The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-21
art called Bayardville-o the Rampage, or
Keileyborough Poor Austria!-New York

art called Bayardvle-on-theR Rampage, or
Keileyborough. Poor Austria!-New York
Tribune
If the statement of its members are to be be-
lieved, the United States Senate is a good place
for the beginning of temperance revival-New
York Mail and Express.
Let labor unionists and manufacturers both
remember that, In order to vindicate and estab
lish the principle, arbitration must successfully
NATURALIZATION Herald.
United States Senators Edgerton and Moody.
of Dakota, would like their chairs. and their
salaries and their committee clerks, and, posi-
bly, also their cold tea.-Chicago Tribune.
What the great American public would be
pleased to have is an ear at the keyhole of the
Senate chamber during an executive session to
discuss the appointmentS.-Phi Philadelphia In
quirer.
The voters of Boston have decided that the
sex which bears and trains children shall have
no part in the supervision of their school educa-
ton 1t is a wrong decision, neverthe ess.--Bos-
ton Record.
Some ingenious citizen has invented artificial
eggs, but no one has yet discovered the method
of making the tough spring chicken of seven
summers tender, or worthy Of affection. Chicago
Inter Ocean.
There is good deal of nonsense about this
matter of senatorial courtesy" 1t should be
Immediately curtaied. 1t has stood in the way
of the proper transaction of the public business
long enough.-Detroit Tribune.
AS COL William Morrisons party refused to
elect him to the Senate the probability is that he
will become known to fame as the Great Hori-
zontal. He will grow tired of the dattening out
business Atlanta Constitution.
1t is solemn fact worthy of frequent repeti-
ton and careful attention, that according to sec.
rotary Mannings estimate for the next hscai
year there will be deficit on June 30 1887, or
$24, $50. 552.-National Republican.
Perhaps the only real argument that can be
advanced in favor of national prison in Alaska
would be the fact that such scheme fully car
rled out would exempt honest toll from the COM
petition of convict labor-St Louis Post-Dis-
patch.
If Mr.. Randall abuses his powers as chair
man there is shorter way to put him under
discipline than to change the rules of the House,
and that is to appoint some other person chair
York Evening Post.
Three hundred and ten Democrats, on the
strength of rumor that Mr.. Pendleton wants ttcc-
return from Berlin, have filed ea-eafs for his
vacancy. When this ruwor is confirmed almost
the entire party wip-make a leap for the place.
They mean business. too-Philadelphia Press.
The cause of temperance may fare ill in the
CapitoA but senator can procure as good liquor
as any citizen of Maine or Kansas, and with as
>ffftie trouble. and on as short notice. The
strange thing about it is that there should every
year be discussion of the subject. --Brooklyn
Union.
Isn't it about as bad for the Senate of the
United States to vote that It can't trust itself
under the roof where wines and liquors
are to be obtained, as to vote for their nominal
exclusion, when everybody knows that those
who want to drink will never 60 dry9-Boston
Herald.
1t is stated that President Cleveland needs
$1,000 more money to run the White House than
was required under Arthur. If ne needs it. we
suppose he will have it, although it seems as if
Colonel Lamont might make up the amount by
cutting off few more newspapers from the
White House list.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
His disabilities having been removed General
Lawton of Georgia, is now ready TO accept Office.
This case of disability having been relieved, the
President should turn his attention to the nu-
merous cases of Misunderstanding to get Office
which are filling every section of the country
with sounds of Observation-Disclosures Times
The contest over the silver question in Con-
gress will come nearer being non partisan
fight than any other that will arise. On one side
will be the common people, upon the other the
influence OF the great corporations, backed by
the President and Secretary of the Treasury
But the people will win.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The appetite for legislation, like that for
whisky or opium. grows with what it feeds upon,
and one apparently harmless bill leads to
dozen of more Objectionable nature. 1t is
time for people to cry "hold; enough unless
they willing to have ali their personal affairs
directed by legislation. Louisville Courier
Journal
In order to save expense and simplify the bust
ness of the Pension Bureau, Commissioner
Black has done away with certain rules which
rendered frauds difficult if not impossible, and
thus opens the way for extensive Swlndling.
This is fair specimen of Democratic 'econo-
my"-a veritable saving at the spiggot and leak
ing at the bung.-Pttsburg Chronicle.
Before the adoption of free trade in America
it would be we'll to ask to what extent it has pre-
vented industrial and commercial depressions
in Great Britain, where the natural facilities for
manufacturing, the long establishment of manu-
features and the fields for trade in the immense
colonial possessions afford the greatest natural
ADVANTAGES possessed by any country in the
world.-Louisville Commercial.
The committee of 100 in Cincinnati formed to
punish vioators of the election law, must not
falter in its work. It was to be expected that
the first attempt to secure justice would fail
The gang had been too long in power in Cincin-
natl for the result TO be otherwise. But the
special grand jury now called for should do
something There should be no relaxation of
the pursuit of rascals Rogues rely largely on
the apathy which comes with time to escape
punishment. Tribune
It hardly worth while for the Senate to
secure the suppression in the Congressional
Record of a part of the debate upon the drinking
habits of senators which took place last Tues
day. The expunged remarks appeared in the
newspapers and were read by everybody To
keep them out OF the Record, which nobody
reads, was the height of folly. If senators don't
want their dirty linen aired before fifty millions
of people they must keep silent tongues in their
own heads.-Philadelph Times.
Is the Presidents message a mosaicY Certain
critics believe that in the section relating
to the suppression of polygamy the
accomplished and energetic pen of Miss
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland has left it's
unmstakable mark. If so, she has
furnished one of the strongest passages in a
document of national Importance, and the Presi.
dent may be complimented upon having availed
himself of the services Of so able literary con-
tributor. Frank Leslie's Weekly
Let it be proved now that Republican dom
nance means an effective protection of the bal
lot in every State actual reform. honest political
methods, and the suppression of such corruption
as that of the old whisky ring, and that Demo