Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1893 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY MORNING JUNE 21, 1893 TWELVE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. S. E. MOUSS, President.

fEjiti3 at the I'ostoffice at lotllaoapolia aa second claim matter. TEiniS I'EU YKARi firp'e copy (Invarisbly in Advance.) ....t OO V ak. lenicrrat to t nr in nund and relict th-ir ewn null' paper when they com Vo take snbserip. t er and wake up clubs. Secuta making up cluts serid for anr Information ircJ. -AcdtwTiiE 1IL1A APOLIS 8KNTINEL Indianapolis inj. TWELVE PAGES. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 21, 1893. There may have been something said boat it before, but it is worth repeating: Repeal the Sbermaa law. Ocr eastern friends appear even mora worried about the income tax than about the Cö-cent dollar. The suggestion hits them very bard. Tite "honest money" papera are anxiously explaining that the low price cf wheat is due to an oversupply. How about all other commodities? A marked improvement is reported in the treasury situation. Whan people (tot over their scars they will learn that they really had very little cause to be frightened. The Indiana exhibit may not be satisfactory in all respects, but everyone will be proud to know that the Indiana building ia supplied with two kinds of waterLot and warm, we presume. Jr.T hevinjrs ! The New York Financier proposes a bounty on gold production to stimulate mining. Why not try a bounty to brace up the cheerlesi industry of cutting coupons off from government bonds? If the billion-dollar congress had net been so busy with local steals of various kinds it might have noticed that some of the government buildings in Washington were insecure, and have made provision for new one. The New York Tribune thinks IIoi.man was responsible for the coilapse of the Ford theater building, because he stands for "false economy." Why not lUme it ;o the bil ion-dollar concress, which voted 11 the money in the treasury to bounty md subsidy grab'otra? Tariff reformers want to keep in mind always tea', a reduction of most of the t&rili rates now imposed will cause an increase in the revenue derived from the articles imported. There cefd bs no danger of a deficiency of revenue arising from alow tri:i'. 1'ut down the protection and the revenue will take care of iteeif. Now that the New York brinks have pursued thiir endeavor to embarrass the national treasury until they have got theinpelves int trouble they come forward with a generous proposal to benefit the trouble bv "restoring confidence," and stop the drain of money from New York to the western bnkd that have been carrying deposit there. New York is never happy unlets she i playing 11isell Sage to the West's L.wdi aw. We beg to ca 1 Mr. Ci.kw'h attention to the fact that no bonds have been sold, and that void is returning to the treasury. The country should not the fact aleo. This is the first genuine knock down that Wall-et. has received from tbe government for many a year. The state will l ack Governor Matthews in hid bold and defiant declaration that if prize-fighting is allowed in Lake county he wilt have an investigation of the officials. For these plug-uglies to come into the state and engage in prize-fiirhieafier thegovcrnor has given pah i- notice that our eoil shall not bt thus polluted, even if he has to call out the militia, is the hight of impudence. But. his new statement of his Intentions will send them cowering to their lair. Koby has had an investigation and nothinz in the neighborhood will ever dare face another one. These bruisers may run over Home people, but when they tackle the quiet but determined man who nolds the prerogatives of Inuianaihey will har something drop. At least thev will if ther listen closelv. The honest, cultivated and educated appearance of the Panama swindlers rather tumped a Berlin physiologist aud phrenologist who was on the look out for j-ome betraying signs or bumps of a criminal nature. "Fraud and embezzlement," he savB, "arq crimes which can be committed only by educated and capable men, who do not, like true criminals, inspire repugnance and distrust by striking external signs of degeneration. In place of these repellent features we see the creed and that habitual lying which unfortunately has become rather too conventional in modern civilization. Accordingly, the fraudulent politician is not so mach a born criminal as what I should call a criminaloid, with the characteristics of the average man. He would not become guilty without a tempting opportunity. Both in Faria and Rome the temptations were many and great. The frauds in France and Italy have for their coxmon caaae the prevailing political conditions." A reader of The Sentinel at Rushville says the people at that point are complaining bitterly of the high rates of insurance, and are proposing the organization of a local company to do their business. Without knowing the exact facts we think it safe to assume that the complaint is not wholly justifiable. Unless Rush vide be an exception the rates are probably not too high for safe underwriting. It is a mathematical fact that nearly all fire insurance companies have besn doing business without profit and generally at a loss in Indiana for several years. In sheer self defense they have been compelled to advance rates. In years gone by rates have been too low in Indiana, and the people have suffered much from "wild catting." Unless rates at Ru.tbville are higher taan those charged elsewhere in the state they are not beyond the requirements of safe underwriting; and take it that nobody wants anything else. As to the proposition to start a local company, that is shortsighted, for in the event of a fire which should wipe out the whole town the company would go too. Safe insurance reQuires wide separatio of tkd parts of the

aggregate risk. This cannot be secured with a local company. We feel safe in assuring the people of Rushville that if they will examine the fire statistics of Indiana, or of the country at large for that matter, they will find rates are no higher than necessary to secure insurance that insures.

