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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1891.
DID SOT MEET THE PLEDGES
TheFceand Salary Sham Excites aDeni
ocrat to Siiow Its Inconsistencies.
Ifr Complains of Fsrrcr to tie Secretary of
State and Advocates' Atolishinjr the Alter
cej-GenerarsOHIce Salaries cfJcdffes.
Tliat the fco and salary feature of the re
cent Legislature vraa a sad disappointment
to thousands of Democrats throughout the
State there Is no possible donbt. These
' Democrats -wanted the law to take effect at
once, and its failure to do so they
think was simply an evasion of
the pledges made the peoplo by
their party in its platform, and
in the speeches of iiz leaden before and
during the campaign. They are disposed
to thiuk that the failure to redeem these
pledges will result seriously to tho party in
power. One of tho thonehtfnl, conserva
tive members of the party, a stanch Demo
crat, withalcrpressed himwlf very freely
on the subject, at the Grand Hotel, last
evening, to several of his friends.
"This matter of tho fees and sal
aries of State and county officers-7
faid he, "hai been much discussed in tlie
public pre and by tho people in this
fctate for some time past, especially during
tho campaign last fail. Political partiea
said in their platforms that fees and salar
ies of othcers Hkrald' be reduced and ad
justed more equally to conform to the coa
dition of prices for labor and farm products.
Members uf the General Assembly were
elected upon this general idea of the peo
ple's wants, and what they demanded be
fore the election, nud wh;t they expected
of the Legislature should have been car
ried out. The Goternor in his message to
the General Assembly on its assembling,
recommended reduction, at least in some
oi thw otlices, though not in his own salary.
"lieforo the - Into election,' ho con
tinued, "all seemed to bo agreed oa
this reform, at least tho masses
were, and the politicians and candidates
themselves acquiesed in and seemed will
ing and anxious to be elected, taking their
chances on the Legislature obeying' th
pledges of pariies made to the- peoplo to
et their votes.. Every candidate for a
ttate and county onice knew, when run
ning for" oilke at tho last election, that tho
Legislature had the power to reduce fees
and regulate salaries, Hence all accepted
ofiice knowing the power of tho Legisla
ture in this regard. And if this election
was to take place to-morrow, candidates
would he just as numerous as ever, even
were a fee and salary law pending, whieh
was likely to curtail the emoluments of
oliice to a considerable extent. Now what
did the. Democratic party mean by its plat
form pledges! Were they made
with the honest intention of re
duciug fees and salaries, or were
they maae to deceive the voter?, merely to
get their votes and to b disregarded after
the election. Now. did these fee and salary
pledges have anything to do with tho Dem
ocratic victory last fallf It is my belief,
from careful observation for some time
past, that the great majority of the voters
who gave the dominant party their votes
acted from an honest belief that the fees
and salaries of most, if not all, of the offices
were too high, and if their party had a ma
jority in the Legislature the pledges would
oe honestly carried out and substantial re
lief gi vent hem by the enactment of a good,
honest fee and salary law. The time has
passed when the masses can . be hood
winked with a sham or half-way measure,
and tho party that attempts anything of
the sort is going to sutler, and justly so.
The majority in the late Legislature made
a feeble attempt to redeem tho pledges re
ferred to by passing a fee and salary law,
some of the provisions of which
may be good, and a fiord some,
though mighty little. actual relief
to tho people. On tho other hand,
many of its provisions are worse by far
than the existing state of affairs, being
both unjust alike to officers and tax-payers.
"The Secretary of State doesn't have so
much work to do in his office as tho audi
tors of the smaller counties," further said
the Democrat, "and while the latter ofli
cials are to receive, under this new law.
from $1,200 to $2,000, the Secretary of State
is to bo paid in the neighbor
hood of 3,CC0 salary, and fees
enough to increase that probably
to 10,000. Is this just and right! The
Attorney-general's salary is fixed at $3,500;
besides. &,00O for deputies is allowed. Now
thisoSice could be and ought to be abol
ished. There is no need for it, and
tho tax-payers ought to be relieved
of this burden. Let the State officers pay
for legal advice, as other people who have
to consult lawyers. Tho Supreme Court
jndges salaries are low, when compared" to
those of the State officers. Circuit Court
judges are to receive the same salary paid
them under the present law $2,5u0. As
some judges have circuits that keep them
em plo ved thirty and forty weeks in the year,
ana others are only busy twelve and fifteen
weeks, the injustice of this arrangement is
apparent to every one. Yet the Legislature
refused to remedy this injustice; If the
Legislature can, under tho Constitution,
classify counties and givo a salary to
county officers according to population,
why not classify the judges of the Circuit
Conrts and pay them salaries according to
population of their circuits. If a judge
in a circuit employed from thirty to forty ,
weeks in a year is worth only (2,500. why
should a judge employed but twelve or
nfteou weeks receive the same salary!
