Richmond Palladium (Daily), 15 December 1898 — Page 1

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GAL BRICE DEAD.

Ti e Itailroad Magnate and Ex Uult-d States Senator Dies Huddeitly This Afternoon. New York, N. Y., December 15. Calvin S. Brioe died suddenly at 3:15 p. m. in this city. M'KINLEY AT ATLANTA, Fired the Southern Heart by His Reference to Treatment of Confederate Dead. Atlanta, Dee. 15. Tha Presidents reference to the treatment of confederate dead in his speech yesterday at the capttol baa fired the southern heart with admiration for the chief executive and it the talk in all circles today. General Wheeler is the recipient of every possible mark of respect. The feature of today's programme in the ciyic and military paaade, reviewed by the President and party. After the parade the President and party had luncheon at Piedmont r1. The president stated he had ordered a brigade of troops sent to Atlanta and was surprised it was not here The President made a brief address in the auditorium at Piidmont park in which he referred to the unification of the country and said: "From camp and campaign there comes the magic pealing which has closed ancient wounds and effaced their scan. For this result every American patriot will forever rejoice. It is no small indemnity fur the co't of the war. This government has proved itself invincible in the recent war and out of it has come a nation which will remain indivisible forevmore." Referring again to the patriotism of the southerners in the late war which added l ew lustre to the flag, he said: "That flarhas been planted in two hemispheres and there it remains the symbol of liberty, law, peace, progress. Who will withdraw from the people over whom it floats, its protecting folds? Who will haul it down!" He concluded with an argument that the war began at the behest of humanity, and that duty now demands that that there be no shirking from the responsibilities incurred thereby. The Grain Market. Chicago, Illinois. December 15. Wheat 65ie; corn. 33i; oats. 264 - JoLiDO.Ohio. December 13. Vhet Raiding Toll Gafs. Wilijamstown, Ky., December 15. Raiders have demolished another tollgate on the Covington and Lexington turnpike, leaving bnt one in the county. OHIO FIRES. Bank Btiildins:, Including: Porterfield Carriage Works AVere Darned at Mechanicburg Acme Co. Plant at Canton Destroyed . Mechaxiobxrg. O.. Dec. 15. The Farmers bank buildings, including the Porterfield carriage works and other manufactories burned. The total loss is $50,000; insured $20,000. Cantos. Dec. 15 The Acme Roof ing and Supply Company plant burned Loss, $50,000; insured $'25,000. PENSION BILL Passed the House Without De bate It Appropriates Washington. D. C. December 15 Barney of Wisconsin explained to the house the provisions of the pension appropriation bill. Allen (Dem.) of Mississippi reminded the hoase that fourteen years ago when be firtt entered congr8 this bi'l always provoked seetiofal discussion. Now he was happy to tay there would be no acrimonious debate. He consratulated A PURC OH A PC CRCM Or TAUT WOI CREAM Awarded Highest Honors, World's Fair Oold Medal, Midwinter Fair

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the country tht while one of the most desperate of rebels (himself) helped to report this bill the President of the United States was down in Dixie doing honor to the Confederate dead. All bad cacee to rejoice. There was no further debate. The bill was read and immediately passed, it appropriates $145,233,830. DISCUSS EXPANSION.

