Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 126, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 May 1899 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY,' MAY 6, 1899

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOinNAL Can be found at the following places: NEW YOKK Astor House. CHICAGO Palmer House, P. O. News Co., 21T Iearborn street. Great Northern Hotel and Grand Pacific Hotel. CINCINNATI J. K. Hawley St Co., 154 Vine ttreet. LOUISVILLE C. T. Deerinjr. northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and LouUrille Book Co., ZJt Fourth avenue. ST. LOUIS Union News Company. Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D. C-ttlgjs House. Ebbltt Houre and WUlard's Hotel. It seems to have been oversight not to have appointed Speaker Reed a delegate to the Czar's peace conference. He 13 something of a Czar himself. Now that Agulnado has taxed a town 112.000 which the Spaniards taxed 118,000, It Is fair to assume that he did not have the consent of the governed. It Is estimated that South Africa will produce JDO.CCO.OOO of gold the present year, which Is only J3.0CO.000 less than the world produced during the year 1SS3. The angry and excited talk about Samoa 15 altogether out of proportion to the size and importance of the Islands. The disputants should find a country of their size and rank. ' ' SBBBBSSBStS rBBBBSSBSSSBBBBBSBSSSBBSBBSBSBBBSSBSB About a year ago this time some persons rero protesting against having "that man Lawton, of Ohio," credited to Indiana. If It were all to do over again probably there would be no protest. SBBBBSBBBBBBSSBSBBSBBBSSSBBSSBBaWSaWBSJSBSSSSSSBSSBSaBBw The modern anti-imperialists of the fanatical and offensive stripe should not be so disloyal to their political v ancestors, the Knights of the Golden Circle, as to call their organization by a different name. , Anti-administration papers had better not Indulge In premature criticism of the President on account of his alleged purpose to supersede General Miles with General Merlitt The story to that effect la undoubtedly false. It is not so much that Mr. Atkinson's pamphlets have been thrown out of the malls that makes his friends howl with rage as that he was not made a public raartyr. Thirty-cent martyrdom is not coveted by a professional reformer. Jan. 1, 1833, the value of the farm stock, corn, wheat, oats, rye, potatoes and hay, of Nebraska, was $80,523,020: Jan. 1, 1S09, the value of the same was $189,503,662. Even Col. Bryan cannot charge that his prediction of 183S has come true in'lils own State. The next session of Congress will be a very important one. In addition to routine business, governments must be provided for Hawaii," Porto Rico and the Philippines; preparations must be made for turning Cuba over to the natives and for our withdrawal from the Island; definite action must be taken on the Nicaraguan canal question, and a currency reform bill passed on which the Republican party can go before i the country. In deciding to call an extra session of Con fess the President has probably been actuated by two motive; first, to afford Congress ample time in which to dispose of the Important questions that will come before it, and, second, to hasten the time when his own responsibility can be divided. As te regular session of Congress will commence on the first Monday in December the special and regular sessions will probably be continuous. Mr. Tom L Johnson having, with the aid of Governor Pingree, set on foot a scheme to get the'eity of Detroit to purchase his street railways, puts the price at $17,500.CO0, and, more than that, he has made an argument to show that the property is worth that amount. The Pingree commission will not pay that amount by a large figure, 60 the deal is likely to fall unless Mr. Johnson shall assume the role of public benefactor and divide the amount by two. It appears that one of the pamphlets which Mr. Atkinson attempted to send to the Philippines is made up of a document of his on "criminal aggression." which Senator Caffery had printed under the loose Senate rule which enables a senator to print almost anything. It contains a fierce Attack on Senator Lodge, and the document will be heard from when the Senate reassembles. It is enough to print ail the talk of senators without adding the essays of Mr. Atkinson. . It Is gratifying to learn that the plan for .the enlistment of native Porto Ricans In the United States army for service in the Island Is proving entirely successful. Only twenty-flvo native recruits will be taken at any one place, and it Is said the desired quota of four hundred will be obtained without difficulty, as they consider it an honor to wear the United States uniform. The plan has several things to recommend It. It will relieve American recruits, give employment and pay to Porto III cans, and. by bringing them in contact with American soldiers and officers, assist In Americanizing the island. : The last Congress appropriated $23,000 for the purpose of experimenting with and de veloping flying machines under the dlrec tsn of the War Department. The matter has been intrusted to Professor Langley, of the Smithsonian Institution, and he has nearly completed & machine which be thinks will practically solve the problem of aerial navigation if the latter word can proper ly be used In connection with the air. The machine is being built on the Potomac river a cicrt distance teloir Washington, and xrVl l e a trial trip la a- few days. The czl7 CJtzz thit csuii Justify tlj cavern

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ment In engaging in that sort of business wouJd be the possible use of such a machine In time of war. We have flying squadrons at sea, flying columns on land, and perhaps we are to have flying squads In the air. SHALL TALK AIIOLT TIIC TARIFF. A number of papers which stlli cling to sthe idea that what is called free trade would be a wise policy to tidopt seem to be considerably elated because several persons, includes a "man who stands near Senator Ilanna," has said that It was time for Congress to come to something like free trade, or words to that effect. In this con

