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THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY, NOVEMBER o, 1898. Wislrißgioa Office—lso3 Pennsylvania Avenue Telephone falls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 86 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY BY MAIL. Dally only, one month t -70 Dally only, three months 2.00 Dally only, one year 8-00 Daily, including Sunday, one year 10.00 Sunday only, one year 2-00 WHEN FURNISHED BY AGENTS. Daily, per week, by carrier 15 cts Sunday, single copy 5 cts Dally and Sunday, per week, by carrier.... 20 cts WEEKLY. Per year 11.00 Reduced Rates to Clubs. Subscribe with any of our numerous agents or send subscriptions to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Indianapolis, Ind. Persons sending the Journal through the malls In the United States should put on an eight-page paper a ONE-CENT postage 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., 117 Dearborn 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. BT. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D. C.—Riggs House, Ebbitt House and Willard’s Hotel. If the precinct organizers do what they promise, Indiana will go Republican next Tuesday. The earnest Republican will see that his Republican neighbors go to the polls next Tuesday. The veterans in the Marion Soldiers' Home axe not disfranchised because the Green Smith coterie could not bulldoze the Supreme Court No anti-expansionist has yet suggested any way by which we can get out of the Philippines honorably or take one or more of the islands safely without taking all. No man in the present Congrees has had more cases called up for pensioners than has Jesse Overstreet, and no man has given more personal attention to such cases. During the few days which end with the closing of the polls Tuesday, do not stop to listen to the lies of the enemy, but steadily push the fighting to sustain the President. If the men In Indiana who are better satisfied with existing conditions than those of 3894 and 1896 will vote the sound-money ticket, the 16-to-l heresy in Indiana will be hurled forever. So long as Mr. Johnson as city controller dismisses laborers because they have said that they would vote the Republican ticket, he cannot consistently beseech Republicans to vote for him. This is one of the elections in which citizens vote for or against their own interests. Can any candid and intelligent man conceive it to be for hi3 interest to vote to put the United States on a silver basis? All the money which has been paid for pretended work on park lands thus far has been thrown away. The so-called work will all have to be done over again, and the men are simply killing time till election day. President McKinley has commissioned as officers in the Ninth United States Volunteer Regiment of immunes a whole bunch of colored soldiers who were conspicuous for gallantry In the colored regular regiments at Santiago. Mr. Johnson Is the last man to complain of persecution and to snivel to Republicans about unfair treatment. He and his party organ began the fight upon Harry B. Smith ■when he was confined to hta bed with typhoid fever contracted in the army. The evening Taggart organ urges Republicans to vote for Mr. E. M. Johnson for auditor because he is such a nice man. The worst thing about poor dog Tray was the bad company he kept. Mr. Johnson furnished the brains and did the bookkeeping for Auditor Taggart. - ' ■' ' " 1 '■ • “Fifteen hundred men in brilliant costumes parade the streets and terrify the negroc.,. ’ Such is the headline of a dispatch to the Chicago Record dated in Wilmington, N. C. Yet it is said that negroes In Indiana will vote for the same Democratic party on the same platform. The man whose father enlisted in an Indiana regiment after he was beyond the military age and served as an enlisted man Is likely to be a better friend to all ex-sol-dlers than one who would have pensioners paid over the counter of the agency so that come of them could be robbed by sharpers |n dives. The testimony of General Lawton, one of the best known men of the late war, is to the effect that in the Santiago campaign there were no hardships or suffering except such as were incident to and Inseparable from the prosecution of a foreign war. General I/aw ton talks like a brave man and good soldier. The Sentinel says that leading bankers throughout the country are opposeo to the monetary commission or Overstreet bill. Mr. Van Vorhis declares that the bill is the corrupt scheme of H. H. Hanna and the bankers. The copartners in the cause of 16 to 1 should make their stories agree. As it now stands, one of them is—mistaken. Colonel Waring, who died of yellow fever a few days ago as the result of a visit to Havana, had prepared an estimate of $22,000,000 as the cost of cleaning the city and harbor and draining the city so as to keep it clean. As the United States is not going to annex Cuba nor assume sovereignty over the Island, it is under no obligation to perform so expensive & work for the Cubans. The law regulating the loaning of the ischoot fund says: “The sum loaned shall not exceed one-half of the appraised value of the premises proposed to be mortgaged, clear of all perishable improvements.” It also says: “Such loans shall be made by the county auditor, who shall inform himself of the value of the real estate ottered In the mortgage.” Deputy Auditor Johnson seems to have ignored both of these provisions in the Landers loan. In a meeting on the South Side Thursday night a gold Democrat who was a member of the Legislature In 1889 showed from the record that some of the labor bills which ;Loa Bailey claimed to have introduced and

secured the passage of were introduced by him and enacted the year after Bailey left the Benate. This is sad; but, then, the name of Leon Bailey will thunder down the ages as the author of “a bill for an act to make ground hog day a legal holiday.” A CASE IN POINT. Official figures recently published by the Journal prove beyond any doubt that during the period that Mr. E. M. Johnson was acting as deputy for Auditor Taggart the latter drew out of the country treasury at least $250,000. From Nov. 3, 1894, to Oct. 10, 1895, eleven months and seven days, he drew $39,753.94, and from Nov. 3, 1891, to Oct. 12, 1895, three years, eleven months and seven days, he drew $143,503.93. At this rate his receipts during eight years would considerably exceed $250,000. Every dollar of this passed through the hands of Mr. E. M. Johnson, who furnished the bookkeeping brains of the auditor’s office and made out the claims and charges on which the allowances were made. A considerable portion of them was for salary at the rate of $13,924 a year, to which the