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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-04
Favor Peace at Any Price.

NEW YORK, Aug. "A dispatch to the
Tribune from Madrid says: mot only the
court, Cabinet, and political men of the cap
ital, but the Madrid public as well are un-
mistakably in favor of peace at any price.
1t is believed that any apparent opposition
to the terms arranged at Washington will
be merely for the sake of appearances
nothing more Grave anxiety, however is
felt in regard to the attitude of the army
and the feeling in the provinces Several
regiments in the Madrid garrison are
known to be hostile to the government and
to the dynasty, but 1t is hoped that any
open action can be restrained until after
the conclusion of peace. General PolavieJa
has so far succeeded in curbing military
jingoism by his strong personal influence,
but that peace may be the signal for in
ternal disorders is a peril which Sagasta
is now straining every nerve to avert.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-04
MARCHING TO MANASSAS.
Volunteers at Camp AIGer Leaving
for the New Rendezvous.


WASHINGTON. Aug. 3. = IN accordance
with an order issued by the War Depart
ment last night the regiments of the Sec
ond Division at Camp Alger prepared to
move to-day. At noon the regiments of the
Third Brigade-the First Rhode Island the
Second Tennessee and the Third Missouri
were on the march in the direction of Man
assas, Va. The First Brigade consisting
of the Twenty-second Kansas, the Third
New York and the ne-hundred-and-fifty-
ninth Indiana, started at o'clock. The
Seventh Illinois and the Fourth Missouri
were ordered to move an hour later. The
division will march nine miles to-day, to
Burke Station. Tomorrow it will march
seven miles. arriving near Manassas the
third day. The First Division will follow
as soon as mule teams can return from
Manassas. Meanwhile corps headquarters.
the two division hospitals and the eight
regiments of the First Division will remain
in their present quarters. They probably
will not be moved before Tuesday. While
it is agreed that the cause of the removal
Of the camp was the typhoid epidemic. it is
not known whether the neighborhood of
Manassas is to be made permanent camp
site or whether the troops will finally so
to some other point.
ported since yesterday afternoon. The we'll
developed cases are:
CORPORALS CROSBY, Company D, and
DOGERBORG, Company G, First Rhode
Island
PRIVATES BIBBLE. Company D;
BRANTMEYER, Company F; ADAMS,
Company L; DAVIS. HOGAN and BOLTES,
Company D, Third Missouri
PRIVATES HORN. Company H, and
VOLKER, Company K. Fourth Missouri.
PRIVATE D.. R. MAHONEY. Company
K, Ninth Massachusetts,
PRIVATES SPENCER, Company c, and
MULLEN, Company F., Northumberland
ffty-ninth Indiana.
PRIVATES RAMEY, Company B, and
WESTON, Company H, Second Tennessee.
PRIVATE HAYS, Company K, Thirty
third Michigan.
PRIVATE STRAIN, hospital corps.
The review of the corps by the President
and secretary of war has been abandoned,
unless they can go to Manassas
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-04
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3-Spain does not
want much She only wants to lay Pres
ident McKinley's peace conditions on the
table and accept a substitute platform of
her own creation. She neither accepts nor
rejects the propositions embodied in the
Presidents answer. but asks concessions.
There has been no definite official statement
up to this writing OF what these concessions
are, but the general understanding is that
they include:
First-A request for an outline of the pol
Icy which this government will pursue with
regard to Manila and its environments dur
ing our occupancy of the same
Second-What protection will be guaran-
teed to the Catholic Church property in the
Philippines.
Third-A pledge for the protection of the
interests of loyal Spanish subjects in the
West Indies
Fourth-The fixing of time (not too near)
for the deportation of Spanish troops from
Cuba and Porto Rico.
Fifth-The right to remove the heavy guns
from the fortihcations in those two islands,
and few other matters.
Spanish anxiety to know what we are GO
ing to do with the Philippines rather tends
to confirm the theory that one of Spain's
objects in making peace overtures was to
obtain from the President a statement of
our Philippine policy, which might be used
against US. Touching the request by Spain
to be allowed to take away her heavy guns
from Cuba and Porto Rico, Cabinet officer
jocosely remarked that he thought in this
instance the improvements would have to
remain on the real estate.
There is high authority in the diplomatic
corps for the statement that Spain was
brought to the point OF initiating peace ne
gotiations as a result of an understanding
with the powers that If she did not do so at
once they would leave her to her fate, even
though that might mean her extinction as
an independent power. If, however, she ac-
cepted the inevitable they assured the Sa-
gasta government they would assist in
maintaining the Alfonsan dynasty on the
throne. Naturally, there was but one thing
for the Madrid government to do. and that
one thing it has set out to do after a halt
ing. reluctant fashion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-04
WAITING For A REPLY.
Spain VIII Accept Peace Proposals If
Modified.

