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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-18
THE REPUBLICAN FEAR.

1t would not be candid to say that
there is not a considerable expression
of regret throughout the State that the
Legislature has nol yet pushed to the
front any of the important matters
preston of regret reaches the Journal
through Republicans who have been up
and down the State. Most of these i'm
portant measures are decided upon, but
others are not. Both branches are pro-
ceeding carefully, but is not too much
time taken UP in debating unimportant
matters and in tinkering statutes? In
the Senate the Democrats have a num-
Der Of voluble orators who seem to be
in conspiracy to prevent progress. In
the House much time is wasted in talk
ing over topics which are Of little con-
sequence and which members must know
will be killed in the Senate. There are
some matters to which this Legislature
must attend or compel the party to feel
that it has not done it's duty to the
State nor met popular expectations.
Thus far a most commendable purpose
to protect the taxpayers has been dis
played. There will be cause for further
watchfulness during the remainder OF
the session. That the most important
matters may be pushed to the front it
has been suggested that a joint COM
mittee of Republicans of both houses be
appointed to select subjects for special
consideration.
These remarks are not made in a
captious spirit. The Legislature is in
session hours enough. The committees
for the most part have devoted them
selves to their duties with most COM
mendable industry. Nevertheless, the
fear is spreading that many important
measures will be reached so late that
they cannot be acted upon. There is
leadership and brains enough on the
Republican side to stop statute tinker
ing at any time and push the important
matters to the front. In saying these
things the Journal is but repeating the
words of scores of prominent Repub-
leans up and down the State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-18

Associate Justice Harlan, of the United
States Supreme Court who was one
Of the Bering sea arbitrators, deliv
cred a lecture a few nights ago be-
fore the pupils OF the Columbia Univer-
sity In Washington, in which he explained
and defended the action of the Amer
lean arbitrators He says the regulations
adopted by the tribunal for the protection
of the Alaskan seals have proved very BEN
eflcial. though he thinks that in order to
preserve the herd and give the seals full
time to recuperate their numbers there
should be an absolute cessation of all seal
taking on sea or land for at least five
years. except such small numbers as may
be needed to supply the natives the
Pribyloff islands with seal food. Justice
Harlan concluded his address as follows
i have read something in the papers
Gently to the effect that those charged with
the interests of the United States at Paris
it's agents and counsel-did not get all they
should have obtained in the way of regu-
lations. / think that, without improperly,
having no further official connection with
this matter. may say that no government
was ever represented, upon any occasion
where it's interests were involved, with
more fidelity, with more industry and with
at Paris by its agent, General Foster. and
by it's counsel, Mr. Phelps, Mr.. Carter,
Judge Blodgett and Mr.. Coudert If more
was not obtained it was solely because a
majority of that tribunal, controlled, as I
believe, by a high sense of duty and of
honor, did not see it's way to grant more.
This from a member of the tribunal
should put an end to the talk about the
interests of the United States not having
been properly represented.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-18
THE FINANCIAL SITUATION.

