Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 May 1891 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 27, 1891-TWELVE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL

oY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. 6. E. MORSS, President. .Zatersd at tne Fostomce at Indianapolis aa second data matter. I TERV3 PER YKARi tingle repT (lnTrib!y ia Adrsnee.)-....M.S1 00 Wesrk democrat to tx-er In mind and their ewn state paper when they come to take subscripJions and make up clubs. rents making op clubs send for anr information desired. MdusTliE LNDlAArOLlS 6EXTINEL Indianapolis. Ind. WEDNESDAY. MAY 27, 1S91. TWELVE PAGES. Workings of the New Tax Law. The Fort Wayne Journal eays that the appraisement of property in the township in which Fort "Wayne is situated will be increased under the new law from 50 to J75 per cent. "This may mean," adds the Journal, "higher taxes for city and county purposes and it may not. It should not in any event, and tho fate of tho democratic party for years to come resta with our township trustees, county commissioners and our city council. Under a wise administration the levy for city and county purposes should bo so regulated that no larger revenue be raised than is absolutely nece3?ary for good government." This is the right kind of talk and very timely. ' Township trustees, county commissioners, c ity councils, town boards and all officials Laving anything to do w ith fixing tho tax levy, should, in every instance, reduco it to correspond with the increased appraisement. The requirement of the law that all property shall be assessed at its fair cash value is in the interest of honesty, justice, equality among citizens, and good government. It 6houM be faithfully complied with, but it should not be made the pretext for increasing local taxes and rwelling the revenues of cities, counties a-nd townships beyond their actual necessities. On the contrary it should operate, by bringing under contribution a large amount of property which has hitherto .been kept off the tax duplicates, by lnook or by crook, to reduce the taxes for local purposes charged against property which has been fairly assessed under the eld law. In most instances the reduction In local taxes ought to moro than balance the increase in state taxes, which will not be burdensome, and which is certain to be only temporary, and which was rendered necessary by the extensions which have been made of recent years in ur benevolent, reformatory and penal eystems. The newspapers of the stato ehould make every effort to impress upon local officials the necessity of conforming their tax levies to the new appraisement, and the people in every county should exercise tho utmost vigilance to the end that a wise and just law shall net be made a pretext for piling unnecessary burdens TJ&on them. Faithfully administered. the new law will prove a blessing to all the honest people of Indiana. But there is danger that local officials especially those I the republican persuasion unless carefullj watched, will take advantage of it to Increase taxes for local purposes, with the double purpose of enlarging their own field of operation in the handling of public money and in making political capita! against tho democrats. Against this Bangor tho people everywhere should be cn their guard. "While upon this subject we desire to call attention to a strong point made in favor of the new law by tho New Castle Democrat. We quota: Property will be much more likely to eell, if the owner wishes to dispose of it, 'when listed at a fair cash value under a low rate of taxation than if listed for half its value at a high rate of taxation. Who would care to purchase a farm at $oO per ucre when the assessed value of the farm U only per acre and the tax rate a Jiighone? Yet things have been in just this condition in Indiana for years. It is Impossible to get the idea out of the heads flf the people, especially of strangers iu this state, that the assessed value and selling price of land should be tolerably close together. Henry county, and others among tho better counties of the state, nave- been bearing more than their share of the state taxes, for the reason that land within their limits has been listed at prices more nearly corresponding to real alues than land in other counties. In come parts of Indiana the selling price of J and has averaged four timet) the price at which it has been listed for taxation. These counties, therefore, have not been paying their part of the state expenses, but the tax law makes them bear their share of xhe burden and will thus help the better 'counties. The fact is that the noisy opposition to the new tax law is inspired chiefly by wealthy tax dodgers, whom the law hits tery hard, and by cheap politicians, who think a party advantage is to be gained by etirring up popular prejudice against the law. it has been moro lied about than any other law that has been placed upon the statute Looks of Indiana for many years, not excepting the school book law and the election law. Like these laws, the tax law will fully vindicate itself in due time. It was passed in the interest of equity and good government. It does not reduce, but it increases, the taxes of corporations. It does not increase the burdens of small taxpayers, who have heretofore borne more than their just proportion of the cost of carrying on the state government, bat it diminishes them. The law is not perfect, but it is a vast improvement upon the old law, and when it has teen fully tried the people of Indiana ystil be more than satisfied with it. The "1'eople'a Tarty" I Born. The child ia born. It was brought forth Wednesday at Cincinnati and formally christened the "people's party of the TJnited States." Whether it is destined to perish in infancy or to attain a robust and vigorous maturity remains to be seen. The probability is that it will, for a time, make a good deal of noise in the world, but that its career will be brief. However that may be, the new party Is with us, for good or for ill, and whether it Is fated to a short life and a troubled one or a long life and a merry one is an eventuality which is concealed in the iromb of the future. The child, anyhow, is born, and it seems worth while to look it over and see what sort of a b-at it is. A lcty one, sure enough. It has a robust pair of lungs and uses them freely. It Las a loud yell whether it will be a long ono or not no man can certainly say

