Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1895 — Page 7

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

In the Senate, Feb, 18, twenty-one Senators were present when President Nye called for order. Senator- McCutcheon isked that the reading of the minutes be iispensed with, but the motion was voted down, and Harry Bertch began in a faltering voice to read. In a short time Senator Shively again asked that the reading of the journal be dispensed with. 1 Senator Kern called attention to the fact that not since the, session began had the journal been read, and "more than that,” said the Senator from Marion, “the committee whose business it is to inspect the journal has not done so, something unprecedented in the history of Indiana Legislatures.” Mr. Kern said the Senate had been passing laws for forty days, and yet hot a member knows how his vote is recorded. Senator Newbyjchairman of the Inspection committee, said that he had read the journal himself—at least 400 pages of it. He found it correct. Senator Gifford said he knbw nothing of the record. The vote was demanded, A few Republicans arose. “The steering committee is demanding that the Republicans vote,” laughed Senator Kern.. “Simon jays wig wag.” exclaimed Senator Gifford. Senator Shively and other members of the “steering committee” urged the Republicans to vote against the-reading "OT did, The reading was’dispensed with by a party vote. Senator Dunean’s bill to provide funds for Indiana University. Purdue University and the Indiana State Normal School was considered. The total amount asked for Is about 1180,000. A message from the Govermor was received, asking that the charges! against Alexand&f Jbiinson.su perintendent of the School for FeebleMinded youth, be condacted at the institution by a committee controlled by no other motive than to arrive at- facts. Senator Ellison offered a resolution directing the State Board of Charities to conduct the investigation in accordance with the Governor’s recommendations. Senator Boyd moved to reject the resolution. Senator Ellison reiterated the charge that &t least one member of the committee was actuated by malice, and declared the impossibility lor a fair and impartial hearing. Senator Newby took decided ground against delegating to another body a work that had been undertaken by a regularly aut.ho.ized committee. In the meantime Governor Matthews had come on the floor of Senate and was coaching the Democratic Senators. Senator McHugh spoke against thb resolution. The Ellison resolution was rejected,, and then Senator Parker introduced a resolution providing that the committee on benevolent institutions should appoint a sub-committee of three members to go to Fort Wavne for the purpose of making a full and complete investigation. This resolution was also opposed. Senator Kern warned the majority that they were abont to make Johnson the biggest man in the State by making a martyr out of him, but even this threat did not go, and the resolution of Senator Parker wasxlefeateff by a strict party vote. The investigation, therefore, of the Fort Wayne School for the Feeble-minded will be conducted by the committee on benevolent institutions on the lines on which it has been begun.

