Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 52, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1878 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUGT 14, 1878.

WEDNESDAY, AtGCST 14. TEJICfcATIC STATE TICKET tOR 1ST. tSECKrrA"KV or Btatr JOHN O. S1LNKLIN, 01 Vanderbuit County. -Aubttor 1 of Btatb .MAflLON D. MANSOW, of MsBtgomeryj vonnty. Tw-Asuikr or State WILLIAM. FLEMT2TO, of AlfcJa County. THOMAS "W. WOOLLEN, of MOnson Coasfly. SCrKRpJt m Dim i bf Public "SsTKCCnoie JAMES H. SMART, of Allen County. The democratic "watch Hres are ble.zing -'from the lake to the Ohio river. Indiana democrats mean business; they hare taken the aggressive; they are poshing the Tads to the wall; the outlook grc ws brighter every ' day. ' - Fob the first time rn 0 years : the Chinese are at peace with themselves. The famine did enough killing to five breathing space lor a little while. 'In the region where it 1 played such dreadful havoc 5,000,000 people died of stavation, prostration and the dis eases which always fetlow the awful scourge. A'faechid pean a gridiron does not dance around more lively than does the Tallapoosa Journal on ' financial questions. It was opposed to silver, then in favor of silver, and agatn opposed; opposed to greenbacks, id favor of greenbacks; opposed to the solid vote of Indiana radical congressmen on silver and resumption;1 then backing down, it engages in honey fuggllng' the men it has opposed,- and . in -every instance making a Shylock ass of Itself. Why don't the radical candidates, stump orators and organs attack the financial planks in the democratic platform? Come, . you blatant yawpers, who favor large stand ing armies to bayonet states and legislatures, who apologize : for radical thieves and are willing to accept -offices conferred by forgery and perjury, we challenge you to attack the financial -doctrines set forth in the-iemo- ' cratic platform adopted by the Indiana democracy in February last. "Now come on with your Bquirt guns and pop guns. The radical swindling apportionment act of 1873, the more it is discussed the more it is cursed. Democrats curse it, nationals - curse it and honest republicans curse it General Ben Harrison thought proper to say nothing aboutitin his Richmond speech. He knew of the swindle, but since the benefits all inure-to bis party, he could not have got a word of condemnation out of his throat if he had applied a pump worked by a thousand horse power engine and operated : It day and night for a century. General Ben -is as honest in soch matters as J. Madison Wells. The new liquor law of Mississippi gives a .man the privilege of paying his taxes, cash - down to the proper officers, or of drinking it up, or rather down, at the saloon bar. i .Every saloon keeper is required to buy a i book of coupons from the state auditor. '.The customers. who drink are each handed . one of the conpotswhich returns one cent to the revenues of the state. If two drinks .. are paid for at the same time he receives an orange colored ticket or coupon, giving two cents to the state. If five drink, fire cents goes into the public purse. And -patriotic . citizens are investing in valuable property so they may swell the tax assessment and ..make the "miserable saloon keepers" help hem to pay it. Lc fact . tax-paying was inever so popular becre in all Mississippi. .GESERAL. HARRISON'S SPEECH. i We make room torday for the speech. -of ..General Harrison, delivered at .Rich- . mond last evening. Ct is not our purpose, i.nor have we the space for extended com.xnents upon what we regard as the most - vulnerable speech thai has come under our ixiotice for.many a day. . From the word "go" 'General Ben gives evidence that he v as as xnad as a March hare. He attacks tbe tlamo--craUc party, at long range. He unfolds the .nasty bloody shirt, and, like a bull at the sight of a red rag, pews and bellows in way that must have disgusted those who , listened to him. Upon .this branch of the jgeneral's speech it is quite sufficient to reiznark that the people understand the sibiation. .CUes that were radical under Grant 'iave renounced their allegiance to the theivingperjury-purchaaing party, and are lo-day marshaling their farces under the Aa-nrvr ti" Kannpr. and tlis drnnrrHr nsrtw an the, 4th of March next will have both ends et (the VJtional capitol." Trom abusing -lite, democratic parti- the general passes to tbe Jotter canimittee. He thinks the investigation was designed for a tcegedy, but has degenerated .into a larce. It is enough to say tlwt it J& the grinhest farce tbat was ever playerf-en tbe.American boards. A number of procslnent jadical .conspirators are even now in their ; political rinding sheets, and the aeennnjaticns of r juries by which Hayes -cvenpies the o0.ee of