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THE DAILY JOURNAL THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1898. Washington Office—lso3 Pennsylvania Avenue Telephone rails. Business 0ffice......238 i Editorial Rooms 86 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY BY MAIL. Dally only, one month .70 Daily only, three months 2.00 Daily only, one year * 00 I'ally. Including Sunday, one year K'.OO Sunday only, one year 2.00 WHEN FURNISHED BY AGENTS. Dally, per week, by carrier 15 cts Sunday, single copy 5 cts Dally and Sunday, jier week, by carrier.... 20 eta WEEKLY. Per year 11.00 Reduced Kates to Club*. Subscribe with any of our numerous agents or send subscriptions to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Indianapolis, lud. Persons sending the Journal through the mails In the United States should put on an eight-page paper a ONE-CENT i>ostage stamp; on a twelve or sixteen-page paper a TWO-CENT postage stamp. Foreign postage is usually double these rates. AH 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; NEW YORK— Aetor House. CHICAGO—PaImer House. P. O. News Cos., 217 Dearborn street, Great Northern Hotel and Grand f'a<ittc Hotel. CINCINNATI— J. It. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Peering, 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, Ebbltt House and Willard's Hotel. If any good people who have been reading the heart-rending stories of suffering and deprivation in the army came out yesterday to see gaunt and starved men they must have been gratified over the appearance of the returning volunteers. Really, for the United States to be regulating tariff duties in Cuba at this stage of the proceedings does not seem quite consistent with our pledge not to interfere with the government of the island, beyond restoring order and preserving peace. The proposed increase of city taxes 16 2-J per cent, by the Taggart regime is not popular with a large number of people who cannot see the need of such appropriations as $61,000 for the construction of new parks which have not yet been begun. Those Governors who are demanding that certain regiments be. mustered out should remember that while a State Constitution may make a Governor commander-in-chief cf the state militia, his authority ceases the moment a regiment is mustered into the national service. After that he lias no right to meddle. The first duty of a soldier is obedience. No man is obliged to enlist, but if he does, the moment he is mustered in he obligates himself to sink his personality in obedience to orders. After that he has no right to eay that he enlisted for this or that purpose and question the purposes or orders of the government. Admiral Sampson understands the naval functions of peace as well as those of war. IJo seoml a point of etiquette with the Spanish officials at Havana a few days ago by raising the Spanish flag on the mainmast of the Resolute and firing a salute in honor of the birthday of the Princess oflthe Asturias, the young King’s eldest sister.

As Genera) Otis’s ultimatum to Aguinaldo 'for the withdrawal of insurgent troops from the suburbs of Manila would have expired to-day, the evacuation of the suburbs yesterday showed an intelligent appreciation of the situation. The compliance with General Otis’s demand goes to show' that he and Admiral Dewey are masters of the situation, at least at Manila. The Sentinel, in trying to make political capital out of the return of the home regiment, says that the Republican clubs did not go out Tuesday in the rain to greet the men on their return. No; many of the representatives of the Republican clubs went with the ladies to assist in feeding them, while the Democrats paraded wfth a band. There is no political capital to be made out of the matter. Several of the associations of Indiana regiments held reunions in this city yesterday which were of unusual interest. If those persons who, for any purpose, are telling how soldiers have been left to starve or die of disease, and making it appear that high officials know of it and are indifferent, had been present at some of these meetings they would have heard themselves denounced as defamers of their government. The one thing certain in the Philippines question is that the United States, having captured and taken possession of the bay and city of Manila and its suburbs, will not withdraw from this part of the territory. If that necessitates possession and control of the whole of the island of Luzon, on which Manila is situated, or even of the entire group, we must accept the consequences. To withdraw from Manila, which we have formally accepted in surrender and occupied, is not to be thought of. The Spanish premier. Sagasta. replying to attacks on the government, said the character of the Spanish race was the true cause of the disasters to Spain. “We are,” he said, “an amalgamic country.” This was an e-dd expression to use in a political speech. It might mean that the Spanish people were mixed In a racial sense, or that they were mercurial. But neither of these qualities would account for the disasters to Spain as plainly ay her traditional disregard of mercy, justice, honesty and fair play in all her governmental dealings. The Anderson Bulletin remarks that "preserving the fish of White river at the cost of our manufacturing establishments will prove an expensive luxury to this community.” It is not a question of preserving the fish in one Indiana stream, but in ail of them. So far as know'll, there is only one factory in Anderson whose refuse kills the fish In White river, and it will be no great hardship to require that one to dispose of its refuse in some other way. Even ts there were several it would make no differeWe; the law for the protection of Indiana rivers from pollution should be enforced. The reception which the people of Indianapolis and vicinity gave to the One-hun-dred-and-flfty-eighth Regiment yesterday was so cordial and spirited that the men must have realized that they have the esteem of those w'ho are at home and that they are proud of their representatives in the army. From the day the regiment left home until It returned, the beat things have

