People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — Page 6

INDIANA DAY AT THE FAIR.

HwMuiii of Hooaler* at the Exposition —*x-President Harrison, Gov. Matthews ■ad dames Whltoomb KUey Address the Tkract Before the State Building. Chicago, Sept 28.—1 t was a few minutes before 11 o’clock yesterday xaorning when Gov. Matthews, Benjamin Harrison and their party drove in carriages through the park and np to the Indiana building on the world’s fair grounds. The governor’s carriage led the way. In it were the governor, the ex-president, John L. Campbell, yremdent of the Indiana state board of world’s fair commissioners, and Clem Studebaker, ex-president of the board. Following them came carriages containing the governor’s staff, the state

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commission, Poet James Whitbomb Riley and other distinguished persons. Executive Commissioner B. F. Havens called the assemblage to order, and introduced Prof. Campbell, president of the state board, as master of ceremonies. Mr. Campbell introduced the ■“Hoosier Nightingales,” of Elkhart, who delighted the audience with a song. After the song Gov. Matthews was introduced as the presiding officer. He was loudly cheered when he took the platform to deliver the following address: It is gratifying to see so large an attendance of the citizens of our state here to-day upon this.occasion, a day set apart to be known as “Indiana day” by this great exposition. Knowing our people so well, that they never do anything by halves, I am not •apprised at this great attendance. Situated as we are at the very uortals of this «reat city, in which we feel such a pride, ■ample as it is, of the progressive west. In which eor great state is so important a part, there is no place in all the world except here at the city of Chicago where the necessities of this wonderful undertaking could be so generously matured. Its magnitude is so broadly comprehensive. It is a dream of progress and enterprise so nobly made and such an impetus given tv that ■<reat wave which echoes around the world proclaiming a revolution in the social and commercial relations of life and marks a glorious epoch in the history of the world. Here a parent comes to learn the lessons from the book whose pages were not unfolded to him tn his youth and in his brief sojourn takes his stand upon an equal footing with his children in the advanced teachings of the day. Here dawns uponus a new era. with its ideas of beauty, magnificence and worth in architecture, mechanics, agriculture and commerce. In short, all thought takes on a broader wing and soars to a loftier flight to bathe its plumage in this new-born day. Indiana will not be found lagging in the race. Her soul expands with joyful pride as she points the world to what she has accomplished in the past and what she can expect for the "future. Proud as we are of her splendid material development, of her wonderful re--aources, and all that goes to make a state rich and great and people happy, I say to you citizens of other states, you see before you this day the creators of this wondrous wealth. I*roud as we are of this, we are prouder still of the achievements of her sons and daughters. Their finger prints are upon the pages of our country’s history, and the path of our nation's Ciory is marked by the giant strides of our citizens Indiana’s sons have left their impress upon our country’s growtn, and have Been councilors in every great question that lias concerned its welfare. They have been found to be < safe and conservative leaders, vwiso advisers, brave and accomplished

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defenders. They have been called upon to preside over the destinies of this <reat nation, and have done it well. The toftiest and most exalted position in the history of men that it has been within the power of mortals to bestow, have been held by the -citizens of Indiana. I have the proud satisfaction in presenting to you to-day one of these citizens, Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana. Tumultuous applause greeted Mr. Harrison as he stepped up on the little «*rpet-covered elevation. The special 'guests rose to their feet and applauded ■lustily, the women waved their hand'lcerchiefs and the men shouted. Mr. Harrison was evidently deeply moved at the stirring scenes before him. He ? stood for a time bowing his acknowl- - udgments before commencing to speak. ‘.Then he said: •Gov. Matthews and Fellow Citizens: I have talked before to nearly all th e people of Indiana, but it has been in sections. 1 have never before faced the gigantic task of talking to you aU at once. This Is Indiana day. Not only these are Indianians, but the skies are Indiana skies. The state finds the incl•dents of this great assemblage pleasing and auspicious. Some grievous exceptions 1 shall be presently compelled to note, but tiie strains of gladness and joy are so controlHng that though we shall greatly miss the pres■aace of some of those you had expected to hear— Gen. Lew Wallace, whom we honor so much as -• soldier and author, who won the praises of patriots and the honors of the country in battle, and has now captured the world by the power -es hfs imaginations and the graces of his pen—we shall miss to-day from this programme one '■ «f the favorite orators of Indiana, Senator DanSei W. Voorhees, who has long held the hearts sad esteem of so many of his fellow citizens. • Gan. Wallace is detained by the illness ofdils wife, and Mr. Voorhees by important public duties which he etztaot leave, and both sutler previous disappointment in not being here to participate with their fellow citizens -oa this occasion, so inspiring and glorious the state they love. 1 wish we had here 1 to-day, as we had hoped to have, that < .magnificent Indiantan whom we love to call the “silver-tongued orator" - Hon. Richard W. Thompson, of Terse Haute. He would have •tood for so much to-day, going back as his life •does nearly to the beginning of the century. H«