PARIS. Aug. 3.-The Madrid correspond
ent of the Temps telegraphs this afternoon,
saying that if the definite reply of the
United States on the peace proposals ar
rives to-day the Spanish Cabinet will meet
this evening and officially accept the terms
The Cabinet ministers, the correspondent
adds, believed that the agreement would be
accepted by the country without opposition
and the government will not summon the
Cortes before autumn.
The newspapers are attacking Premier
Sagasta and his colleagues. the correspond
ent of the Temps continues. They assert
that the premier opened negotiations yester-
Gay with Senor Pidal, president of the
Spanish Chamber of Deputies, with the
view of returning the Conservatives to
power as soon as peace is arranged. believ-
ing that the Conservatives are more COM
petent to reorganize the country. Senor
Sagastas partisans deny this.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-04
pnrtn Ricans Rlamed.

LONDON, Aug. 4.-The Madrid corre-
spondent of the Standard says: the Madrid
press strongly blames the want OF loyalty
the volunteers in Porto Rico have displayed
in allowing the American invaders so easy
a walk-over. Indeed, this behavior TENDS to
diminish the regret felt here at losing the
island.
Santos Guzman, Calve and other chiefs
of the Spanish party in Cuba, who have re-
Gently returned to Santanda, speak despond-
emily of the condition of the island and de-
clare that America will be compelled to
keep an army of 100000 men for years to
come"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-04
AT CHICKAMAUGA PARK.
All the Regiments Eager for Active
Service. but Few VIII He Chnaen

CHICKAMAUGA PARK, Ga, Aug. a.
The afternoon press report from Washing
ton giving the list of regiments that have
been designated to constitute Gen. Wade S
provisional forces to do service in Porto
Rico includes only the following regiments
encamped at Chckamauga: First New
Hampshire, First Maine First Vermont,
First West Virginia, Third Tennessee, First
Arkansas and Fifty-second Iowa. AS to
when the regiments to constitute General
Wade's force would proceed to the front
there was no inkling here this evening.
While orders are hourly expected from the
War Department, General Breckinridge had
not been advised of anything of this nature
up to tonight. However. it will not be
surprise If a moving order comes tomorrow
The railways are prepared for any emer-
Continued ON Third PageJ
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-04
THE CONVENTION OPENS.
Reception of Mr.. Fairbanks's Speech
Captain English AppIauded