The administration and the gold reserve
continue to 20 down Observation-Disclosures
phia North American (Rep)
They call the new bonds Growers to
distinguish them from the previous issues
authorized by Congress. New YORK he
corder Rep.)
The cleft between Cleveland and the De-
mocracy threatens to widen into gulf,
which neither President nor party can
cross.-Syracuse Standard Rep)
1t is to be hoped that Mr.. Cleveland's old
law partner lost nothing in a financial
sense by reason of his connection with the
bond syndicate.-New York Advertiser
Rep)
1t would take more skiIlful navigator
than Captain Baudelon proved himself to be
to bring that disabled craft named DE
mocracy' into port.-Philadelphia Inquirer
Rep.)
The failure of many financial bills,
after much debate, is another proof that
money talks. In Congress it does but lit
tie beside.-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph
CRep)
Preserving the Nations credit means
to the bond-buyers the very highest OBJ
tainable per cent. and everything to be
paid in gold.-St. Louis PoSt-Dispatch
Dem)
The agents of the British gold gamblers
were smart enough to induce Mr.. Cleve-
land to barter away the national credit in
the secret bond dicker. What arguments
did law partner Stetson use?-Atlanta Con-
stitution Oem.)
We are afraid that according to the rule
of the green goods game the Carlisle
satchel containing the comfortable sur
plus" has been exchanged for one that
holds one red brick and an increasing deficit
Philadelphia Press (Rep)
To praise President Cleveland for the
terms of his bond deal and admit in the
same breath that the purchasers will make
from $6,O0O,OOO to $500 0,0O0 or 10 to Il ner
cent: savors of carelessness on the part of
local cuckoo organs.-Chicago Mail (Rep.)
There is only one way to end this scraIn-
BILE for gold. and that is by giving assur
ance that the dollar which is the common
denomination of all our values shall not be
cut in two. but remain fixed quantity
rms can be done by Congress authorizing
the Issue OF low rate gold bonds suuIcienf
II necessary, to retire all the legal tenders
ana this would dispense with the need OF
(Dem.) AAoa oiu
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-18
Ii HUNG CHANG.

LII Hung Chang again wears his yellow
jacket He must have been q cuckoo.-To-
ledo Blade.
Ii Hung Chang has recovered his "vel-
low JaGket, but he may find a sting in it's
tail-Chicago Mail. - 80
A peacock's feather is too gaudy. A white
feather should go with the yellow Jacket tn
China.-Chicago Post -
We congratulate Ii Hung Chang upon the
return of his yellow jacket and his three
eyed peacock Observation-Disclosures Herald.
Hon. l.. H. Chang has discarded the bar
i Iei as an article of wearing apparel, and
Is once more at home to his friends-Phila-
delphia North American
Ii Hung Chang has been called the Bis
marck of China. But Bismarck has not
been restored to the Observation-Disclosures
burg Chronicle Telegraph
Judged by his war record Ii Hung Chang
Will make fine peace envoy. Instead Of
his old peacock plume, he will carry the
white feather.-Philadelphia Record.
The Emperor of China has restored the
insignia of Ii Hung Chang. He perceiyes
that Ii has done splendidly compared with
other Chinamen.-Syracuse Standard
Ii any one can stop the war our old
friend Lii Hung Chang probably can do II.
particularly if he is permitted to wear his
yellow Jacket and peacock feather-New
York Advertiser.
With Ii Hung Changes yellow Jacket and
peacock feather restored, and the Chinese
commanders committing suicide the affairs
OF China may presently begin to look up.
st. Louis POst-Dlspatch.
A yellow shirt and peacock feather with
three eyes has been bestowed upon Ii Hung
Chang. AS the mercury is lowering around
the zero mark in Picking we believe a oair
or overallS might be added to this costume
without making him uncomfortable
Ii Hung has got his jacket back
How long he's tried to plan it
And if he doesn't toe the crack.
The Emperor will tan it.
Philadelphia Inquirer
I've got my yellow jacket,
And peacock feather, too;
If / can stand the racket.
Wen end this how-de-do.
Thus sings Ii Hung Chang, while the Japs
chant:
Well dust that yellow jacket,
Make peacock tail look blue;
Well teach him new racket
Before the moon is new.
Philadelphia Press.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-18

The action of the Reichstag of Ger
many in voting to invite the leading
nations to hold monetary congress is
very significant when it is remembered
that Germany sustained England in op-
posing bimetallism. 1t is now evident
by this action that the German legis-
lature favors bimetallism. There is rea-
son why 1T should. The German gov
eminent has a great deal of silver money
which it cannot use and which it cannot
sell as bullion without great loss, and
there is reason to believe that after the
next election in Great Britain, in which
the Tories will be likely to win, a
marked change Of sentiment will appear
in the next House of Commons in favor
OF bimetallism. Under these conditions
the wise course for the United States
IS to cooperate, and the most unwise
one Is to attempt to adopt free coinage
IN this country alone.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-18
LILIUOKALINA DOMINIs.