The Balance of Trade. Although the esteemed Journal has no responded to our request to harmonize its theory, that gold goes abroad to satisfy the balance of trade.with the official statistics of twenty years, it returns to its assertion of that absurdity in the following language: It is not because coin certificates are being issued - that gold is going abroad, but because the balance of trade is decidedly against ns. As elated a few days ago, the gold would be sent out of the country to pay the adverse balance just the same if the Sherman silver law were not in existence. If the Journal will not attempt to defend its theory will it not at least inform the public where it obtained its informa tion that "the balance of trade is decidedly against us?" The official records doss not show anything of the eort. in the two years and nine months to March, 1S'.)3, our exports of merchandise exceeded our imports $157,39t.83G, or, as it is commonly put, the balance of trade, in goods, was in our favor to that extent. Nevertheless, we have exported in gold and silver during the same two years and nine months $101,228,870 more than we have imported. In other words the total balance of trade in our favor in that period has been $258,025,712. It might be claimed that this excess of exports has been swallowed up by a preceding ''unfavorable balance of trade," but the official records show the opposite. The general balance has been in our favor for years. From July, 1S73, to March, 1S03. we exported $l,S07,155,9öO more of goods than we imported. And in the same period we exported $2G3,1GS,297 of gold and silver more than we imported, so that for twenty years the balance of trade stands $2.070.324,247 in our favor. Why then does our neighbor talk about the balance of trade being againBt us? If there were anything in its theory trold and silrer ought to be pouring into tbii country in a flood. The JournaCt theory is as absurd as it would be to say that the difference between what an individual bought and sold in a year could be measured by the difference between the amount oi money he took in and paid out. There many other factors that enter into the movements of both goods and money, and they art more important in measuring the prosperity of a country than the "balance ot tradft." Few persona have any idea of the extent of the movement of money independent of its use in the purchase and sale of goods. The Kng'uwrring aiol Mining Journal has recently given an estimate of our annual payments to Europe, independent of commerce, which has been condensed as follows: Money ppent by travelers abroad, $75,000,000; freight paid foreign bottoms, :V,5'0,000 ; interest and dividends on railway securities held abroad, 24,000,000; interest and dividends on loans and mortgages, $t ,000,000 ; returns paid on industrial shares held abroad, $9,000,000; interest paid on mining shares likewise held, Sl.öoO.OOO; interest on state and municipal bonds, $l,S00.000; interest on government bonds, bank stocks, etc., $3,000.000; total annual payments, $158,bO0,O0O. There is no material return of either money or goods to this country for there payments, and yet in twenty years' time they would nearly twice wipe out the "balance of trade ' in goods in our favor. Moreover, this estimate is below the truth, for there are a number of important items omitted. For example, the congressional committee now investigating the New York custom house has learned that immigrants to this country send annually $00.000,000 to relatives in Europe, and there has long been complaint that our Chinese residents have been sending large puma in the opposite direction. Insurance is another considerable item. There is no convenient method of ascertaining the sum paid for that, but it is certainly large. In 1S'2 there were twenty-one foreign (i. e foreign to the United States) fire and two foreign life companies doiug business in Indiana, which took out of this state $157,93.70 more than they paid in losses in that year. It would be safe to estimate $7,000.000 a year irom the whole country for insurance profits. Another factor, which distinctly, afreets commerce, is the question of ownership. When Clais Spkeckles brings sugar to this country from his Hawaiian plantation he does not fend anything hack to pay for it. It stands on the records as a part of the trade against us. though it adds to the wealth of this country. So when Kincan & Co. ship meats abroad they probably receive at Liverpool all the profits of their Indianapolis establishment in that form, and make no return to this country for it. It is well known that there is a heavy investment of foreign capital in this country, outside of stocks and bonds, and that the profits accruing from it go abroad, either in goods or in money, with no trade return to this country. For these reasons it is manifestly impossible that the balance of trade could ever give any measure of our prosperity, or furnish any sufficient reason for the movement of specie to or from us. There is also a curious and interesting disproof of the JonrnaTg theory in the experience of Great Britain, which is almost exactly the opposite of our own. England has for many years imported more than she exported. Since 1858 there has not been one year in which her imports of goods did not heavily exceed her exports. During the same period her imports of gold and sliver have been largely in excess of her exports. During the period from 1853 to 1800, inclusive, the "balance of trade" in goods against her has been $376.5-5 per capita, and in specie $14.80 per capita. As her population has averaged about thirty-three millions, her unfavorable balance in goods has been about $ 12,420, 150.G00, and in coin $188,400,000. If the Jovrnar theory were correct England wou'd be bankrupt, but as a matter of fact she has been very prosperous during these thirty-three years. She does not owe for these imports. She is not tending out money to pay for them. They are profits that she it drawing from other countries. In troth there is, under ordinary circumstances, no better evidence of prosperity for a country than an "unfavorable balance of trade." A favorable balance, such at we havahad

