Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 210, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1899 — Page 4

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Hamilton, Ind.. 1.00 F. F. Boltz. Huntington 1.00 Indianapolis Journal 10.00 $53.0) 223.25 Previously acknowledged Total to date $267.23 , Contributions should be sent to the White National Bank, Fort Wayne, Ind., the authorized custodian of the fund. 'Did the Bryan meeting squelch the growth of the element in' the Democratic party nrhlch believes that 15 to 1 is a fatal policy? The fact that a thousand of the volunteers in Luzon have re-enlisted In the new regiments of volunteers is the shut-up answer to the round robin. Members of the old antl-Taggart silver "push" are so surprised that they affirm that the .mayor hastened away to avoid meeting Mr. Bryan. With good lawyers and experienced business men la every Congress it Is surprising that that body cannot frame a law that will ault either debtors or creditors. General Gomez is rather old to head a sew revolution In San Domingo, but he has had so much experience in that line that be might do better than a younger man. There are thousands of Democrats who shout In public for 16 to 1 as the leading if sue who In their private conversations express the fervent wish that the party had a good lssuo to take Its place. The political observer cannot- .fall to recog nize that the President, Governor Roosevelt and Senator Piatt have brought a harmony to the Republican party In l&ew ,Trk that it has not had for years not "since" the war. J J Jl jl .' Now that the Louisville Courier-Journal Is supporting Mr. Goebel, his right-hand man in the convention. Judge Tirvln, should not have denounced the C.-J. at the Bryan meeting in Greenfield as the assassin news paper. aBaaaaBBaaBaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaMa) . Within a week the superintendent of the Carnegie Steel Company said that he knew where he could put 1,000 men to work. This being the case, the able-bodied men who beg from door to door should be told to move on. SSSSSJBBSSSSSaBSSSaBSIPBSSSaBHBSSiaMBaBSSBSSSSsaHBSMBSSSHBSSSSaaM Before his declaration that silver must be side-tracked. Captain William E. English was frequently eulogized by the Democratic press of this State, but readers will search the lS-to-1 organs in vain for his name since the publication of that interview. ' It is exasperating to hear that the Filipino Insurgents get their war supplies through. German merchants in Hong Kong and Japanese merchants In Yokohama, but as we cannot reach the offending Individuals the only recourse is to blockade the island. The Washington Post, under the caption, Their Last Hope." presents a cartoon in which a hand extended from an open door marked, "National Democratic Convention grasps that of Agulnaldo, who has & huge roll of credentials under his other arm. Behind him follow Senators Hoar, Wellington and Mason. The Kentucky Populists deserve credit for placing themselves la opposition to the Goebel election law as "an attempt to disfranchise the voters of the State." Tbclr censure of Mr. Brysn for Indorsing Goebel's candidacy, thus approving "the criminal attempts of corrupt elements of Kentucky polltics to subvert the ballot," should make hi3 cars burn. The City Council of New Orleans has furnished a notable Instance of subserviency to a private corporation by giving up the space long occupied by a bronze statue of Henry Clary to.be used by a street-car company for switching purposes, the statue to be pulled down and hauled away. The statue was erected by popular subscription, and tha people should protest against its removal. SBaMBBBSBSBBBBBBSMSSBSanaSlBaHHnBHSaBiaMSBBBSSS The mayor of Cleveland is right In his refusal to negotiate or temporize with lawbreakers and rioters. It Is the duty of a mayor to enforce the law, and his declaration to the weak-kneed councllmcn that this Is a good time for everybody to mind his own business" evidently Implied that be would attend to his. He did not begin any too soon. The Cleveland Leader says: "If Major Farley has erred In any respect it was la not compelling the police to do their full duty during the first strike. In stead of temporizing with the mobs that filled the streets and blocked the progress of the. cars.- Lawless demonstrations should always be nipped in the bud. In the suit of one Neilson. in Chicago, to recover damages to his property by reason ct thd elevation of the railroad track by

the ordinance of the city. Judge Tuley holds that the plaintiff must be compensated for

