Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1899 — Page 1

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MONEY WANTED n nv\ l\St It GENTS DESIRE TO MAKE A .NEW START IA LIFE. \\ illinu In Ulubnml Tiieir Army If Hie I uileil Mnlf* Will Give Them Part of the Iftluml*a Revenues. MEETING OF CUBAN LEADERS (.I'.\. RODRIGUEZ ASKF.D TO CALL A GI:NERAL CONFERENCE. Refusal of Ifnvnnn Police to Salute SangulHy anil Ollier Chief* One of the fliiiiKs to He Considered. 4__ PROCLAMATION BY LUDLOW PEOPLE OF HAVANA ASKED TO SI RRENDER THEIR ARMS. Order Issued by Alcer ( ontinuinc in Foree Ibe Present System of Collecting Taxes in Cuba. - HAVANA, Jnn. 7. —Twenty-five Cuban pent rals and chiefs met at Marianao to-day to consider the position of the Cuban army. Among those who attended were Generals Vidal, Lieret and Pedro Gil, but Gen. M i via Rodriguez, commander of Matanzas province, and General Monocal, commander of Havana province, were not present. A document was drawn up for dispatch to General Rodriguez asking him to call a general meeting to take action, lirst, upon the iie<d of a sum of money to enable the oflicers and privates of the army to make a new start in life, and, secondly, with regard to the lack of respect shown to the Cuban oftieors by the people of Cuba and the Ameri' ms. Tito latter matter lias special reference to the refusal of the municipal police to salute General Sanguilly and other ofti- < rs. The meeting to-day resulted in a three hours’ talk critical of but not unfriendly to the Americans, and no disposition was shown to assume an attitude of protest or opposition. On the contrary, a willingness to disband was expressed provided money was forthcoming to give the men composing the Cuban army anew start. As one of those present put the case: “As the United Stales collects the island revenues we must look to the United States.”

Surgeon General Sternberg, of the United States army, to-day inspected Major General Roe’s camp and found ninety-one of the 10,000 troops in the command ill. There was, however, not a single case of yellow fever or smallpox. ~ Major General Ludlow, military governor of the Department of Havana, has chosen John Gary Evans to succeed the Marquis De Estoban as mayor of Havana, and Mr. Evans will assume his new duties to-mor-row'. General Ludlow, the military commander of the district of Havana, has Issued the following proclamation to the citizens: “It is known that large quantities of arms and ammunition are in store at numerous places in this city, greatly in excess of any possible requirement. These accumulations are the result of the war conditions which have existed for three years and now that the city is In a condition of profound peace and no member of the community has any tequirement for deadly weapons of the character indicated, it will be an evidence of good faith and patriotism to dispense with their retention. Actuated by these feelings many citizens have for several days past been voluntarily turning in these arms and have requested the United States authorities to receive them. Castle La Punta has been designated as an armory for their deposit and receipts are given for the weapons turned in.” By the same proclamation physicians are required to report infectious diseases, saloons and restaurants are allowed to be opened until midnight, instead of closing at 11 o’clock. To relieve suffering and stop professional beggary the guards patrolling the streets are to take notice of cases of Mr ess and destitution, with the locality of the street and the number, and emergency rations will bo issued. In ease of illness special food will be supplied by the doctors. The proclamation has already resulted In the voluntary turning over to the authorities of several hundred rifles. Mrs. Garcia, widow' of the late Gen. C lixto Garcia, arrived here to-day with the body of her daughter, who died recently in the United States. M t ier General Brooke will shortly direct t release of all political prisoners in the ish-ad, of w hom there are not many. 'I ao transport Panama arrived to-day. Generals Wade and Butler sailed to-day on the steamer Mascotte, and General Clous left to-night on the City of Washington. Maj. William I* Kneedler, surgeon of the First Brigade of the Second Army Corps, has received 20.000 vaccine points, and he . n l his assistants have vaccinated tlie en- ’ population of TMnar del Rio city in the last three days. The operation has been treated as a joke by the inhabitants. At a picnic a number of Spanish girls cut holes in tho sleeves of their dresses in order to avoid exposing their arms. Every one in the province is to be vaccinated. The pleasantest relations exist between the Cubans and Americans, and many examples* of hospitality and generosity are given. Two hundred Spanish officers and soldiers are in the Presidio penitentiary serving sent’ aces imposed upon them for military offenses. The Spanish authorities, instead of taking them to Spain to serve out their I' rms, left them among 500 other convicts, i hey w ant tiieir freedom and have petlta in and General Ludlow to release them. As it is no part of the business of the American authorities to punish Spanish military prisoners, whoso common offense lias been disrespect of th© officers, all will probably be released after a trial by a board of officers which will be appointed to inquire into their eases. One prisoner was found today whose term had expired a month ago. He was an American negro who was taken into custody about the middle of last summer. The customs receipts at this port to-day amounted to $30,100. MEN OCA I, IN DEMAND. His Services Desired by Roth Genernls Lee und Ludlow. NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—-A dispatch to the Tribune from Havana says: “Geuerals Lee •nd Ludlow are still pulling in opposite directions over the insurgent General Meno-

