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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-10

THE special provision in the new
Chinese exclusion law, which is believed
by some to be in violation of the pres
ent treaty, is that which requires China
men who are laborers in this country to
obtain certificate. The treaty pro-
vides that "the United States will exert
its power to secure to Chinese laberers
the same rights, privileges and immuni-
ties which may be enjoyed by the citi-
zens or subjects of the most favored ma
ton, and to which they are entitled by
treaty" As this certificate is required
of no other nationality. some hold that
it is a violation of treaty to require
Chinese laborers to have them. On the
other hand, it is held the words "to
which they are entitled by treaty" pre-
cludes the possibility of violation, be-
cause, in the treaty, Chinese laborers
have no privileges accorded them. The
general judgment of the Senate is that
no positive affirmation can be made of
the violation of the treaty in any degree
by the bill.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-10
FOR BETTER ROADS.

Although Missouri is not usually re-
garded as very progressive State. it is
likely to take the lead of all the West
ern States in the movement for better
public highways. A State road conven-
ton has just been held at the capital of
the State, at which there were more
than hundred delegates present, rep
constitution and bylaws were adopted,
a permanent organization effected, and
an executive committee appointed. COM
posed of one member from each con-
gressional district. A series of resOlu-
tiOns were adopted, which contain so
many good points that We print them in
full:
First-The enlargement of the power of
counties, townships and road districts In
the matter of devising ways and means for
the improvement of public highways 80
that the largest portion possible of the
public revenues may 90 to q fund 10 be
used solely for road improvements and the
enlargement of road districts so as to give
longer employment through the season OF
road construction.
Second-That all State and county reve.
nues from dram shop Licenses and all such
revenues III cities of the second-class pc APP
piled TO building. maintaining and repair.
ing public streets and highways.
Third-That provision should be made by
law whereby private citizens may sub
scribe for building public graded and
paved roads In part. and be entitled to aid
III such work from public funds.
Fourth-Thnt provision should be made
by law whereby townships. districts or
other bdivisions of the State may organ
ize upon a vote OF the people for road pur-
poses, and for building and maintaining
public roads.
Fifth-The submission to a vote of the
people of o constitutional amendment lodg-
ing In the various counties OF the State the
power to determine the question OF the
sum to be raised by taxation of It's citizens
for the purpose of improving the public
highways so that the Improvement of
roads and the provision of ways and means
tn erefor shall be subject to the decision
of each county by vote OF the people
thereof.
Sixth-That In each county and township
In the State there shall be formed q road
association" having president, vice pres
Ident and secretary, the object OF which
will be to obtain information and data to
inaugurate road improvements in their re-
spective districts. to have unOfficially and
generally In charge the public interests in
respect to such improvements and to CO.
operate with the State Road-lmDrovement
Association.
Arrangements were made for holding
annual State conventions of the organ
ization and for bringing a pressure to
bear on the Legislature for the enact
ment of laws to carry out the foregoing
suggestions. This movement is evil
IDENTIFY in the hands of practical men,
and the Journal would be glad to see a
similar one organized in this State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-10
TIE WYOMING WAY.
Two Witnesses Against Cattlemen Forced 10
Take Midnight Ride Into Nebraska

CHADRoN, Neb., May 9.-Jones and
Walker. the two kidnapped witnesses in
the case against the Wyoming cattlemen
for the killing of Champion and Ray, have
made q confession of their escape. They
say that twelve cattlemen at Douglass, ae
the muzzle of revolvers. compelled them to
mount horses in the middle OF the night,
and in company with Wltte, sD agent Of
the cattlemen. rode to Grand Island. Neb..
where they were promised good horse
each. From here they were to be taken
into New Mexico. After going thirty miles
they dismounted and cut the telegraph
wires in two places. After going twenty
miles farther Witte declared he was lost.
ana commanding them to remain In the
road. he went towards a small raviDe and
lit several matches. claiming he was trying
to see his compass. Jones. thinking the
lights were signals to assault the party.
secured q revolver from one of the pack
animals and compelled Witte to desist and
proceed on their journey. AT daylight
they reached q ranch. where Jones learned
a party of twelve men had left the night
before with the intention of camping at the
place where White lighted the matches,
and be is confident they intended to
assassinate him and his com psnion. Reach
ing Chadron they were arrested. and Will
probably be returned to Wyoming, though
an effort Is being made by those interested
to secure their liberty by q writ or habeas
corpus.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-10
THE RESULT AT HOME AND IN CANADA,