The House, Feb. 18, was opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. Brown, pastor of the Friends’ church. No quorum' present. Reports of committees were submitted. The -onlydiscussion-arose on thereport upon Stotscnberg’s preference of creditor bill No. 119. The report went up in two parts, each signed by four members. Upon the question of which should be considered the, majority report, the Speaker ruled that the one the Chairman signed would bo hold to be the majority report. Mr. Stakebake immediately asked to sign this report. The majority report was adverse to the bill and the minority for it. A quorum being present. Speaker Adams recurred to the regular order and sent down House joint" resolution No, 1, providing for an amendment to Section 2, Article 2 of the Constitution so as to require a five years’ residence in tho State to be eligible to vote. This passed by an aye and nay vote of, ayes 67; noes, 11, the negative votes being all cast by Democrats. The foreign born members generally yoted in tho affirmative. House joint resolution No. 3, to amend Section 13, Article 2, Cardwill’s proposition to permit voting by machines, was passed by 65 ayes to 5 noes Speaker Adams Sent down IL IL 32. being Leedy’s fireman’s pension fund bill, together with the amendments which the Senate had engrafted bn the bill. Mr’j treed y said he believed the amendments made it a better measure and upon the House taking a vote upon concurrence with tilt* Senate's action, —the vote-was . unanimously for it. The bill only reeds the Governor’s signature to become, a law. Mr. Van Arsdel offered a resolution for an i investigation of the change in the’9l fee ! and salary law. Referred. Tho Soldiers’ tidmo bill camo up on third reading. Several amendments were offered and .the bill was referred to a special committee. The Senate. Feb. 19, was opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. Barnhill. Senator Wishard made reports on the apportionment bills. Senator Wray called up hi’ resolution demanding a report On his bill touching stock yards charges. The resolution was tabled. Newby’s bill concerning building associations was taken up. Senator Vail named Charles Kahlo as a man who was trying to get up a scheme that will drive all the smaller associations out of business. Senator Newby spoke in behalf of bis bill. He read the heading of that had been sentout by Indianapolis parties and denounced it as calculated to deceive. He denounced an alleged combination of building association men. He said he had petitions containing the names ot over ten thousand shareholders and borrowers and not the name of an officer among them. The debate was continued until the noon hour.- At the beginning of the afternoon Session Mr. Holler reported in favor of GoV. Matthews nnti-Roby bill against racing. Newby’s substitute billon building associations was adopted. Senator Seller moved to amend by prohibiting the issue of prepaid stock. Senator Kern offered an amendment fixing entire expense of any association at 13,500 a year. Senator Phare.%,proposed,j,hat the amount be fixed at, S7,O(X) per year. Senator Wishard objected to any legislation on tho subject. The bill was Anally recommitted to cor porations committee with instructions to prepare a substitute bill for all building association bills and amendments now pending. Tuesday, Feb. 19, was the “Sold day” In tho House. The galleries and every available place in the lobbies were crowded with visitors. At the opening oft the session Rep. Mclntosh introduced a bill to abolish the Soldiers’ Monument, Commission. The bill wa, passed under a suspension of rules—76 toll. Rules were suspended and the bill to repeal the legislative apportionment of 1893 was received. Report of committee recommending its passage was concurred in. Rules were again suspended and tho hill was passed. Rep. Newhouse introduced the Wishard legislative apportionment act. The majority report recqminoiided that the bill be passed. Rojo Stutsenburg, for tho Democratic minority, submitted a lengthy report protesting against any reapportionment as being directly in conflict with the constitution at tins’ time. Rep. Stotsenburg moved that the minority, report be substituted for the majority report, and on this demanded tlio yeas 'and nays. The motion was defeated—yeas, 72; nays, 19. Five Republicans—Reps. Dinwiddle,'Harriott. Gibson, ilpwe and Mclendy—rc-fu-ed to stand by the caucus action and voted with the Democrats. The majority report was concurred in by a vote of 73 to 16. On this call three Republicans—Reps. Marriott, Howe and Mclendy—voted with tho Democrats. Tho report wf tlio corqmltteO having been disposed »f. the rules were suspended

and the bill was put on its passage. The bin was p£s3e<Tny the foliofvTh'g v3tet Yeas. 73; nays. 18. The following Republicans voted with the Democrats against the bill: Coates, Garriott, Gibson, Howe and Melerrdy. At It o’clock the Nichelson bill came. up. Mr. Nicholson spoke tn favor of the bill. Mr. Wilson opposed the bill, and said its. passage would hurl the Republican party out of power. He instanced the States of lowa and Kansas as having suffered from temperance legislation. He objected, he said* to the section requiring screens to be removed upon the ground that he did not want his son to see respectable men, leaders in business, church and society, in saloons drinking Mr. Nicholson asked him what section of the" bill required this in legal hours of business. The question was not answered, and Mr. Nicholson said: “The bill only requires screens to be removed during il- _ legal hours.” Mr. llowc of Morgan next addressed the House. He furnished a great deal of amusement to the listeners. He referred to a saloon as an “infernal machine.” Mr. Howe’s argument was in favor of the bill. Mr. Holloway. Mr. Robinson and Mr. Leedy offered amendments. The House then adjourned. In the afternoon the House went into committee of the whole to consider the bill. Speaker Adams called Rep. Merritt to the chair. The famous bill No, 165 was... then read—tn- its entirety and taken up section by section. Under the second section an amendment was offered by Mr. Holloway. This section defines the room in which liquors are to be Sold and provides that there shall be no other business of any kind, ho amusements and no music. He said the section as it stood would tramp the life <>ut of the socia 1 pleasures-of the Ger - mans and if the Republican party dared to do that it would be a long day before the Republican party would have an opportunity to make another law for Indiana. Mr. Nicholson objected to the Holloway amendment and when asked what he proposed to do with the Germans Mr. Nicholson they could organize as clubs. Mr. Willoughby denounced the bill in its entirety, saying its passage will down the Republican party in the State. Finally a vote was reached, on the Holloway amendment and it was lost—34 to 50. Mr. Leedy’s amendment was the first to come up at the night session. It gives saloons the privileged having music that is ground out by automatic machines. The object of this amendment, according to Mr. Leedy, was to prevent the conlis--catiop of .expensive machines owned by saloonkeepers in the State. The amendment was lost by a27to 38 vote. Section 4of the bill was killed. Section 5 requiring blinds to be taken down during unlawful hours came up, but tho House adjourned before a vote was reached.

