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

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY 3IOKNING, DKCEMBKTt 27, 1893-TWELVE PAGES.

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B. E. MOBSS, President, DEN A. EATON, Vies President. d. McCarthy. Secretary and Treasurer. (L'nTfd at he Postoffloe nt Indl.ma polls an ernnd rlua matter.) thums rr.u y i:it j (jgle copy (In Advance) ?t H We nk democrat to ltenr In mind nrrt nelect their own tat pnp i,.iin they come to take Hnbuoriplor aud innKe tip flub. 1i;rnl uinUlns; up clubs fnd for :irj- Information rienired. Addrcs Till-: IMJI.V.XAI'ULIÜ CMIXKL, Indianapolis, Ind. TWELVE PAGES. wr.nM'snvv. IHHTMnCR 27, 1S!3. pass tiii: nii.L. Chairman Wilson's report on the tariff bill i3 a very strong appeal to the manufacturing interests of the country not .to stand in the way of the moderate and reasonable reduction of the, tariff which is made by this bill on manufactured products. It does not claim that the bill is what ardent tariff reformers want. On the contrary, Mr. Wilson expressly say? that It "is not offered as a complete response to the mandate of the American people," and ho defend3 the till in this respect on the theory that "in dealing with the tariff question, as with every other longstanding abuse that has interwoven itself with our social or industrial system, the legislator must always remember that In the beginning: temperate reform is safest, having in Itself the principle of growth." We believe that even th extreme tarif reformers will concede the wisdom of this proposition, for extreme tariff reformers are logical men, end they know that a deep-seated wrong is not ea-sily removed, and that an attempt to tear it out, root and branch. Is apt to produce injuries for which a devotion to principle is not sufficient justification. Jloicover, it is t- b; remembered that even within the democratic ranks we must encounter more or less of that opposition which, jis Mr. Wilson truly says, "rallies behind the intolerance of monopoly, the power of concentrated wealth, the inertia of fixed habits, and the honest errors of a gent-ration of false teaching." The- important thing now is to pass i bill that cuts off the enormities of McKinleyism and makes a decided itart in the direction of the result which logical tariff reform demands. If that is once eleie, and the present generation, which h :s been educated under a false system. i- given an object lesson, the subsequent steps will meet little opposition as compared with that shown toward the present one. If the people see for themselves the falsity of protectionist prediction? of disaster and ruin to be brought about by this bill, they will not so easily be imposed upon hereafter. This is th n-al motive of the opjositi on to this bill by republican leaders. They fear its educational effect. They oppose a trial of tariff reform in a moderate fc rm, because they know that they will stand convicted before the people as falsA prophets and champions r f a fallacious and injurious system. They made their case before the people, and the people decided against them. Now th. y oppose the execution of the people's will in fear that even that portion of the people which sided with them will forsake them. It is an exhibition of political cowardice that Is of it.--elf strong evidence of their want of sincerity and their fear of being exposed t- the people a.s hypocrites and pretenders who d not believe in their own teachings. We believe that all tariff reformers will be implied to more earnest support of the bill by Mr. Wilson's frank admission of its defects, from his standpoint and from theirs. There is no .double dealing in his report no claim for the bill that is not fully justified by the bill Itself. He frankly states the objections of the committer to the sugar bounty which it recommends, and says "we can conceive of no circumstances under which we would have provided for Its introduction into our laws." But the bounty was there, and it was treated, as an existing- wrong which was to be deult with in the best way practicable. We still believe that a tax of 1 cent per pound on all grades of sugar would have been th? better way to dispose of it, but surely no tariff reformer would let this or any other one objection stand In the way of the passajge of a I UI that has so much of good in it. If a majority of congress says this change should yet be made, well and good. If not, let the bill be passed as It stands and let it be passed quickly. Action is vhat is ne-edecl now. Let the obstruction and opposition come from repub- ' lk ans. tiii: KIXAXCK nEPOUT. Mr. Carlisle is always statesmanlike. Whether making a speech or writing a paper he goes straight to the gist of the matter la a plain, common sense way, wllhout any demagogy or any superfluous flourishes. In the course of time absurdities and abuses grow up under any syst-m of government, and these usually continue and increase until they become unbearable before any intelligent fffort to remedy them Is made. Mr. Carlisle's report Is largely devoted to EU'h absurdities as now exist In the laws r.gj'atlng the treasury and the currency of the country. How plainly v. rong and how easily remedied they are. .'iat earthly reason is there that this run try should have "in circulation nine f'Terent kinds of currency, all except t ..' being dependent directly or indilectly upon the credit of the United f-fates?" Some kind are obliged to be reissued when redeemed; others may be s issued, but axe not required to be: ium may be retired If redeemed in fold.