could have told you of Indiana as he knew it when it was a new purchase, and you would have been delighted as I would to listen to that silvery voice as It gave you a view of what his eyes have seen of the growth of the state be loves so much. Every Indlanian loves him and prays that he may be spared to witness higher achievements in the progress of his state and to have yet more touching expressions of the people of their love for him. This great exposition was organized, I think, upon a competitive basis The states of our union, the nations and tribes of the world have brought the best products of their minds and hands that they might be here placed in friendly competition. Indiana has contributed of the products of its soil and mines and qnarries, of the pen of its writers and the chisel of its sculptors to this great contribution. And, my countrymen, the study is inadequate, for we see but the material results of man’s labors, and so these state days have been appointed that the people of the world and all these competing friendly states may see not only what the hands have done but might see what these works have done for the people that wrought them. The study is very incomplete that does not place the workman by his work. Wc can tell as we look through these great buildings what the workman has done for mankind, but I want this further question answered: “What has the work done for the workman’” We can tell as we go into this great building devoted to transportation what the skill and labors of man have done to hurry our impatient Intercourse and to make safe and convenient our pilgrimages around the world. As we go into this building devoted to liberal arts we can see what the labors of men and women have done to adorn the homo and decorate and clothe the person As we look into this great emporium of the staples of the soil we know what has been done for the comfortable subsistence of man, but again, before I am able to say that a state or country has produced the prize product in this competition is happy, I want to sec the man or woman stand by the thing he or she has created that I may know what the world has done for them. The great Creator did not pronounce the mighty work of his Omnipotent hand good until he knew its adaptation to the uses of man. And so we have brought you here to-day from Indiana, the farmer from his quiet country home, not alone, but with the wife who has wrought with him; we have brought you here, the mechanic from the shop, not alone, but with the wife who has kept his home and made It an abode of hopeful purity and peace. We have brought here with them the children that gladden life for them and bidding you look this morning into the healthful faces where light and happiness shine out through the windows that Goa has made for the soul, as you look upon these wellnourished and well-fed, comfortable people, we

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answer the question what this work has done for the Indiana people. We are not among the greatest of the states territorially, and yet with our 33,000 square miles we have as little territory proportionately as any that is not adapted to agriculture. We hold a position that might well have won for us, if it had not been earlier won, the title of the "Keystone state." Swept on,our southern border by the beautiful river, touching the lakes on the north, we span the pathway of the great east toward ;the west and southwest, with a country- not single In its industries, with its soil not limited to a single product, but capable. I think, of producing profitably all of the soil products of the latitudes in which we live. We have mines of coal that are now tributary to Chicago; she has reached out her strong demand and feeds her furnaces .and factories to-day largely from the coal product of Indiana. She has even been so grasping in her purpose to appropriate our treasures that she has endeav ored to pipe that last but best fuel into the city. We have not been quite willing that she should drain our gas reservoirs for the supply of her factories, we desiring rather that she should bring her factories to Indiana, where she cun have It for nothing. Indians does not bid me deal here with great productive statistics, because while we have a hospitable door open to the right kind of people we have no immigration agents in the field. There is room for many more. There are no attractions for those who seek sudden wealth, for Indiana has no mines of the precious metal, and nas no stock exchange or wheat pit Those who come to us will find avenues pt slow but yet safe and honorable increase in wealth. But we cannot offer you attractions greater than these. The people we would like to come to see us are those who will inquire, after satisfying themselves that a decent livelihood can be procured, what the church and school facilities are and what the neighborhoods are in which we live. Indiana is among the foremost states in liberality in her provisions for public schools. Her schools have recently received a high encomium from one who had carefully studied tbo school system of many states and pronounced those of Indianapolis to be first. We have no great cities like Chicago, but we have many smaller cities, where traffic is quick and large, and many towns and villages permeated all through with the feeling of good neighborhood and of quiet industry and thrift Ido not know that we have not a city of the first class. Chicago is near enough to us. We feel our indebtedness to her. We yield her our tribute. We are glad to witness that she has placed herself by the magnificent equipment and success of this world’s exposition in the front ranks of the great cities of the world, for it seems to me to be conceded that after Chicago and her world’s fair will be the deluge. No

