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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06

The Philadelphia Record uses the following
able argument in opposition to the Blair edu.
c~ational bill: s'There is just as much pro-
priety in feeding i~lliterate persons at the
national expense as there is in teaching them,
or as there is in taxing one man for the bene-
fit of another man. and just as much consti.
~tutional authority for it, 1t must, naturally,
be inferred from this that the Record objects
to imposing a school tax upon any citizen who
has no children, or, being blessed with them,
does not send them to the public schools. In,
dividuals 50 situated are commonly supposed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06

BESIDES it's impertinence and bad temper,
Mr.. Cleveland's message to the Senate on the
question of removals is full of grotesque
ignorance of the Law. In one place the PresiS
dent says: ''There is no mysterious power Of
transmutation in departmental custody, nor is
there any magic in the underlined and sacred
solemnity Of department. files" And in an
other: II suppose if I desired to take them
into my custody I might do so with entire
propriety, and if / saw fit to destroy them no
one could complain" Now the law of the
United States is as follows:
''fSec. 5403. Every person who. wilIfully de-
stroys or attempts to destroy, OF, with intent
to steal or destroy, takes and carries away any
record. paper or proceeding of a court Of JUS
tice, filed or deposited with any clerk or
officer of such court, or any paper, or docu-
ment, or record filed or deposited in any public
Office or with any judicial or public officer
shall, without reference to the value of the
record, paper, document or proceedings so
taken, pay a fine of not more than So, 900, or
suffer imprisonment at hard labor not more
than three years, or both.
"Sec. 540S. Every officer having the Gus
tody of any record, document, paper or pro-
ceeding specified in Section 5403, who fraud
ulently takes way, or withdraws, or destroys
any such record, document, paper or proceed
ing filed in his office or deposited with him or
in his custody, shall pay a fine of not more
than two thousand dollars, or suffer imprison-
mont at hard labor not more than three years,
or both; and shall, moreover. forfeit his office
and be forever afterward disqualified from
holding any Office under the government Of
the United States"
It would seem from these sections that
there is a very vital power of transmission
in departmental custody" and a very decided
magic in the sacred solemnity of departmental
files" Probably the weakest and most pusil-
Luminous plea made by the President, second
to the defense Of the grand infamy of the
whole assassination conspiracy, is that the doc
uments o. file in the department are '1private
letters" Not even Presidents file "private"
letters in the public departments When
such are filed they are transmitted" into
public documents.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06
COMMENT AND OPINION.

ANDY JoHNsoN's neck was quite as stiff AS
Grover Cleveland's, but it had to bend -Cleve-
land Leader.
SENATOR JONES, of Florida, hasn't introduced
a bill this season. What he lacks in billing in
Washington he's making up in cooling in Detroit.
Philadelphia News.
EVERY American citizen accused in a writing
deposited in any public Office has a right to see
the accusation, unless he is a formal criminal.
National Republican.
TT was by q "mere accident" that Grant was
given his opportunity; but 1t was not by any ac-
cident that he fought his way to the position of
the foremost soldier of his time. -Boston Her,
aid.
THE truth is that the protective policy cannot
be successfully assailed from any part of the
Union; In one feature or another It Is essential
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06

to be contributing Indirectly, by means Of
their taxes, to their own benefit as well as to
that of others, and the same is equally true
of the many, a portion Of whose taxes shall
go to promote the education of the Southern
negroes and poor whites. Those who do not
profit directly from this outlay receive their
recompense in the general good. the same in
one case as in the other.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06
In n of his Sermons" on Thursday, a

In one Of his sermons" on Thursday, at
Chicago, Sam Jones said:
81 wish to apologize to those clerks who
were present and had to leave before I got
through. AS to you fellows who went because
you wanted to go, | have. nothing to say, ex-
cept | am ready and willing to hit you again.
In any event. | have the dead wood on all Of
you to-day, clerks included. You can't get
out until / get through"
And the following is from the report Of
another of his Sermons"
<It reminded the speaker of the palsied old
fellow who got his boy to shake the tree,
while an old shotgun in his trembling hands
kept pointing at every twig on the tree.
Bang went the gun, down came the squirrel,
the old man yelling out in exultation: 4
told you I would hit him. 1t would be darned
funny said the boy, If you didn't, with that
old gun shooting everywhere in the tree"
By all means, as the Journal has before said
the Christian ministers should unite in invit-
ing this mountebank to Indianapolis, abandon
their church services, hire him a tent, and al
60 crazy over the greatest evangelist since
st. Paul" There is such a striking similarity
between ST. Paul and Sam Jones. Seriously,
nothing could bring greater reproach upon the
churches, or tend to bring them into deeper
contempt, than for them to acknowledge their
inferiority as a means of grace to this ribald
slangwhanger, and close their doors to crowd
the audiences that are attracted by his coarse
ness. 1t is inexplicable that preachers with
ordinary brains and self-respect can be caught
by these ilI-omened birds of passage.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06
Bank Clerks Charged with Embezzlement