but must be reissued if redeemed In silver; one is not a legal tender for private debts, but is a legal tender for public dues; one Is not taxable and the others are. And yet both the great parties of the country are pledged to maintain all these forms of money on a parity." Is not this an absurdity that is necessarily productive of evil results, and should It not be remedied? Again, although the government is expected to manage not only the financial affairs of the nation, but also its money for circulation, the hands of the secretary are tied as to all the usual expedients that are resorted to by state and municipal governments in this country. He can neither make temporary loans nor Issue bonds. He Is directed to maintain a gold reserve of ?100,00a,0ao. and no moans for so doing is provided by law, except the issuance of bonds at much higher rates of interest than are necessary. The power to issue bonds in small denominations, to an amount of not over $50,00-0.000, at not more than 3 per cent, interest, is certainly one that can be safely lodged with the secretary of the treasury, or even a power to issue to the amount of $200,000,000 if necessary. The existing laws give authority only for bonds redeemable after ten years at 5 per cent, interest, after fifteen years at per cent, interest, or after thirty years at 4 per cent. Interest. Such a restriction is directly in conflict with the interests of the country and should be removed at once. The power to Increase the gold reserve, to coin the seigniorage, and other powers as to which the laws are silent or of doubtful interpretation should be made plain and clear. There is little room for doubt that the panic of the past summer might have been avoided if the laws of the country had given more elasticity to our currency, and had given the secretary of the treasury greater discretionarypower as to the maintenance and protection of the gold reserve. The lesson has been a costly one, but it should at least have the beneficial effect of bringing about a reform of the currency laws by which similar evils may be avoided In the future. After disposing of the tariff question, congress cannot better employ Itself than in the enactment of a currency law which will remedy the defects of cur present confused and confusing legislation on th it subject. AX KDITATIOXAI. KKKl'.CT. We have said heretofore that the Wilson tariff bill would have a great educational effect on the country after it became a law, but it nprears from the report of the minority of the committee that it has had a great educational effect already. The line of the minority's assault on the bill Is an entire departure from the established theories of pri tection, and in many respect1! an adoption of free trade principles. Take for example the following explanation of the effect of a tariff in wages, or. as the minority calls it. "the yearly distribution of the yearly gain:" This has not been all owing to the tariff, but the tariff has been the foundation of it. Labor organizations have played a great and useful part in this distribution. Men in general who cmploy labor are no more naturally dislused to pay high wages under tariff than those who exploit the laboring man under free trade, and the tr.riff, by giving steady ennd-oment under the influence of a sure market by establishing the organization of industry under th factory system, has given to organized labor the material to work upon, the fund of which it has demanded distribution a fund so great that it could never have been equaled or even tven appro? ched in the comparatively Isolated life which the unprotected industries taken alone would have given us a.s a Ieople. That is a very fair statement of democratic doctrine. It would be indorsed, with but slight alteration, by any free trader. The effect of a tariff is to accumulate a vast fund of profits in the hands of the manufacturer or other tariff beneficiary". The manufacturer Is no more "disposed to pay high wages' when he makes great profits under a tariff than when he makee reasonable profita under free trade. He pays as little for labor as he can. All that the employes get from him above the ordinary price caused by supply and demand is what is wrung from him by organized labor. Organized labor is not a tariff product. Labor is nowhere tetter organized than in England. The only thing that any free trader would question in this statement is the "steady employment under the influence of a sure market," and no Intelligent workingman would admit that. The whole tariff period in America has been one of intermittent industry. We have had over and over what protectionists call "overproduction." and factories have been shut down on account of it, and great trusts have been formed to control and restrict production. The limitation of the market because export is cut off by the increased price of raw materials and fuel has limited production and prevented steady employment, and In these intervals of idleness workIngmen lose far more than they ever gain by forcing a partial distribution of tariff spoils. Indeed, the minority report concodes this very thing as follows: Without' being guilty of that attempt to press the question into a nut shell, which is the bane of economic discussion, it may be briefly said that every product which goes to market must meet every other like product on eciual terms. If In the United States there are higher wages and a higher cost of capital there must be such barriers against goods from abroad as will equalize these higher costs, or the products of the United States cannot be sold except at a loss. Sales at a loss cannot last long. The manufacturers of the United States must operate behind barriers. They cannot compete in the markets of the world. They are confined to the heme market, and as soon as they have provided for Its needs they must shut down and throw their employes out of work. We submit to any workingman that at the present time this country la suffering from "overproduction," or more properly from a' limited market. The only factories that are closed are those for whose products there Is no present demand. We hear on all sides that factories start up on "orders that will run" to Jan. 1, or to some other