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cal. No definite steps have yet been taken for policing the province outside of the city. General Lee wants Menocal to assist in the ■work and in reorganizing the municipal governments where reorganization is necessary. General Ludlow' wants him in the city as alcalde, or mayor. It developed to-day that Menocal resigned his commission some time ago. not for the purpose of accepting a place under the American authorities, but because he had been slighted in promotions. Gomez disapproved of his action, and a committee of the Santa Cruz Assembly, which represents whatever there is of the insurgent government, refused to accept it. Now it is declared that this Assembly has agreed to an arrangement by which Menocal can accept a place in Havana under General Ludlow without losing Ms rank. The only importance of the matter is that he commands between 4.000 and 4,400 insurgents, and his influence is desirable in securing their disbandment. The Cubans have settled the question which was agitating them by sending Generals Cardenas and Betancourt to visit Gomez in Santa Clara to ask him to take up his quarters near Havana. Conflicting reports are published in the newspapers here about the probability of the insurgents receiving a part of their pay out of prospective custom house receipts. An authoritative statement is desirable. The idle element in Havana is fretting over restrictions on the various forms of gambling. One of the newspapers demands the restoration of the lottery on the ground that American military control, being temporary, has no right to interfere with institutions of the people which are permanent _4 COLLECTION OF TAXES. System Employed by Spaniards to Be Continued foe a Time. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—The War Department has finally decided to continue in force, for a time at least, the system of collecting taxes in Cuba practiced by the Spanish authorities, but with some very important changes made in the plan, all in the direction of liberality towards the taxpayers and in the honesty of administration. The plan is embodied in the following general order, which represents a vast amount of hard work by Assistant Secretary Meikeljohn, which was promulgated by the War Department to-day. It Is a noticeable fact that tho burden of collection, amounting to 5 per cent, of the tax, is now assumed by the government instead of being imposed upon the taxpayer, while the heavy 10 per cent, increase in taxation, which was levied as one of the last acts of the Spanish administration, is remitted, as well as all accrued penalties. The order follows: “For the convenience of the taxpayers of the Island of Cuba, and until the military authority is prepared to perform the work, it is ordered that Banco Espanol de la Isla de Cuba (Spanish Bank of the Island of Cuba) shall proceed to collect the general taxes levied on persons and property in the Island of Cuba for the fiscal year commencing July 1, IS9S, and ending June CO, 1899; also, taxes of similar character imposed by levies prior to 1898 and now delinquent and unpaid. The said delinquent faxes shall be kept separate from taxes accruing and payable on and after Jan. 1, 1800, and shall be held by the authorities of the United States, subject to future direction. The money collected and received by said bank in payment of said taxes shall be reported daily to the commanding general at Havana, and shall at all times be subject to the draft of the commanding general of the island or his authorized age^L

“The tax rolls, lists, receipts and all books, papers, documents, etc., relating or appertaining to said taxes or the collection thereof are public property, and their possession, custody and control belong to the military authorities of the United States of America during the period of the military occupancy by the said authorities of the Island of Cuba, and during such time as they shall remain in the possession of said bank, or any of its branches, for the purpose of collecting said taxes, they shall at all times be subject to the inspection, examination and disposition of said military authorities or such person or persons as the said military authorities may designate. “Payment of taxes collected pursuant to this order shall be in currency, and at the rates prescribed for the collection of customs in the Island of Cuba under executive order Jan. 1, 1890, until otherwise ordered, and in accounting for the taxes so collected to the military authorities of the United States the currency rate at which the tax was collected shall be maintained. “All of said taxes which .were due and payable prior to the 31st day of December, 1898, and payment of which has not been made, and which would be subject to increase by penalties under the Spanish adhiinistration, shall be relieved of such penalties or increase if the amount originally levied is paid by the 28th day of February. 1899; otherwise said penalties are to remain in force and effect. The increase of said tax by adding thereto 20 per centum of the amount levied, which was imposed by the government of Spain as a war measure, is hereby canceled and remitted. “The said bank shall deliver to the persons paying said taxes the receipts therefor heretofore executed and deposited with said bank by the Spanish authorities, but before delivering said receipts or receiving the money in payment of said taxes, said bank shall deliver said receipts to the military authorities, which shall be thereupon marked ‘approv ?d’ by the military commander of the is and or bis authorized agent and returned to the bank. “The said bank shall, at its own hazard and expense, transmit the money collected pursuant to this order to any point in the Island of Cuba where such bank has or may hereafter establish a branch concern, upon the order of the secretary of war so to do, without exchange or additional compensation for such service save and excepting actual cost ot transfer of funds or transportation of currency. “This order shall continue in force until terminated by the secretary of war, upon notice thereof being given to said bank, such notice being given the authority conferred by this order ceases ten days thereafter. “Said Banco Espanol de la Isla do Cuba (Spanish Bank of the Island of Cuba) Is further* required to give a bond in the sum of $1,000,000 lawful money of the United States, conditioned upon the faithful performance of the services to be performed pursuant to this order, which said bond shall be approved by the secretary of war. As additional guaranty for the faithful discharge of the duties hereby contemplated, said bank shall deposit with the secretary of war such other security as he shall from time to time demand. “In consideration of the services to be performed under this order the secretary of war shall allow to the Banco Espanol de la Isla de Cuba a sum equal to 5 per centum of all money actually collected for said taxes and paid to the government of the United States by said bank, which said 5 per centum shall be collected as required by the regulations when said taxes were levied. “R. A. AUGER, Secretary of War.” Havana Electric Railway Company. TRENTON. N. J„ Jan. 7.—Articles of incorporation of the Havana Electric Railway Company were filed with the secretary of state to-day. The company is capitalized at on JFonrtU Pnge.)

