represented a majority of the convention or electoral votes, which they do not, neither logic nor unorganizf 1 masses determine political decisioi Presidential control of parties „nd expediency count more. In the Kansas City convention, Coolidge and Mellon probably will dominate in the end, and Lowden and Dawes either will climb on the steam roller or go away and start a little farm party all their own—which nobody expects. The question seems to resolve itself into whether the Lowden-Dawes minority can hold all the farm delegates or enough to deadlock the convention, finally forcing Hoover's withdrawal. This is not probable, but if it happens, Hoover certainly will see to it that neither Lowden nor Dawes gets in. And so will Coolidge. He has shown that he hopes and expects Hoover to win. But there is little ioubt that he would accept the nomination—which is his for the taking—it necessary to keep his political enemies from capturing the party. nan "'T'HE biggest victory for govern--1 ment ownership in years,” is the happy opinion of those responsible for final passage of the Muscle Shoals bill and House acceptance of the Boulder Dam bill. The victory was won despite “the largest lobby in history,” or perhaps because the power lobby Overreached itself and unwittingly caused the Federal trade commission revelations of its legislative activities and propaganda in schools. If the President vetoes the Muscle Shoals bill, its advocates feel they can make it a law next year. It provides for government manufacture of power and fixed nitrogen and saves the important Cove Creek dam site for the country. Though Senator Johnson (Rep.), California, may not be able to break the Senate filibuster against the Boulder Dam bill. Its passage by the House assures that it can be brought next session before the Senate, where it has a majority.

I Daily Thought Be thou faithful unto death.— Rev. 2:10. T TEAVEN alone, not earth, is -Ti destined to witness the repose of 'faith.—Moses Harvey.

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Romance Withers With Cellini's Death

TO risk his life was but a minor incident of the average day of Cellini. “I knew that die I must; a little earlier or a little later was a matter of supreme indifference to me.” When the King's mistress. Mme. d'Etampes, heard of this exploit she said. “I believe this devil will sack Paris one of these days.” To forestall this, she lent her influence to rival artists who strove to disprove Cellini’s skill as an artist by convicting him of immorality. The King would not listen to them, and modestly called Cellini “the greatest man that ever lived.” (Or so Beri reports; let tl>e reader believe at his own risk.) Tired of petty hostility at the court, Cellini asked permission to return to Italy for a time. The King agreed, on condition that he would come back within a year. Benvenuto promised, went, and never saw France again. For many years now he worked for the Medici Dukes in Florence. There he made his most famous work, the “Perseus,” which still stands in its place in the Loggia of the Palazzo Vecchio, having defied the elements for nearly four hundred years. Never was the casting of a statute described with such vivacity and passion; Cellini tells how the Duke skimped on materials and helpers, gso that the artist had to spend his own last pennies to finish the work; how when all was done but the casting, he lay sick in bed, thinking he would die, only to be roused by the news that his workmen. after pouring the metal, had found that the amount was too little to fill the mold. Cellini jumped out of his bed and flew to his workshop, knowing that if the casting were halted now, everything would be lost; he threw' into the crucible everything he could find that might be melted into metal; poured the added liquid into the mold, and had one of the greatest moments of his life when the statue came out without a flaw. a a a SO he continued to labor and love, defending himself, between masterpieces. against recurrent charges of abronmal immorality. There is no doubt that he honored the commandments otherwise than by observing them. Nevertheless, he lived to a ripe age; writing his famous book at 62, he spoke of himself as healtiher then than at any time before. He died at the age of 72, loved by all Florence, despte and because of his sins, and was burled with great pomp in the Church of the Annunziata. He had escaped a hundred swords to die in his bed at three score years and ten. Some have lived longer; in that same age Luigi Cornaro of Venice stretched his years to 99 by taking twelve ounces of food (and fourteen ounces of wine) every day, and Titian achieved a similar longevity without theories. But it would l?e hard, in all the realms of history, to find many men that had died

Amateur Photography , Spring is here: summer is coming; and the amateur photographers are getting their kits ready for the pictures ahead. The Times Washington Bureau has just put into print one of itte interesting bulletins covering elementary instructions in photography for beginners. It tells about types of cameras for various purposes, lenses, proper exposures, developing, printing, enlarging and mounting. If you have never done anything but take snapshots and carry the film to a photographer to be developed, this bulletin will tell you interesting things about how you may carry on all the processes of photography yourself. Fill out the coupon below and send for it. CLIP COUPON HERE AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR, Washington Bureau, Indianapolis Times. 1322 New York Avenue. Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY and inclose herewith five cents in loose, uncanceled, United States postage stamps, or coin to cover postagp and handling costs. NAME 1 STREET AND NUMBER CITY STATE I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. ?

