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THE DAILY JOUHNAL FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1898. Washington Office— lso3 i'ennsjlvania A vena: Telephone Coll*. Business Office 239 I Editorial Rooms...A 86 * TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY BY MAIL. ally only, one month $ .71 Daily only, three months 2.00 Bally only, one year 8.00 Bally, Including Sunday, one year 10.00 Sunday only, one year 2.00 WHEN FURNISHED BY AGENTS. Daily, per week, by carrier 15 cts Sunday, single copy 5 cts Daily and Sunday, per week, by carrier.... 20 cts WEEKLY. Per year 11.00 Redneed Rates to GTnb*. Subscribe with any of our numerous agents or ■end subscriptions to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Indianapolis, Ind. Persons sending the Journal through the malls In the United States should put on an eight-page paper a ONE-CENT postage slump; on a twelve or slxteenqiage pajter a TWO-CENT postage stamp. Foreign postage Is usually double these rates. All communications Intended for publication In this paper must. In order to receive attention, be accem|ianled by the name and address of the writer. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following places; NEW YORK—Astor House. CHICAGO—PaImer House, P. O. News Cos.. 217 Dearborn street. Great Northern Hotel and Grund Pacific Hotel. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley A Cos.. 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Deerlng, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Book Cos., 256 Fourth avenue. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D. C—Riggs House. Ebbitt House and Willard's Hotel. ■ If Can it be that Colonel Bryan has taken to the army that 16 to 1 may have a speedy end peaceful ending? Spain Is discovering that In a war in which cash and coal are convertible terms, ‘a power that has neither is no match for one that has both. The Junction of 4,000 half-starved Cuban Insurgents with General Shatter seems to have complicated the question of food supply for the army of Invasion. It would be “good politics" for General Grosvenor and all others not to make speeches outside of Congress that they cannot defend on the floor of that body. When the Egyptian government required the Spanish admiral to pay tolls In spot cash before entering the Suez canal, it showed it knew whom it was dealing with. Spanish credit is pretty well understood, even in darkest Egypt. The decision of the government to Issue a weekly bulletin giving the whereabouts of the various regiments of the volunteer army will be gratifying to the relatives and friends of the men at the front, as well as to students of military operations.

The stamping of bank and other paper will cause some annoyance to-day when this system of taxation is started, but while It involves a little inconvenience it is nothing compared with the privations of the men under arms whom the war tax is to ■upport. Senators opposed to the annexation of Hawuji are talking against time to empty chairs, and the countiy would quite forget that the Senate is in session if the newspapers would not allude to the fact. There that the Senate needs more than a rule to prevent members from talking againel time. The evacuation by the Spanish of one outpost after another, falling back and concentrating in Santiago, indicates a purpose to make the final stand on that line. With their advantages of position and defenses nothing but arrant cowardice can prevent them from making a strong fight, and they do not seem to be cowards. Special dispatches from Santiago state thfct four of General Garcia's half-famished soldiers have died and others have been made ill by gorging themselves upon the food supplied by the Americans. As most of the insurgents are nearly starved when they reach the United States forces prudence would suggest that they should be fed sorhewhat cautiously at first. The reports to the effect that the health of the army at Santiago is excellent and that men who came off the ships ill are improving lead to the belief that with care end proper food the disease so much dreaded may be averted. After all. the mental condition of an army has much to do with its health. A sick list of only about one hundred in an army of 16,000 is remarkable. General Wheeler, in his official report of the recent sharp skirmish in which several valuable lives were lost, says there is absolutely no warrant for the statement that our troops were ambuscaded. He says that from knowledge in his possession the Spanish attack was deliberately planned the night before. This should be some comfort to the relatives and friends of those who were killed, as an ambuscade conveys an Idea of incompetence or recklessness on the part of officers who allow their troops to M led into it. l The preliminary steps which the Bar As••tfation has taken to assist in securing to and townships a better form of Bftnmcnt will lead to good results if they SRia.il be continued to the end. The lawyers of Indiana know the weakness of the existing system better than any other class of men can, and they can devise a more effective remedy. Besides, so large a class of intelligent men, with special training, should be disposed to render the people of the State the Important service that reform la the methods of local government involves. Many thousand words of doleful warning have been written during the past year in regard to the power of the speaker over the

House because of the ability and the rules of Speaker Reed. Ponderous writers on the subject have darkened the pages of magazines with visions of the despotism of the speaker and the evil of his precedents when a less patriotic man than Mr. Reed shall be speaker. He Is not the man on horseback that threatens the life of the Republic, but the "man with the gavel.” In spite of all this, a majority of the speaker’s party in the House had only to make known their purpose to take up the Hawaiian resolutions to secure the yielding of the czar of the mallet. Thus does.one act destroy the predictions of those who have set themselves on the battlements to signal the presence of the enemy. THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF VICTORY. An esteemed correspondent expresses astonishment because the Journal has commended the leading features of the views which Mr. Maurice Thompson has expressed regarding the disposition of the territory of Spain which is likely to fall into our hands as a result of the war. If he had presented some solution of the problem while criticising the views of others there would have been a basis for his criticism. To object to a policy will suffice when it is not necessary to take any action, but here is a case in which something must be done. When Congress declared that the United Stales would exercise authority in Cuba until a stable government shall be established by the people of that island, a responsibility was assumed. To have recognized the alleged Republic of Cuba with the pledge of quitting the island as soon as the Spanish should be expelled would not have given promise of h conditions than existed under the in. u;e of Spain. Such a policy would have Lurned Cuba over to revolution. Having Interfered to rid Cuba of Spanish misrule and outrage, the United States Is in duty bound to see that a better government shall be established. It may take years to do this, and years may develop the fact that a stable, Independent government is not possible. At best a people which has no knowledge of self-government, and a race or mixture of races which has shown no capacity for such government, for which the United States has very properly made itself responsible, cannot be left without a stable government, “The consent of the governed" is a fairsounding phrase, but in practice it has its limitations. If that theory had been regarded when the South seceded secession could not have been resisted, since the majority of the people in the South favored disunion. If that theory should he observed a State or a few counties could withdraw from the Union, or a State whenever the majority residing therein should declare that the government under which they were living did not have their consent. Popular government presupposes intelligence on the part of those who participate in it. The ignorant are incapable of such government; consequently, until a people has acquired intelligence anything like stable popular government becomes impossible. Therefore, when we speak of the consent of the governed we should apply the phrase to an intelligent community. The Philippines have fallen Into our hands. Having taken them we cannot drop them until the conditions of the people are better than they were under Spain. The United States cannot abandon them to fall into the hands of some other government. The question regarding both Cuba and the Philippines is, “What disposition shall be made of them?” Those who object to annexation or other control are bound to present some other plan. Thus far they have failed to do this.

