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THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1898. b- 1 - 1 ■ —? Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 86 TERMS OF SI BSCRIFTION. DAILY BY MAIL. Dally only, one month $ .70 Dally only, three months 2 00 Dally only, one year 8.00 I. ally, 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. Ber year 11.00 Reduced Hates to Clubs. Subscribe with any of our numerous agents or •end subscriptions to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Indianapolis, Ind. Persons sending the Journal through the mails in the United States should put on an eight-page paper a ONE-CENT postage stamp; on a twelve or sixteen-page paper a TWO-CENT postage ■tamp. Foreign postage Is usually double these xates. All communications Intended for publication in this paper must, in order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following places: KEW YORK-Astor House. CHICAGO—PaImer House, P. O. News Cos., 217 Dearborn street, Great Northern Hotel and Grand PaciUc Hotel. Cincinnati—j. r. Hawley & Cos., 154 vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Deering, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Book Cos., 256 Fourth avenue. ET. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot. [WASHINGTON. D. C.—Riggs House. Ebbltt House and Willard’s Hotel. Secretary of the Treasury Gage is reported as preparing a bill to reduce the revenues, as the present war tax is piling up a surplus. Those papers which are saying that the President could not enlist another army of 225,000 men are open to the charge of slandering the American people. Prosperity cannot always be assured, but It ’Will depart never to return so long as there is any # doubt about the continuance ©f a dollar worth a dollar in the markets of the world. The suggestion of Representative Steele that the regiments which will be held for future service should bo given thirty days furlough is an excellent one, unless they should be needed w'ithin a few weeks. It has been suggested that $100,000,000 of the surplus now In the treasury be paid out to retire the treasury notes of 1890, with which silver bullion was purchased. It would be wise, but what a howl it would raise!

Some of the New York papers—th-j Herald, Journal and World—now praisirg General Miles, should heed his declaration to the effect that “too much is said about the misery of the war and not enough about what has been accomplished/' The Democratic candidate for Congress in Speaker Reed's district having objected to IS to 1, a silverite writes a letter advising his friends to vote for Reed, since, both men being hostile to silver, it is better to vote for the abler man for Congress. * The ordering of eight regiments of troops, nearly 8,000 men, to sail at once for Honolulu leads to a belief that they are intended for the Philippines. If that should prove true the Spanish peace commissioners will be pretty sure to try and make something out of the incident. The reason given by the Board of Public Works for abandoning the Fall creek park system was that the owners of the land held it so high that the city could not purchase it. And yet the board paid three times the assessor's appraisals for lands purchased along White river. General Miles says the American people have every reason to be proud of their army, volunteer as well as regular. He thinks colored troops stand disease better than white troops do in a semi-tropical climate, and that it would be good policy to garrlgon Cuba and Porto Rico with them. At the end of the civil war, after four years' hard service, not a single regiment asked to be mustered out and not a case of homesickness was reported'. The troops were glad the war was ended and happy in the prospect of going home, but they awaited orders and did not kick. Several Governors seem to have failed to comprehend that they have no control of the regiments mustered into the United States service. The Governor of Arkansas, who vigorously Insists that both regiments which that State has furnished shall be mustered out now, is one of that number. The Boston Journal announces that the free-silver Democrats of Massachusetts are discussing the merits of John Clark Ridpath as a candidate for Governor, which would indicate that Mr. Ridpath has ceased to be a resident of Indiana, since he declined to be a candidate for in the Fifth district. The war has demonstrated one thing, and that is that those who are commissioned as officers should be required to demonstrate that they know something of the duties which will devolve upon them. Bhould there be another National Guard, the qualifications of officers should be looked after as more Important than any other thing. A correspondent now in Havana says the people there “have boundless faith in American power and enterprise and unmeasured expectancy of the benefits to be derived from American rule.” From calling the American* “Yankee pigs” they seem to have gone to the other extreme of expecting them to accomplish in a few months what the Spaniards failed to do In 400 years, namely, make a modern city of Havana. The next Congress ought to take up tho proposition made during the recent session to build a battle ship equal to or exceeding In power, size and speed any now afloat, to be called the George Washington. The proposition would probably be strengthened by making It Include two ships of the same class, the other one to be called the Constitution, thus perpetuating the name of the famous frigate, as England does with her famous war ships. The so-called industrial commission recently appointed by the President under an act of Congress passed In June last will probably have a fairly good time, make a voluminous report and accomplish very little in the way of practical results. The law make* the commission consist of nineteen persons—five senators, five representative* and nine other persona, "who sbgll fairly

represent the different Industries and em-‘ ployments.” All have been appointed. The lifetime of the commission is to be two years and the salary of the members $3,600 a year, and It Is “to collate information and consider and recommend legislation to meet the problems presented by labor, agriculture and capital.” No objection can be made to the personnel of the commission, but experience shows that such Investigations are not apt to be fruitful in results. ABSURD CLAIMS. Those who are charging the President with responsibility for a large part of the confusion and irregularities at Montauk, Santiago and other points declare that it is due to the system which he has built up Sn the selection of subordinates. They are careful not to make specifications In connection with their charges. These clamorers would lead one to infer that all of the appointments of officials in the supply and medical branches of the army have been made by the President. Anyone who will take the pains to consult the “act to provide for temporarily increasing the military establishment of the United States In time of war” will find that the President has not been given the power to appoint subordinates in any considerable number. All of the field, medical, staff and line officers of volunteer regiments are by law selected by the Governors of States. For each brigade the President has appointed an assistant adjutant general, a quartermaster, a commissary of subsistence and a surgeon. For each division, In addition to the foregoing, there is an engineer officer and an inspector general. For a brigade of three regiments, the President would select five officers, while about one-hundred and twenty would be appointed by the Governors of the States furnishing the regiments. Now, as to brigade commanders, two-thirds were selected from the regular army, and the