Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1899 — Page 7

POLITICS OF THE DAY

ALGER INCOMPETENT. As was to be expected, the report of the commission appointed by the President to investigate the conduct of the war department gives Alger a liberal coat of whitewash, and yet the. coat is not so thick that Alger stands purely yhite before the public. Appointed by the administration for the purpose of sustaining the administration, the commission has failed to find any substantial truth in the charges of inefficiency on the part of the war department The facts that soldiers died of neglect, that they were served with food unfit to eat, herded in pest camps and shipped like cattle in pest ships are denied, and that is supposed to settle the matter. As a matter of fact the question is far from settled. There are hundreds of and mothers right here in Chicago who know from sad, many of them from heartbreaking experience that their sons wore neglected and treated with great Inhumanity during the war with Spain. Whitewash will not answer. The charges will not down and Congress will have to investigate. But in spite of its great anxiety to exonerate tin- administration from ail blame, or rather to prove that no blame should be attached to the administration, the commission was forced by the facts to say: “In the judgment of the commission there was lacking in the general administration of the war department during the continuance of the war with Spain that grasp of the situation which was essential to the highest efficiency and discipline of the army.” This is a serious charge, although couched in the most conservative language. In plain terms, Alger was ink competent. He lacked that grasp of the situation which would have rendered the work of the army fully efficient. Alger stands impeached by the commission appointed to defend him as a man unequal to the task.he had assumed. What will the President do now? 'Will lie retain this incompetent ?—Chicago Chronicle. VcKlnlejr on McKtnleyiem. Careful consideration of the President’s Boston speeches does not con--vince one that it contains a message of any value to the people in solving the Philippine puzzle. With suave facility, McKinley slips out from under the responsibility and leaves the burden for Congress to bear, washing bis hands of the whole matte? and saying with oleaginous amiability: “I await your pleasure, gentlemen.” This Is not the attitude of a leader, but of a trimmer, and sadly enough this latter is McKinley’s customary attitude. But the President, by virtue of his position, is the leader. He has no to shuflie the responsibility aside. He said once that he opposed “criminal aggression,” and he encouraged that very thing In the Orient. However. McKinley justifies this state of affairs by sayiug that this is no time to submit questions of liberty to a people engaged in shooting down their rescuers. But the Filipinos find difficulty in recognizing their rescuers. In response to this claim of the President that the Philippines were intrusted to us by the hands of war, Andrew Carnegie says: “The Philippines have been ‘intrusted to iis’ solely by the unexpected demand for them made by the President himself after he had suddenly changed his mind, which was at first that we should not burden ourselves with them. The Philippine burden is not chargeable to the war. This is the President’s own pandora box—his New Year’s gift to his .country, for which he alone is responsible. Neither Congress nor the people had any voice In the matter. But one need not wonder why he should now attempt to evade the responsibility, since he tells us that ‘Every red drop, whether from the veins of an American soldier or a misguided Filipino, is anguish to iny heart.’ His conscience smites him. No wonder. The guilty Macbeth also cried out: ’Thou canst not say I did it.’ ” This being the case, it would be more satisfactory to the American people if the President would make fewer fine phrases and would put himself on record concerning his I’hilippinc policy.— Chicago Democrat. Bimetallism. When this nation enjoyed the benefits of bimetallism prosperity was general. The farmer and the wage-earner, the merchant and the mechanic were contented and happy. Since gold monometallism has practically held sway the condition of the masses has gradually grown more unendurable. Poverty has increased and discontent has grown to be almost universal. To be sure, the money dealers have waxed ffat. Wall street has boomed, trusts have flourished and the classes have grown more powerful, to the injury and impoverishment of the masses. It Is easy to account, for this condition of affairs. When silver was demonetized values In real estate and the prices of products fell and have continued to fall because gold increased in purchasing power. Every obligation of long standing is now twice or three times as hard to pay, and the ; dealers and holders of gold get the benefit, while the owners of property are made to suffer. There will be no relief from this condition of affairs so long as the gold monopoly continues to be maintained, and the gold monopoly will not end so

