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Prosperity is coming, and all the silver
and calamity howlers in the country can
not prevent it.
Mayor Taggart says he stands squarely
on the Chicago free-ilver platform, but is
he quite sure of his footlng v The Chicago
platform has grown very wabbly.
Such headlines as “Gold by the Ton” are
likely to set the silver cranks to denouncing
newspapers, and particularly the fabricator
of startling statements In captions.
Cotton is a cent a pound higher than it
■was a year ago, which, on the crop of 7,000,-
000 bales, means an increase of $35,000,000 to
the Incomes of those who grow this staple.
When 180,000 immigrants bring with them
an average of less than $4 per capita in
money, as was the case during the last
fiscal year, the sooner such people are de
barred the better.
The House acted wisely in disposing of
the tariff bill last night. Probably the Sen
ate will act promptly, but as any member
can talk on forever to empty benches, it
Is impossible to make a prediction.
When Senator Stewart, of Nevada, is
found on the same side of the Union Pa
cific Railway question as was the president
it may be taken for granted that the plan
is a favorable one for the corporation.
The city of Indianapolis is of sufficient
importance to have the municipal election
devoted to the interests of the 175,000 peo
ple living within its limits rather than the
silver interests of a thousand mine owners.
Great Britain may be willing to let India
go into tho free silver arrangement with
the United States, but the offer will be de
clined with the remark that India and tlffe
United States are not in the same class as
peoples.
Mr. Wilson, of the celebrated Wilson bill,
will have no occasion to condole with Mr.
Dingley on the unpleasant necessity of hav
ing to father a bill not his own. After all
the to-do in the Senate it will be the Ding
ley bill in reality.
If it should turn out that the great gas
well in Pike county, which has a pressure
double that of any well in the eastern sec
tion of the State, means the discovery of a
new natural gas region, the Pocket of In
diana will be strictly in it.
The great wheat crop in Kansas, says
the correspondent ot the Chicago Record,
“means bread, food, hope, health and new
life to thousands ui n thousands who have
suffered from bad crops.” He might have
added that hope, health and new life means
the death of Populism in that State.
The loans of the banks of New York
city at the last report were $54,500,000 in ex
cess of the loans a year ago, two weeks
after the adjournment of the Bryan-Altgeld
national convention, while the net deposits
in these banks were over $107,000,000 in ex
cess of those a year ago. Still, there are
men howling to bring back just another
such scare.
Already various alleged experts are mak
ing figures to show that under the sugar
schedule as agreed to the Sugar Trust gets
more than it would have got by the Senate
bill. The differential is % of a cent a
pound. That was what the House con
ferees insisted on. If, when Congress meets
In December, the trust is showing any ar
rogance, it will bo easy to abolish the dif
ferential.
The mayor would interest thousands of
taxpayers in Indianapolis by furnishing the
press a carefully prepared statement of his
ideas regarding the propi sed park system
and the methods he would take to raise
the million of dollars which will be needed
to beautify a part of the land which has
been purchased. Such a statement would
not require scare headlines to insure a very
general reading.
Populist and demagogic papers are al
ways parading the profits of national banks
from their circulation. To banks in the
smaller cities circulation is of some conse
quence, but in the money centers it is not.
To illustrate, the capital stock of the na
tional banks of Boston aggregates $49,900,-
000, while their note circulation Is but $7,-
946,000. The capital of the Boston barks
would prevent them to issue $41,910,000 of
notes.
The unprecedented discoveries of gold
tuiv* oaueed some expression of opinion as
to its effect upon silver. Senator Allison is
reported us saying that it may tend to
bring the values of the two metals nearer
together. This would be possible if an ad
vance in the price of silver did not tend
to increase the output, as has been the
effect of ttn advance in the price in recent
years. Mr. Muhleman, of the New York
subtreasury, a recognized authority, ex
presses the opinion that an abundance of
gold will not stimulate the demand for
silver, without which the price will not
advance. The only hope he sees for silver
in connection with the greatly imreased
output of gold is that the rush new
fields will diminish the output of silver and
thus cause it to command a better jyrice.
He adds that “the great smelting com
panies which virtually control the produc
tion of silver are doing a profitable busi
ness, and no amount of gold mining ex
citement would be apt to lure them away
from a good thing.” The general expres
sion is that the discovery of gold in such
quantities as the reports from Alaska would
Indicate will have a remarkable effect upon
monetary conditions within a few years.
•Ml N (CIPAL ISSUES.
The absurdity of making the silver ques
tion an issue in the municipal election must
be evident to every person who has sense
or candor. A few uneasy and noisy place
seekers, W'ho have no other pretext, have
used the cry of free silver to combine the
elements opposed to Mayor Taggart. They
have found in an ex-brewer and capitalist
a candidate who is opposed to Mr. Taggart
because he is supposed to stand in with
the potential brewing interest in the city
which has compelled Mr. Maus to sell out.
Mr. Taggart is supposed to be on good
terms with most of the Democrats who
are identified with the business and the
industry' of the city—an element which
the leaders of the silver “push” hold in
detestation, because men of affairs —Demo-
crats and Republicans alike—have no use
for such incompetents. Mr. Taggart has
yielded to this noisy score of place seekers
and ward heelers, and the Democratic or
gan. which a little over _ year ago de
nounced free silverism, shouts that the
Democratic candidate will boa free silver
ite and stand upon the Chicago platform.
It is the most humiliating abdication of
personal and party independence to a score
I
of characterless ward bummers that can be
found.
Mr. Taggart has been mayor of Indianap
olis nearly two years. In that time lie has
made a record upon which a policy can be
based, and. if the record is a good one,
upon which a re-election can be demanded.
If the mayor -could show that his adminis
tration has been conducted with an eye to
business principles he would have no troub
le in his appeal for re-election even
if the silver “push” should put a
candidate in the field against him.
