Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1893 — Page 4

THE INDIANA7 STATE SENTINEL; WEDNESDAY-MORNING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1893-TWELYE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL

BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. S. E. MOR3S, BEN A. EATON, Freaidaat, Vie PmidenL b. McCarthy, P ecrtry and Treaaarar. (Culrrrd nt (he PnMofflo at lndlanipoli as ffnml class matter.) TERMS PER YEAR t Single copy (In Ailvnnee) 1 OO AVe aak drniorrn t a to bear la mind and aelrrt their pirn state paper xrhe-n they come to take nbserlptlona and make up rlnhn. Alton t a making tip rlubft enl for any Informnlloa deatred. AillrM Tim INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL, Inriianapolia, lad. TWELVE PAGES. "WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 27, ISO.1. , This country seems to be degenerating Into a kingdom, conducted by silver kings, tariff barons, sluggers dukes, Jsew York counts and merchant princes. The reports of suffering and crimp, of unfair methods and lawless terrorism, which come from the Cherokee strip, are a fitting sequel to the folly of opening land -for settlement as this land was opened, and as other lands have been cpened. The whole system Is disgraceful, and there ought never be another Puch "opening.' The lands should be disposed of at auction and the proceeds paid into the treasury. The Washingtn Post fiercely asks: "If the country is In a panic because the government is putting out silver notes against silver bullion without providing b. gold reserve, how will It feel If the government puts out some sixty millions cf notes against nothing and provides no gold reserve?" That may be hard to answer, and yet it is not a .much more, heirless scheme than the Post's proposition to strengthen the national credit by borrowing gold. The tramps seem to have scored a victory over some of the railway companies. It is stated that the latter have Issued orders not to interfere with the tramp tourist who steals a ride on freight trains. It will cost less to transport the tramps to the end of their lines than to run the risk cf having their property destroyed and the trains wrecked and robbed. Indiana being so near the world's fair, and Chicago being overrun with them, they seem to have taken up permanent tesidenee In the state. Nearly all of our state exchanges relate instances of highway robbery, arson and pillage by passing tramps. Lawless Illinois has broken out at Lebanon. A German named Simmons desired to marry a colored lady who weighs nearly 400 pounds, his intention being to take her to Germany and exhibit her. On the evening set for the ceremony Monday of this week a crowd of white men captured Mr. Simmons, whipped him, ducked hsm, tarred and feathered him, and rode him on a rail. Meanwhile the colored population became so indignant at the lady's prospective marriage with "white trash" that a party of negroes put her through the same course. Mr. Simmons and the bride-elect have left Lebanon. No arrests. No wedding presents. No flowers. There are indications that Henry Watterson is in favor of tariff reform.' In a recent article he sayss The more thorough and sweeping the reform the surer and speedier the relief. Every evil prediction is the voice of Mammon shrieking the torment of the damned. Every threat of ruin and confusion is the devil's bellman vainly neeking to sound hell's fire-alarm. The long night is over. The dawn of a longer day has come. Presently its glorious sun will rise to brighten every prospect, and. as the painted harlot of protection, her orgy ended and her beauty gone, wends her way over the hill to the bone-yard, millions of honest people will rejoice, wondering how the Meared and beastly thing could werk so many spells and last s long. This Is doubtless true, and somebody ought to snap a kodak on the reprehensible female as she scuds for the cemetery. The resistance to the introduction of religion into politics is something In which every patriotic American should Join. It is the catholics who are assailed now, but It may, be the Jews, the methodists. the Lutherans or the seventh day adventists next year. This country was settled by people who wanted liberty to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences. They endeavored to secure religious liberty to their descendants by strong provisions in their constitutions. Nothing could possibly have been more obnoxious to the Trainers of the constitution than such an organization as the A. P. A. and every man who believes In religious liberty should Join in stamping the accursed thing out of existence. In such organizations lies the real danger to American liberty. An English gentleman who recently visited the Chicago exposition was asked why more of his country-men did not visit the great world's fair. lie explained that the feeling was quite general In Europe that a spirit of lawlessness and Insecurity of life and property pervaded the United States. This remark was made before the late railroad disasters and train robberies. What effect these will have upon European thought and civilization we can readily Imagine, especially when they have been largely exaggerated, as they surely will be and as such occurrences usually are. The t ii ands of Italy and Spain can hardly 1 '. "t of such a successful piece of work i. liie late Kendall ville achievement. 1 In with the Hancock, Mich., affair and i.ni of Centralia, 111., together with the railway horrors" " of - the last two weeks, the Roanoke matter and the raviess county murders, will appall the average European tourist and deter him from visiting a country - that has ac

centuated the close of the century with a scene of horrors and brigandage that would have been disgraceful two cen'-, turics ago.

