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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-25

The honorable Dons are highly indignant
over the alleged flying of the Spanish flag
by some Of the American war ships in Gu
ban waters. There is no occasion for ex-
plotting Spanish honor or morality. The use
of the enemys flag is permissible in war
within certain limitations According to one
writer, quoted in a Washington dispatch,
THE regulations of the United States navy
state that the use of a foreign flag to de-
ceive en- enemy is permissible, but that it
must be hauled down before gun is fired,
and under no circumstai ces is an action 10
be commenced or an engagement fought
without the display of the national ensign"
Another authority says: "It is forbidden in
war on land to make use of the enemy's
flag for purposes of deceit. On the sea the
national flag of a public armed vessel must
be displayed before an engagement begins
or capture is made" This implies that the
enemys flag may be used for purposes of
deceit up to the time of firing, when the
ships own colors must be displayed. The
use of the enemy's flag to mislead is no
worse than the dissemination of false dis
patches, which the Spaniards have practiced
very freely.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-25

achieved his great victories would one day
become as worthless for naval warfare as
go many wooden tabs, and that the splendid
seamanshp of himself and his assistants
would be among the lost arts, without any
use for its revival, he would doubtless have
regarded it as the dream of lunatic. 1t is
to the infinite credit of England that she
was the first to perceive the coming revolu-
ton, to adapt herself to the new conditions
and to reconstruct her navy in such a man
ner that her supremacy. gained in the era
of wooden ships and sails should continue
in the era of armored ships and steam. She
has set the pace of naval development in
the new era distinctly she did in the
old, and has wisely recognized, long before
1t was demonstrated, that coal was to be
king on the ocean as well as on land. The
ballad of "Old King Cole" should be rewrit-
ten and the spelling changed to suit the
modern dynasty and the new king.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-25
The holding of mothers congresses" and

= The holding of mothers congresses" and
the talk about scientific motherhood gave a
new theme to the people who write for the
magazines and the three-pound Sunday
papers, and they are working it for all it
is worth and more. Says one of them:
When one thinks of the possibilities of
ignorantly running sight, hearing, the nerv-
Gus system and the digestive organs-per-
haps for life-it seems most extraordinary
thing that an uninstructed individual is per-
mitted to care for the young of the human
species, even though one recognizes how I'M
avoidable this state of affairs is. Without
scientific knowledge it is impossible to know
what treatment is correct" The reading of
such articles would excite discouraging
views as to the future of the race were it
not for the reflection that unscientitic moth
ers have been bringing up babies from the
beginning of history, and on the whole have
succeeded fairly we'll.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-25

Philadelphia cannot find school room for
all it's primary pupils, but spends an i'm
mense sum each year on it's high schools.
Nevertheless, according to the report of
the superintendent, "ony about 40 per
cent. of the pupils in the public schools are
in the higher schools" Similar conditions
prevail in most large cities. There is every
where the same trouble to house the new
pupils who come in at the beginning of
each year, and everywhere school boards
are going in debt and resorting to all sorts
of expedients to meet the expenses. The
percentage of pupils who enter the high
school varies somewhat with the different
cities, but in every case it is small and out
of all proportion to the comparative out
lay. Something is radically wrong when
such conditions exist.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-25
ARMY NOMINATIONS.
Appointments i'm the Signal Corps and
Engineer Corps.

