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THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1898. pr ■■■' Washington Office —154*3 Pennsylvania Avenue Telephone Call*. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 86 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY BY MAIL. Dally only, one month $ .70 Daily only, three months 2.00 Daily only, one year 8.00 Dally, Including Sunday, one year 10.10 Sunday only, one year 2.00 WHEN FURNISHED BY AGENTS. Daily, per week, by carrier 15 cts* Sunday, single copy 6 cts Daily and Sunday, per week, by carrier.... 20 cts WEEKLY. Per year SI.OO Reduced Rates to Clubs. Subscribe with any of our numerous agents or •end subscriptions to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Indianapolis, lnd. Pei sons sending the Journal through the malls In the United States should put on an eight-iage paper a ONK-CENT postage stamp; on a twelve or sixteen-page paper a TWO-CENT postage stamp. Foreign postage is usually double these rates. All communications intended for publication in this paper must, in order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following places: NEW YORK-Astor House. CHICAGO—PaImer House, P. O. News Cos., 217 Dearliorn street. Great Northern Hotel and Grand Pacific Hotel. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Deerlng, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Book Cos., 256 Fourth avenue. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Riggs House, Ebbitt House and Willard’s Hotel. The country is enjoying a season of general prosperity because the Bryan party was defeated in 1896. Lying about the conduct of the war relieves the copperhead organs of the necessity of attempting to howl hard times. A person who would mutilate a public library Hie of a newspaper has just about honesty and decency enough to advocate a dishonest dollar. The copperhead press would have the American people forget that the conquests of Cuba and Manila are the most splendid triumphs of war in modern times. Mr. Bryan is reported as saying that no one can tell how much it costs him to be silent. His silence costs the United States 1291.67 a month, the pay of a colonel of Infantry. If the mayor is in earnest about the purchase of the water works, why does he not proceed as provided in the charter of the company? The complaisant Mr. Bailey, of Texas, should have been introduced as the Democratic leader whom Speaker Heed made in order to humiliate Bland, of Missouri, and McMillin, of Tennessee. There never were as many United States soldiers under thirty and sixty days’ furlough as at the present time. The muster-ing-out process of the civil war was without the furlough feature. While it is probable that the Indiana regiments desire to get out of the service, it is to their credit that they have retained their military bearing and that the self-respect of the men will cause them to do their duty. If any of the prize-fighting gentry or their trainers are counting on “pulling off" a fight in Indiana without the vigorous opposition of the civil authorities, backed, if necessary, by the ntilitia, they will And themselves mistaken.

Representative Bailey blames the Republican party because in preparing for the war with Spain it provided more money than U expended. The Democratic party never does that; it always spends more money than it provides. No plan for the reorganization of the volunteer forces will be complete that does not provide for the appointment of trained officers. There lias always been too much of the primury election and town meeting idea In our volunteer organization. The strict provisions of the Dlngley law regarding the valuation of merchandise have made it impossible for the manufacturers of Worcestershire sauce to sell their goods in the United States, so they have moved the Industry to this country, purchasing the materials here. Representative Bailey thinks the Republican party made a great mistake in making such extensive preparations for what he calls n short and insigniticant war. Would the country have been better off or the people better pleased if the war had been many times as long and destructive of life as it was? It is announced that the Fourteenth Pennsylvania will he mustered out of the service for the reason that it is thoroughly demoralized. The men in camp are a mob and many are deserters. This shameful condition Is attributed to the Inefficiency of the officers and demands of the friends of the men that they be permitted to go home. The fact thut two thousand soldiers are sick In Porto Rico indicates that that climate is not much healthier than Cuba. The soldiers in Porto Rico have had no particular hardships, hut a tropical or semi-tropi-cal climate is unhealthy during the summer season for northern people. In barracks an army could live there in summer, but the utmost care would be necessary in order to escape disease. The Sentinel should have sufficient compassion for Chaplain Carstensen to cease declaring that he will not retract any part of his statement when, as a matter of fact, he stated in an afternoon paper that he never said that Dr. Huidekoper never practiced among human beings. Being compelled to bear the burden of this plaiq contradiction, the Sentinel should not continue to call attention to the chaplain's humiliation. The average annual value of tin plates Imported into the United States prior to 1890 was about $20,000,000. Now the import is Insignificant. A Welch plant, the largest in the world, has moved to the United States. During the campaigns of 1890 and 1892 the Democratic lie factories were turned against the American tin-plate industry, which now gives the manufacture of $20,000,000 worth of plates a year to American labor. President Angell, of the University of Michigan, who has just returned from service a# United States minister to Turkey, expresses the opinion in a published Interview that an armed demonstration by the United States is the only means whereby the Turk-

ish government can be made to pay the claim of the United States for the destruction of American property in Turkey. As Minister Angell returned on the same steamer with Colonel Hay. the new r secretary of state, it is probable he endeavored to impress these views on the latter, and perhaps successfully. It is not known what views President McKinley entertains on the subject, but it looks a little as if events were drifting towards a naval demonstration against Turkey to enforce payment of the claims referred to. Before matters reach that stage the United States should be very sure that the claims are sufficiently meritorious to justify such a demonstration. We should be sure we are right before we go ahead on that line. IMMEDIATE EVACUATION. A Washington dispatch states that our military commission in Cuba has been peremptorily instructed to demand the evacuation of the island by Spain without further delay. This instruction has not been sent any too soon. The Journal called attention to the fact nearly two weeks ago that by the protocol signed Aug. 12 it was provided that “Spain W'ill immediately evacuate Cuba, Porto Rico and the other islands now under Spanish sovereignty in the Antilles.” There is no stronger word in the English language to fix the time of an action than the word “immediately.” Under the greatest liberty of construction that can be accorded it means without any unnecessary delay whatever. Since then every move made and every point raised by the Spanish commissioners has indicated a purpose to fence for delay. In connection with the representatives of the Cuban autonomist government, who are Spanish sympathizers, they have raised a cloud of questions regarding property rights, Spanish sovereignty and other matters, the settlement of which, even if it pertains to the functions of the Cuban commission, would require months. Meanwhile the Spanish authorities are collecting the customs revenue at Havana, amounting, it is said, to more than $1,500,000 in gold since the blockade was raised, and have disclosed a purpose to held on to that port till the last minute. The questions that have been raised regarding Spanish sovereignty in Cuba are frivolous. There is no such thing. Spanish sovereignty in Cuba ended when the protocol was signed, and it only remained for Spain to evacuate the island immediately. It will, of course, take some time to complete the evacuation after it is begun, and the beginning should not be allowed to be further delayed. If our commissioners had not instructions when they went to Cuba to push matters on that line it is high time they should receive such instructions. Spain should be given to understand that she is dealing with a government that means business and that will not tolerate her traditional "manana” policy.