REPUBLICANS PREPARING TO FLIXK We called attention a few days ago to the beginning of the desertion by republicans of the struggle for the repeal 'of the Sherman purchase law. The 'New York Tribune made the suggestion for the movement, and now it comes out squarely for it. It takes the proposed repeal of the federal election law as the ground for its change of front. "There are worse things possible than a continuance of silver purchases, badly as they may affect the credit of the country. The worst thing possible Is a corrupt, dishonest and unmeaning ballot, by which an unscrupulous party can perpetuate its power." So says the leading republican organ of the country, and doubtless a general following by the republican press of its demand "to call a halt In that direction, and If necessary block the way to all legislation, until the assurance Is given that the small safeguards we now have against dishonest and fraudulent elections shall not be utterly thrown down and destroyed." This is a free country, and of course the republicans In congress ana out of It may do as they like in regard to voting for the repeal of the Sherman law. If they desire to vote for the continuance of a law which they have openly condemned In order to force what they want done on some other question they put themselves in the same condition as the obstructionists who are now injuring the business interests of the whole country by their obstinate opposition to the measure of relief which is beforabhem. It would merely be another assertion of the principle that the minority should rule that laws must be passed to suit them In all things. We certainly have no objections to the taking of this position by the republicans, and especially to their taking it on behalf of one of the most Iniquitous and corrupt election laws that was ever passed in any land. If the republican party wants to make its stand on that law, well and good. The Tribune says: By the operation of these laws no honest voter has ever suffered hardship or wrong, nor has any ever been deprived of his vote. They simply provide for a reasonable supervision of the polls In the election of president and members of congress. The officials intrusted with this function are selected by Judges of the federal courts. Is there any body of men in the country in whom the people have greater confidence than those who compose the federal Judiciary? What fool or knave will rise up and say that any harm or anything but good can come from the supervision of the polls under the direction of the judges of the federal courts? Just put The Indianapolis Sentinel down for one of that sort. We have seen the beauties of the system. We have seen a federal judge go to marked extremes to secure the conviction of democrats, and promptly reverse his rulings to secure the acquittal of republicans. We have watched the Dudley scandal through its entire loathsome course. We have seen a federal judge sit in chambers all day Issuing bench warrants for the arrest of democratic deputy marshals and fail to appear In court at the hour he set for their hearings. We have seen more than an hundred cases against republican violators of election laws dismissed by a republican prosecutor without any excuse and without any rebuke from the court. We have seen criminal cases arbitrarily ordered up from the state courts and dismissed by the United States Judge without so much as permitting the state to present Its case, and they were good cases, too. We have seen republican marshals and supervisors commissioned to bulldoze and Intimidate at elections under the new ballot law of Indiana, which Is strictly fair In its provisions and allows the political parties equal representation, of their own selection, on the boards. Put The Sentinel down as one that says nothing but harm has come from the federal election law in this state In the last five years. A TOLERATION ME KT J Mi. The congress of religions at the world's fair which has Just closed was the most unique and most influential in Its results in certain directions, perhaps, of any of the congresses held this summer. The mere fact that Jew and gentile, catholic and protestent, Hindoo and Greek could meet under one roof and discuss religion is much gained, even if the results of that meeting seem to be somewhat vague. It isn't always the meeting which shows immediate results that Is the most beneficial. . What the world has needed is toleration. There isn't a religion in the world that hasn't something in it beneficial to humanity. There isn't a creed that Isn't elevating and productive-of good to man. It is only the narrow application of these creeds that constitutes the dogmatic religion and creates the lack of toleration. The intoleratlou of the past has caused bloodshed, heartaches, estrangements and political enmity. The fact that these representatives of the most diverse religions could meet under one roof and mingle In discussion is enough to mark the dawning of a better day. Those who look beneath the surface will not agree with the Idea that because the discussion of the merits of different creeds -was ruled out of any debate which might arise the benefits of the meeting were lost. It means much that the representatives would meet at all. Too much must not be expected at first, and this was the first time In the history of the world that such 4a meeting has occurred. , Could It be reasonably expected that there could be an impartial discussion of the merits of diverse creeds? Human nature, even in religious discussion. Is much the fame the world over and there Is every reason to think that had such a discussion been undertaken there would have been a break-up 4 of the congreis with no benefit at . alL . Mingling and

