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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-05
ONE CENT AaD coSlS.
Verdict Against the L.. & N. II. H. In
Favor of n ColoreG Preachers.

OWENSBORO, KY, Feb. 4-Under per-
emptory instructions from Judge Barr, to-
day, the jury in the federal court found a
verdict for 1 cent and costs against the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company
in the separate coach case. The suit was
brought by the Rev. ". II. Anderson, col
ored. of Evansville, for $1,000, but was
really to test the separate coach law OF
Kentucky. Judge Barr decided last summer
that the law was unconstitutional because
it affected interstate commerce. The rail-
road company then commended that II had
a rule requiring separation of white and
colored passengers aside from this law, and
asserted that the rule was a reasonable
one. On this, the issue was Joined and the
verdict rendered.
Judge Bars instruction left the jury oniy
to determine the amount of DANCES. The
jury first disagreed, nine standing for i
cent, one for $1,000, one for 1000 and one
for $500. Immediately on fling of the verdict
the attoI neys Cor the laslrc ad company gave
notice of an appeal to the Supreme Court
Of the United States. A writ of error will
be prepared at once on the Judges instruc-
TORS and also on the ruling declaring the
Kentucky law unconstitutional. Justices
Browder and Miller. who have charge of the
case. express confidence In the reversal OF
Judge Barr by the Supreme Court.
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Senator Lucien Baker will go to Wash
ington from Kansas free from the imputa-
ton of being a millionaire. He is only
worth about $1Go, eco and Is forty-eight years
old.
Tom Johnson, Ohio free-trade Congress-
man, believes in free coinage of orthodoxy
in all denominations. He has given build
ing lots in an OHIO town to churches of
five different creeds for the erection of
houses of worship.
The Atlanta. constitution says that an
old Georgia couple sat up all night to shell
a few bushels of corn out Of their meager
stores for the Nebraska sufferers. They did
this in order to reach the train in time, and
their small gift represented half their pos
sessions.
Mrs. George w. Gable, the wife Of the
novelist, is one of the most beautiful women
seen in Literary circles in New York. She
has forget-me-net blue eyes, an oval face,
perfectly regular features and a complexion
like a white rose leat-all this though her
hair is white and her Oldest daughter just
married.
To the exclusive use of white bread is
attributed the prevailing decay of the teeth.
AS fourine is necessary to good teeth, and
as this is a characteristic compound Of the
wheat discarded in making white flour, a
noted foreign scientist sees no hope in the
way of good teeth for future generations
except by a return to the general conSump-
ton of bread made from whole wheat flour.
Among the many characteristics which
distinguished Ware, Mass. from other New
England towns is the custom which prevails
there of having large funerals. 1t is not an
thing for Ware to have a funeral
procession half a mile in length, and there
are many citizens who MAKE 1T a practice
year after year to attend almost all the
funerals in town, whether they had known
the dead persons or not
Tho first Rihla Driuted in America. in a
European language is known as the Saur
Bible Among the early settlers of Penn
sylvania was Christian Saur, of Laasphe
in Wittgenstein. He came to this country
in 1874 and settled at Germantown. He
found his countrvmen in Pennsylvania very
destitute of reading matter in their own
tongue. and this led him to think of pro-
viding them with a GERMAN Bible.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has presented to the
Confederate Memorial Association of Rich
mond a quilt, about which she writes in a
letter accompanying the gift: 1T was made
for Mr.. Davis during the part of
our war for States rights and liberty. Every
piece was made by a different person, and
the embroidery was made with little odd
pieces of sewing silk which could be found
left over from our years or ease and
rlenty.'
Until the rin runs up the hill,
Until the dogs are dumb;
From morn TIL night men still VIII light
To down the demon rum
New York Recorder.
A pair in a ammock
Attempted to kiss,
But in less than a jify
LVs6 Iuupsp TIEe AUS
The Argus.
"My darling little duck.'' I cried.
With all a lovers fatuous glee,
And she rebukingly repi.ed.
You're only making game or me-.
New York Herald.