Captain English Applauded.
This is indeed going to be great con-
vention'' was the mental comment of every
person who had the good fortune to bo
present yesterday afternoon. at the open
ing event of the two days Republican
meeting Senator Fairbankss speech was
a surprise even to those who know with
what force and clearness he can express
himself on the great questions of the day,
and it was widely commented on last night
Those who were disappointed in their ef-
forts to secure tickets to the hall had even
a greater cause for regret when they
learned what they had missed. The OPEN
ing session passed without special incident.
The preliminary business. with the excep-
ticn of the submission and adoption of the
platform, was disposed of, and this MORN
ing, after the platform agreed on by the
committee on resolutions has been adopted
by the convention, the battle of the bal
lots" will begin.
After the doors of the hall were opened
at O'Clock the crowds of spectators began
to assemble rapidly, but the lower floor, re-
served for delegates, was slow in filling up
over at headquarters in the Denison Hotel
the candidates were holding back the dele
gates as long as possible in the hope of
converting them TO their cause. and ii was
well toward the hour for calling the meeting
to order before the 1916 seats of the dele
gates were occupied Seats in the left bal
cony had been reserved for the ladies'
many Of whom took advantage of the op-
portunity. On the stage the black coats
of interested spectators were enlivened by
the bright, cool shirt waists OF the ladies
leaning against their elbows. Up in the top
gallery a band played inspiring music. On
the stage were many well-known men,
There was some applause when Capt. w. e.
English and Mrs. English took place with
the other spectators on the raised seats of
the stage. Later on, when Chairman Hern-
" arrived and distinguished visitors were
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-04
A. Viewed Mt Singapore.

LONDON, Aug. A dispatch to the
Daily Mail from Singapore says President
McKinley's proposal that a commission
should decide the future government of the
Philippines is considered here as giving
Spain a chance of recovering partial au-
thority over her revolted subjects. This
state of things. it is thought. might afford
an opening for intrigues on the part of for
eign powers unfriendly to America. Great
Britain and Japan might prove dangerous
to the cause of permanent peace in the
Pacific.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-04
TAKEN OFF FRANCIS KEY.
Steamer Franklin Cap
tured While Running the Blockade.

KEY WEST, Fla. Aug. 5. u m.-The Nor
wegian steamer Franklin. of about 500 tons.
bound from Vera Cruz with a cargo of food
supplies. was captured by the converted
yacht Siren on Monday off Francis Key,
near Caibarien, and was brought here to-
day by prize crew under command of
Lieutenant Littlefield She had already
landed portion of her cargo when caught.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-04
Assignment of Auctioneers.

auctioneers, one of the oldest business
houses in Chicago, made an assignment to-
day for the benefit of creditors The avail
able assets are $125. 900 and the liabilities are
estimated at from $4,000 to s2500o0. Poor
business is given as the cause of the failure.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-04

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Aug. 3-The
first detachment of the Third Brigade, First
Army Corps, in command of Brigadier Gen.
eral Fred d. Grant, embarked late tonight
on the transport Hudson for Porto Rico and
at o'clock in the morning the Hudson will
steam out of Hampton Roads. The troops
on board are six companies of the First
Kentucky Regiment. In command of Col.
Castleman. Before they went aboard the
vessel the soldiers were paid off. 1t is not
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-04

MADRID. Aug. 3.-Premier Sagasta has
summoned Senor Silvela, the Conservative
leader, and other absent politicians to Mad
rid. in order to consult with them regarding
the peace terms.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-04
spanish Fours Advancing.

LONDON. Aug. 3.-Spanish fours closed
at 4l5s, net advance of ia.
PARIS, July S.-Spanish fours closed at
ALA, net gain of 170
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-04
Uprising of Carlists.

LONDON, Aug. S.A dispatch from Bar
celona says formidable rising of Carlists
has taken place near Lorida. Catalonia.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-24

A Washington dispatch states that our
military commission in Cuba has been per-
emptorily instructed to demand the evacu-
delay. This instruction has not been sent
any too soon. The Journal called attention
to the fact nearly two weeks ago that by
the protocol signed Aug. II it was provided
that Spain will Immediately evacuate
Cuba, Porto Rico and the other islands now
under Spanish sovereignty in the Antilles
There is no stronger word in the English
language to fix the time of an action than
the word Immediately" Under the great
est liberty of construction that can be ac-
corded it means without any unnecessary
delay whatever. Since then every move
made and every point raised by the Span
ish commissioners has indicated purpose
to fence for delay. In connection with the
representatives of the Cuban autonomist
government. who are Spanish sympathiz-
ers, they have raised a cloud of questions
regarding property rights, Spanish sover-
eighty and other matters, the settlement of
which, even If it pertains to the functions
Of the Cuban commission, would require
months Meanwhile the Spanish authori-
ties are collecting the customs revenue at
Havana, amounting it is said, to more than
$l,50O.000 in gold since the blockade was
raised. and have disclosed a purpose to held
on to that port till the last minute. The
questions that have been raised regarding
Spanish sovereignty in Cuba are frivolous.
There is no such thing. Spanish sover-
eighty in Cuba ended when the protocol
was signed, and it only remained for Spain
to evacuate the island Immediately. It will,
of course, take some time to complete the
evacuation after it is begun, and the be-
ginning should not be allowed to be further
delayed. If our commissioners had not in
structions when they went to Cuba to push
matters on that line it is high time they
should receive such instructions. Spain
should be given to understand that she is
dealing with a government that means bust
ness and that will not tolerate her tradi-
tional 'manana" policy
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-24

