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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-30
TO srop RUSH OF IMPORTS.
An Important Amendment tn the Tar
f6 Bill Proposed.

WASHINGTON. March 29.-The PROPOSE
tion which has been discussed by the Re-
publican members of the ways and means
committee since they begans work on the
tariff bill that all goods imported after a
certain date, before the enactment of the
bill. shall be made to pay the duties car
ried by the DILL, is likely to crystalline into
definite form. 1t is possible, IL not prob
able that an amendment will be made to
the bill In the House TO effect this purpose
Continued on Second Page)
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-30
stin Rising at Natchex.

NATCHEZ. Miss. March 2e..The govern
ment steamer Mississippi with the river
commission aboard. passed south at II 80 a.
M. without landing. The water is now bank
ing up against the Concordia levee near the
entire length OF twelve miles; i'm some places
there are still six to eight inches of bank
left The levee is about five and a half
water on the gauge here TO go over IL. The
river here Is now f5.9 feet on the gauge
ICOu timed IN Secoud Po~el
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-30
c. Il. CROSBY KILLED.
Newspaper Correspondent Who W Wrots
Under the Name Don CarI0s.-

WASHINGTON. March 29.-The following
dispatch was received from Consul General
Lee. dated Havana. yesterday: Mr.. c. E.
Crosby. OF New York. the representative Of
the Chicago Record. is reported killed
while watching with field glasses a combat
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The Popular
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FOUR DAILY TRAINS

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Local sleeper IN indianapolis ready at $50 p.
Leaves Chi ago returnir z. at 2:45 a Cal
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-11
Postal Savings Bank,

The Widespread and widening Hg;ta-
ton for postal savings banks, although
chiefly the creation of one enterpris-
ing Chicago journalist, Mr.. Lawson.
owner and publisher of the Record, has
already enlisted the tongues and pens
OF many senators and representatives
who will work next winter for definite
legislation on the subject. One of the
most prominent of these is Senator
Mason, of Illinois, who in the September
issue of the magazine called New Time
condenses some of the arguments in ia
vor Of these institutions of the people.
First as to the need of postal savings
banks Senator Mason recalls the sta
tistics collected by Postmaster General
Wanamaker, which show that the
average distance of savings banks from
postoftices is ten miles in New Eng
land, twenty-five miles in the Middle
states, thirty-three miles in the South
ern states, twenty-six miles in the
Western states and fifty-two miles in
the Pacific states. These distances he
contends are practically prohibitive to
large proportion Of Americans, and
1t may, he thinks, be safely asserted
that fully so per cent. of the popula-
tion OF the United States lives twenty
five miles or more from a bank. II In
this in the senator's opinion that causes
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-11
The New Capitol Wrangle.

Unless there are material facts of
which the public has not yet got pos
session, the case presented by the gov
ernor in the matter of the acceptance
of plans for the new capitol at Harris
burg will receive practically unanimous
popular Endorsement. His side of the
controversy offers a clean bill of health.
II was he who in the first place halted
the tendency of the legislature to in
volve the commonwealth in lavish ex-
pense and delay in the construction of
the new building; it was he who insist
ed that the total new cost should not
exceed $500,000 and it was he who finally
applied the prod which resulted in a
Fastening of the work of securing for
examination competitive designs.
Eight of these designs having been
approved by expert architects as feast
BILE and desirable within the expense
limit previously agreed upon, the posi-
tion of the governor that one of these
eight plans should be chosen and the
commencement of construction work
expedited so that the completed capitol
may ne III iSduIiSSS lOI use Dy the next
legislature, is self-evidently sensible
and wise, while the attitude of the other
members of the new capitol commission
in demanding new plans seems calcu-
lated only to secure delay. If ii be true,
as has been hinted, that the intent Of
those who favor delay is to secure from
the next legislature and governor i'm
portant extensions or the capitol's
original scope, with corresponding in
crease of the money TO be expended, it
may as we'll be understood first as last
that this expectation will not be real
lied. The expression of public opinion
in favor of economy and honesty in this
work has already been emphatic, but il
there shall be provocation of further
emphasis it will be Forthcoming.
In view of strategic considerations no
less than Of those of fundamental pro-
priety and fair-dealing It seems to us
that those members OF the commission
who have gone counter to the governor
have elected to occupy unfortunate
ground. II it shall appear that they rep
resent the Quay position then ii will
be the senior senator who will again, as
has so frequently been true in the past
suffer because of the mistakes of
friends. His attitude, we feel sure, is
not OF the chip-on-shoulder kind, and it
"a o.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-11
Marriage and Divorce.