whatever depreciation his property has suf fered by reason of the elevation of the tracks.- In this case the city will be compelled to pay the damage because it agreed with the railroad company to assume liability for the elevation of the track in con sideration of the payment of 100.O. This decision 13 based upon the legal theory that when private property is taken, or, what amounts to the same, is damaged for public use, the owner has' a right to be compensated. This seems to bring a new element into the question of track elevation. A DECEPTIVE ISSUE. Those people who are preparing the public mind for a campaign in Luzon that will not reach a definite conclusion until the presi dential campaign begins, more than a year hence, are probably preparing themselves for a disappointment. The military cam- I pa!gn will not be made a presidential issue. The American people are not frivolous. The President, not as a political factor, but as a matter of public policy, will take care that I the campaign which will open in Luzon as I soon as the wet season Is over shall be short, sharp and decisive. No amount of doubtful expression born of a desire to defeat the President, and. to put it with truth ful bluntness, born of the hepe that the Americans may not be successful in the next campaign in Luzon, can make it a fallure. Such expressions of doubt may Inspire I Agulnaldo to hold out longer, but his friends J here carnot defeat the army that will be in I the Philippines In season to begin the next j campaign. By the middle of next month Use I Americans will have 30,000 men In the Phil- I Ipplrcs. By October, the force will be in creased to 40,000. Heretofore we have had little else than Infantry In Luzon, but when the next campaign opens there will be cav alry. Having learned what is necessary in order to successfully make war upon the Tagals, light gunboats, rapid-firing guns and all that experience can suggest to take and hold towns will be In readiness. The' politicians who really hope for the J defeat of our army in the Philippines are already assailing General Otis as being unfit to have charge of the general movements, i .1 Let them derive all the consolation they can from the assumption that General Otis will be kept In command whether fit or not. I Even now, by agitating that assumption. they cannot retard enlistments. The admin istration knows better than the politicians who would have Agulnaldo successful for their political advantage, what General Otis can or cannot do, and it will not retain him I in command an hour when it is assured of his inability to meet the demands of the position. Moreover, these men who are counting upon a nerveless and uncertain campaign forget that the immediate com mand of the troops will be In the hands of such men as Lawtop, Wheeler, MacArthur, Wheaton, Hale, and a half dozen other leaders of the highest soldierly quality and of the largest experience. Indeed, It may be truthfully said that no American army of forty or fifty thousand men ever had so large a number of successful and brilliant leaders. In view of these suggestions, those politicians who are seeking the defeat of President McKInley should not base their ex pectations on a military failure in the Philippines next season. AMERICAN TRI13IPHS AT THE HAGUE " A curious feature of the international conference which 'has Just closed at The Hague is that while it did nothing towards securlne the sDeclfic object for which it was called it accomplished Important re sults in other directions. The first proposi tion in the original call and the one which furnished the main motive of the confer ence was: An understanding not to Increase 'for a fixed period the present effective of the armed military ana navai zorces, ana ai the same time not to increase the budgets pertaining thereto: and a preliminary examination of the means by which a reduction might even be effected in future in the forces and budgets above memionea. This proposition was practically dropped early in the conference to use a familiar phrase it "got lost In the shuffle" and the discussions were directed to the more feasible and equally important principle of de vising a plan for settling international dis putes by arbitration. This Is a distinctly American principle, and the outcome is a triumph not only for the principle but for the American delegates, though they were ablv seconded by the British and " some others. The creation of a permanent court ot arbitration for the settlement of inter national-controversies Is, without reference to the details of the plan, an important step towards preventing war. Editor Stead says: "The establishment of a permanent court of arbitration on the American principle of revision, plus the French declara tion of the duty of neutrals, to recommend disputing powers to resort to the arbitra tion court ( rather than to war, represents vast progress In the evolution of human society." The French declaration referred to is a sort of rider on the main proposition and was Intended to assert the prin ciple of mediation as well as arbitration. Arbitration is an American principle, while mediation is a European practice and is often mere meddling. The United States is not given to meddling in the affairs of other nations, and In accepting the French amendment our delegates made the following declaratlon: The deleeatlon of the United States. In signing the convention regulating the peacenhU ui( mon nf International rnnflirts. as proposed by the international peace conferpnep. 'makes tne following aeciaraiion: Nothing contained in this convention shall be bo construed as to reculre the United States to depart from its traditional policy of not entering upon, interfering witn or entangling itself in the political questions or internal administration or any ior elen state. Nor shall anything In said con vention be construed to require the rellnoulshroent by the United States of its tra dltional attitude toward purely American questions This was accepted by the conference and virtually made a part of the arbitration scheme as far as the United States is con cerned. This was another triumph for the United States, for it saves the Monroe doc trine. In effect it declares that in accept ing the principle of mediation as well as ar bltratlon we do not bind ourselves to in tervene in purely European affairs or to permit European Intervention In purely American affairs. The Monroe doctrine has never had as formal and distinct recognl tlon as the acceptance of this declaration by the various powers represented at The Hague gives it. Heretofore it has. to a large extent, had the sanction of International usage, but its acceptance by The Hague conference gives It the sanction of international law. Some persons thought our war with Spain and especially our taking over the Philippines put it out of our power hereafter consistently to assert the Monroe doctrine. However this may have betn. its acceptance by the conferees at The Hague gives It new life and force. Hereafter no European statesman can say tltat the ZIonrot doctrlnt has sever been recognized