under republican rule, shows that our profits are being drained abroad to more prosperous countries. The Foe and Salary Decision. The decision of Judge Bkown in the fee and salary case is so sweeping in its lines of argumeut ns to lead to the conclusion that there are very few, if any, laws in this state that are constitutional. The decision of Judge Taylor in the Shutter case, some weeks eince, was an intimation to the same effect, and it really seems important for the people of Indiana to inquire where they are at. We cannot agree in Judge Urown's conclusions, or perhaps better we cannot see how, if he is correct, the state can be said to have any law of any importance. For this reason we file a dissenting opinion now. As to the omission of provision for a part of the Shelby county officials, it seems reasonable enough that the amendment inserted by the secretary of state in printing the statutes is of no effect, but why that should make the remainder of the bill

unconstitutional is not clear. The mode of making, special provision for the officers of each county appears clearly authorized by the constitution and it seems strange that the omission of two or three officers in one county should have the force of changing a general act into a local or special one. How can it be Baid that the compensation received by the omitted officers is not properly graded '"in proportion to the population and the necessary services required?" There can be little doubt, however, tbat this is the strongest point in the plaintiff's case, and that on this ground, if any, the law will go down. It is not the first time that a little carelessness has undone the work of many days. The ruling that the provisions for the acta taking effect in each county at the expiration of the terms of elected officials makes the law local or special is one that does not seem right. Judge Bkown says: It is the operation and ellectof a statute that determines the question of generality and uniiormity, not the form. "A statute that can not be reduced to a general ruie, to operate in ad parts of the state alike, is not general law." (King va. state, 3 Law Reporter, 210.) This is a very sensible rule and the law complies with it. It operates universally and uniformly on all persons similarly situated. It does not affect all individuals in all counties at precisely the same time and in precisely the same way. Neither does any other law. The law against murder may not ailed anyone in half tha counties of the state in any year, but it affects all equally when they come under its conditions, and that is what has always been understood to constitute uniformity and general effect. There are certainty a number of laws thatare unconstitutional on this ground if the fee and salary law in for example, those requiring convioted criminals in certuin counties to be sent to one penitentiary and in others to the other. The next point is the question as to the title of the act and the subject matter. As to this Judge Brown says: In my judgment, the matter of fees prescribed by the act of lS'Jl is a subject different and distinct from the compensation of officers. The fees which are assumed to be prescribed by the act are no part of the officers' compensation, but they are made a part of the public revenue, and the public revenue is not a branch of the subject "Compensation of Officers." The constitutional provision confining an act to one subject is mandatory. (rubbs vs. state, 24 Ind., 2'.5. Sutherland on statutes, sec. 70.) The subject mtiöt be single and the title must be broad enough to include all the provisions in the body of the act. By the act of 1801 all classes of officers, all sorts of fees and many matters of revenue are included. I am of the opinion that there are a multiplicity of diverse subjects in this act which are not embraced in the title, and it id, therefore, void. The directions for disposition of the fees collected by officers are certainly connected with their duties, and it has always been considered proper to unite the compensation and duties of officers in the same act. The tax law, for example, would bo unconstitutional on this ground if this ruling be adhered to. Many of our criminal laws provide for the disposition of lines, which are a source of revenue, but we are not aware that their constitutionality has been questioned on this account. Certainly, there are a great many laws which would be entirely wiped out if the courts put as strict a construction as this on the constitutional provisions concerning title and subject of laws. Neither can we agree with Judge Brown's proposition that "if fees and salaries must be fixed upon the basis of population and service, there can be no surplus for the benefit of the public;" or that "revenues can not be secured by burdening litigants, and court costs in excess of the compensation to the administrative and executive officers certainly is such a burden." It has always been understood that justice was free when the defeated litigant paid the cost of getting it. That cost is not limited to the personal services of the judicial officers. Court houses must be kept up and necessary conveniences supplied. The constitutional provision is that compensation, not fees, shall be graded according