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other city can undertake it Our obligation to her would be increased if she would keep her prize-fighters and train robbers at home. Ido not know that our governor, who has suppressed those enterprises at Roby, will present any bill for our militia expenses. Indeed, all this will be forgiven if you don’t do It again. I want to leave this truth with you. In fact, I have come so much under the power of it that I cannot talk without bringing It to the front. I am persuaded that it needs to be impressed again and again upon our people that all this that is shown here, all social order, all domestic happiness and all constitutional and legal institutions are dependent upon the acceptance by all the people of the principle of obedience to the laws I know of nothing to-day that so much shames us as a nation as these fiendish, barbarous, devilish lynchings that have occurred throughout the states of our land. . I appeal to every man to enroll

himself as a defender of law and order in the community where be lives, to stand by the legally constituted authorities o< the people, to the death if it need be, in defense of the law and in the protection of any erimtnsl no matter how heinous the ebarge against him, until he is brought under the penalties of the law. Gov. Matthews apologized for the absence of Gen. Wallace and Senator Voorhees and Bichard W. Thompson, and regretted the fact that they were unable to be present But it gave him great pleasure, he said, to introduce the "Hoosier poet,” a man whom they all loved. A wild roar of applause greeted Mr. Riley. Mr. Harrison stood up and shook him by the hand as he mounted the chair. He recited in hia happiest style three verses of one of his first productions: "When the Fraist Is on the Pun kin.” Then President Palmer was introduced and made a short but pleasing talk. He had heard that all the people of Indiana were politicians, but if he ever had any doubts about it this day dispelled them, for the sign of the crowfl there convinced him that they were used to outdoor meetings. He was glad to see so many, because Indiana had done so much for the fair. If he lived in Kentucky or Dlinois or Ohio he would claim everything that was good in Indiana, but as he is a citizen of Michigan three-quarters Df it would be enough for him. If he didn’t know they were Hoosiers he should say from looking into their upturned faces they were all Wolverines. With another song by "The Hoosier Nightingales” and some music by the Fort Wayne band, the exercises closed. A reception was immediately held in the building and everybody was given the opportunity of paying respects to ex-President Harrison, Gov. Matthews, his staff and James Whitcomb Riley. Passing on upstairs the visitors partook of a light lunch prepared for them. The building was gayly decorated with flags for the occasion and a pleasant time was had. Indiana day closed with a special display of fireworks in the evening, during which several set pieces of particular interest to Indianians were given.

RECEPTIONS DISCONTINUED.

The President Institutes a Bule at the White House That Causes Disappointment to Tourists. Washington, Sept 27.—The president has discontinued his public receptions and it is not likely that they will be resumed for some time to come. Receiving the public in the east room Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 1 o’clock was inaugurated by President Cleveland early in his first term, was praeticed by President Harrison throughout his term and was renewed by President Cleveland last March up to the time he went to gray gables to recuperate his health. No receptions of this kind have been given since then, and it is understood th’e president means substituting special receptions to visiting bodies whenever the occasion justifies it This rule has caused considerable disappointment to many tourists, who had come to the city from far distant points with the confident hope of being able to pay their respects to the chief magistrate in person. It is not generally known that these receptions are no longer held, and excursion parties regularly assemble at the white house in anticipation of greeting the president as their neighbors had done previously. An effort is being made to have the president relax his rule to the extent at least of one reception a weelc for the benefit of strangers, and there is a reasonable prospect of success.

