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All communications Intended for publication In this paper muxt, in order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name- and address of the writer. Kejected manuscripts will not be returned ttnless postage is Inclosed for that purpose. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can b foimd at the following places: KKW YOUK Astor House and Fifth Avenue Hotel. CHICAOO ralroer House, P. O. News Co., 217 Derbom street. CINC1NNATI-J. R. Hawley & Co., 131 Vine Strret. Jjncisv'ILLE-C. T. Deerlnjr. northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Book Co., ZA Fourth avenue. BT. LOUIS Union News Company. Union Depot. WASHINGTON, p. C-RIggs House, Ebbitt House and Wtllard's Hotel. In view of the rumors of wrong-doing in Cuba it Is appropriate to recall General Grant's remark: "Let no guilty man es cape." The reappearance of Agulnaldo In the flesh and with some followers will give new life and rest to military operations In the Philippines'. Our forces will goon have him on the run again, and his capture Is only a Question of time. Mr. James McAllister, of this city, de serves the thanks of all good citizens for his determined efforts to bring to justice the parties implicated in the recent Illegal marriage of his daughter at Jeffersonville. As far as that phase of the case Is con cerned, Mr. McAllister has no more Interest than any other citizen In bringing the law breakers to justice, and In his efforts to do so he should have every possible sup port. The Merchants Association of New York will this year . extend its plan of buyers' excursions to that city for the fall trade, 60 as to include Cuba and Porto Rico mer chants In the invitations, which will e sent out in Spanish. As the invitation in cludes half-fare rates quite a number of merchants are expected from both islands. Thus trade follows the flag, and commerce Will become an important factor In Amer icanizing our new possessions. The action of the House in increasing the appropriation for arming and equipping the militia from $100,000 to $1,000.000. will be gratifying to all who believe In' maintain ing an effective militia, and especially to the officers of the National Guard. "With - - - - . I a. t .1 mil. . . mis jncreascu appropriation tne mama oi all the States can be equipped with modern rifles Instead of the old Springflelds now In use. and with other modern equipments. It Is thought the appropriation may be still further Increased by the Senate. ; The strike of street-railroad employes at St. Louis developed very suddenly and reached the violent stage almost immedi ately. The large number of men on strike and tha ugly spirit- shown seem to fore shadow serious trouble. The demands of the men are unreasonable and dictatorial, . amounting almost to the exclusion of the company from the management of its prop erty. The tendency of such demands and the strikes based upon them Is to Intimi date capital, unsettle confidence and hurt business. Democratic statesmen in the South are beginning to wonder whether the new pol icy of disfranchising and eliminating the negro from politics may not in the end prove a political boomerang. It has been notorious, for years that the color line and the question of negro supremacy was the cornerstone of the solid South and the main source of Democratic unity. It is said the only way the party leaders in the South have been able to hold a large part of the younger generation In line has been by ap pealing to race prejudice. With the negro eliminated from politics this argument will have no force, and it is feared that young and progressive Democrats who favor pro tection, the gold standard, national expan sion, etc., may begin to vote the Repub lican ticket. If the Democratic leaders be come convinced that they need the negro in their business, as a bugaboo in politics, they will give him the elective franchise again, though without any intention of let ting him use it. The arrest of C. F. W. Neely, of Muncie, on the charge of embezzling a largo sum In connection with the postal service in Cuba, has caused something of a shock throughout the country, and especially among his frlend3 in this State. For per sonal as well as public reasons Mr. Nec ly's friends will hope that he may be com pletely vindicated from the charge, but this can only be done by a thorough Investi gation of the matter. There must be no whitewashing of any person or covering up f facts. The relation of the United States government to the government and people of Cuba is one so peculiarly of trust and honor that there must be no taint of fraud or dishonesty in any of our official trans actions there. In the present circumstances official dishonesty In Cuba would be even worse than in the United States. It is not pleasant to learn that Mr. Neely's printing establishment in Muncie has been filling large government contracts for blanks and stationery used by the postofflces in Cuba, and In the coming investigation that mat ter should, be looked into as well as the main charge. The anxiety of our Prohibition friends to protect the inhabitants of our new pos sessions front debasement by American intoxicants seems to assume that they have r.one of their own.- As a matter of fact there U no nation or people that has not. and the Filipinos are no exception. They have a native gin which is ealt to be worse In its effects than any American distilled r.'juor, am., of course, vastly worse than r :-v rases nice beer, wnen our ! : 3 c J : ! ir.! ! It Llcur.-1.