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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30

Tillman Cannot COnfiscate Liquor In
Bonded

III
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2s.-The Attorney
general to-day rendered an opinion in the
South Carolina dispensary case presented
by Governor Tillman in which he ~sustains
the opinion of the Treasury Department,
holding that the State has no authority in
law to enter government bonded ware
houses for the purposes OF Selling whisky
declared by State law to be subject to con-
fscation. In the course of his opinion the
Encouragement says: The legal status
of distilled liquors in a bonded warehouse
of the United States and under control of
the collector of internal revenue is definite
ly stated and settled by Section 1874 Of the
Revised Statutes of the United states.
which declare that All property taken or
detained by any officer or other person un-
der authority of any revenue law Of the
United States shall be irrepleviable and
shall be deemed to be in the custody OF
the law and subject only to the orders and
DEGREES OF the courts OF the United States
having jurisdiction thereof 1t cannot be
held, as has been suggested. and perhaps
Aug. 2S, 1894. the taxes due on distilled
liquors in a United States bonded ware
house can be paid only by the distiller.
Whether that be so or not, a tender OF
fectual as against the statute above quoted.
since il is beyond the power of an internal
revenue collector to accept it and thus null
lily the provisions and defeat the policy Of
a statute which aims to absolutely exempt
such liquors from the operation OF the pro-
cess Of a State court. Such tender. which,
for the reason stated. the collector is in
competent to ACCEPT. must be also ineffect-
ual. because no officer of South Carolina
has been given the right or power 10 make
II, the legislation of South Carolina not
any fund which can be used for that pur-
DOSe.'
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HARRISON In NEW YORK.
He Is Having "a Good Time and Nal
ing a Fine Impression.

w. E.. Curtis, in Chicago Record.
Ex-President Harrison is having a good
time here. He stops at the F~ifth-avenue
crowd that gathers in its great rotunda and
corridors every afternoon and evening. He
strolls into the Republican headquarters,
keepers and seems to nave Invested him
self of the reserve he has always worn.
Every morning after breakfast and again
in the afternoon he takes a long walk,
looks into the shop windows. bows pleasant
ly TO strangers who lift their hats as he
passes and never hesitates to shake hands
With those who stop him. He looks well
and says that his health is better than it
has been for years. Last night he told me
that he really enjoyed being an ex-Presi-
dent. and remarked that for the first time
as he was a mind TO. He felt no cares
or responsibilities had enough to do to keep
reading that ne never before had time to
undertake. Mex Wednesday he speaks at
Carnegie Music Hall for the Republicans.
The ex-President goes to the theater every
evening with his son-in-law, Mr.. Mckee,
who has charge OF the mining machinery
department of the General Electric Com
pany, with his headquarters here, or with
Mrs. Parker and Mrs. Dimmock, his nieces,
who also live in New York, Lieutenant
Parker having a billet at the navy yard.
Mrs. Mckee and her children are at Indian
apolis.
Last night General Harrison went to see
Richard Mansfield's first presentation of his
tried TO conceal himself behind the curtains
of the box the audience recognized him
and gave him a hearty cheer. 'Ex-Secretary
Whitney. who had just entered the ad-
joining box, supposing the applause was in
tended for him. arose and made a graceful
bow. and was covered with confusion when
he saw his mistake. AT the conclusion Of
the performance the audience remained in
their places and called for a speech, but
the ex-President only bowed and shook his
head. He found great difficulty in getting
through the crowd TO the street, but man
aged to make it, and, having no carriage,
walked off with his nieces like an ordinary
citizen. carrying an armful OF roses that
had been presented to the ladies by Mr..
Mansfield and other people in the cast, who
had received them during the performance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30