Bank Clerks Charged with Embezzlement
PITTsBURG March 5.-Thomas Christian and
James King, clerks in the First National Bank
of Bradford, Pa, have. been arrested on a charge
of embezzling $50. 900 from that institution, most
of which was Loot in oil speculation. King had
charge of the individual accounts and Christian
of the correspondence and remittances. They
went into collision and invented an ingenious
system of cooking the accounts, whereby drafts
made to appear much smaller than they
really were. This has been kept mp
since last July. A large amount of
currency has been laid by in anticipation of q
run to -morrow. The young men are well con-
nected. They are imprisoned in a hotel in Brad
ford, in default of bail. They have confessed
to the cashier, and will assist in Strengthening
the books. AT the exchange yesterday 400, 900
barrels of oil were bought in for their account.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06

The doctors charges are altogether too big,
and the next Legislature must give us a lower
fee bill. The doctors are now patented (by
law; and they are dedicated to a public use
there are more doctors than there are tele-
phones. The Legislature must fix the doc
tors charges, and the Supreme Court will up
hold the law, even if it has to resort to the
notice. mower.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06

Two hundred ladies of Englewood, ILL.,, led
by a determined sister, intend to demand the
right to vote at the coming town election.
This is too much. The public has about all it
cares to bother about with strikes all over the
country, and telephone muddles in Indiana
and in the Presidents Cabinet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06
A Paper Company ASSIGNS.

CLEVELAND, March 5.-The Cuyahoga Paper
Company, at Cuyahoga Falls, O., made an as
Segment to-day. The company is composed Of
Isadore NJ. Losier and Robert r. PEBBLES, and
the assignment is said to be due TO the
failure Of M. Losier, an extensive rag
dealer Of Buffalo. The assets are placed at
S., 900 personally, 500. 900 real estate, and. in adj
dltion TO these amounts, Isadore Losier owns an
interest in the Cuyahoga Falls Touring mill. val
ued at So, 700. The liabilities are not stated, but
there are preferences to the amount of SOL, coo.
Eighty men are thrown out Of employment
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06

THE Galveston strike and boycott are liable
to reach a conclusion soon. The Knights pro-
pose to boycott the whole town, and the town
prefers to go a-fshing rather than to endure
the tyranny of the Knights. Things are so
extreme on both sides that the very tension
will force a speedy adjustment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06
county.

WITH the best the railway managers can do
now the new union depot will be old by the
time it is finished. In fact, it is old to
start with, the very plans having been talked
into a hoary condition. However, an old
depot will be a welcome change from the
present ruin.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06

on Sunday. His good brethren will stand
ready to say they told him So" and that if
hs had gone about that track-laying prayer
fully and lawfully he would never have had
any strikes to bother him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06
Failures for the Week.

New YORK, March 5.-The business failures
during the last seven days, as reported to e. @.
Dunn & Co.. number for the United States, POT;
for Canada. 80; total, 246, against 248 last week.
and 286 the week previous. Business troubles
seem to be on the increase in Canada, while all
through the United States they are about up to
the average.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06

To print the innumerable bills that are in
troduced into Congress costs about 500, 900
q year. OF these a little over | per cent. are
passed. One of the requirements of congress
sional candidates should be a pledge not to
introduce SO many bills. A member can do
his whole duty then, without making an ex-
pensive fool of himself.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06

DEACON RICHARDSON, of Brooklyn, who
bad such a hard time on Thursday in get
ting down town Oh one of his own street
cars, Is probably the deacon Of that name who
got into trouble in his church . year or SO
$50, because he persisted in having track laid
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06
More Trouble for smith.

ALBANY, N. Y. March ga special 10 the
Press and Knickerbocker, from Cobleskill. m. Y.
says: when Mr.. Smith, the uncle of Mrs. Rich.
who was shot by her husband. in st. Paul, re-.
Gently, arrives here with the body Of Mrs. Rich.
no viii be given six hours to leave town Or he
treated to q coat OF tar and feathers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06

The new union depot really looks as if it
we're to be a Ego" this time; but as indications
were equally promising a year ago it may be
as welto restrain enthusiasm over the project
until something more definite is known. The
public yearns for the depot, but doesn't care to
De again excited over the matter unneces-
aarilY.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06

The Blair educational bill passed the Sen
ate yesterday, by vote Of 36 to IL. Four
Republicans, Frye, Hale, Ingalls, and Jones of
Nevada, voted in the negative.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06

