Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 81, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1901 — Page 4

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LOUIS Union News Company. Union Depot WASHINGTON. D. c7-r.!i House, Ebo;tt Houd ar.d Willard' Hotel. It la time that a half dozen candidates for United States senator before the Nebraska Legislature Ret together and put an end to the deadlock. The independent papers in Chicago thJt have been telling their readers of the inefficient administration of Mayor Harrison teem to be supporting him In fine shape. Tha expiration of the Chinese exclusion law by limitation May 3 of next year will cause the reopening of that troublesome Question under more embarrassing circumstances tnan ever. One cannot tell liow it will affect the remaining Insurgents In the Philippines to be threatened with being deprived of the privilege of holding office if they do not surrender by April 1, but the promise of office in this country would be a temptation that could not be resisted. The simultaneous appearance of the mayor's address and of the declaration of members of his boards that he must again be a candidate eem 3n organized effort to start Mr. Taggart on a fourth heat. IJefore the e cond Tuesday In October there is a heated season that will be very trying for candidates. Three or four years ago horses were a drug on the market, and the ever ready prophet, having seen a horseless carriage, predicted with absolute certainty that in a few years the noble horse would be a useless animal. Just now the government agents In Omaha are finding considerable difficulty In purchasing horses for a cavalry regiment. A movement Is on foot to place all the coal mines of Illinois under the control of one company, with a capital of $73,0 0,000. The operators claim they will have to enter Into such a combination in order to compete with those of Pennsylvania, who have already done so. It is another illustration on a large scale of the modern tendency to industrial consolidation. The United States, warship New York, which was recently sent to back up a demand for the payment of an indemnity and an apology from the government of Morocco, Is expected to reach Tangiers tomorrow. Its arrival will probably bo followed soon by definite news as to the action of Morocco, which is likely to be prompt compliance with the demand. The Maryland census enumerator who padded the returns of two counties by counting several hundred dead persons will probably be let off with a light penalty, though his offense Involves line and imprisonment. No motive has been assigned for the act, and It sterns to have been prompted moro by stupidity than viciousr.rss. though there Is a good deal of both In the rural districts cf Maryland. Minister Wu admonished hi Chicago audience that nothing can be gained for civilisation in China by destroying that which the people now have and compelling then to accept the civilization of the western world. The Chinese, he declares, should b? permitted to take as much of the ne-.v civilization as they can assimilate. The western civilization which the Chinese hae feen mon of consists In looting and violence. The bequests made to pnblic objects th? pist year by American citizens reach the unprecedented aggregate of $i?2,4'H.30, distributed as follows: $3i,9:rj.;ii to educational Institutions. S2.Ml.0ni) to libraries. $2,Uzn to museums ami art galleries. JS.SuO.GGo to Churches and flJ.G21.722 to charities. Those who cannot give should not criticise th Etving. yet it is not impertinent to observe that It might do much more good to devote larger amounts to the pensioning of wornout workmen on the same principle as Mr. Carnegie provided in part for his workmen. The United States assumed the cl aims of American citizens against Spain or Cuba during the revolt. Already claims have been filed amounting to JoS.onn.rmo. ah Americans held only $oAO"0.0') worth of property in Cuba, it is impossible that all except twelve millions of it was destroyed. When, however, the claims are cut down there wlil be six er eight million dollars to be paid for Cuba, but th- Cubans who uro demanding Independence without any recognition of their debt to the United States, instead of expressing gratitude, are denouncing u.. I'iit fjll, a few days before the !ectlm, th Indianapolis K-nt!nl printed a letter purporting to hive been written by Custer Henderson, a soldier serving In the Philippines, in which charges of the vilest sort were preferred cgainst olllcers and men of the United States army. The Sentinel claimed that it had put forth earnest efforts to verify this letter, and printed it

conspicuously, with libelous headlines In large type. The statements in the letter were immediately denounced as untrue by War Department officials, and during the past winter the War Department issued a statement, on the authority of Henderson, denying that he had written the letter. On March 20 the Newport Hoosier State published a letter from Henderson in which ho explicitly denies that he wrote the slinderous statements printed in the Sentinel. It is presumed that none of these denials has come undtr the eyes of the editors of the Sentinel, else that paper would promptly have retracted the infamous libels to which it so eagerly gave currency. The letter of Mr. Henderson, printed in the Newport paper of March 20, would look well in the Sentinel's columns, and its publication by that paper would In a small way atone Its infamous attack on the men who wear the uniform of the United States army. DECEPTIVE STATEMENTS. The mayor, in his message, gave the per capita tax of several cities having a population of over Won. with the remark that the table is taken from the bulletin of the United States Labor Bureau for September, VJQ. The Sentinel says the table is made up by taking the same Items of expenditures In the several cities. The purpose of both 13 to make it appear that the people of Indianapolis pay less taxes than any city in the Union, because of the efforts of Mayor Taggart. To get down to facts, no such table, as the mayor's message attributes to the bulletin of the national Labor Bureau appears in the issue for September. Furthermore?, in the line of fact, it should be stated that the comparison of the items of expenditure as stated by th Sentinel is deceptive in the extreme. Tj illustrate: Such permanent improvements