Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1901 — Page 4

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The representative who would take the government of incorporated towns from the Legislature should add cities, townships and counties to his exemption. "Why should the Legislature expend money to buy land for the, corporation known as the Indiana Agricultural Society? It Is more 'independent of the State than a railroad corporation. The attempt to carry Into effect "the free -and unlimited coinage of silver on the basis of 16 to 1" without the fcrce of law has got seven men and one woman into no end of trouble in New York. Chicago seems to have fallen a victim to gross materialism, commercial greed and municipal corruption. Men of wealth. culture and refined tastes testify that the city is not fit to live in. The moral for other cities is obvious. The House amendment to the army res organization bill providing for a veterinary corps was wisely rejected In the Se.iate. There is no more reason for a separate horse doctors corps than there Is tor a separate horse-shoeing corps. When It Is known that Iowa has Jl.500,000 In Its treasury, with no bonded or floating debt, it is no wonder that the calamity party was burled under 100,000 majority. But so large a surplus must stimulate the -claim-producing industry of the State. Mr. Bryan says that "in selecting Journalism as tho best field of usefulness, I - am aware that I am placing myself in a position whero I can givo more aid to others than to myself." The unselfishness with w.hich he proposes to devote himself to "booming" other people is only equaled by the modest estimate of his powers. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, which advocates an appropriation for the world's fair and the ship subsidy in parallel columns, assumes that only free-traders o'ppoe the subsidy, when, a3 a matter of fact, it is the only Republican paper in the central West advocating the bill to subsidize as many British-built as American-built ships. i Sir Norman Lockyer, a British astronomer and scientist of very high repute, says he attaches no Importance whatever to Nikola Tcsla's speculations regarding electrical communication with other planets, and gives scientific reasons for his Incredulity. The trouble with Tesla Is he 13 not a scientist, only a successful experimenter. The population of Manila Is estimated all the way from 0,000 to G'iO.OCO. For this large population the nurabor of saloons and bars 'at w hich Intoxicants are sold by license Is only 153. During the last year only 633 of the 10,511 cases before the Police Court of the city were arrnlgnM for drunkennevj and disorderly conduct. These arc facts which refute the falsehoods of the man s;nt to Manila by a prohibition organ. Planters and others In Cuba who are interested in the industries of the. island aro seeking a concession in regard to tariff duties on sugar and tobacco, which they fear will not be granted If the Cuban politician who are seeking entire independence of the United States have their way. Such a concession Is of the utmost Importance to Cuba, but there Is no reason for granting it if the United States is to have no advantage in Cuban trade. . One of the new boards asked of the Legislature Is for the examination and certification of telegraph operators. There is no more reason for such a board than there is for a similar board for the examination of stenographers. Its purpose Is to compel telegraph operators all over the State to expend from $3 to $10 as the ex pense of an examination simply that half a dozen examiners and their clerks may get three or four times as much as they can earn as telegraphers. There is no call for a State bank commissioner. The State auditor's office looks after private and State banking institu tions most effectively at a small cost. It would not be done better if a commissioner should be created with a department costing the State from Jj.Cm) to J'O.OuO or drawing Its pustenanec from taxing the Links t'f, or $100 for an examination. So long as the State cannot find places for all its inhabitants, M It favor only as many as ere needed to do the State's business upon Lu-hitj's principles. Th fact that Mr. Artman, the Republican candidate for speaker of the House, r.as a leader in carrying through the counC7 rri township legislation of last year

gives assurance that his Influence will be against any hostile movement in opposition to these measures. In lSDS Mr. Stutesman was one of the active workers for Important reform legislation, which is reason to believe that he would have been equally as safe a speaker when such issues are considered.