Rev. Mr. Van Buskirk opened the Senate with prayer, Feb. 20. Bills on third ' reading were the order. The Soldiers’ Home bill, as passed by the House, was called up, and the amendments were concurred in. The bill is now ready for the Governor’s signature. Boiler inspector bill was defeated. The afternoon session of the Senate opened without a quorum. Thc com m i ttee on military a ffa irs re--ported favorably on Senator Boyd’s bill to appropriate money to erect monuments on the Chickamauga battlefield. The committee increased the appropriation from $39,090 to <50,000. At the night session t-he Republican caucus bill for appointment of metropolitan police commissioners was introduced. Senator Holler introduced a bill for tho preservation of forests. Senator Holler has disco vered th at there are between 15,000 and 20,000 acres of miandered lands in the State. The timber has nearly all been cut off these lands I>y persons with no right to do so, The title of the landsis in dispute bnt it is presumed to be, with the State. The bill introduced provides for the appointment by the Auditor of State of aboard of three commissioners to investigate the matter; and where able to quiet tho title to the State. The Auditor is required to report to tho Senate two years hence as to the legislation needed to restore those forests and to preserve forests on other lands belonging to the State. A number of unimportant bills were passed. The quorum being broken, the Senate adjourned. Rev. Dr. Lucas opened the House session Feb. 20 with prayer. Bill to amend the tax laws was passed. Only one vote was cast against it. BilFtd amend thelaw under which toll roads are purchased by counties was passed unanimously. Robinson’s bill to enable the Gsvernor to "more effectually discharge his duties,” was passed —52t031. Nearly all the Democrats voted against the bill. The House then went into committee of tho whole to consider the Nicholson bill. A number of minor amendments were offered to the 6th section, but they were killed. Section 7 was adopted without discussion. Mr. Holloway offered an amendment to the Bth section, extending license in case of death of licensee. It was voted down. The 9th section, which is the local option section, was then taken up. Mr. Holloway amended by requiring the signers of the remonstrance to be legal voters o f the precinct or township. This went down to defeat. Mr. Pettit at this point made a speech, as he said, in behalf of the Republican party, in which he denounced Col. Eli Rilter as a traitor and enemy of the party who was urging the passage of this bill as a means to disrupt the party. Mr. Holloway made a last appeal for a milder bill. He said he had tried to get tho bill modified and had failed. The vote was taken and the amendment of Mr. Pettit was adopted in its modified condition. The tenth stiction was taken up. Mr. Williams offered the amendment which provided for high license, fixing tho saloon license in the State at not less than $5iX) per annum, and allowing cities to fix an additional license of $509 per annum. In talking on his amendment Mr, Williams merely referred to the revenue that would accrue to the State. Mr. Nicholson objected to the amendment and Mr. Pettit said it had no place in the bill. The amendment was defeated. Mr. Adams moved to strikeout the emergency clause, and this was done without argument by an almost unanimous vote. This will put the law in operation about June 15. The bill, as amended, was concurred in by the committee of the whole and itarose. At tho night session a largo number of bills were advanced to engrossment. Tho anti-expense fund people on the building and loan association question gained a signal victory. No one was expecting any important move on the bill and it suddenly came up. The anti-expenso fund people were all present. As a consequence. when the Stonsenburg bill came up for engrossment Mr. Remy introduced a substitute, which was put to a vote and passed. The bill as awnded was engrossed, and building and loan legislation is now settled so far as the House is concerned. The Senate was called to order at 9:30, Feb. 22. A few bills on third reading were disposed of. At 10 o’clock, the members of the Senate, with President Nyo and Doorkeeper Fawcett at their head, marched down in a body and met the body of Minister Gray at the front entrance of tho capital. They stood in two lines stretching north along the corridor and when the cortege bearing the casket and the military escort had passed through and takbn their station the members of the Senate countermarched and were the first to view the remains. In the House, Feb. 21, Mr. Moore's anticompact insurance bill casne up. Mr. Willoughby proposed an arrfondment to include life as well as fire insurance. Mr. Leedy defended the bill and opposed the Willoughby amendment upon the ground that life insurance companies were not in a cbmbine and a reference to them had no place In the bill. “Wo will deal with them in another bill.” said he. Mr. McBeth. of tho insurance committee. ‘ announced th'at within the past two j months t here bud been in Indianapolis 109 I fires, which had destroyed property upon which there was insurance amounting to