Figuring on the same basis as county
oCieers the small circuit judges should
receive from $1,000 to $l.2ZQ.n
. "This now law provides that boards of
commissaoners shall tlx the, number of dep
uties for the clerk, auditor and sberitf.
This may be a very expensive arrangement
for the people, a commissioners are far
from being infallible. Such a provision is
child's play. As a general thing commis
sioners are men ot limited ability, and
their qualifications rarely extend to fitness
to run the offices of clerk.auditor and sheriff.
These officers should have been given the
right to hire and pay their deputies, many
or few. iiut the farcicnl feature of the law
is . the section exempting from its. pro
vision all officers elected prior to its pass
age. What a mockery, sham and deception,
'lh ink of it: many of the officers for coun
ties elected last fall will not go out of office
until l&U and .l0o. and wo will have an
other Legislature to meet in January, 1&U3.
If tho law is not to allect an officer elected
la -it fall for a four years' office, then why
was a fee and salary, law enacted at this
session! Whv not have waited ontil the
Si)6sion of lbU3, as all the auditors, clerks
and recorders elected last fall will not go
out of office until lS'Jl and 1S1!
I have heard is frequently asked, since the
Legislature adjourned, and always by
Democrats, too, 'What did the Democratic
party mean, wholly responsible as it was
for all legislation, when it failed to live up
to its promises!' Tho party certainly did
not specify in its promises that they wero
to bo redeemed in IsOi and lb'J5. They were
underjtood to mean immediate reform, and
the people are thoroughly disgusted at the
manner in which they were disrcgnided. It
would have been better to have left
the law as it was rather than palm off a
bogus reform measure upon a long-suller-ing
people. The farmer does not propose to
do in this matter as ho does when he plants
his crop mt down and wait for it to grow
and the next election will demonstrate
the truth of this observation. The failure
of tho Democratic Legislature to make that
law take effort at once, bad as it is in somo
respect, yet a inovo in tho right direction,
is uoing to retire the party in this State in
THE COt'IiT RECORD.
6CmE3!E COURT DECISIONS.
No. 11510. Tarke County Coal company
rs. Terre Haute Paper Company et al.
Vitfo C. C. Affirmed. Olds. u. J. in a
complaint to set aside conveyances for
fraud, the burden is upon tne piamtin to
prove fraud, and when the finding is silent
upon a fact material to be found, it is to be
taken against the narty having the burden
of proving suoh lact. Where one
stockholder purchases the stock of
the remaining stockholders and exe
cutes a mortgage on the property of the
corporation to secure the purchase price of
the stocJt so purcnaseu, it is not in eneci a
withdrawal of the capital stock, in the ab
sence of an affirmative showing that the
transfer was not in cood faith.
No. 14CCO. William S. Totter vs. Owen
McCormack et aL Tippecanoe C. C. Af
firmed. McBride. J. A motion in arrest of
judgment and amotion for a venire de novo
.oust precede the rendition of tho judgment.
and cannot be considered if cot made until
after the judgment has been rendered. A
motion in arrest of judgment will not reach
a defective verdict. On appeal to the Cir
cuit Court from tho Board of County Com
missioners, in highway cases, only such
?nesiions are for trial as wero in iesue be
ere the commissioners, or as may, by leavo
of court, bo put in issne by amended plead
ings, and if the verdict covers these matters
it is sufficient.
No. 1J7J0V M argaret Parker et al. vs. Tho
Indianapolis National iiank. Madison C. C.
Ordered certified to tho Appellate Court.
Opinion by Coffey, J. This was
a proceeding by appellants against
appellee under the provisions of Section
Xti, K. S., J&sl to be released from a judg
ment on the ground that it was rendered
against them on account of their excusable
n eg Tec t. The original action was upon a
promissory note, for the recovery of money
only, where the amount involved was less
than 1.000. Held: Where the Appellate
Court Las jurisdiction of the main action,
it should be held to have jurisdiction of all
tho incidents attaching to the action. An
application to set aside a judgment under
the provisions of Section COG, K. S., 1SS1. is
a mere incident of the main action, look
ing to the- ultimate determination of the
right of the parties therein. In such case
the court having jurisdiction on appeal of
tho principal case, has jurisdiction over the
application topet asidea judgment rendered
in the canso, rrhero tho application there
for is based npon tho provisions of tho
stltato providing for vacating judgments
on account of excusable neglect.
