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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-24
FOR A NATIONAL UNIVERSITY.

Senator Kyle, of South Dakota, chairman
Of the Senate committee on education and
labor. and himself an educated and scholar
" man. has introduced a bill on which he
is said to have expended much thought and
labor. 1t provides for the establishment in
the District of Columbia of 1.-The Univer-
sity of the United States" an educational
Institution in which every department of
knowledge, particularly literary and scien-
tific, shall be taught in the highest degree
known to men; and also where facilities
shall be furnished for original research and
Investigation. The idea is to make it eX-
cldsive,y postgraduate in character. thus
making 1t in a sense the head Of all the
schools and colleges of the country The
plan OF government provided for in the bill
is dual in character the power being vested
in a board Of regents and a council of fac
ulties. The board OF regents is TO consist
of one member from each State appointed
by the Governor thereof. with the con-
currence Of the Chief Justice and the chief
by the President of the United States, with
the advice and consent of the Senate and
President and Vice President of the United
States. the Chief Justice. the Speaker of
the House Commissioner Of Education, the
secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
and the president of the university The
council and faculties. embracing the head
of the university and the deans of all the
faculties. are charged with the direction Of
instruction and discipline. but the imme-
date government of each faculty is in
trusted to it's own members. Provisions
are made against the admission of any
sectarianisn in religion or partlsanship
in politics. The instruction is to be free to
ALL The provisions for scholarships are the
same as in other institutions. except that
they are to be divided among the States in
proportion to population. Provisions are
also made for feilowships for original in
vestigation and research. The support of
the institution. as provided for in the bill.
is TO be drawn from one-half OF the receipts
of the sale OF public lands. portion to be
used at once and the remainder as an en-
dowment. Such an endowment and support
would be commensurate with the plan OF
the university, and would without doubt.
result in making II, at no distant day. one
OF the foremost educational institutions in
the world.
No doubt the proposition for the estab-
lishuent of such an institution will be met
at once by 4 certain class OF directors with
the assertion that 1t is no part of the duty
/, of the government TO establish UNIVERSE
| ~. and that the business of education
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-24

should be left entirely to private capital
The duty of government to assist in pro-
noting the cause of education has been
recognized by our wisest statesmen from
the foundation of the government to the
present time. 1t was a favorite idea of
Washington's. who provided a site for such
an institution when the city of Washington
was laid out and tried to have a clause
providing for its establishment inserted in
the Constitution. He even provided in his
will what he supposed to be liberal en-
dowr,ent for such an institution in the
shape OF stock in the Potomac River Canal
Company, but instead of becoming valuable,
as was expected. the stock became worth
less. Thomas Jefferson was quite as
strongly in favor of the idea, as have been
many eminent Americans from that day to
this
In many ways the government is COM
mitted to the support of education. The
congressional library, the Smithsonian In
stitution. the Bureau of Education. the
gifts to State agricultural colleges, the
grant of university sites and school lands
are some of the ways in which this sup
port is extended. Nothing, would more re-
dound to the honor of the country than
the establishment at Washington of uni
''ersity which should surpass all others in
respect of liberal endowment. breadth of
organization. completeness of equipment
and facilities not only for higher but for
the Journal hopes that Senator Kyle's bill
may receive careful consideration from the
Senate, and, If well adapted to it's pur-
pose, that it may be passed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-24
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Record of Depravity, UnreIieved by
Even Tinge of Romance.

Pending the conclusion of the case of
MISS Pollard against Colonel Breckenridge,
1t is proper to say that the reports Of the
trial are already furnishing to the COM
munity a moral lesson of extraordinary
value.
1t is creditable to the court and to the
counsel on both sides of the case that al
though the facts brought out in the testi-
mony reveal almost uncomfortable depths
OF depravity, the revolving story is told
in a form which is in no way shocking to
the public sense of propriety. The evidence
OF Miss Pollard, 1t is due TO her TO say.
has been throughout dignified and as deli
cate as it was possible to make such a re-
cital No trace of pruriency has appeared
in 1t, though she has confessed to relations
and associations which involved her own
degradation, and a long course of false
mood and subterfuge to cover IL up and to
protect her distinguished paramount from
exposure. For that reason she has left on
the public mind as favorable an impression
of her as IL was possible for a woman of
experiences like hers to produce. She has
not testified after a manner that indicates
absolute and continuing corruption under
the influences to which she had been sub
jected from her girlhood, but rather in the
spirit of desperation Of a woman whose
life had been ruined and whose moral sense
had been stified and tainted by the false
and pernicious relations to which she had
submitted for so many years.
Never before have the peril, anguish and
corruption of such meretricious conditions
thus far told on the stand in this case. 1t
has been without an alluring feature to
distract attention from its blackness and
its hideousness. 1t describes experiences
which from first to last were without any
romantic tinge to hide their real depravity
1t tells of relations in which there no
happiness to provoke in any mind a de-
sire for such forbidden associations. 1t
constitutes only a warning against enter
ing into path which must inevitably have
an ending so painful and diSlraceful. This
man and this woman kept up the outward
form of affection when actually the feel
ing between them was rank hatred. They
frirpN lie lfpfrat g. Il
of the other, and each distraught by the
vile bondage Of license, deceit and perfdy
into which they had fallen. -
More than that we cannot now say while
the trial is still in progress, but so much
may be said properly and profitably. 1t
is a suit which ought to be reported fully
as a duty to society, that all men and
women may learn it's terrible lesson; and
as the story has an absorbing interest, the
sent il in completeness to tlis end
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SHREDS AND PATCHES.