TO RESTRICT IMMIGRATION.

Mr. Curtis, of Kansas, Introduces a FarReaching Bill In the House. Washington, Sept 3S.—Mr. Curtis, of Kansas, has presented a bill in the house to further regulate immigration, which, if it becomes a law, will be farreaching in effect and tend to materially restrict immigration to theUnitedStates. The bill provides that it shall be unlawful for the commanding officer of any vessel to receive any alien passenger bound for the United States if an examination discloses the fact that such person is unable to read or write; that his passage has been paid by any other person or corporation; who does not possess, if a single man, the sum of S3OO, if a single woman SIOO, if head of family SSOO, or who Is not mentally and physically sound; who has ever been in prison for any infamous crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; who has been in an almshouse or supported by charity within two years; who is a polygamist, anarchist or under contract, express or implied, to perform labor in the United States.

TRAIN THIEVES ARRESTED.

Two of the Kessler Robbers Captured and Lodged in Jail—A Woman in the Case. Ligonier, Ind., Sept 28.—What promises to be an important clew in the Kessler train robbery was followed by the detectives until two arrests were made at Kendallville Tuesday. Eva Flint, a dining-room girl at the Kelly house, Kendallville, has been under surveillance for some time because of a stray hint dropped to another domestic. Sunday she was out all day with a detective, and it is said she gave the whole snap away, implicating John Connors, a well-known railroad foreman, who was arrested at Butler as soon as the officers could locate him. He is said to be the leader of the gang, which was made up of others in this part of the state, all of whom are now, being watched. There has been an unusual activity upon the part of the railroad officials and detectives for the past forty-eight hours and startling developments are expected.«

Will Buila a Palatial Residence.

New York, Sept. 28.—The biggest single transaction in real estate up the Hudson ever recorded is about to be closed between John D. Rockefeller and about a dozen property-owners at Tarrytown. The land embraced amounts in the aggregate to a little less than 500 acress, and thejcost is in the neighborhood of $750,000. On this land Mr. Rockefeller will a house build I 1 to cost more than $1,000,000. ’

THE ELECTIONS REPEAL BILL.