date. The home market is stocked, and the foreign market is inaccessible in many industries. This as to the employes of the manufacturers, but let us apply this proposition of the minority to the farmer. "If in the United States there are higher wages and a higher cost of capital." and if without a barrier against foreign coinpetition "the products of the United States cannot be sold except at a loss," where stands the farmer whose surplus product must be sold in the foreign market against all competition, and the price of whose product here is fixed by the foreign price? The farmer, according to the minority proposition, has just as much disadvantage from high labor and high capital as the manufacturer, and in addition to that he must pay more for his clothing, his tools and his supplies of all kinds, excepting food raised by him, in rrder to maintain this heme market for th? manufacturer. We accept the proposition of the minority as good free trade doctrine, and we ask where does the farmer come in? He has no opportunity to extort any part of the profits from the manufacturer, as organized labor may. He bears the burden of the entire system, or rather he shares it with that portion of the community which Is not engaged in the protected industries. We agree with the minority that the objection to this bill 13 that it does not go far enough that the difference between it and any other protective measure "is only one of degree." And we rejoice that the minority has had its eyes opened to the objections to the bill from a free trade standpoint. IT WAS DYNAMIT. The president's message on the Hawaiian question, and the accompanying documents, leave the adherents of Messrs. Stevens, Blaine and Harrison in a most pitiable plight. For some days past they have been insisting that the president had declared war on the Hawaiian government and had instructed the restoration of the queen by force. He had exceeded his constitutional powers. He should be impeached. Our esteemed, but misguided, contemporary, the Journal, yesterday made a feeble effort to cling to thM Imaginary wrong by saying: ''The president does not state, and the instructions do not clearly show, whether Mr. Willis was authorized to use force In restoring the queen, but the Implication is that he was." Whence does any such implication arise? The instructions if Oct. 18, lf-T-3, say explicitly: Make known to her the president's position regarding the reprehensible eonduct of the American minister anil the presence on land of the United states forces. Advise her of the desire of this government to do justice and und' wrong. You will, however, at the same time inform the quen that the president expects that sh v. ill extend amnesty to all who were against her, including all who were connected with the provisional government, depriving them of no right or privilege. Having secured the queen's agreement to pursue this policy, you will advise the executive .f the provisional government and his ministers of the president's extermination ef this question, which their action and that of the queen devolved upon him. and that they are expected to promptly res ton her constitutional authority. Should the queen decline to pursue the course suggested, or should the provisional government refuse to abide by the president's decision, you will report the facts and await further instructions. This is no instruction to use force. It is an Instruction to report the facts and aweit further instructions in case either party declines to accept the president's decision on the question. If this be not sufficiently plain the instructions of Dec. 3 certainly put the matter beyond question: The president feels that by our original interference and what followed we have incurred responsibility to the whole Hawaiian community, and It would not le just to put one party at the mercy of the other. Should the queen ask whether If she accedes to the condition, active step would be taken by th? United States to effect restoration or to maintain her authority thereafter, you will say that the president cannot use force without the authority ef congress. Should the queen accept conditions and the rrvisional government refuse to surrender you will b governed by previous instructions. If the provisional government asks whether the United States will hold the queen to the fulfillment of stipulated conditions, you will say that the president. acting under dictate? of honor and eluty, as lie his elone in endeavoring to effect restoration, will do all in his constitutional power to cause observance cf the conditions he has imposed. Here is an instruction to inform the queen that the president cannot use force without the authority of congress, either to restore lier to her throne or to maintain her there. This disposes entirely of the question of the president's acting beyond h's powers. He has simply attempted friendly intermediation in a case submitted to him by the parties an act which is one of common International courtly, exercised by the heads of all civilized governments, and abscdutely necessary to the settlement of disputes between rival governments by arbitration. He has accepted a request to act as an arbitrator, and one of the parties now objects to his decision. The case is now resolved entirely into a question of the reprehensible conduct of our minister and what reparation should be made for it. This now goes befere congress and it will there doubtless b discussed as a party question, in which the only point the republicans can offer in reply to the clear proof of the Improper conduct of Stevens is the claim that the president's course is an attempt, as the St. Louis Globe-Democrat puts It, "to discredit a republic and vindicate the monarchy whl h It surei-u-ded." It Is pertinent, in this connection, to Inquire, What republic? There Is no republic in Hawaii. A crowd of desperate adventurers have seized the control of the Islands and are exercising it. They say that the people, being off-color, are not competent to govern themselves. Possibly not. but the existing government has none of the characteristics of a republican government and the men in control have evidently no intention of establishing a republican government except on a basis that will exclude the natives, the Chinese and the Japanese, who form over three-fourths of the total

population, from any participation in their own government. The question before congress is whether the United States fhall take advantage of its own wrong and annex these islands, or shall make reparation for its wrong by restoring the government it overthrew and overthrowing the military oligarchy it established, or shall leave the parties to fight it out between themselves. Whatever course may be taken it is now fully established that the United States has been dlsgraeec by a minister who has committed an unjustifiable act of war against a friendly power and led his government into an attempt to profit by his wrong-doing, incompatible with the dignity and honor of this country among the nations of the earth.