Boiled water isn't so bad If the proper
ingredients are mixed with it.-Buffalo Ex-
press.
We are sorry for Ben Butterworth, Esq.
And Breckenridge isn't paying him a cent.
Cleveland Leader.
A girl is not considered good singer
poned because she has a cold.-Atchlson
Globe.
The second Mrs. Tanqueray might ind
inspiration, gentility, and naturalness at
the Pollard-Breckinridge trial.-Washington
Times.
Mrs. Waite called the Governor fool
the other day. There is no doubt that she
thoroughly understands the old gentleman
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
a middle-aged person is one between the
ages OF twenty-five and seventy-five, ac-
cording to the age of the person who makes
the designa tion.-Puck.
The most annoying thing about chronic
liar is that he occasionally and Unexpected
ly tells the truth, thereby unsettling your
opinion Of him.-Kate Fields Paper.
Breckenridge has the bulge John Y
McKane. They can turn Breckenridge out
of church, but they can't send him up 10
learn the tailor Observation-Disclosures Press.
Harvard students have been ordered not
to get intoxicated on commencement day
Every effort must be made to civilize the
scholar before he goes into the world
New York World.
General Coxey says he wants a beautiful
young lady to ride white palfrey in front
of his army. There is no mistaking this
request. 1t is direct demand for the Serv-
ices OF Mrs. Lease.-Chicago Record.
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THEY CALL THIS REFORM.
POstOf'ice Department Beats All Re
cords Removals.
Washington Special

The Democratic congressional campaign
committee have been urging the Postoffice
Department to make clean sweep of Re-
publican poStmaSterS, in order TO help the
Democratic party in the coming campaign.
Postmaster-general Bissell seems to APP
preciate the Importance of convincing his
party that no undue regard has been shown
by his department for civil-service reform.
To that end a statement has been prepared
showing that there has been a larger num-
Der OF changes In postmaSters under this
administration for the time it has been
in office than under other administrations
since the beginning of the government
AS compared with the Harrison admin
iStration, the changes have been much more
masters appointed during the first sixteen
months of the Harrison administration was
1,646 month. So far under the Cleve-
land administration, the average has been
In addition, there has been twice as
many changes made in the Treasury De-
partment under this administration as dur
ing the same time under the Harrison adj
ministration. and the other departments
make an equally bad showing against civil
service reform. These statistics will be
used by the Democratic congressional COM
mittee as campaign documents.
The number of poStoftice appointments
by the last administration from March 4.
1889, to March II, 1880, was 1893. There
were thirty-two presidential appointments
made ON March 49, 1890. The number made
by this administration between March 4,
1893, and March 3d. 1894, was 1,720. The total
number of presidential postoffices in oper-
alton March II last was 1924 Figures of
appointments of fOurth-claSs poStmaSterS
for the former Cleveland administration
and the Harrison administration are given
on the basis OF sixteen months, as official
statements then compiled covered the fiscal
year and the period from March 1 TO July
/ of the first year of each administration.
For the twelve months of the present adj
mnistration the number of changes in
fourth-class poStmaSterS was 22,012.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-24