today. It knows what it wants and will not be denied. It wants, for one thing, the abolition of national banks as banks of issue, to which no one can object if these banks can be continued as banks of discount, deposit and exchange, which is now their principal character. The circulation of the national banks has been steadily declining for some years, having really ceased to be profitable. The overwhelming sentiment of the country is in favor of the issue of all paper currency by the treasury, direct to the people, and so far the people's parly is in harmony with it. But level-headed people know that this currency must, to be useful, be based on and redeemable in coin. And as to the government loaning this currency to the people at 2 per cent, or 1 per cent., or any other per cent., on the security of real estate or personal property, the common sense of the country rejects the proposition as impracticable, unconstitutional and dangerous. It is the leading feature in the people's party platform, and however attractive it may prove to unthinking minds the intelligence of the country will certainly provent its adoption. The other features of the platform are, for the most part, commendable and in harmony with the principles of the democratic party. The demand that the taxing power of the government shall not be used to build up one interest or class at the expense of another, and that tho public revenues shall be limited to the public necessities, strikes at the evil which is the fountain head of nearly all the economic ilia which afflict the American people today. The declaration for graduated tax on incomes will meet with a hearty response from a large and growing body of public sentiment. The resolutions touching the land and transportation questions are conservative in tone, and, with some slight modifications, will commend themselves to the country. The demand for the election of the president and vice-president by the popular vote reflects the widespread discontent with the existing system, but it contemplates a revolution in our form of government ior which wedo not believe the country is ready. The election of U. S. senators by popular vote is an entirely differout matter. It is a reform for which tho time U ripe, and to which the democratic party is pretty well committed. The action taken at Cincinnati is, as we look at it, important. It will stimulate a discussion of great living questions. It will tend to produce a reconstruction of the party relations of a great multitude of roters. and, whether the new party cuts much of a fLjuro in the electoral colleges next year or not, we feel safe in predicting that it will be a very appreciable factor in determining the results iu those bodies. What I Ilnum's "rull?" The status of the Tiaum case is such that every hour that the commissioner is retained in office adds fresh scandal to the already Bhanieful record of the administration. The question is growing louder: What 'pull' has Rum on the president?" That the president doesn't intend, to remove the corrupt commissioner, or even accept his resignation and thus let him down easy, if he can possibly help it, is apparent. If anything were needed to show the president's disinclination to part witli the corruptionist it is to be found in the course of tho Indianapolis Journal, whose de facto editor is in closer personal contact with the president than any one else. The Journal yesterday devoted nearly a column of its space to an effort to prove that ILacm is the victim of a conspiracy. A scapetroat is found in the person of Assistant Secretary IU'ssey. Dudley, the man who Btole Indiana, is quoted to prove Ravm's good character, and in every way an effort is made to find justification for his further retention by the president. What is the reason of this? The scandals in the pension office under the administration of Commissioner Racm have been almost too numerous to mention, but the Columbus Herald in discussing the resignation of young Racm summarizes a few of the proven points thus: Young Raum lived with his father. lie was a fast young man a sport. It was shown in the investigation last winter that he kept two fast horses and that a messenger in the pension office was employed to groom and train them. The evidence disclosed that he had an old soldier removed from the force of laborers and secured tho appointment in his place of a colored man who was the keeper of a gambling house, under indictment at the time of his appcintment for keeping an unlicensed and disorderly housa. The office of an appointment clerk was created by an order of the commissioner expressly for his son. Tho law provides for no such office. Refore he could be appointed to any office created by law he must take the civil service examination. It is well known that he could not pass this examination and, therefore, a place must be made for him. It is a significant fact that the office so created should be the office of appointment clerk. He is nothing but a boy, unable himself to pass an examination; why should ho pass upon the qualifications of other3 seeking employment in this great bureau? There are many stories afloat amons the employes ' illustrative of the supercilious demeanor of this bumptious youngster. The Washington correspondent of the New York 'Iribune last winter called attention to the fact that he was conducting a collecting agency in the department, and that employes were threatened with removal unless they paid claims put in his hands for collection; that a ring of usurious money lenders was using him to enforce payment ot their exactions, amounting in some instances J("0 per cent, on the sums loaned. The commissioner's attention wa called to this fact, and instead of reproving or punishing bis son and breaking up the nefarious practice, he removed from office the man who gave the 2 'rilune correspondent the information. Sow, we repeat, why should the office of appointment clerk be created and given to this young roan, unless it was to afford him the opportunity to exercise the thrift so characteristic of the family? The son knew that his father had received $12,000 from a pension attorney for a single ruling; that he used his office to float the worthless stock of boom corporations, and that these things had been condoned by a republican congress. All these thintrs are proved. The president knows of them and has known of them for months. Then why does he allow the scandal to continue? Why does he inspire his newspaper organ to the defense of the corruption? How is it that Raum leaves the white house with the statement that his interview with the president was agreeable, and that he and the president "thoroughly understand each other?" Doei the president love r.At M so dearly that he will sacrifice the