A group of men and women in Boston
branch of the English Legitimation
league. The object of this league is to
abolish the marriage ceremony and sub
stitute for it a contract dissoluble at
will, by which the man and the woman
shall agree to live together as husband
and wife and to recognize as legitimate
any children that may be born of the
union. The president of the Boston
branch, Oswald Dawson, explains his
views as follows:
1 disbelieve in the promise for life. 1
don't believe that the state has any con-
Germ in the relations of the sexes, in the
first place, and, in the second place, |
don't consider, even if it were right for
the state to Interfere, that it should make
the contract birding for life. If the state
made divorce as easy as marriage and as
inexpensive, then l don't think l should
say that l objected to the institution of
marriage. l don't expect to be popular
in this generation, nor do l expect that
legislatures will recognize us in this gen.
GRAFTON. / am not so much attempting
to alter the law at present as to ripen
public opinion in the matter until it is
llIlle 10 move,
Mr.. Dawson's modesty is in refresh
ing contrast with the proverbial EGO
tism of reformers of his type. But
modesty in the proponent of such
doctrine will not insure it's acceptance
by any considerable number of people
The institution of marriage is not an
accident but an evolution; it exists be-
cause the experience of centuries
proves it to be the most stable and
beneficent safeguard of the domestic
relations. That it is occasionally
abused; that the legal permanence Of
Wedlock is often made the instrument
of cruelty and tyranny on the part of
those Joined together by marriage does
not argue that the institution is de-
fective in itself; for these cases are
merely the inevitable exceptions to a
rule of happy and wholesome life
unions. They point to the need, not of
the abolition of marriage, but to the
intelligent adjustment of legislation
governing divorce.
We condemn hasty and easy divorces,
but pSlicNe tlldt IL WOulu De 10 the IN
terest of society to admit as sufficient
ground for the notification of the mar
riage contract any clearly proved and
long-continued conduct by either party
to that contract calculated to render
the union one of hatred, suspicion or
misery. There is room in a number of
our states for an intelligent broaden
ing of the function of divorce, Just as
in few other states there is need of
an equally intelligent contraction of il.
AS general proposition it may with
propriety be affirmed that it is not the
duty of the state through legislation
to compel couples to live together
whose only tie is the tie of the mar
riage certificate; for in such cases the
sanctity which should characterize
family life cannot be maintained and
the sure result will be not only un-
| happiness to parents but injustice to
| children.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-11
LACKAWANNA'S CANDIDATE.
From the Wilkes-Barre Times.


1t begins to look as though Congress-
man Connell, of Lackaanna, is a condi-
date In earnest for gubernatorial honOrs.
Friends of some of the other candidates
who have been reckoning on a divided
delegation from Lackawanna to the state
convention, will probobly find that they
have miscalculated. Mr.. Connell would
make a strong candidate. He is a self
made man, with a large and varied busi-
ness experience. His successful manage
ment of many large corporations in va
rious lines of business proves him to be a
man of high intelligence and hne eXecu-
tive ability. His connections with the
leading industries of Scranton and with
many other institutions in other parts of
Pennsylvania, have given him a wide and
influential quaintanceship throughout
the state which will be exceedingly val
liable in a close contest. He has made
an excellent record in congress and has
shown an aptitude for the shrewd skill
in politics which will make him formid-
able competitor for the other candidates.
Clean cut, fearless and aggressive, loyal
and appreciative, he binds his friends to
himself as with iron bands. He is no less
positive with his enemies.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-11
THE ARCTIC DISEASE.
From the Rochester Herald.