auditor was entitled, 4>ut much the largest part was for services rendered as auditor which should have been covered by his salary and for which he was not entitled to extra pay. All these charges, claims and bills were made out by Mr. Johnson and allowed by a Democratic Board of County Commissioners. Os the allowances thus worked through the books show that for $30,569.84 there are no bills on file and nothing to show the character of the services rendered, if any, or the nature of the claim. As the bills filed cover every possible kind of service for which an auditor could claim pay, under even a wideopen construction of the law, it Is fair to assume that the allowances for which no bills are on file were unauthorized and illegal. If that is the case, and to the full extent that it is the case, suit will lie against Mr. Taggart for the recovery of the amount thus illegally allowed. The Supreme Court has so decided. In Board of Commissioners of Huntington County vs. Heaston, 144 Ind., p. 583, the court held that “An action will lie in favor of a county against a county auditor to recover money ordered paid to and received by him upon an unlawful claim,” and that “A board of county commissioners cannot bind the county by allowing and ordering to be paid an unlawful claim.” The suit came up from the Huntington Circuit Court and was against an ex-auditor of that county to compel him to refund fees and charges illegally allowed by the commissioners. In stating the case the court said: The complaint alleges that the appellee, Heaston, was elected and served as auditor of Huntington county from the Ist day of November, 1887, to Nov. 1, 1891; that he was paid and received for said term as such officer all salary and compensation allowed by law; that during his term, notwithstanding the fact that he had been paid and received from the county all of his salary and compensation allowed him by law, he. under the color of said office, illegally taxed up fees, and In violation of law demanded, extorted and received payment of the same, in his official capacity, from the county; the said fees not being allowable under the statutes of the State. Here follows an itemized list of fees so taxed and received by appellee from the county, amounting in the aggregate to $7,221.90, for which judgment is demanded. The Supreme Court overruled a decision of the lower court holding that the action of the commissioners wa9 final and remanded the case for “further proceedings in accordance with this opinion.” Later the court overruled a petition for rehearing. The decision is broad enough to cover every case of an unauthorized allowance to an auditor by county commissioners. Os the claims made out by Mr. Johnson and allowed to Mr. Taggart fully $50,000 were plainly unauthorized. Under the decision of the Supreme Court the county can recover the amount of these illegal allowances, but in equity the Taggart ring should refund it without suit. ____________________ , THE FACTS ABOUT THE PACIFIC RAILROADS. The Sentinel and other Democratic papers are assailing Representatives Overstreet and Faris because they voted for the bill to fund the indebtedness of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads, in January, 1897. When this bill was presented in the House in 1896 it was generally regarded as the best thing that could be done for the public interests. The issue was between losing a large part of the investment of the United States and foreclosing a second mortgage. To foreclose, the government would be forced to become responsible for the $59,971,000 of first mortgage bonds upon the Central Pacific and the $76,146,000 of similar bonds upon the Union and Kansas Pacific. As the second mortgage bonds of the United States were approaching maturny, Congress was in duty bound to take some steps to take care of its obligations when they should fall due. At that time President Cleveland had an offer from a syndicate to accept from the Union and Kansas Pacific about half of the amount due the United States for the whole claim. Many believed that this offer should be accepted. The question, at the time the bill was voted on, was between paying off the $136,090,000 of first mortgage bonds and foreclosing, so that the government would come into possession of the road, and the refunding bill, which provided for a 2 per cent, bond and a sinking fund to wipe out the indebtedness after a long period. A considerable element in Congress desired the foreclosure and possession of the road by the United States, to the end that the visionary theory of federal management of roads might be tried. Between the two propositions the Journal at that time advocated the former, because it was Hobson’s choice. The United States had not $136,000,000 to take up the first mortgage bonds; furthermore, the government had enough money in these railroads. About the time of the taking of the vote a government director, ex-Representative Coombs, of New York, in an interview made some statements to the effect that it would be better to foreclose, as the property could be sold for enough to pay the government's liability In full. This statement and the hostility to the Pacific people caused a change in sentiment, and the bill was defeated. The Sentinel says that Mr. Overstreet voted against an amendment increasing the rate of interest. So did a majority of the xlouse, because it knew that the Pacific people would not accept such a measure. As the result the entire matter was dropped. The Sentinel cannot tell the truth about such matters, so it declared that the government had already received in full what it had paid out on account of the Pacific railroads. This is not quite half the truth. When Mr. McKinley became President the Cleveland proposition was ignored. Business on the Pacific roads had improved, so that, after a long negotiation, an agreement was made by which the full amount due from the Union Pacific Railroad was received, and later the entire principal due from the Kansas Pacific. The Central Pacific has not settled, as any falriy intelligent newspaper man should know. Jan. 1, 1897, the Central Pacific obligation on bonds and interest paid by the United States was $57,-