An acquittal of Queen Liz doubtless
would be hailed with joy by every dime
museum manager in the country.-Chicago
Post.
The great thing to be said for Liliuokalani' 8
resignation of political hopes is that there
was no string tied to it.-Philadelphia In
quirer.
Ex-Queen Lii says she has no use for a
crown, and now some people say she is
in danger of losing her head-Plttspurg
Chronicle Telegraph.
We trust that Queen Lii has not for
gotten to order new plate for her visit
ing cards with the words Mrs. Domnis"
upon it, and in very modest script.-New
York Press.
Now it will be interesting to find out what
the present was that Queen Lii says she
received from Grover. OF course. she
thought it was "just lovely. "-Philadelphia
North American.
Cleveland and Gresham were ready to
recognize the rebellion against the Hawaiian
republic. had it made any Roadway. The
suspicion is growing that their hostility to
the republic was really the origin OF the
rebelliOn.-Toledo Blade.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-18

The Journal is in full sympathy with
the spirit of Il Representative BARRIERS
bill providing FOR raising the flag over
public schoolhouses. The flag is the
visible symbol of the authority and
power of the government and stands
for all that is great and glorious in
our history. 1t may well be made an
object lesson of patriotism in our
schools. But the Journal is of opinion
that a better and less expensive way
can be found of doing this than that
proposed by Mr.. BARRIERS bill. 1t would
suggest that instead of being raised
over the schoolhouse the flag be placed
OH the walls inside. where it would be
fully as suggestive, less exposed to the
elements and much longer lived. If
such a bill should be passed it should
also prohibit the display in any public
schoolhouse in the State of any other
than the American flag.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-18
sHREDs AND PATCHES.

Growers wild team is beyond his control.
Toledo Blade.
Grover as the loan fisherman is an object
of international commiseration.-New York
Recorder.
Binks-Is Miss Marble a fine vocalist?
Jinks-She's a regular Thrillby.-New York
Advertiser.
Time is money, but it is not half so much
fun to spend time as it is to spend money.
Boston Transcript
The ice crop is the one bountiful thing
that has resulted from the passage of the
Democratic tariff bill.-New York Press.
The unpleasant predicament of Mrs DOM
inis should serve as warning to all peo-
pie who keeps diaries.-Washington Post.
A law to compel the President and Secre-
tary of the Treasury to advertise for bids
might be wise Observation-Disclosures
American.
The motto of Congress is: "Never do any
legislation to-day which can be postponed
until after you are dead.'-Pittsburg Chron-
iclc Telegraph.
You occasionally find man who realizes
that he can't sing but you never saw one
who didn't think he had keen sense Of
humor.-Truth.
Miss Robinson-What worn look Mr..
Briggss face has. Bradford-No wonder
He has been travelling on it for years.
Brooklyn Life.
Nothing is made in vain. Scientists con-
sole us with the informal ton that cold
waves, sterilizing the air, Kill grip germs.
Boston Transcript.
what interesting stories of travel Duflix
tells He must have roved a great deal"
"No-o-hes always been here. But his mind
wanders. '-Tit-Bits.
The death of Howell Osborn is peculiarly
sad. 1t has resulted in giving Fay Tenn
pleton enough free advertising to enable
her to return to the Observation-Disclosures
Post.
II cannot see,' said Miss Pertley. at the
opera, as she carefully scanned the heads
of the gentlemen in the front row. chat
people look a great deal better with their
hats off.''-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Cleveland Is man, mere human be-
ing" said Congressman Bryan, while de-
risve cry of mo, No." broke on his ears
Human being? Not abit of it. He is an
avatar mugwumpiensis. = Philadelphia
Press
This wintry weather very soon
Will lose it's icy grip
And there is still a sweeter boon
The DEM Congress has to skip.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
The rain. and shine, and food, God sends
To be divided fair:
But sinners corner food in trusts
And get the biggest share.
Boston Transcript.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-18
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Max Muller knows eighteen different lam
guages to the extent of being able to speak
or write in any one, and a considerable
number in addition less perfectly.
Even the Italian climate of Oklahoma
Territory had touch of the frost last
week The Ardmore Wind Bag says an old
rooster near ii crowed all night Wednesday
to keep its voice from freezing.
1t is said that rheumatic people in Hart
ford, Conn.,. find much comfort in riding to
and fro on the trolley cars, seated directly
over the electric heater. Some of them de-
clare that this simple treatment effects an
early cure
The Westmoreland Gazette says that Mr.
Ruskin is in the enjoyment of excellent
health at Brentwood. Coniston, where he
occasionally receives guests. He has been
able, in spite of severe weather, to take
daily walks in the woods about his home.
The correct note should always have the
address of the sender either engrossed or
written in the right-hand upper corner of
the first page The date should never be
omitted and Thursday, Wednesday or Tues
day Is not enough-the date OF the month
aud the year should be clearly written
As all social obligations debts to So
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-18

