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TRUST TO BE PROSECUTED.
Uncle Sam After the Traders Live
Stock Change of Kansas City.


Stock Change of Kansas City.
WASHINGTON, June 4--The attorney
general has directed suit to be brought
against the Traders Live Stock Exchange
gress of July 2, 1890. known as the anti
trust law 1t is represented that num-
Der of traders or spectators in live stock
have got together as the Traders Live
Stock Exchange, and prohibit all other
persons from trading at the yards. The
suit will allege: They Ohe Traders EX-
change) have boycotted the commission
firms that have dared to sell stock to any
traders in the yard who do not belong to
their association, and have punished by fine
some of their own members for daring to
trade with firms of commission merchants
who had sold to persons who were not
members of their own association.
The bill of complaint, which Is ordered
to be filed in the Circuit Court OF the
United States, and in the name of the
United States against j. c. Anderson and
about $50 others. asks that the defendants
be restrained from enforcing the aims, OBJ
iects and purposes of the Traders Live
Stock Exchange; also from imposing any
fine or penalty upon any of their mem
bers for trading with any person at the
Kansas City stock yards; also from dis
eliminating in any manner against any
person who is not a member of the Traders
Exchange solely because of such nonmem-
bership also. for refusing by concerted
from entering into any contract, combina-
ton or conspiracy limiting the right of any
person in the Kansas City stock yards to
deal freely in live stock therein.
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The American Wool and Cotton Reporter
mentions casually ard without special COM
ment that one of its representatives had
been visiting a Rhode Island hosiery mill
and found that its entire product was con-
tracted for to a New York jobbing house,
at whose request every pair of stockings
was branded Made in England" OF
course. no honest dealer would make such
request and no honest manufacturer
would comply with it, but aside from this
it shows that goods sell better il it is be-
lieved they are made abroad. 1t is a sin
gular trait of Americans. who claim to be
the most patriotic and independent people
on earth, that great many of them would
rather buy and use foreign products than
those manufactured in this country. This
unpatriotic preference exists to such an ex-
tent that o large and profitable business is
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During the first week in March certificates
of the stock of the so-called Sugar Trust
ranged from 1151a to 11SA. During the week
that the Dingley bill was reported to the
House the lowest price was Ill and the
highest III. When the House passed the
Dingley bill certificates fell to 1895, but re-
covered to 11l3s. When the finance commit
tees bill was reported to the Senate certid-
Gates rose to 11S on the report that the
sugar schedule was favorable to the trust
Since that time the stock has fallen to
116ss, which is 15s lower than it was the
day President Mckinley was inaugurated.
These facts do not indicate that speculative
circles expect anything from pending tariff
legislation or that there is any urgent de-
mand for the Tillman investigation.
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fecting radical changes in all laws govern
ing them, without expressly repeating or
suspending any statutory provision, and
contravenes the State Constitution in that,
although it is a general law, it is not one
of uniform operation throughout the State,
for the. reasons that it confers judicial
powers on county recorders; authorizes by
its assurance fund the taking of private
property for private purposes, without the
owners consent and impairs the obliga-
ton. of contracts. These would seem to be
reasons enough.
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General Notes.

