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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-21

On Saturday the Democratic House
very nearly carried out the plan of the
Southern and few other Democrats
and mugwumps to destroy the disability
pension act of June 81, 1890. The propo-
sition was to discontinue all pensions
under that act to persons whose income
is $1,000. The vote OH the proposition
stood 1875 yeas to 1874 nays. The main
objection to the proposition is that at
the date named in the bill all pensions
paid under the act of June 81, 1890,
would be suspended until it could be
ascertained that those receiving them
did not have annual Incomes of 81, 900.
Another objection is that Mexican PEN
sioners who are receiving service PEN
sions were not made subject to the pro-
vision which would cut off Union PEN
sioners. In this matter the Indiana
Democrats did not, as usual, follow the
Southern Democrats, but the Repub-
licans.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-21

who was q major general, and many
others in both houses of Congress are
drawing pensions as Mexican veterans.
The widow of General Lees adjutant-
general, an officer who deserted from
the regular army before the war, is
drawing pension, and the widow of
Stonewall jackson has an application
pending. Quite number of ex-confed-
crate officers who deserted from the reg
ular army to enter the confederate serv-
ice are drawing pensions under the same
act, although some of them never crossed
the frontier. The truth is the Mexican
servIce-pension law is largely cOnfed-
crate pension law in disguise.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-21
A MERITORIOUS MEASURE.

Mr.. Gifford's bill concerning building
and loan associations, Senate bill No.
1S1, is right in principle and purpose.
and should become law. Its object ia
to bring all building and loan associa-
tons doing business in this State, for
eign as well as home associations, under
common rules and regulations with a
view to securing official supervision and
the safety of stockholders. At present
none of these companies are under Off
cial supervision. Although they have
enormous assets and do vast business
they are not subject to any supervision
nor are they required to publish annual
reports or make any public statement of
their condition. 1t is due to the stock
holders, present and prospective. that
they should be brought under some such
supervision as banks and insurance COM
panies are. This is what the Clifford
bill proposes to do. 1t requires every
association doing business in the State
to file regular reports with the Auditor
of State, showing its capital stock, as
sets, liabilities and general condition,
and to pay an annual fee of S5. the pro-
ceeds of which are to be used by the
Auditor in paying the clerk hire made
necessary by the filing and examination
of the reports. The effect of the bill is
to bring the associations under the Off
cial supervision of the Auditor of State,
as insurance companies now are. 1t
applies equally to foreign and domestic
associations, placing all on the same
footing. The bill is supported by the
home associations. AID there is no rea-
son why it should be opposed by any
foreign association that proposes to do
a safe and legitimate business. Oppo-
sitiOn to it is simply opposition to pro-
tecting the stockholders in these assoc
Citations, who, as everybody knows. are
very numerous. 1t is an eminently
mertorous measure, and should be-
come a law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-21

ALL the propositions of the Cullop
committee to increase salaries about the
Statehouse were sat down upon in the
House yesterday very heavily. That
craftsmanship which increases the pay
of officials and cuts down institutions
like the Terre Haute Normal School,
which is educating thousand teachers
for the public schools, is the tax eating
end pod-auger variety.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-21

THE statement of a pretentious con-
temporary, which has set itself up in OPP
position to the manifest desire of large
majority of the people of Indianapolis
regarding the proposition for an appro-
priation of $4,000, to the effect that
Washington pays nothing to secure the
encampment of the Knights of Pythias.
was made without any information upon
the subject. 1t newappears that WASH
tngton Ia asked to raise $4,000 for that
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-21
LOOKED LIKE A FIGHT.

Barnes and Erwin Collide the subject OF
the Tax Law Amendment.
The Erwin amendment 70 the Cnllop
bill. amending the tax law. is causing N
heap of trouAle TO the Democrats. and
would be q rather interesting tonic were il
not overshadowed by the great hair-pull-
ing match over the patronage bill Green
Smith and his friends thought they had
the amendment killed until they woke up
yesterday morning and found that the
party organ had Topped on the question
and was now FOR the amendment,
which. the Attorney general declares
would render all that portion of the
tax law relating 10 the assessment
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-21

AN article on music in Boston paper
relates, according to headline, to the
popular longing for bulk in art. Grover
Cleveland evidently believes that there
is a popular longing for bulk in states
men. There is himself, you know, and
there is the fat Bissell, of Buffalo, and
now Hoke Smith, of Georgia, with a
"Cleveland-like girth." The avoirdu-
pois of the other chosen Cabinet officers
has not yet been disclosed to the world.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-21