of streets as paving or asphalting in the Eastern cities are patel for by the proceeds of a general levy on all the taxables, while in this city the permanent improvement of streets and sewers is paid for by a levy on the abutting property and adjacent property assümed to be benefited. In the report referred to Providence, .which is next above Indianapolis in the list, paid H20.S3S for permanent street improvements where Indianapolis paid $-,4. and J108.SCS for sewers where this city paid 13,100. St. Paul paid JfSl.OGO for permanent street improvements &nd $:nJ,700 for sewers. Most of the cities included in the comparison pay for paving I y a general tax, which appears In the general expenditures. If the hundreds of thourands of dollars which have been assessed for street improvements upon the adjacent property, imposing thereon a mortgage of from 20 to 7a per cent, of iU value, and not Infrequently more than its value, should be added to the taxation of. Indianapolis to make this comparison, the per capita would be very different. Pro v. Iclenee, lt. I., issued millions of dollais' worth of bonds to pay for street and other improvements, upon which interest amounting to STW.WS was paid in 1SW, while Indianapolis paid but $S2,CW as interest. Providence paid 2,Ml,C0S of Its debt, while Indianapolis paid but Jll.GuO in 1SW. When allowances are made for these differences anel the comparison Is made of the cost of maintenance; alone, Indianapolis pays as much taxes per capita as the cities whica the mayor puts into his list. Taxation in Indianapolis? During the winter of 1S03 the Taggart Hoard of Public Works opposed the Hugg bill, which limited the assessment for street Improvements to 20 per cent of the value of the property. It Is understood that the present Board of Public Works has been behind all the propositions designed to deprive the oppressed homeowner of appeal from the decree of the board to improve streets. It is the prevailing criticism, if not the prevailing opinion, that tho Board of Public Works regards it the main function of its office to decrea the Improvement of such streets as aic needed to keep the contractors busy. Hundreds of those who started out to purchaso homes a few years ago have been compelled to give up their beginnings because street assessments have doubled their mortgages. Scot es of pieces of property have been taxed for street improvements for moro than the property would bring in the market. This has been essentially the Taggart policy for five years. And yet he has the cudacity to pose as the creator of low taxation In Indianapolis! Let him be judgeel by his own figures: City expenditures in IK'S, the year before Taggart, $U,lHH).S; the expenditures during Taggart's fifth year, Jlt27J,022.1t- increase, per cent. The mayor snould have held his message for publication until the morning of April 1.

A c'omit or deliberation. Chief Justice Fuller, of the United States Supreme Court, announced, a day or two ago, that, beginning on Monday, the 25th Inst., the court will take a recess for two weeks. As the court is not in the habit of taking a recess as a mere resplK from work nor for any trivial reason, it is quite? likely that this one will be devoted mainly to consultations of the judges and to formulating opinions on the so-called insular test suits. These are the suits argued and submitted nearly two months ago, involving the constitutional relations between this government and our recentlyacquired island possessions. In fact, that is understood to be the object of the recess. Strictly shaking, these so-called Insular test suits Involved only the status of Porto Rice), but every principle -inyolveel applied equally to the Philippines. -The briefs and arguments submitteel on both sides seemed to be exhaustive of the subject, and the opinion of the court has been expected on every Monday, which 13 decision day, for weeks past. Now, after several weeks of public expectancy, the court announces, a week In advances that, on a certain date, it will take a recess for two weeks, the purpose of vhlch undoubtedly Is to give final consideration to these Important suits. It is probable ail that has been done thus far has been to allow the arguments to rest undisturbed In the judicial mind and In the atmosphere of constitutional learning which pervades the court. In this Interval somewhat of a process of mental digestion must have gone on, whether consciously or not, in the mind of each member of the court. Hut the final process of formulating a decision is yet to come. As to this process, a well-informed writer, whose statement is probably correct, says: The first stage in the process of formulating a dc i-ion !s for the chief justic e and the ei.ht aso l ate justices to nue; in conference, and after a free and full exchange of views select some member of the court to block out the first draft of the decision. Ordinarily, the Justice to whom thi daty is assigned, requires a month or more to sift the chaff fmni the grain ef argument, and. having accomplished this to his own satisfaction, nearly as much time is required In which to formulate hl.s own epinlon and reduce it to wilting. In a cao

of such magnitude and transcendent Importance in point of fact, there are, eight er ten of these cases, every one of which has at core the- same constitutional point, but the details of no two of which are exactly alike It is reasonable to suppose that more time will be consumed in the preliminary stage of arriving at a decision. The justice who writes the first draft of the decision has galley proofs of it struck off for the convenience of his associates. When what the court officials call the galley proof stage has thus been completed, another conference of the Justices is called and the. galley proof opinion is distributed. Discussion of the opinion in that form by the full brnch may or may not then ensue. It is probable that each justice will carry this galley proof opinion to his own study for more careful investigation than it may be convenient to give it in conference. When the chief Justice barns that his associates are ready for another conference he calls it. and then the galley proof decision, as corrected and revised by each justice to suit his views, may be multiplied into as many decisions as there are members of the court, excepting, of course, that the member who wrote the original will make no