as a principle of international law. As far

as the United States Is concerned this Is perhaps the most Important result of the conference, though In "a broad sense the es tablishment of a permanent court of Inter national arbitration is more so. "WHY Mil. DRVAX qL.I.GS TO SILVER. To many men the course wh'.ch Mr. Bry an is pursuing is inexplicable. They say that he is the first man In this country who has had no other occupation than being a candidate for President of the United States. This Is true; but it can be answered that he is the leader of a party which he, more than any other man, has created. It is not the Democratic party of old, for that has always stood for a money every dollar of which shall be the full equivalent of every other dollar. Jefferson declared for a commercial ratio, and Jackson had Congress enact a law to make the coinage ratio cor respond with the commercial ratio. Mr, Eryan abandons both of the leaders and stands for an absolute ratio of 13 to 1 when the commercial ratio is S3 or 34 to 1. The leader of a new party, Mr. Eryan is at 11berty to do things which the unwritten laws of old parties would not permit them to- do. He can travel about as the pro posed candidate of his party, be a member of national committees and be a delegate to the convention which will nominate him. He represents a new regime. Many wise men cannot see how a man of ordinary intelligence can hope that his party Can win on the Chicago platform. They are astonished that Mr. Bryan should believe that he can win on that platform. Perhaps he does not. But whether he does or not there is nothing else for him to do. He was the embodiment of the 16-to-l campaign in 1M6. He made It the issue. If he should now declare that it is a settled issue he confesses that he was wrong in 1S06. If he consents to have the silver question retired to the background he admits that he was cither mistaken In 1S96 or that he did not act in good faith. The moment Mr. Bryan wavers on the silver question he ceares to be a party leader and his claims on the candldacy are not so good as those of other men. jjr Eryan has more sagacity tnan his critics, becaure he knows that when 16 to 1 goes t0 tne rear as an issue ne goes with it. He knows that the more he emphasizes the Euver iSSUe the surer he Is to hold the undisputed leadership of his party. Keeping silver in the foreground insures his nomina tion.' The wavering of his column In In diana brought him to Greenfield to declare tnat 15 t0 i wm De tne fading Issue. Mr. Bryan prefers to be defeated at the polls as tno jeader of the 16-to-l party to being set aside by his party with a platform deny ing the one issue for which he stands. THE ONLY BRYAN. Mr. Bryan, in his speech at Greenfield on Thursday, said: The only cold standard party that ever existed was organized at Indianapolis and carried only one precinct In the United States. The only party that ever sprang into existence and adopted a gold piatiorm had no record in the past to go back on ana nothing m the future to look to, and therefore it had nothing to restrain it from doing what It old. It organized before the election and disbanded just as soon as the ejec tion was over. France la full of bimetallism. Germany has bimetallism and England has bimetal lism. English financiers control the policy of the English government and the English government controls the policy of Europe, and the policy of Europe through the Repuniican paity dictates the policy of the united States. The Republican party is unfortunate if it has not yet succeeded in making people understand that it is a gold standard partyi The convention that nominated Mr. Bryan for President helped to define the position of the Republican party by declaring in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, and the St. Louis convention declared against the free coinage of silver "except by international agreement with the leading commercial na tions of the world, and until such agreement can be obtained the existing gold standard must be preserved." During the campaign of 1S96 the Republican party, through Its press and speakers, tried to make the peo ple understand that it was a gold standard party, and the record shows that it carried considerably more than one precinct In the United States. Mr. Bryan's contemptuous allusion to the sound-money Democrats who refused to support him in 1S36 is characteristic. In his speech at Greenfield he descended to the vulgar level of calling them "goldbugs," and said: "It Is difficult to talk to a goldbug without getting mad because the strongest argument that he uses is a look of scorn and expression of contempt." Some of them used stronger arguments than these in 1S96, and, fortunately for the country, these ar guments affected enough business men and independent voters, in conjunction with Re publicans, to defeat Mr. Bryan. Perhaps that Is the reason he continues to call them names. If he should be nominated again next year he will not have the support of the Populist party, which contributed a large percentage of his vote in 1806. The certain Iocs of this vote ought to suggest to him the propriety of trying to make it good in some other quarter and the folly of con tinuing to sneer at Democratic "goldbugs," but he does not seem to see the matter in that light. The allusion to bimetallism in other countries, in the extract above quoted, has no Plnt except as a vehicle for Mr. Bryan's stale cnarSe. worn threadbare In 1SD6, that the financial policy of the United States is dictated by England, which, he says, also I ' .umrois inai oi Europe. England, rrance and Germany are "full of bimetallism" in exactly the same sense that this country is. viz.. all have the single gold standard and are on a gold basis, with a large amount of silver circulating as subsidiary coin. Each country has adopted this policy for reasons that are recognized as controlling throughout the civilized world, and Mr. Bryan might as well assert that England dictates the law of gravitation to the United States as that she dictates the laws of finance and commercial values. But, bray a fool in a mortar yet will not his foolishness depart from him. Hon. Tom L. Johnson was a guest at a banquet in New York given to the author of "The Man with the Hoe." In a speech Mr. Johnson said that his only interest In Detroit "was to secure municipal ownership of the can and then run them free, taxing the landowner for the cost. I saw through this, a wedge for the advancement of single tax," said Mr. Johnson, and he further de clared that to help the single tax theory was his only motive, and not the Interest he had In the stock of the roads. That is. Mr. Johnson, to help the single tax theory. Insisted that the property owners in Detroit should pay $17,500,000 for a property which could be duplicated for JS.000,000 or give his companies a forty-eight years franchise with a 5-cent fare. Ex-Mayor William R. Grace, of New York, a lonj-tine Democrat of good stand-

