Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 June 1891 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUNE 24, 1831-TWELYE PAGES.

INDIANA. STATE SENTINEL

BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. S. E. MORSS. President. IXttsitd at the PostoflSee at IndUaapolla H aecond chus matter.) TERMS PER YEAR Pin fie eopv (Invariably in Ad ranee.) 1 OO W ask if caoTat to bear In mind and select thf lr cvs state piper when they come to take subscriptions and male np clubs. A rents making np clubs send for any Information eaired. Addess THE IXI1A2 APOLIS EENTINEL Indianapolis. Ind. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 24. 1S91. TWELVE PAGES. The fact that Iligh Tariff fell dead in the American Derby is highly ominous to 3laj. McKinley. High Tariff is already staggering in the political derby and Jockey McKixlzt may yet be crushed under its lifeless body. Blaine's physician says he is better than he has been since he left New York. Aa the physician said then he was entirely well he must be in magnificent shape now. Almost well enough to take his seat at Harrison's cabinet table. The St Louis Globe-Democrat is daily giving an exhibition of most wonderful political acrobatics in supporting McKinley for governor. The O.-D. is at heart a rabid free trader, but it realizes that if Ohio is lost the republican party is done for. Fo it joins in the mercenary pean cf praise to the apostla of a prohibitive tariU. Is the death of Thomas B. Byexes the democracy of Indiana has lost one of its ablest exponents. He was a brave leader, aggressive and forceful, a fair, open and and above-board fighter, earnest in his convictions and thoroughly devoted to liia cause. Democrats throughout the state will mourn his untimely demise with all sincerity. The evening papers and the Journal should have looked more closely into that supreme court decision on the natural gas piping act. Had they done so they would not have been led into the erroneous statement that gas would not be piped to Chicago. The decision, in point of fact, upholds the right of the company to pipe gas to Chicago and surely confirms the right of the legislature to regulate tbe pressure at which it shall be transported. The Cory-! ,n Democrat has a pleasant story to tell of the reconstruction by democratic officials of the finances of Harrison couuty, which had been wrecked by a republican ring. This ring had piled a debt on the county of over $100,000. The demjcrats bave now been in control of the sounty less than two years, but already, by the exercise of strict economy, they have reduced the debt to about $G0,000. The people of Harrison county are to le congratulated upon this showing. The fact is that light taxes, small debts and frugal expenditures are, as a r?neral rule, among the bleaings which democratic counties in Indiana enjoy, while, with few exceptions, the republican counties have large debts and high taxes as a result of that extravagance in public expenditures which is almost invariably a feature of republican rule. A dispatch from Portland eayithat E. T. Jordan, natural gas inspector for Indiana, has just returned from Findlay, 0., and reports a heavy loss of both pressure and volume of gas in all wells there. He predicts that in two yean there will be no gas in Findlay for manufacturing, and also speaks discouragingly of the prospect of the Indiana field. In so far as large cities are concerned we think there is little to fear from the failure cf the natural gas supply. Tbe time is almost at hand when gas will be the only fuel used in cities artificial where the natural can not be secured. Gas making has become a very theap process how cheap, gas makers are very careful to refrain from telling the general public. It is known, however, that certain big Pittsburg firms find iconomy in manufacturing fuel gas even with the natural product at their furnace doors. The natural gas cities, having once learned the value of the fluid fuel, will never return to the older forms even though the earth refuses longer to yield a supply. Chairman Jewett's circular to democratic official?, which the Journal was kind enough to print Saturday, is a sound and timely document. We indorse every word of it. and hope that the officials to whom it was addressed ma act upon it. It is as follows : Democratic Stats Cknteal Committee of Indiana, Indianapolis, Ind., June 2, 1891. Dear Hie Your attention is earnestly inrited to the fact that by the operation of the tax law passed by the last legislature, the assessed value of property has been largely increased in most every locality; in some instances it has. been doubled. It certainly was not the purpose of this law to actually increase the amount of taxes to be paid by the people. They are already taxed to the verge of bankruptcy by the iniquitous tariff law, commonly called the McKinley law. It is at all times the policy and endeavor of the democratic party to reduce taxation. Great care ought, therefore, to be observed, in levying county and other local taxes, to see that the former rates of taxation are reduced enough to avoid the payment of an increased amount of taxes imply on account of the increased assessment. This is a plain and simple duty. It is confidently expected that democrats charged with the fixing of tax rates throughout the state will, when this matter is called to their attention, act promptly and in each a way remove all danger of the people having to pay more taxes because of this recent tax law. In counties where republicans levy the taxes of course no relief need be expected. The republican idea of taxation is to collect every dollar and squander the surplus. Very truly yours, C. L. Jewett, Chairman Democratic ftate Committee. J. T. Kilzy, Secretary. Tiie new U. S. courts of appeals are disrassing th advisability of garbing its Members in gowns alter the fashion of the English courts. It is to be hoped that the project will be abandoned. The flowleg robe on a stalwart man does cot in the least add to his dignity. In fact, it calls to the mind's eye the Roman soldier in the play who wears his tin shield and iword and looks foolish, to the Intense delight of the small boy in the gallery, If the

