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TIIE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 10. 1891 TWELVE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE 5EHKEL

BY THE WDUHIPOUS SENTINEL CO. S. E. MORSS, President. Xfittrtd at tlis Poatomca at IafllaoapoUa m second claaa matter. TERMS PER TEAR Bit fie crpr (Intiriat,! In AdTance.)., .Si on Wf atk democrats to Vrar In mind and Mloct thru two ptate paper when the come to tiko aubsciiptioni and make up cluba. .A grata making up clubs send for any in form st Ion . cTeaired. Addeas Jilt. DDlAi ArOLIS SKMINEL Indianapolis, lnd. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10. 1591. TWELVE PAGfsT The Democracy and Ballot Ilrfbrm. For sublime assurance and unblushing mendacity, the Fort "Wayne Gazette, edited, we believe, by an ex-minister of the gospel, certainly takes the prize. In t recent issao it said: Ohio has recently adopted the Australian system for its election, and, as was the case in Indiana, considerable opposition has been manifested toward it on the ground of expense, etc. This opposition, put a$ in our own stale, and as waa the caee In Now York and -wherever ele the reform has teen suggested or enacted, has come mainly from the democratic party. When it is remembered that the Australian system was introduced into Indiana by a legislature strongly democratic in both branches, receiving the vote of every democratic representative, and of every democratic senator, save one ; that half of the republican senators and members Toted against it, and the other hah resisted it until it was finally put upon its passage ; that the agitation for the reform was bejrun. by Thk Indianapolis Sentinel the day titer the Harrison-Dudley block of-five lection in Indiana, and continued without a day's intermission until the law had teen placed on the statuto books ; that the republican prees of the state, under tho leadership of tho Indianapolis Journal, denounced the bill, both bafore and after its passage, in the strongest terms ; that lince it went into effect republican politicians have caused its constitutionality to 1q questioned, in and out of the courts when all this is remembered the gall of the Gazette in saying that the opposition to "ballot reform in this state came mainly from the democrats will be recognized as monumental. Equally false are its assertions as to tho opposition to ballot reform in other states. In Maine and New Hampshire the republican leaders navs bitterly fought the reform. They defeated it in both 6tates repeatedly, and it was finally passed in both of them despite their bitter opposition, receiving all the democratic vote, with just enough votes from republicans who were coerced by public opinion into disobedience to the bosses to make the required cumber. In Pennsylvania the democratic party has been fighting for years for ballot reform, but the republican party, under the lead of Quay and Cameron, Las blocked it. At this very moment an earn est struggle is being made in the Pennsylvania legislature by the democratic minority, reinforced by a handful of republicans, to pass a reform measure, but the powerful republican machine is against the bill, and if it passes at all it will be in an emasculated shape. All over the country North, South, East and West the democratic party is in line for ballot reform and has been since Henry George began to urge the .Australian eystem upon the country. In Jsew York a few Tammany politicians antagonized the reform and induced Governor Hill to throw some obstacle in its path. But with the exception of Hill no democrat 01 prominence has opposed the reform movement. Cleveland, Gray, Pattison, Palme, Campbell and nearly very other democratic leader in the country has warmly advocated it. Blaine, Cameron, Qcay, Clarkson, Frye, Chandler, Hale, Tom Reed, Buckley, Halbtiad and a score of otfcer republicans of national reputation have fousht it desperately. The Sentinel was tho first daily newspaper in the country to make an earnest campaign in behalf of this great reform, but all the other important democratic newspapers quickly fell into line, end the democratic press of the country, from one end to the other, has long been unit in support of the reform. A number of leading republican newspapers, such. 3 the Commercial Gazette of Cincinnati, have, on tho contrary, opposed it. The record of the two parties is pretty well made up on this question. A email element in the democratic party has opposed the reform and a email element in the republican party has favored it. But the main support of the movement has naturally come from the democratic party, because, for one reason, it had the most to gain from it, while, just as naturally, the bulk of the opposition has come from the party which had the most to lose from it the party of Quay, DcdXZT, Clark son and Woods. The Philadelphia Itevelations. The revelations in connection with the Keystone bank failure in Philadelphia are atnazing. It now appears that the comptroller of the currency waa aware of the insolvency of the bank for ninety days before it3 doors were closed, and yet permitted it to remain open and invite and receive the deposits of citizens who had no suspicion of its condition. The comptroller, it appears, knew of the fraudulent issue of the bank's stock by the president, Mr. Marsh, and bis predecessor, and yet Mr. Malsh waa allowed to remain at the head of the institution and draw his salary up to the moment of its suspension. In short, the government became a party to a wholeeale confidence frame. It was in collusion with a gigantic swindle which has brought ruin to a great number of innocent persons, wrecked many lives and reduced many well-to-do families to poverty. People who do business with a national bank depend upon the government to protect them. These banks are all under government supervision, and if that supervision is vigilant and honest, no bank can run such a career a the Keystone policy shop ran. The bank examiner, Mr. Drew, swears that President Marsh informed him of the overissue of Keystone tank stock (which was pledged with oilier bank aa collateral for loans)

