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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23
COMMON AND SYSTEMATIC METHOD

Section As of the city charter, in specify
ing the duties and powers of the confer
ences of the Mayor and heads of depart
ments, among other things. says:
Records shall be kent Of such meetings
above provided for, and rules and regula-
ministration OF the affairs of the city de-
partments, not inconsistent with any law
or ordinance, which regulations shall pre-
ascertaining the comparative fitness of APP
plicants for office. position and promotion,
those found TO be best fitted. except in the
Department of Public Safety. without re-
gard to political opinions or services.
The question involved is whether or not
the foregoing provides for common and
ness Of all applicants for all positions or is
confined to a half dozen clerks. few as
sistant engineers and sewer and other in
spectors. Does not a fair construction Of
the exception have reference to the pro-
vision that the police and fire force shall
be divided as nearly equal between the two
political parties, and not an exception
which takes applicants for the fire and po-
lice department out or the general exam
nation? Does not the clause mean that
all shall have a common examination, but
when the selections are made for appoint
ment in the fire and police departments
politics shall be taken into consideration.
and in regard TO all others they shall be
made without regard to political opn-
ions or services II the Board OF Safety
is TO examine or to cause 10 be examined
applicants for the police and fire depart
ments. why should not the same system
obtain in regard 10 the other departments
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23
They are as follows:

The foregoing figures show what the
reciprocal treaty with Germany has done
to widen the markets of the American
farmer in that country by getting lower
duties than most other competing nations.
1t is such advantages as these that Demo-
Gratis like VOORHEES,, Turpie, Brice and
Villas make haste to give away in order
that the sugar interests of Louisiana may
be protected by a duty which will come
out of the pockets of their constituents.
There are three Senator's who call them
selves Populists who pose as the special
champions of the Western farmers-Allen,
of Nebraska; Kyle, of South Dakota, and
PETER. of Kansas; will they rally to the
support of the solid South to destroy the
advantage secured by the Harrison admin
istration for Western farmers in the mar
ketS of the world?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23
The school Book Monopoly.
Lawrenceburg Press.

The Indiana School Book Company has
Withdrawn from sale the first, second and
son given is that a new and revised edi-
ton is TO be issued. This viii necessitat e
the purchase o. new readers again next
have to get along without writing and
reading also. should they chance 10 need n
book. The Indiana School Book Company
which was TO be the great benefactor oe
the poor I'm Indiana by supplying them
with cheap school books, now appears u
be thinly disguised monopoly, to which
every parent who has children OF school
age must pay tribute.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23
SLAUGHTER OF FARMERS MAR
KETS.

The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Record calls the attention of farm
ers to that portion of the Voorhees, bill
which abrogates all the existing reciprocity
treaties in order to secure the votes of the
sugar Senators. The Democratic Senators
from the States most interested in wheat
growing and meat producing have failed to
stand up for those interests as have the
Louisiana Senator'S, else these treaties
would not be abrogated by the Voorhees,
bill. 1t may be that Senator VOORHEES, does
not understand the value of these treaties
to the farmers, but a Senator should know.
Instead OF standing out for the treaties so
valuable to farmers. Mr.. Voorhees,. when
the aggressive Louisianians demanded that
the abrogation be made certain, had the
provision so changed that there could be
no doubt regarding it's meaning. The cor
respondent of the Record turns to the
change which the reciprocal treaty with
Germany has brought about to the ad-
vantage of the Western farmer. He gives
the figures in round numbers. but the
Journal goes to the official reports recent
ly issued. They are the quantities of farm
products exported to Germany a year be-
fore the Harrison reciprocal treaty and the
last fiscal year. which ended June 80 1S93
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23

Under the section Of the Mckinley law
which authorized the making of reciprocal
trade arrangements with foreign countries
under certain conditions twelve agreements
were made during the Harrison administra-
ton. They were signed in the following
order.
Brazil. April, 1891; Spain, for the colonies
of Cuba and Porto Rico, Sept /, 1891;
Santo Domingo, September, 1891; Germany,
Feb. I. 1892; republic of Salvador, Feb. /,
1892; British West India colonies including
Trinidad, Barbadoes the Leeward and Wind
ward islands, British Guiana, Jamaica and
the dependencies, Feb. /, 1892; the republic
of Nicaragua, March IL, 1892; the republic
of Guatemala, May 80. 1892; the republic
of Costa Rtca, the republic of Honduras,
May %, 1892; Austria-Hungary, May e.
1892 and lastly France, which went into
effect some months later.
. Some Of these agreements have proved
exceedingly advantageous to American
trade. The Wilson bill as amended by the
Senate abrogates every one of them. 1t is
not the first time the Democratic party has
shown itself to be party of destruction.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23
NEW YORK HAS NO CHARTER.
The Only Large City Transacting
business This Way.
Naw Vorlx uarolI
New York Herald