What the taxpayers of Indianapolis
desire is an administration of its affairs
upon business principles. This being the
case, all that Mayor Taggart has to do is
to show that the current expenditures have
not increased beyond the growth of the
city. If he can show that he has secured
greater results for the expenditure than
has any of his predecessors he may count
on an election. If he can suggest a busi
ness-like proposition which promises to
check the tendency to increased expendi
ture for city affairs, he cannot keep men
of all parties from voting for him en masse.
By the advice of Mayor Taggart, with
others, $350,000 of the bonds of the city
have been sold that money may be had for
the purchase of land for the park system.
That money is in the hands of the city
treasurer awaiting the decision of the Su
preme Court as to the constitutionality of
the act creating the park board. There is
doubt as to the mayor’s intentions regard
ing the purchase of lands in the north
eastern part of the city w r hich is necessary
to complete the proposed system. The $350,-
000 is but a fraction of the money which
will be needed to carry out the plans of
the park board. It is, therefore, of the ut
most importance to the taxpayers that they
should know' the policy of the mayor for
raising the million of dollars which will be
necessary to beautify the territory pur
chased for park purposes. Between a decla
ration in favor of stamping fifty cents'
worth of silver bullion one dollar and the
electing of a man as mayor who has a well
digested plan for raising the money and a
clear-cut proposition for its expenditure sp
that taxpayers and public, rather than fa
vorites, shall be benefited, there can be no
comparison.
Shall all these important interests, in
volving the welfare, the government and
the taxing of a large city be ignored that
the interests of a silver bullion combina
tion shall be advanced?
A SAD WARNING.
When Senators Teller, Pettigrew, Du
bois, Cannon and one or two others tear
fully and tragically walked out of the Re
publican national convention last year
they felt that they were pulling down tho
pillars which upheld the Republican party.
Many honest but timid Republicans looked
on in dismay. The bolters were evidently
surprised that the convention and the party
did not fall Into chaos. Subsequently they
were very angry to perceive that the party
not only survived their departure, but
seemed to be bettered by it. Such was the
case. Until that formal leave taking these
senators attended the Republican caucuses
and prevented unanimity of action. They
held places on committoes as Republicans,
but were not in sympathy with the Repub
lican party.
But what has been the fate of these men
who made such a parade of leaving the Re
publican party? As it was subsequently
developed, Senator Teller, while yet a pro
fessed Republican, was in a senatorial con
spiracy made up of such senators as Jones
of Arkansas, Harris of Tennessee, Vest of
Missouri, and others of the same complex
ion to make him the presidential candidate
of the silver Democratic party. If Bryan
had not broken into the convention, and,
with Altgeld, destroyed all coherency, the
conspiracy would have succeeded. Since
then Mr. Teller has been re-elected to the
Senate, but he has no influence even with
the Democrats. His mission is to scold. He
denounced the tariff bill for which he would
have spoken four years ago. Pettigrew, a
man of much less character and ability
than Teller, is sure to walk the political
plank at tho close of his term, no matter
which party shall havo the Legislature.
Dubois, the noisiest of tho coterie, is a
statesman without a job—one of the strol
ling trombone performers in the silver-mine
owners’ aggregation. In a state legislature
in which the Republicans were not over
one-third, he was ignominiously beaten in
spite of the strenuous efforts of the Demo
cratic national committee to induce the
Bryan members to support him, and a Pop
ulist who is not an orator silently fills the
seat to w hich he could have been re-elected
had he stood by the party which he de
serted to promote the speculation of those
interested in silver property. Mr. Cannon,
once a professed Republican and a protec
tionist, made a speech against the pro
tective tariff and voted with the free
traders. When it comes his time, not even
the Mormon hierarchy can save him his
seat, so insistent is the silver Democracy
of Utah. Collectively, Teller, Pettigrew
and Cannon are a trio of malcontents in
the Senate. If they speak it is to assail
other sections of the country than they
represent and to drag in the silver ques
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1897.
tion. They seem to be in the Senate for
no other purpose than to drag into every
issue their malignity consequent upon the
fact that the country will not permit itself
to be dragged down to silver monometal
lism.
As for the Republican party, it is better
off without them. Their leaving was the
best thing that could have happened for
the Republican party. Judging by their
conduct in the Senate their leaving was the
mistake of their lives.
VALUE OF THE SHERMAN METHOD.
Whoever has read the official communica
tions which pass between the representa
tives of different governments must have
been impressed with the studied effort to
be courteous and to express an opinion with
an accumulation of words designed either
to suppress it altogether or to give the im
pression that the diplomatic method of ex
pression is the thing that is chiefly impor
tant. That diplomatic correspondence is
chit fly noted for the length of time it cov
ers may be due to the style in which it is
written. For years after the war the diplo
matic correspondence over the Alabama
claims dragged along, while the two peo
ples were drifting into a pronounced hostil
ity. Finally, General Grant ha;l Secretary
Fish intimate in plain terms that it was
time to come to an understanding and to
suggest a joint commission. No long-wind
ed letters were written, but before a month
the British government sent its commis
sioners to the high joint commission and
the differences were adjusted. This was
because it had come to mean business. Sec
retary Sherman lias been criticised because
he lias written instructions to Embassador
Hay in language plain to understand, in
dicating that the British government had
failed to keep its agreement in regard to
tho wearisome seal fishery dispute, and
that it is time to have the matter adjusted.
The British press goes into the air in very
undiplomatic language because the lan
guage is not that employed in diplomacy.
The charge is possibly true. Mr. Sherman
has always used plain language which ev
erybody could understand. He has always
been in earnest in w’riting and speaking,and
has used the forceful language of an earn
est man. Perhaps he has been disgusted
with the style of diplomatic correspondence
and has adopted his own. It is hoped that
he has, and thait others who succeed him
will follow' his example. It will be a great
gain in such correspondence to have cases
stated clearly and earnestly, since those
who receive lively communications will con
clude that such unusual earnestness de
mands immediate attention. It is more
than probable that Secretary Sherman will
hear from the British Foreign Office much
more promptly than if he had languidly
expressed his opinions in the vapid form
ality which characterizes diplomatic cor
respondence. There is reason to believe
that it will bo good policy to make the
Sherman terseness and directness the char
acteristics of the correspondence of the
United States with other nations. "
Last year one of the statisticans and
economists who rendered the Bryan party
assistance was Alexander Del Mar, but now'
Mr. Del Mar seems to have repudiated his
late friends. In an article in Gunton’s Mag
azine entitled “The Future of Gold,” he
refers to the present as the “third era” of
gold production. Tills period is “that of
producing gold systematically and econom
ically” instead of “plundering as in the first
era and finding it as i;i the second.” Gold
production is now an organized business.
