Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1895 — Page 7

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

Cleveland's Urgent Appeal for Imine- •. . - dtate Financial - President Cleveland, Monday, sent to Congress the follow ing special message on he financial situation: b the Senate and House of Represntatives: o In my last annual message I recomnended the consideration of the Congress >f,the condition of our National finances Vid in connection with .the subject indorsed the plan of currency legislation, _atthat time seemed to furghh pro•ection against impend ing danger. This jlan has not been approved by the Contress- In the meantime,the situation has ■•o changed and the emergency now appears so threatening that I deem it my duty toUsk, at the hands of tin; legislative branch of the Government, such "prompt ind effective action as will restore confiience in our financial soundness and avert business disaster ,and universal distress -among our people. r—- — —— 11 is bardly disputed, that tkis.predifilament confronts us today. Therefore, no me in any degree responsible for the makng and execution of our laws, should fail to see a patriotic duty in honestly and lincerely attempting to relieve the Situation. The- real trouble which confronts us n a lack of gpntidehee, widespread and ■onstantly increasing, in the continuing ability or disposition of the government to iay its obligations in gold. This lack of confidence grows to some extent out of the palpable and apparent embarrassment attending the government under existing ftws to procure goidv and to a greater extent, out of the impossibility of either reeping it in the. treasury or cancelling »bligations by its expenditures, after it is tbtained. The only way left open to the government for procuring gold is by the issue and lale of. bonds. The only bonds that can Je so issued were authorized nearly twen-iy-five years ago, and are not well calculated to meet our present needs. Among ither'disadvantages they are made payable in coin, instead of specifically in gold, which, in existing conditions, detracts ■arg’uly in ’an increasing ratio from their iesirabilijy as investments. It is by no means ceria In th a t bonds o f this descrip;ion can much longer be disposeed of at a price creditable to the financial character of our government. The most dangerous and irritating featare of theljsJ tnation, however, remains to be mentioned. It is found in the means ay which the Treasury is despoiled of the told, thus obtained without cancelling a tingle government obligation, and solely ’ortho benefit of those who find profit in shipping it abroad, or whose fears induce them to hoard it at homo. Wo have outstanding about J500.(X)0,000 of currency notes of the covernmeni for which gold nay be demanded, and, curiously enough, the law requires that when presented, and m fact redeemed and paid in gold, they dial I be reissued. These same notes may 16 duty many times in drawing gold from the Treasury—nor can the process be arrested as long as private parties, who, for profit or otherwise, see an advantage in repeating the operation. More than $300,100,000 in these notes have already been redeemed in gold, and notwit list anding meh redemption, they are still outstanding. Since the 17th day of Jan., 1894, our bonded interest-bearing debt has increased 110 O it), for t.he pu rposo of. obtain ing told to replenish our coin reserve. Two fSsues were made, amounting to $50,000,10) each—one jn January and the other in November. As the result of the first issue there was realized something more than s>B 000,000 in gold. Between that issue and the succeeding one in November, Tom prising a period of about ten months, nearly $103,0iX),000 in gold were irawn from .tins. ,.Tiii3.„jinade Aho second issue necessary, and upon that more than $58,000,C0D in gold was again . realized. Between the date of this second ssiio and the, present time, covering a period of only about two months, more '-han $69,000,000 in gold have been drawn coin the Treasury. The financial events of the pas t year suggests facts and conditions which hoiil I cortaiiily arrest a'.tehtibn. Mdse Shan $172,0’0.000 in gold has been drawn ant of the Treasury during tho year for ',he purpose of shipment abroad or hoarding at homo; while nearly $103,000,000 of shis amount was drawn out during the first ton months of the year, a sum aggregating more than two thirds of that tinount, being about, $69,000.0)0, was irawn out during tho following two months, thus indicating a marked accel traf en of the depleting process with tho lap-e of time. The obligations upon which this gold has been drawn from the Treasury are still outstanding, and are available for use in repeating tho exhaustion operation, with shorter intervals, a 8 our per pl ox I ties ace um: 11 a to, Co n - 111 ions are certainly supervening, tending so make the bonds which , may bo issued so replenish our gold, loss useful for that purpose. . It will hardly do to say that a simple inrrease of revenue Will cure our troubles with the apprehensions now existing, and constantly increasing, as our financial Ability doos not rest upon a calculation of rur revenue. ’Die time has passed when the eyes of investors abroad and our people at home are fixed noon tho revenues of the Government. Changed conditions have at tracted their attention to the gold if the Government. There need be no fear that we cannot pay our current expenses with such money Its vie’have. There is now in the Treasury a comfortable surplus of more than $73,00X000, but it is not in go! .1, and therefore, ,does not meet our dlllicnlty. ‘Besides the Treasury notes which certainly should be paid in gold amounting to nearly $5(X).OOO.OOf). there will fall duo In 1904. $100,007,000 of bonds issued during tho last vear. for which we have received gold and in 1907 nearly $630,000,000 of 4 per cent, bonds issued in 1877. Shall tho payment of these obligations in gold be repudiated? If they arc to be paid in such a manner as the, preservation of our national honor and national solvency demands wo should not destroy or even imperil our aldiity to supply ourselves with gold for this purpose. While I am not unfriendly.to silver. and while I desire to see it recognized to such an extent as is consistent with thb financial safety and tho preservation of national honor and credit; I am not willing to see gold entirely abolished from our currency and finances. In inv opinion the Secretary of tho Treasury should be authorized to issue bonds of tho Government for the purpose of procuring and malntaming a sufficient fold reserve, and tho redemption and cancellation of the United States legal tender notes, and the Treasury notes, issued for tho purchase of silver under tho law of June 14. 18.0. Tho principal and Interests of those bonds should be payable on their face In rold, or Its representative. and because there would now bn difficulty in favorably disposing of bonds not containing this itipnlation. I suggest that the bonds be Issued In denominations of K 0 and SSO and their multiples, and that they bear interest at a rate not exceeding 3 per cent, per Annum. I doenot soo. why they should jot bo payable fifty years from their late. Those bonds tinder existing laws could jo deposited by National banks as soe.nrlty for circulation, and should bn allowed lo fssun circulation np to the face value of thesb or any other bonds so deposited, Jxcqpt bonds outstanding, bearing only Ipor ennt. Ini'rost, and which sell In tho market at less than par. National banks Ihould not ho allowed to tako out circulation notes of a less denomination than $lO,