| f335,n00, amountof annually. The bill went to engrossment. Mr. Robinson.’s anti-pass bill was engrossed without amendment. The House then adjourned to participate In the obsequies of ex-Goy. Gray.--LEGISLATIVE NOTES. The Soldiers’ Home bill from th? Senate was passed by the House, Feb. 19. As the amended Senate bill now stands the title to the land donated by Lafayette citizens must be vested in the State, The appropriation for the home is cut from SIOO,OOO to $76,000. The monthly allowance to the home for each soldier fs cut to $10.53, and the salaries of the commandant and his assistant are placed at SI,OOO and SBOO, respectively. A residence of at least in the State is required as a qualification for admission. The bill will probably be passed by the Senate as amended by the House. The House ways and means committee, Tuesday night, adopted an appropriation bill. A general reduction of 10 per cent, was made over two years ago. If the report is adopted a saving of $213,000 will be made over the last appropriation. A reduction of aver 2 cents will bo made in the school tuition fund rate if the. recommendations of the committee are followed, and it may bethat the general rate r may be reduced tcent; Some of the principal items in the appropriation bill are as follows: Governor’s office, including S6OO for house- rent, $16,140; Supreme Judges, $20,000; Central Insane Hospital. $234,000; Northern Hospital, $110,060; Southern Hospital. $106,500; Eastern Hospital, $140,000; Blind Institute. $30,000: Deaf and Dumb Institute, $54,836; Feeble-Minded School, $103,300; Indiana University, $40,000; State Normal, $30,000; Purdue, total, $91,001; Prison South, $90,000; Prison North, $101,500. A. C, Manwaring has been elected Senator from Wabash and Kosclusko.counties to succeed the late Senator Thayer. Mr Manwaring arrived jat the capital Feb. 21. At a meeting of the Senate committee to investigate the School for FeebleMinded, Thursday night, it was decided to conduct the inquiry at Fort Wayne. Superintendent Johnson was present and stated that he desired the fullest investigation possible. A sub-committee of three was appointed to conduct the inquiry at the institution. The local option section of the Nicholson bill, as amended, now requires a remonstrance against each applicant for a saloon license. The remonstrance must be in writing and signed by a majority of the residents--of -the township or ward, and it would seem easy to dcfe at it by changing the name of the applicant.

THE HEADS OF REBELS.

Thirty-Seven of Them Drought to Sultan - AbdalArtz. — The report that the heads of a number of rebels have been sent to the Sultan of Morocco as trophies proves to —be true. Confirmation has just been received from Morocco City, the scene of the fierce and prolonged struggle between the tribes supporting the Sultan’s brother in his claim to the throne, and the government troops. The heads of thirty-seven of the leading rebels were sent to Sultan Abdul Aziz at Fez. These heads were transported upon the backs of four mules and one donkey. After being exhibited to the Sultan it is said that the heads will be placed'upon the city walls as proofs of triumph and warning to insurgents, Tho rebel tribes in the south, though powerful and brave, are being rapidly brouglit undersu b j ectl on, _

FOREIGN.

The Pope’s health improved. .The Czayawitch, brother of the Czar and heir apparent to the, throne of Russia, is said to bo seriously ill with consumption and is passing the winter at Livadin, the palace where the Into Czar, his father, died. On a vote to close a debate on the address in reply to the Queen’s speech in the English House of Commons, Monday, the government had but eight majority. Lord Rosebery hastily summoned a meeting of the cabinet and the situation js considered critical by tho Liberals. The Egyptian Khedive is suspected of treachery to British interests in that country. Attempts are being openly made to stimulate an antl-European feeling in Alexandria and elsewhere. The Archduko Albert, of .\ustria, died, Feb. 18. aged seventy-eight. The Archduke was a distinguished soldier, and was the oldest son of Archduko Charles, a brother of tho grandfather of Emperor Francis Joseplp

THE MARKETS.

