Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1893 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL.' WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 6, . 1893 TWELVE PAGES,

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO.

B. E. MOBS, President, BEN A. EATON, Vic Präsident. d. McCarthy. Secretary and Treuarer. (Rnlrred at the Post o filer at Indianapolls a ecoutl cln matter.) TERMS PKR YEAR Single copy (In Advance) fl 00 We auk democrat! to bear la mind and aelret their ovo state paper when they come to take anbscrlptlona and make up clubs. Aa-entM ninklna; up clab nend for any Information desired. Addreti THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL, Indlanapolla, Ind. TWELVE PAGES. WEDXESDVY, DECEMBER , lMKTf. Alack! and alas! Mr. Carnegie is kicking because the new tariff bill reduces the duty on "the rich men's champagne." If gambling were not suppressed, we' would bet that Carnegie does not drink. The chief protectionist objection to an ad .valorem tariff Is that it Is plain and easy to be understood. They prefer a form of duties as complicated as possible, and McKinley achieved a triumph In. that line by making a very large number of duties both ad valorem and specific. No one but an expert could tell what such duties actually amounted to, and even an expert has to wait until efter the duties are collected to calculate 'the rate. Another brutal case of hanging a criminal, or at least of attempting to' kill him in that way, was made at fTaylorsville. Ky., last Friday. The report says that his neck was not broken it all. He slowly strangled to death, which did not come until he had suffered horribly for full fourteen minutes. That "Ys what the French would call "a bad quarter of an hour." Yes, a very bad 'quarter and a sad comment on such a bungling execution. i The classic village of Llrdseye has a Jfcensatlon In the return of Casper Klrby fand William Klrby, father and son, both of whom left the place during the fwar to escape the draft. William left "a year later than his father and got .3ack a day later, but notwithstanding he coincidence of their return they say that neither knew the whereabouts of the other. Our correspondent does not ptate whether they escaped the draft or not, but a man that cannot escape a draft in thirty years is not much of an escaper. Apropos of the ruin of Indiana industries by the reduction of the tariff we note an interesting report in the Philadelphia. Press that "the dissolution of the plate-glass trust last week has already caused a decline of 2d per cent. In the price of the product. The Pittsburg plate-glass company is said to have been responsible for the breaking up of the trust because it claimed it did not receive its share of orders." The Press is a consistent high-tariff organ, but it occasionally prints an item that must have a tendency to oien the eyes of its readers. The last plateglass trust " was quite as obnoxious as the old one. The people of Savannah, Ga., are making extensive arrangements for the meeting of the national farmers' congress, which will occur there Dec. 12. The body will continue in session for three days. The leading questions of the day, including silver and the tariff, will be discussed. There will be about three hundred delegates in attendance, representing all 'sections cf the country, and It Is also tsaid a number of politicians will be on 'hand to sound the delegates upon the Situation In their respective locations. tWith an eye to business, the enterprising citizens of Savannah have determined to make known to the visitors the attractions which that section presents for those seeking homes. A committee has been appointed to prepare a pamphlet showing up the advantages of Savannah and its surroundings, and Savannah speakers will seek occasion to dilate on jthe same subject. The occasion will be jof great Interest to the farmers of th ntire country. It is not often that the staid and conservative Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin gives vent to indignation, but it talks very forcibly on ' the Hawaiian question. The following extract Is worth thinking about: "Scarcely .lens to be regretted than the , disgraceful facts themselves. Is the fact that there appears to be a second opinion as to the proper course to be taken by our government under the circumstances. There are prominent men and Influential Journals that do not rotate to palliate and even Justify the :-d and demand Its ratification. It uld be sufficient disgrace that a minv haa so prostituted his office as to iicate the nation In this scandalous .-nee; but when representative men :xlitlcs and the press itself become icators of the outrage, the disgrace the country becomes so much R? greater. We can conceive of rearon of political expediency or International Interest as warranting Interventions in other countries under certain conditions of aggravation. Put hUh above all such considerations of material Interest stand the claims of International morality and honor, which pit never be compromised for territoriil acquisition. The political morals of rvnirchles tainted with traditions of l tute force are one thing. Republicanism has less to boast of than it claims if with us honor does not mean plain honesty. We surely have some better lesson to convey to the nations than that, because we arc powerful, we can play the pirate with Impunity and will UM. what w pleas without compunc

tion." We believe that these sound and high considerations will prevail with, the American people, for they put Justice and honor first In the category of national virtues.