to population and services. The plaintiff contends that jus tice is free if he pockets the fees, but that it is not free if he collects the same fees and pays part of them to the state. That may be good law under the Indiana constitution, but it is not good seuee. The decisions of the supreme court in this case and in the Shutter case will be awaited with much interest. If Judges Taylor and Bkown are correct we shall need a great deal of legislation, and indeed, it will be very difficult to enact laws that are constitutional. Probably it would be better to et a new constitution, and get rid of this old one which seems so subject to varying interpretation and so fruitful of the overthrow of remedial laws. A WUe Delay. With all due respect to the judgment of President Cleveland, may it not be said that if the financial situation calls for a special session of congress at any time, it cans lor aucn a session now; iODouy is going to learn anything more about the money question by keeping him for three months longer hot with suspense as to what the future monetary policy of the country la to be. Sprinyjüld liepnlUcan. Well, that depends. There are a great many people in this country who might learn a great deal about the money question in three months it they would apply themselves to investigation and thought. The llcpublican may hay noticed that

number of iU protectionist contemporaries are actively promulgating the theory that gold has been pom;; out of the country because we were importing too much, and that the proper remedy is to make the tariff wall higher. These will have an opportunity to learn that their position is ridiculously fa'ae, and will havo their minds turnod toward the real causes of tho financial disturbance. Possibly they may even learn that the increase of foreign

discount rates, coupled with the ingenious provisions of the Sherman law for the ready abstraction of gold from the national treasury, caused the movement of gold to EuroDe, and tbat tho movement will cease with the ending of the tempo rary foreign demand. Actual experience is the one thing that can dispose of this delusion effectually. There is an opportunity for the "honest money" people to learn a great deal in three months. Possibly they may realize the absurdity of claiming that the remedy is to put our currency on a gold basis when they learn that it has beeu on a gold basis for twenty years, and that during that time the country has been subject to more financial troubles than in any equal preceding pariod. Poesibly newspapers like the New York I'o4 and New York Turns may become weary of telling their readere that the decline of value of silver U due to cheapening of the processes of production when they learn that gold is extracted at less cost than any other metal, or that it is due to increased production when they learn that the world's supply of silver is but little more than half what it was in proportioa to gold when our silver dollar was at a premium in gold. Time may work wonders also in calling attention to the decline of all commodities, demonstrating that tie so-called decline of silver is in fact an appreciation in gold. The prico of wheat has been a striking object leason for several days past, and it is quite within the limits of possibility that many persons may learn that the defect in our currency is not a $0 eürcr dolar, but a $1.35 gold dollar. There is even room for hope that the eastern press may come off its high perch and condescend to discus the silver question on its merits, instead of trying to bluir the country with nursery arguments. There is also in three months' time opportunity for a great many advocates of silver to learn much to their advantage. They may become able to see that the Sherman law is in hostility to every just principle on which the demand for the free coinage of silver is founded, that it does not in any way promote the return of the two metals to parity at coinage value, but has in fact put them farther apart; that instead of making money cheap it is making it dearer every day. They may realize that the basis on which a currency rests determines itt value, and not the amount of credit currency issued on that basis. Monometallism is inflation. If you have a currency one-half specie and one-naif paper, the effect is much the same if you double the amount of paper as if you remove one-half the epecie. You have twic as much to pay, or you have haif as much to pay with. The Bland law of 1S7S and the Sherman law of 181)0 alike provide merely for the issuing of more credit money on a gold basis. It is only when silver coin is put in the condition of a thing to pay with, and not a thing to be paid, tbat it can have any effect in restoring the former relation of money to commodities. With all this opportunity for education before the country we think the president acted wisely in giving the people time to think, and in urging them to think. Under ordinary circumstances taoi men pay little attention to theories of currency. They imagine that the money question is largely theoretical nl that the country will get along fairly well with any kind of currency. Now they are beginning to realize that it is of the greatest practical importance. They are beginning to learn that there is a radical defect in our currency, and not one thai is to be mended by temporary expedients; that it is something that is affecting the civilized world, and not this country alone; and that other countries are waking up to the necessity of a restoration of bimetallism as well as ourselves. Unquestionably it is well to take a little time for earnest tbouzht, and we trust that the people ot the East will not waste it. It is mofe than gratifying to see the