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The New York Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals has established a
shelter for animals" in which protection is
given to stray dogs and cats. Homes are
found for the dogs of good breeding. when
possible, but all cats and dogs whose owners
do not call for them within forty-eight
hours are put to death by administering gas
in an alright compartment. A dog pound
is not a new institution, but homeless cats
have heretofore been allowed to so their
wandering way without benevolent care. To
take them up and kill them after two days
of good feeding is probably regarded as hui
name by the society, but what the cats
think Of it is not known.
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COACH NOR lON's D .ArH.
His Supposed Body Found In q Slo0p
On Indian River, Fla.

NEW HAVEN. Conn. Feb. "A private
letter to Alderman u. A. Biakslee from his
brother Clarence, who Is at his winter home
in Rockledge. Fla. gives particulars of the
supposed murder OF William Norton. of Ilii-
nois. who left Providence, r.. l., last No
vember for the South. Norton was in
Providence to coach the Brown University
football team. About a month ago re hired
a sloop at T1tusville. Fla, and sailed down
the Indian River as far as Sebastian. On
the return the sloop put in at Rockledge
on Friday. Jar. 10. and Mrs. C. w. Blakes-
lee. mother OF the writer. saw two men on
board. The sloop lay TO for several days
with no signs OF Life on board. ard this
caused Clarence Rlakeslee on Monday Jan.
%, to investigate. He found in the cabin
the putrid Body OF a man, blackened and
the head swollen terribly. No trace of tho
other man was found. a midnight inqueSs
was held on the river bank. the sheriff hay.
ing to cut away the cabin In order TO take
out tie body. which had swollen too larga
for passage through the door. Foul p,af
is suspected. but no definite proof Of it
has been obtained The body Ia believed ~
be that OF Norton.
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DID NOT TALK ON FINANCE.
Senator's Spent the Day ON the Dis.
trict Appropriation Bill.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE Senate spent
almost the entire day on the District of
Columbia appropriation bill, and for the first
time since the measure was taken up ii did
not serve as a text for financial discus
sion. 1t is hoped to pass the bill tomorrow,
thus clearing the way for the postoffice and
the diplomatic and consular appropriation
bills, now on the calendar. and for the Indian
and sundry civil appropriation b4.Is, soon to
be reported.
Mr.. Villas, from the judiciary committee,
favorably reported the BAL retiring Justice
Howell Jackson from the United States Su-
consideration of the measure. Mr.. AIdrich
suggested that there were some other
things meaning Carlisle's letter. which
would prevent full consideration Of this
measure, and 1t accordingly went over.
Mr.. Davis presented the credentials of
Knute Nelson. elected a Senator from Min
nesota for six years beginning March 4 next.
The House bill to establish a national
military park at Gettysburg. Pa, was
passed.
A resolution was agreed to calling on the
Interstate-commerce Commission 10 furnish
information as to contracts between the
Canadian Pacific Railroad Company and
American lines by which the former re-
Trained from competing on freight and
traffic in certain localities.
The House bill was passed to regulate
on the great lakes and connect
ing waters as to iighls. signals, etc.. to
extend the international code already estab-
lished. fhe Senate then resumed considera-
ton of the District of Columbia appropria-
ton bill, and, at 500 o'clock, adjourned.
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suffer at the hands Of the natives. But
their personal comfort and safety are
matters of less Importance than inter-
national complications that may be in
volved in the affair. In a time of peace
1t might be well enough for such off,
GERS to vary the monotony Of naval life
by going ashore on hunting expeditions.
but with the present excited condition
of the Chinese mind and the we'll
known hatred of all foreigners there was
danger of arousing hostilities by the
mere landing of a number of armed
men. The accidental, shooting of a
Chinaman by a party which presumably
was in pursuit of game and not of men
was more than enough to confirm the
suspicion that the appearance on shore
was with evil intent. Either the Con-
cord needs a more iudicious commander
or the officers need co learn how to ham
die a gun in order that they may not
kill Cinnamon when they aim at birds.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-05
HAWAIIAN CORRESPONDENCE.


Another Batch TRANSMITTED to Con-
Eress-Thurston to Gresham.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-The President to-
day sent additional Hawaiian correspondence
to Congress. Most of it has been published
hitherto. The chief feature is the CORE
spnndence between Secretary Gresham and
Minister Thurston, in which the latter speaks
of possible trouble the Hawaiian govern
ment will have in protecting foreigners.
