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And the Gentlemen Who Have Not Passed Sem
atorial Scrutiny Will Be Wise if They
Seek Employment in Other Fields.
The Pending Investigations Will Fur
nish Plenty of Campaign Material.
Mr.. Trenholm Supplies Facts Concerning Rice
Culture-The Present Session of Con-
gress May Last Until September.
UNcoNF1RMED NOMINEES.

The President Cannot Afford to Reappoint
the Rejected Officials.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-The announcement,
first made here on Monday morning, that At
torney general Garland had decided that the
nominees not confirmed by the Senate when
Congress adiourns this summer could not, and
would not be reappointed really created no sur
prise. Although there has been good deal said
about the determination of the President to re-
appoint the men who are not confirmed when the
Senate adjourned few here believed it, and many
have all along considered it mere bluff.
Every one comedies that the administration
cannot afford to keep man in Office or place him
there against the will Of majority of the SEN
ate. The injury it would work an administra-
ton to foist An officer upon people after he had
been rejected by the Senate, or after he had
been found of character so questionable that
the Senate did not deem his case worthy to be
taken up for disposal, is apparent Many Re
publican Senator'S have contended steadily that
the President could not, and would not, if he
could, afford such a thing. So the individuals
who are snugly ensconsed in federal positions
through the appointing power of the President,
and who have not been confirmed, need not rest
in calm repose in the belief that if they are not
confirmed they will be reappointed when the
Senate adiourns
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for free and full discussion of everything Much
dissatisfaction is being expressed on both sides
of the House because the debates are not more
frequently limited at the outset.
Several days were consumed in considering the
pension BILL when its subject-mattsr could have
been fully discussed-that is every feature that
needed discussion-in two hours. There is
standing order for general debate on the subject
Of coinage, which will undoubtedly occ- weeks
of time. when no one is foolish enough think
there can be anything done towards lging
the present law on the subject.
When the naval bill comes up there Is 10 be
food of talk; likewise on the bankruptcy BILL the
tariff, educational and score of other big bills.
There is some propriety in discussing these mat
ters, and yet there is not the least probability
the talking will stop till all have spoken their
fill
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Sparks Again Oyerruled.

WASHINGTON, March 11.--Secretary Lamar
has rendered decision reversing Commissioner
Sparks's decision denying an application for
Territory, upon deposit covering the expenses
thereof by the claimant The Secretary directs
that preliminary survey be made of ten square
leagues of land lying along the San Pedro river.
Tia decision is based upon the ground that
preliminary survey of an unconfrmed private
land claim in Arizona is an incident to the re-
port of the Surveyor general, and, there being
no appropriation for that purpose, there can be
no objection to such deposit being made as the
claimant is required finally to reimburse the
government for such expense In this case
Commissioner Sparks refused an appeal from his
decision and it was taken to the Secretary on
certiorari The case was argued before Assist
ant Secretary jerks by ex-Assistant Land Com.
missioner Harrison
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MIR. CLEVELAND AND HIS PARTY.

The New York Sun takes President Cleve-
land to task, not only for needlessly antago-
nizing the Senate, to which he must look for
the confirmation Of his appointments, but be-
cause he publicly cut adrift from his party at
time when there was no excuse for such a
declaration, even if there had been any cause
for such determination. The Sun quotes
the Presidents unkind thrust from his mes
sage to the Senate, as follows:
Neither the discomfort of party friends,
nor the allurements constantly offered of
confirmation of appointees, conditioned upon
the avowal that suspensions have been made
on party grounds alone, are sufficient to dis
courage or deter me from following in the way
which am convinced leads to better govern
ment for the people"
The Sun then proceeds to point out the
| analogy between the stand taken by Mr.
Cleveland and the hostile and cratic not to
say egotistic, attitude toward the Republican
party, twenty years ago, by Andrew johnson.
Proclaiming his spolicy," which was to be
the cure-all of the political world, for he i'm
agined that it had many disorders that he
alone could understand and treat, he appealed
to the people, and swung loose from his party.
"After a time,' the Sun continues "Mr.
Johnson discovered that the people knew how
to protect their own interests, and to put true
value on his services. They were not at all
misled by the ardor of his energetic and self
confident zeal, nor did they mistake in any
degree the plain questions that were raised
for them to decide" The Sun declares
that Clevelandis horizon as statesman is
more circumscribed than he is will
ing to admit. '1n believing that he
can control party of five millions of voters
beyond its own will and consent and dictate a
policy to which it has never subscribed and
will never accept" meaning, doubtless, his
Interpretation and partial application of the
civil-service law, the Sun thinks che has
fallen into an error that has overtaken even
greater men than he is" The Sun warns
him that this is a government of party, and
t It the success of any party entities it to
IL its own friends on guard over the trusts
for which it is responsible. "This has been
the uniform rule" it says, ''and whatever
temporary vagaries may prevail for the mo-
ment, it viii always remain the rule"
The Sun deplores the lack of wise leader
ship and craftsmanship shown by the Presi-
dent in alternating his party friends and in
thus slamming the door in their face at the
very moment when he challenged the hostil-
ity Of the opposition and stood most in need
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The Cincinnati Sun, Democratic, has in
telligence of how Pendleton man was bribed
TO vote for Payne and didn't realize it. A
500 mortgage was lifted from his house, and
"a woman of beauty and skilp' was employed
TO keep him company while the preliminary
work of electing Mr.. Payne was fixed up. At
the proper time he voted for the man who
had done so much for him. France never
produced rottener things in her history of
moral degradation and sensuality.
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oral degradation and sensuality.