nection It may be suggested that no one man or any half dozen men will lead Con gress to change back to a policy which, in 1803, caused industrial depression through out the country. It is probable that the United States has such a start in the great iron Industry that the most of the products of iron and steel could be put upon what might be called a revenue tariff basis, not free trade. Yet. with the present advantage, it would not be wl3e to assume that we can safely open our markets to Great Britain, Germany and other competitors having the advantage of cheaper labor. Besides, the duties on most iron products, a few articles like tin plates excepted, are not materially higher than in the Wilson-Gorman tariff. But iron is not our one industry. We have glass, pottery, cotton, woolens and a long list of various industries which cannot stand open com petition with European competitors or simply the competition which a merely revenue tariff would force upon us. The prosperity of a large portion of the country comes directly from the quickening of the irotected Industries. The wool Industry is cne of the most Important In the new States. With free wool nearly half of the quantity used by our mills came frcm other countries. We are now producing the most of the wool used at home is there any good reason why Congress should again cripple the sheep-growing industry of the country? And what chance, with a mere revenue duty on glass or pottery, would our industries have with those of France and Belgium? The cotton manufacturing industry of the country. North and South, is on a prosper ous basis. We are making all grades of goods shall we surrender the market for the finest to England and France? It should not he forgotten that the tariff which has kept our markets for ourselves has really been the most Important factor In creating that demand which has led to an advance of wages. It has been the increased consumption of the country, beginning with the return of confidence after the election of 1S06, which has quickened produc tion. The present tariff has retained this immense production at home. Most people know this; consequently the talk about abandoning the protective tariff will not meet with much favor. Germany's great progress, like our own, Js largely due to the protective policy which Bismarck adopted and to which Germany holds. It has been suggested that the advantage of protection should be taken from the products of trusts. If any 6et of men could be found who are wise enough to arrange a revision of the tariff it might be well to try it uponsuch combinations as use the tariff to restrict trade or practice extortion. aBBBBBBBBBMBaSSBBBBBBBSBBSBBBSBBBBSBBMSBBSBISB'aaS-SSBSBBBS TUB NAVIGABILITY OF WHITE RIVER. If the Commercial Club persists In Its scheme of soliciting government aid to make White river navigable a few miles above and below this city It will have to encounter the sad discovery that Congress only makes appropriations to promote Interstate commerce. At an early period in the history of the city, when the river carried a good deal more water than it does now, and when the imaginations of its few residents took bold flights, It was believed the stream would become an outlet for trade between the capital and the Gulf of Mexico. A small steamboat once made Its way up the river to this point, and its arrival was hailed as a great event, but it did not prove to be the pioneer of a regular line. Nearly forty years ago Hon, John Caven, afterwards mayor, and always a public spirited citizen, planned a voyage of discovery down the river which was Intended to demonstrate Its navigability. In furtherance of the scheme he caused to be built a small craft whlcn was called "The Polliwog," and of which, after it was manred and equipped, he took personal command. The voyagers had some Interesting experiences, but they did not reach the mouth of the river nor throw any new light on the question of its navigability. As the volume of water has continued to decrease and the natural obstructions of the stream to Increase from that time to the present, the opening of navigation would be even more difficult now than It was then. If it should be decided to make the experiment the Commercial Club, before applying for government aid, had better send out an exploring party In rubber boots or equipped with stilts to make preliminary soundings and surveys. After all, however, it is probable the Interstate commerce difficulty will prove insuperable. The -Constitution has been shown to be very elastic in some respects, but It is doubtful if the most liberal construction cculd bring traffic between this city and Noblesville or between this city and Martinsville under the definition of Interstate commerce. If the framers of the Constitution had given Congress power to regulate commerce between cities and towns of the same State instead of "among the several States," the case would be different and the national treasury might be drawn upon to establish suburban navigation. But unless the Constitution can be changed the project will probably fall. Perhaps as a first step a movement had better be started to amend the Constitution. It EP r D LI C A N I S 31 I SPAIN. Emlllo Castelar is a Spanish statesman of whom very little was heard during the late war with Spain, This may have been partly on account of his age, sixty-seven years, but no doubt partly also because he had no sympathy with the reigning dynasty and the blundering policy that had brought Spain to bankruptcy aid dismemberment. Castelar b a Spaniard of Spanlards, and was loyally for Spain as against the United States, but he Is one of the most advanced Liberals In Europe and would supplant the Spanish monarchy with a republic. He was president of the short-lived Spanish republic of 1ST3, and tiiough he has been out of active politics for several years past he has never wavered in his Republican principles. His high character and attainments, and his long-established reputation for eloquence make him still a power in Spain and give weight to his views. The Madrid correspondent of the Chicago Record reports a long interview with this distinguished Spanish statesman regarding tho prospects of republicanism in Spain. It will surprise those who have supposed that republicanism Is dead In Spain to learn on the authority of Castelar that a Republics prcsracnt b fceiaj prepared which U