Secretary Gresham states that the depart
ment has no information in regard to arms
having been furnished by British subjects
to persons in rebellion against the govern
ment of the Hawaiian Islands, but in a tele-
gram from the United States minister at
Honolulu Jan. Il. forwarded by way of San
Francisco, Mr.. Willis says. Arms report
ed to have been brought from Vancouver by
Norma" The department has no informa-
ton in regard to any Intervention by rep
resentatives of Great Britain to prevent the
application of martial law by the Hawaiian
government to those concerned in the re-
cent rebellion who claim to be British SUBJ
jects. or of any foreign representative what
ever in the case, other than a statement
contained in a note of the Hawaiian minis
at Honolulu. Mr.. Halves. has called on the
government of Hawaii 10 give him assur-
ficted upon the insurreciionists, there being
fifteen Englishmen under arrest. which re-
quested assurance the government has re-
fused to give"
Under date of Nov. 10 Minister Willis
transmitted to Secretary Gresham the FOL
lowing note of the sam date from Mr..
Hatch. the Hawaiian Minister of Foreign
Affairs, adding that when he received it he
had telegrapned the Secretary the facts
briefly:
'Sir-Information has just been received
at this Office tending to show that a fili-
clustering expedition against this govern
ment is being fitted out in San Francisco.
and that one OF the following steam vesse.s.
for the purpose. The foYmasi points
more strongly TO the latter. desire 10 ask
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-05
rHE sENATE,s sILvER-COINAGE MA
JORITY.

A canvass of the United States Senate
shows that, as at present constituted.
iorty-seven member are in favor of
he free coinage of silver and thirty
line opposed. Assuming that the can
yass is correct. it may be instructive
o ascertain the sections and the inter-
SITS which cause this division. In the
irst place. the States south of what is
Known as Mason and Dixon's line fur
nish twenty-six of the forty-seven Sem
ators in favor of free silver coinage.
rhe ten States which were fully COM
mitted to the Confederacy furnish
twenty of the free silver votes, and the
States which had representation in the
Jefferson Davis government, Missouri,
Tennessee n Kentucky. nj West
Virginia, whose Senator. Faulkner. is
essentially Southern. furnish the other
six. All of the twenty-six except Pritch-
ard, of North Carolina, who has just
taken his seat as a Republican, are
Democrats. The only two Democratic
Senators in the old Northern States in
favor oe free coinage are Voorhees, and
Turpie, who were Southern sympathiz-
ers during the war and naturally stand
With the South financially. The other
nineteen silver Senator's. with the ex-
ception of Cameron, of Pennsylvania,
are those representing silver-producing
States or those adjacent to them which
nave been affected with Populism.
These States are represe nted in the
popular branch of Congress by thirty
four Representatives of the 356 embraced
in the present a-pportionment. The sill
yer States proper, that is, those whose
silver interest causes them to favor the
free coinage of the white metal, are six
in number. and they have fourteen
Representatives and twelve Senator's.
That is, the South, in which, by the
confession of Southern Democrats them
selves, ballot-box frauds have shut out
all except Democrats, and the States
interested in silver mining constitute
the free silver majority in the Senate
with the exception of two Republicans
ard, of North Carolina.
No explanation is needed for the atti-
tude of the Senators of the silver States,
but why should those of the South be
in favor of free coinage? Partly be-
cause they consider themselves debtors
and will be able TO pay the money bor-
rowed of the savings banks of the North
with less effort if the dollars are de-
preciated than if they are of the same
quality as those which they borrowed.
partly because some Southern people be-
lieve that free silver will make SO much
more money that some of it will go
South, and partly because they imagine
that a deprecated money will cause an
advance in the price of cotton.
One point in connection with this
free-coinage majority is entitled to at
tention, and that is that a decided pre-
p~onderance Of it comes from the South.
