Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1894 — Page 9

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Workingmen Should Spot the Head of the Republican Ticket,

How He Made His Infamous Mark Allowed Himself to Be Used by the Tin Plate Gang Nullifying the Alien Contract Labor Law Workingmen of the Country Paralyzed A Significant Letter How He Was Pronounced Incompetent and Unfit by President Harrison's Assistant Secretary of the Treasury He Was Thoroughly Untrustworthy His Ideas of Official Integrity Slipshod and Reckless Owen's Scheme, Says Mr. Harrison's Appointee, Would Have Resulted In Wrongful Abstraction of the Public Money.

There is one man on th" rc-pnMlein ticker, whom W"rklngiiH!i should ?;:. That man is William I. Owen, w ho heads the ticket as candidate f:" secretary cf state. Owen has a lab r roe.nl. N 't a re-rrd of labor perform "d, f r ho has never armxl his hretd except by tli" sweat of his Jaw. When Owen ha -n't he-n preaching for a living he has been holding office. Nevertheless Owen has a labor roc ml. It is not very long, hat It is e.-p.vially Unsavory. It was mad" about two years ago. anil it lusti't been forgitun ly 1 -boring men. Owen mad" hu record as commissioner of immigration. It may also bti positively remarked that he maJo the rffiee of commissioner of immigration also. It will b remembered that thf petpc" f the Tenth Indiana district. In a moment of thoughtlessness, once sent Owen t congress. Of co;ir-e they quickly realized their mis: ike, and when the proper time came they "tuned hint down." Owen realized that hi was doomed and set about preparing a oft place on which to fall. He devoted his entire time and attention as congressman to the work of getting through a bill to creats the office of commissioner of immigration. The passag" of this act oocurred, Owen regard M himself as fixed, for hi3 friend Harrison, at that time president through the grace cf Matt Quay and William Wade Dudley, had promised to make him the first commissioner under the new act. When the people of the Ten.h district sald to Owen, "I'd done, thou bad and faithless servant, get out," President Harris Dn picked him up Und nude him commissioner of Immigration at $.1,."e0 per year. At once Owen began making his "labor record." And such a record! Owen hadn't fairly gotten hU newly-found oincial chair warmed before he was involved in a red-hot row with his superior officers a row in which he wa$ ofiieitlly charged with being incompetent and dishonest. Hut of this we will speak in another Issue; at present we have to deal with Owen's labor rec aid. Workingmen remember with sorrow and anger the odious contract labor system under which this country va.? f!o;.ded with the cheapest and mast vicious elements from the pauper labor class of the old world. These were brought over like cattle, or more properly like slaves, to displace more Intelligent and higherpriced American's lab tt in the mines and great industries of the land, and their importation proved to the Fast the curse that Importation of Chines-? labor did t ) the Pacific coast. It will be remembered that the law under which this pauper labor was imported originated with John Sherman during the war to give the barons of protection cheap labor and to "bear" the wage market s that the soldiers returning from their campaigns would be forced to take whatever their employers chose to give. I: was virtually a law to esiabhsh a system of wa-pe slavery in the North very little different from the black slavery, which had just been abolished in the Siuth. Allen Contract Labor Lair. In 1S73 a democratic housa of representatives had forced the rep?al of this odious law and tho enactment of one in its place to prohibit the Importation of labor under contract. One of the principal duties of Commissioner of Immigration Owen wa3 to enforce tha provisions of this law. Right here It i3 interesting to note that Levi P. Morton, ex-vlee-presi-dent and republican candidate for governor of New York, is just now being prosecuted for violation of this law in having imported a coachman from Europe under contract. To his anglomaniacal vision an American coachman wouldn't look distinguished enough on the box of his carriage carriage with its gorgeous coat of arm3. It was in administering the alien contract labor law that Owen made his now famous or rather infamous labor record. The McKinley law had just gona into effect. That law had placed an enormously high tariff on tin plate. The object was to giva a gang of republican politicians, chief among whom were Col. A. L. Conger, excongressman and chairman of the Ohio republican state committee, and Congressman Niedrtnghaus of St. Louis, the chief contributor to republican campaign funds In Missouri, a monopoly of the American market for tin plate. In other words, this King -was to have the irlvilag of levying a tax for Us own personal benefit on every tin roof, on every tin gutter, on every can for the preservation of fruit and on every tin house utensil in the land. Whn the McKinley bill was passed it was loudly proclaimed that the new tin plate factories would give remunerative employment to tens of thousands high-priced' American workingmen. Hut thU wasn't the scheme of the tin-plate ring. They wanted cheap labor European labor, which didn't ner-d to b5 trained In the work of making tin plate. To bring in this labor was a violation of the alien contract labor law. Cut th-s little thlng3 made no difference to the tin-plata Ting. Tiiey went ahead Just