AS TO INSPECTORS GENERAL. The Washington correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch says that the cause of much of the failure and of most of the scandals in connection with the army is the practical abandonment of the inspector general's department by the promotion of higher officers to general officers, General Breckinridge, Colonel Hughes and Lieutenant Colonel Lawton and others having been made commanders of troops and their placea filled by men from civil life who could not know much of their duties. The Minneapolis Tribune picks vp the statement and assumes that it is correct, when the recorc shows that it is not. No correspondent, no editor, need make such blunders, since upon application to th adjutant general’s office lie may obtain a copy of a roster of the general officers and officers of the general staif of United States volunteers, which will show how many of those officers are from the army, and how many from civil life. On Page 11 of this roster are the names of the seven inspectors general with the lank of lieutenant colonel. Four of them are from the regular army and three from civil life. One of those from civil life was for years a member of the National Guard. There are twenty-one inspectors general with the rank of major. Fourteen of these are from the regular army and the others are civil appointments. The First Corps, at Chickamauga, had three regular army officers among its inspectors and one civilian, who was appointed from Georgia. This corps is singled out because most complaint is made of the shortcomings in that camp. There is no excuse for a Washington correspondent declaring that the new positions in the inspector general’s department in the volunteer army were filled by civilian appointments when he can easily ascertain that such is not the case. This must be the opinion of the Minneapolis Tribune when it learns that it has been deceived by the Washington correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch. Doubtless someone told him that what he affirms is the case, but at this stage of the war it will not do to accept many statements as true without investigation. GETTING AT THE FACTS. Generals Sancer and Wiley and Colonel Leonard, of the Twelfth New York Volunteers, were in the conference with the secretary of war at Lexington, General Sanger did not name individuals, but expressed the opinion that “the great trouble lay with the surgeon general’s and quartermaster’s departments in failing to honor requisitions.” General Wiley, a citizen general, nominated by the President, was much more emphatu and general in his denunciations. There had been too much drilling, there were not enough stretchers and ambulances, and he could not get from the quartermaster's department water boilers. Colonel Leonard assailed Dr. Huidekoper as unfit for the position, seeming, like Chaplain Carstensen, not to be aware that Dr. Huidekoper had r.ot been at Chickamauga since the middle of July. Colonel Leonard was quite emphatic in his criticism of the hospital management and of matters in general. The same dispatch says that a number of the men of Colonel Leonard's regiment absented themselves from the review for the purpose, as the men said, of “making the regiment’s showing as bad as possible,” indicating that the fault-finding colonel was not attending to his duties. Quartermaster General Ludington, who was present with the secretary of war, declared that every requisition which had reached his office had been filled; further, that requests which were not requisitions had always been promptly attended to. Colonel Lee, the assistant quartermaster general at the head of affairs at Chickamauga, was charged by name by General Wiley with failure to fill requisitions. Now Colonel Lee declares that the charges are absolutely false and that he would show them to be false when there should be an Investigation. The surgeon general asserted at Chattanooga that “at the outset Chickamauga was absolutely healthy and the water pure, and that the sickness was traceable directly to the failure of commanding and regimental officers to

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observe the sanitary regulations which had been Issued by the medical bureau.” Thus the issue has been joined. Colonel Lee is ready to prove that the charges of General Wiley and Colonel Leonard are false. The surgeon general, who has been charged with a faulty hospital plan and general inefficiency, turns upon commanding officers. If General Wiley’s requisitions were not filled the records should show that they were presented. If he did not send up requisitions, as he asserts, the failure to find them would be evidence that he did not make them. If Colonel Lee returned the requisition for water boilers with the indorsement that the United States did not furnish them, it should be in the hands of General Wiley. This controversy would be a good one for the President’s commission to take up at once, to the end that it may be made clear to the country who are the negligent or guilty persons. It may be added that the only officials who have been drawn into this controversy for whose appointment the President is response are Chief Surgeon Huidekoper, who left for Porto Rico as early as the middle of July, and Brigadier General Wiley, who was appointed from the National Guard of Pennsylvania. Washington has just been welcoming back two hundred of the United States marines who left that city at the first call and who were called upon early in the war to render arduous service. The country has not forgotten and history will not fail to record the story of their landing near Santiago and their brave defense of Camp McCalla aga’nst great odds and under the most trying circumstances. In conferring just praise upon the regulars and volunteers the country must not forget the marines, who, besides being regulars in the sense of thorough discipline and drill, are trained to a variety of duties on shipboard, as well as on land, that make them very efficient. In some respects the marine corps is even better disciplined than the regular army, for their officers are as strict and the average term of service of the men is longer. This teils in the way of military training, and the effect of the discipline and experience is seen in sanitary results. On this point the Washington Post says: Although the first of our forces to land upon Cuban soil, and subjected to all the rigors of that treacherous climate, the marine corps lost not a man from disease, and their sick list was only z per cent. While at Camp Heywood, in Portsmouth, N. H., they reduced this to nine-tenths of 1 per cent. Os course, the marine corps numbers less than seven hundred men, hut where Is the regiment, regular or volunteer, having an equal period of service at home or abroad during the recent war, which can show such a record? Not even the “immunes” can rival it. The secret Is not far to seek. The marine corps is admirably officered by men who have seen service in all climes, and who look after their men like stern but wise parents. The discipline is strict, and the marine caught eating fruit in a tropical country suffers something more than a stomach ache, but he escapes worse ills. Not a meal is served to the marines that is not previously tasted and approved by an officer, and every detail of their dally life is ruled by the strictest laws of hygiene and discipline. No person has heard of any complaint from the marines of hardships or starvation in Cuba. No doubt they had a rough time, but officers and men knew how to take care of themselves, and the result of their care is seen in their sick report.

