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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUENAL.
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fancy-striped Half Hose,
FULL REGULAR MADE, at
15 CITS A PAIR
Or seven pairs for sl*
Not more than seven
pairs sold to any one per
son.
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CONVICT LABOR.
Prominent Manufacturers Disease tlie Ques
tion and Seek a Solution of It.
Chicago, Aug. 26.—-A number of prominent
Unanufacturers from all over the country assem
bled here to-day, in response to a call issued last
July by Mr. W. T. Lewie, a prominent manufact
urer of Racine, Wis. Mr. Lewis has for a long time
bad under consideration the subject of convict
labor. The objects of the convention were to
consider means of abolishing the present system
of convict labor and devising means of employ
ing the prisoners confined in the penitentiaries.
The meeting was called to order with about
twenty five manufacturer! present Mr. Lewis
Was elected. chairman, and Mr. Kinney, of Wi
nona, Minn., secretary. Communications from
Wardens of the penitentiaries in various
Btates, in answer to a circular asking
for information as to the employment and con
dition of the convicts, were read. From the re
ports it seemed as thoueh the boot and shoe,
wagon-making and stocking manufacturing in
terests were mostly Interested in the prißon
labor question. In Florida the conviots are let
out to the contractors for naval stores. In Ten
nessee 19,000 vehicles are manufactured, at a
rate of wages aver Aging 35 cents per day. In
Louisiana the' prisoners are employed on the
levees, being let out to contractors who pay all
expenses and velieve the State of all cost The
wardens of various penitentiaries differed in
their opinions on the subject of the damage done
to honest labor by the convict system, but the
weight of opinion 6eemed to be expressed by one
of the wardens, who said: “I can conceive of
Bo branch of labor which is performed by con
victs at wages of from 15 to GO cents per day
that eaunot be performed by honest working
men and pay theifi ten times the wages.'’
A communication from a St Lonis chair man
ufacturer said that his men had been out on a
Strike and had returned. “Far from feeling any
exultation over the affair,” said the writer, “we
all sympathize with our men and appreciate their
struggles against poverty and almost starvation,
out what can we do when we have to compete
with convict labor, which costs from 14 to 20
cents a day, and how can we live and pay $2 per
day!”
Reports from the warden of the penitentiary
at Auburn, N. Y., went to show that the State
account system had been successful in his pris
on. He said that the boots and shoes manu
factured in tbo prison were in demand on the
market, and had never been sold below the mar
ket price of honest-labor goods.
The chairman read a paper in which the sub
ject of prison labor in all its aspects was treated.
He said that it was impossible to compete with
ponvict labor under the present system. He
thought it might he a good idea to adopt a sug
gestion offered him by a prominent manufact
urer, who said that convicts should he confined,
as they are at present, but that all machinery
should be taken out, leaving convicts to manu
facture goods on the “old system.” That, idea
would encourage honest young men to learn
trades. Another idea, and the speaker’s favor
ite one, was to put the prisoners at work in im
proving the public roads. The chairman finished
his address as follows:
“I trust that you will appoint committees t©
draft a constitution and hv-laws for an associa
tion which shall have for its object tho abolition
of the present system and the substitution of a
system which shall be of public benefit as well
as employing the unfortunate coovicts and
equally distributing the burden of maintenance
upon the entire public.”
At the afternoon session George S. Redfield,
of the National Tubular Axle Company, of Mc-
Keesport, Pa., addressed the convention.
By vote the association was named the Na
tional Anti convict Contract Association. The
object of the association was defined to be the
thorough investigation of the subject of convict
labor, for the purpose of discovering and secur
ing adoption of that method of employing prison
population in the various States which shall be
least burdensome and oppressive to free labor
and the manufacturing interests of the country,
all proper conditions considered. The annual
dues were fixed at $lO for manufacturers, 50
cents for laborers and mechanics, and $5 for any
body of workmen to be represented by one dele
gate.
C. T. Lewis, of Racine, was unanimously
•lected president; Christopher Holtz, of Chicago,
flrat vice-president The following were elected
State vice-presidents: lowa, F. J. Upton; Ken
tucky, W. C. Nones; Indiana, C. Studebaker,
Wisconsin, Charles L. Bradley; Missouri, J. C.
Beree; Minnesota, H. M. Kinney; Michigan, J. H.
Whitney.
The executive committee was authorized to
appoint the vice-presidents for the other States.
A congressional enactment prohibiting the sale
of convict labor goods outside of the State in
which manufactured was indorsed by the con
vention. Resolutions were also passed asking
that the government be required to withdraw
federal prisoners from State prisona worked
Upon the contract system, and that the purchase
of prison labor products for government use be
Baade illegal.