BynopcU of th® Debate la the National House of Representative*. On the 27tb Mr. Lawson (dem., Ga) spoke la favor of the pending bill. He said the uncon stltutlonality of the law sought to be repealed had always been stronsly contended. The gentleman from Pennsylvania (Broetus) quoted an apt expression from Garfield, that the ballotbox registers the decrees of the people. Upon this subject the decree of the people has been registered against the constitutionality of these election laws Mr. Lawson said that under the operation of a system of laws, such as the one under discussion, it was easy to see how in close districts enough people might bo deterred by the mere presence of the federal forces, civil or military, at the polls 'rom voting to change the otherwise ncrma, result of the election. Mr. Mallory (dem., Fla.) interrupted by stating that in his own state two members of the legislature had been arrested by federal officials, taken 200 miles away from the capital, and held there until the senate was organized by the republicans and the state government thereby given into the hands of that party. When that had been accomplished the men were released, no charge being made against them. In concluding his remarks Mr. Lawson read from the report of the investigation of the conduct of Lot Wright, United States marshal at Cincinnati, made by a committee of the hoqpe. to show what might bo done under the laws sought to be repealed, which repeal was demanded by the democratic party and the country. Mr. Bynum (dem., Ind.) stated that at a recent election in bis own state a man was arrested at the command of a United States inspector for making an affidavit whereby another man was enabled to vote By the arrest of this voter, said Mr. Bynum, fifty men were deprived of the right to cast their ballots. Mr. Daniels (rep, N. Y.) spoke against repeal. He said these laws had been signed by President Grant and had met the approval of the people from that time until the assembling of the convention in 1892 which nominated Mr. Cleveland for the presidency. Then for the first time was the demand made that these laws should bo wiped off the statute books. As to the constitutionality of the laws Mr. Daniels said they affected nothing but the election of members of congress, and to that end the provision in the constitution by which their validity has been upheld met the approval of the people who framed that document and adopted it Mr. Daniels argued that the operations of the laws had worked injustice to no one, in support of which he asserted no deputy marshal or inspector had been indicted and punished for abuse of his powers under the law. On the 28th a wordy altercation occurred be tween Mr. Fithian (dem.. Ill.) and Mr. Morse (rep. Mass.) growing out of Mr. Morse’s filibustering course on the 27th. Mr. Morse charged Mr. Fithian with being responsible for the refusal to permit him to print in the Congressional Record some newspaper extracts attacking Commissioner Locbren. Mr. Fithian desired to call the attention of the house to a rather dubious proposition made by Mr. Morse to him, who, ho said, had come to him with honeyed words and informed him that he was a member of the committee on public buildings and grounds, and intimated that if he (Fithian) had a public building bill he (Morse) might be able to help him if the Illinois congressman could see his way clear to withdraw his objection. Mr/Morse pronounced this statement false, whereupon Mr. Fithian said his colleague, Mr. Goldzier, heard the conversation and would substantiate the statement Mr. Morse said the construction Mr. Fithian put upon his proposition was entirely false. Mr. Fithian then said if the gentleman (Mr. M.) denied the statement he was himself willfully lying. Great confusion in the house followed these remarks, the speaker quelling the pending riot by declaring both gentlemen out of order. Mr. Black (dem., Ill.) spoke in favor of the repeal of the federal elections law. He said the law was not enacted for the elevation of the ballot box, but to intensify the race issue existing in a large section of this country and to 1 support the weaker and more ignorant class of I our people as against the stronger and more American of our citizens. They appealed to force rather than reason. The law placed