Pension Commissioner Lochren in his
report assails Judge Long because he
insists that his pension is due him by
reminding the public that while a Judge
with a fair salary he has received 81, 900
in pensions. He seems to forget that
the pension is based upon physical in
capacity for manual labor, and he holds
the Judge up for reprobation because
he accepts a pension of $40 a month.
Why single out Judge Long? Has not
Representative Black. Of Illinois, been
receiving a pension of $1,000 a year as
"a physical wreck" nearly a score of
years, holding lucrative offices nearly all
the while and now making campaign
speeches six days IN the week? Months
& the Journal offered to send the
Commissioner the name of a mar
drawing $50 a month who is not en-
titled TO a dollar. but he is now the
protege of Representative Cooper and is
safe. Lochren is a bad case of misit
since he became the tool OF Hoke Smith.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30

The shooting of a Fort Wayne snorer
by a victim driven to desperation by
the hideous sounds should be a warning
to all snorers. The incident shows the
reckless state of mind which one forced
by circumstance to listen to SHORES may
reach. According to all accounts, the
elderly janitor in the Fort Wayne hos
pital who shot his associate was ordinar-
lily a mild-mannered person and the last
one of whom violence might be expected.
1t was only when other attempts at
silencing the offensive sounds had failed
and when loss of sleep had brought him
near to nervous prostration that, in a
moment of frenzy, he turned his pistol
upon the snorer and put a final stop to
the rest-destroying noise. The same
cause may produce the same results in
other cases. and now that an example
has been set, 1t is not unlikely that it
will be followed by numerous others,
since it is we'll known that such occur
rences come in waves" The shooting
OF snorers is. of course. hardly to be
justified, but it must be acknowledged
that a punishment to fit the crime has
not yet been devised, and until this is
lone the snorer is in danger of encoun-
tering the Fort Wayne method. If this
method shall have the effect OF con-
vincing the that they really
ought not to be tolerated in civilized
society much will have been accom-
plished and the Fort Wayne man will
not have persisted in vain. 1t is we'll
known that neither argument nor re-
monstrance has the slightest influence
upon those addicted to noisy and vo-
ciferous sleep, and it is probable that
nothing less than so tragic an object
lesson would impress them with the fact
that they are a nuisance hardly to be
endured. The sufferers whose comfort
has been destroyed have treated them
too mildly. They ave not risen in a
body and demanded the election of the
tormentors from sleeping cars or hat
a thick-walled quarter be set apart for
them in hotels. or that they give
sufficient guarantee that they are free
from the habit before they ~insinuate
themselves into hitherto peaceful and
quiet households through marriage or
otherwise. If these repressive measures
had been adopted into the social sys-
tenn earlier the Fort Wayne janitor
would not have been forced to such an
extreme course. but might have slept
in peace. AS 1T is now, habitual snorers
will do we'll to paste the Fort Wayne
story in their hats and profit by it, else
they may find it pasted In for them with
the additional legend, Beware, lest this
fate be yours"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30

Those spectators who loaded them
selves down with the raw soft
sugars which they could bring into the
country free of duty under the McKin-
ley law with the expectation that they
would realize an advance of 10 per cent.
when the Democratic Sugar Trust law
came into effect now find that they
ave more sugar han the people can
consume for some time. and for that
reason are selling at lower rates. The
Sugar Trust. which controls absolutely
the supply of granulated and other
highly refined sugars, has temporarily
cut prices to help the Democratic lead
ers who gave them the advantage they
now possess. The managers of the
Sugar Trust know that a Republican
House will have no mercy on the sugar
monopoly, and that a return of the Re
publican party to power will mean abb
solutely free sugar, with a bounty like
that of Germany and France to encour-
age home production. For this reason
the trust has cut prices. When the
election is over the trust will put up
prices Inc yet make millions by adding
40 per cent. to the price of the raw
gar they imported and crowded
warehouses with while such sugar was
on the free list. The consumption Of
sugar having fallen off, the trust and
other Spectators have enough In the
country to meet the demand for six
months. But soon after the election
sugar will be higher-much higher. It
must be so when raw sugar costs 40 per
cent more In the refinery than it did
under the Mckinley law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30
DECISION.
Supreme Court Has Power to ReSiew
Land Court Rulings.

