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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

Mr.. CLEVELAND put II of his own
discoveries into the office of postmaster
of Buffalo, and he has been very un-
fortunate. Two of his clerks are in the
penitentiary for robbing the mails, an
other is awaiting trial, while a fourth
has just graduated from jail-one of
whom is the son of a leading Demo-
cratic politician. AS a result both Re-
publicans and Democrats are urging the
removal of Mr.. Cleveland's postmaster,
and it will doubtless be done at an early
day. Such an example of Mr.. Cleve-
lands reform should not even be re-
tanned as a warning,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08
ONE of the old authorities for legisla

One of the old authorities for legisla-
tive procedure is JeffersOn's Manual, in
which the following appears:
Whenever. during business. il is observed
that a quorum is not present, any member
may call for the House to be counted. and,
being found deficient, business is sus-
pended.
Who shall count the House but the
Speaker, and, when be finds in the seats
in frontsOf him a majority of members,
is not that majority a quorum9 So says
Jefferson, Cushing, Croker and other
authorities; and such is the spirit of the
Constitution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

VISITORS to Washington are aston
ished at the magnitude and extent of
the government buildings, and wonder
how such an amount of space can be
utilized. Yet q recent resolution of Con-
gress ELECTS the information that the
government is paying rent in Washing
ton to the amount Of S121. 200 a year.
The business of the government in
creases faster than buildings can be
constructed to accommodate it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08
WHETHER huge fortunes are a bless

WHETHER huge fortunes are q bless
ing or a curse to humanity is not an en-
tirely one-sided question. No man can
spend more than a limited amoun upon
purely personal luxuries, andthe chances
are largely in favor of the surplus going
to philanthropical purposes. To large
private fortunes are due half the chari-
table and higher educational institu-
fions of the country
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

THE report that the Bank of England
is about to issue silver notes seems to be
fully confirmed. The confirmation takes
the form of a definite statement that
four million pounds sterling of one
pound silver notes have been, or are be-
ing, printed, and will be issued as soon
as the necessary parliamentary author
ity can be obtained. The notes will be
based on silver coin, and their issue will
be a distinct advance towards bimetal-
1ism, as well as a new departure in issuing
notes of small denomination. Hereto
fore the Bank of England has never
issued less than a five-pound note.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

Peoria TRANSCRIPT.
The parallel between Governor Boies, of
Iowa. and the Western gentleman who
caught the bear, every day grows more
perfect, and the Democrats In the Iowa
Legislature are certainly in q bad fix. The
absence of an Inauguration in Des Moines
is also sorely felt all over the country. The
Chicago Democracy laid in commissary
stores for this purpose a month ago. and
they nave been exhausted and renewed SD
often since then that there is serious dan
ger they will kill themselves trying to keep
these stores fresh.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

The departments of the Grand Army
of the Republic in Maine and New Hamp-
shire having elected prominent Demo-
Gratis for commanders, Mr.. Cleveland
and his pet organs may conclude to cease
their denunciation of that organization
aud call off the great Cleveland organ
edited by 'Majah'' Jones in st. Louis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

THE Question of Calvin s. Brice's res i.
idence has taken an interesting phase.
For several years past he has evaded
paying taxes at Lima, o., on the ground
that he was a citizen OF New York, but
his election rs Senator having forced
him TO claim residence in Lima, the tax
collector there has presented a claim for
nearly $4,000 back taxes and penalty.
The ease is 20 be heard by the county
auditor in q few days.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

tack or underhanded opposition it has
defeated many promising movements
simply because it feared somebody
would make more money out of them
than the local representatives of the
gospel of greed. If the Commercial
Club can crush this spirit or shame it
ont of existence it will already have done
the city great service.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

ABENEFIT association which undertakes
to limit the attacks of grip to one week for
each victim and each beneficiary has a
good deal on its hands. If it accomplishes
what the doctors have failed to do, it can
double its membership.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

MEssRs. CARLISLE and Randall are
preparing a protest against the new code
of rules. The right to protest is n of
the sacred rights of a minority. The
gentlemen's protest will be spread on
the record and business will proceed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

ATEXAs officer obtained a requisition re-
Gently for a murderer in Kansas, arrested a
man who bore some resemblance to the ac-
cused, and took him to Texas before dis
covering his mistake. The Kansan may
thank his stars that he was not lynched.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

A FEW members of the Montana SEN
ate have fled the State to block legisla-
ton by their absence. A few promising
politicians in the Ohio Senate did that
trick two or three years agO, and their
names have been completely forgotten
I'm that State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08
A Disastrous "victory."

