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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL.
ESTABLISHED 1823.
WHEN INDICATIONS.
Friday —Light rains , followed
hy slightly colder , fair weather.
“The Tale of the Shirt” is what Hood first
named his famous poem, “The Song of the
fihirt.” That, being poetry, he could call it
a “song.” This, being prose, must be called
a “tale.” Hearken to it:
Our Unlaundered Shirt has a patent back,
doubled in one piece; therefore it opens out
with the grain of the goods; hence it cannot
“R. I. P.” The bosom is 2100 linen, rein
forced. The cuffs and bands are linen. The
button-holes are hand-worked. The body is
Utica Nonpareil muslin. The sleeves are in
solid pieces. No scraps anywhere—“straight
goods” throughout. You can have this Shirt
for a dollar! It's worth twice the price. You
can't get it elsewhere in this market at any
price. It’s the only one of its kind in this
market, and we’ve got it! We have Shirts
also from 50 cents up; but even we have none
to equal this dollar Unlaundered Shirt.
Is not thia a wonderful tale of a Shirt?
THE ~WHEN
Hi EE PANTS
SALE
AT THE
MODEL
Many lines of Knee Pants
belonging to Suits Pants
worth $2 and many of them
$2.50 —have been thrown out
and marked sl, $1.25 and
$1.50. Os course we have full
lines at 75c, 50c and 25c.
MODEL
DONEY’S
Hoosier Poet
CIGAR.
YIGNAUX AND SCHAEFER.
Bj Careful Playing the Frenchman Manages
to Pile Up 1,753 Againßt Schaefer’s 1,800.
New York, Jan. 28. — The third night’s play
in the billiard match between Maurice Vignaux
and Jacob Schaefer took place to-night. In the
first two nights Schaefer made a total of 1,200
and Vignaux 833. Cosmopolitan Hall was again
filled with an immense audienoe, representing
the wealth, culturo and intelligence of New
York. Many ladies, also, were present.
Gossip was much indulged in on the ultimate
results of the contest, and notwith
standing the lead obtained by Schaefer, very
many were inclined to believe that the chances
of Vignaux were unimpaired. At Br. m. Vig
n&ux entered the room. He seemed cheerful
and satisfied. Two minutes later Schaefer came
In, and at 8:15 p. m., Mr, McCreary, the referee,
made his appearance. Schaefer led off with a
a duck egg. Vignaux made 32, while Madame
Vignaux smiled approvingly from her seat in
the galiery. Then deftly, and with great
tenderness of touch, Schaefer played all the
billiards he was worth, including two magnifi
cent masse shots, for a run of 24, slipping up on a
miscue on a draw shot. Then Vignaux manipu
lated the balls so successfully that 50 points
were added to his score. Then Schaefer made
35 and missed on an apparently easy shot. Vig
naux made 4 and Schaefer nothing. Then Vig
naux, by a number of beautifully-made cushion
and kiss snots, made by playing alternately on
the red and the white ball and the cushion,keeping
without the balk line, made 65. The score at the
end of the eigth inning stood: Vignaux 171,
Schaefer. 134. In the eleventh inning, Vignaux
made the shot of the match thus far. The red
nnd the white balls stood in a line with the SDot
ball (Vignaux), which rested upon the upper
Jest-hand corner of the table. The other two
balls were opposite the right-hand rail. Vignaux
played on the white ball on the front, ran down
to the lower cushion, and twisted upwards and
backwards to the red ball on the right-hand
side. Another shot, “englished” against the cush
ion. made a complete 100 points. He finally retired,
having made 126, At the end of the fourteenth
innings the strings showed that Schaefer had
made 207, and Vignaux 346. From that point
Schaefer played a rather tame game. With a
K>urt of effective work in the twenty-eighth t
ning he made 100, and in the thirtieth, 78. Vg
naux, on the other hand, after putting together
93 in his fifteenth inning, made no very large
runs, nor did he make many small ones. The
mult was that, with a steady succession of
ioable figures, be managed to amass 918 buttons
when Schaefer reached 600, and the night’s play
snded, being in the Frenchman’s favor. The to
i tala for the three nights now stand: Schaefer,
I,Boo*, Vignaux, 1,753. The following is to-night’s
Korei
Schaefer—O. 24, 35, 0, O, 0, O, 15. 1, 10. 1,0. 3,
A9, 6. 18, O. 3. O, 73, 5,1, 0, O, 3,3 3. 100, 10, 2,
78. 13, 5. 10, 2. 1,1, 0. 19. 1-Total, COO.