new judges really wish to "tog themselves out" in honor of their elevation, let them go to a first class tailor and get fitted out with first class seasonable apparel "rich, not gaudy." Tbey will find that their comfort, dignity and purses will all be benefitted by tbis arrangement. I ii nTh TA r -i'. , Wit. T S4 1 - r,MM-A-4

Joseph Ewing McDonald. There passed away Sunday night, just as one day merged into another, one of America's grandest men. Imperceptibly almost as the change which pasees one day into history and puts another in its place in the calendar of time came the transition of the soul of Joseph Ewino McDonald from the life mortal to the life eternal. Death came not as an unexpected visitor, but as one for whom the portals were open the latch string out. His coming was awaited by the one for whom his dread message was borne without a fear and without a regret. Though not unexpected the death of ex-Senator McDonald will prove a shock to the whole people cf the United States, and more especially to those of Indiana, who knew him best. Kind of heart, colossal of mind, noble of purpose, strong of conviction and fearless of action, he put his indelible stamp upon the history of his time. In the laws of his state and of the nation he has left many enduring monuments to his worth. In the hearts of all who knew him he has left a lasting memory of affection. In every sense he was one of nature's noblemen and a nation will unite with that bereft family in mourning an end which, though coming to him when full of years and honors and ripe experience, our human understanding can but regard as most untimely. Rough on the Farmer. There can no longer be a doubt that in the near future the commercial nations of Europe will retaliate upon the United States for the policy of trade prohibition known as McKinleyism. Already Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy and Switzerland have formed a zollverein, the details of which are not made public, but which, it is certain, are hostile to tbe interest of Americans. Nor can it be much doubted that the passage of the McKinley biil hastened, if it did not originate, tho formation of this zollverein. It would not be surprising if the dictators of our protective svstem were well pleased with this European retaliation sought it, in fact, for it serves them a very good turn. The chief beneficiaries of the protective tariff in America are the mnnufacturers, and anything that tends to give them an exciusivo market is, of course, vastly to their advantage. If Germany's manufactures be kept from the people of the United States eo much the better for them. But how about the farmer? "What effect will European retaliation have upon him? It will be simply ruinous. If Europe refuses to purchase his products, whers wiil he find a market? Not in Brazil, with which we have "reciprocity," for Brazil produces a surplus of farm products which she can lay down in the markets of the United States cheaper than the same products can be raised by our own farmers. Nor will the manufacturing population furnish bim a market, for he raises much more then that population requires. The fact is he will have no market at all for his surplus and it will rot on the ground. It is idle to Bay that Europe must have out farm products our wheat and corn and hogs. The fields of Russia and Hungary and India will supply their own needs and those of Europe too if the effort be made, and our own stupid policy of exclusion will force that ellort in the near future. Baron Seiman pointed this out the other day and economists the world over have long contemplated its possibility. The prospect is anything but a cheering one for the American farmer. Europeanre taliation means eventual peonage for him. "With no outside worker the manufacturer will not only dictate to him the price at which he shall buy what he needs but the price at which he shall sell what he produces. Between the upper and the nether millstone the farmer will be ground out of all semblance to an independent American citizen. Another "PreM Diagram Fraud. The New York Press daily diagram seems to be a daily fraud. A good many of the stories which the Press thinks to make impressive by the use of diagrams have been shown up, and it may safely be assumed as to any of them, in the absence of conclusive evidence to the contrary, that it is either wholly false or one of those half truths which are worse .than square lies. Recently the Preu published, with a diagram, the following: A "high tariff democrat" sends us word of a firm of large manufacturers of flannels at Laporte, Ind., whose business has been eo stimulated by the passage of tbe McKinley bill that the cost of manufacture has been reduced. They are now able to oiler, and are offering, flannels which they sold at 60 cents a yard last year, at 47 cents a yard this year. The Sentinel has been at some pains to investigate this matter, and as the results of its inquiries it is able to say : 1. That if there is a single high tariff democrat at Laporte his identity is not known to the people of that city. 2. The best flannels made only retail at 40 cents a yard, as everybody can demonstrate by inquiry at any dry goods store. The Press says the Laporte flannels have been reduced from 60 to 47 cents. When wool was $1 a pound during the war flannel only sold for 57 cents, and it sold from the Laporte mills as low as 50 cents. We are assured that flannel was never sold as high as 60 cents. 3. There has been no reduction in the prices of the flannels made at Laporte since the McKinley law took effect, and no change except that trade is a little duller than usual and the mills have been shut down for some time. Tbe price of flannels is 30 cents a yard for the best grades, weighing from four to four and a half ounces per yard, and that has been the