remainder, with few exceptions, were men who served with distinction in the war for the Union. A few, like General Bancroft, of Massachusetts, and General McKee, of this State, were selected because they had been connected with the National Guard for years. A large part of the brigade adjutants general, quartermasters, commissaries and surgeons were appointed by the President from civil life, just as they were by Abraham Lincoln, for the reason that to have appointed them from the regular army would have left no officers to command battalions and companies. All of these officers in brigades were under the direction of brigadiers, the larger part of whom are from the regular army. Much fault has been found with the management or mismanagement of affairs at Santiago. One would come to the conclusion, from the charges made by clamorers, that the secretary of war or the President, or both, were responsible because hospital stores were not landed. If they were not personally responsible, the clamorers assert that they are responsible for the system by which inefficient officers were appointed. The expedition for Santiago was fitted out under the direction of Generals Miles and Shatter, and the direct oversight of quartermasters and surgeons of the regular army. All of the division and brigade commanders, with the exception of General Wheeler and one other, were of the regular army. The staffs were made up largely from the regular afrmy. There is reason to believe that no military expedition was ever more carefully equipped for a campaign. The so-called political favorite and the rich plan's son did not have important positions. Most of the medical force was connected with the regular army, and the heads of the medical, quartermaster and commissary departments were men of long experience in the regular army. It is safe to say that not one of them was appointed by the President. They were ir.en of experience, and it is fair to assume that they did the best they could under most adverse circumstances.

The greatest clamor has been raised because sick men have been sent from Santiago in ill-fitted vessels without sufficient medical supplies and food. The howlers have charged these things upon the system of the administration. The officers, medical and transportation, who had charge of the shipment were experienced officers of the regular army. The greater part of the troops were in command of regular army officers. Even if they had been officers of the volunteer regiments they should have insisted that the ships be made clean and as comfortable as possible, and that rations and other supplies be laid in for the voyage. Even indirectly the President cannot be held responsible, unless it is his duty to inspect ships and see that regiments have rations. For the most part the camp and hospital at Montauk have been under the direction of regular army officers and surgeons connected with the army. The officers for whom the President is responsible by appointment are subordinates under the direction of others. It is time that sensible people should realize how absurd is the clamor which attempts to fix upon the President the responsibility for the accidents and failure of officers whom he did not appoint and for a system which does not exist. LI CHANG’S SECOND FALL. A Peking dispatch says that Li Hung Chang, late imperial chancellor of China, has been dismissed from power in compliance with the demand of the British minister, who charged that he had shown partiality to Russia in the granting of railroad concessions and other financial transactions. This is the second time Li Hung Chang has been in disgrace, and as he is now in his seventy-sixth year it is not likely he will recover from this fall. He was named by General Grant as one of the three really great men he had met in his trip around the world, and has been called the “Bismarck of China.” He is about the only Oriental statesman who has any reputation outside of his own country, and is by far the most liberal and progressive one that China has produced. He has held many offices and negotiated nearly every important treaty China has made with other powers. He is very wealthy, and has been accused of being dishonest and corrupt, as perhaps he is, though he has been shrewd enough to escape detection and punishment. At the beginning of the war with Japan, having had considerable military experience, he was given supreme command of the naval and military forces sent to Korea. Prior to that he had been for many years viceroy of the great province of CliiLi, practically viceroy of the whole empire, prime minister, foreign minister and commander-in-chief of the army and navy at the same time. The beginning of the war disclosed China’s utter unpreparedneßS. and as a punishment for the crushing defeats which followed the Emperor deprived Li Hung Chang of the order of the Yellow Jacket and the Peacock Feather. He soon recovered from this temporary disgrace, and when China got ready to au© for peace, In February, 1896, he waa appointed to ne-

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gotiate a treaty. He went to Japan In great state with a retinue of 130 persons and began the negotiation. It had scarcely begun when It was interrupted by an attempt to assassinate Li Hung Chang, in which he received an'ugly bullet wound in the face. Ho had already fully regained the confidence of the Emperor, who now sent two of his principal surgeons to attend the wounded statesman, and expressions of sympathy were universal. The incident resulted in Li Hung Chang’s complete restoration to power and popularity. His present disgrace is an outcome of the BritishRussian rivalry for precedence in China, and is probably due to his greed in accepting some big bonus from Russian agents for territorial or commercial advantages. England Is not In the habit of “lying down” under that sort of discrimination, and it is in compliance with the demand of her minister that Li Hung Chang has been dismissed. It will be a long time before China Will have a more progressive statesman in power, or the United States a better friend at court. THE RETURNING VOLUNTEERS. The regiments which are now returning to their homes without having seen actual service in the face of the enemy are entitled to all the honors that would be bestowed upon them if they had been in a campaign of battles. They enlisted at a time when there was every reason to believe that they would see service, and very severe service, in Cuba. Many of them would not have enlisted had they suspected they would not be called to the field. Had the Spanish held out about Havana as they might, and as there was every reason to believe they would until after the destruction of Cervera’s fleet and the fall of Santiago, the regiments which are now coming home would have been going to Cuba 'in a few weeks to engage in a campaign which would have been noted for bloody conflicts. All of the regiments were eager for such service. When there was no longer an expectation of it camp and its duties became irksome. In view of these facts the men who march home should receive at the hands of the people as enthusiastic a welcome as if they had been in battle. It is due to these men to say of them generally that the complaints which appear in the papers are not made by them as t body, but by a few discontented men writing home and by the exaggerations of newspaper correspondents who for political or personal motives are representing that the mass of the men In the regiments are dispirited, discontented and homesick. These reports are slanders upon the sturdy manhood of the great body of men who enlisted for the war with Spain, and they owe it to themselves to resent these statements by presenting a soldierly appearance on their return.