the legislature of 1001. The Legislature which meets to-day Is fortunate that It comes to do its work at a time when the people of the State are generally prosperous and when the affairs of the State are in a satisfactory condition. The State under the present regime is paying out of debt and the State credit is not excelled by that of any sister State. The general administration of the affairs of the State has been directed along practical business lines. Indeed, the satisfactory administration of all the affairs of the State is so generally- recognized by the people that it was a source of assistance to the Republicans during the last campaign. This is the fourth successive Republican Legislature. Its predecessors, on topics of public administration, reached wise conclusions. The Legislature of 1S03 destroyed the fee system in Stat and county offices and put the charitable Institutions of tho State upon a nonpartisan basis the result of which has abundantly vindicated the wisdom of euch .legislation. The Legisla ture of. 1S37 remodeled the penal system of the State by making one of the state prisons a ' reformatory and by establishing a system of penalties looking to the reformation of the younger criminals. The general result of the policy is decidedly in favor of the change. The Legislature of 1SD9 gave the force of law to measures designed to insure more responsible and economical management of county and township af fairs.- Experience has proved the wisdom of the essential features of such legislation. By several enactments these Legislatures placed safeguards about the public expenditure by requiring more careful accounting. The Republican Legislature of 1901 should extend and strengthen the good work of its three predecessors. It will scarcely be Republican unless it shall do so. The Interest of the many rather than the few, the extension of the safeguards of clean. Intelligent and economical government and tho making of Indiana a most desirable State In which to live because of the security of life and property and the excellence of Its public institutions arc the proper objects of legislation if the good work of 1805, 1! and 1S90 Is to be carried forward. Every Legislature has its own besetments. Those who have private Interests to serve are always the most insistent. Those who would create new offices and open new leads to the treasury mask selfish interests by loud professions of devotion to the public welfare. If rumors are to be credited, thl3 Legislature will be assailed by several wellorgarlzed raids upon the treasury, which would not have been projected if the State treasury were lean and the times hard. Both parties have equal interest in the welfare of the State, and both parties are said to be represented by able men. Tliev should vie with each other In rendering the people high service. It is never "good politics" to oppose desirable measures that party opponents may be humiliated. BETTER, BIT NOT THE BEST. The defeat of the Hopkins bill for the apportionment of representatives .in Congress during the next decade will give general satisfaction, even if its author is disappointed. It mlzht be well not to Increase the membership of the House, but when It is a question between reducing the representation of States in which all tho people are represented and increasing tho number of representatives in States in which a large part of tho Inhabitants aro disfranchised. It is better to increase the number. There is not so much difference in favor of the superiority of the people of Louisiana over thoso of Indiana that the former's voting population, based upon Stato laws, should have twice tho representation of Indiana. General Grosvernor gave as his reason for voting for the Hopkins bill that the Burleigh substitute would increase the representation of cities at tho sentation of Indiana. General Grosvenor is frequently Illogical, but his lack of logic was never more apparent than when he made this statement. As a matter of fact, the States that would lose under the Hop kins bill Indiana. Kansas, Nebraska, Maine, Virginia and two or three others have no large cities. On the other hand, on any basis of representation, Massachu setts, New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois would gain because of the Increase of population in tho large cities of these States. So long as the House concluded that It was wise not to make an apportionment upon a strictly constltulonal basis, it Is better that the Burleigh substitute should be adopted. It may not be more Just than the Hopkins provision, but it makes tho Injustice less apparent. It Is hoped that before the next apportionment some provision may be made, by constitutional amendment or otherwise, which will put the basis of representation upon a standard of citizenship required by the United States. If illiteracy is to disqualify for counting In the basis of representation in one State, let it disqualify in all the States. The fact that hundreds of thousands of aliens In New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois are counted for the purpose of representation makes it really necessary that qualified voters should be the basis of representation. THE PASSING OP MR. BRYAN. Of course the first question Is, has he really passed? A man possessed of personal magnetism and oratorical power enough to capture a first nomlnatlcn for President, to secure a large vote, to hold his following together four years, capture a second nomination without opposition and a second time receive a large popular vote possesses in a high degree the qualities of a popular leader. But tho possession of such qualities is not always rroof of real merit or enduring popularity. The qualities of popular leadership may be superficial and' ephemeral. It remains to be seen If Mr. Bryan can survive two defeats to an extent that will enable him to hold a place among the future leaders of the Democratic party. His speech at the banquet of the Bryan League in Chicago shows that for the present, at least, he Is willing to accept the Inevitable, take a back seat and risk hi chances of coming to the front again. A man who has been badly beaten twice must realize that something has happened to him and must have a pretty well defined suspicion that there Is something radically wrong either in him or his principles. Mr. Bryan is shrewd enough to see that it would be inopportune and offensive for him