CO-O I Kit AT 1VH 1 1 0 f S K K E E P I X . Housekeeping and the servant question are the ejuestions which are driving the women of today into sanitariums and Insane asylums. This is more particularly tr je in the United States, where employer and employe stand on a more equal footing than in foreign countries. The co-operative plan is being applied to housekeeping and the results are being watched with fear and trembling by the women who hope to reap some of its benefits. It hardly seems that the cooperative housekeeping plan can be the best method of lifting the burden of housekeeping from the shoulders of American women. The beauty of the home is its individuality. A man loves to be by his own fireside at night and partake of his own dinner, which has been cooked with a vi w to his particular appetite and which caters to his taste. This is the reason why so many persons ?hun hotels and boarding houses. Food cooked in quantities and the fact that one must eat whatever will please the greatest number of boarders nvkes every one love a small cottöge. where he can have his meals prepared as lie likes them, seasoned to his taste. When a hundred families, living in one block, have the same kitchen and meals are cooked in a heap, will not the angel of the fireside fly to other realms? When the home becomes a machine and runs on schedule time, shall we not become a nation cf machines? What will become of the man who likes to take off his boots by the kitchen lire ami smoke his pipe before ho retires? In fact, this plan threatens some of the most touching blessings of the home. Are iiot many of the burdens of modern housekeeping self-imposed by the housekeepers? Visit most any modern house and it is filled with bric-a-brac, rugs, draperies, pictures and scores of trifles from every land, which do not even bear the stamp of true art upon them, and which make the housekeeper's life a continual tussle with the dust fiend. Would not a simpler and better taste In furnishing do away with most of this useless bric-a-brac and lighten the burden? Since the microbe has become a member of polite society and makes its home with us, physicians decry the lavish use of heavy woolen draperies and silk that cannot be washed at least twice a year. Draperies that must be shaken should give way to draperies that will wash. Then the modern woman has the idea that everything in the house must bear upon its surface a bit of embroidery which she has toiled upon night and day. It ruins her eyes and nerves, but all her friends do this sort of work, so she must. She has time to embroider miles of linen, but no time to enjoy reading or healthful recreation. Instead of co-operative housekeeping give us plainer living, less furniture and bric-a-brac, banish rocking chairs and Illy-ventilated rooms, and we shall be healthier and housework will be reduced to a trifle. Let us try any plan rather than destroy our homes. The proposition for another monetary conference Is indorsed in this way by the Cleveland Plain Denier: "It is best to have a monetary congress. The more information we can get, the more discusslon. we can have of the subject, the more will the people learn of the purpose and power of the gold syndicate. Time will surely prove that in this country English money means English prices for labor and the products of labor. Silver will yet come to the redemption of prices and business." Very good, but suppose that England still insists on the selfish policy of holding to the gold standard on the theory that it is beneficial to creditor countries? What is the use of permitting England to run the werld? Why not have a monetary conference of nations that favor bimetallism and let them agröe on a system by which lingland can le deprived of any advantage from holding to the gold standard? It is easy enough to do that. The selection of Wayne MacVeagh for ambassador to Italy is one in every way creditable to President Cleveland. It is true that Mr. MacVeagh is not a life-long democrat; but he joined the party not because he hoped for reward or because he had been slighted in his old party affiliations, but because of hh conversion to the principles of the democratic party. And no true democrat objects when such men are honored. Senator Sherman admits that the Wilson tariff bill will pass, but intimates that the republicans will elelay it until spring by obstructive methods. We have no doubt that the republicans will endeavor to prolong the business depression incident to the McKlnloy bill as long as possible, and then undertake to blame the results on the democrats. It was conceded by Chicago republicans that Swift was the strongest man they could jvossibly nominate for mayor, and that he would run theusands of votes ahead of any other republican that could be named. The country is admonished by the Lafayette Courier that "it is a fact that does not excite controversy that the factory owners of the United States are unanimous In their Opposition to the

proposed Wilson schedules for imposing tariff duties." If it were a fact, why should it excite any controversy? It Is to be expected that the people who are putting money in their pockets by a bad law will be opposed to its repeal. The worm has turned. An Iowa farmer has filled a couple of confidence men with buckshot. The farmer is proverbially slow to learn, but sooner or later he catches on to the right way of doing things. The report of the ways and means committee on the tariff bill is a statesmanlike paper amply justifying the course of the majority in the preparation of the measure submitted.

