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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-02

Hanging and kindred "hideosities," of
modern practice are in a fair way to be
swept aside by the general discussion car
ried on against them. The question, unfor-
tunately, is not one that excites the earnest
sympathies of the general public. and the
reform is likely to be slower than those that
affect all classes. Miss Mary Carpenter, the
English philsathropist, has recently offered
some practical suggestions to the New York
Prison Association. She condemns in the
strongest terms the prison system of this
country, especially that which finds accept
snce at Sing Sing; and expresses hope that
the three stages of seclusion, association and
comparative liberty which characterize the
Irish or Croften system of discipline may be
adopted in this county. She would provide
for every prisoner light, warm and we'll
ventilated sleeping cell; the Offering of moral
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-02

Oliver hasn't given up the ship of infia-
ton by any means. While the country is
laughing at his late letter, which
virtually makes him foe of imitation, it
has come to pass that the office-holders in
the state are working to get delegates sent
to the republican convention, instructed to
endorse Senators Morton and Pratt in their
financial houndering. 1t is hard to say
what republican convention will not
endorse, if directed by Morton, but
how his followers can consistently endorse
him as the champion of expansion when his
letter puts him in opposition, Is incompre-
hensible. Mr.. Morton in that letter actu-
ally declares himself opposed to any infs-
ton which really initiates, and shows how
the presidents reasons for the veto were
impossible to be ignored. Yet here are the
chief government officers in the state, ap-
pointed az Mr.. Morton's solicitation writing
state, to have delegates "fxed" to endorse
Morton and Pratt and the Indiana represent
atives. 1t don't matter much what the
republican convention does to be sure, and
probably General Grant will cause stirring
of things when he finds what Mr.. Supervisor
Powell is engaged in, but it is just well
to uncover the trick by which Mr.
Morton has heretofore ept himself
afioat as leader of the ''grest party" The
whole clamor for initiation was like the
Cuban war furore-bred i'm a week and OBJ
liberated i'll an hour. Business men are few
and far between now who take any
stock in such deluson, and
the sooner the discussion of
the shadow of the possibility of such thing
is dropped, the sooner Indiana will take rank
among the sound business commonwealth
of the country. This state has suffered
almost irreparaDly by the figure
which Morton and his satellites have
been making in congress, and we need some
sounding word of disavowal, such as the
convention of the 10th snould utter, if it is
guided by wisdom aud intelligence. The re
formers must make it plain to the trembling
trimmers of both parties that courage
is demanded in the discussion of this aues
ton, and those who feared to utter their un-
changing convictions because they thought
heresy popular, are no longer needed to d.
rect affairs.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-02

Jeremiah Wilson of this state is man of
thousand good works and but one conspic
uous error. He fell into the crime of the
grab; before and since that fatal error, he
built himself up in the respect and admira.
ton OF every man who love,
an incompatible public official. The
elected of q party running to rottenness. he
has kept himself unspotted from the world
OF political jobbery member of the ma
jority in congress; he has criticised with
even more freedom than the minority the
sense OF his associates. He has dealt without
prejudice, and judged without favor the
crimes and corruptions of his own party ad-
ministration, and, as a consequence, the men
who manage and control that vile body are
frowning him down, and excluding
him from their confidence. Judge
Wilson's record in Indiana will make it
rather difficult for him to remain out of
the public service for any length of time
When bis sin in the salary grab has been
atoned, he will meet he hearty support OF
of the state without regard to
party in any Office which requires
absolute fidelity to the proper interests,
large experience in affairs, and perfect mas
terry of the laws of the country. Comment
ing on the telegraphic announcement of
Judge Wilson's refusal to take nomination
for Congress again, the St. Louis Republi
can, the leading independent paper in the
southwest, makes this compliment, which
Indiana endorse:
In the case ofordinary chronic office-seekers IL
is always fair to consider an announcement OF
this Kind as an tntimation that the person
making IL is particularly DESTROYS of avoiding
retirement from public life. But in the case OF
Judge Wilson IL must be taken literally, for he is
who means always exactly what he says. The
country has cause TO hope that the public life OF
this man will not terminate with the 4th OF
March, 1915. He is of class of public servants
can well be spared. In the last two sessions of
congress he has been the instrument of more
justice TO evil-doers, the avenger gilmore wrongs
against the body polite. the patient. earnest
than any other member OF either
house of congress. 1t has become
understood at least in Washington that Judge
Wilson Is the man at whose hands any COM
plants against an officer of the government is
certain TO receive most thorough consideration
and the most searching inv estigation. He pos
SEES -es that rare and in these lines invaluable
quality, q perfectly Judicial mind, incapable of
bias for the saks of party, sections or personal
feeling. In short, in these days, when the inves-
ttgatton OF official misdoing and the punish
ment oil official evil-doers is the most mportant
branch OF congressional service Judge Wilson is
the most valuable man In congress. 1t makes no
difference upon what tickle he is elected, or who
has TO be beaten to Sc cure his election he should
remain In congress for the simple reason that he
Is the right man in the right place and at the
right time.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-02

