Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 16, Number 46, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 30 January 1895 — Page 2

AN APPEAL. President Cleveland Urges Congress to Act. He Sends a Speciiri Message In Which He Afrftft Thnt the Treasury Be Believed i*y the Issuance of Ikong-Torm Bonds. Washington, Jan. 20. —The president sent to tetti bouses ol congress Monday a message on the financial situation, substantially withdrawing his support from the plan outline<l in the Carlisle bill, and outlining the only policy which seems to him now possible to maintain the gold reserve. Following is the main portion of the message: The Message. In tf\e opening of the message the president refers to his recommendations on the currency question to cougress in his annual message and their unfavorable reception, the changed condition of and the present existence of an emergency which demanded prompt liigi.'lativo action to restore confidence in dur financial soundness and avert business disaster and universal distress among our pejopie. He states his conviction that additional or different legislation from that recommended in his annual message is now demanded. Tbo progress of a people whose internal resources are so limited and energies so vigorous should not be checked by “cfalse financial policy and heedless disregard or sound monetary laws." The president then emphasises the duty of our lawmakers, ‘‘umVanmielled by the prejudice of partisanship." to ‘id nee rely attempt to relieve the situation.** n Due tp Lark of Confidence. The real trouble which confronts us consists in a lack of confidence widespread and constantly increasing in the continuing ability or disposition of the, government to pay its obligations in gold. This lack of confidence grows to some extent out of the palpable and apparent embarrassment attending the efforts 6f the government under existing laws to procure gold and to a greater extent out of the Impossibility of either keeping it in the ; treasury or canceling obligations by its expenditure after it is obtained. The only way left open to the government for procuring gold is by the issue and saVe of bonds. The only bonds that can bo issued were authorized. nearly twenty-five years ago and are not well calculated to meet our present needs- Among other disadvantages. they are made payable in coin .instead of specifically in &oldjwhich, in existing cbnditions, detracts largely and in an increasing ratio from their desirability as investments. It is by no means certain that bond's of this descript ion can much longer be disposed of at a price creditable to the financial character of our government A Most Dangerous Feature. The most dangerous and irritating feature of foe situation, however, remains' to be mentioned. It Is found in the means by which • the treasury is despoiled of the gold thus obtained without canceling a single government.obligation and solely fdr. the benefit, of those who find profit in shipping it abroad 1 or whose fears induce them to hoard o it at home. We have outstanding about S.VJJ.OO3 OJD of currency notes of the government, for which gold may be demanded, and curiously enough the law requires that when presented and. in fact, redeemed and paid in gold they shall be reissued. Thus the same notes may do duty many times in tFrawing gold from the treasury, nor can the process be arrested as long as privateiparties profit or otherwise see an advantage in repeating the operation Redeemed Hut Not Retired. More than 53004100.000 in these notes have already been redeemed in; gold and notwithstanding such redemption they are all still outstanding. Since the 17th da>of January. 1804. our bonded interest-bearing debt has been increased $:00,00u.00j for the purpose of obtaining gold, to replenish our coin reserve. Two issues were made, amounting vto $.‘.0,000,00-3 each—one in January and the other in November. Asa result of the first issue there was realized something more than €f>B’O'JO.OOO in gold. Between that issue and tho succeeding one in November, comprising a period of about ten months, nearly $103.000.u00 In gold was drawn from the treasury. This made the second issuo necessary, and upon that more than $68,000.0)0 in gold was again realized. Between the date of this second issue and the present time, covering a period, of only about two months, more than s69.OoQ.fii)o in gold has been •drawn from the treasury These largo sums of gold oxpended without any cancellation of government obligations orin any permanent way benefiting people or improving our pecuniary situation. The financial events of the last year suggest facts and conditions which should certaiqly arrest attention. More than $172,000,000in gold has been drawn out of the treasury during the your for the purpose of shipping tbroad or hourding at homo. W hile nearly $103,000,000 of the same was drawn out during the first ten months of the year, a sum aggregating more than t w o-thirds of that amount, being about 5G9,0.)0.000,‘was drawn out during the following two months. th,us indicating a marked uccole r aiion of the depleting process with the lapse of t^nc. Sihopie l’rocoss of Looting.