During the last days of the last session of Congress Mr. Hull, chairman of the House military committee, offered the following resolution: That the committee on military affairs have power to sit during the adjournment of Congress and make such investigation as to the organization and equipment of all branches of the army as it may deem advisable and report to the next session of Congress. On presenting the resolution he gave the following reasons for its passage. The complaints that have come to the committee have been of such a character that I think it would be well for the committee to have the right to sit during the adjournment of Congress to investigate, so that we can answer those charges made against different departments of the army from our knowledge, and not be compelled to depend entirely on information furnished us by the departments involved. The House committee on military affairs is made up of nine Republicans and seven Democrats, a number of whom served in the Union and Confederate armies. It would have been a committee on the conduct of the war. The Democratic members of the House held back, thus indicating an opposition to its passage, w'hich encouraged Jerry Simpson to object to consideration of the resolution, which prevented its passage, giving the following’ reasons for his action: Mr. Speaker, I want to say to the gentleman from lowa that we have, within the last month, passed bill after bill for a thorough reorganization of the army, inspectors general without number, and we have all these officers to look after the matters in connection with the army. I do not see any good to come out of a committee of civilians to investigate, it, and I want the party in power that appointed the men Jo assume the responsibility, and therefore I object to the consideration of this bill. That is. Mr. Simpson desired to prevent investigation in order that the opposition might make political capital out of the conduct of the war. The party which Simpson usually assists is now availing itself of his aid by making the conduct of the war an issue, based upon falsehoods. The fact that the War Department has already taken steps for the establishment of a system of sea transportation for troops and the construction of vessels specially designed for the purpose shows that the government does not intend to be found again unprepared for that service as it was in the recent war. The system, however, will be defective unless it provides for command of the ships at sea by naval officers instead of merchant marine captains. Those persons who continue to argue against national expansion since the annexation of Ha/vaii and the acquisition of Porto Rico do not seem to realize the absurdity of their conduct. It is as absurd as if one should revamp the arguments against the annexation of Texas or the purchase of Alaska. National expansion is as much an accomplished fact in one case as in the other, and the time for discussing it as an open question has passed. One of the last acts of Democratic administration before the civil war began was to borrow money at 12 per cent, a year, while a Republican administration during the war borrowed at 6 per cent. More than thirty years later a Democratic administration in time of peace borrows $262,000,000 at 4>4 per cent, and a succeeding Republican administration borrows $200,000,000 in time of war at 3 per cent. Such facts as these are not accidents. Not n> run’s, but Bryan’i, Say, McKinley, let us part! Keeping still doth break my heart! By the uniform I wear, By my gift of gab, I swear That unless I get to squawk Through a campaign made of talk, I shall burst, full well, 1 know— Turn me loose and let me go! The recent summary action of the Empress Dowager of China was to prevent Ito from becoming It. If it is true, as rumored, that Chief Aguinaldo. the disturbing element In the Philip-

pines. can be bought, someone might start an endless chain for the purpose of establishing an Aguinaldo fund. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. The Savage Bachelor. “Where ignorance is bliss,” said the Savage Bachelor, “’tis folly to go and get married.” 0 ■ Correction. “I want to sav that you have treated me rotten,” the pugilist dictated. “Don’t you mean rottenly?” his press agent ventured to ask. Horrible Thought. Weary Watkins—Wot are you lookin’ so sore about, boy? Hungry Higgins—lt jist struck me mind dat I’m like wotter, ’cause I never run up hill. The Scoffer. "I am astonished,” said the scoffer, “to hear you compare our glorious country to a small boy getting his face washed.” “Me?” said the oratorical patriot. “How? When?” “When you said it was impossible for the Nation to stand still.” **A HORSE DOC TDK*” The Medical Attainments and Reputation of Dr. Huidekoper. Philadelphia Times (lnd. Dem.) We do not know whether the medical director at Chickamauga is justly criticised or not for his administration of that great camp, but it is worth while to say that those officers who think they are casting opprobrium upon Dr. Huidekoper by calling him a "horse doctor.” if they are not actuated by malice, display an ignorance hardly pardonable in a military man. That he is a “horse doctor” is precisely the thing that has given Dr. Huidekoper his high professional distinction—that is. that he was practically the first man in America to bring the authority of an educated physician of influential position to the study and practice of veterinary medicine with the well-defined purpose of elevating it above the empiricism of the old-fashioned horse doctor to a recognized branch of medical science. The importance of this service has been recognized by all well-informed persons. Dr. Huidekoper graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and continued his studies abroad. He was interested in horsemanship and in military