and when sncli as are now outstanding reach the Treasury, except for redemption and retirement, they should be cancelled and notes of the denomination of $lO end upward should be replaced by certificates jpf denominations under *lO. I belicveail the provisions I have suggested should be embodied in our laws, if we are to enjoy a complete reinstatement of a-sound financial condition. They need not interfere with any currency scheme provided for the increase of the Circulating medium, through the agency of national or State banks, since they can easily be adjusted to such a scheme. Objection has been made to the issuance of interest-bearing obligations Tor the purpose of retiring the non-interest-bearing legal tender notes. In point of fact, how--ever, these notes- have burdened us with a~ large load of interest, and it is still achumuJatingT The aggregate interest off the original issue of bonds, tho proceeds of which, in gold, constituted the reserve for the payment of these notes amounted to $70,326,250 on Jan. 1.1895, and the annual charge for interest on these bonds, and those issued for the same purpose during tho last year, will te $9,715,000, dating from Jan. 1,1805. . j _ In conclusion, I desire to 'rankly confess my retiictarKcr to issurng m<--e bonds in present circumstances and with no bettei results than have lately followed that course. I cannot! however, refrain from adding to an assurance of my anxiety to co-operate with the present Congress in any reasonable measure of relief, an expression of my determination to leave nothing undone which furnishes a hope for improving the situation or checking a suspicion of onr disinclination or disability to meet, with the strictest honor,overy National obligation. Grover Cr v.vELAND.

FAMOUS ROGUE ELEPHANTS.