New 1orh Herald.
>. New York is city without a charter.
1t is, indeed, the only very large city which
tranSactS its municipal business without
that convenient and sometimes indispensa-
pie article Cities in the United states
derive their official existence from grants
OF rights and franchises made or ratified
p .y STATE LEGISLATURES, and in New York
by nearly one hundred years the establish
ment of the State government, which ac-
knowledged and confirmed II.
King James III Of England granted In
1856 the Dongan charter of New York.
Dongan being then the Governor OF this coll
ony. IL provided, among other things, that
New York shall perpetually own and con-
troll all ferries from its shores, and this
provision enables the. city Of New York
10 secure several hundred thousand dollars
a year from this source, Will cut any pay
ment whatever to Brooklyn In January,
1870, nearly half a century before the break
was given another charter, known as Mont
gomerie's. 1t continued in use for nearly
charter was prepared by the citizens OF
New York, and adopted by the Legislature
one year later In 1879. in 1851. in 1853 in
1857, and in 1868 this charter was variously
amended, and in 1870 there was a complete
change effected by the adoption Of what
was known as the Tweed charter. which
laid the Foundation for much of the cub
sequent trouble, which resulted four years
later in its repeal, the last New York city
islature Of 1913. on April 80, Alonzo b. Cor
nsll being at that time the Speaker OF the
Assembly.
In 1882 the provisions of the city's char
ter, except I'm so far as they affected vested
rights, were abrCgated by the Legislators,
and the so-called consolidation, a collec-
ton of separate statutes, was set up as a
substitute. Since then various amend
ments TO the consolidation act have oeen
made from time to time completely chang
ing the laws governing the varo de-
partments and prescribing many changes
In the local laws governing New ork and
the methods of their administration. There
is a bill now before the Legislature TO give
New York city again a charter, and the
matter will, IL is thought by politicians,
come up before the constitutional conven-
ton in May. At present New York is a
sort of unincorpOrated concern, a general
partnership OF all citizens TO transact mu-
nicipal business. subject to the amend
ments made from time 10 time by the Leg
iSlature
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23


Somewhere up in the wilds OF Colorado.
near the headquarters OF the Saphead creek,
the dodo bird perches on the zanyloon tree
and gaZes down on the tower OF George
town. Most frequently the dodo bird cocks
its eye at a certain cabin, wherein resides
a gentleman by the name of Parker, not
plain Mr.. Parker, but Mayor Parker, for
this especial gentleman whom the dodo
bird regards with affectionGre interest is
Mayor of the town of Georgetown. Mayor
Parker Is the happy possessor or a gigantic
intellect and out of IL he has evolved
gigantic scheme, being no less than a pro-
posal for all silver States TO secede and
join Mexico in a new union. Such a propo-
sition could only have come from resi-
dent alng the banks of Saphead creek or
its sister streams I'm Kansas. Mayor
Parker takes himself and his plans per-
fectly seriously and is engaged nine hours
each day, including Sunday, in circulating
petitions through the mountain mining
camps of Colorado. Evidently Mayor
Parker. of Georgetown. Col, during his
trance periods does not hold communica-
ton with the spirits of a distinguished
gentleman from South Carolina named Cal
houn and distinguished gentleman from
Kentucky named Davis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23
Washington Star.


What newspaper does the President
read most regularly and attentively? said
a prominent politician who has spent con-
siderable tine at the White House since
the present session OF Congress met THE
fact is, Mr.. ClevelGnd is very Indifferent to
newspapers and their comments. The one
periodical he nsvNr misses to read daily is
the Congressional ReCS-d and in addition
to that ne has the principal papers of the
country placed before him. He spends but
little time with them. however, and pays
more attention to the newv columns than
the editorials. He seems 10 be after facts.
and Indifferent to mere opinions. A few
papers, whose editorials are Of a serious
nature and carefully written. secure his at
tention for their editorial page, but these
papers are very few indeed The President
has set of scrapbooks kept for him, as
has been the custom at the White House
for a number of administrations. and In
Tho Sc are classified news articles and edi-
torials on the principal topics of the day.
Mr.. Cleveland occasionally sends TO his
secretary, who has this work In charge, in
order to inform himself on any particular
subject. The clerk who does this WORT
clips relentlessly and pastes in the book
some of the severest criticisms on thu
President. who reads them with the aspect
of a StOic'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23