Vignaux—32. 50, 4, 65, 8,0, 0, 12, 8. 0, 126, 5,
0, 36, 99. 28, 38. 0.43, 5, 45. 0, 44, 56, 2, 30, 0,
10, 19, 61. 2, 42, 52, 0, 6. 2. 0. B—Total, 018.
Time of game, four hours. Schaefer’s average,
15 15-30. Vignaux's average, 24 6-38.
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The Mallory Boycott Renewed.
Galveston, Tex., Jan. 28.—The executive
committee of the Knights of Labor has issued
An order again, boycotting the Mallory Steam
ship Company. The first boycott was in No
vember last. The difference originally arose
K’om the company employing colored help in
'•faite. The charge is now made that
the Mallory company has violated the terms of
ijll|] A further loss to
BISMARCK AND THE POLES.
The Great Chancellor’s Arbitrary Man
ner of Dealing with Dad Citizens.
Lands of Polish Prussians To Be Pnrchased
and Their o%neraExpeiled the Country-
Recipe for Making Good Citizens.
The Work of Expulsion Will Be Carried
Out, Even if the Reichstag Objects.
Speculation and Gossip Concerning the En
glish Cabinet Crisis—The Greeks Sud
denly Lose Their Appetite for War.
EXPULSION OF THE POLES.
Why They Were Expelled from Prussia—A
Citizen’s Duty to the State.
Berlin, Jan. 28.— Prince Bismarck to day, in
debate in the Prussian Landtag, on the expul
sion of Poles from Germany, made a remarka
ble speech, occupying two hours in its delivery.
He eaid the primary cause of the government’s
action was the disloyalty of the Poles to the
German crown. “They were,” he said, “con
stantly engaged in intrigues against the govern
ment, and had made themselves a steady annoy
ance to Prussia. By acting as accomplices of
the opposition in the Germany Parliament they
created a majority against the government, and
the crown could do nothing less than
either deny the demands of such majority or
destroy the evil element which made the ma
jority possible.” The Polish agitation in Ger
many, Bismarck said, always appeared
to him an element of danger, and
had compelled him to keep watch upon
Rusria. The Poles had been constantly and
not always unsuccessfully endeavoring to set
foreign states against Prussia. “Hence,” con
tinued the Chancellor, “we have determined to
buy out all real estate owned by Polish nobles
in Prussian Poland, and to place a German
colony on the lands hitherto occupied hy the
expelled people. In order to make this coloniza
tion inure permanently to the benefit of the
empire, these colonists will be prohibited from
marrying Poles. The cost of this undertaking
will be about 300,000,000 marks ($05,000,000),
but the state will bear no more than 10 per
centum of this loss, which is made necessary by
the exigency of the case in buying out an alien
class and reselling to Germans, while the gain
to the empire will be immeasurable.”
“The government,” said the Chancellor, with
great animation, “will never concede the re
storation of Poland, nor a hair’s breadth in
that direction. The Poles played a suspicions
part in the Kulturkampf. Whosoever refuses
to help protect and maintain the state is not
entitled to claim anything from the state. As
for mp, I am ready to serve* my country,
although it cost me my head and my honor. If
anybody dares attack Prussia’s frontiers, I shall
say, like Gladstone, ‘Hands off.'”
Reference to the insinuation that the govern
ment’s religious prejudices had great influence
in its treatment of the Poles, Bismarck said: “Re
ligion is in no wise connected with the expul
sions. Asa policy of kindness failed, it became
necessary to reduce the Polish element in Ger
many and to German element. This
is the real reason for the expulsions, and gov
ernment has determined to persist in this work,
despite the opposition of the Reichstag. In con
clusion, I will say that before allowing the fath
erland to be endangered, I would counsel the
Emperor to make the federal government inde
pendent of obstructionist tactics in the Reichs
tag, so far as the constitution and laws of Ger
many would permit, for I would hold any Minis
ter to be a coward who should hesitate to stake
everything to save his fatherland from danger.”
Prince Bismarck warned the Reichstag that
its continued opposition, hy showing a want of
unanimity, would provoßo a European coalition
against Germany.
The Chancellor’s speech is the principal topic
of conversation in the capital to-night. It i3
generally conceded that the speech is equally
capable of being interpreted to foreshadow
either a dissolution of the Reichstag or a coup
d’etat
The occasion of Prince Bismarck’s speech was
the discussion of the resolution, introduced on
Saturday last expressing satisfaction at the
passage in the speech from the throne promising
measures for the protection of German interests
in eastern Prussia. Herr Achenbach moved that
the resolution he adopted, and the motion was
supported by Herr Weihr.
Dr. Windthom opposed the motion.
After Prince Bismarck's speech, the discussion
was adjourned until to-morrow.