Yhc obligations upon which this gold has been drawn from the treasury aie still out.*;i;:tiding and are available for use in repeating the exhausting operation with shorter intervals as our perplexities accumulate. Conditions are certainly supervening lending to make the bonds D which may bo issued to replenish oiir gold less useful for that purpose. An adequate gold reserve is In all circumstances absolutely essential' to the upholding of our public credit and to tho maintenance of our high national character. Our gold reserve has again reached such a stage of diminution as to require its speedy reinforcement. The aggravations that must 'inevitably follow present conditions and methods will certainly lead to misfortune and loss not only to our national credit and prosperity and to financial enterprise, but to those of our people who seek employment as a means of livelihood and to those whose only capital is their daily labor. It will hardly do to say that a Simple increase of revenue will cure onr troubles. The apprehension and constantly increasing as to our financial ability does not rest upon a calculation of our revenue. The time has passed when the eyes of investors abroad and our people at horde were fixed upon the revenues of the government. Changed conditions have attracted their attention to the gold of the government. There need .be no fear that we cannot pay our current expenses with such money as wc have. A Slap at the Silver Men. There is now in the treasury a comfortable surplus of more than SC3.OiK).OOO, but it is not gold and therefore does not meet our difficulty. 1 cannot see that differences of opinion concerning the extent to which silver ought to be .coined or used in our currency shou Idinterfere with the counsels of those whose duty it is to rectify evils now apparent In our financial situation. They have to consider tho question of national credit and the consequences/that will follow from its collapse. ft . , ® , While I am not unfriendly to silver and while I desire to see it recognized to such an extent as Is consistent with financial safety and the preservation of national honor and credit. I am not willing to seo gold entirely banished from our currency and finances. 'l*o avert such a consequence I believe thorough and radical remedial legislation should be promptly passed. 1 therefore beg tho cou--4?roBS to give the subject immediate attention , Want* More Bends Issued. In mv opinion the secretary of tho treasury ehould be authorized to Issue bonds of the government for the purpose of procuring and maintaining i\ sufficient gold reserve and the redemption and cnneellntlon of tho United States lcgal-tenilCr notes and the ircasuiyehuie.* issued for the purchase of silver

under the law of July 14, 1890 We should be relieved from the humiliating process of issuing bonds to procurp gold to be immediately and repeatedly drawn out on these obligations for purposes not related to the benefit of our government or our people! The principal and interest of these bonds should be payable on their face in gold, because they should be sold only for gold or its representative and because there would now; probably be difficulty in favorably disposing of bonds not containing this stipulation. 1 suggest that the bonds be issued in denominations of $29 and S6O and their multiples, and that they bear interest at a rate not exceeding 3 per eont. per annum. Payable in Fifty Years. I do not see why .they should not be payable fifty years from their dates. We of the present generation have large amounts to pay if we meet our obligations and long bonds arc most salable. The secretary of the treasury might well be permitted at his discretion to receive on the sale of bonds tbo legal otender and treasury notes to be retired and of course when they are thus retired or redeemed gold they should be canceled. These bonds, under existing laws, could bo deposited by national banks as security for circulation, and such banks should be allowed to issue circulation up to the face value of these or any other bonds so deposited, except bonds outstanding bearing only 2 per cent, interest, and. which sell in the market at less than par. National banks should not. be allowed toTake out circulating notes of a less denomination than $lO, and when such as are uow outstanding reach the treasury, except for redemption and retirement, they should be ocanceied and notes of the and upward-Issued in their stead. Silver certificates of the.denomination of $lO and upward should be replaced by certificates of denominations untlcr $lO. Asa constant means lor the maintenance of a reasonable supply of gold In the treasury our duties on imports should be paid in gold, allowing all other dues to the government to be paid in any other form of money. lirges Adoption of the Plan. I believe all the provisions’ 1 have suggested should be embodi \1 in our laws* if wo. are to enjoy a complete reinstatement of a sound financial condition. They need not interfere with any currency scheme providing for the increase of the circulating medium through the agency of national or state banks since they can easily bi? adjusted to such a scheme. Objection has been made to the issuance of interest-bearing obligations for the purpose of retiring tho non-interest-bearing legal-tender notes. In'point of fact,' however, these notes have burdened us with a large load of interest audit 4s. still accumulating.. The ; ggregato interest on tlie original issue of the proceeds of which in gold constituted the reserve for the payment of those notes, amounted to $70.32(3.259 on January 1. 1895, and the annual charge for interest on these bonds and those issued for the same purpose during the last year will be $9,145,030, dating from January 1, 1895. While the cancellation of these notes would . not relieve us from the obligations already incurred on their account? these figures are given by way of suggesting that their existence has not been free from interest charges and that the longer they are outstanding, judging from the experience of the last year, the more expensive they will become. In conclusion. I desire to frankly confess my reluctance to issuing more bond* in present circumstances and with, no better results than have lately followed that, course. I cannot, however, refrain from adding, to an assurance of my anxiety to cooperate "with the present congress in -any reasonable mens- . urc of relief an expression of my determination to leave nothing undone which furnishes a hope of improving the situation or checking a suspicion of our disinclination or inability to meet with the strictest honor every national obligation. Grover Cleveland The Executive Mansion. January 28, 1895.