talking with each other has done much; j future acquaintance will do more. The

Ice Is broken. Religious seclusion, especially the seclusion of the Hindoo and other foreign sects, has been broken and" hereafter the approach will be much easier and the opening of the minds of the so-called heathen to receive the truth of the ages will be more easily accomplished.. It may be asked, What was the good of all this?,- It is best answered by saying that it was an opportunity to become acquainted with each other, for neighbors and fellow workmen to look In each other's faces and see that though another man is working in a slightly different direction, yet the end will be the same. All are working for the one great end of elevating humanity and bringing it into closer relationship with the great Father, the God, however that being may be named in the different beliefs. All the religions represented at Chicago had some elements of truth in them. But not all can possibly be the one religion that will last. The coming centuries must see the passing away of many; perhaps all now existing on earth. Religion, as we have It, Is largely tradition with some elements cf superstition. No one denies the existence of a God, but very many do deny the right to require a man to sign articles of faith drawn by man when one wants to worship that God. The great minds of earth have never been confined within such limits; the minds of the future will not be confined as much as they have in the past. The breaking down of the creeds has begun. The commingling of the religions is In progress, as evidenced at the Chicago meeting. It Is the first step toward the prophesied mellennium when there shall be no more strife and trouble, when man shall not rise againsl man, but when all shall treat each other as brothers. TRADE SCHOOLS NEEDED. The introduction of manual training into the public schools of many cities has done rrueh to aid the development of the youth of those cities. It has been found upon applying the principles of manual training that there are boj-s and girls, young men and women, whose Intellects can be reached through the hand better than through the mind abstractly; In other words, it has been discovered that there are very many boys and girl? whose minds are so intensely practical that they find It Impossible to learn abstractly from books, but can learn very rapidly from the concrete subjects before them. The rapid extension of manual training has teen the saving of such pupils. It has been the starting point for a larger and nobler development of many a child who otherwise would have been discouraged from study and turned away from the schools because of dullness. They have every reason to be thankful for Its introduction. The fact that manual training has been so successful in this direction emphasizes another need fully as great. The great public Bchool system of the country, provided for by direct taxation, bearing equally upon all, will educate the younger element of population till it reaches the age when it can pay its own way. Then comes the advantage which the rich enjoy over the poor. The rich can continue at school; the poor must go to work. This is Just as true of girls as boys, and as true of the country as the city. There ought to be something beyond the manual training department, a trades" school or college, if the term may be applied. It needs an advanced manual training school where the practical trades can be taught, ' where the taste developed partially In the manual training department of the public schools can be cultivated and trained until the young man or woman goes forth a perfect craftsman. The Pratt institute, the Armour Institute, the Drexel institute and th5 Cooper institute are schools of this class. But not only mint the course of study be such that it will enable the young men and women to become expert workmen, it must also provide means for their maintenance so that they will be at no disadvantage as compared with the. wealthy. There must be suflicient endowment to permit of the support of these young men and women so they can pursue their course of study unmolested and without poverty hindering them from the fullest and freest development. The gentlemen named above have founded such Institutes. They have done, In doing it, an inestimable good to their cities and their kind. Their Influence will be everlasting and their work will exist long after they are gone. It is infinitely better than building great blocks to stand as trade marks of great wealth. It is the noblest charity in the world. Every city In the land ought to have such an institute, and the man who founds It, or the men who are Interested In founding it, will confer more benefit upon the human race than all the monks of old, all the builders of great tombs and costly monuments. Hospitals and asylums are beneficial, but after all there Is something Infinitely better and more noble in providing something for the benefit of living people than in founding something for the unfortunate. In a few years the class benefited by the institutes would assist in benefiting the unfortunates. The same result will be reached, but by a different road. Who are the men that will make a move In every city of the land? The brave resistance to train robbers on the Illinois Central is an. act that deserves the highest commendation. This is the first serious check that train robbery has had since the Reno gang was lynched. The published accounts of trains' being held up and robbed by two or three men have led to the belief that anyone could succeed In such an attempt. . but this a plain notice that trainmen