One of Them Was Killed From a Cage on a Wagon. St. Nicholas for January. « The complete history of rogue elephants would make an interesting chapter. They seem to have decided to avenge man’s wrongs against their kind. Some years ago one rogue actually took possession of a stretch of country in India forty, miles wide by one hundred long, and in a business-like way proceeded tc demolish everything in or about it. The animal rushed ihLo'the yillage,' took huts upon its tusks and tore them apart, or 'Tossed them they fell into splinters. It chased the people away, or killed them whenever it could, or, standing by the wrecked houses, it ate the grains and stores. This elephant seemed remarkably intelligent.. It entertained, in particular. a grudge against the watchtowers or scaffolds. Whenever this rogue saw one, he would creep slyly, spring at it, push it to the ground, and kill its occupants. A famous rogue elephant named “Manilla” was owned by a rich man near Jubbulpore in central India. Suddenly it began to develope the characteristics of a “rogue,” and attacked human beings wherever seen. It killed them so cruelly that it be-' came widely known as “the maneater.’’ He was finally destroyed by an organized effort of English army officers. Another -famous rogue took possession of a public road and attacked every passer-by. Suddenly darting from the jungle, it would rush up to an ox-cart, seize the driver with its tusk and disappear. Repeated raids of this kind so terrified the people that a large tract of land was, to all intents and purposes, deserted; ,_but finally an English hunter determined to rid- the the rogue. By careful inquiry lie found that the elephant always seizedr the driver, and if there were two carts in company, it chose the driver of the last. So he arranged two oxcarts', putting a dummy driver upon the second, while upon the first was a stout bamboo cage in which the hunter was to sit rifle in liana. When all was ready the two oxcarts started, one day, followed by the hopes and best wishes of the community. The fatal district was soon reached, and, about half way down the road, there came a crash!— and the monstrous elephant, dark and ugly, dashed upon the party. Making directly for the last cart, with a vicious swinir of its trunk, it seized on the dummy and made off, receiving as it went a shot from the cage. But the oxen, alarmed by the uproar, ran away, leaving the road and taking to the open country. They tipped the cart over, nearly killing the cage driver and the English sportsman. What the elephant thought when it tore the dummy into shreds must be imagined. Some months later,- however, this rogue was driven away and caught.

The Coming King of England.

New YsrV World. Here is a portrait of the future King of England. His Royal Highness, Prince Edward, sou of the Duke of York. It was sketched from life by the Marchioness -ol

Granby, who some reputation for her artistic skill. It may, therefore, be safely assumed that it bears some semblance to the original.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Col. Horace Scott, the well known r aflroadman, died at Louisville,’ Jan. 24. Senator Chandler was re-elected by the joint convention, at’ Concord, N. H., Jan, 15, - ' \ ? _ y \ Another murder is charged to the New Mafia. The victim was Tony Chisesi. lately from Chicago. A Kansas City Judge decided that life insurance companies must pay policies, although the insured committed suicide. Ft. Worth.Texrrbusiness men have organizedwith $1,000,000 capital to hold an exposition next year to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of tljp admission of Texas into the Union. ‘ George Mullihan and Moses Elliott have been held without bail on charge of murder in the first degree for the lynching of Barrett Scott, the defaulting ex-treasurer of Holt county, Nebraska. The California assembly, demanding that Congress defeat any refunding scheme for the Pacific railroads and demanding the foreclosure of the government, mortgages against the roads.

1 The Carnegie company, it is said, on good authority, is contemplating ihe shanging of their Homestead steel plant to admit of the manufacture of cannon to compete with the Bethlehem works, and even the great Krupp himself. The snow is from forty to fifty feet deep in some places In the mountains of California. Hundreds of men are atf work in trying to keep the railroad tracks clear. On tho Oregon shortline traffic will be pAibably stopped for some days yet. H. H. Culver, the St. Louis millionaire, who has done so much for the development of Maxinkuckee, is to establish there during the coming summer a female seminary, which will be operated in conjunction with the present flourishing military academy. He expects to hake it one of the leading educational institutions of the West. The boundary dispute between Mexico ind Gautemala seems likely to result in war. Tuesday, President Diaz notified the Guatemala Minister at the City of Mexico that he would not concede one inta, and that Guatemala must accede to the demands of Mexico or suffer the con■equences. The war feeling ran high in the city and there was great excitement. Students and young men to the number of 15,003 filled the streets shouting “Viva Diaz!” “On to Guatemala!” A dangerous counterfeit *2 bill is afloat ih the Western States. It is a splendid copy of the two dollar silver certificate Dearing the portrait of Secretary Windom. It is impossible to make a perfect copy of Anything, and in this instance the counserfeiters, although far above the average ih the execution of their work, have left a few 1 ittle flaws by which the ex pert ean ietect the bad money ata glance. One point is this: In all the counterfeits the irst three numbers are invariably 414, and n every instance the tail has been left off ! .he 4, giving it a chopped off appearance.