1 Scoh
WASHINGTON. Oct. 29.-In the Supreme
Court. to-day. Chief Justice Fuller handed
down a decision in the case Of the United
States VS.. Earl B. Coe. involving the title
to the A~lgodones land grant OF Arizona.
upon a motion 20 dismiss, on the ground
that Congress had no power to confer upon
the Supreme Court jurisdiction to enter
tain an appeal from the Court of Private
Land Claims, by which this case was orig
inally tried, because the latter is not vested
with political power in virtue OF any pro-
vision of the Constitution. The motion to
dismiss was denied. and the decision be-
comes of Importance. as il affects all the
decisions of the Private Land Claims Court.
The decision concludes as follows:
"As wherever the United States exercises
the power of government, whether under
specific grant or through the dominion and
the Territories, that power includes the
ultimate executive. legislative and judicial
ali inferior courts estabiished may, in ac-
cordance with the Constitution, be sub
jected to the appellate jurisdiction OF the
ment. There has never been any question
In regard to this as applied TO Territorial
courts, and no reason can be perceived for
tons Of the Court of Private Land Claims
over property In the Territories"
preme Court in the case of the Consolidated
Electric-light Company VS.. the McKeesport
Gas Company Tor the use OF carbon mdue
of fbrous material in incandescent lights.
1t is known as the Sewyer-Mann-Edison
case. 1t comes to the Supreme Court on
appeal from the Circuit Court for the
Western district of Pennsylvania. by which
court a decision was rendered in 1889 hold
ing that the patent issued to Sawyer Sc
Mann (whom the consolidated company had
succeeded) was jcvalid. The controversy
has been before tie Patent Office and IN
the courts ever since January, 1880, and
arose over the priority of the invention.
Edison applied for a patent on the inven-
ton on the 18th Of December. 1879. and
when, a few days later, a description of tho
Edison electric lamp was printed, Sawyer &
Mann filed an application for a patent on
a similar device. their application bearing
date of Jan. 9, 1880. They claimed that they
had discovered the utility CT 1brous mate
rial in electric lighting as early az March,
1873, and, Notwithstanding they had made
no application for patent. they claimed
priority. and a patent was finally granted
them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2s.-The cash bal
ance in the treasury to-day was s1l2. 7o6,ozs:
gold reserve. s61. 404.036.
ambassador Bayard was at the State De-
partment to-day. Last night he and Don
NJ. Dickinson were entertained at dinner
by President Cleveland.
The United States Court OF Claims to-day
rendered judgments In favor OF lSS letter
carriers for the time served in excess OF
eight hours a day. Out OF the whole num-
Der OF cases decided one hundred came from
Chicago, ninety-four came from New York
and four from Frederick, Nd.
The Controller Of the Currency has de-
clared a 6-per-cent. dividend In favor or the
creditors OF the insolvent Columbia Ma
tional Bank, OF Chicago.
Commissioner Proctor, OF the Civil-service
Commission, has returned to Washington.
Ii has been determined that no troops
In Indian Territory, unless called on by the
courts 10 assist the United States mar
snais. The request for troops would then
come through the Department OF Justice
United States Minister DENLY cabied the
State Department to-day. announcing his
arrival at Peking, China, on his return from
the United States.
Secretary Morton has returned 10 Wash
ington from his Eurorean trip and resumed
his duties at the Department OF Agrfcul-
ture. His health has been greatly benefit
ed by the trip.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30

Boston women are studying home life
now with much energy and interest, their
sudden zeal being due. perhaps, to the
fact that 1t is taught as a science under
the h-igh-sounding name Of "oikology."
Oikoiogy seems of much more consequence
than plain housekeeping, but if the de-
sired end is reached names do not matter
so much. 1t will take some time, however,
for the public to accustom itself to hear
ing that a woman is a good, bad or in
different oikologist when the question Is
asked whether she knows how to keep
house.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30

h election takes place one week
from to-day. Earnest work on the part
of all Republicans and Others who have
had enough of such Congresses as the
present. of such legislatures as the last.
and worst. Of all that Taggartism means
in half the counties of Indiana. and
there will be no more such congresses,
legislatures and county mismanagement.
Such a result is well worth the utmost
effort OF every good citizen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30
ODIOUs