F. A. Flower. George Red field, C. Studebaker
and H. C. Wright were appointed a committee
to formulate a method of employing convict labor
less oppressive to the industrial interests of the
Country than the present system. They were
instructed to report before January, 1887.
A Bad Day far Grover.
Prospect House, N. Y., Aug. 26.— The Presi
dent was a weary man to night, for to-day, in
company with Dr. Ward, he bad explored a half
dozen lakes and ponds, traveling in all twenty
miles, one fourth of the journey being made on
foot They took their trolling-lities along, but,
At they returned without any fish, neither of
them was willing to admit that they had had a
day’s fishing. The one unhappy moment of the
journey was when they passed Col A. H. Belo.
of the Galveston News, on Long Pond, who held
tip for their insDection a four-pound salmon
trout. A deer got into the lake in front
of Saranac, while the President was eating bis
breakfast this morning, and it was proposed to
oriva it ashore and give Mr, Cleveland a shot at
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WHEN INDICATIONS.
Friday— Fair weather , sta
tionary temperature .
“There was an old eat named Maria
Who to sing to high C did aspire;
In the midst of her wails
Came of water two pails
w That had previously been near the fire.”
The water need not have been
near the fire this kind of weather;
a little while in the sun would have
made it hot enough.
ALL OF 1 US,
More or less, must be in the sun
these days. We can protect our
health arid lessen our discomfort by
getting Light-weight Summer Cas
siraeres of The When, or a Seer
sucker Coat and Vest.
LOW CUTI
That is, the price. In some cases
cut right in two. If you will call
we will give you some “pointers.”
THE~WHEN
it. Two guides pulled toward the animal with
all their might, but, like the bear which was in
the lake the day before, it got aehere unhurt,
notwithstanding that three balls from a Win
chester rifle skirted over the water close to it.
This afternoon Mrs. Cleveland entertained at the
cabin Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Corning, of Cleve
land, relatives of Senator Payne.
A BAT IN HER STOMACH.
The Seven Years of Terrible Suffering to
Whieh Mrs. Powers Was Subjected.
Boston, Aug. 26. —The medical fraternity of
Cambridge are deeply interested in the case of
Mrs. Mary Powers, residing at No. 21 Grant
street, Cambridge, who, seven years ago, swal
lowed a bat while drinking water pumped from a
well. The creature has lived in her stomach
and bowels until last Monday, when it was
emitted. Mrs. Powers substantiates the report
very positively, and gives the following account
of the manner in which she came to swallow the
animal and of the trouble it has caused her.
Seven years aeo she lived in Arlington, and one
evening went to the pump for a drink. It was
dark, and she drank the water without examina
tion. She was conscious, however, that she had
swallowed something which she thought might
be a fish or a toad. A week or two afterward
she was taken sick and had a physician.
He attended her several times,, but
could not understand her case. Her
body and limbs became swollen, and she was
io great distress in her bowels. She finally got
better for a time, only to be taken with another
similar attack. Alternate periods of sickness
and eood health have followed from that time to
this, and she has tried numberless physicians,
even being sent to the Massachusetts General
Hospital at one time, but nobody could under
stand her case or give her relief. She gradually
lost the use of her limbs, and had been given up
as incurable. Last Monday she felt much worse,
and the- pains in her bowels were worse than
ever. She was greatly relieved when the bat
passed away from her, and has since picked up
rapidly in health. The bat is now quite a large
one, measuring from tip to tip about six inches.
Its head is the most peculiar feature about it,
but slightly resembling an ordinary bat in that
regard. It bas a large mouth and nostrils,
which look more like those of a miniature rhi
noceros. The head is nearly an inch in length,
from the lower jaw of which hangs several tufts
of long hair. The eyes and nostrils are very
clearly marked, as is also the snout. The rest
of the body is like a bat, with booked wings and
other characteristics. The animal is still alive,
and very active. Mrs. Powers has it confined in
a large fruit jar, and bas exhibited it to more
than three hundred curious callers.
HOLY ORDERS.
Cardinal Gibbons, for the First Time Since
His Elevation, Confers Ordination.
Special to the Indianapolis. Journal.
