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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-20
WHY THE PRESIDENT FALTERs.

The defcit Of the treasury is going on at
the rate 90 s75.OOO.O0 a year. If the Wilson
bill shall become a lava tariff neither
for protection nor revenue. this deficit VIII
continue. If the Senate committee bill, with
it's sugar duties and withal something of
a revenue tariff measure. shall become a
law the deficit Of the treasury Will be
stopped in time, but not until "a deficit of
SIS, .cO or 800 00. 600 shall have appeared.
This deficit must be met. The first issue Of
$50, 1000 Of bonds Will be used TO meet a
part of 1t, becaues the coin notes which
Mr.. Carlisle redeems with the proceeds OF
these bonds must be paid out again. That
$50. O00,O0 will not be much more than half
the sum needed, and much less than half
If the House bill without a duty on sugar
shall become a law. The issue of bonds is
very unpopular with the mass of the De-
mocracy of the South and West, because 1t
is an increase In the debt. Instead Of issu-
ing bonds 1t would resort to irredeema-
bic treasury notes, which, appearing as
money, would not be counted as debt. A
proposition to that effect has been made
in the House. This element of the De
mocracy, which controls the party, Is out
with the President and Secretary Carlisle
because they have already issued Sc, 000,00O
Of bonds. They have told the Secretary
If the so-called seigniorage could be coined,
giving $5s.OOO.OO of silver certificates and
dollars, the Secretary would not be COM
PEELED to sell bonds to meet current ex-
penses. Knowing hat much more will be
needed than the money derived from the
sale of the 100000 of bonds. Mr.. Car
Isle has, it is said, committed himself to
the Bland seigniorage bill. If the bill be-
comes a law by the Presidents signature
issued. If he vetoes it Mr.. Carlisle will be
compelled to issue another $0,OO0,0 600 of
bonds. To increase the public debt 800, 90.-
600 a year to meet current expenses is an
evidence Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. which even
Mr.. Cleveland does not care to furnish. II
silver bullion which does not belong to the
government can be coined to pay half of The
deficit no more bonds will need be sold.
True, the government vaults are bursting
with silver dollars, and II pays out silver
certificates to have them return at once.
not being legal tender money and redeem
able in silver. Most of Mr.. Cleveland's Cab
met favor the seigniorage device. Between
his gold monometallistic maxims and an
escape from putting another load upon the
market the President falters.
1t may be added that if Mr.. Cleveland
would send word to Congress to drop tariff
agitation the revenues would increase at
once to a figure that would prevent a def
icit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-20
SUGAR AND WHISKY.

The sugar and whisky Hobbies, or. more
way in the tariff bill which the Democratic
members of the finance committee will re-
port TO the Senate to-day. Little else has
been done the past two weeks than the ar
ranging of the sugar schedule and whisky
tax. In both cases the rings have had their
way. The interests OF the Sugar Trust
have been secured, and all that has been
gained for farmers by the Harrison treat
les under the Mckinley law has been
thrown away for the Sugar Trust. Why
should the Democratic Senate favor this
trust. whose stock dividends last year are
said to have been % per cent. on the real
cost Of the property to the management?
Read what the New York Tribune has said
of this trust and again ask why should the
farmers markets in Cuba and for meats
in Germany be slaughtered by a Demo-
cratic Senate?
The Sugar Trust has been merciless to
its workmen. 1t has exacted excessive la
Dor from them in the hottest days OF the
HOIleSI summers, ana the answers or Its
officers to the protests of the men have
been cruel, contemptuous and arrogant. 1t
Is generally believed that the sugar CAPT.
talists contributed immense amounts TO
elect Mr.. Cleveland in 1892. But is that any
reason why these rapacious capitalists
should be encouraged to fleece the consum-
erS of the country and to in-treat their
workmen any longer? The managers of
the trust have been notorious for their au-
dacious defiance of federal and State stat
utes, for their INSCRIPTIONS watering Of
their stock on a prodigious scale, and for
the pitiless manner in which they have
shorn the Wall-street lambs to the inner
skin. Never have securities been manipu-
lated in Wall street more f1agrantly and by
more Objectionable methods than the Sc
curities of the Sugar Trust. The sugar
magnates who have made fortunes of many
millions each In a few years by the excess
sive profits of their refineries, and by rig
ging the speculative markets over and
over again. deserve no consideration at the
hands Of Congress.
If the product which the Whisky Trust
manipulated were a generally accepted nee
the Voorhees, committee would be even
more marked than the concessions to the
grasping Sugar Trust. The bonded period
is extended to eight years. That is. a tax
which is laid on whisky when manufac-
tured need not be paid for eight years.
Therefore. at 6 per cent. interest, the gov
eminent would lose under such a provi-
sion, 4S per cent. of the tax, so that, in
stead Of being s1.10 a gallon 1t would be
81 cents. If the clause of the House bill is
retained providing for a gradual shrinkage
CT the contents of casks in bond, the real
tax on whisky in bond. five, six or eight
years will really be inconsequential, while
the increased price consequent upon the
control of the stock would be very great in
the aggregate. '1E
The charge that the Voorhees, committee
has done the bidding of two Of the most
grasping and law-defying trusts in the
country is not a partisan accusation. 1t
has been made by many Democratic and
independent papers, and is believed by the
mass of intelligent people in the country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-20
stead,s Advertising Methods.
Philadelphia Telegraph.