STRIKERS YIELD. The Companies. However, Refuse to Make Vacancies for Them. Brooklyn, X. Y., Jan 21)'.—The strike is practically over, as the companies have gradually resumed of their lines, until t*ve4*y important one is in operation. Acts of violence still continue, and restoration of the usual peace iimYquiet of tRe city is yet to be established. The striking’ employes of the various roads on Monday made formal offers to return to work, only to be notified that their places were filled-. Michael Madigan was shot in the abdomen at the corner of Nostrand enue and the boulevard by a policeman during a riot Monday afternoon. The police fired upon the mob and Madigan fell. probably mortally wounded. Six men were captured. At 8 o'clock Monday night the motorrnan and conductor of a Gates avenue ear were set upon by a number of men at Hamburg avenue and were badly beaten. A body* of police undertook to quell the disturbance, but finding that the use of their clubs was insuflicient, drew, their revolvers and fired fifteen shots into the crowd. One of tlie bullets took effect in the leg of the motorman. though aimed atone of his assailants. At the meeting of the board of alder men Monday night a resolution calling upon the attorney general to at once institute proceedings for the forfeiture Os the charters of the Brooklyn City and Atlantic avenue companies was adopted by a vote of 12 to 4. The strike has lasted fifteen days. It has cost the railroads £500,000. Tho troops have cost the city £1 $9,000. The strikers have lost £90.000 in wages and the roads in loss of revenue £228,000. The general paralysis of business has amounted to many millions to the general public. . Two lives have been sacrificed and many people injured. SPRINGER'S BILL. * A Financial Measure Combining the President's Recommendations. Washington, Jan. 29. —In the house Monday-Mr. Springer (derri., 111.] introduced a bill designed to carry out the recommendations of the president in his message to congress. Tlie bill provides for the issue of 3 per cent, bonds payable in gold, fifty years after date; for tlie redemption and cancellation of leo*al tender and treasury notes; allowing national banks to issue circulation to an amount equal to the par value of the bonds deposited; for the retirement of silver certificates in denominations larger than £lO and for the issue of small notes in their place, and requiring payment of all import duties in gold. Glvea h Ten-Year Term. Detroit, Mich., Jan, 29. —When arraigned in the recorder’s court Monday afternoon on a charge of obtaining money under false pretense from O. \VY Shipman, Frank J. F. Bradley pleaded guißy and was immediately sentenced to ten years.at hard labor in the state prison at Jackson. Bradley was convicted twelve years ago, and served a term of ten years at Joliet for embezzling £IOO,OOO from the Pullman car company, whose superintendent he was in this city.

ILL-FATED STEAMER. No Hope Entertained Tor the Chicora or Those on Board. Benton Harbor, Mich., Jan. 24.—A1l hope for the safety of the Graham & Morton screw steamer Chicora has been abandoned here by the finding of wreckage from the vessel off South Haven. The fate of twenty-nine men who are said to have been aboard when the steamer left Milwaukee for this port Monday morning is almost as hopeless.' Veteran mariners number every mail with the dead. The ill-fated vessel was caught while crossing the lake and fell an easy prey to the 70-mile an hour hurricane which swept the icy wateite of Lake Michigan throughout

ILL-FATED STEAMER “CHICORA."

