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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-25
CARLIsLE's PREDICTION.

A Statement that Caused Amusement Among
Men of Both Parties.
Speciai to the Indianapolis journaa.
WASHINGTON, March 24-There was good.
hearty laugh among the statesmen of both par
ties when they read the interview the other day
with Speaker Carlisle, over In New York. in
which he said the tariff must be reformed, and
predicted that the Morrison bill would be passed
by the House. He predicated his remark, how
ever, upon the fact that his party had promised.
by it's platform adopted in Chicago in 1884, to re-
form the tariff.
For several days there have been rumors float
ing around the Capitol to the effect that Mr..
Morrison had been advised by Pennsylvania, AL
abama Georgia. and other tariff protectiouists
in his party, and members of the House, to e
more for free wool and woolens and less on the
reduction of metals, with promise that with
less protection for articles of clothing and more
for iron, steel, etc., his bill would be greatly
strengthened.
1t is not known positively whether Mr. Morri-
son received any such hint as this from the dele
cations from these States, but protectionist
who has made a pretty careful canvass Of the
Democratic members Of the House from protec-
ZIONIST States informs me that neither the pledge
of the party made at Chicago in July, 1884 nor
the favoring of metals at the cost of wool will
give the bill sufficient impetus to push 1t through.
This member says, further, that Speaker Car
Isle knows better than anybody that the tariff
bill was doomed to defeat before it was made
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-25

THE movement said to be on foot at Chica-
60 to arrange for a national meeting of manu-
facturers and business men generally ITO de-
wise some means of defense against the power
Of organized labor" needs director and head
that will not do more harm than good. Ode
fense' is not needed against organized labor.
What is needed is to devise some plan where
by organized labor and aggregated capital
shall better understand each other and work
together for the best interests of each. 1t will
be found that the interest of one is Identical
with that Of the other-that when one pros
pers the other will flourish and that when one
languishes the other suffers. Labor and cap
ital are in the same boat, going ever in the
same direction.
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He Breaks Completely Down on Cross Exam
ination, and the Alleged Evidence He
Produces Utterly Without Value.
Belief that the Bell Company Will Be
Beaten in the Telephone Suits.
The Coming Campaign and the Interest that
Will Center ON New York and Indiana
Other Washington News.
GEN. BLACKS CHARGES.


The Pension Commissioner Makes a Conn
plete and Humiliating Failure.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, March Ex-senator Harrison
completely routed Commissioner of Pensions
Black, in the investigation to-day, from the po-
sition he had assumed in regard to the pension
allowance of John A. Whitsit Of Indianapolis.
General Black absolutely broke down in his
cross examination, said he did not feel that he
could rely upon that case as being an irregular
one, and asked leave to withdraw the papers
before the committee relating to It, He admit
ted that there was nothing improper i'll Secre-
tary of State Hawn interesting himself in Whit
sits case. and, in fact, retreated from every po
sition he had taken SO arrogantly when he had
nothing but glarlng generalities to deal with.
Following this failure. Black was Inundated
and embarrassed in another case, in which he
had tried to make Representative Pettibone of
Tennessee, appear as q bitter partisan, and
Colonel Dudley as his accomplish Before the
cross examination had proceeded far, he con-
coded that he was again wrong in his interpreta-
tions Of ocular evidence and the weight he had
put upon hsarsay testimony. If General Black
continues to contradict himself and acknowl-
edge his hasty conclusions, it will not be neces-
sary to continue his hearing more than another
day until he will not only have indicated his
predecessor. but proved himself to be a misera-
BILE demagogue
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-25

INSPECTOR BYRNEs does not appear to great
advantage in the Jaehne affair, whichever
story of his connection with it may be the
true one. There is something revolving to the
fair-minded person in the conduct of one who
worms himself into the confidence of even the
lowest criminal with the deliberate purpose Of
betraying him. This Inspector Byrnes claims
to have done with Jaehne, a year and half
having been spent before the Alderman's trust
was fully established in his friend and the
design successfully accomplished. On the
other hand, the charge now made that Byrnes
had been cognizant of Jaehnes crooked prac-
tices for years, and to save himself from sus-
picion of completely, forced him, by threats, to
make the confession of having been bribed,
does not cast an agreeable light upon the In
spector. They seem to be bad lot all around
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THE CALUMET IMPROVEMENT.