president, if .they weae feathers, woaid sink the ships, gunboats -ana revenao cutters that make op tbe .navy, cf the country. The army cocoes, in for a trr mendous eulogy, and General Ben .evidently wants federal troops to run .all Che .railroads, nwhine ahopi and Jndastnal enterprises of the country. He waatsi big .army to crush states, tayonet lfgielaturea, protect returcing oards, stand guard wktle ballot boxes Are feeing staffed, aund shoot .down working sen scho dare protest when reduced to starvation wages. Tixe general gets in a lick at poor old South Carolina Lecausethe courts of the state deaiz to try men for booting down, in -cotd bVxd, unoflending citizens of the state. Hayes' "so called" southern policy is the real joke of the speech, tod General Uea Harrison makes it abort On financial matters the general is tremendously elaborate. In some remarks he is pretty, though never rising to the autlhaity of JLtennis Kearney. Dennis can beat him on tropes. Resumption, democracy, greenbacks acd fiat money are mixed in the ' wildest confusion. The general is down on 'fiat money." He don't seem to think that fiat dollars will do, though he takes special pains to tell tbe people that he never denounced greenbackers as idiots. No, indeed. General Eea love? ike greenbacks;

has eeea them in war and in peace; has fought, bled and died with greenbacks; has had tntni by him s!eeplng and waking, and issKil standing by the greenback money. General Ben pays his respects to labor, laVoring men, and in the wealth of bis demagoguery intimates that the radical party is the friend of the laboring nan. The general doses witJt "the brigbter side," and quotes the Chicago Times with regard to the wealth of several western states, good crops and practical resumption. He does not see the arscy of idlers. lie does not hear the crash of falling fortunes as business men pass to the bankrupt court. He does not bear the piteous cry for bread going np from every section of the country curses inflicted by the radical party. No, no; General Ten is the kid glove aristocrat, the man Known to be as cold as an loeburg, and to have no more sympathy for the poor in their distress than a Shylock has for bis victim. General Ben winds up with a demand for three things: Put down lawlessness, put the currency on an honest basis, and lift np our eyes and see the dawn of day. We add one or two more desirable things. General Ben will pkase repeat his Richmond speech as often as convenient; contribute liberally for 'the erection of the Harrison idiot asylum for greenbackers, and dismiss all idea of . going to the United States senate. These things will make General Ben happy and democrats, too, for that matter. We may again allude to some portions of General Harrison's speech at a future time, though really there is nothing in it deserving special criticism.

RON. FRAKKLIS LANDERS' SPEECH. Elsewhere in to-day's issue of the Sentinel .will be found the fell text ot the Hon. Franklin Landers' speech, delivered at Layfayette on Saturday. Mr. Landers confines himself to the financial questions now before the people, and his utterances will command, as they deserve,, profound . attention. Few men have studied the financial situation more thoroughly than Mr.. Landers. His analysis of the subject exhibits throughout a clear comprehension of the wants of the country. Starting out with an unqualified indorsement of the democratic platform put forth on the 20th of February last, tbe cogency of his reasoning -is maintained to the last. Grasping all the details of financial data that properly enter into the discussion Of . the subject, lie eliminates the sophisms of : charlatans, exposes the subterfuges of demagogues and holds up to merited contempt the schemes of Shylocks, and presents in arguments at once lucid and conclusive the real wants of the people. Mr. Landers has few equals as ajclose. practical reasonerand enjoys a national reputation upon financial questions, and his speech, which we lay before our readers to-day, should becead by every voter in the state, as it makes plain a great many abstruse points in the various financial theories that have misled the people. The reasons stated by Mr. Landers why national bank notes should be retired . and government currency substituted are invulnerable. He says: The policy of the republican managers enabled the banking corporal Ions to loan their indebtedness to the other members of the governmental Ann, while all others you, ray hearers who have notes out pay interest on them. Ths democratic party assert the right of the government to issue all of your money, both coin an J paper, that rou may have the benefit of all the profit resulting from it issue, or the one of the credit of the whole people. We demand, in the