Feb. 23. 1395. . ln<tl«nnpn!l i. GRAIN AND HAY. Wheat—s2>jc: cord, 41c,; oats, 33c; rye, 45c; bay, choice timothy, S9.OJ. I.me STOCK. Cattle Shippers, $?.75'<®5.25: stockera, $2.25(<53.00; heifers. cows, $1«§3.25; bulls, $4.75(33.25: milkers, $16.0) (310.00. H0g5—53.00(34.35. SnKici , - 1 42.<XX34.25, rour.Tfir and other rnoouoE. (Prices Paid by Shippers.! Pour.TKY-Ilons, 7cper lb; spring chickens, 7c; cocks, 3c; turkeys, toms, 4c; hens, 7c per lb; ducks, Ge per lb; geese, $4.8<»(355.4() per doz. for choice, Hags—Shippers paying 20c. Butteh —Choice; 16(312c. JI on icy—lße Feathers —Primo geese, 30;332c per ib; mixed duck. 20c per lb. for yellow; 15c for dark. Wool. —Medium unwashed, 12c; Cottswold and coarse combing, 10,312 c; tubwashed. 16(3 18c; burry and unmerchantable, 5c loss. Hides—No. 1 G. S. hides, sc; No. 2 G. S. hides, 4>£c. Chicago. Wheat—so Jfc; corn, 42;\c; oats, 27%c; pork, $10.30; lard, $6.55. New York. Wheat—s6%c; corn. 43'<c; oats, 34:. nMltimore, Wheat—soXc; corn, 45f£c; oats, 36'£c. St. Louin}— Wheat—so,’<c; corn, 40c; oats, 30Xs. Vhlladelpkl %. Wheat—s7!<fe; corn, oats, 36c. Mlanoapoll*. Wheat—No. 1 hard, 57#:. Detroit. Wheat—ssc; corn 41#e; oats, 33>ic. East Liberty. H0g5—53.00(35.20; cattle, $4.6035.50

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

A herder and 2,000 sheep perished in a Montana blizzard. Mrs. Cockran, wife of Congressman Bourke Cockran, died at New York, Wednesday night. An immense electric rower house, next in size to the Niagara Falls plant, is to be Jbuilt near Tacoma. The Methodist book concern made $120,000 in profits during the year, notwithstanding the depression. An epidemic of grip is now prevalent at Amesbury, Mass. Over three hundred cases have been reported. • Madge York,»an actress, was shot and killed by Jas. Gentry, a comedian, at Philadelphia, Sunday night. A negro preachei- with a bunco emigration scheme is in danger of being lynched by his victims at Shelby, Miss. 1 While attempting to escape four Mexican prisoners, implicated in the murder of Americans, were shot and instantly killed. Citizens of Arizona are hostile to the proposition of the War Department to remove the troops from San Carlos Indian agency. Gus Batiste killed his wife in Algiers, La. He was playing cards with .several men when his wife entered and upbraided him. The shooting followed. The centennial anniversary of the. birth of George Peabody, the great philanthropist, was celebrated at Washington and in many of the leading cities. Feb. 18. Chas F. Warwick, Republican, was 'elected mayor of Philadelphia, Feb. 19, by from 50,000 to 60,000 majority, over exGov. Pattison, the Democratic candidate. Maggio Pratt’s motion in a New York court, to amend her petition for divorce ifrom Chas. Pratt developed the fact that she has been married to Pratt four times. A barbed wire stretched across the art~BfdtHctyn, LMondayUniigh t, and Securely fastened at either end, seriously lacerated a trolley Car motormannamed Radcliffe. ’ Colorado burglars wear bullet-proof coats. Thomas Cook, a merchant at Elmora, attempted to kill a safe “cracker.” but the bullet, though striking the burglar’sshoulde.r. fell flattened to the floor. 4 Charles Jeroleman, a seven teen-y earold boy, of New York City, was pushed over in a playful manner by a friend. He fell, striking his head on the pavement. His skull was fractured and ho died in a iiw hours, the victim of a senseless s joke.” 1 At Portland. Ore., Richards Banker, who swindled the A. O. U. W. of about $2,090 try'fcigningTfeath; pleaclecTgTiTTtyTo the charge, and was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in th.e penitentiary. Mrs. Banker and Harry Hunter are held as accomplices.