Monday and which continued with little moderation for another twenty-four hours. The fears of all concerned were confirmed when tlie following dispatch was received from South Haven: "Capt. Donahue, the lighthouse kreper. noticed Wednesday morning, through tlie hazy weather, portions of what seemed to be wreckage floating abreast and on each side of the harbor here, a couple of miles outside and close to open v.atcr. Capt. Matthews, of tho life saving station, led a party of volunteers on a dangerous trip over the moving ine until they came into a lot of fresh wreckage, home of it was {vedgert between the ice. but the greater portion was seen underneatn the ice. The parts which , were brought here were recognized by vesselmen to the Chicora” * .—•_• GAUTEMALA AND MEXICO. . They Are Likely Soon to Be Involved in tlie Toils of War. * Washington. Jan. 29. —War between Guatemala and Mexico seems inevitable. Guatemala can only prevent it by complying with the demands of Mexico, and this it is apparently unwilling to do. Mexico will not arbitrate. The efforts at mediation by Hie United States have failed. From absolutely pliable authority it is said Mexico has politely but most positively declined to entertain the suggestion of the United Stales state department that the difficulty be submitted to arbitration. The question at issue between the two countries is one easily admits of arbitration. Briefly stated it is as, follows: A treaty signed at the City of Mexico September 27, 1882. defined the boundary between Mexico and Guatemala from the Atiantic to the Pacific, which had been in dispute for more than half a century, and provided that a mixed commission should mark tho line with suitable monuments. When this commission reached the Usumacinta. one of the boundary rivers, it was found that the data furnished by iSehbr Irungara.v, an engineer sent by Guatemala to survey the line before tho treaty was made, were not accurate, because, according to his maps and the treaty based upon them, the Usumacinta river was placed considerably above its actual course. This left in Mexico a very important part of what had been considered Guatemalan territory. The government of Guatemala held that the Usumacinta river began at a point many miles below that designated in tho treaty, and that the .actual boundary lina ought to be tho Chixoy river, situated several miles west of the Usumacinta The government of Mexico accepted this proposition as a matter of equity on condition that no further objections should be raised by Guatemala in the marking of tho boundary lino. Pending the marking of this boundary, how thero has been frequent disagreements dnd delays in tho works. Concessions have been made by both governments for the cutting of mahogany, and tin itemala at last boldly entered upon tlie area in dispute, destroyed Mexican camps, und has occupied it with an armed force. Mexico now demands' tlie area, and furthermore insists that Guatemala shall withdraw its troops and pay an indemnity lor injur.es alleged to have been inflicted upon Mexican citizen's. " i> CLEVELAND INDORSED. Senate Approves llis. Hawaiian PolicyCarried by One Republican Vote. Washington, Jan. 29. President Cleveland's policy toward Hawaii was sustained in the senate Saturday by a. vote of 24 to 22. The resolution was offered by Senator Vest (dem., Mo.) as an amendment to a. previous resolution on the subject by Senator Allen (pop., Neb.) and is as, follows: "Resolved, That, wnlle the people of the United States earnestly- sympathize with the effort to establish republican institutions wherever that effort is m'adc, they reaffirm the policy of noninterference, unless by agreement, with the officers -of other nations, and recognize to' the fullest,extent the right of-every people to adopt and maintain their own form of government, unnwed and uninfluenced by foreign dictation. I "That the administration of President Cleveland intenaintaining this policy as to-”our foreign religions deserves the approval and sup- | port of tho American people." The vote was on party lines, with the ; exception of Senator Pettigrew, who | voted with the democrats.* By a singu- ; lar coincidence this one vote carried ; the resolution, as it would have failed ’ on a tie had the vote been on strict | party lines. ■ M. oe filers, Russia's Foreign Minister Is bead. St. Petersburg, Jam. 29. —M. de , tfiers, Russian minister of foreign afj fairs, is dead. M. de.Giers was married I to Princess Kantakuzene, who was the : niece of Prince Gortschakoff. M. de Giers has for years suffered from a sluggish liver and a consequent rheu- ; matie affection. Sure of Convicting “Fit*.” j Syracuse, N. Y., Jan. 2s*— The Onondaga county authorities say they are confident of convicting 'Bob Fitzsimmons under indictment here for the killing of Con Riordan. The arraignment of Fitzsimmons lias been set down for to day.

