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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-08
A RETIRED ADMIRAL'S VIEWS.
Sir John COlcOmb on the Situation at
Santiago de Cuba.

santiago de Cuba.
LONDON, June 7.-Admiral Sir John Col
lomb writes as follows to a morning paper
with reference to the situation at Santiago
de Cuba: Il am inclined to think that for
the purpose of blocking the egress of
hostile war squadron, this operation Of
sinking the Merrimac is a unique idea,
though blocking up an enemy's harbor by
sinking ships at the entrance is not new.
What may be noted, however, with advan-
tage is that the peculiar policy of Admiral
Sampson is the policy of greater admirals,
especially of Lord Nelson which was to
tempt blockaded fleet to put to sea in
order that it might be fallen upon and de-
stroyed, for when this has been done
blockading fleet is relieved to carry on:
other duties Sampson wants every ship
that can be spared, and if the Spanish ships
are really blocked in much of this block
aiding force may be detached. Still our
policy in a like case would not have been
to block the channel but TO have left a
squadron off Santiago only large enough
to make fair fight should Ceryera deter
mine to try his fortunes Nevertheless. Ad-
miral SIMPSONS caution confirms what
naval men who are also students of naval
history have always insisted upon-that the
entry OF war ships into the ports of an en-
envy was no more likely TO be the practice
OF steamers than of sailing ships.
All through this war, however, what was
expected by the advanced school of naval
thinkers, and the thing upon which, indeed,
much OF our own policy has been founded,
has been conspicuous by absence. Admiral
Sampson has never used his torpedo boats
as Il was expected they would be used.
ne mas never sent one of them into cuban
port by night to destroy ships such as might
De found at Santiago. 1t Is plain that If a
Experimentation ship could run into the
arrow part Of a channel at night little tor
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WASHINGTON, June All the positions
In the volunteer army, under the Presidents
first call, either have been filled or the
places promised and the remaining nomina-
tons to them will soon be sent to the Sem
ate. AS a result of this the pressure on Sec
rotary Alger and the other army officials is
not great as heretofore and there is a
considerable falling off in the number of
visitors to the department. The department
has not yet considered the selection of Off
GERS for the organizations to be formed,
under the second call for seventy-five thou
sand men. Fully fifty thousand of the sew
enty-f1ve thousand men will be needed to
recruit the existing organizations to their
full legal maximum strength, which will
leave only twenty-five thousand to be di-
yided into organizations, the formation Of
which, as such, will not take place for some
time
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GEN. sHAETER IN COMMAND.
ABOUT 10000 Regular Troops Prob
ably Now ON the Way to Santiago.

ably Now on the Way to Santiago.
NEW YORK, June ga special to the
Times from Washington says: There is no
longer any pretense at the War Depart
ment that the Santiago expedition is not
afoot, or that It is not to reach its destina-
ton speedily. The information has been
circulated quite freely that forces have been
shipped to Tampa and more are to follow
Cuba and intended to cooperate with Ad-
miral Sampson to effect the capture of that
city, with it's garrison and the shipping, in
Guiding the fleet of Admiral Cervera in the
harbor.f
From all that can be ascertained at the
War Department, the land forces are to be
directed by General Shafter, who will have
not less than 10000 men, mostly regulars,
1t was plainly stated by Cabinet officer
after the meeting at noon, that the post
ponement OF the expedition, which had not
been great, was altogether attributable to
the movement of the siege guns that are to
be taken along and to unexpected delay in
unloading the cars at Tampa.
''Whlle the expedition to Santiago is on its
way another for Porto Rico is to be made
ready and shipped Just how soon after
the Santiago movement this expedition is
to leave is not stated, but in carrying out
the administration plan of summer activity
It is probable that>it will not be delayed
more than a week after the departure of
the Santiago party There is some proba-
bility that Major General Lee will go with
his friends that he would prefer to wait
until the Havana invasion. In the War De-
partment it is answered to this that the
forces that go to Porto Rico now may be
called on later to go to Cuba, and the places
Of the invaders of Porto Rico taken by
newer men, needing the additional practice
Of garrison and guard duty.
"The reduction Of Havana is still in the
distance, but the occupation of Santiago and
of Porto Rico WILL it is believed by the adj
ministration, prepare for such a crushing
descent upon Havana after Porto Rico is in
the possession of the United States and the
best OF the troops are free to operate about
Havana, that General Blanco will be COM
PEELED to see the futility of opposing, unless
he desires to sacrifice some of the troops
that will otherwise be sent back to Spain
to tell the story of their defeat and the
evacuation of Cuba"
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VIEWS OF LONDONERS.
Comments of the Press on the Situa-
ton at Santiago.