HARRY HAYWARD,

Who is alleged' to have ’"concocted and carried out the. plot to murder Miss Ging and get her money. Now on trial at Minneapolis.

CLAUS A. BLIXT,

fanitorofthe Ozark flat”.'Minneapolis, who met Miss Ging, and who was induced to kill -her.

FOREIGN.

The entire Greek ministry has resigned. A panic on the Athens Bourse followed ,he announcement. Lord Randolph Churchill® the distinguished English statesman, died at Lonlon. Jan. 24, from paralysis, aged nearly 'orty-six years. Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill was the second sou of ,he seventh Duke of Marlborough. Be vas born Feb. 9,1849, an was educated at Merton College, Oxford. His political earner has been remarkable for so young a nan, and he was considered as the fit suc:es?or of Lord Beaconsfield. Loj*d Rdnioiphmarried, in 1874, Miss Jenuie Jerome

laughter of the late Leonard Jerome,of Now York. He has since become a prominent member of the Primrose Club. Lord tnd Lady Churchill visited this country fortho first time in many years, last sumnor, and then continued westward on a tour of the world, from which they returned, landing at Marseilles, only a fee weeks ago.

FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS

The SenatefJiin. 24. convened without a quorum, and a roll call was necessary before business could "be proceeded with. Unimportant bills were considered and disposed of. Mr. Allepthen presented th< Hawaiian resolution as follows: “Resolved. That it is the senee of the Senate thatthe revolutionary government having’ become the established government of the Hawaiian islands, that a wist Fi and enlightened foreign policy requires that steps should be taken by this Government without unnecessary delay to annex those islands to the. United States at a part thereof, and that In the meantimt j the personal and property rights of American eitizens in said islands shou Id be protected by the presence of a sufficient nava force in Hawaiian waters.” The resolution went over. The Hawaiian resolution ot Mr, Lodge* was r.tiler: taken up, and Mr. George made a carefu legal argument to show that there was nt popular suffrage and no real republican form of government in Hawaii. Mr George presented- a table showing the number of days United States war ships had not be»n at Honolulu during the last” twenty years. It showed that. I'nited States war ships bad been kept in Hawaiian waters very little of the time d iring the last twenty years. In 1874 our ships were away from tho islands forty-one days, At the-conclusion of Mr. George’s speech consideration of the Nicaragua canal bill ; was rest! med, and Mr. White spoke til advocacy of tlie project-. The bill for the transfer of a portion of the exhibit of the Department, of State at the World’s Columbian Exposition to the Columbia! Museum of Chicago was also assed. Tht jaxtitbtttmirsferred coveTsTher'&rßAo’W’ convent and the, collection relating to it After short executive session the Senate, at 5 o’clock, adjourned. The House. Jan. 24, devote! all its time to a consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill. An amendment was agreed to on motion of Mr. Sayers providing for the expenditure of notexceediiif $150;00Jot the n ppro pri a tioti o f $7;>8,333 foi the improvement from the mouth of tlTt Ohio river to the mouth of "the Missour river, for using movable jetties and steel', caissons in removing bars and improving the low-water channel of the Mississipp river.