too i much power in the hands of improper men. He ’ (Mr. Black) would vote for any amount of money and force, if necessary, to uphold the dignity of the government and the rights of its citizens, but the existing laws did neither. Mr. Black read a letter from Comptroller Bohler showing that from 1877 supervisors of elections had cost 12,854,090 and deputy marshals 21,127,000. The cost of the troops it was impossible to detail Their cost represented all the hidden drains to be accounted for. The records showed that at first these officials had been massed in democratic states in the south and in New York. Gradually the amount spent in democratic states decreased and the amount in republican doubtful states increased. In Illinois in 1878, when that state first showed signs of breaking her allegiance to the republican party, but 81,100 was spent In 1878, when the state was doubtI ful, 1,386 supervisors and 2,490 deputy marshals were employed at a cost of 8100,000. In reply to a question by Mr. Cannon (rep., Ill.) Mr. Black said every man who wore the tin star of intimidation was an oppressor. Mr. Johnson (rep, Ind.) spoke in opposition to repeal He said he wanted to “stigmatize ih!y bill as the climax of all that is I audacious aud vicious, it unblushlngly as- . sails all that is near and dear to the I American heart. It is the unfortunate Child of a wretched conspiracy; it is conceived in a spirit contrary to the principles of our government. It is a proposition to blot out all the laws to protect the purity of the ballot and a cold-blooded proposition to repeal all the laws making violotions of election laws I crimes. To be consistent the democrats should i repeal all other laws for the punishment of crime, counterfeiting, robbery and murder.” Mr. Johnson charged the democratic party with being responsible for violation of the sanctity of the ballot box, with, corrupting the conscience of the nation and defying the public will; with forging the Morey letter in 1884, with forging the returns in Chicago in the same year that sent Joe Mackin to the penitentiary, with forging returns in Ohio and Indiana, with frauds innumerable in New York, with deeds of violence in the south. “The party that has perpetrated all these wrongs now contemplates this climax of their crimes, but let them enjoy their victory without mental or moral reservation* They have set no limit io their excesses. The hour of retribution will come. It will take the party that has prostituted the power given it for great public purposes and hurl it into oblivion. Mr. Breckinridge (dem., Ky.) followed, and hurled defiance at Mr. Johnson. "If the gentleman is a fair type,” he said, “of the people of his district, then they cannot be criticised for sending here a man who denounces as infamous a majority of the people of this country. I have a profound pity for a man who could make such a speech, who does not believe his countrymen arc to be trusted. With this I dismiss him from my mind and from my speech.” Mr. Johnson interrupted by saying there were other things which the gentleman from Kentucky would like to dismiss, alluding to the Pollartl-Breckinridgo breach-of-promise suit Mr. Breckinridge replied that such a remark only showed that the gentleman (Mr. Johnson) had no sense of the propriety and decency of public life. Mr. Breckinridge’s speech was devoted largely to the constitutional phase of the question. These laws, he argued, marked an era; their repeal would mark the beginning of another and a better era. “I do not care to reply to the attacks of the republicans against the democratic party,” said he. “You can’t indict a whole people. You no longer indict the south when you attack the democracy, for the time has come when a majority of the representatives from the north are democrats.” On the 29th ult Mr. Lacy (rep., la.) spoke in opposition to the repeal of the election laws. He characterized the measure as an unseemly bill brought in at an unseemly time. This extraordinary session had been called on account of the financial condition of the' country. Some thought this had been brought about by the election of 1842, some thought it had been brought about by the tariff. Instead of meeting the financial question as it should be met, instead ot bringing forward a bill to revise the arlff—-