New YORK has nearly 1000 unlicensed
saloons. A large per cent. of the distress OF
workingmen, as Of crimes, arises from these
places. They'are the bane of modern society.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06

IT will not be necessary for the eminent
and gifted author of "Hurra for Maria" etc,
to revisit Washington. He can remain at
home and feed upon the mast of Morgan
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06

THE Sunday Journal Of tomorrow will not
be so 'slangy" as one of Sam Jones's sermons,
but we can venture to recommend it, even to
the preachers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06
Dropped Dead m ND witness-Rox

MONTREAL. March 5-During the trial., this
morning. OF John 5. Dyde. Junior partner Of the
firm of Eckersdorff 8 Co. for forgery, Colonel
Hitness-box.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06

The State-house plumbing is defective.
That is what the plumbers have all along
said. Possibly, it will turn out that we have
a regular cheap-John affair on our hands after
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06

TIL President may yet get even by order
ing Mr.. Garland to take the Pan-electric tele
phone out of the Senate chamber.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06

READ the Sunday Journal. 1t will be full
of good things.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL.

Csx be found at the following places:
uOND0N-American Exchange in Europe, 449
Strand.
YPARTS-American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard
des Capucines.
NEW YORK-St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels.
CRICAGO-Palmer House.
CINCINNATI. r. Hawley s. Co.. 154 Vine street.
LOUISvILLE-C. T. bearing, northwest corner
Third and jefferson streets.
ST. LOUIS-Union News Company. Union Depot
and Southern Hotel.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Riggs House and Ebbitt
House.
Telephone Calls.
cpo a r. ~. D. oA0
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-06

all.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-03
NEWS OF THE MORNING.

FoREIGN.-The first clause of the Polish
bill has been adopted in the Prussian Diet
800. French journals take gloomy view of
the situation in the East. Great opposi-
ton is manifested in England to the grant
ing Of Parliament to Ireland. The Pail
BAL Gazette predicts Gladstone's defeat
The labor situation at Decazeville, France
is still strained. Pasteur's wolf-bitten
patients have nearly all returned to Russia
their wounds having healed IA final
strong remonstrance is to be presented to
the Greek Government by the Powers.
Silver in London, 46sd; consols, 100 7-l6d 4;
4s, 1888 As l144.
EASTERN Wilson's execution at
Lexington, Mo. was witnessed by 5000
people. High water continues to do
great damage east of the Rockies ....Still
another Alderman has been arrested in
New York for corruption. ..... Nearly all the
prominent city officials of East ST. Louis
have been indicted for criminal acts ...
Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks is en- route to
California......A remarkably rich silver dis
covery is reported from Dakota "A dia-
Inond worth 100000 is said to have been
found in South Carolina. The railroad
rate war is said to be ended and rates are
to be restored to the old basis. Govern
ment bonds are quoted in New York at
10 lOl u VI IbVit llz2 LOT 43St STERLING,
81 S7@4 SO; 1907 for IS silver bars, 1929
WAsHIHGToN.-Ca lifornians are petition
ing Congress not TO reduce the duty on
chrome IRON. General Crook has been
transferred from The Department of Ari-
iona to the Department of the Platte.
General Howard has been assigned to the
Division Of the Pacific 49, Consideration of
the labor arbitration bill occupied the time
of the House Yesterday
Pacific SLoPE.-John Tychson commit
ted suicide at Oakland....A moving car
killed Andrew Cooper at lone, Amador
county.....Fire destroyed J. Henderson's
residence at Red Bluff. Phillips, the dis
senting Prewett juror. has been arrested at
Hollister on a charge of perjury......D. d.
Bedell. The actor injured at Colusa recently,
has died Of his Wounds. Burglars are
" cracking safes in Vallejo.....A fall of
sixteen feet shOckingly injured Patrick
Rogers at Boston Ravine, Nevada county.
Nv. H. Gilbert suicided near Columbia,
Tnolumue county, with rat poison ... Bert
Rico accidentally shot and killed John
Glatzbach at Monterey Thomas Evans
was killed in a well near Walla Walla. w.
T.......Judson Young, Government en-
plnys, has bee" found dead in bed at Vic
Toria B. c.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-03

Government, for the full discharge of per-
sonal duty by citizens would render them
unknown. If we will but bring to the
conduct of public affairs the same jealousy
for the law and the integrity of the funda-
mental principles of free government that
we do in the conduct of private business,
for our private rights and personal priyi-
leges the national heart would never need
to he quickened, nor would there develop
any serious menaces to free government.
Laxity of morals in individuals of COM
munity is invariably reflected in lowered
moral sense of the community as an aggre-
gated force, in all its activities. So, too,
neglect of duty and submission to encroach-
ments upon the laws and their underlying
principles result in an impoverlshment of
the public life currents, and as a conse-
quence disorders and violence and resort
to unlawful methods develop precisely as
do ulcers upon the body the tone of which
is lowered The salvation and preservation
of the nation, therefore, is dependent upon
the personal patriotic activity of every
Individual endowed with citizenship.
Against such activity no sort of assault
can prevail, no possible menace need be
feared, whether it comes from the unrest
of labor, the injection of the virus of So
cialism, or the schemes of domestic foes.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-03
THE CHINESE IN TRANSIT.