AN Alabama correspondent of the
New York Sun informs that paper that
Hoke Smith sis bosom friend of the
Hon. Dink Bolts, of Lumpkin county,
Georgia." and that sit was Dink and
Hoke who carried the day for Grover
Cleveland in Georgia" Whereupon the
Sun asks. where does the Hon. Dink
Bolts come in?" We should say he
ought to come in very close behind if
not alongside of the Hon. Hoke Smith.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-21

vestiRation of the Attorney generals
office7 Has it died natural death or
been strangled by those interested in
putting an end to it'll When the investi-
CATION was first proposed there was an
immediate proffer of information from
various parts of the State and quite an
outbreak of letters demanding that it
be pushed. But nothing has been and,
to all appearances, nothing will be done.
Green Smith seems to have got in his
work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-21

AS evidence of Mr.. Hoke Smiths fit
ness for Secretary of the Interior it is
stated that he served acceptably as
president of the Board of Education of
Atlanta. 1t would take a very partial
Judge to find in this evidence of his fit
ness to administer the affairs of the
United States Land Office, Pension
Office, Indian affairs. Patent Office,
Bureau of Education, railroads, geolog-
ical survey and Census Office.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-21

For q considerable length of time In
diana rested under the stigma of being
the birthplace and home Of White-cap-
ism. If this form of crime originated
here it was not long in spreading to
other States, and latterly there has been
as much of it in some other States as in
this. Meanwhile it is worthy of remark
that Indiana was the first State to pun
ish perpetrators of the crime. 1t took q
good while to bring the result about.
but now there are five White-cappers
serving time in the southern prison and
two more have recently been convicted
in Perry county. We are not likely to
have much more of it in this State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-21

The recent debate on the pension bill
brought out some interesting facts in
regard to prominent ex-confederates
who are drawing pensions under the
Mexican war service pension law passed
during Mr.. Cleveland's former admins
tration and approved by him. Thus it
appears that Senator George, of Missis-
sippi, who was colonel in the confed-
crate army. Senator Colquitt, of Georgia,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-21

TIE women can extend effective assist
ance to the health board in keeping the
city clean if each housekeeper will see to
1t that her own premises are kept In order,
but their work will not avail unless an
ordinance for the removal of garbage is
enacted. Such an ordinance should be
prepared aud passed without delay.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-21

Mr.. CLEvELAND's correspondent ex-
plains that he will make the trip from
N. j., to Washington in the
night. in order to escape the demands
of the people along the route for
speeches. That is. Mr.. Cleveland re-
CARDS the American people as bore.
He should abolish the institution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-21

SPEAKER CURTIS. during the discus
sion of the so-called patronage bill, has
vibrated from the "antis" to the "pros"
and back in his rulings. At the last,
however. he was with the anti Gov
ernor element. and, consequently, was
the Speaker of the minority of the House.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-21

FIVE lawyers-or so-called lawyers
in the Cabinet already. Let's see;
hasn't it been said from time to time
that this was to be business mans adj
ministrationq
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-21

1T was the solid and persistent vote of
the Republican Senator'S and half tho
Democrats who stood up to declare in
the Senate that noparty, however small,
and no candidate, however humble,
should be denied representative at the
polis
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-21

THE Sentinel very truly and none too
strongly says: 1.-THE councilman who
votes against the appropriation for the
Grand Army encampment will vote to
disgrace his city, against its best inter-
ests and against the wishes of the ma
jority of the people,"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-21
ThE INDIANAPOLIs NOCTURNAL.
Republican Editorial Association.

Republican Editorial Association.
The annual meeting OF the Republican Editori-
al Association of Indiana will be held on Friday.
Feb. "a, at the Denison Hotel parlors, Indian
apolis Officers VIII be elected and other bust
ness will be transacted.
By order of the executive committee
II. A. BROWN President.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-21

JUDGING from present appearances,
this Legislature will make the worst
record of any in recent years for parti-
san jobbery and class legislation.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-08-03
AN ILLINOIS OPINION
What . Macomb Man Thinks Of the
Hawaiian Mater