average price for many years. Wool at Laporte is bringing the same prices as last year from 20 to 25 cents per pound. The Laporte mill men boy mostly at Chicago, where they have large assortments to select from. The Clear Lake woolen mills nell entirely to jobbers, Marshall Field & Co. taking the bulk of their product. They get 27 to 27$ cent a yard instead of 47 cents as stated by the rreu, and this is the price they have been getting for several years. 4. The letter to which the Preu refers was evidently not written from Laporte, because it speaks of the Fox Brothers as the proprietors of one of .the Laporte woolen mills. Thure was such a firm, but it was dissolved six years ago, since which time Mr. S. Fox has been the sole proprietor of the mill. That able journal, the Laporte Argus, reprints the Press story and, among other things, says: This wiil indeed be news to the people of Laporte. The milld have been standing still and it is understood here to be because of an unusually light demand for flannels. Besides this, there has been no reduction in the price of flannels made ! here, and there never was a yard cf such flannel as is made here that ' sold for 60 cents. The whole report is a fake, and the "High Tariff Democrat" is purely an imaginary being, or some "smart Alick" republican, who is "intoxicated by the exuberance of his own verboeity." Here, where all the facts are known, this story will create a broad grin, but it is safe to say nobody will expect an increase of wages from the great flannel boom "caused by the McKinley bill." Neither will the farmers rush into town with wool to get the increased price, because "the increased price" is not yet visible to the eye of the honest granger. "We have gone into some detail in expoping this fraud, because the opportunity to procure the exact facts was so good. We dare say that if all the New York Press1 so-called "tariff pictures" were looked into a? closely the results would be the same. The Press evidently manufactures its "facts" (?), or else it obtains them from others who do. An Event In Brown. The residents of Brown county nearly all participated in a little celebration at Nashville Saturday. Nearly all the residents cf Brown county are readers of The Sentinel, and as this occasion was to a large extent a Sentinel aHTair, they naturally turned out in force. The occasion referred to was the presentation by a representative of The Sentinel to Mr. Jotth Heckmax of $100 in gold, Mr. Heckmax having come nearer than any other one of Ttte Sentinel's subscribers to guessing the total population of the great commonwealth of Indiana on the first day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and ninety. The court house was crowded wifh friends and relatives of the lucky guesser, who rejoiced with him in his good fortune. Quite naturally when the good pcopie of Brown county and their favorite paper thus came together there was a democratic lovefeast then and there. It was a treat to be present. No more substantial, intelligent, honest and contented people are to be found on the face of the earth than the hardy farmers of Brown. Their tnm farms, well-kept fences and comfortable building all bespeak prosperity, and the size of the bundle of Sentinels at the poatoffice weekly assures a high order of intelligence. Congressman Cooper and others expounded eound democratic doctrine and Mr. Heckmax covered The Sentinel's representative deep with grateful blushes by his warm tribute to his paper's confcistni advocacy of the people's cause against monopolies, rings and frauds. His reference to the success of Thk Sentinel in cruehiog oat the school book rintr, securing the passage of the fee and salary bill and insuring honest elections through the Australian ballot law was received with unbounded applause. Altogether it was a most pleasant occasion and The Sentinel is at a loss for words to express its appreciation of the confidence placed in it by the good people of Brown. It wishes them all long life and a continuance of their present happy prosperity, and asks no better indorsement of its course than their lasting approval. McKinley' Cheap Demagogism. The speech which Maj. McKinley made in accepting the republican nomination for governor of Ohio was the speech of a demagogue. It abounded in insidious appealto popular ignorance aud prejudice. "The republican party," he said, "is in favor of gold and silver and also paper money based upon coin, all equal and at all times interchangeable and equal in fact and equal in law." Does tbis mean that the republican party is in favor of or opposed to the free coinage of silver? Who can tell? If it means that the republican party favors free coinage, why didn't Maj. McKinley say so? If it means that the party Is opposed to free coinage, why does not he say that? The advocates of free coinage believe that, if the policy they advocate is carried out, weshall have a currency of gold, silver and paper interchangeable and equal in fact as in law. The opponents of free coinage do not believe this. What Maj. McKinley says on the subject, therefore, is a good Lord, good devil utterance, which can be indorsed by both sides. It was, of course, so intended. When Maj. McKinley says that the public credit and sound finances must be preserved, he says what everybody who is not a crank or a rascal says and believes. But the question is, How can the publio credit and sound finances be preserved? The silver men think this can be most surely accomplished by free coinage. The gold men think otherwise. What does Maj. McKinley think? Who can tell after reading his speech? Maj. McKinley is a little bolder on the tariff question, but here he perverts facta and misquotes authorities and plays the demagogue "to the queen's taste." He says "we the republicans follow in our tariff policy the teachings of Washington and Hamilton and Clay and Webster and Lincoln and Garfield." But not one of these) names can honestly be quoted in support of the policy of the McKinley bill. Hamilton, in his famous "Report on Manufactures," recommended, in very guarded terms and with many qualifications, the adoption of a policy of very moderate protection. The first tariff law, which was framed under his direction, imposed average duties of only 8 per cent, instead of 60 per cent, as the McKinley bill, passed a hundred years later, does. Clay declared that ten years of protection was enough for any industry. Web&tkb