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MAY DEFY OTIS FILIPINOS REPLY TO THE AMERICAN GENERAL’S PROCLAMATION. _4 Aguinaldo’* Agents Placard Manila with a Manifesto Asking Insurgents to Work Together. ASSURES THEM OF SUCCESS IF THEY AVILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT FOR THEIR INDEPENDENCE. Protest Against General Otis Signing Himself Military Governor of the Philippines. GERMANS NEUTRAL AT ILOILO DEWEY WANTS MORE GUNBOATS FOR USE IN SHALLOW WATERS, Also Another Cargo of Soap and Good Plug Tobacco and Clay Pipes for His Jaekies. MANILA, Jan. 7.—Within a few hours of the proclamation issued by Major General Otis in behalf of President McKinley, the agents of Aguinaldo billed Manila with a manifesto which attracted considerable attention. The revolutionary president protested against General Otis signing himself military governor of tho Philippine islands. Aguinaldo, in his manifesto, declared lie had never agreed at Singapore, llong-Kong or elsewhere to recognize the sovereignty of the Americans here, and insists that he returned to the Philippines on an American ship solely, to conquer the Spaniards and win independence. He asserts that both his proclamations of May 24 and June 12 stated this fact officially, and lie claims that Major General Merritt confirmed this by a proclamation several days before the Spaniards capitulated, stating clearly and definitely that the American forces came to overcome the Spanish government and liberate the Filipinos. In conclusion, Aguinaldo declared that he had natives and foreigners as witnesses that the American forces recognized not only by acts that the Filipinos were belligerents, but by publicly saluting the Filipino flag “as it triumphantly sailed the seas before the eyes of all nations.” Aguinaldo then solemnly protested, in the name of the Deity wiio empowered him to direct his brethren in the difficult task of regeneration, against the introduction of the American government, and reiterated that he can produce proofs that he was brought here on the understanding that the Americans prom-ised-him tiieir co-operation to attain independence. The revolutionary leader then called on all his followers to work together with force, and assured them he is convinced that they will obtain absolute independence, and urging them never to return “from the glorious road” on which they have “already so far advanced.” Major General Otis attaches no importance to the manifesto. He says he feels confident that the opinion of the better class of the Filipinos is not expressed in it, but as to whether the Filipino masses can be controlled and the Filipino army kept in check he does not know, although he hopes for a pacific outcome of the trouble. .