THE ENGLISH CRISIS.
Resignation of the Ministry Announced
Probabilities as to the Fnture.
London, Jan. 28. —Both Mr. Gladstone and
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach were given ovations as
they entered the House of Commons this after
noon. Sir Michael stated that, in consequence
of Tuesday’s vote in the House being adverse to
the government, the Cabinet had resigned, and
the House thereupon adjourned until Monday.
Lord Salisbury dined with the Queen this
evening. He will return to London to-morrow
morning. Mr. Gladstone will probably then bo
summoned to form a Cabinet. Lord Hartington
refuses to co operate with Mr. Gladstone.
It is reported in the lobby of the House of
Commons, this evening, that the Queen is sound
ing Lord Hartington as to his willingness to un
dertake the task of forming a coalition Ministry.
The Times urges, in view of the general oppo
sition to permitting Lord Granville to resume
the office of Minister for*Foreign Affairs, that he
would make an excellent President of the Coun
cil and leader in the House of Lords. The
Times also points out Lord Hartington’s splen
did chances to construct a national party of the
Whigs and Conservatives opposed to home rule.
“The materials for the formation of such a party
are abundant,” says the Times, “and the emer
gency requires only a leader of sagacity and
courage.”
The Stnndard this morning says: “The Queen
will unquestionably summon Mr. Gladstone to
form a Cabinet IF LoTcrErartingtfin refuses to
join, the country may expect a Succession'S!
short governments until means have been found
to rearrange the parties upon a truly national
basis.”
The Post says: “Lord Hartington could
reekon, in all matters of foreign, Irish and do
mestic policies, upon the support of at least
twenty-five Conservatives. We taye thrown
INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY MORNING-, JANUARY 29, 1886.'
away the chance of the Liberals helping us.
We must now help the Liberals. Upon one
point sound politicians ought to agree—the ne
cessity of defeating the Radicals and Irish.”
The Telegraph says the parliamentary sup
porters of Mr. Parnell state that he will not ac
cept a Cabinet office.
Lord Carnarvon, ex-Viceroy of Ireland, left
Dublin Castle to-day, accompanied by his wife,
for their home in England. The retiring Viceroy
was followed to the railway by enormous crowds,
and his route all the way to Kingstown, where
he took the ferry for Holyhead, was lined with
people anxions to witness his departure. He
was cheered almost continually from the time he
left Dublin Castle until he departed from the
Irish coast, and the enthusiasm of the populace
was phenomenal. _
Mr. Gladstone’s Irish Programme.
London Cable Special.
Mr. Gladstone is willing to assume office, but
he is also resolved that he will not do so unless
he is able to surround himself with colleagues
who are thoroughly in harmony with his pro
gramme. This programme will include provis
ions for the local self-government of Ireland and
a complete agraerian reform, not only for Ire
land but for England and Scotland as well. If,
on the unfolding of his plans, he can obtain
pledges of support from the Parnellites and the
great bulk of the Liberals, Mr. Gladstone will
once more accept the leadership with the desire
of his heart—the pacification of Ireland —almost
within his grasp.
A BRUTAL OFFICIAL.
Prisoners’ Agonies Prolonged In Order to
Take Their Photographs.
London, Jan. 28. —The provost marshal at
Mandalay has had lately to superintend the exe
cution of numbers of Burmese Dacoits. Not
content with having them shot down in an
ordinary business fashion the provost marshal,
who has a morbid taste for amateur photography,
has on several occasions added unspeakable tor
ture to his victims’ death-pangs by delaying the
interval between orders to “present” and “fire”
long enough to allow him to take two or three
negatives with the camera he carries about with
him. He pleads scientific interest as an excuse
for his barbarity, but so far he has nothing even
scientific to show in self defense, for, being a
poor hand at photography, his attempts to fix
the horror and anguish of violent death on his
negatives have been abortive. The provost
marshal’s methods were so leisurely that the ab
sence of results is surprising. Having had the
prisoners drawr. up in line against the wall, ho
would station the firing platoon before
them and get the camera into position and
calmly prepare his plates. The officer command
ing the soldiers was instructed not to give the
fatal signal till the plate was exposed. Thus the
mo6t interesting negatives were obtained at the
very moment of the prisoner’s death agony. On
one occasion he varied his scientific sports by ex
torting evidence against the Burmese Minister
from a native named Woognet by threatening
him with execution. Five Dacoits had been
shot in Woognet’s presence. He himself was
then placed against the wall. The platoon was
ordered to level their guns at him, and he was
thus cowed into making the desired statements,
after the fashion which prevailed in the Tower
of London in the sixteenth century. The Brit
ish commissioner declined to act on such evi
dence. The provost marshal's brutality so ex
exasperated the English and native spectators
that it was only the presence of troops which
prevented the attempt to lynch him in deference
to the indignant protests. A rigid inquiry has
been ordered, and this modern inquisitor will
take no more negatives. The new government
will undoubtedly rigidly inquire into the facts.