ing, has been making a study of the tariff j

question and especially of the comparative ! results of the Wilson and the Dlngley laws. with the result that he has become a. protectionist. He Is reported as saying: I was never ashamed of my convictions when they were in perfect sympathy with the tariff views expressed by Mr. Cleveland in his famous message, and with those held by the great body of the Democratic party, and I am not ashamed now to say that in the light of recent events I have completely changed those views and now see, as I believe, clearly that the amazing growth in all that makes for permanently prcsperous conditions and in all innuences that have so recently established the United States as tne first power among tne nations of the world, not only politically but financially and cnmmerclnllv. 13 due In a great measure to the policy of protection. There are a great many other Democrats who, if they were capable of getting at the facts and telling the truth about them, would say the same thing. An Anderson correspondent of a Chicago paper recently stated that the men of the gas belt are fast becoming bald through some mysterious action of natural gas. The Muncie Times has Investigated the matter far enough to be able to deny the state ment. It says that In Muncie, Marlon, Kokomo, Elwood and other cities In the gas belt men are getting bald in the same old fashion and at the same old rate, without any perceptible change since the introduc tion of natural gas. The original statement was probably a campaign He for the encouragement of the old wig partyAn organization in the South has for its object the resistance of taxation. Hitherto this business had been carried on extensively through isolated individual effort. but now that It has become the object of concentrated industry great things may be anticipated. If his friends do not quit warning him to drop the 16-to-l theory Mr. Bryan will come to the conclusion that the enemy's country has the same boundaries as the United States. General Coxey has purchased a steel plant. Had he bought a cabbage plant he would have been sure of having eventually another competent head to the business. The elation of the Mexicans over the Im portation of American money ' Is another thing Bryan will have to stop and explain. DIDDLES IN THE AIR. History. "Did you know they used to fine people In Scotland for playing golf?" "Are you sure it was not for talking It?" Unhappy Spirit. "Are you happy over there?" they asked him. "No," replied the unhappy spirit, through the medium of the medium. "My first name Is still Jonadab." : The Referendum. . "I remember the referendum here in In diana when I was a small boy." "I don't, and I have lived in the State all my life." "You havo a very poor memory. Didn't you ever get Into a dispute with another boy, and finally agree to leave the decision to the crowd?" MlBROided. r.l "Professor," said the youngish student with the howling shirt and the screaming collar, "that was a very good Joke. ' "What was a good Joke, young man?" asked the professor. "That list of books you recommended me to read." "Ah! Those standard works of fiction I brought to your notice?" "Those are the ones. I asked for them and the bookseller told me that up-to-date people were not reading any' of them." THE STATE ITRESS.; . Bryan is for Bryan on a Bryan platform devoted to Bryan's interests. Piamneia Progress. Of course there were no strikes three or four years ago. Laboring men had nothing to strike for only strike out ana iook ior a Job.Seymour Republican. True Democracy consists of advocating anything that will catch votes. The Dem ocratic party caters for votes regardless of principle and then seeks to hold its fellows in lino with the plea of party regularity. Danville Republican. Three years ago this time the Bryanites were rushing about the country predicting a eold famine In the event' of the election of Major McKInley. His election came, and now a plethora instead or a ramine or srold is the cause of the complaint. Ply mouth Republican. The Democratic party is like the "dog that bays the moon." The dog doesn t know what the moon is and it doesn't know why it bays. The Democratic party doesn't know what constitutes the sun of prosperity nor why it howls when the sun is shining. Wllliamsport Review. William J. Bryan Is scurrying over the conatry. Jumping hither and thither, delivering political harangues, seeking by such methods to become President. Is that the kind of a man the solid, substantial Democrats of this country want elevated to the dignified and exalted position of chief magis trate of a great nation like tnis : coryaon Republican. Col. Bryan recently said that all Demo crats looked alike to him. There are Democrats right here in Kokomo who are ready to swear that" the colonel ia color blind. for while they were Democrats before he was and now believe that they are better Democrats than he is or ever will be. they claim no kinship with the 16-to-l crowd. Kokomo News. The strike fever that is having an epi demic all over the country is not so much an illustration of the dissatisfaction of worklngmen as it is that the walking delegate Is beginning to get Us breath after it was knocked out of him by the Cleveland ad ministration. Workingnen should consider well before 1 steninir to the specious argu ments of there men who thrive on the mis ery of the men they lead. Many a strike would be averted If the wives of workingmen were admitted to the discussion and settlement. Arbitration would then prevail. Evansville Journal. The strikes and the mobs attached there to are the most disgraceful as well as alarm ing features of our present civilization. For weeks the people of Cleveland have been held ud and terrdrlzed by mobs that would have been a disgrace In the dark aees. The c vil authorities nave peen unable to pre?erve peace ana main tain order and the militia of the htate cr Ohio has been called uron for aid. As mobs are composed of cowards the sight of swords and guns has somewhat auayea tne tur bu ent spirit of these rioters, nut wnat a deplorable condition it is when a great city like Cleveland cannot govern itseir. copies vllle Leuger. Three bouncing healthy boy babies were born last Saturday afternoon to Mr. and Mrs. Simecn Shore, who reside four miles south of town on the Mllledgeville road. The three babies together weighed twenty-one rounds, which Dr. Hendricks. the attending physician, says Is an unheard-of thing. as it is usual that triolets cenerallv have a com bined weight equal only to one good-sized babv. One of the infants weigned eight pounds and was eighteen inches in length: the next weighed seven pounds and was nineteen inches in length, while the last one weighed six pounds and was twenty inches in length. The babies were an neaitny and active as ordinary youngsters and bid fair to live. Lebanon Patriot. Reasserting on Old Principle. Pittsburg Dispatch. Another attack is to be made upon the ticket sea ners on the old principle that a man who purchases property, has no right to sell it again. Spiritualistic Deadheads. Detroit Free Press. The spiritualists have waited until the demise of Colonel Ingersoll so that they can hear him without being obliged to pay for a ticKei oi admission. Not the Same Thlncr. Chicago News. When a man has a clear field It means there is nothing else In it. When he baa a clear head well. different.