THE TARIFF niLL. The tariff bill will meet the general approval of tariff reformers as to nearly all of its provisions, for the reason that it Is tariff reform as understood by the country and as pledged by the democratic party. It is both radical and rational. It cuts off the excrescences . of McJvInleyism boldly, and yet it will not Injure any of the legitimate Industries of the country. On the contrary It gives them the fullest opportunity to take a prominent ( place In the markets of the world, and to maintain a steady and remunerative business that was utterly impossible within the limitations of a purely domestic maiket. At the name time It strikes with tremendous force many of the most obnoxious trusts that have grown up under the tariff system. The' greedy and conscienceless corper .monopoly is stopped by putting copper ore and copper in its unmanufactured forms on the free list. The pine lumber combine Is knocked out by the free list, and at the same time provision is made for preventing an export duty by Canada by. holding the existing duty over that country in case an export duty Is imposed. The binding-twine trust also collides with the free list, and the Impositions on the farmer by that organization are ended. The white lead trust gets a heavy reduction as does also the linseed oil trust. Cottonseed oil goes on the free list. The plate glass trust has a reduction of nearly one-half on its product. The steel rail duty also Is cut in two and the steel rail trust which is reported to have been formed already, after the recent disorganization, will find It impossible to maintain t,he old-time prices by which it retarded the development of railroads. The leather industry of the country will be benefited by the addition of tallow and wool grease to the free list, as has been urged by The Sentinel. Farmers will be relieved from the clutches of the agricultural implement makers, who have been selling their machines at lower rates in foreign countries than at home. The Pennsylvania coal combine, which has been keeping up the cost of fuel along the Atlantic seaboard, will now be unable to continue Its robbery of the people, because bituminous coal is put on the free list. Cigarmakers everywhere will be greatly benefited by the large reduction on wrapper leaf. The meat-packing and dairy interests will be given a fresh impetus by the removal of the duty on salt. The feature of the bill that will receive the most criticism from tariff reformers is the sugar schedule. It is unfortunate that the duty on refined sugar is reduced one-half instead of betntj wiped ojit altogether, if raw sugar is to remain on the free list. It is unfortunate that the sugar bounty is given the privilege of a lingering death. It would have been better to put an all-round duty of 1 cent per pound on sugar and repeal the bounty at once. Sugar is a legitimate revenue article, and a duty of a cent a pound would not have been felt by the consumers. Sugar has fallen very materially In price in the last ten years without regard to the tariff, and will probably never again see the figures that used to make it a luxury. The country needs the revenue. It is very certain that the estimate of a reduction of fifty million dollars based on the imports of 1S92 will not hold good, but there should be no reduction of revenue at all. The country wants a tariff for revenue, and if congress makes any changes in the bill we trust it will be in the direction of making sugar productive of revenue instead of an expense to the country. We have no desire to protect sugar planters, but would much rather give them the incidental protection of a revenue duty on sugar than a bounty. The benefits of free sugar have been ridiculously exaggerated by republicans, but congressmen need have no fear that the people are deluded on that subject Perhaps the most Important feature of all to the people at large Is the sweeping reduction In clothing materials of all kinds, and particularly in woolen goods. This Is something that comes home to every family and to every Individual. We shall no longer have to submit to the abominations of shoddy and cotton fillings that have been palmed off on the people for "all wool," but will get genuine woolen goods and get them at lower rates than we have been paying for the imitation articles. Carpets also, which have become articles of necessity in America, will be reduced largely in price, and the homes of the people will be benefited in this. The absurd breadstuff taxes, which served no purpose except to occasionally raise'the price of seed, are done away with. On the whole, the bill is an earnest, courageous and genuine measure of tariff reform, and the ways and means committee Is to be heartily congratulated on Its good work. THE PROPOSED INCOME TAT. The gentlemen of means who have been worrying about an Income tax will probably sleep better sine It is announced that the measure Is to apply only to corporations and successions, or legacies. This proposition, we believe. Is altogether unique, and at first blush may seen to be subject to all the evils of class legislation, but a closer consideration of the question will show that there is good ground for It In common fairness. ""All corporations are creatures of the government. . It gives them their existence and gives them all the powers they possess. Some of these powers are very far-reaching in their, effects, as for example the power of eminent domain, under which a railroad company is enatled to condemn a right of way through the property of an Individual, no matter how much the individual may object to the location of the road at that plxce.