Philadelphia Telegraph tMug)
After a prolonged contest, q year and a
half in length, including the campaign of
'Ss. the Democrats of West Virginia have
got practical possession of the governorship
There are some victories which are worse
in their results than defeats, and this 10
one of them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

Indiana Republican Editorial Association.
The winter meeting of the Republican Editor
raj Association of Indiana will be held In Indi-
annapolis, Thursday, Feb. 20, afternoon and oven
ing. For this occasion the following interesting
programme has been prepared and viii be rem
dered:
Afternoon meeting at 2 O'Clock in the parlor Of
the Denison Hotel
Flrst-President's annual address, Gen. Reub
Williams, of Warsaw Indianian Republican.
Eecond-"The Country Paper in Politics" c. III.
Chase, OF Elkhart Review.
OF Unity or the Republican
Press H. Adams, of VincenEes Commercial.
Fourth-~The Republican Editorial Association
of Indiana" Gen. Jasper Packard, of New Al
bany Tribune.
.Fiffh-Eiection Of officers for ensuing year.
An evening meeting will be held at the Y. M.
{. A Hall at 8 o'clock, with the following pro-
gramme:
First-sThe Infamies Of the Last legislature"
Hon. Hiram Brownlee, Of Marion.
Eecond-"Ballot Reform Hon. III. W. Fields, of
Princeton.
Good music viii be rendered &C the evening
meeting. The general public is cordially invited
20 attend these meetings, particularly the even
ing meeting. Every Republican editor In Indi-
ana Is urged to be present at both afternoon and
evening sessions.
REUB WILLIAMS, President.
J. A. KAUTz, Secretary.
KoKoNo, Ind, Feb. z.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

introduced a bill providing for farming out
lottery privileges in that State. He prom
ises a revenue of $685. 600 from that source
the first year. Why not let the State run a
poker game. with editor Quinn and Ed
wards in charged The State would then be
able to win back every legislators mileage
and per diem to begin with.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

THE American Manufacturer gives
figures showing that coal and coke from
Pittsburg are delivered to the iron in
dustries in Chicago for from one-third
to one-half the cost they can be deliv-
cred to any English iron plants. This is
an important fact in the manufacture of
iron. and points to American supremacy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08
Friendly Warning.

Brooklyn Eagle DemD
The Ohio Democrats are lowering on tho
verge of a capital blunder. Their obvious
determination to g~erryInander the con-
gressional districts of the State will cost
them dear. That their opponents, under
the existing a-pportionment. enjoy an I'M
fair advantage affords no justification for
a movement on their part to the other ex-
treme. Two wrongs cannot produce %
manf-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

years ago he visited the school. and. in a
speech 10 the boys. told them how much he
owed it for his early training. He came to
this country when a mere youth. drifted to
New Orleans, and was befriended by q gen.
tleman named Stanley. who became his
benefactor and second father. Out of graf
itude Stanley took hisname. Hehas stated
publicly that he considered himself an
American" but it is doubtful if he ever
was naturaliZed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

"WE do not propose that the Repub-
lican majority shall pass a single meas
ure without our consent declared fill
buster Mills three months before the
House assembled. By such revolution
airy threats the Republicans were put on
their guard.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY, the Hoosier
Poet, whom every loyal Indianian loves
and admires, returned TO the city yester-
day. and is at the home of his brother-in-
law. Mr.. Henry Eitel, on North Mississippi
street. Mr.. Riley is still suffering some
what from the effects of la grippe and the
excitement and fatigue of travel. but
is rapidly mending. and will short
ly be once more at his best.
Mr.. Riley does not deny that the reports
concerning his dissipation are substantially
correct, nor does he enter any plea in ex-
cuse; but his friends, and those conversant
with the facts, agree that the sensational
stories published concerning his conduct
were greatly exaggerated and do him in
Justice. Mr.. Riley is a peculiarly nervous
and sensitive man, and what produces lit
tie or no effect upon the ordinary individ-
ual is often sufficient to unnerve him CON-
pletely. His friends believe that the
strict surveillance under which he constant
ly found himself, aggravated him beyond
measure and had ranch to do with his tenn
porary lapse. In common with mankind,
Riley has his faults. out the public-espe-
cially the HOosier ~public-that has laughed
and wept with him for years will not too
hastily condemn the man who has himself
done 80 much to make others better. Riley,
old friend. for you the future is full of
brightest promise, for the fulfllment of
which thousal > will eagerly look and
most earnestly hope.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

WARY preachers down in Clark county
will hereafter do well to handcuff and
muzzle their candidates for baptism before
leading them into the food. The sight of
water is sometimes very exciting to persons
unaccustomed to it. and fights on the brink
of the local Jordans tend to scandals.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08
Concerning Tripiets.
Delphi Journal.

