Show WILL NOTHING BREAK THE SILENCE the lease of the alaska seal islands is 18 an old flory but the buying and wearing of sealskin wraps will be as new and Itte interesting resting six or eight months hence ag as it ever hag has been hence a recurrence to the circumstances attending the making of t the he much discussed lease will not at this late date be wholly out of order an investigation is suggested euRge eted by the indianapolis sentinel into the whole business for or reasons which it trae should cause the entire coun country try to second tho the suggestion the sentinel presents its charges with reasonable clearness and arrives at conclusions conclusion a sufficiently pointed to make somebody high in authority exceedingly uncomfortable in the first place it claims that a syndicate made up largely of indiana republican politicians was wall a competitor for the contract and that it made the best bid charge number two is that this syndicate was approached after the opening of the bids by representatives of two of the tile competing com companies com pahleg each of whom offered to guarantee the contract to tl the I 1 0 indiana men on condition that a one third interest bo be set ailbe for some person not named which leads the sentinel Sen finel to the very natural query who was this person noC not name 17 a question which it follows up with a whole cannonade of others who authorized these propositions to be made could the persons who made them have delivered the goads goods why did secretary windom postpone the opening of bida bids from the 2 id of january to 0 o the ot of february why did he decline to examine the proofs that the liebes people were poa chois and unfit to be in trusted with the contract why did he need the couil counsel sel of steve I 1 ikens who made him film secretary of the treasury iu in regard to this delicate matter why did the tile senate finance committee report against sen ator voorhees resolution calling upon the secretary of the treasury for the papers correspondence etc relating to this business it is perhaps sufficiently clear from he foregoing that the sentinel la Is not a republican organ but the direct noes of its story the apparent desire on its part to tell something more and the impenetrable mystery our surrounding the whole transaction in the 1 4 ti 5 ailt i lt 4 treasury and in the senate make its demand that these questions should be answered quite proper it professes to believe that an honest investigation vesti resti gation gatlon would n result in the retirement ti of 0 at kast cgue cabinet officer 11 Is this not named and this cabinet officer one and I 1 the lie same it if so 80 who is he it not who are they both 7 HEBE is its a sample paragraph from the oad n department of the salt lake like Ir herald erald a paper which we are solemnly assured has given the carnival generous advertising but which Is 18 nothing if not inconsistent and contradictory president notifies the chamber of commerce that his duties III pre vent him from front city during the carnival since he vetoed the borrowing bill which f a bail bad aft act on hit his part he hi haq not in the estimation of the aitt cl zens generally Kene rolly and wattles no one oric expected bat that ha he would 4 acet the invitation |