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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27

The advocates of the free coinage of
silver by the United States are wont to
tell the people that the bankers of
Europe, notably the great house of the
Rothschilds, are determined to prevent
a larger use of silver as money. Baron
DE Rothschild was one of Great
Britain's representatives in the interna-
tional monetary conference at Brussels.
He was very much in earnest for action
which would lead to a much larger use
of silver. His plan was to have all ma
tons purchase more silver and increase
it's use as money to prevent its further
depreciation. He went so far as to say:
IF this conference were to break up
without arriving at any definite result
there would be a depreciation in the
value of silver which it would be fright
full to contemplate. and out of which
would ensue a monetary panic. the far
spreading effects of which it would be
impossible to foretell."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27

Club now advocating gold monometal-
lism embraces the same men who were
behind the Baltimore banking plan, by
which would be permitted to issue
500 worth of notes upon a money basis
or $40. Real bimetallists are as much
opposed to that scheme as to any other
which will expand the volume of paper
money without expanding the coin basis
or Its equivalent behind it. When a
broader basis han 40 per cent. is re-
Qulred for banking there will be a larger
demand for the precious metals or what
they win purchase, like the bonds of the
limited States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27
THE BEEF
DIR. MeIvfn's Report On AlIeged Dis
elimination In Freight rates.


elimination in Freight Rates.
WASHINGTON, April 26.-Dr. Salmon,
chief of the animal industry division of the
Agricultural Department, under whose di-
rections the investigation of the alleged
beef combine is being made, said to-day
that the report of DR.. Melvin on freight
rates charged for transportation of beef
had been received. 1t covers the whole
ground of the alleged discrimination of
rates against small concerns. DR.. Salmon,
however. refused to make public it's con-
tents at this time. 1t will be held until
all the reports are in, when the conclusions
will be carefully drawn. DIR. Salmon. in re-
ply to the intimation given out by Armour's
agents at Chicago that the packers would
have something to say when the depart
they had anything to say or remarks to
oner the department would be glad to hear
from them.
Speaking of the alleged combine, DR.. SAL
mon said that a few men with a hundred
millions of capital, who controlled the stock
and who obtained low freight rates. would
have abundant opportunity to make the
buying price, of cattle and the selling price
of dressed beef. If the supply of cattle
was 10000 short, he asked, why was the
market daily reported dull. DR.. Salmon said
if the investigation showed that. a COM
people should know it.
VIII the matter be laid before the De-
81 do not know the Secretary's purpose
replied DIR. Salmon. 81 10 not know how
far the law goes, but if the facts are as
certained a remedy can be provided at the
next session. of Congress or of the State
Legislatures"
DR.. Salmon said the effect of the recent
order of Secretary Morton admitting Mex
lean cattle under rigorous inspection had
not become fully apparent. One lot of fif-
teen hundred and one of six thousand had
been admitted. Perhaps sixty thousand in
all had been admitted, but 1t was 1mpoG-
sible as yet to estimate how many would
come during the season. Many of the Mex
lean cattle admitted were grazed On Texas
pastures before being sent to market.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27
CAN'T isl H MAILS
PUBLISHERS, COLLECTION AGENCY
PLACED UNDER THE BAN.
Charged with Attempting to Enforce
So-Called Newspapers Laws, i'm
Spite of Postofice arning