The Senate finance committee, under
its instructions to inquire into the effect
of the present tariff upon the business,
industry and general welfare of the peo-
pie of this country, assigned Senator
Morrill,, of Vermont. Republican, and
Senator Mcpherson, of New Jersey,
Democrat, to take testimony respecting
the effect of the laws on the trade rela-
tions between the United States and
Canada. A mass of testimony was taken,
under the direction OF these Senators. in
all the border cities. All the testimony
shows that the prices of horses. cattle
and all farm produce in Canada were as
much below the selling prices in the
United States as the amount of duties
imposed and the cost of transportation.
1t appears in testimony that when the
duty on horses was increased the price
fell in Canada. By the Mckinley law
the duty on pine lumber was reduced 81
per thousand feet. If the claim of our
free-traders were valid. pine lumber
must be 81 per thousand cheap
er in the cities in the United
States along the border than it
was before the reduction of the
duty. Such has not been the case, as
the Canadians very generally advanced
the duty was reduced. Previous to the
passage of the Mckinley law large
quantities of hay were imported from
Canada. Last year no hay came into
the United States because the increased
duty kept it out. The importation of
barley from Canada, so large an item
before the present law, has now ceased,
which has stimulated barley culture in
some of the Western States. The report
says that wages are much less in Can
ada than on this side OF the line, the diff
ference amounting to from 10 to 90 per
cent, and in some cases to 80 per cent.
the average difference being above %
per cent. The subcommittee says that
all the places visited on tho border in
this country were increasing In popula-
ton, while in Canada, the larger towns
even, like ST. John, n. B., were not
holding their own. that city of about
$4,000 population having 1000 less in
habitants in 1891 than In 1881.
1t does not seem that facts like these
require any comment to convince fair
minded men that the Mckinley law is
advantageous to the industries of the
United States, and particularly to farm
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-10

given to exposing the different phases
of the frauds and the method of perpe-
rrating them, and there is more to fol-
low. The story is not yet complete,
but it will be completed in due time,
The discoveries already made are sum-
married. by the Tribune as follows:
The count was falsifed in four ways:
]. The number of actual citizens. upon
which the legislative apportionment is re-
Quired By law to be based, was increased
by the addition to 1t OF certainly as many
as 25O, 900 aliens. 2. In numerous lnstanc es
unclassihed inmates of penal and eharita-
bic institutions were tabulated as citizens,
though the returns. by specifically stating
the whole number of citizen inmates. clear
iy signitied that any ADDITION to that num-
Der would be fraudulent. 3. On the last
day of the session the population OF Brook
Ign was arbitrarily augmented by $3.50,
after 1t had been exactly ascertained and
formally announced, because the true p0pu-
4. On the night before Adjournment the
force OF computers and verhers. carefully
weeded out. was ordered TO and did alter
arbitrarily. In large or small degree. as
the emergency required, the previously
manipulated enumeration cards of twenty
counties SO as to bring the totals into con-
formIty.
These frauds, it must be remembered,
were perpetrated in the final count, after
the enumeration had already been made
as unfair as possible by exaggerating
the population of Democratic strong
holds and reducing that of Republican
localities. After all this had been done
and it was found that the result still
fell short of Democratic demands, the
returns were manipulated and falsified
as stated by the Tribune.
We do not know that there is any
remedy for these frauds, and even if the
law provided one it would be worthless
while the Democrats control the ma
chinery of the State government. They
are as safe from prosecution for any pO-
Iitical fraud in New York as are their
brethren in Mississippi. The spirit and
methods of Democracy are the same in
both States, and probably the only hope
of reform is in the gradual quickeDing
of the public conscience and the devel-
opment of an honest feeling of indigna-
ton among the people that will lead
them to place the seal of their cOndem-
nation on such operations at the polls.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-10