expected to rally to its support not only all Republicans, but all Spaniards of progressive ideas. "The republican form of government," he says, "is the only system that will regenerate the country, preserve order and establish a reign of liberty, justice and morality." He does not expect any favor for the republican cause or sympathy for progres3 of any kind from the present dynasty, which, he says, "favors fanaticism," and which has become "thoroughly ultramontane." This Is bold talk for a Spaniard in Spain, but Castelar is a bold man. He closed the Interview with this significant statement: "Toward the end of this month I'jO.000 moderate Republicans will place their names to an address, to which I shall make equally public reply. This manifesto of the Republican programme is sure to produce a sensation, and then we shall see what we shall see." From this It would seem that a new movement is about to be launched which, in the present chaotic and formative condition of Spanish politics, may have Interesting results. The republican idea Is abroad In the world, and the seeds of popular government have been wafted hither and thither and fallen in many places. In the coming years they are liable to spring up almost anywhere. An interesting phase of the subject for Americans is the possible effect of the recent war in causing a revival of republicanism in Spain and In giving shape and form to the movement which Senor Castelar says is on foot. The prime object of the war was the liberation "of Cuba, but incidentally it was a remarkable demonstration of the vigor, the energy and the tremendous military power of a republic as contrasted with the weakness of one of the oldest and prondest monarchies In the world. The war was not undertaken as a propaganda of Republican Ideas, but its lessons have not been lost upon the world. Two Spanish fleets lying at the bottom of the sea, followed by American occupation of Cuba and ownership of Porto Rico and the Philippines, mean more than the mere triumph of one power over another. They mean the triumph of the new over the old, of liberty over tyranny and of republicanism over monarchism. History unfolds slowly and the fruits of wars do not ripen in a single season. When the whole story comes to be written It may appear that in liberating Cuba we also liberated Spain and that the guns which sunk the Spanish fleets revived the dormant spirit that is to make Spain a republic. If that shall prove to be the case the "Little Americans" who are deprecating the results of "this Inhuman war" will have less cause than ever for putting their wisdom above that of the Almighty. Some of the statements made before the Industrial commission by Mr. Power, for eight years labor commissioner of Minnesota, can be readily understood, but one at least will cause general surprise. That a greater percentage, of farmers own their lands now than did fifty years ago simply shows the general increase of wealth. Farmers have been getting ahead as well as other people. It is not surprising, either, to be told that "the farmer who is In debt to-day has ten times better opportunity to discharge his obligation than the farmer at the beginning of the century had." This is because he can produce so much more to the Acre or the man and has so vastly superior a market. But It is a surprise to learn that farmers speculate. Mr. Power said that speculation in grain did not affect the prices of it except temporarily, nor affect the farmers, except so far as they engaged in speculation. "You don't mean to say," suggested Governor Harris, "that farmers speculate?" "They do," replied the witness. "Very largely they are the lambs which are shorn on the stock exchanges. Stop the farmers from gambling and you will stop it all. Three-lourths of the money thus lost Is lost by farmers." This surprising statement calls for explanation. In its present form it applies to farmers generally, whereas there may be a great difference between farmers who live near and those who live remote from large cities and speculating centers. If the Minnesota man has personal knowledge of the fact so broadly stated by him he should make It known. One person has as much right to speculate in grain as another, but if farmers, who aro generally so bitter in denunciation of grain gambling, are in the habit of Indulging in the exciting pastime themselves the fact ought to be known. Mr. Power should give us more light. Last week the internationaf Sunday school convention was held in Atlanta, Ga. This week a religious service was broken up by citizens of that place because the minister denounced the mobs that had done tho awful lynchirgs within the past few weeks. The reaction of the great religious event appears to be bad. Tho fact that out of 3.00J letters written home from the Philippines by the soldiers but three contained complaints would make it appear as if Edward Atkinson's pamphlets would have had uphill work to dissatisfy the American troops even if they had been allowed to be taken to their intended destination.

Thomas B. Reed has a sort Of superstition that ho ought to be permitted to attend to his own resignation, also to his aspirations for the presidency If such he have. In both of which beliefs he will find himself radically at variance with the yellow newspapers. HUDDLES IX THE AIR. 31 ore Information. Tommy Paw, what Is the smart set? Mr. Figg That is the terra applied to their clothes. The Chorus. She Soon the Insect chorus will be In full song. He Yes, and every one of them h.is three pairs of legs. Ills Comment. "At least," 'said the artist who was engaged in painting a portrait of the president of the fat men's club, "this is one picture the critics can't accuse of lack in breadth and color." The Cheerfnl Idiot. "Did you say," asked the Cheerful Idiot, "that no power on earth could pull down the American flag?" "That is what I said," shouted the patriotic boarder. "How about the power of gravity?" Unaccommodating Officials. Kansas City Journal. The probate Judge of Logan and Oklahoma counties, O. T.. in turn refused to grant a marriage license to an old man of sixty and a young girl of fourteen, though the girl was accompanied by her parents, v. ho gave their consent. These officials seem to have no consideration at all for their sex. The old man had lots of property, and no official with the true interests of mankind at heart would ever seek to limit the production of widows young and rich. A Cure-All. Kansas City Journal. Hon. Roger Q. Mills used to be almost as noisy and pestiferous as William J. Bryan Is, but Mills struck oil In Texas and dropped out of the demagogue business. Will not some patriotic philanthropist start a popular subscription to buy Mr. Bryan some Teiss cil laxuis?