- ed with shops where this native gin was sold, and one of the first things General Otis did was to suppress them. Adjutant General Corbln has received a letter from Chaplain C. C. Tierce, who has been In the Philippines more than a year, in which he says: When I first saw Manila the streets were practically lined with little nlpa huts. perhaps about tweh'e feet square, in which the natives were selling, at a merely nomi nal price, not only fruit and tobacco, but also native gin. These 'gin shacks should certainly be included in the number of drinking places existing at the beginning, and their number was very large. The,, character of this native drink was so fiery and villainous that Its effect upon such of our men as used it was deplorable. It be came my duty to bury two soldiers who never recovered from the effect of drinking it. One of them had been in the service about eighteen years, and received from his officers, in personal conversation with me, a commendation so flattering with re gard to his character for sobriety and sol dierly honor that it might be coveted by any man. He had never been a drunkard. but this native poison was so virulent In its effect that he became maddened, and lingered in his delirium a whole week, not having recovered his reason at the time of his death. Our authorities set to work to restrict this traffic by a system which finally resulted In its prohibition. The writer says further that while he does not use liquor nor advocate Its use, he can testify that the substitution of regi mental canteens, in which only beer is sold, for the Filipino "gin shacks" resulted In a very perceptible improvement among the troops. EFFOIITS TO DERRYAXIZE II RYAN. One of the mind readers who has been sending dispatches from South Bend says that Mr. Bryan and Mr. Shlvely talked about the sliver issue and that the latter expressed the hope that it would not be made prominent, to which Mr. Bryan gave his assent. This is probably the handiwork of the same fake-maker who sent out the canard which connected Mr. Shlvely with the candidacy for Vice President. It Is the hope of a large portion of the Democratic managers in this State who shouted 16 to 1 and labeled themselves 16 to 1 In 18 that the silver Issue may be pushed to the'rear of the Democratic platform. Hence these stories of Mr. Bryan's assent. Mr. Bryan has given no such assent. At Toledo, last week, he repeated in the most positive terms the statement he has made many times during the past few months, that the Chicago platform in Its fullness Is to be reaffirmed, and that the free and indepen- dent coinage of silver will be a leading issue until it shall be adopted. It is a Democratic doctrine, he declared, and can not be ignored In one of his recent speeches Mr. Bryan maintained that the fact that the Senate is Republican cannot affect the issue, because the Senate is not, he claimed, indefinitely lost, and with his election the free silver gains in that body would be considerable by the elections of November, if not decisive. The majority against silver In the present Senate is not over seven, safe and sure. If Mr. Bryan should be elected President It is very cer tain that enough States which elect sena tors next January would go with him to change the political complexion of that body. Just now a desperate effort is being made to induce Mr. Bryan to consent to a dec laration in favor of bimetallism instead of his 16 to 1. It is not now probable that he will consent. The Baltimore Sun says the nomination of Mr. Bryan need not imply the indorsement of Bryanlsm. That is, the Kansas City convention can make a nonsllver platform, the Sun says, nominate Mr. Bryan, and then, while making him the party candidate, distinctly repudiate his pet heresy. In the same article, ,the Sun declares that the renomlnatlon of Mr. McKinley will be a distinct Indorsement of McKInleylsm, while the renomlnatlon of Mr. Bryan can be so made as to repudiate Bryanlsm. The Baltimore paper, which has never been guilty of facetlousness, puts the repudiation of Bryanlsm by the nomination of Mr. Bryan as a solemn proposition. Cattle can be dehorned; but it does not seem possible to debryanize Mr. Bryan. THE KENTUCKY CONSPIRACY. The efforts of the Kentucky Democrats and their outside alders and abetters to implicate Governcr-clect Taylor and other State officials in an alleged conspiracy to murder would be amusing if the matter were not so serious and the purpose of the plotters to wreak vengeance on somebody so apparent. That the assassination of Mr. Goebel was a dastardly and Infamous crime meriting the severest penalty of the law upon the perpetrator, if he or they can be discovered. Is admitted by all. Although he was engaged in a rascally conspiracy against the people and was pushing to Its consummation a plot to overthrow popu lar government which he had planned and engineered from the beginning, even that could not justify his assassination, which was really one of the most shocking poli tical murders on record. But the Idea that Governor Taylor, who is a man of high character and spotless reputation, or that any other Republican official was in any way connected with the crime is prepos terous. That the perpetrator of the crime may have thought he was doing Governor Taylor a service is quite possible, though it is just as likely to have been some half- drunken mountaineer, wno thought he was defending his own political rights by shoot ing the man who had planned the dlsfran chlsement of thousands of Republican voters. But Governor Taylor was no more responsible for the murderer's theory or views on the subject than acting Governor Beckham Is for those of any of the people who are committing murders In Kentucky from day to das. To suspect a man of Governor Taylor's standing and character of any connection with the murder of Goe bel is as monstrous as it would be to charge that Democratic Senators in Washington in 1SC3 or 1SS1 were parties to the assassina tion of Lincoln and Garfield. But, knowing the character of the consplraters who are trying to connect him with a conspiracy. and knowing the possibilities of Kentucky courts and Juries in the present reign of terror, it would be strange indeed if Gov ernor Taylor were not careful to keep out of the nets and traps they are setting for him. At the present time he is safer any where else in the world than he would be In Kentucky, for if the conspirators do not succeed in victimizing him under the forms of law they are manufacturing an atmos phere of murder In which no Republican Is safe if they point their finger at him. The fllmslness of the evidence on which they are basing their charges and the in genuity with which it is being distorted may be Inferred from the following from the Sentinel: In the hearing of the Goebel assasslna- till czzi Izrt Friday Duane Sinclair cf the Postal Telegraph Company testified that on the morning of the assassination he sent a number of telegrams to commanders of two Kentucky regiments, which only said: "all right." end were signed by Adjt.