It hi no wonder the Times correspondent was
ordered away from camp.
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.
Three Aeronauts Browned—A Balloon Car
ried Out to Sea in a Gal©.,
Brest, Jan. 29.—1 tis now believed certain
that the balloon Le Fugitif has been destroyed
in a recent gale, and that three aeronauts —Aime
Girod, a musical composer; Jules Renaud, the
baritone, once attached to a theater in New
York, and Rubois Carronl—have perished. Le
Fugitif was last seen on Saturday, circling over
Brest, in a eale of wind. The aeronauts made
frantic efforts to land, and they threw overboard
all the objects in the car—carpet-bags, overcoats,
rugs, shoes, watches and instruments. Just as
the balloon descended, nearly fifty yards from
the ground, a sudden gust whisked it seaward
and out of sight. A Russian steamer, just ar
rived, reports that on Sunday, six miles off Brest,
it passed a wrecked balloon and car answering
exactly to the description of Le Fugitif. Scarcely
any hope remains that the aeronauts have not
perished.
Greece Will Not Go to War.
London, Jan. 28.—Telegrams received this
afternoon from Athens state that the warlike
views of the Greek Cabinet have suddenly
changed. The dispatches add that yesterday
evening the Hellenic Ministers issued a declara
tion that “Greece would comply with the wishes
of Europe.” *
A dispatch to the Times from Constantinople
says the rumor is current there that a skirmish
between Greeks and Turks has taken place at
Glassova, on the frontier of Epirus.
The Vienna Political Correspondence says that
a European fleet will assemble in Suda bay,
to-morrow or Saturday, numbering about twenty
men-of war, and that the commanders have re
ceived requisite instructions for their guidance.
Minister McLane Presides at a Banquet.
Paris, Jan. 28.—Mr. McLane, the United
States minister, presided this evening at a ban
quet given by students. In a speech he said he
was grateful for the honor conferred upon him.
He eulogized the French system of education,
characterizes it as enlightening, enuobling and
liberal, and said for that reason many Amer
icans avail themselves of the educational ad
vantages offered by France. “Scientific re
nown,” he said, “is far superior to military
glory. When I return to America, I shall still
find touches of French in the traditions of honor,
chivalry, courage and devotion left behind by
the Frenchmen whose strong arms sealed Amer
ican independence.”
De Lesseps OfT for Panama.
London, Jan. 28.—Tho De Lesseps party in
cludes the unusual adjunct of a doctor. When
leaving Paris M. De Lesseps said: “I will be
back in sixty days. I cannot die before opening
the canal.” A large concourse witnessed the dis
tinguished engineer's departure. There was
much enthusiasm, the crowd cheering and shout
ing "Vive De Lessens.” The party will embark
at Southampton to day.
Cable Notes.
The Archbishop of Cincinnati has started for
America.
Dr. Dinder, Dean of Konigsberg. has been ap
pointed Archbishop of Posen.
The 2,000 iron-workers of Decozeville, France,
who, while on a strike for higher wages]
trampled the manager of the works to death]
have returned to work at the old rate of wages.
Rev. Dr. Brister lodffcted.
Nyack, N. Y., Jan. 28. —The Rockland county
grand jury to-day presented two indictments
against Rev. Dr. Brister, of Spring Valley Meth
odist Church, for indecent assault upon Ida
Downs. The accused pastor was arraigned and
pleaded not guilty. He gave bonds in“s2,ooo to
answer for trial at the next term of court,
A Decision Involving 85,000,000.
San Francisco, Jan. 28. —The State Supreme
Court rendered a decision to-day in favor of the
g lain tiffs in the case of the city and county of
tan Francisco against Hill ad ay. The action in-
YolYcd the title to Lafryetts aad also, w-
directly, the title to a vast amount of property
claimed by the city under the Pueblo grant. The
entire value of the property which, by this de
cision. will revert to the city, is about $5,000,000.
Much of it is covered with houses and other im
provements made as long ago as thirty years by
squatters. The case has oeen in court almost
since San Francisco became a city.
THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN CRAWFORD.
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The War Department Furnishes Details of
the Unfortunate Collision iu Mexico.
Washington, Jan. 28.—The War Department
to-day received official information from General
Crook of the death of Capt Emmett Crawford,
Third Cavalry, at the hands of Mexicans in Mex
ico, and the probable surrender of the renegade
Apaches. An accompanying report from Lieut.