FAtAL WRECK. Disaster on the' Vandalia Road—A Lady Killed—Many Injured. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 29.—Vandalia train No. 2, due at Indianapolis at 2:35 Monday wrecked at Coatsville, 20 miles out. One person was killed and thirty-eight injured. The train was running at full speed and was about ten minutes late. It had just passed the town and was rounding a curve\ when the track spread. & & The private car qf President W. R. Mclveen, which was in the rear, jumped the track. This was followed by the parlor then the ladies’ car. All went/off the track, the two rear cars goufg down the embankment 10 feet “before the train could be stopped. The smoker Jest the track, but did not go over. Tlie two rear cars caught fire, but were extinguished when the work of rescue "began.. Mrs. YV. S. Towers, of Carthage,'Mo., was carried from the car and died while being* taken to the school house. The injured were carried up the embankment to houses on the north side of the track, and soon the townspeople and physicians gathered to give assistance. Mrs. Zelda Seguin YVallasc, the noted operatic singer, was among those seriously injured. Mrs. Wallace Was one of the prominent operatic and concert singers in the United States, although latterly her appearances have been confined to the concert stage. She gained a national .reputation as a member of tlie Hess/Emma Abbott and Duff opera companies for many seasons. .John YV. Norton, the widely known proprietor of tlie J,]rand opera house, St. Louis, and manager of theaters also in Chicago and Pittsburgh, had his head badly crushed and is reported to be dying. Others who were injured are as folfollows:

John W. Cravens. Bloomington, Ind.. ribs fractured and hurt internally: Richard Crouch. Brazil, Ind.. badly Injured in head; D. W. Mendenhall, Terre Haute, ribs ” broken; li A. Cardwell. Elmira, N. Y.. hip broken: George \V. Paris, congressman-elect Uiglitii Indiana district, slightly injured on head and back; Richard Gurrish, New | York, cut.in face and bruised; Mrs. Custer. , Terre-Haute, rib broken; Andrew Johnson, ! porter on dining car. right arm broken; i Frank Gurley, Washington. D. C., | hart internally; Mrs. Rothschilds, Og- , den. U. TANARUS., badly bruised arm and | shoulders; Mrs. Ueife. Omaha, bruised about the body; Joseph Dillon, New York, arm broken; \V. li. Sherwood. New York, arm i broken: 1). Newmeyer, Evansville, hurt internally; Charles Jones. Indianapolis, back injured: John 11. Wise. Indianapolis, arm broken and he 1 cut; F. Wrap. Pittsburgh, head cut; Dr. Coii-ert. injured In side: Rev. Mr. Talbott. Groencastie. Ind., badly injured; Mrs. Coblentz. Franklin, lr;d., arm between: Margaret Roberts. Indianapolis, injured about faec and breast; Ewing O, \\ hiltii g. Bos Cbm bad cut over left eye: Mrs. Ewing O. Whitting, Boston, injured about side and breast seriously; S. Neugeon. Vigo, Tex., seriousiy hurt about head, likely not to recover; Mrs. N. W. Ferguson. Terre Hau.te. right side'burt and internal injuries, serious; Mrs. D. Hudson. Greencustle, cut on right side of the head, not serious: Gertrude Parrish, 4-year-old girl, Palestine, cut on side of face, not seriously; •W. S. Towers. Carthage. Mo., badly hurt in side; Lee Sheets, Indianapolis, badly bruised: J. ,J. Lee, Manslield e ,0., injured internally and bruised about the face; .Mrs. J. H. Dillon. New York, badly bruised and arm broken; LAV. D. Beebe, Paris. 111., bruised about the head': Mrs. D. L. Anderson. Greencastle. Ind., hurt about head; Mrs. Pes us. Terre Halite, ribs broken, internal injuries. „ The wreck and the cries of the injured and frightened passengers created a panic from which no one recovered for several minutes. Those in the day coach were the first to recover their self-possession and hastened to thy relief of the victims. In tho chair car they found the injurred passengers pinned down by a mass of broken and twisted chairs, groaning in their agony. The stove was seen to be igniting the woodwork of the car, but a few pails of water extinguished the fire. Then the imprisoned ciead and injured were extricated from under the heavy chairs. One of the eye-witnesses was President Swain, of the state university at Bloomington, who was one of the first to reach the car where the victims lay. , The track was>examined add it was found that the guard-rail of the switch just east of CoatesvHlp broke, causing the accident. It is believed tfyp engine started tlie break. President Me Keen's ear, which was occupied by his son, turned completely over, but was not' damaged much, and no one was hurt. A relief train, with six surgeons on board, left here for the scene, and the injured are now in St. Vincent’s hospital here. St. Louis, Jan. 29. —John YV. Norton, injured in the Vandalia wreck M*onday afternoon, was 53 years old, and an actor and manager of theaters for thirty years. lie was proprietor of the Grand opera house in this city at tlie time of his injury. Severe illness eight years ago forced him from the stage, and he appeared but once sinec. He was an instructor of dramatic art anti brought out Mary Anderson, who made her first appearance at the Grand opera house, then De Bar’s opera house, under his management. Ife was divorced from his wife, known as Emma Stockman, who eloped in 1888 with 11. \V. Moore, managing editor of the Post-Dispatch.