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FA I LITRES DURING APRIL THE SMALLEST IX TRADE HISTORY. The Ratio of Defaulted Liabilities to Solvent Payments Reduced to 70c on the 1,000. SOME SETBACK IN BUSINESS PRICES HAVE ADVAXCED UNTIL THERE IS A CHECK OX TRADE. Commercial Situation Outlined In the Weekly Reviews of Dun fc Co. and Bradstreet. NEW YORK, May 5 R. G. Dun & Co. In their weekly review of trade to-morrow will say: The failures in April were the smallest in any month since records by months began, 28 per cent, smaller than in April of last year, not a third of the amount in 1SD7 and not half the amount of April of any previous year. Both in manufacturing and in trading they were the smallest ever known in that month, and in trading the smallest ever known in any month, as In manufacturing they were if the larger failures were omitted. The ratio of defaulted liabilities to solvent payments through clearing houses was less than 70 cents per 11,000, against 00 cents In January and $1.19 in March, $7.89 in August -and IS.03 in September, 1S16. A great share of the risk in tho business world has been eliminated. It is not inconsistent nor strange if bus" ness halt, because it has been crowded to the utmost for four months in anticipating future needs on account of new combinations proposed. In some cases prices have been advanced so far as to check new business, and in others works have been engaged so far ahead that new orders cannot be taken. Yet new business in amount which would have been astonishing two years ago is still coming forward, and the voluntary advance in wages by the sixteen bessemer firms of the Central Association and by the Frick coke works, whose shipments in April 30,432 cars were the heaviest ever known, show confidence in the future. At Buffalo and in Idaho strikes are causing trouble, , but labor questions elsewhere do not affect general business. The grain movement has fallen off, only 2,434,14S bushels of wheat having been received at the West during the week, against 4,7Co,ol9 last year, and of corn only 2,672,417 bushels have been exported, against 4,543,749 last year, while wheat exports from both coasts have been better 3, 543,757 bushels (flour included), against 2.654,237 bushels last year. - Nearly all iron works are crowded for months ahead, but a good many are catching up with their orders, which have re cently diminished. The report that all the great companies are to be melted into one influences the stock market, but is still scarcely credited, and the raising of foreign prices where American competition Is no longer felt is suggestive. Pig iron is nowhere higher, nor has any class of finished products established higher prices, though in many the demand exceeds supplies. London speculation made a higher price for tin, at 25.85 cents, although Atlantic receipts In April, 5,103 tons, were the largest on record, and copper is stronger, at 19.23 cents for lake, although European storks are rising. Shipments of boots and -ehoes from the East in live weeks have been but 14.8 per cent, larger than last year, 14 per cent, larger than In the next largest year, 1S93, and 44 per cent, larger than in 132. Factories are busy with orders for months at old prices, and 2Va cents advance is paid on new orders for several grades. But the only change in leather is a small advance in Union sole, and hides are half of 1 per cent, stronger at Chicago. r Wool sales for the week have been large, 8,Si9,833 pounds, owing to sales of over a million pounds Australian in bond for export and heavy speculative purchases of ter rltory. The wool year ends with heavy stocks on hand and prices about 10 per cent, lower than last year. British prices averaging about 11 per cent, higher for Australian line, but about 10 per cent.' lower for English and cross-bred wools. Sales of domestic wool In four months have been 83.363,705 pounds, which Is more than Jn any year excepting IS07. when speculators were taking in the heavy stocks which some of them have recently been selling at a loss, but sales of foreign have been 31.723,503 pounds for the year, against 93.264,330 in that year. The market in goods is a little stronger, with an advance in clay mixtures, but in general Is waiting for the outcome of new combinations, and about some of these there is still doubt whether they will be completed. The worsted combination has gone into operation, but without Interfering with deliveries of goods under previous orders. The cotton-goods market is tho more steady because some strikes still limit production a little, but is quite encouraging and active, and In some staples has further advanced. Failures for the week have been 13S in the United States, against 23$ last year, and twenty-three in Canada, against twenty-live last year. BRADSTREET'S REPORT. Effect of the Era of Trade Combinations Xot Yet Definite. 'NEW YORK, May 3. Bradstreet's report to-morrow will say: That this is indeed an era of trade and industrial combinations seems evident from the long list of announcements of new consolidations, rumored or actually floated, coming to public view this week. Whether this tendency has as yet reached Its culmination cannot, of course, be easily predicted, but in some lines of Industry, the announcements of projected consolidations would seem to have left little room for further operations of this kind. Easily first In this direction is the gigantic iron and steel combination, announced with seeming confidence as in process of formation. Second only to this, however, is the- actual floating of the great copper combination. Outgrowths, as these great combinations are, of immense Industrial changes In many lines, they possess a special interest in the world of trade and finance, because of the Immense aggregations of capital or industry Involved in their projection and of their carrying out to a successful finish. While wholesale trade continues of a between-seasons volume, every general evidence is forthcoming that the aggregate is in excess of last year's undeniably good proportions, and retail demand is of an encouraging character. That the volume of fall business booked is in excess of the general average Is very generally conceded. Advances in prices and reported great activity abroad point to the widespread demand for iron and steel and render less. doubtful the hold of American products on foreign markets. The tone of general values Is notably strong for this season of the year, a prominent exception being pork and hog products generally, which have been the subject of bearish manipulation. Cereals are generally