affairs, and the neglect of veterinary medicine in this country was practically impressed upon him, as it had been upon other military men and upon some wealthy owners of horses in the neighborhood of Philadelphia. With their encouragement Dr. Huidekoper went. abroad and spent some years in the best veterinary schools on the continent, taking his diploma from that at Altdorf, and on his return became the head of the department of veterinary medicine established at the university, the first in America organized on a broadly scientific basis. The influence of this work has extended not only to the care of horses, but to the treatment of the diseases of cattle and of other domestic animals and to many important branches of public sanitation and hygiene. Dr. Huidekoper was also prominent in the medical service of our National Guard up to the time of his removal to New' York, where it is probable that his veterinary practice has absorbed most of his time.. But the reason of his great prominence as a veterinarian is that he had developed this specialty upon the foundation of a broad medical education, so that the title of “horse doctor” is to him a distinction, and not a reproach. Among all the civilians appointed to advanced rank in the volunteer .service there was none whose experience and reputation gave better assurance o’s fitness for military responsibility. Whether any civilian should have been put in charge of so great a camp as that at Chickamauga may be questionable. and whether Dr. Huidekoper has performed his duties well hr ill w r e do not pretend to know. But his services to an important and previously neglected department of medical science have been of the highest public importance and those to whom a reference to such services appears derogatory display an ignorance that casts doubt upon the value of their opinions. W. E. Curtis, in Chicago Record. No candidate for appointment showed higher testimonials or better recommendations than Dr. Huidekoper. He presented his own case to the President and the adjutant general, and although he submitted testimonials and letters of recommendation from some of the most prominent and influential men of this country his connection with the National Guard of Pennsylvania as chief surgeon had more weight with the. President than anything else. Before deciding upon Dr. Huidekoper’s appointment, or even taking it under serious consideration. the President referred his papers to the surgeon general for an investigation of his professional character and standing, which was reported by General Sternberg to be perfectly satisfactory. At the same time he reported upon Dr. Senn. Among Philadelphia people Dr. Huidekoper is regarded as a man of eminent scientific attainments, unquestionable integrity and wide benevolence. His veterinary practice is considered as an eccentricity.

YELI/OW STORY EXPLODED. Instance Showing How Criticism of the War Department Is Generated. Kansas City Journal. The latest San Francisco papers recite an incident that will serve faithfully to illustrate the manner in which false stories of camp life may travel and gain credence. On Sept. 5 the commanding general at San Francisco received a telegram from the War Department as follows: “Commanding General, Department of California: “This department has received the following telegram from the Governor of Oregon: ‘I earnestly request that the 330 recruits to fill the Second Oregon Regiment to its maximum be either mustered out and sent to their homes in Oregon or that they be promptly forwarded to their regiment m Manila. These men were recruited three months ago, and in the latter part of June the mustering officer, under orders of the War Department, sent them in detachments without uniforms or equipment from their various stations, as fast as mustered, in charge of one of the number, to San Francisco, where they now are, as reported to me, in disorganized and demoralized condition, many of them suffering from physical and moral illness for want of proper care, discipline, sanitation and camp regulations. I beseech your active interference.’ ’’ Not content with this appeal to the War Department. Governor Dord betook himself in person to San Francisco to examine the condition of the Qregon troops. In presenting himself to the commanding officer the Governor declared that he had not been deceived by the exaggerations of fellow newspapers, but that he had received letters from a number of the soldiers, w'ho described in detail their deplorable condition. He affirmed also that other people in Oregon had received similar letters, and that the Oregon newspapers had printed communications from the Oregon soldiers which left no manner of doubt in the Oregon mind that they had suffered much from want and negligence. The commanding officer opened the avenues for the fullest investigation, and this is what the Governor found: On their arrival in San Francisco the Oregon Soldiers had been attached to a battalion of the Twenty-third regular infantry, and from that day to this they virtually have been a part of the regular army. Their commander is Maj. Goodale, a regular army officer, and for drill purposes a full complement of officers had been assigned to them from the other regiments. The Governor found further that his troops were better equipped than most of those in camp, and that they had become a very soldierly body of men. Cared for by regular army officers who knew how. they had suffered less from sickness than the other volunteers. and it was made very plain that there had been no privations, no inhumanities, no lack of hospital attention, nor of wholesome and abundant food. In short, the Governor found that he and the people of Oregon had been deceived and that his complaint to the War Department had no foot on which to stand. Naturally this investigation led to another, and then it was discovered that the whole trouble had been caused by a handful of malcontent privates who manufactured the stories out of their imaginations or distorted facts in a shameless manner. No doubt every regiment in the volunteer army has a £ew soldiers of the same character. No doubt the yellow correspondents from Kansas City' were able to find at Chiokamauga and Alger a few who w'ere ready to play' the baby. But this does not alter the fact that as a whole the soldiers give testimony to good treatment by the government and their superior officers, and that there is little or no ground for the crusade Inaugurated by the sensational press. In n Bad Wny. Kansas City Journal. “I am getting so tired,” said an Atchison man. “that every funeral procession looks to me like an excursion train.” Like Drey fas. Baltimore American. If tj very careful he’ll get himself Devilslslanded.