preached free trade for years, and only turned protectionist, and that in a mild way, when the public eentiment of his state compelled him to. Garfield declared himself for a protection "which would lead to free trade," and made some of the strongest free trade arguments ever made in congress. Washington and Lincoln never said a word which can be tortured into sanction of such a tariff measure as the McKinley bill. Maj. McKinley says the democrats "are pledged now to impede, if they can, the prosperity of the country until after the next presidential election" and that "their tariff legislation would benefit every country but their own." What rot is this to coine from a man who sets up as a statesman! The democrats have even a larger stake in the prosperity of this country than the republicans, because there are more of them, and the idea that they would legislate eo aa to benefit other countries aud injure their own is so preposterous that it could not find lodgment in any well-nourished brain. Of course Maj. McKinley does not entertain such an idea, and in pretending that he does he merely advertises his belief in popular credulity and ignorance. Maj. McKinley is a demagogue of the cheapest variety. He lacks intelligence, honesty, breadth of view, patriotism and all the attributes of a statesman. His speech of yesterday reveals him in his true character of an economic charlatan and a political fraud. The Taxation or Corporations. When the constitution of Indiana was framed forty years ago corporation property constituted a very small fraction of the wealth of the state. The subject of corporation taxation did not receive consideration in the convention. But since the constitution was adopted the corporations have increased eo rapidly in number and in wealth that enough revenue could be derived from the taxes on them to support the state government without levying a cent of tax on the people. Pennsylvania levies no state taxes on individuals. The state government is maintained out of the revenue derived from corporations based on their gross earnings. Last winter the legislature of Indiana, with a view to introducing the same eystem, proposed the following amendment to the constitution: The general assembly shall provide by law for a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation; ana shall prescribe such regulations as shall secure a just valuation for taxation of all property, both real and personal, excepting such only for municipal, educational, literary, scientiSc, religious or charitable purposes, as may be epeeially exempted by law: Provided, That corporations may be taxed upon their net or gross earnings in such manner as may be prescribed by law. The Ohio legislature after considering various measures to equalize taxation abandoned them ail and adopted the same policy as the Indiana legislature. An amendment to the Ohio constitution was proposed, and will be voted upon next November, which, if ratified by the people, will enable the legislature to tax corporations exclusively for the support of the state government. In this state the constitution cannot be. : amended 60 quickly. The amendment proposed last winter must again be voted upon by the next legislature before it can be submitted to the people for approval. The Enquirer's gang of boodlers, toughs and penitentiary birds was out in full force all Saturday night and captured the democratic primaries with comparative ease. But the state convention should par no attention to the howling of the Cincinnati delegation. The party in Ohio cannot afford to submit to the dictation of the gang which has control of the Cincinnati machine. If the convention is satisfied that there exists am one the respectable element of the democratic party in Hamilton county any opposition to the reelection of Governor Campbell which would seriously jeopardize party success this fall, some other candidate should be chosen. But if the disaffection in only among the boodlers and disreputables it should be ignored. The press dispatches say that the treasury officials are not dieturbed by the deficiency. But the country is. And when the rising storm of popular indignation begins to beat about their ears it is highly probable that even the equanimity of the treasury officials will be somewhat shaken. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Democrat, Frankfort: The following resolution was adopted by the last democratic state convention : Resolved, That it is the sense of this convention that hereafter the members of the state central committee sLall be chosen on the 8th day of January of each alternate year commencing in the year 1832 by the voters of the reipectivs congressional districts represented by delegates appointed by the respective counties, ana suon delegates shall assemble at tbe call of tbe chairman of the state central oommittee. The members of tbe state central committee tons chosen shall hold their positions for two years mad until their suooessors are respectively elected. ET CETERA. Is a sale of Wilkie Collins' manuscripts "The New Magdalen" brought 21 ; "The Woman in "White," 14, and "Moonstone," 1.10. Ql'een Victoria, having completed her seventy-second year, has exceeded all other English sovereigns except twoGeorges 11 and III. Cakes of soap are used as currency in Qneretaro, Mexico, and are probably rejoiced to know that Mexicans consider them of some value. James Fennimokk Cooper's two daughters, who are now quite old ladies, reside in Cooperetown, in the midst of the scenes made famous by their father's pen. Tue duke of Edinburgh is reported to be the most niggardly man in England. He is forty-seven years old, a confirmed miser, a fine violinist and a good sailor. Bishop Coxa has roundly denounced the habit of women riding bicycles. We're with you, bishop with an amendment in reference to hobbies. Chicago Times. Mart Andersox, having bought a house at Tunbridge Wells, said last week to a reporter: "I have not the siighest intention of ever acting again. 1 have retired forever." Mrs. Gladstone is now nearly eighty, but she bears her age well. Her form is quite straight, her eyes sparkle and her conversation is as bright and clever as it ever was. The favorite wife of the Turkish sultan is said to be Flora Collin, once a poor girl and the daughter of a French coal minor. She was placed with a famous French