From the Rochester Herald.
The announced determination of Walter
Wellman to make another attempt to
reach the North Pole is a reminder that
when the love of Arctic exploration takes
possession of man it usually become s
an uncomfortable passion. Nobody un-
derstands better than Mr.. Wellman the
difficulties, dangers and hardshlps of this
strange pursuit and few people have bet
ter reason than he for wthstanding it's
temptations. He is a trained journalist
and fond of his profession. He has been
one OF the most versatile and gifted of
the able corps of Washington CORE
spondents. and his work for the Chicago
Times-Herald and other leading newspa-
pers must have yielded him "a handsome
annual revenue. But even while he was
so comfortably and, one would think, con-
genially situated the Arctic fever again
seized Mr.. Wellman in its grasp. He has
just returned from Norway, and he states
that he has completed arrangements for
another Polar expedition on which he Will
set out next spring.
Wellman's plan for finding the Pole is
similar to that of Lieutenant Peary. lie
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-11
Cleanse the Civil Service.

The announcement that at the ap-
preaching session of congress a con-
certed and final attack will be made
by opponents of the examination sys-
tenn upon the curious thing called by
courtesy civil service reform" is in
teresting but not unexpected. Sooner or
later this issue had to come up and an
end he made of the shamming which
both parties have long been practicing
in Difference to the unenlightenment of
the multitude concerning the actual op-
Grafton of the civil service laws.
Study of the civil service reform"
system at close range does away with
many of the predictions which are
acquired in favor of that system by
those who derive their knowledge of the
subject principally from the theoretical
discussions and eulogies printed in the
Mugwump magazines. What is catch
lily called the merit system is seen to
be, in fact, about as little endowed with
substantial merit as could well be; dis
covery is made that absurd eXamina-
tions involving mainly memory tests
form one of the least effective of pos
sible means of discovering in the candi-
date for federal employment qualities
such as are most desirable in the civil
service; and back of these structural
defects in the system itself is discern
ible a tangled mass of fraud, strategy
and deception in the systems applica-
tion sufficient TO disgust the honest
student and cause him to prefer to such
ramfied humbuggery the frank and
above board spoils syestem,be it's faults
whatever they may.
This being the cold fact as dis
tinguished from the theatrical pretence
with reference to this matter, and it
being moreover true that nine members
of congress and heads of departments
out of every ten secretly curse the day
which made them parties to the civil
service reform humbug and long to
breathe an atmosphere cleared of false
representation and studied deception,
there appears to be no convincing rea-
son why the effort should not be made
at the forthcoming session, either to Sc
cure substantial modification of the
civil service laws in the interest of
political and private decency, or, failing
that, to wipe out the whole hypocritical
business and begin anew.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-11

the boarding of wealth which with
draws much of the circulating medium
from the purpose for which 1t Is in
tended, and this drain is a vital cause
of the scarcity of money of which
there is much complaint.
Again, postal savings banks offer new
facilities for those who need the great
est encouragement to thrift-those who
would deposit small sums. Most pri-
bothered with individual deposits under
$40, and national banks offer no in
ducement to depositors whose accounts
are below $780, but the contemplated
scheme of postal savings would make
every penny count and extend an in
centive to all classes in the community
to economize in the thousand and one
little directions that go to make up the
difference between failure and success.
Then as to safety Senator Mason points
out that since the organization of the
first national bank, according to Comp
troller Eckles' last report. $50 nation
al banks have failed, and the average
IS. During the same period 1924, or
four times as many other banks failed,
and the depositors in them got less
than half their money back. But"
says he, suppose the government it.
self undertook the care of the savings
of the masses? Whoever heard of the
government failing? The very idea is
sufficient to cause a smile by it's pre-
posterousness."
In conclusion the senator offers as
the great moral and economic reason
for the speedy establishment of gov
ernment postal savings banks the fact
that leach man or woman who has a
dollar in the hands of the government
becomes a cash stockholder in the
grandest corporation in the world the
United States of America" and he
might have added. derives from the
fact of such relationship a new con-
Germ in the welfare of the government
and an added incentive to the prompt
and faithful performance of civic du-
ties.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-11