IT -MAY -FALL TO GOMEZ

CtrJAX FIGHTER REFUSES TO DISCUSS SAX DOMINGO SUCCESSION. The General) Friend In Havana Predict that He Will Sneered the Late Trealdcnt. HAVANA, July 2S. General Gomet today" declared that a majority of the alleged interviews with him published in the local press were entirely without foundation and that he has decided to write himself anything he may hereafter have to say to the press. "I believe all papers He," said Gomez, "and that those of one country are in this respect no better than those of another. In the future I will give over my own signature or through the Associated Press alcne, anything Intended for publication." General Gomez refused to discuss the presidency of the Dominican republic, claiming to know nothing regarding the matter. When questioned concerning the rumors circulating in the cafes as to his aspirations regarding a Dominican republic, Gomez's action proved his contempt for tho stories, yet In the clubs and cafes he Is seriously accused of conspiring to bring both the Island of Hayti and Cuba under the dominion of the United States. In al luding to the cafe conspirators Gomez usedthe contemptuous term which is made, use of among Cubans to signify cowards, and said he did not believe that many men be longing to the army would have anything to do with such people. He declared they do not represent Cuba, yet cause much misrepresentation. He also classed a 'number of papers in the same category. General Gomez's wife and family left Santo Domingo on beard the steamer Maria Herrera and are expected to arrive in Ha vana on Monday next. With regard to the rumor that Gomez will be the next Presi dent of the republic of Santo Domingo, it is stated here that the most popular candi date is Senor Juan Jiminez, who took part in the attempted insurrection of June, 1SS8, and who is now in Havana. It is possible. however, so It is reported, that if a revolution takes place Senor Jiniinez's opponents may offer Gomez the leadership. El Diario de la Marina and La Lucha express the opinion that, considering the present expansion policy, the United States may intervene in San Domingo. It is pretty well known Gen. Maximo Gomez aspires to the presidency of the black republic. Some time ago Gomez is sued a manifesto to the Cuban army, in which he bade his soldiers good-bye and signified his Intention to return to San Do mingo, his native land. As Gomez's love for adventure and fighting for what he calls liberty are well known, it is believed he will start for San Domingo at once, organize an army and endeavor to fight his way to the presidency. Gomez Is a good organizer, and those who came in contact with him in Cuba say he is one of the best soldiers in Cuba, and he has the tenacity to stick to a cause until it triumphs. The old general knows he will not be chosen President of Cuba if that island ever has a President, as it Is believed the constitution of Cuba' will closely follow that of the United States and provide that only native Cubans can be elected to the highest office. This bar will not confront- Gomez in San Dcmingo, as he was oorn on that Island, and his family still resides there. Although Gomez has been absent from San Domingo for a number of years, he still claims it as his home, and this claim will undoubtedly hold good. As u is natural for troops to flock to a suc cessful soldier, it would not be surprising if treneral Gomez should organize a. large army, and in a short time find himself in the presidential chair.While little is known of President Firuereo, few persons believe he can maintain peace, as there are pronounced s!irn nf revolution brewing. With a third candi date in. the field In the person of Juan Isadore Jimenez, it is said this will not pro mote tranquillity, and Judging from the past history of General Gomez many believe he will next be heard of as President of San Domingo. It is thought a large number of t-uoans would follow Gomez to Sin Domingo and again take up arms under him While the departure of Gomez would be re. gretted, it is believed here it will not have any material effect in Cuba, and affairs WOUld go on as smoothly as at present. ORDERED TO SAX D03IIXCO. Cruiser Aevr Orleans and Rnnhnn Mncliia Sailed Yesterday. WASHINGTON, July 2S.-Secretarv Lontr to-day issued orders detaching the cruiser New Orleans from the North Atlantic squadron at Newport and directing her to proceed at once to Santo Domingo city. Or ders were issued also to the gunboat Ma chias, now at St. Thomas, to proceed to the same point via San Juan. These orders were made at the instance of the State Depart ment and as a precautionary measure ow ing to the disturbed conditions following the assassination of President Heureaux. of San Domingo. Neither the State nor Navy De partments have received any advices of an alarming character, but owing to the large American interests on tne island It was a i t a. a a . deemed advisable to take every precaution. It is understood that American capitalists have entered into an agreement with the Dominican authorities, by which practically the entire machinery of. the island adminis tration is under their direction. The New Orleans s expected to sail from Newport this evening. The sail to San Domlnco City is about five days, so she Is due there about next Wednesday. The Machias is only day's sail from that point, but she will go to San Juan to carry back Captain Snow, the naval commandant of that port. The Man "Who Slew Henreanx. NEW YORK. July 28. Ramon Caceres. the murderer of President Heureaux, of San Domingo, is about twenty-five years old. and is connected with one of the best and richest families of that republic. A consid erable portion of his life has been spent in the United states. He completed his educa tion at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, at Troy, where be was graduated about four years ago. While residing in Troy he married Lillie, the adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Hakes. Mr. Hakes died come years ago and his widow passed away soon after her adopted daughter's marriage to Caceres. All of the property was left to Mrs. Caceres. Part of the real estate, con sisting of a block on Fulton street. Troy, was recently sold to ex-United States Sen ator Edward Murphy, Jr. Caceres convert ed all of his wife's property Jnto cash and they came to New York and made their home here for some time. Caceres often said that as soon as the opportunity offered he would go to San Domingo and inaugu rate a revolution. He started on his mission a few weeks ago. leaving Mrs. Caceres here. These who know Caceres are confi dent that he laid his plans well and had taken precautions to insure his escape. Uncle Sam May Interfere. NEW YORK. July 2S. Gen. Abelarde A. Mofccoso, an exiled leader of the Liberal party of Santo Domingo, now living In New York, says: "The death of President Heu reaux will, I think, surely be followed by a long state of disorder and revolution. I want to emphasize this prophecy that the United States will eventually be compelled to Interfere to establish peace in the island. Just as this country did in Cuba. If some thing be not quickly done to establish order and peace, more revolutionary expeditions will follow, like that ot : General Jlmlnes