LONDON, June S.-The London morning
papers are inclined to doubt the account
of the destruction and silencing of the forts
at Santiago, but they believe the lombard
ment was intended to draw the Spaniards
attention from landing somewhere, and
that the coming week or two will see excit-
ing events in Cuba. The sinking of the
Reina Mercedes is regarded as probable, for
it is known that her boilers were defective,
and that she had no armored deck The
woundng or death of Colonel Ordonez
means a serious loss to Spain. Ordonez be-
ing or having been, her artillery expert,
with European reputation, and the de-
signer of the ordnance bearing his name
The Cape Haitien advices of the Daily
Mail practically confirm the account from
the Associated Press boat Dandy. All other
accounts here, except the brief dispatches
from Madrid emanate from New York: A
special from Havana, evidently pro-Spanlsh,
says that nine Aemrican vessels retired,
seriously crippled, that the Reina Mercedes
was only slightly damaged and that the
American losses were heavy.
The Daily News says: THE American
consul at Odessa has informed our CORE
spondent there of a somewhat singular pro-
ceeding on the part of the authorities at
that port with regard to some foreign steam
erS now chartered auxiliary transports
for conveyance of troops and war. material
from Odessa to Port Arthur. 1t appears, in
the case of a German steamer named Scan
dia and a French vessel, the American con-
sui was applied to for certificates attestinG
the ownership of the steamers, and the char
acter and nature, as well as destination of
their passengers and cargo. 1t was explained
by the local Russian authorities that this
extraordinary precaution was taken in the
event of the vessels being compelled TO put
into a Philippine port. AS no certificate was
demanded of the Spanish consul, it would
appear that the Russians look upon the
United States being in de factO posses
sion >of the Philippine archipelago. The
American consul readily gave the required
certificates"
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THE CABINET MEETING.
Military and Naval Operations Con-
sidered-Haste to BE Made.


WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE Cabinet
meeting to-day was not particularly inn
portant one. AS is usual the whole field of
military and naval operations was gone
over, but nothing was done looking to any
change In policy or plans. 1t is almost cer-
tain that no regular troops have yet been
dispatched to Santiago, but it is the inten-
ton to begin a heavy movement either to-
day or tomorrow 1t had been the inten-
zion of the military authorities TO have
started the first expedition a day of two
ago, but the nonaTrival of the equipment of
the large siege guns which it is proposed to
use in the reduction OF Santiago and the
capture of Admiral Cervera's fleet neces-
STATED a short postponement. The tram
sports are in perfect readiness for the en-
barkation OF the troops, and nothing now
remains that should occupy more than a
day or two. The army of occupation will
then be hurried forward, and nothing will
be permitted 10 interfere with the prompt
investment of Santiago and the capture or
destruction of the imprisoned fleet. In COM
mentfng on the reports OF a military engage
ment near Santiago 1t was said after the
Cabinet meeting that If there had been any
collision IL probably occurred between the
Spaniards and a force of our marines, who
may have been attempting to land arms for
the use of the insurgents.
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THE NECK OF THE BOTTLE.
Description of the Channel That Was
Blocked by HObsOn.

Blocked by HObsOn.
Copyright. 1898. by the Associated Press)
OFF SANTIAGO DE CUBA, June 8, via
Kingston, Jamaica, June ITO appreciate
the great danger of the Merrimac expedition
the character of the defenses of the harbor
of Santiago de Cuba must be known. The
entrance to the broad and deep harbor on
which the city faces is by narrow channel
about mile long, and each side guarded by
a hill standing almost perpendcularly to
height of $50 feet. At one point the neck of
this approach is less than 800 feet wide and
only five and one-half fathoms deep, so
that to enter ships must go in one at
time On the hill guarding the eastern side
of the harbor is MORO Castle, with five
A-pounders, five 1S-pounders and two mod
ern rapid-fire guns. On the western hill
top are two batteries with modern guns.
At the base of MORO Castle are several
guns loaded with shrapnel to sweep the face
of the water, and opposite is a similar bat
terry. Going around the first curve of the
narrow entrance, Cayo Smith, an island, is
found facing down the harbor with a bat
terry of modern guns.
In the narrow neck of the passage are
three rows of mines, each row fifty feet
apart, and the mines sixteen in row, each
thirty feet apart. The Reina Mercedes lies
in the shadow of Cayo Smith, partly dis
mantled, but having her four torpedo tubes
loaded and facing down the channel. ABOUT
half way up the channel on the eastern
bank is the Estrella battery, with several
small, smooth-bore guns; and this was the
menacing hole of death into which Lieut..
Hobson and his men ventured with the
Merrimac.
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TO BE DISSOLVED.
Receivers for the Judge and ArkelI
Publishing Companies.