early in February last. He says he reported the facts at once to the comptroller of theTcurrency and acted under the latter's instructions. The bank was, however, allowed to continue business until Feb. 18. It is evident, from the bank examiner's confessions under cross-examination, that his semi-annual examinations were merely formal. It is said that he went to the bank once to make an examination, and M as informed by the officials that he had come a week or two too soon. lie kindly went away and did not return until the officials were ready to make a showing. These revelations are indeed startling, and will have a tendency to impair public confidence in national banks everywhere. It is to be hoped that Buch methods as these employed by T.ar.k Examiner Drew are not practiced by bank examiners generally. A committee of the Philadelphia city council is investigating this matter, and on Tuesday one of the members, Mr. Kiting, introduced a resolution requesting the rrayor to ask President Harrison to order an investigation of the conduct of the treasury department in the matter, the production of all accounts of the bank and the appearance of the comptroller of the currency, Mr. Lacey, before the commitee. In his speech in support of the resolution Mr. Eltixg said: 1 am sura if we are to have the national banking law construed and acted upon as it has been in the Keystone caso there is very little protection adbrded to any depositor. By confession of Mak?h, and through no skill or energy on the part of the u. s official, the treasury department became aware of the Keystone rottenness, yet for ninety davs thereafter the bank was allowed to remain open and the city and citizens of Philadelphia were invited to deposit their money. It matters not whether the assets now are more or k-ss. Some people who had every opportunity to know the Ptory of the rotten bank had every chance to get out. while other people who could not know the story had every chance to get in. It is the most extraordinary action on the part of the general government that I ever heard of. Even if our city treasurer had been honest he might, for all that was done by the U. S. authorities, have continued to deposit, for no notice, no inquiry, no warning came to put him on guard or any other city official on guard. The ealary of Marii was even continued at the bank, and every appearance was held out that tho bank was sound during all this time that the general government knew, by confession, of its rottenness. It is time we should make a move to right the city's wrongs. I am not going to say whether Mr. Drew or Mr. Lacey was responsible, but between them the bank was kept open after the fraud was known officially. Such action by the government, if continued, will be detrimental to the banks ot the city. Here were confessed falsifications by the former president and the present president of th bank amounting to hundreds of thousands. If the law was proper, y acted upon no man's money i.- safe in any bank. Every obstacle that 1 ran fancy has been thrown in our way. We can iook at the treasurer's accounts. "We want to look at other accounts and find out what other men were doing in thosj ninety days after the fraud- were known and uhile the eity of Philadelphia was handling her millions in that bank. Strange to say, Mr. Eltinu's resolution was defeated. Evidently, a majority of the investigating committt-e does not propose to go to the bottom of thid wretched business. The republican rinsrsof the state of Pennsylvania and the city of Philadelphia are up to their eyes in this rottenness, but it was not supposed that republican officials at Washington would be involved. The poison of Pennsylvania republicanism has, it seems, extended a good deal further than has been suspected. The Taxation of Franchise. "The idea that a tax law could operate on franchises already granted," exclaimed the Journal the other day, "is peculiarly brilliant." The Journal seemed to be laboring under the impression that there was no power in the state to lay taxes upon franchisee granted before euch taxes were imposed. The JournaCs notion was absurd of course. The Journal ia notoriously ignorant upon euch questions, notwithstanding its great pretentions, but we had not euppo6ed that it ignorance was 60 dense a3 to lead it to sneer at an "idea" which is ho fundamental in the theory of taxation as that which our contemporary derisively styled "brilliant." The Sentinel met the JoumaCt sneer with some authorities upon the question, which silenced its critic. The Journal's only rejoinder is that the brilliant idea which moved it to sarcasm the other day was embodied in the old tax law. We ehall'have eomething to say in another iosue about the differences between the new and the old laws touching the taxation of franchises. Meantime a few words more on the subject of the taxation of franchises seem to be pertinent. The three following propositions may be deemed elementary: 1. The state has the power to exempt property from taxation, unless expressly prohibited by its constitution. But, to use the language of Cooley, "the power to tax being essential to the very existence of the state, there can be no presumption that it has been either abandoned or restricted, and whoever claims that it has been should be able to show by clear words that an intent is expressed to bo do." ("Coo'ey on Taxation'Jded.. p 70.) 