In the Senate, Jan. 25, Mr. Mills madt a caustic speec.li upiiolding the course o! the administration policy iu Hawaii anq scoring'the sugar trusts .The Senator denounced the present Hawaiian government as “an oligarchy masquerading as t Republic. Itw--as a part of the great sugai oligarchy. Th Is was the ol igarefiy appeat ■ ing to -the United Sia-tes for-sym-pathy auc support.” Mr. Mills asked why a Republican administration had set up a barbarous king on Hie throne of Samoa.. “Whi designated this king?’'' said Mr. Mills “Why, Emperor William of Germany. Queen Victoria of Eugland and Benjam r. Harrison of the United States.” The Nicaraguan bill was then taken up. Mr White, Democrat 'from California, presented a letter from London, stating that if the United States did not proceed wilt the canal project British’ capital wonk step iu and carry out the plan. Briel speeches were made under the five-minute rule. A number of amendments were offered and adopted, the rnpst impurtant being that of Mr. Wolcott, providing that every dollar of stock shai! represent a dollar actually expended. The bill was then J»ut to a final vote, with the amendments, and passed—yeas. 31: nays, 21, In the Senate, Saturday, Jan. 26, ths Hawaiian question again came to the front. Senator Vest offered the following resolution: , “Resolved, That while the people of tin -United States earnestly-sympathize with the effort, tb establish republicanVnstlnv tions wherever that effort is made, thej reaffirm the policy of non-intetference, unless by agreement. w_ith_tha-aft'airs- oi other nations, and recognize to the fullesi extent the right of every people to adop; and maintain their own form of goverrrment, unaided and uninfluenced by foreign dictation. “That the administration of President Cleveland in maintaining this policy as tc our foreign rei-teHnns dtHeiwiVthe.appK+vai and support of the American people.” After a protracted debate the resolution passed—2l to 22. In the diou-e, Jiff). 26, th#propo.titd re« peal of tife bne-tentb different.iui tax or. -Sngac-hrohgii t- an exciting det,ate between Mr. Wilson, of We.-t Virgiira. and several Republicans. Mr. Wilson made th.? Ha'emutil that, the Gevernment did not jieed additional revenues.,. “1 would like to dispel from the minds of Jb( American people;”-said he, “the commo: and prevalent idea that the treasury is in distress from lack of revenues. Tiii.stutetnent was received with jeers on t.’ii Republican side of the House, but. Mr. Wilson waved it off doprecatingty, declaring that, :o far as the revenues were concerned, tlie Treasury was flush and tn no. danger of default. He again expressed the opinion, in which lie said lie had never wavered, that, lite tariff iiiii. as it originally passed .the House, wit h tjie ..income, tax provision and with no duty on sugar, would, under normal conditions, have snppllid suffich’ri-t--revenue. It:str-ad ol bankruptcy staring ns in the fare,” said he, amid a howl of Republican derision, “we are moving steadily and persistenly toward a surplus.” Mr. Dlngiy (li“p). of Maine, and Mr. Hopkins (Kepj. bf Illinois, closed with Mr.i Wilson at this point, .challenging his figures Mr. Payne (Rep.) of New York, arzued that the sugar differential did not contravene the favored nation clause of our treaty with Germany. Only two persons ho said, coutim le I that it. did—Secretary Gresham and the'German Embassador. The President in bis message last December, had not taken this vie v of the case. 12r;11 f there was to 18; com mereia I war between this country an i -Germany, the United States could stand it. . Mr Warner (l)--m.) of New York, closed the debate Tor the das'. Tn t'ne course of hi; remarks he read a st ’teinent from a sugai jou-rnal that :V though' the fill! might, pass the House, it would meet death in tin Senate. The House, at 5:10 p. tn., ad journed.

CONGRESSIONAL APPORTIONMENT.

Districts as Proposed In Senator Cranor’i Bill, Senator Cranor, Tuesday, intr dueec bis Congressional apportionment bill n the Indiana Senate. The districts, a. propsosed. will be as follows: First District Posey, . Vinderbnrz. Warrick. Spencer, Perry, Pike and Gib son. Second District— Harrison, Crawford. dDnbois. Orange. —Washington, Jackson Lawrence, Martin, Davi ssand Floyd. Third District—Jennings, Ripley, Dearbon. Ohio. Switzerland. Jefferson, Scott, Cl. rk and Decatur. lour Ji District-Union, Fayette, Rush Shelby, WiSyne, Henry,~ Hancock and Frankiin. Filth District—Knox. Morgan. Johnson Owen, Monroe. Rro;vn, Bartholomew. Greene and Sullivan. Sixth District Delaware. Randolph. Jay, Blackford, Adams, Wells and Huntington. . , Seventh District —Hendricks and Marion. Eighth District—Vigo, Clay, Puf.nam, Park,.Vermillion and Fountain. V/ Ninth District —Tippecanoe, Montgomery. Boone, Hamilton and W’trrei).; Tenth District—lhlrter. Newton. Jas-, per, Benton, White, Fulaski, Fulton Cass, Carrol, and Lake. • Eleventh District Madison. Grant Wabash, Miami. Howard and Tipton, “Twelfth District —Steuben. Noble, DeEs’b, Whitley. Allen and Lasrdnge. Thirteenth District—Laporte, St. Jo-e-sph. Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall and Starke.