reputation of bis administration to retain him in office? Or does the president fear Mr. Racm? Are Mr. Rai-m's coat-tail pockets like those of Dcdley so filled with political dynamite that the application of the presidential boot-toe thereunder would prove disastrous to the president? In short, what "pull" has Rai m on the president? The Republican State Debt. It should not be forgotten that the slight increase in the state tax levy made by the last legislature was recommended by Governor IIovey and was made necessary, in large part, by reckless financiering when the republican party had control of the state government. When the republicans w-ent out of power in 1SS3 they left as a legacy to their successors a state debt of $I,87G,t;0S.34, every dollar of ; which except $J2,8i5.12 of old internal improvement bonds was created by the republicans. They made $3,t05,000 of this debt in 1M and 1807 by borrowing that amount from the old sinking fund, which was the school fund, and as Governor Git ay said in his speech before the last democratic state convention Instead of paying this money back to the school fund, so that it could be sent to the counties and loaded to the people, they issued non-negotiable bonds for that amount payable to the fund, bearing 6 per cent interest. Of the state debt, which in round numbers is $8,000,000, about $",0O0,00O was created by the republicans and about 000,000 by tho democrats. For the portion of the deOt created by the democrats the people have had value received. About $700,00) represents the cost of our magnificent state houso over and above the proceeds of tha ppecial tat3 house tax. The three splendid hospitals for the insane at Logansport, Richmond and Evansville cot about ?l,50O,0OO. Then, too, larg.i amounts were absorbed in the rebuilding of the so'diers and sailors' orphans' home at Knightstowa, the erection of the institut'on for feeble-minded youth at Fort Wayne and the handsome normal school building at Terre Haute, the extensive additions to the institutions for the blind and the dvaf and dumb in this city and the soldiers monument. "The democrats," Baid Governor Gray in t he ppeech referred to, "created a little over 3,000,000 of the state debt, and they point with prido to the new charitable institutions established and new buildings constructed as an equivalent for that portion of the debt crented by them." continued: The republican create 1 nearly ,000,000 of tho present Plate debt of $8,000,000, and what can they point to in the way of institutions established and building-) constructed under their rule as an equivalent for that poriioa of the debt made by thorn? They have erected no public buildings during their control of the state, except the insignificant building at Knightstown, constructed during Morton's administration for the soldiers' orphiins' home; tha unnghtly looking building on the corner of Washington ami Ten-nesseo-sts., erected under Raker's administration, and which was lately pold by the state, and whatever share they may claim in the construction of the female reformatory, erected under IIkxdkk ks' administration. All of those buildings did not cost in tho aggregate $200,000. The fact is that the only honest and intelligent management of state finances in our history has been when ihey were in democratic hands. In the old times the whig? wrecked tho state credit by their recklessness, extravagance and corruption, and during the republican regime an enormous debt was rolled up for which there was little, next to nothing, indeed, to show. Every dollar of debt created by the democrats was incurred for necessary objects, and the state has had more than value received for it. The Unfortunate llnsslan Jews. The persecution of tho Jews in Russia is driving these unfortunate people by the tens of thousands to Franco and England and the United States. Their advent in such numbers in these countries is certain to have a very depresding effect upon tho labor market, introducing, as it does, a new and formidable element of competition. The Russian Jews, like other people, must live, and as they are inured by long centuries of hardship and oppression to se!f-denial and penury, they find it possible to sub-ist upon much smaller wages than the laborers of England and the United States are accustomed to receive. Naturally, therefore, they are viewed w ith intense aversion by the latter. This persecution of tho Russian Jews is one of the most cruel and remorseless of modern times, and illustrates the low standard of civilization and humanity which prevails in the great northern empire. Russia is f-parsely populated, and as the Jews are an industrious and law-abiding class of people, who mind their own business-, do not mix up in politics and are loyal subjects of the czar, it is difficult to understand the malignity with which they are pursued by the government and people alike. Religious fanaticism presumably has something to do with it, and so has the popular prejudice against the usurers, who constitute, however, but a small fragment of the Jewish population of Russia. The masses of the Russian people are densely ignorant and profoundly superstitious, and their hatred of the Jews is kept alive by such stories as that which recently came from Corfu of the murder of a Christian girl by the Jews, and which, like others of its kind, may eafely be set down as a'sheer invention. The Jews of Russia are too completely terrorized to assume the aggressive, nor is there the slightest reason to believe that they wouldcommitsuch atrocities as are attributed to them, even if they were in a position to do bo without inviting swift and terrible retribution. The condition of these wretched people, driven by superstition and race hatred "from pillar to post," welcome nowhere, shunned, despised, hated, must excite the commiseration of all who have a heart to feel for human misery. Surely there must be some room on God's footstool for men and women who are willing and anxious to work for their bread, and who ask only little breathing space and a modest dole of food and drink from day to day. They have as good a title to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness as the proudest of mankind. It is to be hoped that the efforts now making by Baron IInwcu and other Jewish philanthropists for the benefit of their