2. Such an exemption when made by one legislature is not binding on a subsequent legislature, unless the exemption is founded upon a contract based upon a consideration. ("Cooley on Taxation," 2d ed., pp G7-70;" "Patterson's Federal Restraints on State Action," p 33; "Cooley's Constitutional Limitations," sixth edition, pp 337-!:f) In his work on taxation, supra, Cooley says : The pledge (exempting from taxation), however, in order to constitute a contract, must have the elements of a contract, and the vital elements are consent aud consideration. Consent to the exemption on the part of the state is never by itself sufficient; but there must be something received by the etate for the relinquishment, or something surrendered on the other side which can be deemed a legal equivalent. Again he says: It is perfectly well settled, however, that an exemption granted from motives of state policy merely, and when the state and citizens do not meet on a basis of bargain and consideration, is to be deemed expressive only of the present will of the state on the subject; and the law granting it. like laws in general, is subject to modification or repeal in the legislative discretion. This contract, whether in the form, of a charter or an ordinary agreement, must be

clear in expressing the intent to exempt from taxation ; to use the language of the federal supreme court: But the contract must be shown to exist. There is no presumption in its favor. Every reasonable doubt should bo resolved against it. Where it exists it is to be rigidly scrutinized and never permitted to extend, either in scope or duration, beyond what the terms of the concession clearly require. It is in derogation of public right and narrows a trust created for the good of all. (Tucker vs. Ferguson, 22 Wallace, p 575.) 3. There cannot be implied, from the grant of a charter, an exemption of the corporate franchise or property from etate taxation ; and even the imposition in a charter of a specific form or rate of taxation is not, in the absence of an express contract of exemption from other taxation, to be construed as an implied exemption from such other taxation. ("Patterson's Federal Restraints on State Action," pp 3 J-4.) It will be seen that the idea that franchises were subject to taxation, which impressed the Journal as beinso brilliant, did not originate with The Sentinel. It has long been entertained by the supreme court of the United States, and by such eminent jurisconsults as Cooley and others cited ia the foregoing. The new law provides for tho taxation of franchises, and under its provisions the great corporations which enjoy special privileges will be taxed upon these privileges for the first time, and in proportion to their value. The riaccarat Scandal. It is not surprising to fiud the British religious newspapers taking a despondent view of the prince of Wales and the nonconforming religious bodies of the kingdom expressing their disapproval of his ways in emphatic, though respectful, language. The non-conforming British are, of all people in the world, the most rigid in their ideas of morality, and for horse racing and gambling in all forms they entertain a holy horror. To the minds of most of them cheating at cards is but a trifling aggravation of the offense of playing at all for stakes; and the fact that the heir apparent to the throne, the future sovereign of the United Kingdom and emperor of India, now well on in middle age, should spend his days on race courses and his nights at the gaming table, in the company of dissolute men and giddy women, shocks their moral sensibilities and puts their loyalty to the throne to a severe test. Of course the British people have long known that His Royal Highness was not a model in his private life. In his younger days all Europe rang with his wild follies, and the revelations in the Mordaunt case have not been altogether forgotten. But even the stern British non-conformists can pardon something to youth and can forgive the sowing of wild oats in one's early period, if it is followed by a decorous and respectable middle lne. For some years past tho prince of Wales has paid strict attention to such public duties as devolved uponhim. He has laid innumerable corner-stones, dedicated divers and sundry public and eemi-public institutions, delivered addresses on all sorts of occasions, participated in many undertakings of a popular character, and, in one way and another, mado himself very convenient and useful and agreeable to the British public. .The said British public or at least the very large, very influential and very respectable non-conforming section thereof has come to regard the prince as a pretty decent kind of a fellow, and had half forgotten and almost wholly forgiven the scandals of his earlier manhood. It is true that during all these years