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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-08
CIVIL ENGINEERS.
A Movement Looking to the Creation of De-
partment of Public Works.

CLEVELAND, o., March Elm December last
q convention of delegates from the leading en-
cheering societies of the country was held in
this city on call issued by the Cleveland socie-
iy. The object of the convention was to try to
secure legislation on public improvement that
would lead to the establishment Of department
of the government on engineering work. instead
of having these matters in the hands Of the War
Department An executive committee was ap-
pointed and to-day it met here and issued the
following call:
1.-THE executive board hereby call a convention
of the temporary and engineers committee on
national public works, TO be held in Cleveland,
O., on March 81, 1886. The purpose of this con-
vention is to close up the work of the temporary
organization with q view to the prominent or
ganization which is to be formed on the follow
ing day, or on April l. The main topics
for consideration at this convention will be the
constitution aud bylaws and the providing of
ways and means to carry into effect the action of
the convention. The executive board must con-
Rratuate all interested in the movement on the
spontaneous response to the action of the con-
yention Of Dec. g. 1885. It would seem as if the
sentiment of those best informed only needed
nucleus about which to crystalline. Already,
twenty-five societies, with membership of some
twenty-six hundred, have in some manner re-
sponded favorably. 1t is but matter of time
when all will be included. Until, however, the
movement is deeply grounded and thoroughly
organized, 1t is not thought wise to make special
effort for general public cooperation, though
many public men have already exhibited graft
flying interest"
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PoLAND's HOPE.
Bismarcl's Proscriptive Policy May Result
in Polish Independence.

LONDON, March 6. - Bismarck, Poland's
Hope" is the healing of sensational article
by great Polish landowner, which, since its-
publication in the Schleswig Zeitune, the other
day. has been making much stir among political
circles. The writer revives an idea, or dream.
much talked of in the diplomatic world couple
of years ago. and counsels his country men t.,
submit gracefully to appropriation from Posen-
Paradoxically he declares by so doing they may
regain Polish independence 'Bismarck's pro-
posal to buy out the Polish landlords" says he,
lis the greatest service done to Poland, since the
time of Kosciusko. Our patriotic nobles.s en-
riched with German money, will be enabled to
settle down in Russian and Austrian Poland.
Our hearts may bleed. but however painful it
may be TO give up so much territory, we must il
our fatherland is not to be phantom. Other
wise our patriotism will prove a fruitless mar
tyrdom Let US recognize the eastern frontier
of Germany as the western frontier of Poland.
The Polish question alone keeps peace between
Russia and Germany. Once remove Germany's
interest in that question and war between the
two countries is inevitable The day which sees
that war begin will SEQ the beginning OF a resur-
rection of Poland Germany could hare no
stronger guarantee against Russian aggression
than an independent state extending across
Europe from the Baltic to the Black sea-
Prince Bismarck has omitted to thank the
writer. but the semi-oficial organs comment on
the article favoraby
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Indignation Among Germans.

Washington Special to Cincinnati Enquirer.
The appointment of a so.called colored Demo
crat to one of the best-paying local Offices in
Washington has greatly incensed the Germans
or is Sity. A prominent applicant for the
plafe was Mr.. Louis Schade, the editor of the
Washington Sentinel Mr.. Schade has been a
jealous Democrat for years. He was recon-
mended for the position by Secretary Bayard, by
Oswald Ottendorfer, editor of the New York
Staatz Zeitung and by reputable Germans of
national prominence Mr. Schade is resident
of Washington and a real estate owner. In
spite of these considerations the President has
seen fit to ignore the German and import here
cot only colored man, but one who has no in
terests in the city. The people here would have
much preferred to have allowed Fred Douglass
to keep his Office rather than carpet-bagger
should have it, because Douglass does own prop
erty and is identified with Washing
ton City as resident. Mr.. Schade
takes his defeat philosophically He is not will
ing to denounce the Presidents act, though he
has very decided opinions. In his paper to-day
he says: If the President believes that he can
break the color line by appointing negroes and
thereby induce the negroes to vote the Demo
cratic ticket, he is sadly mistaken. The negroes
will stick to the Republican party as long as tlte
latter is aoe TO control the negro preachers, and
through them, the negro churches. There is.
however. possibility to get at least portion of
the negroes to join the Democrats. and that is by
proper local organization and individual efforts
of Democrats They alone can convince the
negroes that it is in their best interest to support
those who really. especially in the South have to
feed and support then."
The proprietor Of one of the leading hotels in
this city. who has lived in Albany. says he knows
the colored appointee. To his words
Matthews is mean niger If the President
had hunted the country over he could not have
found worse one. He is no more nor less than
a snide police court lawyer"
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THE KNIGHTS.