Maus, First Infantry, who was next in command
to Captain Crawford, gives details of the affair,
from which it appears that Captain Crawford’s
command of Indian scouts located the camp of
the hostiles on the night of the 10th instant, at a
point about fifty miles southwest of Narcori,
Mexico, and one mile north of Arras river, being
about two hundred miles from the border-line.
They surrounded the camp and quietly
awaited the break of day. In the mean
time the braying of the burros alarmed
the honiles. Two of them made their
appearance, and were fired upon by the scouts,
and o general fight ensued. Finally the Indians
retreatod to the rocks and left all their effects in
the hands of the scouts. A running fight was
kept ud for two or three hours, when Captain
Crawford’s command was surprised by a volley
of bullets firod in their midst from an unex
pected quarter. At first it was supposed that
the shots came from Captain Davis’s command,
which was also after the hostiles in that vicinity.
Captain Crawford signaled for bis men to stop
firing, and it was then discovered that the attack
ing party was composed of Mexicans, who evi
dently took Captain Crawford’s men for the hos
tiles. Lieutenant Maus started out to consult
with the Mexicans, when firing began in another
part of the line. He was about to take steps
to stop it, when, happening to look
back, he saw Captain Crawford lying on
his back with a bullet-hole through his
head. A parley bet ween the two forces followed,
and it was found that Captain Crawford was
mortally wounded, and a guide named Horne
and five scouts were also wounded. On the side
of the Mexicans, the commanding officer and
five other men were killed and four wounded.
The entire day was consumed in settling affairs.
The following day two sauaws from the hostiles,
who had escaped, carao to Lieutenant Maus t.o
ask for terms He refused to talk with them,
and also refused to talk with two bucks who fol
lowed soon after. Geronimo, the hea4 chief,
and Nrttc'uese, another chief, then appeared to
make terms. They said they wer6 utterly dis
couraged and were tired of being hunted from
rock to rock, as they had been for the past two
months. Lieutenant Maus would consent to
nothing but an unconditional surrender. The
chiefs then agreed to meet General Crook at a
point on the line between Mexico and
the United States. They sent to the
American camp, as hostages, Chief Nana and
another chief, Geronimo’s wife and child and
seven squaws. The hostiles are now on their
way to the place of meeting with General Crook,
and expect to reach there by the 4th prox. The
party numbers twenty-two bucks, and is sup
posed to comprise all the renegades. General
Crook is reported as saying there is no doubt of
their surrender. They have prepared a written
statement of the troubles and grievances which
led them to leave their reservation.
Captain Crawford, after being shot, remained
unconscious until his death, which occurred on
the 18th inst. He was carried with the com
mand foi- days, and buried at Narcori,
Mexico. death is much regretted at the
War Department, where he is described as a gal
lant officer and one of the best Indian fighters in
the service.
A San Francisco dispatch says: “Major-gen
eral Pope stated to-day that he felt certain that
the Mexicans who attacked Captain Crawford
were not regular troops, but renegades, who
took the Americana for hostiles, and attacked
them in the hope of obtaining the scalp-money
offered by the State of Sonora for hostiles. He
said the troops were acting only according to
mutual agreement with Mexico, by which troops
from the other country were permitted to pur
sue the common enemy into the country of the
other, and added that a most friendly feeling
exists between the troops of both countries.
WESTON IN PRISON.
He Will Not Be Assigned Any Task at Present
—Efforts to Secure His Pardon.
Pittsbdbo, Jan. 28. — For the present Milton
Weston will be assigned to no employment in
the penitentiary. Warden Wright says he will
be treated precisely as any other prisoner. Said he:
“A great many of our convicts are now unem
ployed, but I shall find Weston something to do
in a few days. It would be cruel to place a man
of his temperament in quiet confinement His
mind must be employed or be is liable to become
deranged. Ido not think him capable of severe
physical work. We have men here who are
naturally idle, and who have been in peniten
tiaries and jails so much that they have become
used to confinement. But this would not be the
case with Weston. The kindest way to treat him
will be with entire impartiality, as he will then not
bo looked up to or down upon by the other con
victs. This course will also cause him to drop
into obscurity much sooner, and that is what Mr.
Weston wants, of course. I have no idea whether
he will serve his full term or not”
Weston appears cheerful, and says he is ready
to obey all the rules and win the nine months
commutation whieh is given for good behavior.
Daring his term of imprisonment he will be
known as prisoner 8053. At his special request
no steps looking toward fresh complications will
be taken. He received, without solicitation, a
letter from the Governor and State officials of
Illinois to the Governor of Pennsylvania, asking
that he be pardoned. As the pardon board meets
in twenty days, it will be impossible to get any
action taken then, and the case will be brought
before them in March.