The monster petition which is being
displayed and exploited in Washington,
with it's miles of length and millions of
names, seems to bear witness to the
sentimentalism of the good women who
got it up rather than to their practical
wisdom. Their idea seems to have been
that the moral weight of a petition de-
ponds on it's length or the number of
names it carries, but they have pushed
the idea to an absurd extreme. Every
body knows how easy it is to get sig
natures to a petition, and there is moth
ing surprising in the fact that millions
of women throughout the world should
affix their names to a petition asking
for laws to make the world better. But,
after all, it is only petition, and is not
likely to receive any different treatment
or more consideration than if it were
only few feet long instead of several
miles. The 100000 signers outside of the
United States have no right to petition
Congress. and the 771.0O0 American
signers have no right to petition the
legislative bodies of other countries.
The whole movement savors of the
ridiculous.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-18
GovERNoR MArTHEws,s POSITION.

Under existing conditions. with his
own party policy rebuked as never was
a party rebuked in Indiana, Governor
Matthews should have shown a DISPOSE
ton to meet the Legislature SO over
whelmingly the choice of the people
half way in any proposition which it
should make to put the prisons, hos
pitfalls and other institutions upon
nonpartisan basis. Instead of showing
such a disposition, he has met Repub-
leans at the outset who have sought to
ascertain his intentions with a declara-
ton that If called upon to appoint new
boards he would make them Democratic.
This means that he says to the people
of Indiana that he proposes to continue
the narrow partisanship which makes
the voting of the Democratic ticket the
one qualification for the appointment of
prison guard or hospital attendant.
in spite of the fact that the people, by
their latest and fullest expression. put
the Democratic party in minority of
1913. 1t is Governor Matthews's dec
laration that he cares nothing for the
popular expression of the people in the
choice of a Legislature. He practically
insists that he will maintain that policy
which bases the selection of all the hos
pital attendants and prison guards not
upon character and fitness. but upon
the intensity of their devotion to the
Democratic party. He practically as
serts that he proposes to continue sys-
tenn of partisan boards which, now that
they are under his own control, have
kept a warden in a prison who con-
fessed to the selling of prison labor to
the lowest bidder and to have given a
false certificate relating to the delivery
backed by $4,000 plurality in an attempt
to put that and other Institutions in
honest and efficient hands and on a
business basis. BY his attitude he con-
fesses that he prefers that a hospital
containing hundreds of insane shall con-
tinue under the direction Of a man of
VIGOROUSLY Incorporate habits.
Governor Matthews may regard this
sort of thing good politics. He may be-
lieve that a system which makes every
trustee an agent to enforce the narrow
est partisanship in the letting of con-
tracts and the service of prisons and
hospitals is such an administration of
their affairs as the people of Indiana
desire. He may think that an admin
istration OF the affairs of the State with
the sole view of winning the applause
of the primary packers and the heelers.
which he SO nearly forfeited last July
by enforcing the laws. is the best thing
for his and his party's interests.
What the mass of the people in this
State want is that public affairs be con-
Quoted upon business principles. and
that the mass OF the employees in public
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-18
THE POWER OF APPOINTMENT,