THE ANGLO-GERMAN TREATY. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, British secretary of state for the colonies, signalized his arrival in the United States on a visit by a frank interview with a reporter, in which he stated that anew treaty between Great Britain and Germany has been actually signed. This is the first official information that has been given out on the subject, and it may be significant of the growing friendly relations between England and the United States that it is given through an American newspaper. The first dispatch on the subject from London, Sept. 2, said a report was current there that such a treaty had been completed. Some of the London papers discredited the report, but the Pall Mall Gazette stated that it had information from a trustworthy source that the treaty had been signed, and characterized it as "a new and momentous departure in our foreign policy.” The same paper on the 6th inst. stated that it had learned that th< treaty was “mainly commercial,” but that it provided a basis for the adjustment of all differences regarding territorial questions between the two countries in all parts of the world. On the same date, Sept. 6, the British Foreign Office officials stated that the agreement was yet incomplete. As Mr. Chamberlain was on the ocean at that time it is probable he has been advised of the signing of the treaty by cable since he arrived in the United States. Rumors on the Stock Exchange confined the scope of the treaty to the acquisition by Great Britain of Delagoa bay, on the coast of Africa, thus disposing of a vexatious controversy between England, Germany and Portugal, and the acquisition of Syria, a part of Asiatic Turkey, by Germany. Mr. Chamberlain simply states that a treaty has been signed, leaving its subject matter and scope open to conjecture. It probably does include the points above indicated, and may include more. Delagoa bay is an important harbor, and is connected by rail with Pretoria. England wants it as a base for her operations in Africa, and if she nas obtained Germany’s consent Portugal will not stand in the way of her acquiring it. The German Emperor, on the other hand, has a sentimental desire to become possessed of the Holy Land and try German colonization in Asia. With England’s assent he can do this, though his experiment will have no practical results. But while it is probable the new treaty embraces the points named it may have a much wider significance. The Pall Mall Gazette of Sept. 2, in declaring its belief that an Anglo-German treaty had been signed, quoted Mr. Chamberlain's Birmingham speech of last May 13 as foreshadowing such a treaty. That speech was the first official utterance in favor of an Anglo-Saxon alliance and was widely commented on in the United States. It did not mention Germany, but it made distinct reference to the United States. “There is a powerful and generous nation,” said Mr. Chamberlain, “speaking our language, bred of our race and having Interests identical with ours. I would go so far as to say that, terrible as war may be, even war itself would be cheaply purchased if in a great and noble cause the stars and stripes and the union jack should wave together over an Anglo-Saxon alliance.” The argument of the speech was primarily in favor of an Anglo-American alliance or understanding, but also in favor of such other alliances as would enable Anglo-Saxon nations to cope with any combination of powers that could be made against them. In Its broadest sense an Anglo-Saxon alliance would include Germanic a* well as Englishspeaking peoples, and this may have been In Mr. Chamberlain’s mind when he made his speech of May 13. At ail events, It Is significant that less than four months after the speech was made anew treaty should have been signed between England and Germany, and that the British secretary of state for the colonies should make the first official announcement of the fact from the United States. It seems quite within the bounds of reasonable conjecture that he has come here to pave the way for a treaty or agreement between England and the United State* similar in spirit to that already concluded with Germany. A tripartite agreement of that kind would furnish an easy

settlement of the Samoan question. In which all three of the powers are interested, and might suggest a new and satisfactory adjustment of the Philippine question. Last Monday Mayor Taggart said in the course of his speech to the organized workers: “I saw an article this morning in the Indianapolis Journal front one Maurice Thompson, in which he said that he was in favor of the United States retaining that which they had gotten. After reading Lis article over I have come to the same conclusion. For I believe that, when this country has sent forth its men to do battle and has cleaned up a country like Spain within four months, it has a right to dispose of what it has gained as it sees fit.” In the same issue in which this speech was printed the Sentinel devoted a column of editorial space to the endeavor to show that Mr. Thompson does not know what he Is talking about, and that “imperialism” is really a wicked thing. The mayor and his organ should get together on this question. The suggestion recently made by the Journal that President McKinley be invited to visit this city on his way to or return from Omaha in October has resulted in action which it is hoped may bring about the desired visit. The additional suggestion of a state peace jubilee in honor of the event is a good one. Quite a number of cities are arranging for peace jubilees, but no other city is as well situated for a state celebration as Indianapolis. The Change In the NVeather. Once in the grilly night, While nature’s oven browned me, Cover was mighty light That I could bear around me. I felt like one who dwelt alona In hades’ halls deserted, With heat turned on From dark till dawn, And pins in me inserted. Now, in the chilly night. Ere Morpheus’ grip hath found me, 'Tis genuine delight To wrap big covers 'round me. The startling inconsistency of the W. C. T. U. women in desiring to use pure water instead of champagrie in christening the battle ship Illinois is enough to make one stand aghast. Just think of the thirst that harmless water might quench instead of being utterly wasted and mingled with the briny stuff below, and then think of she harm a whole bottle of champagne might accomplish if left to drink instead of being wasted over the prow of a vessel! The election of Rev. Dr. Lucas for ebap-lain-in-chief of the Grand Army is a fitting recognition of a man who for years has visited every veteran’s home in which there has been bereavement, particularly those in humble eircumstanc.es.