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681,990. It is more than that now. The United States bonds matured in July, 1898. No settlement has been made for this large amount, but Congress, on July 7, 1898, authorized the secretary of the treasury, the secretary of the interior and the attorney general to settle the claim upon certain conditions, which may not be accepted. As it has turned out, it would not have been wise to have passed the proposed funding bill, but, with the conditions then prevailing and with the alternative of foreclosure, with an additional payment of $136,000,000, members were justified in voting for it, and a large number of the best men in the House did vote for it. Because business has revived wonderfully along the Pacific railroads since the election of McKinley, the President obtained for the Union Pacific an amount which, during the ten preceding years, no one conversant with the matter believed it possible to secure. But for the change which came with McKinley’ the government would have lost half its investment which the Cleveland administration advised but which a Republican House rejected. BANKING ON POPULAR IGNORANCE. A favorite argument of the free silverites from the beginning of the agitation has been that there is not gold enough in the country to furnish a safe metallic basis for its currency, and that this diminution in the volume of redemption money has made money dear and hard to get. This argument is plausible and dangerous only with persons who are ignorant of the facts or who do not stop to think. Asa matter of fact, business in this country and in the whole commercial world has never been done on any but a gold basis. Silver has never been anything but a disturbing element, and the prolonged attempts of different countries to maintain a legal ratio and parity between it and gold were a source of continual embarrassment and loss. The business of the world was never more satisfactorily transacted and there never was more geperal prosperity than since silver ceased to be recognized as a standard of value. Perhaps there was a time when this could not have been done without embarrassment, but this was long ago. The world’s stock of gold is now ample, both as a standard of value and to cover paper currency. There is no longer any need of silver for either of these purposes, or for any monetary purpose except as subsidiary currency. The idea that there is not gold enough in the country to furnish a safe metallic basis for its currency is absurd. The world's stock of gold is far greater now than ever before, and increasing at a far more rapid rate. The United States, Australia, South Africa, all gold-producing countries, are increasing their output. Since the repeal of the silver purchasing act in 1893 the production of gold in the United States has almost doubled, increasing from $33,000,000 in 1892 to $57,363,000 in 1897. All other gold-producing countries have increased their output, though none in as great proportion as the United States, There is far more gold coin in the country at present than ever before, and the stock is steadily increasing. If we were to go to a silver basis, or, which is the same thing, adopt free silver coinage, gold would flow out of the country faster than it is now flowing in, but, thanks to the gold standard, our doors are wide open for the influx of the yellow metal, and It comes to us as freely as the rain from heaven. Nothing could be more absurd than the contention that under the gold standard money has become dear and hard to get. The reverse is true. Money was never before as cheap and as easy to borrow as it is now. Before the so-called ‘‘crime of 1873,” the misnamed demonetization of silver, the government w r as paying 6 per cent, for borrowed money; now it gets all it wants at 3% per cent. In 1872 the farmers of Indiana paid 10, 12 and 18 per cent, interest; now they can borrow money at 5 per cent. Two or three of the largest loan agents ih this city, representing outside corporations, are offering money on farm mortgages at 5 per cent. Their advertisements to> this effect appear in the state papers. No farmer in Indiana ever before got money as cheap as that. A well-known, loan agent of this city says: “I was the first person that brought outside corporation money into Indiana to loan, and I have been loaning on farm lands in this State since 1872. At that time many farmers were paying 18 per cent, a year for borrowed money. I have taken up hundreds of such loans, replacing them with money at 10 per cent., and it was a godsend to farmers to get money at that rate. Now I am offering money at 5% per cent, a year, interest payable annually, or 5 per cent., payable semi-annually, and I will loan $1,000,000 on those terms.” Five per cent, a year on farm mortgages now against 18 per cent, a year twenty-five years ago, yet silverites and Populists talk about money getting dearer! There never was a time in the history of the world when money was as cheap, measured by the rate of interest, and as easily obtained on good security or in exchange for values as it is to-day. And the money thus obtained is good money—not Mexican dollars or Spanish pesetas, but gold or its equivalent, convertible into gold, dollar for dollar. Under tlua system the United States has prospered as never before, and Indiana is prospering now far beyond anything in its past history. Yet the Democratic party is asking the people to discard the gold standard because it makes money dear. They bank too much on popular ignorance. • For fear the friends of good government have not fully realized the peril hinted at in the following communication the Journal reprints it; Indianapolis, Oct. 20, 1898. Mr. E. M. Johnson, City Controller, City: Dear Sir—l am informed that a man by the name of Davis, who is working on one of the- parks and who is a Democrat, will support the state ticket, but will not vote the Democratic county ticket, with the exception of Maguire. Please look after him. Very truly yours, J. E. BELL, Chairman. This shows extraordinary vigilance and fidelity on the part of the Democratic sentinels who are guarding the watch towers of liberty. A man who would accept employment as a raker of leaves under a Democratic city government with the base intention of scratching any candidate on the county ticket is fit for treason and stratagem, but not for spoils. As well expect the employment of a street sweeper who favored national expansion. Os course, Controller Johnson made quick work of Davis and transferred his rake to the hands of a men who will scratch the ground but not the Democratic ticket. We have been blessed with good crops—that, of course, comes from the country and rural districts. Mechanics and skilled labor have had steady employment. The foregoing is taken from the address of Mayor Taggart on Labor day, as reported by the Sentinel. It is quoted in the Sentinel as a verbatim extract o 4 the address. The speech was made just two months ago to-day. There has been no change for the worse since that date, Sept. 5. On the contrary, there has been a steady improvement. Nevertheless, the Sentinel re-