But the point in Mr. Del Mar’s article
which is worthy of most attention is the
frank admission that his former views re
garding ihe free coinage of silver were
erroneous. On this point he says:
In my humble opinion the silver question
in its late form is settled forever. 1 do not
mean by this that the question of money
is settled, but the free coinage of silver, as
advocated in the recent political campaign.
The reason for this opinion is a physical
one; it belongs to mining and metallurgy.
The reason is that gold and silver are com
monly found in the same districts and oft
en in the same mines, and that since the
demonetization of silver the miners have
turned so largely from the production of
silver to that of gold, and the methods of
producing gold have so greatly improved,
that all fears of a scarcity of gold have
passed away, and thus one c * the principal
reasons for wishing to restore silver upon
its former footing has lost its basis in fact.
The reports from the silver States show
that since the election they have been pros
perous. The advance in the price of w'heat
has already been worth much to the farmers
in North Dakota and Montana, and will be
worth much more when the new tariff goes
into effect. In Denver the bank rate has
fallen from 10 and 12 per cent, to 5 and 6
per cent. In all the new' States, in. Minn
esota, lowa, Illinois and Indiana, the re
ports show a decrease of the mortgages on
farms. It is evident that the time is near
at hand when the wail of the demagogue
over the oppressed mortgage burdened will
fall upon deaf ears.
The Republican senators who promised
the silver free-traders and the different
kinds of silver senators who constitute half
the Senate that if they would permit a
tariff bill to be passed the Republicans
would not legislate or attempt to legislate
on the money question, should have notified
the President of the fact and thus saved
him the embarrassment the announcement
of a message in favor of a currency com
mission caused him. It is now asserted that
this promise of the senators, which was
not knowrn to the President, is the cause
of the delay of the message.
An Exceptional Case,
Mr. Frank McLaughlin, publisher and
chief owner of the Philadelphia Times, who
died last week, began life as a typesetter,
and this story is told of the way in which
his prosperity began: One day during the
neon hour, when the foreman and most of
the printers w r ere away at dinner, a rich
broker came in with a stock list which he
wished printed at once. It was not a com
plicated piece of work, and two men could
easily nave put it in type in fifteen min
utes. Young McLaughlin cheerfully agreed
to undertake the job and “rush it,” and,
after receiving the copy, cut it in two and
handed half to another printer, asking him
to help, as the broker w'as in a hurry. The
other man grumbled about having no
chance to eat his dinner, so McLaughlin
said, “Never mind,” and taking the copy
out of his hands set up both pieces himself.
The broker meanwhile sat near, apparently
absorbed in a newspaper, but with his eyes
open to what was going on. The next day
he sent for the young man and offered him
SSOO for printing the stock list every day for
one month. "But it is not worth that
much,” answered the printer, “it is worth
that much to me to have it done as you did
it yesterday,” was the reply. It is hardly
necessary to say that McLaughlin under
took the job. At the expiration of the
month the contract waS extended to three
times that period, and then to twelve
months, with an annual recompense of
$6,000.
With money saved from this work the
young man established himself in business
and rose rapidly to wealth, though it is not
related that any more citizens volunteered
to pay fancy prices for work. This inter
esting incident is being u.°t l by moralizing
newspapers as an example of what polite
ness and attention to business at all hours
will do for a young man, and the ambitious
youth is urged to profit by it. McLaugh
lin's method, says one paper, rather too
enthusiastically, is “one that never fails to
bring advancement and success.” This is
somewhat misleading. Faithfulness to
work has its advantages and its rewards,
but the young man who, on the strength of
it, expects to have an income of $6,000 a
year thrust upon him therefor is likely to
be disappointed. On the contrary,
he is likely to find that the
customer in whose interest he
spends his dinner hour is given to grum
bling because he doesn’t get through his
work quicker and to complaining when
asked to pay regular rates. Rich brokers
are not going about in these days seeking
young men whom they may advance in life.
Mr. McLaughlin was very fortunate in en
countering a benefactor of this sort, but ho
might have been equally faithful to his
employer’s interests without further re
ward than his own self-approval. To say
that pecuniary prosperity invariably fol
lows such conduct is of the same piece as
tho assurance that every boy lias the
chance of being President.
Asa general thing tfcie Journal finds itself
able to commend the Indiana girl and her
doings, and is proud to do so, but there are
occasions when approval is impossible. One
of these presents itself in the case of
a young woman of Bloomington, Ind., who
is now down in Lexington, Ky„ declaring
her faithfulness to the memory of Mr.
Thomas Merritt, of whose murder Jacob
Harris has just been acquitted. Mr. Harris
found Mr. Merritt in company with his
wife and shot him. Merritt was engaged to
be married to the Indiana girl and the wed
ding day was sot for next month. Mean
while he had borrowed her watch and
jewelry and had distributed them about
among fair but frail Lexington maidens.