long at the Republican party holds power. That there should be alleged Democrats who advocate the robbery of the people by the gold conspirators Is a matter of sincere regret to all men who love the people. They who work to retain the present oppressive condition of monetary affairs are not friends of the masses, but are of and for the classes. Over G,500,000 voters cast their ballots for bimetallism in 1800. No presidential candidate appealed more earnestly to the hearts of the masses than did William Bryan. This great advocate of bimetallism is still dear to the masses and in 1900 the battle for popular rights will be resumed and fought to a successful finish. Poor Whitewash. Now that the whitewashing committee appointed by the President for the alleged purpose of Investigating the | conduct of the war has made its report, it may be concluded that its inemliers preferred to give its opinions rather than facts. Its opinion is that the army beef was not chemically treated by the contractors. Where are its facts? Did It take any pains to discover the actual condition of affairs: Did it call on the soldiers who were made ill by the army beef to testify? None of these things was done, but opinions are given with the greatest show of confidence. In this connection the New York Journal, among otjier,pertinent questions to the commissioners, asks: “Have you not confined your efforts to bringing out whitewashing evidence: Y'ou have, in substance, done nothing more than gather together the evidence of men who knew, or pretended to know, nothing detrimental. Did you ever hear of the man in Texas accused of murder? He was told that ten men had testified that they saw him kill his victim. He replied: ’That's nothing. I’ll get a hundred and fifty men in Texas to swear they didn’t see me kill him.’ Has not the commission been working to get together the ‘hundred and fifty’ who did not see the beef embalmed? Democratic Barden. While the Democrats are united on all important issues, the Republican party is tom into shreds. Its national representatives are grouped into countless factions, each tailoring to deprive the others of political jiower. and all hopelessly drifting further and further apart. One group extols “the white man’s burden” policy; another “the brown man’s burden,” while yet a third dolefully chants the refrain of the black man’s burden. They have created dissensions in both the army and navy. Competent 4 and fearless generals and naval commanders have been made the victims of their puerile jealousies. In their ranks are proud imperialists and cadaverous expansionists, hypocritical philanthropists and plundering Corsairs. They have twisted and distorted the national constitution to that degree that Thomas Jefferson himself might mistake it for a proclamation made by George 111. Without a common purpose, other than the fostering of trusts, the many factions within the Republican party are fast disintegrating it In Its dissolution lies tbe hope of the plain people. To right the monstrous wrongs it has inflicted is the Democratic burden. No lyid to Trra*a. There is no end to the formation of trusts. New combines are organizing with a rush. Old combines are enlarging their scope and crushing out competition. The record for one day in New York shows that five great organizations were created for the express purpose of devouring the small consumers. Every necessity of life will so.in lie in the clutches of the trusts, and the people, while suffering from this condition of affairs, seem helpless to discover a remedy. If they would reflect that the Republican party fosters the trusts and that the Democratic party opposes the trusts they would see that the remedy lies in placing the Democratic party in power. Lower Waxes a Certain Revolt. There is no doubt that the unwarranted advance in the price of commodities by combinations of capital, which are now rife, is endangering the prosperity of the country. Assuredly as prices are Illegitimately advanced the consumption of American products will decrease. The irony of It all is that the advance in the prices of commodities must eventually be accompanied by lower wages to the workingmen.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Political Potpourri. The length of a Senatorial deadlock Is now regarded by experts as tbe best index to the price of votes. Tbe Standard Oil Company is now satisfied that tbe recent defiance of the Supreme Court by its attorneys was not a serious performance, but merely a light comedy. The last chapter of John Sherman's “Memoirs” will appear in time to have some influence on tbe next Presidential election. Mr. McKinley’s blue pencil can’t reach the manuscript American capital did not seek foreign investment under bimetallism, bat under the gold standard we shall attempt to develop every country except our own. Imperialism and an exodus of capital go together.

TOPICS FOR FARMERS.

A DEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR * OUR RURAL FRIENDS. Cuba aat tbe American Parmer—The Farm as a Permanent Heme—Hear to Cut Up Hose - Traveling Postoffices for the Country. Since tbe farmers of this country have learned more alout Porto Rico and Cuba there has been much qoestion as to what extent tbe soil products of these countries will Injure borne production If admitted free of duty to oar markets. As Porto Rico Is now a United States possession there will be no duty on products shipped front there, and tbe distance will serve to keep down prices to a point where they will be of little injury to the home output. Wit 8 Cuba it is different, but it is not probable that the products of the island will materially interfere with oar own except in few instances. In vegetables we have little to fear from Cuba. Tlie main comjietition wiU be against onr Southern Slates, and chiefly In sock tropical productions as pineapples, bananas, mangoes, oranges, tobacco and sugar. With the growths of the North Cuba cannot compete, but the people of the Island will in time grow their own vegetables for winter or ■ rainy season use and also raise their i own meat, thus cutting off a valuable market. At the present time we have more to fear from the free entry into this country of sugar from Cuba than anything else. If Cuba is kept an independent nation a duty will probaWy be kept on sugar, but if the island shall eventually become part of the United States our sugar-producing States must suffer unless especial provision is made for them.—Farmers’ Friend. •;hft Farm a Home. The farm is a home —not a place to be lived at to-day and moved from to-mor-row, but a home to be improved and beautified—a home where orchards are .to be planted, where vines are to be grown, where substantial tilings are to be constructed, where children are to be born and fathers are to die. Into the fields come and reap new genera lions; out of the fields and into the graveyard pass old generations. There is no si>ot on earth where God more continuously shows himself than on a farm, dlere becomes understood the endearing name “Father.” The God is Father to the father, Providence unrolls the heart-curled corn leaves, fills the grape skins with new wine, gives drink to thirsty rattle, beautifies the garden with many-hued flowers, perfumes the air with fragrance made among the meadows. Here, too, man is made philosophic as he beholds on every hand the “evidences of design.” Faith he does uot need; certainty takes the place of it.—Farm and Factory. Cutting Up Hoss. For cutting up, the,carcass of a hog should be laid on tbe back, upon a strong table, says Western Flowman. The head should fhen be cut close by the ears, and tbe hind feet so far below the books as not to disfigure the hams, and leave room sufficient for hanging them up; after which tbe carcass Is divided into equal halves, up th? middle of the backbone, with a carving knife, and, if necessary, a liand-mallet. Then cut the ham from tbe side by the second joint of the backlione, which will appear on dividing the carcass, and dress the ham by paring a little off the flank or skinny part, so as to shape it with a half round point, clearing off any top fat which may appear. Next cut off the sharp edge along tbe backbone with a knife and mallet, and slice off the first rib next the shoulder, where there Is a bloody vein, which must be taken out. since, if it is left in. that part is apt to spoiL The corners should be squared off when tbe ham is cut. The ordinary practice is to cut out the spine or backbone. Some take out tbe chine and upper parts of tbe ribs in the first place; indeed, almost every locality has its pecnliar mode of proceeding. Traveling Postoffices. The Fostoffice Department has ordered an innovation in tbe postal service by tlie experimental establishment of a postoffice on wheels, to operate in the vicinity of Westminster, M<L The service, which is to begin shortly, calls for tbe use of a postal wagon to travel over a designated route in rural districts. Mail boxes can be placed at some point on tbe route for every farmer living within a mile or two from the proposed route and mall will be collected therefrom. One Important feature of tbe contemplated innovation, which, if successful, will be extended generally, is that it will bare money order and registry matter facilities. Grafting Car a Head. '— A writer In one of our contemporaries tells bow be succeeded in rebuilding a tree by grafting limbs on tbe body of a tree. He bad some trees which were not symmetrical, and some from which limbs bad been broken, until they were one-sided. These were so badly crippled that It was cot probable tbe tree would correct tbe fault, as It would if but slightly misshapen, so be secured some scions, and opening tbe bark of the body of tbe tree to be operated on, introduced tbe scions exactly as be would If budding a tree, tbe only difference being that tbe scions bad several buds on instead of being a mere bod. These were then waxed and bound as a bod would be, and all of them began to grow at once, and at tbe end of tbe season had made a very satisfactory growth, with a promise of making the trees so grafted symmetrical In a very abort time. It is thinking of these little things that mikes successful fruit gvsu^