Generals Sanger and Wiley and Colonel
Leonard, of the Twelfth New York Volun-
teers, were in the conference with the sec
did not name individuals, but expressed the
opinion that 1.-The great trouble lay with the
surgeon generals and quartermaster's de-
partments in falling to honor acquisitions.
General Wiley, a citizen general, nominated
by the President, was much more emphatl,
and general in his denunciations. There
had been too much drilling, there were not
enough stretchers and ambulances, and he
could not get from the quartermaster's de-
partment water boilers. Colonel Leonard
assailed Dr. Huidekoper unfit for the
position, seeming, like Chaplain Christensen,
not to be aware that Dr. Huidekoper had
rot been at Chickamauga since the middle
of July. Colonel Leonard was quite en-
phatic in his criticism of the hospital man.
agement and of matters in general. The
same dispatch says that a number of the
men of Colonel Leonards regiment absented
themselves from the review for the purpose,
as the men said. of making the regiment
showing as bad possible indicating that
the fault-finding colonel was not attending
to his duties. Quartermaster General Lud-
ington, who was present with the secretary
of war. declared that every requisition
which had reached his Office had been filled !;
further. that requests which were not
acquisitions had always been promptly at
tended to. Colonel Lee, the assistant quar-
termaster general at the head of affairs at
Chickamauga, was charged by name by
General Wiley with failure to fill requsi-
tons. Now Colonel Lee declares that the
charges are absolutely false and that he
would show them to be false when there
should be an investigation. The surgeon
general asserted at Chattanooga that "at
the outset chickamauga was absolutely
healthy and the water pure, and that the
sickness was traceable directly tc the failure
Of commanding and regimental officers to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-24
AS TO INSPECTORS GENERAL.

The Washington correspondent of the
Pittsburg Dispatch says that the cause of
much of the failure and of most of the
scandals in connection with the army is the
practical abandonment of the inspector gen.
erals department by the promotion of high
er officers to general officers, General Brock
inridge, Colonel Hughes and Lieutenant
Colonel Lawton and others having been
made commanders of troops and their places
filled by men from civil life who could not
know much of their duties. The Minneap.
oils Tribune picks Up the statement and as.
sumes that it is correct, when the record
shows that it is not.
No correspondent, no editor, need make
such plumbers, since upon application to the
adjutant generals office he may obtain 3
copy of a roster of the general officers and
officers of the general staff of United States
volunteers which will show how many Of
those officers are from the army and how
many from civil life. On Page II of this
roster are the names of the seven inspectors
general with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Four of them are from the regular army
and three from civil life. One of those from
civil life was for years a member of the
National Guard. There are twenty-one in
spectors general with the rank of major.
Fourteen of these are from the regular
army and the others are civil appointments.
The First Corps, at Chickamauga, had three
regular army officers among its inspectors
and one civilian, who was appointed from
Georgia. This corps is singled out because
most complaint is made of the shortcomings
in that camp.
There is no excuse for a Washington
correspondent declaring that the new posi-
tions in the inspector generals department
in the volunteer army were filled by civilian
appointments when he can easily ascertain
that such is not the case. This must be the
opinion of the Minneapolis Tribune when
it learns that it has been deceived by the
Washington correspondent of the Pittsburg
Dispatch. Doubtless some one told him that
what he affirms is the case, but at this stage
of the war it will not do to accept many
statements as true without investigation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-24
INDIANAPOLIS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER

observe the sanitary regulations which had
been issued by the medical bureau"
Thus the issue has been joined. Colonel
Lee is ready to prove that the charges of
General Wiley and Colonel Leonard are
false. The surgeon general. who has been
charged with faulty hospital plan and
general inefficiency. turns upon commanding
officers. If General Wiley's acquisitions
were not filled the records should show that
they were presented. If he did not send up
acquisitions, as he asserts, the failure to
find them would be evidence that he did
not make them. If Colonel Lee returned
the requisition for water boilers with the
Endorsement that the United States did not
furnish them, it should be in the hands of
General Wiley. This controversy would be
a good one for the Presidents commission
to take up at once, to the end that it may
be made clear to the country who are the
negligent or guilty persons.
1t may be added that the only officials who
have been drawn into this controversy for
whose appointment the President is respon-
BILE are Chief Surgeon Huidekoper, who left
for Porto Rico as early as the middle of
July, and Brigadier General Wiley, who was
appointed from the National Guard of Penn
sylvania.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-24
BRADsTREETs REVIEW.
Trade i'm the South Adversely Affected
by the Yellow Fever Scare

NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-Bradstreets to-
morrow will say: Favorable trade develop
ments manifest themselves chiefly along the
lines previously noted. The Importance of
large export demand to the country's do
nestle interests is illustrated by the i'm
proved tone and prices of wheat and flour
this week, growing out of the better foreign
buying induced by less favorable Russian
crop reports, smaller shipments from that
country and apparently continued careful
selling by American producers Raw cot
ton, on the other hand, reflects probabi-
ties of continued plentiful supplies and
rather slow demand in quotations, lower
than the lowest point reached in the year
of depression QS9D, when a large yield was
colncident with poor trade, Industrial
troubles and tight money
From the West and Northwest advices
continue largely in the former cheerful
strain. Some relaxation in activity is per-
ceptible in some lines at large markets. but
the volume of trade as a whole is evidently
equal to any previous record. At the South
low-priced cotton ard yellow fever ouaran-
tines affect trade adversely, improvement in
one section being counterbaIanced by less
favorable advices from Others Favorable
conditions on the Pacific coast are most
numerously reported in the States of Oregon
and Washington. Conservative manage
ment earlier IN the year. however has re-
suited In fairly good conditions in California
where crops were less favorable than
farther north, and failures are down to a
minimum. Activity in iron and steel manu-
tacture continues undated and similar con-
dltions are reported abroad. Talk of further
moderate advances in price has increased,
particularly as this country to-day gener-
ally speaking. is the cheapest market for
iron and steel in the world. The export
trade in pig iron from Southern points con-
tlnueS very heavy, and another advance of
70 cents is reported by some large Southern
concerns.
Improved foreign demand for American
cereals is shown in the enlarged volume of
shipments this week. Wheat, including
flour. shipments aggregate 1891 1853 bushels,
against 3,675,291 bushels last week, 5,70S, ga
bushels in the corresponding week of 1897
1880, 1866 bushels In 1886, 3,15l ,907 bushels in
1895 and 500 bushels in 1894. Since July
/ this year exports of wheat aggregate Al :
4H bushels, against 50.310525 bushels last
year. Corn exports for the week aggregate
1926, $50 bushels, against Z, 33l 005 bushels
last week, 4.0221 42 bushels in this week one
year ago 2610.479 bushels in 1885, L 800 325
bushels in 1895 and 900 bushels in 1891
Since July / this year corn exports aggre-
gate 1856 .165 bushels, against IS 1893 991
bushels during the same period of 1897.
Business failures In the United States for
| the week number 1872. against l73 last week
237 in this week a year ago, 321 In 1886. 19S
in 1895 and 2O4 in $780, Business failures in