Among other records for young men of his age, Joe Leiter has broken that for big mortgages. ISI iillLEs IN THE AIR. Set Hiitt Thinking. “Millie,” said her six-foot husband, “you are a jewel.” “Yes,” said Millie sweetly, “a jewel with a big J.” Please Excuse. Dear Unole Sam, it’s plain that you Have such a winning way. In fact, you always seem to do Whatever U. S. A. The Anserwl Actor. “Do you mean to tell me that Barnes Tormer smashed his wheel just because the tire got punctured? The idiot!” “That is what he did. He said he would allow no confounded inanimate thing of steel and rubber to hiss at him.” He Understood. “I think.” said the civilized statesman, “that we had better arrange for a joint administration of your unhappy country.” “I think I understand,” said the native. “It is something like you would administer a joint of mutton; you get the meat and leave me the joint.” The Two Doctors Senn, Chattanooga Times. Dr. Nicholas Senn,! Dr. Nicholas Senn, colonel and assistant | c olonel and assistant surgeon general. TVS/ surgeon general, U. S. A., In a signed letter! A., in an interview In June 10, 1898: | Associated Press, Sept. “Chickaniauga Park 1. 1898: Is admirably adapted! “In regard to that for a large camp. It camp, I want to say I embraces several square warned the Washington mileS. The forest authorities before the trees furnish protection soldiers were sent there against the burning rays of the danger which of the semi-tropical sun would result from massand the many open, ing a body of men there, plaees and fields are I told them that the utilized as drill grounds, water supply was lnsufHumus is scanty and fleient. There were not the subsoil is of ciay. enough springs, and the The surface is some- use of river water would what undulating and is [ result in typhoid fever, cut up here and there My protests went unby ravines, which addj heeded. The result was much to the beauty of! shown when I was in the scenery. An ample Porto Rico with Gen. supply of pure water is Miles. Almost the first obtained from numerous! men sent there were wells from fifty to sixty- from Chickamauga. live feet in depth, re-1 They were run down cently supplemented by and half siek when a pumping station! they arrived. They were which derives water in no condition to stand from the river a short the southern climate, distance below Crawfish General Miles noticed Spring and distributes; their weakness, and I the water to different! told him the cause of parts of the park! it. I asked him to through iron pipes. The, notify the authorities vastness of the grounds’ and have the Chickais realized by the visitor! mauga camp broken up. as soon as he reaches He did so at once and Camp Geo._ H. Thomas, | the evacuation of the which at present is oc-; place followed.” cupied by nearly 50,000 men, yet seldom more than one regiment can be seen ai one and the same time. Malaria has nearly disappeared from this part of the country except a localized district north of Crawfish Spring, and that is probably due to the draining of a little pond on the south of the hotel. On the whole, the; health of the troops is I excellent.” Quick Work on the War Loan. Assistant Secretary Vanderlip, in September Forum. Congress is always jealous of departmental preparations in advance of legislation, and no actual step could be taken by the Treasury Department to prepare for this issue of bonds until the war measure had passed both the House and the Senate. The final action was taken when the House concurred in the Senate’s amendment at noon. Saturday. June 11. At 3:30 that afternoon the copy for the preliminary circulars and instruction blanks was in the hands of the public printer. At 9 o’clock Monday morning the public printer delivered to the Treasury Department the first installment of 4,000,000 sheets of printed matter, and the rest followed as rapidly as they could be unloaded from the wagons. A great force had been engaged in addressing envelopes to contain the subscription papers and circulars of information. In a little over twenty-four hours after the receipt of the first printed copies the malls were carrying these circulars to every bank, national, state and private, to every postmaster and to every express office in the country, while to 24.000 newspapers details were sent, so that they might give information to the people concerning the character of the government bond and how subscriptions would be received. Kitchener's Method*. New’ York Commercial Advertiser. Not the least difficulty with which General Kitchener had to contend was the liability of his troops to sickness from tho trying climate of the, Sudan. Yet he seems to have managed It admirably. At no time was there more than 5 per cent, of the force in the hospital, and the fatal cases were comparatively few. Special attention was given to keeping the men busy and cheerful, the latter by sports thoroughly enjoyed. Football, theatrical performances and river excursions weie lively variarta on the stress of war, and did much to maintain the nealth of the command.