DFITHI il
The Cincinnati Enquirer's search for
triplets resulted in ascertaining that in the
States of Ohio. Indiana, Kentucky and West
Virginia there are twelve sets. Indiana
has five sets. not counting the celebrated
political triplicity composed of Sim Coy,
Leon Bailey and Green Smith.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

Salt Lake Tribune.

Salt Lake Tribune.
The omens are all good. The Idaho test
oath decision has been affirmed by the SUI
preme Court of the United States. This
yindicates the true men of Idaho who had
the nerve and the patriotism to shut out
the franchise from the members of an un-
American organization. 1t is the begin.
ming of the end of Mormonism az a political
mower.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08
Want q Limit Fixed.

PnIIdutlphd NOfIH AWtIItdL-
Were it not for the grave question of
where the revision will end, the feeling in
its favor would probably be stronger.
There is a fear. and not an unnatural one,
either, that the revision may be pushed too
far. and that fear will give many a sincere
aud old-fashioned Presbyterian some sleep
less nights.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08
sro-&o Co,~fs.fnr

Judge Lilly has testified before a commit
tee of the Kentucky Legislature that D
frightful condition of affairs exists in the
counties of Letcher, Perry and Knott. The
Judge cannot hold court In these counties
unless he takes his life in his hand. There
are only a few school-houses in the region
designated, and not a single church. Officers
dare not show their heads with a view to
enforcing the law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

THE man who will succeed the late
Judge Kelley in the House is Hon. John
Z. Reyburn. Although but forty-fiye
years of age, he vas a member of the
Pennsylvania Legislature twenty years
ago, and has been in the Senate of that
State continuously since 1876. He is re-
garded as one of the ablest Republicans
IN PHILADELPHIA
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

THE evening organ of the reform"
city government does not give the i'm
preston of being hilariously happy, as
its readers have a right to expect. A
shadow seems to come over the spirit of
its drama
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

THE New York Evening Post makes an
impassioned appeal to Congress for cheap
prunes. There is no accounting for the de-
PRAYED mugwump taste. FastidiOus per-
sons of normal appetite who indulge in that
lnslpid fruit at all lave a natural prefer
ence for the more expensive and wOrmless
gradac
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

THE Radical, Cluseret, has introduced
into the Chamber of Deputies a bill to pro-
hibit dueling in France. 1t will probably
not pass, and would be a dead letter if it
did. A few well -aimed shots, like that of
the Marquis de Mores, will domore to break
M French dueling than could be accom-
plished by a century of legislation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

st Louis Globe DcmOcraf-
When the Democrats talk about the ''one-
man power" OF Speaker Reed they over
look the important fact hat be merely re-
fleets the Will of a majority of the body
over which he presides.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08
What Ohio Bourbons Are Doing.

Chicago News.
Ohio Democrats nave clinched their ma
jority in tue Legislature, and now. with
bosoms full of patriotism. they are prepar-
ing To change the politics of the gerry
mander in that State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

A from Dallas, Tex, anent the
disappearance of the clerk. F. A. Walton.
with $4,000 of the Pacific Express Com
pany's money, says: There was some sort
of a story about Walton having shot and
killed a man in Mexico. but beyond this his
record was supposed to be unblemished."
Beautiful ideas they have down there in
Texas about the requirements of an "un-
blemished record!"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

IT is a peculiar fact that the of
fire-proof buildings invariably have them
well insured.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08
Fifth and sixth Census Districts.

An error having been made in the pub
LEGATION of the lists of counties comprising
the Fifth and Sixth census districts, cor
rect lists are printed below for the guild
ance of all concerned:
Fifth District Benton, Cass, Carroll, Fulton,
Howard, Jasper, LaPOrte, Lake, Miami, Mar
shall, Newton, Porter. Pulaski, Starke, st. JO-
seph and White. Charles Harley, OF Delphi, SUI
pervisor.
Sixth District-Ailen, Adams, Blackford, De
Kalb, Elkhart, Grant, Huntington. Jay, Kosci-
uskO, Lagrange. Noble, Steuben, Wells, Whitley
and Wabash. {. s. Beshore, of Marion, super
visor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

NEAR Cassville. Mo-, is a small colony of
intelligent Italians, who are making very
successful experiments in silk culture.
Without making it a speciality, a few fami-
lies produced, last season, nearly 500 worth
of cocoons, and one woman. having two
small children and her household duties to
look after, sold her cocoon crop for 800.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