In 1870 he was elected TO the Forty-second
Congress from the old Fourth district, re-
ceiving II SCI votes against 1851 for David
s. Cooling The district as then consti-
tuted embraced the counties OF Fayette,
Franklin Hancock, Rush, Shelby. Union
and Wayne, and was cut out for a Demo
cratic district In 1872 he was reelected
over Gooding by a majority of $50. In this
Congress he was placed on the judiciary
committee. a position for which his fine
legal attachments eminently fitted him, and
was also made chairman of the committee
on the District of Columbia. Before the
next election he was gerrymandered out of
Congress. The apportionment Of 1878 placed
Wayne county in a district with Dearborn,
Fayette. Franklin, Randolph and Union.
The district was so hopelessly Democratic
that no Republican could have carried it,
and Mr.. Holman was elected in 1874 by
nearly $500 majority. AS chairman of the
committee on the District Of Columbia Mr..
Wilson had made some local acquaintance
in Washington and became interested in the
city. and on the expiration of his term he
remained there and began the practice of
law. His eminent ability soon became rec
ognized, and for many years he has been cas-
lily one of the foremost lawyers at the
Washington bar. He is equally at home in
civil or criminal pratice and whether in
the preparation of cases, the examination
of witnesses or addressing a jury, he al
ways shows great skill and force. His
REORGANIZATION of Colonel Breckenridge
and his arguments to the jury are expected
to be conspicuous features Of the sensa-
tional case now on trial.
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duty OF the government to promote the ends
of justice, whether for or against claim
ant. and when it has in it's possession infor-
nation contributing to this end it should
furnish ii. The result of the new ruling in
many cases will be to cause the rejection
Of meritorious claims for the want of infor-
nation which the government has in its
possession and to which the applicant has
not access. This is not honest nor honor
able. 1t is not treating the veterans fairly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-24

Governor Matthews would receive the
commentator of all the sensible people of
the State if he should stop any band of
men attempting to march across the State.
Such a multitude OF men would devastate
the country through which they would
march Numbers OF them would enter
every house. demand food. take what they
wanted, and terrorize the people, To stop
any considerable crowd at the State line
and to dispense any such mob raised in the
State would be a proper exercise of the
executive power, whose highest function is
to protect the people in their homes. The
Governors remarks upon the subject are
generally approved
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-24

The success of the cooperative enter
prise started by some laundry girls of this
city is attracting attention in other parts
of the country. The Philadelphia Record
makes the business report of the manager
a subject of editorial comment. and says:
What the Indianapolis girls have done
could doubtless be done by girls in Phila-
delohia, or in any other city, who should
get together and make a start on a proper
business basis. To Indianapolis, however
must be awarded the credit of having
broken the ground and made clear the path
of successful experiment.
These enterprising young women have
given the city much better advertisement
than if they had organized a cornnonweal
movement to mnrch On Washington.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-24

A miscalculation as 10 the number of
the late Senator Stanford's nephews and
nieces has led to a complication which
may result In interesting disclosures. Mr.
Stanford provided in his will for gift of
100000 to each Of his nephews and nieces
1t at first supposed there were about
half a dozen Of these, but the discovery
that there are eighteen, calling for cash
payments to the amount of s1,SOO,cO0, has
precipitated an unexpected demand for
ready money. In order to meet it and to
ascertain just where she stands in regard
to assets Mrs. Stanford has made a de-
mand fer an accounting of her one-quarter
share in the Pacific Improvement Company.
This is the real oney-making part of the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company, sort
of wheel within n wheel that has played
Credit Mobilier to that big corporation.
The people of California have long been
anxious to get Peep into the books of
the Pacific Improvement Company and
a view of it's operations. and they are hoping
now that Mrs. Stanford's demand for an
accounting of her interest will lead to an
exposure of it's accounts. No people have
ever been so numerically plundered by
corporations as those of California have
been and are by the two Pacific railroads,
and they are quick to grasp at anything
that offers the slightest hope Of relief.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-24

IT, under another section Of the charter
IL IS claimed that the Board of Public
Safety have authority to examine and ap-
point men in their department, and have
ample time in which to attend to the mat
ter, why should new board be created,
even if there were warrant for it, to exam
Inc applicants for possibly twenty places?
The examination OF a man for the police
man who is to be inspector of certain
street works or rodman in the engineers
office
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-24
JURORS CHALLENGED,
And New Venire Demanded Because
Eleven Were Members of the A. z. A..

DENVER, Col. March 2S.-For the first
time in the history Of the courts Of Colo
RADIO the question OF religious differences
has been raised. In the case OF Timothy
Drew and James Burns charged with rob
berry, attorney Ward. for the defense. chal-
lenged a Juror because he was a member
of the A +. A The challenge was over
ruled. He then challenged the entire jury,
and found that eleven out OF the twelve
were members OF this organization The
attorney at once asked for a new venire,
and that the coroner's office have charge
of the jury, on the ground that Sheriff
PENDANTS because they are Catholics. One
OF the jurors. when leaving the court room,
shouted ..Hurrah for the a. j.. A.
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THE COXEY IDIOCY.

