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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25
JUSTICE BECK's DISSENT.

THE Journal prints this morning a
synopsis of the dissenting opinion of Justice
Beck in the Iowa case. Without attempting
either an analysis or defense OF the argu-
ment upon which the opinion of the MAORI
ty of the court is antagonzed, it is worth
while saying that Judge Beck's position is
the one relied upon in this State for the
validity of the Wabash and Erie canal
amendment, and the seven different pro-
positions last incorporated into the con-
stitution. 1t is notorious that in the
first case, to say nothing of the manner
in which it was entered upon the
journals of the Legislature, only a small
minority of the electors of the State voted
for it, but majority of the votes cast being
tive, in pursuance of the law, to be valid
part of the constitution. and no one has pre-
sumed to question it. With respect to the
last seven amendments the Supreme Court
once overthrow them because there was no
legal means of ascertaining that majority
of the electors of the State had voted for
them; but the next Legislature provided
specifically by law how the vote should
be taken and canvassed. and that the
Governor should issue his proclamation in
the event of a majority of the votes given at
the election being in the affirmative, This
was done, and done purposely to prevent the
judicial department of the government
from again interfering. The Legislature
having determined upon the submission OF
the amendments and the manner of their
submission, the people having voted in their
favor and the executive having proclaimed
them to be properly ratified and part of the
constitution, it has never entered into the
minds of court or lawyer to disturb the result.
A doctrine that would permit our Supreme
Court to come in now and overthrow either
the Wabash & Erie canal amendment or the
last seven amendments to the State constitu-
ton would be likely to receive little favor in
Indiana, and yet that is the doctrine of the
Iowa court. For no statute of limitations
runs against the judicial power, and ii it be
competent to overthrow an amendment for
technical irregularity in six months after its
ratification, it is equally competent to do so
in two years or in six years afterward.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25

On the first day of January, 1870, prime
Rio coffee sold at 22@23Hc per pound in the
indianapolis wholesale, market, During
that year the import duty was reduced from
cents to cents per pound. On the LIST of
January, 1871, the same grade of coffee sold
here at 100000 per pound, a reduction of
~ cents This might of itself be used as a
free trade argument to prove that but for
import duties all commodities would be
that much cheaper. On the LIST of January,
1872, prime Rio sold at 23@23lc, so that
more than the amount saved by the reduc-
ton of tariff was lost During 1872 the re-
manning cents duty was stricken off but
on the 1st of January 1873, prime Rio sold
at 23@24c. If the current free-trade argu-
ment is good, coffee should have sold at 5
cents per pound less in 1873 than in 1870
for duty of 5 cents per pound had been re-
moved. On the contrary it sold at one cent
higher, and following the usual ee-trade
logic, the inference must be that the pro-
ducer pocketed the cents per pound him
self, thus depriving the government of that
much revenue and in no degree benefting
the consumer. If the price has declined
since then it must be ascribed to other
causes,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25

American products as received, and not as
sold. 1t is safe to say that American dressed
pork and beef are the best in the world, and
that American mercantile lard is as pure as
any made in large establishments. Trichini@
find about one victim annually in each TO-
900, 900 inhabitants of America. From this
it is quite apparent that it is altogether as
safe to eat American pork as to drink Rhine
wine or to swill Pilsenr or Kulmbacher beer.
The American government should give Ger
many taste of retaliatory legislation on its
adulterated products.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25

SENATOR HILL, of Colorado, will make him
self unpopular with his agricultural con-
stituents if he is not careful. According to
a story that is told of him at Washington,
he expresses profound disgust at the labor
involved in franking seeds 10 his friends at
home, as is the custom of congressman.
about ton of oats, and just turned it over
to my stabe-keeper and fed it to my horses"
This seems like a dreadful extravaganza,
but if the department seed oats does not
grow any more successfully than some other
government Seeds it was undoubtedly put
where it would do tine most good.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25

The reporters of the New York and Phila-
delphia papers who went with the President
to Florida upon their own invitation were
not treated with that distinguished consider
alton they felt to be their due, and proceeded
to get even by nearly killing Mr.. Arthur
with chill. The chill was probably re-
after being snubbed, but they nearly made it
fatal, and had not the President reached
home when he did the able reporters would
have been issuing bulletins at every station.
Now when Mr.. Arthur denies having been
sick at all they take exquisite revenge by
intimating that his denial arises from the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25

THE vast sum OF $43, 500, 900, including the
81, 600, 900 paid for the Panama railway has
already been spent on the Panama canal,
and s., 900 600 more are Immediately due.
The difficult problems involved in the con-
struction and working of the canal have not
been satisfactorily solved, and it is very prob
able they never can be. De Lesseps has pre-
pared new estimates far exceeding the origi-
nal figures, and is about to call for addition
al subscriptions. As the French people
know nothing of the warnings given by the
English press, it is probable they will sub
scribe still further for the benefit of what ap-
pears to be an impossible scheme.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25
Supposed Suicide of Philip Van pat.en.