She has been down there redeeming her
property and incidentally assuring the peo
ple she meets that she cherishes nothing
against his memory for his conduct and
has nothing but good words for him. She
thinks he was “misled by some peculiar in
fluence,” and knows that he was “always a
perfect gentleman.” She has taken up
some of the sod where his blood was spilled
and will plant it in her dooryard. Her ideas
as to what constitutes a perfect gentle
man are cerfainly peculiar and badly in
need of revision. She had better leave that
sod in Kentucky and go home and avoid
further acquaintance of “gentlemen” like
the late Merritt, /
Official war has been declared on the Jer
sey mosquito, and if the plans of the state
geologist and the state engineer are car
ried out he will be exterminated. It will
cost something like a million and a half
dollars to destroy him, according to the es
timates made, but the engineer thinks that
it would pay the cities of Newark, Eliza
beth, Hackensack and others to bear the
expense for the relief afforded in getting
rid of the pest. The real purpose of the
plan, it may be well to explain, is concealed
under the ostensible one of draining and
reclaiming the marsh lands and meadows
which serve as a breeding ground for the
objectionable insect, and which, with smells
that outdo those of the city of Cologne,
make New Jersey travel hideous. It was
probably thought that the taxpaying pub
lic could be more easily brought to favor
so large an outlay if the plea were the im
provement of real estate than if it were the
destruction of the mosquito; but unless the
native Jerseyman has acquired a tougher
cuticle than the stranger within his borders
he should welcome the prospect of getting
rid of the best-known product of his State at
any cost, and the more widely the result is
advertised the better. Once let it be known
that the mosquito is gone, and New Jersey
real estate will rise in price without further
assistance. m
It is announced that Hon. Willian Dudley
Foulke’s life of Governor Oliver P. Morton,
on which he has been engaged for several
years, is now ready for the publisher. Mr.
Foulke is admirably qualified for the prepa
ration of such a work and has devoted
much labor to it. so that a valuable contri
bution to Indiana literature may be looked
for. Governor Morton’s public life was
coincident with the most stirring period of
Indiana history, so that his biography must
necessarily include that history, and the
book will therefore have a double im
portance.
At the rate Congress is hurrying up the
tariff bill in the last few days it looks as if
the members might have caught the Alaska
fever.
The prospect of finding gold in Alaska is
doubly enticing at this time of year, with
the mercury fluttering around the nineties.
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
How Slie Won.
There was a fair young prima donna,
Who, as a success, was a stonna
It w'as not her voice
That mad’e her the choice,
But the clothes that she didn’t have onna.
Vicissitudes of War.
“Bah!” said the old soldier. "You never
saw a battle, except in a picture.”
“No,” admitted the young man, “I never
did. But 1 \have been on the sam’e street
with a policeman who was shooting at .a
dog.”
. Called Him Down.
“You may notice,” said the first violin,
“that Billigerheim is not boasting any more
that he can play a tune on any wind in
strument that ever was invented.”
“Yes,” said the bass drummer, “I have
noticed already. What is the reason?”
“Oh, I fixvd him last Saturday. I took
him up to the weather bureau.”
There M ere Others.
“Some of these composers,” said the gar
rulous boarder, “make pretty good money.
I understand that ’The Heart Bowed Down’
netted its author $25,000.”
“I know' of one,” said the boarder who
had the air of one wiio had lived and
loved and seen better days, “that netted a
young woman nearly twice that amount.”
At the Charities Convention.
Toronto Letter.
The paper of Ernest Bicknell, secretary
of the Board of State Charities of Indiana,
on observations of outdoor relief was much
discussed. That system of relief has been
much abused in his State; the paper showed
that in some townships of Indiana public
outdoor relief had been given to one in
every eight of the persons in the township;
others showed one to eleven ar.d one in
thirteen. In the county in which is the city
of Indianapolis t he rate was one in fifteen.
“Thousands of dollars spent on homes to
maintain children in crime,” was the way
Mr. Bicknell put It. In speaking on this
paper Dr. Walk, of Philadelphia, thought
w'hen it could possibly be done out-of-door
public relief should be abolished. The city
of Denver, Col., appropriates SIO,OOO a year
to the charity organization society, and
gives no city out-of-door relief. One speak
er observed that out-of-door relief and pov
erty have no connection, but out-of-door
relief and pauperism have. Any town can
have just as many paupers as it wants.
The passing of paupers from one city to
another was dubbed interstate pauperism.
The question arising out of this discussion
was: How can the poor be kindly provided
for and the taxpayer protected; also how
to save money on out-of-door relief, but
not at the expense of the suffering of the
poor.
Surest Way.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
The surest method of distinguishing a
toadstool from a mushroom is to eat It.
If you die it is a toadstool, if you live it
is a mushroom.
Work for Bryan.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Gold has broken the record in Mexico by
going to a premium of 11312- Mr. Bryan is
needed there to ferret out the crime against
silver.
the new Schedule.
(Concluded from First Fuse.)
and common window glass, but retained the
Senate rates and language on polished, cyl
inder and crown glass.
In the paragraph (103) relating to fluted,
rolled, ribbed or rough plate glass the Sen
ate rates and language were retained, ex
cept that the House proviso to the effect
“that all the above plate glass,when ground,
smoothed or otherwise obscured, shall be
subject to the same rate of duty as cast,
polished plate glass unsilvered.”
The Senate rates were retained on cast,
polished plate glass, both unfinished and
silvered, as provided in Paragraphs 104 and
105.
The House rate of 10 per cent, ad valorem,
in addition to other rates chargeable on
window, crown, cylinder or plate glasses,
where those glasses are bent, ground, frost
ed. etc., is reduced to 5 per centum.
The conference adopted the Senate
amendments in Paragraph 108. relating to
spectacles, eyeglasses, etc., with one excep
tion.
Paragraph 112. relating to stained or
painted glass windows remains practically
as left by the Senate.
The two houses compromised the rate on
freestone, granite anil sandstone, unmanu
factured or undressed, making it 12 cents
per cubic foot.
AGRICULTURAL RATES.
Agricultural Schedule—Raw cotton, which
the Senate made dutiable at the rate of 20
per cent, ad valorem, was restored to the
free list.
Paragraph 21S, relating to cat-lie, as it
passed the Senate was changed somewhat
as to rates, $3.75 being fixed as th'e rate
on cattle valued at not more than sl4 per
head instead of $3.50, while an ad valorem
ra,e of 27 J /a per cent, ad valorem w-as fixed
on cattle of a greater value, instead of 25
per cent, in the Senate amendment.
The difference between the two houses on
b'oans was compromised, being made 45
cents per bushel.