The Lake county court has forfeited Costelles bond of $4,000. It is to hs heped that the lx-ndsmen will not now be permitted to escape also. Chicago is democratic again, as is Boston. Evidently that republican tidal wave has struck the rocks and gone to pieces. ET CETRA. Alberry A. Whitman. William II. A. Moore an! Paul Dunbar are negro writers of highly praised verse in Chicago. The foot ball season has closed. The college boys will now go to work and prepare for the boat races. Elmira Gazette. The Chicago Herald says "there is science in foot ball." Then how do they get out alive? Tell us that. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Senator Gorman of Maryland intends to make a journey with his family early next summer to Alaska. They will travel extensively along the Pacific coast, I.ady Eva Quinn, wife of Capt. Wyndham (heir presumptive of the earl of Dunraven), has killed six full-grown tigers from the frail shelter of a howdah. E. E. Thompson, who Is walking from Fredericksburg, Va., to South America, his Journey to end at Bogota, the capital of Colombia, has arrived in the City of Mexico. Lidy Carlyle is training women for the work of landscape gardeners, with whose aid she hopes to be able to maintain the picturesque beauty of the lawns upon her Yorkshire home. William Walter Phelps will not become an editor. He 13 content to remain in the ranks of the fellows who know more about newspaper making than the editors. Pittsburg Dispatch. Ionrlon has gone wild over a new pianist from Austria. His name is Weiss and his hair Is longer than Paderewski's. He is the most striking hirsute chrysanthemum now before the public. Mine. Bernhardt has persuaded the management of her theater to bar hats from the orchestra seats, and in consequence that part of the house is selling better than it did at the beginning of the season. Miss Gertrude Mitchell of Liverpool, eighteen years of age, has achieved the first place in all England and Wales in the examinations for the queen's scholarship. Her position was gained over 4,700 competitors. Dr. Charles Warrington Earle, who died recently in Chicago, enlisted when he was sixteen years old, and was second lieutenant before he was eighteen. In this capacity he commanded his company at Chlekamauga. Rufus Williams, whose funeral occurred in Rhode Jlnnd a few days ago, was a direct descendant of the apostle of litera ture. Rcger Williams, 'and five generations of his family attended it. He was ninety-live years old at the time of his death. Tlie Kinetogrnpli. Everybody may not yet understand the nurnose of Mr. Edison s new Instru nnnt. the kinetograph. The Industrial World explains that the apparatus con sisis of an optical lanfrn, a device by which a moving image is projected on a screen simultaneously with the production by a phonograph of the words or sorg which accompany the move ments pictured. l hus the photograph of a prima donna could be shown on the screen, with the movements of the arm. the head and the body, together with the changes of facial expression, while the phonograph would repro duce the song. A Iollio Sympathizer. A clever woman recently said that, if worst came to worst and she had to find some way of earning her living, she believed that she would become a pub lic sympathizer. Any one could send for me." she explained, "and pour out all their worries and troubles while I listened and sympathized for, say 23 or ;(" cents an hour. Everything should be strictly confidential, and I would neer allow myself to have a greater worry, or a worse pain, or a deeper trouble than mv client. What do you think of that scheme?" N. 1. Correspondent. Ciroetly Trout. Did you ever know that some trout are born with two heads two heads and one body? Indeed it is quite a common thing to find them where trout are raised. But they seldom grow up. and you would never imagine why, I am sure. Because they are both so greedy and so selfish that one head lights the other head for all the food that comes their way, and then the food slips away, and no head gets it, and so the one iKidy starves. What silly creatures! Don't you think so? X. Y. World. Hen uly nml Hit ppinc. Girls must be healthy and happy before they can be beautiful. "Do not think ym can make a girl lovely if you do not make her happy." says Ruskin. "There is not one restraint you put on a good girl's nature; there is not one check you give to her instincts of affection or of effort, which will not be indelibly written on her features with a hardness which is all the more painful because it takes away the brightness from the eyes of innocence and the charm from the brow of virtue." Inrcii of the Seimnn, These are exquisite. They are copied exactly from old guipure and rose point designs for the heavy laces, also from point de venise and lighter laces of a rare old age. Colored lae-es have come in, colored thread laces and blonds ami a great quantity of metal laces. One delightful novelty is a broad flounce of crape lisse, figured with lace applications lace of a guipure character. The applications either match the lisse or form a color contrast with it. Walls on the Moon. Late photographs of the moon developed by the ustronomer-nhotographer of the Pesth academy exhibit some unaccountable peculiarities. The plate shows hundreds of walls or embankments seemingly about 200 feet high and from 125 to 2"ä yards in width on top. They run parallel to each other and appear to be from 1.000 to I,3u0 yards apart. St. Louis Republic. An Overrated American. Mrs. Callaround "I suppose you e delighted to get back to the United States?" Mrs. Shoddy "O, yes; it's a great relief to talk to nobodies after conversing with the crowned heads of Europe so long." Judge. Couldn't See III Grnnncs. "This little thing. Jimmie," said Jimmie's father, "is a grasshopper. See these legs? Those are his hoppers." "I see." said Jlmmle. "Where are his rrasses?" Harper's Bazar.