Federation of Labor Divided on the Expansion. Question. Kansas Citv, Mo., December 15. The resolutions committee of the American Federation of Labor reported a reFolution in favor of national expansion. Drtleerate D mnelly of Nw York spoke in favor. Delegate Lloyd of Boston ii posed. lie said it would be a sa blow to orgtn'zed labor. Ha won til have all politicians who vote for expansion marked for defeat bv organized labor. Delegate John Kirby also oppored. He said it would degrade labor. Uolidy lt-c'a ot Congxes. Washington, D. C December 15. Chairman Dingley says the holiday recess will probably be from December 21 to January 4. Paper Mill Burned. Bella ire, O., December 15. David Wagner's paper mill at Wett Wheeling, O., was totally destroyed by fire. Loss, $25,000; insurance $13,000. President and Vice-President of Swiss Confederation. .Berne. Switzerland, December 15. The Federal assembly elected M. Mueller president of the Swiss con federation and M. Hauser vice-presi dent. Stock Market. Chicago, 111., December 15. Hogs dull, $3.20, $3.42. Cattle strong and higher. Beeves $3.90, $6.00. HOOVER APPOINTED To the Unltsd Stalss Postal Sorvloo in Cuba An Old Soldier Honorad. At least one of the veterans of the other war has been honored with an appointment by reason of the last war. Tha veteran is Harry Hoover, of this citv. He has received notice of his appointment to some position in the government mail service : in Cuba. What the position is is not known, but he has been notified what his bond would be and that he wonld soon receive his c jmmisaion on the forwarding of the bond that he will be able to furnish without difficulty. He will be sent perhaps to Havana. IS ALUM POISONOUS? Whitens tfce Baker's Bread, Bat Plays IIhtoc With the Stomach of the Consumer. Alum is used by many bakers to whiten their bread, enabling them to use an inferior flour, and it is also em ployed as a cheap substitute for cream of tartar in the manufacture of baking powder. Its use in bread and baking powder is very detrimental to health, producing dyspepsia and obstinate constipation, ana under certain con ditions of the human system results in poisoning. What these conditions are so far as each individual is concerned ean only be surmised: 8me peculiarity of the system producing a morbid change in the secretions of the stomach with which the alum combines and forms an active poison; or, the secretions may be healthy but in abnormal proportions and these lesser or greater proportions in combination with the alum consti tute a poison jast as two parts of mer cury and two parts chloride form eatlo reel, which is not poisonous, while one part of mercury and two parts of chlorine yield corrosive sublimatt which is a most deadly poison. Knollenberg's goods right and are sold rierbt. are bought GRANDMY Reports After MoreTban a Week's Work Six Indictments Rt turned Two of Thm Made Pab ic. The grand jury this afternoon made report through its foreman. James Lhc1- The trrnts rturi!ed were j six ia number, iv. if hicn only were made publie. One was returned against Stephen Craig, of Miitan, who is thereby charged with embezzlement, and one against Orlie Collins, charged with forgery. The other four are those in which co arrests have as yet been made and therefore taey are net given out. The grand jury reported both jail and poor farm in good order, but rec ommended some new paper for the jail and some chairs for visitors and prisoners. TLe trt-st will be made 12. the other tfcv.- as sca as ros&ibie

EASTHAVEH INSPECTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE COMMI ITEJE.

Comprehensive Information Given By Mr. Boots, tbe Chairman of tLe Committee The Application of the New Law With Regard to Inspection of State Penal. Educatioaal and Benevolent Institutions A. Welcome Change From Every Standpci-1 E iithaven's Coaditijn The State. Needs of tha Yesterday the new committee of the state legislature, appointed to visit the penal. b9oevolent and edaoitioDil institutions of the state, inspected the Eastern Indiana hospital for the insane, at Easthaven, near this city. The committee consists! of JointRepresentative Frank T. Rxts, cf Connersville, chairman; Senator fr'remont "Qoodwine, of Frmklin; aad STether Herod, of William sport. Warren countv. The board is nonpartisan, aid the last named gentlenun n tin Democratic member. It is the duty of this eommittt e to visit every institution in the state that is kept np entirely or in pat by appropriations of state fuids. and to report to the legislature tbat convents next month the condition of the various institutions, including colleges, penitentiaries, asylums, etc., together with recommendations from the committee with regard to the neda of the same. These recommendations will have the force only of recommendations. Last evening the eommittt e, after its hard day'a work, canw over to the city and stopped at The Westcott. There they, together with Dr. Smith, superintendent of Easthaven, and E. O. Hill, of the board of trus tee, were seen by the reporters, and an interview was obtained, oue from Chairman Roots on the subject of the work of the committee and how it came to be established, and one from Dr. Smith on the work of yesterday's investigation. THB CHANGED LAW. It was with little effort that the reporters contrasted the two methods of inspection, the old and the new. Formerly, after the legislature had been in session for some time there would come a Hurried telephone can irom Easthaven, and a reporter would hasten to the asylum, getting his overcoat on about the time he reached the Rich crossing on a dead run. At the asylum ha would meet a gang. of. men with broad smiles and also accompanied by their relatives and private secretaries. The ground 4 would be wellfilled with "inspecting" visitors out for a good time. They would walk through all the wards and cottages in an hour, look wildly at the patients until the latter t nought there were some things worse than being in the asylum, and then go and eat off of Dr. Smith. They would then go back to the legislature without a symptom of an idea of what was needed in the way of an approptiation at the hospital, speak kindly but not intelligently of the management, and wait until tbe trustees or superintendent arrived to lobby and trade through the appropriation that should have been put through the legislature without any such work, and which snonld have been looked aftsr intelligently by men who were posted with icgard to the condition and needs of every institution kept op either altogether or partly by state appropriations. In short, the old time investigations did not investigate. The last one of the old sort of investigating tours arrived here at about 4 o'clock one Sunday morning ween tne tnermometer was clear below Thistlethwaite's pond, and staid for breakfast. Then they went on their way rejoicing, knowing no more about the condition of Easthaven than they did of the mines of Siberia This condition of affairs caused the change in tne way of investigating. The legislature was disgusted unanimously with the old scheme, all realiz ing the fallacy of the belief that there was any investigating in such a running junket. The law was nnanimous- , ly repealed at the last legislative as sembly by the parage of another law. much better. J. his new law is a product of the governor's own brain. and is a good one. It provides tbat. forty-five days before the assembling of the state legislature, the governor shall appoint three members-elect of the new legislature, the committee to te non-partisan, and to be composed of one senator and two representatives - elect. This committee's w,ik is left somewhat vague in the law, as to method, but the plan apted by the present one i certainly & good one, as will be explained later on in Mr. Roots' interview . MB. ROOTS' STATEMENT. Assembled in the carpeted cotridor of The Wt-steott last evening the rerorters li-tened to Mr. Roots state ment ot the work of tbe committee go ing about over tbe state at tne work assigned them by the governor. fie said : "Under the law passed by the last legislature, the old junketing trips were doae awcy with. They were nn wieldy, those committees, and when