Justus G. Adams was the last Repub-
lican auditor Of Marion county. When
he went out Taggart and Taggartism
came in. Mr.. Adams's last full year as
auditor of Marion county was the year
which ended June 1, 1887. A COMPARE
son Of the expenditures during the last
Republican year and the last veal of
Thomas Taggart may be odious. but
nevertheless instructive. The following
are the items:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30

Either the practical jokers of Lebanon,
Ind, are a mendacious, cruel set. or the
correspondent of the New York World is
a 'fakir'' who should be bored for the
simples. The following Associated Press
dispatch. dated New York, was received by
the Journal at 3 o'clock Monday morning:
"A special 10 the World from Lebanon.
Ind, dated Oct. Is. says: a wagon contain
ing a party returning from a dance was
stf9ck Dy q zig four tram this morning
The dead are Gertrude and Grace Davis,
Tenna George. Carl Gowans and May Me-
Daniel"
Yesterday the Journal asked It's CORE
spondent at Lebanon IL the World story
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30

When a mans own party managers
confess that he is not only the weakest
man on the party ballot, but a burden,
by taking his name from the head of the
ticket. where it stands in every other
county. and putting ii in an obscure
place. as Taggart has lone with By
NUNS name, it is but natural that voters
should accept the bosses judgment Of
that candidate and refuse to vote for
him
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30
A DfstfnEufshed Citizen.

snow, If you WILL" said the intending
investor, II would be much obliged if you
would point out a few of your most prom
inent citizens to me-"
oval" said the landlord of the Cowboys
''they amt much difference here; one
is about as prominent as another.
Fact is. bout the only prominent citizen
we got is old Bill Bags. Bill he enjoys
the proud distinction of bein' the fust man
ever to be put in the new Jail"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30

Totals ............s2 So, 406.s s54. 157.s5 Sa2,01s. SO
These items are compared because
here is where the tax-eater can get in
his work, and the increase-over 143 per
ce~nt.-shows that he has been very in
dustrious. Take NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
a variety OF promiscuous little thefts
of the taxpayers money the difference
between $2.304.79 under j. c. Adams in
1887 n s12, S39.9s under Thomas Tag
CART in 1894 covers UP. That difference
is an increase of 439 per cent. AS often
as 81 was expended under the general
head of miscellaneous" under Adams,
1886 of expenditure was covered up un-
der the Taggart management. These
are the little things which mark waste
fulness and corruption.
In view of such facts. is it not time
that Taggartism in Marion county
should go?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30

Now hat Pension Commissioner Loeb
rem has let himself loose in his tele-
graphed report on the veterans by call
ing them vile names, his smooth-voiced
Deputy Bell. who has been spending a
month in Indiana. can leave with The
knowledge that his fine work has been
destroyed by his chief.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30
Expense of Expense of
Fiscal year Fiscal year
..sls3.213.3S

lOtdlS ..$lSo,1lo.oo $0oU, 0lb.3J
From the foregoing it appears that the
same items Of the public service cost
s137 ,S03.01 more under Taggart than un-
der Adams. This is an increase of over
II per cent, which means that as often
as 81 was expended for these compared
items in 1887, the last Republican year,
Sill was expended the last fiscal year
by that sort of Democracy now known
here as Taggartism and in New York as
~Tammanyism. Special attention is called
to the four last items, as follows:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30

The Journal has received thirty or
forty copies Of the dictated letter Of
Chairman Taggart sent to the faith
If the recipients were once faithful they
have not only fallen out of the ranks,
but have become unbelievers in the par
ty of Taggart, Voorhees, and the Sugar
Trust Congress and are now scoffers.
The replies already received would fill
a page of the Journal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30

It does not necessarily follow that the
members OF the Democratic party who
have gon into the manufacture of BIZ
cycles by convict labor have wheels in
their heads. They are aware that there
is nothing more for them in Democracy
and are getting into other business
without delay.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30