dressmaker, who sent her to Constantinople with dresses ordered by the sultan's mother. Mrs. Langtrt is taid to be wearing a pair of black eyes, the result of a dispute with her latest admirer, John Baird, s Scotch millionaire, known' on the turf as Abingdon. Ida Lewis, who received a gold medal for saving two sailors' lives in a terrific storm in Jfarragansett bay when she was ouly thirteen years old, now works in a Bath (Me.) restaurant. Miss Frelinghcy&ex, the daughter of the late secretary of state, is a tall and slender brunette, with fine eyes, clear-cut features and a fascinating smile, bhe is liberal in her charities, aud is especially occupied with kindergarten work. Mrs. Caroline Rosecraxs Wade, now living at Jefferson, O., relict of the late Senator and Vice-President Penjamin F. Wade, was the daughter of Depew Iiosecrans, who was a drammer boy and one of five brothers who "fit in the revolution." One of the most remarkable looking men in the South is Capt. James J.White, who succeeded Gen. R.E. Lee at the helm of Washington and Lee university; he is six feet two, teaches Greek, farms and lectures delinquents all the week, and helps take up the collection and sing bass on Sunday. The first negro woman to practice medicine in Brooklyn registered in the county clerk's office last week. She is Nerina M. H. Morton. She was born in Ohio, is a graduate of the Women's medical college of Pennsylvania, and paased the examination of the regents of the university of the state of New York. Tue czar of Russia has as members of his court fourteen officials of the first grade and 110 of the second grade, thirteen masters of ceremonies, nine "acting" masters, 174 chamberlains, and 258 pages in waiting. There are twenty-five physicians, twenty-four ecclesiastics, eight dames of state, one mistress of the court, two maids of the chambers and 1U3 maids oi honor. A story is told of Dr. Crosby in the Evangelist which he used to relate himself. His house was . once entered by a burzlar, whom he captured and who was sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment. But for three years tbe minister kept up a correspondence with the convict, converted him, secured his pardon, and later had the satisfaction of seeing him become a prominent and respected citizen in a distant town and blessed with a wife and child. London society haa been shocked by the fact that one of the peers of the realm has gone into the dairy business. But the person who has caused this shock is BomethiDg more than a peer, for it 'u none other than Lord Tenayson, the famous poet laureate. As his lordship has his cows on his Isle of Wight place and milk to spare, Le has equipped a dairy, and brand-new miik carta with the name "Alfred, Lord Tennyson," now furnish milk to the tenants thereabout. A letter from Charles Dickens that was sold a few weeks ago contained the following: "I want to hire for "Twelfth Night" a magician's dress that is to say, a black cloak, some kind of doublet to wear underneath, a black band, and a wand with a snake on it, or some such thing. Forster wants a similar set of garments in fiery red, anything between these and the dress of Mephistophclea will suit bim, but it muet have a Rood deal of red in it, only he wants a mask such as Wieland would have if he were a grinning spirit. He must be able to see well out of it I have seen Nathan myse f, but they have not such things. The production of my card will materially assist you with the Lowtruer Vagabond, I dare 6ay. If you can effect this wondeiful work fifty people are expected to fall into fits. Don't leave my card if you can't get the dresses. For they'll stick it np in the chimney glass." TWO IMPORTANT DECISIONS. Worrell Will Oat His Salary and Hyda Bli Office. Thursday tbe supreme court decided in the case of Pretender Yancey against Nelson J. Hyde that the latter is inspector of oils. The court in a lengthy decision holds that the office does not belong to the class which must of necessity be filled by the governor, but it is an office created by statute largely under control of the legislature which created it and falls within the constitutional provisions which coutere upon the general assembly the power to prescribe the mode or manner of selecting its incumbent. The legislature may therefore by statue confer upon the state geologist the power to fill the office by appointment. In the case of John Worrell against Bruce Carr, auditor, where the plaintiff sued for his salary as chief of the bureau of statistics, the court issued a mandate compelling the auditor to pay the full amount of salary demanded, $2,555. The legislature could not, notwithstanding that relator was a legally appointed and qualified officer, discharging the duties ot the office for which a salary is fixed, appropriate money and name another person as chief and provide it should be paid to him and no other; and the fact that such other person who had been actin? as defacto chief prior to relator's appointment, continued to occupy the place, and the auditor had, with full knowledge, paid part of the ealary to such person, is no defense. INCREASED VALUATIONS.