and publishing the remits is urtat antes a cam's work rataebte* to the world a nB as ItariL-FSulKfk Voice. Sky Vm SkMrit Kn* He-a. J- Beranse pn ought by their raenna to convert a great dial of the waste of the fun into money, in the shape of eggs aad daidkrus for ansket. 2. Because* with tateflEgeut nuanagomeut they ought to be aB-year-rerenne producers, exceptmg, perhapn. abont X Because fxmttiy wfll yieid yon a quicker return for the capital, invested than any of the other departments of agriculture. 4. Because the mannre from the pool try bouse will make a valuable compost for use la cither garden or orchard. Tbe birds tbemsdret wfß destroy many insects. _— 5. Because whale cereals and frafts cue only be stcmsfuDy grown in certain seethms. peadSry caa be raised in aR parts of the country. <*. Because peulniy raising Is an enapJoyxDcu* in whit* the farmer's wife and daughter can engage and leave burn free to attend to otlber departments. & Because to start poultry ra'seng on the farm requires lottie «r no capital With proper management, poultry can be made a valuable adjunct to the farm.- -I'annacr's Review. CoatMacd Harvester asd Thresher. Tbe Laicfenborg traction engine and cexalMUtd Soamestes* is thus described by tbe Scdenrafie Anmerwtam: Tbe harvester. vliiriu is used in the great wheat fields of CaSiffojaea sad the Pacific* coast Statos, cuts a swath 2$ feet wide, and threshes, deans and sacks Site grain as at moves along. It would seean that a mac!) time cutting a strip of grain 28 feet wide would be SssiwlStag: straw fast enough to satisfy almost any one. hut tbe Laufemburg machine has teem budl to cut a mke Jit ale swath of 52 feet and sack the grain cotmidetely cleam and ready few market. lYliile the ceualw'aed tearresrer is mot n new feature im the of crops on the -pbast. only recently, and until the trsi-iiou eugms* became a Success in the field, did they ever attempt to cut wider than 18 feet. 1«I feet being the standard ms :-hame_ re |Taring from thirty to forty head of h orses to ha wile it. 'tfealth es the I'sn'ted States. The United baase* constitute* the rk'ls-st nation on the globe. Malha.lt fnrai-lies these figures: United States. s£L73ojOMuQa»; Great Britain, SXMOV©WMXW; France. MlßOtinOyM; Germany, Russia, $32,125,- «**.<#**: Austria. Spain. fl!JMrlUott9uu»>>. These rompmtatians are based upon values as shown by real estate buildings, merchandise and railways, as well as the circulating medium In ea< h nation. As will he seen, cur wealth Is more than seven times greater that of Spain, double that off Germany, two and one-half tisanes greater than that of Russia, neatly double the wealth of Russia. Italy. Austria and Spain, and S22?3MIO(MMM> larger than that of Great Britain. Keen Oat at the City. Why do men prefer the Jwivathwrs and battling aaad poverty off a city, when on a farm there is so munch of plenty and peace aaad wealth? Tbe illiterate laborer selects the town because of that sense which preempts the knowing to raise his eye above the sixpence which conceals the dollar beyond. “It is easier."' says a carter, “to load a cart than to grab a Hearing.’* And so It is. only that brash land once made Hear stays cleared, while cans that are laden empty as fast as they are laden. The work with the cart waxes harder with the age of the carter. Tbe cultivation off the land grows easier with the children off tbe fanner. To Exterminate Vermin. A writer in the *Vndfie American says he has chared his premises off vermin by making whitewash yellow with copperas and covering the stones and rafters In the cellar with it. In every crevice in which a rat might go he put the copperas, and scanned it in the comers off the floor. The result was a complete disappearance off rats and mice. Since that time not a rat or Every spring the cellar is coated with the yellow whitewash as a purifier and a rat exterminator, and no typhoid, dysentery or fever attacks the family. Cn'tlwatian at Umber. Very little off the timber now In this country to valuable for lumber, aad that which will not make Inmber has Iff it Is to be retained, why not have the land freed from taxation? Perhaps a premium should be paid for the cuttlwe arrive at some determination the better it wfll be for the country. As an investment our timber bunds do not now pay.—Globe-Democrat. ff*t«tw in Afr'ca. In spite off the statement frequently made that white potatoes would not grow la Africa, the trial was recently made again, and the potatoes gmr and brought forth abudastly. From this time on travelers and mtasaonviee need not be deprived off their favorite vegetable, provided they stick to the higher attitude*. WhOe the Africaa-raioed potatoes are s little more watery than the they are net so much so as th impair

Spanish Wine.