The polyglot petition of the W.C. T. U. in favor of prohibition, which has been enrolled on silk, and contains 7.000,000 names, is now ready for presentation to the President of the United States and to Congress. It is supposed to be the largest petition ever drawn up in any country. Gen. Lew Wailaceli'ctureii atCentral Music Hall, Chicago, Thursday night, A large number of Armenians were in attendance, expecting that Gen. Wallace would refer to the Armenian atrocities. He did so, but his references were not. well received by these foreign refugees, and they hissed the speaker vigorously. The Belmont-Morgan Government Loan Syndicate, Feb. 19. issued their prospectus for the American half of the new four per cent, .bonds. Bonds are for public subscription and may be paid for in currency or gold. Subscription list will be opened, Feb. 20, and will be closed without notice. The bonds are placed at with right reserved to reject all offers. 4 At Minneapolis,Tuesday evening, while Harry Hayward, on trial tor the murder of Miss Ging, was being taken back to jail after the adjournment of court, a big crowd surged about the officers and hundreds of men shouted “Hang him! hang him!” The prisoner treated the matter lightly, bnt the excitement was intense, all the same. An attempt to prove Adry Hayward, who testified against Harrys,o be insane, was made in court, Wednesday, but the judge ruled that he was a competent witness even if he was a lunatic. The trial continues to attract great crowds. Jas. B. Gentry, who killed “Madge Yorke,” the actress, in Philadelphia, Monday night, was found unconscious on a doorstep in that city at 1 a. m.. Wednesday. He was found to have twd serious stabs, which had penetrated the lungs. Consciousness returned shortly after Gentry reached the hospital, and he explained that he had attempted suicide. He is also suffering from a fractured skull, which he received in jumping from the fire escape at the hotel, where he committed the murder. Gentry tells an incoherent story and is believed to bo feigning insanity. “Madge Yorke’s” true name was Dryesdale. 6 A free-for-all fight took place at tho Republican city convention at Central Music Hall, Chicago, Feb. 21, over a discussion on credentials. One of the delegates assaulted another And immediately a general row followed. The delegates armed themselves with canes and chairs and pounded each qther energetically and indiscriminately. The battle lasted for a quarter of an hour, resulting in many bad bruises and sadly battered hats,. Police interference stopped the row. George B. Swift was nominated for mayor by acclamation. He acted as mayor during tho Interval following Mayor Harrison’s assassination and the election of Mayor Hopkins.

FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

In the House, Feb. 18, tho bill to equalize the pensions of Mexican veterans by making them all sl2 per month, was passed under suspension of rulos. The bill wii) benefit about 17,0CX) pensioners, and increases their pensions about $1,000,006 per annum. In the Senate, Tuesday, a statement from Secretary Carlisle was read. The diplomatic appropriation bill was reported. An agreement was reached on all the items except the $500,060 for the Hawaiian cable. A further conference was ordered on this item. Mr. Jones of Arkansas moved that the Senate proceed with the regular order. Mr. Hill objected. Attbi* point Mr. Voorhees presented the credentials of Mr. Wilson, thp new Senator from Washington, ami he was sworn in. Mr. Jones then moved tp take up the silver bill, and it prevailed—yeas, 36; nays. 27. Mr. Hale asked Mr. Jones if he meant that it was deliberately Intended to displace the great appropriation bills and to keep this silver bill beforeshe Senate without regard to conse3uence*. with the attendant dangers of efoating «oira es the appropriation bills

and compelling ah extra session of Congress. Mr. Jones rejoined sharply that if any appropriation bills were retarded ft would: bd because a vote on the silver bill not promptly taken. He reasserted that the friends of the measure were ready to vote as speedily as possible. Mr. Vilas spoke at length and said it was the fault of the Senate that the condition of the Treasury was so critical. Mr.- Vilas also defended the members of the administration from the damaging personal charges thathave been made. Mr, Vilas closed at 5:15 with a brilliant peroration, having spokofour hours. Shortly after 6 o’clock Mr. Aldrich moved to adjonrn, but did not press it to a vote, pending the absence of Mr. Jones, in charge of the bill. At 6:20, Mr. Aldrich pressed his motion for adjournment. Mr. Jones called for the yeas and hays. There was a hurrying ol Senators from committee rooms. The motion was defeated— yeas, 15; nays, 32 two more than the necessary quorum. Vigorous efforts to preserve a quorum were, used after this untllß:ss. Mr. W’olcott then introduced resolutions stating that it was the sense of the Senate that further agitation of the silver question be discontinued at this session. Mr. Jones asked that t|ie resolution lie over. Then he added, somewhat wearily, “I move that the Senate now .adjourn.” At 9:02 the Senate adjourned. In the Senate. Feb. 30, Mr. Chandler created a sensation by outlining some important steps to be taken by the next Congress, including a Congressional investigation of the recent purchase of gold by the President of the United States. The speech camo unexpectedly, as an incident to the debate on tho Indian appropraition bill. During the early hours of the day, the silver bill made'its exit from the Senate, Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, in charge of the measure, announcing That Its friends would make no further effort at the present session to pass it. The dis posal of the measure was emphasized by the decisive vote of 55 to 12 on Mr. Gorman’s- motion to take up the Indian appropriation bill, the effect of which was to displace the silver bill and send it. back to the calendar. Mr. Wolcott’s resolution declaratory for silver, but postponing action, also went to the calendar without- final action. Mr. Higgins opposed it as meaningless. Mr. Manderson proposed an amendment, urging an international bimetallic agreement. The speech of Mr. Chandler significant! v urged that the time was near at hand when the Republican party must take affirmative action on bimetallism. Most of the day was given to the Indian.appropriation bill, final action not being taken. oThe Senate, Feb. 21, considered the Indian appropriation bill. An acrimonious discussion on the sectarian school phase of the Indian question resulted Mr. Hawley urged that in abandoning sectarian there should be no abandonment of Christian teachings in the government schools. He would rather have a school run by Jesuits than have one with no God In it. Mr. Cockrell, chairman of the appropriation committee, said he was a Protestant of Protestants, but he would not deny to Catholics what he took for Protestants. Seven Catholic schools were stricken out of the House bill and two Protestant schools retained. At the night session an attempt was made to consider the Washington City sewer bond bill, but therewas jio quorum.- - The House. Feb. 21, devoted the day to consideration of the Senate amendment to the diplomatic appropriation bill appropriating SS(X),(XX) for a cable to the Hawaiian islands. Messrs. Ryan. Bartlett and Sickles. Democrats of New York, -kpoko in favor of the amendment, which was defeated by a vote of 114 to 152, sixteen Democrats voting for the cable. The bill was then sent to further conference.