The Citizens' Company and Klngran'e Pork Packing Donee. Superintendent Steele of the Citizens' street railroad company returned the city appraisement blank to Assessor Wolff Thursday, with tbe personal or tangible property of the company listed at$229,245. This is supposed to embrace all of the belongings of the company except the real estate and buildings used for stables and offices. The county board of review will give this valuation a general shake-op. probably raising it to a figure four limes as great as that nominated by Mr. Steele. Last year the company returned its tangible property at about $185,000, and the equalizers increased it to $&50,0C0. A comparison of tbe valuations as made by the company during both years shows an increase of more than $14,000. Kingan & Co.'s list this year amounts to a email amount over $500,000. In 1800 the return did not equal this by $150,000. The Greene County Trustee Case. To the Editor Sir: In The Sentinel of today 1 6ee you mention the case, editorially, of state ex rel Ransom A. Reese vs. George Bogard, appealed from Greene county and affirmed by the supreme court yesterday. The article does not exactly state the facts in the last centence. The commissioners of Greene county are republicans and Bogard is a democrat. The board did not appoint Bogard, but it declared a vacancy and appointed Reese, the man who had been the republican candidate, and in tbe suit I held there was no vacancy aud that Bogard held over, although be was not eligible to be elected, until his successor was duly elected and qualified. The supreme court affirmed my decision. Yours, etc, J. C. Beiggs. . Sullivan, Ind., June IS.

GAS WILL GO TO CHICAGO.

Important Decision of the Snprem Court of Indiana. The anti-pumping act of the legislature of last winter has been sustained in part. But not far enough to prevent the piping of gas to Chicago. "Wben the project to pipe gas from the Indiana field was first agitated it caused much alarm in this state, because it was feared that not only would the supply be soon exhausted, but that manufacturing districts would be greatly injured through the removal of their exclusive opportunity of offering cheap fuel. In response - to this sentiment the legislature of 1SS9 enacted a law prohibiting the piping of gaa from the state. On an appeal from the Jay circuit court the supreme court held this act unconstitutional because it interfered with the freedom of interstate commerce, whose regulation is exclusively within the jurisdiction of the national congress. Encouraged by this decision the Chicago company actively continued its preparations for pipin? gee into Chicago. Valuable leases were Becured in Howard, Grant, Tipton, Madison and Blackford counties, and for more than a year work has been pushod by gangs of several hundred men, plants being put in at Greentown, ten miles east of Kokoino, and at Winamac. It early became apparent, however, that the natural pressure of the gns would not be sufficient to carry it to Chicago ind that artificial forcing must be resorted to. Expensive pumping plants were secured and the work continued to be actively pushed forward. Tbe opponents of the Chicago Bcheme saw in tbe necessity for using extra pressure to gret the gas out of the state an opportunity to obstruct the Chicago movement, and at the last session of the legislature a law was enacted which provided, in effect, that gas should be passed through wrought or cast iron casings tested to four hundred pounds pressure, but must not be transported at more than three hundred prounds pressure; and that no pump or artificial de vise tor increasing tbe pressure should be employed. This didn't disturb the Chicsgo company in the least and it continued its work as if the law had never been enacted, though tho pcnaltj- for its violation was a fine of $1,000 to $10,000. Recently a test case was brought in the Porter circuit court, where Judge Johnston declared the act unconstitutional, mainly because it was an interference with interstate commerce. Judge Johnston held that the antipumping provision was invalid, saying: It would be difficult a lo to invent a Valid reason why the absolute owner of a gaa well may not use on bin own premise whatever meaci he may chooas to increess the flow of gaa from his well and into bi pipes for transportation. It