As Viewed by General Rios. MADRID, Jan. 7.—General Rios, in command of the Spanish troops in the Philippines, cables that the hostility between the Americans and the Tagalos is increasing. ♦ ADMIRAL DEWEV’S NEEDS. More Gunboats, Soap, Plug Tobacco and American Clay Pipes. NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—A special to the Tribune from Washington says: “The Navy Department received a long cipher cable dispatch from Admiral Dewey making requisitions for ships and supplies urgently needed on the Asiatic station. The admiral roiterated the request he has made several times in the last few weeks that additional lightdraught gunboats should be sent to him, notwithstanding the fact that Secretary Dong informed him yesterday that the Castine was starting immediately by way of Suez, and other vessels would rollow when they could be spared. A reply was sent to the admiral to-day that tho Bennington, now' on her way from Honolulu to make surveys at Guam, w'ouid be ordered to Manila in the course of a few months, and the Machias, now repairing at Portsmouth, N. 11., would follow the Castine through the Mediterranean in a few weeks op her way to join his fleet. Secretary Dong added a request to Admiral Dewey to designate specifically any other gunboats he desired, in order that the department might gratify him if possible. The authorities recognize the advisability of sending all the gunboats that can be spared to the Asiatic station, on account of their adaptability to service in the archipelago, but in addition to the Concord and Petrel, which are now at Iloilo, the Helena is at Port Said, on her w r ay to Manila, and Admiral Dewey now has in commission the Callao, the Manila, the Culgoa and the Barcelona, which he captured from the Spaniards, and in a few weeks the Isla de Luzon and the Isla de Cuba, which he raised and sent to Hong-Kong, will be manned by the crews sent out on the Buffalo. He also has the captured gunboats Leyte and Mindanao, awaiting crews, and when the Machias, the Castine and the Bennington join him he will have thirty vessels under his command, not counting the Oregon and the Iris, which will soon be at Honolulu awaiting orders to go to his support. Such a large fleet has never in times of peace been under the command of a single American officer, but the department has such confidence in the admiral's judgment that It will not hesitate to send him any further reinforcements he demands. “In his dispatch Admiral Dewey calls for large quantities of plug tobacco, soap and American food. It will be remembered that soon after the destruction of Montojo's fleet the admiral cabled for forty thousand bars of soap, finding that he could buy none in Asiatic waters. This supply has either been exhausted or the admiral is determined to have a fresh supply on hand before it gives out in order that there shall be no unclean linen in his fleet. His demand for more plug tobacco is explained in letters which have recently reached Washington from officers of the fleet telling how tired the men are of Philippine cigars and how they miss their sweetened navy plug and their clay pipes. To carry these needed supplies the department decided to-day to fit up the auxiliary cruiser Yankee or her sister ship, the Prairie, and load her full of necessities, send-

ing them to Manila by way of the Suez canal. These vessels are now at League island, but one of them can be sent around to New York and made ready to start within the next two weeks.” The Solace to tarry Supplies. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—Seer* tary Long has ordered the Solace to proceed to Manila as soon as she can be made ready for the voyage. Besides the Solace, Secretary Long has ordered the gunboats Princeton and Yorktown to the same point. The Princeton is now at New York, and will go via Suez. The Yorktown is at San Francisco, and will cross the Pacific. Admiral Dewey has asked for supplies of various kinds, and the Solace will carry a heavy load of these, sufficient to supply the fleet on the Asiatic station for six months, at least. The vessel will be attached to Dewey’e fleet, and in all probability, if this voyage turns out successfully, she will form one of the regular line of transports which will ply between the United States and the Philippines for the 'special benefit of the navy. The vessel is r,ow at the New' York navy yard, and is expected to sail for Manila via the Mediterranean and Suez, in about two weeks. The Navy Department is now making up the detail of her officers. - GERMANY IS NEUTRAL. Refused tn Take Charge of Spanish Interests at Iloilo. NEW YORK, Jan. 7.---The New Yorker Staats Zeitung will publish to-morrow the following from its Berlin special cable correspondent : “I am informed from an unquestionable source that after the surrender of Iloilo tho Spanish general tried to induce the German consul at Manila and the German vice consul at Iloilo to take charge of the protection of the private interests of the Spaniards. The two consuls wired to Berlin for instructions and received the following answer: ’The German empire, being a neutral power, is not in a position to take charge of functions which could easily be construed as partiality for Spain. All we endeavor to obtain in the Philippines is protected and unrestricted movement of our commerce. Since we see that both are secured under the United States flag we are fully confident, that there will never arise a situation which could cause us to deviate from the strictly neutral attitude observed by us up to this day.’ ” The correspondent adds that the Washington government has been informed of this declaration. LAWTON INTER VIE WED. He Says None but Men In flood Health AVill He Sent to Manila. PITTSBURG, Jan. 7.—Maj. Gen. Henry W. Lawton, who commanded a division of the Fifth Army Corps during the Santiago campaign, passed through Pittsburg to-day from Washington on his way to Columbus, where he will make an inspection of the soldiers in the barracks at that place. He will also visit and make a careful inspection of the physical condition and the character of the troops now stationed at the several forts and barracks preparatory to sailing for Manila. As lo the reason for taking these precautions and making a personal inquiry into the condition of the troops General Lawton said: “The trip is too long and too great for any others than those in the very best physical condition.” General Lawton will sail from New York Jan. 15 on the transport Mohawk. When asked about his trip to the Philippines and preparations that would be made before sailing, the general said: “The lirst troops to sail for those islands will be tho Fourth Regiment, now at Fort Sheridan, Chicago, and part of the Seventeenth, now at Columbus barracks. I mean to take none but the very best soldiers In our army. This will be the first time in the history of this country that a body of soldiers of the United States has crossed the Atlantic ocean. The whole number assigned to the islands will not be taken at one time. The trip will be made through the Suez canal, and, as we will stop at a number of coaling stations and ports, foreign countries to the East will have a first opportunity of seeing what United States soldiers look like.” General Lawton administered a scathing rebuke to the people of this country who disapproved of the policy of enlarging the army. He said: “There will be 30,000 soldiers sent to the Philippines, and that many to Cuba, and then, besides, there will have to be a large number sent to Hawaii and Porto Rico. There is only one thing evident —we will just have to enlarge the standing army. At the present time and for many months to follow', United States transports will encircle the globe. They w'ill be carrying volunteers back to their homes and taking the regulars to replace them.”