Woodstock, Md., Aug. 26.—Cardinal Gibbons
has conferred holy orders on a class of twenty
seven candidates at the Jesuit college at this
place. This is the first time the Cardinal has
conferred ordination since his elevation to the
cardinalate. The young men were ordained
sub-deacons; to-morrow they will be made dea
cons, and on Saturday they will be elevated to
the priesthood. Rev. Rene Motts, of New Mexi
co, will also be ordained a priest with the others,
making in all twenty-eight, the largest number
of candidates ever made priests at any one time
in the United States.
Cardinal Gibbons was assisted in the cere
mony by Rev. Peter O. Racicot, Rev. A.
Sabitts, Rev. A. J. McAvoy and Rev. Francis
Barnntn. The names of the newly-ordained
clergymen and their provinces are as fol
lows:
Province of Missouri—Martial J. Bourman,
James J. Conway, Eugene J. Magnenev, Alex
ander J. Burrows. Henry W. Otting.
Mission Hos California—Janies D. Walsh, Je
rome Rtcard, Vincent Chiappa.
Mission of New Orleans—Alexis D. Stockalper,
Patrick J. O’Leary.
New York—Francis B. Goeding. John A. Ches
ter, William J. Tynan, William F. Gregory,
John C. Keveny. Thomas J. Gannon, M. H.
O’Brien, Francis W. Gunn. Francis X. Bradv,
Charles C. Jones. James I. Gardner, William H.
Walsh. William H. Judge, Daniel M. McElkin
ney, Patrick S. Murphy, John L Hedrick,
Thomas W. Wallace.
Bishop Lay's Successor.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
Salisbury, Md., Aug. 26.—The convention of
the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Easton met
at this place this evening for the purpose of
electing a successor to the late Bishop Henry C.
Lay, who died in Baltimore in September, 1885.
Already the position has been tendered by the
convention, at different times, to three gentle
men, all of whom declined the honor. This
evening, upon the third ballot, the convention
elected Rev. Alex L Drysdale, of Christ Church,
New Orleans, to the position. The sensitiveness
of the people has become aroused by the repeated
declinations of those outside of the diocese, and
if Mr. Drysdale should refuse to tie himself to
tne Easton diocese, they wiil insist upon the
convention selecting some gentleman at home.
A Scheme of the Boomers.
Arkansas, City, Kan., Aug. 26 —Nearly all
of the grading force on the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railroad extension from this place
farmers, having their families with them, who
have secretly, resolve! to stay in Oklahoma
when it is reached. All are provided with passes
from the railway contractors which enables
them to pass the military stationed south of this
place.
INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27, 1886.
THE CZAR AND ALEXANDER.
The Russian Ruler Issues an Order In
dicating the Part He Means to Play.
The Prince Will Be Arrested Unless ne Accepts
His Deposition as an Accomplished Fact
—Warlike Attitude of the Porte.
Rumor that Alexander Has Decided to
Immediately Return to Bulgaria.
Constantinople Excited Over a Rumor that
Russia Will Occupy Bulgaria—Another
Warm Debate in the British Commons.
THE BULGARIAN TROUBLE.
The Czar Orders the Arrest of the Prince
Unless He Acquiesces in His Deposition.
London, Aug. 26 —The British Foreign Office
has been informed that Prince Alexander is both
safe and free and that he is on his way to his
home in Darmstadt The dispatches state that
after being conveyed out of Bulgaria, the Prince
was sot free at Reni. It is believed here that
when Prince Alexander learns of the counter
revolution in his favor he will at once return to
Sofia. His presence there will, it is believed,
quell all disorder and restore peace to the
country.
A single regiment cf troops, with the assist
ance of a number of military cadets, accom
plished the work of deposing Prince Alexander,
Before proceeding against the Prince the revo
lutionists arrested the commander of Prince A1
exander’s regiment, which was at Slivnitza.
The provisional government, Beeing that the
populace were violently loyal to the deposed
Prince, resigned office and liberated the com
mander, who at once brought bis regiment from
Slivnitza, and disarmed the regiment which had
assisted in deposing the Prince. After this the
commander placed under arrest the political
leaders who had managed the coup d’etat. The
powers have recognized the government formed
by M. Karaveloff, with him as Premier; M. Stor
loff as Foreign Minister, M. Panoff as Minister
of War, and M. Gueshoff as Minister of Finance.
The provisional government has assured the
Porte that the movement in favor of Prince
Alexander is not inimical to Turkey, and has
asked the Porte to reopen the railway between
Constantinople and Phiiippopolis.
The Czar has ordered that Prince Alexander
be forwarded to Kissenoff if he refuses to accept
his abdication as an accepted fact. The towns
of Bulgaria are decked with flags, and there is
general rejoicing at the overthrow ot the rebels.