INDIANA STATE NEWS

( Marion’s factory fund will soon read $50,000. A “Good Citizens’ Lefcguo” has been or ganized at Greenwood. I -iThe saloons of Peru-agreed-todose fotv l nights of the week (hiring revival services will have a new bank witl $50,000 capita'. Lawrence Simpson wil be President. ' ,Th(? Michigan City Dispatch is- nrginj the young men of that tofvn to form a military eompMry. - —■■. ■: ' - A modern four-slory hotel will be bull: at Paoli on account of the new minera -springs at that place. Ex-Judge, John /A. Holman, formerly : well-lmown citizen of Indianapolis, diet in New York city, Jan. 25. Mrs. Catherine Defenbaugh, the oldesf resident of Howard county, died at Kokomo, Jan. 22, agi>d ninety-one. —Th*' Wayne Comity Assessor, in hunting sequestrated taxes, has added *IOO,OOI to the duplicate, and has sl4o,oJoin sight Jeffersohvrlle is suffering from an epidemic of All descriptions o: property are being disposed of in thu manner. Fifteen glass-blowers of the Depauv factory, have filed suiti against the company for wages aggregat ing over SIO,OOO. Crawfordsville temperance people wanto abolish the “quart” simps and make it unlawful to sell liquor in less quantities than five, gallons. Over 75 per cent, of the indebtedness o‘, the Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank o' Fairmount, which failed in June, 1894 will soon be paid. The wheat-acreage in Clark county it short. Farmers are discouraged over th< outlook for a market. Many will increase their corn acreage. Miss Wilson, a Muncie servant girl, ha< a frightful experience with a folding bee and was rescued with difficulty barely ii time to save her life A barge with 1,000 whisky barrels owned by Capt. John W. Thomas, d! Madison, sunk at the fourth lock in the Kentucky river Jan. 23. * A young man in Franklin, badly in love arose at 3 o’clock, the other morning after the heavy .snow and cleaned font squares of sidewalks so that “she” would have good walking. A. C. Daily succeeded J. O. Hendersor as Auditor of State, Jan. 26. W. H. Hart of Frankfort, will bo Mr. Daily’s chie! deputy. Mr. Henderson will return tc Kokomo, his former home. 1 Olaf R. Olson, a prominent manufacturtrof IndianapoliSfdicd suddenly, Jan. 25. Mr. Olsen was born in Denmark in 1849. By his own efforts he had built up a large business and was proprietor of tho Indianapolis Machine and Bolt Works. H« carried S7O.COD life insurance. K. of P. circles at Elwood, were considerably agitated by the local lodge teting under the orders of the Supreme Lodge, serving not!cc on alLsaloonkeepers of expulsion from the lodge, and the prohibition of all games in the lodge room. Fully fifteen members are expelled. Samuel Throop, an Elkhart grocer, caught sight of a female book agent a< she approached the store for the s'teenth Visit, and jumped into a feed bin. Ths clerk told her Mr. Throop had> gone pul and she replied that she would await hii return, ’Twas three hours .later before she concluded she couldn’t wait any longer and left; and Throop emerged from the bin. nearly frozen to death. Warning has been received at Indianapolis, from Washington, that a new counterfeit Slbbilf has been discovered by the Treasury officials. It is a silver cer- . tiilcate, check letter B, portrait of Heni dricks, and has a small scalloped scarlet seal. The pen and brush have been used I t:i giving tlie back the usual colors of thf • genuine. Thesilk thread is the tracing ol a pen. The bill seems to be tho work of i photography, and is on paper a trifle toe . heavy i Social and club circles are gossiping ! over the arrest and conviction of a num- ' her of Kokomo’s most prominent young •- men. who were each (iqed sl3 for playing j cards in their clubroom fora prize. Mayj or Kirkpatrick, in making his ruling, de- ' nounced parlor, social and;club games, | where prizes are competed for, as worse rind more damaging to public morals than professional gaming houses, lie further stated that he would punish all persons : irrested for participating in privatd or ! club house card playing for “favors,” as known In pedro and similar games. All } fofms aj professional gambling were completely suppressed eight months ago, “not a wheel” having tstrfee turned.