The Journals correspondent "U. L. See,"
Is quite right in his views, published yes
terday, concerning the election of women
to the Board of School Commissioners.
There is no doubt that a woman may be
found In every school district who is
quite as we'll qualified to serve
in such position as any man. but
this fitness must be the first consider
alton. and not the fact that she is a
woman. The Journal has frequently adj
vocated the election of one or more women
as members of the School Board, but it
has no sympathy with the sentimentality
which puts the sex of the candidate before
that Of fitness for the position. If women
enter politics they must stand on the same
footing with men and ask no special ia
vors.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23

Commonweal Coxey says: eff the people
go back on us and do not feed our men
on their thirty-five-day march, 1 suppose
we will have to follow the example of
Christ who plucked the ears of corn" AS
this is not the season for roasting ears,
this probably means that the common
wealers will. if necessary, loot chicken
roosts, smoke houses. pantries and cellars
along the line of march. Local authorities
should be on the lookout for them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23
board in the city e

Representative Harter of Ohio. has an
excellent reputation as a free-trader; in
fact, as one OF the few manufacturers who
are. anxious to place themselves upon the
altar of free trade as a sacrifice to the great
principle of doing to others what others
will not do to you He permitted a bill
putting agricultural implements, in the
manufacture Of which he is interested, to
go through the House. but when the bill
was sent over to the Senate Mr. Harter
was there, and, using Senator Brice. had
the following proviso added to the clause
putting agricultural implements on the free
list:
Provided, That all the articles mentioned
in paragraph 591 Chose given above) when
imported from any country which lays an
import duty on like articles coming from
the United States shall be subject to the
duties existing prior to the passage of this
act.
AS Canada, and. in fact, nearly every
nation In the world. imposes duties upon
agricultural implements. except Great Brit
ain the excellent Harter has secured the
protection of his industry by retaining the
duties Of the Mckinley act. Like all other
free-traders, Mr.. Harter demands it for the
other fellow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23

The betrothal Of Lord Rosebery 10 one
OF the daughters of the Prince OF Wales.
which is authoritatively announced. fore
and politics. His marriage into the royal
family Will hardly strengthen Lord Rose
berry with the people or add to the effective
hess of his advocacy of popular reforms.
On the contrary. il will probably hasten the
soming OF the time when he will range
himself with the hereditary class where he
Saturday belongs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23

Local capitalists are about to establish
in Philadelphia a money loan Office where
the poor and unemployed can borrow with
out being subjected TO the extortion prac-
ticed by usurious money-lenders. 1t is pro-
posed to establish the business on a bust
ness basis, limiting dividends to the stock
holders for any one year TO not more than
per cent, any surplus to be applied to
the reduction of the rate of interest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23
High Time for Such n Rule.

President Eliot, OF Harvard. has issued
in the form Of a request what is virtually
decree that no punches or distilled
liquors shall be allowed in any college
room on class day or commencement day"
This regulation has raised something Of a
hubbub among the students; but II Is clear
ly within the police powers OF the authori-
ties, and might have been made even more
sweeping without traspass upon personal
rights. 1t will probably not prevent the
sophomOres from getting all lie punch they
want; put Il viii assuredly compel them 10
punch with care" in their future libations.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23

Detroit has an alderman who quotes Scrip
ture. At a meeting of the board a few
nights ago he interrupted a member who
was speaking with 1.-The gentleman is talk
ing on hearsay and the Bible says you
can't believe a word you hear said, nor
anything but what you See" Great Bible
readers UP in Detroit
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23
One of Marshall p. wndcr's Stories.


l was coming down In the elevated to-day
when a big. sour-looking chap got I'm.
Across the aisle sat a gentlemanly-loOking
young fellow minding his own business
The sour-faced man did not ike the looks
OF his neighbor. and after making several
wry grimaces. the nice young man retorted
by saying: You look as IL you wanted
TO eat me-" II couldn't" replied the, sour
faced one. "for l am a HebreW.,,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23

The New York Evening Post should come
to the support Of Mr.. Breckenridge, OF Ken
lucky, in his campaign for denomination to
Congress. 1t was the Post which, on a
memorable occasion, enunciated the PROPOSE
ton that the existence or absence of per-
sonal purity had no bearing whatever on a
mans fitness for public life
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23

The prominence of the campaign Of the
Whisky Trust appears to have swamped
the Voorhees, presidential boom; but, secure
Itself. the trust can put million or two
into the Voorhees, cause.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23
Puzzled Him,

What are you studying hard about?'
asked the wife of the rock-ribbed Demo-
crat.
II was jist tryin to figger out in my own
mind whether this man Cleveland is the
joiner er the whale
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23

The army has not asked Congress to give
the senior major general the rank of brevet
reached the dimensions of a demand else
where. the rank with which Thomas,
Meade aud Hancock died will do for those
now in the arnv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23

No one who knows Judge Gresham is sur
prised that he is urging the President to
sign the seigniorage BILL but even the Pop
uists who sought him in 1892 will not take
him in 1896. They will not take the man
who is responsible for the Hawaiian humil-
iation
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23
BUBBLES IN THE AIR,
HOnPlekA.