IncreaHed to Four Regiments. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—Secretary Alger has decided to send four regiments of infantry to the Philippines. The Fourth, Twelfth and Seventeenth have been designated and in addition the Third Infantry, now at Fort Snelling, Minn., will go by the same route, across the Atlantic. The telegraph orders of the sth inst., directing that six companies of the Seventeenth Infantry accompany the Fourth Infantry to sail Jan. 15, has been modified so as to read: One battalion of four companies of the Seventeenth, the remaining eight companies to sail later. Ordered it* the Philippines. COLUMBUS, 0., Jan. 7.—Orders were received at the United States bai'racks here to-day directing Companies A, B, G. I, D and M. of the Seventeenth Infantry, to proceed to New York on Thursday, and there embark on the transport Mobile for tho Philippine islands. The other companies are to follow' as soon as a -transport is provided. Company A, of the Seventeenth, arrived here to-day from Fort Thomas, Ky. TIN PLATE HIGHER.' Tho Sew Trust Trying to Jump Prices to $i n Box. PITTSBURG, Jan. 7.—The tin-plate combine has announced an advance of 25 cents on each standard 190-pound box and the jobbers have put up prices 30 cents, thus jumping from $3.10 to $3.40 within twentyfour hours. It is believed quotations wall advance until $4 is reached. An Independent Plant. JOLIET, 111., Jan. 7.—The Wilmington Tin-plate Company has been incorporated by Joliet promoters and will be operated independently. | Wilmington, twelve miles south of Joliet, has donated eighty acres of land for the new plant, which is to consist of six mills, to cost $150,000, have an annual output of 135,000 boxes and employ 400 men. It is expected the plant will be in operation by June 1. ARRIVED TOO LATE. Roosters Did Not Reach Charleston in Time to Mail Last Night. CHARLESTON, S. C., Jan. 7.—Owing to the fact that the first battalion of the One-hundred-and-slxtieth Indiana Volunteers did not get here until 9 o’clock to-night, the transport Saratoga did not go to sea to-day. The volunteers came into the city via the Plant system on two trains to-night. There are 403 men in the battalion, and they will start for Matanzas to-morrow. The Saratoga is loaded and ready to receive them.

TWO IRRITANTS THAT MAY FURTHER STRAIN THE RELATIONS OF TWO POWERS. Englishmen Angry Over the Mnilagacnr ’Affair autl Frenchmen Displeased with Egyptian Situation. LONDON TIMES IN A RAGE FIERY LANGUAGE USED IN DENOUNCING FRENCH DIPLOMACY. Mr. .Joseph Chamberlain Credited with Inspiring the Motterings of the “Thunderer.*’ 4_ VISCOUNT CROMER’S SPEECH DEFINITE NOTICE THAT BRITAIN WILL RETAIN ALL EGYPT. Cecil Rhodes's Scheme for a Cape to Cairo Railway to Re Poshed— Custcllanc Not in a Duel. ♦ (Copyright, 1899, by the Associated Press.) LONDON, Jan. 7.—A11 events seem to work together in European politics to increase the tension between Great Britain and France. The past w'eek has brought Madagascar and Egypt forward as irritants, just then the mutual irritability was subsiding. Even the most conservative observers begin to take a pessimistic view of tho relations between the tw r o powers. This includes those who, up to the present, have considered the belligerency to be mere taik due to super sensitive ness on the part of France and to unnecessary gruffness on the part of Great Britain in insisting on what she considers to be her rights. On one side, France seems to foster the growing belief that Great Britain is determined, under some pretext or other, to foree her into war, and is willing to make a pretext, if no plausible excuse arises. On the other side, a large party of the British public profess that their patience has been strained beyond endurance by what they deem to be the unvarnished dishonesty of French diplomacy. The past twenty-four hours brought the publication of the Madagascar blue book, which w'as followed by a leading editorial in the Time3 denouncing France in language so fiery for that conservative newspaper that Frenchmen are reading the two together and are construing them as parts of a deliberate policy inspired by one mind. That mind, in the theory of the “man-in-the-street,” Is Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, the secretary of state for the colonies. Other papers may storm and scold and are not noticed, but when the Times becomes abusive foreigners interpret it as being the voice of the government. In the present instance some Englishmen will place the same construction on its utterances, recalling how the Times led the “No surrender” cry over the Fashoda incident, under evident inspiration. One fact is certain, public opinion in Great Britain will not sanction the government to swerve an inch to avoid a war with France, thinking that if it must come this is the best time to have it out.

