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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-11-11
CLUTCH OF THE STANDARD


WASHINGTON, Nov 10.-The industrial
commission spent the forenoon in executive
session considering a statement which Mr.
George Rice, of Ohio had submitted at the
request of the commission, forecasting what
he expected to say on the stand. This
statement it is expected will be severe in
its reflection upon railroads, the Standard
Oil Company the Interstate-commerce
Commission and also on other government
officials. The commission finally directed
Mr.. Rice to eliminate certain portions of his
testimony and he probably will go on the
stand Tomorrow
AT the afternoon session the commission
listened to the testimony of Andrew Il. Gall,
of Montreal Canada, a dealer in petroleum
products. Mr.. Calls statement dealt al
most entirely with the operations of the
Standard Oil Company in Canada. He rep
resented that the company had a monopoly
of the oil refining business in the Dominion
and that IL is impossible TO purchase from
the company unless the purchaser agrees 10
buy all his goods from the Standard re-
timers. He complains especially of the
freight rates, which, he said are extremely
dlscriminative against american oils. lie
dred was charged on Canadian oil from
Montreal to St. Johns, whereas "a cents was
charged on the American product Also,
the through rate on oil from American
points had been almost doubled in the past
year, the entire increase being on the
Canadian end of the roads. He also said
the present duty on American oil imported
into Canada was cents a gallon, or 100
per cent. Mr.. Gall also said the Standard
people were in the habit of sending men
into the yards of opposition companies and
taking out samples.
Then the Standard Oil Company prac-
ticaly runs your country-its railroads and
its government" suggested Mr.. Livingston.
1t certainly controls our roads," re-
sponded the witness, but i would not say
SO much concerning the government
He was satisfied the policy OF the rail-
roads and the freight rates was not the
result of a policy of retaliation on the part
of the Canadian government against the
United States. He said there were nine re-
fineries in Canada before the combination
was effected, but that most of them had
been demolished. One owner of a refinery
had told him that he received $4,000 for a
plant that was not worth to exceed $1,000.
This consolidation had been effected In 1898,
and since then the price of oil had advanced
from 1912 cents to IL cents per gallon.
Vice Chairman Phillips, who, in the abb
sence of Senator Kyle, is presiding over the
sessions of the committee said tonight re-
garding the statement proposed TO be sub
mitted by Mr.. Rice that the commission
had right to demand that certain portions
of it be eliminated What we want he
continued ARE the facts i'm the case and
we can draw our own conclusions. OF
course, We are willing that man should
state his beliefs on any subject, within
proper limits. Still We do not care TO make
personalities matters OF record"
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RULED OFF FOR LIFE.
CurIey brown and Others Haired from
American Race Tracks

CINCINNATI. o., Nov. 1o-After a THOR
oueh investigation into the night between
Curley Brown and Dan Murray on Ihurs-
day afternoon at the Newport race track
the Judges to-day ruled off the turf Tor me-
the following persons: IL ID. Brown George
Heating. Trainer Ted Wilker and Cnaries
Heating. Wilker was implicated In the az
fair through handing Brown pair OF prdss
knucks during the ARRAY. IL developed
however. that Brown did not use the weap-
on given him by Wilker, but struck Murray
several times across the head with char-
The Heating boys, according to evidence
presented. were i'm the room in which the
fight took place and prevented Murray rom
escaping his assailanJs when attacked ny
Brown Both Keatings have been employer
nv Starter Jake Hoffman as flagrnen- bIoNh
Is one OF the best known turfmen IN amer
lea For several years he was starter at
Newport and several other race uachsss
This wear he has been racing a staDlS .A
horses He owns three OF the fasiest sPIli,ns-
ers in the West i'm Merry Day. Gold DOr
and Dolly Wiethoff. Murray is sun IN a pre-
earious condition, but the physicians sly
he will recover. His most serious injury II
a cash in the back of the head nVe lhches
long.
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FUNSTON NOT A HERO
TELLS KANSAS CITY PEOPLE HE
DOESN'T FEEL LIKE ONE.
just an Omcer. Is All 4 AM He says
Brief speech at Reception
i'm His Honor.