Obituary.
Chicago, Jan. 28.—Mary E., wife of Austin L.
Patterson, business manager of the Times, fell
dead, this afternoon, from syncope. She was a
native of Syracuse, N. Y., her maiden name be
ing Ferris. She was fifty-one years of age.
Richmond, Ind., Jan. 28.—A private cable
gram announces the death of United States Con
sul Albert M. Lybrook, at Algiers, Africa, this
morning, of consumption. Lybrook’s appoint
ment was confirmed just one week ago to-day.
Business Embarrassments.
Cleveland, 0., Jan. 28—The schedule in the
assignment of J. C. Taylor & Bro., boots and
shoes, of this city and Cincinnati, filed here to
day, shows the liabilities to be $33,476; assets,
$18,107.
New Haven, Conn., Jan. 28. —The insolvent
estate of H. P. Hubbard, advertising agent, in
ventories as follows: Liabilities, $104,448, divided
among 2,080 creditors; good assets, $20,700:
doubtful assets, $21, 08a
A Shower of Dost.
Austin, Jan. 28.—0n Thursday afternoon,
near 4 o’clock, from out of a clear sky, a slower
of very fine dust began falling. There was no
wind at the time. The shower increased toward
nightfall, and continued through half tbit qjgbt.
Tbe dust had a peculiar effect on the lungs and
throat, causing irritation and hoarseness in some
instances. A similar phenomenon was witnessed
here eight years ago
SUSPENSIONS FROM OFFICE.
President Cleveland Will Not Comply
with the Request of the Senate,
And Information Concerning Removals fro
Office Will Not Be Famished—The Pres
ident Sustained by the Cabinet.
Belief that the Demands for Rivers and
Harbors Will Reach $20,000,000.
Senator Sherman Offers a Bill Intended to
Solve the Silver Problem—Propositions
m Adding $300,000,000 to Pensions.
PRESIDENT AND SENATE.
Information in Reference to Removals from
Office Will Not Be Furnished.
Washington, Jan. 28. —At the Cabinet meet
ing, to day, the question of the policy to be
adopted in regard to applications by the Senate
for information ia relation to “suspensions from
office” was considered at length. The President
is understood to be opposed to complying with
requests for such information, and is sustained
by all the members of his Cabinet. At the
meeting to day letters wore formulated in answer
to the requests of the Senate for the papers
touching the changes in the office of United
States marshal for tho Southern district of Ala
bama, and in the office of collector of internal
revenue for the district of South Carolina. The
exact the letters cannot be learned,
but it is known that they inform the Senate that
it is not deemed advisable to comply with the
requests in their present form. It is understood
that it is the desire of the administration to force
the Senate to a conclusion on this question, so
that the matter may be brought to an issue
and settled as soon as possible.
RIVERS AND HARBORS.
Tho Committee’s Estimate of $11,000,000
9 Likely To Be Largely Exceeded.
Special to tho Indianapolis Journal.
Washington, Jan. 28.—A few weeks ago the
river and harbor committee of the House held a
meeting and resolved that the bill making appro
priation for the improvement of rivers and har
bors this year should be limited to $11,000,000.
Upon that basis the committee started to work,
and has been busy ever since. Several delegations
have been heard, and the committee now sits
with closed doors, preparing the first draft of its
$11,000,000 bill. It is generally known, however,
despite the resolution of the committee, that the
bill, when it shall be reported to the House, will
far exceed the .Imit set, and will, in all proba
bility, be nearer $20,000,000 than $11,000,000.
There is really no reason why the limit should
be fixed at the figure which it was. Numerous
improvements which are progressing throughout
the country have been seriously affected during
the past year by the failure of Congress to make
any appropriations a year ago, and there are a
great many very important works upon which
hundreds of thousands of dollars have been
spent which are suffering from the elements be
cause the amount available for the work upon
them during the past year was limited to
amounts insufficient to protect them against the
weather. Besides this, the waterways con
ventions, which were held in St. Paul,
Kansas City and other places in the West and
South during the past six month, have shown
that the people throughout the country are anx
ious that the waterways should receive due at
tention, and the committee, in listening to the
delegates from these conventions, has exhibited
a disposition to treat their recommendations
with the consideration which they merit. It is
reported that already the committee has exceed
ed the proportionate amount for individual im
provements in its deliberations upon the bill,
and the general impression, even among its own
members, is that it will be simply impossible to
confine the appropriation to the limit fixed at its
first meeting.