iterated, yesterday, that its reports regarding the dullness in the factories are true, and that the Journal’s reports sustain those which It calls its own, meaning those collected under the direction of Gruelle by three men to promote the calamity campaign of Leon Bailey. The Sentinel ignores the fact that the three men collecting these reports have repudiated them as garbled. A week hence the Sentinel will wonder how it could have been so persistent in its warfare on the industries of Indianapolis. The News undertakes to defend Mr. Johnson in connection with the school loans. It says that when the lands are sold the money will be used to pay off the liability. The lands have been offered for sale, and no one will purchase. The point is that Mr. Johnson loaned $2,000 each on lots assessed at an average of less than $800; that he violated the law in loaning upon the lots twice their value instead of half; that he knew that the sale of the lots the day the money was loaned was a bogus transaction; that he wrote the name “Jordan Freeman, his mark,” to a paper hi connection with the loan which Freeman has declared that he knows nothing about; that all the money loaned on the seven lot 9 was paid to Landers or some other party to pay the incoming county treasurer, and, finally, that he could not have been ignorant of the fact that the transaction was in violation of law. If he did not know it, he is not fit to be county auditor. The French papers which are making such an outcry against the severity of the terms which our commissioners are dictating to Spain forget that the war indemnity feature has entered largely into all modern peace treaties. France herself, at the end of the war with Germany, gave up Alsace-Lor-raine and paid a cash indemnity of $1,000,000,000. All that we have exacted from Spain, including the Philippines, w’ould not amount to one-fifth as much as that. It is probable that if the United States had begun by demanding a cash indemnity of $200,000,000, which would have been reasonable, Spain would have surrendered all her colonies as an equivalent and thought she was getting off easy. The Taggart-Johnson clique paid out $5,277.22 last week so-r alleged labor on the streets and Taggart park to promote the election of B. M. Johnson. If this sort of thing should last the year round $274,400 would be the cost of trying to elect a member of the office-holding firm. The firemen, the protectors of the people’s homes, stores and factories, are docked in wages that the money may be spent in hiring men to vote. Spain's reply to the proposal of the American commissioners with regard to the Philippines Is practically: “We won’t accept your proposition. But don’t go home, for we might relent when it becomes too late.” It is a disagreeable breeze that bears not salubrity for someone. The prospect of a war between the European powers is improving the American coal trade. There was general grief in the Democratic ranks when it w r as discovered that the Panama was safe. Another good “issue” had been ruined. That was a fine piece of sarcasm used by the French newspaper which said that the name of England is “not exactly venerated in Ireland.” Although sectional lines were wiped out by the recent war, it still takes a hero to be a Republican in some parts of the South. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. Qualified. She—No, I won’t kiss you; you are no great hero. He—No; but I am a great kisser. In Hock. Hogan—Fwat do this in the paper about “hock der Kaiser” nuan? Grogan—lt is a dillikit way av sayin’ soak ’im. Tlie Cornfed Philosopher. “Anent the contrariety of woman,” said the Cornfed Philosopher, "she never has so much self-po3session as when she knows she belongs to someone else.” Discussing the Other Woman. “Mrs. Squareface, I do believe, has enough ability to get her a seat in Congress, if women were eligible.” “May be. But I know she has a hard time getting a seat in a street car.” STATE PRESS OPINION. The Democrats are expansionists too; they want to expand one dollar into two. —Lebanon Patriot. A Democratic victory on Nov. 8 would give great satisfaction at Madrid and Vienna,—Goshen Times. Times are improving despite the calamity howler. Let’s keep them improving. —Washington Gazette. The Democratic position is that soldiers were mistreated by the government. Therefore vote for free silver. That is a logical and sensible conclusion.—Danville Republican. The Congress to be elected next Tuesday will be a McKinley Congress, unless voters think that political discord is better than harmony in settling a war.—Princeton Clarion. William McKinley has conducted the affairs of the Nation on broad, patriotic principles. As an indorsement of his policy he deserves a Congress that will be in complete harmony with his plans.—Madison Courier. No man who suffered during the four years of depression under the Cleveland administration can afford to assist in bringing about another condition of that kind by voting the Democratic ticket this year.—Connersvilie News. A vote for the Republican ticket is an indorsement of the President, and he represents protection, reciprocity, sound money and expansion. These are the ideas of progress and advancement, of law, order and civilization.—Warrcp Republican. The country is now enjoying sixteen times as much prosperity as it did before the election of President McKinley. Isn’t this to be preferred to the debasement of the currency by the free coinage of the sixteen-to-one silver dollar?—Steuben Republican. The Republican party stands for every measure looking to the best interest s> f the country. You cannot afford, at this time to “swap horses” unless you wish to do business on a depreciated currency basis. That is sure to follow if the Democrats control both branches of Congress.—Plainfield Progress. The Democratic congressional campaign committee does not hesitate to slander and humiliate every Democrat who served with distinction throughout the war. It even reflects on the probity of men like Gen. Joe Wheeler and Gen. Fitzhugh I,ee. The committee is sadly in need of a guardian, —Portland Commercial. The free-silver Democratic papers and certain ward talkers who are foolish enough to say that times are not better, and work is no more plentiful than it was before the free-silver fallacy was hit on the head at the last presidential election, are either lacking in judgment or they believe their hearers are chumps.—Michigan City News. No matter what your politics, if you want the present prosperous condition of affairs to continue; if you want labor employed at living wages; if you want farm products to bring fair prices; If you want all values measured by the standard of honest money; if you want your country to r! i<TYt'd" its, oresent proud position before the world, vote the Republican ticket.—New Caatle Courier.