TERRITORY OF HAWAII ♦ SAME DECIDED ON FOR THE SEW CHILD OF THE REPUBLIC. ♦ - The lulnndi to Have Local Sell-Gov eminent and Are to Set an Example for Trial In I'orto Rico. HONOLULU, Sept. 3, via San Francisco, Sept. 9.—The ‘'Territory of Hawaii” is the name which the annexation committee has decided to recommend to Congress for the islands. Thus will be preserved in the political nomenclature of the United States the distinctive origin of this part of the United States. The history and traditions of the islands, and the associations that no resident here wants forgotten will go on in unbroken union with the name. The form of the government will be modeled on that of existing Territories. There will be no further departures from this form than local conditions and national political considerations make necessary. It is probable that in working out the details the form of government will not approximate so closely to that of state government as the ordinary form of government does. But the ultimate possibility of statehood will not be barred. There will be no District of Columbia or Alaska form of government proposed. Local self government will be given through the extension of the municipal idea. The islands will be divided into municipal districts, having control, under restrictions and limitations, of purely local affairs. Honolulu, for instance, will be a municipal district, embracing the whole of the Island of Oahu. Hawaii may be divided into two districts and Molokai, Lanai and Niyahu may be attached to some, other municipal districts. The question of a territorial legislature has been fully settled. There will probably be one, but with limited powers. All the attributes of sovereignty, however, will be exercised by the national government of the United States. The people of Hawaii will be called on to consider themselves Americans, looking to the national government as a source of national power. In local affairs they will have the opportunity of exercising the highest attribute of American citizenship, local self-government. The form of government the commission will recommend will be one calculated to do away with the associations of national independence which have grown up in the last eighty or ninety years and to create associations and the feeling of union with the United States of America. It is pretty clear from what has been said by members of the commission from time to time in framing a form of government for these islands, they have also been charged by the administration at Washington with forming a model which can be adapted to Potto Rico and other new possessions the war has brought the United States.

The commission is trying so to shape its work as t,o be able to conclude its labors Sept. 2d. The visiting members will, in that case, be able to return to the main land by the steamer on the 23d of September. This will be in plenty time for the prompt presentation of the bill which will be dratted, right after the opening of Congress on the lirst Monday in December. The commissioners visited Pearl harbor on Sept. 1. Admiral Miller, who is thoroughly informed as to Pearl harbor from a naval point of view, pointed out the advantages which originally induced the United States to secure concessions there for a naval station. Professor Alexander, who is thoroughly conversant with it from the point of view of a geodetic surveyor, pointed out the geological structure and the improvements that will be needed to make it the ideal naval rendezvous. The Pacific cable may go around Honolulu altogether, as a shorter route by way of Alaska has been figured on. Gen. A. S. Hartwell said this morning: ‘‘By the last mail I received some communication from the company concerning the cable. General Scrymser writes me that his company is annoyed at the delay required by the clause in the Hawaiian contract which gives the secretary of state six months in which to signify his approval or disapproval of the contract. He states that he has had some correspondence* with Secretary Day on the matter, and has asked him to come to a final conclusion at as early a date as convenient. In the early part of the year the secretary had expressed his disapproval of any contract being being entered into at this end, and it was, in consequence of this being so, that the condition was inserted in the Hawaiian contract requiring the approval of the secretary of state. I am now Informed that the answer of Secretary Day to the communication has been received to the effect that, owing to his relationship to Colonel Spalding, he has taken no part in the affair, and that he would hand it over entirely to his assistant, Mr. Moore. However, I have no doubt that Secretary Day will not hesitate to inform the company of his opinion on the contract at once. “If the company shall not avail itself of the Hawaiian contract it contemplates adopting the shorter Alaska route. General Scrymser informs me that a cable with a landing in Alaska, thence to Japan, connecting with the established lines to China, Manila and Australia, could be built for less than $5,000,000, as against $12,000,000 via the Hawaiian islands.” There is a clash here between Colonel Barber and the Hawaiian government over military quarters. The Hawaiian government, as is known, at the end of August withdrew its garrison of troops from the executive building and grounds. It was deemed that, with the presence of United States troops at Honolulu, there was no more need of troops to guard the public buildings. The paid military of Hawaii simply went out of existence. In the meantime the Hawaiian government had. informed the United States representatives that after the 31st of August it would not be responsible for the official military courtesies of this port. It js now an American port. The United States military authorities then signified their intention of occupying the late Hawaiian military headquarters, including the men’s barracks under the executive building and the officers quarters in the bungalow. To this intention the Hawaiian government objected. It claimed that the buildings and grounds vacated by its military are purely civil in their character and their purposes entirely related to the. administration of Hawaiian affairs. In speaking of the trouble, Attorney General Smith said: “There is no friction nor has there been any. The matter has been discussed by Gen. Merriam. Colonel Barber and Minister Cooper. The military authorities would like to move one company into the quarters vacated by Companies E and F of the National Guard, and the officers would like to use the bungalow as their quarters. The government has objected to this for the reason that it is our earnest desire to keep the civil and military departments in future entirely separate. We desire to reserve the executive buildings and grounds entirely for civil purposes and to convert the basement of the building into the necessary offices as they may be required. We have proposed that Colonel Barber be given an office in the bungalow and the