THE SILVER QUESTION.
Provisions of the Measure Introduced Yester
day by Senator Sherman.
Washington, Jan. 28. —'The following is the
full text of Senator Sherman’s bill to amend the
coinage act of Peb. 28, 1878:
“Be it enacted, etc., that the coinage of the
silver dollar, provided for by the first section of
the act to which this is an amendment, be dis
continued from and after the passage of this
act.
“Sec. 2 That the Secretary of the Treasury
is authorized and directed to purchase, from
time to time, silver bullion in bars, not less than
nine-tenths fine, at the market price thereof, n<Jt
less than two million ounces per month, and
shall issue in payment therefor coin certificates
of the United States, in denominations of not
less than ten dollars each, corresponding with
the denominations of the United States notes;
and the bnlliou so purchased shall be retained in
the Treasury for the security and for the pay
ment of the same, and the amount of such cer
tificates at any time outstanding shall not
exceed the cost of the bullion purchased
by such certificates, and the certificates
thus issued shall be receivable for customs,
taxes and all publio dues, and, when so re
ceived, may be re issued, and the Secretary of
the Treasury shall redeem in coin the same cer
tificates on their presentation for redemption at
the office of the Assistant Treasurer of the
United States, in the city of New York, in suras
not less than SSO.
“Sec. 3. That any holder of standard silver
dollars, or gold coin of the United States, or
gold bullion, at its mint value, may deposit the
same with the Treasurer or any Assistant Treas
urer of the United States in sums not less than
$lO, and receive the coin indicated therefor,
similar in denomination and legal effect to the
certificates provided for in the preceding section.
The coin deposited for. or representing, the cer
tificates shall be retained in the Treasury for the
payment of the same on demand.”
Mr. Sherman Explains the Measure.
Special to tue Indianapolis Journal.
Washington, Jan. 28.— Senator John Sher
man was seen to-night by your correspondent,
and asked to explain the object of the bill intro
duced in the Senate by him to-day. The Senator
replied:
“Its provisions are simply, first, the suspen
sion of the coinage; second, the issue of coin cer
tificates upon silver bullion, and last, the issue
of similar certificates upon gold or silver coin, or
gold bullion deposited with the Treasurer as se
curity. 'jjjie bill authorizes the purchase of
from two to four million troy ounces of silver
bullion each month, instead of the purchase of
so many dollars’ worth, as now provided by law.
By fixing the standard of purchase at the ounce,
I believe a more stable arrangement is made.”
“Do you think your bill will receive the sup
port of the silver men, Senatorl”
“I have made no effort to ascertain how the
till will be received by anyone. It is a subject
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
which needs a great deal of study. I have
thought over this bill for about a year.”
“Is it not in the nature of a compromise meas
ure?”
“It ought to satisfy the silver men, because il
provides for the purchase of as much silver as is
provided by law now, and I see no reason why it
should not satisfy the gold men, as it suspend*
the coinage of silver.”
• ‘What is to become of the silver bullion?”
“That will have to be provided for in the fu
ture. If the bill becomes a law, it will bo held
to secure the coin certificates.”
“You make no provision for the ultimate coin
age of this bullion in this bill.”
“No; that can be attended to in the future."
“Why is it, Senator, that you do not make the
coin certificates full legal tender?”
“The bill makes them receivable for taxes and
customs dues. Ido not know that we could
make them full legal tender, and I doubt the
propriety of attempting to do so iu time of peace.”
Belgium and the Latin Union.
Washington, Jan. 28.— Among the papers
transmitted to the Senate by the President, re
lating to the action of the Belgian government
in concluding its adhesion to the monetary union
of the Latin states, was a statement made on
the subject bv the Prime Minister of Belgium
to the Chamber of Representatives, in which he
says, in part:
“The abrupt withdrawal of Belgium from the
Latin Union would have added new and serious
elements of disturbance to the difficulties of the
present situation. If the uuion is to be dis
solved at the expiration of the new term fixed,
Belgium has five years to prepare for that con
tingency. The vote of Belgium may be relied'
on iu advance in support of any measure looking
to the prolongation, consolidation and extension,
of the uuion. Thus the time when the losses
would bo suffered in consequence of the demon
etization of silver would be st' M . further post
poned, and the modification, always possible, in
the relative value of the precious metals may
prevent such losses entirely.”
PENSION LEGISLATION.
Measures Which Would Call for More than
Three Hundred Million Dollars.
Washington Special.
The situation iu the House in regard to pen
sion legislation is as follows: Mr. Matson’s bill
for the increase of soldiers’ widows’ pensions
from $8 to sl2 per month is pending.