VICTORIA Woodruff MARTIN and
her. sister. Tennie Clafflin Cook, have
brought a suit for libel against a Chi
cagO paper which published long re-
view of their careers. Indictments
found against one of the sisters nearly
thirty years ago. when she lived at
Ottawa. ILL.,, formed part OF the article.
The paper said the present tour of the
sisters is to pose before London society
as leaders of women in America, and
avowed it's readiness to prove their I'M
worthiness in court. Why did they not
remain in England? The American pub
lie got enough of them long ago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-10
TIE CENSUS FRAUDS IN NEW YORK.

With a view to ascertaining the char
acter and extent of the frauds perpe-
trated in connection with the recent
State census. the New York Tribune
has caused thorough investigation of
the matter to be made. The census
was ordered by the present Legislature,
and was taken as a basis for the next
apportionment. The enumerators and
other officials were all selected by Tam
many, and the canvass was part and par
Gel of the Hill and Tammany scheme to
make the State hopelessly Democratic.
AS the result of a long. laborious and
searching investigation, the Tribune
states that the frauds discovered sur
pass in magnitude and audacity any
thing ever before attempted in that
line. Six columns of the Tribune are
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-10
A TYPICAL DEMOCRATIC BODY.

The New York Sun publishes a special
following headlines: New era of ex-
travagance;" blouse Democrats violate
their pledges of ecOnomy;" Supporting
a river and harbor bill more outrageous
ly extravagant than that of the billion
Congress" The dispatch says tho Dem
ocrats in the House "have flung to the
winds all pledges of economy and re-
FORM" and from present indications the
appropriations of the present Congress
will exceed those of the last. The river
and harbor bill especially is condemned
as the most extravaganza one ever intro
duced. We quote:
There is genuine alarm among the lead
ers of the House at the situation as affected
by the action of the House yesterday and
to day, and a conference will be held at
once to devise some plan TO force halt.
In spite of the pledges OF the Democrats of
the House to cut down the government ex-
penditures and appropriations by at least
500. 000. 0O0 for the Fifty second Congress.
counting both sessions, the startling fact
appears that this Congress. instead of cu:-
ting down appropriations below the stand
ard of the late billion Congress-. will GER
tainly equal it, if not exceed 1t by many
millions.
The worst feature about the appro-
priations. according to the Sun, is that
which authorizes contracts requiring
future appropriations, thus compelling
a future Congress to carry out contracts
and expenditures authorized by this one.
The last Congress did this to the extent
of S19,000.000, and was severely censured
for it. This Congress has already done
the same thing to the extent of S33. 900.
600. and is not through yet. On this
point the Sun dispatch says:
All these con tracts must be rigidly full
, filled. and following Congresses cannot
evade or repudiate them. The ratio of IN.
| crease under this new and vicious system
inherited from the Fifty-first Congress IL
over % per cent. and IL Is apparent that ii
| this ratio Is maintained at the next session
and by subsequent Congresses, IL will ID
only a matter of a comparatively few year.
| until all the revenues of the government,
will BIO mortgagcd In advance for the per
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-10
Editor Childs aud Party at Denver.

DENVER. Col. May 9.-George William
Childs and party, who are making
tour to California. and will attend the
dedication of the National Home for Indi-
gent Union Printers, at Colorado Springs,
on Thursday. arrived here from Kansas
City. over the Burlington. at o'clock this
evening They were received by the citi-
zens' and printers committees 1t the Union
Depot and escorted to the MetropOle Hotel,
where rooms had been engaged for them
Tomorrow they will be entertained by
some of the leading citizens and hold two
receptions. and. in the evening. attend the
performance at the Tabor Grand Opera
house. They will leave for Colorado
Springs Wednesday morning. The init
mate friends of Mr. Childs who are with
him on his journey are: Robert Bonner.
Robert H. McCarter. +. p. FaFrar, Mrs.
Childs. Miss Peterson. Miss Stanley, Mrs.
McCarter and Mrs. Lay.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-10
President Eliot and the Mormons.