The discussion aroused by Mr.. Steads
criticisms OF America Is very general, Dut
1. does not seem 10 be understood That the
London editor and lecturer utters a WELL
defined system. After his hrst young
celebrity had been attained ia London he
announced that he was going 10 Berlin 10
observe the young Emperor, who had then
lust assembled the throne, and gave his
opinion of the German monarch. Mr..
Stead's arrival in Berlin was te~legraphed
impressively TO his own paper. and every
day for a week paragraphs appeared de-
scribing him . in the act OF considering
things in Berlin. Then he started In. and
for two weeks INDUCED in a most violent
and bitter abuse of everything that could
be written about in the German capital
The local papers took up the extraordinary
and wholly untrue conclusions OF Mr.. Stead,
and combated them vigorously. but he re-
cefved enough free advertising TO keep Lon
don and Berlin talking about him for some
months. Then he went TO st. Petersburg,
and again he was described at length an
his own paper, accommodating Impressions OF
the Cars dominions. But. Mr.. stead Is
cautious as well as crafty. He was careful
TO get out of Russia before ne published
his criticisms. though his papers were dated
from Moscow and st. Petersburg. There
was a luil after this, while Mr.. Stead at
tackled spiritualism. and then, finding that
this did not arouse any interest, he pro-
fessed TO believe in spiritualism. and for a
time led the long-haired cranks OF Great
Britain t~riumphantly. Then the rowing
spirit overcame him again. and he dis
covered Paris. lie wrote about IL exactly
in the vein that he has followed In Chicago
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-20

the entire plants OF both companies. Other
cities are moving in the same direction.
Chicago owns an electric plant Of LOO arc
light power, On which the city is saving
two-thirds the former cost OF lighting. De-
troit has advertised for bids and specifca-
tions for a plant Of 100 arc light power.
1t is evident that the trend of public opinion
in progressive cities is in favor of the NUM-
c:pal ownership OF electric light plants. and
all estimates show that a great saving is
effected thereby.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-20
GOOD, YET BOGUS, DOLLARS.
Private Mint in Nebraska That Is Turn
ing Out Standard Silver Coins.

OMAHA, Neb., March 19.-Four special
treasury secret service men, in addition to
the regular force employed at division head
quarters n the forces of the United
States marshaIs office, are working in
Omaha and vicinity to unearth a private
mint which is alleged to have turned out
over half q million standard silver dol
lars, using the same amount of silver and
alloy as the government. The plant has
been i'm operation some time, and, IL Is said,
IL is impossible 10 detect the difference be-
tween the money made by the counter
feiters and the genuine turned out by the
federal minis. The profits Of the gang are
made from the seignioTage, which is said
to give to the makers a "rake-on' OF 81
certs on each dollar made.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-20
A NEST OF