downtrodden co-religionists may prove successful. Meantime, the expulsion of these poor people from Russia, under circumstances of peculiar hardship, advertises that country once more as a cancer upon the face of modern civilization. The Tax Law Again. The Journal asserts that The Sentinel helped to tmlldoze tho legislature into passing the tax law. Our neighbor is mitaken. The Sentinel did nothing ot the kind. The Sentinel id not a bulldozer, and does not believe in bulldozing. The Sentinel expresses ita opinions freely upon all public questions ; advocates the measures which it believes to be right, and opposes those which it believes to bo wrong; but as to bulldozing perish the thought! The Sentinel did not even advocate the tax law in the form in which it passed the legislature. The Sentinel urged, with such force as it could command, a separation of the sources of etato and local revenue, giving the taxes on railroads, etc., to the state, and the taxes on real estate, etc., to the counties. The bill, in this form, passed the house, and it ought to have passed the senate, but a

senseless panic broke out in two or three counties which are pretty well honeycombed with railroads. Their people were easily convinced that the proposed change would work an injustice- to them, and they sent delegations to Indianapolis to fight it. The railroad lobby which then swarmed at tho capitol, co-operated heartily, and tho revenue bill or rather that important feature of the revenue bill was rejected by the senate. This action was takon, we firmly believe, under a misapprehension of the character and purpose of the provision in question. But it was taken against the advice-of TnE Sentinel. The last legislature very strongly relented the suggestions of the democratic press in general and of The Sentinel in particular, and we cannot Fay that the people are to be congratulated in C'nse'jujnce. However, the law as it eland- is, in its main features, a good law. Its objects are laudable, and the me' ho Is provided for carrying out these objects are appropriate and effective. The law aims to make taxation uniform throughout the state and it creates the machinery r-q"i-site to that end. It aims to bring under contribution for public purposes a vast amount of property in the hands of money lend ts, mortgage sharks, wealthy eorpo'-at.ons, etc., etc., which has hither to, in whoV or in part, escaped taxation; and it is going to accomplish that result. The Jtrtwf, whic'i fouht the election law and th scho I hook law, both before and after th ir va-sao, and which always opposes reform I pisljt'on of every kind, has fought, and is Mid fighting, the revenue law, partiy in tie interest of the great corporations .rid the rich taxdodkrers, and partly fur th purpose of making political capital. Its crusade will, we predict, have as lame and impotent a conclusion as did its crusades against tho election law and tho j-chool book law. The better the tax law is understood the more popular it will become. It is based on sound principle. It is intended to. and it will, correct flagrant abuses and inequalities of which the people have been complaining for years. It will not hurt any honest man in Indiana, and as the honest men are in an overwhelming majority, we have no fear of the ultimate verdict of the people upon the law. The following Columbus te'egram to tho Cincinnati iVf, an independent newspaper with republican sympathies, will be of interer-t to Me.-srs. Swift, Mohton, Bi tlku and other members of the Indiana civil service reform association: Supporters of tho national administration, including scores of the fourth-class postmasters throughout the state, have received hints, which, although coming indirectly, are not in the least regarded as authoritative, to the effect that the civil service rules prohibiting their active participation in political preliminaries will not be ricidly enforced if they are delegates to the convention. From all the evidence submitted we are inclined to think that the dvnamita fishermen, rather than factory refuse, are responsible for the high death rate among the finny inhabitants of Indiana's Etreams. Every good citizen should take upon himself the prosecution of tho unworkmanlike dynamiters. The fish of Indiana furnish no inconsiderable portion of tho state's food supply, and every man who thus needlessly destroys them is a publio enemy against whom every good citizen should set his hand. The charge that the new tax law rereduces the tax of corporations is made out of whole cloth. It increases the taxes of corporations very materially. UndLr the new law they wiil pay ruoro money into tho public treasury than they have ever paid before. They will be taxed, for the first time, on their franchises. The corporations don't liko the new tax law any better than the Journal doe. In fart, there id reason to believe that the Journal is kicking largely in the interest of the corporations. Thk Indiana woman's commission evidently proposes that its part in the work of making the world's fair a success shall not be neglected. A "plan of campaign" lias been decided upon and work is to bo rapidly pushed. Indiana is proud of her women and of what they have accomplished and will feel assured that if given a fair chance at the great exposition they will make a showing unexcelled by that of their sisters from other states. The tax law makes some increase in state taxes. The increase was necessary and it will be but temporary. In every county where the officials discharge their duty to the people faithfully the local levy will be reduced to more than offset the increase in state taxes. The law ia a good one, and the more the people know of it the better they will liko it ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Old Subscriber: There is a hospital for inebriates at T'lainrield. Write to Dr. Keely, Plainfield. Very ItrlUtnnt Stateatnanthlp. iro9t-Ilpteh.J While Governor Hill is drawing his salary as governor of New York, his salary as senator of the United StatcB is accumulating and can be drawn by him in full when 1 he presents his credentials. The governor's worst enemies must admit the brilliancy of etateHtnanship which places a man in a position to draw two salaries at the same time.