Wine forms 48 per rest off Sputa's There are atm soon* oU fushlourd

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Aaa Lyons’ Debts Too Heavy—Attempt to Kill a Xigkt Watchmam - tfficcn for tbe Foresters—House Wrecked by Explosion of Natural Gas. Asa Lyons, who "has been conducting a butcher shop in Anderson for nearly a year*, has employed an attorney to file proceeding* in bankruptcy. He says that he » Indebted in the sum of" $218,000, his principal creditors being in Chicago, Omaha, Cincinnati, Austin. Fort Worth, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Lafayette, Winchester, Mancie and Anderson. Lyons says he lost heavily on Texas cattle raages, mainly because President Cleveland ordered the land cleared on which Lyons was herding 18,000 head of cattle. Cowardly Crime at Anderson. A cowardly attempt to assassinate John Hefferman. night watchman of the American Straw Board Company’s plant in Andreses. was made the other morning. Hef-ft-rmati was making the rounds of the factory. and in passing a window received the contents of a shotgun in the back of the- head. The night engineer summoned assistance, and the man, with an ugly wound, was removed to the hospital. Elected by Indiana Foresters. The State meeting of Indiana Foresters dosed at Anderson. The newly elected officers are: Chief ranger, C. W. Ennis, Union City; vice-chief ranger, J. W. Baity. Anderson; secretary, W. W. Wilson. Logansport; treasurer, W. L. Austill, Elwood; councilor, J. E. Teagarden. Anderson; auditors, W. F. Gephart, E"ansviße; B. H. Stiger. Terre Haute. The ■ext meeting will be held at Peru. Wrecked by Natural Gas. The residence of Mrs. Mary Nichter at Fort Wayne was wrecked by an explosion of natural gas. The pii>es were leaking and the gas ignited from a caudle which Albert Nichter, aged 15, carried into the cellar. The boy was fatally burned. Mrs. Nichter was slightly injured by flying bricks. ... Caakards Going to I’akotn. Eastern Indiana Dunkards held mass meetings the other day and formed colonies to go to North Dakota and carry on the national colonization scheme being worked out by the church. During the last three years 25,000 have boon colonized in the selected territory. Wit lx in Our Borders, At Anderson. Oliver Stevens, aged 18, jdted by Lillian Petty, aged 10, attempted suicide. At New Albany, William .Herbert, 24 years old, attempted suicide by shooting himself. .... Attorney fjjjfries B. Stuart is dead at Lafayette. He was president of the board off trustees of Purdue University. The sheds, baskets, lumlier, oil well outfit, etc., off the Peru Basket Works were burned. Loss $3,000, partially insured. Aa explosion of natural gas at Sway zee wrecked the building occupied by A. W. Fry. grocer. No one was seriously injured. The drag firm of T. H. Mitchell & Co., Washington, failed. Assets $12,000, liafctitties SU,COU. W. Q. Williams is assign*?. At North Webster, the" farm residence, tarn and granaries of A. J. Dillman were burned with all their contents. The loss » $15,00 >. At Marion, John Morgan, foreman of the Upland zinc smelter works, was caught between two freight cars and fatally crashed. A SO.OO*MXX> mortgage on the property off the Central Union Telephone Company in Indiana has been placed on record iu sixty counties. Sixty Indiana survivors off the Mexican war held their annual reunion at Indianapolis. J. B. Mulkey off Bloomington was elected president. Adolph Schleicher, an Indianapolis merchant. was killed in the Indianapolis Journal boilding by falling four stories through an open court. Frank Xolting. a Columbus grocer, swallowed bis false teeth while asleep and was unconscious and nearly dead when discovered by his wife. Vernon A. Caldwell, a Marion boy, has been brevetted by the Uuited States Senate for bis gallant action In the battle of El CaneV in the Santiago campaign. Cyras C. Boyer, an inventor of some , reputation in northern Indiana, wns struck by a lake Shore freight train at Waterloo. Both of his legs were broken below tbe knees. Four children of Jesse Hancock, four miles north of Kokomo, were attacked simultaneously with measles, diphtheria and scarlet fever, each of them having all three diseases at the same time. Daisy, a 14-year-old daughter, is dead. James Boyd fatally shot a Mr. Lemmon ■t Evansville. The families of the men resided in the same house. Mrs. Boyd and Mrs. Lemmon quarreled and came to blows. Lemmon attempted to nssist his wife, when Boyd shot him. Boyd was urrested. Joseph Mallory, a farmer of Dubois County, was taken to the insane asylum in Evansville. Mallory was bitten by a hog several days ago and has hydrophobia. He grants like a hog and tries to bite everyone who comes near him. It is necessary to keep him masked and shackled. Joseph Nurrenberg. a farmer living six mSes from Evansville, was taken in by gold brick men. Two strangers called at his house nod wanted to sell a gold brick. The farmer took the brick to a jeweler, who aid it was worth $1,700. Nurrenberg paid S2OO, but after the men were ! gone discovered they had given him a bogus brick. The men are said to have worked the farmers of Posey County for several thousand dollars. Rev. John Bettig, superintendent of the Reformed Orphans’ Home at Fort Wayne, swallowed a dose of carbolic acid by mistake and died in an hour. He was attending his wife, who was on her death* bed. Rev. Mr. Rettig was 08 years old and for forty years had been a clergyman. J. C. Vanatta, representing an Indiana aad Michigan syndicate, has purchased dock property at Michigan City. The contract will at once be awarded for the mull action of immense grain elevators, Michigan City will be made the shipping point for southern Michigan and wjrtbrew Indiana grain buyers-

STATE LAW MAKERS.

The lower branch of the Legislature on Friday passed the Senate bills appropriating SIOO,OOO for the completion of the State soldiers and sailors’ monument and $120,000 for a State hospital for epileptics at Columbus, Both bills were passed over the protests of the Committee on Ways and Means. The Governor announced that he would veto the bill to establish the hospital for epileptics. The bill dcsigued to enable Indianapolis to grant a franchise to the new street railway company was called up in the House Saturday morning. It was so amended as to give the common council power to provide for certain things not enumerated in the bill, but not to be inconsistent with its provisions. The House passed the general appropriation bill, and advanced the bill for reform iu county government to a third reading. The opponents of the latter bill were very active, and fear that they might defeat it in the alisence of several members caused an adjournment at noon until Monday. The Senate passed the bill providing that the State shall issue bonds to the University of Vincennes on a claim which originated soon after the State adopted the present constitution. The claim, exclusive of interest, which is not demanded, aggregates nearly $300,000. The bill reducing the number of truant officers in a county to one was passed, as wns also the bill providing for the appointment of a board of park commissioners for Indianapolis. The attorneys who appeared for E. E. Stoner and Frank Cregor in the contest from the Madison and Hancock Senatorial district put in claims for services that aggregate $2,000. The committee on elections refused to recommend its payment. The Senate on Tuesday passed the bill under which it is proposed to settle the street railway controversy in Indianapolis. By this bill all franchises to operate strt*et railways iu the city are wiped out and the city is left to make a contract for a thirty-four year franchise with the reorganized Citizens’ company. It is provided in the law that if the city fail