KANSAS CITY. No. Nov l0.-Gen. Fred
erick Funston and Col. Wilder Metcalf.
Lieut.. Col L. c. Little and the STAFF officers
of the Twentieth Kansas Regiment were
brought into Kansas City to day on spe-
cial train and are the guests of the Knife
and Fork Club. One thousand people met
the officers at the depot. They were escort
ed uptown by their old band to Convention
Hall, where public reception was held.
There were probably 1900 persons in Con-
vention Hall when Funston responded to
the welcoming speeches. In the course OF
a brief speech the general said: II am not
a hero; don't feel like one. Just an officer
because the officers and men under him
have never failed TO follow when he went
somewhere. 1 know that it has been my
lot to receive the major portion OF the honor
that belongs 10 the men. / give them three
fourths and claim only a snare of the rest.
Inere were and are a great many officers
and men in the Philippines who have done
Drawer deeds-braver were never done-and
whose names pass unchallenged with no
cneer Ihey never get into the papers on
the night of April %, 1899. when General
Macarthur told me that the Grand river
bridge would have to be taken and 1 asked
sixteen ofncers and men TO go with me,
where TO be taken meant certain death, If
ty of them were eager TO go. Since j re-
turned TO America l have heard not one
word OF Captain O'Hara. who was one Of
the braVeSt and most efficient officers in
the Orient. Numterless instances could be
mentioned where bravery has not been APP
plauded' -
Tonight the officers were given an elab-
crate banquet at the Midland Hotel, at
which four hundred plates were laid. Much
enthusiasm prevailed. General Funston
sas." General Metcalf to ION the Firing
Line and Colonel Little to Our Flag"
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ARBITRATION.
Senator Davis on the Peaceful Settle
ment of international Questions.

ST. PAUL, Nov. Ex-senator Cushman X
Davis. in an article i'm the Pioneer Press
discussing the question of arbitration and
international problems, says: During the
present generation. and more and more so
each year, the industrial. commercial and
social relations of the civilized states have
become so incessant. their exchange OF
products necessary. their relations OF
debtor and creditor so enormous In amount
and so complicated in extent and variety
that war infiicts losses and calamities OF
worldwide ruin, not only TO the people en-
gagged in hostilities, but also upon the sub
jects of neutral states. This stability OF
conditions has caused an enormous in
crease in wealth and property, greater
within the last fifty years than during any
hundred years IN the worlds history. The
assurance of peace and stability has caused
an imperial expansion of civilization equal
In importance to that which followed the
discovery of America by Columbus.
Call Il by whatever name you will,
whether of stigma praise, the enduring
and irreversible fact remains that the dark
continent, the diseased and senile nations.
the islands Of the sea, have passed or are
about TO pass under the dominion of civiliZa-
ton represented by governments. Africa
has been subjugated; Japan has been re-
created; China has submitted TO an ire
sstible invasion: Madagascar mas become
a. colony of France; the United States has
acquired the Philippines and will hold them.
That these stupendouS changes Will, in
the process of time. secure an enormous
trade give increased employment TO labor
everywhere, make efficient higher moral
ity in these new fields of action and gem
all history is false. The change is sudden
and violent and necessarily works incl
dental hardships in the process of its rem
ediai operation. This always happens Buc
TO saw that because Of this the change IL
unlawful or immoral and must not be made
is TO prohibit the remedy because OF the
pain il may infct and TO doom the patient
TO die of the disease which the remedy
would cure.
Nations now arbitrate in many cases
where formerly they would have fought
In no other instance has the power OF pun
lie opinion been more efficient. The United
States has been pre-eminently the leader IN
this pacific evolution having submitted thir-
weight cases Of international dispute 10
arbitration during its political existence.
The precedent established by this govern
ment and Great Britain in creating the
Geneva tribunal and submitting TO its award
has been of the most persuasive force upon
Their nations. The jurisdiction OF arDlIra-
ton will undoubtedly be greatly eNtenoeu.
II has its limitations. Questions INVOLVING
national honor or domestic policles are not
iustifable before arbitral tribunals Inoss
of honor are essentially TO De determineu
only nv the parties To arbitrate questions
of domestic policy, however hurtful lnelr
exercise to another state, would De 10 ueie-
gate the powers and duties or independently
government TO a foreign authority
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A Notable Precedent.
Philadelphia Record.