to assume any of the airs of leadership at a time when the Democratic party is trying to crawl from under the second wreck ho has caused, and that his true role at such a time is modesty. So he says he Is now "a private citizen with excellent prospects of remaining such," and that he intends to continue actively in the discussion of public questions and does not desire to be embarrassed by being placed in the attitude of a candidate for any office. He says he has chosen Journalism as his future occupation "because I am more Interested in the promulgation of Democratic principles than I am in enjoying any honors which my countrymen can bestow." All this has an unmistakable air of affected modesty. No man of Mr. Bryan's age who has been twice a candidate for President voluntarily assumes the position of editor of a weekly newspaper, yet to be established, solely for the purpose of promulgating correct principles. Thl3 Is not an age in which men engage In expensive newspaper experiments for merely ethical. Ideal, or sentimental reasons. Either Mr. Bryan expects to make monej' put of his newspaper venture or he intends to use it to keep himself in touch with his party and In the line of future political promotion. Eoth views accord with hi3 personal egotism. He Is vain enough to believe that his name will secure a large circulation for his paper and that he can win fame with his pen as easily as he has heretofore done with hi3 tcngue. He will probably find himself mistaken. Men will not rush by thousands to subscribe for hl3 paper, as they did to see and hear him speak, out of mere. curiosity, and the exploitation of his views on

paper will have nothing of the charm that pertains to oral delivery and personal mag netism. The modesty role which Induces Mr. Bryan to take a back, seat is doubtless the most effective role he could assume at the present time, but It remains to be seen If he will ever get to the front again. He never will unless he Improves the period of his voluntary retirement to get rid of all the Isms of the past and Identify himself with new and progressive Issues, and it Is not likely he has sense enough to do that. REACTIONARY IDEAS. .The first month of the twentieth cen tury has witnessed an incident which typi fies one of tho great conflicts of the times. The incident grew out of the visit of sev eral hundred English Catholic pilgrims to Rome on Tuesday. The pilgrims were headed by the Duke of Norfolk, who read an address to the Tope, in which occurred the following passage: "We pray and trust that the new century may witness the restoration of the Roman Pontiff to that position of temporal independence which your Holiness declared was necessary for the effective fulfillment of tho duties of your world-wide charge." The publication of the address created a sensation in political circles of Rome, and the liberal newspapers declared It was amazing that "an ex-minister of the government of Great Britain, whose friendly relations with Italy are often referred to as constituting an alliance, should in Italy's capital pub licly express a desire for the restoration of institutions which would involve tho de struction of the kingdom." There was so much danger of a popular demonstration against tho British pilgrims that precautionary measures were taken to protect tho hotel where they stopped. In replying to the address the Tope said: You all deplore the evils which afflict us in the painful position to which we submit rather than renounce the sacred rights and independence necessary for the free exer cise of our apostolic mission to tho world. In these last days fresh cause for grief has been added to our sorrow. Under our eyes is this holy city, whlcn should be the in violate renter or tjatnoucism, it is permitted to associations for religious propagation to take advantage of the sad eeonomtfc conditions of the country to corrupt tho faith of our children in the name of a specious doctrine of Judgment which pretends to leave to each person tho right of interpreting in his own fashion tho doc trine of Christ. That the aged Tope, now nearly ninetyone years old, should signalize the opening of the century by asserting anew his ob solete claim to temporal sovereignty and protesting against individual freedom in matters of religion shows how littlo he appreciates the temper of the times and tho coming solution of great questions. He has read history to little purpose if ho thinks that the work of Garibaldi and Cavour, of Victor Emanuel and King Hum bert in the establishment of unified Italy and representative government will ever givo way to the reactionary conditions im plied by the temporal sovereignty of the Pope. He fails as completely to read aright the signs of the times if he does not see that the twentieth century is to bo one of constantly widening individual lib erty of thought and action in religious matters. The world has moved a long way from the dcctrlnes of all the middle age3 and will move much further. Judging from pesent indications, tho end of the present century will see what the Popo calls "th: specious doctrine of Judgment which pre tends to leave to each person the right of interpreting In his own fashion the doctrine of Christ" far more widely recog nized than it now Is. The world moves, and if the Cahtolio Church Is wise it will move also. The next Tope should look forward, instead of backward. In 1SS2 President Arthur vetoed a river and harbor bill which had been passed by Congress. In his veto message he admitted that some of the appropriations In the bill were clearly for the general welfare and were beneficent In their character, but he added: My principal objection to the bill Is that it contains appropriations for purposes not for the common defense or general wel fare, and which do not promote commerce among the States. These provisions, on the contrary, are entirely for the benefit of the particular localities in which it is proposed to make the improvements. I regard such appropriations of the public money as be yond the powers given by the Constitution to Congress ana tne President. The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not, to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it. They sustain a greater inJury in the demoralizing effect produced upon thoso who are entrusted with of ficial duty through all the ramifications of government. Congress passed tne bill over .the veto. and at the next election the Republicans were swept out of power in the House. That till appropriated less than $13,000,000, while the one now before the House appro priates $22.792.000 to be expended during the next year and authorises contracts to the amount of $07.000,000 additional. Congress had better think several times before it passes the pending bill. A surprisingly large number of members of the Legislature wear the little button of tho Grand Army of the Republic. In leasing an opera house owned by him la Cleveland, Senator Hanna stipulates

that no attractions are to be presented that are objectionable to him and that the opera