language of Jeneion, "that the banks should surrender their currency and the issue of paper money be restored to the government to wliora it belongs. Bat it is said that ruin and distress would lol low the closing of the national banks. We dup't propose to vlml np tbe banks. When the national bank act went intoeilect a high tax was placed upon state banks, which compelled tuem to abandon Uie .circulation of their notes, and yet the business of 1 be country was not disturbed, because other pajier money took its place, and the banks were changed from state to national banks. Iu the same way the national banks could be changed from banks of issue to banks of discount and dt-poslt only. In urging the substitution -of government paper for national bank bills Mr. Landers refers to the cost the national currency has been to the people, and makes the statement so clear that all fair minded men ought to admit the necessity for a prompt change. He says: Tbe defenders cf the national .banks nn1 constantly pointing to the revenue detvved from them. They pay no taxes that banks t,f discount and depoHlt do not pay except a tax of one per cent, on, the average amount of currency they have In circulation, and this tax is levied to cover the cost of the Issue of their currency and the renewal of the eame. And what does this review amount to? suppose the banks should keep their entire-currency in circulation, that Is, the whole' s:fc0 uwi.WXi, the entire tax would amount to but $.'i,500,i'O0. Now .make seven figures and see what you have to .5 ay ins panxn to get mis revenue oi ksjimud. 'on have paid since the establishment of the banks, a? interest on bonds deposited to s-cure this aUO.OOU.OUO of circulation, fl!M,54l,Kt.50. or in rou ik I Hum ben. S5uO,UUO,OU0, every .rent of Which could have been saved If th goveru- . men t had lsswxl this currency. If it Is con tinued 15 years longer yoa will have to pay -tjOUfUoO.OM) more as interest, or a total amountlog to fiHur one-half of the ntionai debt, and .von will then own the principal of the bonds vncn wejneposiieu as iMctiriiy. iu you auvJnit to. tbe continuance of this robbery? tUpon every other branch of the subject disci'vsed Mr. Landers was equally explicit and convincing. We should be glad to point pecLally; to. other arguments, bnt our space will not. permit, nor is it necessary, since the ereicent abilities of Mr. Landers are a guarantee that hls,cntire speech will have a careful perusal. THE LAJBORER AMD THE DOLLAB. Geavezal Ben Harrison tin his Richmond speech declared his inclination "to treat 'resumption as a fact" that is to say, General Harrison is inclined to treat the paper dollar as a -"par dollar," which he contends is the great seed of the workingmen of the country. These par dollars, the general asserts, are in the greatest pufu&ion. He said: The claim the! our .commercial depression Is tbe result at a deficiency ofcurm wey Is mere bald assertion. If money Is scarce will any one tell us why nearly t&J0,0W in a day last week were Invented In a government 4 per -ent. bond? Or why other hundreds of millions are staking a safe investment at 6 and "percent, interest. If mony was scarce it isrould be high, but no man who Itears me ecri-rknewof it selling so cherip. The children in their play have a spying that what goes up must comedown. This a ni versa! law assert Itself against every thing except the imisortal spirit. A period of inflation and general speculation must be followed byone of devrenwion. The fact is credit was too Xeee; borrowing ws ton easy. Jxan agencies In every Uy and town have been, and are today, oiTn ing money on long mortgages. ThU facility iit getting money encouraged men to go into speculations, make expensive imj.rovemenu, and spend money more recklessly than was their wont when It was hard to come by. Here, then, we have par money, and to much of it thai $2,000,000 a week are In vested in four per &t. bonds, and several

hundred million! are locked up in the treasury and in banks, awaiting the approach of the day fixed by law for resumption. As a result of this system of financiering the working people of tbe country have been thrown out of employment, and are unable