If, therefore. the ~free-coinage Senators
should unite to dictate the financial
policy II would be shaped by the solid
South as the policy of the. whole Demo-
| cratic party has been. In return for the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-05
1t is certainly hoped h a Professor

1t is certainly hoped that Professor
Commons, of the State University, is
not teaching the young men of In
diana the theory he uttered at the
Progress Club on Sunday relative to an
inheritance tax. or. rather. an appro-
priation of half of all inheritances by
the State. This might be applauded by
many if it was confined to m~illionaires,
but TO apply 1t to all the estates left
by men to their families would be SIM
ply appalling. Now that families may
not be left in need men exert them
selves to keep life insurance policies
paid up. They put small earnings into
building and loan associations. into a
home or "a farm that there may be
something left for their heirs. But Pro-
fessor Commons, an official instructor of
Indiana. proposes, if he is correctly re-
ported. to tax half of such inheritance
to run the State government-to erect
stately public buildings for public chart
ties, establish costly universities, sus-
tain yet unborn commissions, publish
the paper of science associations and
straighten the Kankakee. The Journal
cannot believe that Pro. essur Commons
means to take half of all in-heritanceS-
to divide a farm and half the stock left
to heirs. to pounce upon the two-thou-
sand-dollar home as soon as the father
of the family it shelters is dead and
demand half of the property for the
State. He simply means to reverse the
New Testament teaching by taking
from him who has made five talents ten
all that he has made and half of his
original capital when he dies and give
it to The State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-05
A WASTE OFF TINE.

The friends of free coinage of silver
being in a majority in the Senate, some
of its leaders have declared that there
shall be no financial legislation which
does not embrace the free coinage of
the deprecated metal. This being the
case. it is idle to waste time in con-
sideration of financial measures. It is
assumed that all Senators will vote for
a Measure which will increase the reve-
nue.. Such a measure need not involve
the tariff issue. as some scheme can be
devised which will put fifty millions INTO
the treasury in a comparatively limited
period. Surely the f~ree-coinage Sena-
tors will not attach a free-coinage con-
dition to a measure to get rid of a
deficit. There is ample time - pass
avoid the necessity of calling an extra
session OF the Fifty-fourth Congress.
If the President shall call the Fifty
fourth Congress to do the work which
the Democratic Congress m fail to do
1T would be unwise for it to give any
attention to financial legislation. since
any remedy which does not give the
silver majority in the n what it
wants will be defeated in that body.
1t can. however, pass a brief revenue
bill imposing a few taxes from which
money may be derived to relieve the
treasury. When there shall be a sur
plus in the treasury the reserve can be
easily maintained until the close of the
term of Mr.. Cleveland and of the Fifty
fourth Congress. Those two years will
give time for the adjustment of the
coinage question or a change in the
conditions. The treasury needs $50, 000,-
900 a year more than it is likely to get
under existing laws, and with that it
can be so easy that it can hold back a
part of the ~greenbacks which may be
brought for redemption to deplete the
gold fund.
But whether two years shall afford
time for the conditions relative to sill
yer to change or not, it seems utterly
useless for the new Congress to waste
time owe financial measures. consider
ing the threat of the silver magnates
in the Senate.
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the good offices OF your government to pre-
vent the shipment OF arms on these vessels
for such purpose
On the ytn instant the Hawaiian charge
d'affaires called at the department on my
invitation and in reply to an inquiry said
he had no Information that arms had been
for use against the government of Hawaii.
Following this correspondence with Mr..
tween Secretary Gresham and Mr.. Thurs
ton, the Hawaiian minister here, which Is
interesting mainly because Of the insinua-
ton by the latter that -.e presence Of an
American war ship at Honolulu would be
acceptable. Mr.. Thurston wrote Jan. 20:
"Sir- have the honor to inform you that
/ have received from my government teie-
graphic communication stating that the in
surrection in Honolulu was broken: that
several of the leaders and their remaining
that the British commissioner at Honolulu,
Mr.. Halves, has called on the government of
Hawaii to give him assurances that no cap
ital punishment VIII be inflicted on the IN
surrectionists, there being fifteen English
men under arrest, which requested assur-
ance the government has refused to give.