Since Emperor William could not keep
the peace between the Chancellor and
wisely in consolidating the Offices. Prince
Won Hohenlohe. their successor. is said
by Bismarck to be a safe man, but to
lack initiative. There will be no trouble
about Initiative" with the frisky Kaiser
at the fore; he will attend to that, and
at the same time find it much easier to
keen one man In order than two.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30

Prison labor of the highest grade has
never before been disposed of at con-
tracts so low as AZ cents a day. Is this
low price due TO the Democratic expecta-
ton hat their free-trade policy will re-
duce the wages of free labor, and have
the Democratic officers of Indiana taken
the initiative by letting prison labor at
a lower figure?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30

With Marion county iron bridges let
to the highest bidder in another State
over a responsible home competitor and
convict labor sold to Democratic manu-
facturers at ~ cents a day how can any
man working in a Marion county shop
vote to continue that sort of thing?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30

If a Republican President should pass
through the city in which he can vote
ard did not register to vote, thousands
of Republicans, either from disgust or
sympathy. would not go to the polls.
The Democratic President has done this.
How will it affect the party of which
he is the official head?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30

If the sample ballots are correct those
d. Bynum will find it between the names
Of the last candidate for County Com
missioner and the name of the prose-
cutting attorney for this county. 1t is a
queer place for the name of a candidate
for Congress. but Mr.. Bynum's party
could not well leave il off IN ticket.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30

A class of Democratic orators are in
sisting that wool is 3 cents a pound
higher in this country h 1t was when
the Democratic tariff act went into
force. The market reports show that
the woods most used are lower now than
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30

When h deputy of City Clerk Nixon
took a few days time for the campaign
he put a man in his place and paid him;
but when Judge Cox goes off the bench
to urge voters to support him for the
Superior Court the taxpayers Of Marion
should go.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30
Doctor and wife Arrested.

PTTTSBURG. Oct. 9.-Dr. j. B. Des-
raches and wife were arrested this morn
ing as they aiighted from a Panhandle
train. They are wanted in Cincinnati for
grand larceny. Desraches Is about forty
years old and his wife thirty. He says he
is a travelling physician, and recently came
from South America His wife carried a
hat box which contained three small alli-
gators. They deny hat there Is any cause
for their arrest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30

Under Republican rule Marion county
bonds were negotiated at Az and 5 per
cent, but Taggart sold a 6-per-cent.
bond. While Controller Trusler gets
temporary loans at 81 per cent, Tag
CART pays 8 per cent. .Taggartism, bag
and baggage, should go.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30
CORRESPONDENTS LIBELED.
Sugar Trust Evidently GulIed by a
ycyvauaDer shark.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2s.-The Evening
Star publishes the following story. which
gives promise of an outcome OF interest to
tne public:
IF current reports be true there Is a syn
dicate writer In New York, whose name is
to be found at the foot of articles in many
cities In the Union, who may have a very
unpleasant quarter OF an hour with the
Washington correspondents before the next
session OF Congress shall end. The story
has reached here. vouched for by authority
that would seem to be creditable, that one
Of the incidents Of the Sugar Trust cam
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30
His Platform

1--WE don't" shouted the imprisoned ora
tor. 1--WE don't want nothing else but the
English language spoke in this country, and
don't you forget it,"
And the hearers promised themselves to
remember what he had spoken.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30

There is not one wage Garner in ten
in Indiana who is getting as much
wages after a year and a half Of the
Democratic regime as he was two years
ago. Why should he vote to continue
such a state of things?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30

The American Numismatic and Arch
geological societies OF New York are
anxious TO have the coins OF this coun-
try made more artistic. and have APP
pointed a joint committee to urge de-
signers TO compete whenever there is
opportunity. This Is well enough as far
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30

Mr.. Cleveland Is reported as saying
that he has no vote in New York. As
he certainly has no vote in any other
State he may be regarded as a man
without a country. He has been without
a party for some time also.