No. liiKXX City of Franklin vs. Sebird
Harter. Johnson C. C. Keversed. El
liott. J. Where'a complaint in a suit for
injuries contains the usual general aver
ment that the plaintiff was free from,
fault and tho specific allegations
do not overcome tho general averment
the complaint is good as against objections
that it does not show that plaintitt was not
guilty of contributory negligence. The
fact that the iajnred party was blind does
not, of itself, authorizo tho conclusion, as
against the direct and positive averment
of the complaint, that he was guilty of
contributory fault. To fasten a liability
upon a municipal corporation for injuries
resulting from defects in its streets it must
be affitmatively shown that the municipal
ity was guilty of negligence. Where an
inference of negligence may or may not be
reasonably drawn from admitted facts the
case is ordinarily for tho jury, under proper
instructions, but where only one inference
can be reasonably drawn from the facts
the question of negligence or no negligence
may be determined by the -court, as one ot
pure law. It cannot bo adjudged as a pure
matter of law that, irrespective of all ques
tions of locality and surroundings, a
municipal corporation isliable for an injury
received by a person who iaus into an
oDeninff mado for a stairway where the
entrance only is left open. Tho court be
low errea in us instructions to xue jui.v.
No. 14o3a Newhonse vs. Morgan, uim-
ton C. C Rehearing denied.
Xo. 1454JL Ponder vs. Catterson. Re
ceiver. Marion C. C. Rehearing denied.
No. tSSSfj. Ashmead vs. Reynolds et al.
' Gibson C. C. Rehearing denied.
ECPKRIOR COURT.
Room 1-Hoa. Napoleon B. Taylor, Judge.
J. D. Bryant vs. T. A. Bryant; divorce.
Decree granted.
Mary Mc laggart vs. 3iax uunaeinnger;
to quiet title. Judgment for plaintiff.
Boom 3 Hon. J&inea V. Darpr; J oiliro.
Charles Feraer vs. William G. Hunter;
account. J udgment ftr plaintiff for $421.83.
Madison Brewing company vs. Annie
Hitzelbergen to quiet title and foreclose
chattel mortgage. Taken under advise
ment.
Kllen Greenwald vs. William Li. Ureen
vrald. Divorce granted plaintiff and maid
en name, Ella Fisher, restored.
Itoom 3-IIon. Lewis C. Walter, Judi;a.
James E. Logan vs. Henry C. Landis:
note. Judgment for $331.38.
Meridian National Bank vs. William W.
Lowe; note.. Dismissed.
New Suits Filed.
Benjamin F. Whito et ah vs. George W.
White et al.; to set asido a will.
Charles L. Flaccus vs. Van Camp Pack
ing Company; account. Demand, $1,000.
circuit court;
Hon. Edgar A. Brown. Judge.
State ex rel. Rebecca Martin vs. Hezekiah
Dawson; paternity proceedings. Judgment
against defendant for 5100.
Board of Childrens' Guardians vs. Isabella
and Freasie Dunlap. Trial by court.
Xew Suits Filed.
Louisa E. Weavar vs. James P. Weaver
and Levi H. Borne: for support, and order
of court to sue and collect judgment held
by husband against Borne.
Louis V.Bovle et aL vs. David Ilazzaxd
et aL; note. Demand, $700. ,
TJnjuttand OfTetislvn School Methods.
fo the IMitor of 4he Iiuliuiiipolls Journal:
In answer to my article in the Journal of
Jan. 29. 1 notice that someone, signing him
self "Rex," admits that the unjust and un
reasonable methods complained of are prac
ticed in the publio schools of Seymour,
Iud. First, that no pupil is allowed to at
tend said schools unless be be able, mental
ly and physically, to attend both the morn
ing and afternoon sessions, and to tako all
the prescribed studies of his grade ; second,
that, being required to pass a written ex
amination each quarter, the pupils are met
at the door and compelled to unroll their
papers that the teachermay see that noth
ing (jeering uu iu? onuiiumiuu xo evuermeu
therein; that they are then questioned as
to whether anything is secreted in their
pockets or about their person that would
aid them in the examination, etc "wnat
a singular way." I can but repeat, "to de
velop in a boy a true and noble manhood
make him think he is a scoundrel, and then
watch him as you would a thief.'7 Indeed,
were it not for the explicit statements of
"Rex," It would seem incredible that such
unjust and demoralizing practices could be
carried on in any intelligent community a
single week. And yet we are told that this
superintendent has been in cbarue there
almost one-third of a natural life-time.