house shall not be opened Sundays ex cept upon his written consent. The plcturo papers will probably find something in this to caricature. The new mayor of Minneapolis signalized his inauguration on Monday by discharging IC'3 policemen. His reform seems to be of the radical sort. FROM HITHER AND YON. ' Or "Cut Dend." rhiladeljihia Pres. "Oft ar.y bcoks fcr Christmas?" "Yes, I pot on called 'Alone In London. " "Ah! Autobiography cf Willie Walledoff As tor, I eu prose." The Overburdened Sex. Chicago News. Teacher Who was It supported th world on his Shoulders? Rrlght Pupil Atlas. Teacher And how was Atlas supported? Rrlght Pupll-Ey Mrs. Atlas, I suppose. Not Afraid. Yonkers Statesman. "I should think you would be afraid to eat onions in the middle of the day," said the blondo typewriter to the brunette when they met at dinner. "I'm not a bit," replied the dark one; "you fice, our office Is on tho tnirty-sixtn noor. ana when I go up in that elevator it takes my breath away." ; Opportunity. Detroit Journal. Once upon a time, Fate gave a man th silvet tcrguo. Jiut the Public, on the other hand, gave him the tin ear. "Alas!" cried the man. "Tho gift of Fate avails me nothing." This fable teaches that parts cut but littlo Ice without opportunity. Progress, Twas said by a Whig, That a man with a gig Enjoyed a claim to gentility. But a man who would now Win the parvenu's bow Must belong to the automobllity. Life. VICE IN NEW YORK CITY TESTIMONY OP E. A. FUCHS AT THE TRIAL OF CAPTAIN III2IILII1Y. Evidence Hint Portion of the "Red Licht" District Need Purification Crusaife at Philadelphia. NEW YORK, Jan. 9. Emil Fuchs was the first witness to-day in the trial of Police Captain Herlihy by the Board of Police Commissioners for neglect of duty and unbecoming conduct. Mr. Fuchs said he had been employed in the office of the East Side branch of the Legal Aid Society. This office is in tho building of the university settlement, which is located on Rivington street, the center of the "Red Light" district. The witness swore that he had been solicited by women In front of several houses in Christie street, which he designated. The witness said that while passing a house on Eldridge street last summer he had seen four children playing on the sidewalk with some advertising cards. Witness testified that, in picking up the cards he found they were advertisements for a "furnished-room" house. . He questioned the children and found they knew the cards were advertisements for a disorderly house. This evidence was ruled out, on the ground that it could not be proven by children that a house was disorderly. Mr. Fuchs said that while he was an as sistant in the East Side branch of the Legal Aid Society people would come into the of fice of the society and complain about the doings in some of the houses. "Parents would come in," Mr. Fuchs testified, "and complain that their daughters had been abducted from their homes and taken to houses of ill fame to lead lives of shame." "Can you swear of a single instance when such complaints were mado?" asked Lawj er Grant. The witness told of a specinc instance where a young girl, whom he named, had been abducted, and where the mother had lodged a complaint with the society. Mr. Fuchs further said that regular agen cies conducting a well-regulated traffic In women had been maintained on the East Side. Theso agencies made it their bus! ness to furnish women to the houses of ill fame, and did not hesitate at any meas ures as long as their purpose was accom plished. The trial will be resumed to morrow. Agitation nt Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 9.-A mass meet ing of citizens, of which Bishop Henry C. Totter, of New York, was the central fig uro, was held In the Academy of Music to night for the purpose of taking preliminary steps In starting a general crusade against vice in this city. The big building was crowded, most of those present being women. Bishop Potter, when Introduced, was enthusiastically welcomed. He refrained from saying much of tho condition of vice as it prevails in this city, leaving that for local speakers to tell. He touched brielly on his boyhood days, which were spent here, and then discussed In a general way the centralization of power which, he said. exists to-day in many walks of life. He said there is in the popular mind a belief that judges on the bench, men in tne legis latlvc halls and the smallest politicians arc purchasable. That such a condition could exist, hs said, was a dishonor. Rev. Dr. Whyland Hoyt, of this city, de llvered a strong address against the alleged immorality of the city. He said there were In the city "over seven hundred houses of women whose patn led to death." A resolution was adopted to the effect that the citizens of Philadelphia "recognize that our city has fallen under the sway of its worst eleme-nt, organized Into a politica machine, which, by its control of vast rev enue, tho spoils of office, unwarranted use of police power and other agencies, af flicts us with almost every form of misgovernment." The resolution also provides for the appointment of a committee to be gin a movement for the betterment of the prevailing conditions. UNRECONCILED REBELS. Confedernte Veterans Protest Against Invitation to President McKinley. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. O.-At a! special meeting of he Camp of the Army of tho Tennessee, United Confederate Veterans, the strongest of the Confederate associations in New Oleans, a resolution ofTered by General Stephen Charlaron, commander of the camp, protesting against the invitation of President McKinley to the Confederate reunion to be held in Memphis this spring was unanimously adopted. General Chalaron said it was understood the President would be invited to Memphis and the resolution was intended simply as a warning to Memphis not to do it. MEMPHIS. Tenn., Jan. 9. The protest of the New Orleans Camp of Confederate Veterans against inviting President McKinley to attend the reunion of Confederate veterans here next May will be ignored, so far as Memphis i concerned. The Invitation extended by the city officials, commercial bodies' and Confederate veterans of Memphis will be carried to the President by a committee selected for that purpose. Rrokern Under Arrest. NEW YORK. Jan. 9.-Tvo brokers are under arrest at police headquarters, charged with swindling by means of forged notes. They are James De Lavclle and C. II. Gardner. Col. T. S. Moffatt, of Chicago, who also has an office at No. 1.1 Wall street, is the complainant against the men. It Is alleged that Moffatt wan advised by Gardner to accept notes signed by one Edward Rofter, amounting to more than $30,000. These notes were found to be worthless.