o obtain the "par dollar" which radical stump speakers and organs continually boast are flooding the country. General Harrison, i being the kid glove aristocratic Shylock candidate for the United States senate, takes no thought of the laboring man except to tannt him with glittering platitudes about "real money." We hold that to be real money which will purchase a barrel of flour, a eosk of bacon, a "bolt of brown cotton," pay rent, etc, throughout the entire list of man's absolute necessities. Before the curse of radical Shylock contraction had brought about tbe panic of 1873 the working people of the United States were at work, and received wsges in money that purchased tke necessities and comforts of life. But when contraction had gone forward until more than $1,000,000,000 of currency had been withdrawn, these indust ries ceased, working people were thrown out of employment, and found it impossible to obtain "par dollars," and hence are clothed in rags and starving from Maine to California. To ease their pangs, to reconcile them to their fate, to induce them to believe that a wicked, cruel curs s is a blessing, General Ben Harrison orates as follows, and Shylocks applaud: I affirm it to be clear to any man who will think, that the money of the laboring man oush t to be real money not spook money not "materitllzed demand," as one of the ablest advocates of fiat money has described it, but a firomlse that it will on denia d materialize nto shining gokl and sil ver dollars. The -dollar he contracts for at tbe beginning of the month when his wages are named ought to te the dollar he receives at tbe end ot the month. Money mns. be very cheap before it can be plcktKl up in tlte streets, so cheap that It will hardly be worth stooping for. Short ot that you can only get It by giving something for It labor or property. Jf you get In tbe exchange full value In cheap money, you have -more nominal money, but are you any richer than If you had got fall value in good money? Tbe probability Is that tbe next day you will be poorer, for the tendency of cheap money is to cheapen. It is undoubtedly true that the legal tender quality and the quality of being receivable for customs and Internal taxes would give some value to anything, however worthless in Itself, but not a certain or a fixed value. The pressing demands ot the laboring man is work, and wages In some sort of a dollar that will drive back starvation, give those dependent upon him food, clothes and shelter, home comforts, home enjoyments, blessings enjoyed before Shylocks demanded that resumption should come speedily, no matter at what cost of business prostration and regardless of who or how many suffered. It is estimated that there are 3,000,000 of willing workers now out of employment as the direct result of radical Shylock contraction, and it Is safe to say there are 2,00-0,000 more at work for wages that barely suffice to keep soul and body together. Food is .abundant and cheap. Bread and meat, to supply tbe deficiencies ot other countries, await purchasers in all the trade marts of the country, but. strange to say, under the policy that General Ben Harrison advocates, there are millions of American laborers living upon charity, out of work, out of money, the summer passing, the rigors of winter coming, no food now, no food -then. Wliat remedies does General Ben Harrison propose? None whatever. He knows the policy he advocates is a curse, but as tbe poor only suffer, his cold, cruel, Shylock heart is as unsympathetic as a paving -stone. Human life is cheap In America. . Let people starve, or if tbey complain denounce them as communists and hurry them out of the way by the discharge of Galling guns manned by federal troops. With millions of idlers, highways lined with tramps, jenitentiaries filled with convicts, with jails over flowing with -those who are to add to the number of convicted felons; criminal courts at work night and day! business men ' hurrying to the bankrupt court; the sheriffs hammer forever beating Ltbe funeral march of estates, unable to stand further shrinkage, are .knocked down t the fortunate possessor of a mortgage. With such panoramic views passing before his eyes, what does General Ben Harrison propose? Nothing at Jill. He simply rehearses the stale Shylock dap-trap about returning to prosperous times by the postponement of resumption. Hear him: The nuestion is. hai'lnir arrived at home shall we go In and rest, or shall we spitefully retrace our steps and come in more weary still over the rough, but leva rougb, way that our guide should have chosen In the firt place. Out of the storm aud tike tempest our ship has come into the harbor; she almost touches the dock; t he rope is colled for the throw. Shall we make fast or let her drift out again Into the night and storm because the pilot bumped her on the rocks In getting In? This seems to me to oiler no room for debate, at least among those who regard a coin basis as the necessary condition of a stable currency. I jhink it would not bedlflicnlt to Justify the general course of legislation upon this subject. lie. publicans may well be proud of the achievement of their party in lilting eoliigh and settling so firmly the national credit. As I said in the canvass of 1876, this greenback boy Is of republican parentage. Democrats sneered at his birth aud reviled his youth, but