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The morning times., 1897-02-19

A few members of the list We're suffi-
ciently weak to attain the rank OF features
Jersey Central was the leader OF the de
cline, the reason given by the gosSips be
ing that it was a reflection of the down
ward movement of Lebigh ' alley in Phil
adelphia, The break of Lehigh Valley
has been severe, and, although the man.
agement denies that there is any serious
danger in prospect, brokers are inclined 20
receive this statement with more or less
of incredulity Hooking Valley stocks were
also weak.
The morning times., 1897-02-19
New York Cotton Market.
wa.hinntnn Stock Market

Sales-CapitaI Traction. o at 81; Amer
lean Graphophone, 80 at 8 3-4; Pneumatic
Gun Carriage, 200 at ~; 80 at l. 80: 100
nj IS. 800 at l %, 90 at l., 2S. 100 at
al. and 600 at 81
The morning times., 1897-02-19
Mining stocks


Cripple Greek Mining Stocks as reported
by Clifford q Co, I4O4 6 81. NV The
following are active dividend paying stocks
listed on the Colorado Mining Exchange.
The morning times., 1897-02-19
HAICHT G FREESE,
bROADu AY, NEW YORk.
Bankers and

Commission Stock Brokers.
SIOChS. BONDS, GRAIN,
IOl ION, ERONISiO$S.
Bought and sold for cash or on margin Of 3
10 per cent. COmm!sSICH. l-Ib.
Write for our .'4OO-PAGE MANUAL"
describes method or trading on margin,
gives hIStcSg and lowest FnCes 10 10
30 years Maps, etc.
IssUEE Az. Al lied FREE OF
CHA RGE
DEF EIERAIINISCi TIE FINANCIAL,
RESPONSIBILITY OF THE FIRM
WITH WHICH HUI DEAL. II As
IMPOR1AN Al SELECTING THE
RIGHT SIOCkS
New York National Bank references
fur nished.
" ASHlNGTON OFFICE
COrcOran Building
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The morning times., 1897-02-19
The World of Business

Wall street had an irregular ma rket yes
terday without any ygeneraltendency, though
there were no declines to speak of except
in one or two instances Fluctuations
were on limited and uninteres:ing scale.
There seems to be somewhat OF a belief
that within day or so now the speculative
community will begin 10 discount the
coming change of administration. 1t is
the general opinion that this and other
favorable circumstances Will make higher
prices, and that money for the moment is
to be made on the bun side of the market.
It most favorable indiCationthat London
has not been selling any OF our bonds re-
Gently but is in fact buying them steadily
This interest OF London in our bonds viii
probably extend before long to American
stocks. This is one most promising fea-
ture of the situation. IL is now pretty
well shown, too, that the Senate invest iga-
tion committee viii do sugar no harm,
rather good, and all the i'll effects should
be nullified and the drop Of prices in the
industrials consequent on the investiga-
ton should be recovered The extreme
dulluess of yesterdays market is indicated
in the amount of business done only
71S,031 shares changed hands.
The morning times., 1897-02-19

If you're going to need
some clothing soon-buy it
now.
II off all suits-overcoats
and separate pants-enough
saving to make you antlc1-
pate your needs a year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-31
sPELLBINDERs AND MIND MoLDERs

The Journal had the pleasure few days
of the stirring and excellent speeches made
at the Republican conference. The Repub-
lican party in Indiana was never richer IN
good speakers than it is at present, though
the best of all, the king of political speakers
in the United States, was not at the recent
conference. The speeches were worth deiv-
ering and reading. Had they not been re-
ported their effect would have been con-
fired to the audience of a few hundred who
heard them-a very intelligent and apprecia-
tive audience, indeed, but still circum-
scribed. Printed in the Journal, they were
scattered broadcast in all directions
throughout the State, reaching an audience
of more tens of thousands than there were
hundreds in the one that heard them. Thus
the function of The speaker, or, as he is
sometimes called, the "spellbinder," is sup
plemented, enlarged and projected by the
press. A speaker would have to make
great many trips and address a great many
large audiences to reach as many persons
as he does through a widely circulated
newspaper, and, while a reported speech
loses somewhat of the effect of personal
presence and magnetism, the gist is still
there Thus it has come to pass that the
press is even more potent factor in in
forming and shaping public opinion than
the spellbinders are.
But there is another class of mind mold
ers whose tremendous influence must not
be forgotten. These are the public school
teachers, the eight thousand men and wom-
en- who, a large part of every year, are
engaged in instructing the 100000 children
of the State in the learning of books. the
laws of living and morals, and the duties
of good citizenship. They reach class that
neither spelbinders nor newspapers reach,
and in the aggregate it is the largest au-
dience of all. Not only the largest, but the
most receptive, the most impressionable,
the most easily nodded and the most will
ingly guided into right lines of thinking
and action. These people who guard the
fountainheads of public opinion and morals,
the sources of good citizenship, the begin
nings of patriotism and loyalty the first
steps in honest politics, the teachers of the
young. are. after ALL the greatest mind
holders. Happy for the State If they shall
always realize their responsibility and be
true to the trust
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-31