The controller Ofthe currency has lately
sent TO the house a comprehensive report in
replv TO the resolution of Mr.. Merriam II
appears from this report that the currency
circulation has been distributed among 67l
banks in thirty different states, SIC, 900 900 OF
which have been distributed among banks
organized prior to July, 1870, and sSS 0O0, 900
to banks organized since that time.
The number of applicants for the Or
ganization of national banks is sixty
seven, representing a capital of about
$40, 600, 900 of these l75, representing $1,000
100 capital were granted but the applicants
controller also incloses list of the banks
in the states of New York, Massachuselt.,
Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont and
MARYLAND, from which the SIS, 100000 will
be withdrawn under the operation of section
six of the act of July II, 1870. The control
Ter states that within the year following the
passage of the act an amount of circulation
had been assigned to Ohio, Indi-
ana, Kansas and other states, which had so
far exhausted the apportionment that it BE-
came his duty to decline many applications
from these states and to give a preference to
other states which had a deficiency as the
laws and the act both required: OF the S54,-
oOO, 900 authorized by the act of July, IL, 1870,
$24 ,673, 900 had been issued on Nov. 4, 1871,
81, 220,21o during the year ending Nov. l,
1872, 1887, 479 in the year ending Nov. 4,
1875, leaving at that date s.. $40 .051 unissued,
and the controller gives it as his opinion
that the whole of the remaining circulation
would have been ISSUED during the year
except for the monetary crisis ofIS73
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-02

General Coburn did a masterful work in
the army bill. To appreciate the prodigious
proportions OF the thing you should under
stand the forces in opposition. To achieve
single step in economy he has had
to face the administration, which
is VIGOROUSLY opposed to reduction of any
kind and .or strong reasons. All the high
places in the army as well as the fat places
are filled by the presidents friends
To work toward the cutting a
single lieutenant off the roll. brings clamor
from the whole administration lobby, which
generally smothers weak members into
discreet silence. General Coburn has rel
ished this. He is, therefore, like Mr., Hol-
man, very unpopular man with the lobby
He is not invited to army "doings'
of any kind and not much in favor
at the White House. His work in the
army bill reduces the present force Of 80, O0C
to % 900 men. II abolishes one superfiuous
major in all the cavalry and artillery regi
ments. "Also the regimental quartermss.
ter and adjutant and company WAGNER
and three of the aids of the general. Ia the
adjutant-general's department the perms.
nent staff is cut down nine, and the bill
provides for details of eight officers of the
line into the staff. The inspectors depart
ment is reduced from eight to five; the
bureau of military justice is reduced from
ten to five; quartermaster-ge generals de-
'partment from 81 TO 40, with a detail of IL
from the line; subsistence department
from % to II. with a detail of
eight officers from the line. In the
medical department the officers are in
creased from 155 to 200. The number of
contract surgeons is reduced from l73 to IS.
The pay department is reduced from AZ TO
"a, and the new feature introduced of pay
ing troops by direct drafts on the treasury.
with the promise that where this is found
inconvenient the secretary of war may or
der currency to be paid. The ordinance
department. is reduced from 81 to 43 perms-
nent officers, and 10 details from the line.
. The engineer corps is left untouched. Pro-
motions are open to all the corps of the
{ staff. When vacancy occurs in the staff,
which is to be filled by detail, the officer is
3 TO be selected by board of five after COM
9 petitiye examination The officers thus de-
tailed are to serve four years, and cannot be
detailed until after four years previous SER
. vice with the troops. Provision is also
made for a board to retire officers found to
be incompetent, and officers who have
served thirty years are to be put on the
retired list.'''
A furious opposition met the bill on every
stage. and General Coburn was denounced as
a demagogue catering to vulgar popular
preiudices. The fight against it will be re-
doubled in the Senate and we shall see how
much power the lobby has then. The saving
to the country by its passage will be not less
than 5000, 900 or 1000. 900 and the best of
the republican profession to economy may
very we'll be made in this measure of
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-02
THE CHANGERS CONDEMNED.
THE REFORMED PRESBYTBRIANS DO MOI
APPROVE OP THEM.