Il guess" said Mrs. Hashcroft to the
cook, Il guess there is no for you to
pound that steak any more in the hope of
making it tender. 1t is so old that its hab-
its are hopelessy fixed"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23

In Albany. N. Y, the Hill people have
unitcd with the Republicans in nominating
a ticket which stands for honest elections
The Cleveland managers in Albany have
been stufIlng the ballot boxes just as SEN
ator Murphys people have in Troy and
Tammany In New York. 1t is the instinct
of the Democratic managers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23

1t seems that the New York financiers
did not wish to take the $5O,OO0,OOO Of bonds
at per cent. but they did it because Sec
rotary Carlisle told them that If the bonds
were not sold the Bland bill would become
law. Thereupon they agreed to float the
loan =. i. .
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23

Speaking of the frequency with which
dividuals for their valuables, ii is a retail
business compared with the Democratic
Congress, which is holding UP the industrial
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23

The trouble about any plan to take tariff
legislation out of the hands of Congress is
that no Congress can adopt any plan which
the next one may not repeal. Senator Nor
gan's plan for the appointment of a tariff
commission is good enough, but like all
other plans. 1t is open to the above objec-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23

The bill before the House which declares
that testimony OF falsifiers shall not be
unnecessary, but it's author, Mr. Martin,
undoubtedly knows better than most people
the restrictions which should be put upon
the Pension Bureau.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23

Secretary Gresham is named among
those who are urging the President to sign
the Bland seigniorage bill on the ground
Of good politics." When man begins to
will stop
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23
Man and the Home.

His porter weighed two hundred pounds,
Yet with ease he fired him
But when on himself the Job he took
OF discharging the 9O-pound redheadet
cook.
He had to admit that it tired him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23

the movement he telegraphed them that
they need not come. indicating either that
his mind was made up that he did not
want any assistance in reaching a con-
I'll
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23

The mugwump Boston Herald makes an
earnest plea for the pensioning of the
widow of a general officer. who is in COM
Portable circumstances. at the rate of 500
q month. but il is unalterably opposed to
the pension act Of June o. 1890. Such an
attitude is an admission that the few are
10 be favored and the masses to be ignored
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23

Senator Voorhees, complains because he has
been singled out for criticism and suspicion
sugar duty by the undue application of
sugar of another sort. He doesn't see
why he should be made target while Mr.
cleveland himself is a strong supporter of
the sugar duty and the income tax also.
Suppose Cleveland is. This doesn't prove
ANYTHING. nor let Mr.. VOORHEES, out.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23
Two Views.

Pessimist-The world is growing wickeder
every day Look at the increase in klepto-
mania, for instance.
Optimist-Bah. That's merely sign that
the world is growing richer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23
Defenseless.
Chicago Tribune

chicago ITIUuIlc-
eff / had any able-bodied female wela-
tives," exclaimed F'weddy. wiping Ills eyes
with large cream colored silk handker-
nevah call me a bwainless dude again. bah
srxr
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23

To secure the votes Of the two Louisiana
Senator's for the ex-confederate tariff bill a
tax of $i1.COO.OoO will be imposed upon the
consumers Of sugar.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23

A case of leprosy has been discovered in
Kentucky. One or two cases seem to have
got away if developments in a Washington
court room are to be depended on.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23

The Journal believes that Mr. Cleveland
Is enough better than his party TO veto the
seigniorage bill.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23

II Senator Brice is correctly reported he
has repented and eaten his valorous words
about a tariff bill made by three confed-
crate brigadiers designed to destroy North
arn industries" lie was brave when first
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23
VIII Somebody ExpIain.

New 1Ork WOrIu tDefl1
If trust contribution 10 a national cam
paiCn fund results In rest 9ring the tax On
suxar. how will II be possible 70 explain il
10 the people who are not influenced by
trust contributors?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23
They Didn't In 1854.

Galveston News.
Bad morals 10 not hurt man very much
In American politics