But this is not all. I am told, on good
authority, that In a certain school in south
ern Indiana the pupils receive no training
in composition or essay-writing from the
time they enter the first year until they
reach the hign-school. and practically nono
then until they roacn too last year and
come to prepare their graduating essays.
If this is true it will prove an interesting
revelation to the other superintendents of
the State all of whom attach so much im
portance to this practical side ot language
work.
But, again: my attention has been called
to a peculir system of grading pupils. First,
their per cents, are based wholly on the
written examination tho class work and
teacher's judgments counting nothinz: sec
ond, the method of finding the pupil's
standing, as based on the examination, is
equally strange, and, indeed, so complicated
that 1 confess 1 do not undorstand it. 1
suppose the superintendent does. Here is
a case with the figures before me: The
records show that the pupil is carrying four
studies two in one year and two in an
other. In tho four her grades run from 93
to 100. making an average in all her studies
of 99. The superintendent, however, has
her marked, "Average in studies, 49.0."
Justice.
A Plea for the Unprotected.
To the XMltor uf tho Iinllanapoll Journal:
It appears from the action of tho boards
who are to run this town henceforth that
Washington-street merchants are no longer
to sweep their tilth into the streets, and
vagabonds may not scatter dodders and
scraps of paper on that sacred asphalt.
But what of tho poor housekeeper on other
streets! In the first place, she never thinks
of doing so untidy a thing as sweeping her
scraps of paper into the street. In the days
of coal fires sheumed them in tho grate
or stove; now she carefully carries them
out and burns them. But is the street in
front of her tidy house kept clean! Never.
Nor her beautiful lawn, either. There is
hardly an hour in the day that some quack
doctor, or bankrupt merchant, or soap
maker does not throw handfuls of dodgers
on the sidewalk, or some illustrated cata
logue on to her well-kept lawn, and no
board proposes to come to her protection.
There may be no relief from that greatest
of atlhetion to housekeepers the distribu
tor of these dodgers ringing tho door-bell,
and calling her from her work, just in time
to tee a big boy with a satanio grin, going
out of the gate, pointing to the dodger at
her feet. If tho Board of Public Safety has
any regard for tho lives of those vagabonds
it will stop this, as well an the other out
rages, elsewiso there will be a funeral or
two, and the coroner's jury will pronounce
it a caso of justifiable homicide.
Lndianatolis, March 14. U. L. See.
AFFAIES OF THE RAILWAYS.
Action cf the T. J O. oa the TJnUmlfed
Tleket Question Causes Suxnrise.
Passenger circles are somewhat surprised
that the Baltimore &, Ohio passenger de
partment comes out in favor of breaking
away from the old custom of issuing unlim
ited tickets, and hereafter proposes to have
a time limit and proportionate rate on
every ticket disposed of, and some of the
western lines arc taking an advance step in
this direction. The Western Passenger As
sociation has isaued a circular addressed to
connecting linea to the effect that on and
alter March 25 all rickets from Buffalo, Pitts
burg, Salamanca, Toronto, and points west
therof in Nevr York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana, 'Michigan. Wisconsin, Minnesota
and the Province of Ontario xo St. Louis
must be i limited to continuous passage,
not to exceed ono day from dato of issno.
Points outside of the territory thus de
scribed will have two days' limit. Notices
have been sent 1 to Central Traflic Associa
tion lines, also the Illinois Central. Ohio
&. Mississippi, Mobile &, Ohio. Cairo Short
line and others, notifying them that the
Alton. -Missouri Pacific,- Wabash & St.
Louis, K. A- N. W. roads" have arranged to
limit all tickets sold between St. Louie, and
upper Missouri river points, Kansas City
to Omaha inclusive, to one day from date
of sale, and the same limits will bo re
quired on business ticketed over these lines
to same points of destination thxongh St.
Louis from Terre Hante. Inuianauolis. Cin
cinnati, Louisville, Nashville, Evansville.