NEW YORK, June 7.-Justice Lawrence,
In the Supreme Court, signed an order APP
pointing Emanuel Blumenstiel as referee in
the proceedings taken by the board of di-
1ectors of the Judge Publishing Company
for the voluntary dissolution of that cor
poratfon, and appointed j. Warren Green as
receiver, fixing ne amount of his bond at
$4,000. The liabilities are placed at $425, OO0
together with certain contingent liabilities.
Justice Lawrence also signed an order APP
pointing Mr.. Blumenstiel referee in similar
proceedings of dissolution of the Arkell
Publishing Company, and appointed Bart
lett Arkell receiver under bond of $150,C00.
Tho liabilities are placed at over $500, 900
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AS TO IMMUNEs.
Doubtful if Regiment ImperviOus to
Yellow Fever Can Be Raised.
Washington Post.

Washington Post.
We have already discussed the question
of immunity from the disease peculiar to
the island of Cuba, and have expressed
can be acquired only by residence and
acclimation there. This opinion is based
upon the experience and observation of
every physician in the United States who
has had much to do with yellow fever or
is in a position to speak with authority
OF health conditions in Cuba. Among all
the fallacles and crack Drained nonsense
bred by the war we know of none so ex-
travagant as the immune regiment
Nevertheless, We are now in possession
of several of these regiments, guaranteed
to be impervious to the diseases of The
island, and ready to march gaily forth upon
from pft6Wsy fTon There is
from Mississippi, and-save the mark!-at
least a part of one from the District of
Columbia. Fortunately the invading army
Will be wei! equipped with sanitary officers
Of information and good common sense. We
may therefore expect with some reason that
the disciples of this absurd infatuation will
be protected against themselves. But it
must amuse the intelligent observer of
events to hear of yellow-fever immunes
from Mississippi and Alabama - States in
which only a year or so ago the lnhabi-
tants were fleeing in disheveled panic from
the very mention of yellow fever, where men
were building walls around themselves and
mounting guard with shotguns in their
hands, where law and order gave way to
fear and superstition, and where civilization
itself was crushed under the cruel, frantic
heel of barbariSm.
We are not telling. these brave and pa
triotic fellows that they go to die of vel
low fever. Far from it! We have not
the terror of that name which obtains so
generally in the Southern States. In our
opinion there are many worse foes to
meet in Cuba, and according to the best
and most intelligent information at our dis
posal, there is little or no chance of contract
ing the disease inland, few miles from the
seaport towns. What appeals to our sense
of humor is the term immune" applied to
regiments or smaller military bodies which
cannot, by any chance, be composed, even
approximately, of immunes. 1t is ridiculous,
that's all.
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A Significant Admission.

LONDON, June S.-The Times. comment
ing editorially on the fact that the Cuban
authorities at Havana permitted fits CORE
spondent, Mr.. Knight, to discharge his
function in forwarding the dispatch as to
Mondays engagement at Santiago, says:
His dispatch says that 1.-THE American fire
was damaging" AS he doubtless Is sub
jected to rigid censorship, this admission is
significant, and his statement that the
Americans were repulsed at Aguadores'' is
probably correct. The editorial, in summing
up the situation, says: Spanish obstinacy
may prolong the war for many months.
The American government is acting wisely
and prudently In refusing to send to Cuba
an army of unframed volunteers. Little at
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-08

Folly of AttributinE the Increase to
Young MIR. Letters Deals.
New York Evening PaSt