i been said of the One-hundred-and-fifty-eighth, thus warranting the praise of their colonel, expressed in yesterday’s issue. It is not necessary to speak of the soldierly bearing of the men and of the inspiring appearance they made as they marched through the streets. It is one of the regiments which has had efficient officers, many of them getting their first lessons in military affairs from Col. James R. Ross. TIME TO PISH THINGS. The American members of the SpanishAmerican peace commission had a final conference with the President yesterday and received the written instructions which have been prepared by the State Department under direction of the President and Secretary Day. The commissioners will sail from New York on Saturday next, and by the terms of the protocol will meet with the Spanish commissioners in Paris not later than Oct. 1 “to proceed to negotiations and to the conclusion of a treaty of peace.” That the negotiation is likely to occupy considerable time may be inferred from the fact that although more than a month has elapsed since the signing of the protocol, we are still in the preliminary stages of its execution, it was signed on the 12th of August. Two of its main features were the renunciation by Spain of all claim to sovereignty over Cuba and the cession of Porto Rico to the United States. The protocol provided that “Spain will immediately evacuate Cuba, Porto Rico and the other islands now under Spanish sovereignty in the Antilles.” “Immediately” is a strong word. A fair construction of this language would be that the Spanish forces were to evacuate the islands as soon as passible without reference to the meeting of the peace commission in Paris. This view is confirmed by the fact that separate commissions were agreed upon to arrange the details of the evacuation of each island, respectively. There is no reason why these details should not have been agreed upon before this—at least, no reason except the delay of both governments in appointing the two commissions, their delay in meeting, their leisurely manner of proceeding since coming together and the obvious intention of the Spanish commissioners to prolong the negotiations at least until after tlie meeting of the peace commission in Paris. When the two governments agreed in writing on the 12th of August that “Spain will immediately evacuate Cuba and Porto Rico” it was fair to assume that the middle of September would find the evacuation in a state of considerable forwardness. Instead of that, not a Spanish soldier has >et left Cuba, except the prisoners captured at Santiago, and not one has left Porto Rico. This delay and the continuance of the evacuation commissions until after the meeting of the peace commission on Oct. 1 may prove to be an embarrassing factor in the situation. It may be accepted as a certainty that Spain will take advantage of every circumstance to complicate and prolong the various negotiations and that the Spanish members of the different commissions will all play into one another’s hands to this Meanwhile, the Spanish government is appropriating the receipts of custom houses in Cuba and Porto Rico, and it is by no means certain that Spanish spies and agents are not fomenting trouble for us among the insurgents in Cuba and the malcontents in Porto Rico. They should he required to evacuate both islands before the peace commission meets in Paris. The President should direct the Cuban and Porto Rican commissioners to “push things.”

A KOVEL PROPOSITION. One of the newspapers which falls in the list known as yellow declares with emphasis that the United States must not undertake to assert power in the Philippines should the remarkable person known as Aguinaldo object. He, says the paper alluded to, represents the revolt against Spain and he represents the movement in favor of popular government; at his suggestion the United States must quit. If Aguinaldo does not want the islands with their millions of population, the United States is in duty bound to take them and keep them out of the hands of Spain. If he does want them, the United States must drive Spain out and turn the islands over to him. This programme makes very much of a man of the upstart who agreed not to be in insurgent if he were paid a given sum, but became a patriot when the Spanish officials paid him only a small part of his bribe. What shall be done with the Philippines is an unsettled question. It is likely to be the subject of much consideration. But, whatever comes, it is not likely that any considerable number of people will think that Aguinaldo should be made ruler over them. One of the reasons for our holding the islands is that it is a duty to establish decent government there and to prevent European countries from getting into a squabble over them. To turn them over to Aguinaldo would be to make matters worse than they now are. If he should not sell the islands to the first nation offering to purchase, he would bring misrule, turbulence and a series of insurrections by natives as vain and ambitious as he is. There is not the slightest possibility that anything of the kind will be done. Europe would cry out against it and denounce us for turning over the islands to anarchy. Nevertheless the proposition shows the freakish disposition of a portion of the press and how unworthy these papers are of the confidence of thoughtful people. The opposition press found cause for elation in the election in Vermont, and still more in the election in Maine on Monday. The great falling off in the Democratic vote in Arkansas has not attracted the attention of the Democratic editor. For the first time since IST" the Republicans of Maine made no campaign. Every election year since that date a most active speaking campaign has been carried on. In September, 1881, the fusion candidate for Governor was elected by a small plurality, and two of the four representatives were of that party. In ISM the Democratic party in Maine went to pieces, and in 1596 its break-up was more decided. This year there has not been a Republican meeting in Maine. In Speaker Reed’s district, where the loss of the Republicans is heaviest, the Democratic candidate for Congress spoke in every part of the district. He opposed free silver coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1 In hts speeches, but advocated the making of a ratio by a Democratic Congress. He assailed the tariff and posed as a friend of the soldier. This active canvass upon an anti-Bryan platform brought out a fair Democratic vote in Mr. Reed’s district. As it is, the Democrats did non elect one of the thirty-one senators and only twenty of the 151 representatives constituting the Legislature. It does not appear that they have elected a county officer. It may be added that county offices are of so little consequence in the New England States that candidates make no special effort to get out voters. All the assessing and collecting of taxes done by 1 ~.. J- ■ , . .... A. . ••