COrpss
WASHINGTON, May 24-'rhe President
to-day sent these nominations to the Sem
ate:
be colonel: Lieut.. Col. Henry c. Dunwoody,
signal corps United States army. To be
lieutenant colonel: Capt. James Allen, sig
nal corps United States army. Captains to
be be, majors: Richard P. Strong, Fourth Ar
uiiery; George P, Scriven. signal corps;
William A. Glassford, signal corps. First
lieutenants to be majors: j. E. Maxfeld,
FRANK Greene, Samuel Reber, signal corps.
and Mr. Eugene Q. Frehl, of Michigan.
A. Squire, Third Artillery; First Lieut..
Eugene t. Wilson, Third Artillery; Second
Lieut. ). u. Brady, Jr., Nineteenth Infantry;
Nesmith, of California; Daniel j. Carr, of
Connecticut; Howard A. Giddy. of Con-
necticut Carl f. Hartman, of New Jersey;
John W. Mcconnell, of illinois, William H.
Lamar, of Maryland; E. B. Ives, of New
York. To be first lieutenants: L. B. Wild
Texas; w. +. Rogers, of Idaho; Richard o.
Richards, of Illinois; ]. P. Wootten, OF
Georgia To be second lieutenants: Walter
I. Clarke first sergeant signal corps James
Steel, first sergeant signal corps; b. TENOR,
sergeant signal corps; James d. McClaghty.
sergeant signal corps; Y. Sheppard. sergeant
signal corps; William M. Tabo. sergeant
signal corps; Thomas R. J.. Campbell, Dis
California; Charles Rogan, jr., of Tennes-
see; Arson Judd, of Minnesota; Henry w.
OprdSu0, or massachusetts,; william w.
Colt, of Illinois. Subsistence: Lieut.. Col.
Charles Woodruff to be assistant commis-
sary general of subsistence. with rank OF
colonel; Maj. Henry G. Sharpe to be as
sistant commissary general of subsistence,
with rank OF lieutenant colonel. Corps OF
engineers: Maj. Charles Walker Raymond
to be lieutenant colonel, Capt. William
Murray Black to be major, First Lieut..
Mason Matthew Patrick to be captain, Sec
ond Lieut.. George II. Howell Artillery
arm: Capt. seden A: Day, First Artillery.
to be major; First Lieut. Z. Weaver, jr.,
to be captain; Second Lieut.. Thomas B.
Lamoreux, Fourth Artillery, to be first
lieutenant. Cavalry arm: Second Lieut.. Ed
win B; Winnas! jr, to be first lieutenant;
to be colonel of the Seventh Regiment
United States Volunteer Infantry; Maj E.
L. Huggas, Sixth Cavalry. to be colonel OF
the Eighth Regiment Volunteer Infantry;
S. Reeves of Tennessee. to be lieutenant
colonel of the Third Regiment United States
Volunteer Infantry
To be assistant quartermasters, with the
rank of captain-Goles H. Holden, of Mime
sota Chester B. Worthington, of Iowa.
To be commissaries of subsistence, with
the rank of captain-Eben D. Fenton. Of
Michigan; Martin NJ Marshall of Iowa;
Robert H. Becknam of Texas.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-25

WASHINGTON, May 24.-The session Of
the House to-day was brief. Mr.. King
called up and the House passed the Senate
bill authorizing the appointment OF a COM
mission to allot to the Uintah Indians Ger
tain lands in their reservation and secure
from them a cess!on of their remaining
lands.
The House passed a bill granting $500
acres to San Barbara. CAL. for purposes
of water works. and also the Senate bin for
a temporary increase of army hospital stew
ards Bills Were also passed to amend the
law governing military trials so as TO au-
thorize the commander OF any post, fort or
another command to designate an officer to
organize and conduct court for the trial
of minor offlenses: for the organization OF a
naval hospital force; the senate resolu-
tion validating certain naval appointments
by the President prior to the passage OF re-
cent legislation providing for tnem, and the
bill providing an American register Tor the
steamship Zelandia, which passed the Sem
ate Yesterday The vessel IS 10 act as a
transport TO the Philippines The House
then AZ Loo adjourned until tomorrow after
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-25
ATTITUDE OF IRISHMEN
PROPOSED ANGLO-AMERICAN ALL
ANCE VIGOROUSLY CONDEMNED.
Sons of Erin Eager to Fight for
Uncle Sam, but Will Never Lose a
Drop of Blood for John Bull.

CHICAGO, May N.-The United Irish So
ciety of Chicago at a big mass meeting in
Central Music Hail. presided over by John
M. Smyth, a prominent merchant have
adopted resolutions emphatically condemn
ing the suggested alliance between the
United States and Great Britain. The reso-
lutions denounce the alliance as uncalled for
and nationally degrading-at variance with
American traditions and the sentiments of a
majority of the American people who are
not of British birth or ancestry. 1t is de-
clared that such an alliance would result
in a European combination against us, and
would make us partners in the crimes of the
British empire against weak states and de-
fenselesS peoples. The resolutions call
upon the American government, executive
and legislative, to repudiate a policy so sui
cidal that could not fail to disgust millions
of American loyal citizens. The principal
speaker, John F. Finerty, said: I'VE will
fight this alliance on the platform and at
the polls. We are willing and eager to fight
for America, but we will never fire shot
or lose a single drop of blood for England"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-25
Views of Michael Davitt.