The Czar has permitted Prince Alexander to
proceed to Germany by the way of Odessa.
M. Nelidoff, the. Russian embassador to Con
stantinople, has informed his colleagues that, in
the event of serious disorders in Bulgaria, Rus
sia would, with the other powers, consider neces
sary measures for interfering.
The universal impression in London is that the
Czar will take advantage of the present revolu
tion and counter-revolution to march into Bul
garia under the pretense of restoring order. It
is probably for this purpose that he has massed
such a body of troops in Bessarabia under the
command of a staff of no less than nineteen gen
erals, not only the Panslavist organs of Mos
cow, but even the more moderate of the Russian
newspapers urging him to do so. But, according
to the terms of the convention sigued by tho
great powers a few months ago at Constanti
nople, the Porte is expressly authorized, in case
of a revolt, to march troops not only into East
ern Roumelia but even into Bulgaria. Acting
on this clause, the Sultan has ordered the imme
diate occupation of the Roumelian frontier, and
has caused a levy en masse of the Mussulman
population throughout the empire. The whole
of the reserves has also been called out. At any
rate, the Turks will not permit a single Russian
soldier to cross the Balkans or to enter the prov
ince of Eastern Roumelia.
Prince Alexandev received the news of the
success of his friend?. .•> Sofia and the devotion
of the Bulgarian army with deep emotion. The
intelligence of the downfall of the provisional
government was conveyed to him while be was
en route to Darmstadt, and with the news came
the suggestion that he would better return to
Sofia. He telegraphed to his father at Darm
stadt that he would visit Darmstadt, at all events,
before returning to Bulgaria, and would there
decide whether he would return or not. The
Russians at Reni treated Prince Francis Joseph,
Alexander’s brother, with great indignity. He
requested his captors to allow a servant to ac
company him, but was told, “Your brother can
wait on you.” Prince Alexander has arrived at
Darmstadt.
It is positively stated that Prince Alexander,
on learning of the result of the loyalist move
ment, resolved to return to Bulgaria. He is ex
pected to arrive to-morrow at Rustchuk, whence
an army will conduct him in triumph to Sofia.
The London Standard’s Berlin correspondent
says: “Emperor William, on hearing of the
seizure and kidnaping of Prince Alexander,
wrote a sharp letter to the Czar, expressing
amazement and indignation.”
When the King of Servia heard of the events
at Sofia, he said: “It is the greatest piece of in
famy ever perpetrated in Europe. If I knew
where Alexander was I would sacrifice all I pos
sess to afford him assistance.”
The report of the arrival of Alexander at
Darmstadt is now denied.
There is still oxtreme doubt as to the where
abouts of Prince Alexander. A dispatch from
Bucharest says Prince Alexanders father tele
graphed to the Russian Foreign Office at St
Petersburg for news of his son. The Russian
Authorities replied that he had arrived at Reni,
whence he -proposes to start on a foreign tour.
The Levant Herald contains a statement
which, it says, comes from a source of undoubted
authority, to the effect that Prince Alexander
will be detained at Reni till Wednesday next,
when he will be permitted to proceed to Vienna
on parole, under escort of a Russian officer. It
is believed that unless Prince Alexander consents
on oatn not to return to Bulgaria, he will be
bound to return a prisoner to Russia.
The London Morning Post’s Constantinople
correspondent telegraphs that the greatest ex
citement exists in that city, growing out of the
belief that Russia intends to occupy Bulgaria.
The Turkish authorities are in a state of fever
ish alarm, and there is great activity among the
beads of the military department The recruit
ing of 30,000 men in Syria has been ordered, and
this ia probably the beginning of a wholesale
conscription unless matters in Bulgaria speedily
resume their normal condition.
IRISH QUESTIONS.
Another Amendment to the Address—Warm
Debate Over General Buller’s Mission.
London, Aug. 26 —Thomas Sexton, Parnell
ite, pave notice to the House of Commons, this
evening, of his intention to move the following
amendment to the address in reply to the Queen s
speech:
“We humbly represent to your Majesty that
the circumstances accountable for the recent
riots in Belfast dictate the necessity for special
measures to maintain order there, the most
urgent of these measures being the re-establish
ment of your Majesty’s authority in the district
wherefrom the police have been expelled, by the
increase of the local constabulary *o such
strength as will enable it to deal with any proba
ble Contingency.”