New York. April 24-Philp Van Patten,
a former resident of Cincinnati, and we'll
known labor agitator who has recently made
his home in this city, is mysteriously MISS
ing, and it is thought he has committed sui
eide On Saturday, Mrs. Westhoff, at whose
house he occupied a furnished room, received
a letter from Van Patten, mailed in this city,
in which he expressed the intention of COM
hitting suicide by taking poison. In this
letter he wrote that he was tired of giving
his labor for the cause of Socialism and allow
ing others to reap the benefit of his work.
Van Patten is a native of the United States,
of Dutch parentage He was the promoter
of the ball given recently by the labor organ
zations at the Madison Square Garden, from
which they expected 5000, to be used for
establishing the Voice. The ball proved
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25

No wonder Prince Bismarck has anathema-
tized American pork and lard. If reports are
anything like true, the Germans are adopts
in the art of adulteraton. They take Amer
lean kerosene, and by some hocus pocus work
1t over into three grades, using some cheaper
material to adulterate it. They adulterate
fat, and American -four is toned down with
plaster, baryta and potato -four. The same
practice is extended to German wines, liquors,
beers and medicines. Their sausages and
hacked meats are pronounced "a melange of
doubtful ingredients" 1t would be fair,
therefore, for German statesmen to grade
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25
TEWKSRURY AGAIN.

Mrs. Leonard, a member of the Massachu-
sets Board of Charity, tells, in the Spring
field Republican, what she knows about
Tewksbury. She is of the opinion that gross
abuses may have e1 listed there formerly, but
not now, but adduces no very strong proofs
in support of her position. Within two
years she has visited the institution twice,
both times unannounced and found scru-
pulous neatness everywhere, good food, good
beds, and heard no complaints. She believes
the matrons and several others in authority
there to be people of the best type, and,
aside from the fact that on account of small
cheaply and had too old man at the head,
she has no fault to find.fTbe only fact which
Mrs Leonard mentions in contradiction to
those OF neglect brought out in the inyestiga-
ton is the case of an inmate who had for
merly been Springfield pauper, and whom
she did not recognize because she had
from washing" This instance leads one to
wonder what Springfield charities may be
like, but without corroborating evidence will
hardly convice the public that Tewksbury is
not an anti-fat institution. No one doubts
that the board of charity was convinced that
all was well at the almshouse, but that they
Investigated thoroughly and systemat-
ically was probably not the case.
One visit year from each
member of the board was hardly sufficient
for the detection and correction OF abuses.
If such abuses exist the board should aid
rather than hinder the discovery, though the
result may not be fattering to their own
litical motives are at tine bottom of the al
fair, but the public is deeply interested in
the truth being brought out, and cares little
what politicians may suffer or gain thereby.
The interest is the deeper from feeling that
the result will have direct effect upon the
management of such institutions elsewhere.
Tewsbury is only one of many. In thousands
of almshouses throughout the country even
greater evils may exist than there, but a
thorough overhauling of one can but have o
good effect on the others. Tewksbury may
not be the whited sepulcher that Governor
Butler represents it, but such places as he
pictures undoubtedly do exist, aud if this
leads to their Investigation, no one will
grudge him any political capital he may
make out of the affair.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25
A KENTUCKY newspaper man is deeply in

A KENTUCKY newspaper man is deeply in
censed at the way in which he has been
treated by Jay Gould. The newspaper man
was in Texas, and hearing that Mr.. Gould
was on certain train boarded it for the pur-
pose of getting an interview for the benefit
of his Kentucky paper. Mr.. Gould did not
want to be interviewed, but the Southern
journalist insisted, whereupon the great
financier invited him into his palace-car,
and steaming ten miles out of town, dropped
him on sandy plain to foot it back to town.
If President Arthur could have followed
this plan with the unwelcome reporters who
attached themselves to his party, he would
probably have enjoyed his trip much better.
These reporters brought him to the point OF
death as 1t was, and could not have done
much worse in their rage had they been
dumped into Florida swamp.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25

complete failure, and the promoters attrib-
utel the bad success which attended the
affair to the interference of the police. who
would not permit beer or wine to be sold in
the building during the festivities, as the or
ganizers had failed to procure an excise
license. Van Patten took this failure greatly
to heart. He was also much affected by an
attack upon him made by Chicago labor
journal in an article in which he was de-
nounced as a politician and a demagogue.
This article was republished in one of the
German labor organs in this city, and greatly
affected his standing among his followers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25
The Polecat Under the Barn.