men may be quartered in the other barracks. We have offered to assist Colonel Barber in securing any quarters he may desire, but we arc anxious to disassociate the military from the executive building and reserve it for civil offices. There has been no demand or refusal to comply with any demand as has been reported. The matter has been discussed and a decision has not been reached.” , , It is the present calculation to send the United States steamer Philadelphia back to San Francisco very soon, as Admiral Miller, having completed the mission on which he was sent bv the United States government, is anxious to return. It is close on his time of retiring from the active service and besides that Mrs. Miller is in San Francisco awaiting him. Various officers of the Philadelphia are so sure that their ship will return ta this port after landing Admiral Miller in San Francisco that they are making arrangements here for that purpose. In fact, the Philadelphia is the only ship available for duty here. Yuchtda, the Japanese consul to Honolulu, arrived by the Coptic last night. He is accredited as minister pro tpm. to the Republic of Hawaii, although the arrangementhave been made for the proper acknowledgment of bis credentials at Washington. The transport Scandia arrived from San Francisco this morning. Case Where Divorce Was a Failure. DENVER, Col., Sept. The rights of Major William J. Cook Daniels, as sole heir to the estate of his father, the late William B. Daniels, the millionaire dry goods merchant, have been confirmed. Judge Reiner, in the Circuit Ccurt, has decided against the claim of Mrs. LJlyon B. Daniels for the widow’s half of the estate, overruling her contention that her divorce was invalid be-

cause it had been obtained by collusion. Major Daniels received an appointment as adjutant general after the breaking out of the war with Spain, and was at the front of Santiago when the surrender was made. He is now ill in New York. DENVER HOTEL TRAGEDY. Notorious Woman Shoots a Cleveland Man and Commits Snlclde. DENVER, Col., Sept. 9.—W. H. Lawrence, of Cleveland, 0., was shot and probably mortally wounded in a room at the Oxford Hotel, this aftenoon, by a woman who is known here only as Florence Richardson. The woman then shot herself in the heart, dying almost instantly. Mr. Lawrence was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital. The doctors in attendance give no hepe of his recovery. The ball entered his back and passed clear through the body. The couple had registered at the Oxford Hotel about a half hour before the tragedy occurred as H. C. Rockwell and wife, of Greeiy. Col. The n otive for the shooting is not known. Mr. Lawrence rushed out of the room after he had been shot and sank to the floor in the I allway. ”1 don’t know why she shot me,” he said. Beyond that he declined to make any statement. Mr. Lawrence and the woman who had shot him had returned this morning from a three weeks’ tour over the State in a covered wagon. In their trunk was an express receipt in the name of Florence Montague. The woman was about twenty-four years old and of dissolute character. It is understood that her mother lives in Minneapolis. Mr. Lawrence is a brother of M. J. Lawrence, president of the Ohio Farmer Publishing Company, of Cleveland, 0., and owns an interest in that paper. He is about forty-five years old and has a family in Cleveland. CPBAN POLITICAL PARTY INSURGENTS WILL INTRODUCE IMPROVED AMERICAN METHODS. One of the Necessities for Orgranistns a Home Government to Insure Tranquillity. NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—The Times says: The Cuban revolutionary party in this city is engaged in the formation of a political party for Cuba, to be known as the Nationalist party. The plans for the leaders have so far progressed that a meeting will be held to-day or to-morrow to select a committee of from 200 to 250 Cubans as a nucleus for the organization. The movement is in the hands of T. Estrada Palma, Fidel G. Pierra, Horatio S. Rubens and outers equally well known. So far the plans have been kept quiet, but the Cuban leaders, within a few days, will issue a manifesto setting forth their purposes and cause it to be widely distributed among their followers, principally in Cuba. According to Fidel G. Pierra, the principles of the new party will be based on the provisions contained in the war resolutions of Congress passed April 19, 1898. In explaining this and other features Mr. Pierra said: "Our intentions are, in this movement, to follow closely the desires of the American government and the laws laid down by it lor the rehabilitation of Cuba. When once the preliminaries of the party organization are arranged we shall send a committee of two or three to Cuba to undo some political work that has already been started that is in conflict with the ideas of this government. By this I mean that some of our people have already made arrangements to hold, in a town in the province of Santiago de Cuba, a political gathering in October for governmental purposes, and we purpose to see that it is stopped, and that no political machinery be put in operation in Cuba until, in the opinion of the American government, the Cuban people are ready tor it. “Our reason for starting the Nationalist party thus early is practically to begin a campaign of education. Our people in Cuba, of course, need such instruction. We wish, and we think we are able, to form a large and powerful party. It will contain, of course, the original revolutionary party, and we expect to be joined by the Left Autonomists, who constitute the most progressive and liberal element of that class, if the purely Spanish element wishes to assimilate with the new party, well and good. It will be received without reference to its sentiments of the past. The commercial interests of many of the Spaniards are Important, and as they would suffer by returning to Spain It is not unlikely that the new party will eventually contain many of the old-time royalists. “How will the Cubans take to politics? Well, we are new in politics, naturally. It may be a slow process. What a Cuban arrives at by a process of political reasoning an American will reach by instinct. But we expect to prove that we are capable of self-government. The Cubans seen by the Americans during the war, with the exception of a few leaders, were of the lowest class, which forms not more than a third of our population. This is largely the negro class. Judged by them the Cubans are judged unjustly. It is as though a cultured foreigner judged the body of Americans by, say, portions of your East Side in New York city. There will always be discordant elements in every country, but when the American government is ready for our elections we hope to be prepared to meet the situation.” Mr. Pierra, in speaking of the commercial development of the island, said he expected few enterprises would be started by for-, eigners until after the Spanish soldiers nad left. “And after that,” he said, “we must raise something to sell.”