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.n if ther wis no nmril obi : pit ion or Statut iry eni tmnt in their way. Tiu latter. Ii e. . , r, prvM ' l heavy penalties f r vl'litiin ..f t:i" liw anil th?se peniltles mu-t be av v I 'd. 1 tight li re was wluiv Commissioner Owen cam- in huidy. The mailers of the tin-pltt g")nir found they could use Owen as a iiv ni 'tit t l arid they used him for all h'- was worth. S far as is known tills lib. a- wis a lib-r of live with Owen, n-'t 1 f r the American w orkmpm-'n, t be sure, but 1 w for the highly pro-t-eted employers in th? tin-plite Industry. The Ijhv ulltttcil. Owen was appealed to by the t!n-p'att Kan;r, ar.d in aceordance with their w!'-hes, if not with their instructions, immediately pro.-.'ded. as the lord hijrh executioner t if the national immigration laws to nullify and s-t aside the alien contract libor law fur the special and .xcl,aive benefit of his filenls, the tin-plate gang. This was (!"!ie in a letter to Neidrlnshaus of St. Louis, which paralysed the workinginen of Hi" country and created no end of disturbance ia labor and politicHl circles. This letter was written in June, 1SH2, and was as folio w.-: "The contract labor law was enacted to prote t the wage-earners of this country. They were suffering from the incursions of laborers who had entered into contract abroad and were imported here to do work at a rate cheaper than was paid to American workingmen. Such Immigrants came with the surety of employment, and displaced citizens who must go idl or accept the 'hire ;;et by the newcomer. Thes imported laborers, from the digo an the railroad to the glass-blower of, Pennsylvania, came at a reduced wage, and lowered the entire scale of American wages. The? new immigration law recognizes the value of the existing contract lalor law and made certain valuable amendments! to It. This department wilt labor earnestly to enforce the law. Congress did not intend by this enactment to forbid now Industries nor to limit enterprise to American skill, but expressiv made provision for the new industries and the importation of the new skill. "The law plainly intends that skilled labor may be imported into the United States to do work In an industry not yet established, provided skilled workmen In that industry cannot be found among our own people. The discussion in connection with the recent legislation disclosed the fact that the manufacture cf tin plate is not an. established industry In the United States, and that we have but few lalvirers skilled in its manufacture. Skilled tin-plate workers may therefore be imported into the United States at this time under contracts made abroad to follow that employment. "When the present conditions' change and the tin-plate Industry becomes established, or when there shall be found a sufficient number of skilled tin-plate workers to carry on its manufacture with a reasonable decree of business facility, then the importation of such workmen will be in violation of the contract iabor law. W. D. OWEN, "Commissioner of Immigration." This was a. most remarkable) letter for many reasons. In the first place Mr. Owen rays a high, tributa to John Sherman's "white slavery" law, under which the "pauper labor" of Europe "came with the surety of employment and displaced citizens who must go idle or accept the 'hire' set by the newcomers." In this condemnation of the Sherman law Owen evidently sought to square himself for the course he intended to take in setting aside the contraot labor law for th benefit of hUi friands of the tin-plate ring. He thought! to anoint the workingmen with a little rhetorical cocaine before applying the knife tm their vitals. It was Th'S sugar coating of the bitter pill. Another features of ithis letter, which will appeal with particular force tot a certain portion of tha foreign-born citizens of this country, is the cmtemptuou9 reference to "tha dago on tha railroad." Truly this is a dlarnilied utterance for at public servant to Rive. No wonder the A. P. A. Is so enthusiastic in support of the "Rev." W. D. Owen. Put the Bting of the hornet Is In its last paragraph, as it were, and the venomous and business! part of Owen's letter was in its last part. That part practically set aside the alien contract labor) law for the benefit of the tin-platei frienda of Owen. It gave them what they wanted ami they immediately proceeded to fill their factories with Welshmen, imported under contract by permission and connivance of W. D. Owen, commissioner of immigration. This letter gave too- much countenance t o) tho opent violation of tha contract labor law for even the Harrison! administration, which wa.i notoriously unfriendly to workingmen. The secretary of the treasury later on fought to nvxiify the ffect of the Owen ruling, and dii so in a letter to Niederlr-ghaiis, In which he said: I.rller o MrilrrlDgbani. 'Replying to your letter of the 21st, in which you ask in behalf of the St. Louis stamping company, whether you must go through any particular form to import skilled labor for your tin plate mills, I have the honor to say that no regulations have been issued by this department perscribing ' forms relating to that subject. It Is the practice of this department to express opinions or to maka advanced

rulings on any hypothetical case? that may arise. But, lest you might draw im- j proper inferences of permission from the above answer to your question, j our at- j

tentlon is called to the third section of an act entitled 'An act to prohibit lhi Importation and migration of foreigner an 1 aliens under contract and agreement to perform labor in the United States, its territories and the District of ColumMi.' approved Feb. 26. 1SS3, and the suggestion is made that I am not prepared at this time and with the data before me to express any opinion as to whether skilled labor for the St. Louis stamping company cannot be otherwise obtained than by the importation of alien laborers." While Owen was particularly active in behalf of his friends of the tin plate iadustry, he did not wholly neglect the interests of other protected employers. For instance, he permitted the Dohsons of Philadelphia to import twenty-six workmen to assist in the manufacture of silk velvets. But the labor organizations of the Quaker city made such a fuss about thl3 that these workmen were finally sent back to Europe. Owen's chief work as commissioner of immigration seemed to be to devise plans for permitting favored employers to violate the contract labor law, to the neglect of everything else. His administration was so inefficient in all other directions that the bu au of immigration became a public scandal. The work at New York City was so negligently done that the health authorities of the state charged that the bureau's negligence was directly responsible for the introduction of smallKx and typhus into the metropolis. Such is a part of Owen's labor record. It is a record which the workimrmen of Indiana should scan carefully. Owen stands as the representative of a party which has never been friendly to labor and Owen is a fit exponent of the policy of hostility to workingmen's interests. ovr. iMtoot t'i:i im'it. A Sisuificunt Leiter from Iteiijiiinln Ilarriaon'M Trennury Department. The following is tho letter of A. B. Nettleton, the assistant secretary of the treasury under Benjamin Harrison, preferring charges against Mr. Owen, the republican candidate for secretary of state: "Treasury Department, "Olfi.