unpleasant rumors about the prince's private lifo came to the surface from time to time; that the names of a eood many ladies, titled and otherwise, were coupled with his in the society prints and in current BOEsip; and that occasional tales were told of his plunging at Epsom and at Ijngchamps, and of his high play at Hamburg and at Monte Carlo, which produced occasional nervousness among the good people oi England and .Scotland. But the rumors of gallantry were not fortified; tho stories of rectless play lacked confirmation; and much of the current gossip about the prince was set down as idle, and the loyal and godly Britishers convinced themselves, with some little difficulty, that their future king was grossly maligned, and that the stories which they heard about him either grew out of the follies of his youth or were monstrous exaggerations of comparatively harmless and innocent actions of a later day. In the absence of plans and specifications of dates and full particularsthey gave His Highness the benefit of all doubts, and let him pass for a man who had atoned for a wild youth with a proper and decorous middle age. But in these baccarat revelations the God-fearing Britons have a full bill of particulars of the misconduct of their prince. Nothing is lacking. Date, place, company, game, staKes all the details are given and stand unchallenged. The prince is shown to have carried a gambling outfit with him in Lis visits to the country houses during the racing season and to have acted as "banker" night after night at a game at which tolerably high stakes were played. His associates upon these occasions were men and women against whom the really exclusive drawing rooms of England were closed, and among these associates was at least one cheating card player with whom His Highness had been on terms of close intimacy for years, and whose offense was sufficient, if known, to outlaw him even from the questionable circles In which he moved. This offense the prince sought to cover up in ordr to prevent an exposure from which he himself would suffer. But the exposure was not averted. The world knows the story not the whole story, perhaps, but enough for immediate practical purposes and somo parts of it from the prince's own lips, given under the solemn sanction of an oath in her majesty's high court of justice! That the whole story has not been told ia evident; and there seems to be no good reason for discrediting the rumor, which came by cable yesterday, that the disgraceful expose was brought about by a titled wanton who has long been one of the prince's darlings, but of whose favors the accused baronet. Sir William Gordo Ccmmixq, is said to have publicly boasted that he had been the recipient. Truly "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," and it is not at all impossible that the unsavory crowd which was collected at Tranby Croft last September may have lent themselves to tho purposes ol Lady Baooiu&'a

revenge upon Sir William and entered into a conspiracy to destroy him. Altogether, it is a very nasty mess, and it is not at all surprising that the British Wes'eyans have felt moved to submit to His Iioynl Highness that "by his conduct he offends the religious sense of the people," or thai the disclosures at tho trial have, as the cables say, "stirred to its deepest depths the whole religious world" and "blasted every chance of the nation's granting the prince relief from his debts." Immigration and Tariffs. Speaking of the immigration from Europe to this country the sapient Logansport Journal says : The fact that the flow is inward means eimply that the people of the United States" are the mo;t prosperous. It ia legislation that has ma le it so. It is republican legislation. The restless spirit which does not recognize this highest prosperity, but would overturn it, in the vain hope of creating a greater, finds expression in democracy and third parties. The propositions of these parties should be received with caution. The argument of the facta ia against them. It so happens that the flow has been "inward" ever since the late Christopher Columbus made his famous trip across the Atlantic. It bas been coming this way for 400 years. Before tho republican party had been dreamed of hundreds of thousands of immigrants had come to the United States. They came because of the greater freedom an i the- greater opportunities to rise in the world to be found iu the young republic. Under the free trade iarid of IS 10 51 immigration received a powerful stimulus. When Mr. Walker's free trade tariff passed in 1S46 there had been only two years 1812 and 1843 in which the immigration had exceeded 100,000. The following shows the number of immigrants who arrived in this country each year during the continuance ot this tariff: 1945 ! 154.416 151 .. 427,531 1847 234..tiS l.55 2in..S7 1-4S -S).527 ISoG 2M0.4W ISiJ 2U7,OJ4 157 KUO.i 1.H50 .V.; .!- S IC.'U'-tJ 1.