The mere power of Incorporation Is Itself a great privilege. It enables a wealthy man to -create a second self. He may j own the majority of the stock may be j practically the corporation and yet the corporation Is in law a separate existence not bound by hl3 contracts nor liable for ; his actions. The utmost that can be I done Is to seize his stock. It is a com- ' mon thing to find corporations organ- ' Ized solely , to escape individual responI sibility, cover up Individual property or ; promote individual operations, j For these rights and privileges corporations pay practically nothing. The j wave of fiscal reform that has been : passing over the country has indeed rej suited In some compensation for them in j some places, but these are not adequate, and they apply only to new corporations. '. Indiana has a requirement for license ! fees for. new corporations which brings I In some revenue, but the enormous mass

of existing corporate capital escapes this. Indianapolis has inaugurated the system of requiring compensation for public franchises, but this does not cover the ! franchise of Incorporation. Moreover there are a large number of the most important corporations of the country that are largely protected from local taxation by the interstate commerce law. the national bank law and other legislation that brings them national guardianship. There ought to be some method by which the people could obtain compensation for the rights and privileges donated to these corporations, and no better method could be suggested than a tax on their incomes. It should be remembered also hat in corporations the risk to individual stockholders is less than in prlvRte business, for the liability Is usually limited to the amount of stock held. There Is another advantage In this proposition. It avoids the charge of inquisitorial investigation into private affairs, which has been made the chief objection to a general income tax. One can easily see how it might be a serious injury to a business man to have his affairs made public, or even subjected to official examination for mere tax purposes, but no such objection applies to corporations. In fact, it is almost essential to the proper protection which the government owes to stockholders that there should be a public statement of the profits of corporations and an official ascertainment of the correctness of the statement. Of course, there will be a tremendous howl raised by the plutocracy which keeps Its possessions in corporate form, but that will be no answer to the proposition, nor any criticism of its justice. It should be mentioned also that as the proposal is to tax net earnings it will be fair as between corporations. The representatives of corporations in Indiana have been Insisting for some time that a tax on net earnings is the only fair method of taxing corporations. The succession or legacy tax is imposed only on money and personal property, and is also a form of taxation which the most advanced science holds to be just and fair. Extremists contend that a man should have no power whatever to control property after his death, but that it should be taken by the state. This, however, is recognized to be contrary to the duty of every parent to provide for those whom he has brought into the world, but there may reasonably be a charge made by the state for supervising and protecting this transfer of property. Several states have already adopted such laws, and they are working satisfactorily. New York furnishes a good Illustration of the success of the system. We believe that both forms of taxation will prove popular and satisfactory. I'XCLE SAM'S ACCOfSTS. The Boston Herald presents a striking view of the financial affairs of the country In the following statement of expenditures and of receipts from customs and internal revenue: RECEIPTS. Customs. 1S93. 1S92. January :. 121,1 02. 477 $17.4r,.2? Feliruary lii,J36.39." ir.,"x2,42U March 19,i;6',S7: 16. 15.212 April 15,418,63 l:.7t.99 May 15.424, Ki 1:5.121.391 June 11.964,391 14.61 8. 49: July 14.6S3.9:9 17.2fi5,15.1 August 12.Ht.2fi 1X.271.M9 September 12.5ti!.776 17.2iy,!4S October 10,999,5:51 16,3tiü,559 Nov.! to 19, Inclusive.... 7.111,207 9,4'M."25 Internal revenue. y.a. is:c. January $12.0,917 $11.4.:9,9.-7 February 11.316.8:12 12,lS'.U87 March 12,!0.92S 12.133,C"1 April ll.i'.W.IWS 12.tMS.fi22 May 13.212.K Um;,1"i June 14.oo.'U27 14.779.922 July - H.C.wu.'s 14.kiW.118 August 10,f)2.9i7 14.0ftf,4' September 11. 169.3 J SsS October 12.73. n 14,i.vS9l Nov. 1 to 19 8,499.217 8.37:5,970 EXPENDITURES. 1893. 1S92. Janwarv 5S.3r.l.4.12 J.54.17:i.r0 February 3),m;s,27:1 2.1,9ti2.72 March . 31.C5.4.S2 27.7SI.217 April 3;.2:.kxi 3o,or.9.t;.52 May 30.21D.7H9 31.732.794 3une 2i.77r..4 ;9 27.922.412 July .' 