-e of the Secretary, "Washington. I). C, .March JS. 1S02. "Sir It has become my oiüctal duty to Invite your attention to thn f "11 nvinc facts, which I am prepared to .uhstantfati in every par;icular, and to ask that such action be i.rken by tin s-creta-y of the treasury and by the prcsid-nt as th se facts seem to warrant: "1. Mr. W. I). Owen, superintendent of immigration, I unlit and incompetent to perform the duties of the -Mice which h" holds. He is thoroughly untrustworthy in the performance of his oH'cial duties. "".I. H- his been guilty of circulitlng malicious sland is aa':n-t his superi notlicer in Xhn department. "4. His ideas of official regularity and Integrity fre slipshod. reckles and a .ource of serious risks to tic public funds partially within his control. 'T).'I hand you certain pipers, marked exhibit A. which hows that on the "I'd of February, 1K2. John B. Wchbt ; United States commissioner of Immlgrati n at the port of N'w York. tran-mi::-d to the secretary of the treasury cerialn bH received in answer to advertisements for f urnisiiintc instruments. bnks. hospital clothing and druggists' gla-swan- for u-e in the medical department of the itr.tniprati m service of New York, said letter clearly sh cvlng that all the bids received were thus transmitted. Said letter further recommended that in each case the lowest bliks be accepted and the arti s purchased, such'lowest bids being clearly fpt forth and recited, with the names of the several bidders and the amount of each bid. Such lowest bids r-'-eomniended to be Morvptcd aggregate $'c,S.0."i. "On Feb. 24. lt'l'. W. I). Owen, as superintendent of immigration, caused to b" prepare-J. checked with his initia'.s, and sent to my desk for signature, a letter aldnfssed to John B. Webber, commissioner of Immigration, authorizing him to accept all the bids ho had received, reciting said bids in full by names and amounts, which amounts aggregated $1,H1I.14, or more than l.V) per cent, in exce.-.i of th-j aggregate asked for by iiw commissioner at New York. Said letter was signed by mo on the strength of Superintendent Owen's check, was transmitted to Commissioner Webber, and its character only discovered by nie upon my arrival in New York a day or two afterward. "Attached to exhibit A is my letter to Superintendent Owen based upon this transaction, dated March 1. 1S02, and declining thereafter to sign letters from his eiffice authorizing the expenditure of public moneys unless accompanied by the original pajpe-rs upon which they Were based. "6. I also hand you certain papers marked Exhibit B, which show that on or about the 1st day of January, William D. Owen, superintendent of immigration, joined Frank H. Larned and other persons in a persistent attempt to put through the depirlment and c dlect the money upon a false and fictitious voucher for $117.50 for the alleged service of a person not in the employ of the government, and who, to Mr. Owen's previous knowledge, had not rendered the service for which said voucher was presented. Superintendant Owen's official approval and certificate that said servica were rendered are attached to said fictitious voucher, a certified copy whereof forms a part of Exhibit A. When said fictitious voucher came to my desk for approval it was stopped and its payment prevented. On the 16th of January, the day after it came to my attention, I called upon Mr. Owen in writing for an explanation. (See my letter of that date, forming part of Exhibiit B.) On the 20th of January Mr. Owen responded in writing, furnishing such explanation, which admits the entire transaction (sea his letter of that date, forming part of Exhibit B), and gives no intimation that he did not then regard the voucher as still in force. The original voucher Is in possession of the department with Mr. Owen's approval uncanceled, which fact should be considered in connection with his subsequent statement that at a certain stage he had abandoned the attempt to get the voucher allowed and paid. "It is left to the proper authority or tribunal to decide whether the transaction in question constitutes a criminal offense under 5,440, Revised statutes. In any case tho moral standard and fitness for responsible station of a bureau officer who is capable of engaging in such an attempt and then submitting such an explantlon are left to the judgment of the secretary. Ever since Mr. Owen assumed his office, in July, 1891, I have been compelled as his superior officer, by your assignment, to call his attention very frequently to the blunders and irregularities committed in his office, and for which he was directly responsible. These blunders and irregularities, if permitted to go uncorrected, would have brought the department into ridicule, entangled the government in annoying complications and. in certain instances, as herein shown, would have resulted in the wrongful abstraction of money from the public treasury. Respectfully yrmrs. "A. B. NETTLETON. "Assistant Secretary. "The honorable tha secretary of the t rea su ry ." Xegro Lynched In Maryland, tTPPEIl MARLBORO. Md.. Oct. 20. Just before daybreak forty masked men rode up to the Jail and demanded the custody of the negro Williams, who had confessed to an attempted aastiult. Jailor (picer, although wholly unprepared for resistance, refuged to give up the keys. He was, however, finally overpowered and Williams waa taken to a bridge near town and hanged. A bullet hole was founi near his heart. The coroner's jury rendered a verdict that Williams met his death at the bands of unknown parties. Mrs. Hardest y, .Williams's vlctitu, is an aged lady.

HAHRISOH & OWEN. UHLTD.