changes in It. At this stage the really difficult work of the process of forming the tin el opinion begins. If there is to be a divided court, that fact then becomes patent, and the completion of the task is still further delayed bv the necessity of the dissenters, or the minority, Poing through identically the same process of designating some one of their number to prepare a galley proof opinion for their investigation, correction and revision so as to meet to a nicety the views of each of the minority. In the meantime the majority are laboring to produce from their work of revision on the original galley proof opinion a deliverance that, in principle's and phraseology, accurately sets forth the opinion of their number. It is a great thing for a country to have for Its highest court of appeal a body of learned men who take so much time and exercise so much care, labor and patience to make their decisions such as will stand the test of professional criticism and of time and posterity. In the present case the country would 'have accepted the decision of the court as a finality if it had been rendered a week after the suits were submitted on briefs and arguments, but the deliberation of tho court will give still greater weight to its -decision. A court that moved In an atmosphere of popular clamor or political expediency would not exercise such deliberation. Happily, the character and traditions of the Supreme Court of the United States will not allow it. to do otherwise. It does not even allow Itself to be hurried by the fact that the shaping of the entire "colonial policy" of the government, to use an ill-fitting phrase, may depend upon its decision. Without regard to colhtteral questions It simply takes all the time necessary to digest and assimilate the arguments submitted and to formulate, each member of the court for himself, and a majority for the court, opinions that are to shape the policy of the Nation for all future time. The Nation is fortunate in having a Supreme Court of such deliberation.

HU AT HUSl I.TS OF TWO HLKCTIOXS The first and second elections of President Mckinley offered a irfarked contrast in one respect. The first was followed by a general outburst of rejoicing over the aritlclpateel revival of business anel prosperity at home an expectation, by the way, which was fully realized while the second has been followed by a rapid expansion of American ideas and acceptance of republican government in new fields. If McKinley had been defeated in American Interests at home would have suffered Irreparable loss; his defeat in i:00 would almost have elestroyed American prestige abroad. There is no more disgraceful passage In our national history than that which records the baneful influence of the antl-ad-minlstration party during the presidential campaign of lfi0 on. the people of our new possessions. It was felt everywhere, and evidence of its operation crops out continually. It gave encouragement to the royalist faction In Hawaii, caused discontent in Porto IUco, retarded the pacification of Cuba and prolonged the insurrection in the Philippines. Even in Samoa the reelection of McKinley Is welcomed as a happy solution of a doubtful situation. Samoa is not a new possession, but American Interests in the Island have never been as well established as they arc now. The reelection of President McKinley contributed to this end. A recent letter addressed to him as "our good and esteemeel father" says: The people of Tutuila wish to express their thanks for your re-election to the most honorable position of President of the United States of America. It seems now that with that election our great anxiety of the past is at an end. We willingly ceded our country to your government and we are now greatly rejoiced with the annexation of this portion of Samoa to the United States. Our hope in the United States Is now strengthened; we feel that as you have considered us kindly so you will do likewise in. the future. Continuing, the letter expresses the hope that the present policy of the United States may be permanent, and concludes: "May God In His graciousness bestow life and happiness upon you." It is signed "Tultele, Governor of Falellma West," and "Mauga, Governor of Falelima Fast." The letter was written just after President McKlnley's recent Inauguration, and Its keynote is one of congratulation on his re-election. Scores of letters from the Philippines since the election have testified to the excellent effect it has had in those islands. It was the one thing needed to bring the insurrection to an end. AVith a military company of Porto Ricans marching proudly in the inaugural procession at Washington; with the royalist faction In Hawaii admitting the hopelessness of Its cause; with Filipinos taking the eiath "f allegiance by thousands and civil government extending rapidly throughout the islands; with the Christianized natives of far away Samoa congratulating President McKinley on his re-election and declaring that "with that election our great anxiety of the past is at an end." is it not about time for opponents of the administration to stop trying to foment foreign discontent and insurrection and admit that the principles of republican go eminent have vitality enough to bear transplanting? If all the postage stamps used in Indianapolis were purchased at the office here no special effort would be necessary to bring the aggregate business for this j-ear up to $önn,(X. A number of business men, and particularly the officers of associations, buy large quantities of stamps at smaller offices to increase the salaries of postmasters, to be used here. Thus all the mailing and handling falls upon the employes eif the Indianapolis office. Such being the case, it is but fair that these associations purchase stamps freely during the rest of March to secure the- increase of salaries and of the force In the postoffice. Colonel Harrison, who has spent considerable time in Cuba under conditions fai vorab'.e to gauging public sentiment, savs 1 tiie coinmertial classes, mainly composed of Intelligent Spaniards, are warmly in favor of annexation to the United States, as they believe this to be the only guaranty of stable government. lie says those Cubans who are clamoring loudest for inj dependence have no idea of the duties or