will sail from Norway, and after reach
ing terra frma will proceed north by
easy stages, establishing supply stations
at convenient points. If the Poiar pro-
blem is ever solved, II will be by some
practical plan Of this nature, a plan
characterized by prudence as well as dar-
Ing. The precautions attending its exc
cution can best be lkened to those of the
commander of an army which is pene-
trating hostile territory. lie Keeps his
base of supplies protected and his lire Of
communication open with view to pos
sfble retreat, and that Is precisely what
both Peary and Weilman intend to do.
These business-like provisions against dis
aster deprive Arctic exploration of some
of It's romance, but they increase Its po-
tentiality of success. In order to accom-
plish his purpose. Mr. Wellman will have
to exile himself from civilization for more
than two years. and encounter risks that
can be only family conjectured. Truly,
the ambition to reach the Pole Is a mar
Vicious disease
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-11
None tier Qualified.

From the Carl Adale Leader.
The action of the Republican county
convention last Tuesday renders IL cer-
tain that this county viii have a cand!-
date for gubernatorial honors next year.
AS to the gubernatorial candidate pro-
posed. there is no one better qualified than
Mr.. Connell. His rise In political ufe
being now the foremost Republican in
this part of the state, has been rapid in
recent years; and 1t is not the result of
fortuitous circumstance by any means
He has long been known as a man OF af-
fairs, possessing the qualities of a leader
in business enterprises; clear head, a
generous heart and a hand ready to help
the deserving. Judging from the work
done by his numerous political friends in
the past, 1t will not he surprising II Mr.
Connelrs name is found in the lead OF
the Candidates for governor when the
state convention of 1898 shall assemble
to select the standard bearer OF that cam
paign. Every citizen of Lackawanna
without regard to party will naturally
feel a pride In having a governor OF the
state within its bounds; more especially
should the choice fall on one so worthy
of it,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-11
THE KLONDlKE GOLD BUG.
Editorial and News

Dismal Dingman, of Hurricane Pass, an
nounces that he intends to locate in klon-
dixie and open a coffin factory. Some
doubts have been cast upon the financial
success of the venture by the skeptical
citizens of camp. We will state. however,
that the Bug" office will furnish occu-
patton for Dismal for several days at
least unless certain residents at once re-
fraln from the habit of kicking our col
lector in a brutal manner when he po-
litely asks them to pay what they owe US
on subscription, So long as Mickey Moran
served in capacity of collector there was
no objection to an occasional exhibition
of playfulness on part of subscriber
with low stock of nuggets; but when the
editor is forced to make a personal ap-
peal he does net propose to act as door
mat for every mule-hoofed black-leg who
may imagine that we are running the
Bug" for our health and an occasional
theater pass.
Colonel Neversoak Johnson, an eastern
capitalist and inventor, has taken rooms
at Slatter's pavilion annex and will
spend the next month In our midst look
ing for something to develop. In case
the colonel fails to organize his stock
company for the purpose of illuminating
Chilkoot pass with aceytaline gas, II is
probable that he will accept a tempting
offer from Mr. Slater to carve the ham
used in the sandwiches that are sold on
the pavilion lunch counter.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-11

Speculation in wheat evidently over
did itself and like the frog that sought
to puff up as big as an elephant 1t
broke and went to pieces. But legiti-
mate and bona fide trading in wheat
has yet to record its maximum price,
and dollar will not bound it nor even
al
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-11