-Gen. Collier. What more conclusive evidence could be asked of a conspiracy to murder in which the leading Republican officials of Kentucky were implicated? "All rignt. Everything had been arranged. The assas sin had his rifle loaded and his place of concealment arranged. The agreed pro gramme was ready to be carried out. The militia was notified to be ready. There would be popular indignation and bayonets would be necessary to protect the assassins until their pardons could be Issued by Tay lor. "All right. ' Be ready to play your part. The crime will be committed to-day. This damning evidence of conspiracy has but one parallel, and that is In the cele brated case of Bardell against Pickwick for breach of promise of marriage. In opening that case Sergeant Buzfuz, after citing other evidences of the defendant's 'systematic villainy," said: And now, gentlemen, but one word more. Two letters have passed between these parties letters which are admitted to be in the handwriting of the defendant. Let me read the first: "Garraway's, 12 o'clock. Dear Mrs. B. Chops and tomato-sauce. Yours, Pickwick.-' Gentlemen, what does this mean? Chops! Gracious heavens! and tomato-sauce! Gentlemen, is the happi ness of a sensitive and confiding female to be trifled away by such shallow artifices as these? The next has no date, whatever. which Is in Itself suspicious. "Dear Mrs. B. I shall not be home until to-morrow. Slow coach." And then follows this very remarkable expression: "Don t trouble yourself about a warming-pan. W hy. gentlemen, who does trouble himself about a warming-pan? Why Is Mrs. Uardell so earnestly entreated not to agitate herself about this warming-pan. un less it is, as I assert it to be, a mere cover for hidden fire a mere substitute for some endearing word of promise, agreeable to a preconcerted system of correspondence. artfully contrived by Pickwick with a view to his contemplated desertion, and which 1 am not in a condition to explain? If one may compare tragedy with comedy. the startling evidence of a conspiracy to murder found in the dispatch, "all right," is only equaled by the overwhelming proof of systematic villainy concealed in "chops and tomato-sauce." Joseph Flory, prospective Republican nominee for Governor in Missouri, is a na tive of this State, having been born in Cass county. He began active life as brake- man on a freight train, and served in that capacity in this State till 1SS2. when he went to Missouri, where. In 1894, he was elected railroad and warehouse commis sioner for the State. He is one of two Re publicans elected to a state office in Mis souri In twenty-five years and Is exceed ingly popular. Mr. Flory married his pres ent wlfo in Lafayette. One of the inspiring sights at the middle- of-the-road Populist convention at Cincin nati is that of the husband of a woman editor, nursing and amusing the baby while the mother works vigorously for the establishment of a "woman's rights" plank in the platform. Large artillery and di minutive minnows! What rights does a woman want, when she has a husband that permits her to edit a paper and then attend a national convention as nursemaid while his better two-thirds lobbies the men! One New York paper vociferously asserts the genuineness of the inscription of Ephe- sus detailing the alleged Chrlst-Abgarus correspondence, and another announces the foundation in fact of the Homeric legend of Theseus and the Minotaur. This struggle after live news is what imparts such a glad strenuousness to-life In New York. If Mr. Shlvely should receive the vice presidential nomination his November ex periences will be in the nature of a vicari ous atonement for Mayor Taggarfs guber natorial aspirations. The willingness of the Democratic press to "lam" the unspeakable Turk for that $00,000 missionary bill has been diverted. and they now are "lamming" Populists who refuse to fuse. The Governor of Illinois is showing a dis position to exercise his name on the senior senator from that State. The news from Naples Indicates that Vesuvius could no longer brook the rivalry of Webster Davis. Checkers and "Bobs" has moved. BUBBLES IN THE AIB. Home Occupation. "Do you sympathize with the British or With the Boers?" "I'm sympathizing with Kentucky Repub licans Just now." The Way Things Do. "We've got five pounds of moth balls in the house." "How did that happen?" "Oh. everybody forgot to get any; and then we all got them at once." Of Spring Planting. A pessimist will not undertake A beauteous garden bed to make. Because ahead his fancy speeds And worries o'er the tug with weeds. Two of the Same. "Do 3'ou believe that man is 108?" "xw: men' who have an ambition to be con sidered old are as unreliable as women who want to be thought young." A Snub from the Kitchen. "Well, another cook gone." "What was the trouble?" "She said she would degenerate if she stayed with people who entertain as seldom as we do." Footnote. When a man jcoes into politics it seems to give his past life insomnia. The easiest way to achieve happiness is to re nounce all designs on It. - As a rule, the abused mother-in-law can make better strawberry short cake than her daughter. Maternal affection Is often part humbug; there are mothers who won't let their small boys have a kitten.. If It were not for house cleaning in April and May the whole world would go deranged trying to write srrlng poetry. For the first few weeks the average woman waters her garden like mad; after that she for gets to water it at all. As soon as a married man gets a comfortable home built he begins to worry his wife by talk ing about selling it. Labor is noble: but of two ancestors people generally brag most on the one who enjoyed life on money he did not have to earn. INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES. All the strikes are either for more pay or less hours, and that means that they are the best possible evidence of prosperity. Terre Haute Tribune. Five hundred dollars of the stock of tha Farmers Bank of this city sold for eoo Wednesday 20 per cent, premium. Another prosperity item. Rockport journal. There will be no mansion for General Otis, but those who know anything of the work he has done must admit that he has earned distinction by the hardest kind of work. Marlon News. With a view to having both candidates for Governor from Anderson, a movement has been inaugurated there to make Capt. W. r: Myers the Democratic candidate