lii won Ins way with the people. e have lod him up, till he stands to-day crowned on the golden summit of resumption. We may now ay to all questioners, as did the parents of him who was born blind. "He Is of nge, let him speak for himself." Mr. i'endleton'u vagabond currency has found a home has found all noun s. Mr. Voorhees has become its eulogist. He praises it for its courage in that it went to war while the coward gold renalned at home. What imjw lhin.4 is this that the democrats who kept company with gold during the war should now set their truant affections upon the greenback.? There has never been a time when men who understood the subject at all did not admit that by contracting the currency specie payments could be reached; but prudent men opposed premature resumption, because of the business prostration and suffering it would entail. Events have shown the wisdom of their conclusions. Alresdy contraction to achieve resumption has caused more than CO.OOO failures, resulting in losses ap proxlmatlng $2,000,000,000, and depreciating the real estate ot the country fully 40 per cent. The policy that has brought this destruction of property, this demorslization in business of every description, that has made tbe lsnd from center to circumference haggard with poverty and privation. General Harrison approves and preaches. But tbe people are opposed to General Ben and his policy. They will vote neither for the one nor the other. The people demand prosperity. Laborers want work and tfages. The democratic party is committed to policy which will inaugurate reform, C&l Geneial Ben will be permitted to remain at home. The United States Bcnate is too big a place for bis narrow prejudices against labor. The west is not falling in lore with aristocratic kid cloved Shylocks. Ir-1 diana wants men in the senate who dare atv w

tack class legislation, and who do not mingle

their devotions with those who worship at the shrine of gold. General Ben has had his say. He opened his mouth and put his foot in it. He started, out to be powerful and fizzled. His speech is the ginger-pop effort of the campaign. For thin gruel nothing compares with it except the Journal's edi torials, which General Ben seems to have used as his chief .political diet. INTERNAL REVENUE COLLECTIONS. The internal revenues collected for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878, amount to more than . hundred million of dollars. A dewiiled statement of the receipts of interLai revenue for the year indicated is from the following sources, the collections from the same sources for the preceding fiscal year being given for purposes of comparison: 1877. 1878. Spirits... 57,4S9, $50,420,503 4i,(4,52 S,4!U,(1 7,lf5,201 Tobacco........ Fermented liquors Banks and bankers . Stamps, penalties, etc... 4I.1UH.547 9,40,789 S29.7W 7,108,eS Total 1W95,1S4 Sill ,0,319 It maybe gratifying to the temperance people to note that the falling off in revenues arises chiefly from a marked reduction in the business of distilled spirits. In analyzing the statement It will t seen that "the 'number of gallons of spirits returned for 'taxation for tbe year ending June 30 last 'was 50,704,189, against 58,543,390 for the pre'ceding year, a falling off of 7,839,201 gal'lons. Tbe figures also show a loss of nearly '$1,000,000 from tobacco, and about $400,000 'from banks and bankers. Tbe increased 'consumption of fermented liquors is shown 'by nearly $o00,000 increase in revenue, the 'increased consumption for the year repre'senting 431,411 barrels of 31 gallons each. The loss in revenue from tobacco arose from 'the falling off of receipts from manufactured tobacco. Tbe loss on this item was '$2,740,139, while from cigars and cigarettes 'there was an increase of $667,943." In the matter of beer drinking the proba bilities are that tbe United States will com pare favorably with Germany, for it "appears 'that . the number of barrels of 31 gallons 'each which entered Into consumption for the year was 10,241,471. The quantity of 'liquor comprised by these figures will be 'better understood when tbey are converted 'into 317,495,601 gallons. Placing the population of the United States at 45,000,000 'souls, these figures -give a fraction over 7 'gallons as the quantity consumed by every 'man, woman and child in the country. It Is fair to presume that about one-half of our 'entire population. Including children, do 'not drink any fermented liquors, which 'would make tke quantity consumed bytach 'drinker equal to over 14 gallons. From 'these estimates some idea may be formed of 'the quantity of beer consumed by the reg' 'ular and steady drinkers. "Of distilledpirita about 51,000,000 gallons 'entered into consumption daring tbe year, 'but as large quantities ot spirits are -con'sumed in