JUDCE HOLMAN'i HOME.

A Peaceful Spot with an Interesting and Kvantful HUtory. To tiie Editor Sir: A visitor recently spent a couple of hours at the residence of Judge Ilolman on tho bluffs overlooking the Oaio river Dear Aurora, Ind. His home place, a suburban estate of about twenty acres, is a part of the ancestral domain oi his father, who wa9 distinguished in bis day on the supreme bench of the state and on that of the U. S. district court. The residence, a very modest one for a statesman, is Almost on the verge of the bluff, three o four hundred feet above the Ohio river, which flows at its base. The face of th bluff, from the edge of the lawn downward, is a tangle of bushes, vines and smell trees, so dense as to be almost imperviois to the rays of the eun. Over the tops oi these ono has in view a magnificent 6tretch of country spread out btfore him like a map. It is a notable prospect in this: One can eee into three etatee Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana; along the valleys of three rivers the Ohio, the Great' Miami and the Whitewater; and into four counties one in Ohio, one in Kentucky and two in Indiana. Almost at tha feet of the epectator i9 the city of Aurora; live miles away is the city of Lawrenceburg in plain eight; the village of Petersburg, Ky., is less remote, while on the verje of the horizon the steeples of the churches in Elizabethtown, O., g'.eam in the sunshine. The view also includes the battleground where Col. Laugery was defeated by the Indians near the close of the last century, and nany of his men massacred. The grounds around the residence are skillfully laid out and well kit. And it will surprise one not aware of Judge llolman's love of nature to find that he is so well versed iu arboreous nomenclature, llo will tell you not only the name of every tree and shrub and vine on his grounds, but the history of each and its ae. A cedar tree, thirty years old, from Mount Vernon; a hollv from the same place; a sycamore twenty-two years of age; several forest patriarchs, native and to the "manor" born, which showered their leaves on the head of the judge in the days of his boyhood, sift them gently down upon him now in his maturity, and doubtless would have covered his grave with them had he not reeentlydetermined upon a place of sepulture other than the old family burying ground for himself and his family. The judge did not discuss politics with his visitor, though everybody knows that lie is thoroughly verged in the science. He is inclined to reticence on the subject u:ii'M his views are desired, when he ex-pri-ssei them with the utmost frankness. He is a good talker on other subjects than politics, and has original .doss about them too. Concerning the subject of domestic mizration, his idea is that the star of einpire has near. y reached the limit of its orbit in the Vet?t; that owing to the exhaustion, practically, of the supply of government land suitable for agriculture there will be a retlux wave ot people moving from the far West to resettle in the states on this side of the Mississippi river, and it will come at no distant day. If this prediction should prove true Indiana will make a better showing in the census report of the future. Time has dealt kindly with Judge Ilolman. He looks but little older than he did twenty-five years ago. lie is held in high e.ittjeru by a 1 his neighbors, no matter what their political views may be. And thoso of us who belonir to th- grand old .Tarksonian party believe that he would be a tower of strength to the presidential ticket in '".tj. J. A. C. Aurora, May THE INSANE. Why Not Restore the Cured Insane to Their Former Station. To the EniToit Sir: Is there no pospibility of respectful recognition of thoso who have returned to their normal intelligence after a time, long or short, of men tal disturbance? Mut thev forever suf fer the "stigma" of having been insane, I and in consequence be debarred the privi lege of earning a support? Certainly it poems tho intention of our "alienists" to prevent the return to usefulness of any such, however competent, earnest or willing. In the deliberations of tho body of superintendents of the insane recently held in Washington the statement of the "stigma that attaches to these unfortunates" gave out the old familiar ring. Later, upon the day appointed by the "associated charities" for the discussion of the "care and treatment of the insane," this same old story, without the slightest variation, was emphasized. It seems not to occur to these champions of charity that there are abroad in the world a class of unfortunates quite as much to be sympathized with as those yet "behind the bars" a class, not large, T admit, but to whom few hold out a helping hand. I refer to those who have been insane, whose champion I am, since I am one of them, a class whom our "alienists" would relegate to a condition of simple toleration. Personally, I refuse to be simply tolerated for the remainder of my life, and moreover 1 disdain the "sticwa." I claim for mvi self and my companions in distress exactly the same respect and regard as though we had not had sufficient brain to become for a period insane. For this unjust state of society "alienists" are largely responsible. In a recent paper read bv one of our own superintendents at a lato annual