-51 379,4tVH8.i! 12 1.2-' is.52 ;;:iu:t littt bw,010 lo3 OO vJ-lo It will be se. n that nearly 4,000,000 immigrants came to the United States during the fifteen yearB that the Walker free trade tariff was in force. Mr. Owes and the Logansport Journal say Europeans come to the United States to live because this country is more prosperous than Europe, and that this prosperity is due to republican legislation. But there wa3 no republican legislation before 18(H). Surely this country was then more prosperous than European countries, or nearly four million Europeans would not have come here iu fifteen years. The idea that republican legislation has made the rivers run and the gra,s grow, the fields bring forth great harvests and the mines yield gre.it Jdore of treasure, is exqnisiti'ly droll. It leaves all the natural forces which have made this country rich and strong out of account. It overlooks entirely the advantages of soil, climate, natural resources, cheap land, free institutions, popular intelligence which this country has possessed and which insured it a glorious detiur. All these things are ignored, and legislation taxing the peoplo on consumption Instead of on property, and whose oniy effect has ben to counteract, in a measure, our natural advantages, is held up as the cause of all our prosperity. Dr. M( Cosh, tho venerable ex-president of Princeton, who is orthodox in the extremest old-fashioned sense of the term, believes that we are on the eve of just such a rationalistic overflow as flooded England a century or two ago. He depiores the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of people in our largo cities who know no more of the gospel of Christ than do the people in darkest Africa. The trouble, ho thinks, is in the want of united action by all the churches. He has a plan for reaching these people. He would have the churches do more parochial work. He says "Divide up tho cities into districts, and let each church tako a district. Go to work and save souls and make Christians, and leave denominationaiisui alone. Every one is shouting for union, but when you get down to it, it means, 'Join my church.' " There is no doubt that Dr. McCosh has indicated one, at least, of the causes of the decadence of the church. The energies of Christians are expended in denomination rivalry and meantime great areas are left entirely uncultivated. The suggestion of church union and a division of territory are thoroughly practical, but there is upfortu nately not much reason to look for their early adoption Emperor William advises the ministers of fatherland to cut down their sermons to fifteen minutes. What can't be said in that time, he thinks, is not worth sayinz, and perhaps he is more than half right "Old Dr. Lovell of Boston," eays the New York Herald, "used to preach only ten minutes, and he always had a church full. There wasn't any opportunity to go to sleep in the pews, for long before you could get your forty winks he cried 'Amen.' His friends used to say that he drove only one nail home every Sunday didn't tap at it with a tack hammer, but lifted his sledge, let it come down with a thud, and that was all there was to it." If the Emperor William can induce the clergy of Germany to cut their sermons down to fifteen minutes he will establish his popularity on firm foundations and will have no further occasion to fear Bismarck. Presidext Harrison's administration has another nasty scandal on its bands. The complicity in the Keystone bank fraud of Mr. Harrison's comptroller of the currency and one of Mr. Harrison's bank examiners appointed, no doubt, at the dictation of Quay & Co., because they knew he would not be troublesome seems to be even a more serious matter than the Itaum pension frauds or the Alaska seal fishing jobs. We are daily reminded of the fact that it would never do for wome i to go into politics. The press daily accuses Harrison of wearing his grandfather's hat, and no trouble ensues;- yet should the same papers declare that Mrs. Harrison is wearing her grandmother's bonnet a war would be the result. The Massachusetts legislature proposes to gerrymander that state so that the democrats, who had a majority of 9,053 last year, shall have hot two congressional districts, while the republicans have eleven. The scheme ia fathered by the high-

toned "scholar in politics" and civil service reformer, Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge. Massachusetts republicanism is claimed to be a little more decent and respectable than republicanism in other etctes, but the claim appears to have little or no foundation.

Contracts for the full list of books authorized by the supplementary echool book law, passed by the last legislature, have now been awarded, and parents are thus insured another big saving in their school book bill. The supplementary law in express terms makes the use of the contract books compulsory, and there will probably be no attempt in any quarter to resist their introduction. Governor Campbell eays he will be renominated and re-elected. He thinks 1S91 ia a democratic year. It certainly looks that way at this writing. The state tax is 18 cents on the hundred dollars. The MeKinley tax ia GO cents on the dollar. Quite a difference, isn't it? ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. II. C. Cox, Brooklyn, lnd.: Thecounty commissioners are not required to appoint a person of opposite party to the auditor for county assessor. That proposition came up before the legislature, but was rejected. ET CETERA. If Ku?sell Harrison etopped to dot bis I's he wouldn't have time to do anything else. In Russia there is one doctor to every 100.000 inhabitants. The women doctors numbsr 700. Mrs. Cleveland will be one ' of the guests of honor at the New Eng'aod woman's club in June. There are symptoms that Governor Tillman, of South Carolina, regards himself as a candidate for president. Uncle Sam's expense account will contain an entry something like this: "To catching the Itata, ?2o,000, and then we didn't catch her." It will be noticed that the president is not rushing into print with any receipts for money paid for car fare and other extenses during the late trip. Miss Mildred IIowells, only dauchter of W. D. Howeils, the novelist, made her debut this spring in Boston. She will be one of the New York debutantes next winter, as the family intends moving thither. Mr5. Helen Campbell, the well-known writer, lives in a beautifully furnished home in New York in the winter and in Orange in the summer, in another equally pleasant. She is rather proud of the fact that both have teen earned by her pen. Mrs. Louise Chandler Moclton, whose reputation has reached across the eeas, gathers at her Friday afternoons a representation of the best people in literature and art. Cnliko Miss Guiney, her dresses are mostly Paris made ami her hats and bonnets the choicest to bo found. Henry Strange, a colored tragelian, is one of Philadelphia's picturesque characters. He is now preparing to go to Europe on a professional tour. He plays Shaksperean roles, ll'imht being his favorite character. Philadelphia capitalists are backing him in a new theater to cost S"),00' at which only colored actors will appear. Mr. Quay ia believed to be cautiously laying a mine under Mr. Harrison which he will explode at a moment when there will be the greatest destruction of hopes and aspirations. Of course Mr. Quay takes chances of being blown up himself in the mean time. Xtin York WnrU. The German empress is to reside this year with her children et the schloss of tYilhelmshohe, near Cassel, wh-re Napoleon III live! during the autumn of 1S70. Wi!helmhohe, which was created by the electors of Hese, bus long been known as the German Versailles and the grounds are famous for their fountains. Ex-Sen atoii I'kag ax of Texas.who was in Washington studying up on railroad matters, in view of his approaching service on a railroad commission, has not abandoned politics, he eays, and he quietly intimates that a western man is likely to get the presidential nomination from the democrats next year. The 8100,000 needed to secure the admission of women to the Johns Hopkins medical school was raised by committees in eight weeks. When the school is opened women who have passed the preliminary training will be admitted to all the advantages of an advanced medical course, which hitherto has not been possible in this country. Of the various royal and princely heirs in Europe who are unmarried the eldest, with one exception the son of the grand duke of Luxembourg is Trince Victor Bonaparte, thirty years of age. Next comes the Archduke Charles Louis of Austria, who is nearly twenty-eight, and then the duke of Clarence and Avondale, now twenty -esven. The czarewitch is twentythree years old. INDIANA DEMOCRATIC EDITORS. Annual Meeting; of th Aaaoelatlon at Lake Maxlnknckee. The annual summer meeting of the Indiana democratic editorial association will be held at Lake Maxinkuckee on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, June 25, 26 and 27. An address will be made by the retiring president and papers will be read by J. W. French of the Lafayette Journal, Dr. W. D. II. Hunter of the Lawrenceburg li'gistcr and S. E. Morss of The Indianapolis Sentinel, An interesting program of entertainment at the lake has been prepared. On Saturday morning, June 27, at 7 to 8 o'clock, a special train will carry the members of the association and their party from Lake Maxinkuckee to Michigan City about two hours' run where the northern penitentiary will be inspected, the lloosier slide viewed and an excursion taken on Lake Michigan. While at the latter place the association will be th guest of Warden French, Editor Francis and the citizens of Michigan City. The special train will return in the evening, arriving at Lake Maxinkuckee at about D o'clock. In writing for transportation members of the association should be particular to give the name or names of parties for whom passes are required and between what points on designated railroads confined to the above mentioned lines. All applications should be made to the Hon. J. O. Henderson, auditor of etate, chairman committee on transportation, Indianapolis, not later than June 15 and as much earlier as possible. A careful study of the railway timetables as to connections will enable members to choose intelligently the best route or routes for them to take, as well as relieving all concerned of needless correspondence and annoyance. F. J. Arnold, President. S. B. Boyp, Secretary. . Children Cry for

Used in Millions of Homes THE MARRIAGE QUESTION. Mr. Reeve CiMponda to Or. Honser CriticUtns. To the Editor fir: Dr. Houser writes a very pretty article, published in your issue of Sunday, May 24, in which he criticises my book, "The Prison Question," basing his criticism wholly on extracts from the chapter on marriage, made by Tik Sentinel in its notice in the iss'ue of April 10. It ia hardly fair for a professional to criticise any part of a book without reading it; and it generally happens to one who does so as it has to Dr. Houser ; that his criticism is of something tha author has not proposed or thought of. If he will go to the Bowen-Merrill Co., get the book and carefully read it, while he may find abundance to criticise, he will see that I have proposed no such things as he criticises. He will see emphasized what he already knows: that indiscriminate marriage of those wholly unlit to becomo parents