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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-13
sHREDs AND PATCHES.

When the average falls down stairs
he blames his wife.-Ram's Horn.
The breezes OF Wall street are not tenn
pered to the shorn lamb.-Puck.
Ben Johnson wrote a play called 1.-THE
Silent Woman but that was in another
age.-Cincinnati Tribune.
Be neighborly. Never accuse a friend of
his shortcomings. Go and tell them to
his wife.-Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
Peace in the far East seems to be await
ing the completion of a trosseau for Lii
Hung Chang.-Detroit Free Press.
Some men, said the boarding house
mistress, pay they go. Others go be-
fore they pay. "-Philadelphia Record.
A woman may not wear her heart on her
sleeve, but the prevailing fashion shows
her hearts in it.-Philadelphia Times.
A Nebraska Populist has been appointed
superintendent of the State Insane Asylum
He will feel at home.-Philadelphia Inquirer
That tired feeling makes itself felt coin
cidently with the renewed chattering of
baseball MISUNDERSTANDING Chronicle
Telegraph.
The larger the sleeves of ladies' dresses
the sharper becomes the toes of the shoes
for men. The dude has to keep pace with
the Observation-Disclosures American.
The man who never told lie was the
father of his country Considering how
his children act, there is small encourage
ment for truth telling.-Boston Transcript
If actor Nat Goodwin isn't careful some
enterprising temperance lecturer will be
making propositions to him to go into the
horrible example Observation-Disclosures City
Journal. -
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THE AUTOCRATIC GOVERNOR.

The position of Governor Matthews
relative to the prison boards is, at
least. novel one. He recognizes the
validity of the act creating the new
boards and proceeds to appoint. thus
ignoring the manner of appointment pre-
scribed by the same law. In other
words. that portion of the law which
pleases him is binding, but that portion
which does not he disregards. He may
believe the method prescribed in the
law for appointment is unconstitutional,
but, unfortunately fer him. that is not
a. question for the executive to deter
mine, but for the courts. Instead of pur-
suing a line of action which will bring
the question into court he arrogates to
himself judicial functions by proceeding
upon the ground that the law is uncon-
stitutional. Having thus assumed to be
the judge of the law and of executing
such portions as please him he has alb
sorbed both the legislative and judicial
functions of the government and made
himself autocrat. He has left no ques-
ton for the courts to settle. If he were
discreet and sincerely DESTROYS of sus-
tanning his views, but not the views OF
his party in regard to the right of the
executive to make such appointments,
he would have devised some method to
bring the contention to the Supreme
Court with the least delay. AS it is,
he has admitted that the prison boards
are 1egislated out of existence, and at
the same time he has appointed boards
in violation of the law which legislated
his partisan boards out of existence.
Without the approval of the State Off
GERS, which the law makes the ap-
spointive power with him, his boards
can have no legal standing until the
Supreme Court shall have decided that
that portion of the law relating to the
method of appointment is uncOnstitu-
tional. On the other hand, the boards
which four Of the five members of the
appointing board select will be the ones
which have the law on their side. Con-
sequently, to resist their authority until
the Supreme Court shall have declared
it unconstitutional will be as open and
fragrant violation of law as would the
violation of any other law, since the
presumption is in favor of the constitu-
tionality Of any law until the proper
tribunal decides otherwise.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-13
DRESSMAKER WORTH.