for Governor. South Bend Times. Tom Watson he was one of Bryan's kite talis four years ago announces that he is politically dead and calls upon all peo ple to recognize that fact. He must think Americans don't know a political corpse when they sec one. There are a lot of peo ple going about, though, who are not as quick of perception as Tom Watson in learning that they are dead ones. Muncie News. The pending shipping bill aligns free traders and foreigners in opposition, and protectionist Americans In advocacy. That is why Congress regards the present ses sion as the one in which to pass that bill. Hammond Tribune. ringree is alleged to have said that the country's hope this fall is in Democracy. Plngree is also alleged to have said that he said nothing of the kind. About the saf est conclusion is that it makes little differ ence what Pingree said or what he is go ing to say. Lafayette Courier. The Independent Journals of Indiana are free to confess that the Republicans of the State have named a strong ticket and many of them are free to give It their un qualified support as they know full well that the Democrats cannot produce any thing that will be an improvement. South Bend Tribune. Hon. Charles H. Allen is now civil gov ernor of Porto Rico. His inaugural address is of a character to reassure the people In regard to the intentions of our govern ment and theirs. His plain talk to the island people, in which he said to them that their future lies in their own hands, is an earnest of what the government proposes that they are not to be hampered in their progress upward and onward under the beneficent protection of the American flag. Evansvllle Journal. CURRENT MAGAZINES. The circulation of the Ladles Home Journal is said to have reached WO.OjX). and passed it by 5,000005.000 copies being the aggregate circulation of the April issue. Whoever has occasion to refer to some authority for the precise dates and particu lars of recent events, and once tries the Current History, now a monthly publica tion, will look upon it as one of his best aids to prompt and accurate work. The current number contains an unusual num ber of illustrations. In his "Father and Mother A Mystery," in the May Harper's, Mr.Howells deals with the problem, death, with sincere feeling, yet with infiinite delicacy and reserve. He touches the depths of the suffering human heart. This production is one of the things which will rank high when the fame of aft er days has given this writer the place be longing to him. In a recent chapter of literary gossip in a New York paper the writer, speaking of Mr. Owen Wister, of Philadelphia, says his friends are somewhat disappointed that he is not fulfilling his early promise and doing more and better work. If they look for anything more delightfully clever or more artistic than his short story, "The Game and the Nation." in the current number of Harper's Magazine, their expectations of Mr. Wister must be very high. The special features of this number of the American Monthly Review of Reviews are a sketch of the Hon. Charles II. Allen, the first Governor of Porto Rico by Henry Macfarland; sketches of Generals Joubert, Cronje, Botha, and other military leaders of the Boers; an account of the methods used in fighting the plague at Honolulu and throughout the world; a study of propor tional representation in Belgium, where elections are to be held In the coming month under a new law, by Prof. John R. Comtuons; an intimate account of the home life of the late R. D. Blackmore, the author of "Lorna Doone," by R. W. Saw tell; and a forecast, of the great conven tions and congresses" to be held during the remaining months .of 1300. In his concluding chapter in the May Century on the national zoo at Washing ton, Ernest Seton-Thompson touches upon a fact in regard to the cire of animals which Is probably a new Idea to many of his readers. It Is the necessity of keep ing their minds occupied in order to keep them in good physical trim. Traveling ani mals, as in circuses he says, are healthier than those kept in.' ordinary menageries, because the change of scene gives them something to think-about and keeps them from torpid habits and mental.. morbid ness. The more highly organized the ani mal the more likely it' is to suffer from mental diseases, several varieties, such as camels often ending their days of captivi ty in complete lunacy. What applies to wild animals in cages is true of domestic animals kept too closely confined. It is the dog kept constantly chained which Is likely to go mad. The lesson that animals need care for their minds as well as their bodies is one that every owner of a pet should learn. The many people who must gain an ac quaintance with the Paris Exposition through the eyes of others can get no more artistic view than that presented in Scrib ner's Magazine by E." C. Pelxotto, through descriptive text and drawings. He pre sents some of the picturesque sides of the great show. The Cromwell history occu pies considerable space in this number. Among the illustrations are two spirited ones by F. C. Yohn. The problem of rapid transit in New York is discussed by Wil liam Barely Parsons, 'chief engineer of the Rapid Transit Commission. H. J. Whig ham, the newspaper correspondent, writes of "The Intermediate ' Stages of the Boer War." J. M. Barrle takes the fickle "Tom my" through a chapter in which his weak nesses bring him and his Grizel to grief. An article by Francis Lynde, descriptive of Cripple Creek, Is accompanied by a series of illustrations that Illustrate to an un usual degree. A study of Balzac by George McLean Harper, two short stories and several poems make up the number. Among the poems Is one by Edwin Markham, who is evidently given to emotion on looking at pictures. This time' he grows impassioned over Vedder's "Pleiades." Miss Wilkins also contributes some verses of moderate merit. Edward S. Martin's unes on "Work" are worth while. Following. Seton-Thompson's article In the Century is a paper on "Art In Modern Bridges." The illustrations give an idea as to what is being done in this line. Charles B. Hagadorn, of the Twenty-third United States Infantry, gives some inter esting Information about "Our Friend, the Sultan of Jolo." Clara Morris writes a word of warning to young actresses and to girls who wish to be actresses a timely word