EVERY sheriff and peace officer in Indiana
should take Governor Gray at his word; and
remember that any attempt by persons to take
the law into their own hands Unjust be resist
ed to the fullest extent This means that
sheriffs and jailers shall defend their prisoners
to the length of killing few of the mob
that attempts to take the law into their own
hands A little shooting on tho part of Off
GERS of the law, in the line of duty, would
put an end to lynchings. The Governors
letter should be framed and hung in every
sheriff's and jailer's office in the State.
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mandant at Norfolk has carried political intol-
erance to degree unthought Of by the Demo
cratic Governor at Richmond
The vevay Postmastsrshin.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON. March lit is not at all
probable that the nomination of Thiebaud, to be
postmaster at Vevay, will be confirmed He
was appointed to succeed Alfred Shaw. who was
gallant Union soldier. and who was suspended
upon frivolous charge that of being technically
short in his account A postofice inspector
arrived at Vevay one Sunday morning, pro-
ceeded to Shaw's residence and demanded that
he 60 to the postofice Immediately, open his
safe, and make an exposition of his accounts.
Before going to Vevay, this inspector boosted
that he was laying for" Shaw, and would have
MN removed upon some charge. The safe used
oy SHAW at the postoffice was a small affair and
not burglar-proof, and he was in the habit of de-
posting IN bank the bulk of the funds on hand
every day; SO the inspector found little over
SlO0 less money than the accounts in the safe
called for Shaw explained, however, that he
had the money In bank, and that it was Gus
tomary, through fear of burglars, to not keep
much money in the safe. and he at once went
out and got the amount necessary to make COM
plete his account but the inspector recon-
mended Shaw's suspension, and he was sus-
pended. An Union soldier was put in charge
of the Office temporarily. and it is very probable
that he will "hold the fort" till the Senate adj
Journs, when Thiebauds commission can be
issued
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MINOR MATTERS.
Commodore Truxton Flatly Contradicted by
Messrs. Boutelle and Brady

Commodore Truxton Flatly C0ntradicted by
Messrs. Boutelle and Brady.
WAsHINGToN, March IL. - Representatives
Boutelle, of Maine. and Brady, Of Virginia,
authorize the following statement in answer to
the letter of Commodore Truxton in regard to
the condition of affairs at the Norfolk navy
yard. They say it is Enthusiastically shown that
Commodore Truxton did cause the removal of
an honorable inscription from the dry dock en-
CINE. as charged and has given no reason there
for, and that he made wholesale removals of
Union soldiers and sailors and replaced them
with ex-confederates, in fragrant violation of
law. Commodore Truxton says he ALWAYS
doubted Mr.. Lyons loyalty to the government
at the time of its greatest need and in support
of this imputation he presents in his letter a
card alleged to have been published by Mr. Ly-
ons in 1861, processing allegiance to the confed-
crate cause Mr.. Lyons denounces the card as
an unqualified forgery and falsehood, and he so
denounced it publicly at the time OF its first ap-
pearance, during heated political campaign In
1868. Mr.. Lyons has copy of the Norfolk
Union newspaper of that date in which he pub
lished his statement denying that he had ever
issued or authorized such a card denouncing the
author as an ''unmitgated liar and challenges
the production Of any paper containing such a
publication in 1861 1t is curious to find, says
the statement that one colored man, j. X. Full
ler prominent member of the g. A r. re-
moved by Commodore Truxton for alleged '.of
fensive partisanship." has since been appointed
by Governor Fitzhugh Lee as member Of the
board of visitors TO the c0lored normal school Of
Virginia, 90 that the United States naval con
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Mr.. Vest Makes . Correctiou.