and General Morales, who led a band from

Cuba against Heureaux. There are now In this country Gen. Toribeo Garcia and Ed ward Grullou, who share my views. " We think that the United States ought to take an interest In our West Indl.n Tepubllc. It will be a great commercial ally, and must. cf necessity. I believe, ultimately become attached to this country." General Moscoso has been an exile in New York for three years. He opposed the late President politically and had to flee to save his life. Erwin York, secretary of the Santo Do mingo Improvement Company, which con trols the country's finances', said yesterday: "Should the new administration attempt to repudiate our contracts we shall certainly. as American citizens, call on the Washing ton administration for protection. I do not believe there will be any revolution. The contract with the improvement company was signed by President Heureaux in 1S33. It gives to the company the railroads and the right to collect the customs. In return for these concessions the company has assumed the national debt of the country, which Is principally held In the United States.: LACK FAITH IN KRUGER LORD SALISBURY E.TPL.4 1 i HER MAJESTY'S RECENT ATTITUDE. England Has Undertaken. to Straight en Out Affairs In the Transvaal and Will Never Turn Back. LONDON, July 23. In the House of Com mons to-day the Colonial Office voted to fur nish the Liberals an opportunity for a debate on the government's policy in the Transvaal. Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman, the Liberal leader, said he thought that ia view of the negotiations pending, reticence and reserve must rule in the debate. While he did not sympathize with Boer opposition to franchise extension, he saw nothing from beginning to end of the story to Justify armed interference. War In South Africa would be one of the direst calamities possi ble. The speaker pleaded for further friend ly and prudent action through Dutch sympa thizers at the Cape. He saw no reason why this should not achieve conspicuous success, as a similar course had done in Canada in time past. The secretary of state for the colonies. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, opened his speech in reply by declaring that Sir H. CampbellBannerman'2 language was calculated to embarrass the action of the government. The grievances of the outlardets, Mr. Chamberlain said, were admitted on all hands to be serious, but the most serious part was that the outrageous treatment to which they were subjected was part of the settled policy pursued by the Boers. The situation was dangerous to Imperial interests. As regards the racial feud coming out of war, raee antagonism already existed and was poisoning the community. The danger of disaffection In Cape Colony and the Orange Free State was due to the action of the Transvaal. It was not a question of five or seven years franchise, but of the power and authority of the empire and of the position of Great Britain in South Africa. Referring to offers of colonial help, Mr. Chamberlain said that If the matter were happily arranged it would always be a satisfaction to think that in time of trial the country might count on the loyalty of the colonies. Mr. Chamberlain Justified the right of intervention, firstly, because it was the right of every civilized power to protect its own subjects; secondly, because Great Britain had the right of Intervention under the convention as the suzerain power, and, thirdly, because the convention had been broken in letter and in spirit. Referring to Sir Campbell-Bannerman's eulogy of Hon. W P. Schrelner, formerly prime minister of Cape Colony, and J. Hofmelr, the Afrikander leader," Mr. Chamber lain said both of them had declared that the earlier and illusory proposals of President Kruger were entirely adequate and satis factory. When they were quoted as im partial Judges, whose assistance the govern ment ought to invite, the House must remember that they had been at least a little premature. In dealing with the latest proposals Mr. Chamberlain said: "President Kruger has Invited friendly advice and the government has thought itself justified In appealing: to him that a joint inquiry should be held. These proposals were with the view of de termlning what representation will be im mediately given aliens, which can be the only basis of satisfactory settlement. If the Inquiry 13 accepted, experts will be appoint ed, and the government hopes that then it will be possible to reach an agreement. In any case the government will press for necessary alterations in order to secure the ob jects ' in view. We have undertaken the cause of the outlanders and are bound to see it through. We shall not rest until a conclusion satisfactory o us has been reached. I anticipate that the efforts will be successful, but we will not tie our hands in regard to measures that may be neces sary to fulfill anticipations." The House adopted the Colonial Office vote without a division, after a protracted debate on the South African policy of the government. NO FAITH IN KRUGER. Lord Salisbury Explains Her Majesty'ft Attitude Toward the Doers. LONDON, July 2S.-In the Houae of Lords to-day the Earl of Camperdown called at tention to the Transvaal situation. The Earl of Dunraven and others followed, all de claring that any departure from the recog nized policy of the government would be an act of Inestimable danger to the position of Great Britain, not only In South Africa, but it might shake the imperial existence of Great Britain itself. The Earl of Selbourn, under secretary for the colonies, made a statement similar in purpose to that made in the House of Commons by Mr. Chamber lain. Lord Salisbury reminded the House that he absolutely dissented from the policy of 1S51. which was tainted with the grave fault of optimism. Nevertheless. President Kruger assented in the protocol of the 1SS1 convention to friendly co-opcratlon of the races, while be has since taken an absolute ly opposite line, his one effort being to sep arate the English and South African gov ernments and to reduce the English to the tatU3 of a subjugated race. The premier declared that he was not sur prised that panic overtook President Kruger at the interruption cf the gold digging in 1?SG. but. he blamed him for not consulting the British government as to how to deal with the phenomenon. He agreed that if the latest concessions were genuinely carried out the government might look forward to a peaceful solution of the crisis. Her Majetty's government, he said, had put their hands to the plow and certainly did not intend to withdraw them. Regarding the dispatches of Lord George Hamilton, secretary of state for India, to Lord Curzon of Kedleston. the Indian viceroy, the premier said the report of tho committee on the India currency says tha government has decided to maintain the closing of the mints and directs him to take the necessary steps to make a sovereign legal tender at the ratio of 13 rupees to the sovereign. The fifth biennial convention of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, it Is announced, will meet In Edinburgh, Scotland, Monday, June 25, 1900. The executive committee meeting will be held on noay. June zz.