EDIr.R STAR: The pc0y.; ol tae
Pacific slope are eager Tor annexation.
while the greater majority Of the bal.
ance are intensely ignorant upon the
subject
The Chicago Heyuid Is the ouly
eastern paper that ] haze seen W ~
date that makes any great demons,ra.
ton 10 the matter, and that is d. iagaT
Of annexation. / attribute tbis lack n
annexation sentiment 70 the f-ct tGa
very little has been said a. ~ t0e ao.
yanlages Of annexation.
The two great Advantage ~ Il asl
would be, first, q sisble goyer0MeDL
and, sccond free market fr Der pro-
| ducts
The adyantsgts 10 the United STATE
would be cheaper sugar roe aEd other
tropical products.
As yet nothing definite is hD,Nn ..
70 the po'icy that will be pursued b1
the present administration, and rgB
lsequently the Royaists have about
much hope as the AnGenatiynista 1b,
chief objections here are me grea.
distance of Hawsn from the Cni,el
States, and some have objections ~ the
sugar bounty which they fear Nil baye
10 be paid ~ HsBaiisn planters q
certain planter wrote ne that b.. and
be believed most " the Other d 4Dter.
would gladly g. without lBe bounty y
they could only secure stable GgyprG.
ment and sure and lalI marka- igf
their sugar The Royaiists are n lie
opinion that those p.-nter Bho arc
now siding With the PloyIsioDd Coy
eminent can be lenyadod ~ ~ Their
cause if they be convinced that cGesD
labor will be an impssslbuily
The Constitution " tHe Caited
States declares that, IN the eyes n zoe
law, every man Is equal, disregard.
Jog color Or reiigi %. and, consequently.
The Chinese and japanese coI Is
would be pnyiIegad Do reusir ~ IL
wall and work fJr lhe same & mpcbsa-
tion, under the Governments Il he
lhc United States % uGder the Goyein
ment Of the Queen.
Personally speaking ] baye no hard
feelings against the ez-QueeD, Der
family Or the Roysjsts, ny opinion
being that her intentions were pefrclly
CONSCIENTIOUS, end that tbc loUery bdI,
etc, we're passed simply ~ rep.enisb
the treasury Of the Paradise n he
Pacific
Summing 4 al up ! Jel.eyc D. would
be much the better nIcomp'ete annex
alton LFKOY HCaKIS5CS.
MscomD, H., e. s. a. JOY D. J>95
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-08-03


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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-08-03
The Administrators Motives in the
Hawaiian Business.

There is no need Of saying harsh
things about Mr.. Cleyeland's Treatment
Of Hawail's request to come in under
the flag. The course pursued W
to the present. time is intelliglble
enough, if you look behind the record
and consider the Administrators
policy in the light Of some Of the
simplest laws Of human nature.
Mr. Cleveland probably bad no very
strong or definite opinion for or against
the acquisition Of Hawaii, when the
question thrust Itself upon bis attention
At the beginning Of his term. His
mind moves slowly from Indifference 70
intense conviction on any subject, and
the initial impetus and the line Of
progress are often determined ycry
largely by accident This may be said
without dlsrespeCt 70 the President, fgr
il has been true Of other eminent and
useful statesmen.
Having devoted 10 the subject Of
American expansion little or no thought
previously, Mr. Cleveland would nstur.
ally regard the Hawaiian question at
first, when it was suddenly and sharply
presented to him, from the point Of
view Of personal and political advantage
How would prompt action favorable TO
the proposed treaty affect his Admins
Iation1
10 statesman of Mr. CleyelsDd's
sagacity and clear perceptions in mat.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-08-03
THRESHING OLD STRAW.

Last nights Bulletin reprints the
reasons" given by the late Honolulu
correspondent Of the New York Her
aid why Mrs. J. O. Dominis should be
restored to the throne which she once
occupied under the name and tide of
Liliuokalani r. These reasons" We
place below
l. "That the great majority Of the
people Of Hawaii, including foreign
born and natlve-born, whites and
natives, desire that consummation.'
How did Nh Nordhch' learn this ?
The Annexation Clubs roll contains
the original signatures Of over 6ooo
voters out of registered voting popu-
latlon Of 1858; and the roll Of the
restorationist league, filled as it is
with the names Of women, children
and dead people, does not, 50 far as
can be ascertained, equal this numer
iCal exhibit. Surely there is no room
on the Royalist side for great major
tiles" and when it comes to a com
parison of interests in the country, the
ex.Queen's friends are nowhere, En-
listed for annexation are taxpayers
who pay rates on $235oO,oOo as
against Royalists-incluslve of Spreck-
els-$2,57o,ooo those estates Of di-
vided ownership, SIS, 100, 900; Of doubt
full tendencies, S., 900, 900.
II. "The Constitutional Government
was overthrow in January last, not by
revolutionary force, but by American
troops landed by Minister Stevens.
This is a tiresome falsehood, proved
to be such by a document power Of
attorney given by LiIiuokalani to Paul
Neumann-w wherein she said that she
had yielded her sovereign authority to
the Provisional Government; and by
the text Of the protest issued January
18th, wherein she complained to the
world Of the acts, not Of United States
forces, but Of Sanford b. Dole and his
associates.
Ill. "Tbis Intervention by the
American Minister in favor of reyolu-
ton and against the government to
which he was accredited has either 70
be assumed by our government or dis
avowed. If disaYowed,
necessarily our government will be
bound to restore affairs where they
stood before the American troops were
landed"
Ii is matter OF record that the
American Minister had no relations
with the new government until il had
gained possession Of the Government
Building, Palace and Station house --
when such relations became egal,
proper and Necessary Since then the
existing Hawaiian authority has been
fully recognized by the United States,
in the exchange Of ministers and to-
argue, after that, that Congress should
declare war on the Provisional Govern
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-08-03