NO GROSS MISTAKES CONDUCT OF THE SANTIAGO CAMPAIGN APPROVED BY LAWTON. The General’* Testimony Before Col. Denby, of the Army Investigating' Commission. ♦ EVIDENCE AT FORT THOMAS # OFFICERS OF THE SIXTH INFANTRY AND OTHERS EXAMINED. * Condition of the Transports Miami and Seneca—Conclusion of the Inquiry at Camp Meade. ♦ WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.—Acting for the war investigating commission. Colonel Denby has taken the testimony of General Lawton, who was in command of the Second Division of the Fifth Corps in the Santiago campaign and who has but recently been relieved of the command of the Department of Santiago. His narration began with the embarkation of the troops at Tampa. Speaking of the voyage over he said that the transports were furnished as well as could be expected, as they were not troop ships. The medical and commissary supplies were sufficient to prevent absolute discomfort. True, there was some confusion owing to misunderstanding of orders, but the general did not believe that any real hardship had been occasioned thereby. After giving particulars of the landing General Lawton described his march to Siboney, referred to the battle of Quasimas and told how he pushed forward towards El Caney and prepared for the fight there. He said on the morning before the beginning of the battle, after having laid his plans before General Shafter, he rode with his brigade commanders over the ground, pointing out to each of them the position he was to occupy. Referring to the result of the battle at Caney he said: “I had received very imperative orders to move my left to the right of General Wheeler’s command, but my situation was such that it was impracticable for me to leave Caney until I had captured it.” General Lawton said his division had lost 410 men killed and wounded and that all the wounded had been accounted for. This latter remark was brought out by the suggestion made by Colonel Denby that a statement had been made to- the effect that some of the wounded soldiers wandered into the woods and were never seen again. “I never heard that before,” he said. ‘‘All the wounded were accounted for and they were taken to the field hospitals. There were no ambulances, but some litters—how many he did not know.” ‘‘Knowing there was to be a fight how did it happen that you did not have enough litters, enough surgeons and the properhospital corps?” Colonel Denby asked. “Well, I cannot say there were not enough,” General Lawton replied. “How do you account for the fact that the medical men did not provide themselves with everything necessary for taking care of the wounded.” “I think they did provide themselves with everything they thought necessary, considering the material they had to choose from. There was no time to do more or get more surgeons than we had. They were distributed to their various commands.” The general said that while it was difficult to get supplies to the men while they lay in the trenches from the 2d to the 17th of July, he thought the quantity w r as sufficient. There had been no tents except the shelter tents which some had until just previous to the embarkation for the United Asked where he fixed the responsibility for not having the tents there, General Lawton replied: "I don’t fix it at all, because I don’t think there was any responsibility about it. The men were there without tents because of the fact that it was impossible to unload them from the ships for lack of time and facilities. It is a difficult matter to unload a ship in a rough sea. There was very little complaint on account of the tents. Complaints did not com© to me, and I was with my men constantly. That they should have to lie as they did was one of the contingencies absolutely necessary in the conduct of the war.” It was true, as reported, he said, that men had to wear their shirts for, possibly, thirty days without a change, but this was because they had thrown away their extra clothing. General Lawton held the climate responsible for the sickness that followed the campaign, though it was possible that with more appropriate food, better cooking and shelter some of the sickness might have been prevented. He had, he said, remained in Santiago until about two weeks since, and while the health conditions were now improving there has been much suffering among the soldiers left there. “It is my opinion.” he said, “that anyone going from this climate to Cuba would have to suffer the acclimatizing fever there. I doubt if 1 per cent, has escaped absolutely.” Replying to a question as to whether the Navy Department should not have control of the transport service, he said: “No, indeed.” “You think that the army ought to have control of them?” “Absolutely,” was the laconic reply. “While they are acting together?” Col. Denby asked. “They won’t act together. That is where I make my point. Two men cannot command the same affair,” said the general. Summing up General Lawton said: “Taking Into consideration the conditions that we were obliged to face, the character of the country, its climate and other things being considered, I can say there were ho serious or gross mistakes made. I can say there was no lack of care on the part of any of those in authority whose duty it was to look after the interests of the camp. We had with us as fine staff officers as there are in the world; no better could be found. These men worked night and day and no human being could do more than they.” AT FORT THOMAS. Testimony of Officers of the Sixth United States Infantry. CINCINNATI, Nov. 4.—The subcommittee of the war investigating commission resumed its work to-day, with General Dodge, General Sexton and Dr. Connor present. The first witness was General Menege, contract surgeon, serving with the Sixth Infantry. He testified as to the absence of hospital tents for the regiment in Cuba. He treated his sick in the regiment in preference to sending them back to the division hospital, because of the difficulty in transportation. The nearest hospital was perhaps a mile and a half away. The medical supplies were reasonably sufficient. The appliances and supplies at the hospital the* witness did not know about. His chief trouble was in getting an ambulance. This he got after a delay of two days. He made no requisitions for drugs but once. Dr. McGraw did most of that work. The regiment left there about the !>th o? August. At chat time there were about thirty or forty men in acute condition. Perhaps one-eighth of the command was reported regularly for treatment. There had been no yellow fever up to that time. The condition of the transport was as good as could be expected. Men bad fair quarters, and there was an abundance of supplies. There was enough ice. There was condensed milk and a limited amount of malted milk. Tiiev purchased with the hospital fund beef extract from the steward of the vessel. There was some available in Santiago. The regiment lost no men on the voyage. The vessel was held five days in quarantine at Monta.uk Point in a detention camp. The condit.cn of the camp was good, except there were no beds. Dr. McGraw was in charge of th© men in camp, while the witness remained aboard the vessel to take care of supplies. The witness explained the movements of the Sixth from the detention camp to the reg-