firm, cash wheat being fractionally higher at the seaboard on interruption -to movement by the water route, caused by the grain-handlers strike at Buffalo, while option business Is In a waiting stage pending the government report on wheat condition and acreage next week. Crop advices are still contradictory, but goud veather has made for successful planting and growth of spring wheat, while foreign crop advices continue good and export demand is of only moderate proportions. This, coupled with smaller than expected decreases in world supplies reported to Fradstreet this week acts as a check to values, which might otherwise record the admitted damage to the winter wheat crop. Copper, among the metals, retained all Its strength, speculative interest in copper consolidations being a sustaining feature, offsetting distressing effects on consumptive demand of the recent advance. A special feature this week is the activity in building and in real estate reported from a number of widely separated sections, and lumber and building materials generally are firm and tending upwards. in textiles, raw cotton Is rather weaker on Improving weather and crop conditions. but manufactured goods &ro very firm, and

some brown and bleached export grades have been advanced. Wool markets note a change in the buying of some large lots of domestic wools for speculation, and prices are firm, in sympathy with advanced quotations paid for some large lots of Australian bonded wool bought for re-export. The strength of sugar shows no diminution, despite recent advances, and further gains are to bo noted, chiefly owing to good domestic demand and advancing European markets. Leather and hides are firm and boot and shoe manufacturers are realizing advanced quotations. Business failures are down to their lowest level, numbering only 164 this week, against 1S4 in this week a year ago. Wheat, including flour, shipments for week aggregate 3.194.GS1 bushels, against 3.0CS.403 bushels last week, 2.923.775 bushels in the corresponding week of lbCS. 1,700,5X) bushels in 1SS7. 1.SS2.71S bushels in lS9ii and 2.S05.320 bushels in 1S03. Since July 1 this season the exports of vhe-at aggregate 1&0,774,6'3 bushels, against 10S.S7C.47O bushels last year. Corn exports for the week aggregate 2.S47.2&0 bushels, against 2.615,079 bushels last week, 6.1tv.f04 bushels in this week a year ago, 2.127.7S1 bushels in 1S37. 1.S91.736 bushels in 1S6 and 932.897 bushels in 1S93. Since July 1 this season corn exports aggregate 143,510.113 bushels, against 137,525.294 bushels during the same period a year ago. Business failures in Canada are fewer than last week, numbering only twentythree, against twenty-seven a week ago, twenty-two in this week a year ago, thirtynlno in 1S97. thirty-eight in lSi and twentyseven in 1893. MORE THAN TWO BILLIONS. Bank Clearings This Week 8.1.5 Per Cent. Greater than a Year Abo. NEW YORK. May 5. The following table, compiled by Bradstreet, shows the bank clearings at the principal cities for the week ended May 3, with the percentage of increase and decrease, as compared with the corresponding weelc last year: New York 11.44S.998.0SS Inc.123.8 Boston 1C4. 831,346 Inc.. 66.6 Chicago H4,772.0o9 Inc. .12.3 Philadelphia 105.60S.242 Inc..0.6 Ft. Louis 31.9G3, 143 Inc.. 10.8 Pittsburg 25.646.C43 Inc.. 94.8 Baltimore S6.2C8.223 Inc.. 93.5 San Francisco 19,445,504 Inc.. 2.3 Cincinnati 14.070,750 Inc.. 7.3 Kansas City 12.29,41S Inc.. .3 New Orleans 7.419.734 Inc.. 7.2 Minneapolis 10.577,127 rto.. 7.6 letroit 8,633.204 Inc. .29.8 Cleveland 11.541.964 Inc.. 52.4 Ixmlfvllie 8.627.46 Inc. .12.8 lrovMence 6,380,600 Inc. .36.4 Milwaukee 5.303.648 Dec. 3.2 ft. I'aul 4.S45.S64 Inc.. 33.2 Uufl&lo 5,353.100 Inc. .20.8 Omaha 4.030,994 Dec..31.5 In.lianapolts 6.527.341 Inc.. 6.0 ColumbuF. 0 4,&6.500 Inc. .16.2 Kvansvllle, Ind 740,584 Inc. .26.1 Totals. United State $2.1C2.9l,S0l Inc.. 83.5 Totals outside New York.... 716.922,743 inc. .33.1

GEN. GOMEZ DENOUNCED CALLED A TRAITOR FOR GIVING ASSISTANCE TO "LOS YANKEES." Banqnet in Havana, at "Which Radical Cuban Generals Shorred They Are Still Unreconstructed. HAVANA, May 5. The banquet given last evening by members of the recently dissolved 'Military Assembly in honor of the aged Salvador Cisneros, Marquis De Santa Lucia, the flrst President of the second republic of Cuba, and of General Mayla Rodriguez, waa the occasion for anti-American and anti-Gomez demonstration. General Manuel Sanguilly. Colonel Juan Gualberto Gomes, a member of the assembly's executive committee, and other speakers denounced General Gomez as a traitor to Cuba in having given aid to the Intervening power, "los Yankees," who were referred to in terms of dislike and suspicion. The only voice raised in protest against such assertions among the hundred wellknown Cubans who were present, including the editors of most of the local papers printed in Spanish, was that of Senor Fidel Plena, editor of El Independente, who said that the Cubans would most speedily gain their independence by co-operating with the Americans, adding that the "purpose of the United States military authorities is to aid Cuba, to prepare for self-government and to leave as soon after as possible." The local papers continue to fill their columns with stories of brigandage from every part of the island. Some imply that most of these reports are unreliable, others seem to adopt them by giving them special prominence. In the latter class are La Discussion and 1a Lurha, in the former are El Reconcentrado, La Liber tad, La Patrla and all the Spanish organs. Acccording to a dispatch from Cienfuegos, Senor Jicotea Perez, a Spaniard of high character and standing, disappeared on Sunday and to-day his corpse was found near the city, terribly macheted. The crime Is attribued by the authorities to the same band of outlaws that burned the cane on the Constancia plantation. Bandits in the same district attacked the plantation Unidad, owned by Mr. Cuilerach, and the plantation Angeles, owned by Senor Francisco Garcia, but they were finally repulsed by the rural guards, who killed two. members of the band that have not been Identified and a third one who was recognized as Alfredo Rodriguez, a well-known brigand, largely responsible for the disturbances In Santa Clara. Governor General Brooke anonunces that Senor Frederico Mora has accepted the post of Supreme Court fiscal, which was offered him yesterday, and which he had said he would be unable to accept unless upon his own conditions. No arrangements have yet been made toward appointing his successor as civil governor of Havana, but a decision on this