in these days of stage-struck young women. Some extracts from Thomas Bai ley Aldrich's notebook are of a kind to cause the reader to wish that he would open that book again to the public. A charmingly illustrated article Is Prof. Wil Ham Knight's account of Wordsworth's home "A Literary Shrine." The fine por trait that forms the frontispiece of the magazine belongs to this paper, i rederlck Keppel contributes a study of Henry Fau tln-Latour, with examples of his litho graphs on musical motives. There Is a pa per on "Parisian Pastimes," nn illustrated article entitled "The Maharajah's Water Carnival," and a paper on trusts. These papers named, together with an Installment of Morley's "Cromwell." an Installment of Weir Mitchell's "Dr. North and His Friends," a paper on the "All-American Route to the Klondike." and two or three short stories make up an excellent num ber. A writer In the Art Amateur indulges in this fling at the decadent authors, who, it seems, have even broken Into the art cata logues. He says: "If there is a rising American humorist, anxiously looking around for a new flsld to cultivate and make his own of. let him turn to the cata logues of art sales, particularly of those of pictures. The writers of these once use ful lists are now, for the most part, en thusiastic followers of Richard Crane and Stephen L. ;n!,'enpf ' f the names mixed and they seldom lose an opportunity of lntroiucuig tne 'purple patch. which is the badge of the decadent school. From a catalogue recently issued we glean the following: The horl on Is a dark slate, rlprel by a glare of white. agnlnst which the distant stretch of land shows a cold purple; 'Rain-swoiicn atmos phere, a lurid, purple red;' 'a wnite cuem ise shown above a purple bodice;' 'Alois ture has been-sucked from the earth; it lies heavy on the horizon In a oank of pur pie haze. But this writer knows of other colors than purple. He writes of 'shrill greens and 'blue rinsed clear of haze. He is not even entirely given up to color; he speaks of 'the equipoise of full and empty spaces;' he deals In sentiment, ana men tlons as the climax of a paragraph on the sadness of evening, that It Is the hour of the last meal of the day. In reading this one is affected much as the April shower in Monet's picture, as described by our cataloguer: 'Smile. and tears are inter mlnsled, and the smile prevails " WORK OF METHODISTS IMPORTAXT MATTCRS BEFORE THE GENERAL COXFEREXCE. f Report of the Committee on Organic Law of the Church Present ed by Bishop Warren. WILL BE DEBATED AT LENGTH LAY3IEX TO BE BARRED FROM AX XUAL COXFEREXCES. Meeting of the Committee on Chnrch Extension Marked by Excite ment and Confusion. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CHICAGO, 111., May 8. The Methodist Episcopal Conference spent most of the day in considering reports. Election of bish ops and other church officials will begin next Monday. The most Important report acted on to-day was one submitted by Bishop Warren, revising the organic law of the church. There was an Interesting debate. In which Dr. Buckley was with the minority. One effect of the revision is to exclude laymen from the annual confer ences. A resolution that elicited approval, yes terday, was one instructing the committee on episcopacy to report the least possible number of bishops sufficient for the work. This was received with loud hand-clapping. Later on a resolution requiring the com mittee on the book concern to consolidate several of the Advocates received a. like demonstration. These demonstrations, while showing the trend of thought, do not necessarily mean the adoption of the meas ures referred to, but, taken with develop ments at the first meeting of the episco pal committee in the afternoon, they are significant. A rule is that memorials may be handed to the secretary of the confer ence any time, during session or not, with out reading, if the committee to which it belongs Is properly designated. As a result of this the committee was surprised, in the afternoon, when the secretary of the committee opened his budget, to find how many and what memorials from annual and quarterly conferences had found their way to his table. Among them were sev eral that had not been read to the confer ence, relating to the tenure of office, whether it should be for life or for a lim ited period; some related to the districting of their work, so that Instead of the ' gen eral supertntendency" now provided for. each should have his diocese. One protested against their becoming professional lec turers, putting themselves into the hands of lecture bureaus, and one wanted them to be forbidden to lecture at all for pay. It is evident there is a general feeling of dis approval of the course of several bishops in this matter. Almost incredible stories are told of the severe exaction öf rthe stip ulated price of a lecture when, the receipts ran Deiow the contract price, and it will not surprise me If some form of disapproval. if not censure, pass the General Confer ence. COLORED BISHOP QUESTION. A very adroit scheme was proposed for settling the colored bishop question, which has the merit of favoring the election of a colored bishop and yet relieving the white conferences from being presided over by him. It proposes to do away with mission ary bishops, as such, giving every bishop equal rank and equal authority, but pro viding that any one of them may be as signed for a term of years to any foreign field or to any nationality or race at home. This will allow a German bishop to be elected, and to him may be assigned the German conferences; a colored man may be elected, and to him may be assigned the colored conferences, and a Chinese bishop may be assigned the China conferences, and so on. Like our general laws in Indi ana are made to apply to a single case, so this Is a general law, applicable to India or Africa, but really intended to meet the negro emergency. Whether this will fully meet xne wisnes or tne colored brother re mains to be seen. Some colored DeoDle nro- test against navmg to send their children to colored schools, taught by colored teachers, while colored teachers are con fined to colored schools alone. It has been the day dream of some colored people that some day a colored bishop will preside over a white conference, and until this adroit scneme was hatched that