Two Republican members, including
one from this State, are reported to have
expressed their opposition in caucus to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

A CITIZEN of Indiana wrote Mr.. George
KEENAN,. the Russian traveller, a letter ex-
pressing deep interest in his magazine
articles and received a reply, fiom which
the following is an extract:
The situation in Russia is a peculiarly hopeless
one. The people. theoretically, have the power
TO overthrow the government, but practically
they have not, and they submit because they
must. The great difficulties in the way of a sue
cessful revolution are the Ignorance of the peas
ants, who have the force: the vast extent of the
country over which they are scattered. and the
impossibility of organizing a simultaneous rising.
The people are scattered in more than half a
million villages, only 900 or 1000 OF which
are on railroads. Into more than two-thirds of
these villages a newspaper never goes, and not
more than one man In five hundred of the rural
population ever so much as sees a newspaper.
The press Is under the ~strictest censorship: even
il the peasants did read the papers they wouldn't
find ont anything that the government didn't
wish them TO know. The meeting together of
remedies for governmental evils is everywhere
forbidden. and IL such a meeting does not dis
perse at the first omman of the police il is dis
persed with troops. Finally, the whole country
swarms with soldiers. police and gendarmes and
officers OF the civil service, and long before a
popular movement can get under Roadway il is
suppressed, and all. the leaders are sent to
Siberia. IL is a hopeless situation. There doesn't
seem to be any prospect OF escape from ii at
present.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

These figures embrace seven-tenths of
the State. AT the same ratio the mort
gage indebtedness for the whole State
would be $50. 500, 100. This is very diff
ferent from the statement which has
done service in Democratic papers. The
statistics further show that nearly all
the farms in Michigan are occupied by
owners instead of tenants; that less than
half the farms carry any mortgages;
that the aggregate amount of the mort
cages is less than half the assessed
value of the farms mortgaged, and less
than One-ffth of the total assessed value
of farm lands. All these facts go to dis
prove the wild assertions made in the in
terest of free trade.
The latest State to collect statistics on
the subject is Illinois. Illinois is a
larger State than Indiana, having &c.
%, 1854, 900 acres and ninety-twO counties
in Indiana. The general conditions are
similar. 1t appears that in 1SS7there were
in Illinois, outside of Cook county, i'm
which Chicago is situated, 90,3S9 mort
cages, covering 1866, 5GG acres, to secure
1923, 733. 00S, of which S103, III, $50 was
for borrowed money, and $780,
62f, 329 for deferred payments of
purchase money. By the census
of 1ss0the aggregate value of farm lands
and improvements in Illinois, outside of
Cook county. was 1878, 703.337. OF course,
it is much greater now. AmOrtgage in
debtedness of 1923. 733, 09s on this valua-
ton is not alarming. The acreage COW
ered by mortgages is not great, 966, 566
out of a total of SO, 256, 0GO. The statis-
tician estimates that the yearly product
of the lands mortgaged is worth S72, $780,
COZ. or considerably more than one-half
of the mortgage debt. Twenty-On
counties, carrying mortgages to the
amount Of SJ9,3 03, 326, have an annual
production amounting to $71, $3.50, 100.
Taking the entire State, the products of
one year are nearly twice as great as the
entire mortgage debt. There is nothing
alarming in this situation. The statis-
tics of Michigan and Illinois, the only
two States which have obtained stats
ties on the subject, are a complete refuta-
ton OF the wild assertions of free-trad-
ers. In this, as in other cases, the facts
are fatal IN them
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08

cultural pursuits. 1t would be a suicidal
policy, as the few facts above given
clearly demonstrate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-08
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

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These are big figures. and broadly
stated, and have doubtless been accepted
by many persons as true. The fact is,
they do lot relate to farm mortgages at
all. They are the figures given in the
last Census Report as to farm values.
Insteadof representing the mortgages on
farms they represent the value of farms
and farm improvements in the States
named, according to the census of 1880.
(See Census Report, p. 103, Statistics of
Agricultural This free-trade lie has a
wide circulation. Of the States above
named only one has collected any statis-
tics on the subject. This is Michigan.
The Commissioner of Labor in that
State has published a report embracing
returns from seventeenth of the State,
xr-hso1, - NJ f,llNu
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JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY.

Persons sending the Journal through the mails IN
the United States should put on an elghtpage paper
eoyFcrNT postage stamp. on . twelve or sixteen
page paper aTwO-CENT postage stamp. Foreign post
age 10 usually double these rates
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ms Doper mast, ia order 10 receire attention, be oc-
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