BosToN. Mass, May 9.-President Eliot.
of Harvard College. who has returned
from his Western triD. says. regarding his
Salt Lake speech. that be does not intend
to be interviewed by any one on the sub
ject. If be ever speaks on the Mormon
question again il will be in an address or
interview. He says that the newspapers
reported him with substantial accuracy.
all except the Salt Lake Tribune. whose
reporters had Intentionally misrepresented
Ills remarks. The excitement about the
speech travelled east instead of west, SO
that he missed" all the fun of IL.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-10
rax-P.yers Falsely Per.on.ted on Jurie..

PHILADELPHIA. May 9.-The Times to-
day states that sitting now as members of
the grand jury are two men falsely person
ating two well-known Taxpayers. Similar
personations have been successfully carried
through In the past without exposure.
Further revelations are yet to be made. 1t
IL impossible TO tell at present to what ex-
tent most Infamous attack upon the In
tegr,ty of the jnry system has been carried.
Nor can it vet be decided what effect the
fraud may have upon all the criminal in
dictments found during the present term OF
the Court of Quarter Sessions. Michael
McKeen, one of sheriff COnnelrs summons
servers, Is the most seriously involved.
The men personated In the present grand
jury are Frank Hoffner. n WELT TODD truck
or. and j. Bradley, a time-keeper in Bald
wins Iocomotive-w works.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-10
Lincoln's First Servant Dead.

CHICAGO. May 9.-Aunt Epsy Smith, an
old ne gress, who died in this city yesterday.
had ali eventful history. In 1927 she was q
proteQe of Ninan Edwards. at that time
Governor of Illinois. She was present at
the wedding of Abraham Lincoln and Mary
Todd, and after the wedding was a servant
In Lincoln's home. She nursed Robert Il.
Lincoln, the present minister to the court
of st. jane. Her death was caused by the
grip. fror. which she had been suffering
since last March. She was about seventy
two years old. She was married ut the
house of Governor Edwards, by the minis
ter who performed the ceremony for Linz
coin himself. aud the dress she wore on the
occasion was a present from Mr.. and Mrs.
Lincoln.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-10

IT is now announced that in order to
accommodate the overflow of the con-
vention crowd at Minneapolis a large
number of tents will be erected near
the convention building. In the day
time they will be used as restaurants.
where baked beans, pork and brown
bread may be had just as they are
cooked in the lumber camps, cooks from
the camps doing the work. All this to
supply the lack of sleeping quarters and
scarcity of restaurants. The Minneap-
oils people seem to be under the impress
sion that they are going to entertain a
Let of wood-choppers. newly arrived
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-10

A LARGE number of special corre-
spondents profess to have "inside infor-
nation" as to the plans of the anti-Ha
rison men and personal knowledge of
what was done at the so-called confer
ence" in Washington on Saturday.
Singularly enough. however, when they
come to lay these facts before their
readers no two of them tell the same
story. Indications ar they "know" a
good many things that are not so.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-10
Two women Who .sh.,,.d Dat, -

SALT LAKE CITY. u. T., May "a bold
diamond robbery has just come to light
here. While Mrs Enzenberaer and o
friend. the wife of wealthy wooI-Rrower.
were sitting in their room after returning
from q dance. three masked men entered
the apartment. and. with revolvers In
hand. demanded their valuables. saying:
I'VE are out for the stuff. We want all
your diamonds You women will do with
out lewelry. You don't need it. Shell out
or you'll get hurt The women "shelled
OUT" six thousand dollaIs worth of dia-
monds and Sl75ln money.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-10