meeting, which paper is made the medium of an ill tempered thng at a brother superintendent, together with unkind, uncharitable criticisms of the insane in general, and particularly thoso who have been insane, whom he styles "paranvies," occurs this paragraph, which for cold blooded indolence I have not seen equaled: "These paranvies, even when committed to hospitals are troublesome enough, but when at large and particularly if animated by prospective hope of gain or notoriety they are vastly more importunate and persistent in udvencing their views and attracting attention to themselves. I'aroma is distressing enough, but when complicated with the audacity and pertinacity of a book agent or the annoyance and self-suffering of a professional lecturer it becomes indeed vexatious and wearisome." Iet me whisper a word of comfort to this weary alienish i ?). Indiana has a way of her own of relieving her overworked, tired superintendents. Good men have been allowed upon peveral occasions during the past twelve years to retire from tho arduous duties of superintendent of the insane, and it is quite possible that history may repeat itself under eimilar circumstances. Respectfully, Anna Agxew (Faramie?). Morrow, O., May 17. Money lor Invalids. Being advised to go South and engage in light business I bought a plating machino from II. F. Delho & Co., Columbus. O., for $"). . I get all the tableware ana jewelry I can plate and sell some platers. Make from $4 to $10 per day. Work is nicely done. My health improved and I am elated. No experience needed. Any one can do aa much by writing for circulars. Ax Is VALID.

INDORSED ITS OWN YIEW

The "Journal" Attacks the Apportionment Act. An Injunction Suit Against the State Secretary. Mr. Matthews' Position to Be Tested in the Courts. Ex-Senator McDonald Says It Amounts to Nothing. And Editor New Is in Line as tho Firfct Injured Citizen. After soliciting and urging upon the party for months tho desirability of contesting the validity of the legislative apportionment act of last winter, the Journal has been forced to take the matter in hand on its own responsibility, and Friday afternoon its junior proprietor filed suit in the superior court with that end in view. The suit is to secure an injunction against .Secretary of State Matthews and I'ublic Printer l'.un'ord to restrain them from including the apportionment bill in the published acta. Readers of The Sextixf.l will remember that after the legislature had adjourned it was discovered tUat eouie otnimssions had been made in the enrolled bid, which is the one receiving thesignatur.-s of the preei'Iin otiiceis of the legislature after passing over the governor's veto. The engrossed bill, which was the one passed by both houses, wa correct in every particular. The clerk of the house thereupon iueerted the emitted woid in the enrolled bi 1. The error was a purely clerical one. 'the matter then stood that the legislature had passed one till (the engrossed) which the presiding olhcers thought was the one they were signing. The intent of tho legislature and its officers was p ain. When discovery was made the Journal set up a howl to have the law declared invalid. Wiper republicans saw nothing to be gained thereby and refused to take action in the premL-es, ho the Journal was forced to proceed on its own account. The Juurwu's complaint as tiled by its attorneys, W. W. Field, Smiley X. Chambers and Teelle A Taylor, berelt of its ie-al verbiage, is as follows : Ttie relators oom plain of sail defendants and cay that the aid Claude .Matthew and William h. llurford are now, and for live years last pasnl have been, resident and yoters of Marion county and itate of IndiftDa. That raid defendant, Claude .Matthewi, is now, and for three mjntlis has been, the legally elected, qualified and acune secretary of tne state of Indiana; and bs such secretary is the only legal custodian of the acln pasted by the last general assembly of the tate of Indiana, and charged by law with the duty ol publishing and distributing the acts of the lest legislature; and that the act hereinafter refened to, and upon and about winch this complaint is ma Je, does not become a law of the state of Indiana unleM the same has been published and distributed by the defendant, and due proclamation is thereof made by the governor of said state. That on the 5th day of March, 1801. the said general assembly paKsd an act entitled: An act to fix the number of leaators aud representatives to the state of Indiana; and to appoint the same anions the several counties of the state and repeal all laws in conflict therewith; and said act was only sijued by the tpeaker ot the house and ihe president of tti4 senate of said general aeuLlj, not havin received the approval of the governor of the state. And said act was duly eurolled, and deposited, and filed by the proi er authorities in the otiice of eaid secretary of state, where said enrolled act now is. That sec. 2 of said act, purports to apportion the scnitors of said uta'e for the general assembly thereof, among the several coantm, but the county of Monroe is entirely omitted from said act, ior senatorial representation, and f-a d act makes no provision in any of its ports for any rcpreteniation for Monroe county, in the St nte of the general assembly of the stale. Sec. 