FOR THE BOYS IN BLUE.

EFFORTS OF INDIANA MRMI1KRS IX Timm re half. Pension mils by Mejrt. Vnorhees und Martin Fa vorn Iii y Reported On Through Effort of Ir. Martin the Pelham Claim Bill to Be Considered Soon. BUREAU OF THE SENTI N'EL, WASHINGTON. D. C. Dec. 23. Senators and members of the Indian. delegation have been unusually active, in legislating for the soldiers, net ot their state alone, but for all the boys, who wore the blue. One of the particular triumphs occurred during the closing hours before a recess was declared, and in it Senator Voorhees and Congressman Martin share great credit. It will be remembered by readers c! The Sentinel that as soon as congress convened in regular session Mr. Martin Introduced two bills, one of which declared a pension a vested right. A dny later Senator Voorhees introduced the same measure in the senate. Last week the committee on invalid pensions sent the two bills in to a sub-committee and received a favorable report, but before the whole committee had acted upon thi matter Mr. Martin saw a chance to make a "hit" by Incorporating one of his principal ideas into an amedment for th urgent deficiency bill, and it is as follows: "That any pension heretofore or that may hereafter be granted to any applicant therefor under any laws of the United States authorizing the granting and payment of pensions, on application made and adjudicated upon, shall b deemed and held by all officers of the United States to be a vested right in the grantee to that extent that payment thereof shall not be withheld or suspend-l until, after due noti?e to the grantee ot not less than thirty days, the commissioner of pensions, after he-aring all th evidence, shall decide to annul, vacate, modify or set aside the decision upon which such pension was granted. Sue a notice to grantee must contain a full and true statement of any charges er allegations upon which such decision granting such shall be sought to be in any manner disturbed or modified." Mr. Martin made a few remarks, after which the Indiana delegation assisted in securing a satisfactory vote on it. The bill went into the senate Thursday, where it was engineered thronen with the assistance of Senator Voorhees. and no opposition was raised. The Pellintn Claim Bill. One of the soldier bills which Congressman Talor introduced a few days ago is still in the bowels of the house, though it had a fair road for pa.-sace Thursday morning until objection was raised. The bill is for the relief of Lewis Pelham. It was referred to the committee on war claims, and Mr. M -Nagny reported it back to the house, recommending its passage. The committee's report explains the measure as follows: "This is a bill to refund mon-y wrongfully paid out by Ecwis Pelham, and illegally collected from him, under certain confiscation proceedings against the property of Henry Pelham in the district court of the United States, In thi state of Indiana, the sum of $3.v0 having been illegally taken and collected from him by the marshal of the United States for said district court of in Jiana upon the sale of a certain promissory note for $7.00, executed on the 1st dty of March, 1S62, due four years after date, executed by Eewis Pelham to the said Henry Pelham, and sold upon a venditioni exponas undr a libel of information in said district court to the said Lewls Pelham, when in fact the marshal of said district had not under the mandate of th" writ of monition attached the said note, nor had he seized the same, nor had it ever been in his custody from the commencement to the end of the proceedings thereon. "The said note had not been at any time within the jurisdiction pf said elistrict court, and the said note was not at the time of the sale of the same, nor at the time of paying the sail sum of money to said marshal as the purchaser thereof by the said Lewis Pelham, nor at any time thereafter by the marshal of said district court delivered to him, nor did he acquire any title whatsoever to said note tinder said proceHlirgs, and the said promissory note was never in the territorial limits of the said state of Indiana, but, on the contrary, was during all that time in the possession of Henry Telham. in the state of Kentucky, where the said Henry Pelham resided. "The United States, jn 1W, filed a libel of information in the district court for the district f Indiana 'against the following described credits and effects of Henry Pelham, that is to cav, one promissory note, dated March 1. 