The circulation of the Truth is more
than ten thousand copies every DAY
greater than that of the Scranton Trib-
une.-Scranton Truth.
If the esteemed Truth can prove that
there has been a week in 1897 during
which it's paid circulation has averaged
5000 copies daily The Tribune will make
its editor a present of a fine red apple.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-11
TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajacchus,
The Tribune Astroioger.
Astrolabe Cast: 4.06 a. M, for Saturday,
September IL 1897

n. rS Sesr
w " sgRS
A child born on this day will notice that
the fellows who fail to get a large sHce of
the watermelon often make the biggest
kind of howl for reform in cutting the
fruit.
If we were all as charitable as we would
like others to be this world would be
paradise.
Thus far the peach crop mas made an
excellent showing for the usual failure.
The present weather causeth the oyster
to perspire in his shell.
Ajacchus' Advice.
Leave your overcoat in pawn for an
other day.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-11

What would it profit the New York
-partisans if as consequence of
their previousness Tammany should
again capture control of the city?
That seems just now to be Tammany's
destined good luck-a gift of power be-
cause of the unreasonableness of the
Platt-hating Mugwumps.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-11
THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
SfaIe.

state.
State Treasurer--J. S. BEACON, OF
WestmCreiard.
Auditor General-LEVI c. MCAULEI,
of Chester. IL
County.
Sheriff-.CLARENCE =. PRYOR, OF
Scranton.
District Attorney-JOHN r. JONES, of
Blakely.
Prothonotary JOHN COPELAND, of
Carbondale.
Treasurer-W. S. LANGSTAFf' OF Scran-
ton.
Clerk of the Courts-TJIOMAS p. DAN
IEIS, of Scranton
Recorder - CHARLES HUESTER, OF
Scranton.
Register-WILLIAM K. BECK, of Mos
cow
Jury Commissioner - CHARLES WIG
GINS, of Scranton.
Election day, November 2.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-11

Suppose, Commodore Singerly, that
the nominees of the Reading conven-
tion could be elected. Would you, as a
business man, trust them on the Read
ing platform or feel safe with the in
fluences that won at Reading domi-
nant at Harrisburg? Here is a fair
question; let us have frank answer.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-11

Misfortunes never come singly. The
New Castle, Col, train wreck is the
third serious casualty of it's kind with
in the week; and being the third, the
cycle presumably is completed and
travel viii for an interval be safe.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-11

Deputy Attorney General Elkin's re-
tirement adds another to the list of vic
Tins of the governors now active snick-
ersnee. What his offence is we do not
know, but in due time the facts on both
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-11

The story that friends of Queen Lii
have formed a plot to kidnap Senators
Quay and Morgan should they visit
Hawaii offers itself as a refreshing
variation in midsummer romance.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-11

Reformer Sweeney has this consola-
tion. Common council may sit down
hard on his committee report, but it
cannot prevent him from making re-
form a personal practice.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-11
The Lattimer BOT.

In view of the 5loodshed yesterday
near Lattimer, the authentic details of
which are insufficiently known at this
writing to warrant specific judgment
certain general truths may with pro-
priety be affirmed.
O) The right of employees to quit
work at will, except when bound by
contract, is indisputable.
(2) The right of men who elect to quit
work to persuade comrades in toll also
to quit is equally clear.
(3) Strikers have no right to trespass
on property entrance to which has been
forbidden them.
Q) The officers of the law are to be
upheld in their efforts to prevent vio-
lation of the law and the laws suprem-
acy is of the utmost importance.
Prudent workingmen will deplore the
substitution of brute force for reason
but when the blind force of a frenzied
mob is pitted against the organized
forces of law and order, sane sympathy
must be with the latter.
Much better in every respect has been
the conduct of the bituminous strikers
in avoiding lawlessness and in relying
upon the publics sense of fair play to
secure for their cause just treatment.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-11

Film Hammers during the next few
weeks had better avoid the executive
mansion at Harrisburg. 1t is full of
dynamite.