SHIFTED TO AMERICA CONTROL OF THE MONEY MARKETS MO LONGER WITH EUROPE. Position of the United State* in Financial Circles of the Old World Rapidly Becoming that of Master. ♦ WEEKLY REVIEWS OF TRADE ♦ WHEAT EXPORTS STILL LARGE AMD PRICES FOUR CENTS HIGHER. *- Extraordinary Business Activity in Western Cities, and Rapid Expansion of the Iron Trade. ♦ NEW YORK. Sept. 23.—R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade will say to-morrow: "Europe will have to consider possible American demands for money more' anxiously in the future. Doubtless there has been for many years a feeling that the new continent could be put off with promises. But the control of this country over money markets in the old world is coming to be that of a master. Our banks lend over there heavily when it is the most convenient market for them, but they draw on Europe whenever they want money, and no longer have occasion to limit their drafts. This country is not drawing on Europe very largely to pay for breadstuffs, as it did a year ago, and yet wheat exports for the week, flour included, have been 3,963,204 bu from Atlantic ports, against 3,677,868 last year, and 543,417 from Pacific ports, against 1,094,893 last year, for three weeks 10,208,941 from both coasts, flour included, against 15,569,129 last year. Prices have risen sharply, about 4c for the week, and the exports of corn, though not as large as last year, have been heavy in comparison with any other year. The price slightly advanced. The reports from different cities disclose a wonderful activity at the chief centers of Western trade, the dispatches from Chicago, St. Paul and St. Louis being simply significant. To Eastern dealers it may be bard to realize that such extraordinary activity exists at the West, although their own tr&de is excellent. Even in Eastern markets it is commonly said that no larger trade has ever been known, unless in 1892, but the Western cities are running things much after their own taste this year, having greater advantages than ever before in heavy bank balances, and, while the exchanges for the week fall below those of last year 3.5 per cent., they are 13.1 per cent, larger than in the same week in 1892. The iron and steel trade expands with a rapidity which throws into the shade all expectations, with a steel famine in Germany, and Great Britain in the market for 10,000 tons of plates, and the American works are crowded for months ahead. New orders at Chicago epver 30,000 tons tin-plate bars, besides 7,000 tons sold at Philadelphia. Rails are in such demand that the makers are to meet with expectation of advancing prices, some sales having been made from Chicago below agreed quotations for delivery at the far West. Plates are strong everywhere, but on account of car construction especially strong at Chicago, and the demand for bars on the same account is heavy, with one order at Chicago for I,<KK> and several others for 500 ears each. Prices have slightly advanced for plates, bars and for wire nails, which are in much better demand than heretofore. Coke production increases, the output at Connellsville for the week having been 140,658 tons, against 137,171 for the previous week, and t.n is somewhat stronger, at 16.15 c, reflecting an advance at London, while copper is quiet at 12.5 c for lake, and lead comparatively inactive at 4c. Tin plates are selling at $2.82% for full-weight bessemer. The copper production in August was 19,508 tons domestic, against 6,909 foreign, and the lead production, as oftlcially reported, has been 156.113 tons for the half year, against 289,598 tons for the full year of 1897. The textile industries are not sharing the general improvement to a full extent, in part because the heavy decline in cotton, with large stocks of goods accumulating, makes the mills disposed to wait for future developments, and in part because the price of wool Is higher than the mills are at present disposed to pay. Print cloths are a shade lower, and also brown drills and in some woolen goods, especially ladies’ cloth, prices are slightly reduced. There is little disposition to secure trade in wool by concessions, and sales for three weeks have been only 10,078,400 pounds, against 49,451,400 for the same weeks last year and 23,463,700 in 1892. Failures for the week have been 173 in the United States, against 209 last year, and 16 in Canada, against 28 last year.