AXOTIIUn CHAPTER IX THE RAID OX THE FEDURAL TllE.VStHY. Owen on the Mafc II! Influence wIlli n Republican Frenldent CrentInjs Itefnae for n Dcfenteil Conprrennmnn A Prolcat Entered ly the Acting1 Secrelnry ' the Trenaory IIov the Simp Wa AVorWeil Owen Hau! the Game Bat Gel a Timely Bonnt. Now. Mr. Harrison, on your return trip from Ft. Wayne electioneering for the next presidential nomination, please! explain to the go -;d people who will gather about your car platform your part in the following transaction: The Hon. W. D. Owen, republican candidate f u sec retary of state, was a member of the Fifty-first congress. He failed to pleura an election tei the Fifty-second conpress in 1890, and when he returned to Washington in December, 1SIM). he imme.Utte'.y commenced to skirmish for a Kd place linden Harrison after his term would close, March 4, 1S91. H was a member of the committee on Immigration and thU position afforded h'nn an opportunity to feather his nest. He introduced and had referred to his committoo a number of bills making- amendments to the Immigration laws. But he did not gt up a bill to suit himself unt 1 Feb. 13, when he introduced hous-; bill No. 13.:S'1. Fee congressional record, page 2,73'!. Of course he had! this bill referred to hi committee. Feb. 24 he secured from Czar Reed an evening session of the house to c-ivider bil'.J reported by the immigration committee. See Record, page 3,"r3. Of coutye he calW up house bill No. 1 l.r.St'. The seventh secti.-n of that bill i:nnieliatcly provoked discussion. It contained the meat of thei bill and without it Mr. Owen woul l be left out In the cold. That se, ti.ui 1 4 aa follows: "Section 7. That the ofhVe cf superintendent of Immigration is hereby created a:il (.stabllshf 1. and the president- (Benjmihi Harrison) by and with the advice an 1 consent of the senate, Is authorized an 1 directed to appoint such officer, whoo. salary shall bo Sd.ooi) per annum, payable, nn m: lily. Thf supf-ri.rc-ndenU cf immiRraticn .-hall le at cllleer In tha treasury deli irtment. under the control and supervisl .n of th- secret ry of the treasury, to wh'fli h-o shall make annual reports in writing of the transactions of his office, tofufr with suieh special, in writing, as the secivlary of thi troisury shall require. Th scent u-y shall provide the superintendent wi;;Ta suitably furnished office In the city T Wa-LIiiKton, and with such hooks of ivc rd and fa.-ilitic-i f"r the dUchare of the duties of his cllf-e as may bo necessary. Hrf shall have a chief clerk at a saluy of JL'.o io p.-r annum, and two firstel -.-) d rks." Mr. Oats of Alaoioit moved to strike out this s-'cll wi and then Mr. Owen came t its defen.-e. On page 3,354 Owen says: "Tiie establishment of this office hs not ct this Kovernmcnt a single dollar. It is paid out of the immigration fund." He lud carefully prepared his bill so he could raid tho immigration fund and thus attack tho tre;isuv in fir Indirect way. This was n.'.ir the close of Reed's billion-dollar c ncr.'-s aiiiH th- direct attacks on the treasury had alarmed the country, r'. -M'. Owen projH-sei to make an indirect attack. Tha diseussl!i of the bill was continued until lata o?i the night of the Feb. 21, Owen making a desperate effort to get his bill through before adjournment. He failed, but Feb. 2t'. through the aid of CV.ar Red. he had it passed. See Record, pa ire 3.47:'. Tho bill was afterward passed by the s-nate and presented to Benjamin Harrison, president. Ikarriooii Help III Friend Owen. After its presentation to the president he referred it to his secretary of the treasury for report. The secretary of the treasury did report on the bill, and part of the report mikes very interesting reading, both for Mr. President Harrison and W. D. Owen. The seventh section (Owen's soft snap) attracted the attention of the secretary and he said: "Treasury Department, "Office of the Secretary, "Washington, P. C, .March 3, 191. "The President: "In reply to so much of your note of the 2d inst. as relates to house bill No. 13.5SG, for amendment to the various acts relative to immigration and the importation of aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor, I have the honor to say that I know of no objection to your approval of the 6ame, except that sec. 7 of the bill proposes to create a new office or bureau in the treasury department, to bo called the office of superintendent of immigration. Which superintendent is to liave a salary of $4,X0 per annum, a chief clerk at a salary of $2.000 per annum, and two first-class clerks, and who are to be provided by the secretary with a suitably-furnished orllco in the city cf Washington and with such books of record and facilities for the discharge of the duties of his office as may be necessary. "In view of the fact that the immigration business bas been under the special supervision of one of tha assistant secretaries, and has been satisfactorily conducted 'by him, I respectfully suggest that there was no necessity whatever for the creation of the new office referred to, with it3 largely increased and necessary expenditures. The force already employed in this department on the immigration business is amply adequate for its satisfactory discharge. . "Respectfully yours, "A. B. NaTTTLETON, "Acting Secretary." But President Harrison did not take the advice of his secretary of the treasury. He had to provide a place for his friend Owen or gloom would overshadow the white house. His secretary of the treasury said there was no necessity for the office, 'but this didn't count, and March 3, 1S91. Benjamin Harrison, as president, approved the bill. Th? full text of this letter Is published in report of immigration investigation. No. 2.090, house of representatives. Fiftysecond congress, first session, page 240. This report is a voluminous document of 733 