The duty on seeds not specially provided
for was made 30 per cent., the Senate rate
being 25 and the Hous’e rate 40 per cent.
The paragraph in regard to packed fish
was amended as fixed by the Senate so as
to be made to apply specifically to fish in
packages.
Paragraph 201 was amended so as to spe
cifically provide fresh mackerel, hali
but or salmon should be dutiable at the
rate of 1 cent per pound, as well as the
pickled or salted article.
Paragraph 202. in regard to appi'es, etc.,
was amended so as to omit currants, and
the House rate of 2 cents per pound on such
dried fruits as apples, peaches, pears and
berries prepared in any mann’er was re
stored.
The grape paragraph was altered so as
to require the payment of 20 cents per
cubic Toot “of the capacity of u.e barrels
or packages.”
Orange and lemon peels preserved and
cocoanut meal, etc., were restored to the
Hous'e rate of 2 cents per pound.
On pineapples the Senate rate was re
tained.
On unshelled filberts and walnuts the
House rate of 3 cents per pound prevailed,
while on shelled filberts and walnuts the
Senate rate of 5 cents per pound was sus
tained.
The conference struck out the Senate
amendment providing for a duty of 2 cents
per pound on dead game and game meats.
Paragraph 282 relating to cocoa was
amended by the leaving out of cocoanut oil.
A compromise between the House and the
Senate rates on cattle is agreed to. In
general the duties proposed on agricultural
products are the same as those in the act
of 1830. Oranges and lemons are raised
from the House rate of three-fourths of 1
cent a pound to the Senate rate of 1 cent.
Fish are placed at rates a little higher than
those which were provided by the act of
1830 and a little lower than the House rates.
The conference made but one change in
the schedule relating to spirits, wines, etc.,
proper. The Svnate rate of 30 cents per
gallon on still- wines containing less than
14 per cent, of absolute alcohol in packages
was changed to 40 cents per gallon. The
House rate was 60 cents. The races on min
eral waters were compromised, being made
20 cents per dozen pint bottles, 30 cents p'er
dozen quart bottles. House rate was 40
cents and the Senate race was 24 cents.
Cotton and Cotton Goods—The duty of 20
per cent, on imported cotton as provided by
the Senate is not agreed to, for the reason
that the only cotton imported is Egyptian
cotton, which is a quality between our up
lands and sea island, and not produced
here. The cotton schedule, as a whole, re
mains substantially the same as in the bill
as it passed the House. The changes are
mainly in the high grades of cotton under
wear, with some modifications of hosiery.
Paragraph 302 in relation to cotton thread
and carded yarn was amended by the- con
ference so as to provide that thread colored,
bleached, combed, etc., so as to be advanced
beyond the condition of singles by grouping
or twisting of tw-o or more single yarns, on
all numbers exceeding twenty and up to
eighty, are made dutiable at Y* of a cent
per number per pound, and on threads of
the same class numbered eighty and above
3-10 of a cent per pound per number. In
the original House bill there was no divirion
as to numbers, all being made dutiable at
rate of 3-10 of a cent per number per pound.
The Senate left the House rate of 3-10
of a cent on the first division and pro\ided
an ad valorem of 50 per cent, on the second.
A portion of that part of Paragraph 315,
relating to plushes, velvets, etc., which was
stricken out by the Senate, was inserted,
though in changed form. The insertion is
a proviso to the effect "‘that corduroys
composed of cotton or other vegetable fiber
weighing seven ounces or over per square
yard shall pay a duty of IS cents per square
yard and 25 per centum ad valorem.”
In Paragraph 329 the Senate amendments
are all accepted, except that reducing the
rate on cotton suspenders and braces from
45 to 40 per cent, ad valorem. The para
graph inserted by the Senate (319V£) pro
viding for an additional duty of 10 per cent,
ad valorem on all cotton yarns finer than
No. 10 single and on all manufactures made
of such yarns was stricken out by the con
ference.
Flax, Hemp and Jute and Manufactures—
The Senate changes in hemp and flax are
adopted. Compromise rates on manufac
tures of jute, flax, etc., are agreed to, the
object being to develop the industry in this
country. The Senate amendments to place
burlaps, bags, cotton bagging and straw
matting on the free list are disagreed to,
and these manufactures placed on the duti
able list at reduced rates.
The thread paragraph is a compromise
between the two houses making the duty
of 13 cents per pound on threads made from
yarn not finer than five lea or number and
3 i of 1 cent per pound additional for each
lea or number in excess of five made from
yarn finer than five lea or number.
There is also a change in the next para
graph relating to single yarns in the gray,
reducing the Senate rate on yarns not fin
er than 80 lea or number to 40 per cent,
ad valorem, which is a compromise be
tween the two houses.
Floor mattings, which are taken from the
free list, where they were placed by the
Senate, are made dutiable at 3 cents per
square yard where their value does not
exceed 10 cents per square yard and at 7
cents per square yard and 25 per cent, ad
valorem where their value exceeds 10 cents
per square yard.
Bags or sacks made from plain woven
fabrics and bagging for cotton, gunny
cloth and similar fabrics were taken from
the free list and the language of the House
practically restored in noth instances. On
bags the rate was made % of a cent per
pound and 15 per cent, ad valorem.
On bagging the rate was made 6-10 of a
cent per square yard and no ad valorem.
The Senate rate on handkerchiefs was ac
cepted.
Wool and Woolens—The House rates on
wool of 11 cents on Class 1 and 12 cents
on Class 2 are adopted, and the Senate
specific rates on carpet wools agreed to
with a modification raising the dividing line
so as to place a duty of 4 cents per pound
on such wools valued at 12 cents and less
and 7 cents on such wools valued at more
than 12 cents. The duties on manufactures
of wool are placed at substantially the same
rates as in the act of 1890.
DISPUTED WOOL ITEMS.