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more deaths, and lived more lives, than Benvenuto Cellini. When he died the romance of the Renaissance died with him. So I bid farew'ell to this magnificent age, this maturity of medieval grow’ths, this riotous youth of the modem soul. And as most men lived to the end of the capital of their youthful energy, so this day, as Taine says, w'e live on its sap. we only carry on its pressure and its efforts; to this day it is the ideal to which we turn when we dream of our country's future.

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The name ana address of the author must accompany every contribution, but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words wiU receive preference. Editor Times: The action of the common council in passing the daylight saving ordinance over the veto of Mayor L. Ert Slack was no doubt as much a surprise to those in favor of the plan, as to those opposed. Granting that daylight saving is the best plan, what puzzles me is how any individual or group of intelligent citizens could see their way clear to support a minority, and in so doing, not only hamper our mayor in his efforts to redeem our city, but also the harmonious atmosphere between employerand employe. Industry and labor were in the majority against daylight saving for Indianapolis. Why is it that our government, in its various branches, the railroads, schools, etc, does not abide by daylight saving? Because it is not fundamental, and as Councilman White, has well said, in his judgement, this is not a matter for the common council to pass upon.

You can get an answer to any answerable Question of fact or Information by writing to Frederick M. Kerby. Question Editor. The Indianapolis Times. Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave., Washington. D. C.. enclosing two cents in stamps for reply. Medical and legal advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be made. All other auestlons will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All leters are confidential. You are cordially Invited to make use of this free service as often as vou please. EDITOR. Is Rae a boy’s or a girl’s name? “Ray” is usually a boy’s name and is sometimes a contraction of Raymond. The feminine equivalent is often spelled “Rae.'’ Ray has been used as a girl’s nai|ie. Do Americans living in China have to become citizens of that country after a certain length of residence? Does the American government protect Americans living in China? Americans who live in China retain their American citizenship and there is nothing in Chinese law or custom that requires them to be expatriated or to assume Chinese

Yes, it was immortal, lax, corrupt, individualistic, impious; but it produced and honored beauty as no age since the Greeks had made and cherished it; for to those who have loved beauty much can be forgiven. Perhaps in another century, when time has forced our ethics, chaos into anew life, and wealth has learned its menial place in the light of reason, w-e too shall learn to \alue beauty and create it. Till then let us turn again and again to the Renaissance. (Copyright. 1928, by Will Durant) (To Be Continued)

and that those who choose, could set their clocks up an hour. Let us not divert the valuable time of our common council from such major projects as our much needed hospital improvements, track elevation, and the making of plans for the addition of more men to our police department. Remember, this city is growing daily, so prepare our next budget accordingly. And last, but not least, about five years ago, under Mayor Shank's administration, several property owners in this section of the city were assessed for the opening of Harlan St., between Hoyt Ave. and Lexington Ave. We are still waiting for this. In other words, several of the past boards in city affairs have fallen dow’n on their jobs. It is true that less than one hundred dollars of the entire assessment has not been paid, but is that a good excuse? This thoroughfare is needed for fire protection. Yours very truly. ' J. ED BURK

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citizenship. While they are in China they arc protected by the United States government and the American government also maintains its own courts, in China to try American citizens who commit offenses against the laws of China. When was Pearl Bryan murdered? The decapitated body was found near Ft. Thomas, Ky., Feb. 1, 1896. Will you name for me six blond and six brunette actresses of the screen? Six blond actresses are Mary Piekford, Mae Murray, Gilda Gray, Marlon Davies, May Allison and Vilma Banky. Norma Talmadge, Pola Negri. Patsy Ruth Miller, Norma Shearer, Sally O’Neil and Dolores Del Rio make up a sextette of brunette stars. What is the basis of reckoning standard time at the United Stales Naval Observatory. at Washington, D. C.? Transit observation of the stars. The observatory has three standard j clocks running in a constant temj perature vault, electrically wound and sealed to keep the air pressure constant. Meridian circle observations of selected stars (known as clock stars) are regularly taken on clear nights and from these observations the errors of the standard clocks are determined and corrected WTiat is the difference between a “protective tariff” and a “tariff foi revenue only?” Protective tariff is a high tariff on imported articles for the purpose of protecting American manufacturers from competition of foreign commodities which might otherwise be sold cheaper than the home products. Advocates of the tariff for revenue only maintain that the purpose of duties is to raise revenue for the Government and not to exclude imported commodities. Who built the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France? It was begun by Napoleon in 1806 and completed by. Louis Philippe in 1836. It was designed by i Cahlgrin and is profusely orna-