WE invite the New York Sun 10
send to these Islands an American
Journalist, who is unprejudiced on the
issue Of annexation, who will hear both
sides Of the Hawaiian difference and
report upon them with Judicial fairness;
one whose name is familiar enough To
the public Of the United States t.
secure him a hearing on his own ac-
count Such a correspondent would
do honor to the enterprise Of the SIM
and would influence public opinion at
home and abroad in a most desirable
and important way
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-08-03

In spite Of all the debts inherited
from the thiefridden Monarchy, the
Provisional Government Of Hawaii has
a handsome balance in the Treasury
and its bonds are selling at stiff price
Its income is uniformly in excess Of its
expenditure and its taxes are coming
in as usual from RoyaIists and Annex
ationists alike Claus Spreckels lead
ing the way
Where now are the jackdaws Of the
stump that screamed about impending
financial ruin? What has become Of
those croaking prophets who filled the
American papers with predictions Of
anarchy to follow the appearance Of
the Tax Collector? Where are the
mellow-heads who burdened the air with
empty and simian chatter about an
exhausted Treasury
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-08-03

"YouR reciprocity treaty will be de
feated," said Correspondent Nordhof
in years gone by to Hon. H. A. P.
Carter at the latters house in Wash
ingtOn. 81 have killed it already" he
added, "and there is no use in YOU
working at the matter further" REQ
procity won the day, but Nordhof'
assurance remained and he now soy,
he has killed annexation He is the
Don Quixote Of the hour and sadly
needs a SanchO Panza.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-08-03

Hon. u rHr .tt discarded Cove
.fo tu.st fa.li sense hhi
distinctly evil motive
I0b.stsf up BOD. arl m...iu m..
arch, N Nuda.. av h .hs tfo
,sIun.D s.uueu. Ha. ueH Ia mat.
d ,omu.m.. u,h o. u,v Dob .h. Dn
thtuemeu. %. kiIu0a1 lHu STAT,
men. is bs,b1ad mad. openly
knowingly and with naked m,cn. A,
deceive So such o. propose. % ,us
gesu0u. as VI, are assured on OBJ,
highest authority has ever been heard
9t in the councils or laid down Boz OBJ,
negotiations OF this Government
"rbs Islands" says Mr. Nordh O.
have been always an absolutely peace
uI community. History tells a dt
fcrcnt asle This group has bee,
.forciby occupied and coerced by both
the English and the French and Do
recent years has seen two domestic Iu
suuccuous besides the last one thos
OF 49, and $50
One can almost pity the depraye,
| old man who has thus prostituted
good reputation to the base uses G
! Hawaiian mlsg0yvIument
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-08-03

II the Examiners report is true
that NJ. H DeYoung Of the Chronicle
is to be made United States Senator Ir
place Of Nh Stanford, deceased, all
who have the interests Of California al
heart should be Of good cheer Fol
years the State has had absentecs Of
dawdlers in the Senatorial office; bur
in Mr. DcYoung it would possess q
man Of ureless energy, Of restless am
bition in Calif,rnia's behalf and o.
sound business sense. Governor
Markham would do the State a service
by sending the master spirit f the
Chronicle and Of the California World
FAIR exhibit to Washington
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-08-03

Is it possible that the exile to Aus.
ualis and the eK-fduciary tenant Of
newspaper counting councillors Of
the H0lOmHa are anxious 10 drop
issues and discuss recordsl
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-08-03

I'm STAR has before spoken Of the
ease with which criminal proceedings
may be brought in this country by
persons who merely wish to give annoy
auce or to force others into disrcputc.
These actions, many of which are for
libel, are generally absurd and mis-
chievou,, and though they are apt TO
end in the acquittal Of the defendant
they have made costs and unpleasant
notorlcty 1t would be in the line OF
reform for the Provisional Government
to pass laws making it impossible to
bring criminal proceedings for personal
pique or as a mere method Of coercion
or lll-wiIL This could be done by the
simple institution Of he grand jury, a
most effective device, fully IN accord
with American ideas and practice, and
one which would aid materially here in
making law synonymous with justice