BEVER1DGE ALL RIGHT

THE MCSSAGC COXSl'I. IIABHIS CABLED FR03I 5AJASC1IL HAS Representative Landla Secures Drass Cannon for Delphi The French Treaty Gossip. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, July 25. A cablegram" from Consul Harris, Nagasaki, Japan, received at the State Department late this afternoon, says: "Beveridge all right." No further particular were given: only the brief announcement as quoted. For addi tional details the senator's friends will probably have, to await his return. Representative Charles B. Landis left Washington this morning "for Delphi. Mr.'. Landis has been In the capital city several days on various matters of interest to 'his constituency. Probably the most interesting matter accomplished by Representative p118 was th rocuremcnt of bra" I cannon captured by the American forces at Santiago. This cannon Representative Landis has had shipped to Delphi' at his' own expense and the memento of the prowess of American arms will be mounted in the public square in the chief city of Carroll county. This cannon has quite a history. It formed a part of the famous Escapa battery, the battery which was charged with guarding the entrance to the channel leading to the city of Santiago. This gun was mounted on the' Escapa at tho time that Assistant Naval Constructor Hobson made his daring exploit and It may bo that some effective shots were fired against the Merrimac by this particular cannon. then manned by Spanish gunners, but now owned by the genial member of Congresa representing the Ninth district. This cannon is of the brass variety and is cnown as a six-pounder and properly handled In an emergency would prove a very effective weapon. Its subsequent usa will very likely be applied chiefly to firing f ourth oi July salutes. The establishment of rural free delivery at Lebanon. Ind.. has been postponed from Aug. 1 to Sept. 1. a 31. MELIXE S DUPLICITY. i Former French Premier's False Pre tenses to His Countrymen. WASHINGTON, July 28. The reml-offlclal statement in Paris that'Amerlcan leather does not get the minimum rate under the new reciprocity treaty, although M. Meline's Cabinet offered this rate to American leather, caused considerable amusement la official circles here. It is one of the recorded facts of the recent negotiations that M. Meline, who Is now attacking the new treaty, offered far greater concessions on American goods than the present Ministry permitted to be Inserted In the- treaty as . finally formed. M. Meline was at the head of the Ministry during the early stages of the reciprocity negotiations, and at that time Commissioner Kasaon received a proposition from the French authorities that theminimum tariff would be granted on the entire list of American goods sent to France. This proposition of the Meline Cabinet stood until two weeks ago. although a new Minis-.. try had come Into power. The present Mln-' lsiry aeciaea, nowever, tnat the original or- ' fer of the Meline Cabinet had gone too far-.: and as a result a new proposition was ad- . vancea iwo weexs ago, 10 omit irom ins minimum list a large number of agricul tural products, such as leather, horses, cat tle, butter, etc., produced largely in France. In the final draft twenty-four of these ex ceptions are made, largely in the Interest of French agricultural products, so that the instrument is much more considerate or French Interests than It would have been had it been framed under the original prop osition of. 31. Meline. who Is now at tho head of the opposition to the treaty. Provisions of the Trenly. PARIS, July 2S. The Temps, commenting on M. Delcasse's summary of the treaty before the Cabinet, expressed the belief that the Franco-American convention will be very advantageous to France. Taking the year 1S05 as the basis of comparison, American products benefit by the new treaty to the amount of 50,000.000 francs, while French products to the value of 130.000,000 francs' benefit. Out of 654 articles which France taxes, the United States secures a minimum tariff on four hundred. and out of about three hundred articles taxed by the United States, a reduction of tariir is granted to France on 160. . i . i NO RIGHT TO' GRANT. Powers of War Secretary In Glvlnff Away Colonial Franchises. WASHINGTON. July 2S.