Representative Owen Encounters Difficulty
In Securing an Appropriation.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, March "a. - Representative
Owen. of the Logansport district has been and
is now making an effective and determined fight
for an appropriation to improve the Calumet
river, in northwestern Indiana but he has had
stubborn resistance from the engineers who have
surveyed the river. A report was received froE,
the chief of engineers, in which it was stated
that it would be unwise to make an appropria-
ton to improve the upper portion while the
lower river was in its present condition. This
gratuitious suggestion was met by Mr.. Owen by
the production, of the Trumbul resolution,
passed in 1868, which provides that 1t shall be-
the duty of the engineers to gather information
upon the subject of rivers, harbors, etc, but
that the discretion shall rest with Congress.
MIR. Owens reply seems to be conclusive, and
his arguments upon the necessity of improving
the river were convincing He spoke of the fact
that the largest iron and steel mills west of the
Allegheny mountains were being built at Ham
mond, on the Calumet, in Lake county, and that
the improvement of the river would give great
impetus to commercial interests there If Mr..
Owen wins his fight, he deserves great credit
under the circumstances.
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brain workers have been kindly recog-
nized as laborers by the founders of the new
order, known as Knights Of Industry. There
is some encouragement in this to editors and
other professional men who, though toiling
nineteen hours out Of twenty-four, have been
steadily snubbed, and classed with capitalists
and grasping monopolists by the Knights of
Labor. With all the opportunities now open
he is poor sort Of man who cannot join
some sort of an organization that will give him
a chance to be s'called out"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-25

For speed and accuracy, something like
Jersey justice obtains up in northern Illinois.
On Sunday night a man named Henry Sey-
mour placed distractions on railway track,
whereby train was derailed. He was appre-
hended on Monday, and confessed his guilt.
On Tuesday he was arraigned and sentenced
to the penitentiary for twenty years, all within
forty hours. He will now have ample time to
reflect that it would have been better for him
to have entered plea of not guilty and taken
his chances of acquittal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-25

CHAPLAIN MILBURNs prayer in the House Of
Representatives, which has created SO much
comment was as follows:
eve beseech Thee Almighty God, help the
people Of this country to learn that money
gained Otherwise than as Thou commandest by
the sweat of the face, the fair and honest wage
of honorable, manly work of brain or hand is
gained by theft, no matter how we name the
stealing; that money is never converted into
wealth unless it ceases to be the pander of our
lusts and lifts US above the level OF the animal,
lifting US to the graces of life, elevating our
hearts to manly aspirations. making us kindly
with our kind, patient to Gods laws, and rever-
emit to ourselves. Rid the land, we beseech Thee,
of all gamesters whether they gamble with dice
or cards, or chips, or with wheat, or stocks or
corn, or cotton. Deliver from the influence
and power of robbers, who, enricing their vic
tins to boards Of trade and stock exchanges and
bucket shops, name their practices Of plumber,
sshearing the lambs Enlighten our intelligence
with thy truth sweeten and deepen our human
ity with Thy love, quicken our piety with Thy
spirit, and may Jesus Christ become more and
more the master and ruler of our lives aud char
acters and thoughts. We pray through His hal
lowed name. Amen
The Chaplain is a blind man, but he seems to
have s'seen" the House and called" it. On mo-
ton of Mr.. Brtterworth, of Ohio, seconded by
Mr.. Weaver, of Iowa, the prayer was ordered
printed in the Record.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-25
THE TELEPHONE CASE.
General Impression that the Bell Company
Will Be Defeated.