WASHINGTON, June 4.To-day's treas
ury statement shows: Available cash bal
ance. $22S 971 $50; gold reserve, $14S,976196.
The Senate committee on Territories con-
tinued its investigation to-day of the
charges against Hon. H, II. McCord, whom
the President has nominated for Governor
of Arizona. Mr.. McCord was himself be-
fore the committee and submitted numer-
Gus affidavits in refutaton of the charges,
No effort will be made by the, committee
TO decide the case Hnt1I the allioaVl's can
DR.. George W. Burke Of New Castle Ind,
is in the city.
w. H. Lopp, of Indianapolis, and Frank
KEEPER, of Lafayette, a clerk in the Patent
Office, will graduate in law at the Colum-
bian University next Tuesday evening.
Senator Turpie has introduced bill
granting a pension of $50 a month to Henry
F. Barnes, of Indianapolis late assistant
surgeon One undred-and-tenth Indiana
Volunteer Infantry.
Richard Nj. johnson, of Franklin, Ind,
may be permitted TO continue in the office
OF chief clerk to the sixth auditor as
mark of gratitude for the service rendered
by ex-Congressman George w. Cooper to
the sound money" cause in the last cam
paign and to Mr.. Johnson, who voted the
Republican ticket and has been an eftlcient
officer.
Representative Steele has announced that
he will recommend Hon. A. r. Shroyer,
formerly state senator from Cass county,
for the Logansport postoftice.
Senator Tillman, from the committee on
Interstate commerce. to-day reported the
bill introduced by himself giving the States
the same control of liquors imported into
a state which they exercise over liquors
of domestic manufacture. The bill is in
tended to. in part. meet the objections to
the state dispensary law pointed out IN
the recent decision of Judge Simonton.
The Senate committee on territories has
agreed to a favorable report on the nomi-
nation Of Hon. H. A. Otero to be Governor
of New Mexico.
The President has signed the sundry civil
hill
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Special 70 the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, June 4.-Young Mr.. Bal
ley, Democratic House leader and a much
talked-of possible rival of William Jennings
Bryan three or seven years hence, said this
evening that in his judgment there was no
escape from the conclusion that the Demo-
Gratis in 1900 would readopt the Chicago plat
form of 1896 without adding to or subtract
ing therefrom, and that Bryan would be re-
nominated without opposition. Bryan" he
adds, lis as much of an issue as the prin-
ciples set forth in the platform, and his
nomination is a foregone conclusion" This
is the first time Bailey has ever come out
fat-footed for Bryan, and even after the
nomination he harshly criticised the boy
Orator for his Populistic views. Bryan
has become a good Democrat" says Bailey
"since his nomination in Chicago last year
and l can now heartily support him"
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1t appears that within the past few days
two several-times millionaires have come
to Ohio from Washington to take part in
the Democratic state convention with
view to making themselves senators. One
of them, Mr.. Brice. has a residence in
Lima, but he was often called the senator
from New York. The other had no resi-
dence in Ohio for some years. He resides
in Washington. Mr. Mclean has desired
to be senator for a long time He an
nounces that he will be candidate if the
complexion of the Legislature makes his
election probable. Both these men have
come to attend the Democratic state con-
vention and put the machinery in motion
to secure a Legislature which will make
one of them senator. II they were not
several times millionaires neither of them
would be thought of as a candidate.
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Important Offices Filled.

WASHINGTON, June 4.-The President
sent the following nominations to the Sen
ate:
LAWRENCE TOWNSEND. of Pennsyl-
vania, to be envoy extraordinary and min
lister plenipotentiary of the United States
to Portugal
ELLIS II. ROBERTS. of New York, to
be treasurer of the United States.
CONRAD N. JORDAN, of New York, to
be assistant treasurer of the United States
at New York city.
WILLIAM L. ANDREWS, of Nebraska,
to be auditor for the Treasury Department.
WILLIAM w BROWN, of Pennsylvania,
to be auditor for the War Department
Navy-Commander Richard P. Leary to
be captain, Lieutenant Commander William
Swift to be commander, Lieutenant Com
mander Henry B. Mansfield to be COM
mander, Lieut.. Herbert Winslow to be lieu
tenant commander Lieut.. William H. Tur-
ner to be lieutenant commander, Lieut..
Gunior grade) VIM j. Maxwell to be lieu
tenant Lieut.. junior grade) Franklin
Swift to be lieutenant.
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done in shipping some American products
abroad and sending them back under false
labels to be sold at excessive prices as
foreign products, as, for instance, cotton
seed oil for olive oil, California wines for
French and German wines, etc. Instead of
preferring goods bearing a foreign stamp
or label Americans should give a decided
preference to those manufactured in this
country, especially as in many cases they
are better
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New Indiana Postmasters.

WASHINGTON, June 4.-Fourth-class In
diana postmasters were appointed to-day
as follows: Arthur, Pike county, William
Rays, vice T. Shoulders, resigned; Crystal,
Dubois county, n. b. Simmons, vice r. P
Smith, removed; Haubstadt Gibson county,
w r. Tribe vice Anton Zeitz, removed;
Hord Shelby county, Thomas Linville, vice
G.. w Showalter, resigned; Jordan, Jay
county, j. j. Brown, vice Fl. r. Roush, re-
moved: Nine Mile, Allen county. Peter
Winters, vice G.. w. Zion, removed; North
Grove, Miami county l.. 9. Stitt, vice
Susan Parks removed; Talma, Fulton
county L. w. Hatfield, vice S. Y. Grove
rnrInnNpH
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In every way the Urbana affair is lament
able; in the purpose of a mob to violate the
law which had already been indicated in
sentence Of its extreme penalty. and in the
panic of the, commander of the militia
company in firing upon the crowd when
there seemed to be no occasion for it. A
few steady men with fixed bayonets or even
with the clubs of policemen could have re-
sisted the mob at the time of the firing. In
yielding later, the militia, or whoever was
responsible for their action. showed lack
of nerve and ordinary discipline. The loss
of life is lamentable particularly as there
was no possible pretext for any kind of a
collision. The law was being enforced. On
the part Of those who are responsible, those
who attacked the prison, 1t was simply the
spirit of lawlessness manifested in man
ner for which there could be no possible
excuse
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-05