Worth, the famous man dressnlaker, is
dead, but Worth costumes will continue to
be the pride of all the girls.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Worth is dead. Fathers whose families
run to daughters will vote for new king
of fashions who does not change his mind
so often.-St. Louis Republic.
Perhaps if as much of good can be said
about the rest of us when we come to go
as has been said about the departed dress
maker of Paris, most of will have no
right to complain.-Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette.
Mr.. Worth is deserving of much credit.
He was man with an idea There are a
few such in each generation. His idea
brought him both fortune and fame, which
is more than many others get.-Pittsburg
Dispatch.
Now that Worth is dead those in this
country who have been accraditing their
homemade dresses to him will have to Sc
lect his Partisan successor or give their
own dressmakers their just dues.-Detroit
Free Press.
1t was neither a heroic nor manly career
in which Worth sought and won distinc-
tiers have their uses and 1t takes ability,
even genius, for man to win distinction as
Enthusiastically Times.
Other geniuses will appear in the world
of fashion, and one of them long
will dominate it as supremely as did Worth.
Meanwhile it will be, in one sense at least,
relief that stage performers of the female
sex can no longer assert their artistic ex-
cellence because their gowns were made by
Worth-Chicago Tribune.
In the death of Worth, the famous
Partisan dressmaker, society loses most
efficient servant. His sense of color and
proportion was so thoroughly developed and
true that it amounted almost to genius
and his honesty and courtesy led to
strong personal friendship for him on the
and Express
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these resulted the discovery of the heirs
of the original depositor, who were in very
poor circumstances. The sale of the plate
brought in sum which was most welcome
to the poverty-stricken descendants of the
once great family.
President Faure of France is adding to
his popularity by visiting the hospitals at
Paris. He enters a hospital. speaks en-
couragingly to the patients. leaves money
to be spent in wine and tobacco for their
and frequently goes into the kitchen to
taste the food served to the inmates. When
ever he leaves hospital he finds crowd
of citizens outside waiting to cheer him
he enters his carriage. Faure has set out
to endear himself to the people at any cost.
OF William James, professor of psychol
ogy at Harvard, and brother of Henry
James, the Book Buyer says that few sub
jects lie nearer his heart than psychical
research. This absorbing interest," it is
added, lis misunderstood by many critics.
and even by some of his friends. But
Enthusiastically IL is born of deep psychology
ical insight and scientific spirit, unfiinching
sincerity and profound religious convictions.
When asked lately what We're the chief
aims of his present studies he replied quick
w. To find a balm for mems souls = DIR.
James is now president of the International
Society for Psychical Research.
'"Thish rolling home" said Mr.. Jones,
would not be quite sho hard
If there weren't Sho many curbstoneS
My progresh to retard.
New York Recorder.
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CONSTITUTION SHOULD HE
AMENDED.
THE

The outrageous proceeding which
marked the closing hours of the General
Assembly emphasizes the wisdom of a
suggestion recently made by the Journal
for amending the Constitution SO as to
provide for longer term and two ses-
sions of the Legislature. The disgrace
full occurrence of Monday night would
not have happened had the session been
permitted to continue ninety days. The
constitutional limitation to sixty-one
days not only caused the failure of some
important legislation which could have
been matured and passed in thirty days
more, but it opened the way and sup
piled the conditions for the disreputable
trick which was attempted by the DEM
ocrats and the violent means of prevent
ing it used by the Republicans.
In addition to 1engthening the term
the Constitution should provide for two
sessions of each General Assembly. The
first session. which might meet at the
time now fixed by the Constitution, and
continue, say, fifty or sixty days. should
be given to the introduction, discussion
and advancing of bills to third read
ing, only such to become law as should
receive the votes of three-fourths of all
the members of both houses This would
permit the passage at this session of
nonpartisana measures of such general
interest and importance as to command
support from both parties Bills receiv-
ing majority of the votes in each
house, but less than three-fourths, should
go over till a second session to be held
a few months later. when they should
come UP under prescribed conditions for
final action. The interim between the
first and second sessions would afford
time for the public discussion of sus-
pended measures, give members chance
to ascertain the sense of the people and
for the popular verdict to adjust itself.
A constitutional amendment on these
general lines would insure the advan-
tages of longer legislative session,
embody the principle of the referendum
and be safeguard against such dis
graceful occurrences as that of Monday
night.
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THE HAYWARD CASE.