NEW YORK, May A.-Michael Davitt, the
Irish National leader in the British Parlia-
ment, has sent letter to Rosa +, Downing
at Washington containing the following
Il have your favor of the Sd inst, inclosing
an extract from dispatches cabled to the
United States from London asserting that
EngNshmen extend warm sympathy to
America in the war with Spain, but that
Irishmen as Catholics wish success for the
prosecutors of the Cubans. OF course this
is a palpable falsehood, and is part of the
campaign waged by the London press, with
the object of promoting an alliance between
Great Britain and the United States at a
time when no other nation in the world will
ally itself with the ruler of Ireland and
India. Over and over again here it has
been made manifest that we Irishmen are
heartily with America in her disnterested
mission of the liberation of Cuba from
European tyranny. The one dominant aim
of Great Britain is to secure the alliance
of America against Russia in China and the
far East. In order to achieve this end lies
of all kinds are being cabled to the pro-
British press of New York about a possible
European coalition against America in favor
OF Spain. There is absolutely no foundation
for these statements. l crossed to Paris and
satisfied myself in interviews with various
continental representatives that such a
coalition was a pure English fabrication
Russia will never join in any movement hos
tile to the United States, while the German
representative clearly announced to me that
there is no thought in his country of being
hostile to the nation in which there are
12000.0OO citizens who are loyal Americans
by adoption. The republic of France would
be shaken to it's foundation if its rulers
dared to join in coalition against the sister
republic beyond the ATLANTIC, from whence
came the first inspiration of French liberty"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-25
General Notes.

WASHINGTON May 24.-The President
to-day appointed P. Merrill Griffith, of Ohio.
to be consul at Matamoras. Mexico, and
Dewey C. Bailey to be United States mar
shall, district of Colorado.
President Mckinley had an opportunity
to devote time to reading the newspapers
to-day, for there were few early callers
Mrs. Mckinley took advantage of a clear
summers morning for a drive about the
city, accompanied, as usual, by several of
her friends.
To-day's statement of the condition of the
treasury shows Available cash balance,
500. 642, 022; gold reserve, $173. 1854
The United States Supreme Court to-day
announced the final adjournment of the
court for the term on Tuesday next. The
court will not meet again until Tuesday
and will not meet after that date until next
October. The meeting next Tuesday will
be only for the announcement of opinions
on cases already heard.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-25

A Philadelphia paper says that Capt.
John D. Hart, of the steamship Bermuda,
who is now undergoing Imprisonment for
violation Of the neutrality laws in sending
aid to Cuba, has made tender of his vessel
to the government for any desired service in
the war Captain Harris case seems to
have been overlooked. His offense was
committed more than year ago, and while
his conviction and Imprisonment may have
been proper under the neutrality laws in
force at that time, there is no reason why
his Imprisonment should continue in a state
of war. He should be released without
DELAY
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-25

Americans Should NOt"Invade Cuba
with Raw Volunteers

LONDON, May 2.-Lord Wolseley, COM
mander-in-chief of the British army, in con-
versation with an American to-day, said:
America would make a mistake in imme-
diately invading Cuba with volunteers who
are not fully drilled and disciplined. If
that was done the United States might ex-
pect heavy reverses when those troops en-
countered the trained Spanish troops on
land. 1t would be grave error to under
estimate the strength of the adversaries of
the American troops. l would regret to see
the Americans even temporarily beaten, as
all my sympathies are with them" Con-
tinuing Lord Wolseley said: 1T is fortu-
nate for the United States that this war
is not with first-class power for it is
evident that in such an encounter they
would be badly beaten at the beginning.
though 1 believe the Americans able to de-
feat any nation in the long run
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-25
Alleged Defensive Alliance.