1S'V for the sum of J7.0W, and due four' years after date, executed by Lewis Pelhnm to Henry Pelham.' Iewis Pelham was still in Indiana and within the jurisdiction of the marshal; but lier.ry re 'ham was in Kentucky, outside of the marshal's jurisdiction, and had fie note with him there. The libel, after ivciti? g the act of July 17, ISijv, and making ether proper recitals, alleged that 'by force of the said statute and the public warning of the president of the United States, the said estate, credits, and effects of him, the said Henry Pelham, so described a.s aforesaid, became and were forfeit eel to the United States, find that the same were liable to be condemned as enemies' property." "The writ of monition stated a !ibd bad be-en filed by the distri' t attorney against 'one promisseiry note1 and commanded the marshal 'to attach the iir't and to detain the same in your custV.y until the further order of the court c-o,,'-cerning the same.' and 'to give due notice to all persons claiming the same.' etc. "A summons was at the same time issued against Lewis Pelham, the maker of the note, which was served on him by the marshal, and he appeal d and answered, admitting the facts aller d in the libel. "The fact of a publication of notice to all other parites in interest was proven, and a decree of condemnation was made, and a writ of venditioni exponas isfued to the marshal, who returned that he had offered for sale the promissory note and sold it to Lewis Pelham for $:?.0ert. "When the war was over Henry Pelham sued the sureties of the marshal (he being dead) in the district court for the district of Kentucky, for damages alleged to nave accrued by the marshal's false return in the case. The declaration alleged a false return 'to a writ of monition in a libel by the United States against the described credits and

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effects of Henry Pelham, that is to say, one promissory note for $7,000, executed by Lewis Pelham to the sali Henry." "It was an admitted fact In the cas that the note was, from the Issuing of the moniti'in in the proceedings for confiscation till and at the time of the return to the monition by the marshal that he had arrested the same, outside th Jurisdiction of the said district court and not within the territorial limits of the state of Indiana; hut. on the contrary, was, during all that time, in th jos-i-ession of the said pliintiff in the stata of Kentucky, win re be r sided. "The plaintiff requested the court to instruct the jury as follows: " 'if the j iry find, fr.m the evidence, that the o:!e";a;ie.n: e.f the declaration, are true, th-y will t'rd for the plaintiff and as'ss 3: is danutf-s in the amount of the note, with interest thereon from mat urit y. "The court r-fus-d to give this instruction :i"d ch::r:.-d that. und--r tha eonced.-d facts in the eu:-, th- plaintiff was e-ntitl-d to no more than nominal d.inu'cvs. "A verdi' t was r-'-t d--n d accordingly, ar.d the r. fus.-.l to harg as ronie?tcd ar.d th-' chart;-' as civ.-n were then assigned to the supreme t rt of the United States for err .;-. The supreme court h Id that to e:f. ct its seizure it was necessary for th,- marshal to take the note into l,;s aet-ial control and custody and consequently the debt was nut confiscated. "Every principle of equity and justice, then, requires that the government should refund the money received without consideration and for pi operty which it did not conti-. 1 nml bad no right to sell; for a 'von1' r.' says the suprerr.2 court of the United State, js Itaind to know that he actually has that which he professes to sei!.' "Claimant is. therefore, on the scnni of precedent as well as authority. Justly and honestly entitled to a return of his money." objection was raised to Immediate consideration of the bill because nuiiimou consent had not been obtained. It will be eine ef the first measures considered when the hour--' f. i down to business after the holiday recess. lt-ireKCtUi;(le II:i-U' Hill. When Cor.cressman Plack of Illinois was pension commissioner be recommended the t n.u lin nt of a law for the soldiers, and as the matter was not taken up as he desired, upon the reem est of Congressman Cooper he introduced the following bill last Thursday, which explains itself; Sec. 4. ;:;. Every commissioned e'Ticer or enlisted man shall receive such and only sui ii pen -din ;m j.s provided in see. 4,X and fee. 4. of said revised statutes for the huh.