they visited the penal or other institution" the result was that the superintendents were not able to five the committee any attention or information, but had to spend his time in feed ing and entertaining the big band of guests. Also, the large committee had the effect in toe penal institutions of doing away with discipline for same weeks, and in the insane asylums of disturbing the inmates and keeping them so for several days. The plan was unintentionally cruel. Tne effect, toe. on tbe legislature was demoraliz

ing, ana many times the legislature would have to adjourn on account of not having a quorum. The expense of keeping the legislature thus in session for sii days or so without doing any work for the state wa to expend uselessly obout $12,000 of the state s money. Toe present p'an costs bat about $1,500, all told, ati is more effective in evt ry wy. The consensus of orinion among the members of the legislatures and among the superintendents -peas! and other state institutions is that no definite information w a carried away under the old plan, and the present law wa passed withouf opposition. The new committee is not to spend more than thirty days in its investigation. It is to ascertain the needs of the institutions, together with the condition of each, and the committee feel that if tbe large financial interests ean be safely trusted to one man as bank examiner, surely the interests of the state in tte penal and other institutions can be bafely entrusted to the three men from the state legislature. The committee is a unit in believing that the fact that representatives of the institutions have been compelled to lobby and trade off in order to get through their appropriations, has given rise to suspicion that the appropriations were too large and extravagant. We wish to correct any sucn idea, un tne contrary, so far as we may be able to discover, the methods of purchasing supplies (by competitive bids,) and of book-keep ing, which compare favorably with the method employed in the national banking system, the institutions are economically and wisely taken care of, and we are glad to eay that the caliber and ability of the men in charge, superintendents, etc., so far as we have visited, is far above the average. We have discovered con siderable efforts on. their parts to care for the inmates and to discharge their obligations to the state. The method employed by the committee is to send to the superintendent of each institution, several weeks in advance, a set of interrogatories so that he will be ready for the coming of the committee. rty knowing what the past ap propriation has been and by seeieg in itemized statements what disposition had been made of that appropriation, there is little difficulty in concluding that the institution will at least have to have as large an appropriation as it had before. The committee asks the management of such institutions to have ready tor the inspection of the committees, whenever possible, plans and specifications together with bids for any new building deemed by tbe man agement to be necessary. Is early every superintendent visited so far has been ready with his report when the committee arrived. There fore we are enabled to do in one day what could not have done in a wees before, under ibe system ot coming (Continued on fifth page-l CHRISTHAS Gifts firr VOl and OLD at Hoah's AtrCi CUT FRICES. mc for 25c a b c blocks. 50c for 75c rocking horses. 9c for 4Sc tree candles. 22c for 4Sc large books. 1.1$ for 2.00 crokonole. 24c for 4oc blackboards. loc for 25c images. iSc for 35c vases. 4 50 for 7.00 dioner sets. 12c for 20c cups and saucers. Everybody's wants supplied at NOAH'S ARK, 5 & 10 Cent Store. Santa Oaus is here with his pony etr, letter aad box. 'Joaae and see Mm.

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