TlYe changes in the wool schedule made
in conference leave the duties on disputed
items as follows:
Paragraph 354—The duty on wools of the
first-class which shall be imported washed
shall be twice the amount of th’e duty to
v/hich they would be subjected imported
unwashed; and the duty on wools of the
first and second classes which shall be im
ported scoured shall be thi'ee times the
duty to w’hich they w r ere subjected if im
ported unwashed. The duty on wools of
the third class if imported in condition for
use in carding or spinning into yarns or
which shall not contain more than 8 per
cent, of dirt or other foreign substance
shall be three times the duty to which they
would otherfise be subjected. The confer
ence restored the House rates on first and
second class wool.
Paragraph 358 —On w’ools of the third class
and on camels’ hair of the third class th’e
value whereof shall be 12 cents or less per
pound the duty shall tA? 4 cents per pound.
Paragraph 359—0n wools of the third class
and on camels’ hair of the third class the
value whereof shall exceed 12 cents per
pound the duty shall be 7 cents j/er pound.
Paragraph 362 Shoddy, 25 cents per
pound; noils, wool extract, yarn waste,
thread waste and all other wastes, com
posed wholly or in part of wool and not
specially provided for in this act, 20 cents
per pound.
Paragraph 265—0n yarns made wholly or
in part of wool valued at not more than
3D cents per pound the duty per pound shall
be two and one-half times the duty im
posed by this act on one pound of unwashed
wool on the first class; valued at more than
30 cents per pound, the duty shall be three
and one-half times the duty imposed by
this act on one pound of unwashvd wool
of the first class and in addition thereto,
on all the foregoing, 40 per cent ad valorem.
Paragraph 367—0n blankets and flannels
for underwear composed wholly or in part
of wool valued at not more than 40 c-vnts
per pound the duty per pound shall be the
same as the duty imposed by this act on
two pounds of unwashed wool of the first
class and in addition thereto 30 per cent,
ad valorem: valued at more than 40 cents
and not more than 50 cents per pound, the
duty per pound shall be three times the
duty imposed by this act on one pound of
unwashed wool of the first class and in
addition thereto 35 per cent, ad valorem.
On blankets composed wholly or in part of
wool, valued at more than 50 cents per
pound, the duty per pound shall be three
times the duty imposed by this act on or.v
pound of unwashed wool of the first class,
and in add'tion thereto 40 per cent, ad
valorem. Flannels, composed wholly or in
part of wool, valued at above 50 cents per
IHiund shall Re classified and pay the sumo
duty as women's and children’s dress goods,
coat linings. Italian cloths and goods of
similar character and description provided
by this act; provided, that on blankets over
three yards in length the same duties shall
be paid as on cloths.
Paragraph 370—0n clothing already made
and articles of wearing apparel of every
description, including shawls, whether
knitted or woven, and knitted articles of
every description made up or manufactured
wholly or in part, felts, not woven and not
specially provided for in this act, composed
wholly or in part of wool, the duty per
pound shall be four times the duty imposed
bv this act on one pound of unwashed wool
of tire tirst class, and in addition thereto
60 per cent, ad valorem.
DUTY ON CARPETS.
Paragraph 372 Aubusson, Axminsfor,
mouquette and chenille, carpets, figured or
plain, and all carpets or carpeting of like
character or descriptions, 60 cents per
square yard, and in addition thereto, 40 per
cent, ad valorem.
Paragraph 373—Saxony, Wilton and Tour
nay velvet carpets, figured or plain, and
all carpets or carpeting of like character
or description, 60 cents per square yard,
and in addition thereto 40 per Cent, ad
valorem.
Paragraph 374—Brussels carpets, figured
or plain, and all carpets or carpeting of
like character or descriptions 44 per cent,
ad valorem.
Paragraph 375—Velvet and tap’estry velvet
carpets, figured or plain, printed on the
warp or otherwise, and all carpets or car
peting of like character or description 40
cents per square yard, and in addition
thereto 40 per cent, ad valorem.
Paragraph 376—Tapestry brussels carpets,
figured or plain, and all carpets or carpet
ing of like character or descriptions, print
ed on the warp or otherwise, 28 cents per
square yard, and in addition th'ereto 40
per cent, ad valorem.
Paragraph 377—Treble Ingrain, three-ply,
and all chain Venetian carpets, 22 cents
per square yard, and in addition thereto
40 per Cent, ad valorem.
Paragraph 378—W00l Dutch and two-ply
ingrain carpets, 18 cents per square yard,
and in addition thereto 40 per cent, ad
valorem.
Silks—The duties on silks remain at sub
stantially the same rates as provided by
the House.
The conference accepted Paragraph 386 as
amended by the Senate with the addition of
the words “or plush” before ribbons in the
first line, making plush ribbons dutiable at
$1.50 per pound and 15 per cent, ad valorem.
Paragraph 387, relating to woven silk
fabrics, was accepted as amended by the
Senate, except that the rate on cloth ether
than black dyed in the thread or yarn rr.d
weighted in the dyeing so as to exceed
the original weight of the raw silk was
changed from $2.25 per pound to $2.50 per
pound and that on cloth dyed or printed in
the piece from $3.25 to $3.50.
Paragraph 391, relating to manufactures
of silk. Is changed so as to modify the
description of jacquard figured goods by
providing that they shall be “made on
looms” and that they should be “dyed in
the yarn and contain two or more coiois in
the, filling.” The rate is left at 50 per cent,
ad valorem.
Paper and Pulp—The duties on wrood pulp
for paper and on paper are converted into
specific form at substantially the present
ad valorem rate, with a pioviso added for
an additional duty as against any country
that imposes an export duty on pulp or
woods. The duties on manufactures of
paper are substantially as they passed the
House.
On mechanically ground wood pulp the
House rate of 1-12 of 1 cent per pound dry
weight, was restored.
The paragraph in regard to printing paper
was entirely rewritten. As amended it is
as follows: “Printing paper, unsized, sized
or glued, suitable for books and news
papers, valued at not above 2 cents per
pound, 3-10 of a cent per pound; valued
above 2 cents and not above 21? cents per
pound, 4-10 of 1 cent per pound; valued be
tween 2*2 and 3 cents per pound, 5-10 of 1
cent; valued between 3 and 4 cents, 6-10 of
1 cent; valued between 4 and 5 cents, 8-10
of a cent; valued above 5 cents, 15 per
cent, ad valorem.”