pages and contains many Interesting statements affecting Mr. Owen. Congress adjourned March 4, 1S91. and W. I). Owen was off the pay-roll. His bill was a law which should have been put Into operation Immediately. For some reason President Harrison hesitated. His wcretary of the treasury had informed him that there was no necessity for the office of superintendent of immigration In the face of this Information the appointment of his friend Owen would cast ii sliadow over the white house and the country. Lately he had much to tay about the shadows that have fallen on the country, forgetting that the gioom commenced with the billion-dollar congress, the bankruptcy of the treasury In 1S91 and making fat offices for his friends in tho early part of the same year. Oweu llewnrdcil. W. D. Owen remained in Washington after the adjournment of congress and could be eeeu almost any dzy at AVUiard'a

hotel until June 4. lSI. wh;n h was appointed immigrant Inspect ! by President Harrison at a salary of 4.tk'0 per year, payable monthly. Ha presented himself at the treasury and Immediately commenced a lacket about a "suitably furnished office." il':ge 107 immigration investigation). If he is elected secretary of state h - will duubiW object to the modest quart?!- now occupied by Capt. Myers. The Immipratlon investigation, .above cited, was investigated by Senator Chandler and ordered by loth houses conpress Jan. 2:. 1812. Senator Chandler was the chairman of the committee. The administration of the immigration laws under Harrison had been so seandaless that even Senator Chandler had become disgusted, and this fact will give tome Ilea how bad it was. The immediate cause for the investigation was the grcss extravagance in administering the Immigration laws at Ellis's island. New York harbor. Space prevents a discussion of this, but one item is worthy of mention, as it is a Hag "incident." The flagpole erected on the island cost the modest sum of $1,600. (See report, pace 5). It is not sit a ted that the flagpole bore the flair to which (Ion. Harris. n wo frequently alludes in his speeches. But we are not icw dealing with On. Harrison, but his friend ani superintendent. W. D. Owen. During: the Investigation tho official conduct of Mr. Owen was brought out. Oca. Nettleton was assistant secretary of the treasury, and Owen was lo report his work to him and receive Instructions. Owen said, during the discussion of the bill, that the tupcrlntendent of Immigration was nothing more than a division chief in the offl.-e of the se cretary. Jle changed his view after he became superintendent and set himself up as a bureau officer. A notable instance of this is found on page 4. The investigation committee had been appointed and the chairman cylled on the secretary of the treasury for facts. Tha letter was dated Feb. 15. and no answer having been received March 2, the chairman inquired of the assistant secretary why they were not forthcoming. He answered that the first letter was found on Owen's desk "without actio and neither the assitant secretary or a e secretary knew it had been received. Owen Permit .wltcd I m in I R-rn nin to I.uiwl. In December, lsOl, Owen writes to the commissioner of immigration at New York authorizing him to land assisted immigrants. (Pape SI). This was direc tly in the face of the ruling of tho department and In violation of tha law and Instructions made for the government of his cilice. When found out he was called down by Assistant Secretary Nettleton. Permitted Importation Kor rl n n. Contract I. borer. On pace 109 is found the history of the Neidrlnghaus case. A Mr. Neidringhaus hid b. on a brother congressman with Owen from St. Louis. Being out of a job, as was Brother Owen, he cont. mplated the establishment of tinplate works. Gen. Nettleton says a letter came to th.; department, presumably addressed to the secretary, but Owen got hold of it. Neidrinuhaus asked permission to import from Furor certain skillel laborers. Nettleton says Owen consulted with him, but no conclusion was reached. The next thing he heard of th matter was a published letter from Owen to Niedringhaus authorizing him to import the skilled workmen. Secretary Foster and Assistant . Secretary Nettleton were astounded when they saw Owen's letter in print and Nettleton in his evidence (page lt'9) says that Secretary Foster said that the Owen letter had to be recalled in somo manner. Secretary Foster was forced to go back on Owen and write to Neidrinchaus that the Owen letter was "unofficial.". Owen in his letter spoke of the Italians as "dagos." The Neidrlnghaus letter shows that Mr. Owen had no scruples about violating his own law and was willing to admit foreign contract laborers. The evidence of den. Nettleton discloses the fact that Mr. Owen could not write grammatical or businesslike letters. He had to continually send his letters back. This part of the evidence, is very amusing and abounds in such mistakes as usins; "incriminated" instead of "implicated." Aitnnt Secretary Aettleton Ilonnt Owen. On pag? 1C) is a letter dated March 25, 1S92, written by Gen. Nettleton to Secretary Foster. It Is very interesting as conveying the opinion of one of Harrison's appointees of another. It is rich reading and was published in The Sentinel Thursday morning last. The following are the more salient features of the roast: "1. Mr. W. D. Owen, superintendent of immigration, is unfit and incompetent to perform the duties of the office which he holds. "2. He Is thoroughly untrustworthy in the performance of his official duties. "3. He has been guilty of circulating malicious slanders against his superior officer in the department. "4. His ideas of official regularity and integrity are slipshod, reckless and a source of serious risks to the public funds partially within his control." AN ILL-FATED BRIDGE.