Want Altgeld for President. St. Louis, Jan. 29.—The statement is, matie by one of the most prominent labor leaders in the United States that tlie position of president of the Universal Labor union, which is now in process of organization, weuld be tendered to Gov. John l\ Altgeld, of Illinois, within the next few weeks. Suspended. Vienna Jan. 29. —A late dispatch from Constantinople sqys that Tahsin l’aslia, governor general of Bitlis, has been suspended and Burner Bey, member of the commission of inquiry, has undertaken his duties. This action was taken on the recommendation c 2 the inquiry commission, which held its first sitting on Monday. Shishkin Succeeds De Gleri. Sr. PiCTURsnuRG, Jan. 29.—M. Shishkin, who was assistant to M. de Giers, minister of foreign affairs, has been appointed to succeed the latter temporarily.

BURSTING BOILERS. They Cange Death and Ruin la; the Town of Mendota. IIL Mendota, 111., Jan. 28.--A terrible boiler explosion shojok this city and the surrounding country for miles Friday afternoon. The explosion was in the brewery of C. llenning & Sons. The names of the known dead are: Christian Seifert, foreman; David Cheer, engineer; David Wells, fireman; L. De Shazo, iceman; Henry Post and Adam Berscheidt, laborers, and J. Kennedy, well borer, of Chicago. The building destroyed was five stories in height and filled with machinery. The force of the explosion completely demolished it. Shortly before the explosion a number of men employed in putting up ice stopped work, owing to the severity of the weather, returned to the brewery and went to the engine room for the purpose of getting warm. YVhile they were there the explosion took place and many of them were among the killed and badly injured. No definite accountof the cause of tho explosion can be given, as all who were near the rooms containing the machin erv arc. among the killed and the rubbish has not yet been cleaned away from the machinery. The l>oilers were provided with every appliance for safety and their engineer was a trustworthy man, for a long time employed by the firm and had their confidence. Some accounts charge it to the explosion of the ammonia tallies of tlie ice machine, and it is true at the time of the explosion the air was filled with ammonia fume’s'.

HAS PASSED THE SENATE. Tho Nicaragua Canal Hill Receives a Majority of the Votes. Washington. Jan. 28.—1n the senate Friday the long parliamentary struggle over the Nicaragua canal bill came to a close and the bill was passed by a vote _of 31 yeas to 21 nays. From 2 o’clock in the afternoon until (3, the time was consumed in a discussion in which the speeches were limited to five minutes. It was sometimes carried on in a pretty angry fashion, but nothing very important or interesting was said on either side of the question. [The Nicaragua canal hill as passed provides that the capital stock of tho Maritime Canal company of Nicaragua shall consist of 1,900,009 shares of sloJ'cach; it authorizes the cornp'ny to issue 3 per cent, bonds to the amount of $70.000.000, which shall bo endorsed aud guaranteed by the treasury of the United States, and shall be secured by a first mortgage on all tho property of tho company. The interest on these bonds Is to be paid by the company as it falls due. and on failure to do so is to be held to pay 4 per cent, interest to tho United Statos. And such default shall also bring with it the right of foreclosure and sale. In consideration of the guarantee the United States is to receive $70,000,0)0 in stock of the company; $0,000,000 of stock is to go to the government of Nicaragua; sl,&00.000 to, the government of Costa Rica, and t.he remaining $22,500,000 is to go to extinguish former issues of stock, and to the construction of tlie canal. Ten of the fifteen directors of the company are to be appointed by tho president of the United Stated, with the advice and consent of the senate. |