St. Louis Republic falling in line for tho repeal of the Sherman bill as the first Etep toward stable currency. It says: To those who have concern only for the welfare of the country and its people as a whole the opinion of the bullion producer is of interest alone in so far ae it may interfere with and prevent the immediate and quick repeal of tho abomination invented by Mr. Sjikrxian. Thev clamor for the repeal of thin law because it is an outrageous decoption and a fruud, which has operated to assist and intensify the evils of goal monometallism. The demand they make for its repeal is without qualification or reservation. Seeing how th net result of the treasury operations under the provisions of this law during the thirteen months ending .May 31, 1S03, was an exchance of $17,745,173 of gold for an amount of silver worth materially Ics-s than that today, and the Lisue of treasury notes, which are in practical ellect gold obligations, for $2.210.011 moro, who can eseay to defend its inconceivable imbecility? Nobody does offer defense. The bullion producer askssomething more satisfactory to him. The gold monometaliist appeals for unconditional repeal. The biraetallist insists that the act be expunged from the statute books. Here is a fortunate concurrence of sentiment. Let trie Sherman act be repealed whatover else we do. This is the correct doctrine. Bimetallists can never win if they walk blindly into the trap set for them by John Sherman Repeal the Sherman law. Three-caud montesharpe continue their weekly journeys through Indiana. They seam to confine their operations largely among the farmers. We have the pleasure of recording the fact that Mr. Jamu Eby of Wayne county was met by these sharpers last week and out-witted them, or if he did not get any of their money they failed get any of his. They bought his farm, as is usually the case with this gentry, and he was on the way to Richmond to receive the money which they pretended to have there in bank. En route the tharpers proposed a game of cards. The wily farmer kept out of the game and intended to have them arrested in Richmond, but they grew suspicious and fled. Don't play cards with men who have bought your farm isTnic Senti

nel's advice to Indiana farmers, and when you do pell be sure you get your money before you deliver your farm. A writer defines a "fair wago" as one that provides for restoring the exhaustion resulting from labor and for leaving a margin over for cickneB and old ate. The journal of Labor, in referring to this definition, says : "A good many people consider they take pretty advanced ground in the direction of demanding justice for labor when they proclaim such doctrine as this, yet this is jutt what any sensible slaveowner would have given his blavee. To have given him lets than enough to restore the exhaustion resulting from labor would have been false economy, since it would have depreciated the value of the slave as property and have involved diminished labor returns. To provide for a s'avo in eicknees was equally tho part of wisdom from a purely selfish standpoint. If the wage system can be made "just" as euch writers conceive of justice, it would only benefit the worker by giving him that support in old ace which the most brutal of slave-owners hardly declined his wornout chatties." ET CETERA.

Paris has an insurance company that refuses to iesue policies on the lives of any people who use hair dye. In Denmark it is the law that all drunken persons shall be taken to their homes in carriages provided at the expense of the publican who sold them the lastglofs. One of the most interesting periods of Lord Salisbury's life was the year he spent in the Australion gold fields when a youth. He roughed it there like any other gold digger. Miss Bascom, who has just won her degree of Ph. D.in geology from Johns Hopkins university, has had many offers to teach her speciality in schools and colleges, and has finally accepted a chair in a college at Columbus, O. Dr. Delavan Bloodgood. U. S. N., who became widely known on account of his striking resemblance to the late James i. Biaine, is to be retired in Ausust. Dr. I'loodgood will retire in good order, but very much against his own desires. Kail i.am, the Hawaiian princess, is livinz in the village of Burton Latimer in Northamptonshire, England, where ehe occupies a pretty cottage in company with an elderly woman who acts as a companion. The cottage is three miles from the road where the princess was educated. The "jag cure" law now on the statute books of Michigan provides that anyone convicted of drunkenness may choose between a term of imprisonment and submission to a course of treatment at some Keeley institute. The county shall spend at least $70 trying to cure the prisoner of his desire for strong drink in case bo elects to be ' cured." Tue Emperor William will command in person the Sixteenth army corps at the autumn maneuvers. A novelty in the maneuvers will be the appearance behind the cavalry of a corps of sharpshooters, armed with the new small caliber rifles, provided with smokeless powder and riding in Eteel-clad, bullet-proof vehicles. From 1S20 to 1856 there came to this country 4,212,024 immigrants, of whom about 3,400,000 came to settle, while the others were mere visitors or sojourners. During the thirty-six years, 1850-92, the number of immigrants had risen to the total of 12,371,1)00, so that altogether during the century 10,000.000 aliens hare arrived in the United States. The latest feat of enterprise to be performed by the Mexican government is the building of a railroad from a port on the (iulf of Mexico to one on the Pacific ocean. The railroad will be leas than 200 miles in length and will form a new highway