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county officers in Indiana is done by city and township officers in New England. Assured of a sweeping victory without effort, the Maine Republicans did not do anything to get out their full vote. The Republican vote is not so large af* the remarkable vote of 1894 by 20 per cent., while the Democratic vote is not so large as the very small vote of that ye- r by 4 per cent. Ex-Senator Manderson, one of the men selected to Investigate the alleged abuses in the medical and supply departments of the army, raised the objection that the board proposed cannot investigate. It has ro power to summon witnesses or to require the presentation of papers. Several papers w'hich have criticised Secretary Alger take the same view of the matter. Officers in the War Department object to such an investigation on the ground that it is not authoritative and that testifying befoie it would be very much like volunteering to criticise or condemn associates in the array or superiors In rank. This objection of the army officers seems a weak one. If there have been irregularities it is their duty to report them to whomsoever the President directs to make an inquiry. Asa legal point it is probable that General Manderson’s objection is valid. Such a commission could not summon witnesses and administer oaths because it has no legal standing; but it could make rn inquiry and it could present facts and arrive at conclusions. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. Very. He—l had an uncle whose clothes were torn from him by lightning. She—How shocking. Nonbelief. Watts—l don’t believe in drinking to excess. Eushforth—l don’t believe it is possible, myself. More lii form.-t t ion. Tommy—Paw, what is an agnostic: Mr. Figg—He is a man who does not believe that man is the lord of creation or a creation of the Eord. Contraction. “Well, anyway, this war has brought the North and South closer together.” “Yes. That is the reason we will have to expand toward the East.” STATE PRESS OPINION. Every day vindicates the statement that the complaints from the volunteer soldiers ceme only from those who were disappointed in not finding soldiering a snap. —Richmond Item. Is it not a little strange that whenever mention is made in an impersonal way of yellow journals that there are a dozen or so Democratic papers resent it as a persutal insult?—Richmond Item. What labor needs is employment. That which moves machinery and starts commerce, opens mines and sets the spindle buzzing, is the thing in which labor is most interested.—Shelbyville Republican. Eailey, of Texas, is coming North to open a Democratic anti-expansion campaign. He should commence by pointing out that it was a great mistake for the United States to take in his own State of Texas. —Fort Wayne Gazette. The Democratic newspapers are chagrined because General Alger has requested the President to order an investigation of the bureaus of his department that have been so grossly criticised. It has taken away their capital.—Terre Haute Express. Six months ago every Democratic paper in Indiana was opposing the annexation of Hawaii. Annexation has now been accomplished abouj throe months and it is quite generally conceded, even by the Democrats, that annexation was right. By the next campaign it will be claiming the credit. Same old Democratic party.—Seymour Republican. The hue and cry of some demagogues against the management of the war by a patriotic American administration is having a boomerang effect. Instead of its hurting the party against whom the epithets are hurled it is hurting the party whose demagogic leaders are trying to bring the soldiers and army of this country into disrepute.—Greenfield Republican. The hue and cry raised against Secretary Alger by a part of the public press is not at all creditable, and will, we feel sure, rebound on its promoters. War is hell, and our volunteer soldiers did not expect easy times and large pay. even in the camps in this country. The federal soldiers in the war of the rebellion suffered more hardships, ten to one, and very little was heard of it.—Worthington Times. A soldier’s life is a hurd one and he is expected to suffer the hardships incident to camp and army life, and one is impressed with the fact that there has been too much complaining on the part,of many volunteers. But it is all owing to the fact that they have been kept in camps, some of them unsanitary, when they were restless and anxious for active service in the field. If the volunteer regiments could have been put into the field and could have seen actual service there would have been much less complaining on their part.—Columbus Republican.

WEDS HER BLACK LOVER. Scotch Girl Crosses the Oeean to Marry a Stalwart Negro. NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—Smiling and contented because the immigration authorities had allowed her to join her sweetheart. Maggie Woods was married yesterday to Martin V. Hamilton, a stalwart negro, to wed whom she had come all the way from Dalkeith, Scotland. The bridegroom s lawyer, a colored politician, the clergyman’s wife and buby and two reporters w'ere the witnesses of the ceremony. The girl landed here Thursday, but the authorities refused to release her because she declare! her intention to marry Hamilton. Sentimental persons all over tne country wrote letters to her, urging her to give up her sweetheart, and she weakened enough to sign an affidavit for the commissioners that she would not marry the man. A special board of inquiry was convened. Then Miss Woods coyly repudiated her affidavit, or rather withdrew her statement. Sne would marry Martin. she said. The commissioners decided there was no law to hold the girl, and she drove off contentedly with Hamilton and the minister. The wedding took place at the clergyman's home. Clad in his best clothes, Hamilton stood erect, towering above the girl beside him. Her eyes were, downcast and her cheeks were red. The clergyman read the Presbyterian marriage service, while the bride's hand lay in that of her husband. Hamilton is employed by an asphalt company and has a home ready for his wife in Newark. The certificate, which the clergyman must return to the commissioners. states he is thirty-three years old and in color "brown.” He is black, though. WHISKERS WORTH SIO,OOO. >ln\ Myrr Say* .X-Rays Ruined His Hair and He Wants Damages. NEW YORK. Sept. 14.—Contact with X rays, he says, has played such havoc with Max Myer’s whiskers and the hair on the right side of his head that his friends hardly know him. He has begun an action in the Supreme Court to recover SIO,OOO damages for the loss of his hair from the United States Electrical Supply Company and its manager, William Clark. He says he has been disfigured for life as a result of neglect on the part of the company. During the electrical exhibition in Madiaon-square Garden in May last MyeT r was employed by the company to show X rays to those who might desire to set* them. After handling the fiuoroscope in connection w’ith the X fays for about ten days, he says, he felt a peculiar itching sensation on the right side of his body and in the right hand and arm. He paid little attention to it until his face began to shrivel. His mustache and beard on the right side of his face, dropped out. he declares, as did his eyebrows, his eyelashes and the hair on that side of his head. Hts arm begun to swell and pained him more and more. Then he consulted a physician, who told him the right side cf his body had been cooked. He says the company should have warned him of the danger he was In when it placed him in that position.