Many people give importance to the issue of the Madagascar blue book almost simultaneously with the quiet but unmistakable pronouncement from Khartum, by which the British agent there, Viscount Cromer, in his remarks to the Sheiks, announced that Great Britain has set her seal upon Egypt. If there ever was a doubt in the minds of her European rivals that Great Britain intended to foreclose the mortgage on which she has expended so much labor and blocd to secure, it must have been set at rest by the utterances of Lord Cromer, in which the word “protectorate” was written in large letters, though the government’s mouthpiece carefully abstained from using that incendiary word. A more definite notice that Great Britain’s tenure of Egypt is permanent could not be asked. The British agent told the assembled Sheiks that henceforth they will live under the joint British and Egyptian Hags, knowing no sovereignty but that of the Queen and the Khedive, which, of course, means that the latter will be a harmless figurehead. This formal assumption of sovereignty over the Sudan is more distasteful to France than to any other nation, and renewed protests may be expected. In the meantime another enterprise of the utmost moment in the furtherance of Great Britain’s domination in Africa is about to be consummated. Mr. Cecil Rhodes, the formr premier of Cape Colony, alleged instigator of the Jameson raid and so-called “Napoleon of South Africa,” is going to England tc arrange for pushing forward the Cape to Cairo railroad, so long the dearest dream of the imperialist. A definite proposition will be presented by Mr. Rhodes to Eondon capitalists for an extension of the railroad from Buluwayo to Bake Tanganyika. He does not pretend that it will be a paying investment from the start. Its importance for some years will be political Instead of commercial, and he hopes to persuade the British government to smooth the way by guaranteeing 3’A per cent, interest on the bonds to cover the cost of construction. Mr. Rhodes counts on influencing moneyed men to back their patriotism witn their cash, even if he is unable to enlist the government on his side. If any man can succeed in tlris project. Mr. Rhodes is the man. But one barrier stands in the way, in the form of the Congo convention guaranteeing the neutrality of the part of the continent about Bake Taganyika, which even the autocrat of Rhodesia will find hard to force. Here Germany has the veto on Great Britain's advance, which she cannot be expected to waive without a heavy indemnity. ► • / The Biberals present the melancholy spectacle of a party without leaders, without policies, and, worst of all, without cash. If they could agree upon a policy, the man most dearly identified with it would naturally be chosen to lead them, and money to carry on this policy would be forthcoming from its enthusiasts. As it is they are compelled to hang out the sign “to let” pending the meeting of Parliament. * ♦ • The glamor of receptions and oratory with which Lord Curzon of Kedleston sweeps into the throne of viceroy of India quite obscures the merits of the modest peer, the Earl of Elgin, who takes his leave. Yet, already the newspaper grumblers are contrasting the retiring viceroy’s silent, busi-ness-like administration with the speechmaking entry of his younger successor. The latter has already achieved one of those tactless blunders which the critics feared

his self-sufficiency would rush him Into. He has snubbed a committee of the most respectable residents desiring to present him with a scheme for the higher education of Indians on the lines of the Johns Hopkins University, which a native, Jamsetji Tata, proposes to do with £250.000 ($1,250,000), and the natives, naturally, are offended, * • * Two young Americans. Messrs. XV. V. Rooman and C. A. Baird, members of the Oxford University, are inaugurating a scheme for the establishment of a college for labor leaders, which is attracting considerable attention. It appears that they came especially from America to carry out the project, and Air. Vroom.an is said to be already known there as an ultra-Demo-crat. The college will be called Buskin Hall. They have leased Stebbs House, an old mansion built in 1640, near Christ Church College, and it will be opened on Washington's birthday by a meeting in Oxford Town Hall. Buskin Hall will accommodate forty men. There will be no ordinary servants, but among the students will be cook and other servants, who will get their board free in return for four hours’ daily work. remainder of their time will be available for study. The entire expense of the students tor board, lodging and tuition will be £1 ($5) per week. Fifty gratuitous tuitions will be given during the first two years and fifty students have already been selected for the first year. They are, in the words of the organizers, “men aspiring to be vestrymen, tounty councilors, members of Parliament, trade-unionists and fellows who harangue crowds in the streets and who organize clubs.” The funds for the scheme are provided by American admirers of John Buskin, the painter and author. * * * Rudyard Kipling and his family will sail for Now York on Jan. 25 on board the White Star line steamer Majestic. They will spend two months in America, mostly at Washington, which is Kipling’s favorite American city, and at the City of Mexico, which the popular writer has not before visited. Air. John Hays Hammond, the American engineer of Transvaal fame, who is a warm friend of Kipling, may accompany him on his American visit. Kipling deplores the impression, created by his early writings, that he is unfriendly to America. He recently remarked that he admired Americans and the colonizing Eng'ish, and that the only men he could not tolerate were the stay-at-home Englishmen. * * * Beatrice Harraden, the author of “Ships that Pass in the Nnght,” etc., is finishing her most ambitious novel. She will then go to California for rest and to escape criticisms, to which she is remarkably sensitive. * * * The libel suit of William Waldorf Astor against the Daily Alail for saying he dined forty persons about a segment of California tree to win a wager will soon be heard. Mr. Astor s declaration says he was “held up to public xidieule” thereby. He has retained Sir Edward Clarke, the former solicitor general, and other brilliant lawyers, while the legal forces of Mr. Alfred C. llarmsworth, principal proprietor of the Daily Mail and other papers, will be led by the Bt. Hon. Edward 11. Carson, the former solicitor general of Ireland. + NOT PINKED BY < ASTELLANE. M. Deronlede Says He Was Not Wounded in n Duel with the Count. PARIS, Jan. 7.—The Liberte says to-day that the friends of M. Paul Deroulede, the founder of the Patriotic league, and member of the Chamber of Deputies, deny that he was wounded in the abdomen in a duel fought two weeks ago with Count De Castellano, member of the Chamber of Deputies representing the Castellar.e district of the lower Alps. The dispute which caused the duel was said to have grown out of a quarrel regarding an actress. The friends of Al. Deroulede, in denying the story, say he is suffering from bronchitis. Count De Castellane married Anna Gould, of New York.