the arts and exported, no intelli 'gent estimate can be formed of the quantity 'consumed m the United States. It will be 'noticed that the quantity ot spirits entered 'for consumption and -fixation during the 'year is equal to more than one gallon for 'every inhabitant of the United States. "The total amount of cigars upon wkich 'tax was paid for the year was 1, 905,003,743 'which number Is exclusive of 1G5,18!94 'cigarettes. This would give, excluding the 'cigarettes, over A2 cigars to every inhabitant 'of the country, and assuming thatone'fouth of our entire population are smokers, 'it would give each smoker 163 cigars for the 'year. "The number of pounds of manufactured 'tobacco consumed during the year' was 25,'312,933, which is equal to more than onehalf pound forvery person in tbe country. 'This includes manufactured tobacco of 'every description not used for the manufacture of cigars." The figures given above are quite suggestive, particularly as tbe cry of hard times is heard from Maiee to California, We presume that the fermented liquors cell for an average price of 50 cents per gallon, wbich would net the handsome sum of $15$ ,747,800. Or distilled spirits, amounting to $51,000,000, it Is fair to assume that 75 per cent, to drank 63 a beyerage, and costs the consumer an average of $2 per gallon, or a sum total of $(3,5OO,0O0, which, with the amount expended for beer, foots up $225,247,800. The amount expended for cigars by consumers is another big item to be considered these hard times. The average price of cigars, if placed at live cents each, draws on the pockets of the habitual smokers to the extent of $95,253,187, with manufactured tobacco cost ing consumers about $25,000,000. We have for these four items beer, distilled spirits. cigars and tobacco and annual expenditure of more than $350,000,000. Certainly drint lng, smoking and chewing are expensive habits. WILL. E. EV41LISII. The joint convention of Marion and Shelby connties, held in Shelbyville yesterday, re sulted in the nomination of Will E. English, Eiq , of this city, for joint representative of the counties of Marion and Shelby. The nomination of Mr. English was warmly urged by his friends, and it became evident that it was useless to resist the strong current of popular favor that was bearing the young aspirant to the goal of success aad as a result the nomination was by acclamation. It is seldom that such an unequivocal indorsement is awarded a young man just starting out on a political career, and tbe action of the convention in the case of our youDg fellow townsman argues well for his future triumphs. As we hsve said, the nominee is a young man, the - son of -the Hon. W. IL English, who made, while in congress, a national reputation. He is a democrat, and eDjoys the reputation of unquestioned fidelity to the vital principles of the party. He has distinguished himself as an active and energetic worker, and as such has won the confidence of those with whom he has labored to achieve triumph over radicalism. Mr. Engtlish is tbe recognized leader of the young democracy of Marion county, a position fairly won and successfully maintained. As chairman of the democratic central committee ot Marion county, he demonstrated decided

ability as an organizer, and being a fluent talker was able to impress tbe wisdom of his plans upon his associates on the committee. With a little practice

Mr. English will make a fluent speaker, and his good habits, supplemented by his known industry and energy, are well calculated to give bim influence in the legislature. Mr. English is a pronounced admirer of Senator Voorhees, and will con tribute his full share in giving that dis tinguished statesman the prominence his devotion to the welfare of the state so unquestionably taerits. The nomination is in all regards a good one, and places success be yond a pread venture. As late as 1870 France was engaged in a terrible war with Prussia. Tbe first battle was made July 31, 1870. The war occupied but a few months eighty-seven days in all; but It was an exhaustive war for France. She lost 125,0(0 men In killed and wounded, and the expenses amounted to about $400,000,000.' In addition to this amount the Prussian indemnity amounted to the sum of $1,028,19G,H)6, making a grand aggregate of $1,428,190,806. The items in the Prussian indemnity were as follows: Thirty days after establishing order in Wrl , 106,5(10 ,000 During the year 1S71................ 1W,0U,WW May 1, ISTi i,5UO,0UO Msrcb 2, 1874 57,(.00,UlO Two j ears' Interest on last payment 68,400.030 Exchange and other items........... 10tj,081,806 Total indemqlty From which the Prussians S1 ,129,481,806 allowed the following deductions: For damage to Paris- .(38,600,000 For damage to Alsace and Loralne railroad.. 