seemed to be al most in sight. While nearly all enjov Dr. Bucklev's wit and humor, as well as his wisdom, for he Is wise in most of his suggestions, yet ev erybody enjoys his discomfiture occasion ally. The editor of the Daily Advocate, not himself a delegate to the General Confer ence, has begun to give editorial opinions on questions unaer aiscusslon in the con ference, and correspondents hav ing the paper for presenting this or that side of the pending question. This Is hardly luir uiuess me paper was large enough to allow all an equal chance. To head them off Dr. Buckley offered a resolut inn for bidding such use of the paper and he gave buvii Bwu reasons ior it mat the motion seemed likely to pass without dissent, when one brother got the floor to say that If everybody could bo as readilv- wrmmiT by the chair as Dr. Buckley and could get as good an opportunity to speak on every question, there would be no neceslty of resorting to the Advocate. What he said and the way he said it turned the laugh on T. T ...1.1... J M w ur. uucmey, anu, ior a moment, pande monium was loose. Dr. Bueklv trw-ilr it all good naturedly and his resolution wa auopicu. TAH . REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. Method of Rallotln Chansed-Laymen Barred from Annual Conference. CHICAGO, May 8. The chief matter of importance before the General Conference to-day was the report of the commission on the organic law of the church. This commission was appointed by the General Conference In 1S96 and was made up of two bishops, six ministers and three laymen, among whom were the leading constltu tional authorities In the church. It has had several protracted sessions, in which, ac cording to its secretary, the Rev. C. W. Smith, of Pittsburg, even' question bearing on the subject wa3 submitted to the most careful scrutiny. The real work of the commission was to decide on what is the organic law of the church or. In other words, what Is the con stitutlon. It seems strange that a great church could have permitted almost a-cen tury to pass without deciding so vital a question. But it should be remembered that the Methodist Episcopal Church was organized under the direct authority of John Wesley, who gave it its doctrines and rules. To these have been added from time to time such legislation as seemed to be needed to interpret and carry out their spirit. The constitution has therefore been a crowing one whose limits have never been clearly defined. The movement for determining precisely what these limits aro becan in ISfcS. The report names as the organic law of the church the articles of religion, the general rules as they appeared in the Dis cipline in 180S and ail that legislation which appears under the head of "The General Conference." It Is the opinion of Bishop Merrill, the oldest constitutional authority In the church, that this report is the most important matter which will come before the General Conference at this session. Only the first paragraphs of the report were considered by the conference to-day. One of these served to show the sentiment relative to lay representation In the annual conference. It is clear that this wm re re sisted by the ministry. The report of the special committee,, con firming the action of the General Confer ence in granting equal lay and ministerial representation at all General Conferences, but. except under special provision, ex cluding laymen from all Annual Confer ences, was adopted after a hot debate. Bishop Warren presented the report of the committee which was appointed four years ago to revise the organic law of the church. Important changes were also made In the method of balloting on certain ques tions. The main provisions were as follows: "The ministerial and lay delegates shall deliberate together as one body. They will also vote together as one body, with the following exceptions: On every question which proposes a change in the discipline they shall vote separately. They shall vote separately on any other question when re quested by one-third of either order of del egates present and voting. In all cases of separate voting it shall require the concur rence of the two orders to adopt the pro posed measure, excepi that for the change of the constitution a vote of two-thirds of the General Conference should be suffi cient." Article II, which refers to the adoption of constitutional amendments, was altered to read as follows: "The concurrent recom mendation of two-thirds of all the mem bers of the several annual conferences present and voting and of two-thirds of all the members of the lay electoral confer ences present and voting shall suffice to authorize the next ensuing General Con ference, bv a two-thirds vote, to-alter or amend any of the provisions of this con stltutlon except Section 1. Article 10; and also, whenever such alteration or amend ment shall have been first recommenaea oy the General Conference by a two-thirds vote, then so soon as two-thirds of all the members of the several annual conferences present and voting and two-thirds or an the members of the lay electoral confer ences present and voting shall have con curred therein, such alteration or altera tions shall take effect, and the result of the vote shall be announced by the general superintendents." Dr. Charles J. Little, of the Garrett Bib lical Institute, explained that the result would be to exclude lavmen from the an nual conferences, except by a three-fourths vote of the ministers and a two-thirds vote of the General Conference. Another important . change adopted pro vides that traveling preachers shall be or ganized by the General Conferences into annual conferences, the sessions of which they are required to attend. In opposition to the exclusion of the lay men from annual conferences, speeches were made by Dr. J. M. Buckley and Dr. A. B. Lee. A motion to reconsider was lost by a large majority. It was formally decided that the begin ning of elections be made the order of the day for May 14, and that they be taken up In the same order as at the previous con ference bishops first, editors second and so on down to the minor officials. It was also resolved to adjourn sine die on Tues day, May 29. The committee on book concern Degan Its business in earnest to-day. Chairman Shaw announced the personnel of five sub committees to which were referred the