39,fi7:.NN9 8rt,3::.5.977 August 3:;,:a"..228 31.440.254 September 2r..47s,.l0 28.192.423 October 29,5n8,792 3!, 1x7,902 Nov. 1 to 19 22.021, r 22.5K5.OU0 It will be seen from these figures that during the first half of the year the receipts from these sources were about equal to the expenses. Since July, however, there has been a great falling off of receipts without a corresponding decrease of expenses. This, of course, Is due to the panic and the depression of trade. The last administration left a large mass of liabilities that have taxed the treasury severely, one of the most Important classes being the contracts for armor-clad vessels which have been completed this year. The heavy expense of pensions Is a constantly increasing one, though there will probably te some saving by the purging of the pension lists of some of the fraudulent work under the Tanner and Raum regimes. The public buildings expense is usually a pretty heavy item, but the chairman of the senate committee having that matter In charge says there will be small appropriations for buildings at this session. By economy In all departments, such as President Cleveland enforced during bis previous ad-1

ministration, It' Is' probable 'that the ad- ; ministration will' be able to make both ; ends meet until the new '.tariff law is j put In force. It succeeded in getting

through the low income season of the summer and fall,, and on Nov. "25 had on hand I19.945.0C6 In. excess of the hundred millions reserve fund, and no bonds sold. The government is in safe hands. ItOHIVSOX CIIGW.Ml. A very , palpable attempt to work the F. M. u. A. for political purposes was made aC the session' of the general assenfdy of the organization in this city, especially by the president, Mr. C. A. Robinson, and. the secretary, W. E. Robinson. The latter's ideas on politics were set out in an interview published in Tuesday's Sentinel, as follows: We should not. be confounded with the people's party, nor should it be understood ! that we are in any way a political association. We nave as a bodynothing to do with politics. Many of our members belong, to thu people's party, and it is no doubt true that in political affiliations the members of the association will sooner or later separate themselves from the democratic and republican ranks to join that party; but this will be entirely of their own volition and caused by their belief in the fact that the principles advocated by that party are more nearly allied to their own Interests. So far as the F. M. P. A. is concerned, however, we. have no more connection with one party than with another. I am a member of the people's party, and am also a presbyter ian. The two do not conflict or have any more relation to ea-ch other than my connection with the people's party and the F. M. Ii. As In our association we have thousands of members of all the political parties, and any attempt upon the part of the association to combine with a political organization would only result In defeat and disruption. It all our members were mem tiers of the people's party then a junction and unity of Interests would be possible. In other. words, Mr. W. E. Robinson is a populist, and he expects the members of the F. M. B. A. to be brought into the populist ranks, "sooner or . later." Having such convictions and such anticipations he naturally would forward the good work of making populists of republicans and democrats on all convenient occasions. It is apparent that the other Robinson agrees with the secretary in these views, for he took advantage of his position as president of this non-political organization to make the following remarkable onslaught: The dear old grange, God bless her, is the mother of the office of the secretary of agriculture and J. Sterling Morton .holds his position by the grace of her existence. This is not the first case on record of base ingratitude shown by a son to his mother. Yet what more could we expect of one who lias fled from his paternal roof and sought the associations of soulless corporations and himself become so lost to all the principles of honor as to work willingly and industriously for a syndicate of stockholders and an emporium of semi-professional Jackasses? Rut he planted a. tree and for every tree, he has planted he has hewn down a home. Yes. he planted a tree a maple by the roadside and, for every maple he has planted by the road he has planted a thorn in the hears of a farmer, and many will be the curse that is heajed ujxin the head of this official nondescript by the farmers of the United States ere they are able to -free them selves from his unholy influence. After all. he is but the -creature of a higher authority which is as adverse to our interests as he is. ... i As a matter of fact,-3r. .Morton's' remarks were