NEW YORK, May PA dispatch to the
World from Kingston, Jamaica, says: THE
signing of treaty of defense between the
United States and Great Britain is an
nounced in dispatch received here on Sat-
urday by the military authorities. A crisis
in the war between America and Spain is
imminent, the dispatch intimates, and ia
maica will be directly affected All leaves
of absence of military and naval officers
have been Cancelled. Supplies of provisions
sufficient to last eighteen months are being
stored"
The London correspondent of the World
says: A special cablegram from the King
ston, Jamaica, correspondent of the Chron-
tcle reads: "A military officer informs me
that an official cablegram was received here
Saturday announcing the formal signing of
an Anglo-American defensive alliance. Ger
tainly the War Office is actively provision
ing the camps in Jamaica with eighteen
months supplies, and orders have been
issued to cancel the leaves of officers and
men,"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-25

The news from Manila is meager but indi-
Gates that Admiral Dewey is still master Of
the situation. One dispatch says that the
supply OF food in the city is nearly ex-
hausted. and another says that German
ship which proposed to land provisions un-
der ths protection of two German cruisers
was only prevented by the threat of Ad-
miral Dewey to fire upon them IL the at
tempt was made. The Germans have no
mora right to land provisions there without
ne permission Of the commander OF the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-25
The Hawaiian Resolut,on.

WASHINGTON, May A.-Assurance that
a special rule for the consideration of the
Hawaiian annexation resolutions would be
reported to the House late this week was
given to-day Representative Tawney and
other Republican members were inclined to
secure If possible a caucus to consider
Thursday night the question of annexation
with a view to exerting pressure for the
rule, and a call was circulated to-day in
the House. but the movement was aban-
doned upon the general understanding that
the committee on rules would respond soon
to the manifest desire of the majority MEM
berS. to take up the Hawaiian resolutions
Mr.. Hit, chairman of the committee on
foreign affairs, and in charge of the resolu-
lions, said this evening he was confident
consideration would be had early next week
debate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-25

WASHINGTON, May 24-In the execu-
tive session of the Senate to-day there was
some discussion of the character of men
who should be chosen to command the inn
mune regiments. Senator Money was thu
principal speaker and he expressed doubt
as to whether it would be possible TO raise
regiments of men who had yellow fever
in case officers for such organizations were
taken from the Northern States and were
men who had not been subjected to this
disease. There were two roll calls on the
executive session, one of them being upon
the confirmation of N. S. walpole of Colo
RADIO, to be agent of the rueblo Indians
in New Mexico, and the other upon the con-
firmation of James ]. Power, of Pennsyl-
vania, to be receiver of public moneys at
Perry, o. T. There were adverse reports
against both on the ground of nonresidence,
but both were confirmed by considerable
majorities. These nominations were con-
firmed:
Colonies in the volunteer army-Captain
Patrick Henry Ray and James S. Petit.
first lieutenants-Herbert H. Sargent
Charles s. Richie, Messrs. Laureuce y. Ty-
lana.
Adtutant generals Observation-Disclosures
ant Colonel Theodore Schwan, assistant adj
gutant general, with the rank Of colonel;
Maj William Harding Carter, assistant adj
jutant general with the rank of lieutenant
colonel
Commissaries of subsistence with the rank
of raajor-Captain David 3. Wilson. First
Lieutenant II. J. Gallagher William NJ.
Alternately, of Missouri; II. Clay Mulliken,
of Maryland.
To be commissaries Of Subsistence with
the rank of captain--Messrs. James Edward
Calhoun. New York; Frederick W. Hyde,
New York; William II. Anderson. Green
Vile. Ohio; George p. McCullom. Pulaski,
Tenn: Don A. Dodge. of Minnesota; r. p.
Howell, of Iowa.
To be engineer officers. with the rank OF
major-Captains William D. Beach. George
II. Sands William A Skunk. Charles Lin
coin. Woodbury. VT
First Regiment of Volunteer Engineers
To be colonel, Eugene Griffin, New York;
to be first lieutenant. Algernon Satoris. Dis
trict OF Columbia; Fitzhugh Lee. jr. OF
Richmond, Va. Carlos Carhone Troy N
Y; Karl Fisher Hansen. new York.
To he chief surgeons. with the rank OF
major-George Cook. New Hampshire Will
liam II. DAILY, Pennsylvania; Clayton Park
HILL Colorado; James NJ. Jenne, Vermont;
Herbert w. Cardwell. Oregon: James Fl.
Hyssel. Ohio; Leonard b. .Almy. Connecti-
cut: Charles Il. Nancred, Michigan. Thomas
Earle Evans, Alabama: Jefferson ID. Grif-
fifth. Mo-; K. Emmett Giffln. Nebraska; Ed
Kimbali, Indiana, and II. f. Hoyt Minle-
assistant surgeon In the navy.
The signal corps--To be major, Captain
Richard T.. Thompson TO be captain, Benj.
+. Montgomery, Virginia.; to be Arst liei-
tenants. Philip ]. Perkins. California; VII
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-25