THE REFORMED PRESBYTRRIANS DO NOT
APPROVE OF THEM.
PHILADELPHIA, June AT the session Of
the Reformed Presbyterian synod to-day
the committee on the order known as
patrons of husbandry ard grangers
presented their report which states
that they emphatically and unequivocally
condemn this aud all other secret orders as
ensnaring, deceptive and sinful in Them
selves. as prejudicial to the best in
terests of society. and as a
lawless and Intellectual way of obtaining
redress OF grievances. They also recon-
mend that the synod epjoin il upon all ses-
sions not to fellowship members of this or
any other secret order, and to warn all under
their care to beware of the ensnaring
influences of such organizations.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-02
Chr SemtimeL.
TUESDAY, 2.

Indiana Independents must bear in mino
That the tenth Of June has been selected by
the Illinois farmers and independents for the
assemblage of the hosts in that state. When
You come together by thouauds here re
member that over the border there
rs another body watching and waiting
TO heed and to nelp in the work OF reiorms-
ton. To those Ia cities and towns who can
not see the fast uprising of this movement
would b: revelation and probably it viii
not be until the lines are drawn and the
battle set that its full extent is seen.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-02
THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. TUESDAY JUNE O. 1871

intellectual and religious instruction to each
prisoner, and all Jail buildings should
be commodious, healthy and pro-
vide accommodations for physical
exercise and recreation. Prisons for women
should be entirely separate, and under the
control of women keepers only. All pris-
oners on entering are to be kept in strict
solitary confinement for not less than six
months. Miss Carpenter is strongly OPP
posed to the contract system for making
profitable the labor Of the convicts. All
these suggestions recommend themselves
as eminently practical and humane aud no
good reason can be assigned why they should
not receive immediate adoption in all the
prisons and reformatories of this country
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-02


one of the best journalists of Indiana
whose paper is a credit to Its locality, write,
in friendly private note of the Juns II
convention.
We shall certainly send delegation from here
respectable not alone in numbers, but In mora
strength and political influence also, Permit
rue TO congratulate you and the Sentinel upon
the success already assured of the movement
YOU have SO. ably championed.- IL the conven.
ton shall make a free trade and hard or honest
money platform it will sweep the state. Nothing
can prevail against il.
II the Sentinel's advice weighs with tht
people who meet here on the 10th of June
sound currency and free trade shall be ex-
plicItly stipulated in the platform. There
has been a good deal of misunderstood
ing among the farmers as to thu
actual effect of expansion. but the veto OF
the president, and the sober maturer thought
OF the business community have
wrought a most wholesome revolution in
the sentiment of the country as
well as the cities. The farmers are
not given to the heresies of finance implied
in the incOherent teaching of the imitation
school, and it is hardly possible to rush any
thing like a doubtful resolution through
them which would tend to impair the public
credit. The Sentinel has an abiding hope il
the sound action of the convention, and
that hope shall inspire it to the energetic
support of the reformers, until they shall
prove by unwise measures, or uncertain
speech, unfit to be trusted.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-02