WASHINGTON, April 26.-Fraud orders
were to-day issued to the postmasters at
St. Paul, Pittsburg and Chicago, forbidding
the delivery of any mail matter TO the pub
fishers collection agency. The agency.
which has Offices all over the country, has
persisted in attempting to enforce the So
called newspaper laws in spite of the
warnings of the Postofice Department. One
of the chief clauses of these laws" is
that if a person takes a paper from the
postoffice he is liable for the subscription
price of it, whether his time is out or not.
or whether he subscribed for it originally
or not.
In discussing the matter Assistant At
torney-general Thomas says "This is the
law only where a publisher sends a paper
to a non-subscriber with the intent to
charge for it. Indeed the relation between
a publisher and his patrons is contractual
only. The contract may be implied or ex.
pressed. II a publisher sends his paper to
a nonsubscriber with the intention of charg-
ing for it and the addressee takes 1t out
of the postoffice or from the carrier under
such circumstances as to indicate that he
intends to pay for it, he might be liable.
But it often happens that publishers. in
order to introduce their papers, send sample
copies to nonsubscibers all over the coun-
Try Will iO luleullOH WLdtcNCl VI
ing for the same, and this may be con-
tinued to the same parties for weeks and
even months, and this practice Is SO gen
eral and so well understood that the receipt
of such sample copies by the addresses
could scarcely be held to create a liability
to pay for them. On the other hand, sup
pose a nonsubscriber receives a paper for q
time, and the publisher sends in a dun for
the price, then it would be the plain duty
Of the former to refuse to take the paper
out of the Office or from the carrier, and
if he should not do this, an implied con-
tract to pay for the paper thereafter would
into one of Intention on the part of the
publisher and addressed, and no general rule
all cases alike"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27
JACK TAR DENIED ssPUDs.v
Grievanc of the Cruiser OIympia's
Crew-Coxswain Johnson's Death.

SAN DIEGO, CAL, April 26.-The crew OF
the Olympia are still loudly complaining
of their treatment on board the White
cruiser. One of the apprentice boys was
ashore yesterday and said that sixty ap-
prentices la come out from the East and
the majority of them had been placed on
the Olympia. A few of the boys were on
board yet, but they would leave at the
first port touched. Following is a list of
the days allowance per man as obtained
teen ounces Of hard bread. one pound OF
salt pork, one gill Of vinegar every ten
days, two ounces Of tea per day. four
coffee on Saturday. 1t Is said that when a
newsboy went along side he was not al
.aTfd Il o the o1 men S wante ede so emssIilvs to Sm rsad
let them look at each others faces. Com
plant was made to Captain Reed with a
request for spuds (potatoes) ana he asked:
What does Lieutenent Starday say?"
He says we cannot have any, sir" was
"Weil, If Lieutenant Sunday says no
'spuds,' you can't have any"
The death of coxswain John Johnson, OF
not caused by the blowing out OF the
breech plug, Of the five-inch rife as at
first reported porte, but BY the recoil q the ,n rife
the face. The accident was said by John
sons comrade to be wholly i~nexcusable
Inspector at Mare Island who was supposed
to have gone over the guns. The big guns
are so mounted that the recoil Is taken up
by a mechanism similar to a cylinder and
piston rod, a material inside the cylinder
.eirg glvcerined. which as the gun recoils
is forced past the piston into the other
chamber of the cylinder taking up the force
Of the recoil by its slow action. After the
accident the gun was examined and " was
found that, Instead of several gallons OF
glycerine in the cylinder, as there should
have been, there was hardly a drop. The
gun recoiled clear back to the bulkheads
and tore up the deck considerably.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27

Another embarrassment appears in the
adverse valance OF trade. For several
years the exports Of merchandise have
exceeded the imports. but the last report
shows that we have been taking more
of the products of other countries than
we sell them. BY reason OF the Demo-
cratic tariff we are importing a hundred
million dollars more Of foreign iron.
wooden. cotton, glass. earthen and other
manufactured goods than we did the
year before that law was passed. TO
pay for those goods these millions OF
dollars paid two years s as wages
upxt pox he scraped together to b sent
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27