for the commerce of the world. The project is by no means a new one, but its execution has been postponed by rival schemes until the present time. The venerable Robert U. Winthrop, who, everything considered, is the most distinguished citizen of Massachusetts, is one of the summer cottagers at Nahant. Commenting on the fine old man's eprightlineps at eighty-four a Boston journal says: "The man who takes the hand of Mr. Winthrop today takes the hand that Wiliiam Wordsworth grasped, that was shaken by Samuel Rogers, and that found its way with acceptance into the hand of the duke of Wellington. Of what other American can the same be said?" A (iooi) ttory is told by Dr. Robertson Nicolof the late Sir Henry Moncrieff. The latter had a parrot which was always prpnt at family worship. In the morninn Sir Henry fol'owed the old Scottish custom of singing the metrical version of the psalms straight through, two verses per tiav. The 110th psalm of course took many dara and he always commenced by saying, "Let us sing in the 110th pgalm." At last the psalm was finished, and the next day Sir Henry began "Let us sing in the 120th psnim." "Let us sing." said the parrot firmly, "in the 119th psalm." Col. David M. Stone, in retiring from the editorship of tho New York Journal of Commerce, makes this interesting statement: "I have been in the harness 6ince lSl'land have given forty-four years of my life to the service without a single va cation. For the last four years I have had no editorial assistant and have writien with my own hand every article set in brevier type which has appeared in any edition of the paper, making oyer 300 leading editorials in each of the twelve months, besides attending to much other work in the condvet of the business. I have passed my seventy-fifth birthday and it is time for me to lay down my pen and seek a needed rest." Jeffcrnoo anil the Patent Office. Harper's Y'oun; People. The first patron of our patent system was Thomas Jederson, who during three years gave his personal attention to every application for a patent. He used to call the secretary of war and the attorneygeneral to examine and scrutinize with him, and they did it so thoroughly that in one year the first they granted only three patents. The very first patent of all was given to Samuel Hopkins in 1700, for pearl ashes. Mr. Jefferson held that the patent system was not one for creating revenue, but for encouraging the production of that which is to be of benefit to the whole people. In the first twelve years a singt clerk in the state department and a few pigeon-holes were all that the bmiuef-s of the office required. Then Dr. Thornton took charge of it, and devoted himself as to a hobby. Drcaaed to Kill. Hut Didn't. N. Y. Weekly.l Jack "Calling on Miss Brighteyes pretty regular, I notice." George "Y-e-e. rather." Jacst "How does your suit progress?" (ieorge ''Not so well as I thought it would latest English cut, too." Don't you know, to have perfect health you roust have pure blood, and the beat way to have pure blood is to take Hood's Sarsaparille, the best blood purifier and ren gth builder. Hood's Pills may be had by mall for 25 cents of C. L Hood & Co., Lowell. Mast.

THE WASHINGTON INQUEST.

Col. Ainsworth Not Permitted to CrossExamine Wttnease. Washington. Jane 15. The "new inqusst has atartad. Four days of work baa been wast ed and now the work of fin Jiog, so far at a cor onar's jury oaa find, who is rponaib! for the disaster at tho Ford building haa been com menced once more. The decision by Judge Bingham yesterday of course neoexsitated an entirely new inquest. All the testimony which I had ao far been given was of no more valne from a legal standpoint than if it had beta delivered to the wiuds, instead of six attentive auppoaed-to-be jurors. Through this case, however, the district has learned aotuethmg, and this morning the inquest waa atartad in a formal war. Col. Aicaworth'a attorney waa in the hall a few minutes before the inquest began, tut he withdrew betöre Coroner Patterson rapped the jury to order. The old jury was rtautamoued for the new iojuest, and the coroner and the six jurymen. Messra. Warner. lUnvey, Sibley, Schneider, Kellogg and A) re, w-nt to G leuwood cemetery aud viewed the body of Frederick P. Loftua, one of the victims, whose body liea in a receiving vault there. The first witness was James L. Parsons, a contractor and builder, who leiüiied tbat he had examined the old theater last montU with a view to submitting a bid for making the proposed alterations, lie submitted a bid for the contemplated work bat failed to get the contract. Witness ercated something of a sensation when he stated that not a brick could have been moved with safety to the building unless all the floors had been ahored np. The work eould hare been completed in aafety had the ahoring been done. The speculations for the work did not nail for the ahoring ot the floor a while it waa goiug on. It waa provided tbat the contractor should take every preoaution. From an examination of the work after the catastrophe, .Mr. Parsons said he did not consider that it had been done properly. Juror llanvey asked him if he would have done it tbat way himself. "Moat assuredly not," waa the reply. Col. Ainsworth addressed a letter to Coroner Patterson today, complaining that the jury was prejudiced against niui by tba testimony of diaatfeeted clerks and the riotous proceeding of the previous illegal inqniry and urging bia right to be present by counsel and to cross-examine the witnesses. Coroner Patterson refused the request. Thomas B. Entwiatle, inspector of buildings of the district, said be was called upon about ! f . .. . i,- i nve yeara ago to go over ine ouuaing ana give his opinion as to