Stf,Michael Hicks-Beacb, Chief Secretary for
Ireland, replying to Mr. Edward Russell, who
yesterday gave notice of his intention to move,
the adjournment of the House for the
purpose of ascertaining if the government’s ob
jeefcin sending Gen. Sir Red vers Buller to Ire
land was to establish martial law, declared that
the General was not sent to Ireland to establish
martial law nor to strain the ordinary law, but
merely to assist the civil authorities in the work
of preserving social order.
This reply was not deemed satisfactory by the
opposition, and Mr. Russell moved the adjourn
ment of the Honse. The whole opposition, con
sisting of all the Gladstonian and Parnellite
members, arose in support of * the motion, and
Mr. Russell proceeded to contend that the policy
pt the government was to degrade Ireland to the
level of a savage and barbarous country.
General Buller was known only as
a military man. His appointment would
not conduce to peace in Ireland.
Ho [Mr. Russell] lamented the condition of
Kerry. Such a eondition existed only in ill
governed countries. The government ought not
to be handed over to the military, but the ut
most ought to be done to reorganize tho civil
authority. General Buller was chosen because
he was a soldier. The government doubtless
thought that the work they would have to do
would be soldiers’ work. He hoped the result
would not be similar to that of Clifford Lloyd’s
efforts. It had been predicted that General
Buller would treat the moonlighters like rebels.
Those cheers were significant If tie prediction
should prove true, it would establish the doc
trine of constructive treason by creating a dan
gerous precedent He appealed to the opposi
tion to support the motion, which was intended
to prevent a subversion of the constitution of
the country. The government’s action was sen
sational and opposed to all ideas of good states
manship. The introduction of military law was
always regarded as a degradation of tho civil
law. To put into the hands of the military the
administration of jnstice meant a danger to the
country fraught with mischief.
Lord Churchill said that Mr. Russell had made
an earnest and exhaustive speech. He [My.
Russell] held strong opinions and used strong
language. . He had warned them that the ap
pointment of Sir Redvers Buller would imperil
civil aqd religious liberty, the freedom of the
presaxacd the administration of justice, and
a conflagration over the whole of
Ireland" Supposing that Mr. Russell's motion
was carried, what would be the effect? Why, ab
solutely nothing. The House would adjourn aud
a day be lost, and when the members met acain
General Buller would be well on his way to Ker
ry. If Mr, Russell wished to raise a question he
should have moved an amendment to the address.
If, then, the amendment had been carried, it
would have put an end to General Buller’s mis
sion. and would also have ended the present
government, which was more to Mr. Russell’s
purpose. That would have been a rational, sensi
ble course. Continuing, the speaker said that
Mr. Russell objected to General Buller because
the latter was a soldier, implying that he [Bul
ler] would treat the Irish like savages. But
only six months ago Mr. Childers made a soldier
on the active list—namely, Sir Charles Warren
—fill a civil position, not over savages, but pre
sumably over the civilized inhabitants of Lon
don.
Mr. Sexton (interposing)—Did they make Sir
Charles Warren a magistrate?
Lord Randolph Churchill—l am informed that
he is intrusted with the duties of a magistrate.
[Cries of “No.”] General Buller has been ap
pointed because the government believes that
there has been a failure of energv on the part of
the constabulary and police in detecting crime
in Kerry. In a similar way the late govern
ment appointed Sir Charles Warren, although
be uad relations with foreign tribes, to manage
the police of Lpndon. Therefore Mr. Russell is
precluded from obtaining tho support of the op
position. lam told that this motion was intro
duced in order to interrupt the regular proceed
ings of the House and intervene between the
House and the speech of Mr. Chamberlain.
[Cheers, cries of “No,” and a general uproar.]
It seems strange that the strong feeling just
manifested did not explode on previous nights,
but has been carefully pent up until the occasion
when Mr. Chamberlain intended to resume the
debate. It is a great compliment to Mr. Cham
berlaiu. because it shows that the opposition fear
the effects of his arguments. In conclusion,
Churchill said: “The motion will not have a
practical issue. The government refuses to dis
cuss the merits of General Buller’s appointment,
and will have nothing more to do with the dis
cussion.”
Sir William Vernon-Harcourt thought the ob
jection raised by Lord Randolph Churchill came
with singularly bad grace from one who had
formerly been so much in the habit of abusing
tho practice of moving an adjournment, and who
bad so frequently impeded the business of the
House by so doing. The speaker strongly ob
jected to the tone and spirit in which the ap
pointment had been announced. It was ap
parently meant that General Buller was going
to deal with armed rebels and to shoot them
without trial. Even if the moonlighters were
murderers such action was unjustifiable. Con
tinuing, be said that the reference to Sir Charles
Warreu was beside the mark, because that gen
tleman had no military authority whatever. The
House ought to know the exact relations be
tween General Buller and the civil authorities;
it ought to know whether or not General Buller
was independent of the-chief inspector of con
stabulary. If the government assured the House
that the appointment was not a purely military
one, tho opinion of the opposition would be ma
terially modified. He deprecated the provoca
tive attitude of the government on this question,
but he hoped Mr. Russeil would withdraw his
motion.
Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Chief Secretary for
Ireland, said he would not have taken part in
the discussion but for the outrageous attacks
upon the character of an officer as humano as he
was brave. General Buller was selected because
the government believed that he would act uo
rightly, constitutionally, justly and humanely.
The appointment was a civil one, and
not a military one. General Buller would possses
the powers of a divisional magistrate, enabling
him to do all things necessary to repress crime
and outrage. The inspector-general of the con
stabulary had telegraphed that he would give
General Buller his heartiest support. General
Buller would report only to the Chief Secretary
for Ireland.
Mr. Russell’s motion was finally rejected by a
vote of 241 to 146.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Chief Secretary for
Ireland, replying to the question asked by Mr.
William Redmond (Parnellite) concerning the
eviction of sixty tenants from tho Marquis of
Ely’s estates in Wexford, on the 23d inst . said
the persons evicted were laborers and artisans,
and not farmers; that they had obtained houses
in the town, bnt that the local league compelled
them to leave and go to the work house. [Con
servative cheers.]
Mr. Harrington said the league that did that
was a local league, and not the Irish National
League.
The Right Hon. Edward Stanhope, Colonial
Secretary, announced that the government
hoped to open an emigration bureau during next
October. They did not, he Baid, intend to pro
mote emigration, but simply to circulate in
formation of the kind most desirable for poor
people thinking of going abroad to know.
Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, resuming the debate
on Mr. Parnell’s amendment to the address, said
his only objection to the first part of the amend
ment was the fact that it was needless to add it
to the address unless the House was prepared to
act upon it The second part of the amendment,
he said, was an implied censure on the govern
ment. He would do nothing, he declared, to ex
pel the present government from power while
that which stood ready to replace it was com
mitted to & policy of separation. He
did not believe that the government would ever
tax England for the benefit of Irish tenants, bnt
if it did, he should feel it to be his duty to place
himself in strenuous opposition to snch action.
Mr. Chamberlain said be beiived that another
appeal to the country would be worse for the
Parnellites than the last had been. He wanted
to know if tenants would be permitted by the
Parnellites to pay their rents it they were will
ing to do so, and also asked if the
Parnellites supported Mr. Parnell’s at
titude when he said, at Chicago, that
it was the duty of himself and his followers to
make English government of Ireland impossible.
If the Parnellites repeated that speech, he said,
they must also repudiate American donations to
the Irish fund. Be admitted that if the present
depression in Ireland was to be continued the
judicial rents would be unfair. That matter de
manded impartial consideration in equity, but
in the meantime it was the duty of the govern
ment to maintain the law as it exists.
The House adjourned with the mutual under
standing, with those favoring and opposing the
amendment, that the debate should terminate
to-morrow.
Trouble in the Parnell Camp.
Dublin, Aug. 26. —The Express (Conservative)
says that serious trouble is brewing in the Par
nellito camp. The danger arises, the Express
says, from the threatening attitude of a man
who once was deep in the secrets of the “Par
nellite conclave,” and his former associates “are
now considering the question whether he cau be
silonced.”
THE BELFAST RIOTS.
Expectation that the Disturbances Will Be
Renewed on a Large Scale.
Belfast, Aug. 26.— The Rev. Dr. Kane, the
Protestant clergyman who declared that unless
the police were immediately disarmed 200,000
armed Orangemen would relieve them of their
weapons, is again out with a declaration charg
ing the magistrates of Belfast with criminal par
leying with lawlessness.
The Orangemen of Belfast have called to
night a meeting of their fraternity to consider
and adopt the best means of helping to restore
order in their city.
The Rev. Hugh Hanna, D, D., of St Enoch
Church, city, has published a letter in reference
to the rioting yesterday evening on the Shank
hill road. Dr. Hanna advises all respectable
residents of Belfast to remain at their homes as
closely as possible for some days to come. He
says he fears that the Belfast disorders are to be
revived in a worse than ever, and that the
future loss of life in riots throughout the city
will be much more dreadful than it has been
hithgrto. The soldiers, the Doctor says, will be
obliged to fire upon the citizens.