are now carrying arms and that they

will use them. - Nothing puts such a, damper on robbery as the killing of a few robbers. It is to be hoped that the Illinois Central will find it convenient to reward the trainmen handsomely for their gallantry. v The last report of the department cf agriculture has been Issued. Th corn crop declines over ten points from the August report and is given at 76.7 per cent, of an average crop. This decline was general and was due to the prevailing drought. The general average of the wheat crop, which can now be given with considerable accuracy, is "4, the lowest since 1SS3, when it was 72. In Maryland the yield is placed at 9$. about a full crop. A further and large decline In oats, rye, barley, potatoes and tobacco Is announced." The figure for the tobacco crop , is 72.3, and the general drought Is given as the cause of the decline. The recent copious rains in Indiana may help the norn notwithstanding the dismal prophecies that because of the showers coming so late there will be but a poor crop. It takes a long series of disasters to kill an Indiana corn crop. Complete destruction has never accomplished it yet. The wheat crop of ths United States this year Is estimated at about four hundred million bushels. The cereal year began with an enormous surplus brought over from the last crop. That surplus, or an amount equal to It, has been shipped to Europe, leaving in this country the crop of 1S93. Fifty million bushels are required for seed and the remaining 350,000,000 bushels must supply our own people with bread and fill the export demand. A recent writer on panics submits a table showing the substantial coincidence of panics in three leading commercial nations since 1810: United States. England. France. 1814 1815 lSH-14 1818 ISIS ISIS 1&26 1329-31 1S:J0 1S39 1337-33 1S37-33 1C6-39 184S 1S47 1S47 1S57 157 1S57 164 1864 1S64 173 1S73 1SS4 1S2 1890-91 190-91 1889-90 One common cause says this writer must have originated crises so practically simultaneous. "The only cause common to all was overtrading to such an extent that neither credit nor money was to be had, so that a forced liquidation or panic inevitably ensued." Commenting on this another writer says that the one singular thing about the existing disturbance In the United States is its coming out of the regular order, well after England and France have gone through their financial earthquake. Undoubtedly It Is an extension of the 1S90 panic, the full extent of whose effects was averted by artificial stimulants for the time being. Our bubble, not then quite full blown, was only partially pricked by the Baring failure and the French disturbances Just preceding that.

Senator Allison was the originator of the silver purchase policy, or at least he fathered the bill of 1878. for that purpose. He Is now supporting the repeal of the Sherman law, which is the last and worst form of the purchase policy. In his speech on Saturday he said: If this government will undertake the policy of an international agreement between silver and gold I believe that that policy will be accomplished, and that within a brief period we will be able to restore the parity between the metals and practically to rehabilitate silver. In the mean time we have to drift along as best we can and as best we may. My belief Is that if we are to have an international agreement we must make it appear to the nations of the world that we ourselves do not mean to take care of silver. There are men in Europe who read every speech made on this floor, and who gather their opinions from our public documents, who believe that sooner or later the government of the . United States will go to free coinage, anci thus relieve them from their situation and relieve us of our gold as well. If it be known in England and the other nations that we do not intend alone to deal with the slher question they will deal with It in agreement and accordance with us. So believing. I am in favor of this bill. It is surprising that other friends of bimetallism have not sense enough to be ready to leave a policy that has proven a complete failure after fifteen years of trial, and try something for which there is some prospect of success. Congressmen would do well if they would take to heart the Impressive words of the president at the exerc ises of the centennial of laying the corner-stone of the capitol. He said: Those who suppose that we are e'.mply engaged In commemorating the beginning of a magnificent structure devoted to Important public uses h.i.ve overlooked the most useful and improving lesson of the hour. We do, indeed, celebrate the laying of a corner-stone, from which has sprung the splendid edifice whose grand proportions are the pride of every American citizen, but our celebration is chiefly valuable and significant because this edifice was designed and planned by great and good men as a place where the principles of a free representative government should be developed In patriotic legislation for the benefit of a free people If representatives who here assemble to make laws for their fellow-countrymen forget the duty of broad and disinterested patriotism and legislate in prejudice and passion or In behalf of sectional and selfish interests, the time when the corner-Stone of our capitol was laid and the circumstances surrounding it will not be worth commemorating. There Is a world of truth In this, and it can be profitably applied all through the tariff debate as well as In the silver debate. The idea that controls so many congressmen of "getting a fair share for my district" Is one of the most demora'Jzing sentiments that ever got Into a legislative body. Legislation should be for the whole people. Judge Parker of Little Rock, Ark., in charging the federal grand jury a few days ago made this' very sensible remark concerning the abuse of the pardoning power: If criminals are let stay where they properly belong. In the penitentiaries, men would do nothing that would send them there. If it was certain that criminals would be punished you could burn down every gallows in the country today. Unquestionably one of the greatest defects In our criminal system Is the facility with which pardon3 are secured. A great many guilty persons escape on trial, but after a man i once convicted

and sentenced there Is very seldom any reasonable excuse for pardoning him unless It is shown clearly that he was convicted under a mistake, and that should be shown clearly and conclusively, not by any mere preponderance of testimony aided by the "reasonable doubt" theory.