responsibilities it involves, their sole desire being for a 'condition that would enable them to hold office, draw salaries and plunder the people. The appointments which Governor Durbin has announced indicate that he is not being much influenced by petitions and delegations. Solely responsible for the work of those whom he appoints, he seems to look about - for the men he regards as competent for the positions. As to the competency of men. he seems disposed to exercise his own judgment. It is no reflection upon the character of the unsuccessful aspirants to say that his appointments thus far are excellent. The moonshine" distillery just discovered In New York city is not the first that has been found there, nor is it surprising. No locality offords better security for carrying' on an unlawful occupation than the heart of a largev city. The seclusion of a ravine In the mountains of North Carolina Is not equal to that of a deep basement in a New York tenement housev Among the odd results of modern trade and transportation Is the recent finding in tne waste slack of a paper mill at Kalamazoo, Mich., of an autograph letter of George Washington, dated June 12, 1706, nd an autograph letter of Robert Morris, the celebrated financier of Philadelphia, written in 17C3. The writers could have little dreamed of tne strange fate that awalteel their letters. A Chicago paper gives a list of nineteen educational institutions which it says have been absorbed by, or affiliated with the University of Chicago. The list includes Butler College of this c'ty. What has become of the Univers:ty of Indianapolis? Whether Indianapolis gets into any baseball league or not, she will remain the finest inland city in the country and continue to do business at the olel stand. FK0M HITHER AND YON.

AVhen the Dreamer Wake. Smart Set. Cora Was their marriage a surprise? Lena No; but everybody thinks it will be. Usually the Case. Harper's Pazar. Little Waldo rapa, what Is a library? Mr.. Heeder A library, my son. Is a large number of books which a man loans to friends. Could Endure It. Halt imore. American. "l3n't it a sreat disappointment to lose a clew?" w asked of the Eminent Detective. "Not when 1 am belnir paid by the day," he replied, with a mysterious smile. At the Ileceptlon. Chicago Tribune. Maud What under the sun has Mrs. FeldomHolme been doing to her face? Mabel Enameling It, I think. She's trying to live up to the photographs she had taken the other day. Hi Only Chance. Washington Star. "What is tho us of a man's getting Into a crowd and yelling, as he does at a baseball game?" "eireat heavens!" exclaimed the enthusiast, "he's got to Jo it in a crowd. If he were to go away by hlmsvlf and yell In that manner they would have him in a lunatic asylum In less than a week!" TOO MANY ORANGES. Million KottfnK for I.nejc of Railway Cars tu Move the llffr Crop. CHICAGO, March 21. Chicago officials of the Santa Fe Railroad to-day confirmed reports from California that millions of elollars' worth of oranges in that State are rotting in the packing houses and on the grounds of the growers because of lack of transportation facilities to move the enormous crop. According to W. B. Jason, assistant to President Ripley, the growers and shippers are condemning the railroads for their inability to accomplish the impossible. "The trouble is not entirely due to a dearth of cars," said MV. Jason. "The railroads have moved out of southern California. 50 per cent, moro oranges than at this time in previous years. The crop is enormous, and owing to the way it ripened it is extremely delicate and will not last through the season." LOS ANGFLES. March 21. Orange growers and shippers from all over California assembled here to-day to discuss the alleged car famine and the delay in the transit of fruit to the FaHt. Ilundreels ef carloads of fruit, it is said, are being rejected on arrival at their destination because of rot. Much of this, the fruit growers assert. Is due to the slow time rcade In transit. The resolutions declare, among other things, that the railroads have increased their passenger traffic by offering special Inducements in the shape of low rates, and hive taken engines from the freight service to meet the increased demand. A committee was appointed to confer with tho railroad officials. PORTO RICANS WANT MONEY. Will Ak Governor Allen (o Cull Special SeKMion of LeKialature. SAN JUAN. Porto Rico, March 21. Tho San Juan Chamber of Commerce has called a mass meeting for Sunday of the principal planters, bankers, agriculturists and merchants with a view to agreeing upon some feasible plan for the relief of financial depression. The outcome of the meeting will probably be a petition to Governor Allen to call an extra session of the Legislature and to authorize a loan of from &i.ox.ootj to j:,00o.(nh for the benefit of agriculture. The prometers of the meeting hope to Impress the Xlovernor with the expediency of sueh a measure. In calling the meeting the chamber cites particularly the situation of the coffee planters who are unable to obtain funds to husband their crops until harvest time, funds are also necessary for clearing and fertilizing the ground, but they are not available. The loan bill of the House of Delegates was killed by the executive council, but it is now believed that when the facts are properly presented the former objections will be removed. Small returns are made by large plantations solely because of the lack of a little capital. It is a critical time for the planters. There is good authority for the statement that if the necessary funds were forthcoming they would yield 33 1-3 per cent, on the first Investment. PRINCE CONSORT INSTALLED. O.T1 ren Wllhelmlnn Husband Sort a .Member of the State Council. THi: HAGUF. March 21.-Queen Wil helmina opened to-day's session of the state council, which installed the prince consort as a member. The royal couple drove to the session in a closeel carriage. The Queen was dressed in green plush and the Prince wore the uniform of a rear admiral. The Prince made a brief reply to the Queen's few words of congratulation. The ceremony lasted a cpjarter of an hour. Prince Henry has only a consultive voice In the council. Suicide uf John Held. BUFFALO. N. Y.. March 21. John Held, of d Freeman avenue. Cincinnati, a traveling salesman for an Indianapolis house, shot himself through the heart, at his room, at the Mansion House, to-day. In his pockets was his address aid a message reading: "Let the Masons take care of my body."