The president of a tool manufacturing
company in Ohio, who recently returned
from a business trip to Europe, told an in
terviewer that he did not know anything
about home politics, but added:
do know that business is booming. We
are running our mills night and day, double
turn, and cannot keep up with orders. We
are getting orders from Bohemia, Norway,
Russia Spain, France and almost every 9TH
err European country. have beeh in nearly
every country of Europe within the last few
months and 1 have been stunned by the
way American goods have taken precedence
over others.
And this is happening under the Dingley
law which Democratic statesmen predicted
would destroy our foreign trade.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-31

achievement for general congratulation,
since the fact that the general government
is not paying it's way is potent cause of
uneasiness.
If the House can keep down appropriations
by rejecting river and harbor schemes and
strangling the scores Of petty appropriations
for this and that scheme or claim, there can
be no doubt that the treasury, fed by the rev.
enues which existing laws provide, will give
it surplus sufficient to give confidence and
for the easy working of the finances of the
government The House is spoken of be-
cause the Senate. for the past ten years.
has been the body which has been respon-
sible for the swelling of appropriation bills
and open to criticism for its extravagant
tendencies.
The growth Of the revenues the past three
months should bring relief to a class Of
free-trade papers which masquerade as in
dependent, since at the outset they as
sumed with positiveness and even with
vehemence, that the Dingley law would not
afford sufficient revenue.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-31
THE VANISHING DEFICIT.

The fact that the current receipts of the
treasury for this month will be $l,5OO.O0O in
excess of the current expenditures should
make all the people more confident as they
enter the year 1888. because it means that
the present revenue laws are adequate and
that the evil of a continued deficiency is
at an end There is reason to fear that
there are those for whom this fact will
not add TO the pleasures of tomorrow.
Just now they would be pleased TO see
large deficit. Even when there is none they
will not admit it, but will declare that 1t
will reappear in larger size next month
or the month after. At the close of Janu-
airy deficit will appear because it is the
month for the payment of the interest on
bonds. After that the increased receipts
from customs duties will put the govern
ment on sure expense-paying basis, where
1t has not been since July. 1893 This is an
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-31

cutting off the best market In the world.
but the result will undoubtedly be tn crete
an absolute monopoly of the trade IN seal
skins in the United States There are now
only three small herds of seals left in the
world. There is a small herd on the LoboS
islands. at the mouth of the River La Pla-
ia, protected by the republic of Uruguay,
thousand to twelve thousand skins FER an
mum. Then there is the herd protected by
Russia on the Copper and Boring islands,
with an annual production of forty thou
sand skins. Finally there is the Alaskan
herd, on the Pribylof islands. which was
estimated al $500 900 in 1887. but Is now sup.
posed to embrace only about 10000
In 1886 the pelagic sealers of all nations
got forty-three thousand skins, while on the
sand. In 1897 the sea sealers captured only
twenty-four thousand and the lan1 catch
amounted to only twenty thousand The
total catch of seals dropped from seventy
three thousand in 1896 to forty-f0ur thou
sand this year. The new law will cut this
production in half. so far as the United
States is concerned. Practically the only
skins which can be sold in this country will
be those taken by the North American
ands. That company has bound itself TO
pay an annual rental of 100000, with roy
atty of $T.6212 and a revenue tax of 81 for
each skin taken. The company has default
ed on its contract and the government has
received since 1890 only about $4,000. Now,
however, the company will undoubtedly be-
gin to take skins on the island, and the
government will receive royalty OF about
$40 a skin on all males captured. This the
company can well afford to pay, as it will
have monopoly of the United States mar
ket to all intentS and purposes"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-31
Regulations Adopted by the Treasury
Department for Enforcing the
Anti-PeIagic Sealing Law.
BLOW At CANADIAN PIRATES
MONOPOLY FOR THE COMPANY THAT
KILLS ON THE PRIBYLOFs.
Theodore ROOsevelt's Report ON the
Personnel of the Navy-A Bill to
Correct Present Evils.
special to the Indiananolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-Representative
Royse, accompanied by Prof. Hoynes, of the
University of Notre Dame, called on Post
master General Gary this afternoon in ref
erence to the appointment of a successor to
the late Rev. William Corby postmaster at
Notre Dame, Ind. Rev William Corby died
last Tuesday, and it is important that his
successor should be speedily named. Rep
resentative Royse and Prof. Hoynes
nestly urged the appointment Of Andrew
Morrissey, president of the university The
postmaster general promised to consider the
case at an early day, and Represeltativ
Royse, speaking of the case to the Journal
correspondent said that he believed that
Prof. Morrissey would be named. Prof.
Hoynes will spend few days in Washing
ton, returning to Notre Dame the latter
part of the week.
Oscar M. Wilmington a former clerk in
the Indianapolis postoffice, who was dis
missed during the Cleveland administration,
is endeavoring to secure reinstatement to
his former position. Mr.. Wilmington is an
ex-soldier, and during his term in the In
dianapolis Office made a splendid record. 1t
is thought quite probable that he will be
reinstated So
of Muncie, now residing in Santa Ana Cal,
is an applicant for postmaster of his adopted
city. Mr.. Alexander was for number of
years in the railway mail service, and is
well known throughout Indiana. In his eff
forts to secure the appointment of postmas
ter of Santa Ana, he is bringing to hear In
diana influence. In addition to this he is
said to have strong backing among his fell
Iow-townsmen, and the belief was expressed
to-day by Mr.. Heath that the former In
dianian would be successful.
James H. Clark stamper and janitor in
the Charlottesville Ind, postoff1ce, has been
promoted to the position of mailing clerk,
succeeding Samuel Johnson, who is reduced
to the position vacated by Clark.
A number of letters have been received at
the Postoffice Department urging that w.
c. Hiatt, of Winchester, Ind, a railway
mail clerk on the Monon, be transferred to
the Big Four route Hiatt desires this trans
fer so that he may be enabled to spend
more time at home. Mr.. Heath said to-day
that he thought the transfer could be ar
ranged to the satisfaction of all concerned.
Bids were opened to-day at the Treasury
Department for putting in an electric plant
to light the new postoffice in this city. There
were twenty-five bidders, the bids ranging
from 5000 to $4,000. Among the bidders
were the Fort Wayne Electric Company, of
Fort Wayne, Ind. 1t will not be known for
several weeks, probably, to whom the con-
tract will be awarded.
Selm B. Kendall was to-day appointed an
additional letter carrier at Laporte, at a
salary of $500 per annum.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-31