ET CETERA. Bishop Ash of Irasburg, Vt., has taken probably the longest carriage ride of any man in America. Sixteen years ago he left his little Vermont home and drove to Minnesota, and thence to Oregon and the Pacific coast. It's a pity that Michigan's bandit exhibit wasn't ready for Michigan day at the fair. It is far superior to anything in the holding-up line that has been attempted by Chicago hackmen or even by Chicago hotel men. Detroit Free Press. The tomb of ex-President James K. Polk Is to be removed from the old Folk homestead In Nashville, Tenn., to the capitol grounds in that city. President Polk in his will directed that the Polk place should always remain in the possesion of the family and that each time the property changeo hands it should go to the most worthy member of the family. This provision was declared Illegal by the courts two years ago, in consequence of which the estate was sold. To effect the removal of the ex-president's tomb, the Tennessee legislature made an appropriation of (1,500. X. Y. Tribune. Richens Lacy "Wootten. who died a few days ago at Trinidad, Cel., was one of the last of the old-time frontiersmen. He was a comrade of Kit Carson, and had lived in the Rocky mountains since 1836. Through the Raton pass, on the mountains dividing Colorado from New Mexico, "Uncle Dick." as he was called, built a turnpike, over which for many years the great traffic of the Santa Fe trail passed. His toll receipts gave him a large income, which he spent with great generosity, but which the building of the Atchison railroad put an end to. Wootten, however, continued in comfortable circumstances to the end. One of the most interesting events at the congress of religions in Chicago was the kissing of the presbyterian sisters by the high priest of Shintoism. These motherly church ladies, some of them buxom, others bespectacled, approached the reverend Shibata Reuchi when he finished reading his paper and held out their hands to him. He bowed low, and then with great courtesy put his hands on the shoulder of the lady first In line and kissed her plumply on the cheek. She was too surprised to remonstrate, and before the others had recovered their self-possession three had submitted passively to the same pleasing ceremonial. A Musical Dog. A wonderful story of a French musical critic is related by persons who profess to have been acquainted with him and to nave seen him In attendance on musical performance. He was a dog, and his name in public was Parade. Whether he had a different name at home was never known. At the beginning of the French revolution he went every day to the military parade in front of the Tulleries palace. He marched with the musicians, halted with them, listened knowingly to their performances, and after the parade disappeared to return promptly at parade time the next day. Gradually the musicians became attached to this devoted listener. They nvmed him parade, and one or another of them always Invited him to dinner. He accepted the Invitations and was a pleasant guest. It was discovered that after dinner he always attended the theater, where he seated himself calmly in a corner of the orchestra and listened critically to the music. If a new piece was piayed he noticed It instantly and paid the strictest attention. If the piece had fine, melodious passages he showed his joy to the best of his doggish ability, but if the piece was ordinary and uninteresting he yawned, stared about the theater and unmistakably expressed his disapproval. Starched Linen. The manager of a big New York laundry says: Anything that needs tobe stiffened and polished should be washed perfectly clean and allowed to dry thorouirhly before it Is starched. Let it soak before washing in luKewarm water long enough to thoroughly soften the old starch. Take care not to bend the stiff parts sharply back or forth until gentTe rubbing has ma'de them pliable, for stilt starched linen Is almost as frangible as cardbonrd, even when new and sound of fiber. . Especially is it so with fine qualities used for dress shirts. When shirts are ready for the line, be sure to hang them on It properly that Is, with the shoulders lightly laid over it, the bosom hanging smooth and straight between. If a short bosom dries dragging slantwise, the several thicknesses pulling about, no after effort will achieve quire the proper smoothness and solidity. With cuffs and collars it is much the same, isnap them out straight and hang them so that warp and wool pull together. Woman n a Property-Owner. To the extent of which the ownership and control of property is passing into the hands of women it has not received the attention which its importance Justifies. In Boston alone women pay taxes on more than $12O.0(i.0iX. They pay Into the city treasury annually in taxes about $1.500. 0, which is expended by the representatives of men. nine-ten ths of whom pay only a poll tax of $1, and some not even that. As a great and growing power in the business world as a landed proprietor, a stockholder, an employer of labor and an investor of funds, woman has already acquired an influence in public affairs which ought to be represented by the ballot. The rapid transfer of property from the control of a sex trained for generations for its management to a sex nut recently organized is one of the most remarkable social chances ever witnessed. Boston Woman's Journal. Wnlnutn and Quotations. Select a number of familiar quotations, write them carefully on slips of white paper, cut each slip into two parts and mark each part with the same number. Now select as many large Enslish walnuts as there are quotations. Crack them .o that each nut comes apart in exact halves. then remove the meat and reserve it to 1 eaten during the evening. In each half shell nlace half a quotation and fasten the two parts of the nut together with a little mucilage. Lay them aside to dry until you ar? ready to use them. When your friends are with you. give each one a nut. This the receiver must crack and then seek for a partner the person who happened to rind the other half quotation in his or her shell." This always creates a frolic and is a good Idea for making an evening pa3S pleasantly. Harper's Young People. RAM'S HORNS. The man who sits down to wait for something to turn up will need a cushion on his seat. No man ever has any trouble about believing as much of the bible as he is willing to live. Every preacher should strive tq be what John the Baptist considered himself a voice for ChrHt. The people who disappoint God the most are those who try to carry their burdens without His help. . The most dangerous sin for you is the one you expect to overcome without looking to God for help. When some people say they are willing to do anything f ; r Christ, they mean anything that la popular. The best thing for the Christian to do, when he can't see in any otner direction, is to look straight up. One reason why some people, are not as wicked as other people, is because they do not have the famo chance. It is the man who has to live on corn bread at home who finds the most fault with the pie when he travels. The preacher who is trying to make a reputation for the size of his head Is not preaching in a way to make the devil wince. All that human wisiom has ever been able to learn for Itself is that God is, but it is only through Christ that we can know what he Is. If you lose your soul It will not be because there are so many hypocrites In the church, but because sin had a hiding place In your heart. I Care Dyapepala, Constipation and Chronic Nervous diseases. Dr. Shoop's Restorative, the great Nerve Tonic, by a newly discovered principle, also cures stomach, liver and kidney diseases, through the nerves that govern these organs. Book and samples free for 2e stamp. DR. fcliOOP, Box X, Racine. Wis.