its aaftty. He found tbe floors and walls perfectly safe. He waa asked if the work in progress at the bulding when it collapsed eould have been done aafely without ahoring and he replied emphatically: ''No, air; and iu my opinion, that waa the cause of tbe disaster." PLAIN BUT BLUNT. Geo. Breckinridge's Tart Retort to Bishop Cheney's Proposal. Chicago, June 10. A lively incident today marked the usual meeting of the national society of the Sons of tho American revolution. An amendment propoaed by the Oregon-Wash ington society, defining the objeoti of the national organization, came np for discussion. Bishop Cheney of Chicago expressed a wish that the phrase "to oppois by moral meant the spread of anarchical ideaa and lawlessness" be incorporated in the constitution. He said that the waatern ttates realized what anarohy means more fully than the Atlantis seaboard states. Mr. Hall said tho committee on organization was willing to have the clause admitted. In a aecond Oen. J. C. Breckinridge of Washington was on hia feat hotly opposing Cheney's proposition. "This soeiety haa no more buaineaa trying to pot down anarchy than it has to put down hell." said he. The general ripped out tho exclamation with a foree that made tho good biahop start. Delegate Briator of Ohio also opposed the ameudment and it waa voted down. Tho convention then adopted a committee amendment which declared the objects of tba aeciety to bo to perpetuate tho memory of revolutionary heroes, to unite and promote friendship among their descendants, to encourage historical research, "and to carry oat tho purpoaes expreased in the prea nble to the constitution of our country and the injunction of Washington in his farewell address to tbe American people." Among those present were Chauncey Depew, Gan. Horace Porter and ether distinguished members. Tonight tho delegates were banqueted at tho Union league club. Tho following officers were elected: President, Geo. Horace Porter; vice-presidents. Geo. Chauncey M. Depew, Henry if. Shepard, Col. Thomas N. Anderson. Gan. J. C. Breckinridge and Henry C. Robinson; aeoretary, Gen. Franklin Murphy, Newark, N.J.; registrar, Gen. A. Howard Clark; of tho iSmithaoaian institute; historian, Gen. Henry Hall; chaplain-general, Bisbon Charlea E. Cheney. SCANDAL IN A CHURCH. Pastor Goodrich the Cause of an Uneeemly Itow at Detroit. Detroit, Jane 16. Unity church of this city, an almost cresdless organization of professing Christiana, ia in the throea of a acandal. It aeems that tho Kev. C. C Goodrich, tho pastor of the churoh, waa intending to procure a divorce from hia wife with the knowledge and conaent of the board of trustees. Some of the members were opposed to this and an effort waa wade to depose the minister. At a meeting held thia evening grave charges made against the minister were read. Tbey had previously been passed npon by the trustees and discredited. Paator Goodrich replied to tho charges in a lengthy address, supplemented by a largo number of lettera in support of hia moral character. When he had finished, the Rev. Mr. Bullock arose aud announced that ho was prepared to prove that the statements of Mr. Goodrich were "damnably false." Mr. Goodrich at once became violently angry, rushed upon Mr. Bullock and seized him by tho throat Several of the faaotionariea of the churoh interfered and prevented what would undoubtedly have resulted in a mach more ssvero assault. A aceno of indiacribablo confuaion euaued. Women, who largely predominated, screamed aud several faiutsd. The meeting finally broke up in great diaorder. A disruption of the chursa will, it is said, result. The Rev. Mr. Bullock exhibits lettera written to Pastor Goodrich by a lady of the congregation which are deoidedly improper for a single woman to eend to a married man, and the authenticity ot which, it ia claimed, is not questioned. Hioutous Poles at Tonawanda. BrFFALO, N, Y., Juno 16. What haa been threatened and been expected all aeaaon baa happened today and Tonawanda ia nnder guard of the militia. Tonawanda saw the be-, ginning of a riot today and only the quick response of the aoldiara to a call for help provented bloodshed. Although every thing waa quiet at a late hoar tonight and the riotous Poles, or moat of them, bad returned to Bullalo, yet it is not felt that the danger of bloodshed ia over by any means.

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CARDINAL GIBBONS FAVORS PRESERVING THE AMERICAN SABBATH. Sees Danger Ahead If Present Tendencies Are Followed T tar The) Country Should Seek to Avoid th lesecralioa Practiced iu Europe. New Yokk, June 13. "Sunday Rest" ii the theme of Cardinal Gibbons' paper to read at the congress of :abbath observers at Chicago. The paper has been receiied here by the committee in charge. His eminence hoida that the desecration of tho Christian Sabbath is one of our social dangers against which it behooves us to set our faco and to take tuneiy precautions before its assumes proportions to formidable to bo eaeily eradicated. An exhaustive review of the earliest Sabbath observance follows, leading to the ronciunon that it was derived from the primitive law given to Adam. With what profound reverence, then, Bhould we view an ordinance instituted to draw man closer to his maker. Whenever tbe enemies of iod seek to destroy tL religion oi a people they find no means so ellectual for carrying out their impious design as the suppression of the Sabbath. He refers to Sabbath desecration of other times, and then comiDg down to the present says: s I have aeen Sunday violated in Paria, ia Brussels and ia other capitals ot Europe. And even in Rome 1 have seeu government workmen engaged on the Lord'a day in excavating and ia building, a protanatiou