ular camp, and told of the march, which perhaps five-sixths of ;he men weable to make. The regiment was in camp i mil October. The command did not materially improve in health in that time. This no attributed largely to inability to properly diet the men. Lieutenant Schendel, of the Sixth Infantry, was the next witness. He left with the Sixth for Tampa, and at Santiago was made commissary. They had smple quarters on the trip from Tampa to Santh t,o. Commissary supplies were always sufficient, except for such delays as were unavoidable from rains and difficulty of transportation. After the fall of Santiago the regiment was fully supplied. At Montauk Point the supplies were suffirient, hut during the fir3t week were sometimes delayed until late In the day by insufficient railway facilities. This was soon remedied. The men were well taken care of by the medical department. After reaching Montauk Point the men rapidly broke down. Not more than twenty-five or thirty escaped illness Os some sort. The witness was ill twice. Lieutenant Colonel Miner, commanding tne Sixth Infantry, testified to the movements of his regiment from Fort Thomas to Santiago and return. He regarded the Tampa camp as excellent. There was difficulty in getting transportation from Tampa to Cuba. The transport Miami, in which nis regiment went to Santiago, was not fit for trtops. The men would have died in their quarters if the voyage had jiot been mild so th.u ti e portholes were left open and air thus supplied. The supplies of the men and of the officers were the same. Most of the officers were on foot from loss of horses. Speaking of the attack at San Juan Hill, ho said he found when they reached the summit that Colonel Egbert had been wounded and he was in command. That nig.it na supplies came up, and the men were w'thout food or blankets, except sudn food as they had in their haversacks. The witness said the command began to break down a . out the 14th. They had dug trenches by n.ght and lay in the wet ditches all day. Ihe hot sun and the wet weather broke til© men down. When a march of three miles was made not more than one-fourth kept up, but all got in by night. Ihe morning after the surrender the witness took She rtg nient to higher ground and kept them in camp. By personal appeal to General Kent he secured one wagon and cooking utensils and a change of clothing for the men. Cen talization was the trouble—cen trad a iti on in staff departments, he meant. If *lie w’tness could have got one wagon after tne surrender he couid have kept his regiment supplied. But nothing could have prevented tne sickness that followed the exigeac.es of the Cuban campaign. . ... Being asked about the diet, he sfcia he .would recommend pickles and vegetab.es for Tluba. The canned beef was nauseating, and the men, when almost starving, worn not eat it. It seemed to be beef that nad been boiled for extracts, and was as tree from nutriments as chips. The canned corn beef was good, but they d'd no. ge. it. The Armour and Libby beef was absolutely unfit for use when they got it. Col. C. B. Hunt, of the First Oh o Infantry, testified that when ’:ls regiment reached Chickamauga it was poorly supplied with clothing and arms, and never was fully supplied, never had a requisition filled completely. If he made a requisition for five hundred blouses he would get lm ire sickness among the troops was not tne fault of the camp nor due to the lack of medicines, but more to the incapacity of commanding officers in not enforcing discipline and giving necessary care. Wm. H. Davis, of Cincinnati, was the next witness. He was sent to Chickamauga to examine the water supply, which he reported as bad. „ , , . Gen. H. C. Egbert was called next. He is now brigadier of volunteers and colonel of the Twenty-second United States Infantry. He commanded the Sixth Infantry after tne retirement of Colonel Cochran until he was wounded July 1. He had no fault to find with the camp at Tampa or the supplies, or even with the transport Miami, except with the ventilation. He found troops abundantly supplied for the campaign. The witness received excellent care at the hospital. Referring to his return on the Seneca, he said the conditions on that vessel were not good, especially below, where the troops were. He remonstrated against certain conditions and Captain Daugherty remedied them. There w’aa a shortage in water. The boat was sent away hurriedly. General Egbert said while the Seneca was not in good condition for transporting troops, that its officers did not seem to be in command during the voyage as much as the surgeons. When the Seneca reached Fortress Monroe the surgeon telegraphed to Surgeon General Sternberg, who ordered the vessel to go to New York. The next day, to his surprise, the vessel had not gone. He asked why and was told the captain refused to go until ordered to do so by che quartermaster’s department. The witness called on the captain and found this to be true. After remonstrance against holding the wounded men in such a place the witness told the captain he would telegraph to the secretary of war, telling him of the conditions and asking for orders. Meantime he sent a note to the quartermaster at Fort Monroe, and ds soon as the situation was understood there an order was given for the vessel to sail at once to New York and the captain obeyed it. Fred J. Flueger, of Newport, Ky., was next examined. He went to Chickamauga Aug. 1 to bring home Albert Boedker, of the Second Kentucky, who was lying in the hospital. He found him in a very bad condition. He was in a tent