SILVER DAY AT OMAHA ♦ FREE COINAGE DISCUSSED AT THE MONET Alt Y CONFERENCE. ♦ Addresses ly Messrs. Crawford, Towne, Carey, Williams. Fowler, Wolcott, Sheldon and Others. OMAHA, Sept. 14.—This was silver day at the monetary conference. At the morning session Mr. Crawford, of Dallas, Tex., who was to have spoken yesterday but did not reach Omaha in time, read his paper. He opposed the free coinage of silver. “If you make a dollar .that is not worth a gold dollar.” he said, "you derange the currency, confuse all values and inflict great injury upon the people of this country. More than cne-tenth of our commerce is with goldstandard countries; our exports vastly exceed our imports; the balance of trade is in our favor, and to settle it gold is pouring in upon us in an almost unbroken stream. Our locomotives pull the trains in Siberia and Japan; our reapers can be seen in the harvest fields all over the world. Even European dudes ride the American wheel. We have entered the contest for the commercial supremacy of the world. If we win we should have gold for a standard and smokeless powder for our guns. This country is not going to ruin. We are better off row than ever before, and conditions are improving all the time. We pay higher wages than any land upon earth, and our laboring people enjoy more of tHe comforts and luxuries of life. What country lias made such progress in so short a time? We don’t want to change our policy. We cannot afford to risk an experiment. All we want the government to do is to maintain a financial system in harmony with the other great nations of the world and give us a banking system that will equalize the interest rates and loanable capital between all sections of the country. The good sense and enterprise of the American people will do the rest.” When Mr. Crawford had finished Chairman Towne, of the Silver Republican national committee, who was presiding, called Senator Alien to the chair and delivered lis address. Mr. Towne subdivided his address into eleven propositions, as follows: "Money is purchasing power,’’ “Stability of vaiue the test of good money,” “Falling prices an evil,” “Appreciating money neither sound nor honest,” "The gold standard unsound and dishonest." “There was every reason to anticipate the results of demonetization,” "The effects of demonetization were foreseen and foretold.” “Vain efforts to break the force of conclusion,” “Present conuition intolerable,” “The restoration of silver the only alternative,” "The United States alone can maintain the parity at I*s to 1.” Mr. Towne argued that the freer coinage of silver would not drive gold out of circulation. In closing, he said: "If there is an available ’silver flood’ to replace three or four hundred million dollars of gold, certainly our gold-standard friends ought to be walling to show us where it is and just how it would get in its deadly work. Until they do so we shall rest serenely content in the confidence of our great country to restore and maintain a system of bimetallism. Let her but take the initiative and it will at once become the Interest and object of every great state in Europe to support her action. Our country’s power is rising. The next great conquest of commerce is in the Orient. The exploitation of China is an impossibility without the establishment of a stable par of exchange between ourselves and that country, nor can we make it profitable if her developing forces are to continue to receive the progressive stimulus afforded by a falling exchange.” Former Senator Carey, of Wyoming, replied to Mr. Towne, and concluded as follows: “The agitation which has been kept alive with reference to the free and unlimited coinage of silver a quarter of a century in this country has done more damage than all of the failures of crops, plagues and pestilences that could befall the American people in a century. The greatest hardships in this regard have fallen on the people of the Western States. The West is settled hv a people generally young and impressionable. In political campaigns they are easily led to the right or left, but in the end they go to the right side of great questions. The people of a n*nv country should ‘not be judged too harshly. They mav follow false teachers for a time, but they discover their errors and get on the right side of every national question before its final settlement. Anew people take an advanced stand; they make experiments, and in the end reach sound conclusions.” The principal speakers at the afternoon session were George Fred Williams, of Boston, and Congressman C. N. Fowler, of Elizabeth, N. J. Williams was the first to speak. His conversion to the silver theory he attributed to a .philanthropic reason involved in what was to him a great question. He was followed by .Anson Wolcott, of Indiana, who reviewed financial legislation with a purpose to show that it had been destructive of the circulating medium. Judge Joseph Sheldon, of Connecticut, who upheld the quantitive theory of money; President Thomas E. Wills, of the Kansas Agricultural College, who discounted the value of academic opinions on economic questions generally. Wills said wealth dominated institutions of learning and he cited the case of Professor Andrews, of Brown University, to show’ that college professors dare not teach views contrary to the interests of the rich. Then Congressman Fowler occupied the platform for half an hour with the defense of the gold standard.