The Torrens law, which was expected to
revolutionize and simplify the system of
real-estate transfers meets with rough
treatment in this country First 1t was de-
clared unconstitutional in Illinois, and now
It has been knocked out in Ohio. The opin-
not published yet, but it is said the reasons
for the decision are, in brief that the
Law legislstes on many subjects; creates
an additional system Of land titles, and an
additional mode OF legal procedure for the
determination OF controyerted titles. by ef-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-05

1t is doubtful if there was ever a speech
delivered in this country that had more
prompt, distinct and beneficial influence on
business conditions than that one recently
delivered by Secretary Gage in Cincinnati.
Even if it had been only Mr.. Gage the
banker speaking to body of business men
the speech would have had good effect,
but, coming from the secretary of the
treasury and a man of national reputation
as a financier, it carried great weight. It's
effect was very marked not only in this
country but abroad. The speech was de-
livered on May Is. A London cablegram
of June l to the New York Evening Post
reported higher prices for American Sc
curities and said: Secretary Cages assur-
ance regarding the intentions of the United
States government on the money question
was mainly responsible for the improved
tone" The money article in the New York
Tribune of June 2 said:
In Yesterdays London market prices for
American securities advanced while TINS
market was closed, and at the opening to-
day a pronounced buying movement TO take
advantage Of the difference in prices be-
tween here and London was begun by arbi-
TRACE houses. On the London exchange
Americans" were active again to-day the
dominating influence continuing the en-
couragement which Secretary Cages re-
cent speech developed.
The New York Post OF the same date said
London was a heavy buyer of American
securities the day before, and added:
There can be no doubt that the influence
of Secretary Cages speech at last weeks
close has been distinctly favorable. Prices
for our stocks moved up on the London
market yesterday even while New York
kept holiday" The New York Mail and
Express in it's financial article said:
Increased confidence and animation char
acteriZed the dealings in securities upon the
resumption of business after the prolonged
holiday, due in a great measure TO the
more hopeful sentiment entertained at Lon
don as to the future of affairs in the United
States. All accounts agree in stating that
the speech of Secretary Gage on the money
question has eXerted a powerful influence
for good the other side, which was re-
hected to-day in higher prices for Ameri-
can stocks, with more active trading than
for a long time past.
Everybody is interested in having foreign
capital seek investment in American securi-
ties, and speech that contributes directly
to this result is of national Importance.
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Blow at an inheritance Tax Law.

Judge Hanna, of the Orphans Court, this
afternoon in adjudicating, the estate of
George Blight, deceased, decided that the
stitutional The law was recently passed
by the Legislature as a revenue measure
and was expected to add between $500 coo
and 81 100000 annually to the revenues of
the State The question will probably be
carried to the Supreme Court for a final
decision
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-05

There is no reason for denouncing or OPP
posing the movement headed by Eugene V.
Debs and Myron w. Reed to establish
cooperative commonwealth in Utah. Ex-
perience has demonstrated time and again
the impracticability of such undertakings,
but there is sort of fascination in the
idea that leads theorists and dreamers TO
repeat them and to believe they can sue
coed where others have failed In itself
the idea of prosperous community in
which every member shall have congenial
employment and be independent and happy
is very commendable, and if Mr. Debs
should succeed in giving it practical form
people would be half disposed to forget his
bad work in organizing the destructive rail-
road strike of 1894. but it is quite safe to
predict that his attempt, like all previous
ones in the same direction. will be d failure.
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a few persons who are masquerading
silver Republicans in this State and Ohio
should be as honest as Senator'S Teller and
Cannon. When they left the Republican
national convention they ceased to call
themselves Republicans.
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GRAPHIC, BUT TRUE.