DR. BARBEE WHITEWASHED. After a “Prayerful” Examination the M. E. Book Agent In Vindicated. NASHVILLE, Term., Sept. 9.—Several days ago Dr. J. A. Orman, presiding elder of the Murfreesboro district of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, upon his own motion, and by virtue of the authority vested in him by the church discipline, appointed a committee of' ministers to investigate rumors that involved the moral character of Dr. J. D. Barbee, book agent of the publishing house of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. These rumors grew out of the Methodist publishing house claim matter. The committee met yesterday at McKendree Church, and, after a session lasting all day, gave out the following statement: “The committee, after carefully and prayerfully examining all the testimony in the case, unanimously report a trial before the Tennessee Conference, soon to meet, unnecessary, thereby vindicating the good name of Dr. Barbee.” GEN. CLAY’S DIVORCE. 1 Dora Richardson Given Back Her Name and a Farm Besides. RICHMOND, Ky., Sept. 9.—Gen. Cassius M. Clay, the sage of White Hall, has been granted a divorce from his girl wife, Dora Richardson Clay, by Judge Scott, of the Madison County Circuit Court. The decree restores the defendant to her maiden name, Dora Richardson. The suit for divorce was filed several weeks ago and it was not contested by the defendant. Every effort was made to hurry it through the courts with the result that a decree was handed down this morning. No reference was made to alimony, as it was understood by the attorneys and the court that General Clay had already made ample provision for hia wife by the purchase of a large and productive farm near her old home. The marriage contract which existed between them was dissolved. NO MORE FLAG OFFICERS. Newport** Swell Naval Station to Be Abandoned. NEWPORT, R. 1., Sept. 9.—On Oct. 1 the naval station of Newport, according to an order issued by Assistant Secretary Allen, of the navy, will go out of existence and the flag of Commodore Albert Kautz will be hauled down with proper ceremonies. The three departments which now comprise the naval station will become Independent staffs and the naval dignity of the place considerably lessened without a flag officer. Os course there will be a senior officer present, and for the time being this will he Capt. Casper Goodrich, in charge of the Naval War College, an institution whieh is directly responsible for this chunge, over which a battle will be fought to keep the naval station under a flag officer.

TRADE WITH ENGLAND THE UNITED STATES NOW HAS FIVB TIMES THE BEST OF IT. Table Showing the Value of Articles Imported and Exported for the Past Three Year* in Great Britain. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-The fact that British imports into the United States have fallen off greatly in the past year while American exports to Great Britain have greatly increased has been announced from time to time during the year, but the full year’s figures, just presented by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics, bring; to the surface some interesting details not heretofore published. These show that the exports from the United States to the United Kingdom have increased 12 per cent., and ar nearly five times as heavy as the imports from the United Kingdom, which have fallen off 35 per cent. The figures of the Bureau of Statistics are: Imports from ths United Kingdom. $109,138,365; exports to the United Kingdom. $540,860,152. The details of the reduction in imports and increase in exports in our commerce with the United Kingdom are shown in some figures reproduced by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics from the “Official Reports of Trade and Navigation of the United Kingdom,” which show the exports of principal articles from the United Kingdom to the United States, and her imports of principal articles from the United States in the year ending Juns 30, 1898, compared with those of 1897 and 1896. The following tables give the more important of these articles, the values being stated in pounds sterling, from official reports of trade and navigation of the United Kingdom: —Exports to United States.— Articles. 1896. 1897. 1898. Beer and ale .... 175,043 165,369 135,994 Spirits 194.444 180,493 102,6.*3 Wool 468,174 955,406 566,706 Cott’n piece goods all kinds 1,468,422 1,594.829 1,159,507 Jute man's 1,074,861 1,441,772 . 751.496 Linea man’s 2,068,881 2,239,030 1,423,812 Silk, thrown, twist, yarn Woolen and worsted yarn 93,058 79,014 20.111 Woolen tissues . 1,497,966 1,226,781 217,861 Worsted tissues.. 3,971,900 2,750,982 826.849 H’dw’re & cutl’y. 192,743 189,161 84,387 Pig Iron 316,649 80,472 113,345 Tin plates and sheets 1,991.527 1.163.564 787.134 Steel, unwrought. 351,437 255,061 257.277 Textile mach’ery. 594,380 248,445 264,975 Alkali 653,823 525,735 238,396 Cement 198,557 121,629 93,692 Earthenware and Chinaware 893.130 742.471 513,563 Skins and furs .. 717,920 584,064 668,558 —lmports from United States.— Articles. 1896. 1897. 1898. Cattle 6,212,679 6,847,472 7,608,647 Wheat 8,283,179 11,408,761 14,985,337 Wheat meal and flour 5,623,610 6,735,971 9.301,640 Oats 404.064 1,494,479 2,466,186 Inuian corn 4,632.798 6,062,169 7,730,220 Bacon 4,168,317 4,643,744 6,151,942 Beef, fresh 3,732.140 4 420,474 4,816,393 Hams 2,691,059 3,118,667 3.649,895 Cheese 1,076.983 1,219,618 1.326,363 Lard 2,478,732 1,830,753 2,582,214 Copper, unwr’ght 868,585 1,638,829 1,689,660 Cotton, raw 21,378.565 28,340,565 25,548,118 Tallow & stearine 253,207 293,786 452,702 Wood and limber 1,603.455 2,020,300 2,252,243 Leather 2,998,386 2,694,810 2,964,272 Horses 468,970 704,362 809,238