TASK WAS HARD. (Concluded from First Page.) most efficient service was rendered by Lieut. John H. Parker, Thirteenth Infantry, and the Gatling gun detachment under his command. The fighting continued at intervals until nightfall, but our men held resolutely to the positions gained at the cost of so much blood and toil. PRAISE FOR W HEELER. “I am greatly indebted to General Wheeler. who, as previously stated, returned from the sick list to duty during the afternoon. His cheerfulness and aggressiveness made itself felt on this part of the battlefield and the information he furnished to me at various stages of the battle proved to be most useful. “My own health was impaired by overexertion in the sun and intense heat of the day before, which prevented me from participating as actively in the battle as I desired, but from a high hill near my headquarters I had a general view of the battlefield, extending from El Caney on the right to the left of our lines on San. Juan hill.” General Shafter follows In detail the movements of the troops and the intrenching done during the night. He says: “Gen. Duffield, with the Thirty-third Michigan, attacked Aguadores, as ordered, but was unable to accomplish more than to detain the Spaniards In that vicinity. * * * On the night of July 1, 1 ordered General Duffield. at Siboney, to send forward the Thir-ty-fourth Michigan and the Ninth Massachusetts, both of which had just arrived from the United States. These regiments reached the from the next morning. * * * “All day, on the 2d. the battle raged with more or less fury, but such of our troops as were in position at daylight held their ground and Lawton gained a strong and commanding position on the right. About 10 p. .n. the enemy made a vigorous assault to break through'my lines, but he was repulsed at all points. On the morning of the 3d the battle was renewed, but the enemy seemed to have expended his energy in the assault of the previous night, and the firing along the lines was desultory until stopped by my sending the following letter within the Spanish lines.” General Shafter then gives the dispatches passing between him and General Toral, already published. He proceeds: “I was of the opinion that the Spaniards would surrender if given a little time, and I thought this result would be hastened if the men of their army could be made to understand they would be well treated as prisoners of war. Acting upon this presumption I determined to offer to return all the wounded Spanish officers at El Caney who were able to bear transportation, and who were willing to give their paroles not to serve against the forces of the United States until regularly exchanged. This ofter was made and accepted. These officers, as well as several of the wounded Spanish privates, twenty-seven In all, were sent to their lines under the escort of some of our mounted cavalry. Our troops were received with honors, and I have every reason to believe the return of the Spanish prisoners produced a good impression on their comrades. ONLY 12,00) MEN ENGAGED. “The cessation of firing about noon on the 3d practically terminated the battle of Santiago; all that occurred after this time may properly be treated under the head of the siege which followed. After deducting the detachments retained at Siboney and

Baiquiri to render those depots secure from attack, organizations held to protect our flanks, others acting as escorts and guards to light batteries, the members of the hospital corps, guards left in charge of blanket rolls, which the intense heat caused the men to cast aside before entering battle, orderlies, etc., it is doubtful if we had more than twelve thousand men on the firing line on July 1, when the battle was fiercest and when the important and strong positions of El Caney and San Juan were captured. "A few Cubans assisted in the attack at El Caney, and fought valiantly, but their numbers were too small to materially change the strength, as indicated above. The enemy confronted us with numbers about equal to our own; they fought obstinately in strong and intrenched positions, and the results obtained indicate the intrepid gallantry of the company officers and men and the benefits derived from the careful training and instruction given in the company in recent years in ritle practice and other battle exercises. Our losses in these battles were twenty-two officers and 2JB men killed and eighty-one officers and I. men wounded; missing, seventy-nine. The missing, with few exceptions, reported later.” General Shafter says the arrival of General Escario at Santiago was not anticipated. He says: ‘‘General Garcia, with between 4,000 and 5,000 Cubans, was intrusted with the duty of watching for and intercepting the. reinforcement expected. This, however, he failed to do, and Escario passed into the city along on my extreme right and near the bay.” After speaking of Admiral Cervera's sortie and the destruction of his fleet. General Shafter says he again called on the Spanish commander to surrender. He says; "On the same date 1 informed Admiral Sampson that if he would force his way into the harbor the city would surrender without any further sacrifice of life. Commodore Watson replied that Admiral Sampson was temporarily absent, but that in his (Watson's! opinion the nary should not enter the harbor. * * * The strength of the enemy's position was such I did not wish to assault if it could be avoided. An examination of the enemy's works, made after the surrender, fully justifies the wisdom of the course adopted. The intrechmcnis could only have been carried with very great loss of life.” General Shafter gives the varying efforts towards securing a surrender, and his reopening the engagement on the 10th, when the truce ended. On the 11th the surrender was again demanded. ‘‘By this date.” he says, "the sickness in the army was increasing very rapidly, as a result of exposure in the trenches to the intense heat of the sun and heavy rains. Moreover, the dews in Cuba were almost equal to rains. The weakness of the treops was becoming so apparent I was anxious to Iming the siege to an end, but, in common with most of the officers of the army, I did not think an assault would be justifiable, especially as the enemy seemed to be acting in good faith in their preliminary propositions to surrender. MILES'S ARRIVAL NOTED. ‘‘July 12 1 informed the Spanish commander that Major General Miles, corn-mander-in-chief of the American army, had just arrived in my camp, and requested him to grant us a personal interview on the following day. He replied he would be pleased to meet us. The interview took place on the 13th, and 1 informed him his surrender only could be considered, and that, as he was without hope of escape, he had no right to continue the right.” General Shafter then gives the details of the final surrender, his entry to the city and the raising of the American flag. In closing he says; ‘‘Before closing my report 1 wish to dw’ell upon the natural obstacles I had to encounter, and which no foresight could have overcome or obviated. The rooky and precipitous coast afforded no sheltered landing places, the roads were mere bridle