Present Movements Merely Prelude to De-
mands of an Extraordinary Character.
Galveston Special.
Persistent investigation has resulted in discov-
ering that all of the present strikes and the
aggressive course just inaugurated in the Mallory
boycott are the result of certain exceedingly
confidential communications recently sent out
by the national executive committee of the
Knights of Labor instructing all district assem-
blies that had the smallest or most trivial griev-
ances that had not been presented for adjustment
to press the same to an immediate settlement,
irrespective of the desires Of local assem-
blies. The exact object OF this general
upheaval from New York to the gulf
was not explicitly set forth in these orders,
but it was intimated therein that the time had
arrived for the organization to make itself felt
from one end of the country to the other 1t was
further stated that this general move was to
prove remedial only in cases of ordinary griev
ances and for the achievment of such higher
wages as might ordinarily be demanded in such
cases. The circular vaguely limited that no ex-
traordinary demands should be made at this
time as the order of Knights had in view plans
for general advance In wages of every descrip-
tion at future day, and other demands of an
extraordinary character. These secret instruc-
tions to officials offer an explanation the many
pending strikes, and furnish key to the present
troubles on the Texas Pacific and elsewhere in
Texas.
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TIE UTAH WOMEN.
! They Insist on Their Polygamous Rights,
and Denounce Government Interference.

SALT LAKE, U. T., March IA large meeting
sf Mormon women was held in the theater, yes
serday. lasting until late hour. Many speeches
were made, and protest adopted. One Of the
speakers, ir upholding the right of woman to go
into polygamy said that thousands of women in
the East, now in prostitution, would be glad to be
made wives such as the speakers were It was
maintained that the government here had no
right to say women shall not marry. It might
as we'll take the opposite course and compel vir-
gins from cloisters 20 marry. Such social pref
erences should be respected. The government
had no right to interfere. The protest declared
that womanhocd had been outraged in the courts
In questions about expected maternity, fathers
Of children, etc. Suffrage was declared to be a
vested right in women here and not to be at
tackled. An emphatic denial was made that they
voted otherwise than according to their free
will Noble women who had refused to an
swer questions propounded by the courts were
eul0gized. and the action OF Judge Zane and
United States Attorney Dickson in requiring
testimony from legal wife against her husband
IN unlawful cohabitation cases Was condemned.
The wives and mothers of the United States
were called upon to come 70 the assistance of the
women Of Utah In their resistance to interfer-
enee with their rights. A committee was ap-
pointed 70 rnemorialize the President on the sub.
jeck
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Breach That Is Constantly Widening. and
Which Calls for the Exercise of the High
est Order of Statesmanship.
The Strike on the Gould Lines Will Be
Enlarged, Unless the Roads Yield.
Present Labor Movements Said To Be Prelim-
mary to Extraordinary Demands Strike
News from All Parts of the Country.
A GROWING DANGER.