BRADSTREET’S REVIEW. Trade in the South Adversely Affected by the Yellow Fever Scare. NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—Bradstreet’s tomorrow will say: Favorable trade developments manifest themselves chiefly along the lines previously noted. The Importance of a large export demand to the country’s domestic interests is illustrated by the improved tone and prices of wheat and flour this week, growing out of the better foreign buying induced by less favorable Russian crop reports, smaller shipments from that country and apparently continued careful selling by American producers. Raw cotton, on the other hand, reflects probabilities of continued plentiful supplies and rather slow demand in quotations, lower than the lowest point reached in the year of depression (1894), when a large yield was coincident with poor trade, industrial troubles and tight money. From the West and Northwest advices continue largely in the former cheerful strain. Some relaxation in activity is perceptible in some lines at large markets, but the volume of trade as a whole i evidently equal to any previous record. At the South low-priced cotton and yellow fever quarantines alfect trade adversely, improvement in one section being counterbalanced by less favorable advices from others. Favorable conditions on the Pacific coast are most numerously reported in the States of Oregon and Washington. Conservative management earlier in the year, however, has resulted in lairly good conditions in California, where crops were less favorable than farther north, and failures are down to a minimum. Activity in iron and steel manufacture continues unabated and similar conditions are reported abroad. Talk of further moderate advances in price has increased, particularly as this country to-day, generally speaking, is the cheapest market for iron and steel in the world. The export trade in pig iron from Southern points continues very heavy, and another advance of 25 cents is reported by some large Southern concerns. Improved foreign demand for American cereals is shown in the enlarged volume of shipments this week. Wheat, Including flour, shipments aggregate 4,991.353 bushels, against 3,675,291 busheis last week, 5,708,825 bushels in the corresponding week of 1897, 3,930,466 bushels In 1596, 3,151,907 bushels in 1895 and 2,562.500 bushels in 1894. Since July 1 this year exports of wheat aggregate 41,160,414 bushels, against 50,310,525 bushels last year. Corn exports for the week aggregate 2.626,290 bushels, as against 2,331,005 bushels last week, 4,022,142 bushels in this week one year ago. 2.610,475 bushels in 1596, 1,360,325 bushels in 1895 and 1,004,000 bushels in 1894. Since July 1 this year corn exports aggregate 73.365,165 bushels, against 38,399,991 bushels during the same period of 1897. Business failures in the United States for the week number 182. against 173 last week, 237 in this week a year ago, 321 in 1896. 198 In 1896 and tOH In 1890. Business failures in

the Dominion of Canada number 19, against 20 last week. 35 in this week one year ago and 34 in 1896. EXPORTS OF MANUFACTURES. No tv Fully Double What They Were Ten Years Ago. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON. Sept. 23.—The Invasion of foreign markets by the manufacturers of the country continues to increase. The figures of the Treasury Bureau of Statistics show that the July exports of manufactures were greater than in any July in the history of the country and formed a larger percentage of the total exports than in any preceding year or month in its history. The exports of manufactures for the month were $25,953.116, and formed 36.47 per cent, of the total exports. No July has ever shown such a record of exports of manufactures, and in no month or year have manufactures formed so large a percentage of the total exports. Compared with a decade ago, the July exports of manufactures have doubled, and the percentage which they form of the total exportations has also nearly doubled. In July, 1888, the total exports of manufactures were but sll.559.606, or less than half those of July 189S while they formed but 26.27 per cent, of the total exports, against 36.47 per cent, in July, The gain which the manufacturing interests are making in the proportion which they are obtaining of the total export trade is strongly marked. In July, 1890, they supplied 24.82 per cent, of the total exports: in July, 1894, 28.16 per cent.; in July, 1895, 31.38 per cent.; in July, 1896, 32.80 per cent.; in July, 1897, 33.78 per cent., and in July. 1898. 36.47 per cent. Exports of manufactures in July, 1897, were double those of a decade earlier, yet July, 1898, shows an increase of more than 10 per cent, over July, 1897. The following table shows the exportations of leading manufactures in July, 1898, compared with July, 1897: Articles. 1897. 1898. Agricultural implements .. $454,579 $684,859 Cars for steam railways.. 116.200 141,764 Cars for other railways... 33.412 81,117 Copper 2.963.577 3,267,946 Cotton cloths, yards 28,685.165 37,474,071 Cotton manufactures $1,732,027 $2.2)3,032 Fertilizers 509,659 697,031 Glass and glassware 88,294 96 947 Iron and steel 4,918,107 7,012,977 Wire nails, pounds 1,961.511 4,390,096 Cut nails, pounds 5,538,212 7,363,262 Steel plates and sheets, pounds 725,514 9,962.574 Bars or rods of steel. pounds 2.726,383 4,522,961 Wire, pounds 8,120,424 16,217,144 Sewing machines $254,987 4271,306 Typewriters 108.889 140,017 Boots and shoes 108,505 172,470 Naval stores, barrels 185,742 218,216 Oil cake, pounds 64.478,804 81,577,230 Mineral oils, gallons 76,830,6-16 79,059,058 Spirits, gallons 113,294 146,090 Tobacco, manufactured.... $340,518 $419,863 Wool manufactures 68.023 96,786