Suicide of an Austrian Count. EONDON, Jan. 7. —The Globe this evening announces that Count Franz Karolyi, the attache of the Austrian-Hungarian embassy here, has committed suicide. The Globe asserts that a house maid employed at the count’s chambers in Picadilly, this city, heard a fall last evening and drew the attention of the count’s valet to the fact. The latter poceeded to the rooms occupied by the attache and found him on the floor dead with a shot wound in his temple. Beside the body was a y’s portrait. The deceased was twenty- years of age. Count Karolyi was t. don of Count Aloys Karolyi, who formerly held the post of Austro-Hungarian ambassador in Berlin and later represented his government at the court of St. James. His father is now at Buda-Pcsth, and has been informed of his son’s suicide, the cause of which as yet has not been explained. An inquest will be held Monday. Viceroy f ur/.on's Levee. . CALCUTTA, Jan. 7.—The levee of Kord Curzon, viceroy of India, and Bady Curzon was the largest ever neld here and was attended by an unusual number of native gentlemen. On Monday the viceroy will receive visits from the Maharajahs of Bampoor, Benares, Cashmere and Petiala, and later in the day will pay return visits to the Maharajahs. On Tuesday he will receive addresses of welcome from the corporation of Oudh and the British Indian Association. ltd ain Defeated by Hebei African*. BRI,&SEES, Jan. 7. Oflicial news received from the Congo Free State says that a column of 200 of the state troops, commanded by Bieutenant Stevens, was defeated on Nov. 4 by the insurgent tribe of Batelas, which captured Kalambri on Nov. 14. Two officers, one sergeant and two hundred native troops were killed. One officer and two sergeants were wounded. Hattie at La l'az Imminent. BIMA, Peru, Jan. 7.—Advices received here from Bolivia announce that President Alonzo's advance guard is within six leagues of Ba Paz, capital of the republic of Bolivia. Important news is expected here shortly. Cable >ote*. The Hamburg chemical factory was destroyed by tire last evening, causing a loss of 400,000 marks. The I/ondon Board of Trade returns for the month of December show increases of 3,088,000 pounds of imports and 1,658,3u0 pounds in exports. FIRE AT PITTSBURG. Hotel Hiclielien Burned and Several People Injured. PITTSBURG, Jan. B.— At 3 o’clock this morning two alarms were sent in for a lire in the Hotel Richelieu, opposite the Union Station. Immediately a panic ensued among thG guests, and a rush was made for windows and lire escapes. Four people were taken from the building badly hurt. One man whose name cannot be learned will die. The hotel is in ruins, but it is feared the flames will spread to adjoining buildings. A. >l. Fulmer >ot Seriously 111. ST. BOUIS, Jan. 7.-A. M. Palmer, the theatrical manager, who is stopping at the Planters’ Hotel, is not seriously ill with the grip, as reported yesterday. Mr. Palmer said he overexerted himself, and. finding that he was threatened with a recurrence of a malady from which he suffered in Chicago recently, went to bed to avoid it and rest up.