The Strife Between labor and Capital and
the Anxiety 1t Is Arousing.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, March Elm the quiet, where
one can hear who will report authority. one
Of the most serious subjects for discussion
among the public men here to-day is the attitude
of labor towards capital, and the probable out
come of organized workirgmen as an organiza-
ton. Nearly every one comedies that the more
organization there is the greater is the distance
between the laborer and employer, and every
one acknowledges that the man who will be able
to avert what seems to be inevitable-riots, war
and destruction of propertv-will be the wisest
statesman Of the day. But the organization of
labor is such powerful element in politics that
few public men will speak their honest views
where they can be heard
So serious Is this matter becoming in the
United States that the State Department some
time ago directed our agents in foreign countries
to gather all the information about strikes Ia
Dor troubles and the grievances of laboring men
obtainable. to be used in drawing experiences
in this country. The reports are not encourag-
ing. In some countries the organization of la
Dor for the arbitrary dictation of wages ETC.,
is looked upon as contrary to good government
and as the seed Of rebellion.
Socialism has grown so greatly in Holland
that the government is resting on volcano
Revolution is threatened openly, and politics
sought to be controlled by laboring men by force
They petition corporations and individuals threat
eningly, and declare war as against idleness. De-
struction of property stares employers in the
face when they talk of economy in the admins
tration Of their affairs, and as a consequence
there is distress in commerce. So far the COM
parison Of the condition Of several countries
with that of this is not encouraging when the
manufacturer thinks of labor.
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proposed reduction OF the duty on pig-iron anG
wrought scrap iron. and warning the committee
and Congress of the alarming consequences cer-
tain to follow such reduction. The consequence,
he said of the reductions of 1871 and 1883 have
been most disastrous. The manufacture Of pig
iron is In very depressed condition. Prices
have fallen steadily to September, 1855. since
when there has been slight rally. There has
been q most unequal competitive struggle be-
tween the foreign producers at low wages and the
homo producers at higher wages One by one our
furnaces closed and put out their fires and many
of those who continued the 6ght were driven into
bankruptcy and ruin. With thousands of work
men idle at home, large quantities OF the foreign
pig and scrap iron have continued to arrive and
supply our markets, to the exclusion OF the home
product The sufferings of our workmen and
the losses of their employers want only sacri-
feed in favor of foreign capital and cheap labor,
will never be definitely known. II there was
anything to hope from the present Congress the
association would ask to have the duty on pig
iron put at eight dollars per ton. which is no
more than would overcome the difference In
wages paid abroad and at home The duty on
wrought scrap iron should be fixed at ten dol
lars. The makers Of pig-iron are utterly in fear
OF this continual nagging at the tariff. The per
petual tinkering paralyzes business demoral-
ICES trade and has reduced the makers to such q
state OF mind that they would be glad to get back
fifty cents on the dollar of their money invested.
They would prefer free trade to the proposed
rate of duty, because they believe that the
stronger the dose the more rapid will be the re-
covering of the patient
Mr.. Wrestling, representing the United States
Association of Charcoal Iron-workers read a pa
per protesting against the passage of the Morr
son bill. They not only protested against re-
duction OF duty on iron. but requested that the
rules prevailing prior to 1883 be restored; that all
duties be made specific, and that duty be i'm
posed to protect the manufacturers of tin plate.
Mr. George III. Ely, representing the ore pro-
ducara n IA faol n W. of
oping American deposits as compared with
the easy production of foreign countries. where
it was only necessary to dig up the earth The
mining business in this country, he said. had not
been profitable investment More money had
been sunk IN the Lake Superior district than
would ever be got out. Mr. Throp Penn
sylvania iron maker. said that the ore should be
protected. If the South could get better ores
and make cheaper iron, he would say: "God
speed let the South be built up" But legisla-
ton that might prove detrimental to two hundred
and ten thousand workmen should be very care
fully considered.
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Miscellaneous Notes.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, March 7.-Civil-service Com
missioner Edgerton returned, this evening, from
his home, at Ft. Wayne.
Otis L. Baldwin, of Lagrange, is in the city.
1t is said that Col Mark Miller of Winches.
ter, who was here several weeks until a few days
ago, when he went home. and who was very
much interested in learning whether the nomi-
nation of c. r. Pollard, of Delphi, to be asso-
ciate justice of Montana, would be confirmed,
failed in his examination before the Civilserv-
ice Commission. Colonel Miller at last. be-
came willing to take almost any place, and, be-
ing finally referred to the Civl-service Commits
sion, drowned his hopes there, and went home
in disgust. His friends say he would not accept
the Pollard position now, even though it went
begging.
Private advices from ex-Minister John w.
Foster and party report their safe arrival at
Mexico Mrs Foster. who quite i'll at New
Orleans, has entirely recovered her health.
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strength of the Organization.