Thirty men who had been ccrawcted of taking
an active part in the recent? riots were sentenced
to-day to various terms of imprisonment, one of
them to thirteen months. A number of other
men arrested on the same charge were committed
for trial.
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.
A Proposed Russo-French Alliance The
Scheme of a Paris Advocate.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 26.—Paul Deroulede,
the # Frencb advocate, whose presence here agitat
ing a union of Russia and France in a war
against “their common enemy, Germany,” has
created such a sensation, has been given another
banquet, this time by Russian authors, artists
and journalists. Tho banquet was private. It
is learned, however, that the tendency of all the
toasts and speeches was to emphasize what the
French lawyer described as “The inborn sympa
thy between France and Russia.” and “The be
neficent influence which French and Russian
literature and art exercise upon each other.”
The Loss of Life at Mandalay.
London, Aug. 26. —In the House of Commons
Sir’J. E. Gorst, Under Secretary for India, stat
ed that tlfe los£ of life caused by the breaking of
the Irrawaddy river’s embankment in Mandalay,
Burraah, was only twenty five. No Europeans
had been drowned. Those rendered destitute by
the flood were being supolied gratuitously with
food, but there were not many applicants for
charity. Tho Under Secretary also announced
that 163 miles of the projected railway between
Rangoon, India, and Mandalay, had already been
constructed. The whole length of tho road will
be 416 miles.
Depression In the Shipping Trade.
Glasgow, Aug. 26.—The present condition of
the shipping trade is the worst on record.
Thirty-four steamers and twenty-three sailing
vessels are rotting at their docks, having been
idle some two years. This state of affairs is at
tributed to low freights and the general depres
sion in business.
A Large Force of Evicters.
Dublin, Aug. 26.—Five hundred policemen
and troops have left Birr to assist at evictions on
the estates of the Marquis of Clanricarde, in
Galway. The Birr branch of the National
League has given notice to tradesmen not to sup
ply the evicting party with provisions or means
of- conveyance.
The Chief Fire Engineers.
Special to tlie Indianapolis Journal.
Providence, R. I, Aug. 26.—Tho third day’s
session of the fire engineers met in Masonic Tom
pie at 9 o’clock this morning, President Worthley
in the chair. The report of the secretary rhowed
a total membership of 256. There were eight
deaths during the year. The report of the treas
urer showed receipts of $976.15, expenditures,
$974.78; balance on hand, $1.37. The
following officers were elected for the
ensuing year: President, George A. Steere, of
Rhode Island; secretary, Henry A. Hills, of Ohio;
treasurer, A C. Hendricks, of Connecticut, and
twenty vice-presidents from various States of
the Union. The chief engineer s went to New
port this afternoon, drove around that city and
returned by speeial boat at 9p. M. They will
meet again to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock on
Exchange Piace, to witness the exhibition of
compound fire extinguishers, steamers and gey
ser water-throwers.
Declines To Do Discharged.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal, ,
Chicago, Aug. 26.—Allen Tuell, a distributing
clerk in the mailing division of the pcstoifice, who
was discharged on Tuesday, declined to accept
his pay yesterday. He says he has influential
friends in Washington, and proposes to test his
superior officer’s right to discharge him, as he
claims, without other cause than that he is a Re
publican. He has been in the poatoffke since
August. I, 1871. lie gives it out that he desires
some better reason than has beeu stated, and in
tends to find out about it.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
AN ILLEGAL APPOINTMENT.
The Successor of Frederick Douglass
Commissioned in Defiance of Law,
And Bis Continuance in Office, Under Existing
Circumstances, is Liable to Lead to Com
plications of a Serious Character.
Important Points in a Pending Special
Extradition Treaty with Mexico.
llow Democrats Evade the Civil-Service Law
in the Matter of Assessments—-Senator
Harris's Interview with Cleveland.
THE MATTHEWS APPOINTMENT.
Ik Was Made In Defiance of the Taws Gov
erning Such Cases.
Special to the Indianapolis JonrnaU
Washington, Auc. 26.—-The Critic this morn,
ing publishes the following respecting the recent
reappointment of Mr. Matthews to the position
of recorder of deeds for the District of Colam*
bi&:
“The following is an exact cony of the Press*
dent’s letter, on file in the office of the execu
tive clerk of the Seiyite:
“To the Senate of the United States:
"I nominate James C. Matthews, of New York, is
be recorder cf deeds in the DUtriet of Columbia,
vice Frederick Douglass, who has resigned.
“GfeOVEB CLEVSIiAWe.