to contract with this company the franchise shall be sold at auction in January, 1900, to the highest bidder for a period of not more* than thirty years. The bill for the eondemnation of land for a waterway between Lake Michigan and Wolf lake, in order that a harbor for the city of Hammond might be formed in the latter, was killed in the Senate Wednesday afternoon by a vote of* 27 to 19. The principal objection to the hill was that it placed the cost of making the waterway upon the adjoining laud owners and that the city of Hunnnoud alone would reap the benefit., Two years ago the bill passed both houses anil was vetoed by the Governor. Gov. Mount has the following bills: Senate bill No. 133—T0 limit the bonds for the construction of gravel roads. Senate bill No. 10<5—To enable the State Board of Schoolbook Commissioners to advertise for bids for text books. Senate bill No. 44—Relating to the creation of an appellate court. Senate bill No. 35—To accept jurisdiction of lands and territory ceded to the State by Congress. Senate bill No. 32—Concerning allowances for attorney's fees in tfee prosecution and defense of criminal cases. House bill No. 250—T0 legalize the incorporation of tbe town of St. Joseph, De Kalb County. House bill No. 7-1 —To prevent the location of railroads in cemeteries. House bill No. 04 —In relation to conveyances of real estate by wives of persons of unsound mind, habitual drunkards and minors under certain circumstances. House bill No. 108— For the discharge of prisoners from the reformatories and State prisons. House bill No. 7—Concerning the jurisdiction of courts iu suits against corporations. House hill No. 272—T0 legalize the records of the Council of Montpelier. House bill No. 58 —Authorizing county and district agricultural societies to sell real estate. House bill No. 439—Changing the name of the Reform School for Girls and Women's Prison. House bill No. 140—To amend sections of the law establishing the State Board of Health. By Mr. Sehaal—To authorize riparian owuers to own and maintain docks, etc. By Mr. Caraway—To provide for a better collection and distribution of State publications. By Mr. Barlow—Supplemental to an act concerning proceedings in civil cases. By Mr. Brown—Regulating the construction and repairing of public drains. By Mr. Neal—To amend the draiuage act. By Mr. Glossbrenner—Affecting the rights of citizens iu negotiating loans. By Mr. Williams—To increase the salary of steward of the Orphans’ Home. By Mr. May—To regulate the holdings of coroners' inquests. By Mr. Caraway—To legalize the town of Shirley, in Henry aud Hancock counties. By Mr. Glossbrenner—To regulate the practice of dentistry, etc. By Mr. Mnrsh—To provide for the purchase, condemnation, etc., of road-making materials. By Alt. Fuller—To amend the act concerning mechanics’ liens. By Mr. Niel —To amend the act governing insurance companies. By Mr. Brooks—Regulating the payment and allowance of claims against incorporated towns nnd cities. By Mr. Johnsori of Madison—To amend the act concerning natural gas and oil wells. By Mr. Shea—Relating to orders issued by cities of less than 20,000 upon their treasuries. By Mr. Hogate—To amend the act regarding building and loan associations. By Mr. Hugg—To provide for pensions for disabled aud retired policemen in Indianapolis. By Mr. Hedgecock—Prescribing the manner of accounting for specific appropriations of money. By Mr. Hall—To provide for the relocation of the county seat of Newton County. By Mr. Somers—Concerning appropriations to State Institutions. By Mr. Reeee—To provide for the bringing of suits by persons interested in estates. By Mr. Reece—To amend the act enabling incorporated towns to improve, streets. By Mr. Aikin—To amend the act regarding building aad loan associations. By Mr. Early—To amend tbe constitution. By Senator G win—Legalising the incorporation of Georgetown,