i LOCHREN ON PENSIONS.

THE COMMISSIONER MAKES HIS ANNUAL REPORT. Number of Beneflclarlea After IM. Will Likely Decrease Statement Concerning the Disability Act After the Fraudulent One. WASHINGTON. Sept. 22. Pension Commissioner Lochren submitted his annual report to the secretary of the Interior today. The number of pensioners on the rolls of the bureau Is 960,012 with a net increase of S9.944 during the past year. During the year 24,715 claims for increase of pension and 31,930 for additional pension under the act of June 27. 1890, were allowed. In the same time 113,221 claims for pension and for increase were rejected. Claims pending consideration July 7 numbered 711.150. Amount of money paid for pensions during the year was $156.740.467. Balance at close of the year was $2,437.371. Appropriations for the next fiscal year, Commissioner Lochren states, will be ample and the estimate for the fiscal year lSi5 amount to J162.631.570. Referring to the estimates for the fiscal year of 1S35 Commissioner Lochren says: "If these were based wholly on the experience of former years and the capacity of the force of the bureau to handle cases through the formal, stages of examination to allowance the result would be a much larger estimate. But 1S95 is thirty years after the close of the civil war. The pension roll, in view of Its size, compared with the number of men enrolled in that war, will, In my opinion, by that time have reached its limit and begin to decrease. The falling off in the presentation of new claims appears from the fact, shown by the last report of my predecessor, that there were, on Oct. 12. 1892, 788,061 claims pending in the bureau, while on July 7, 1S93 not quite nine months later the number of claims pending had been reduced to 711,130. It Is apparent, therefore, that the filing of new claims and claims for increase has ceased to exceed the number of ca5es disposed of by the work of the bureau and that a rapid diminution In the number of new claims may be expected." Reference Is thus made to cases under the act of June 27, 1S90, recognizing the difficulty of tracing disabilities to service origin after a long lapse of time, and the fact that deserving soldiers who in their advancing years were incurring disabilities not of service origin, unfitting them for earning a support by manual labor, were proper objects "of the national bounty, the act of June 27. 1R00, was passed providing that all persons who had served in the military or naval service of the United States in that war ninety days or more, and had been honorably discharged therefrom, and who were suffering from mental or physical disability of a permanent character, not the result of their own vicious habits which incapacitates them from earning a support by manual labor, shall be pensioned at not more than twelve nor less than six dollars per month, proportioned to the degree of inability to earn a support. Under this act nsid form the requisite service and honorable discharge, there is but one condition that can give any right to pension, viz: "A mental or physical disability of a permanent character, not the result of their own vicious habits, which incapacitates them from the performance of manual lajor in such a degree as to render theminable to earn a support." Concerning peel fie DlanhllHIea. "But by order 1G4, issued Oct. 15, 1S90. the commissioner, with the approval of the assistant secretary, directed that specified disabilities should be rated, in applications under this act. as they would have been rated under the schedules then in force, if of service origin, up to $12 per month. The medical referee stated, in answer to Inquiry, that under this order the capacity of the claimant under the act of June 27, 1K90, to "perform manuel labor was no longer even considered in adjudicating his claim, but that his disabilities were rated up to $12 per month, as if his claim had been made under prior laws for like disabilities of service origin. It