st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Very little is generally known as to the back
ing Of the Knights Of Labor concerned in the
strike here 1t is ascertained from the most re-
liable sources that District Assembly No. II,
with headquarters in this city, has a member
ship of from 1900 to f5. 900, and within radius
of 800 miles are about so 900 Knights of Labor.
Altogether in the country there are, counting
some newly organized assemblies about 160 dis
trict assemblies some of which are very strong
numerically considered Some of the district
assemblies in the manufacturing districts Of the
East count up fully $4,000 members, and
of the total mem bership of the order various es-
Inmates given, ranging from 500, 900 to !, ,500,
0J0. In close connection with the knights of La
Dor in this city is the International Working
Peoples Association, which will give the Knights
of Labor their moral support, and, if necessary,
material aid. Both organizations are said to be
in close communion, and will act in concert IN
any emergency that may arise. The numerical
strength of the L w. p. A. has been greatly un-
derestimated, from the fact that they do not care
to let their exact numbers be known. In the
various groups of the order are included some
thing like 10, 600 members in this State and lii
nois alone. IN this city and close vicinity ar6
probably 10000 men who are members Of organ
izations directly upholding the strikers Of Dis
trict Assembly No 10l.
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FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

Crestiallen Appearance of Dixie When He
Appeared in the House.
LONDON, March 6-Sir Charles Dilke's mode
of reappearing was in harmony with his general
conduct. He skunk behind the Speakers chair
into the House at time when handful OF mem
bers were present He was ashamed TO look
even the door-keeper in the face. He wishes to
train himself for return into public life. He
wants to creep back unobserved. but he will find
it impossible. 1t is not true that he was offered
Office. Mr. Chamberlain sticks faithfully to him.
Mr.. Gladstone offers him the cold shoulder. Mr..
Morley, being under obligations. dare not refuse
to shake hands. Altogether his first attempt to
choke it ont was miserable fasco. He has not
been seen since Wednesday.
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Ohio's Soldiers Roster.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON. March Secretary of State
Robinson, of Ohio, who came here on Friday
night, says he has succeeded in his mission, hav-
ing procured the missing names which are to go
into the roster of Ohios soldiers in the late war;
soon to be published by the Adjutant general of
the State General Robinson says the roster
will make eight or ten volumes and that it will
now be complete, and will soon be issued The
missing enrollments were procured at the War
Department of Adjutant general Drum. Ohio
enlisted almost as many soldiers as any other
State and her roster has never been published.
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Which He Would Gladly Recall if He Could
Do So Without Loss of Dignity-Indig-
nation Among German Democrats.
Southern House Members Will Prevent
the Passage of the Blair Bill.
Representatives Of Plg-Iron and Charcoal
Workers Enter Strong Protests Against
the Proposed Tariff Reductions.
DoUGLAss,s SUCCESSOR.