Cairo and other points in intermediate ter
ritory. The Eastern, Western and Pacifio
slope roads htve joined in indorsing the
proposed innovation, and the only opposi
tion expected, if any, is from the South.
The Baltimore & Ohio officials, say the ob
ject of the change is to compel persons who
want unlimited tickets to pay separate
fares from point to point along their lines.
Personal, Iocal and General Notes.
The four Mackey lines earned in the first
week of March S.67.5SG; increase over 1SD0,
$S,977. - ,
The freight committee of the Chicago it
Ohio River lines will meet in Cincinnati
to-morrow.
Tho Big Four lines earnod in the first
week of January $2o5,522.51;: increase over
1S1X),
President Breyfogle, of the Louisville,
New Albany fc Chicago roart, who has been
East for several weeks, isiexpefcted West
to-day.
The Ohio Falls car-wovks. at Jefferson
ville. last week placed an torder with the
Ohio Falls iron-works, atNew Albany, for
COO tons of castings.
The office of train-disp atcher and train
master on the Louisville. . Evansvilie fc St.
Louis road has been consolidated, and II.
E. Craft put in charge.
The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago
road earned in the tirfct week of March
515,749; increase over 390, 84,049. The . in
crease since Jan. 1 is $54,513.
Both Toledo and Pittsburg como under
the supervision of W.- L. Bowels, who is
commercial agent of the Wabash, with
headquarters at (JvelancL.
L N. Hutchinson, formerly master me
chanic of the Columbus & Hocking; Val
ley road, has taken a similar position on
the Columbus, Shawnee & Hocking road.
W. E. Hodges, whro, for ten years past,
baa been assistant to the genoral manager
of the Burlington &rMissouri road, is to re
tire to take ffervice Tfith a'prominent ex
port house.
C. K. Lord, vico-rfpresident, and Charles
Scull, genoral passenger agent, of the Bal
timore & Ohio roml. who spent last week
in the West, returned to Baltimore on Sat
urday night. c
F. P. Heyle, who has been general agent
of the Lake Erie &, Western road for some
years at Bloomington, 111., will, on the 25th,
retire from that position to engage in com
mercial pursuits. 1
Arthur Hahn, for some years agent of the
Michigan Central at Michigan City, has
been transferred to Grand Rapids. Mich.
G. M. West, of Now Buffalo, succeeds lit.
Hahn at Michigan City.
The stock of tho Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy on Saturday last touched the low
est point in the last thirty years, and. there
has been but one year in tne history of thcK
company that the shook sold as low.
Division Superintendent Miller was in
the city yesterday. He states that his
father, J. F. Miller, general superintendent
of the Pennsylvania Company's Southwest
ern system, is much improved in health,
and will probably be ready for duty in a
day or two.
Telegraph operators on the Colorado
divisions of the Union Pacific havo been
notified that they must sever their con
nections with the Order of Railway
Telegraphers or retire from tho service of
the company.
The affairs of the Wabash have taken a
favorable turn. In the first week of March
the road earned $28,700, an increase over
1890 of $17,000. This is the first week, with
one exception, that an increase has been
shown over last year.
J. P. Maurer, an engineer of the Ken
tucky Central road, died on Saturday
nigh, after a brief illness. He was ono of
the veteran engineers on the road,' and a
very prominent member of tho Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers.
One of the officials of the Toledo & Ohio
Central has made the grave mistake of
issuing an order to the effect that any em
ploye who gives information to a newspa
per reporter will be summarily dismissed
from the service of the company.
The Rio Grande Western is the banner
road of tho country thus far this year as
regards an increase in earnings. In Febru
ary the road showed an increase of 85 pt r
ceut. over February. 1890. and it is stated
that its net earnings will be fully as satis
factory. L. M.Hopkins, who has been paymaster
on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road,
has been promoted to the position of audi
tor of the passenger department, and R. S.
Emmett, assistant paymaster, has been ap-
)ointed paymaster, with Thomas Vhite as
11s assistant.
Samuel Felton. jr., president of the Queen
& Crescent end East Tennessee. Virginia fc
Georgia roads, who has been East for some
weeks, has returned to Cincinnati. Should
some o facial changes be announced on these
systems within tho next ten days, it will
not be a surprise.
The Grand Trunk refuses to accept the
one-thonsand-milo tickets of the Cincin
nati, Hamilton & Dayton road. The
former will be the most affected in its
business, as th C, II. & D. is a better
feeder to tho Grand Trunk than tho latter
is to the C, H. & D.