ON TRIAL AGAIN. JJiebs Is Liberated on Bail and Appears Before Judge Grosscup. Chicago, Jan. 2(5. —President Eugene V. Debs, Vice President George YV. Howard, Secretary Sylvester Keliher and Directors L. YY\ Rogers, M. J. Elliott, Leroy M. Goodwin, James Hogan and William Burns arrived in this city from YYoodstock jail Thursday morning and gave bail in the sum of $2,000, William Skakel and YVilliam Fitzgerald signing their bonds. The trial of Debs and his associates on the first of the conspiracy indictments, known generally as the “omnibus” indictment, began before Judge Grosscup in the United States district court at 2 p. m. Thursday, the session being taken up in the impaneling of a jury. The trial, which will continue for several weeks, promises to become one famous in the legal annals of the country; . BITTER COLD. Moroury Many Degrees Below Zero In the Northwest. St. Paul. Minn., Jan. 29.—Sunday was the coldest day of the winter in St. Paul. At 7 o'clock,a” ra. the thermometer registered 2tf degrees below zero. It was excessively cold all day, and at 7 o'clock p. m. it was still 10 degrees below zero. The cold wave extends from St. to the Rockies, the register at Helena at 8 o'clock Sunday night being 10 bejow. Over in Manitoba it is even colder than here. All points reporting show temperatures far below zero. The coldest point Sunday night was Q'Appelle, which had a temperature of 20 below zero.

SENT TO THE SENATE. </ullom Is Reelected in Illinois— Result in Other States. Chicago, Jan.^24.—Dispatches state that legislatures elected United States senators on Tuesday as follows: Illinois, Shelby M. Cullom (rep.); Wyoming, E'. Warren (rep., long term) and C. D. Clark (rep., short term); Oregon, J. N. Dolph (rep.); Kansas, Lucien Baker (rep.); Texas, Horace Chilton (dem.); New Jersey, YY r illiain J. Sewell (rep.); California, George C. Perkins (rep.); South Dakota, Richard F. Pettigrew’ (rep.); Tennessee, Ishain G. Harris (dem.); North Carolina, Marion Butler (rep,); West Virginia, S. B. Elkins ________ Will Not Impeach. Washington, Jan. 24. —The house judiciary committee by a vote of 9 to 7 decided not to recommend the impeachment of Judge Ricks. This result was reached after two hours spent by the committee in executive session. After discussion the following resolution, offered by Mr. Harrison (dem., Ala.), was adopted: ••That while the committee is not satisfied that Judge Ricks has been guilty of any wrong committed while judge that will justify it in reporting a resolution of impeachment, yet the committee effnnot too strongly censure the practice under which Judge Ricks made up his accounts.” Frozen to Death. Houghton. Mich., Jan. 25.—Adam Bette, a Finn, aged 35, was found frozen to death near Jacobsville, this county, Thursday mornijig. It is thought lie lost his bearings.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. The General Assembly. Indianapolis. Jan. Stuart introduced a fee and salary bill Monday afternoon. It is the same as the act of 1893, only (■orreeting yie omission of Shelby county officers. by which the act was declared unconstitutional. Stuart also has a bill pending to regulate election expenses and require candidates to swear how money. Hazard's waterway resolution was adopted. This authorizes an investigation df the feasibility of a ship canal from the lake# to the Ohio river. The commission ia to make a report this session. and if the schomo is favorable to port a bill for U?e purpose. Haggard, Shively and McLean constitute the senate commission. House— The committee on natural gas reported a bill abolishing the, office of natural gas inspector, and the bill passo\l..;to engrossment without objection. Mr. McGregor, of Marion, offered a bill abolishing the contract labor system, and making -the state the employer of such labor, the product to be put on the market at the prevailing price. Mr. O’Brien, of ( lay. offered a bill for a board of labor arbitration. It is to consist of the the state board of charities, the chief of/r^o'bureau ol’ statistics and the state mine ir/spretor. They may act only on petition of twenty-live citizens. Mr. Van Arsdel, of Marion .'offered a bill permitting the mayor to revoke the license of saloon keepers on second offense, and prohibiting tlie sale of liquors In houses of ill-fame. Indian apoms, Jan. 23.— Senate— The morning session of the senate Tuesday was chie.liy devoted.to tlie introduction of new bills. The bill of principal interest was introduced by Mr. Hull, of Rush county, and 'related - to the operation of the telephone companies organized and in ope ration for local business. The Central Union Cos. refuses to accept business from these rival, lonal exchanges, and all messages. received for any line on the Central Union system must 'be roduo-od. to writing. Senator MulFy bill provides for a mutual compulsory Interchange, of between the general and the opposition local companies at .specified rates. The congressional apportionment bill, introduced Tuesday afternoon in the senate, is bnsod on the vote of 1888. In brief, the bill gives the republicans seven congressmen and the democrats six. House—The oolhouse resolution. which was reported from the judiciary committee, was rejected. The bill for an appropriation of $3,000 for a memorial of Indiana soldiers at Gettysburg met the. same fate. The senate bill appropriating $:(H),U00 for the construction of a state Soldiers’ Home at Lafayette was referred to the committee on ways and means. Tie* judiciary committee reported adversely t o a bill fova state constitutional conyvention. It is probable this proposition has not been heard of Cor the last time in this session. and that the legislature will allow the people to say at the polls whether want the state to have anew constitution. Mr. Statesman introduced a resolution condemning the Hawaiian policy of the present national administration.Indianapolis. Jan. 24.—Senate— An effort was made Wednesday by the democrats to reduce tlie appropriation for the State Soldier’s home from SIOO,OOO to $75,090, but without success. Senator ( rumbacker presented a bill Wednesday to create the Kankakee river commission of live members, whose business it shall be to remove obstructions? straighten ami otherwise improve the stream so as to make navigation possible: Tho Evening News. Tuesday night, used a term in an editorial to the effect that the. legislature is subsidized by the railroads with passes, und no reform in the anti-pags lino could therefore be expected. Mr. Allison presented a resolution asking for an investigation and authorizing the committee on rights and privileges to investigate the subject. The resolution was adopted. An antipass bill was introduced by Mr. Harrison, of Elkhart. House l Bills introduced: Radical amendments to the Evansville city charter: a libel and slander bill modeled after the Minnesota law. It provides that before suits for libel are begun the newspaper or publisher shall have notice of the same and that after retraction has been made the only liability is for the actual damages sustained. The bill has the indorsement of several editorial organizations of the state, political and otherwise. To settle county seat lights by , removing causes. It provides that in counties having towns or cities larger than the courity scat, a court may be established in the larger place for all purposes except ecting the title to teal estate. Indianapolis. Jan. 25.—Senate— The senate had an unparalleled run of business Thursday afternoon. Senator Baker's bill requiring that street car companies should furnish motor vestibules for their motormen during the months from November to April was adopted without a dissenting vote. Senator Seller’s bill relating to the law of libel, and requiring that, instead of a reasonable doubt, as at present, justification may be established on the preponderance of evidence, was also passed. Another bill bearing Seller's name and legalizing sheriff's sah‘B where they were made without appraisement of rents and profits separately, was passed. This effec s sales miide for forty years past. The bill of Senator Haggard, for the State Soldiers’ Homo at I afayette, was m&de the special order for Friday morning. House— The house furnished an hour of Interest Thursday .morning when the committee on elections made a majority and a minority report upon the. findings in the Bower-Miller contested election case. The majority reported ■that they found thnt Bowers, the democratic sitting member, had been elected by one 'tote. the. -figures being 4.907 votes east for Bowers and 4.1*06 for Miller, the republican contcstor Tne minority of the committee based their dissent from the majority upon three ballots which were placed before the inembers of the house.