SURPRISE OF THE PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRACY. Tho rejection of the Chicago platform and Colonel Bryan by the Pennsylvania Democratic convention, Wednesday, by the emphatic vote of 238 to 184, is most significant as showing the silent change of sentiment that is going on in the Democratic party. It was a surprise that the state committee rejected Bryan and his platform by a vote of 25 to 21. Then the silverites charged that the gold bugs had packed the committee against them and they appealed to the convention. It is said the convention itself was not aware that a majority of its members was opposed to the Chicago platform and Colonel Bryan as a leader. The vote shows that a majority of 54, in a total of 422, was against the main issue of the party in 1896. A report of the convention says the antisilver delegates cheered ten minutes after the unexpected result was announced. Tb those who have noticed the drift of expression, showing the rapidly declining interest in the independent coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, the result In the Democratic convention in Pennsylvania is not a surprise. Last fall, and as late as January, there was considerable public interest in silverism. The noisy silver advocates of 1896 were talking in offices and once in a while on the street. But the interest gradually declined with discussion of the Cuban question until no more was heard of it than of the tariff. Even Colonel Bryan discovered weeks ago that the people are no longer interested in free-silver coinage. Nor will it avail for the silverites to explain that the Democrats desire to make the campaign on state issues caused the 16-to-1 issue to be voted down. If the Democrats can get more votes in Pennsylvania . without the Chicago platform than with it, then. its indorsement is a party weakness in that State. There are thousands of Democrats in Indiana who believe that the party would be stronger here if 16 to 1 had been rejected by the' state convention. Something may happen to change public sentiment on this subject, but if it does not the next national Democratic convention will relegate 16 to 1 to the rear. OFF FOR THE PHILIPPINES. On the 26th of May Major General Merritt arrived in San Francisco and took charge of the various expeditions to Manila, of which he had been placed in command. The intervening time has been spent in equipping troops, obtaining transports and fitting out the expeditions. It has been a great undertaking, and from all accounts has been well managed. General Merritt deferred his departure tili the last expedition --which sailed on Wednesday—and on his arrival ;:t Manila will he in command of 18.0 X) to C->,OOo troops. What his orders or instructions may be nobody knows, unless he has communicated them confidentially to some member of his staff. No doubt they are broader than any ever given before to an American officer, and probably leave much to his discretion. He and Admiral Dewey will, of course, act together to a common end, but Just what that will be remains to be seen. At the time of General Merritt’s appointment it was said he would be clothed with authority as Governor General of the Philippines. If his appointment confers any special title it is more likely to be Military Governor, but no matter what his title may be he will necessarily' have large powers.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUIWAL, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1898.