JESSIE SCHLEY’S WANDERINGS. The Pence Advocate Talk* In a Peon liar Vein About Her Mission. NEW YORK. Sept. 23,-Miss Jessie Schley, the peace advocate, of Milwaukee, whose cousin crushed Cervera's fleet, is in New York. She has just returned from Cuba and she says some curious things about the war and her remarkaole part in it. “When 1 first began to agitate against war with Spain,’’ she said, "I wrote to Cousin Scott and asked him not to fire the first gun. he wrote back and asked me if he had my permission to fight if the Spaniards shot at him first. I told him if he thought he was right to go ahead. He is a sailor and a good one. I am proud of him. He did his duty. But It was an unholy war, just the same. Spartan women used to urge their men to war. It is for American women to urge their men to peace. "How did 1 first come to take so active an interest in the peace movement? Well, it came upon me in a moment of prayer. I was kneeling in the little Corpus Christi Chapel, in Paris. Tell the public I was kneeling in a Spanish church, and let the enemies of peace make the most of it. God does not love a good Spaniard less than a good American, and He judges nations with the same exactitude that He does individuals. While praying ihe thought came to me that American women must stop the war. 1 went to work and organized at once the Women’s International League for Peace. In three weeks the league had three thousand members, mostly Protestants. Our first meeting was held in the home of Cornelius Vanderbilt's brother-in-law. Then a general peace convention was held, at which five principal peace organizations of Europe were represented. “I was elected a committee of one to go to Madrid and inform the Queen Regent and Senor Sagasta that they were whipped. Senor Moret received me kindly and showed me many courtesies while I was in Spain. The Spanish public knew I was a Roman Catholic and a friend of Spain, and that I detested the war, so I had no trouble in securing listeners. “Do you know who destroyed the Maine? It wasn't the Spaniards. It was some of our American jingoes, who entered into a conspiracy with the Cuban jingoes for the purpose of setting Spain and the United States at each others’ throats. I know this assertion will create a storm, but it is the truth. Why should they hesitate to destroy a few hundred American lives and a great war ship, when they were plotting of war that meant the slaughter of thousands? Born in wickedness! I should sav it was. "I went to Havana, and, after paying my respects to General Blanco and the other Spanish officials. I went to an insurgent camp. They had been creating a disturbance, and my fighting blood was up. I used plain language with them. I told them that If they did not quit fighting we would cut their throats and annex Cuba. They quit. “General Fitzhugh Lee is a firebrand. He should not be sent to Cuba. The best of the Spaniards and Cubans dislike him. They say his coitiing will create trouble. It is time for the best element of this country to assert itself, and put the Lees in the background. “Now, I am not opposed to war. The time may come when we will have to fight in a good cause. Then I will be found no advocate of peace until it is properly won. But no more disgraceful, unholy war like this has been. “I am an old maid, but were I married and the mother of a son I would send him to West Point or Annapolis. If any one is interested in it, tell them I am a Roman Catholic. My father isn’t—yet. Few of my family are. I am a good American. This is the best country on earth.”

“CRIMINAL AGGRESSION.” View Taken ly Cornell’s President on Annexntion of Spanish Islands. ITHACA, N. Y., Sept. 23.—President Schurman, in the course of his annual address to the students of Cornell University yesterday, touched upon the issue brought up by the recent war with Spain relative to the disposal of acquired territory, including the Philippines. He said: “Now that war is over, there seems to be a willingness on the part of some to depart from our original policy. At the beginning of the conflict our President and our Congress, in declaring war, made a solemn declaration as to the motives and principles on which it was to be waged. We interfered, we declared, in Cuba for the sake of humanity, and disclaimed any intention of forcible annexation or control over the island. It is not in accordance, then, with those principles to annex any territory which formerly belonged to Spain. We hear it advocated that the Philippines belong to us by right of conquest. But the idea that we have conquered them is a mistaken one. We have taken Manila, hut there yet remains 15.000 insurgents under the control of a tierce and desperate leader. To claim the islands by right of conquest it would be necessary to tirst conquer them. We are, therefore, under ho obligation to its people. To keep this force in subjugation it would be necessary also to maintain a large army in the Philippines. It would be another burden on our hands and an expensive one. We ought not to sacriilce youthful lives when there is no obligation to humanity and civilization involved. Monarchy may expand by acquisition of territory, but democracy, which is governed by the people and for the people, cannot afford to accept as citizens people who are not capable of self-government. The nation, like a person, must be honest and keep its progress. When Cuba is pacified then we must leave its government to its people. If they fall in their efforts to establish a stable form of government, which shall secure safety of life and property, then we must again interfere. But if they succeed, in my opinion, not only Cuba, but also Porto Rico, will soon be tapping at our doors for admission to the Union. If we annex the Islarid, I hold that we will be committing criminal aggression.'