has led and is leading to widespread and irreparable physical and mental degeneracy, especially to destruction of moral perceptions and practices; that the offspring of such marriages or if illegitimate can neither provide nor maintain the homes he pictures, nor entertain the emotions, or love, or faith he fixes as a foundation for improvement. Nor can they be "taught" to do so, as he suggests. He will p?e that the chapter on marriage, from which he has read something, is based on what preceds and is qualified by what follows it; and taken as a wnole, the propositions are entirely legitimate in theory and practice ; that such a system of breeding its he seems to perceive is not epoken of ad a proposition, but what is proposed is, that the law shall not continue to open the way lor and encourage the flow of fataily poisonous streams, pouring into the social sea; and a far as it can do so, shall give harmless direction to such as must flow, and cut them off where it can; while it educates the feeble-minded to help themselves eonie, prevents their reproducing their kind; instead of licensing a habitual drunkard to marry, prohibits him as far as possible, and shuts him up it necessary, tj prevent his forcing onto society a brutal progeny. so of the insane, the confirmed criminal, the viciously and incurably diseased. Dr. Hauser does violence to his own intelligence when h-3 asserts (without reading the book) that "Mr. Ueeve's pian car ried out lully would be to 6e!ect a few of the best developed males and fema:es of the human stock, set them apart for the propagation of their kind, for a lew years during the prime of life, changing about and re-muting with others," etc. While such a process would vastly improve the stock, no such proposition was ever made by me. My proposition simply was to prevent the marriage of a few specifically named of such as could beget only a posterity either physically or mentally diseased or degenerate; that is. the law does so now as to a few, and I would enlarge the list to include others which I named; and so divert or dry up so many more vicious sources. How cau this require the "selection of a few," of prime stock only, "in the prime of life,' and "changing about aud re-roating" to breed from? boa he wish it to be understood th.?t lv) is in favor of the licensing and providing lor aiding in civil contracts between those who are viciously diseased, incurably scrofulitic, of insane diathesis, criminal mentality, irreclaimable drunkards, hereditarypaupers, etc., in form of marriage, knowing tiiat offspring of like character must follow ? Doe3 he really believe that the "elegance in art," "dignity of law," "sanctity of religion," he refers to, can be taught to or learned by such characters, or be practiced and maintained by them? Why; "America" has been trying to teach these thing3 by every possible means. What has resulted? In 1K-H) we had one criminal in about every U,otG of population. In 1S0 we had about one in every SX); today we have one in about every 50!) or less; and tot one in ten is arrested and punished or shut up! We cannot build asylums and prisons fast enough to receive and care for the helpless, the defective and the vicious, they flow in on us in euch constantly widening streams; and the viciousness and recklessness of criminal brutality increases in equal or greater proportion'." Such "teaching"' is not enough. If Dr. Houser was teaming in a hilly district hauling heavy loads, he would not trust to a strong team, breeching on the harness, and "teaching" his team to hold back. He would have a brake on his wheels as well. Government is doing that kind of work and hauling heavy loads. That is not all. The steeper the hills the more is being piled on to the load by unwise legislation and irresponsible characters it begets. Its social team can't be "taught" to hold back, and it is not strong enough in moral harness only. It needs a brake and legislative hindrance from adding to the load. Dr. Houser will see that I propose a rational provision if he will read the book. If he has a better plan let him give it to the public. C. IL Reeve, Plymouth, June 5. Cleveland'a Summer Home. Hackensack, N. J., June 5. It is stated that ex-Fresident Cleveland has secured a lease with purchase option of what is known as the "Joe Jefferson Tlace" m Saddle river valley, near the line that divides New York state and New Jersey. The estate comprises about fifty acres. The large etope house upon it, which it is said the ex-president will use for a summer home, is long and low, being built in Dutch style. The farm is in the prettiest part of the valley, and the house is surrounded by beautiful lawns and shade trees. Damigt to the SLiurp Iadastrr. Bismarck, June 4. The heavy etorm which b.Ls just ceased after a duration of three days caused heavy loss to sheep owners, 50,000 sheep having been brought into the state within the last month by farmers and stock companies, and in very few instances were the owners prepared to house them during the lambing period. The losses are knocking the profits out of the whole industry. Gooia Kgg Hall Stoea. Tiffin, O., June 4. The most disastrous hail storm that ever occured in this section passed over Clyde, seventeen miles northeast of here yesterday. Many stones were large as goose eggs. Windows wero broken, trees blown down, telegraph poles broken and wires torn down, lireat damage was done to fruits and vegetables. PltcherCastojrlci.