The Republican party in the country
has stood for constitutional government.
On the contrary, the Democratic party
has often violated the spirit and letter
of federal and State constitutions.
When the Democratic Legislature took
from Governor Hovey the right to make
appointments the Republican State con-
vention insits platform, the Republican
members of that Legislature, the Re-
publican press and Governor Hovey de-
nounced the act as violation of the
Constitution. The State legislative docu-
ments of the year 1889 contain dozen
protests of Governor Hovey in the form
of veto messages denouncing the action
Of the Legislature in depriving him Of
the power to appoint. In one of these
veto messages, dated March 2, 1889, Gov
ernor Hovey said:
1 concede that the General Assembly can
create new offices necessary to carry on
the affairs Of the State. concede that
that body can direct the election of such
officers by the people, or, In compliance
with the Constitution. authorize the Cow
of the Senate, to fill such offices by APP
pointment, but firmly deny that the Cen
elect any officer to any office created by
statute.
The above is but one paragraph of q
message which was closed with the fol-
lowing emphatic declarations:
/ shall regard no one as State officer
who cannot show commission under the
following section of the Constitution
Section 6, Article To- All commissions
shall issue in the name of the State, shall
be signed by the Governor. sealed by the
State seal and attested by the Secretary
Of State"
In vetoing bill creating a State
Board Of Health to be elected by the
Legislature, Governor Hoyey said:
This act attempts TO deprive the Gov
ernor of the appointment of the members
of the Board of Health and transfers the
election of said members to the General
Assembly. For that reason, in my opin-
ion, the act is unconstitutional.
Every Republican in the Legislature
sustained this veto. Every Republican
paper in the State applauded both the
Governor and the Republican members.
In fact, the whole party approved, and
approved because the depriving of the
Governor of the power to appoint was
held by all to be viola ton of the pro-
visions of the Constitution.
The Journal anu d large majority of
the Republican party believe that action
which was denounced as unconstitu-
tional in 1889. 1891 and 1898 cannot be
constitutional in 1895 when done by Re-
publicans.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-18

ciety or to ourselves. 1t Is as well to be
explicit and husin ess-like in all matters
or refusing invitations.
A wise physician once said: Gloomy
thoughts prevent sleep. The poor and I'M
fortunate magnify and increase their mis-
fortune by too much thinking. Blessed be
he who invented Sleep but thrice Blessed
be the man who shall invent cure for
thinking
The end of the world is to come on April
%, 1903. according to German theologian,
who has just alarmed Berlin by his prophe-
cy. Among his cheerful forecasts are
great war In 1897, the advent of a new
Napoleon in 1899 King of Greece and
Syria, and a terrific earthquake in 1901.
DR.. Bollinger director of the Anatomico-
Pathological Institute in Munich, asserts
that it is very rare to find normal heart
and normal kidneys in an adult resident of
that city: The reason for the kidney dis
ease is the tax put upon these organs by
the drinking of excessive amounts OF beer.
DR.. William r. Harper, president of the
University of Chicago, appears to possess
some of the characteristics of prodigy.
He entered Muskingum College, in Ohio. at
the tender age of ten, and was graduated
at fourteen. Then he went to Yale, ana
was only nineteen when he received his Ph.
D. from that college-an age at which most
students are sophomores. Or. harper Is
now thirty -n1ne.
Mrs Alice Freeman Palmer, whose res
ignation as dean and professor Of history
at the University of Chicago has been re-
corded by the daily press, says that her re-
lations with the university are of most
friendly nature and that she resigns chiefly
in order to travel through Europe with her
husband Professor Palmer, of Harvard,
who is to take his sabbatical year abroad
after the present term.
Stoves thought to have been used by
the Romans. They were of brick. closely
resembling the Dutch earthenware stoves,
which give forth heat but conceal the f1re.
Antiquarians say that Roman rooms We're
sometimes heated by building fire IN a
large iron or earthenware tube in the mld-
die of ROOM Modern stoves were pat
ented in 1921, and since that date over LOCO
patents have been taken out on different
Varieties of stoves and ranges in America,
and an almost equal number have been
isi1ed in Great Britain.