An amendment in she shape of a rider has
been proposed by Mr. Browne, of Indiana, which
contemplates an extension of the limit on the ar
rearages of the pension act to Jan. 1, 1886. The
point of order has been raised against the amend
ment by Mr. Rogers, of Arkansas, that it con
templates legislation already provided for in bills
before the House.
The opinion of Mr. Matson, chairman of the
invalid pensions committee, is that his bill will
pass, and that the point of order against Mr.
Browne's amendment will be sustained. Esti
mates from various sources fix the increased ex
penditure of the government under Mr. Matson’s
bill at between five and six million dollars per an
num. In addition to the bills already introduced
to extend the limit on the arrearages act, one is
proposed by Mr. Morrill, of Kansas, a member
of the committee on invalid pensions,
which seems to have been considered in ibe com
mittee and to have obtained the support of a ma
jority of members. Mr. Matson is understood
to have in preparation a minority report against
it An ostimate of the cost to the government
under these two measures was received by the
committee to day from the Commissioner of
Pensions, who writes in reply to certain inqui
ries on the subject addressed him by Mr. Ran
dall, chairman of the appropriations committee.
General Black’s letter abounds in figures, and
is put in a detailed manner without nuy expres
sion of opinion. It shows that the regular pen
sion roll stood last year at over $38,000,000; that
the arrears act had cost, up to June 30, 1885,
$179,000,000, but when this arrears act was
brought in, in 1879, the House and the country
were officially assured that it would cost less
than $25,000/100. All tho claims for arrears are
not yet in. There remain over one hundred
thousand, of which GO per cent, will be granted,
and the additional cost of those will bo $80,000,-
000.
The total cost of the old arrears act will be
over $259,000,000. Now comes the bill before
the House, which will add over $6,000,000 pel
annum to the preseut regular pension roll.
But if Mr. Browne’s amendment, extending
the limit for arrears to Jan. 1 of tno present year,
should become a law, this would add, as payment
of arrears, to the payments already made the
prodigious sum of $302,000,0C0.
Whether these figures are big enough to pre
vent the measures passing is doubtful.
LAND-GRANT FORFEITURES.
A Disposition toForfeit All Grants, Irrespect
ive of Rig-lit and Justice.
.Special to the In.lianarolls Journal.
Washington, Jan. 28.—The House committee
on public lands seems to have inherited from its
predecessor in the Forty eighth Congress the
one idea that the whole duty of Congress is to
forfeit lands which have beftn granted to rail
roads to aid in their construction, whether the
companies have or have not done all they could
to perfect their title. The committee this ses
sion, thus far, has shown a predisposition to for
feit anything in shape of a land grant which has
been uttered without any of the formalities of an
investigation, which are generally considered
necessary in order to obtain a verdict before
judging a casb. A rather amusing incident,
showing the manner in which the business of
this important committee is conducted, occurred
on the floor of the House just before the Speak
er’s gavel fell this morning. A member of the
House who bad a bill before the committee rela
tive to the abolition of a certain lAnd office in
Nebraska, said: “I should like to come before
y our committee to talk about my bill. When
can I have a hearing! ’
“Does your bill forfeit any land grants!” was
the reply.
“No; it is 6imply in relation to a land office.”
“Well, then, I am afraid you will have to wait
several weeks before we can give you a hearing,
as we are directing our attention now solely to
land-grant forfeitures, and cannot spare the time
to take up any bill which does not forfeit at
least 10.000,000 acres.”
It is hardly necessary to add that this state
ment is from a member of the committee who is
not in hearty accord with the chairman, who is
very anxious to have Congress to prohibit the
Secretary of the Interior from patenting a single
acre of land granted to a road which was not
completed promptly on the day specified in the
act -
THE rUBLIC PRINTER.
No Reason for Asserting that Mr. Rounds
Will Be Displaced.
Special to the IndianaDolis Journal.
Washington. Jan. 28.—A great many stories
have been sent out during the past two weeks
relative to the President’s intentions regarding
the Public Printer. It is announced that Mr.
Rounds’s term expires about the Ist of April,
and that the office will be filled by aofne one in
harmony with the President, politically, soon.:
after Mr. Rounds’s term expires. The facts of
the case are, there is no fixed tenure of office for
the Public Printer. He holds his place at
the pleasure of tho President, and there
is nothing in the law to limit the time
to four years. When Mr. Rounds was appoint
ed he was recommended by Democratic as well
as Republican printers all over the country, and
he has almost as many'Democratic supporter*
in Congress, to-day, ns he has Republican,
There is really no reaspn sot asserting that the
President is determined to. him by ap>
poiatiag some ouo else, and inasmuclt m Quit