A dispatch from San Franfcisco says he has prepared a proclamation which has been printed in Spanish and will be widely distributed as soon as he arrives in Manila. The dispatch says: Although its contents are as yet kept secret, its general tenor is known. It will announce to the people of the islands that General Merritt, as the representative of tho United States, has established a provisional government and his authority must be respected. At the same time he will assure the inhabitants that he comes not to oppress, but to free them. They are to be granted the fullest liberty compatible with the preservation of law and order, and all personal and property rights are to be respected. The issuance of a proclamation would be a natural step under the circumstances, and its contents would probably be about as indicated. It may be noted as a matter of some interest that on the eve of his departure from San FTancisco, the mayor of that city, presumably at General Merritt’s request, published a letter denying that at a recent banquet in thuA city General Merritt declared himself in favor of a policy of territorial acquisition and that “what the navy conquered the army must hold.” Os course. General Merritt has no policy of his own regarding the Philippines, and if he knows what the policy of the government is to be, it would be improper for him to indicate it in advance otf executing his orders. He is intrusted with a very difficult and delicate mission, involving not only military but political and international consequences of the gravest character, and it is to be hoped he may prove fully equal to the situation. He will have an excellent adviser and coworker in Admiral Dewey. Michael G. Muihall, the most noted statistician in the world, has recently revised his figures representing the wealth of the leading nations in the world, with the following result: United States >81,750,000,000 Great Britain 59,030,000,090 France . 47,950,000,000 Germany 40,260,000,000 Russia 32,125,000,000 Austria 22,560,000,000 Italy 15.800,000,000 Spain 11,300,000,000 The foregoing computations are based upon values shown by real estate records, buildings, merchandise, railways and the circulating medium of each nation. He notes the fact that while most European nations have attained tileir growth, the United States is apparently at the threshold of an Industrial development which it has never dreamed of before. According to Mr. Muihall, the wealth of the United States in 1850 was $7,136,000,000; in 1860, $16.160,000,000; in 1870, $25,982,000,000; in 1880, $43,642,000,000; in 1888, $61,600,000,000; in IS9S, $Bl,750,000,000. The increase of wealth during the past ten years is nearly half as much as the total in 1880. These are wonderful figures. Referring to the proposition to cut off Santiago’s water supply as a means of hastening the surrender of the city a Washington dispatch says: "A disposition has appeared in some quarters to question the right of the American army under the modern rules of war to resort to this mediaeval means of prosecuting a siege.” There is no ground for any such question. It is based on the idea that cutting off the water supply would subject the inhabitants and noncombatants in Santiago to needless suffering. War is not made against noncombatants, but a general who turns a city into a fortification cannot plead the rights of noncombatants against the use of military measures. In the case of a beleaguered fort there would be no question as to the right of the besiegers to cut off a water supply in order to force a surrender. The Spanish have turned Santiago into a fort, and if cutting off the water supply hurts the noncombatants in the city it is the fault of the Spanish, not of the Americans.

Rightly construed, Lord Salisbury’s speech, delivered in London on Wednesday night, was almost as plain a pledge of friendship for the United States as Mr. Chamberlain's more outspoken utterances. The premier is older and more cautious than the colonial secretary, and could not afford to speak as plainly, but what he said was significant. He alluded to the war between two great states, “one bound to us by every tie of kindred and similarity of institutions and religion; the other the state that fought on our side when we struggled with the threatening tyranny of the first Napoleon.” In other words, the friendship between England and Spain is an obsolete sentiment originating in an accidental occurrence, while that between England and the United States is a living bond based on immutable Conditions. This was put in a very diplomatic way. Please explain to some Ohioans and all Hoosiers why the Indiana regiments are numbered in the present war as high as 160 when there are only a few regiments in the held. -py. s. G. Indiana raised five regiments for the Mexican war. With this numbering as a basis the first Indiana regiment in the civil was was called the Sixth, the last the One-hundred-and-fifty-sixth. Continuing the same enumeration, the first regiment for the Cuban war is called the One-hundred-and-fifty-seventh. BIBBLES IX THE AIR. Envious. When lovely woman has a skirt That from her shirt waist sags. She envies man, who's free to find Relief from woe in jags. Comparison. Watts—You say you loaned one of your books to Mudge? That does settle it. Potts—Won't he return it? Watts—Return nothing. He holds on to a hook like. Great Britain to a borrowed seaport. The Cheerful Idiot. “I notice,” said the shoe-clerk boarder, “that Switzerland is being invaded by schoolmasters from Italy, who want jobs of sweeping chimneys.” “Probably,” said the Cheerful Idiot, “teachers of drawing.” Strutegie Move. “1 remember, 1 remember—” the little boy on the country schoolhouse platform began, and then he stuck. The poem had gone completely. The boy he hated most began tittering. The occasion was becoming critical. The little boy, with a grand rally and a flash of inspiration, pulled from his pocket his red, white and blue (and black, more or less) hafidkerchief, shouted and wound up with "I remember the Maine.” MAGAZINE NOTES. G-odey’s Magazine for July contains an interesting description of the making of the great guns used on battle ships and for coast defenses. In the July St. Nicholas Frank R. Stockton tells the true story of the famous buccaneer, Captain Kidd, about whose name so many myths have grown. Book News (Philadelphia) now publishes an original short story in each number. Letters from Boston. New York,* Chicago and London contain interesting literary gossip. The issue of Collier’s Weekly of June 25 contains a double-page drawing, by F. C. Yohn. of jp&fifl.e#' fight In Guantanamo

bay, where some cf the men who had been bathing dashed into action clad only in their cartridge belts. Collier’s is furnishing an admirable series of war illustrations. The International Magazine, of Chicago, has established a department for instruction in the Spanish language. By the aid of the graphopnone it is claimed that an accurate pronunciation may he easily acquired. In the Juiy Century Jeremiah Curtin, whose translations have made the works of Sienkiewicz known to American readers, tells of his acquaintance with “The Author of ‘Quo Vadis.’ ’’ Mr. Curtin visited Sienkiewicz at the latter's picturesque home in the Carpathians. Mr. W. Clark Russell is preparing a series of articles for the Pall Mali Magazine which will trace the evolution of the naval architecture of the world from the “dugout” of prehistoric times down to the modern man-of-war. The first of the series appears in the July number of the periodical. The Critic announces that hereafter it will be issued monthly, instead of weekly, and in the size and form of the leading magazines. The first number (July-August) will appear on July 25; the September number on or before Sept. 1, and subsequent numbers on or before the list of each month. The current National Geographic Magazine is a Philippine number, and the information it contains relative to the commerce, climate, agricultural products, mineral wealth, manufactures, etc., of the islands, may be accepted as the most accurate obtainable, being drawn from official sources. Names of successful competitors for the prizes offered by the Black Cat are announced in the July number. H. J. W. Dam, an Englishman, receives the first prize of $1,500. The second award of SI,OQO is divided between Walter Wellman, the Arctic explorer and newspaper correspondent, and Frank E. Chase, Boston. Several of the smaller prizes are also divided. Jules Breton Is given the place of honor in the July Art Amateur. An estimate of the character of his work is given and a number of his pictured aVe reproduced. Among other features of the number are chapters on the painting of butterflies, on animal painting, and various suggestions as to interior decoration. Ernest Knaufft continues his series of easy lessons in drawing for children.. The special features of the July number of the Review of Reviews are the editor’s illustrated summary of the progress of the war; an illustrated sketch of Lieutenant Hobson, by Dr. William Hayes Ward; an account of observations in Porto Rico last month, by the young newspaper correspondent, Edwin Emerson, jr., with map and illustrations; a compact statement of the essential features of our new war taxation, by Dr. Max West, the statistician and economist; an illustrated description of the Transmississippi Exposition at Omaha, by Henry Wysham Lanier; a character sketch of Gladstone, by W. Y. Stead, and a grouping of recent American greetings in verse to Great Britain.