There is also a proviso exacting an addi
tional duty of 1-10 of a cent per pound for
each dollar of export duty per cord im
posed by any country exporting wood pulp
to the United tSates.
There are numerous changes in the para
graph relating to lithographic prints. The
rates on such prints on paper not exceed
ing 8-1000 of an inch in thickness is re
duced from the Senate rate of 25 cents per
pound to 20 cents.
The next classification covers paper rang
ing from 35 to 400 square inches, fixing the
rate at 8 cents per pound. For paper ex
ceeding 400 square inches a rate of 35 per
cent, ad valorem is fixed. The Senate
rate on prints is reduced from 10 to 5 cents
and on lithographs from 9 to 6.
Books for children’s use containing illumi
nated lithographic prints not exceeding in
weight twenty-four ounces each, and all
booklets and fashion magazines or period
icals, printed in whole or in part by litho
graphic process or decorated by hand, 8
cents per pound.”
The Senate rate of 20 cents per pack and
20 per cent, ad valorem fixed on playing
cards w-as reduced to 10 cents per pack
and 20 per cent, ad valorem.
Sundries—This schedule remains substan
tially as it passed the House. Coal, how
ever, is reduced to 67 cents per ton and coal
slack or culm to 15 cents per ton, as pro
posed by the Senate amendment. A duty
of 15 per cent, is placed on hides of cattle.,
which were placed on the free list by the
House. The Senate amendment proposed
a duty of 20 per cent., but this has been
reduced to 15 per cent. A proviso is added
for a full drawback of the duty paid on
hides subsequently exported as leather.
Paintings and statuary for private use are
made dutiable as provided by the Huse,
but at 20 per cent.
The Hous’e rate of 1 cent per thousand
on loose matches was restored.
The House rates on hair cloths were re
stored.
The Senate rates on Jewelry were re
tained. . .
The House provision in regard to dia
monds and other precious stones was re
stored.
Paintings, drawings and statuary were
again made dutiabl’a at 20 per cent, ad
valorem.
REVISED FREE LIST.
The Free List—The free list as it passed
the House is in the main adopted, except
that bolting cloths and several kinds of
essential oils have been added. The House
provision applying a remedy to the whole
sale introduction of goods into this country
free of duty by Americans visiting Europe
is substantially adopted.
Tho provision allowing cattle, horses,
sheep or other domestic animals, straying
or driven across the boundary line of an
other country for pasturage purposes, to be
brought back free of duty, is modified so
as to continue this privilege for the speci
fied time of six months.
The conference restored to the free list
the House paragraph on books and en
gravings imported by authority of the
Unittd States for the library of Congress.
The paragraph relating to the free intro
duction of books, libraries and reasonable
furniture of persons from foreign coun
tries was altered so as to provide that
w-here they were not introduced for sale
they were to be allowed free entrance
where they had not been so used for less,
than one year.
The conference restored the House pro
vision on camphor.
The following is the paragraph agreed to
on anthracite coal in the free list: “Coal,
including anthracite not specially provided
for in this act, and coal stores of American
vessels, but none shall be unloaded.”
Following is the paragraph agreed to on
coal tar in the free list: “Coal tar, crude,
pitch of coal tar and products of coal tar
known as dead or creosote oil, benzol, etc.
The conference restored raw cotton to the
free list.
The paragraph in regard to the free ad
mission of fresh fish caught by American
fisherman was amended so as to include
salmon on the free list, which were esp€:-
cially excepted by the Senate bill and as
agreed on reads as follows: “Fresh fish,
frozen or packed in ice, caught in the great
lakes or other fresh waters by citizens of
the United States.”
On hide cuttings the House paragraph
was restored.
Manganese ore was restored to the free
list, as was cocoanut oil.
The House phraseology of the paragraph
in regard to ores of gold, silver, etc., was
restored, which has the effect of making
free nickel and nickel matte.
The Senate amendment making free
paintings, drawings and statuary was also
stricken out.
Reciprocity Provisions—The House and
the Senate reciprocity plans are united and
adopted with modifications. In the Senate
plan any commercial treaty must he ap
proved by Congress before it goes; into
elTect. and in the House pian chichi silk
laces, sug.ar. mineral waters and hides? have
ooen stricken out and tonka and vanilla
beans added. The Senate provision Impos
ing an equivalent countervailing duty on
imports from foreign countries which have
been, paid an export duty is adopted.
Ihe reciprocity provision sets forth its
that of “iqualiz.ntf the trahe
or the 1 nited States with foreign countries
exporting to this country the following ar
ticles: Argo Is, or rude tartars, or wine levs
crude; brandies or other spirits manufac
tured or distilled from grain or other ma
terials, champagne or all other si>arkling
wines, still wines and vermuth; paintings
and statuary. Thv President is authorized
to enter into negotiations or commercial
agreements in which reciprocal negotiations
may be secured In favor of the products
of the l nited States. He is empowered to
suspend by proclamation the dutVes on these
articles whenever equivalent concessions
may be obtained as follows: Argols. 5 per
cent, ad valorem; brandies or other grain
spirits. $1.75 per gallon; champagne. In bot
tles containing one quart, $6 per dozen;
containing more than one quart In addition
to the $6 rate. $1.90 per gallon; still wines
and vermuth. .35 cents per gallon, and other
rates in proportion whVre the goods are
bottled; paintings, etc., 15 per cent, ad va
lorem.
The President is empowered to revoke the
confession when satisfied that the agree
ment is not adhered to in good faith by any
one country with wtiich an agreement shall
have been made. What may be termed the
retaliatory clausV of the provision is that
which empowers the President to suspend
by proclamation the provisions of this act
providing for the free introduction of
coffee, tea. tonquin, or tonka beans and
vanilla beans coming from any country
which imposes duties on products of the
United States which he may deem to be
reciprocally unequal and unreasonable. The
rates which he is thus empowered to fix
are: On coffee, 3 cents per pound; on tea,
10 cents per pound; on tonka heap?, 50 cents
per pound; on vanilla beans, $2 per pound;
on cuts. sl.