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D O IT 31 E X T A It Y AXD PROPRIETARY STAMPS TO ME REDEEMED. IiiMtruetioiis iMNtied by the Co mm I sftioner of Internal Revenue That Will Interest Business Men. PRESIDENT M'KINLEY'S TRIP SOUTHERXERS ANXIOVS TO EXTERTAIX TIIE CHIEF EXECUTIVE. Twelve X'ew Companies of Coast Artillery to lie Organized The Volunteer Brigadier Generals. WASHINGTON, March 21. The commissioner of internal revenue has issued a circular relative to the redemption of documentary and proprietary stamps. It says that "unused documentary and proprietary stamps, issued under the provisions of the war revenue act, for which the owners have no use, may be redeemed, but in all cases there will be deducted the percentage, if any, allowed to the purchaser. Application for the redemption of such stamps should be made to the collector of internal revenue from whom the same were purchased, who will supply the applicant with Form 38 and necessary instructions relative to the preparation of his claim. Claims for the redemption of adhesive documentary and proprietary stamps, if purchased from a collector, must contain his certificate as to the date and amount of purchase. If purchased from a dealer in stamps, such dealer's certificate as to the date of sale to claimant, and the certificate of the collector as to date of sale to the dealer, must be furnished. Stamps that are not in the same condition as when issued will not be redeemed unless their conditions Is satisfactorily accounted for. Documentary and proprietary stamps can be redeemed only when presented in quantities of $2 or more face value, and no claim for the redemption of or allowance for such stamps can be allowed unless presented within two years after the purchase of said stamps from this government. "All claims for the reelemptlon of stamps imprinted on checks, drafts and other instruments must be entered of record and forwarded by the collector of the district in which the order for the imprinting of the stamps was purchased. If the claimant resides in a district other than that in which t-aid order was purchased, his claim should be prepared and presented to the collector in the district in which he resides." Instructions are then given in regard to forwarding stamps for redemption and other tletails. The commissioner of internal revenue, in a decision pubjisheel to-day, states that it is the clear Intent of the act of March 2, 1Ö01, known as the revenue reduction act, that every person engaged in the business described in the third subdivision of Seclion 8 of that act (bucket shop brokers) shall pay special tax as regular brokers, and in addition shall pay a special tax as bucket shop brokers." COAST ARTILLERY. Twelve Companies to De Organised t . Assignment of Officers. WASHINGTON, March 21. Under the army reorganization law, which provides for an Increase of 20 per cent, for the artillery arm of the service, an order has been issued organizing twelve companies of coast artillery in addition to those now in service. The number of these companies, the place where organized and the officers assigned to each are as follows: Eightythird, Fort Hamilton, N. Y.t Capt. Warren Newcomb, Second Lieutenant Gordon Robinson. Eighty-fourth, Fort Hamilton, N. Y., Capt. Oscar A. Straub, Second Lieutenant Richard Furnival. Eighty-fifth, Fort Wadsworth, N. Y Capt. George W. Gatchell. First Lieutenant Malcolm Young, Second Lieutenant John A. Berry. Eightysixth. Fort Wads worth. N. Y., Capt. Alfred M. Hunter, Second Lieutenant Hugh M. Dougherty. Eighty-seventh, Fort Slocum. N. Y., Capt. Edwin F. McGlacklin, Jr., First Lieutenant Laurence C Brown, Second Lieutenant William Tidball. Eighty-eighth, Fort Trumble, Conn., Capt. Peyton C. March. First Lieutenant Albert G. Jenkins, Seconel Lieutenant Arthur H. Bryant. Eighty-ninth, Fort Banks, Mass., Capt. Sidney S. Jordan, Second Lieutenant William S. Browning. NIntieth. Fort McHenry, Md., Capt. Wllmot B. Ellis, First Lieutenant Marcellus G. Splnks, Second Lieutenant Dennis H. Currie. Ninety-first, Jackson Barracks, Louisiana, Capt. Jedin T. Martin, First Lieutenant Robert E. Wyllie. Second Lieutenant Wildurr Willing. Ninety-second, the Presidio of San Francisco, Capt: Edward Davis, Second Lieutenant Guy E. Carleton. Ninety-third, Fort Stevens, Ore., Capt. M. K. Barroll, Second Lieutenant Alden F. Brewster. Ninety-fourth. Fort Flagler, Wash.. Capt. Eugene T. Wilson, Second Lieutenant Raymond S. Pratt. There are several vacancies to be filled, as three officers are to be assigned to each company. These additional companies are to be filled by transfers from other companies and recruited up to 113 men and will be organized as former batteries of siege artillery were organized. An additional artillery banel will be organized by the commanding officer of Fort Columbus, New York harbor, and will be designated as the Eighth Band. Attillery Corps. The quartermaster's department