FRED DOUGLASS DEAD.

Passing of a Noted Historical Character. The Ex-Slave, Freedman, Orator, Diplomata and Author Dies Suddenly of Heart Failure. Frederick Douglass, the noted freedman, orator and diplomate, died a few minutes before? o’clock, Wednesday night, at his residence in Anacosta, a suburb of Washington. of heart failure. His death was unexpected, as he had been enjoying the best of health. During the afternoon he attended tho convention of the women of the United States, now in progress in that city,, and chatted with Susan B. Anthony and others of the leading members, with whom ho has been on-intimate terms for many years. When he returned home he said nothing of any feeling of illness, though he expressed himself as being a little exhausted from the climb up the stairs leading from the street to his house, which is on a high terrace. He sat down and chattod with his wife about the women of the convention, tell-

FREDERICK DOUGLASS.

ingof various things that had been said and done. Suddenly he gasped, clapped hl'S!> kand to his heart and fell back unconscious. A doctor was hastily summoned and arrived within a very few moments, but his efforts to revive Mr. Douglass were hopeless from the first. Within twenty minutes after the attack the faint motion of the heart ceased entirely and the great ex-slave statesman was dead. Mr. Douglass leaves two sons and adanghter.the children of his first wife. His second wife, who is a white woman, survive: him. Fred Douglass was the foremost colored man In this country, and had bpen a prominent figure in National affairs for 50 years, As a lecturer and orator he was without an riqual among his race, and he, was, withal, a man. of unusual abljjty in every way. He was born a slave, as near as can be ascertained, in IS! 1 ?, in Tuckahoe, on the Eastern shore of Maryland. At ten yeatis of age he was transferred to Baltimore. In spite of obstacles he obtained something of an education, and in 1833 succeeded in making iiis escape to New York, afte.rward.Bettl|ng at New Bedford, Mass. In 184.7 lie went to Europe on a.lectore tour. Since that tithe hlaxareer has been conspicuous as a man of affairs in the history of the country. He hastieeo honored as probably no other colored mnri ever was, and was deserving of the recognition universally accorded to his greai talents. - ——