paths, the effect of the tropical sun and rains upon unacclimated troops was deadly, and a dread of strange and unknown diseases had its effect on the army. “At Baiquiri the landing of the troops and stores was made at a small wooden wharf, which the Spaniards tried to burn, but unsuccessfully, and the animals were pushed into the water and guided to a sandy beach about two hundred yards in extent. At Siboney the landing was made on the beach and at a small wharf erected by the engineers. I had neither the time nor the men to spare to construct permanent wharves. In spite of the fact that I had nearly one thousand men continuously at work on the roads, they were at times impassable for wagons. The San Juan and Aguadores rivers would often suddenly rise so as to prevent the passage of wagons, and then the eight pack trains with the command had to be depended on for the victualing of my army, as well as the 20,000 refugees, who could not, in the interests of humanity, be left to starve while we had rations. Often for days nothing could be moved except on pack trains. ‘‘After the great physical strain and exposure of July 1 and 2 the malarial and other fevers began to rapidly advance throughout the command, and on July 4 the yellow fever appeared at Sitioney. Though efforts were made to keep this fact from the army it soon became known. ‘‘The supply of quartermaster and commissary stores during the campaign was abunda'nt, and notwithstanding the difficulties in landing and transporting the rations, the troops on the firing line were at all times supplied with its coarser components, namely, of bread, meat, sugar and coffee. There was no lack of transportation, for at no time up to the surrender could all the wagons 1 had be used. “In reference to the sick and wounded I have to say that they received every attention that it was possible to give them. The medical officers without exception worked night and day to alleviate the suffering. which w 7 as no greater than invariably accompanies a campaign. It would have been better if we had more ambulances, but as many were taken as was thought necessary, judging from previous campaigns. "The discipline of the command was superb and I wish to invite attention to the fact that not an officer was brought to trial by court-martial, and, as far as I know, no enlised men. This speaks volumes for an army of this size and in a campaign of such duration. “In conclusion, I desire to express to the members of my staff my thanks for thenefficient performace of all the duties required of them, and the good judgment and bravery displayed on all occasions when demanded.” General Shafter recommends for promotion and brevets the following officers: Lieut. Col. E. J. McClernand, Lieut. Col. George McDerby, Lieut. Col. J. D, Miley, Major R. H. Noble, Lieutenant Colonel J. J. Astor, Lieut. Col. B. F. Pope. Major S. W. Groesbeck, Lieut. Col. Chas. F. Humphrey. Colonel John F. Weston; Major C. G. Starr, Major Leon Roudiez, Major H. J. Galliger, Captain Brice. Captain E. H. Plummer, Captain J. C. Gilmore, ji\, Capt. W. H. McKittrtok. He also mentions Dr. G. Goodfeliow and Mr. G. F. Hawkins, of New York, for services performed and expresses his warmest thanks to division, brigade and regimental commanders, w-ithout exception. The reports of division commanders, which are attached, have been already reported.

MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE. Paper Rend by Jacob 1.. Greene at the Milwaukee Convention. MILWAUKEE, Sept. 14.—The second day’s session of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners was devoted to the delivery of addresses, those at the morning session being by Hon. Emory McClintoek, of New York, actuary of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, on “General Plans, Reserves and Investments,” and Jacob L. Greene, of Hartford, Conn., on “Special Features, Dividends. Surrender Values.” etc., and an address by Judge W. S. Nichols, of New York. Mr. Greene dwelt on mutual life insurance, the test of which, he said, is its integrity; that it he not arbitrary and visionary, and everything must always be in sight. Mutuality in life insurance, he said, sees these things. The productiveness and success of the husband and father of the family, the continuation of the successful features; it demands of the husband that his affairs be put in its hands, and it deals with the family as being in the father's place, and, therefore, it comes to be a help, and not a scheme to trick the men or families; each dollar paid should give the greatest amount of protection to the family, and when the lather is unable to meet all requirements mutuality steps in as a source of philanthropy and agrees to care for the family at cost. The mutual company does for the family of its members what other systems do for the stockholders of a company. Mr. Greene's papeT was received with hearty applause. At the afternoon session John R. liegeman, president of the Metropolitan Insurance Company of New York, discussed life insurance of all countries and more particularly in the United States. Edwin B. Wartield. president of the Fidelity and Deposit Company, of Baltimore, was the next speaker, his subject being “Corporate Suretyship.” The last speaker was W. S. Nicho'ls, of New York, who read a paper on general life insurance plans. Drowned While Bathing. NORFOLK. Va.. Sept. 14.—Henry Lester, preprietor of the Princess Anne Cottage, at Virginia Beach, and two of his guests. T. S. E. Dixon, of Chicago, and Arthur Mc~ liaughlin. of Newark, N. J.. were drowned to-day while bathing at the beach.

THE RED MEN’S POLITICS . T. . HAHRISOA. OK IXDIAX APOLIS. ELECTED Jt AlOlt SAGAMORE. New Jersey’s Influence—Liquor Men ’AA ill Continue to Re Admitted to the Order. The Red Men elected the following national officers yesterday: Great Incohonee—George E. Green, New York. Great Senior Sagamore—E. D. Wiley, lowa. Great Junior Sagamore—Thomas G. Harrison. Indianapolis. Great Prophet—Robert T. Daniel. Georgia. Great Chief of Records—Charles C. Conley. Pennsylvania. Great Keeper of Wampum—William Provin, Massachusetts. The election was a cut-and-dried affair, except for the office of great Junior sagamore, which leads directly to that of great incohonee, and is, therefore, greatly sought. There were five candidates for this office; two of them dropped out and Thomas G. Harrison, of this city, was elected after an exciting struggle. Two ballots were necessary for a decision. On the first ballot Harrison received 60 votes, Morey of Pennsylvania 50 and Lovey of California 15. On the second ballot Harrison advanced to 70 votes and Morey received 55 votes, Lovey dropping out. Representative delegates are saying that Morey of Pennsylvania would have been elected instead of Harrison of Indianapolis had not the New Jersey and Pennsylvania delegations split. These two reservations have hitherto combined their strength in elections, but New Jersey has never profited by the alliance. One member of the New- Jersey delegation reached Indianapolis two days before the rest, and he called cn Mr. Harrison. New Jersey has nine votes, and, therefore, it is a big factor in