called forth- try the political farmers the agriculturists who devote their attention to cultivating votes instead of oats but supposing for the sake of the argument that, the secretary of agriculture had in fact committed some grievous offense against the farmers, what excuse would there be for Robinson's statement that "he is but the creature of a higher authority which Is as adverse to our interests as he Is?" Why is President Cleveland dragged In and thus slanderously assailed? What has he ever done to Justify this charge of hostility to the farming Interests? It Is true that he is too honest a man to pretend that he lies awake of nights worrying about the farmers as a class, but he has always shown a keen Interest lu the welfare of the whole people, and the farmers constitute about one-half of the people. It 1s evident that Mr. Robinson took advantage of his official position to make, an attack on the leader of a political party for political purposes. The only conceivable purpose of such a thing Is a hope to prejudice democratic members of the orgaidzation against the president . and against the democratic party. We imaginehowever, that democratic farrners will size Mr. Robinson up without much difficulty. llOVT nK ALARMED. As was to be expected the leaders of the wageworkers of the Pennsylvania region are out protesting that the reduction of the tariff on the' protected Industries of Pennsylvania, will throw everybody but of employment and ruin the whole country. Most of these men are protectionists, and some of them have been In political work for their employers for so long that they cannot keep out of It now. Even Powderly could not. resist the seductions of Quay and now he is free to make a business of politics." The president of the Amalgamated association of Iron and steel workers Is reported as saying: .' The measure is a menace to our manufacturing industries. The manufacturers whom the committee Is aiming at can stand it by closing their mills, but the employes will starve in the meantime. 1 . . To all of which we replyr rats! There will be no closing ot mills and no loss of work by employes. ' The president ' qf the Windyw glass workers' association Is equally apprehensive of ruin. He says: If the bill passes the window glass trade wljl be ruined. The reduction Is .between i0 and r." per cent, and to get oven manufacturers will reduce wages. If the latter are reduced in proportion to the cut the employes cannot live. Even a compromise ..under the circumstances would be vicious. The president of the Flint glass workers union comes to the front with a similar prediction 'of evil, as follows: If the Mil goes through It will throw hundreds of men in the tableware business out of employment. We will certainly protest against the measure and ask our representatives t3 do everything they can to defeat It. Thtse are- worklngmen" of the John Jarre tt stripe, and they, are putting

themselves on record In good time to have it proven that they do. not know what they are talking about. The recent movements of the Eteel rail trust and the plate glass trust have exposed the false pretenses of manufacturers in Jhese lines so thoroughly that no one will be deceived by an outcry of these combines .made through their head workingmen. This tariff is all right so far as manufactures are concerned, and workingmen will get more benefit from it

'than any other class. They have been enjoying the. other style of tariff for several months past. THE SIT.AR SCHEDULE. Almost the only thing in the' tariff bill that receives criticism is the sugar schedule,, and that Is being freely condemned by the press throughout the country," democratic as well as republican. The New York World says of it: The most disappointing feature of the new bill is the sugar schedule. Most democrats will say that the bounty ought to have been taken away at once, for such a tax is directly hostile to American institutions and especially to democratic principles. ' '; .. The Philadelphia Record, while commending the bill in general, has no use for the sugar schedule. It says: The sugar schedule of the was's and means committee is a most lame and Impotent conclusion. In fear of offending the sugar trust on one hand, and the sugar planters on the other, a most valuable source of fiscal revenue has been totally abandoned. It advocates a straight duty of 1 cent per pound on all sugar, and ventures the prediction: It is more than probable that further consideration will show it to be necessary to tax raw sugar In order to obtain an adequate revenue. The sugar schedule, as it stands, has the appearance of having been drawn with a view to political rather than fiscal considerations. . The Springfield Republican, which ranks as a mugwump publication, says: And "the sugar trust Is treated none too harshly by a cut of one-half In the duty on refined sugar. Revenue considerations here, however, would have dictated an imposition Instead of a small tax on raw sugar. Rut the revenue tariff idea seems to have been abandoned at this point. The republican papers make this their great point of attack. The Pittsburg Dispatch, for example, says: The iron, glass and other northern manufactures must stand a slash of half to two-thirds their protection on the 1st of March next; but the sugar growers must be left undisturbed in their bounty till July 1. 