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STATUS OP PORTO RICO DISCUSSED BY CONSTITUTIONAL LAWYERS. 4 Contention Made that the United States) Constitution Cover AH Our Possessions Secured by Treaty. C0UBERT, HART AND WARD TIIEIIl ARGUMENTS AGAINST TIIC GOVERNMENTS POSITION. Solicitor General Richards on the Rlchts and Powers of Treaty Sinkers and Congress. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. Onithe reconvenng of the United States Slinrcme Court to-day Mr. F. R. Coudert, jri resumed hi3 argument in the Porto Rlcan cases, con tinuing his contention that Porto Rico is not foreign territory, and hence that it a incompetent for the government authorlties to levy and collect duties on articles mportcd from Porto Rico to New York. Before taking up that part of his argu ment Mr. Coudert undertook to respond to a question propounded to him by Justice Brown. The question was whether a country can cease to be a foreign country and yet not be a part of the United States whether there is an intermediate condl-' tion. Replying, Mr. Coudeit expressed the opinion that such a condition might exist temporarily, and he added that the Supreme Court recognized It In dealing with Tampico, in the case of Fleming vs. Page, and In dealing with California in tho case of Cross vs. .Harrison, before the acquisition of California by the United States was completed. In such cases, he said, there was still a foreign element to be reckoned with, and our assumption of au thority was military in character. This assumption could be only temporary, and in case of tha subsequent acquisition of the country In question civil government must of necessity supersede the military con trol. On the other hand, if the territory is not acquired, and Is restored, the foreign sovereign takes control without ostenta tion, showing that all the time its rights have existed, though they have been dorn ant. Mr. Coudert contended that in a case of acquisition the dividing line is passed when a treaty of acquisition is signed and ratified. When, he said, we sanction acquisition by the ratification of a treaty we thus signalize our control or and sovelgnty over new territory. This, he asserted, has been done in the case of Torto Rico in the treaty of 1S38, and by the treaty Porto Rico had become as much a part of the United Slates as California had become through the proceedings subsequent to the war with Mexico. Mr. Coudert- then resumed his regular argument, taking up the question as to what part of the Constitution applies to Porto Rico. He followed his brief quite closely in this part of his address. Before he concluded Mr. Coudert was subjected to a number of questions from the bench and obtained leave to file a sup plementary brief which, it 13 presumed, will contain replies to them. OTHER ARGUMENTS. Mr. Coudert was followed by A. O. Hart, who spoke especially of tho Armstrong case, in which the question Involved is the collection of duty on goods shipped from New York to Porto Rico. He contended that the Constitution of the United States extends over every portion of tho national domain, whether State, Territory or District. He also argued that the President, being an executive officer, had no right to impose duties on commerce between Porto Rico and "other parts of the United States" by executive order after the ratification of the Paris treaty. "The iriea." he said, "that in one portion of tho country the executive and legislative authority is subject to restrictions and is without restriction in another part is repugnant to the theory of our government and cannot be toicratea. 'lhere is, said ht. no such thing as divided sovereignty half empire and half republic, half Spanish and half American. H. W. Ward, counsel for Dooley, Smith & Co., laid especial stress upon the fact that the position of tho Porto Rlcan law providing for the collection of duties is separate from other parts of that law, and that It is limited in operation in point of time to March 1, 1002. He characterized it as a makeshift to provide revenues for tho island of Porto Rico, and said it was therefore not entitled to tho same favorable presumption that it otherwise would have been. Whatever the motive of the provision, it was, to his mind, a plain violation of the Constitution, and he quoted numerous authorities in support of the statement. When Mr. Ward finished. Solicitor General Richards began the presentation of the government's side of the controversy, giving especial attention to the effect of the ratification of the Paris treaty upon the action of this country and Porto Rico. He said that denial of the power which is being exercised by the President and Congress amount to saying that ceded territory becomes, by the act of cession, an integral part of the United States, to which tho Constitution, of its own force, applies, placing its people, its products and its ports on an immediate equality with ours and also extending the constitutional limitations to such countries. If this was the case, said Mr. Richards, the trcaty-makimr power in acquiring territory is necessarlly lame. Impotent, impossible, ridiculous.' Mr. Richards argued that newly acquired territory Decomes, "not a part, but a dos session of the United States terrltorv belonging to the United States." and he went on to say: "Its disposition and gov ernment rest under the Constitution with the treaty making power and with Con gress. "Then, does such territory fall within the provision which requires duties to be as sessed upon goods arriving from a for eign country? asked Justice Brown Before Mr. Richards could renlv he nut the question In a diiTercnt shape, saying: "Does it not cease to oe foreign country?" To this query Air. Jticnards answered: I think not, not within the meaning of the customs law. The Dingley law treated as forelsrn all territory outside the limits of the United States, meaning the States and Territories then created for customs purposes as the United States and that condition remains until Congress may see fit to change it.' Continuing. Mr. Richards contended that the President has not power to extend the limits of the United States, but that the legislative branch of the government may dc so on whatever terms it may see lit. He said further that the parties to tho treaty both knew that the location and condition of the islands acquired by war with Spain would not permit their Incorporation into the United States and the application to them of those of our laws which the Constitution requires to be uni form throughout the United States. "Certainly," he went on, "the treaty never in tended to make these tropical Islands a part of the United States in the consti tutional sense and Just as certainly did makes them a part of the United States In the international sense. Mr. Richards had about half concluded his argument when the court adjourned for the day. Waiting: on the Supreme Court. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-The House com mittee on insular affairs has , decided to postpone consideration of all questions re lating to our new possessions until after the Supreme Court renders its. decision upon the question as to "whether the Constitu tion follows the flag," as it is considered useless meanwhile to attempt any legislatlon for the islands. There are oulte a number of matters of nresslnir imrortance. but everything now hinges upon the Su-

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preme Court decision. It is hoped that the Agoncillo is to succeed Apaciblo at Hoiigdeclsloa may be banded down before this Kong.