STATE PRESS OPINION. There is a growing army of amateur bondholders who are quite contented with the conduct of the war.—Fort Wayne Gazette. Some of those who are fidw, advising the administration to “go slow jn acquiring new territory” will live to wish that they had gone slower in their talking.—Lebanon Patriot. Let Democracy oppose territorial expansion. On that issue it will suffer a more crushing defeat than if it again marches under the banner of free silver.—Marion News. The Democrats are not now saying there is no gold in the country. "We are now living under a Republican administration. When they made such a declaration we were under Democratic rule.—Corydon Republican. When the war is settled Cuba will have a government, but the people of Cuba will not be forced to pay speculators for a lot of bonds issued in advance, of which they knew nothing and neyer had “value received.”—Delphi Journal. Prosperity is here by virtue of the confidence of an overwhelming majority of the people in Republican administration and it will stay if that administration is sustained by a majority of the voters this fall in local, district and State conventions.—Anderson Herald. There ought to be no politics in the present war, but the DemficTate Appear to be determined there shall be. All the worse for them. The people of the United States will not go back on their army and navy, nor allow anything to be done that will handicap them.—Muncie News. The Republican State convention will be held at Indianapolis Aug. 3 and 4. Heretofore many of the nominations were made after midnight and when few counties were represented by anything like their full number of delegates. The change ought to meet the approval of all.—Owen County Journal. Spanish oppression and merciless cruelty with all its abominations must go forever from the “Gem of the Antilles,” from Porto Rico and the Philippines. Our government and her brave soldiers and sailors are “making way for libei ty” with all that it implies to human hope and need.—Liberty Herald. The administration has been wisely conservative, so that when it contemplates the ownership of Porto Rico, and the Canary islands together with a protectorate over Cuba and the armed occupation of the 1 hilippines for a term of years, our fearful people should not be slow to fall in line. —New Castle Courier. The charge of the Rough Riders may have been foolhardy and ail that, but it demonstrates to the Spanish that the army is the equal of the navy in dash ai*4 valor. First impressions are usually strongest, and Spain must have received some stiong impressions from the events at Manila and La Quasina.—Evansville Journal. The Republican party is the true friend of the government. Let us stand by it with more tenacity than ever before and show by our votes and the victory that will come to us in early November, that we are the same old party that not only saved the Union from disruption; but has made this country the admiration of the world.—Plymouth News. ROUT OF THE TERROR. How the St. Pool Rendered a Spanish Destroyer Hors de Combat. PLATA DEL ESTE, Guantanamo Bay. June 29., (delayed in transmission.) —News was received here yesterday of the attack made on the American auxiliary cruiser St. Paul off San Juan -de Porto Rico, on June 22, by the Spanish torpedo boat destroyer Terror. Under cover of a Spanish cruiser of the Infanta Isabel type the Terror attempted to approach the St. Paul and sink her with a torpedo. A hot fire Tom the rapid fire guns of the St. Paul was opened on the Spaniard, with the result that an engineer and two men on board the Terror were killed and several others were wounded. The Terror was so badly damaged that she was towed back into the harbor in a sinking condition. A party of sixty-four Cubans, under General Perez, who are taking part in the siege of Guantanamo, have been fed, clothed and armed by Captain McCaila, of the United States cruiser Marblehead. They returned to the front to-day. The Marblehead to-day landed 5,000 rations from the State of Texas for a few Cuban families, forty miles in the interior, in the vicinity of General Perez's troops. HANGED TO A BRIDGE. Negro Lynched by a Missouri Mob While Protesting; Hl* Innocence. MACON, Mo., June 30.—Henry Williams, colored, charged with assaulting the Browitt girls a few days ago, has been hanged by a mob at the Wabash bridge. He died protesting his innocence. Rev. J. A. Robbins, Sheriff Glenn and Mr. McVicker made speeches pleading with the wouid-be lynchers to let the law take its course. Robbins was hooted down and McVicker knocked senseless. The sheriff and his deputies were overpowered, disarmed and the jail broken into. When the bridge was reached Williams was asked whether he would rather be drawn up and strangled slowly or allowed sufficient drop to break his neck. He said he did not care. His nerve was phenomenal. The mob finished its work with dispatch and dispersed quietly.