man. There was none of that dramatic
element in his nature which wins APP
plause before achievement. All the re-
nown that he won during the war fol-
lowed achievement. Those achievements
may not have been attained by observ-
ing the laws laid down by military
scholars in Europe. but that fact simply
proves that his judgment and intuition
were superior to those who I'VE de-
duced a system from campaigns in an
other country. The campaign of Vicks-
burg, we are told, and Grant was told
by General Sherman. was a defiance OF
military authorities, yet it was one of
the greatest military successes of the
age. Nc other military man YOU have
conceived it, much less put the plan into
execution. Few men would have
marched against Fort Donelson with the
force he had and held it in their grasp
until it ~capitulated. He was the first
leader who sent thousands of prisoners
to the North. the first to direct a cam
paign which resulted in the surrender
of SO many men that they could not be
sent to Northern prison camps, but were
paroled. Wherever General Grant went
success followed, not at once always,
but sooner or later. Defeats, however,
of more than a temporary character are
not linked with his name. From an I'M
known man without a reputation, with
out powerful frien1 Is, he rose by merit
to national renown before the middle
of the war. More han a year before
it's close the President, Congress n the
country recognized in him the man
capable of a leadership such as has
never devolved upon one man in modern
times. He met he highest expectation
of the country, not at once. but in the
md. During the last year Mr.. Lincoln
deferred to him as the one who was
wiser than all his associates.
General Lee went to his command with
all the renown which position in the old
army and an illustrious ancestry could
confer. In reality, his command was
practically confined to the armies in
Virginia. In a State well known to him.,
in a friendly country he undoubtedly
displayed skill of a high order, acting
on the defensive. Twice, with a veteran
army flushed with the confidence of the
second Bull Run and Charlottesville,
he crossed Tie ICLOIldC anu tOOh the
offensive. Did he display the higher gem
eralship in the battle of Antietam, where
he was opposed and beaten by the irreso-
lutte Mcclellan? Was his campaign into
Pennsylvania, which eliminated at
Gettysburg in the destruction of Pick
ett's division, one which entities him to
a higher place as a military leader than
Donelson, Vicksburg and the movements
in Virginia and Georgia which General
Grant planned and directed as lieu
tenant general?
Comparisons are odious, but when
there seems to be a tendency, if not a
purpose, to use them to deprive a man
like General Grant of the place which
belongs to him or to attempt to modify
the disaster of a lost cause by ~elevating
a ~lost-cause leader at the expense of
such men as Grant. Sherman and
Thomas, comparisons may be made to
insure justice.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27

The Kansas Republican Lincoln
League would con1ne free coinage to
h product of the mines of the United
States. That would be a fine thing for
h American mine owners. but when
20 or so cents worth OF silver in the
market of the world car be turned into
$l.29 by taking it to a United States
mint there will be a good deal Of free
rade in silver.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27
THE INDIAyAPOI.Is JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places
fARIS-Americal Exchange in Paris, 80 Boulevard de
G2pucines.
NEW ~Y0IsK-Gilssy House. windsor Hotel and Astor
House.
and Barring 81.
CA~ICAGO-Palmer House, Auditorium Hotel and r.
o. News Co, 81 Adams street.
CINCINNATI. +. Hawley a. Co, lA Vine street.
1UuIsvILLE-c T. Deerng,. northwest corner of
Third and Jefferson SITS, and Louisville Book Co., 800
Fourth ave.
81. LoUIS-Union News Company, Union Depot
WASHINGTON, .. C.-Riggs House, Ebbitt House,
Wizards Hotel and the Washington News Exchange,
18th street, bet. Penn. ave. and = street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27

III Justice Jackson is able to sit with
the Supreme Court the decision which
has been made upon the income tax law
will be declared Off and another will
he made. In which Judge Jackson may
nave the casting vote. so to speak. If
he should hold that more people nave
Incomes upon which to pay a tax the
Democratic treasury deficit will be less.
hut those who may be forced to pay it
cannos hereafter be classed as Jackson
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27
FIGHTING MIR. COOPER.
Bynum's Friends Said to Be Making
War on the COlumbus ssEx."


Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, April 26.-The latest
feature Of the contest for the oflce OF As
sistant Controller of the Treasury is the
savage fight which the friends of Mr.. By
mum are making on Mr.. Cooper. Mr.. Coop
Ell, it, will be remembered, developed after
his defeat into a most trucking cuckoo.
and thereby sacrificed what little popu-
larity or influence remained to him
in his district. The friends of Mr.. Bynum
are using Mr.. Cooper's unpopularfty among
his former constituents, and there Is a
steady stream OF letters from prominent
Democrats of Coopers old district protest.
ing against his appointment, claiming that
he is so unpopular that his preferment
would be bitterly resented by the Democ-
racy Of the district which he does not any
longer represent on any issue and among
whom his influence Is entirely gone. Mr..
Bynum's friends are in danger of over
doing the business, for tonight. of the two
Hoosiers, Mr.. Cooper's chances are better
than Mr.. Bynum'S.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27

The Wabash Plain Dealer. which has
exposed the apparently irregular transac-
tions of County Commissioners of its
own party in a manner which led Judge
slively to order the grand jury to in
vestigate the charges, has rendered It's
party as valuable a service as a party
newspaper is able. There can be no
surer way to cast reproach upon a party
organization han for party papers to
champion crooked transactions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27

To maxi Colonel Coppinger, the SON.
in-law of the late Hon. James G.. Blaine,
brigadier general the President has
Jumped a dozen ~colonels of regiments
who are his seniors in rank and service.
The refusal OF General Harrison to pro-
mote Colonel Coppinger over SO many
deserving officers was based upon the
ground that IL involved an injustice. 1t
IL said that the army entertains the
eanne ouinion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27

The Pomona (Cal) Saturday Post. a neatly
printed four-page paper, edited and pub
hshed by Edgar B. Young. formerly of In
dianapolis, is the latest newspaper venture
on the Pacific coast. It gives evidence of
careful work on the part of its editors,
and deserves success.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27

The Japanese minister in Washington
thinks the commercial interests of the
United States in the East are so i'm
portant that IL European states unite in
an effort to prevent h contamination
or the treaty Of peace between Japan
and China the United States ought to
intervene in favor of it. The American
people are not likely to concur in this
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27

1t is reported that Mr.. Holman is send
Ing large sacks of public documents into
his old district to show the voters that
he has not forgotten them and possibly
to impress upon their minds that he
would not be forgotten by them. .
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27

-Representative-elect Henry, of this
district. has lone the fair thing in open
Ing the military and naval cadetships
to the successful competitors in an ex-
animation. Merit with such a commit
tee as he has selected will win, and
young men will 60 to those institutions
who will make much better cadet than
AZ favorites should be selected.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27

The Iowa Democratic committee has
held a conference on the silver question,
and, after considering the protest of the
Characterization element. voted to re-
1terate the national Democratic plat
form Of 1892. The one question upon
which the Germans in this country will
be founds solid is a sound CURRENCY.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27

There is the best authority for saying
that the board to appoint the monument
regency will not give hearings to any par
ties, as has been minated. As the State
Treasurer has gone to New York to take
the bonds negotiated several days ago.
there will be nothing done regarding the
earliest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27

officers of both the natural-gas companies
in this city have stated that the ordinance
rates are less than 5 cents per thousand
feet, meter measurement. Consumers can
estimate what their fuel would cost at even
20 cents per thousand feet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27
General Notes.

WASHINGTON, April 26.-During the last
ten months the number of Italian mini
grants arriving in this country was 10, SIS
less than during the same period last year.
Baron Won Saurma, the German embas-
sador. to-day presented his letters of recall
to President Cleveland. He explained that
he had been transferred to Constantinople.
Secretary Carlisle to-day formally accept
ed an invitation to deliver an address on
the financial questions Of the day at the
Memphis convention, on May %.
DR.. Don J.. nj. Yrigoyen, the Peruvian
minister. has requested his government to
either accept his resignation or grant him
q leave Of absence for three months. He is
hourly expecting a cable reply and intends
sailing, if possible, on Tuesday next.
To-day's statement of the condition of the
1855, 1858, 917; gold reserve, SOL .176, 251.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27