THE TAX ON LEGACIES DECISION CONSTRUING SECTION 20 OF THE WAR REVENUE ACT. Gen. Stevvnrt L. Woodford’s Resignation of the Spanish Mission Filed at the State Department. WASHINGTON. Sept. 23.-The commissioner of internal revenue has rendered a decision on Section 29 of the war revenue act, imposing a tax on legacies and distributing frj res of personal property. The commissi</ner holds as follows: "Where the value of the whole amount of personal property left by a decedent does not exceed SIO,OOO no tax is required. When such whole value exceeds SIO,OOO and does not exceed $25,000, the tax is imposed, and the rate of tax upon the clear value of each share is determined by the degrees of relationship of the beneficiary. Where the value of the whole amount of the personal property left by a decedent exceeds $25,000 the rate of tax upon the clear value of each share is determined by the degree of consanguinity and by the value of the whole amount, as provided in the last paragraph of Section 29 of the war revenue act. Each share is required to bear its own tax unless in case of devise by will it w r as otherwise specified in the will.” THE SPANISH MISSION. Gen. Woodford Files Ilis Resignation —Not Likely to Return to Madrid. W ASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—Following the custom of a minister who has been obliged to leave his post by the breaking out of hostilities, Stewart L. Woodford has filed his resignation as minister to Spain. It is believed that it will be six months before the United States has occasion to send a minister to Madrid again, and if Mr. Woodford’s resignation remains so long unacted upon his status will be merely nominal, for under the law his salary ceased after the expiration of sixty days from the date he left his post, with the’ addition of a sufficient period of time to enable him to return to the United States. It might have been possible for General Woodford to have returried to Madrid in the capacity of United Slates minister, but this would only have been the case had the Spanish government seen tit to make a rquest to that effect. Otherwise it is customary, for politic reasons. to send anew minister to avoid the revival of bitter feelings and to restore harmonic relations between the two governments lately at war. Should the United States government, in disregard of this conventional usage, persist tn returning General Woodford to Madrid, it would find itself obliged to receive Senor Bernabe, late Spanish minister to Washington, whose course in establishing a system of espionage in Canada during the war rendered him in some degree unpopular in the United States. Mr. Peck Tickles Ihe French. WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—An agreeable impression has been created in connection with the arrival in Paris of the United States commissioner to the world’s fair, Mr. Ferdinand Peck, according to word received here. The French press is much pleased with a speech o i Mr. Peck, in which he linked together the names of Lafayette and Cambon, the present ambassador at Washington, in the following words: “Lafayette and Cambon! The knight of liberty of the eighteenth century and the wise diplomat of the nineteenth eentury. The fraternity inaugurated by the immortal Lafayette more than a hundred years ago is again cemented by the friendly diplomacy of the ambassador o*. France in promoting the blessing of peace that have come after our recent struggles with a foreign foe.” Mr. Peck's plan of erecting at Paris a monument to Lafayette, as one of the features of the exposition, also is attracting much favorable comment with the officials and pubile generally at Paris, and altogether it is said the friendly sentiments between the two republics is be*ng made more apparent than ever.

Torpeilo-Boat Contracts Awarded. WASHINGTON, Sept. 23,-Acting Secretary Allen to-day made the final distribution of contracts for supplying the torpedo boats and torpedo boat destroyers authorized by the last naval appropriation bill, as follows: Torpedo Boats—Trigg, of Richmond, Va., three boats; Hawley, of Boston, two; Gas Engine and Power Company, of New York, one; Nixon, of Elizabethport, N. J., two; Columbia iron works, of Baltimore, one. Destroyers—Trigg, of Richmond, two; Foreriver Engine Company, of Boston, two; Maryland Steel Company, of Baltimore, three; Neafle & Levy, of Philadelphia, three; Union iron works, of San Francisco, three; Harlan & Hollingsw'orth, of Wilmington, Del., two; Gas Engine and Power Company, of New York, one. Americans Popular In China. WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—1n a report to the Department of State from Tien-Tsin United States Consul Ragsdale, after mentioning the arrival at his post of Mr. Conger, the new American minister, speaks of the general popularity of Americans in China. Expressions of friendship for our people, he says, are heard in official and business circles. He notes a contract just made by a representative of the Chinese government with a Philadelphia firm for the purchase of all the machinery necessary to establish an up-to-date woolen mill at TienTsin. Senator Quay Asks Investigation. WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—The postal officials have directed one of their representatives to conduct an Inquiry into the charges made recently In a political speech that Senator Quay had sold postofflees in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania. Second Assistant Postmaster General Shallenberger says the official records show no evidence of irregularity in the appointment of postmasters in the county referred to. The inquiry is made at the request of Senator Quay. | John Sherman Improving. WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.-Ex-Secretary Sherman has so far recovered from his illness that his physician, Dr. Frank H. Hyatt, has left the city for a few days. On his advice Mr. Sherman has abandoned his speech-making plans in Ohio. The Buffalo in Commission. WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. - The hospital ship Solace ha sailed from Brooklyn for Guantanamo. The Buffalo was put in commission yesterday for the first time under the United States flag. Banks Asked to Report. WASHINGTON, Sept. 23—The controller of the currency has issued a call to national banks for a report on their condition at the close of business Tuesday, Sept. 20. Genernl Ate*. WASHINGTON. Sept. 23.—T0-day’s statement of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $313,735,085; gold reserve, $242,390,875. The body of Mr. John Armstrong, who committed suicide by jumping in the Potomac river Tuesday night, was recovered to-day. The deceased was a native of Vicksburg. Miss., and was at one time editor of newspapers in that city, and also tilled important local offices in the State. For several years he was chief of the document room of the House of Representatives. The Army Buttle. New York Tribune. Another thing the young American misses when he visits the camp is the roll of the drum. The drum and fife have played no part in the Spanish-Amerlcan war and they seem to be going out of use in the American army. The picture of the aged revolutionary drummer and fifer marehinr their company into action, and the stories of drummer boys beating the onward march until their hearts cease to beat, give way to the picture of the troops that go silently into battle without advertising their approach, except as the bugle gives a shrill command. Here at Camp Wikoff one hears the calls of the bugles all day, from the early reveille to the late taps. The distances here are great, and when the time for any given call arrives the note of a bugle near at hand will be answered from a camp far away. And then one can hear the call as it comes fainter and fainter from more and more distant hills, sounding as if they were echoes of the original call. The man who invented taps must have had a musical soul. Its slow, sweet noteti, as they fall on the still night air. seem more like an 'nvitatlon to sleep and rest than a command.