various memorials and petitions submitted by the General Conference. The subcom mittee which will consider the important question of consolidating several of the Christian Advocates in the Interest or economy is known as the committee on periodicals and is composed of the follow ing: James N. Gamble, A. WV Harris, w. II. Shirm, C. C. Wilbur, W. W. Evans, W. H. Thomas, H. H. Shier. J. F. Merry. S. W. Truesdale. H. E. Warner, J. O. Cun ningham; R. E. Gillum. II. G. Tlch and J. A. Wallace. The other subcommittees named were on book depositories, book agents, episcopal fund, salaries and mis cellaneous. There will be a bitter fight on Thursday when the committee on Sunday School Union and Tract Society takes up for con sideration the proposal to elect for that organization a General Conference corre sponding secretary and an editor for its periodicals. The opposition developed this afternoon at the. committee's meeting. In an acrid speech Judge Mansfield, of Ohio, charged the representatives of the union with using "Ingenious arguments" in sup port of their measure which, he said, had for its object mainly the increased per quisites allowed to the corresponding sec retaries appointed by the General Con ference. Judge Mansfield also rebuked Chairman H. M. Hamlll for making a speech in favor of the memorial after the matter had been passed over for considera tion on Thursday. Exciting scenes marked the meeting of the committee on church extension this afternoon. The occasion for the trouble was the presentation of a report by Dr. J. M. King from the subcommittee appointed lest Saturday from members of the mis sionary, church extension and the freed men's aid committees to for- '!-it a rlan for the consideration of thtf. benevolent societies. Dr. King stated that It was not a complete report, but that he desired to submit the recommendations to the full committee for approval. The report on- pesed the immediate union of the societies mentioned because of the legal complica tions likely to arise in settling the oues- tions of property right and endowments. As a way out of the difficulty the report recommended that a special commission composed of three bishops, six ministers and six laymen be appointed by the Gen eral Conference to decide on a plan for uniting the organizations and report to the next General Conference. In discussing the report Dr. King said: The sentiment of the committee of fifteen is undoubtedly In favor of consolidating the Freedmen's Aid Society with the home department of the Missionary Society. The memoers are, nowever, opposed to unit ing these societies with the church ex tension society at this time." The utterance of this opinion was the signal for an outburst of disapproval from members of the committee. A dozen dele gates Jumped to their feet and shouted for recognition. They wanted to discuss the report but were ruled out of order as Dr. King declined to yield the floor. The dele gates made so much noise that Dr. King was finally compelled to take his seat. A score of members were on their feet at once. Delegate Bartholomew, of the New England conference, was the first to catch the eye of the chairman. "This committee has the right to discuss anything that is referred to it by the Gen eral Conference," shouted the speaker ex citedly. "We won't be gagged by this com mittee of five." Dr. King rose and tried to explain that the subcommittee had been appointed by the general committee and was responsible to that body alone, but he could not be heard. Delegate Whitlock moved that the report of the subcommittee be approved and the motion was put through under the gavel. This was the signal for a hostile demon stration on the part of a majority of those present. During the disorder which followed some body moved a reconsideration of the vote and it was carried. The committee ad journed amid great confusion, while a score of members were on their feet shouting for recognlttion. The matter will be referred to the General Conference to-morrow for adjudication. A. M. E. COXFEREXCE. Color Line Drought to Attention of DcIcRrnteM. but Xo Action Taken. COLUMBUS, O., May 8. The quadrennial General A. M. E. Conference got down to business to-day. The devotional exercises were conducted by Rev. R. F. Hurley, of Detroit, after which RIshop Turner made an announcement of historical importance. showing the church to have been founded Sept. 15, 1796, instead of 1S16, as commonly supposed. The color line was brought up by reports of discrimination In local restaurants and barber shops and an effort was made to adopt resolutions, but the matter was finally smoothed over without action being taken. An attempt to take up the revision of the Discipline was unsuccessful, owing to the fact that no committee had been ap pointed on the subject. Committees on episcopacy, finance and boundaries were appointed, appointment of the latter being taken out or tne nanas or tne oisnops. t The Indiana Idea. Arkansas Gazette. Vnw that rural mall dellverv ha nrnvsd V w VI V a success It Is proposed to name the coun try roads. The farmers In Indiana have nlrmdv exnresscd their wlllinenevs fn Jiarno VaIp f rmv nnl rwst tb rt n m o a In pintntii. ous places at the roadside near their homes. a .S . M 9 a ine pian is a guou one ana snouia oe adopted everywhere. The Beat Man Possible. San Francisco Chronicle. So long as a Democrat is sure to be elected a United States senator from Ala bama, we are glad to note that John T. Morgan will probably be the man. He is one of the few men In recent times who could be a statesman and a Democrat at the tame time. Clark eeklnir Vindication. Pittsburg News. Mr. Clark is now sounding the people of Montana on their lowest casn rates tor a "vindication." VICTORY FOR LOBBY DAIRY INTERESTS WIN OVER TJIC OLEOM AR GAR I X E IXDISTIIY. House Reqneitt Secretary Gaiee to Make Public the Material L'aed ( In Imitation Batter. LOBBYISTS SAID TO BE BOLD TIIREATEXED MEMBERS WITH DE FEAT AT POLLS THIS FALL. Effort by One Industry to Crash An . other Proceedings of the Sen- . ate The Xaval Bill. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON. May S.