General Impression that the Bell Company
Will Be Defeated.
Special to the Indianapolis journal
WASHINGTON, March 24.-Ap impression pre-
walls here that the approaching suit by the gov
eminent to set aside or annul the patents Of the
Bell Telephone Company will be successful. The
hundreds of attorneys who have studied the
testimony which will be presented, and who
know how the Bell patents were procured, say
that If properly conducted the suit is sure to be
successful. But, whether the patents stand or
are annulled, the Bell company is going to have
deal of trouble in the future. There are six or
eight series of patents for conducting the regu-
lar telephone business which are undoubtedly
superior to those held by Bell. and they intend
to give the latter trouble by invading States
putting up lines. forming local companies and
standing suits, if the Bell company wants to en-
Join. The Turnbull, and the Pan-electric, and
its branch companies including the National I'm
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-25

ROGERS PEET & Co., New York, have taken
the initiative in the plan Of making their en-
ployes sharers in the profits Of the concern.
This is an admirable arrangement in some re-
spects, but how would it work in event the
firm lost money! Would the employees share
the loss, or hold the managers responsible' 1t
would then be an object to get employment in
a firm likely to do prosperous business, and
there would be an additional incentive to build
up the firms trade.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-25

ANDREW CARNEGIE, who has given much
study to the labor problem, and who is the
friend of the capitalist and laboring man alike,
takes the same view of strikes that General
Master Workman Powderly does. He thinks
that strikes are unnecessary and very harmful
to the men that engage in them. With Mr..
Powderly, he thinks that arbitration can ac-
complish everything that is needed to adjust
disputes between labor and capital. He is of
opinion that in time cooperation will be the
solution of the labor problem, but not yet. In
support Of this view he gives his reasons,
which are quite plausible In an article in
the forthcoming number of the Forum he
states his views at length, and concludes with
this summary:
Diminishing, therefore, for the present, all
consideration of cooperation as not being
within measurable distance, l believe that
the next steps in the advance toward perma-
nent, peaceful relations between capital and
labor are:
"First-That compensation be paid the men
based upon sliding scale in proportion to the
prices received for product.
''Second-A proper organization of the men
of every works to be made, by which the nat
ural leaders, the best men, will eventually
come to the front and confer freely with the
employers.
'Third-Peaceful arbitration to be in all
cases resorted to for the settlement of differ
ences which the owners and the mill commit
tee cannot themselves adjust in friendly con-
ference.
"Fourth-No interruption ever to occur to
the operations of the establishment, since the
decision of the arbitrator shall be made to
take effect from the date of reference.
eff these measures were adopted by an es-
Enlistment, several important advantages
would be gained:
''First-The employer and employed would
simultaneously share their prosperity or ad
versity with each other. The scale once set
tied, the feeling of antagonism would be gone,
and feeling Of mutually would ensue Cap
ital and labor would be shoulder to shoulder
supporting each other
''Second-There could be neither strike
nor lockout, since both parties had agreed to
abide by a forthcoming decision Of disputed
points. Knowing that in the last resort
strangers were to be called in to decide what
should be family affair, the cases would in
deed be few which would not be amicably adj
justed by the original parties, without calling
in others to judge between them"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-25

IT is quite apparent that the causeless
strike on the Missouri Pacific railway has not
the sympathy of working men generally, nor
Of good many of the Knights who are
actually engaged in it or nominally support
Ing 1t. Mr.. Powderly declared it to be un-
warranted, and now Chicago master work
man says the same thing. The strike was
the result Of bad counsel and worse manage
ment on the part of hotheaded men in
charge Of the organization.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-25