THE MARKETS.

Jan 29,1895. Intlianapolu. GRAIN AND HAT. Wheat—s3%c: corn, 41e; oats, 32J£e; rye, 48c; hay, choice timothy, 39.0 J. I.IVK STOCK. Cattle— Shippers. 32.5034-25: Stockers. 32.25(33.00; • heifers. 31.7533.50; cows, |J(<«3.OO; bulls, 31.75®3.25; milkers, $16.00 te>4o.(X). Hug 5—33.00,34.50. Buf.Kl’—si.su<<f3.oo. pooi.ritv and ormn rnonuciL (Prices Paid by Shippers.) Potn.Titr-Jlens. 6c per lb; spring chickens, 6c; cocks,; 3c; turKoysr toinSf 4e; bens, 7c per U>; young turkeys, 7c; ineks, ,6c per lb; geese, 84.80335.411 per iod. for choice. Eggs—Shippers paying 18c. Birrricit—Choice, lottjric. IIONICl — I.SC FkariiKits—Prime geese, 30@32c per Tb; nixed duck, 20c per ID. - Bekswax —for yellow; 15c for dark. Wool—Medium unwashed, 13c; Coltswbld and coarse combing, lOjjlSe; tubwashed. KkrtlSc; burry and unmerchantable, 5e less. Hioes—No. 1 G. S. hides, sc; No. 2 ,G S. bides,’4c. Ciiicagu. Wheat—s4j£e; corn, oats, 28Xc; pork, 511.55; lard, (C.87/D Notv York:. Wheat-62c; corn, 52,Ye; oats, 34Xc. Baltbnure. Wheat—GOJic; corn, 48:; oats, 38Xc* St. Louii. WHEAT— S2#e; corn, 42%c; oats, 30Xc j’nllu leljLili. Wheat— Ole; corn, 4!t'£s; oats, 3T#c. .HiiinoapuU*. Wheat—No. i hard, 60Xc. Detroit. Wheat—s7c; corn 42%c; oats, East Liberty. OGB-33.00 34.60,

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

la thaSenate J an, 24, Seafctor Stuart’i bill flxingsa ary of the coroner of Marion county at $3,000 per annum was passed under suspension of the rules. Amendments to the Soldiers’ Home bill, fixing salaries of superintendent and assistant passed- Senator Duncan proposed |ai amendment to extlude families of officen end employes from residence at the Home. Consideration of this was postponed. On eall for bills Senator JWishard introduced amendments to the tax law of 1891. The bill provides that where real estate it mortgaged the owner may deduct the amount of the mortgage from the valuation of the real estate in 'making his turns to the assessor, also that the amount" jf bona fide indebtedness may be deducted from the valuation of personal property in making returns - Senator McDonald offered bill to •fleet that no person shall be eligible ts the office of county supeirntentdent unless h > holds a State professional license or a diploma or license considered by the State Board of Education to he equal or superior to the State profession license. In the House, Jan 24, the bill for the reorganization of the Indiana militia wai tonsidered. It provides for forty-eight companies of infantrr, three batteries o) artillery, one signa! corpse one hospital corps, and to each regiment of infantry and -each battalion of artillery one band; and appropriating $75,000 annually for military purposes. Ttp» bill was ordered to engrossment Hpusp bill No. 107, to prevent fraudulent marriages, was engrossed. The bill wat discussedat length. It proposes to makt ir a felony for a man, liable to prosecuion for seduction, fraudulently to marry tne woman in order to escape prosecution. •Another important bill ordered eng-ossed ivas Rep. Hundley’s to abolish the office of natural gas inspector. The committee an elections in contested case of Miller against Bowers, from Dearbon. tOhfo and Switt-Tland counties, submitted majority end minority reports. The majority report was signed by five members and recommended that Bowers, Dem., be seated-, The report declared that Bowers received 4.90? >egal votes and Miller 4,996 votes, a majority fff ctfS for Bowers. The minority report signed by two members, requested that the three contested ballots be submitted to the House for examination, believing that inch examination would result in th* seating of Miller the Republican. Chairman Crozier said the majority could not afford to strain a point in order to seat a Republican. A motion to lay minority t <->pprt ou the table was voted down, and discussion on the motion to substitute minority report for the majority report •was resumed bv Representative Merritt. The three ballots In controversy were placed In the hands of Rep. Merritt, whe .teclared, after he had examined them, that, it was plain that the voters had intended to vote the Republican ticket. Al 12:15 the House adjourned without disposing of the question. When Lieut.-Gov. Nye called order In the Senate, Jan. 25, but fifteen Senators were in the hall. Senator Wishard moved that when tho Senate adjourn it should he to meet at, 10 a. m. Monday. Senators belters and McCutcheon objected, as a motjpn to assemble at 3 p. m. Monday bad been passed when a larger number of members were present. Senator Wishard retorted: “It is time this Senate was irettlng down to business on business ideas. We have now been here one-fourth :if our time and almost nothing has been done. We have to get over this idea of long adjournments, and the sooner we jome to it the better. I shall insist on the motion.” After some further controversy Senator Wishard withdrew the motion.. Senator La Follette introduced another Congressional apportionment bill. A number of new bills were introduced, the most importahtlieihg that by Mr. Thayer, providing for more severe penalty for gambling.