WASHINGTON. March lit is stated to-day
that in the synopsis of Senator Vests deposition
taken privately last evening By members Of the
House telephone investigation committee, and
furnished to the Associated Press by one Of its
members, Senator Vest was misquoted.
He was reported as having said;
"Mr. Garland represented to me that, in
his opinion, the Bell patent was illegally
obtained. and that the Pan-electric stock might
be worth some money" whereas the sgenog-
rapher's report makes Senator Vest say: II
then consulted with Senator Garland, who
stated to me that he had examined the matter
and that he had no doubt the Pan electric patent
was a perfectly valid one" Senator Vest also
said that Mr.. Casey Young told him that the
Bell patent had been procured by Fraud The
error caused by the member of the COM
mittee confusing the authorship of the two
statements
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Of friends. It intimates that, if he persists
in his present policy, he will imperil the
party's chance Of electing majority Of the
next House and the next President, and
clinches its argument by concluding: nBut
he cannot change the opinion nor weaken the
purpose Of the Democracy; and any attempt
to build up personal, or so-called peoples
party, will merely make victim of whosoever
undertakes to try the experiment"
The disadvantages that Mr.. Cleveland labors
under as chief executive are that he is just
enough statesman to have very narrow and
superficial appreciation Of the duties of the
high office he now occupies to make him a
dangerous exponent for his party, while his
obstinacy which his claquers praised as firm
ness, seems to convince him that he is greater
than his party, and can do without the sup
port and cooperation of any partisan organi-
zation. AS the Sun indicates, he is following
in the footsteps of johnson, and he will expe-
rience the same disappointment, and at the
end Of his term will as completely collapse.
Mr.. Cleveland is doing the country good serv-
ice. however, in exposing so publicly the in
sincerity of the party that nominated and
elected him. He has advertised the fact that
Democracy's professions are not what Democ-
racy cares to put into practice AS the Sun
admits, civil service reform, impartially APP
piled, is a policy which the Democratic
party will never accept. The President be-
trays his stupidity in expecting his party to
keep its word on this point. 1t is remarkable
that the lifelong Democrat he is does not
know his partys characteristics better. But
the play at statecraft goes on, the President
fatuously hoping to establish himself with
a following of some kind, and his party howl
ing in disrnay over the way he is exposing its
shortcomings, and the New York Sun, giving
voice to the outraged feelings of Democracy
exclaims:
1'The dispute between the President and
the Republican majority of the Senate sinks
into insignifcance when compared with the
differences between the President and the
party to whose generous support he owes his
present Importance"
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CLEVELAND AND TIE WoRKINeMEN.

Ou1t hLhHO AMI LII WO1hlHOmaAs
The Cincinnati Enquirer's Washington cor
respondent, commenting on the existing labor
troubles among the street-railway employees
Of New York and the employees of certain gen.
eral railway lines, makes the following strict
ures upon the President in his action wher.
Governor of New York, when it was pretty
clearly established that he was either the
friend or dupe of monopolists:
'But public opinion seizes upon the reminis-
cence that the riot of yesterday in New York
would never have occurred had Cleveland,
when he was Governor of the State, signed
the conductors bill. It seems that under
Cleveland's administration at Albany the mo-
nopolists over the public intercourse OF New
York got everything they wanted. If the
Legislature would pass bill to relieve con-
ductors and drivers from working sixteen to
eighteen hours out of the twenty-four at
scant wages, some reform lawyer of mug
wump connections was sent to Albany to fiat
ter Cleveland, and thus the five cent fare bill
on the Elevated roads railroads was vetoed,
and the conductors and drivers bill shared
the same fate When these issues were brought
up in the presidential election, the temporiz-
ing multitude began to hunt for arguments to
Justify the Governor. 1t was shown that he
was the protector of vested rights, and that he
was good deal of magistrate for not yield
ing to what was denominated clamor as If
the requests Of men to be allowed to live
by working from dawn to night constituted
something unjust and clamorous."
It will be remembered that these facts were
circulated all over the country during the
- &c 1ck 1aho
could mistake the Democratic candidates
record and attitude on this question. But for
his action while Governor, in vetoing the FIVE
cent fare bill for the elevated roads, and the
bill reducing the hours of service for workmen,
there would be no occasion for the present
difficulties between the surface roads and their
employees. But by remarkable inconsistency,
many workingmen who favor eight hours as a
days work did all in their power to elect as
President a man who had vetoed bill reduc-
ing the hours of street-car conductors from
sixteen to twelve, and further showed his
friendship for monopoly by vetoing an
other bill reducing the fare on the
elevated roads to five cents, measure that
would have been worth millions to the pub
lie, while the roads would hardly have suf-
fered, by reason of the fact that the reduced
fare would have increased the traffic, just as
it did on the Brooklyn bridge where the rev.
enue was increased by just such measure.
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their rights much sooner if they succeed in
laying aside partisan prejudice and close their
ears to professional politicians who are bent
on their own interests. Democracy was all
smiles and promises during the campaign,
just as it is now. "Codlin's the friend" but
he is the TREND for apurpose. These friends"
of labor succeeded in electing monopolist, as
Democratic papers are now ready to admit.
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WrTH all the pains taken to scatter the
woman-suffrage germs the fever obstinately
refuses to become epidemic, but exists only in
sporadic cases 1t has just broken out with
some y1rulence in the Chicago suburbs, but
shows no symptoms of spreading beyond those
limits. Out of pure kindness towards the
women who advocate suffrage as a cure or all
other ills, individuals, and even whole COM
munities, have freely put themselves I the
way of incubation with the doctrines, but
have not succeeded in getting them to ''sake. y
The theory of equal political rights, so fasci-
mating to the few, is unfortunately not catch
inc.
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Knights of Labor Legislation.