which the people were told was aa atrecity—this bill was thrust upon the country unexpectedly and wholly uncalled fox- There was a difference in the democratic party over the silver question. It was necessary to do something to get the democrats together, and the federal election law repeal bill had been brought forward as ths war cry around which the party could rally. The pending measure should be entitled a bill “for the protection of corruption and iniquity at elections." This would be its effect Mr. Lacy then proceeded to criticise the election methods pursued in certain districts of South Carolina Mr. ftcLaurta (dem., 8 C.) denied the allegations made by the member from lowa relative to the elections in South Carolina He denied that the negroes in that state were deprived of any rights. Some years ago there might have been trouble. But it was net the negro that had made the trouble: it was the carpet-bagger, who had gone down south. When South Carolina had got rid of the carpet-baggers, when they had packed their bags and returned to Massachusetts and other northern states, South Carolina had passed beneficial election laws. The people of South Carolina did not care whether the federal election laws were repealed or not The only reason he was in favor of the repeal was that he believed the true way to build up this federal government and make it a grand government was to give the people at home a local self-government Mr. De Armond (dem., Mo.) in advocating the repeal of the election laws said they had been enacted in order to repress intelligence in the south. They had been passed to put ignorance in power and to relieve He said the democrats, proposing the repeal of these laws, were not moving backward; they were moving forward. They were saying that the people should govern, and if it was in their power the people should governMr. Gillette (rep., Mass.) spoke against the bill and referred to the beneficial effects which had resulted from the election laws in the city of New York. The member from New York (Mr. Fellows) had said a few days ago, in defending Tammany hall, that if these laws were repealed the democratic majority in New York would be increased by 20,000 votes. Nobody accused Tammany of anything but the love of spoils. The member had said that by the repeal of these laws the democratic majority could be increased. In the opinion of the people the existence of Tammany hall and its overshadowing influence was undesirable and dangerous. The large majority of the people believe it was an unprincipled organization. Mr. Wheeler (dem., Ala) spoke in advocacy of the bill, and argued against the constitutionality of the laws which it was proposed to repeal. , Mr. BiMr (rep, N. H.) opposed the measure. He paid a tribute to Mr. Davenport, whom ho eulogized as being one of the ablest, most conscientious men who had ever administered the elections laws or any other laws. On the 30th ult Mr. Henderson (rep la) read a letter from a friend of his (whose name in advance he declined to give) mentioning five counties in western Tennessee where whole sale fraud and violence had been committed by the democrats in 1888. Mr. Patterson (dem, Tenn.) entered a general denial of this charge, and said the republican party assumed that every negro was a republican. and that if his vote is not counted for the republican party there must be fraud and violence. That was an entire mistake. Even the republicans of the south on economic questions voted the democratic ticket The republican party, by its legislation, had succeeded in drawing the color line, and so far as the white people of the south were concerned it was a sectional line. He thought yie remedy would be found in the Australian ballot-box system If that were adopted thousands of negroes in the south would vote the democratic ticket, and thousands of white men would be found voting with the republicans. Let there be kept away from the polls the army, the supervisors and marshals; and let every citizen, whether ho be black or white, go into a booth and determine by himself for whom he would vote. Mr. McCall (rep., Mass.) opposed the bill. The federal election laws should stand because there should be no reactionary legislation; they should stand as an evidence that the national government had some regard for its citizens. Mr. McNagny (dem., Ind.) advocated the bill, holding that tne judgment of the American people was that the federal election laws should be repealed. Mr. Warner (dem., N. Y.) defended the city of New York, which he said had given a model to the United States in its registration and its election laws. .The reform of the election methods had come about by state laws under the construction of the state courts. He asked in behalf ot New York state that the federal laws should be repealed. Mr. Richards (dem, O.) also advocated th® repeal of the election laws. On the 2d Mr. Dinsmore (dem., Ark.) spoke in support ot the ponding repeal measure. He expected to see the pledges of the demooratio party on this question redeemed. It was the duty of the democratio party to repeal the laws permitting federal interference at state elections, and that duty should be faithfully performed. Mr. Denson (dem, Ala.) denounced the election laws. There were some men who said that there might be another war. He was not one of those. He had fought against his distinguished friend, Gen. Henderson, of Illinois, and he did not want to see that fight any more. Mr. Cooper (dem, Fla.) and Mr. Clark (dem., Ma) spoke against the laws. The latter said the democratic party ha 3 begun business for the purpose Of giving local self government to the people. That was the mission upon which Thomas Jefferson had led it to its first victory, and that was the mission on which Grover Cleveland had led it to its latest victory. Mr. Clark, in the course of his speech, predicted that within a short time the people of th® south, white and black, would be found working together on all economic questions. In conclusion Mr. Clark said the democrats were honest and earnest in this business of repeal.