THE SIXTH FOUGHT WELL Tribute of Col. H. C. Egbert to Hta Men in San Juan Hill Charge. FORT THOMAS, Ky.. Sept. 9.—C01. H. C. Egbert, of the Sixth Infantry, who was wounded in the San Juan hill fight near Santiago de Cuba July 1, has made out an official substitute report to the secretary of war of the part the Sixth Infantry regulars took on that famous action. After making a long minute detailed report of all the movements of the Sixth and those of the co-operating forces of the Sixteenth, Twen-ty-fourth and Thirteenth up to and through the final successful victorious charge he concludes with the following graphic summary: ‘‘What has been said of the English, ‘that they never fight better than in their first battle,’ I believe I may justly claim for the Sixth Infantry, very few of whom has ever before been under fire. Yet they acted from the first to last of this trying day like veterans of many battles. Neither at Gettysburg nor in the lines of Spottsylvania Courthouse have I ever but once seen as hot a tire as the ten minutes in the grass field when the Sixth entered it the first time and when the regiment sustained most of its loss, the highest in percentage of any regiment in the army of invasion. Yet officers and men fought with a steady and determined valor worthy of their country and race. The regiment took into action 463 officers and men and its loss was 11 officers and 114 men. “Again referring to the officers of this regiment who fell in this action, Capt. Alexander M. Wetherill, First Lieut. Jules G. Ord, Second Lieut. Reuben S. Turman and Second Lieut. Edmund N. Btnehley, it would seem to me a benefit to the country if a fitting monument could be erected in memory of their valor and that of the officers and men of other organizations. “The following first sergeants: Thomas Farroll, Company B; Harold M. Hallman, Company A; James Bennett, Company E; Dick Career, Company F; William Wyly, Company D; John Murray, Company C, and William J. Brown, Company H, served with bravery and efficiency. As I am no longer with the regiment, I cannot obtain the names of the many noncommissioned officers and men who deserve special recommendation, but I desire to mention much orderly Private James Mullen, of Company F, who rendered valuable service and by his entire indifference to danger offered a most excellent example. He was killed at my side. I earnestly recommend them for promotion by brevet and for increased rank when the army is augmented on account of their gallant service in this action. Very respectfully your obedient servant, “HARRY C. EGBERT, “Colonel Twenty-second Infantry, late Lieutenant Colonel Sixth lafantry and commanding regiment at battle of Santiago.” MUTILATED SPANIARDS. Condition of the Prisoners from Cervera's Sunken Squadron. NEW YORK. Sept. 9.-The steamship Old Dominion arrived last night from Newport News with five officers and thirty-nine sailors who had manned the Spanish ships when Admiral Cervera attempted to escape from Santiago harbor. They had all been wounded, most of them horribly so. Mcst of the poor fellows were minus arms or legs, and three who had been literally torn to pieces by a shell were dying. The temporary hospital between decks amidships was a place of misery, but the officers and crew and passengers on the Old Dominion did everything possible to show their sympathy for the vanquished foe. Not a murmur escaped the lips of the Spaniards on the voyage from the South. They were profuse in their thanks for the kindness shown them. All are anxious to reach their native lurid, but some of them will find an ocean burial, for they are too weak to stand the journey to Spain. The wounded Spaniards were landed at Pier 26, North river, and were transferred from there by the steamer William Fletcher to the Anchor lino steamer City of Rome, which has been chartered by Admiral Cervera to transport the Spanish prisoners home. The City of Rome will sail to-mor-row for Portsmouth, where she will take on 1,400 men. The wounded officers on the Old Dominion were: Lieutenant Luis Fajardo, of the Vizcaya; Lieutenant Jose Hoval, of torpedo boat destroyer Furor; Lieutenant Francisco Arderius, of the Terror; Assistant Surgeon Nicholas Gomez, of the Vizcaya. Lieutenant Miguel Sagrera also came on the steamer. He was not wounded in the fight at Santiago harbor, although h* was on the Cristobal Colon. Admiral Cervera, accompanied by his son, Angel Cervera, and his aid. Lieutenant Gomez, left for Portsmouth, N. 11.. last night to arrange for returning to Spain th Spanish prisoners there.