Please state the name. number of square miles
and population OF the countries or provinces in
Africa belonging to Spain, Portugal, France,
Holland and Denmark. A. L. R.
Belonging to France: Tunis. Algeria. Sem
egambia (old pOssessions). Gold and Benin
coasts. Soudan (remainderl, French Congo
land Gabon). Obok bay of Tajural. NADIA
gascar and dependencies. Comoros. Re-
union. Total area, 2.7SS,95O square miles;
total population. 22O13.OOO. Belonging to
Portugal: Portuguese Guiana. Angola. Mo-
zsmbique, Madeira. Cape Verde islands.
St. Thome and Principe. Total area, 9O9.
S24; total population. 5.518,0O0. Belonging
to Spain: Tetuan, etc. (Morocco), Sahara.
Canaries, Gulf of Guinea Total area.
GAG. 757: total population. 444.Oo0. Meth er
Holland nor Denmark has any African pos
eaaaiona
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-10
Women Doctora.

PhfIhuenhl6 TlintB
It will seem strange to the readers of
history half q century hence to learn that
women were excluded from the professions
of the country until even after the noon
tide of the nineteenth century for there in
little reason to doubt that in much less
than half a century. women physicians will
fairly divide the medical practice with
their professional brethren, and men ply ST.
Clans in the many cases in which every
consideration of delicacy should prefer q
woman physician. will be quite as uncom-
mon women were a generation ago. The
world moves
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-10
HAD A TERRIBLE MANIA.
Death of Man Who Thirsted for Human
Blood-Chained for Seventeen Years.

BENTON. Ia. May 9.-Joseph Hamilton.
who has spent the last seventeen years of
bis life in chains. died here yesterday. He
had q terrible mania-a thirst for human
blood-which nothing could appease. and
he had to be kept in chains all the time.
When about twenty five years of age Ham,
blood In fight. He was watching q spar
ring match. when he saw blood flow from
the nose of one OF the boxers, and went
wild instantly. Drawing q knife. be
plunged it into the heart of a bystander and
drank his blood as 1t flowed. He killed
another man before he was arrested.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-10

immigrants OF gangs of Indians in town
to the circus. They are misinformed.
Most of the delegates and visitors to the
convention are used to better fare than
beans and brown bread, and few of them
have slept in tents since IS. The best
Minneapolis has is none too good, and if
it hasn'tenOugh of the best to 90 around
1t will never hear the last of it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-10

WHEN Senator Hiscock, of New York.
declared that Congress has the same
right to restrict the immigration of any
class of people the country does not
want as it has to restrict the product of
other nations, he may have made an
original proposition. but nevertheless
q logical one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-10

THE New York World says deal is
about to be contaminated which will
give an English syndicate complete con-
troll of most of the Bourbon whisky
made in Kentucky. This is probably
campaign canard intended to fire the
Democratic heart against trusts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-10
JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY,
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
PARIS-American Exchange in Paris, SO Boulevard
de Capucines.
NEW YORK-Gilsey House and Windsor Hotel
PHILADELPHIA. p. Kemble, 3735 Lancaster
avenue.
CHICAGO-Palmer House
CINCINNATI. r. Hawley q Co.. 164 Vine street
LOUISVIILE-C. T. Deertng, northwest corner OF
Third and Jefferson streets
ST. LOUIS-Union News Company. Union Depot
WASHINGTON, d. C-Riggs House and Ebbitt
House.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-10
Rare Catholic Ceremony.

DEPERE, Wis. May 9.-This city was yes
terday the scene of a most imposing and o
unique ceremony-the coronation of ST.
Joseph. This solemn event was special
favor granted by Pope Leo Nil to the arch
fraternity of st. Joseph. established in ST.
Joseph. Mich, and can take place only once
in the United states. Bishop Messmer sang
pontificial high mass Thousands of Cath
olics were present from all parts of the
United States. The crowns are made
of pure gold. studded with precious stones.
all gifts OF the members of the arch fra
ternity, and their value is placed at $6, GOO.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-10

JUDGING from the dOuble-leaded
warnings and alarms in Democratic pa
pers addressed to the Democratic House
and party leaders, that prone-to-evil
combination called the Democratic party
Is between "the devil and the deep sea-"
with a natural tendency to the former.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-10

If the millionaires in other States are
Of the same class that were announced,
a few days ago. as the millionaires of In
diana, the greater part of them have
their millions to get.