In a two-eolumn editorial the Louisville
Courier-Journal denounces the so-called
Democratic convention which was held in
Frankfort on Thursday as an assembly led
by 'buccaneering politicians and bankrupt
demagogues," and speaks of such persons
as follows:
The worlds history is full of such cattle.
Their common method is to obtain office
by boiSterous self-assertion in public and
to sell their votes for the best price they
can get for them in the back office of some
one of the corporations they have de-
nounced. Naturally, inevitably such per-
sons s,n being eng pnrGhadsable themselves,
and potent newspapers, are for sale and
can be bought for price. But even
where they do not happen to be personally
corrupt they are dangerously incompetent;
for incapable of framing measures of re-
lief and reform, the agitation, of which
they make themselves the promoters,
amounts to nothing except the disturbance
OF business and the consequent discourage
ment of the people. The end brings with it
private, save and alone the interest Of the
few who are able to shout their way into
places they are wholly unfit to fill.
Speaking of the influence of the teachings
of ''Populist Bryan" and Anarchists Till
man and Altgeld, the CD. says:
What are the tollgate raids if they be not
the offspring of the teachings of those who
keeping of property? What are the masked
ruthans, riding abroad by night to terror
lie peaceful citizens and to repress free
men-putting upon the planting of crops
the embargo of threatened assassination
menacing judges and juries with death, or,
worse than death, submission to the edictS
of the bravo and the mob-if they be not
the emanation of that political philosophy
whose corner stone is class hatred, and
whose weapons are the language, and, if
need be, the torch of the incendiary? And
at whose bidding have these sinister ele
mentS arrayed themselves against the pub
lie liberty and individual security, and the
fair, good name of the commonwealth, if
not at the bidding of ever-ncreaSing
body of professional office seekers and
office holders striving by organization to
ACKNOWLEDGMENT the reinforcement of
the party discipline and spirit with their
WORKOUT labels to mislead and infame, and
their ShibbOlethS, destitute alike of sense
and truth. to play upon the credulity of the
ignorant and unthinking, to prey upon the
fears of the tinid?
The foregoing is the truth; the preaching
of class hatred and the efforts to arraign
one part of the people against, the other is
not recognized as a crime by the laws, but
in it's results it is an offense which should
rank with treason because it strikes at the
foundation of the social fabric and makes
a class of men lawless. No better illustra-
ton of the results of this sort of teaching
can be found than in that tyranny which
seeks to compel men to curtail their
acreage of tobacco in Kentucky and in de-
stroying the crops of those who assume
the right to use their land they deem
to be for their interest.
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If the Department of Agriculture could
successfully grapple with the hog cholera
it would do more for the farmers of the
West than it can by introducing the beet
sugar industry. Last year, according to
the estimates of the bureau of crops in
Iowa, the farmers of that State lost 100000
hogs from the cholera valued at 500. $50 900
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\ Gentle Swipe.

Mr.. Watts-I don't see why weather was
Invented, anyway.
Mrs. Watts-If it were not for the wealth
er there are a good many men who would
never turn their eyes heavenward at all.
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In Amin.

ooh, dear me- she sighed, as the door
bell rang. there is that everlasting wom-
an again."
1t was what might judiciously be termed
another temperance of the Eternal Fem
mime.
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PrODerIy situated.

''They may say what they like against
him., said the convicted ones defender,
but his heart is in the right place"
Yes assented the other land so is the
rest of him, for a few years"
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but the paragraph was not finally disposed
Of when the bill was laid aside.
The House amendments to the bill to pre-
vent collisions on inland bays and waters
of the United States except the great lakes,
were agreed to- At $40 the Senate held
brief executive session and then adjourned.
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Emergency Ration rested.

WASHINGTON. June 4. = Col. Charles
Smart, of the medical department of the
army has arrived in Washington from "a
trip across the prairies of Oklahoma with
a party of soldiers, who were engaged in
making practical trial of the utility of the
new emergency ration The party was
made UP of forty-four cavalrymen. under
command of Capt. O. S. Brown First Cav
airy They left Fort sill May II. and after
living on full rations for two days turned
TO the emergency ration and lived upon that
for ten days, eight of which were pleasant
weather. The ration consisted OF eight
ounces of hard bread, five ounces of beans.
two ounces of peameal one ounce of coffee,
one tablet of saccharine, one-fourth ounce
of tobacco and portions of salt and pepper.
The men Travelled twenty-one miles a day,
losing an average of three pounds of flesh,
but gaining strength to an average of forty
pounds per man, as shown by dynamom-
eter. Another party of cavalrymen travelled
along on parallel lines with Capt. Browns
party using full rations. They lost an av-
erage of one and one-third pounds per man,
owing to the change from garrison life.
Colonel Smart will make detailed report
to the department upon the successful trial
of the ration.
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MIR. rnris Anpoints a Military Cnaet.

Special to the IndianapoIls Journal
WASHINGTON. June Representative
Faris has appointed c. Omer Free of
Brownsburg Hendricks county, cadet to
West Point and O. G. Mcclure of Dona
Vermillion county the alternate. Free is
a self-educated youth, has taught school
and is now in the State Normal School.
Mr. Faris left for home tonight. He will
be in Greencastle next week in attendance
at the twentieth anniversary exercises of
his class-that of ~.
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The British bimetallists express an ardent
desire that the United States and France
should adopt a ratio for the free coinage
of silver and thus compel the other gov
ernments to join them. The other nations,
If the ratio should be 151a to 1 or 1e to l,
would jois them by sending them all the
silver they could rake and scrape to have
its bullion or market value doubled
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BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
The Cornfed Philosopher.

II have noticed said the Cornfed Phil
lin my long and useful life of OBJ
that the snappy young girl US
ually becomes the snappish woman"
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Democrats May Be Removed.

WASHINGTON. June 4.-The rule an
nounced shortly after the administration
assumed charge that postmasters would
be allowed to serve out their full terms,
unless removed for cause, has been modi-
fled, and it Is expected that wholesale app
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but cold weather in the growing season
puts the price up. The recent cool days
and nights have caused a perceptible adj
vance