Congressman Cummings, of New York, is
Democrat who puts patriotism above par
ty. Referring to the opposition to bond
issue, he said:
If Democratic administration was forced
to sell $500 600 of bonds in time of peace
to run the government the Republican adj
enough to run the government in time of
war.
The trouble with the Populist and free-sil-
yer Democrats who oppose a bond issue is
that they do not want the government run
at all unless it is run in the interest Of sill
Ver
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-25

The government finds great difficulty in
obtaining transports on the Pacific coast TO
carry the expeditionary force TO the Philip
pine Islands. the number of suitable steam
ers on that coast being very small COM
pared with that on the Atlantic side. This
IS another argument in favor of the Mica
ragCa canal, since il that were constructed
transports could be transferred from the
Atlantic to the Pacific coast in very short
time
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-25

LONDON. May AIN the House of Com
mons to-day the Irish local government bill
passed the committee stage. Sir Charles
Dixie, a Radical member for the Forest of
Dean, and Mr.. Henry Labouchere. Radical
member for Northampton, with others,
vainly tried to get the government to fix
day for the discussion of the recent Bir-
mingham speech of Mr. Joseph Chamber
lain. on the subject of an Anglo-Saxcn aIli-
ance and the foreign policy of the govern
cellor of the excheQuer, and Mr. Chamber
lain both expressed their readiness for such
discussion, but only on a proper resolu-
ton representing a large section of the
House. The House adjourned for Whitsun-
tide
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-25
He Is stiII with Us.

Oh. the man who howled the loudest
A month or so ago
Who was mad because the President
Was so internal slow
Whose blood was fairly boiling,
Who was sweating bloody sweat
Have you noticed that he's loafing
Around here yet?
Oh. the fellow who was fuming,
Who was stewing day and night
Who was ripping, who was tearing.
Who was spelling for fight
Have you noticed, gentle reader.
That he doesn't fume or fret.
And that he hasn't taken
HIS departure yet?
CsIaerafar.A "a
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-25

Indications are. 1t is said, that unusual in
terest win be taken in Memorial day this
year. not only by the veterans themselves,
but by the public generally. 1t is natural
that this should be so. After long years of
peace people were in danger of forgetting
the nature Of the services rendered by the
men on whose graves flowers are scattered.
The Cuban war. with the departure of a
younger generation OF soldiers, has awak-
sned appreciation of the heroes gone before.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-25

WASHINGTON, May 24.-The State De-
partment has made formal response to the
Austrian government as to the Hungarians
killed at Hazleton, Pa. in the riots of last
fall The Governor of Pennsylvania sent in
long report, made up mostly of the record
of the celebrated trial, and this was re-
viewed by the attorney general and supple
mented by a strong argument to maintain
the position taken by our government,
namely, that 1t was not responsible, under
the circumstances, for the killing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-25

Developments in the General Assembly
show that one of the official organs, little
monthly magazine called 1.-THE Church at
Home and Abroad has no less than nine
editors. Yes, and the chances are that
every one Of the nine considers himself
overworked, it having been noticed that edi-
torial brain flag" exists in exact proportion
to the infrequency of publication. The
monthly magazine editor considers himself
q very hard-worked person.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-25

A dead man seems to have no rights when
he falls into the hands of the police, but is
there any good reason why the letters from
members of his family should be made so
free with as in the Spoor case? The inno-
cent writer's of such letters deserve some
protection.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-25
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