The public has heard so much Of Cox
from MassillOn for Washington tomorrow,
that there is mild interest concerning the
performance. COxey is a visionary. eager
for notoriety. and Populist candidate for
Congress. If the Sensational correspondents
at Massillon had not kept him before the
public he would have dropped into obscur-
ity ere this. 1t remains to be seen what
sort of demonstration he and his follow
ers can make. The difference between his
reports and these of reliable correspondents
where HIS army is boing recruited are so
wide and there is so much absurdity in
his claims and movements. that one would
conclude that the force which will march
forth from Massillon tomorrow will be a
neagcr one. and that two days marching
will scatter it, The professional tramp will
not, as a rule, join Coxey. because he has
the instincts of a go-as-you-p please hummer
rather than the persistence of q man who
Is devoted 10 an idea, however absurd.
A year ago Coxey would have had no
followers. The same erratic intellacts
were scattered over the country, as now,
but they were dormant. These people then
had employment which engrossed their at
tention. When, however, employment BE-
came precariOus and the number of the
IDLE increased these persons. with magma
tfopS with no oOu,poop-se haIonoa ,rbooJS
began to talk. and the more they talked
he moro cranky and unreasonable they
Became They attach to themselves per-
sons who are weaker and who are aimless-
y drifting about because they have no en-
ployment. In ordinary times, with regular
employment and food and lodging, the Cox
eys could not lead thsm. There is still
mother element which sustains Coxey's
movement They are the public disturbers-
he man who incite strikes In good seasons
and counsel violence in hard times. They
ire opposed to social order. IN short they
ire as near Anarchists as the country can
produce. They are the men VINO are incit-
ng Coxey to down the Senate" They
urge 1t because they want lswlessness and
riot. They, however. will not march over
he whole route. They will be on hand if
he crowd naars Washington.
There is yet another element It's MEM
3ers will rot march from Massillon to
Washington. They are the cheap dema-
goguss who hope to promote their political
fortunes by Coxeys army Of calamity
they are men like Senator Kyle,wh will
watch the Coxey army from 1.-The windows
Of my committee room" Upon all impor-
5ant questions Kyle is a Democrat, and
The Craftsmanship of the Senate committee
IN education and labor is the reward of his
Implicitly. This demaSogue whom the
Democratic Senate has placed at the head
Of an important committee, so as TO have
his vote for the Wilson bflh shouts encour-
agement to the cranks and the deceived
men all over the country to join Coxey.
OF ell the applauders Of Coxey, men like
Kyle are the most reprehensible.
And this ridiculous performance is under
taken for the purpose of inducing, OF,
rather. forcing Congress to issue $4,000 900
Of noninterest bearing bonds, with which
20 build good roads
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-24
A POSTOFFICE ROW.
Mr.. Cleveland Indignant Because an
Election Was Held at Frankfort.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, March 23.-The postoffice
storm center in Indiana Is Frankfort. The
first Of thissweek the veteran wheelhorse of
Democracy, editor Brown, and the Napo-
leon OF aggressive methods, Captain Allen,
came to Washington to settle the question
of appointment. 1t was soon realized that
Mr.. Jesse Marvin was the coming man,
Senator Turpie being his steadfast friend.
Mr.. Marvin has just had his innings.
Messrs. Brown and Allen returned TO
Frankfort and reported that the matter had
been referred to the people They claimed
authority for calling an election to settle
the contest. All of the candidates, except
Marvin, tumbled over each other for this
arbitrament. The chairman of the county
central committee repudiated the election
business" as a fake" Senator Turpie
called at the White House late to-day to see
the President, and it was apparent that he
made a winning impression when ne pre-
scented the name of Marvin. Hoosier DEM
ocratic circles here report President Cleve-
land as decidedly indignant about the new
Developments, and that he will order an
investigation by special agents Of the Post
office Department as to where the response
bility for calling the election lies. 1t is said
that there has been some assumption Of re-
sponsibility in calling the primary 10 deter
mine who shall be postmaster at Frank
fort and ii is TO be ascertained.
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vious censuses are as follows:
Estimated
rue Valuation

A gain of 40 per cent. in property to a
gain OF less than 25 per cent. in population
in a ten-year period is a thing which TO
other nation can show. The per capita val
uation in 1890 was $1,000. against $50 in 1880,
$3.50 in 1870 and s514 in 1860. The New York
Tribune finds that the increase of value
in certain properties. like real estate and
improvements, live stock, farm implements,
railroads, telegraphs, shipping, mines
and quarries, was from $29, DO,
100000 in $780, to S52, 79S. 100000 in
1SSO-an increase of SOC per cent. 1t
shows that there is even a larger increase
in the value of gold and silver manufac-
lures and other properties. which leads it
TO conclude that the figures of 1890 are too
small If made upon the same basis as those
of preceding censuses. There appears to be
excellent ground for this assumption, but
an increase OF wealth Of over 40 per cent.
IN tn years IS an evidence OF thrift which
Is most gratifying.