SENATE DECKS CLEAR ALL CONFERENCE REPORTS ON APPROPRIATION BILLS DISPOSED OF. Member* Now Heady for Final Action on the Newlands Resolutions for Annexation of Huwaii. # SPEECH BY MR. TILLMAN THE RACE PROBLEM AS VIEWED BY THE ERRATIC PITCHFORKER. * Filibuster in the House Against the Bill to Incorporate the International American Bank. * June 30.—Late this afternoon the Senate cleared the legislative decks for what may be the final action on the Hawaiian annexation resolutions. Through its action to-day the last of the appropriation bills that has been pending in conference was disposed of and was a law before midnight. After a debate lasting three hours the Senate finally receded from its amendments to the sundry civil and adopted the conference report on the Indian appropriation bill. Mr. Allison, in charge of the bills, explained that it was necessary that the reports should be agreed to to-day as this was the last day of the fiscal year. He pointed out that if the bills were not laws by midnight they would have to be passed again by the two branches of Congress. The delay consequent upon such action would seriously embarrass the government and might force Congress to remain in session several weeks longer. In denouncing the action of the conferees for striking out the free homes provision of the Indian bill, Mr. Pettigrew charged the Republican party with being dominated by the “money power” and with the election of senators by the corrupt use of money. Mr. Tillman (Dem., S. C.) discussed the race problem from the standpoint of a Southern man and was characteristically vigorous in his remarks. He accounted for the slight interest manifested in the Hawaiian debate by saying that the question was fully discussed in executive session early last winter and that it was only natural that there should be a lack of interest and unwillingness to listen to a repetition of speeches delivered then. Dr. Voorsouger, rabbi of Temple Emanuel and professor of Semitic languages and literature at the University of California, San Francisco, pronounced the invocation at the opening of the Senate’s session to-day. He prayed that “the flag under which we live, that for which our fathers fought, be forever the sacred emblem of liberty until time shall be no more.” The Hawaiian annexation resolutions were at once taken up, and Mr. Bate spoke in opposition to them. MR. TILLMAN'S SPEECH. Mr. Tillman was the next speiltbi?,' “Thus, far,” he said, “the discussion of ithe resolutions has been entirely one-sided. Whenever the majority of the Senate sets in silence on so important a question as this I am impressed with the idea that there is devilment afoot. Senators desire to talk; they like to hear themselves speak; to get their names in the newspapers and to see their remarks in the Record. When,- therefore, they are silent there is, depend upon it, ‘something rotten in Denmark.’ ” As to the sugar interests, he said; “When 1 consider the mastery of the American Sugar Trust over the Senate and the House, as shown in the passage of the Dingley tariff law, I am forced into the belief that this trust is not opposed to annexation, and that Its influence is" at work among the ranks of those favoring annexation.’ Discussing the race problem presented, Mr. Tillman said: “The Philippines are already densely populated with races for which we have no affinity or liking. It is the same with Porto Rico and in some degree with Cuba. But we have already one perplexing and harassing problem right here' at home, and that must give qs< f pi*use. I 7 mean the negro question. The wisest, statesmanship is unable to the final result of the presence in the same commonwealth of two distinct races, each possessing the* same rights under the law’, but one of which is superior to the other. If we arti not to witness a blocking of the -wheels of progress and a condition of mongrelism, demoralization and retrogression such as is appalling to every lover of the Anglo-; axon race, we must settle this question wisely and justly. It is impossible for me, ?amiliar as I am with its perplexities and dangers, not to call a halt and beg sen, *ors to pause and take care what they do With 8.000,000 negroes already among us, i. ? adding of more colored peoples presents to a student of sociological and political questions a grave problem, a solemn responsibility. Can we afford to enter upon a scheme of colonial expansion by conquest, with the inevitable result that we will incorporate another million and a half of negroes. 10,000,000 Malays. Nigritos, Japanese and Chinese, to say nothing of the hundreds of thousands of mongrels of Spanish blood, imbued with Spanish thought and action? "But lest I be misunderstood, I wish to say that I sympathize with the white men who live in Hawaii, that I would not leave them to the tender mercies of the colored races, who outnumber them; that I am ready to vote for a treaty annexing these islands and even under protest to vote for this resolution with the Pettigrew amendment added, though I prefer the other as the legal and constitutional method of annexation if I can get this Senate to incorporate an amendment which will declare in words what is here declared In effect, to wit. that the colored races, the negroes. Kanakas and Chinese are incapable of selfgovernment, are unfit to participate in government and in the future in dealing wdth these islands and all the Islands which w r e may conquer, if we choose to hold them, it will be the policy of the United States to have only .those participate in government who have white blood in their veins.