•‘Executive Mansion, Washington, March 4
1886,
“There are no conditions Accompanying the
President’s letter as to a vacancy existing, fo*
he says Douglass has resigned. The subsequent
action of the President in commissioning Mat
thews as recorder of deeds was. therefore, to fill a
vacancy, which happened while the Senate was
in session. This action brings both the Presi
dent nnd Matthews under the penalties of sec
tions No. 1771 and 1772 of the Revised Statutes,
and the conditions are aggravated by the fact Os
Matthews having already been rejected by the
Senate. The continuance of Matthews to act as
recorder of deeds, under these circumstances, is
not unlikely to create as much commotion—if
not some very serious real estate complications
—as any other darky ever found iu a wood
pile.”
What the President Says.
Special to the I ndiar.aeolie Journal.
New York, Aug. 26.— The Herald publish*
an interview with tho President concerning ths
reappointment of Mr, Matthews as recorder ol
deeds of the District of Columbia. In reply t<
a request to state the reasou for the reappoint
ment the President said: “It the Senate re
jocted Matthews by a party vote, then one partj
did not rise to the importance of the occasion,
It was a matter of very grave importance, is
which partisanship is curiously and obviously
out of place.” The President added that he had
made careful inquiries about Matthews, and wai
assured that he was one of the most capable and
intelligent of his race. Ho felt sure that th
people would come to see that he was right in
regarding it a judicious thing to recognize th*
Democratic colorod people in this appointment.
A DIPLOMATIC SECRET.
Important Points in a Special Extradition
Treaty with Mexico.
Special to the ludlanitpolis Journal.
Washington, Aug. 2t>.— a well kept diplo
matic and executive secret, to which interest is
given by the possibility of a request being madt
by the United States for the surrender by Mexi
co of Mondragon, for trial in this country, is ths
fact that a special extradition troaty between tbs
United States and Mexico is now awaiting final
action by the Mexican Congress, having been
accepted with amendments by the United States
in June of this year. The treaty provides that
the surrender to either country, by the authori
ties of the other, shall be discretionary with ths
executive, whenever a notorious crime has been
committed. This treaty, although approved by
both nations, still lacks the final Mexican sanc
tion to render It operative. The only signift*
cauce of the treaty is the indication of a die posi
tion on the part of the United States to main
tain such relations with Mexico. Mexico already
has this authority to surrender a notorious
criminal; but the United States has no such
power without this treaty. When Mexico has
voluntarily surrendered such prisoners, the
United States has only accepted the action with
an understanding that no obligation to recipro
cate was involved.
EVADING THE CIVIL-SERVICE LAW.
How the Democratic Congressional Commit*
tee Sells Its Hooks for SIOO,OOO.
Washington Special.
Uver since the organization cf the Democratic
congressional committee, there has been a quan
dary over funds. How to raise money without
assessing officeholders puzzled the committee.
They were preparing a campaign book, and
hadn’t money enough to pay for it Finally
they were struck with a happy thought. Why
not sell the book to the public? Sell it to office
holders. This wouldn’t be a violation of the
civil-service law. There arc 100,000 officeholders,
and at $1 apiece for a book that costs 10 cents, a
very strong sum for campaign expenses can be
raised. This happy thought was collared before
it got away.
Chairman Kenr.a was interviewed to day on
this scheme, and be said the committee had re
fused to receive mere than $1 for the book. Ac
cording to the virtuous and self-sacrificing chair
man, the committee had refused gold galore.
Says Ken na: "One official said tome: T want
a copy of your text-book and here’s SIOO to pay
for it.’ I took only $1 and put his name on the
list for a copy of the book. We do not intend to
have any comments or criticisms to the effect
that we have taxed office holders, so we decline
all money from them, except for tl\p purchase of
text-books at $1 per copy.”
The Senator might have added that any office
holder xnay order just as many text books at $1
a copy as he wants. The SIOO can be laid out in
text books to be distributed by the committee ae
they see At. There is no violation of the law m
this. The office-holder need not buy a text-book
if he does not want it, bat it gets around tha
prohibitory clause as to receiving and paying
contributions for political purposos in a very
neat and easy manner.
A LIVELY INTERVIEW.
Senator Harris's Forcible aiul I'nngent Re
marks to President Cleveland,
Wathinston Special.
An evening paper has the following about the
colored Democrat whose renomination as regis
ter of deeds for tha District of Columbia after
his rejection by the Senate has alienated several
Democratic Senators from the President. It il
reported that one day when Congress was ie
session Senator Harris, of Tennessee, went tt
see the President about an appointment ip bin
State which some of his constituents were iuter-