1S95. and then only one-eighth of that protection is to be taken away each year. This gives them over nine and a half years of respite in contrast to ( hardly as many weeks of preparation for the great Industrial Interests of the North. - The Minneapolis Tribune fairly "chortles in Its glee" over the inconsistency of the democrats, In this paragraph: Here is consistency for you. Last fall the sugar bounty was one of the most diabolical violations of the constitution, of the principles of our fathers, and a measure treasonable to our republican government. And now its sweetness is to be drawn out until 1902. although the McKinley act limited its existence to July 1, 1895. Nevertheless, as we have observed before, the most Important thing Is to enact a law as speedily as possible., POLITICS AND HAWAII. One of our southern contemporaries, the Atlanta National, has become possessed of some unique and rather startling views on the Hawaiian question. In the course of Its lonesome occupation of disseminating republican views in Georgia it has arrived at the conclusion that the colored brother is the chief factor in America, and it sees in the Hawaiian question the nomination of Gresham for the presidency in S96 by the democratic party. It says: Secretary (Jresharn's action in the Hawaii matter has Immensely popularized him with the southern Negroes; and the negro bishops, preachers and politicians will favor him, because they allege Gen. Gresham favors home rule and government by the native population in the Sandwich islands, and as the natives In Hawaii are almost wholly colored people It touches them very sympathetically while, under the lead of the Louisville Courier-Journal, the south-' em whites are appealed to by the cry against "carpet-baggism," and that Gresham opposes "carpet-baggism," whether applied to the South or Hawaii. Gresham takes the position that a mere handful of Imported "carpet-baggers" cannot set up a pretended "republic" in Hawaii and overthrow a government of the natives. ' This is certainly a very ingenious theory, and If Secretary Gresham gains the favor of both the whites and the negroes In the South he would stand an excellent chance for the democratic nomination. Rut we fear that the National Is not altogether reliable In this matter. It Is booming a candidate for the republican nomination, and 1t seems to be using the Gresham popularity as an argument for the nomination of its man. It proceeds with Its observation thus: If ex-Mlnlster Lincoln had been In Honolulu Gresham never could have made this outcry against "alien rule and carpet-baggery." and the man to confront him before the American people is Robert T. Lincoln, who was a model official, both at home, as secretary of war under 'Arthur, and as minister abroad under Harrison. Gen. Harrison says "anybody could have carried Ohio," which Is true; but the most material inquiry is who can carry Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Minnesota in the .West, and New York, New Jersey and Connecticut In the East, and the answer is Robert T. Lincoln. If Mr. Lincoln can carry these six states all he has to do Is to mention the fact and he will get the republican nomination. And. In fact, the republicans could do much worse than to nominate Lincoln, and the democrats much worse than to nominate Gresham. As The Sentinel predicted, the feature of the tariff bill which attracts most criticism Is the sugar schedule. Tariff reformers do not like the bounty features, or the remaining quarfer of a cent tribute - to the sugar trust. Republican papers treat the bounty as a favor to the South. . and will make what pltal they can from it It would have been safer to enforce democratic policy. McKinleylsm has been condemned by the people. McKinley- took the duty off sugar and put the bounty on.' It is' safe to reverse the .McKinley method. Republicans will kick, no matter what Is done about sugar, and therefore.lt 13 just as well to leave nothing

for tariff reformers to ccroplaln about on . that subject. The greatest point, however, is to act promptly. Let us have the tariff law passed and the question disposed of, for the next four years, at least. .