RACES NOT EQUAL. "For my part, I declare that the races are not equal and never were. God never made them so, and while I subscribe to the doctrine that among the ‘inalienable rights of man is the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.’ I declare my unalterable faith in the doctrine that the white race Is superior to the colored." In the course of his remarks, Mr. Tillman criticised a declaration of Mr. Teller made a few days ago that wherever the American flag was raised in this war there it must stay. He held that that statement was in direct contradiction of Mr. Teller's amendment to the war resolutions, that the war was not to be waged for the acquisition of territory. Mr. Teller replied that he had not been inconsistent, as. if the people of Cuba were capable of governing themselves he w’anted them to do so. “Then why offer an impossible condition?" demanded Mr. Tillman. “No combination of Spaniards and half negroes capable of selfgovernment exists on the face of the earth." Mr. Teller, in response, said the people of Cuba were, he believed, capable of selfgovernment. but if it should be demonstrated that they were not, it would be the duty of this country to maintain a proper government on Uie island. Mr. Teller said that while it was. of course, necessary yet to have a demonstration of the ability of the Cubans to govern themselves it was not and never would be the policy of this government to abandon the people c;f Cuba, of Porto Rico or of the Philippines to the tender mercies of Spain. Mr. Tillman maintained that in view of the declaration of Congress in the war resolution this government, in seizing Cuba. Porto Rico and the Philippines, with the purpose of holding them, was acting in bad faith with the world. The American people were becoming land grabbers under the guise of humanitarianism. This bad faith had. he said, already excited the distrust of European nations, and Germany, with her war ships at Manila, and perhaps other foreign nations would demand their share of the booty. "I am in favor,” he- declared, vehemently, “of giving Germany and all the rest of the European nations to understand that this government will tolerate no interference with its policy or action." "X agree with the senator," Interjected

Mr. Teller. "If European nations are given to understand that we will brook no interference, there will be no interference.” At the conclusion of Mr. Tillman’s speech Mr. Allison reported a disagreement between the conferees of the two houses of Congress on the sundry civil bill. Mr. Allison said that five items still remained in disagreement. One of these was purely legislative in character, relating to fees of district attorneys. This one the Senate conferees were willing to yield, as it had been covered by a bill. The other four Items in disagreement, all of which the House Insisted should go out of the bill, were provisions for a public school building at Annapolis, Md.. a public building at Butte. Mont., an appropriation to improve Yaquina bay, Oregon, and one for the construction of a soldiers’ home at Hot Springs. S. D. As this was the last day of the fiscal year, Mr. Allison said it had become necessary for the Senate to recede from the amendments in order that the bill might become a law before midnight. After a discussion which lasted nearly two hours, during which the action of the House was harply criticised, the Senate voted without division to recede from the Senate amendments. This vote passed the bill. At the request of Mr. Allison, the conference report on the Indian appropriation bill was submitted to the Senate, and it was adopted after a long debate. At 6:34 p. m. the Senate went into executive session, and at 6:37 adjourned. AT THE WHITE HOUSE. Many Person* Seeking? Appointments —More Volunteer* Needed. WASHINGTON. June 30—When President McKinley reached his office to-day he found a large crowd of senators and members, most of them seeking appointments to war billets for friends and constituents. Senator Deboe presented Dr. W. G. Bowman, of Louisville. Ky., to the President and urged him for an inspector generalship In the army. The appointment of the members of tfie nonpartisan commission just created by Congress to investigate labor and industrial conditions is now pending. The first of the condidates to be presented Is Henry B. Martin, of Minnesota, well known among the Knights of Labor, for whom Representative Bell, of Colorado, spoke a good word to the President to-day. There was no promise given of favorable consideration. All these appointments, from the importance of the work of the commission, will require strong indorsements and peculiar fitness and ability. benator Cannon, of Utah, who was among the nrst callers to see the President, said * / " elieve< f there would be no adjournment . i on ® ress before the middle of next month at least. He expressed considerable concern ?ver the German attitude at Manila, and thought that if the young Emperor had some cautious adviser like Bismarck who knew enough to appreciate the limitations , t * erma n power and authority there would be little need for apprehension. Germany s object, he said, evidently was not only to bring about a protectorate there under the powers, but to throw temptations and obstaln the way of the United States, so that she might get involved in the controversy over the island*. Representative Hull, chairman of the military affairs committee of the House, had a conference with the President concerning army legislation. Senator Hawley, the head of the Senate committee on military affairs, also came to see the President, but owing to the rush of visitors did not wait. His mission however, was mostly on state milltary affairs, which also was part of Mr. Huh s object. Senator Hawley, while not intimating what he expected, stated pos.i?, *hat he had heard no suggestions of a third call for volunteers, as has been persistently rumored for several days. Another well krjown senator, however, who was with the President to-day and who Is one of the President's close advisers, said he believed there would be a call very soon but doubted if as large a number as 150,000 would be asked for. He thought there could be no definite conclusion yet. He pointed out, however, that the war is assuming far larger proportions than had been expected, and that undoubtedly sooner or later a large ■ number of troops would be required. HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION. Method of Putting; It Into Effect Under Consideration. WASHINGTON, June 30.—Mr. Hatch, the Hawaiian minister, spent some time in conference with Mr. Moore, acting secretary of to-day, presumably with reference to tho method to be adopted of putting into effect in Hawaii the provisions of the pending annexation bill which is supposed to be approaching final passage. Owing to the heavy drafts made by the government upon the steamship lines crossing the Pacific for troop transports, the means of communication between San Francisco and Honolulu are now extremely irregular and precarious. It is desirable that the earliest possible notice of the approval of the annexation bill be conveyed to Hawaii, so it is probable that failing the presence in San Francisco of one of the regular merchant steamers (about to clear for Honolulu, the government |\VUI charter some speedy vessel to hasten to Honolulu with the official news. One reason for making haste in this particular is the fact that the Hawaiian Congress must ratify the provisions of the annexation hall, and as the present sess.on of the Hawaiian Legislature will expire by limitation very soon it will be necessary to submit to all the delays occasioned by the requirements of the organic law as to the calling of an extra session of the Legislature. 6 The State Department entertains hope that some members of the opposition in the Senate who may reach the conclusion that annexation is enevitable will consent to vote for the ratification of the treaty, which is still pending, in place of voting against the annexation bill, with the result of supplying the few votes necessary to Ihe constitutional two-thirds necessary for the treaty. In such case the completion of annexation would be very simple, and much time would be saved. The Hawaiian Legislature and executive has already ratified the treaty and Mr. Hatch, the minister here, has been clothed with special powers so that he will be able to exchange with the United States government final ratifications within a few hours after the Senate has given its approval to the treaty, and no extra session of the Hawaiian Legislature or governmental action of any kind in Hawaii would be required.