As an economical measure the manage
ment of tho Louisville, Evansvilie it St.
Louis road has closed its telegraph offices
at Chandler. Tennyson, Crisney, Troy,
Ferdinand and at the V. & C. Junction,
and the telegraph station at King's Station
has been removed to Wayne.
The shipments of sugar westward are
heavy beyond parallel. It is said that there
is profit of 75,000 to the railroads in the
great through lines for every 1,000 loads
of sugar shipped from New York or JBoeton
to points west of the Mississippi river, and
fully 50 per cent, of the p'reseut ship
ments are billed to such points.
The Louisville, New Albauy & Chicago
will soon put on an accommodation train
each way between Lafayette and French
Lick Springs. This train will connect with
the Indianapolis it Vincennes road both
wave, and will enable Indianapolitans to
go to French Lick Springs in the evening
and return the next morning, if desired.
Tho Pennsylvania Company, which owns
the Empiro fast-freight line, is cutting
down tho expenses of tho liue hy enlarging
the territory of its ngouts. William Har
vey, who is m charge of their business at
Kansas City, has had his territory extend
ed to Include all points on the Missouri
river, including Atchison and St. Josaph.
W. R. Woodard, late general manager of
the Monon and the Louisville Southern
railroads, has accented the position of gen
eral manager of the Kentucky and Indi
ana bridge, its terminals, the Louisville and
New Albany ferry, the New Albany street
car system, and the New Albany Belt and
Terminal Railway Company. Ilis appoint
ment goes into effect at once. The ollice of
superintendent, held by Mr. A. J. Porter,
was abolished, and its unties will hereafter
be cared for by Mr. Woodard.
The Louisville, Evauaville& St Louis
road labors nnder some disadvantages
which will be remedied doubtless when
some wealthy corporation gets control of
it. There are a number of tunnels on the
line, and . thev are neither high nor wide
enough to admit of the largest build of
passenger equipments of freight cars run
ning through them. The furniture and
buggy cars now in use on many roads are
as large as the largest Pullman build of
sleeping coaches. For ordinary cars, how
ever, the tunnels aro of ample dimensions.
Under a recent order all the brass-work
nnd bright pieces of the locomotives on the
Pennsylvania lines east and west of Pitts
burg are being painted black, to save
scouring. This is the result of tho recent
conference with grievanco committees. In
speaking of this matter, an old engineer re
marked yesterday that when he was a fire
man the brass work on the engine was the
pride of the fireman. The more there was
of it and tho brighter it shone, the better
was he pleased. Then firemen, however,
received less than one-half tho pay they
now do.
The Central Traffic Association is recog
nizing the Big Four men. J. J. Fletcher,
assistant general freight agent at St Louis,
was made vice-chairman of the committee
on relations with Southern roads; Albert 8.
White, holding the same position, with
headquarters at Cincinnati, was appointed
a member of this committee: Ford Wood,
holding the same position, with headquar
ters at Indianapolis, was appointed a mem
ber of the committee on salt and lumber,
and A. B. Hough, assistant general fn ight
agent, with headquarters at Cleveland,
was appointed a member of the iron com
mittee. ;
THE FIFTY-FIKST CONGRESS.
A Body That Worked Faithfully and Ac
complished Much A Good Kecord.
Tho Independent.
No Congress that has sat in the legislative
halls at Washington for half a century has
so strong a claim to be considered a work
ing Congress as that which has just ad
journed. Tho wonder is that it was enabled to ac
complish so much. It could not possibly
have done half as much as it did do if it
had not inaugurated a most important
chance in its rules. For this change every
body knows that Speaker Reed is responsi
ble. His political enemies will not allow
him Boon to forget it, and his political
friends will never cease to honor him forit
His conduct has been characterized by his
political opponents as high-handed, auto
cratic, revolutionary and unconstitutional,
and he himself has been denominated tho
Czar,' ' and ail because ho favored the adop
tion of a rule which should allow the
majority to exercise tho responsibility of
enacting legislation. In the Fiftieth Con
gress ono man, Congresman Weaver, under
the operation of time-honored precedent
was allowed to keep the House- in suspense
and block the wheels of legislation for two
weeks at a time. This was an absurd
recognition of the rights of a minority of
one. Speaker Reed has broken that pre
cedent and has made it possible for the
majority of Congress, whether Republican
or Democratic, to proceed in a delib
erate, business-like way with the legisla
tion which it deems necessary toenact. This
cbauge alono would reflect honor upon the
Fifty-first Congress.