Z
The opponents Of expansion, who are in
such a twitter lest the semi-civiliZed inhab-
itants of the islands wrested by Yankee SOL
diers and sailors from Spain shall be inn
mediately admitted to stateship in the
Union. are under needless apprehension The
process of assimilation is not necessarily a
hurried one The Territory of New Mexico.
which was organized in 1850 and which was
inhabited by population whose language
was similar and whose characteristics were
not greatly dissimilar from those of the peo-
pie in the West Indies and the Philippines,
still remains i'm its territorial swaddling
clothes 1t may be a few years, and 1t may
be fifty years hundred, before our
island gems shall be polished and pre-
pared as TO take their places among the
stars on the flag OF the Union But all the
time they will have as much free and indie
pendent government as they shall demon
strate the capacity to administer.
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NO AID FOR SPECTATORS.
The Government VIII Not Relieve the
Money Stringeucy.

CHICAGO Nov IO-Frank A. Vanderlip.
assistant secretary of the United States
treasury, who arrived in Chicago to-day for
a weeks visit with his family, says the
Treasury Department has no intention Of
buying s10o,OO0.O0O of bonds for the relief of
the money stringency felt by stock specu-
lators in New York, and that there has
been no organized demand on the depart
n ent for such form of assistance. He says
if the stringency were due to other causes
than stock speculation and manipulation of
interest rates on the Stock Exchange some
n easures of relief might be considered.
1T is true that money is tight in New
York" said Mr.. Vanderlip, call loans being
made at from 20 to 30 per cent, but the sit
Uation is not so serious as has been re-
ported. The discussion over the ACCESSIBILITY
of the treasury buying $l000oO.C0o bonds has
been theoretical. for the department is not
going TO make any such purchase. 1t might
at some time in the future. for we have a
cash balance of over S29b 010. 900. Nothing
can be done now TO ease the money market
except to deposit the internal revenue re-
ceipts withNthe national banks, but there Is
little probability of that kind or action be-
ing taken, for We have SSSV0vo In deposits
.'The fact is, we have experienced no seri-
Gus demand Cor buying bonds, and there Is
Treasury Department with the necessity for
doing So TIE stringency complained. of in
New York is felt more in stock speculation
than elsewhere, and the money market Is
manipulated more or less on the Stock Elk
change. Persons borrow s5O00D0 at a high
rate ana then say they do not want the
money, but are willing to pay the interest.
As a consequence of this practice large
amount of money is locked up, merely for
the purpose of preventing others from using
IT. The Treasury Department recognizes
the situation In New York but IL not going
to help out the speculative element of tina
city by purchasing bonds. If We thought
the stringency was due entirely TO other
causes there might be some measures con-
sidaced for the relief of the market. "
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-11-11