WASHINGTON, March IL-Mr. George E. Nc
Neill, of Boston, secretary of the executive
board Of the Knights of Labor Of his State, and
the national representative of the order in the
matter Of proposed legislation. appeared
before the House committee on la
Dor, this evening, to give formal
expression of the views of that order on pending
measures He spoke for nearly two hours, pre-
senting the views of the knights of IsakGGeE
the land, arbitration, convict labor, national in
corporation of trades-upions AMI other questions.
The railroad troubles in the West were only
touched upon with view to commenting upon
the necessity Of remedial legislation.
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are to turn over to the State and the public
when they get ready. and with which the
people must be satisfied They holly resent
any interference with their 'prerogative'
while the work is going forward. Any one
who ever had any plumbing done will be-
the opinion that the best time to criticise it
is while the work is going forward. It will be
too late when the building is completed.
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The State-house Commissioners suggest
chat 1t would be better to await the compile
ton of the job of plumbing before it is criti-
cisei. That is a very able proposition, and
entirely in harmony with the theory upon
which the doges have proceeded ever since
they began operations. Their idea seems to
be that the new Capitol building is their own
personal affair; something or other that they
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-12

A FEW Florida orange-growers saved their
-sipe oranges by burying them in the sand
when they read of the approach of cold
wave. They were dug out all sound and
sweet. This is a Triumph for the signal sery-
ice, as far as it goes. The problem yet to be
solved is to save the trees and the growing
crops. These cannot be buried
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-12

WHAT has become of that Usage, Kan,
sensation which pictured four members of a
family weltering in their gore, having been
murdered by their youngest son, an engaging
youth of fourteena Are such episodes not
considered worth extended mention in Kan
sas or can it be that the tale is specimen of
what Imagination can do under prohibitory
laws?
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SENATOR VANCE, of North Carolina, who
above suspicion of being Influenced by per-
sonal motives in the matter. He has succeed
ed ii getting fifteen of his relatives on the
gevernn ent pay-rolls, and can, of course,
have no reason of his own for desiring bet
+or loxU
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WHATEVER would the Charleston News and
Courier do without the Journal Our COM
pliments to our esteemed contemporary, and
glad it finds so much in our columns to pro-
yoke it. We beg to state, however that its
rabies is perfectly innocuous.
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A LONG SESSION.

A Possibility that Congress May Not Ad-
journ Before September.
Special to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal.
WAsHINGToN, March 1.-THE belief is becom-
ing general that the present session of Congress
viii be aremarkably long one: EIany believe it
will run into September. The trouble with mat
ter i there are too many important subjects
pending, and there is o disposition TO give time
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The Squeers family seems to have taken up
its residence in Pennsylvania The repre-
sentatives in charge of the soldiers orphans
schools could give points to the master Of Do
the-boys Hall
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A CHICAGO rumor has it that Carter Harri-
son has fixed his evil eye on the presidency.
The presidency need have no fear; the coun-
sry will protect it.
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A NEW YORK alderman is reported to be
ready to tell what he knows about the Broad
way railroad franchise Who has been out
bidding Jacob Sharp2
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Dement'S Nomination confirmed.

WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE Senate, in ex-
ecutive session, confirmed the nomination Of Mr.
Dement,, to be Surveyor general Of Utah, by
vote of 20 to % General Logan favored his
confirmation, and SIX Republicans voted with
him
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