The subject of the presence of an Amer
lean man-of-war at Honolulu has been re-
Gently the subject of discussion IN the press
and 1t does not lie within my
province to suggest any course of action on
the part of the United States concerning
such subject. / feel, however, that it Is
due to your government and to the large
American population and property interests
in Hawaii to state ilar although the gov
eminent of Hawaii is, and will continue in
the future as it has been in the past, fully
able to maintain Itself against the attacks
of all domestic enemies; in view of the
serious nature of the charges now pending
against a large number of both foreigners
and natives, and of other complicating con-
ditions, the state of affairs at the islands
is critical; as in the event of further IN
surrection or complication, although the
government will use every endeavor TO pro-
tect foreign citizens ana their property, IT
is not impossible that sudden contingencies
may arise or isolated acts of violence take
place against which the government with its
limited police and military force may tenn
porarily be unable to afford protection.
In his reply Secretary Gresham, Jan. 20,
said: o receipt of a dispatch from Mr..
Willis yesterday morning on the subject of
the uprising which was Immediately given
to the press a war ship was at once ordered
to proceed from San Francisco to Honolulu
to afford needed protection to any Ameri-
cans emitted to it. That fact was also an
nounced by the press Saturday afternoon
and this morning, and I naturally supposed
that the announcement had attracted your
notice."
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AN ELEvENTH-HoUn CONVERSION.

The few persistent devotees OF hi
Cleveland illusion are now raising their
piping voices afresh to his praise. He
is the man, and the only man. who has
financial sagacity and whose dictum
should be obeyed without question. All
the others are bad. and worse than
BAD The Republicans in Congress who
do not make haste to proclaim him the
financial Moses by tumbling over each
other tos.demand the passage of his
bill, which half of his own party will
not support, are u~nprincipled partisans
who would sooner see the country go
to the bowwows than support the Presi-
dents latest financial blk OF course
the Democrats are at fault because they
are not with the President, but they
are, for some unexplained cause. not
~viciously bad. Yet when a canvass Of
the Senate was made to ascertain who
would and who would not support he
Presidents funding scheme it appears
that thirty of the forty-three Demo-
cratic Senators are. against Mr.. Cleve-
lands measure. while twenty-six Re-
publican Senators and thirteen Demo-
~ diAt " jill iSoSoA
similar to that last announced by the
President.
AS a matter of fact, the President and
Secretary Carlisle are chiefly RESPONSE
BILE for the present situation. 1t was
the intimation Of Mr.. Carlisle that the
coin notes might be redeemed In silver
which helped to start the panic Of 1893.
1t was the Presidents free-trade policy
which cut the business of the railroads
ened foreign investors into sending them
home to be sold for gold. 1t was the
Cleveland-Carlisle currency scheme, an
nounced in his annual message, involv-
ing a partially secured national bank
circulation and an insecure State bank
circulation, which caused as much dis
trust as anything else. For weeks the
President and his Secretary did their
utmost to induce the House to pass that
absurd administration currency plan.
The Cleveland w%orshipers who are
now demanding that all the friends Of
sound currency shall crown Mr.. Cleve-
land as the only wise man in finance
seem either to have forgotten or never
Ia. have appreciated the fact that the
President and his Secretary are re-
;ponsible for the waste of a months
lime over the Carlisle cheap currency
5ill and the distrust which it caused
n business circles. They forget that Mr..
Cleveland's conversion to a sound policy
vas of the eleventh-hour variety-too
ate to eradicate the mischief which he
md his Secretary had caused by their
oreposterous currencv scheme.
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Undoubtedly the revenues OF the ma
tional treasury will soon be increased,
since the stock of sugars which were
brought into the country when there
was no duty on raw and only one-half
of a cent on refined must soon be ex~
hausted. now that nearly six months
have. passed since the imposition of the
40 per cent. duty. Several months may
elapse before the income tax will find
its way into the treasury, but it will
get there before the end of the year.
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The bill before Congress asking for an
Increase in the pay of substitute letter car
riers and for the passage of which Indian
apolis carriers nave presented their petit
ton, must meet with the approval of the
public, whatever. Congress may do. Letter
carriers are faithful. h~ard-worked men and
are never likely to be paid more than they
deserve.