is perfectly clear that under this order 164, in granting pensions under this act of June 27, 1S90, the act itself was set aside and disregarded, with the result of granting pensions not authorized by any law. This was shown in the Bennett case which called your attention to this order, and to the practice under it. There the claimant, applying under this act of June 27. l&'JO. was pensioned at $12 per month for slight deafness, not of service origin. This slight deafness could not interfere with his capacity to jerform manuel labor. And such a pension has no warrant to sustain it in any law. It Is absolutely void. The statement of the medical referee above mentioned made it appear probable that under order 164 many pensions were iliegally granted. and pursuant to your order of May 27. ISI'3. a board of revision was formed of. the ablest and most experienced men of the bureau to examine the cases allowed under that act and cull out such as had no legal basis to rest upon; but with instructions to disturb no case whereby the most liberal construction of the evidence of the right to pension could be sustained under any law. In cases where It was believed that a pension could not be sustained and another medical examination was thought necessary, the payment of the pension was ordered to be suspended rending investigation according to the practice of the bureau for the beginning nnd at the proper time the usual sixty day notice was given to the pensioner within which he could ask for a medical examination or supply further evidence of his right to his pension. This practice of the bureau, always followed, is the correct practice. It is not the withdrawal or taking away of a pension, but the temporary withholding of its payment where it appears to be unlawful, pending a proper inquiry"Upon your suggestion that even this temporay withholding might work hardship where, upon the face of the papers it appears that the pensioner is entitled to at least some less rating, the practice has been modified and changed as to the cases under this act so far that suspensions of payment pending the sixty days, are only ordered when oj the face of the papers it appears prima facie that the pensioner Is not entitled to a pension. It Is certain that there are many cases like the Bennett case, where persons not entitled to any pension will be removed from the rolls, but the work has not yet proceeded far enough to enable .me to forecast the result. "Undoubtedly under the system of adjudication which followed the promulgation of order 164 many persons perfectly able to perform manual labor, under the persuasion of the claim agents familiar with the effect of that order, applied for fTs?a r FA ELM 1 t i-j a a

2

U

The only Pure Cream of Tartar TowdenNo Ammonia; No Alura. Used in Millions of Homes 40 Years tlie Standard.

.nd received pensions for specific disabilities not of service origin and not properly pensionable under the act cf June 27. 1R30. This also accounts for the laxge proportion of late claims under that act, comprising the aftermath in the werk of claim agents, which are now being properly rejected. Looking; After Franrti. "Wholesale frauds lie thexe discovered at Norfolk, Va., in New Mexico and in Iowa have been disclosed by special examiners. The work of this division has greatly increased and an additional appropriation for augmenting the force in the service is saked for. Considerable werk in connection with frauds has been dnne by tfce law division. AH cases cf fraud or improper practices brought to Ijp-ht by special examiners receive the personal attention cf those in charpe of this division. The sixtycay notice in suspending pensioners, the report says, was net withdrawing pension, but temporarily withholding it. where it appeared to be unlawful, pending Inquiry. Special examiners are new investigating wholesale frauds in New Mexico and Iowa." The commissoner recommends codification of pension laws wi;h a fw changes