A contemporary offers a valuable suggestion for taxation in this statement: "To rich Englishmen the income tax is not the most irritating form pf taxation. No one in England can keep a man serxant without paying a license of $4 a year, or $16 if the servant Is a gamekeeper. Only the other day the Hon. George Keppel, a younger son of the earl of Albemarle, was convicted ina London police court of keeping a butler wJJout a license and compelled to 'trhoofee -tjej.ween paying a fine of $25 or "g6ingto prison for a few days." The city-council should make a note of this. People with men servants wear out the 6treets more than others because these employes are usually engaged in driving their employers' carriages. A tax on men servants would be a highly popular thing in Indianapolis, and would help the new administration In Its commendable efforts at economy. The report that the ways and means committee will recommend a heavy increase of taxation on cigarettes and p'aying cards is a welcome piece of intelligence. The cigarette business of the country is monopolized by two companies, and the cigarette itself is a nuisance, if thj?re ever was one. The tax. would be increased in popularity if persons who smoke them in the presence of others could be doubly taxed. The manufacture of playing cards also is practically a . monopoly, and everyone concedes that they are proper subjects for high taxation. As Instruments for gambling they ought to be taxed, and as the means of amusement the tax Is a small matter which those who desire to amuse themselves will pay without grumbling. The ways and means committee is to be complimented on Its Judiciousness iu selecting these two articles as objects of special taxation. Colorado Is in the midst of another gold excitement, and the usual ridiculous exaggerations are flying. It Is reported that twelve assays from the new district show from $40 to $120 per ton. and that the. "district" is twenty mtUs square. A district is just as large as the imagination and the rush of prospectors make It. If one man finds a gold mine there Is nothing to prevent other people hunting for gold mines for twenty miles In every direction, or fifty miles, for that matter. The probabilities are that one mine has been found and the assays do not show it to be anything extraordinary. Nevertheless there is- an excitement and even Cripple Creek is being deserted for the new field. A- terrible suspicion is afloat that Chairman Carter of the republican national committee is to call the committee together in January for the purpose of inaugurating a boom for Harrison for 1896, and Clarkson and Sutherland are indulging in unabridged profanity on this account. OPEXED TO THE 11 II LIC. The Soldiers Monument Work That In I'nder Way. The soldiers and sailors' monument was declared formally opened to the public by ' the commissioners Friday The formal opening was attended with no ceremonies but simply amounted to the establishment of a fee of admission, whereas in the past admission has been free. The fee will be 20 cents. From this source enough is expected to be realized to pay the expense of the custodian. As pon as the elevator is put in the admission fee to those desiring the use of the machine will be increased to 25 cents. The work which is under way in and about the monument is progressing nicely. The Mexican war dates have been replaced by the dates "1861" and "1SR5" and the work of cutting the Inscriptions on the north tablet continues slowly despite the severe cold of the rast few days. The stairway has been continued to the iron floor at the base of the, parapet; the copper sheeting is being put In place around the turret and is expected to be finished in a week or ten days. Inside several changes have been made. An office has been built under the west sill and the whole ceiling on the. lower sill has been covered with steel. The entire Interior of the monument Is now made comfortable by a method of heating devised by Mr. Langsdale. RAILWAY DISASTER IX ITALY. Thirteen Dead Removed from the Wreck and Many Injured. MILAN. "Nov. 29. An express train, bound from this city to Venice, came I into- collision at 3 o'clock this morning j with a heavy freight train which was j stationary on the rails at the limits of , the first Btation between Milan and j Trevegllo. Thirteen dead bodies have ' been removed from the wreck and twenty wounded people have been brought to the hospital of this city from the scene of the disaster. Later A dispatch from Milan says that forty-three persons were killed and 183 Injured by the collision ot Limltro station. Nearly every passenger on the train was more or less injured. 