Three Men Injnretl AVliile nt Work on the Jcffersonvllle Structure. LOUISVILLE, Oct. 17. The Ill-fated new Loulsville-Jeffersonville bridge was the scene of another accident shortly after 1 o'clock today. Three men were hurt, one perhaps fatally. The accident was caused by the failing of a part of the false work under the fourth span, which had just been completed and locked. The men were engaged in removing the false work, which is to be transferred to the fifth and last span to be completed. The top timbers had nearly been removed and the remainder of the section collapsed. Harry Williams, Tom Prosney and Lee Milhouse of Beaver Falls. Pa., fell with it. All dropped into a barice below th falling timbers. MUhouse sustained a fracture of the ripht arm and two ribs. He also received internal Injuries and it Is thought he will die. Prosney's arm and back were Injured, but he and Williams were able to walk to their homes In the vicinity, their Injuries being sllprht. There have been a numbr of accidents since work was resumed on the bridge, tout the company have taken no chances on a recurrence of the horror of last December. Several times when the wind has attained a high velocity the men have been called from their work until it had subsided. LOVERS FOUND DEAD. Crime of F. I. Titus Doubtless Doe to Temporary Insanity. . SEA CLIFF. . L. I., Oct. 18. The bodies of Elliot L. Titus, aged twenty-four, and Mary S. Duff, aged twenty-three, were found in the private bath-house belonplng' to the Birl's father late last nipht. Titus had shot himself in the head after killing the srlrl with chloroform. They wert- en-KiLR-ed to be marriei shortly and on Tuesday went for a short walk, from which they did not return. A searching partywas organized to lind them, but no trace could Ims found until last nijrht. Hoth belong to prominent families and no reason can be ascribed for the murder and suicide. Tha friends cf Titus believe the crime was committed while he was suffering- from temporary insanity. Mr. Titus was a son of the late Col. Henry Titus, founder of Titusville. Fla. Hi.- mother t one of the Hodgkin family and Is still living at Titusville. They are well known socially In the South. Young Titus would have Inherited a fortune from hU mother.

THIS WAY. MR. HARRISON.

More Uxplaiin tioti Iloi n i red During our Trip Friday. Mr. Penjamln Harrisn'i, ex-presid-.-nt of th' United S:;:tc, recently a: Evan.-vllle. in order t acccntu.ite me of the s phistries of his tariff heresies, .r.ud: "I saw the other day in or.n " f or.r papers this dNpauh f:cm Lo.cansport. dated Oct. S: Ttv- Uhls -.f this city, extensive mili- rs, have received ntk-o that 1Ö.OO0 banvls ..f 5l:uir consigned to Cuba have been refusoJ at New York on account cf the abrogation of th- reeii.roeity treaty and the consequent restratiiii of prohibitive imp : i du'J"s. Th" m-!r.oe;-of th" limi are all democrats and th news has somewhat dampened democratic enthusiasm in this vicinity. ' " Now, Mr. Harrison, here is what Mr. Dennis Uhl says in referring to the foregoing: "You may say," said Dennis, '"that that is an inferanl lie. design. -d for p .li:-i'-al purposes and to injur. our business. Tnei-T H n t a word cf truth in the whole article. While we have ha 1 a g-"d trade lr years in the West India markeis. we have never sold a barrel of Hour in 'uba. We now have 4, ."" banvN of Hour in transit, 2.o barrels of whi- h have been s dd to West India men bants ;it $' per barrel. This is :'..", cents p"- Panel nm.-e than we can .eet in the home market. The ivpcal of the reciprocity clause of tho McKinley bill ha a ye: injure 1 our trade in n way. Ye .- 11 half the o uput of th" Umpire mills in f reimt niar- ;, much of which goes to the- Wc-t India island. Just t this tiniA th" markets are dull, because every exjxjrtcr is rushing flour to th seab cird to get the 'advantage of cheap transportation. When water tratisp rtation clo-e- it will est more to .ship flour than It does now hence everybody is rushing their goods to th-3 seaboard cities V "Hmv wer. yi.ur sales I-fort! the passage of the Mi Kird-y l uv:'' "They were l -tter then than new. AYe sold more of ur tb.ur abroad then than we do now. The McKinlov law restricted trado with our best forcii'i cusiouiers, and this is one of the reasons why wheat is so lo v in this country today. The McKinley tariff hurt the Am-riean ftrm-'rs worse l.an anybody else. It lessened the demand for their wheat. Hour and noik in the vor;.' best markets of th w-uM. It forced Fnsland, Franco and Oerniany to look to other countries' for their b od supplies countries with which they coül I arrange an exchange of eonunodiii'-s. If farmers were true to their own interests they would bo absolute free traders i fv cause the pric" of all their stnpl" productions is lixM in a foreign market." "Was McKinleyism any benefit to the milling business?" "Noi at all. On the other hand it proved a positive injury. The greater foreign demand there is for American Hour tho better it is for tho milling industry. Any man of common sen" knows that. Th milling industry is the greatest manufacturing industry in this country. More money is invested in the business th in in any other manufacturing industry. The flouring mills are run on an absolutely free trade basis and y et iho men they employ are, as a g.