The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-23
LOBBY YATWORK
sCHEMING TO SECURE PAYMENT OF
CUBAN REPUBLIC BONDS.
Will Attempt to Influence the Peace
Commission, and, Failing There,
Will Labor with the Senate.
AN ALLEGED CONSPIRACY
IN THE WAR DEPARTMENT AGAINST
MAJOR GENERAL MILES.
Dispatch Calling Attention to the san
itary Conditions at Santiago Said
to Have Been Suppressed.
SAMPSON At WASHINGTON
THE ADMIRAL HAS A CONFERENCE
WITH THE PRESIDENT.
State Department Notified of Appoint
ment of Spanish Commissioners
for Cuba and Porto Rico.
Dispatch Calling Attention to the San
itary Conditions at Santiago Said
to Have Been Suppressed.
SAMPSON 1T WASHINGTON
THE ADMIRAL HAS A CONFERENCE
WITH THE PRESIDENT.
State Department Notified of Appoint
ment of Spanish Commissioners
for Cuba and Porto Rico.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-The lobby
which was "whooping it up" in Washing
ton last winter and spring for the Cuban
Republic" and which nearly succeeded in
committing this government to that paper
organization is again actively at work A
very large amount of these so-called Cuban
bonds are in the hands of persons of politi-
cal and financial influence. They will have
novalue unless this government can in some
manner be induced 70 assume payment or
persuade Cuba to pay them The lobby
failed by narrow margin last spring. The
present hope of the spectators is that in
the grand finale the peace commission may
give the bonds standing. Failing to secure
recognition at the hands of the peace COM
mission. final attempt will he made in the
Senate to amend the treaty by the insertion
of clause giving value to the now worth
less securities. =
In the course of a long article purporting
to be an expose of a conspiracy" in the
War Department against General Miles, the
Philadelphia Times publishes an alleged
suppressed dispatch" from that officer to
Secretary Alger, dated Santiago, July q, in
which the writer (91iles) is represented as
having advised Secretary Alger of the des-
perate sanitary condition prevailing at San
tiago and calling attention to the fact that
his orders for the removal of the camps up
into the high hills back of the city had not
been carried out. He is also represented as
saying that orders given General Shafter
before the expedition left Florida, to avoid
occupying any houses or buildings in Cuba,
had been disobeyed, and that a great many
cases of yellow fever, many of them fatal,
had resulted from such disobedience of or
ders. He is further represented as saying
in this dispatch that the only alternative
which was presented for saving the army
frcm additional terrible loss by disease (the
removal of the men to the hills not having
been done) was to transport them to some
point in New England, where they could
have the benefit of better climate and bet
ter treatment. 1t was several days before
the sending of this alleged cablegram that
the celebrated ''round robin was issued
from Santiago, setting forth the horrible
conditions prevailing there, the publication
of which stimulated the movement for the
transportation of the sick army from Cuba
to Montauk Point. From the Times publi-
cation it would appear that General Miles
feels aggrieved and has gone cunning for
somebody. The man whose name is signed
to the article shows an envelope postmarked
Porto Rico in which he said a copy of
INC SuPpiesSeu uISpdtcH Hdu Deen sent
him. 1t could not we'll have got out of Por-
to Rico without the knowledge of General
Miles. **%
At the State Department to-day specific
denial was made of the cabled report that
an agreement had been reached between
this country and Great Britain as to what
the American policy would be in relate to
the Philippines. 1t can be stated positively
that no such agreement has been reached
At the same time, high officials of the two
governments are in constant friendly COM
munication, and when the time for action
arrives the Americans will not be in ignor-
ance of the kind Of a programme which will
give the greatest mutual satisfaction to the
two great Englsh-speaking nations.