would be still more difficult to find a reason wby such owner may not nee artificial meaus to at least maintain tbe initial flow of the j?ai from the well through p:per. On this point Jude Elliott in his decision save nothing, thus allowing Judge Johnston's rnling to (stand. Last week the supreme court heard arguments on the case and yesterday handed down its decision, which, to the surprise of a good many, reversed the decision of the Porter circuit court and affirmed the constitutionality of the act. The opinion waa by Judre Elliott, Judge McBride filing a separate but concurrent opinion, and Judge Olds dissenting. WILL CO RIGHT AHEAD. The Company Rdther Pleased with tho Decision. Apparently the decision isn't "going to interfere with the operations of the company. In regard to tbe decision, Mr. Winter, one of the attorneys for the de fense, said last night : 'There are three sections in the law and the second is the one which has caused the trouble, and there are three different opinions which have been rendered thereon. Judge Elliott hold that the prohibition in the second section against tbe use of artificial means or pumping devices is only to prohibit the the pressure produced thereby exceeding 300 pounds to the square inch, aud that artificial means can be used to force or pump the gas, provided the preseure does not exceed the natural pressure-, which is 300 pounds to tbe square inch. That is the opinion of a majority of the court. Judge McBride renders bis opinion, which is substantially the same as the above. Judge Olds thinks the court has ro right to construe the law as it does, as it practically leaves out tbe second section, which provides that no artificial means shall be used for pumping or forcing gr.s either to maintain or exceed the natural pressure of the gas, and that by leaving this out the law is made unconstitutional. There is no need to carry the case to the U. iS. supreme court, as the opinion of Judge Eliiutt simply knocks out of the law a'.l there was in it. The gas company will go on end build its line, as the only question remaining is as to bow close together pumps shall ie placed in order not to exceed the natural pressure." Tho following was received last night by TiiE Sentinel: R. C. Bell, one of the attorneys in the gas case, on being interviewed said: "I have not seen lbs decision of the court, but I understand that it permits artificial pressure to be nsed up to 300 pounds to the aquare inch. If that it eo, it is all we want and we can and will proceed to pipe eas to Chicago at once. It is well known that the dynamio force or well pressure of natural gaa in the Indianapolis field ia but about 325 pounds. This pressure will only overcome tbe friction of the pipes and the resistance of the atmosphere so as to force gas ia pajintr quantities about sevanty miles through pipes of ordinary sire. To take it further, artificial aid must be used in tbe way of pumps. Two yeara aero tbe legislature enacted a law prohibiting the piping cf gas out of the state. That law waa held by onr supreme court to Le oncoraututional. Tbe last legislature, knowing the foregoing facts, attempted to do indirectly what the court acid could not be done directly. It attempted to prevent the um of any and all means to aid in the transmission of gas through pipes and thus to restrict its use to a limited territory. In this it has failed, as I think it ought to fail. Under this decision, as I understand it, we can and will go on in our enterprise of piping gas to Chicago. Tbe principal point decided is that we may use artificial means to maintain tho flow and pressure of natural at through pipes that will answer all our purposes. I mink the court did not go far enough. It should, in my opinion, have held that we could use auy pressure not actually daogeroua. On that point ws may yet fo to tbe supreme eourt of the Uaited States. As to that I can not now aay. Much higher pressure ia known to be safe. The we 1 pressure alone in Pennsylrania is about 600 pounds to the square inch. However this decision is so much in onr favor that va will be contani with it, Of one thing yon may rest assured 'natural es will be piped by us to Chicago and the visitors to the world's fair will see it burning there and piped from the Indiana fields.'' iTscd in Millions of Homes

THE EIGHTS OF ASSESSORS.