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FOR BRYAKISM 0 WESTERN JACKSON DAY OR\TORS PLEAD FOR OLD ISSIES. 0 Want to Make the Next Presidential Fight on the H*re*ie* of the Repudiated C'blcaga Platform. - SPEECH BY COL W. J. BRYAN 0 WHO IS STILL FIRMLY WEDDED TO THE SIXTEEN-TO-ONE RATIO. 0 To Retire It to the Shade* of Ohli%ion t He Snya, Would He to Accept the Gold Standard a* Final. 0 REPLY TO HENRY WATTERSON * ADDRESS BY GOVERNOR-ELECT C. S. THOMAS, OF COLORADO, 0 XVho I* Al*o in Favor of Old hxtifgi and Popocratic Lenders—An Aristocracy Feared hy Altgcld. ♦ CHICAGO, Jan. 7.—The third annual banquet of the Andrew Jackson League was held at the Tremont House here to-night, and on this occasion, as on the two former, William J. Bryan was ttie guest of honor. The banquet hall of the hotel was turned into a sea of bunting caught up with festoons of smilax. Life-size portraits of Jackson and of tho guest of the evening were hung at opposite ends ol the hall, these being tho only portraits used in the decorations. Mayor Carter H. Harrison, of Chicago, acted as presiding officer, and at tin* table with him and Mr. Bryan were Congressmen Lentz, of Ohio, and Hinriehsen, of Illinois; Mayor Maybury, of Detroit; Mayor Rose, of Milwaukee; William F. IJcKnight, of Grand Rapids; Charles K. Ladd, of Kew’anee, 111.; ("apt. William P. Black and National Committeeman Thomas Uahan, of Illinois. The exercises of the evening were opened with a short address by Mayor Harrison, who, before he resumed his seat, introduced as the first formal speaker of the evening Congressman Hinriehsen, who spoke in response to the toast, “Party Fealty.” Congressman Lentz explained to his hearers “What Makes a President Great.” Capt. William P. Black, of Chicago, followed, responding to tho toast of “The Soldiery of the Republic.” Then canto the visiting mayors, who made brief talks. William F. McKnight, of Michigan, then spoke on “The Young Democracy,” and the address of Mr. Bryan closed the evening. Jl follow’s, in pa rt:

“The Democracy of the Nation is still defending Jeffersonian principles with Jacksonian courage and has no thought of departing from the principles enunciated at Chicago in 18%. That platform will live in history and the hour of its adoption will be remembered as the hour when the money changers were driven from the Democratic temple. There will be no turning back. The platform will be added to as new conditions force new issues into the arena of polities, but nothing will be subtracted from it. Events have vindicated every position taken by the platform. Arbitration was advocated in that platform and arbitration is stronger to-day than it was in 18%. “That platform denounced government oy injunction and the sentiment against government by injuction is increasing. That platform denounced the trusts and declared them to be a menace; that menace is greater to-day than ever before. That platform warned the people that a conspiracy was on foot to give to the national banks a monopoly of the issue and supply of paper money; that conspiracy is now known to everyone. That platform denounced international bimetallism as a delusion and a snare and its condemnation has been justified. That platform pointed to independent free coinage as the only means of restoring the double standard; who doubts it now? That platform named 16 to 1 us the proper ratio and that ratio stands to-day as tbo only ratio at which bimetallism is possible. "Other platforms have been forgotten, but that plattorm is fresh in the memory of friend and foe because it was clear and positive upon every public question. To those who believe in equality before the lawr the Chicago platform is still ati inspiration; it is a terror only to those who seek to use the government for personal and private ends. It has been attacked at two points, but the attacks will not harm it. PBEA FOR OBD ISSUES. “Some who opposed the platform In 18;*$ have promised to return to the party on condition that the party will drop the money question and confine the light to the trusts. The offer will not be accepted. What confidence would the people have in our sincerity if we should declare against trusts in general, but enter into a treaty of peace with the greatest of all trusts—the money trusts. In such a fight the trust magnates fight upon the trusts the Republicans would adopt as strong anti-trust plank as we because no party would dare to defend the trusts. In such a light the trust mugnates would be found supporting both parties and contributing liberally to both campaign funds, provided the trusts were guaranteed the privilege of naming the attorney general and the judges. The trusts opposed the Democratic party in 18% because the Chicago convention took the party out of the hands of the Wall-street crowd and adopted a platform which precipitated tt;e plutocracy* which the party had held in Solution for several years. “The gold Democrats had a chance to crush out the trusts during Mr. Cleveland's administration, but they did not do it. The gold Republicans are having their opportunity now, but they are not improving it. The trusts will fall when the gold standard is overthrown, and not until then. The gold standard means falling prices, and falling prices will create trusts more rapidly than any gold-standard party can destroy them. “The second point of attack ;s the ratio. Why insist upon 16 to 1. they ark. I reply, first, because It is the best ratio. .n*l, second. because its opponents have no other ratio to offer. No free-coinage law can be enacted until a ratio is agreed upon, because the ratio is a part of the law. Suppcee we had a majority in Congress favor ible to bimetallism. but differing as to the ratio. Some would favor 16 to 1, some ? 4 to 1, soma 32 to 1. and some even higher ratios; but how could we make progress uni tr suoh conditions? Affirmative relief Is necessary and those who favor remedial legislation