Senate and House Committees OPP
posed to organizing "a Territory.

pOSeu tO OrSNnlzlhtS a.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3O.-The Senate and
House committees on public lands and terri
tories are at work on legislation for Alaska,
preparing the way for action by the two
houses. The matter has been talked over
in committees and there will be some de-
cisive action shortly after the holiday re-
cess. The chief problem is to provide for a
better government. Secretary Bliss recon-
mended in his annual report that Alaska be
made a regular organized territory. The
sentiment of the committees is that the time
is not yet ripe; that the population, prac-
tically dependent on the rich mining strikes
is rowing one and that even towns having
a large population to-day may be abandoned
tomorrow. 1t is probable that there will
be some enlargement of its present govern
ment as preferable to a general system of
local legislation and territorial organization.
may be extended and their number in
creased This is to be a temporary bridging
over of the problem until the transitOry fea-
ture of the population is largely eliminated
AS to the extension. in toto, OF the general
land laws the sentiment now is that the
ing. The right of way act for railways
etc. carried by the Lacey BILL is likely TO
be modified, while there will be some special
legislation for the protection of timber. The
homestead laws will be extended. Mineral
and town site laws already are in force. A
and it is said that in all probability there
are some portions of Alaska that never will
be surveyed This interferes with the oper-
alton OF the public land law extension.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-31
Supplies VIII BE Carried Free.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-Assistant Sec
rotary Day has just received a response
from the superintendent of the Ward line
steamers in New York in answer to his
inquiry as to whether he could announce
that his line would convey supplies to Cuba
of cost. The promnt answer was: .'WiIl be
pleased to accept supplies for Cuban suf-
ferers, free of cost. Presume they will be
consigned to General Lee.
The Anaconda. Mont, Standard tele-.
graphed last night that the secretary of
state could draw on the National Park
Bank, of New York for $500 already sub
scribed and paid in by Montana people for
the benefit Of the Cuban sufferers. More
money is promised from the same source
Jan. l. All of this money is being distri-
buted through Consul General Lee.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-31

Hon. Champ Clark, of Missouri, in a de-
liverance regarding the civil-service law,
says: Not two dozen men in the House
are really in favor of it; there never were
two dozen men in any other Congress in
favor of it, and yet it appears impossible
to repeal it," If the Hon. Champ will take
the trouble to refer to the record he will
find that the bill passed the Senate by a
vote of So to 80 and The House by 155 to
AZ. That makes considerably more than
two dozen in that Congress in favor of it,
and there has never been a time since when
it could have been repealed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-31
A PATRIOTIC WORK.