with four other patients. The space between the cots was so narrow that witness had to walk sideways in going through. The nurses were detailed men. In an adjoining tent he heard groaning, and, looking in, he saw a man with a quantity of maggots on his body. He reported this immediately to the attendants, who said they did not know it had happened. They carried the man out, washed him off and took him back. The next day he died. The witness detailed Boedker’s case, how he took cold from marching through the rain and was taken sick the day he reached Chickamauga. He was at first refused admittance to the hospital. but finally the captain got him in. He lay there twelve days on a blanket on the ground with one blanket over him. Then he was sent to his quarters for full duty, and next day at inspection he stood in line three hours, when he again broke down. He xvas then in hospital until the witness brought him home. He reached home Aug. 2 and died Aug. 8. At the afternoon session Major Griffith testified regarding the camp conditions at Chickamauga and the hospitals. He had difficulty in getting .enough tents and when he secured the proper number he found the last ones were of poor quality. From private and state sources the regiments were supplied with hospital tents. Asa rule the men detailed as nurses were unfit. Witness asked Dr. Hoff for female nurses. This relieved the situation. The staff of the division hospital was inadequate when the increase of sickness occurred. Sickness among surgeons reduced the working force. He said there would have been no difficulty in 'getting hundreds of competent surgeons at Chickamauga within a week. He said he knew many applications were refused. He attributed the failure at Camp Thomas hospitals to “red tape” and “peace for thirty years,” which incapacitated the department for expansion for emergency. If Congress had established a hospital corps the trouble might have been avoided. One great difficulty in getting supplies of drugs arose from passing requisitions from the division surgeon to the corps surgeon and the surgeon in chief. This required a week. He asked the corps commander, on June 20, to have the typhoid patients isolated. The epidemic could thus have been avoided, but no attention was given the request. He regarded flies and water as causes of the infection. The beer drinking and the unwholesome food assisted in developing typhoid germs. The mortality from typhoid fever in this hospital was 66 out of 1,587 cases. Captaiq Springer, of the Seventeenth Infantry, was next examined. He co-oper-ated with the surgeons at and after the battle and knew the wounded were well cared for. Father Vatman, past chaplain, was the next witness. He served at Tampa, Camp Thomas, Fort Sheridan and Fort 'Thomas. The witness had no complaint at Fort Thomas from either friends or patients. At first, at Fort Thomas, there was trouble for lack of good nurses, but that was soop remedied. In certain eases he regarded me* better than women for nurses, but as the work is now divided so that men do the w'ork proper for men and the women attend to such things as women can do better than men, he thought the perfection of nursing had been reached. The witness devoted his time to looking after the patients. He wrote to the friends of each patient. giving them information as to his condition. This course was one of great satisfaction to the patients as well as to their friends. He repeated that the soldiers had spoken in the highest terms of their treatment at the hospital. Being asked what complaints, if any, he had heard from patients about their treatment at other places he said that he had heard none whatever from soldiers of the regular army, but that a number of the volunteer soldiers had told him of disagreeable experiences which were often answered by a soldier on the next cot by the question: "Did you think you were going to a picnic?” He said none of these complaints were of such a nature as to cause him to make any investigation. The examination was postponed until 9 o’clock to-morrow morning. AT CAMP MEADE. Member* of the Commission Complete Their Invetl*:atlon. CAMP MEADE, Middletown, Pa., Nov. 4. —Chief Commissary Allison and other officers at corps headquarters went to Harrisburg to-day to appear before the committee of the war Investigating board. The committee heard testimony at the Lochiel Hotel relating to Camp Alger and other camps established at the breaking out of the war.

The testimony of the witnesses heard today did not add materially to that taken at other places by the board. Chief Quartermaster Howard gave a detailed history of the work of his department, and said the corps was as well equipped in July as any body of soldiers that ever took the field. Colonel Allison testified that the quality of rations issued at Camps Alger and Meade was excellent. He claimed ignorance of cooking among the vedunteers was the cause of much of the sickness at Camp Alger, and suggested that the commissary sergeants be appointed from the noncommissioned officers in the regular army. He said there would be less sickness among the troops if they did not eat dainties shipped to them by friends at home. Colonel Allison said red tape did not prevent the return to the commissary department of spoiled food and the issuing of good ration* in its place. Gen. George W. Davis, commander of the Second Division of the Second Corps, said. Camp Thomas, at Chickamauga, was one of the best camping grounds in the country, and that it was partly selected on his recommendation. He attributed the at Camp Alger to keeping the men there too long and camping them too closely together. Improper foed sent to the soldiers from their homes also had much to do with th* sickness. There was no failure of the commissary to supply good food and plenty of it. The delays in securing clothing at Camp Alger were caused by the War Department equipping troops that were to be sent immediately to the front. Colonel Wafts, of the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, testified as to the water supply at Camp Alger and the large amount of sickness among the troops. Chief Surgeon Girard explained the cause* of the sickness at Camp Alger and the efforts that were made to keep the men In good condition and relieve the suffering. After hearing Colonel Duval, chief ordnance officer of the corps and assistant adjutant general, explain the work of their