DISASTROUS SMASH-UP.

Passenger and Pile-Driving Trains Collide and Kill Two Laborers. Crescent City, la., Sept 29.—A passenger train and a work train, having a pile driver attached, collided about 2 miles west of this city at 12 o’clock Wednesday on the Chicago & Northwestern line. The passenger train had left Council Bluffs for this point and the work train left this place in the morning. Two workmen on the pile-driving train were killed and two injured. Loren Petersen and Bert Jackson are the names of the killed. Jackson is a Council Bluffs man. The injured are John Condon and Chris Knudson; the latter will probably die. The trains collided through a misunderstanding, each engineer thinking he was to pass the other train at another place. There was no one injured on the passenger train. The engine of the work train was pushing the train instead of pulling it

RENEWED ACTIVITY.

The Industries of Connecticut Feel the Better Conditions of the Times. Bridgeport, Conn., Sept 27.—The effects of increased business are felt in this part of the state in the starting up of mills that have been running on half time and with only half the usual number of hands employed, and there is such a feeling of confidence among the merchants that they are making preparations for a good fall and winter trade. Reports from towns up the Saugatuck valley all indicate the same condition of affairs. ■ / Gov. Altgeld, cf Illinois, has removed the bar to the importation of cattle from Arkansas. ■

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

At a meeting of the striking street ear conductors and motormen at Evansville, it was decided to return to work. Lockjaw, the result of a cut on his finger, caused the death the other morning of Dr. W. V. Cook, of Evansville, a bacteriologist. John Turpie, brother of Senator Turpie, of Indiana, returned to Delphi, the other day, after and absence of thirty years, during which time he amassed a fortune in the west. He is a republican. The senate in executive session the j other evening confirmed the nominai tion of Charles Schindler to be post- [ master of New Albany. Allan H. Dennison, agent of the i Star Union Line Freight Co. at Ft j Wayne, was found at his desk uncon- , scions the other morning and did not j regain his senses until late-in the afternoon. He is now in a serious condition, but will recover. He informed his friends that he had been drugged and his watch, diamonds and all valuables were missing. He managed to reach his office in a dazed condition and opened it for business when he swooned way. R- C. Chani.leb, proprietor of the Chandler hotel. Russiaville, for twenty years, dropped dead while carrying an armful of wood upstairs. He was 64 years old, and a pioneer resident of the county. At Valparaiso Nathan Howe, who • shot and killed C. F. Robinson, one of I the students who attempted to rob the ■ normal school safe, has been exonerated from blame. Jack Conners and Eva Flint, charged with being implicated in the Kendallville train robbery, were bound over to court by Mayor Marcy at Kendallville the other day. In the case of George Lowe against the Citizens’ Street Railway Co., of Indianapolis, the jury in the Hamilton circuit court returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, and assessed the damages at f 1,300. This is the largest verdict ever recovered against the company in this kind of a case. The casa will be appealed to the supreme court. John Kauffman, a well-known farmer, near Laporte, has developed a strange mania and has come to be known as the “trance preacher.” Ha lapses into unconsciousness, his body becomes rigid, his arms assume an upright position with fingers extended far apart and in an instant he springs to his feet, kneels in prayer and then rising commences to preach, strangely making use of both the German and English language in his discourses. Many have been convinced of the reality of his condition and hundreds of people gather Wednesday and Saturday evenings of each week to listen to the discourses. The state health board went to Anderson, the other day, to investigate the one small-pox case. The affected man, Geo. Collier, is. not seriously ilL' The disease will not be allowed to spread, if money and men can prevent it The Indiana yearly meeting of Hicksite friends completed its session at Richmond, and adjourned to meet one year hence at Waynesville, O. Mrs. Phoojbe Randall, aged 45, living at Northview, a suburb, of Muncie, took a pot of coals with her into the garden to light her pipe, when in some manner her dress caught, and her body was literally cooked before aid arrived. She lingered in terrible agony until noon next day, when she died. An unsuccessful attempt was made to wreck a north-bound Pan-handle train a short distance south of Noblesville, some time ago. Daniel Potoriff was arrested for the deed, but released for want of evidence The other day he made a full confession to a detective, giving as his reason that he was angered by being kicked off a Panhandle train by the brakeman when trying to steal a ride, and was determined upon revenge. He was locked up in jail, and will be held to await action in his case. , Peteb Fromlet, W. J. Brophy, J. N. Tonnelier and Peter Nutler were arrested and brought before the mayor at Anderson for selling liquor without a license. Each was found guilty, and in addition to the required $250 for license, was fined SIOO. * H. P. Hughes has been compelled by the Appellate court to pay Annie Nolte $2,500 for breach of promise. Coan Killer, and Henry Frank, each about 17 years old, were killed at Marion by a Pan-handle train. They were in a buggy and attempted to cross the track on Western avenue, where Miss Ihrig was killed and Mrs. Heath severely injured by the same train eight weeks ago. Diamond, the ten-ton elephant of Wallace & Co.’s circus, in winter quarters near Peru, broke loose from his chains, butted down the heavy doors of the building, broke the heavy gates of the yard and fording the Mississinnewa, crushed through everything in his way, wire and other fences proving no obstacle. Farmers putting corn along his line of march fled for their lives, and pandemonium reigned for many hours. Patsy Forepaugh, his keeper, with the assistance of twenty men, Anally managed to subdue the brute after much damage was done, and landed him at the farm. The father of the Robinson brotners, the Valparaiso bandits, fully identified the one in prison and the dead one in the morgue both as his sons He is an old soldier and appears broken-hearted. The coroner’s inquiry into the supposed suicide of Frank Linschmidt, whose body was found in the river near Columbus, leads to the conclusion that he was murdered. Wm. Simms was fatally wounded by the accidental discharge of a gun while hunting near Columbus. A young man named Bayr.e was in a boat on the river at Marion, while a brother on the bank was throwing stones in the water to splash the water upon him. One of them struck the boatman upon the head, throwing him forward over the side, where he hung until rescued. The skull is fractured* and the victim may die.