elections. This New Jersey man told Mr. Harrison that he thought he could swing live of the New Jersey votes to him. Mr. Harrison, it is said, was delighted with the proposition, for he had supposed that the New Jersey delegation would go solid for Morey of Pennsylvania. The New Jersey man told Mr, Harrison that at the next election, two years hence, New Jersey will have a candidate, and he would expect Mr. Harrison to throw the Indiana votes to the New- Jersey candidate if he succeeded in turning New Jersey votes to Mr. Harrison's account at this election. Mr. Harrison, it is averred, promised to do all he could for this end. When the rest of the New Jersey delegation arrived, the story goes, their brother who had arrived before them discovered that the whole nine votes had been pledged to Morey. He immediately set to work, with Mr. Harrison’s promise as a foundation, and the result was that the entire delegation voted for Harrison. Without it he would have been defeated, it is asserted. The natural chagrin of the Pennsylvania delegation is "something fierce.” it is related, and the New Jersey delegation will have to watch sharp at the next election or the Pennsylvania Indians wdll get in an effective revet.ge. Charles C. Conley, of Pennsylvania, who was re-elected great chief of records, has held this office for sixteen years. His brother officers are unremitting in their praise of the w-ay he manages the business under his charge. He is an active and methodical man, who makes many friends wherever he goes. A proposition is now pending to raise his salary from $1,600 to S2,CtO a year, and there is no doubt that it will be approved by the Great Council. Robert T. Daniel, of Georgia, former great incohonee. who was yesterday elected great prophet, is also lauded by his brother Red Men. The committee on the state of the order yesterday made a report, which was adopted unanimously, speaking in superlative terms of his efficiency and faithfulness. One expression of the committee was: “By his sacrifices and strict attention to the duties of his high chieftaincy the order lias grown, prospered and ‘blossomed as the rose.’ ” LIQUOR MEN ADMITTED. By a vote of 103 to 8 the proposition to bar liquor dealers from the order was defeated yesterday. The only remedy now- left for tribes who do not wish to admit liquor dealers to their membership is to blackball the candidates who are in the liquor business. A proposition to allow state councils to hold biennial instead of annual meetings if they so desire was successful. The Great Council will continue to meet every year. Hereafter the last Sunday in every October will be a memorial day on which services will be held in honor of dead Red Men, and the committee on ritual is instructed io prepare a “sorrow service” for this day. The proposition to revise the ritual will not be successful, at least not at this time. In the past few- years several changes have been made in the ceremonies of th? older, and it is felt that more changes would lead to confusion and not to desired stability. How-ever, the Great Council has announced that it will award prizes of S2OO eacii for the best ceremony for the adoption, warriors and chiefs degrees on condition that the Great Council decides to revise the ritual. Three different types of ceremonies are already in the field for these prizes, and two of them have Indiana men as their authors. NEW UNIFORM RANK. The committee having in charge the proposition to recreate the uniform rank of the order met last night. It was decided to report to the Council favorably on the proposition and to urge that the rank be named the military degree and that its uniform be of the old continental style. It is believed that these recommendations will be accepted by the Great Council. The old uniform rank was called the Chieftans’ League and though it is not recognized by the order, it being disowned by the great council because of mismanagement, there are still companies of the league in existence. In Indiana there are four companies, at Muncie, Anderson, Lafayette and Terre Haute. These four companies will be in Indianapolis to-day, and at 1 o'clock this afternoon they will parade around the monument and on Washington street. The members of the Great Council will review the parade and a prize of SIOO will be given to the best drilled company. This prize will be given as a token that the Great Council looks with favor on the resuscitation of the uniform rank, but under new laws.

A SOLDIER’S TEN-DOLLAR BILL. Emmett Bishop. of Frnnklln, < luirgcd with Attempt to Steal. Emmett Bishop, a Franklin, Ind., man, who has served a term in the penitentiary, was arrested last night by Patrolman Griffin and charged with petty larceny. According to the stories of several witnesses Joseph Banta, a soldier, much under the influence of liquor, entered Agnew’s South Illinois-street saloon and treated the group of men, including Bishop, several times. By this time his small change had become exhausted and he presented a ten-dollar bill in payment for the last round, but finally fished up the right amount without breaking the bill. At this Bishop, it is said, picked up the bill and pretended to place it back in the man’s pocket. Ho fumbled around in the pocket and when he removed his hand, it is said, withdrew the money also. Several people saw the ar t and told Agnew, who was behind the bar. lie came out to make Bishop return the money, but the latter dropped it to the floor in the hope of deceiving him The matter was then dismissed for a moment, but soon after Griffin happened along, and after hearing the story put the man under arrest. Another Similar Case. Paul Peters, claiming Chicago for his home, was arrested yesterday by Detectives Gerber and Fort and charged with loitering. It is said that lie attempted to rob an old soldier at the Sherman House bar of S4O. but was not successful. He was locked up to keep him out of further mischief. Characteristic Convict Story. Herman Snyder, a man who claimed that he had just been released from the Jeffersonville Reformatory, appeared in this city during the later part of last week in rags, and, according to bis own story, extremely hungry. He said that the toin and worthless clothing which he wore had been given him when turned ficm the Reformatory, and, though he made no formal charges, he cast upon the management. The matter was taken in hand by the State Board of Charities, which, upon investiga-