-In response to requests from the secretary of. war Attorney General GrlgGs to-day rendered threa opinions as to tne rignis ana auiies ok uis War Department with respect to certain concessions cr franchises In the Island of Porto Rico. The first relates to an alleged concession for the construction of a tramway from Ponce to Port Ponce, claimed to have been heretofore granted to Messrs. i!M-a- The secretary of war asked wheth er, under the evidence submitted, a lawful concession to construct sucn tramway naa been granted to them, and. If so, whetner it would be nrorr lor him to conhrm the concession. Tne attorney general holds that the concession claimed is not a complete and vested right r franchise, out is incnoaio and incomplete, and that the War Department Is without power to exercise the pre rogative ot the government to grant, or complete such concession. The second opinion is based upon the application ot Ramon Valdez y Coblan for a . concession of the right to use the water power of the river Plata In Porto Rico. Tho question involved is whether the War Department has authority to approve the concession which the apllcant seeks and desires to use. It appears that the applicant had not obtained authority ior ine use oi the river Plata. He only complied witn tne preliminary requisites- The attorney general therefore concludes that the department has no power to grant the application sought. . . . In the case of FrederlcK vv. vveeKs ior nrmiKinn tn construct and maintain a wharf or pier on which warehouses may bo erected at the port of Ponce, in Porto Rico, the attorney general decides that the grant of a right or privilege of this character to exist in perpetutty or as long as the conditions of the grant are fulfilled U beyond the power of the secretary of war and ought not to be made, rne opinion cuuuuurs follows: "If constructed, the pier or wharf . will be on public domain of the United - States, l unaersiana mm unw oyamau law lands under tidewater to high water mark in ports and harbors in the Spanish West Indies belonged to the crown. As crown property, they were by the treaty or cession transferred by hpaln to the United States of America, ana are now a poruoa of the public domain of that nation. I do not know of any right or power which the secretary of war or the President has to alienate in perpetuity the public domain Of the United Piaies. eiTjn m otiuiuamwlth the acts of Congress only pawed wita. reference thrtQ." A Would-Be Counterfeiter. WASHINGTON. July 2S.-Ch!ef Wilkie. cf the secret service, has received. a telegram announcing the arrest of James L. Scott, of Lair, Ky. It appears that last April Scott, under an assumed name, advertised In ono

of the Cincinnati papers for a companion. The advertisement was answered by a Cincinnati man. who then received an Inquiry as to whether h was an engraver. Tho -

letters subsequently were turned over to the , secret serviee omeers. wno continuei tno correspondence. It developed that Scctt wanted a man to engrave one ana two aoilar certificates, and after he had fully com mitted hlmseir he was arrested and held under bond by the United States commissioner. He will be tried ior using the malls for purposes of fraud. Paid Doable Duty In Mcaragun. WASHINGTON. July 2S. United 8tatea Minister Merry to-day was Instructed to represent to the government of Nicaragua that, in tho opinion of the State Department, the tO.COO collected by General Torres from the American merchants in Blueuelds a should be returned to them.' Tho merchants were required to pay this amount of money on goods that had been previously assessed by the revolutionary psrty while the latter was in control at Blueflclds. Our government nh1rli1 t r thf r1rmhl rrt!!M.-n anA the money was pUced in escrow with ths Britisn consul at uiueneias awaitins the cscisioa of th legality of the last collection.