has been preparing plans and will soon advertise lor construction of ejuarters to be occupied by the new artillery companies. The points at which additional quarters are to be constructed are Fort Itevere, Boston harbor; Fort Mansfield and Fort Wright. Long Island sound, and Fort Mlley. San Francisco, ejuarters for one company of artillery each; at sunivan s island. Charleston. S. C. and Fort Columbia, at the mouth of Columbia river. Washington, quarters for two companies each. As soon as condemnation proceedings are completed quarters will be constructed at Fort Casey and Fort v Worden. Puget sound, Washington. Troops are now stationed at Sullivan's Island in rented quarters. The other posts no doubt will be occupied by the new companies to be organized. The buildings to be erected will consist of barracks, officers quarters, hospital, administration buildings, noncommissioned staff quarters, guardhouses, storehouses, bakery, shops and minor buildings. To meet the expenditures for these new buildings, as well as fo' buildings at other points, an appropriation of Jl.Oua.ouO was made in the sundry civil appropriation act. XVI LL MEET DIAZ. President McKinley Probably XVI II Greet Mexico's, Ruler at El Paso. .WASHINGTON, March 21. The President's proposed Western trip is attracting much attention In the States through which he is to pass and Invitations from various cities and towns which hope to entertain him along the route are daily arriving At the White House. To-day Representative Meyer, of Louisiana, presented to the President the formal invitation of the Governor of his State and the mayor and citizens of New Orleans to stop at New Orleans. The President received the invitation very cordially. New Orleans will probably be the first stop after the party leaves Washington, and the President agreed to remain there a day. As it is the present Intention to leave here April SO, May 2 probably will be spent in New Orleans. Representative Burleson, of Texa. jaw the President and Invited him to visit Austin on his way through Texas. The President promised to do so if the itinerary could be arranged so as to include the Texas capital. Secretary Cortelyou has been working on the itinerary, but practi

cally nothing of a definite character has

been decided on. After leaving New Orleans the party will stop at Galveston and Houston, ainl the present expectation is that a meeting with President Diaz, of Mexico, will be arranged at El Paso. The trip through California will include a visit to the "big trees." At San Francisco the party will stop a week, in connection with the events attending the launching of the battleship Ohio. On the return trip over a northern route the party will visit Yellowstone Park and thence take a run elown to Denver, probably. A sail by steamer down the great lakes from Duluth to Buffalo, also, will probably be included In the trip. After the President returns from his Western trip he is going to New England. He already has accepted in Invitation to be present at the Harvard commencement exercises at Cambridge. Mass., June 2. He also is expected to visit W orcester. Con cord, Boston and perhaps other places. Majors and Brigadier Generals. WASHINGTON, D, C. March 21. Two major generals still remain in the volunteer establishment. General Shafter, however, will accept his commission as major general on the retired list on the arrival of General Young at San. Francisco, who will assume command of the Department of California. This will leave General Wood as the last o the major generals of the. volunteer army. He already has accepted promotion in the regular army as brigadier general, but can retain his present volunteer rank vntll the 1st of July, if he prefers, and there is no objection from the War Department. As the volunteer commission gives him increased pa as well as rank he. no doubt, will continue as major general of volunteers until his commission expires under the law. There are now eight olunteer brigadier, generals, and it Is expected that nearly all of them will retain their volunteer rank until the expiration of the law. They all will be on active duty during this time, either in the Philippines or at home, borne of these volunteer brigadiers are now on their way home from the Philippines. MILITARY RULE TO END CIVIL GOVERXMEXT TO RE ESTABLISHED ABOUT JTXE at. Judge Tnft to Supplant General Mae Arthur ns Governor of the Philippines. WASHINGTON, March 21. The transfer from the military to tho civil government in the Philippines is expected to take place about June 30, according to calculations made at the War Department upon Information received from tne Taft commission and General MacArthur. It is known that even where civil governments are being established by the Philippine Commission the military will be necessary for some time to support the civil officers. It is the intention to withdraw the military as far as possible, however, from