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BAROSLEN STOCK DEALS. Testimony Showl II, Operation onthl Street Thigh. Ilia Brokra. FniLADELPitiA'a., June 3. The subcommittee of coils that are investigating the affairs ofe City Treasurer Bardsley met again thafternoon. Peter A. B. Weidener emplically denied that he had ever "unloal," as it has been alleged, 400,000 W h Of Chicago traction stock of Mr. Pnrcy. He taid that he had never sold Bardsley a ehare of stock of any kind The presidents ohe following national banks were cadedl denied ever having paid directly or io cctiy to Mr. Bardsley any monetary nsideration for the city money depot.,! in their banks or having benefitted temselves by their business connection with hitn: Fourthst. national bank, echanica national bank, Market-sL ni0rial bank, Commercial national ban People's national bank, Traders' nation. brnk. Merchant's national bank, rro-iucnational bank and the Pennsylvania nati al bank. ti. A. Kuhn, a menr of the broken age firm of Glendennin & Co.. through which Bardsley operatl on the 'street,' was rcaUed. Mr. Kuh-. testified that ix the course of a sg!e year th stock operations with B-dsley amounted in the aggregate tc Sl,2 0.000 anfl that in the same tinr thev borrowec S'.MO.OOO irom Bard!ey ni loaned him' SJ"xt,(). On the 21st oMay last Bardsley caine into the office oGlendenning & Co. and fetated that he wiied to clcse out all his stocks by : o'clock- He waa told that it "was impossible to make such a large sa'e orao short a lime. He then asked if Glenenning & Co. would make a bid on histock. He was told that they would, prviding that he would make his request i writing. This he did and the firm purnase i his stock. At this time Bardsley vis indebted to the firm to the amount of $-'50,000 and the stock ho sold thai was valued at $141,000. Charles H. Bean, contlential clerk for Glendenning x- Co., was he next witness. Mr. liean has charge of t e borrowing and loaning of money for .he firm. It waa through him that Birdley held all his transactions in this line. Mr. Bean was plied with questions as tohow he came to go the Bardsley to borrow money and the conversatious together on he subiect, but to every question he retimed the sterotyped reply: "I don't ren fmber." Philadelphia, Pa., JunA4. The report of the expert accountants tho have been investigating the accounts of ex-City Treasurer i'ardsley was transmitted to the city councils this afternoon by Mayoi Stuart. Ihe work of the accountants has embraced the accounts of both the city and the state, but the report only deals with the forager, as the investigation into the condition of the state funds has not progressed far enough to be made public yet. The report is an extremely voluminous one and gives in detail Mr. Bardsley's accounts w ith the various banks. Although the work of the experts has been kept a secret, still enouch of it was made public at tha hearing of Bardsley last week to foreshadow the report made today. The report thows that on May 21, according to th-j books of the city treasurer's office, there was on hand ?o2,317,00S.50 belonging to the city. Of this amount the books ot the city treasurer show that there wag on deposit in the Keystone bank $437,554.32. This sum is" claimed by Receiver Yardley and Bank Examiner Drew to be wron and that the bank books show the actual deposit to have been $f'3.,309.19. With the exception of this difference between the books of the city treasurer and the Keystone bank, the experts found the funds in the city treasury to represent the required balance to the credit of the city. Continuing, the report says that an analysis of the Kevstone bank balance, whether the same be made from the balance shown in the books of the bank or those of the city treasurer, indicates the true balance of "the city in the Keystone to bfl Si2S,0S .0 This balance is shown in the report by figures to be the correct one. Bardslev had been carrying as cash in the city treasury $1W,P43.10 cf worthless checks drawn on the Keystone bank. In some wav not yet definitely known he raised this amount in cash aud substituted it for the checks. He then went to Bank Examiner Drew and asked that this amount be charged to his account as city treasurer in the Keystone bank and credited to his personal account. This Mr. Drew refused to do. The only evidence of any criminal act of Bardsley with the city money is a misappropriation of $o9,57t. This money belonged to contractors under bonds to the city and Eardslev withdrew it from the bank on bis personal check and used it to make up part of the SUHi.OOO that be required to make good his balance at the Kevstone. Whether Bardrley can be held liable by the city for this money is a disputed question, many claiming that the city has no vested rieht in it. The report states that for the years 1SS9, 1890 and IS'M inclusive, Bardsley collected taxes for the state amounting to $4,242,SS7, and that the same was duly deposited as required. In conclusion the report eays: "We further report that an investigation is now in progress which will reveal the disposition made by John Bardslev of state funds by him received, the particulars of which will be embodied in a report at the earliest possible moment." Arter the Whole Family. Salt Lake City, U. T., June 6. In a fit of jealousy caused by suspicious conduct on the part cf his wife, Sam Liday, a restaurant keener, today shot her alleged paramour, John Kirby, night yard master of the Rio Grande Western, his own child, aved five years, and after firing a hot at his wife turned the pistol on himself and committed suicide. Kirby will die, the ball having gone through both lungs. A Daocerona Neighborhood. Street & Smith'i Good Saw. First Tramp (in suburban town") "Fer hiven's sake, Jake, git away from here quick er we'll both le killed." Second Tramp "Eh? What's matter a bulldog?"' First Tramp "Worse. I just heard the roan o' th' house puttin' down carpets, an' if he hits his finrer he'll be savager than a whole pack o' bulldogs," Valnahl Horaea Killed. Cincinnati, June 4. Lightning struck the barn on the Bugher farm at Woodlawn, this county, after midnight last night and set it on fire. It was consumed with eight blooded horse. Among them was the twenty thousand dollar stallion, Tom Togers, belonging to Mrs. Kate Pugher, widow of the late Horace Bugheij The total loss is estimated at $35,0011