Three months is long enough for Muir
derer Hayward to lose ahis nerve and his
unconcerned air.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The verdict will be endorsed by the general
sentiment of tie public. 1t was an awful
crime, and the murderer deserves the full
penalty of the law.-Baltimore American.
Doubtless it will be appealed, and. indeed,
it ought to be. If half the testimony adj
duced against him is true Harry Hayward
is what the dime novels used to call "a
fiend In human form" But somehow it all
seems too fiendish to be possible.-Chicago
Herald.
The conviction of Harry Hayward for the
murder of Miss Cling in Minneapolis was ex-
pected. It was the only thing to do. He has
Gus person, and the life he led could only
lead to States prison or the scaffold.-New
York World.
In this case, at least, the law looked be-
yond the actual deed OF murder and re-
vealed the true source of the crime. The re-
suit Of the trial is signal illustration of
guilt fixed where the true responsibility lay,
and not upon the mere mechanical agency
by which it was accomplished.-Ch Chicago
Record.
1t is a grewsome thought that the news
that a human being, full of life and abound
ing activity, is to be put to death should
be accepted by any otner human being with
satisfaction. Yet that is unquestionably the
feeling of the whole community over the
verdict of the jury in the case of Harry
Hayward.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Hayward is intelligent he belongs to a
reputable family and his life, previous to
this awful crime, was not such as to sug-
gest the possibility of the result that has
ensued The only explanation seems to lie
in the theory that the gambling habit took
complete possession of him, undermined his
moral nature and made him capable of doing
Obtain money
tion of this controlling passion.-St Louis
CInh
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A SILVER BASIS.
What 1t Would Mean to Wage Earn
ers and Salaried Men.
Melville E. ingalls,.

Melville Z. ingalls,.
The dollar which the laborer gets in the
farms of Indiana is good in all the com
mercial markets of the world, and with 1t
of life for their vaue in gold bf If IVES
were launched upon free silver he would
have We to O. buy W. his supplies and the neces
trust to getting his pay advanced to cor
respond. It is this very fact to-day that Ia
Dor is paid on silver basis, that is OBJ
pressing and degrading the laborers in
India: In Mexico and in South America and
grinding 1t down to the lowest possible
with fixed salaries in this country going to
submit to like scheme of robbery?
for with his wealth he is able to so change
his Investments and make his contracts as
not to suffer. But, for the sake of the
boomer who has struck bad luck, shall we
d DEB isn our IF eurrensy degrade ourselves to
rob 50 per cent. of our people who depend
for their support upon fixed compensa-
There can be question, if ever it is
understood by the people, but tnat they will
mrn prd o11e anaanmity be in favor OF an
! stated in the beginning. one that is good
IN any OF the commercial markets of the
world, and one which, melted in the refin-
so7d w. ~ '''As W. cents wherever II is
There are some great epochs in the his
tory of our country in which great adj
vantages were secured for the masses
prominent among them was the restoration
of our credit and currency century since
by George Washington, aided by Alexander
Hamilton. his great secretary of the Treas
ury: Another was the defeat of the green
back imitation in 1874 by General Grant and
the resumption of specie payments later
when, perhaps he served. his country bet
ter than upon the battlefields of Virginia
Side by side with these achievements will
be written the heroic efforts of Grover
Cleveland to save our national honor from
the assaults of the financial cranks of the
present Congress He may have made
mistakes, We may not approve of the
means used to accomplish the ends. but
underlying all is the honest purpose and
the courageous resolve which will be
recorded in history and read with pride
by future Americans long after the hand
of oblivion shall have kindly obliterated the
greSs.
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we1l-known financial responsibility. All
these men are not held by the contracts.
The special privilege which the company
Is given by the trustees is a piece of
favoritism which should be investigated.
The relations existing between some of
the trustees and some of the silent part
ners in the syndicate. and the further
fact that one of them is State officer
and an appointee of Governor Matthews
tend to strengthen the suspicion that
the transaction is tainted with sort
of favoritism which is often called job
har
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-13
5000 PASSES FROM ONE ROAD.
The Legislators of Kansas Very Free
in Their Demands.