Boston Transcript.
The sacred codfsh has reappeared at the
Statehouse in a new coat of paint, and on
Saturday it will be elevated to its new po-
sitjon Of prominence behind and above. the
chair of the Speaker of the House. whence
it will guide and control legislation, as
aforetime ii did from it's high perch under
tho piided dome.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27

Word comes from washington that
those who are to receive Office from the
President in the future must be sound
on finance. Assure every Indiana Demo-
crat OF an Office who will become a gold
monometallist and the transportation of
the railroads leading to Washington
would be unequal to the general exodus,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27

The continuing deficit imposed by the
Democratic regime at Washington is yet
the most embarrassing feature of the
financial situation. Even If its income
tax had met Secretary Carlisle's expec-
tations the deficit would have been $25,-
600, 900 instead OF $4O.0 o0.o 900 during the
present fiscal year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27

Baltimore American.
we can only live by getting out of life
all there is in it." is one of the crumbs Of
philosophy which DIR. Depew let fall the 9TH
er day. But everybody cannot have as many
dinner Invitations as DR. Depew.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27
New Indiana Postma.ter..

Special to the Indianapolis journal.
WASHINGTON, April 26.-The following
fourth-class postmasters were appointed in
Indiana to-day: Birdseye. Dubois county.
w. E. Wells, vice j. O. Ferguson, re-
moved; Fairfield, Franklin county, Thomas
Irwin. vice w. w. Leper,. removed; Tower.
Crawford county, w. T.. Morris, vice 8. A.
Carson, resigned; waldron. Shelby county,
H. H. Raymond, vice G. B. Raymond,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27
Tender Hearted.

ut was a very tinder-hearted gintleman
Oh worruked for lashI," said Bridget Ann.
He niver had the nerruv to discharge any
wan az his hired gerls. He jist simply quit
payin' thin till they got tired av the place.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27

abroad to pay for them. To get back
the making Of those goods for American
labor and capital is the first issue in
the next campaign. as 1t was in the last.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27
Device for weighing Coin.

PHILADELPHIA, April 26.-Assistante
United States Treasurer Bigler had submit
ted to him to-day by William Burnside, a
Pittsburg scale expert, a novel mechanical
device which will indicate the removal of
the smallest amount of coin from the treas
ury vaults. and is considering the propriety
of recommending it's adoption by the Treas
ury Department.. The device consists OF an
arrangement Of scales at the bottom of the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27
IN THE AIR.
to Know,

Tommy-Paw, what does it mean by BUSH
ness methods in politics?
Mr.. Figg-Do you mean in the admins
tration of the offices or in the campaign.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27

II may become necessary for Congress
70 create a judicial annex to frame the
Opinions of the Supreme Court and tell
the court what they really mean.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27
woman,s Mission.

1T is not all of woman's life mission to
get a husband and a home" the new wom-
an averred with great emphasis.
No. assented the old woman, st amt
all of it by much. After she has got the
husband and bome she still has to devote
earnest efforts to getting new Clothes"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27

IL General Grant had lived until to-
day he would have been se~venty-three
years OF age. He yet lives as one of the
greatest of Americans.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27

Kansas City Journal
Miss Phoebe Couzins may be compelled
to issue another request to be left alone in
her sorrow. The public is about to forget
that touching little romance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27
An investor.

"By the way, / heard Timmins talking
about having q sum of money to invest as
soon as he found an opening"
.'Oh. you did?"
Eyes. And the mex. thing he did wa to
drop three pennies into the slot machine. 1
wonder if that were not what he meant %
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27

Detroit Tribune
1t is plainly to be seen that the West
and the South are arrayed against the East
In the struggle to escape the Democratic
presidential nomination.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27

WASHINGTON, April 26.-The Attorney
general has wired the district attorney at
Chicago to continue the Debs case until
the July term of the court. 1t is expected
that by that time Judge Grosscup, who is
III, will have sufficiently recovered his
health to hear the case. Judge Grosscup
heard the previous case and granted the
injunction against Debs. He Is perfectly
familiar with all questions involved and for
this reason 1t is preferred to continue the
suits until they can be heard before him.