62,725,000 Total deductions....... 1101,325,000 Total amoant of money paid to Prussia $1,028,196,806 The French government, as soon as tbe war was over, did not pursue the contraction policy of the radical party. As a con- , equence, with her immense burdens, France was and has been prosperous, while the United States has been for years in the grasp of a contraction curse that has destroyed ten times as much wealth as is represented by our entire public debt The radical organs do not like to admit the true financial condition of the country in 1S06. The reason of this is that it nails every stale lie they utter with regard to the cause of the business, prostration of tbe country. "Ilegarding the compound interdt notes and tbe seven-thirties as money, the circulation on the 1st of January, 1806," says the Terre Haute Express, "was as follows: United States notes Fractional currency ......, 1113,100.569 Nat onal baus: notes Compound interest noteg 213,7&U50 207,024,101 207,118,713 8o,0H3,000 Temporary loan certificates.-, Certificates of indebtedness-.. Treasury live per cent, notes.. Treasury notes over due-.... 1,003,020 53,42113 810,000,000 Mate bank notes.. Beven-thlrtis.., Total. ...11,819,986,877 "The circulation now, adding the coin and 'subtracting tbe bank reserves, is about '$700,000,00. This shows a reduction of about $1,200,000,000." The seven-thirties amounted to $945,553, 250, instead of $819,000,000, as the Express makes the figures.. The correct amount being given, would snake the circulation in im $2,005(0,127, and the total contraction $1,305,540,127. Possibly the Journal will re gard it as prudent to attack these figures. We conclude, however, that it will prefer to reproduce its twaddle about the volnme of currency before the war and since 1673. We are Indented te tbe Ninth Indlanadistrict for the nomination of tne late Uodlove S. Orth for a seat in the house of represent tlves. Mr. Orth -was onee onr minister to Austria but resigned to head the republican ticket in Indbiuadurinr the campaign of 187ti Owing to the peculiar circumstances of bis having, while a member of the house commit, tee on foreign affairs, ufeed his Influence to ratify the unjmt and criminal award of a mixed commission against Venezuela, there by enriching KUllwell, Murray, Ktlne and other rase a U, the republicans of lndiana4nclnded to ha at down his name. He was buried quietly at midnight by the light of a rush taper, in the preseuee of a few invited friends, lie is now a ue an and placed on the traek again, under the theory that purgatory has eone lis wors. ism u more uazette. Tes, Godlove is no doubt a stiff, dug up by aeetof political ghouls. It was at first un deretood that Godlove was murdered in the house of his friends, and that Foster and Friedley were the radical footpads who corn nutted the Orth-odoz deed. But now it transpires that Godlove is a fellow-rfe e, who did not see it by that sort of. benzine, but who deliberately, in the moment of supreme ignominy, shut his great mouth with the Venezuelan claims rollicking around in his abominable regions like a car load of apoth ecary truck. This was suicide, and suicides are legitimate stiffs, and may be put into a pickling tub to await the gibes of the student and tbe scalpel of the professor. Lew Wal lace will act as boss carver. He will probe Godlove for his true inwardness with an in strument resembling an axe handle, acd when Godlove is laid away again all tbe radical thunder of the continent will not be sufficient to resurrect him. Tux meeting held by the nationals yester day at Martinsville was quite a success in many resjects. The crowd numbered about two thousand, and would doubtless have been larger had not tbe rain during the forenoon Interfered. Tbe speech of Dr. De La Matyr was, however, a credit, being earnestly and well delivered from manuscript. It was well received by the audience and frequently applauded. The doctor ' is a. forcible and logical reaeoner, portraying history and elucidating facts in such a manner that they can not soon be forgotten by his hearers. The speech was well received, and everything would have been harmonious had it not beeh for a crazy "ka'tydid" by the name of Anderson, from Marion county, who undertook to make a speech after the doctor was through. Tbe speech of Dr. De La Matyr we give elsewhere, and bespeak for it a careful perusal. ' . It seems that Governor Hendricks, when be nominated General Ben Harrison as tbe radical candidate for the United States senate, did not .miss tbe mark the ten thousandth part of a hair. General Hen, like a postage stanip,was made to be licked. General 3e Harrison's speech at Rich mond was a still-born affair. Besides, it was exceedingly smallwhat mibbe called a midget speech,

THE STATE HOUSE LAW.