The President Discovers that He Has Made
Serious Mistake.
Special TO the indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, March president Cleveland,
it . reported to night, very much regrets having
gone to Albany for man to succeed Fred Doug
lass an recorder of deeds for this District after
promising the position to the local Democracy.
It's said no 30 much regrets the mistake, which
he finds to have been quite serious, that he would
resAll the appointment were it not for what he
considers the high character Of Matthews, the
appointce. The entire local press sharply criti-
else the appointment. and, without exception,
advise its withdrawal. It is universally pro-
nounced purely political move, and one intend
edto have bearing upon the nomination in
1888
President Cleveland can rest assured that
the Democrats of the District of Columbia will
not bother him for any favors hereafter" said
one OF the most influential of the local Demo
Gratis here, to-day. "The trip out Of the Dis
trict for recorder of Deeds after the solemn
premise that all the Offices here should go to the
residents of the city, is enough to break the
carnels back. It took good deal of persuasion to
get the President to appoint the District men he
has appointed so far. He wanted to go to New
York for 5 marshal, and, presume, would have
taken New York man for District Commission
or had it not been that the Office actually requires
experience here"
Such Indignation as is expressed about this
matter was never before heard here. The local
offAers were preempted after the election, when
it was remembered that the national platform
pledged them to the local men, and when place
so prominent as recorder of deeds went to New
York it was too much to withstand just now
New York seems, by the way, to be getting
nearly everything-an indication, it is said, that
the President has his eye on the situation of
1888
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sides will probably attempt coup detat to-mor-
row. At Galveston the twelve local assemblies
of Knights of Labor held prolonged meetings to-
day.
Sherman advices say reports have been re-
ceived from the Texas Pacific management to
hire all unemployed laborers possible who are not
members of the Knights of Labor, and to fur
nish them transportation to other points.
At Denison the strikers held a long secret ses
sion to-day, and show no signs of weakening.
AT Palestine the Knights have detailed guard
to protect property and watch the company's
shops
At Big Springs everything is quiet No trains
came in or went out to-day.
The strike has not reached Waco Austin or
San Antonio, but the Knights held largely at
tended meetings to-day at each place in antici-
patton of to-morrow's orders.
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Vhislv. Theft and suicide.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. March Everett Smith,
vile Typographical Union, committed suicide in
Spring Park last night, and was found dead,
with bullet through his heart. this morning.
He left letter ascribing his woes to whisky,
and confessing that he was behind with the
funds of the union of which he was secretary.
During the early part of the afternoon, Satur-
day, he mixed freely with his friends. and, it is
said, drank heavily. though not enough to make
him drunk. Later in the evening he disap-
peared from the streets, and was seen no more
by his acquaintances until his remains were
brought in to the undertaker's.
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Chasing the Wrong Man.

DETROIT. Mich. March THE man Aleck,
who has been hunted all over this State on sus
picion of being the murderer of rhe Knoch fam
lily, whose charred remains were found ir the
ruins of their home on the 10th of last Decem-
Der, was found in this city to day. He has
never been out of the city, had not heard of
Frank Knoch's death until week ago, and was
informed today, for the first time, of the MUIR
der OF Mrs. Knoch and the children. He Is an
ignorant Polander. aud evidently knows nothing
of the murder. He was arrested, but almost
Immediately released, there being no evidence
against him.
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WHEN INDICATIONS.
hoNDAY.-Glde far weather.
TEN. HOURS ENOUGH

The movement on foot among
the retail clothing interests OF
the city, which advocates the
closing at 6 o'clock p. m. every
night except Saturday night
and possibly Monday night,
is a good one, and receives the
unqualified Endorsement of the
WHEN. If this time for clos
ing shall be adopted by all
clothiers alike the result will,
in volume of business trans
acted, be just the same as un-
der the present system. We
are ready to act with move
ment organized for this purpose
at the
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Failure of the Government Tea Farm.

WASHINGTON, March 7.-Commissioner Col
man, of the Department of Agriculture. has quite
unfavorable report upon the government tea
farm at Summerville, S. G. Mr.. Vardell, the
superintendent, writes him that the severe win
ter and protracted cold weather have stripped
the tea plants of their foliage. He says that he
thinks that some varieties dead to the root
The Commissioner is of the opinion that the ex-
peiimental tea farm had better be abandoned