Indianapolis, Jan. 26.—Friday morning Was spent in the introduction of new bills. Among those of greater interest was one creating the office of inspector of county offices. The inspector shall visit the various county officers when directed to do so by the attorney general, and shall report upon the amount of receipts, the condition of tlie records, etc. His pay shall be $2,000 and expenses, except hotel or board bills. This was referred. A fee and salary bill was introduced by Mr. Nicholson, providing for a salary system based on SI,OOO for each county officer.and more for each thousand in excess of ten thousand-population. During a discussion Friday morning on tho subject of building and loan associations, it that the judiciary committee has organized a subcommittee for the purpose of investigating the whole subject of these associations. There is a tremendous struggle going on between those opposed to associations which have an expense fund and those which have*hot. The matter has been hotly argued before the committee on ways and means as well as judiciary. The report of tho special committee ought to be full of interesting reading. A bill was introduced by Mr. Kaitip, of Evansville, appropriating $26.0:0 for the construction of an institute for deaf at Evansville on lands donated by M. J. Bray and his son. The Miller-Bowers contested election ease went over until Tuesday, when it becomes the special order. There is little doubt that Miller will be seated. There will be a joint caucus df the republican members of the two houses on Tuesday night During the trial of the Boyle-Boeck-lin case at Indianapolis, the wife of Tom East learned for the first time that her-husband had at one time served a term in the pen. The body of John Fitzgerald, aged 25, was found under thr ice of Bull creek, near Jeffersonville lie broke through. | Marion’s factory fund will soon ! reach £50,000. A GoovK itizenship league has been organized at Jeffersonville. Mrs. Comfort Wilson, widow of the late Win. Wilson, a veteran of the war of 1812, J* Je..# at LanreL