-At the behest of a strong and aggressive lobby In the inter est of the dairymen, the House to-day rebuffed the ways and means committee and adopted a resolution requiring the secretary of the treasury to reveal the processes and Ingredients used in the manu facture of oleomargarine, this information to come from reports of manufacturers of oleomargarine, as made to the commission er of Internal revenue. According to the majority report of the ways and means committee and the arguments of leading lawyers on the floor, the secretary of the treasury is debarred by law from making public this information, which was given the department in Confidence, whether Secretary! Gage will yield to the demands of" the House or seek refuge In the law and refuse to give up the trade secrets confidently revealed to the department, re mains to be seen. ; Washington has never seen a more of fensive lobby than that which Is here this session In the interest of the organizations of dairymen. Representatives of the lobby have openly bulldosed congressmen, and in circulars, letters and published inter views threatened those who opposed them with defeat in conventions and at the polls. The fight is very clearly recognized as one between two great Interests arrayed in trade competition, the one seeking legisla tive assistance In? crushing the other to death. The total annual production of butter is approximately l.WO.OOO.OOO pounds, and the production of oleomargarine about 85.000.000 pounds. The larger, interest Is seeking to destroy the lesser one and from the test vote in the House to-day, it seems to be in a fair way to succeed If given time enough. A snap meeting of the House committee on agriculture isto be held to-morrow and it Is on the programme to attempt to tako the Grout bill. Imposing a 10 cent tax on oleomargarine, from the sub-committee having it in charge, and report it to the House for immediate action. If this plan succeeds, the House will undoubtedly pass the bill. It cannot go through the Senate at this session, but may at the next. A curious thing in connection with this snap meeting of the agricultural committee scheduled for to-morrow is that it was vir tually called by the head lobbyist of the dairymen. Such a piece of brazen lmpu "dence was never witnessed before in Wash ington. It is the talk of the CapltoL The resolution passed by the House to-day follows: "Resolved. That the secretary of the treasury be and he is hereby requested t? furnish the House of Representatives in formation concerning the amount and char acter of the material used in the manu facture of oleomargarine by the several manufacturers, as shown by the monthly duplicates of pages 1 and 2 of form 216. for the fiscal year ending June CO, ISitt, also for the month of December of the same year as returned by the various manuiaeturers of oleomargarine throughout the Lnitea States for the above periods." ' Mr. Dalzell, In behalf of the way? and means committee, moved that the resolu tion be laid on the table. Mr. Tawney ana Mr. nniHvor siened a. minority renort in fa vor of the adoption of the resolution. The House, by a vote or 82 to 13C. rerusea to lay the resolution on the table. Mr. Tawney then moved the adoption of the resolution and It was adopted without division. The House devoted most or to-aay to con sideration of private bills recommended from the committee on claims, and ten bills were passed. The most important was one to remit the penalties imposed by the gov ernment on the Union Iron Works of San Francisco, the builders of the monitor Mon tprev. for her failure to make contract speed. Other bills favorably acted upon were: To pay tne uenerai aianne insu rance Company of Dresden J1.S31 for cou non of United States bonds lost on the Cunard steamer Oregon, sunk at sea March 14, 18S6; to pay E. L. Field, or Gray. Ale.. $3.700; to pay John M. Martin, of Ocala, Fla.. 1212: to nav M. H. Peoperell. of Con cordia, Kan., 51.600; to pay Judgments against Capt. John liates ana ueui. j. A. Yeckley, amounting to CGOO; to pay UTarv A. Sweat, widow of the late Amer ican minister to Japan, $12,000: to pay the employes of W. N. Jacobs, oi iancasicr. Pa., whose tobacco factory was seized, the salaries due them, and to pay Robert A. Eagan. $5,000. Subsequently a series of bills were passed to reimburse collectors of internal reve nue for the value of adhesive stamps charged to them, but lost In the confisca tion following the passage of the act of June 13, 1SS8. NAVAL BILL, CONSIDERED. Honse Proposition Concerning Xaval Cnilets Stricken Out. WASHINGTON. May S.The Senate to day conclude-! consideration of the naval appropriation bill with the exception of that section relating to armor and arma ment. This went over 'until to-morrow, when it will be considered in secret legisla tive session. The debate on the naval bill was practically confined to the paragraph relating to the commissioning of naval cadets. The committee amendment strik ing out the proposition in the House bill which sought to commission the cadets at the expiration of the four years tern at the Naval Academy, abolishing the pre liminary two years at sea, was carried after a warm debate. The vote follows: Yeas Allison, Bard. Rate. Berry, nar rows. Chandler, Cockrell, Davis. Deptw, Frj-e. Gallinger, Hale, Ilanna, Hansbrough. Hawley, Hoar, Jones of Arkansas. Jones of Nevada, Kean. Lodge, McRrlde, McCum ber. McEnery, Martin. Nelson, Penrose. Perkins. Piatt of Connecticut. Prltchard. Rawlins, Itoss, Sewell, Shoup, Simon. Spooner. Teller, Thurston. Tillman. Vest. Wellington 40. Nays Caffery, Clay, Deboe, Fairbanks, Foraker, Ktnney, Kyle. Money, Morgan, Tettus. Stewart. Turley 12. When the Senate met to-day a bill, re ported by Mr. Alllon from the finance com mittee to rolmburso certain revenue collec tors for Internal revenue stamps charsed, against them, but not accounted for, aggre gating in amount ti.573. was passed. Among the districts and amounts are the follow Ing: Terre Haute, Ind., $2; Rurlington. Ia.. t2.)0; St. Paul. Minn.. $r0: CMllicothe. .. 11.048; Cleveland. O.. S50: Pittfeburg. Ua., $370; Birmingham, Ala., JlOu. Rurglnrs Wreck Bank Building. COLUMBUS. O.. May S. Six men blew open the safe of the Farmers Bank, at Sunbury, twenty miles north of hero at 3 a. m.. and in doing so blew out the entire rear wall of the building. The safe as well as the building was wrecked, but the nol4 of the explosion aroused the people and tho robbers ried empty-hamied, They hnd three horses and carriages to enable thtni to escape. A poaae is In pursuit.