Mr.. Morrow's letters to the Secretary of
State and Attorney-General on the Chi
nese transit question have unquestionably
made deep impression upon the Admin
istration Mr. Morrow sent the spear home
when he pointed out that Mr. Belmont's
resolution declares further legislation on
the Chinese question unnecessary, because
the present law is effective, while the De-
partments of State and Justice admit that
the Restriction Act is silent as to Chinese
in transit, and through which department
tai loop-hole the undesirable element has
been pouring into the country. Both the
Secretary and the Acknowledgement prac-
tically admit the position taken by Mr.
Morrow to be sound, and evince strong
desire that the question shall be speedily
determined judicially. If Mr.. Morrow
presents the issue thus made to Congress
persistently it is altogether probable that
he will succeed in that at which he aims,
the establishment of some system by which
Chinese honestly in transit can be secured
that privilege, and those who use the tran
sit regulation to come into the United
States unlawfully can be stopped, and
turned back upon their course.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-03

Opportunity offered at Salt Lake last
Wednesday for RECORD UNION representa-
tives to ask Miss Anderson, the actress, n
few questions, to which she made brief re-
sponses. She replied to inquiry that she
had stated her intention in London, as was
telegraphed some months ago, to play in
Sacramento, because it was the place of her
birth, and she was most anxious to do So
She was aware of the historic Importance
of the capital in California history, and
was proud to know that she was to be wei
coined by social organizations, and she
would be delighted at the mark of esteem.
Her engagements would not now permit her
to play return engagement. In England
she had not met, as some suppose is the
case with American artists, with any doubt
of American ability to command critical
favor. She had found no perceptible diff
ference, she said, between the exactions of
the American and English public The
English are best pleased with Shakespearean
presentations on the stage She said she
began dramatic study at the age of IS in
Louisville, and she took it up from pure
love of the art. She did not think it more
difficult now than formerly to command a
hearing for the legitimate As to her
home she claimed it to be California She
had lived but sixteen years in Kentucky
OF her father she had little recollection
he lost bis life in battle while she was very
young. Her mother is at present in Eng
land. Her stepfather and brother accom-
pany her in her travels. Miss Anderson is
ayerse to interviews, and the Minneapolis
Tribune. which strove to secure an inter
view with her, declares that no paper has
ever succeeded, and that all purported in
terviews with her are bogus" but the re-
sponses given above were had from the lady
direct by the RECORD UNION.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-03

clearly enough defined and the punish
ment is severe; but there is so much OPP
portunity to delay; so much of error made
possible, that even an honest prosecutor
may rest under suspicion; such broad OPP
portunities to wear out the patience of
Courts and the lives of witnesses, that
shrewd and calculating lawyer, backed by
political bosses, can generally manage to
fight off a trial where political influence is
involved until ''the thing blows over"
There ought to be some sure, swift and per-
fectly just method of dealing with offend
ers against the ballot-box Those who as
sail it strike at the most sacred principle
in the whole system of the republic, since
it is the foundation, spring and source of
government by the popular will. The man
who hampers with the ballot-box ought to
be treated as we serve the burglar who
breaks into the domestic castle.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-03
EXECUTIONS.

\ bill is pending before the Legislature
of New York to supersede hanging by
some other method of lnficting capital
punishment. 1t provides for commission
to examine, adopt and report method to
the next Legislature. Hanging ought to
be abolished and something substituted for
1t. The Spanish garotte is better, speedier
and more certain, and inflicts least pain.
Killing by gases, opiates and electricity,
and other schemes, havea all been suggested.
and thus far none have been received
with more favor than the latter. But
while the Legislature of New York is
about it, it should provide for common
executioner-that is, all executions should
take place at one point, and be performed
under one supervision, say at one of the
State Prisons should be officially witnessed
only, and no sensational and denloralizing
and corrupting accounts of the execution
should be permitted. While we would
have no censorship of the press we would
not give reporters the opportunity to
secure material for their flaming stories
of scaffold death scenes Moreover, the
law should seclude the convicted one from
the hour OF final judgment to that of death
from the world, and not permit the Grim :
inal to pose as hero, and to respond to a
morbid taste for the sensational.