tion, has learned that the man’s statements are entirely false. When a man is released from the Reformatory he is present*d with anew suit of clothes, and, if it is cold weather, with an overcoat, $lO and a railroad ticket to his destination. The released convict in every case gives a receipt for these article's and money It was learned by means of these receipts that Snyder had received the regulation allowances and started on his way. How he came by the ragged clothes or w here the good ones went does not develop, but it has been satisfactorily proven that the fellow was a fraud. FOR SATURDAY HALF HOLIDAY Plasterer* Take an Advanced Step In Lilmr Mutters. The members of the Plasterers' Protective Association thoroughly discussed the possibilities of the Saturday half-holiday at its meeting at the English Hotel yesterday and by a unanimous vote decided to right the matter out with the contractors at once. It was said in the meeting that there were several cities, like Boston and Milwaukee, where the contractors were willing to grant the half-holiday with full pay for the day, but that the men did not ask this, but simply wanted to be permitted to quit work tegularly for the w-eek at Saturday noon. The officers conclude that, as the building trade is dull and there is considerable money in the treasury, now is as good a time to fight the question with the obstinate contractors as any other. Reports from ail over th< field indicate that trade is stagnated, but displaying signs of picking up as the cold weathr comes on. The union plasterers think they are entitled to the privileges of refraining from work Saturday afternoons as a custom. as many of them are religiously inclined and have little opportunity to take any recreation at present unless they choose to do so on Sunday. The officers feel that the matter only requires a concerted movement under the authority of the national body to settle tiie question for all time, as under the plan to be adopted by the unions no one will lose any money except the men themselves who desire to quit work Saturday noons. CABBAGETROCHAGROWS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO REACH COI RTHOISE OX MARKET DAYS. Sale of DlHprnxury Accessary to Better Conditions—Ao Further Effort* Made, However. • The Board of Public Works has not advertised another attempt to sell the old City Dispensary property. This property was sold several weeks ago, but an error in the measurement was found, and the sale was declared void. The hoard again made an attempt to sell the property, but no bidders appeared. Since that time the board has not arisen from its torpid condition to try again to dispose of the property. * The crying need of an addition to the markethouse to which end the money from the sale of the old City Dispensary property must be applied because of a provision of the Tomlinson will, which gave the property to the city, remains, and grows stronger every day. Visitors to the city during the Knights of Pythias encampment and the other national conventions that have been held in Indianapolis lately have expressed w’onder that the venders of vegetables should he permitted to ply their trade around the courthouse. Some have ridiculed it, saying that this feature of Indianapolis proves it is but an over-grown country towrn. The several hundred people who have business at the courthouse every day must find their way to the doors through masses of buyers and lines of stands piled high with vegetables. The venders leave no opening through which people may pass from the street, and they must squeeze between baskets and barrels to get to the doors of the courthouse. Women W'ho have occasion to enter the county building and the city offices must crow'd between horses and wagons and step over the filthy gutter. As the market day wears on. the venders throw 7 spoiled vegetables into the gutter, and the smell becomes vile. The asphalt pavement and the cement sidewalk are stained with refuse. The people who bring garden products to the city say that if the ground east of the meat market were arranged so they miglft drive their wagons on to it there would lie no necessity of standing around the courthouse. The plans made by the city engineer provide for paving this ground, so that it may be used by the market merchants. They also provide for roofing over the space between the two market buildings so that it may be used for the same purpose. This cannot be done until the old City Dispensary property is sold. At present the sidewalk around the courthouse is marked into numbered sections, and the venders must pay fees for the use of the space. The city administration needs every tent it can collect from any source. The tax levy has been raised 10 cents, but still there will not be enough money to make the necessary extensions cf the fire and police departments. Therefore Market Master Goebel is praised by other city officials for the amount of fees he collects for rent of the sidewalks. He complained when the grandstand was built on the south sidewalk of the courthouse, during the Knights of Fvthias encampment, because, he said, it curtailed the space needed by the "market people.” Because of the income derived from this practice the city officials are not in a hurry to make a change, though those concerned in the regulation of the market do not hesitate to say that the present arrangement of using the sidewalks around the courthouse for a market is a deplorable and a ridiculous thing. One official said, jokingly, “The people needn’t be surprised, if the market is extended into the city offices. This administration needs the money.

noAiti) ok prune works rotting. Water Mains Ordered. The Indianapolis Water Company, In ac* cordance with its contract with the city of Indianapolis, is ordered to lay water mains in Barth avenue, from Beecher street to lowa street. The Cycle Race* To-Night. Fair weather is all that is needed to complete the programme of cycle racing that has been arranged for Newby Oval, Thir-ty-first street and Central avenue, to-night. All the men are in prime trim for the contests, especially Gibson ami David, who are to ride their match, while the other arrangements are complete. Once again, the Newby Oval management announces that soldiers in uniform will he admitted free of event of the night will be the mile heat race between Harry Gibson, the “Cincinnati baby,” and Tom David, of this city. This will be best two In three mile heats and each man will have a triplet to pace him There will be a time limit of two minutes on each heat, but more than likely the miles will be run in less than 1:50. Gibson till have Fornwalt. Hause and Pease on a ree-seater to carry him the distance, while David's pacing artillery will include Ffeffer. Murbarger and nibble on a triplet. There is interest as to the outcome of the lap race for the amateurs, which will really he four races in me. as the race is scored by points and the men have to sprint cn every lap. There will also l>e one of those half-mile handicaps, which means a sprint all the way, for the professionals, and another one for the amateurs. Also a quartermile exhibition to establish anew state record by Sam Murbarger. The programme w’ill begin at 8:30 and the gates will open at 7 o'clock. Death of George 11. Fleming. Word has been received in this citv of the death of Mr George rt Fleming, at Milwaukee, early this month. Mr. Fleming was for many years a. resident of this city, where he held political positions. He married Miss Anna S. Pearsall, daughter of the late I’rof. Pearsall. For ten years or more he has not made his home here. Mr Fleming was born in Buffalo, in 1843, and was the son of Judge Fleming, of the Supreme Court of that State He leaves two daughters. Mrs. Nellie Dudley, of Sitka. Alaska, aral Mrs. Carrie Falbe, of Milwaukee, at whose home he died. The burial was at Milwaukee.