MANY laboring men, by economy and
thrift have succeeded to the ownership of
their homes. These men feel the burden OF
taxation heavier than the landlords with big
rent rolls. Under kits Democratic admin
istration Of township affairs the tax rate was
increased Ia cents on the 500 over the rate
under King (Republican), and Is cents over
the rate under Harvey (Republican); that is
to say, $1.40 on the $1,000 in the first in
stance, and $3.50 in the second. The big
taxpayer can recoup his heavy taxes in in
creased rent from his poor tenants. Such tax
rests like mortgage on the little home of the
laborer, and he must pay it. He cannot shift
it. Cheap taxation permits the poor man to
own his own home. Cheap taxation cheapens
the price of the necessities of life to the con-
sumer-the laborer. The laboring man is
more interested than any one else in an econom-
ical administration Of public affairs. kits
administration Of the trustees Office has in
creased, directly and indirectly, the expenses
and burdens of every laboring man. It has
increased his taxes directly where he pays
taxes directly, and it has increased his ex-
penses by the higher price he has been COM
PEELED to pay for life's necessities, which the
landlord and tradesman have added to rents
and merchandise, on account Of their in
creased taxes. Democratic trustees have in
creased taxation and burdened the township
with debt. Republican trustees have largely
decreased taxation and relieved the township
entirely Of debt, leaving surpl us in the
townships Golfers. The election Of q Demo
cratic trustee will add to the taxes and ex-
penses of every laborer in the township. The
election of Captain Many, genuine laborer,
will rebound to the interests Of every work
ingman in Center township.
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The st. Louis Republican, which has been

The st. Louis Republican, which has been
pronounced in favor of the strikers, said yes
terday:
''There can be no two opinions about the
di.ching of the train near Sedalia It was a
crime both cruel and wanton, and no man who
has any sensibility or self respect will attempt
to justify or palliate it. The affair at Atchison
was only less heinous, and these events com
ing together constitute terrible blow at the
cause of the strikers. There is no question
that the Knights of Labor have hosts Of sym
pathizers outside of railroad circles, but they
cannot fail to realize, whether these depreda-
tions were committed by men inside the order
or out, the result must be the alienation of a
very large part of that sympathy.
s'The trains must run"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-25

JAEHNE the New York alderman, vice.
president Of the board, seems to be real
nice man. It appears that for years he has
been known to be "a fence" and he says he
never voted for any railroad charter without
being paid for it. 1t has always appeared
mysterious how men could afford to spend
years in the canvass to be elected members
of the Council or Board of Aldermen Of our
large cities. Probably the Jaehne incident af-
fords q hint
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-25

ALL the lawyers engaged by the govern
ment in the Pan electric telephone suits have
asked for ST., 900 each on their prospective sal
aries. Being employed in questionable case,
they do not intend to be left out in the cold
in the matter of pay. The idea that the gov
eminent credit is not good is rather startling,
but is just about what might be expected
since it has become the machine used by spec
ulators to enforce their claims. About the
next thing to expect is that owners Of slaves
will induce the government to prosecute their
claims for compensation forsuch as were freed
by the Emancipation Proclamation. That en-
terprise, like the Pan-electric scheme, would
be Democratic close corporation into which
Republicans would not be admitted. Great is
Democratic reform" and Cleveland is its
prophet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-25
THE PAN-ELECTRIC.

Casey Young Again Asserts that Garland
Did Not Tell Him He Would Bring Suit.
WASHINGTON, March 24--The telephone COM
mittee resumed the examination of Casey Young
to-day He said emphatically that the Attorney
general never told him, or any one else that he
knew of. that he would bring suit against the
Bell company. He had never spoken TO Solicitor
Goode about the Attorney generals departure.
He had never heard that the Attorney general
was to leave town in order that aoode might
bring suit. After tho Van Benthuysen intsrvieW
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-25
THE NEW CALIFORNIA SENATOR.
He Is Sixty-Six Years of Age, and Reported
to BE Immensely Wealthy.