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BOTH PARTIES HOLD COXVEXTIOXS AND .MAKE XOMIXATIOXS. John P. Hopkins the Choice of the Democrats and George H. Swift of the Rrpohllram Km n k Law lei Sunken Hands Tilth AVaaliingtoa Ii en I nK. CHICAGO. Dec. . The nomination for mayor of George B. Swift at the rei ublican convention today was attended by a tragic incident in the sudden ilc-ath of the well-known banker, Charles Kozeminskl. Mr. Kozeminskl had seconded the nomination of Mr. Swift and retired to a committee room to serve on the committee on resolutions, when he suddenly sank to the floor, expiring immediately. When the excitement caused by the banker's death had subsided, the convention proceeded to the nomination of a candidate for the office made vacant by the murder of Mayor Harrison. Swift's was the onjy name placed In nomination, and the present acting mayor was speedily chosen by acclamation. The democratic mayoralty convention, also held today, promised a pretty little war, with John P. Hopkins and Frank Wenter as combatants. Ex-Con-grcssman Frank Lawler, who has for a time posed as a candidate, threw his Influence to Wenter, but Hopkins showed unexpected strength and was nominated on the first ballot. A picturesque spectacle in the convention during the general harmonizing after the nomination was Mr. Lawler shaking hands with Washington Hesing who, a few days ago, was appointed over Lawler's head as postmaster at Chicago. HOYS' HE FORM SCHOOL. The Tventj-Sevenlli Annual Report Submitted. The board of control of the reform school for boys has made Its report to the governor for the year ending Oct. 31, 193. It is the twenty-seventh annual report and includes the fourteenth annual report of Superintendent Cbarlton. The board indorses the superintendent's recommendation that the size of the farm attached to the institution be increased for two reasons: First, as a matter of economy in order to produce as far as possible the food consumed by the inmates; and second, lecause the farm affords the best home for the boys leaving the school, and larger acreage is necessary to give more of them employment. The school was established In January, 1868. and during that time 3.916 boys have been admitted. During the year just closed 147 n?w inmates were received. In addition to these sixty-nine who had been released on tickets of leave during good behavior were returned, making a total of 216 admitted during the year. The number released during the year was 186. Of these five were released on account of having become twenty-one years old. The other 181 were released on tickets of leave. The health of the- inmates Is rej.Krted by the physician in charge to have been unusually good, there having been but two deaths during the year, one of them from an accident. None are now seriously ill. During the year the adminIsration building has been repaired and added to, most of the work being dorui by the boys. The bricks in the new structure were made by them and the work of construction was done by them with the assistance of a brick mason. Eighteen boys learned the trade. This work was such as would cost not less than $20,000 ordinarily, but It was done on an appropriation of half that sum. A new manual labor wood-working shop has been established and placed under the charge of a graduate of a school of technology. The appropriation for the maintenance of the institution for the year was $70,000. This was all drawn, but there are creditson the side of the institution which reduce its actual cost to the state to $41.029.73. CAIGIIT OX A TRESTLE. One of a Party Killed and Eleven. Others Injured. EAST LIVERPOOL. O.. Dec. 1. X horrifying accident, resulting in the death of an estimable young lady and the Injury of a number of others, occurred on the electric street railway shortly before 1 o'clock this morning. About twenty East Liverpool people attended a private party at the house of John Robinson, half way between the city proper and the East End. Shortly after 12 the affair broke up. The party from the city hailed the next car westward, but was informed by the motorman that It would run only to the power-house, a distance, of a few blocks and that his was ihe last car. The party then concluded to walk to town, and to do so had to pass tver a trestlework a distance of a hundrd feet. They anticipated no danger, despite the darkness, owing to the assurances of the motorman that there would be no more cars. - When half way across the trestle, the party was horrified to see a car approaching from the east, down a heavy incline, at a terrific speed. Their screams were "heard by the motorman. but he was unable to check the car and it came thundering toward them. Some of the party jumpM over the trestle, a distance of about twelve feet, while others allowed themselves to drop through the ties.' In the party were Mr. and Mrs. Miller J. Harsha. a young couple married a little over a year ago, with their Infant babe. Mr. Harsha advised his wife to slip through the ties and acted upon this advice himself with the baby in one arm. He hung to tha tie urging his wife to make haste, but before she could follow him, she was struck by the' rapidly moving car and killed. A number of others were painfully, but not dangerously injured. The iist of Injured are: Miss Dell Martin, age nineteen, struck i'i back and side by car, knocked over the trestle on the river side, fell thirty io forty feet; hurt internally; very serious. Laura Martin, age sixteen, struck on the head, badly cut, also knocked over the trestlf with her fcister Dell. Charles KIrcher, father of the woman killed, thrown over the trestle; seriously Injured. Out of fourteen In the party, all but three were more or less injured.

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