AS the report and accompanying bill of
the indianapolis Monetary Commission will
be published in few days it seems appro-
pirate to call attention to the character of
the commission itself and the nature of
the service it has rendered. The only pro-
priety in calling it the Indianapolis commits
sion is that the movement for the none
tary convention which gave rise to the
commission originated in this city and the
convention itself was held here in Janu-
airy, 1897. Except this localizaton the COM
mission, like the movement, is pre-eminent-
ly national in its character. The original
call for the convention was made in
letter to the boards of trade of various
cities from which the following is an ex-
tract:
In behalf of the policy and purpose out
lined by these resolutions permit us to
say that it is believed very earnestly that
nonpartisan committee or commission
composed Of experts judiciously selected by
representative conference of business men
should be chosen at an early day, and that
to this commission should be assigned the
duty OF preparing plan which can be
embodied in such legislation as will place
our monetary system on a permanently
sound basis. The commission to be ult-
mately selected must be of such attain
ments and character as not only to allay
all suspicion of any influence from class
or sectional interest, but it must be of such
fitness as to inspire the confidence in the
mind of the fair-minded citizen of the Re-
public that it's work will be done for the
permanent welfare of the whole Nation.
This idea was kept steadily in view and
was well represented in the final construc-
ton of the commission. 1t is believed that
the history of the country could be
searched in vain for a parallel instance of
an equal number of able representative
business men giving much time and
labor to the neglect of large private in
terests, without compensation and at their
own expense for the promotion of cause
which they regarded as necessary to the
public welfare as this commission has done.
No finer example has ever been given of
the higher workings of popular government
and the best functions of America citizen
ship than is afforded by the voluntary and
uncompensated labors of the eleven men
who have devoted SO much of their time
during the last few months to evolving and
formulating a feasible plan of currency re-
form. So far as the measure of public
thanks due to the commission is concerned
it does not matter whether their work is
accepted by the country or not, though it
will certainly carry great weight. But, with
out regard to that, they have shown their
readiness to respond to what they deemed
patriotic call, and the people of all sec-
tons should unite, irrespective of party,
in extending them vote of thanks for the
manner in which they have performed a
duty of citizenship which was none the less
high because it was unofficial
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-31

Commissioners of Pensions Wants At
torneY,a Services Dispensed With.


WASHINGTON, Dec. 9O.-Commissioner
of Pensions Evans has been giving some
attention to a proposition whereby the serv-
ices of pension attorneys engaged in the
prosecution of claims before the office may
be dispensed with, and their work done by
officials under government supervision In
formally he has been discussing the matter
with members of the House committee on
invalid PENSIONS but is not yet prepared to
outline the details of his plan. The present
system, he says, is wrong, and should have
been done away with long ago. Discon-
tinuing the services of the attorneys would
result in a great saving to both pensioners
and the government, and liability to frauds
in issuing pensions would be reduced to
minimum. Under government supervision
the Pension Bureau would have direct con-
troll of the persons appointed to look after
the cases. whose business it would be to
see that all honest claims were promptly
and intelligently presented The commits
sioner notes the fact that S13, 100000 has been
paid out during the past thirteen years to
pension attorneys by applicants for the
prosecution of their claims.
The Postoffice Department has ruled that
an eX-Union soldier drawing a pension I'M
instated in position he formerly occupied
in the service The case arose in connec-
ton with the application of a veteran en-
ployed in the Philadelphia postoffice. In
order to obtain a pension under the depend
ent act he must swear that he is without
means of support and is unable to do man
ual labor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-31
General Notes.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 3O.-To-days state
ment of the condition of the treasury
shows: Available cash balance, $3.50. 72l, 1870;
gold reserve, $3.50. 647, 1870.
The Navy Department has ordered the
gunboat Nafietta. now at Mare island. to
Salvador, on reports from United States
Consul Jenkins that the situation in that
country was disturbed and threatening.
Francis Looms. United States minister
to Venezuela, has arrived in Washington.
He is on leave of absence from his post
and while in Washington during the COM
ing week he will advise with the officials
on the subject of negotiating a reciprocity
treaty. ard also q parcels postal conven-
tion between the United States and Ven
eZuela
Controllers certificates, authorizing the
following banks TO begin business. We're is
sued to-day: The Corn Exchange National
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-31
Three Billion Postage stamps Needed.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-The Postoffice
Department has prepared advertisements
which will soon be issued inviting propos-
ais for furnishing adhesive postage stamps
for the government for the four years be-
ginning July l next. The issues advertised
for include the ordinary stamps news and
periodical stamps, postage due stamps and
those for special delivery The number
quired per year approXimates three bill
lions. Under special arrangement made
nearly four years ago the work of furnish
ing stamps is now done by the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing, the bids received
by the Postoffice Department at that time
for furnishing stamps having been rejected.
The arrangement terminates July l.. when
the new contract which will result from
the advertisements about to be issued will
become effective.