Very few people believe that the loud
sounding proceedings in law against the
natural gas companies by the city attorney
will come to anything. On the other hand,
the companies do not help their cause by
repeating the complaints about the waste
of gas. If patrons are wasting gas, why do
they not make move to put an end to it?
They can shut off every consumer who has
a bored mixer. When thousand or so of
the persons who are wasting gas are shut
off and it is evident that all who are thus
wasting it will be shut off, there will be a
cessation of that sort of thing.
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held and the officers to-day express their
unWfllingness to give out the list until after
their meeting or Monday. 1t is said that at
this meeting the charter of the company
Will he ratified and the complete directorate
chosen. The company is at present incor-
porated for S30.0o0000. Ii Is stated on good
authority that the capital will be soon in
creased to 500 600. ooc with n supplementary
bond issue representing another $lo0. O0o.oo0.
Officers of both The Knickerbocker and
Peoples companies said to-day they have
secured the right to carry their wires
through the conduits in this city. The tele-
phone company fled articles to-day in the
tablished its New Jersey office The incor-
poration caused stir among the seven
hundred stockholders of the Hudson Tele-
phone Company, of Jersey City. which is
likely to be absorbed. k is said that the
local trolley interests in Jersey City are
seeking TO take the Hudson company stock.
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NO OPPOSITION TO DlAZ.
Foreigners Anxious and Tories Will
ing He should Serve.

CITY OF MEXICO. Nov. lo-The invita-
ton ~ the foreign residents favorable TO
the recollection of President Diaz 10 take
mart i'm a great demonstration under the
auspices OF the Liberal party is being en-
Enthusiastically received. The actions OF the
foreigners will be confined TO requiring the
President to allow the Liberal party TO re-
nominate him early in the coming year.
and this is regarded as a legitimate display
of preference by the foreign residents. who
represent so much capital invested In all the
leading branches OF Mexican Industry. The
hearty response Of the foreigners OF high
standing is gratifying To the Mexican pub
lie sentiment. 1t is said that the Con-
seryati.e party leaders. feeling that the best
interests OF the country demand the coa-
tinuance OF General Diaz in office. will not
make any nomination.
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Not Experiments.
Boston Transcript.

DOoiOu 1IdHScTIpl.
Some Of the newspapers and well-informed
people have been talking about the Eek
periments' as q result of which navy Of
hcers find the system of wireless biography
OF value on warships. The use of this sys-
tenn on warships is no new thing, and
about twenty vessels of the British navy
are equipped with the necessary appa-
ratuS for sending and receiving telegraph
messages without wires. The tests which
nave been made on the cruiser New York
and the battleship Massachusetts, were
intended as a demonstration for the benefit
Oh the American naval officers, and We're
not at all in the nature of experiments.
Wireless telegraphy has proved Its value.
The speed of sending messages is limited,
but. there has been no question of the
practicability of the system. The great
trouble with ii at present is that 1T is
possible to send an interfering message
which will break up the one first sent. 1t
is believed, however, that instruments can
be designed to remedy this difficulty, and
that anyhow, 1t is not one which is likely
to prove serious until the use of the wireless
telegraph becomes more general.
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The difficulty with the excellent Senator
Hoar, of Massachusetts, is that his usually
clear and judicial intellect fails to get at
the facts regarding Aguinaldo. He seems
man who naturally turns to assassination
as method is a worthy character. 1t is
probable, however, that he has not Informed
himself regarding the little General Wash
ington of the Anti-imperialistic League of
Boston. He should read carefully the re-
port of the Philippine commission, which
gives the history of the whole affair
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COlOred Men Are Patriotic.

KANSAS CITY star.
The FOrty-eighth United States Volunteer
Infantry colored. have been passing
through the city to-day on their long way
from Fort Thomas, Ky, to the Philippine
islands The four colored regiments of the
old regular army had familiarized the
country with the sight of colored troops be-
fore the Spanish war, and the large number
of black men who have enlisted in State
and United States volunteer regiments since
the last call to arms has made the appear
ance of the dark complected' soldier a
matter of but passing remark. The Amer
lean whose ancestors came from Africa
falls in" with the alacrity of him whose
forefathers came from Great Britain or
Europe, and goes to doing and dying" with
the same steadiness and resolution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-11-11

BUSLUU JUUTIdI
Our new six-pounder for army. navy and
Notifications is making quite a stir in Eu-
rope. The London Naval and Military Rec
ord describes it as capable of greater
rapidity of fire than any gun of the same
caliber and class in existence" 1t adds
that 1.-The extraordinary rate of fire of sixty
shots per minute has been obtained from
the new gun in firing tests Heretofore the
best work recorded for a six-pounder has
been at the rate of twenty-five shots a
minute" And yet this terrible new weapon
has been very quietly adopted. Not many
Americans have known of ii at all. Just
now. by the way, a great advance is going
in naval artillery of all calibers.
The new twelve-inch turret rifle is said to
be fully as powerful and much more accu-
rate than the thrteen-inch gun of the older
battleshps. And the new rapid-fire six
inch and five-inch rifles are understood 10
be wonderful in force and precision.
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Not Improbable.