any participation In the governments established, and the soldiers will be more of a police than a military force. Wherever possible native police will be organized. The Xegros Island Problem. B ACOLON, Island of Negros, March 21. The Philippine commission has not elennitely elecided when to establish provincial governments in the Island of Negros. The civil government established by General Otis Is still In operation and fairly successful. The Negros government employs a half dozen officers and an advisory council of eight, all elective. The military commander has an absolute voice. Senor Severine, tho present civil governor, is not popular and it is alleged that he is unAmerican. Nevertheless the system Is not criticised. The commission prefers to gather the sentiment of the people of the island and then to show reasons for organizing Negros on lines similar to the organization of other islands. Judge Taft and his associates have begun to consi'der recommendations as to the form of .general civil government which it is now believed President McKinley will order inaugurated in July. MneArihur's Report of Fatalities. WASHINGTON, March 21. General MacArthur, at Manila, cables the following death list since his last report: Dysentery March 4: Company D, Fortyfourth Infantry, Sergeant William C. Perkins. Feb. 27: Company A. Twenty-second infantry. Patrick Mellon. March 13: Company M, Forty-eighth Infantry, Henry J. Holly. Feb. 22: Company E, Twenty-eighth Infantry, David B. Curry. Diarrhoea March i): Compai y K, Fortyfifth Infantry, Lloyd E. Dempsey. Wounels received in action March : Battery C, Seventh Artillery, William C. Morse. Drowned, bodies recovered March :: Company L, Forty-first Infantry, Fred M. Altmose. Feb. 26: Company E, First Infantry, John J. Jennings. Drowned, bodies not recovered March 2: Company L, Eighth Infantry, William Stewart. Harry L. Hawley, Corporal William Boyle, John Blumm. Feb. 1": Company E. Forty-seventh Infantry, Garfield Henderson. Suicide March 1: Company E, Twentyninth Infantry, Corpeiral Horace D. Smith. Gastritis March 7: Company D, Twentythird infantry, Frank Chapelewski. Pulmonectomy March 14: Company F, Fourteenth infantry, Oscar Carlson. Pneumonia March 11: Company K. Thirty-ninth Infantry, Pearl W. Moyer. Endocarditis March G: Company C, Nineteenth Infantry, Lewis Fell. Uremia March 7: Company I), Twelfth Infantry, Corporal Patrick Jackson. By accident March 2: Troop 1), Nintii Cavalry. First Sergeant Charles H. Roper. Feb. 3: Company I, Twenty-second Infantry, Thomas Murphy; Company B. Twentysecond Infantry. Michael J. Hurley. By comrade March 1: Company C, Thirteenth Infantry. Steven Buzziak. 1 Fractured skull March 13: Company I, Fifth Infantry, Corporal Herman Ehrich. Leprosy In the Philippines. WASHINGTON, March 21. Marine Hospital Surgeon Perry, quarantine officer for the Philippines, has forwarded here an official report on leprosy in the Philippines. He says: "Leprosy is widely prevalent over the entire archipelago, but the greatest number of cases exists in southern Luzon and the southern Islands. It is quite, prevalent In Cebu, the number of lepers being estimated at 2.000. The total number of cases in the islands is estimated at 2u,0oo, but the actual number is not known, and a census is difficult, owing to the majority of the cases being in the rural districts. The cases In Manila and surrounding country are isolated in a substantial hospital under the auspices of the Manila Board of Health. There is also a leper hospital at Cebu. An attempt at segregation and isolation of the lepers in the islands has been made by the army officials, and several months ago orelers were Issued from headquarters elirecting that a hospital in each district be set aside for the isolation of th lepers that could be apprehended, and a board of army officers was eletailed recently to investigate several islands for the purpose of selecting a suitable one for a leper colony, the Intention being to deport all cases of leprosy to this place for segregation and Isolation." Incendiaries Punished. MANILA. March 21. Insurgents have attacKed and burned the tingarrlsoncd village of Ugius, In the province of South Iloeos. A detachment of the Twentieth Infantry overtook and chastised the marauders. Colonel Schuyler, of the Forty-sixth Volunteer Infantry, has captured eight Insurgent officers and 21S men at th village of Ternate. in Cavlte province. Generals MacArthur. Wheaton and Batfs reviewed the Twenty-ninth and Thirty-second regiments te-day. (ienernl Hntes Ordered to Return. OMAHA. March 21. General John C. G. Bates, now in command of a force tf volunteers in the Philippines, has been ordered to return to the United States and relievo General Merrlam, In command ef the Department of the Missouri. He will ail within a week and be accompmled by Gen S. B. M. Young, who is to assume command of the Department of California, vice Gen. Shatter, retired.