that promotions be made with regard to merit alone and in uttr disregard of Influence, and repeal of the .ct of cengress providing that no pension shall be paid to a non-resident who is not a citizen of the United States, except f-r actual disabilities incurred In the service. Commissioner Lochren concludes aa foilows: "I recognize to the fullest extent that' my sole duty is to execute and administer the laws as they are enacted fairly and honestly interpreted. The secretary of the interior has 1 sued a requisition on the secretary of the treasury for tll.C55.150 for the qua, terly payment of pensions. The sum Is distributed among the agencies as follows: Chicago, $2,759.275; Des Moines, f2.107.OOO: Milwaukee. $!.?05.417; Pittsburg, JI.SOO.OOO; Buffalo, Jl.70i,7ö0; Concord. JS05.125; Washington, D. C. JJIS,845: New York, $9,300: San Francisco, 53.36S: Philadelphia. $7.4V1; Knoxvill. $6.000; Boston. J7.250; Indianapolis. $9,125; Louisville. $3.225; Detroit. $6,170. and Augusta. 52,75'. TWO PLACES FOR INDIANA. ! V. H. Bn ACKEf FOR COLLECTOR OF THE SIXTH DISTRICT And Jnnrph AV. Mehol for Second Comptroller of the Treasnry The firn I n a 1 1 on of the Former Expected Mr. Mchol's Previous Work. BUREAU OF THE SENTINEL, WASHINGTON. D. C. Sept. 2. Two appointments of considerable importance fell to the lot of Indiana today. William II. Bracken of Brookville was appointed collector of internal revenue for the Sixth district, an! Joseph W. Nichol of Indianapolis was appointed deputy second comptroller of th treasury. Mr. Bracken's case wns especially urged by Congressman Holman and aequieset! In by the delegation generally, as that appointment has all the time been conceded in Mr. Hainan's district. It Is the best revenue appointment in the state, when the patronage under it Is considered. Joseph W. Nichol formerly lived In Indianapolis, but he came to Washington to serve as law ei. rk cf the postoffice department during Mr. Cleveland's first administration, and has since made this city his place of residence. He was Indorsed by Senators Voorhcs and Turpie, and all the democratic members of the state delegation. ITe is a nephew of the late ex-Senator Joseph E. McDonald, a brother-in-law of Col. R. J. Bright, sergeant-at-arms of the senate, and a capable and popular man, well known here and in Indiana. The salary of this new position H $2,700 per annum. The postoflice of Kei win, Lake county, has been discontinued and patrons will hereafter get their mail at Millers. Star postal service has been ordered discontinued from Benjamin to Clinton from Sept, 20. DIDVT READ THE PAPERS. Story of Two Farmern Who Met Green Good Men. NEW YORK, Sept. 23. Three hundred dollars was the plaintive cry Emil Myer, thirty years old, a farmer from Williamstown, O., uttered when arrainged before Justice Ryan in the police court this morning. Jacob Kasper, ho accompanied Myer from eis home, was aKo a prisoner, but less demonstrative than his companion. Yesterday afternoon Policeman Peter Miller of the Second precinct was on post at Cortland-st. ferry looking for "green goods," sharps or victims, the officer saw two well dressed men coming from the ferry house, one of whom had a tin cash box half hidden under his coat while his companion kept a close watch out. The box was full of neatly-cut whit slips of paper. They broke down completely when they saw the contents of the box and said they were farmers from Ohio. They gathered $300 by hard work and came to Hoboken on Thursday in response to a circular letter which they received three months ago from New York. Myer, who speaks with a German accent, said that he and his companion wore met in Hoboken by a man who said his name was Johnson and he took them to Perth Am boy, N. J. They reached a little store there and Myer went inside, while Kasper stood outside. The deal was mad? very quietly, as Myer was satisfied with the sample bills, lie then came to New York to see the sights and at the ferry Johnson gave hiiu the box, which he said contained J 1.500 and for which Myer raid him $30 They had only reached this city when Miller accosted them. Kasper carried a revolver in his hip pocket and tliis was taken from him. Justice Ryan held him in $600 for trial for carrying concealed weapons and discharged Myer. Both men said they never read any newspapers and had not htard of these green goods swindles. At an early hour this morning the police captured a gang cf "green goods" men on upper Third-ave., and secured a large account of paraphernalia. The men gave their names as Walter Melward, twenty-six years; Henry Randall, thirtyone; John Byrnes, twenty-four, and Peter Shelley, twenty. They are all well dressed and respectable looking men. They refused to say anything when arraigned and were held In $1.000 bail for examination on Monday next. To gain strength Hood's Sarsaparilla, For steady nerves Hood's Sarsaparilla. For pure blood Hood's Sarsaparilla. Baking

i7 n rrr ranr

in u ' h