TIIE TOBACCO TAX. Circular of Instructions Issued to Revenue Collectors. WASHINGTON, June 30.—The commissioner of internal revenue has Issued a circular of instructions to collectors in regaro to the new tobacco tax. After quoting Section 4 of the new act, the commissioner says: "It is held that 2,500.000 cigars shall be refarded as equivalent to 50.000 pound? of toaeeo, and the special tax of dealers will be computed on that basis. "It is assumed that one thousand cigars is equivalent to twenty pounds of tobacco, and that one thousand cigarettes is equivalent to three pounds of tobacco for the purpose of determining the liability to special tax under the law. "If the dealers in tobacco, snuff, cigars and cigarettes or only one or more of these articles and his aggregate annual sales for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, exceeded fifty thousand pounds, he will be required to pay the special tax commencing July l. 1898. "It is held that a person who has not engaged in the business of dealer in tobacco prior to July 1. 1898, but who. on that date, or subsequently during the year engages in the business, will be required to itUy the special tax whenever his sales have at any time within the year exceeded fifty thousand pounds. The special tax will be computed from the first day of the month in which he commenced to engage in the business.” American Killed in Jnpun. WASHINGTON, June 30.--The United States consul at Nagasaki, Japan, has reported to the State Department that on May 15 Owen Gannon, an American citizen, was shot and killed in a house kept by John Kelly in Nagasaki. Gannon was born in Philadelphia in 1870, and was a corporal in the Twenty-third United States Infantry in 18S2 and was discharged from the Unitea States steamer Yorktown in 1897. The papers found in his possession indicate that tils conduct in the army and navy was “very good.” There was a letter on his person addressed to him from his brother, James Gannon, dated Philadelphia, Dec. 13, 1897, and one from Mary Brennan, his sister, mailed from No. 1635 Fillmon street. Camden, N. J. Kelly was the only one present when the shooting occurred and he was promptly arrested. He is charged with murder, and is committed to the Japanese jail to await trial. * U >lnst He Stamped "I. R.” WASHINGTON. Juar: 30.—1n answer to numerous inquiries on the subject the commissioner of internal revenue to-day stated tha| postage stamps could not be used In pifle of revenue stamps except such aa had

been !in Pr r lnt d by the government with the i. K. If ;he ordinary postage stamp* not *o imprinted were used for interna* revenue purposes the documents or article® to which they were applied would be ree : yded as unstamped and treated accordingly. Attention is also called to the fact that imprinted stamps cannot bo used in payment of postage. Receipts and Expenditure*. WASHINGTON. June 30—To-day’s statement of the government receipts tnd expenditures shows that the receipts during the present month will aggregate about $33,500,000, and for the present fiscal year about $304,500,000. These receipts Include about $1,500,000, which Is likely to be reported to-morrow moVning in mail received to-night. The receipts from customs this month will be shown to be about $14,500,000. a lOS L^ s with last June of about $7,000,0Q0- The collections from internal revenue ff* ll show an increase approximating $3,750,000. For the entire fiscal year the receipts from customs will amount to a little less than $150,000,000, a loss as compared with the last fiscal year (1897) of about $26,500,000. The internal-revenue receipts will amount to about $170.000,e00, a gain of $23,500,000- Lp to this time the actual cash expenditures on account of the war amount to about $60,000,000. Filibuster lu the House. WASHINGTON, June 30. At attempt to secure passage of the bill to Incorporate the International American Bank met with determined opposition to-day in the House. Filibustering was indulged in, but it was not effective in preventing consideration of the bill. Adjournment, however, was forced before a vote on the measure could be reached. It will be urged to-morrow. The House to-day adopted the report on the Indian appropriation bill, insisted unanimously upon its disagreements to the Sen - ate amendments to the sundry civ’ll bill, and sent the general deficiency bill to conference. plenty of Adhesive Stamps. WASHINGTON, June 30.— The aggregate number of adhesive stamps for which collectors made requisition under the new revenue act approximates 400,000,000. Os this number 100.0u0.000 were printed and shipped before the close of business on the 29th inst.; 130,000,000 will be the aggregate sent out by morning, or one-third of the supply for which requisition was made for a period of three months. This would seem to indicate that complaints from any section of nonreceipt of stamps desired are due to lack of distribution rather than to lack of supply. Money for Pensions. WASHINGTON, June 30. Requisitions for payment of pensions for the three months ending June 30 have been made as follows: Washington, D. C., $400,000; Topeka, Kan., $250,000; San Francisco, $125,000; Pittsburg. Pa., $1,825,000; Philadelphia. $175,0*10; New York -city, $125,000; Milwaukee, $1,950,000; I<oui*>vlll, $100,000; Knoxville, Tenn., $&K),000; Indianapolis, SISO,CCO; Detroit, $200,000; Des Moines. la.. $2,200,000; Concord, N. H., $775.000; Columbus, 0., $300,000; Chicago. $2,865,000; Buffalo. $1,700,000; Boston. $250,000; Augusta, Me., SIOO,OOO. Adjournment Two Weeks Away. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, June 30.—Members of Congress seeking light on the adjournment question ln order that they may make personal arrangements for the summer obtain no satisfaction from their senatorial friends. The general view now is that the adjournment may not be until about the 15th of July. Th* truth is the anti-annexationists will have to make a test of the earnestness of the majority before they know exactly where they stand. They are in the dark themselves. Soldiers to Vote ln the Field. WASHINGTON, June 30. - The Sepat* committee on privileges and elections today reported the bill allowing soldiers to vote in the field. The committee decided on this action at a meeting held to-day, and in doing so divided on party lines, the Republicans supporting and the Democrats opposing it. ln reporting the bill to the Senate Senator Hoar gave notice that he would take an early opportunity to call it up for action. General Notes. WASHINGTON, June 30.—T0-day’s statement of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $201,532,722; gold reserve, $166,473,138. It is stated at the War Department that the United States has not purchased five of the Wilsons and Furless-Teyland line as announced in dispatches from London. The French ambassador, M, Cambon, hs received word of the death of his sister-in-law, wife of M. Paul Cambon, the French ambassador at Constantinople. The Cambons are a noted family of diplomutes, two of them being ambassadors at leading capitals and another being equally distinguished in another branch of official life. Victor Mason, of Washington, D. C., has been appointed private secretary to Secretary Alger, under special provision contained in the new legislative appropriation bill. Mr. Mason has been discharging the duties of that position since. Secretary Alger assumed his office, having been detailed from the board on fortifications, on which he was secretary.

THE “BICYCLE HEART." Scorchers Who Have It Are Barred from Enlisting in the Army. CHICAGO, June 30.—Dr. S. C. Stanton, who has charge of the examination of recruits for the United States regular army In this city, has caused a sensation among medical men by declaring that an habitual fast rider of bicycles, or a "scorcher,” is unfit, physically, to serve as a soldier in the army. He made this matter the subject of his severest tests in his examinations of applicants for enlistment and many men have been rejected because of a "bicycle heart.’* as the practitioner terms it, caused by excessive exercise in riding a wheel. The doctor says: "The persistent scorching, or fast riding has a tendency to enlarge the heart and thus interfere, with its proper action. Few enthusiastic bicyclists can resist the temptation to ’scorch,’ and, as a consequence, the physician believes that the hearts of a large proportion of this class of riders are more or less affected. This being the cace they would he unable to endure the hardships that army life possesses and should not be permitted to enter the service. The excitement attendant on war is also exceedingly deleterious to those whose hearts are in any degree affected." So earnest is Dr. Stanton in this matter that he makes the "bicycle heart" a feature of-his examination. PLUCKY YANKEE CAPTAIN. Ref need to Deliver Hl Cargo of Coal lo a Spanish Steamer. WASHINGTON, June 30.—A second case of an attempt to transfer coal from an American vessel to a Spanish merchantman in Mexico has brought out the old-tirno pluck of an American sea captain. The 600ton American schooner Clara A. Phinney. of New Bedford, some days ago was authorized to clear with 700 tons of coal from Moble to Vera Cruz, on affidavits of reliable citizens of Mobile that the coal was destined for railroad purposes. <>n reaching Vera Cruz Captain Phinney was directed by L. Jonblanc. his consignee, to place his vessel alongside the Spanish steamer Maria Herrera. In the presence of u group of .excited Spanish sympathizers Captain Phinney Bluntly declaring with emphasis that no veescq j n charge should ever lie alongsideship bearing the flag of his country’* < nerov, much less supply her with even a pound of coal. The captain, with a crowff at his heels, marched to the American consulate and notified the consul, and wrote at once to General Spaulding, acting secretary, that he had placed himself under American Protection. Kxports of coal to Mr. Jonblanc. of Vera Grut. will cease, and the department wui undertake to iix responsibility and punishment for the deed. DniffreM of Muilolnni. OMAHA. Neb., June 90.—The National Congress of Musicians opened here to-day. Addresses were delivered by W. L. Tomlin, of Chicago, on -Music and Child Individuality, and b W. S. Armstrong, of th# Chicago Tribune, on ’’lnterviews with Musicians.” T%jt evening at a concert Mis Georgia,Ke, of Omaha, played the first movemcjfct* Grieg's concerto in A minor, with Orchestra, and achieved a Other better known soloists took what is considered by musicians us the most notable concerts ever west.