1t appears that some BODY of phiIan-
thropic agitators-the knights of Labor, we
believe-has called young Mr.. Letter angrily
to account for his Vaccinations in the
wheat market, whereby the price of the
poor mans bread was raised to an extor-
tomato figure. The incident recalls oddly
the attack OF another body of philanthrop-
ists-the BANDS and Allens-ag ainst the op-
erations of the late Mr.. Partridge, of Chi
cago, four or five years ago, in forcing
down the price of wheat and bread. Just
now the farmers are joining in an outburst
or thanks and admiration TO the spectators
for adding some $2O0,000,OO0 $50 the story
runs) to the producers profits of the year
We do not remember that the consumers
moved any vote of thanks to Partridge for
the 50-cent wheat of 1894 but they must GER
tainly have got the benefit of the low price
of bread. Aside from the childishness of
the whole idea which ascribes the rise or
fall in the worlds price of wheat to one or
two individual spectators, this conflict of
approval and disapproval, of enthusiasm
and denunciation. is somewhat perp.exing
and suggests that it is perhaps fortunate
that the forces of nature are, after all, the
arbiter.
If the boards of trade really accomplish
anything in the long run they provide a
steady market throughout the year. where
by the farmer may, with the aid of specu-
lative capital, choose his own time to sell.
while the consumer may at least be re-
lieved from acute uneasiness by the reten-
ton of supplies in granary for sale in a
moment of real scarcity. With board of
trade such as those of LIVERPOOL and Chi
cago the exhaustion of bread supplies in
Spain last month would have been alto
gether improbable. Even in Berlin where
the grain broker has hitherto been active,
the government has learned a lesson from
its recent experiment in supressng produce
exchanges Unable to command the usual
supply of capital on future delivery" con-
tracts the German farmers sold all their
wheat Immediately after the harvest, when
the price was forced down under such COM
peting sales. Having thus parted with their
supplies. the Berlin market was left bare
of stocks in the later hour of scarcity. The
London Economists Berlin correspondent
ending April Is the rise of wheat at that
city was 80 marks per ton, against rise or
only marks at Paris, where the grain
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pedo boats might have swarmed right
has caused the expectation of these adj
vanced naval thinkers to be disappointed
alter before the war is over we shall be
found reconsidering our policy in this re-
gard.
The officers and men of the Merrimac
have clearly acted with the greatest gall
lantry. and. quite possibly. Admiral Ger
vera's recognition of it may be step to-
Naval Constructor Hobson. whoever com
manded the ship must have had great ex-
perience in pilotage. A naval architect has
none. All the work to be done was in
special sense. that of naval officer pure
and simple, and / cannot understand any
one else being chosen
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-08

new 1ork FIndIlcItt.
.rhe Senate, il IL be sincere in its efforts
to force the country on paper money basis,
Is attempting an attack as insidous in char
acter as the bombardment of our coasts.
The results of a bombardment might he
repaired. but the effects of deprecated
currency work evil long after the men who
have sanctioned the issue have passed from
active life. We believe the majority in the
Senate understand this and will be slow to
consent TO a plan that involves the weak
enng of our currency system. 1t is TO be
hoped at least. in the interest of that re-
spect which the Senate exacts as the high
est deliberative body IN the world that such
Is the case. Any other course OF procedure
will fasten a stigma on the upper house
which even the most reckless member will
he slow to invoke
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-08

NEW YORK, June 7.-Secretary Alger has
accepted the service of the American Ma
tional Red Cross, auxiliary to the hos
pital services of the army of the United
States in the following letter to Miss Clara
Barton:
Dear Madam-The tender of the services
to this department through the Department
of State under date of May % for medical
and hospital work, as auxiliary TO the hos
pital service of the army of the United
States, is accepted. All representatives and
employees of said organization to be subject
to orders according to the rules and dis
third article of war"
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A Warning Note.
Leslie's Weekly.

Democratic members of Congress will
make the greatest mistake in the world lie
they delay or jeopardze the passage of the
necessary war measure. ANY political par
ty that hesitates to furnish the government
with the sinews of war will meet an over
whelming defeat AT the polls next fall.
There should be no politics in a war in
which Gen. Fitzhugh Lee General Wheeler
and the best Of the rest of the Southern
fighters are marching in line with soldiers
from the North. The South and the North
are firmly knit together in this war Every
consideration demands that the contest be
is no time for figuring in fractions The
war appropriations should be generous, ade-
quate and abundant. Above ALL they should
be promptly voted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-08

PARIS, June mo news has been re-
ceived to justify the rumor on the bourse
to-day that war had broken out between
Chile and Argentina
LONDON, June 1.-THE rumor of a bound
airy crisis between Chile and Argentina,
which caused decline this morning in Bra
lillian and Argentine securities, is discred-
tied by the Chilean charge daffaires, Senior
Bascunan Monies.
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Filibuster Cases NolIed.

NEW YORK. June THE Cuban fllibus-
ter cases were nolled in the criminal branch
of the United States Circuit Court to-day
by order of Attorney General Griggs. Judge
Brown discharged the following prisoners
who had been bailed in $500 each: Captain
John O'Brien, Captain George w. Berry,
DIR. Frank Agramonte, Joaquin Costello,
James McAllister. Charles b. Dickman,
Enrique Trujillo, Joseph j. Luis, Edward
Murphy. John D. Hart and Emilio Nunez.
The ma jorty were the Title. The in
dlctments against General Calxto Garcia
and Carlo Roloff, who forfeited their bail,
were not dismissed.
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Other Deaths.

OSWEGO, N. Y, June 7-William d. Far
well, night city editor of the New York
Tribune, died at his parents home here to-
DAY of consumption, aged thirty. Prior to
ms association with the Tribune he was
editor of the Newark N. j., Advertiser.
ST. LOUIS. June IN W. Alexander.
ex-president of the National Pharmaceuti-
cal Association, is dead from heart disease.
He was one of the best-knOwn druggists in
Missouri and had been in business in this
city fifty years