Congress expires, March 4. If it is not, all legislation relating to our new possessions will go over until the next Congress meets. INSPECTED THE ACADEMY.

Congressional Probers Conducted Through AVc.it Point Building. WEST POINT, N. Y., Jan. 9. The congressional investigation committee, which is investigating tho charges of hazing at the West Point Military Academy, convened this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the academic building. The only witness examined was Col. A. L. Mills, superintendent of the Military Academy. The sunenntendent gave a very lengthy description o' The rules of the academy and went over much of the ground he covered in his testimony before the military court of inquiry of Dec. 29. Chairman Dick interrupted the witness about 4:.!0 o'clck and requested that the committee be conducted through the barracks so that they could form some Idea of the scope of their work whlie here. The committee, accompanied by Colonel Mill. Commandant Heintz and Adjutant Rivers, went through the barracks and inspected the quarters of tho men. Then they went to the gymnasium building, where they spent nearly half an hour in conversation with Herman J. Koehlcr, swordmaster and instructor in gymnastics, who explained the- exercises through which newccmeis are rcqulrv il to go at the academy. Later on they passed through the cadet commissary, the workings of which weie thoroughly explained. The committee watched the cadets at supper formation in the barracks square and afterward went to the mcs3 hall, where they arrived a few. seconds before the cadets. All the members watched the proceedings In the mess hall with evident interest and asked a few questions of the cadets in charge of the several tables. After Itavin? the hall. General Dick and the oiher members of the committee wf. to the West Point Hotel for dinner. They held an executive session there to-nignt, at which they discussed their plans for continuing tho Jnvectlgation, which they will resume at 9 o'clock to-morrow morning. The Military Board' Report. WASHINGTON. Jan. 9. Secretary Root said thi3 afternoon that ho was not yet prepared to say what action he would toke as a result of the disclosures made In the Investigation of the case of ex-Cadet Booz by the Brooke court of Inquiry, nor was he yet ready to make public the findings of that court. Speaking generally, he sal l the rules at the Military Academy wee very strict against hazing, moie so row under Colonel Mills than ever before, and that every cadet found guilty of that practice had been dismissed. Since his administration began he had dismissed two adeu lor that offense. COL THOMPSON'S FEAT HOW THE FILIPINO LEADER GERONIMO WAS PUT TO ROUT. Supposed Impregnable Stronghold Stormed by Picked Men of Two American Regiments WASHINGTON. Jan. 9. A recent Issue of a Manila paper gives a graphic and In teresting account -of the capture and utter defeat of the forces of the famous insur gent leader Geronlmo, near Montaljlan by --.i t mi i 4i j i i i IsUl. J. JLUUIIipMJU uiiu a IIIUUJUIIU JULR.ru men of the Twenty-second and Forty-second Volunteer regiments in November last. Geronlmo, from all accounts, lived up to his namesake In this country In that he hurled deflnace from his mountain fortress In much the same way as Geronlmo, the celebrated Apache chieftain, harassed and defied our troops In the A est. The insurgent chief was strongly fortified at PInauran, in Demorte Canon, near Montablan, his trenches being strung along both sides for a distance of six or seven miles. "After the reoccupation of the presiden tial chair," saj's the article, "it was de cided by the military authorities to dis lodge Geronlmo at any cost. The latter had boasted ' frequently of the time- when the Insurgents killed 500 Spaniards, who made an unsuccessful attempt to take Pinaumn The time for Col. Thompson s attack was set for noon on Nov. 22. The expedition was divided into four detachments. The main one, under command of Captain Brandie, was in the lead and, while advancing through the bed of the canon was the first to draw the fire of the insurgents. The entrenched Filipinos, believing the deI tachment to be the entire attacking party. I allowed the detachment to advance well up the canon in order more completely to bottle it. When it had reached the de sired point, the Filipinos, yelling like Co manche Indians, opened up a vigorous fire. Simultaneously with their volleys came the attack of the Americans from four distinct directions. Then Colonel Thompson, leading the main body, per formed tho feat of the engagement in climbing a steep wall through ditt and underbrush and entered the boasted 'i.npregnable fortress of the insurgent leader. The men had to cut their own trails and pull themselves up tho mountain side by grasping twigs and saplings hand over hand." When the Americans reached the top there was not a live rebel in sight. The number of insurgents kined is estimated at from fifty to one hundred and fifty. The Americans lost four killed and about a dozen injured. Commissary and quartermaster's stores were destroyed. Including insurgent uniforms to the number of nearly fifteen hundred. Enlisted at Indianapolis. The names of George W. Elder, of Com pany I, Sixteenth Infantry; Rutledge Har den, of Company C, Twelfth