topeka (kan-) Journal. esltf.-
II have just written the four thousand
nine hundred and ninety ninth pass since
this Legislature convened" said General
Attorney A A. Hurd Of the Santa Fe, last
all the passes ION account of legislation"
and he sees that each member of the Legis-
lature is provided with a pasteboard which
allows him to ride free on all Santa Fe
lines during the session. The members are
also given trip passes, for their friends
when they wish to travel to or from Topeka.
purely for Legislative purposes"
Mr.. Hurd was in a happy mood. 1T was
probably because the Legislature was so
nearly ended ut is strange, very strange
said he, what excuses members do make to
get passes. Often when a pass is applied
it is requested 1 write to the member and
ask him what it is for, and he will answer.
passes from Kansas City to the west line
of the State. all on account of the legis-
for party OF men to Kansas City and re-
turn day or two ago, and when 1 asked
what particular legislation called them to
Kansas City, they answered the irrigation
BILL 1 told them that kansas City was
good place to irrigate. but would have to
refuse the passes just the same.
"A member of the Senate wanted a pass
from some Western town to Topeka and
return, and when asked him whom it was
for he said that 1t was for his stenogra-
pers husband, who wanted to come TO
Topeka to visit his wife. The stenographer
paid his fare to Topeka.
IT have just heard that some of the
passes L have issued are being O1ereu Tor
sale on the streets. They use these trip
passes which are given on account of 'legis-
1ative business AS much as we try to ac-
commodate them, you see how the favors
are abused.
'It may seem that have issued a great
many passes, but two years ago there were
at least twice as many given. We have
been more strict this year"
"Do the Populists apply for as many
passes as the Republicans?" asked the re-
porter
mo, they do not but all the members
4t< rfclr. ffrgra
Next year when the Legislature meets
I am preparing surprise. l have had
talk with the representatives of the other
lines and we have agreed to issue no trip
passes whatever for Legislative purposes;
and family. and that will end 1T. and his
friends will have to pay their fare or stay
at home / think that the number of people
large"
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

More than 40 per cent. of the English
people could not write their names When
the Queen assembled the throne. The pro-
portion in that condition has now been re-
duced to per cent.
Herr Boeter, an ex-lieutenant in the Ger
man army, now says that vegetar!anism
is altogether too wide; We must be FRUIT
arians'' if we wish to find sanitary salva-
ton. His disciples live altogether on iruit.
It will cost a million drachmas to put
the Parthenon, the Temple of Thesus and
the other monuments in Athens damaged by
last years earthquake in a safe condition:
An appeal for help will be sent out TO all
countries.
Ellen Terry was forty-seven Feb. %. In
Coventry, where she was born, brass plate
on one house bears the inscription: This is
the birthplace of Miss Ellen Terry" while
similar plate marked: This is the original
birthplace of Miss Ellen Terry
Alma Tadema spends about four months
one one of his more finished pictures To
one that he thinks likely to be master
piece he is willing to give as many years at,s,
painted for Berlin patron. This painting
the artist packed for shipment with the
greatest care with his own hands
Eight hundred years ago, in 1895, the first
crusade was started, at Clermont, in Au-
vergne The anniversary will be celebrated
with great pomp this year. and the Pope has
granted the indulgences of Jerusalem pill
grimage to all who visit Clermont, on
Sondition that they pray for the return
to Catholic unity of the separated Oriental
churches
Recently in one of the banks in Dublin
a box in the cellar actually fell to pieces
from age. 1t contained a magnificent and
very valuable toilet service of solid gold.
No clew to the owners identity could be-
found anywhere, either on the box or any
of the pieces of plate. which were sim
ply engraved with a cipher and coronet.
However, among the numerous other things
found in the box was a gold casket. and
III this was discovered a packet of love
letters Of the time ut Charles IL From
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Speaking of State dinners, 1 happened to
be making the Cabinet calls the day that
followed the last State dinner given by
Miss Morton to the President. Mrs. Cleve-
land and the members of the Cabinet. 1
wondered whether these dinners were
source of pleasure to the participants, and
/ asked one of the ladies who was MEM
Der of that circle if she enjoyed the din
ner.
20. yes she replied, I'VE all enjoy them
so much; we are quite well acquainted with
one another by this time. and have so much
in common to talk about we seem like one
family. What is of interest to one is
equally so to US all, and we have SO many
jokes and some little bywords that would
wholly mystify stranger. And | am very
sorry, as we all are, to have the dinners put
an end to-
At the next place that called "a Cabinet
hume) | asked the hostess how she
joyed the Cabinet dinners, whereupon she
looked unutterable things and said. 20. I
am so glad they are over. just 10 think.
we sat down to the table at eight o'clock
last evening and did not get up until II.
Tired. Well. I should think SO. | am so
glad the season is over. Just to think of a
few people who know each other as we'll as
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-13