-mral rule, paid higher wages than in any protected industry. Tho Ilmphe nulls directly and indirectly give thousands of men employment. Tho amount of money scattered through our county through our mill is immense-. Think of the m- n employed ia hauling wheat to the mill, of the men employed in grinding it into Hoar and preparing it for transportation and of the men employ od in transporting it to the seaboard and other plaet s. And tlo you know that onehalf tho money that passes through our mill is foreign, money? We Fell oneh.ilf our Hour abroad. Whit we jll abroad is what makes the nation ric1. and any law that restricts our foreign . o-n-meree mattes us poor. We raise twice as much Hour as our own peoph- ran consume. What if we wall ourselves in so that nobody will buy of us? What would the farmers' wheat, his pork and his beef be worth then?" "1 you believe hi reciprocity?" "Yes. I do, but with the great consuming nations of the world. I do not want reciprocity limited to a few islands in the pea. but with all th world. What does the little trad.- with Cuba, the Wist India Hands an I soaie cf the South American states amount to when compared with the rwealthy, thickly-p 'pul.it evil c untries cf the old world, which, notwithstanding our tradj barriers .our tariff walLs buy t---n times a much rs the pur.y conntrL-s with which Hlaind established free trade. "1 want you to pay that' we have never had a barrel of flour exported refused. I want you to say this ohf foreign trade is as good as ev -r. I want you to say that the Ilaipiie mills and the mills at Ligonier, Ind., are tho only mills in this state that export Hour to the West Iniiai islands. I want you to say that; the last shipment we nvidrt for export 2.m)0 barrels was sold at ?j per barnd. I wart you to say that tho report, thai we lose any money by reason of the r.-peal of the reciprocity clause of the McKinley tariff law is on infamous lie." DINED AT POTSDAM, Servia'st Iliifhtecn-Yenr-OM Kins Is Visiting: the Kölner. POTSDAM, Oct, 17. Alexander, the eighteen-year-old king of Servla, arrived here this evening from Bua-Pest on a visit to Emperor William. Great preparations had been made for his reception, and It was generally understood" that this meant that the visit had political significance. The railway station was Ix-autit ully decorated, and a guard of honor was drawn up on the platform. The party waiting to receive King Alexander wax a brilliant one. consisting of Kmperor William and his sons, Haron Marschall Yon Lieberstein, imperial foreign minister; (kn. Brunsart Von Scholleiiilorf. minister of war. and the members of the general staff. The emperor greeted the king most cordially, and after an Inspection of the guan of honor, their majesties drove tc the palace escorted by the guards. A grant', gala dinner was given tonight at the new palace. BOMBS FOUND IN BARCELONA. Enough Dynamite in Tliem to Cause Great Denlrurllou, BARCELONA, Oct. IP Ten dynamite bombs were found toduy near the engine of a large factory where a number of anarchists were formerly employed. Fuses were attached to the bombs and they are believed to be fully loaded. Among the anarchists who were at ona time mployed at the works referred to were two n-n who were executed in front of the fortress of Montjuich. An investigation into the character of the lmts u--velops that they were powerful enough to have blown up the whole quarter of the city in which they were found. MRS. SPRINGER INDICTED. She Is C'linrgcd with Attempting; to Ii r I lie n Juryman, CHICAGO, Oct. 17. Mrs. Warren Springer, wife of the Chicago millionaire, w;u indicted this afternoon for attempted bribery. Mrs. Springer's nllegel attempt a, corrupting a juryman was nind- during a suit for condemnation of sono of hr husband's property, brought by the Metropolitan elevated railway. Mrs. Springer is a pretty woman, apparently noi more than twenty-tive or twenty-six years old. Her maiden name was Ferguson and she comes ofan old aaid well known family in Newark, O.

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CIIAHMls i linVHV is mING AS A I'lIILATIlHoriT. Heul Kliff n to lle I".:ilvn Addition to ludcrcon for the I niproi emetit of Which !r. Henry (Inlin to !fnt IV.Id Out foai.ooii for l.n Imr nt . DoII.tr Did He ll.it In cMttl IIott lie Worked the clifiuc. The open enmity of Charles L. Henry, republi.-.iu r.ndi ite f'-r or.gre.-s, to org!i:i:.ed 1 1!-...- having b en fully established and i very charue mile by Tha ."'entire. 1 fully and satisf.u-: ri!y proven, an cf.'.ct has be n nude l y one or tw f the ni'-r- audacious c-rp rati-in orans ; show him up to the w.-rld ia the light of a ph:ian:hrn; 1st. It li - n l- a sail with apparent sine :i;y thtl siiu e last, June Mr. jj,nT- has paid out S''.l,v t his own employes f r lab -r. This statement aejnally s-t th- wlr-h p.wn of Anderson in a rear. Th y cu! in't h.-lp but laugh, whether t!-nio.-r.its or n ; uM V ir s. The idea of Chatles L. Henry piyi-tg out ?:. for waces ia a eir was m li iicti!"Us that the .t.!v x -use f r :.: iMng such a brazen-faeed tatiiti't.t. was th-- desperatien with whi h Mr. lbtay's frienis wer- hunting f.r something to turn p.iKi; attention away i'r:u his labor re.- rl. It Is c laimed that Mr. li:.ry b' frh-nde-l lab..r, played the ptrt of a j.'.Mie 1 ene-fa-tor and philuuhf.-pit and paid out this money to labor whi! ' budding t-trects for the Fvalyn ad ii:i':i ! A:: b-rson. Th!3 work was done during th-- a-t summer and Mr. Henry has tak- n to i.:-r.s, !f all th credit for t! is t nipl -ynvi.t f labor. X..w, if Mr Henry h-d -:! .1 ..! ir - f l.ij money inveUe I in this t t -ri-e the attempt to pro. e liirn a pail mthropist w.mM not apiear i:i so gr"t--.