Infantry; Christian F. Kayscr, of Company B, . . . A. T M J f t A Thirty-first Infantry, and Samuel A. Neldead received from the Philippines. Elder's home was at Whiteland. lie enlisted Mav 3, 1S30, and died Dec. 19. Warden's homo was at West Terre Haute. His death oc curred Dec 2). Kayser, of Clay City, Ind., died Dec. 7. Nelson, whoso death is re ported as on Dec. Zi, lived la this city. More Ports Slay Be Closed. MANILA, Jan. 9. The military govern ment is considering the question of closing certain ports in the .southern Islands in crder more effectually to prevent communlcation between the Insurgents. The port of Ubay on Bohol island, has already been ordered closed, as the garrison stationed thero has been withdrawn. The act for the organization of the metrcDulltan police of Manila has been passed by the Philippine commission. The force will consist of three companies, selected from the volunteer soldiers. Thought to Be from New Castle. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW CASTLE, Ind., Jan. 9. Daniel F. Griffin, mentioned in to-day's Journal as having died in the Philippines Dec 21, Is thought to be Daniel F. Griffin. Jr.. of this city. Young Gnflm enlisted In Company C, of the Thirty-first Regiment, and was in that company wnen last neara rrom. although he expressed a wish to be trans ferred to Company u. ills parents and other relatives here believe him to be dead. The Deportation of Filipinos. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-H Is stated at the War Department that the action of General MacArthur in sending Filipino In surgent leaders to the Island of Guam was taken with the full knowledge and annroval of the secretary of war. General MacArthur suggested the advisability of such a course of action some time ago and he was given full authority to act in tlw premises. One of Agulnnldo's Agents. LONDON, Jan. 9. Dr. Apiciblo, a Fili pino, arrived here yesterday evening from the United States and proceeded to Paris. I He Is expected to replace Aßoncillo, AgulnI nido's acent here. Dr. Apaciblo was forI merlv chairman of the Philippine junta at I Hong-Kong. It has been reported that

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THEY DO NOT WANT THE AVI5-CONSII COMSIISSIOMII) ON FRIDAY. No Record of n Warship Ever Having Been Put in Service on that Unlucky Day. WASHINGTON. Jan. 9 Captain Reiter. of the navy, who Is supervising work on th new battleship Wisconsin at San Francisco, has recommended that the plan of putting the ship In commission on Feb. 1 be reconsidered. When this plm was arranged. the fact was overlooked that Feb. 1 falls on Friday. Old salts say that there is no record of a warship being put into active service on the so-called unlucky day of th week. The matter evidently has . been brought to the attention of Captain Ches ter, for a letter has Just been received at the department from him, recommending that the Wisconsin be put in commission on either Jan. 28 or Feb. 4 (both Mondays) Instead of on Feb. 1, the day originally selected. Although he does not say so. It Is pretty well understood that the "Friday superstition is the only reason for the change of date. The Wisconsin will be assigned, tempo rarily at least, to the Pacific station and will prove a valuable addition to thai fleet. She is of greater displacement and carries more guns than the Iowa, and, being of more modern construction, may displace that big Dattleship as the r.ags:uo ol the Pacific squadron. Hear Aiiu-T.1 &ey will succeed Rear Admit al LüJtx In command of the squadron on Jan. 2, ar;d :t is expeoted that he will join lue rtuhip Iowa at San icgo, Cal., on :;. I: will be for him to say whether the Iowa or the Wisconsin shall be the flagrhip of the squadion. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Brief Mention of Action on Dills and Departmental Matter. Fred .L.. Holllngsworth, a letter carrier at Anderson, Ind., has been promoted Irom JCC0 to JS50. The House committee on banking an! currency has reported favorably the Brosius bill to extend the charters or national banks. C. L Vawter, the United States marshal at Nome. Alaska, has sent his resignation to the President. He Is from Montana. F. K. Richards. Of Washington, has been recommended for the vacancy. Judge Denton, of Somerset, Ky., has been selected as tho internal revenue collector for the Eighth district, to succeed John W. Yerkes, recently appointed commissioner of Internal revenue. He has the indorse ment of all the Republican members of the Kentucky delegation In Congress.' Indiana postmasters have been appointed as follows:- Bynum. Shelby county, Wil liam T. McDaniel. vice Elzy Monroe, re signed; Hamburg, Franklin county, Francis Dwlnger. vice Conrad Hlttle, removed;. Ray's Crossing. Shelby county, Frank IS. Brilcy, vice James J. Thomas, removed. . The Senate committee on foreign rela tions yesterday heard arguments on botU sides of the controversy over the Jamaica reciprocity treaty. Hon. J. A. Kasson, who negotiated the treaty, appeared In sup port of it, while Senator Perkins, of Cali fornia, opposed the ratification of the agreement. The officials of the Cigar Leaf Board of Trade of tho United States, appeared be fore the House committee on agriculture yesterday, and urged generous appropria tions for the extension