A dispatch from Birmingham. Ala. says
that the United States grand jury. which
has been pretending to investigate charges
Of fraud by the United States Court off,
has been discharged on motion OF the dis
trict attorney. The attorney represented
that he had brought cases before the jury
In which the guilt OF the parties was not
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-20
the measure

Gen. Lew Wallace says the statement
which has had some currency in the press.
that he is e~ndeavoring to have established
by an act of Congress a college Of I'M
mcrtals," modelled after the French Acad-
envy, is entirely untrue. He regards such
a suggestion as un-American and says he
would be one of the first to oppose such
a measure. He thinks the newspaper ru-
NOR had its origin in a bill for which he
says he furnished the inspiration and which
is now before Congress. This bill is in
tended to obviate the disadvantages and
annoyances to which literary men are SUBJ
jected who visit the Congressional Library
at Washington for the purpose of consulting
rare books and prosecuting literary work.
Referring to his own experience Of these
annoyances, he says:
Books cannot be taken from the library,
so L would be obliged to get my table there
and go to work. There is no privacy, and
as L worked curious throngs of visitors
stop to cape and comment. They would
walk up to the table, pick up a book of
reference, glance over my shoulder at my
writing and indulge in all sorts of ridiculous
and silly remarks. Along in the afternoon,
when l would be heart and soul in my
work, / would be notified that the author
tiles desired to close the library for the
day. Accordingly L was forced to stop
work at the moment and retire. There are
OLner petty dnnOydnCSS TO De COmDaIeQ,
and the result is that it requires one work.
ing in the library to expend much more
time than Is necessary to complete a given
task, TO say nothing OF inconvenience OF
other kinds.
To remedy this state OF affairs a bill has
been introduced In Congress which provides
that Congress shall select five American
citizens, distinguished In art, science, liter
ature or invention, and these five shall
elect ten other American citizens equally
distinguished in one of the branches named.
These fifteen men shall be entitled TO GER
tain peculiar privileges in the government
library. They shall carry keys to it and
shall have free access to it whenever de-
sired by them For their privacy there
shall be a room fitted up wherein there
shall be a table for each of the so-called
"immortals." Here they shall work undis-
turbed and at pleasure. The free access
to, and a private room in the government
library are the only honors. immunities
or emoluments obtained. Members shall be
elected until retired by death or resigna-
ton, and all vacancies shall be filled by
those remaining.
The Journal does not regard this as q
happy suggestion. Whatever the %inconven-
fences or a-nnoyances incident to the present
system may be, they fall on all citizens
alike. The library belongs TO the people.
and 1t would SAVIOR OF invidious discrimina-
ton to grant special privileges regarding
its use to a favored few. The rules of the
library are very strict, and any violation
of them will be promptly suppressed If
called to the attention Of the librarian.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-20

only p~resumptive but conclusive. yet the
jury had refused to make investigations or
find true bills. He said the jury was no
longer subscribing the purposes for which
il was organized or furthering the ends OF
justice. He intimated that fraud had been
used in making up the jury box and that
1t had been tempered with after 1t was
formed. Upon these representations and the
motion Of the district attorney the court
discharged the jury and intimated that 1t
would order a new panel.
If the charges which the grand jury was
ordered TO investigate are even partially
true the administration of federal justice
in northern Alabama is very rotten. The
charges do not directly implicate the judge.
but they show that he must have been very
blind to the crooked transactions of some
of the court officials. A report of a special
examiner of the Department of Justice re-
Gently made TO the Encouragement shows
that the total expense of federal courts
in the district from July l, 1892. to July i.
1893. was 1921, $50, an increase of $40, 44s over
1891 and 1892 combined. Witness fees
amounted to s22, $50 in 1891 and SIS, go in 1898.
United States commissioners in the district
cost s27, 1872 during the last fiscal year. Com
parison of general results showed that it
cost the government $500 for every man con-
victed. The report shows a regular organ
ization and conspiracy among United States
commissioners deputy marshals and profess
sional witnesses to manufacture litigation
and pile up fees. The report of the exam
iner, after citing numerous proofs, con-
cluded by saying: There is no gainsaying
the disgraceful fact that under the present
system great frauds are being perpetrated.
large sums Of money are wasted. spies.
common informers, and professional wit
nesses are being bred. great outrages are
being committed, and vile injustice lone
reputable citizens and innocent persons,
and the administration Of justice made a
by-word and reproach in some of the dis
tricts in the United States He even went
so far as to say that If existing abuses
could not be reformed sit would be a god
send to justice to have the doors Of the
criminal courts in the district closed"
There was reason to suppose that after this
| report and the instructions to the grand
jury to investigate the matter the ring
would be broker up, but the result shows
it was strong enough to control the grand
Jury. 1t is to be hoped the court will sus-
tain the district attorney in his determine
ton to bring the rascals to justice.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-20