The Hon. Cyros T. Nixon's Explanation of the Error in its Passage. How it Didn't Pass and Why He Thinks the Law Binding. An Interesting and Important Letter. To the Editor of the Madison Courier: Dear Sir I have carefully examined all the roll calls of March 1 pertaining to tbe state house bill and also the one of March 9, taken on the passage of the bill, and find them all in my own handwriting. This exonerates Messrs. Hay and Stafford, whose names have been used in connection with this subject The roll call published in your paper is a copy of roil call No. 5 of March 1. and it is a true copy. The vote is unquestionably 45 to 45, and had the speaker thus announced the result, the bill would have been lost. But it was not so announced by him, because it was not so reported to him. The speaker does not count the roll call votes, but announces them as they are counted and reported by the clerk, and in this case was in no way responsible for the mistake that was made. " That it was a mistake will be clear to all men who have had any experience in calling rolls in legislative assemblies. During hours of confusion, when the responses of members can hardly be beard, when the roll call must be gone over three or four times, with absent members coming in and asking to vote, and those who have voted changing from one side to another, many mistakes occur. Under such circumstances it is almost ., impossible to keep a roll call correct The wonder is that there are not more mistakes made. Doubtless many have been made by me during my eight sessions as principal clerk of the house, bat I have never made an incorrect return of a roll call knowingly. This roll call carries tbe evidence of mistake with it, in tbe duplicate number 44. It a clerk wanted to perpetrate a fraud he would not do it by making duplicate numbers. It has been charged that there was a state house ring. This I have never believed. There were not, within my knowledge, any public or private meetings held in tbe inter- , est of the state house bill, and I do not now believe that a single dollar was improperly spent to carry through this state house bill. From the very beginning of the session it was plain to see that a large majority of the house was in favor of a new state house, the only difficulty being to agree upon a plan. And on the final passage of the bill it is my belief that many voted against it who were really in favor of some law on the subject. Certain I am that no one ever dared ask me ' to commit a fraud in tbe passage of that or any other bilL But let it be distinctly un- ' derstood that, so far as this mistake is concerned, no living being but myself is responsible, even in the remotest degree. Place it upon my shoulders, and there let it rsU Now a word as to tbe published roll call, and the remarks of the Terre Haute Express thereon: If the Express could see the original roll call it would see that the first footings at the bottom of the page were ayes 46; noes, 43. Before the speaker announced this vote Mr. Askren came in and the clerk called his name, which made 44 nays. Then Mr. Johnson, of Carroll, asked to change his vote, and the clerk: failing to see Mr. Aekren's vote, nearly at the top of the left hand column, took Mr. Cooley's 43 as - Mr. Johnson's 44. After this tbe 45 was written across the original figure 46, and 44 across the original 43. All this the original roll call plainly shows. Mr. Askren and Mr. Cooley were both known to be opposed to the state house bill, and if the clerk had desired to commit a fraud in favor of tbe bill be need not have taken the pains, after the roll call had been called once, to go back and call again, to give Messrs. Askren and Cooley a chance to vote against the bill. The roll call shows that he did this. The Express says Kennedy, of Rash, should have voted 29. But he must recollect that Johnson, of Carroll, was 29 and Kennedy 30, and so stood until the roll call had been called through twice, and perhaps three times, and the footings made 40 to 43. Then Johnson changed, his vote to the negative, and the pencil was drawn across his No. 29. When action like that occurs we do not change the following numbers, but deduct the number of changes from the totals. In this case there was cno change, which was at once deducted from the total 46, and the ayes were then written 45. This whole mistake occurred with Askren'B 44 at the top or the left hand column. Nothing hss been written here except what the roll call will show to those who are familiar with roll calls. In this published roll call Mr. Conley votes in the negative, and Mr. Dannattell does not vote. But on the first roll call of March the 1st the first vote taken on this state house bill both of these gentlemen are recorded in the affirmative. If they did not so answer, some one responded for them. Mr. Dannattell thinks he was not present at that time, and says he can prove it by Mr. Welborn; yet he and Mr. Welborn are both recorded as present and voting in the negative on bouse bill ' No. 3, which vote was taken a few minutes after the other. On the final passage of the state house bill on the 9th of March both these gentlemen voted against it. Now in view of the mistake that has been made, what will the result be? Was the bill legalized by subsequent action of the general assembly? Will the -question be passed upon by the courts? Governor Williams says the courts will not go behind the returns. Should the courts deem it their duty to go behind tbe returns, I here suggest to them, and all others who want to investi gate, a new question, and that is this: When the house refused. Just before taking the vote on this bill March 1. to second Jnara Carieton's motion for tbe previous question on the passage on the bill, did -It not kill the bill for that day, and make the subsequent action of the house thereon (roll call Ao. 51 illeeal? If this be so, the bill was properly before the house on the 9th day of March, when it passed. SeeCushlng, p 556, sec 1,424, last clause, and p. 5o9, sec. 1,430. Now, in conclusion, allow me to aav that in my opinion no amendment should be made to this state house law, unless it be such as will more completely cut out all swindlers and speculators in public buildings, hold the commissioners, architects and contractors to a more rieid performance of duty and accountability to the people, and punish with extreme penalties anv man connected with the state bouse work who attempts to defraud the state, or to make the state house cost over $2,000,000. Thanking the Courier for its uniform kind ness to me, I am yours very truly. CybxsT. 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