That was signal piece of common sense
as we'll as legal well doing, which came from
the Pittsburg judge in deciding on the
crusade question. The case deserves per-
petusl reminder to warn other officious
umphs over lawlessness. Three women, Mrs
Black, Mrs. Van Horn and Mrs. Youngson,
were fined s25 each and costs by Acting
Mayor McMasters for singing and praying
on the streets. The cases were carried up
on writ of certiorari, to the Court of Com.
mon Pleas, and last Thursday hearing was
had before three judges, Sterrett, Collier and
Stowe. AS may be supposed great interest
was manifested, some two hundred and fifty
ladies being present in the court roo m, and
every other nook and corner being filled
with the curious crowd. Lawyer Jennings
opened the caseo on eight exceptions, of which
five were technical defects in the record and
three denying the charges on which the wo-
men had been fined by the mayor. The
only point Of practical interest is that which
declares that collecting upon the sidewalk,
singing and praying, attracting large
crowd, obstructing the street and sidewalk
and refusing to move on. is no. disorderly
cond Lct, nor does it tend to breach of the
peace" The "learned counsel" had evil
IDENTIFY prepared for windy words on
the occasion which were sum-
marily collapsed by Judge Stowe.
The issue being found in the record,
the court evidently considered itself compe-
tent to decide the points without the enlight-
ening aid of arguments by the lawyers
Some spicy colloquy between the latter and
the court will be found in another place.
The judges promptly decided that singing
and praying on the street was not disorderly
conduct, nor did It tend to a breach of the
peace. If crowds collected and became dis
orderly, they, not the persons praying,
were the criminals. Judge Stowe
very pointedly remarked that you
might just as well hang man
for assault and battery as attempt to convict
the women under the charge contained in
the record. The singing and praying on the
sidewalk might be held nuisance, but that
was not the charge, and such charge, if
made, would come before the court of quar-
ter sessions, and not before the mayor. The
memorable dignity of the law was happily
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-02

illussrstAd by the court which had indicated
the cause o, the women, promptly suppress
sing their exp 'essions of joy, and silencing
the suggestion on prayer meeting in the
court room with a warning that it would be
an act of contempt, making them liable to
be sent to jail.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-02

The three county commissioners Of Barn.
well county, South Carolina, convicted of
corruption, have been sentenced respectively
to ten years, nine years, and thirteen months
N the penitentiary.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-02

Missouri farmers are giving the loyal par
tisan mind trouble. The state. it may be
remembered, is strongly democratic, and
gave Greeley its electoral vote. The party
mas not been wise Ia its legislative action.
nor indeed in any of its action. The stain
of corruption has hung over the party lead.
ers, and a CONSCIENCE there is a reform
spirit making itself visible, which
somewhat discomposes the party
folks. In many counties there
are conventions OF farmers called, and if the
thing goes there is no knowing but a
state convention may be undertaken as in
this state. II is noted by the st. Louis Re-
publican that the counties moving in this
direction are not, as might be suspected, rt-
publican, but, on the contrary, five to ore
democratic, and and the members of the
oranges stand five to one as compared
with the republicans. So you see they have
discovered over there that parties too old and
too stroug are not to be trusted. When
the republicans have been in control for
term, and fastened themselves in power, a
reign of unchecked corruption is the conse-
quence. When the democrats come to what
seems unrestrained power, precisely the
same thing is seen. So to check this we must
erect parties whose mission shall end so soon
as the abuses Of confidence and strength
make themselves visible. Chsstened by
rebukes of this sort, the old parties may be
trusted again, but under more reputable
nsmes-those of the past are offensive.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-02

to the CouIier's temperance plank, and
expects to make q fair and square
fight on the other side of the question. How
will that work.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-02

A combination of artists and journalists
has been formed in Paris for the purpose
kissing the immoral drama of the stage.
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TJAEGER's WAREHOUSES; EIGHTH AVENUE
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hintn ayenneThe oldest aud most extensive csablish
ments OF the line in the business storage Furniture
Baggage Goods and Wares Of every description In
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nj n hnnr
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