The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-26
WAR DECLARED.


The same rule may be made to apply to
Spanish vessels in neutral ports. Much will
depend, in the carrying out of this plan,
upon the good faith shown by Spain in her
treatment OF American vessels. If she mere
ly lets them get outside Of harborS and then
grabs them a programme Of reprisal will
probably be inaugurated by this govern
ment. If good faith is observed by the Dons.
however, opportunity will be given to get
the merchant vessels of both countries I'M
der shelter. This done, the two gladiators
can then shake hands in true prize ring
style and go to slugging:
The '16-to-r' majority in the Senate pro-
poses to compel the secretary of the treas
ury to draw heavily upon his working bal
ance before giving him authority to make
war loan of $5OO0OO.OOO or any other sum.
They propose, furthermore, to substitute the
word COIN in place of the word gold"
thereby compelling the government to pay
more than it would be compelled to pay
upon gold bonds. 1t threatens also to COM
pei the secretary of the treasury TO issue
silver certificates against segnorage. This
they claim will add $50, 0O0, 900 to the circula-
ton without the cost of a cent. The silver
bullion now in the custody of the treasury
is 9,545,000 line ounces, costing $99349 ,753.
This bullion will coin $142, 047, OS9 standard
silver dollars There is, therefore, an ap
parent paper profit of $42 ,697,342 in the OPP
GRAFTON. The Senate also proposes to add
an income tax clause TO the House revenue
bill.
The resignation Of Mr.. Sherman has come
to pass as predicted and there is to be a
new secretary of state. Assistant Secretary
Day, who has really been at the head of
the department nearly year, is under
stood to have been selected for the place.
There is enough uncertainty about it, how
ever, to keep gossip busy with the names
of former Senator George T. Edmunds,
Senator Davis, chairman of the committee
on foreign relations, and Col. John w. F'os-
ter. Of Indiana. 3
Senior Polo, former Spanish minister to
Washington, has allowed himself to be in
terview on the indgnites he suffered on his
way from Washington to his Canadian re-
treat. AS an offset to the reported assaults
upon Minister Woodford as he was leaving
Spain. Senior Polo tells graphically of bru-
tai attacks made upon his car. at Harris
burg and Rochester, by American rufflans
The Spanish grandee must have been in a
very nervous frame OF mind on that trip
out of the United States, for the secret
men who accompanied him said that the
only assaults made on his car were by
car inspectors at divisional terminals en-
ployed by the railroad companies to test
the wheels by crawling between the trucks
of the car and testing the wheels by tap.
ping with hammer. This process would
wake nervous man when a call to break
fast would not phase him. They never 90
this kind of thing in Spain, and the ex-
periences were new to him, and in his over
wrought state of mind he imagined that the
carwheel inspectors were about to break
into his private coach and do him personal
injury. *%*
BY prompt action at the War Department
Senator Fairbanks has succeeded in pre-
venting the removal of the army quarter
masters depot from Jeffersonville, Ind, to
Philadelphia. The purpose of the secretary
Of war was to have the surplus material at
the Jeffersonville depot removed to Phila-
delphia, where it could be quickly made up.
Under misapprehension the officer intrusted
with the execution of the order started in
to remove everything. When the mistake
was explained the officers were put on the
right track, and what promised to be
severe blow to q Jeffersonville industry was
prevented. Jeffersonville will get it's full
share of the manufacture OF army supplies.
Mr.. Dan NJ. Ransdell, of Indianapolis, is
IN the city.
Twenty thousand copies of Senator Fair
banllss Cuban speech are being sent out
throughout the country to meet the demand.