.VAT 26, 1928

TRACY SAYS: “There Is Nothing in History or Romance to Compare With This Hike of Fifty-Five Men Across the American Continent”

After having covered the distance from coast to coast in eightythree days, fifty-five runners arrive in New York to finish the most remarkable foot race in human history with a twenty-mile sprint around the track at Madison Square Garden. The fact that a majority of those who started dropped by the wayside is not so suprising as the number who stayed. ‘ It is a curious thing that in these days of airplane, automobile, railroad and bicycle, the world shouid stage its most spectacular running match. Men have been running since the dawn of iime not only from necessity, but for sport. The old record* are full of astonishing feats. Wc are told about the Sultan’s peicha who trotted from Constantinople to Adrianople and -back again in forty-eight hours; about the fleetfooted couriers of Montazuma, who brought fish into Mexico City from Vera Cruz while they were yet fresh, and, above all else, about that Greek boy who was supposed to have hung up an unbeatable record w-hen he carried the news of victory from Marathon to Athens. But with all the tendencies to exaggerate where no reliable records are left to disprove it, and with ail the physical qualities that primitive people are supposed to posses, there is nothing in history or romance to compare with this hike of fifty-five men across the American continent. ana Talk Marathon That we moderns can talk as well as run. is proved by the Senate filibuster against the Muscle Shoals bill. The Senate would have done much better had It not been informed that talking was unnecessary to kill the bill, since President Coolidge w j as prepared to veto it. Curtis of Kansas, is the man who brought this glad news from the White House. With due consideration for senatorial dignity, as well as for the feelings of the White House spokesman, he did not actually shout It abroad, but let it trickle forth in a most urbane manner. But the four Democratic Senators, who had exhausted their lungs and their wits through the weary hours of an all night session, heard it just the same, and having heard it they communed with their spirits, asking themselves why they should shoulder the responsibility of slaughtering a bill, when the President w'as so willing to use his ax.

Cal Swings Ax The presidential ax is cutting a. mighty figure not only in governmental affairs, but in politics. If the President continues to swing it as lustily as he has during the last few' w’eeks he will not need to “choose.” Neither will such leaders as Charles Dew'ey Hilles need to winder whether they should go on with the “drafting movement.” Thirteen times has that ax fallen with a resounding thud on bills which Congress passed with great enthusiasm, not to say with an eye on their vote getting qualities. That Congress should at first have been astonished, and then have gotten a little mad, is nature! under the circumstances. Congress has passed four of those bills over the presidential veto, with only a small minority saying “nay.” and would have gone farther, perhaps, if Senator Bruce )Dem.>, Maryland, had not warned his rather impetuous fellows that, while it might be all right to show their spirit, they could carry the thing too far, and that, they would better let well enough alone.

mented with reliefs representing the Napoleonic victories, in commemoration of which it was erected. It is the largest triumphal arch in the w'orld and stands at the head of the Champs Elysces. What is the New York Curb market? j .It is a corporation commonly know'll as the Curb Exchange, that started informally in the middle ot Broad St„ New York, in 1882, and grew until June 7, 1921, when the members moved into their present quarters at 78 Trinity PI. It is a stock market where securities not listed on regular stock exchanges ere sold and where securities ate sold out of hours. Before getting their indoor habitation a so-called scat on the curb market w r as sold as high as $1,500. Late in 1921 the membership was full at $3,500. In April. 1925. it was raised to $8,500, and late in that year a seat was sold for $37,500. Early in 1926 there were 550 members of the exchange Are persons born in (he United States of alien parents American citizens? Yes; except those whose parents, at the time of their birth, were engaged in a foreign diplomatic service in the United States. Arc there any wild silver foxes in the United States? Very few. Ninety-flvc per cent of the silver foxes are raised in captivity.

This Date ill U. S. History

May 26 1665—General Court of Massachusetts refused to recognize the royal commissioners, 1668—First legislative assembly in New Jersey met at Elizabeth. 1790—Tennessee organized as a territory. 1836—Congress voted it had neither authority nor wish to inter- * . fore with slavery, _