-st rank h h' Id at th" tit le of or after he re-, ive l the injury or contra'., ted the disease vh. h n suited in th disabil ty on atV'ii'i. of wi.i' h he in iy in- 'Milled to j . n-don; mi l my eui omission or i resil toial app'iiMiii :it, nmlarly i.-su.-d ta ; ii. :i pcrsi n. .-hall 1 - ta.-n to .;. tenuine li's rank f;- m an.-J an r the date, as given in tie- body of ti.e cinnassiori or a;e,-o:r.t:i":'t (.:;;"! Tin" s aid rc.nk ProV!1' '1. th;i t a va fi' y is ted in the rnk tier by cwf-i and that tie person comin'eioji, d did ))( wilfully llegleet tr lltllSe to be imiSter''i. atl'I tli.it he did aetu.il'y ar.d in g 1 faiti perform tie' di'ti' S ef s.e ii rank." Mr. Cooper had a c:-e of an efTi'-ci drawing- th" pension of a private, lecat';e lie was wounded while in th s-r i'-e ns privat", and if this bill pn-a throtigii that man will draw pension in the rMfc of l is disc ir-n c". Hcliof Mcnvuri'S l Mr. 'o-r. Like Congressman Prookshire Mr. Cooper has interested himself in the ox ceptional rases und r the pension laws. I!e is prep!. ring for introduction a bill for the reli.-f of a dwarf of South Pethany. She is the' daughter e.f Samte 1 A. Tate, lite private of company I, Fortieth ivg-'nvvit I Min -is volunte-.-rs. P. C. Stidmait writing to th" Indiana congressman d'-S'-vibes t'et as b- ing twentylive years of age. height about lifteen of twenty nit u''s ar.d weight. r."t over twenty pounds. H- r he: I. hair and facs show signs i f ace. but her body is that e-f a child. She has n. --r stood on her feet r walk'-d a si -p and her condition is absolutely helples-5. It requires special enactment to give her relief under till law of p.t . The case ef Robert Spaugh. whlh ba been undertaken by Mr. Cooper, is re i-aaikably similar to that above mentioned, if Mr. Pelham. Spaugh reside i:i Hope. Ind. A l-i'.l is pending t re-imbur.-e hini for money illegally cxit tct during the war. H? owed John Hogl": a resident of e-ne of the southern stau-. diiing th" rebellion. S"ine JT.'.", whie'i was confiscated by tne government, and Spaugh paid it upon garnishee e.f th. United States officers. After the war thi holder of the.ii'it" sued Spaugh and h-i was made to pay it ovr again bei-aus-l it was held that the government had not held jurisdiction. Another pe -uliar measure which Mr. Cooper is i-hampi-ining is to removv charges of d -sdtion from the record of Charles Keeo ef Nandle. Ind. Heeu. i-5 a cousin to Covcrnor McKinley t Ohio, and ne served ln-noral !y. but unfortunately duriag the war. It seem that wb.il - ho was in the seiviee h? rd word that ids la n.ily was suffering from destitution. H3 took Ihe mailer t. his captain and was advised t ) heme and make provision f,r th4 h'-ipl ess ones, lie did so a fid came Lack. Put in reporting he mb-sod his company, and was t -nP-r.-d in aivthcr command, lb- serve 1 fih'il the t lose rf the war with braverv and r.or, tut there remained charges of do rtinn against hin b ai..-e !.e g'-l int.- ih" v.ivhr.' i-uui-any. When Oov rnor McKinley was in cngres lie prop trod a bill to remove thi charges, but there h ppelled to be somi prejudice against d 'St-rtian cases at that time and this one was e a pressed. Mr. C""pcr is one of t'lov.-rnor McKinley' st longest friends :v. I 1. imw undertakes to accomplish what w:ls undertaken years ago. Jtn'.Ke FsinlKtier Itelurti. Judge C. P. Faulkner. S.-nator Voorhees's faithful secret a ty. has gene ti Indiana to sp-nd the holidays. This i the first time !: has been absent i'vvi his desk for a year. The judg" has ai oneivus positicii. Senator Voorhees'& mail runs from " 'c to :;"( l- tt- rs a day. and half of thesv Judge F.ad.Un.tr answers himself. Oiheis that are of a mi personal nature are handled by the sen, utor. And it is nt-.il ss to say that all unswtrs ai-' ma le promptly. Thejudg combines polnies wit.'i pleasure in In d'Hiia. He will attend th" dtmotratl.J congressional convention in his district, which is called to '-l.-ct committeemen, and lav the corner-stone f-.r the next Ol-Ctioii. C. M. staihi:n.

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