When we add to this the fact that eo
many excellent laws havo been enacted for
the development of national industries, the
extension and improvement of our mail
and commercial facilities, the opening of
new territory, the adding of new States,
the suppression of such nuisances as the
lottery business and as race track gambling
at the capital, and the extension of justice
to the claimants under the French spolia
tion cases, we have said quite enough to
establish the title of the Fifty-first Con
gress 16 tho respect and gratitude of the
peoplo of this country.
It has 'served the country well and faith
fully, not only in what it has enacted, but
in what it has refused to enact It must
not be forgotten that it is the Republican
House that has saved the country from the
evils of free silver coinage. A Congress
with 6uch a record may be pardoned for its
failure to enact such needed legislation as
the bankruptcy act, tho alcoholic inquiry
bill, the army reorganization bill, and the
interstate-commerce bill. .
It is to the credit of the lower house that
it passed the federals elections bill and
thus redeemed the solemn pledge made by
the party in 18$d. It is to the discredit of
the Senate that tho Democratic members,
assisted byj a few. free-silver Republican?,
defeated that most just and needed measure
in the upper house. For that failure the
arty cannot reasonably be ' heid rcsponsi
!o. and yet for it the party will bo ccm
pelle.i to suffer. The whole responsibility
really belongs to those Senators who en
tered into a combination with the Demo
crats by which thev agreed to defeat the
federal elections bill- in return for Demo
cratic help in passing a free-coinage bill. If
the combination succeeded in defeating the
elections bill, it is a great comfort to know
that it failed in the great object it had of
securing tho unlimited coinage of silver.
The appropriations havo been very large
in comparison with those of the previous
Congress much larger, wo believe, than
they ought to have been. But this much is
to lie said in mitigation; tho previous Con
gress was very parsimonious, and cut' tho
appropriations down to so low a figure as
almost to cripple the postal service, and in
some cases United States courts had to ad
journ because there was no money for their
ordinary expenses.
MORALITY OP AvillSKY-MAKIJJG.
The Defense Set Up by the Bine-Grass Dis-
tUlers TVlio Manufacture Bourbon.
Letter In New York Tribune. - -
If you want to stir a distiller to eloquence,
all you have to do is to ask him how he re
gards himself as a moral agent Tho indus
try has been' so long . established in this
State that no native thinks of raising the
point and its leading lights suffer under
no such social stigma as attaches to them,
for instance, in Massachusetts. "Do I think
whisK.v-niakmg immoral!" says a "church
pillar," whose yearly productions run into
tho tens of thousands of barrels. No, why
should IT Man has always had somo kind
of alcoholic beverage, from the days of
Noah up. Look at the French. Thousands
of them live by the culture of the grape,
and other thousands by 'swapping' with
them articles neoded for the production
of wine. In Germany beer is drunk as
water; is drunk in America. Did the Ger
mans who fought at Gavelotto and Sedan
seem to have been injured by it? Look at
Bismarck, with bis distilleries, the Char
treuse monks, with their liquors, and the
Metternichs, with their vineyards. Out
side of supernatural personages there is
nobody, perhaps, that we revere more than
Washington. Vet he owned and operated
a distillers. So did good old Andrew Jack
son. Why, then, should we be ashamed! If
this thing has become a crime, when was it
made so, and who formulated the edictl
Think of the thousands of acres in Amen,
can vineyards that would bo closed up if
wo abolished it, and given over to tho birds
and the beasts. Think of the coopers and
the hoop-iron makers t but would be thrown
out of work and of the farmers who would
he injured by our failure to use the crop
surplus, which, after all, reg"es the
price of the general market sul y. I'll
tell you where the injurious use Wwhisky
comes in in its abuse. And who abuse it!
Those of the lowest order of morality. True,
a gifted man sometimes goes to pieces, but
gifted men go to pieces from other causes
than that. . No, I've thought about this
morality business as much as anybody, and
I know what I'm talking about If old
Socrates were to come back to earth, he
would class whisky among the useful
things, and not among the useless. The
corner-stone of temporal government, yes,
and of spiritual Kovernmtnt. too, is free
agency and individual responsibility. "Shall
we nevertheless ask the state to tie our
hands with prohibitive laws!"