Philadelphia, which already owns Its gas
works. is agitating the question of putting
In an electric light plant. Its ownership Of
gas works has proved eminently successful,
but the growing popularity Of electric lights
makes IL necessary To consider the feasibil-
ity of a change. Last year Philadelphia
paid s4SO.O0 for .427 electric lights, and this
year It pays $S2l.s76 for a somewhat larger
number. The Philadelphia Press says the
plant needed TO supply all the arc electric
lights now in use in the city could be bought
for almost a single years appropriation for
light. II asserts that the city is paying the
electric light companies twice the cost OF
the lights. and In a single year pays out a
snm nearly equal TO the cost Of replacing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-20
liz Cured Him.

Bill Jones was deaf and dumb, IN not
A man ever heard j..
From them uncommon lips o. his
A solitary word.
So when he made the usual signs
To say he thought he'd run
Fer Congress-" everybody laughed
An there was lots o fun.
But Jones-he was elected
Jes' went in like "A charm;
"Fer bein' deaf and dumb" they said.
Hell never do no harm"
But great was the surprise OF all;
When Jones-the silent Bill
Struck Congress. he out-talked EN- all
An he's a-talkin' still"
Atlanta Constitution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-20

1t is said that Att~orney-general Olney's
friends are very angry because Mr.. Boatner,
a Louisiana Democrat, has introduced a res
olution in the House directing that an action
be brought against the Union Pacific Rail-
road Company to recover $40,O O0,O 900, to be
brought by some lawyers not under the
control Of Mr.. Olney, on the ground that
be is a railroad lawyer. They regard it as
an assault upon his official character.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-20

The Hardwareman, a British trade Jour-
nal. has the following under the head of
However great the temptation, IL Is q mis-
take for English writers and speakers to
dwell too persistently and too strongly upon
the benefits ii is supposed will accrue to
Great Britain by any alteration in the
tarin laws OF the United States in the d.
rection OF lower customs duties. The high
protective party seize on every declara-
ton in the columns of our leading press
and from the mouths OF our leading pub
lie men which Indicate the expectation of
better trade when the Mckinley tariff is
slaughtered. and. massing these together.
seeks. not without success. to impress upon
the public opinion i'm America the belief
that IL would be suicidal to give any con-
cessionS To British manufacturers II
would be far better IL we were 10 enter
npon a conspiracy of silence altogether on
the subject of the American tariff, for we
against our interests.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-20
To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
What is the present address of Gen. Ben
jamin Harrison and Gen. Lew Wallace?
2. Give a few facts or reasons why Utah
should not be admitted into the Union as
a State. a
General Harrison's address is Palo Alto,
Cal; General Wallace's, Charlottesville.
Ind. 2. The reasons alleged are that state
hood would insure the supremacy OF the
Mormon Church; that woman suffrage
would be adopted to strengthen their power:
that gentiles would have TO bear the bur-
den of taxation. and that the State gov
eminent would be run entirely in the in
terest of Mormonism. The Journal cannot
saw to what extent these charges are we'll
founded.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-20
Should he Suppressed,

If the sunny Southland has any more
Southern gentlemen, sah!' like Breckin-
ridge, or gentlemen of the old school" like
the profane and bombastic Jubal Early
1t ought TO corral them and keep them out
of the way of reporters for the sake or the
entire South They might get their names
in the newspapers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-20

II is now announced that the Senate COM
mittee will insert a clause in the tariff bill
expressly a~brogating all existing reciproc-
press dispatch, simply to satisfy the sugar
men and leave no doubt as to the in
tention OF the bill in this respect, and not
committee have any doubt that the bill. as
It now stands. would accomplish this pur-
pose" The committee seem anxious to do
all IN their power to satisfy the sugar men.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-20
Minor BiIIs in the Senate.