point will possibly be reached tomorrow. Senor Domingo Blendes Capote' will soon forward tn Oen. Russell Alcer. United forms needed in the province of Matanzas and of those already effected there. The collector of customs at Matanzas proposes to construct a floating warehouse and to receive goods direct from vessels. The Spanish minister of marine. Admiral Gomez Imaz, has cabled Captain Peral, head of the Spanish Marine Commission in charge or the Havana Moating dock, an authorization to sell the structure at public auction on May SL The medical officers express regret at the sending of recruits to Cuba at this time of the year, as such troops could not become acclimated before the very worst part of the season had set in. They believe it would be better to have depots in the United States and to send drilled men to Cuba in the early autumn. The stevedores here Inaugurated a strike for an advance of wages to $3 a day in American money instead of $2.50. An attempt to supply the s..'aces of the strikers with Chinese resulted In a severe fight. About one hundred Chinamen were employed, in spite of the opposition of the strikers. ' Major Scriven, of General Ludlow's staff, made short work of the strike, and especially when it was found that the government business was being affected and the sailing of the transport Havana delayed. He took the names of tho ringleaders and then gave them five minutes to choose between resuming work and going to Jail. The latter alternative they declined to face and the men were soon at work again. The Relna Mercedes Ready. SANTIAGO DB CUBA, May 5. The former Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes, which was sunk in the channel of Santiago harbor during the bombardment by Admiral Sampson's fleet on July 6, and which was recently raised, pumped out and brought to this city for repairs, left her moorings to-das and was towed to the center of the harbor in readiness to start for Newport News as soon as the towboat arrives. Some practical navigators predict a repetition of the disaster which befell the Infanta Maria Teresa while on her way north if rough weather should be encountered, but the Relna Mercedes looks as If she were seaworthy. Deaths of Soldiers. WASHINGTON, May 5. General Brooke reports the following deaths:April 3. at Havana. Hospital ship Missouri. Private William T. Lv Scalpp, Troop E. Eighth Cavalry, typhoid; hospital No. 1. Private Mott Knaggs, Company B, Eighth Infantry, died from shock following operation for appendicitis: First Sergeant Janes Murphy, Troop li. Second Cavalry, pneuccnls.

G. W. PARIS AT WORK

ACTIVE IADIWA COXRRTCSMAX IJKSlltCS AXOTIIETt TERM. Dmr In Wunhlncton Hunting Good riaces for Constltutents, and BaKRed One Yesterday. "U. S. MAIL" SIGNS BARRED FROM STREET CARS THAT DO NOT HAVE REGULAR LETTER BOXES. A. S. Kenny Appointed Paymaster General of Navy Col. Bailey Retired Good Place for F. M. Dice. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, May 5. George W. Faris, of Terre Haute, has been In Washington for several days sizing up the speakership situation. Incidentally Mr. Faris has been accomplishing a great many things of interest in his district. What will, of course, be of greatest interest is the fact that Mr. Faris announces that he will be a candidate for re-election to the Fifty-seventh Congress. This fact he evidently desires to place before the people of his district in the most emphatic manner. During the last few days of his stay here he has been "laying pipes" which will result, he hopes, in his renomination. Mr. Fariss long-distance operations are peculiar and will doubtless prove effective. He has been Industriously engaged in placing a number of his constituents in good places in the postal service, securing pensions and otherwise reaping good things. To-day he recommended Joseph H. Lankford, of Martinsville, to be supervisor of the census in the Fifth district. Mr. Lankford will undoubtedly be appointed, as the director of the census has assured congressmen that their recommendations will be respected. Mr. Faris leaves to-night for Indiana. It. C. Thompson, of Indianapolis, was the lowest bidder for supplying furniture for the South Omaha public building, opened today at the treasury. Reports received at the War Department show that General Henry, at San Juan, Is making fair progress in the plan .for the enlistment of 400 Porto Ricans In the United States army for service in their native country. In . order to give all sections of the Island an equal representation it was decld ed to recruit only twenty-five native soldiers at any one place. The town of Tares has already supplied Its quota of men, and Acatjutla all but two or three. At the present rate of progress it will not take long to secure the full quota. General Henry reports that he has good material to select from, and that most of the natives seem to consider it an honor to wear the uniform The recruits will be distributed, among the different infantry companies. Acting Secretary of War Melklejohn, by direction of the President, has made the following amendments to the tariff schedules and port regulations In Cuba and Porto Rico: FirstThe tariff on butter and oleomargarine to Porto Rico has been reduced from $4.10 per 100 kilograms to $2.10 per 100 kilcs. Second The tariff rates on vitrified brick for paving purposes in Cuba have been reduced from 30 cents per loo kilos to o cents. Third Temporarily all vessels, whether American or foreign, are to be permitted to load and clear for th3 United States from Porto Rico ports without being subject to penalties. Fourth Hereafter any resident in Cuba, of any nationality, and any citizen of the United States, may serve as master of any vessel engaged in the coasting trade of Cuba without renouncing his allegiance or nationality. Persons desiring to be master? will only be compelled to take an oath that dur. lng such service the permit granted to such vessel to engage in tne coasting trade of Cuba shall not be used for any, other vessel or in any trade or business wnereby the revenues of the island shall be defrauded, and that they will obey the laws and regulations prescribed by the properly constituted authorities of the island. In answer to complaints by our government that its dispatches to and from our agents, consular and naval, in Nicaragua, are being Intercepted and delayed, the State Department has been informed the trouble is the land lines, forming an essential pnrt of the cable system, have been unworkable in Nicaragua. The department has been dispatching, therefore, its orders and advices to and from