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CM! AX DELEGATES AGAIX SHOWING SIGXS OF BACKIXG DOYVX. General Snn(iilllyf a Former Fire brniid, (nv in Fnor of AcceptIiiK the Piatt Amendment. GENERAL MILES IN . HAVANA ADVISED THE DELEGATES YESTERDAY XOT TO ACT HASTILY, Representative Dovener and Mercer of Opinion thnt the Cubans Will Accept the Proposition. HAVANA. March 21. An element of doubt now exists as to what will be the final attitude of the Cuban constitutional convention. The preponderance of public opinion in favor of the Piatt amendment during the last few days is having its effect on the radical members, anel General Singuilly's press utterances to-day further tend to weaken the strength of the radicals. General Sanguilly was the most radical of all the delegates. He favored dissolving the convention when the United States Congress adopted the amendment. Recently he has expressed in private the views to which he has how given public expression, but few expected him to maintain tho stand. He now says: "A literal Interpretation of the Piatt amendment might mean the loss of Cuban independence, but the liberal view which President McKinley and the convention would give would leave nothing to be feared by the Cubans. I do not believe that by waiting we would get better terms from the next Congress. Independence with some restrictions Is preferable to a continuance of military ride, which would surely follov a rejection of the Piatt amendment. If the Americans want the Isle of Pines I am in favor of giving it to them. I am also in favor of establishing coaling stations on some of the keys or at some of the small ports. The presence of the authority of the United States will be a guarantee of our Independence so far as exterior safety is concerned and will save us the enormous expenses of maintaining an army and navy." The committee on relations did not report to-day. Probably !t will submit its report tc individual members of the convention tomorrow. The view asserted in the rcpert that the question of establishing relations cannot be settled by the convention, but should be left to the future republic is liable to cause a break in the radical ranks. The conservative element Is endeavoring to keep the convention from taking a final vote on the cjuestlon until a commission has been appointed to wait upon Governor General Wood or to go to Washington. General Miles, who haa returned from the Isle of Pines, visited the convention with Senor De Quesada and met many delegates whose acquaintance be formed during the Spanish-American war. He advised them not to act hastily with reference to the amendment, pointing out that the ieopIe of the Uniteel States had nothing to say but in praise of the constitution, and that the amendment was only carrying out the Teller resolution and furnishing further guarantees of Cuban independence. United States Senator Redfield Proctor arrived in Havana to-day. Thinks Cubans Will Accept. WASHINGTON, March 21. Representative Dovener, of West Virginia, who has Just returned from Cuba, told President McKinley to-day that in his opinion the Cubans would accept the terms laid down in tho Piatt amendment to the army appropriation bill as conditions precedent to the relinquishment of the government of the island into their bands. Mr. Dovener accompanletl the members of the House rlve-r and harbor committee to Havana and said he had a good opportunity to study the situation. He says the wealthy and educated people of the island favor the acceptance of our terms, but that political considerations probably will delay the formal acceptance for some time. In .Mr. Dovener's opinion elefinite action will not be taken until Congress reconvenes in December. Representative Mercer, of Nebraska, who accompanied the river and harbor committee to Cuba, also was at the White House. He, too, believes that the constitutional convention ultimately will accept the propesitlons of the United States. GRIGGS WILL DECIDE. Order for Deportation of Spanish Shepherds Held I p. NEW YORK, March 21. A special to the Tribune from Washington says: "The Treasury Department has elecidcel to hold up the order issued on Mondaj providing for the deportation of fifteen Spanish shepherds who arrived at New York on March 4. Assistant Secretary Taylor decided that these immigrants had come to the United States in violation of the contract labor law. Heretofore the elepartment has held that aliens Induced to emigrate to this country by promises 'of employment er that work could be obtained upon arrival. ' were not entitled to admission. The Justice of this precedent has puzzled the department for some time, and it has be en determined to re fer th ease of the fifteen Spaniards to Attorney General Griggs for an opinion. Assistant Secretary Taylor said: 'The vital question is whether h m;in who comes to America on Information from relatives or friends that he can 'get work easily is entitled to admission. Attorney General Griggs's decision will Interest every laboring man ia the country. If It is held that these Spaniards have a right to enter it will Ik difficult to prevent undesirable foreign laborers from crowding out Americans.' " EtiglUh Lace Makers Admitted. WASHINGTON. March 21. Assistant Secretary Taylor to-day took action in the case of two Englishmen who arrived In this country late In February under a contract to enter the employ of a Philadelphia lace establishment to make bobinet lace. Objection was made to their admission on the ground that their coming was In violation of the alien contract !abor law. Mr. Taylor finds that bobinet 1 ice making is a new Industry in this county, and. therefore, the men are entitled to land under thft law, which admits laborers to be employed in a new industry. DEATH OF A PROPHET. Ills Doctrine Belnir Denounced, 11 Cnlled on Molinininrd nnd Expired. LONDON, March 21. Advices received from Mengo. !n Uganda. Africa, dated Thursd iy. March H. say that Muludzi. the Mohammedan prophet, who recently, proclaimed himself r.s leider of a new religious doctrine In I'ganda. t!l-d at Meng th.it afternoon under extraordinary circumstances, after a short reign as a prophet. The Sultan of lmboo. the head of Mohannnedlsm in Uganda, denounced the new doctrine preached by Muludzi. and a native court deciar d Muludzi to be an impostor, whereupon Muludzi indignantly declared h would no longer remain on earth. Ho left the native court anil ascended a small eminence outside' the King's indosure. where he knelt, called loudly on Mohammed anl suddenly expired.