3 of paid act, purporta to apportion two representatives ot said state, among the several counties, but the county of Gibson is entirely omitted Irom said section, except one representative with the counties of King and Vanderbnrtr. And from said act for representation in the house of representatives no provision is male in feaid enrollment cct, for representation for Gibson county. And if (aid aot is published as pnsed aud eurolled, said county ot Monroe will have no representation in the sen me, and said Gibson county none in the house, except as aforesti.d. Tbiit after adjournment oi tht said general assembly, and said enrolled act had been filed in tl.e ollhe of the i.cretnry of state, the word Jlotirtfr was inserted and interlined iu the second section thereof, and thereby changing the clause JJroicn ml Varthctomrw onr ti-ntitor, to read Monroe, JJroint auJ Hai tho'.otncio one sen' at or. That in the third section of said act, as passed and enrolled, and atier the filing of the same, and after the adjournment of the general assembly the words (;i!on one represent 'it ire were inserted and ioterlined therein. That said interlineation was made without authority, and is void, and is no part of the act as possessed. Thut said Matthews, knowing the interlineations, changes, and forgeries, as set forth above, is now preparing to publish said act with said interlineations as oi.e of the laws of the state of Indian. And plaintiffs ar informed and believe that the said deiendant, William IS. Durford, who has the contract for state printinc. is assisting the said Matthews in this publicatior, nod ind Matthews is threatening and willpubhxh said act with said interlineations, changes and forgeries, atoie of the law of the state of Indiana unless he is restrained by this court, aa 1 if said act is published as changed, great confusion, irreparable harm and damage to your relators aud the citizens Generally wiil ensue. Wherefore plaiotill prays judgment of this court that said defendants, on-i each of them, be restrained and perpetually enjoined from publishing and distributing said aot, aud that this conrt order and command the defendant that t aid act be ommittel from the publication of the aets of the last general asbembly of the state of Indiana. Following this complaint are certain citations from the constitution of the state, urging the unconstitutionality of the act passed. The attorneys for the relators are 51. W. Field, Peelle & Taylor and S. N. Chambers. 'otl)lnj to He Gained. When Secretary of State Matthews was seen last night in regard to the suit he said: "This is . the first intimation I have had that the suit has been fi'ed, and I am considerably eurpriaed, as I do not Bee what advantage can be gained by the republicans even if the act should be declared unconstitutional. If that was done the old law would necewarily be the one governing the legislative apportionment, and there is very little dillerence between the two acts. "The law provides that the acts shall be published from the engrossed bill, and in this case the engrossed bill, which is absolutely correct, is now in the hands of the printer, together with the other acts. The printing of the acts of 181 is nearly completed and we expect to begin the distribution of them by the lth of this month. Should this restraining order be granted it would entail a delay cf probably two months fn tho distribution of the acts, as they would necessarily have to be reprinted, involving a large additional expense to the state." Will Amount to Nothtnff. Ex-Senator Joseph E. McDonald eays: "I think tho suit w ill amount to nothing, and that the elections hold aa provided ty

the enrolled bill fn the cour.'ea omitted in the original bill would Illegal. The question of seating the membra will come up before the penate anl It us at their next eeesion, and I think tv will seat them. They have plenary pever over the question ol the eligibility f their own members. It has been the sistom ia the past for the secretary of etateto insert any words or phrases which wei omitv-d iu the enrolled bills, in their prcper plaoa, in brackets. The question of the lega cy of such action has never corneip befonthe supremo court on account of thefactthat the omitted words were never of any great importance." .TikIC Mblart's Opinion. 1 J ti'ige NiblacK said : "Not having looHi into the merits of the use, and not beiig familiar with the facts, I do not care o express an opinion in legard to it. Tip case is of the gravest importance, novel it its character and one that will attract I great deal of attention. .Secretaries ol state have, I believe, ben in thi LaLit ol ajsumine the privilege of inpertinif such small wordB omitted by mistake as were necessary to complete the meaning of the law, but as this i; a dinVrcnt matter, it is one which the courts must decide. I have no hesitation in saying that whatever the result may bo, I fully believe that Secretary Matthews acted entirely in good faith in the matter.". w . AN IMPORTANT RULING. The Attorney-General Holds Thts (took In Trust 14 Taitbl. "In the year 1500 the starch manufacturers of this country, some twenty in number, formed a copartnership under the name and style of 'The National s'anh manufacturing company,' and ail of eaid Cans conveyed their realty and