Bhiefields via Greytown by means of boats, but the service that way has also been found to be so slow and unreliable that the plan has been adopted of communicating by steamer with New Orleans, which involves a delay of only two or three days. The state of affairs in Bluefields, according to the last reports to the State Department, is not believed to be very critical. Mr. Merry, the United States minister, has reached tho place from Managua, the capital. But he had not, at last accounts, received his instructions to guide him in dealing with the controversy between the American merchants at Bluefields and the Nicaraguan government. He has been advised by cable that Instructions are on the way, and he Is awaiting their arrival before taking any further steps. Meanwhile the government here is by no means clear as to the legal right of the American merchants in Bluefields to claim exemption from the repayment of duties already paid to the insurgent leader, Reyes, and the whole subject is now before the attorney general. It is probable questions of fact will determine the issue, the principal point being the attitude of American merchants toward Reyes whether they are willing or unwilling to contribute to his tax gatherers. An order has been made by the Navy Department for the immediate dispatch of the converted yacht Vixen to Bluefields, Nlcarauga. The Vixen is now a formidable lightdraft gunboat. She Is at Norfolk, fitting out for a cruise to the Philippines, via the Suez route. The order to Nicaragua will simply delay her arrival at Manila, for It is the intention of the Navy Department to replace her in Nicaraguan waters by another gunboat at an early date. Official assurances have been given to our government that tho agreement reached between Great Britain and Russia as to spheres of Influence in China concerns only the two parties and that In no manner does it affect the interests of the United States. The agreement does not amount to a seizure of the lands In China defined as being within either of the two spheres, and even should any territory be acquired In them by either of the parties to this agreement the United S.ites, it has been stated, will not be the subject of any discrimination in commercial or trade matters. Such rights as are not possessed in treaty ports will continue to bo enjoyed freely by the United States. In view of the fact that the recent agreement presented new and important features through the Inclusion for the first time in the territory subject to it of cities that had long been treaty ports, this assurance is regarded here as of the greatest value. Postmaster General Emory Smith made a ruling to-day that the clgn "U. S. Mall" or other sign indicating the carriage of the malls must be carried only by such cars on street-railway lines as actually at the time are transporting the mall. The order to this effect will be promulgated to-morrow. Thi decision is in response to a request from the Amalgamated Association of Stroetrailway Employes, who, in convention n Louisville Wednesday, telegraphed President McKinley a protest against the indiscriminate use of these signs by street-car line?, with the apparent design of Intimidating employes. The postmaster general to-day ordered that the rural free-delivery service j&Z the country be divided Into two grand subdivisions the Western and the Eastern. The former Is to consist of the States west of the Ohio, and its headquarters will be at St. Louis. The other division, comprising States east of the Ohio, will have its headquarters in this city. Francis M. Dice, of Crawfordsvllle. Ind.. will have charge of the Weatern dlvlxloo, and Henry Conquest Clarke, of

Washington, of the Eastern. The arrangement Is similar to that of the railway man service. . Pay Director Albert S. Kenny, who has been appointed to succeed Pay Director Edwin Stewart a? paymaster general and chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, stands No. S in line in rank In the pay corps and Is generally regarded as one of the most competent orheers In that branch of the service. He was born in Vermont and entered the navy as an assistant ptymaMer early in 1M.2. lie served with credit through eut the war of the rebellion. Since June. lsinJ, he has been general storekeeier for the Navy Department, at New York, and has had considerable to do with keeping the navy amply supplied with food, clothIr.tf and money througnout the critical period of the Spanikh war. Under the terms of the personnel law the paymaster general of the navy has the rank and title of rear admiral of the navy and the pay of a brigadier general in the army. Secretary Wilson will leave Washington next week on a trip to Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and other Southern and Southwestern State. He will study the agricultural situation in the States he visits. Dr. William W. Gooding, the superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane, and one of the foremost medical experts In the United States, Is critically ill without hope of recovery; He is sixtyeight years of age and has been superintendent of the asylum for twenty years. The family is In attendance at the bedside and a cousin. Dr. W. W. Gooding, of Iioston, Mass., arrived to-day. Dr. Gooding Is a native of Winchendon, Mass. He received the degree of bachelor of arts from Dartmouth College, and of doctor of medicine from Casuleton Medical College. At one time he was at the head of the Massachusetts Hospital for the Insane at Taunton. CoL C. M. Bailey, Sixteenth Infantry, has been retired upon the recommendation of a medical board by reason of disability incident to the service. This retirement promotes Lieut. Col. Charles C. Hoode, of the Nineteenth Infantry, to be colonel of the Sixteenth: MaJ. William F. Spurgin. Twenty-third Infantry to be lieuteirint colonel or the Twenty-third Infantry. The retirement cf Lieutenant Colonel McLaughlin promotes MaJ. William II. Boyle to be lieutenant colonel of the Nineteenth Infantry. Dr. George T. Vaughan, of the Marine Hospital Service, has been detaile'd to represent the service and the Treasury Department at the International Tuberculosis Congress to be held in Brlln the latter part of this month. He will sail on the 10th inst. M. Talgny, of the French embassy, who has returned from New York, where he turned over to the National City Bank J3,0O),000 of the amount paid to Spainwas informed by President Stillman that thu bank had already paid to Spain 15.000.) without waiting for the warrants from thi government, as It was felt these would be lorthcoming when wanted. TO BE RETRANSFERRED.

