The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-27

were strong enough to override the King 5
orders and the authorities. There was no
game and the ballplayers lost the 5000
which the sport-loving Hawaiians We're
anxious to empty into their laps. The mis-
sienary influence on the island is said to be
as strong now as it was then, although ex-
erted in a different way. Now. as formerly.
they can secure a reversal of any official
permit when they put the pressure on. as
they did against the baseball dissertation
of the Sabbath By Pfeffer and his fellow
players.
James Hamilton Lewis, the statesman
from far off Washington-he of the in
nammatory whiskers-exhibits with great
gee a letter in which it is narrated that
the legislative body of the Congo Free
State holds the House of Representatives
of the United States in contempt. Accord
ing to this letter. a dispute arose in that
body over parliamentary point and some
one proposed to settle ii by reference to
the rules prevailing in the American House
of Representatives, whereupon the entire
assemblage is said to have burst forth in
an uncomfortable storm of derisive laugh
ter at the absurdity of the suggestion.
That the rules OF the American house
should be considered authority struck the
Congo solons as being indescribably lu-
dicrous, according to Mr.. Lewis.
The attention of capitalists is again being
attracted to the gold fields along the Po-
tomac river, a few miles north of Wash
ington, and considerable new experiment.
ing has been done lately in a quiet way.
theoretically, there is big money in sight in
this field, but investments in the past have
tended to discourage development. Prob
ably a million dollars, all told, has been
sunk in trying to extract gold in paying
quantities from the rock that is TO be found
in great abundance between Harper's Ferry
and Washington but down to date these
efforts have proved unsuccessful. 1t is the
dream of those who have spent money
upon this gold-bearing rock that a process
Will eventually be discovered for working
the deposits at profit. Ex-senator Phil
etus Sawyer. of Wisconsin, spent $780, 900 one
year on a choice prospect in this locality
He is not engaged in these new expert
mentations. Your Uncle Philetus knows
when to quit.
Ambitious Mr. Bailey of Texas has the
presidential bee buzzing in his bonnet. He
says he would not take a nomination for
the vice presidency because he believes that
any Indu VINO Is elected TO IfiaI once never
gets any higher but he believes firmly that
in 1904 or 1908, if he lives, he will be nom
mated and elected President. Some of Mr..
Baileys friends however, entertain differ
ent views from him on the vice presidency,
and they are already figuring to bring about
his nomination on the Bryan ticket in 1900
They are going ahead the theory that
the free silverites will make star hit by
breaking away from the East and making
a sentimental combination between the new
South and the great West. They argue that
Mr.. Bailey represents the new South better
than any man in public life, and that it
will be an easy way to break down the
prejudice against having d President from
that section by first getting a Vice Presi-
dent, and that will be greatly enhanced by
his acceptance of the second place as a
method Of introduction and as a stepping
stone. The combination, Bryan and Bailey,
IS already being very seriously considered
by the Democratic leaders in Washington.
w. G.. NICHOLAS.