WASHINGTON, March 19.-There was no
important business transacted in the Senate.
the entire day being consumed in consider
ing bills on the calendar. Most of these
were measures Of small Importance, among
them being several of immediate interest to
the people of the District OF Columbia. A
number of bills were taken from the cal
endar and passed, among them a bill to
regulate the making OF property returns
by officers of the government" and ar act
authorizing the Texarkana & Fort smith
Railway Company to bridge the Calcasieu
and Sabine rivers In the States of kDuisi-
ana and Texas. The Senate received from
the President a message in regard to the
occupation Of Bluefields, Nicaragua, and
also a message relative to Hawaiian affairs.
At sos o'clock an executive session was
held and soon afterwards the Senate adj
iourned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-20
A MURDEROUS YOUNGSTER.
Though Only Ten He Has Killed Two
Brothers and Manned a Sister.

ABBEVILLE, Ala, March 19.-Little Dick
Want, the ten-year-old son OF James Want,
colored, asked a twelve-year-old brother for
a piece of a biscuit which he was eating,
and, on being refused. drew a pistol and
shot him In the head, inficting wounds
from which he died to-day. Two months
ago Dick killed a six-year-old brother with
a club because he would not give him some
marbles and one month ago he cut three
fingers off the hand OF his little sister with
an ak. The murderous youngster is now in
Al
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-20
A Moral Leper.
PHILADELPHIA Inquirer.

No matter what the defense of Colonel
Breckenridge may be; no matter in what
colors he may paint Miss Pollard; no mat
ter if he does claim that he is just as good
as many other men, the fact still remains
life; tfat he is a man without honor; that
he has forfeited every particle of sympathy.
In Iact, II would De an everlasting dis
lucky if this moral leper should be re-
turned to Congress.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-20

Judge Gibbons. of the Cook County Qll.)
Circuit Court, and a Roman Catholic, lecturs
Circuit Court. and a Roman Catholic, lee
tured on ireland and the Catholic Church.
ON the evening Of st. Patrick's day. In the
1t is a SANDER upon Catholics TO say Of
them that they swear allegiance TO a
foreign prince, meaning thereby the Pope
OF Rome. I know that L but voice the
sentiments OF ninety-nine out of every hun
dred OF the priests and laymen of the
Catholic Church when / say that If the
Pope OF Rome emp to establish a
dynasty in the United States we would rally
under the American flag. meet him In arms
on the Atlantic coast and dispute with him
evsSy foot OF territory from there to the
Pacific ocean.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-20

The rumor that Adlai Stevenson is en-
gagged in working up a presidential boom
for himself gives support to the theory
that 1t takes a long time for the dead to
find out what has happened to them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-20
a Emile

A certain Traveller was proceeding on his
Way, wearing his Overcoat across his Left
Arm. A Dispute Arose between the Sun
and the North Wind as to which OF them
could make the Traveller put the Garmen
on. The Sun, having won the Toss, took
the First Trial at the Traveller. but so
Futile were his Efforts that not only did
the wanderer refuse TO gut on his Over
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-20
No Word to Describe This.

NtW 1OIk NUIIu.
1t is acknowledged by Congressman
Breckenridge that he supported Miss Pol
lard at public expense by getting her a
place on the government pay-rolls. This is
not ''nepotism." There is no word In the
English language which describes il.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-20

The prominence Of such men as Governors
Coxey Is making prove that the fool killer
has not been attending to his official duties
during the past twenty years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-20

Newspaper photographers who seldom per-
NIT an opportunity for the exercise OF their
cynical wit to go by are letting the Brock
nridge-Pollard case alone. 1t Is such an
exhibition of depravity and hypocrisy that
its comedy features are lost, even to the
cynics. In their sense of shame and dis