"Wlicn to Sow Clover.
Farmers Iloine Journal. " .
Clover is usually sown between March
and April 1. and from eijfht to twelve
pounds of eeed per acre is the castomary
seeding. Many years ago I became satisfied
that such usage both as to time and quan
titv was not right. Three pounds of clover
Becd will sow an acre more thickly than
6eventy-tive pounds of wheat. The seed
itself will germinate with the certainty of
other leguminous types, and good practice
implies such conditions of semination as
will insure both the germination of the
seed and its preservation nutil its root be
comes firmly fixed in the earth, at and after
which time red clover is a very hardy plant
Wbiii wheat, ryo and barley are seeded
tho sov.lng ordinarily is on the unprepared
surface and at a time characterized by
rapid changes of temperature aad great at
mospheric movements. The sprouted seed
is lost while in tho crook," either ly sharp
frost or tho arid wind of a March afternoon
being on the surface and both root and
cotyledon exposed. If germinated clovor
sced bo exposed on moist llannelto compar
ative cold it will perish, but-if covered
with oue thickness of the same material at
a temperature of b above zero there is only
partial loss.
If the seed bo sown in January prefer
abl;: on. 6110 w the action of tho rain and
frost will cover it perfectly, and in many
years I have not failed to secure a perfect
stand with three or. at most, four nouuds
of tned per acre. Many of the best farmers
in the blue-crass region have adopted this
plan with perfect success. The only objec
tion to be urged is that on rich land tho
clover in wet seasons reaches so great a
height that it interferes with the rapid dry
ing of the sheaf. More money is annually
wasted in Kentucky by the inj udicions sow
ing of clover seed than her farmers expend
for agricultural literature.
SILVER, TARIFF AKI RECIPROCITY.
The Excellent Record of the Republican
Party on Financial Questions.
From an address tj non. John J. Knox. -
Fcr many reasons it is desirable that the
economic questions of free coinage, of the
tariff, and ofireciprocity. should enter into
the next campaign. It is nearly thirty years
since the State bank system of circulating
notes was overthrown, and millions of new
voters know nothing of the evils of a bad
currency which we experienced previous
to 1860. Under the old State bank sys
tem it was estimated that the loss to the
Eeople from the insolvent bank notes and
iph, nnconscoinabie rates of exchange
each twenty years ws more than equal to
all tho paper currency in circulation. Next
to the fall of slavery, the great compensa
tion of tho war was the uprooting of the'
evil Fystem and tho substitution of tho best
system of currency ever experienced ny any
country. It has been said that the educa
tional powers of a political campaign can
not. be overestimated. The two
great parties which then stand
face to face far outnumber any armies
which wero ever marshaled on any field of
battle. These two armies are composed not
alone of native-born citizens, but citizens
of almost every nation on the face of the
earth. They are composed of men who
have hiid experience in various forms of
government and believe in various forms of
religion; they represent still other millions
of women and children often deeply inter
ested in the result.
It is better, probably, that these two
great armies should nearly equal each
other in numbers and strength; it is a good
thing to have them watch each other closely
and expobo and take advantage of each
other's mistakes. Such a political cam
paign botween two such great armies is a
great training school, in which men are in
structed in their rights and their duties
as American citizens.
The Republican party has a bright record
upon all questions of finance. During and
succeeding tho war it fought out great bat
tles against bad systems of currency, and
triumphed. Against the advice of dema
gogues and of dishonest men in its own
ranks it paid principal and interest of its
funded debt in gold coin and triumphed at
homo and abroad. It has everything to
gain and nothing to lose in a great intel
lectual conflict upon economic questions,
for it is a party of intelligence, of good gov
ernment and of progress, and it is sure to
recruit from the ranks of the opposition as
rapidly as the voter is instructed in these
questions.
An Evil Combination
Atlanta Constitution.
The Memphis tragedy which, resulted in
the killing of Lawyer Poston by Lawyer
King, had three 6tages Bottle Bullet
Jtattla. It was the bullet in the middle
that did tho work, but the bottle was the
cause.
rarneUs Appeal for Himself and "Kitty."
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
Parnell in petticoats is rapidly becoming
an object of scorn to all Europe, and yet he
appeals to Irish-Americans for money to
maintain his establishment
DEsroNDExcv, caused by a diseased liver, can
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Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria.
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
"When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Hiss, she clung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria,
Children Cry for Pitcher's CastorlaJ
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