which grieved the holy father, as be himaelt acknowledged to me. Who are they that profane the Sunday ia those cities of Europe? They are the rue a loot to all sense of religion, who gloriiy in their impiety, and who aim a; tue utter extirpation of Christianity. A close observer cannot fail to note the dangerous inroads that have been made on the Lord's da) in our country M itbin the last quarter of a century. If these euer achmenta are not ohecked in time, the day may oome when the reiikious quiet now happily reihum in our Will ordered cities will be changed into noise and turbulence, when the sound ot the church beil will be drowned by the echo ot tbe La.uuier and tl.e dray, when the bible and the prayer-bock will be supplanted by the newkpaper and the magazine, when the votaries of the theater and the drinking saloon Mill outnumber the religions worshipers, anl sa utaty thoughts cf God, ol eternity aud of the soul will be ohecked by tho cares of basiuess and by the pleasures and dissipation of the world. The Christian Sabbath is a living witness of revelation, an abuing guardian of Christianity. The summary o osing of our civil tribunals would not entail a more disastrous injury on the laws of the land than the closing of out eliurches would lulhcton the Christian religion. The institution of the Christian Sabbath has contributed more to the peace and goo i order of nations thau could be acootupihed by ataudiug armies and the best organized polios foroe. The Christian Sunday ia not to be confounded with the Jewish or even the paritaij Sabbath. It prescribes the golden mean between rigid Sabbatarianism on the one band and lax indulgence on the other. There is little doubt that the revulsion of public sentiment from a rigorous to a loose observance of the Lord's day can be aaoribed to the sincere but misguided zeal of the puritans, who confounded ths Cbristiau Suuday with the Jewish Sabbath and imposed restraints on tho people which were repulsive to Christian freedom and which were not warranted by the goapei dispensation. Tbe Lord's day to the catholio heart ia al waya a day of joy. The chuteh deairea us on tbat day to be cheerful without dissipation; grave aud religious without sadness or melancholy. She forbids, indeed, all unnecessary servile work on that day, but aa "tbe Sabbath waa made for man, not man for the Sabbath," ehe allows each work: whenever charity or necessity shall demand it And aa it ia a day, consecrated not only to religion but to relaxation of mind and body, she permits us to spend a portion cf it in innocont recreation. In a word, the true conception of the Lord's day is eipreotud in the words of tho Psalmist: "That is tho day which the Lord has made j lot as be glad and rsjoioe therein." DEMOCRATIC POSTAL CLERKS. Hinging- rteaolutlont Adopted at the Cincinnati Meeting. Ci.ncinnati, O., June 15. A meeting ef tho democratic ex-railway postal clerks' association was held at the Dennison hotel, Juno 14, in all-day session. A good number of people representing the entire division waa present. The various committees appointed at Jatt meeting made their varioua reports. X committee of live cn re&oiuuons, representing tbe diflerent states of the I'iflh division, made the following ringing report: Whereas, In March, the railway mail service of the United States in the eleven divisions constituting the same, consisting equally of democrat and republicans aa near aa possible; and, Whereas. The Hon. Grover Cleveland, the then president of the United Stats, put tho civil service rules in ellect March 15, ls: and. Whereas, The Hon. Benjamin JUarrison, elected aa eaceessor to the Hon. Grover Cleveland, repudiated and suspended the civil service action from March 13. 1S9, until May 1, l-'.f3, with the evident intention of williully removing all democratio postal cerks; fully 12V7 loüing their positions, making the railway mail service a strictly partisan afiair by a great majority, aud all papers of removal ot the democrats being ("ated back and carried through for months, thua ahowing the animus of the president against all democrats, and Whereas, The occupancy of these off) pes is a direct breach of the vital intentions of ail laws and inUnts of the civil service comruit'innera and tho voice of the people that came thunder iiig through the ballot boies iu November, 13l2; therefore, be it liesoived. That we, tbe democratio ex-postal clerks, request and demand that the democratic party be givtn at luait one-half the offices in the railway mail service, though believing wo are entitled to tho great majority as evidenced by the people'a ballot. Tbe oiiiees now held by republicans removed at one time for cause and re. ustated for political reaeoes ia but a usurpation and we demand that democrats of cleau and first class records be reinatated in their places; and be it further Reaolved, Ihat we will use all honorable means to convince the president and posrnas-ter-p eneral that the people of this country ask that its aftairseeput in the hanJa of its frieada, the democrats. Messrs. Cabell of Kentucky, Xingerle of Ohio and the Hon. T. II. Payuter of Kentucky were appointed as a committee to put their best foot forward in the interest of the democratio expostal clerks of tho United State. There wilt be another meeting of this association Friday evening, June 23. at 7:3J p. m. All clerks are requested to meet with them at toe Dennison hotel. J, H. Hilf?, Pres. W. K. Ii a K Fit, 101 E. Tblrd-et, Pec'y. l'o You YVUh To regain your health if you are all broken down and pufTering from nervous prostration? 1 will tell you what cured me after sutlering for months. 1 used two bottles of Sulphur Hitters, and now I am a well man. C. Stii.es, Iookkeeper, Canton.