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A “Good Citizens’ l eague” has been formed at Franklin. Laporte has one.case of smallpox, ths -firston twenty-Jivo years. ~ Hon. W, H; English has resigned from the Board of Monument Commissioners. Ex-Mayor Woolley, of Jeffersonville, died at Austin, Feb. 16, after a brief illness. Oil »was “struck” at Parker City. Feb. 19. A sharp advance in real estate in ths vicinity has resulted. A great religious revival is In progress at Arcadia. All denominations are bolding protracted meetings. At tho funeral of the mother of Rev. J. A. Ruley, at Muncie, Feb. 16, six of her sons acted as pal) bearers. Mrs. Nancy J. Hickman, of Winchester, was fined a total of $ 125 for mistreating her five year old step-son. Three children in one family at Kokotna were successfully cured of diphtheria by the anti-toxin remedy, administered by Dr. RusselJ. • The Sheridan brick works, owned by Speaker Adams and D. H, RootTof Indh ~ anapolis, were destroyed by fire, Tuesday. Loss in excess of SB,OOO. William Vandusen, in jail at Hammond, on a serious charge, attempted sulcids with a case-knife, Feb. 16. His injuriei are serious and it is expected that he will die. — 4 Mrs. Breedlove, near Zionsville, has an orange tree, now sixteen years bld, that it now bearing its first crop of eleven oranges. The fruit is ripe and of a choice flavor. A petition indorsing John G. Shanklin for the Mexican mission, signed by both Senators and a majority of the Indians delegation, was presented to ' Presldenl Cleveland, Wednesday. Brownsburg has an Infant phenomenon in the person of Robbie Euliss, nine years old. who is blind, but Is endowed with remarkable mental and oratorical powers. Ills friends predict that he will develoj into a great “boy preacher.” While Henry Johns, a well-known farmer, was attempting to drive across the Big Four railway tracks, a short distanceeast of Wilkinson, he was struck t>y a train and thrown fifty feet. He 1s thought to bo fatally injured. A blind horse which he was driving was instantly killed. Basil Ledgerwood. In the Prison South for complicity in burning the Daviess county court house, has been paroled by Gov. Matthews, All thepapera in Daviess county, all the attorneys and nearly all the leading citizens have askei for Ledgerwood’s parole or pardon. He had served three years on a seventeen-year sentence. Congressman Holman Is in very poos health. Private misfortunes have followed closely upon his political defeat, and there has been much sickness in fils family. Al) combined have made serious Inroads upon his strength “The Fatherof the House” Is tho recipient of much sympathy from his colleagues, whose respect he has always enjoyed. In the Smith-Thomas murder ease al Indianapolis, Feb. 18, the motion for a new trial, which was argued by counsel last week, was overruled by Judge McCrea. The prisoner was then sentenced to eighteen years’ imprisonment according to the verdict rendered. Smith will be taken to the penitentiary and his attorneys will appeal the case to the Supreme Court.

Patents have been awarded to resident* of Indiana as follows: C. F. Bettman. Jr., New Albany, vehicle bolster; A. A. Bowser, Ft. Wayne, extension step ladder; S. F. Bowser. Ft, Wayne, self-measuring pump; J. Clarke, assignor of one-half t* S. B, Rude, Liberty, tuyere iron for forges; G. W. Demaree, IL O. Smith and J. W, Ditmars, Whiteland, tire tightener; W. IL Duncan, Rock Lane, wire stretcher; J. Leach. Indianapolis, barrel hoop fastener; J. F. Miller, Lafayette, burner for crude oils and steam; E. Morris, assignor t* Ford, Johnson <t Co., Michigan City, crossing needle for cane weaving; E. Morris, assignor to Ford. Johnson & Co,, Michigan City, machine for Inserting threads into woven fabrics; F. W. Robinson, assignor to Robinson & Co., Richmond, straw stacker. , Two well-known and prominent farmer* of Shelby county have been the victim* of lightning rod tricksters. D. W. Fansler was’ waited upon by an individual claiming to represent a Chicago firm, wha isked permission to put up a rod for advertising purposes only. He offered tc make Fansler a present of the rod, charging only a nominal sum for the lal»or, tb< material being free. An agreement wa» made between them by which his assistants could proceed with the work, but when Mr. Fansler drew a copy of hrfs contract, which had been obliging y placed in in envelope for him by the negotiator, h« found only a blank piece of paper, wbil* the assistants held a contract calling for H9O. which he was compelled, to pay.. Samuel Pfendler, of the same township, was caught for $509 within three-quarter* sf an hour after Fansler had been swindle!. Ata mass meeting of Republicans at Rushville, Feb. 16, at which Chairman Dowdy. of the State Central Committee presided, resolutions of a sweeping character were passed, indorsing the action of ;he Republican joint legislative caucus. A resolution defining the term “non-par-iisan.” was us follows: ..lie believe the term “ndn-partlsan,” as ised in said platform, tins always been taken to mean that the party in power ’houid have a majority of the members ot the boards controlling each of our benevlent, Irenal and reformatory institutions, ind was so understood in the last convention and during the campaign. ■V D,—.. .b.u The San Francisco Cali prints horrifying details of the methods used by Hawaiian officials to extort a confession-from "apt. Davies, implicated ia the recent treasonable uprising-in that country. Th* prisoner was strung up to ring bolts by the thumbs until he confessed, and th* testimony thus obtained was used, to Implicate others who were-afterwards ar•ested Another native revolutionist was ’hackled arid placed in a tank of ice cold water and kept there until he became unjonscionS. He was then restored to life with stimulants and his testimony was taken down and used against bls followjunspirators. 4 Senator Newson, of the Tennessee Legslature, resigned, Feb. 18, because of,the wavagance of tho Assembly in forcing icrgeants-at-arms and other useless attaches at $4 a day. upon legislative comnittees appointed to visit State instita,lous.