31 r. Sloane to Take Back the Home He Gave to ill Former Wife. NEW YORK, May 6. Henry T. Sloane has decided to take back the residence in East Seventy-second street and Its contents, which he presented to his former wife, now Mrs. Perry Belmont, in October last, and which a few days ago she turned over to the State Trust Company to be reconveyed to Mr. Sloane if he would accept it and In the contrary event to' be sold and the proceeds Invested for the benefit of their two children. The announcement of his decision was made to-day In a letter to his counsel, Augustus C. Brown. The re transfer was made conditional on the payment by Mr. Sloane of personal debts contracted by his former wife since their separation, amounting to about 164,000, plus all incumbrances of the premises, such a taxe and the interest on a mortgage of 175,000. These conditions Mr. Sloane accepted. The house and its contents are said to be worth 4o0,uj0. Perry Belmont and Wife. LEXINGTON. Ky., May 5. Mr. and Mrs. Perry Belmont, of New York, arrived tonight from Washington over the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, to spend their honeymoon in Lexington and to visit Mr. Belmont's . horses,, quartered at Hal P. Headley's Beaumont and La Belle stock farms. Mr. Belmont owns the great stallion Magian and a number of fine brood mares and yearlings here. A CRANK'S CONFESSION. Prisoner Says He, Not Dr. Kennedy, Killed "Dolly" Reynolds. NEW YORK. May 5.-Chlcf of Detectivei McCluskey was asked to-day regarding tde confession of the murder in this city of Dolly Reynolds, made by Richard T. Nicholson, in Wormwood Scrubbs prison, England. He declared there was no truth In It. Dr. Samuel Kennedy was recently sentenced to death for killing Miss Reynolds. Captain McCluskey pointed out that the confession states that the woman was shot, while the autopsy showed that she was killed by a blow with a bludgeon and that she was not shot at all. ALBANY, N. Y.. May 5. Governor Roosevelt has received from the State Department the deposition made by Richard Nicholson. The statements in the deposition will be investigated, but not much reLONDON. May 5. Regarding the confession of Richard T. Nicholson that he, and not Dr. Samuel G. Kennedy, murdered "Dolly" Reynolds, in a room in a New York hotel in May. 1S98, the deputy governor of Wormwood Scrubbs prison, where Nicholson 19 confined, said to-day that he regarded Nicholson as a crank. The confession which has been transmitted to the State Department at Washington is the Fecond that Nicholson has made relative to the Reynolds .oman murder. Nicholson was sentenced th.? months ago to eighteen months' imprisonment for obtaining money under false pretenses. 0. M. WELBURN'S ARREST. Fugitive Who Was About to Sail for Manila In Uncle Sam's Uniform. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., May C.-Ex-Unlted States Internal Revenue Collector O. M. Melburn, who was accused by the government of failing to account for $41,000 and fled from the State after being acquitted on one Indictment, eighteen months ago. Is now in the county Jail. His capture was a genuine surprise to the officials and his former friends. He was out on bonds of $40.Ot'ai fitrnlah1 liv Cr TV X . Tllirtll and A. T. B. Williams, when he disappeared. The story of his wanderings has not yet been told, but it is known that he enlisted in the army at Galveston, Tex., on April 23 last, under the name of Olan H. BedelL He was assigned to Company I. of the "casuals." and came to this city on the way to Manila. He was recognize at the International Hotel by W. E. Davis, a colored man. The arrest wa? made at the Presidio, by United States Marshal Shine. Werbum insisted that a mistake tjad been made. However, he was positively identified and committed to prison pending an examination. Then he virtually admitted that he was the man wanted and was permitted to communicate with his family. He is to N tried on an indictment for embezzlement containing thirty-one counts. His attorney. Frank H. Gould, intimates that insanity will be the defense. JOHN MOORE CONVICTED.. Will Get a Life Sentence for Kllllaff Ills Five Little Children. HUTCHINSON, Kan.. May 5. John Moore, who In March last cut the throats of his five little children, crushed their skulls with a hatchet and then set fire to the house In order to conceal his crime, was convicted to-day of murder in the first degree, which means a life term In the penitentiary. The murderer pleaded apoplectic insanity. Immediately after the Jury had returned It verdict of guilty the presiding Judge toceived a letter from a physician in Arkanm s City. Kan., who had previously attend 1 Moore and who wrote that the man wa undouhtrdly allllcted with apoplectic Insanity. This letter will probably be used us the basis of an application for a new trill. As he was being taken from the courtroom to the county lail Moore broke away lr,m the sheriff and ran. The officer fired five shots without effect, but continued the pursuit, and a few minutes later captured the convict la the housa of his father-la-law. .