Chicago Tribune.
No wonder this speech [Harrson'sl has
raised goosefesh all over the Democratic
body. The fragrance of the Iroquois banquet
was entirely ruined by its mephitic odor.
Two country boys were once engaged in
controversy of vigorous mutual undervalua-
ton. Each boosted of all he had that the
other had not. 1t was going hard with the
poorer of the two. who could not match the
ponies, kites, marbles, bicycle, and other
treasures of his opponent But he snatched
defeat out of victory. We've got one thing
you haven't got. We've a skunk under our
barn. There!'
The Democracy have a skunk under their
barn, and no mistake.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25
THE CANADIAN PREMIER.
Sir John A. Macdonald Arrested at a Wedo
ding, Charged with Perjury.


Toronto Special.
Ri. Hon. Sir John A. Macdonald. Prime
Minister of Canada arrived in Toronto last
night to attend his sons wedding to-day, to
Miss Van Koughnet, of this city. This
morning General Butt Hewson swore out
summons before a magistrate, charging the
Premier with perjury. Just before the gem
eral elections in 1875, at which Sir John and
his party were returned to power Hewson
alleges that he was engaged to write CAM
paign pamphlets, the consideration being
$4,000 in cash and civil-service position,
should Sir John be successful, worth 81, 500
per year. Hewson further alleges that only
$1,000 of the money was paid; that Sir John
repudiated further payments and totally ig
nored the promise of a position. Several
actions were brought against the Premier by
Hewson since that time to compel him to
fulfill his contract. Ali of them, however.
were decided in favor of the defendant At
one of the trials in Ottawa, in March, 1882,
Sir John swore to certain affidavts in con-
nection with the suits which General Hew-
son claimed was perjury. He made an at
tempt to have a summons issued at Ottawa
for Sir John to appear before the courts on
that charge, but he could not get magistrate
to swear one out Accordingly he waited
till Sir John arrived here, when he was
successful. The summons was served this
evening during the wedding festivities by
the chief of police and is made returnable to-
morrow. General Hewson was in the engi-
neer corps of the Confederate army and spent
much Of his time in the South
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25

THE Chicago Times hints at possibility to
which the Journal elsewhere alludes, when,
tional amendment decision, it says: "No
one has ever pretended that the so-called re-
construction amendments of that instrument
cording to the strict method it prescrbes for
its own amendment" There is a peg to
hang a thought on here.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25

Hon. JOHN Young BROWN, who was in
jured about the head in personal encoun-
ter at Henderson, KY, last Friday, is in
danger of losing the sight of his left eye.
This would be a great misfortune to Mr.
Brown. as it would leave him totally blind
the sight of his right eye having been de-
stroyed long ago. Mr.. Brown is the gentle
man who SHE'D beefsteak at his butcher, and
received ten-pound weight on the side of
his head in response
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25

Mr. CARTER HARRISON has furnished the
Chicago Tribune revised copy OF his Iro-
quois banquet speech. We fail to find any
material change in ii from the text as first
published. Mr.. Harrison repeats with EN-
phasis his proposition that a tariff-for-rev-
enue-only plank in the national platform of
1884 will split the Democratic party, and alb
solutely do away with any possible chance of
securing the presidency.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25
The Little Joker,s Candidacy.

Interview with S. S. Cox.
How does the contest for the speakership
progress?' was asked.
WELL" he replied, II don't think it is
good thing to boast. 1 think 1 shall have all
my own delegation. I think that especially
with the new men, there will be a great
many who will withhold judgment until
they get here, and will not make up their
minds nor pledge themselves beforehand,
Many of them have no personal acquaintance
with any of the candidates and no preG;.ec-
ton for anyone"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi. is trying the effect of
81 800 license on the liquor traffic. The
high license men favored putting the figures
at $1,000, but facetious Democrat moved
that it be made 1000. This was voted down,
but when he moved that it be put at 81, 500
two of his retainers thought he was in earn
est and it was made so by their votes. The
funny man is trying to kick himself to
death
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25

THE contest between Messrs. Abbey and
Mapleson for the services of Patti for the
coming season has terminated in victory for
Mapleson. The contract is for fifty nights,
and the terms are said to be $1,000 a night.
Patti sailed for Europe yesterday by the
Arizona. Indianapolis don't want Patti at
this price, even with Nicolini thrown in.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25
Mr.. Dana,s Humor.

San Francisco Chronicle. q,
Charles A. Dana is now in Los Angeles
with party, of which ex-Lieutenant-gov-
ernor Dorsheimer is a member When asked
by a reporter who would be the next Presi-
mysteriously; We'll that lies between
Mr.. Dorsheimer and myself. 1 will tell you,
but do not publish it-that is the meaning
of this tour We are quietly canvassing the
country as to our relative strength"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25

just been received from Europe that it has
advanced ten pence (about twenty cents) per
pound As in the case where the duty on
coffee was taken off, the producers will reap
the benefit of the change, the consumers be-
ing compelled to pay just the same. 1t was
so with quinine, and with salt, and with steel
rails
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25
The Blind staggers of Temperance.