E. NJ. NJ, Brazil, Ind.-Regular and fire.
quent examinations are rot done away with
in the public schools of this city, but for
some years the same importai .e has not
attached to them as formerly. pupils being
promoted according to their recitations and
standing in their classes. The examinations
serve rather to fix the knowledge of the
students than as absolute tests of their
progress. This system is said to be in force
throughout the graded schools of the State,
but how far the old method is being done
away with in other States the Journal is
unable to say. Certainly the new rule must
go into effect wherever modern progressive
ideas prevail
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-13

The Inequalities of legal Justice are
strikingly shown in Norristown. Pa,
courts, where poor colored wretch was
sent to prison for four years for steal
ing half dozen chickens and two bank
ers whose creditors had lost $112000
through their dishonesty received SEN
tence of one year each. 1t is such pro-
ceedings as these. that help to create a
contempt for law. and nothing is worse
for a community than the existence of
such a feeling.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-13

There has not been decent index of
the journal and acts of any Legislature
in this State for twenty-five years. 1t
takes brains. intelligence and industry
to make a good index. and the conjunc-
ton or all these qualities in an indexing
clerk has been verv rare occurrence
AS rule the indexes have been pitched
together in most perfunctory and
slovenly manner The Legislature has
paid high price for the work and got
miserable service. 1t is to be hoped
those who have charge of the work this
year will make an exception to the es-
tablished rule.
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THE CONSTITUTION CANNOT BE
WAIVED.

In the contention between Governor
Matthews and Lieutenant Governor Nye
the Journal believes the latter was right
in his position relative to the passage
of bills during the last two days of the
session The Governor had right to
feel annoyed at the failure of the SEN
ate to pass the Roby prize fighting bill
and the bill authorizing the Governor to
suspend from office sheriffs who fail to
do their duty in emergencies. Both of
these bills should have been passed, and
there was no good reason why the Sem
ate should have failed to pass them be-
fore it became too late. But the Journal
believes that the Lieutenant Governors
construction of the clause of the Consti-
tuition which says that mo bill shall be
presented to the Governor within two
days next previous to the final adjourn
ment of the General Assembly was
right. The language of this provision is
too plain to require any searching after
hidden meaning. There is no authority
for assuming that it is intended for the
protection of the Governor and may be
waived by him at his option. That this
construction has been put upon it many
times and by different Governors does
not make it right. The trainers of the
Constitution used words exactly, and
if they had intended that this pro-
vision might be waived by the Governor
they would have said SO. 1t is explicit
and peremptory, and Governor has no
more right to waive it than he has to
waive any other provision of the Consti-
tuition. The presentation of a bill to
the Governor within two days next pre-
ceding the final adjournment of the
General Assembly is plain violation of
the Constitution. and the waiver of a
Governor cannot make it anything else.
The Legislature might as well claim the
right to waive the clause of the Consti-
tuition which requires majority of all
the members in each house to pass a
bill or the one which requires the vote
on the passage of bills to be taken by
yeas and nays. The Constitution cannot
be waived.
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we of the Cabinet circle do. meeting as
often as do and trying to maintain any
thing like conversation. Why, we know
the same jokes and have told them dozen
times. and we have literally talked our
selves out until there is absolutely not an
idea left for us to discuss. Yes. am heart
lily glad that 1T is all over
came to the conclusion that enjoying
Cabinet dinners. and, indeed, life in gen
eral. was matter of taste and tempera-
ment after all.