department briefly, the commission adjourned to meet with the full board next week at Washington. Gen. James A. Beaver left this evening for his home at Beliefonte, to remain until after the election. General Wilson and Captain Howell went to Washington. The members of th© commission are pleased with the location of Camp Meade, and say they have no fault to find with anything they saw here. General Wilson thinks it would be a wise movement to bring the troops here next spring if they are not shipped to Cuba. THE 158TH SEPARATING * ONLY THREE COMPANIES REMAIN, AND THEY GO TO-DAY. 1 Speeches Made by Col. Smith and Oth era—Compliment* to the Commander. * Nine companies of the One-hundred-and-flfty-eighth Regiment were mustered out yesterday and the others will follow this morning. All would have been discharged yesterday if the paymasters had completed the examination of the accounts, but Company F, of Winchester, and Companies A and D, of Indianapolis, had to remain over a day without pay on account of necessary delay. Six companies were paid at the camp, and immediately took trains for their homes. Company H was paid the night before. Company G, of Covington, and Company M, of Crawfordsville, were discharged at the Statehouse last evening. Most of the men in these companies left at 11:15 o’clock last night. Colonel Smith was at the camp while the six companies were mustered out there, and he made a brief speech to each of them. He told the men that while It was a relief to escape from the responsibilities of his position he could not part from the regiment without sadness. When men are associated for six months as they had been their true character would always come out, and lie had never been ashamed of his regiment. Lieutenant Colonel Thayer and Adjutant Powell also made brief talks. The boy* were begged to make themselves known to any officer when in his neighborhood, no matter how long in the future it may be. Colonel Thayer gave a humorous tinge to the farewell by remarking, “It is true that now we have no glowing stories of our deed 9 in the war, but ten years hence there will be no one to contradict us.” At the clojO of each speech the men. gave three rousing cheers. Quite a number of officers spoke in the highest terms of Colonel Smith’s work as the commander of the regiment. Chaplain Carstensen said: “It is due to Colonel Smith that the One-hundred-and-fifty-eighth Regiment escaped with so little sickness. Only those who were with him understand the constant care for his men that the colonel exercised. At Chickamauga, when we first camped there, Colonel Smith at once foresaw the need of water and he, together with Adjutant Powell, started out after supper to find it while the others were resting from the hard work. The spring which he found and took possession of was productive of untold good to the regiment. There was no officer anywhere who took better care of hi* men.” Adjutant Powell said: “I have seen Col. Smith and also Colonel Thayer get up just as they were going to eat and go down to the messes and compel the men to clean out their pans knd do all those little thing* which are so indispensable to the health of a body of men.” Adjutant Powell received the thanks of the colonel for his care of the office of th© regiment. The brunt of the work during the past three weeks has fallen upon the adjutant, and he has been the busiest man in the camp. He never failed to be on hand and even during the furlough he went to the hospital every day and saw that the sick were properly cared for. Corporal Mansur B. Oaks also received the thanks of the officers for the manner in which he had, performed the duties of clerk. It is largely due to him that the papers of the regiment are in such excellent condition. Yesterday afternoon John O. Spahr, attorney, on behalf of Mrs. Anna Kissel!, wife of Fred Klssell, who keeps the roadhouse at the south gate of the fair grounds, presented to Colonel May a bill for lumber stolen by the regiment, amounting to $571. Colonel May wanted to know why protection was not asked for while the depredations were taking place, and the attorney said that he thought if the bill was presented within ten days it would be paid. Colonel Mgy said that now since the One-hundred-and-fi#ty-seve*th Regiment is gone and the One-hundred-and-fifty-eighth going he did not see how any one could be convicted of the theft. He said that the attorney might send the complaint to Washington if he so desired. Colonel May is the one officer of the two regiments who willfremaln in the volunteer service for some time yet. He began to wonder yesterday if he was actually a lieutenant colonel or only a captain. Early in the morning he sent,a telegram of inquiry to Washington/ 7 In the evening the reply came that he will remain in the volunteer service and draw the pay of lieutenant colonel until aftpr the muster out of the One-hundred-and-flfty-ninth Regiment, when he will be properly discharged. Nov. 10 is the day for the return of the One-humlred-and-fifty-ninth Regiment. It should not require much more than a week to get this regiment out of the way. Its papers are in excellent condition and the state clothing accounts have been adjusted. Colonel May will appoint three physicians from the city who will work independent of each other in examining the men. This will shorten the time required for the examination. JUMPED A 1M.200 BOND. Kentucky Charge Against Private Gibson, of the IRSth. When Sila*<*. Gibson, a member of Company E, from Franklin, One-hundred-and-fifty-eighth Regiment, was mustered out of the service and paid off yesterday morning, Detectives Wilson and Splan told him lie was under arrest. Gibson refused to go with the detectives until Adjutant Powell told him they were really "arms of the law.” Gibson was slated at the police station a fugitive. Last night a deputy sheriff from Mercer county, Kentucky, took Gibson to Harrisburg to answer a charge of selling liquor by the quart without a license. Gibson was indicted on this charge, the deputy sheriff said, and jumped his bond of $1.3u0. The officers of the law have been trailing him since last spring, because Gibson * bondsman doesn’t want to lose the $1,200. Incorporation*. The People’* Agency Company, of Evansville has decreased its capital stock from 125,000 to $5,000. The Crowell Apparatus Company, of Indianapolis, was authorized to issue preferred stock to the amount ot $25,000-