The President is required to act within
two years in securing these reciprocal trade
treaties and they are to be submitted to the
Senate for its ratification. Articles are to
be reduced to the extent of 20 per cent,
in those treaties and the President is spe
cifically authorized to enter into negotia
tions which will place certain articles on
the free list for a specified period of five
years.
internal Revenue. Provisions—The Senate
provision increasing tho internal revenue
tax on cigarettes is agreed to, with nn
amendment covering cigarettes wrapped in
tobacco and provisions to enforce the col
lection of tax. The Senate provision chang
ing the law so as to allow no rebate on
the tax on beer is agreed to. The Senate
provision for a stamp tax on the issue and
transfer of stock and on the bonds issued
by corporations is omitted from the bill.
The administrative sections added to the
bill by the Senate are substantially the
same as those passed by the House in the
Fifty-fourth Congress, and are agreed to
with slight amendments.
Tax on Cigars—The internal revenue tax
amendment relating to cigars and cigar
ettes made by the Senate was changed to
read as follows: “On cigars of all descrip
tions w-eighing more than 3 pounds per
thousand, $3 per thousand; on cigars made
of tobacco or any substitute weighing not
more than 3 pounds per thousand, $1 per
thousand; on cigarettes made of tobacco
or any substitute weighing more than 3
pounds per thousand, $3 per thousand; on
cigarettes weighing not more than 3 pounds
per thousand. $1 per thousand.”
The Senate amendment providing for a
tax on stocks and bonds was stricken out.
Compromise on Tobacco.
Special to the Irdianapohs Journal.
WASHINGTON, July 19.—Senator Fair
banks did not get all he was fighting tor
in the tobacco schedule, but after the Sen
ate incontinently and mistakedly accepted
the House $2 tax and after the matter had
been virtually closed with the assist
ance of Senator Hanna, obtained a com
promise on $1.85 basis. The tobacco unions
and the manufacturers had previously
agreed on $1.75 rate pound, under which
they could do business and the working
men get the worth of it, to some extent,
by the change. However, $1.85 is 15 cents
better than $2 and to the junior senators
from Indiana and Ohio is due the credit
of saving them that much.
3Vexv Sugar Schedule and the Old.
WASHINGTON, July 19.—The Treasury
Department, taking 107.47 pounds of raw
sugar testing 96 degrees as required to
make one hundred pounds of hard refined,
to-day made public a statement estimating
the sugar differential as follows: Act or
1894, 19.82 cents; House schedule, 12.33 cents;
Senate schedule, 19.83 cents; conference
schedule, 13.92 cents per hundred pounds.
THE LINCOLN GRAVE.
Appeal of Veteran Organizations for
Donations of One Dollar Each.
When President McKinley was informed
that the grave of the mother of Abraham
Lincoln, in Spencer county, was in a
neglected condition he expressed the opinion
that the people of Indiana would gladly
assume the care of so sacred a relic, and
wrote Governor Mount, who promptly con
sulted prominent citizens and the represent
atives of the soldier organizations in
regard to the proper course to take.
The outcome was a conference of the
heads of representatives of the veteran
organizations and their auxiliaries and
prominent citizens of Spencer county in
the Governor’s rooms. As has been an
nounced, this conference formed “The Nan
cy Hanks Lincoln Memorial Association”
under the laws of Indiana, the object of
which is to “improve and beautify the
grounds in Spencer county where the re
mains of tl.o mother of Abraham Lincoln
are buried.”
The grave of Mrs. Lincoln is on a half
acre lot, deeded to the commissioners of
Spencer county in trust for the United
States. Several years since Mr. Peter E.
Studebaker erected a suitable monument
to mark the grave, which is surrounded
by an iron fence. The lot is covered with
a tangle of underbrush so thick that it is
with the greatest difficulty the grave can
be reached. Many letters which Governor
Mount has received express the opinion
that the ground should be cleared and a
road opened so that visitors can reach the
spot with carriages. These letters voice the
general sentiment of the people of Indiana.
Those who revere the memory of Lincoln in
Indiana w’ill not permit the grave of hia
mother to be neglected.
It is not the purpose of the association to
raise any other monument than that which
Mr. Studebaker has raised, or to make any
other expenditure of money than is neces
sary to clear the grounds, provide ap
proaches and insure the care of the same
year after year. That this may be done,
and to have a small fund to insure the cara
of the lot in after years, a few hundred dol
lars are necessary.
To secure the money needed the associa
tion voted to ask for a general contribution,
no single contribution to be more than sl,
to be forwarded to George C. Hitt, business
manager of the Indianapolis Journal, who
will acknowledge contributions by publish
ing in that paper the names of the donors,
and turn the money over to the association,
treasurer, Captain Horace McKay.
At an early day the executive committee
of the association, of w'hich Governor
Mount is chairman, will visit Lincoln City
and confer with the commissioners of Spen
cer county as to what shall be done. In
the meantime it is earnestly hoped that
patriotic people in all parts of the State will
interest themselves in soliciting and for
warding contributions. Papers in the dif
ferent counties are requested to call atten
tion to this announcement.
JAMES S. DODGE,
Department Commander, G. A. R.
MARY E. TRAVIS,
Department President. W. R. C.
LEW WALLACE,
Commander Indiana Loyal Legion.
J. R. CARNAHAN.
State President Order of Lincoln.
R. 15. CGLESBEE,
Colonel Indiana Sons of Veterans.
ANNA SIMS.
President Indiana Ladies’ Aid Society.
An Innovation.
Memphis Commercial Appeal.
Harper's Weekly has perpetrated a dar
ing novelty on its readers by publishing the
pictures of the honor men of Harvard and
Yale. The appearance of these young men
with all their clothes on, instead of tho
usual assortment of barelegged freaks in
undershirts and pantalettes, is u delightful
innovation, which we commend to other
periodicals.