other property to Fuch organization. The concern was incorporated under the laws of Kentucky lor the sole reason that the requirements of that Ptat'j are less stringent than m many other.. It was merely a combination of the starch interests A trust, a conveyance of the property of all the factories of the country to onecompany. This single and consolidated concern issued different grades of stock to the several owners: "1. A certain amount of preferred stock. "2. Second preferred stock and common stock. "3. Probably for the pnrrtose of protecting th actual property turned over, bonds were issued, securing the payment, up to a certain point, of the etock issued. "How shall the stock or bonds of the several owners of this etate be assessed ior taxation?'' Upon this question Attorney-Generil Smith Wednesday rendered the following opinion: Ihe law provides in section four (4 wheran the several properties to be taxed arc detcriled in detail, that "all shares in foreign corpora Oouh. except national banks, owned by in'abitauts of thi f late," utall be taxed as rerstial property. Sjch stock in the hands o: owieri should be aeed at its fair, cah value. In arriving at uch value. the officer sh.nld properly talce into consideration the aoiouit ol property whieh it re;rtepts ; whether or not jt is paying i2iriienli; whether or not it a secured by mortmain) bond, is preferred or common, aud mic'i of hei means as may be a. his command in arriving at a fair estimate f its ltdt worth. The ttock represents the interest of the holder, and it would seem, is the only IssiS provided by law upon which to reach a prcyor assessment. Attorney-General Smith decided totay that certificates oi stock in truMs aud. combines are asHes.-abIe and may be taxed at a fair cash value. This especially effects the utarch truft, eereral largt factories in the state having claimed theii property to belong to the combine, tha head oliicers of which are ia Kentucky where tax laws are very lax.

INDIANA LADIES AT THE FAIR. A Plan of Operations Recommended tm the Slembera of tha Coramtslon. The board of lady managers oi the Columbian commission has recommended to its members a plan of work that is designed to interest women engaged in the industries, or in educational and philtnthropic work, and to secure eventually for the world's fair of IS!). an exhibition of all worthy work done by women. Mis Wilhelmina Itietz of Kvansville and Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith of , Cambridge City, who are the lady managers from this etate, are very earnest in their request that the women of the state co-operate with them, and tho press i9 also asked to give publ:city to the plan, which is in effect as follows: (1) That the members of the board of lady managers make inquiry in regard to the line of industries into which the labor of women is, being directed and wherever manufacturers are employing women an effort should be made to secure the manufactured article for exhibition at the Columbian exposition; (2) that wide publicity through the press should be given to the fact that the board may appoint one or more members of all committees to award prizes for exhibits produced by female labor; (3) that the names and addresses of industrial and other associations of women should bo forwarded to the secretary. The plan, as outlined by the board of lady manager", is esscnti illy one that will redound with great benefit to women engaged in industrial pursuits. Arrangements will be made ' whereby young women engaged in the industries and arts will be enabled to spend ample time at the exposition in seeing and understanding tho particular things in w hich they are interested. ALL FOR CLEVELAND. Ex-Congressman Ford Tells How St. Josepta Democrats Feet. Ex-Congressman George Ford of South l?eud was in the city Friday. Mr. Ford served during tho Forty-ninth congress and declined a renomination in order to devote his time to the Oliver plow works, of which corporation he is a member. During tho lxst five years he says that his company has established a big plow trade in the Argentine Republic and Mexico. Two years ago a branch house was established at Glasgow and thousands of plos haveeince b?en sold in England. France has also been invaded. Mr. Ford eays that the English plow makers cannot compete with the American manufacturers upon their own island, and it is not to be supposed that they could compete with them in the United States, even with free tiade. The democrats of St. Joseph county, Mr. Ford says, are decidedly in favor of Cleveland. Do Tour Own Dyatng. "Successful Home Dyelog" is a lock of plain and practical directions for djrin( one hundred colors, with the famous Diamond Dyes. Wells, Rlcbarlsoa A Co., Burlington, Vt, will stn 1 free one of tbes bo)ks and a card with forty cloth samples, ibovlns; the beautiful color of Diamond Djes to aoy reader. "Home Art" is another valuable book on the nne of the Dyes, which Is sent lor a stamp. The other ia free. One can mske old dee look like new, cloths the children handsomely from fated garments and glre the husband's suit a new lease of life, with bat little trouble or expense, br asing Diamond Dyes. The few who do not km w bow easily th?y can be used and what a treat saving it hey make tn clothing lllls, ought tg try thorn UJi if rlcg,