EdRIt
The prohibition crusade represents the
temperance movement in the state of "blind
staggers." 1t seems to be totally oblivious
to all that is going on around it. In every
State that has tried the experiment the inn
possibility of checking crime or of enforcing
temperance by means OF pro hibition has
been demonstrated. Public sentiment is
against it, and it is sentiment that grows
stronger with every attempt to overcome it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25

Two pair of feminine eyes play part In the
star-route trial. 1.-THE two ladies, whose striking
beauty makes them the subject Of much remark"
writes the Washington correspondent OF the
Baltimore Sun, "show constant interest in every
feature of the trial, and their patient and untr-
ing watchfulness can but be noted by judge,
jury. counsel and spectators. They are sisters,
born in Arkansas; one is the wife of OK Senator
Dorsey, the other the widow of Peck. who was
indicted with Dorsey"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25
The Bureau of Statistics.

Noblesville Republican Ledger.
The Bureau of Statistics, under Demo-
cratic management, has abandoned the State
weather service and the monthly crop oulle-
tins. There is nothing for the chief and his
assistants to do but draw their salaries,
which of course they will do with charm
ing regularity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25

Mr.. WARREN H. ANDERSON, of Harrisburg,
Pa, who wanted pension for the loss of a
tooth, as result of his services in the Union
army, will wait for another Commissioner of
Pensions Colonel Dudley sat down upon
him with the force of trip-hammer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25
Work that Tells.
Philadelphia Record.

Philadelphia Record.
Francis Murphy has persuaded 1000 per-
sons in Carlisle, England, to quit drinking
spirits and join his Blue-ribbon society. He
is doing more solid work for temperance than
all the prohibitionists in the United States.
There is no reform so efficacious as voluntary
abstinence. That begins and ends in the
right place,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25

Washington Special to Couricr-Journal.
The impression prevails that Judge Kibbey,
of Richmond, Ind. will receive the appoint
ment, though it is by no means thought he
will be the man,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25
OF course. there will be ro fruit this year.

CONSTANT READER: The "Exile of Erin" was
written by Thomas Campbell The Jews IN cap
tivity charged their harps upon the willow
trees" by tile rivers of Babylon. See Psalm 1877
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25
Discounts William M. Evar.s.

Coffee County (Ga.) Gazette
Colonel w. A. Mcdonald looks as happy us
boy with red-topped boots when he speaks
of his girl baby No. o."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25
Proofs Wanted.



Ex-Architect Mullett believes the govern
ment has lost $40 900, 900 through Architect
Hills incompetency. Nobody cares what
Mullett believes. IT he can prove that $40
have been lost it will be more to the point.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25

A CERTAIN Philadelphia restaurateur draws
the line on men who shovel food, their
mouths, and when a customer is detected
carrying food to his mouth with his knife he ia
invited to go. 1t is not made plain why Ken
lucky congressman are thus Disseminated
against,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25
A Test of Public Sentiment.

Cincinnati journal.
The general experience has been that when
liquor license was put at a reasonable figure,
and submitted to vote of the people of
city or town, it was carried By large ma
iority.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25
The NIeanest Man.
Boston Herald.

Rhode Island ought to rejoice newly that
she didn't elect her meanest man Governor.
None other would seek wantonly to defame
his former wife, after lying in order to marry
a new one,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25

of the stage. On Saturday evening she pre-
scented Lawrence Barrett with floral star four
feet and half high. This dainty tribute to
genus weighed thirty-fve pounds and cost 1925.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25

CHICAGO widow (dead) reposes IN 81 400
casket. No word has been received from her
whether she likes it better than "a stained pine
coffin. 1t must be very trying TO the deceased
that she is unable to turn up her nose at her
palmer neighbors.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25

THE present duty on lemon oil is fifty
cents per pound. On the LIST of July next it
will be admitted free. Naturally, one would
expect decline in price, but advices have
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25
Why, Indeed?
Philadelphia Press.

Ph1ladelpnla fress.
Why should anybody starve>to death or
the poor suffer for want of food in a country
where English sparrows are too abundant
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25
A Proposition for a Swap.

Mertnsvie Republican.
Guess we'll have to trade Pink Fishback
for Carter Harrison Perhaps we can trade
Harrison tors yellow dog and then shoot the
dog.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25

An Atlanta Ca, commercial traveller has
been adjudged insane. The proof is over
whelming-he was found working at 81 day
as a common laborer on a railroad.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25

fact that the illness was due to overeating,
and that he is ashamed of it. The Chief
Magistrate should go cunning.