The House convened, Jan. 26. without# quorum. Consideration of the Miller-Bow-ars election case was postponed till Tuesday. On roHcall for new bills a number were Introduced. Rep. Nicholson pre* sented a fee and salary bill which provides that the clerk and auditor of each ccnrtrty shall each be allowed >I.OOO a year as a basis of compensation; that when the population of tho county exceeds 10,000 the additional sum of 1100 a year for each 1,000 inhabitants in excess of 10.000 tip to and including 25,000, shall be allowed; that if the population of tho county be more than 25,033, up to and including 50,009, there shall be allowed an additional sum of ?75 for each 1,000 in ex:ess of 25.000; that if the population shall be more than 50,00), the two officers named shall be allowed >SO each, for each 1,000 in excess of 50,000. The sum of >BOO is made the basis for sheriffs, treasurers ana recorders, and the sami ratio of increase is fixed. By Mr. Leedy— Amendments to the charter of the city of Indianapolis, agreed upon by the citizens’ iommitlee, for the creation of a Board of Public Park Gommlssionerssof Indianapolis. At the afternoon session it soon developed that there Atas not a quorum pressnt and the House adjourned till 9 a. m. Saturday. ______ In the House, Jan. 26, at 9:30 a quorum failed to appear. Many members Hao been excused until Monday, and quite a number had left the city with committees visiting State institutions. The roll-call showed lifty-nine present, eight less than i quorum. By consent the House waited labile the door-keepers called up the hotels by telephone to see if member! could be found. The Speaker took occasion to say that after this he will refuse to excuse members when their absence will break a quorum. He said it was well understood that many of the members were tbsent with committees, but others had been excused in order that they migut gc home. He said that ho wanted the members to understand that they were reprelenting two million people, who were demanding faithful service. He said he wat willing to grant the largest freedom, but in the future he to be more itrict. The absentees were called frois time to time until lu:30 o’e.ock. wlu.n the Speaker declared the House adjourned sot want of a quorum. Sixty-live member! had been found when the adjournment was taken I.EnWLJTIVH .VOTER. There have been about live hundred bills introduced in the two Houses, The bill of Senator Self concerning public offenses makes Memorial Day a National holiday, and forbids the selling ol liquor On that day under the same penalties provided for violations of the law on Sundays and other legal holidays. The House has begun to take up th* free pass question in its different phaica Mr. Stotler, of Kosciusko, offered a bill prohibiting any public officer in the State from accepting railroad passes or franking privileges. There are no railroads down in Brown county. Mr. Allison, who represents that county, is opposed to the use of passes. H<» introduced a resolution calling on the editors and reporters of th* Indianapolis News to appear before i committee of the House and offer„evidcnc* of the charges, as contained in an editorial. that the House could be subsidized bj railroad passes. Senator Crumpaekef has introduced at important bill In the Senate, looking t* the draining of the region tributary to th* Kankakee river. The bill contemplate! the widening, deepening and straightening of the river, and that a basis be estabthe assessment Of benefits and damages.