-' pie a lig'it. H it not only th- reeords sh v, but it is a wellknown fact that n t a pi- " of this l rperty is owned by him .and l.e !:! ii"t h.ivo nor has h now ;i d 'liar invot-d in tha Fvalyn addition. Inde-d. the retl f i -t :' -e-ning this Fvalyn jolddnn d--il v. -ul I nuke go.l reading if f r v. ther .! j --.-t t un b show exietly ,..w a in tu w.. is .-hrewj, and unscrupul us .-an work Ins f i i-ndi to h's own adv.i'at tg aii'1 " re n I mv th 'in tD -hMd th biL-." Ch n! s i.. H o ry lud w:nn 'd him- If kit th fiitide-ve of a nun nitii"d A. A. Small, wh - ven r. ov i lus t !, alto f,i :!i H m y li t t pi o- d la jpardy eve l y . ! dl r S.iu'l o-.vns jn tin world. Mr. 11 my e ctfeiv- I th i ! a of living out for .-p - ul itive purp se .in .idd.tloii t tli-- thriving l..wn "f And. r n and stiee -cd 'd in g-nhig Smail t gj int partnership v.ilh him in ta- al. Hut h w? Wiiy th tw l"i.:!,i nheiy .teres of land fr -in Willi ini 1. Hari.-r for $.-'.'io0. Snull turn 'd over t II rn.-r h.s r sid'-ixe, valU' d at J7.0"0, and a lu- le -- bl -ek, valu.-d at v.'1'.1"!!!, w aii h ts ib lost piv-ni-nt, am-.unting in ail t JJ7,'"ii. Mr. Henry was of c up-s- I' iM fir half .,f thl. And did li piy anything? . t x c 11 cave s.iull h!s Ti-d f ir Jl".Vif, ia.i!il- mit of th" sjle f tie I .ts alter th remaining du" Hirtr hid b--n paid out of th" sil-.' of tit 1 its. In other words, lit w-r? t be s .'.d. th" d bt still tluo Hart : r w is to be paid, ibi-n Mr. SmtU was t get 11 t'a- leiuaiirg sal.-s until I lie nof-i f Henry lud be -u pt:d tut cf his s'.ur . 11 nry was in en thn ground floor l'r hilf of all th it might b - mad out cf tlu ihil.. yet he did n it hive a d llir luvest-.l. his tides w !- n ver to c:n" to maturdy tin I ' th" bil wis a jiaving one. and if th tidng shutld prov ,1 failure Small, his fii nd an 1 ihe nun wh iin lie li.nl Mief-sied in roping ir.u th" tl al. wits t b d 1 thi lug alone. Mr. Hirter still holds the eiit.rc pnnerty in his nini" on th" reeords of Madison ounty. Th" stre ts were laid out .and impr ivd und r the I. irret t law by issuing bontis, th- city of AndTs-m In biek of th" buiitls and responsible, for tliem. and ipw where del Mr. Henry pay a dollar f.r wages or wh're hs he a C'nt invested. He Fimply to .k advant3)? of a friend to work him Intj thj scheme with utt a d-.Ilar invca-ted or a dollar lisked. In fact, it u generally under? td in Anderson that If it cam - to an actual h)w-down Jlr. Henry would And his assets facing alrrat an equal pile of liabilities. And they might even b cmpellevl to hold th -ir heads 1:7 a Lttle. Mr. Henry Is a great friend cf the glas.? men. Yes, he'd a dear friend to them. Ia all his speculative transactions In outlying additi ms to Anderson he has neve put a glass factory on one of them, nor has he ever allowed a glass factory ty come near him. He .says the glass workers ar a most Tin desirable class of citizens and he wants non- of them n round him. Ho won't rent a hous-? of which ha is agent to an employe in a gla?s factory and in any of the numerous houses ia Anderson "owned by other popl.- and rented by him. ther" is not a glass-blowe-or glass-worker living. Yes, b's a warnt friend of the glass workers. They ought to organize several Henry clubs. But the idea that anyone ehoudd attempt to deny Henry' bng and notorii ous enmity to organized labor is absurd. He is a bitter and relentless foe t3 unions; th?t has been proven beyond tha phadiw of a doubt to th" workmen of tha Seventh district outside of Madison county. In that county no proof is necessary;, they all know hi:u nnd know his record. What the union workmen of Madison county want is that their brother workmen in th other counties of tho Seventh district be informed of the fats they knuw .so well. If this were done all rroof of the record of enmity rand hypocrisy toward organized labor by Charles I Henry wotrld never need proof. The assertion that Mr. Henry is a philanthropist is elmply an absurdity and th statement that he paid out Jt'i).0n for labor since last June is a ridiculous lie. Tho facts as t3 tha Fvalyn addition tell the Ftory. MRS. IJAVIS T11L"LS IIFU STORY. The AVIilov if a Soldier Talk of Cliarle 1. II-nry. The claim made for Charles L. Henry, republican candidate for congress ta represent the Seventh district, that h is the friend of the old soldier, has been used all over tho district as a lever to lift the old soldiers into the line of the g. o. p. Mr. Henry is further being held up to the people of ihe three counties which he aspires to represent as a model gentleman and a painstaking and conscientious lawyer. There is a lady living in this city whi has something to say about Mr. Henry on both the lines above referred to. She Is now living at ITS N. Capltol-ave. and has the following to say regarding Mr. Henry: "I am the widow of John W. Davis, who died at Arlxandria in January, ISM. My husband was in business here in Indiana)oli.s for about twenty -two years ater the (lose of the war. He had Ferved his country during the war anl settled here when tho war ended ttnj went into the mereaniil" business. IK was fairly prowJ ix rous and managed to save a lit'.e money, me discovery 01 natural .as and the liberal offers held out by land companies and town syndicates in the pti belt prompted my husband to sr'll cut his business here in the fall of 1SSJ and go to Alexandria. "We removed to that place, then a town of only a few houses, aud my husband