or the worK now being done by the division of soils of the I rrn rtmrnt rtf A rrHfMiltnro In the introduc Department of Agriculture in the introduc tion of new varieties of cigar leaf tobacco and improved methods of cultivation, curing and fermentation. The public lands committee of the House has directed a favorable report on the Sentae bill to allow the commutation of homestead entries in certain cases; also, on Delegate Flynn's bill providing for the subdivision into counties, designation of county seats, etc., of the lands 'ceded by tho Wichita and the Comanrhe, Kiowa and , Apache Indians before they are opened for settlement of entry. The House committee on naval affairs is considering the naval appropriation bill, which the subcommittee has agreed upon. The full committee has tentatively agreed to increase the enlisted force of the navy 3,000. The secretary of tho navy recommended an increase of 5.000 men. The committee also has scaled down the appropriations recommended for the various navy yards, reducing them on an average about 40 per cent, from the estimates. The departure of the Dixie from Gibraltar for Tangier yesterday has renewed attention to the Ezzegui case, although it is said by officials that the visit of tho ship has no reference - whatever to the Indemnity claim. The government of Morocco made a satisfactory agreement some time ago to pay $5.000 to the claimants, but tho amount has not been received1 or distributed, so far as known here. It Is expected, however, that a satisfactory adjustment of the entire matter will be made. Tho State Department has received a dispatch from Mr. Chas. W. Klndrick, consul for the United States at ciudad Juarez. Mexico, reporting the release of T. W. Lewis, an American citizen, an engineer on the Mexican Central Railroad, who wa arrested because his train ran over and killed a Mexican named Jesus Calderon. who had attempted to make a coupling. The matter had been the subject of correspondence between the State Department and the minister at Mexico City and the United States consul at Ciudad Juarez. J. F. McNamee, representing the locomotive engineers and tho Labor Federation of Columbus. O., made an argument before the Senate committee on agriculture yesterday against the Grout oleomargarine bill. He contended for the right of consumers to buy any article they might desire which is not deleterious to health, as he contended oleomargarine is not. He compared the efforts of the butter makers to restrict the manufacture of oleomargarine to an imaginary effort on the part of tho Tock quarry owners to prevent the manufacture of brick. One proceeding, he asserted, would be as reasonable as the other. The reported indignities to George E. another said to nrc Deen imprisoned ana ui-ireaieor oy me, cnezueian auinonueF, nave noi ei uecn brought to the attention of the State Department. so that the officials are unable to state what course will be pursued if the subject assumes official form. The McAuley case, referred to in the press dispatches as one of an aggravated character in Venezuela, does not appear to have reached the State Department thus far. as the records of the past three months show no reference to it. . Senator Lodge has presented to the Senate a memorial signed by thirty-eight manufacturers of cotton goods in the Southern States expressing their approval of the action of the United States in the protection of American interests in China, In a body of their memorial the signers say their trade has Increased In recent years "to such an extent that interference In China by any European government would tend seriously to Injure. not only the cotton manufacturing Industries, but other Important products of the United States which are being shipped to China." They urge the necessity of maintaining the open door policy, especially in Manchuria. The Senate has confirmed the following nominations: i It. Mowrer, of Ohio, consul at Antigua. West Indies; Oscar F. Williams, of New York, consul general at Singapore; J. E. Boyd. United States district Judge f.-r the Western district of North Carolina; Jacob Trieber, United States district Judge for the Eastern district of Arkansas; William G. Whipple, United States attorney for the Eastern district of Arkansas; Nolen L. Chew, of Indiana, to be deputy auditor for the Postoffice ' Department to succeed Abraham L. Lawshe, reslsned; Cyrus F. Adams, of Illinois, to be assistant register of tho treasury, to succeed Nolen L. Clew, transferred. The War Department will Investigate the case of Capt. C. W.' King, assistant quartermaster United States Volunteers, recently arrested at Mobile. Ala., on the charge of having accepted a bribe fron Mr. Hobson. th contractor for the constructlon of barracks a:ul other buildings at Fort Morgan. Ala. Instructions were sent to tlenerul Brooke, at New York, comrr.undlr.g the Department ot the East io send an omct-r ot his department to Mobile at once for the purrose of Investigating tho case, with a view to determining whether Captain Kin;; shall b tried by the civil authorities or by a court-martial. An order also was sent to Captain King relieving Mm of his duties. King wired his fain?; at East Fort Dode, la., yesterday: "Don't worry over tho news you heur. Have bcoa victimized. Ain innocent of tny guilt.