OPINION BY THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL Officers nT the III jot to Examla Hooks and Papers of Corporations Penalties for Disobeying tho Law. In answer to the following question! For the purpose of lining and assessing property for taxation and equalizing and collecting taxes hare the township and county assessors, the county auditor, auditor of state, boards of review aud the state board of tax commissioners the ri?ht and power, without the consent of tbe owners thereof, to inspect and examine the books and papers of all corporations and taxpayers ia this stale Attorney-General Smith gave the following decision: Section thirty-four (54) of tha general tai law provides that for the purpose of properly listing and assesio? property for taxation and equalizing and collecting taxes the towufhip assessor, county assessor, county auditor, auditor of state, boards of review and the state board of tax oomamsioneis, shall each have the rizht to inspect and examine the records of ail putiio oSces and the books and papers of all corporations and taxpayers in this state, without charge; and they also shall have power to administer the nee-s-sary oaths or affirmations in the discharge of their duties; and it shall be the duty of all assessors, and all other officers charged with tba duty of listing property lor taxation, or charged with the duty of collecting taxe, to give in writing all information they may aoj aire in reference to the concealment of property from taxation by any person or corporation before mentioned to the county auditor, auditor of state, or to the board of review or tax com-mii-siooers. This section gives the tax officers, named I luciciii, iuq t (gull id iu?ci.fc aau examine ma i records of all puhiic olhces, and the books and papers oi all corporations aud tax-payers in this state. The serious question is, in what manner sbatl this inspection and examination be Lad? It seems very clear that the right to such inspection and examination is not an arbitrary one, nor is it given at the w.ll of those whose duty it ia to list property for taxation. The law itself provides the way the in apection and examination of the books and papers of persona and corporations may be had. Section fifty-five (53) of the same act provides that "it any person or corporation shall give a false or fraudulent statement of his property, he shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $:0, nor more than (5,00)3, to be enforced and collected in a court Laving jurisdiction of the offence. Section fifty-six (56) provides that where any person shall refuse to make a statement ot his property to the assessor, the assessor shall pro eeed to ascertain the description and value of the property thus withheld, and to enable him to arrive at descriptions and values, and the amount of property held by tbe delinquent, Le may examine, on oath, any peroo or persons having knowledge of such de erriptioDS and values. And such assessor shall mate a note of such refusal in a column oppote tba per son's name, and the county auditor shall add to tbe valuation thus ascertained by tbe assensor, and return to him the additional sum of 50 per centum on the value ao returned. Section fifty-seven (57) makes it a criminal ofiens for a person to refuse to answer under oath as to the property which he owns, or to testify as a witness as to the value and amount of property cf other persons, fixing a fine at cot less than $10 nor more than Sf 00, to which may be added imprisonment in the county j jail not exceeding six months. I Where it tecomes necessary, for tha purpoaa of properly listing aud aseiFin property foi taxation and equalization and collecting taxes, to exatuine into and inspect the records, books and papers of persons and corporation, township assessors, county asttesdor, county auditors, auditor of state, boards of review and the board of tax commissioners may summon before them, or each of thm, any person whose property is sought to Le ai'ected by the examination, or the president, secretary, cashier or other officers of a corporation, or any other person supposed to have knowledge of the no eject under controversy, and examine them under oath as to the kind, amount and value of the properly sought to he listed, aseeted or eqca ized, and shall hare power to require any person or officer to produce for examination, by any of the tax officers named, any books, papers or records belonging to or in the possession of any such person or ofboer. And tbe tax o dicers herein named hare power to administer oaths and affirmation! in the discharge of their duties as prescribed in the several sections of the statute herein named. And auy person or officer or representative of a ccrporation who shall re'ue to give to the assessor, county auditor, boards of review or state tax commissioners any information relating to his own property or the property of such corporation of which he is a representative, or fail to make out and deliver to the proper offictt the lists and statements required of Lim Ly law, or dtliver. when properly re quested to do eo for iuspectiou and ex animation, any books, pateia or re?ordi necessary to the proper listing and equaliza tion of property lor taxation, shall te subject to the fines, penalties and forfeitures hereic nsuied. The statute does not provide for forci ble entry and seizure of the books, papers and records of either persons or corporations tot tbe purpose of inspection aud examination, o; for any other purpose. Where it becomes ueeea sary to uiak pi:ch examinations, the law authorizes the officer Laving that duty in charge to require the custodian of such books, papers and records to produce them for examination bolore him, and that he may then heal evidence relating to them in the same mannei and form that a judicial inquiry might be ear ried on ar.d :n relation to matters of the sam kind before a court of justice. Where tbe tax-payer refuses to comply with the provisions of tbe statute by delivering to the assessor proper statements and schedules of his property, it is the duty oi tbe assessor and the several boards of review to institute a judicial inquiry into the character, description and value of the property thus withheld, and to return tbe same properly scheduled and listed with values affixed thereto according to tbe evidence thus taken, and it becomes the duty of tbe county auditor toadd tocuoh valuations the sum of L0 per centum; and it is farther the duty of such tax officers to lay all such matters before the prosecuting attorneys of their respective counties, and to cause all such persons to be prosecuted under the provisions of the law herein mentioned. In this manner it seems tbat the assessor and boarda of review may ascertain the description and value of all property thus withheld in their jurisdiction and cause the same to be properly placed upon the tax duplicate for the purpose of taxation. INTO THE RIVERNinety Foot Solrtdal Jump from tha Cln clnnatt llrtdse. Cincixk ati, 0., June 10. This afternooa a large number of passengers over tha Cincinnati and Covington suspension bridge saw a man deliberately jump into the river ninety feet below. He was rescued alive by boatmen and taken to the hospital where he died two hours later. He waa able toepeakand tosav his motive was suicide, but refused to identify himself further than to give the name of Richard Rhein. lie ia a stranger here. At all events no one has been able to ideutify him. Blaine All Bight. Bar Harbor. Me., Jane 20. Mr. Blaine's physician saye he has bad no re lapse but is steadily improving and is in better health than since his illness in New York. 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