He Is Sixty-Six Years of Age, and Reported
to BE Immensely Wealthy.
SACRAMENTO, Cal, March A.-Governor
stoneman yesterday appointed George Hearst
United States Senator, vice John F. Miller, de-
ceased Mr. Hearst is now in Mexico. It is
stated that he will proceed direct to Washing
ton without returning to San Francisco.
Mr.. Hearst was born in Franklin county, Mis-
souri,, Sept 20, 1920 His father William G..
Hearst, was a South Carolinian of Scotch de-
scent He was mining in his native State when
the gold-fever seized him. He arrived in Cali
fornia in 1850, engaged in mining, and ultimate
~ attained great wealth. His principal mining
ventures were on the Comstock lode, In Utah.
and in the Black Hills. When he arrived on the
Comstock there were only fifteen or twenty men
claim there for $4,000 He Immediately
invested $4,000 in claims along
the ledge which proved very rich. In the latter
part of 1860 he left San Francisco to visit his
native place in Missouri, where he married Miss
Phoebe e. Anderson. On his return to Califor
MIA he resumed his mining operations on the
Comstock lode and elsewhere. In 1866 he found
himself in reduced circumstances, but at criti-
cal moment fortune favored him. be succeeded
in real estate operations, and in the latter part
Of 1866 raised his bank account to perhaps a
million In 1872 he formed a connection with j.
B. Haggin in the purchase OF the Ontario mine
which has paid dividends to the amount of mill
ions. He is the owner Of a sixty thousand acre
ranch in San Luis Obispo, which is said to yield
him $l8O,0O0 year. He is proprietor of the
Daily Examiner in this city. He was defeated
by Stoneman for the gubernatorial nomination
at the last Democratic State convention. His
appointment now may make Stoneman's renom-
nation certain. He received the Democratic
vote for United States Senator in the last Legis-
lature, which elected Stanford. DIR. Hearst 10
genial, transformations and simple In his haoits.
Mrs. Hearst is recognized society leader
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-25

proved, Rogers. ETC., have superior inventions.
and are bent testing these patents TO the full
ment, to be brought at Columbus, o., fails.
A manager of one of the companies named
said to-day: During the time suit is pending
to annul or set aside a patent temporary in
junction cannot be granted, and lot of COM
panies are going into Indiana, Ohio and other
States. and get start that cannot be stopped,
even If the government suit fails But it will
not, if for no other reason than that TO let Bells
patents stand stops all Improvement in tele-
phones. as they cover the transmission of arsicu-
late sounds
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-25

NOTHING is more remarkable than the
change of heart being experienced by the
demagogue newspapers over the labor ques-
tion, growing out of the pending causeless
Btrike on the Missouri Pacific railroad, with
Its attendant lawlessness and violence. 1t
may be that this same conversion of senti-
ment will soon reach the demagogue pulpit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-25

ONE of the most original and meanest
gwindlers yet discovered has been exposed at
Bloomington, this State. Compared with the
man who would swindle in the matter. Of
tombstones. the lightning-rod man is an
angel of lightning.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-25

SOME injudicious friend of General Terry
proceeds to make him out blooming idiot,
and represents him as being confident that he
will be the next Republican nominee for the
presidency. Of truth he may be such NOM
nee, for stranger things have happened. But
he would hardly 60 about advertising his utter
ignorance of the first principles Of politics.
The man confident of the nomination seldom
realizes his expectations.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-25

derstood by the medical profession, 80 that its
treatment can at best be but experimental.
So many that are bitten by dogs supposed to
be mad never show any ill-effects that it is
difficult to determine the per cent of cures, if
any, effected by NJ. Pasteur's method of treat
ment The world at large is in closest sympa
thy with him in his experiments, and the uni
versal hope is that they may result in the dis
covery Of perfect preventive and cure.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-25

Rev. DR.. NEWMAN has been appointed to
Che vacant pulpit of Metropolitan Church,
Washington, and there is tremendous
boom in renting. The first renter on
the list is Leland Stanford, of California, and
The second, Eli Salisbury, of Delaware.