1t is not improbable that there is an
American officer, graduate of West Point,
leading Boer command. The spirit of adj
venture is as strong I'm the American heart
as in that of other nationalities, and the
Transvaal has for years offered an allur.ng
field to men of that description. But the
facts" upon which the theory rests, the
departure of the officer IN question for the
Transvaal six years ago, form entirely too
1imsy a basis for inquiring minds. No one,
the English least of all, question the Beers
strategic ability. Ii was demonstrated many
years ago. Hence ii may be said that if
Lieutenant Blake is planning the Beers
and for the time being the theory falls.
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Evidence of Murder b Years Old.

PANA, H.. Nov. 10-Bones which are
supposed TO be those OF Elijah Russell
who was murdered and buried tnirtytwo
wears ago according to the story of George
PETER, who processes 10 have witnessed
the murder when young boy. have been
taken to the office OF DIR. Eddy in Shelby
Vile. having been found on the old McGhl
farm. in the southwestern part OF Shelby
The bones were found covered with ashes
and coke, which would bear out the state
ment Of PETER that the body of Russell
had been covered with brush and burned.
The grand jury will investigate the matter
next week.
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Predicts Increased Trade.

CINCINNATI, Nov. 10.-The Hon. John
Barrett, late United States minister to
Siam, aroused the deepest enthusiasm
among the members OF the Chamber of
Commerce to-day by his forceful presenta-
ton of his views of me commercial impor-
lance of the Philippines to the United
States. He spoke with the earnestness and
confidence Of a man who knew his ground
and asserted that within ten years the trade
of the United states in the far East will be
vastly increased by the proper management
OF the newly acquired possessions. Mr.. Bar
rett was warmly congratulated at the close
of his brief speech by members who crowded
up to be introduced to him.
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Lord Salisbury's speech at the lord
mayors banquet was one OF the most not
able made by a British premier In many
years. IL was particularly remarkable for
It's friendly illusions to the United States
and Germany and its announcement that
Great Britain does not expect and would
resent any interference with her plans in
Africa In effect he said. 1T Is our war.
and we will end 1t our way" There viii be
no more talk OF Intervention
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In the Massachusetts, Senate was a mem
Der who could not vote for Mr.. Lodge for
senator because of the stand he had taken
On the Philippines question. and he could not
vote to indorse the President Nevertheless.
he expected to be candidate. but was re-
jected by the Republican convention. Then
he ran as an independent and was beaten
at the poils-badly beaten. Still. the anti
imperialists keep up their shrill. thin cry
In BOSTON,
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Ing TO receive IT, They have no government
now based upon the sanction OF the people,
but they will have when Aguinaldo shall
have been got rid of. There is no political
capital to be made by any party by oppos-
ing line of policy which gives a people
self-government who have never had IT,
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Casualties i'm the Philippines.

St Louis GlObe-Democrat.
Since the first arrival of our troops in the
Philippines the official list of casualties to
Oct. 80 was 80 killed 16S died of wounds and
accidents. 1135 wounded and thirty-one
missing. total of 224s. The deaths from
disease numbered Coz. British casualties in
Natal already exceed these figures
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$500. 900. 900 "COMBINE.~
Expectations of the New Telephone
COmDany's Promoters.

NEW YORK. Nov. 1o.-Although the in
CORPORATION of the Telephone, Telegraph and
Cable Company of America, the comb!na-
ton whose reported purpose Is TO enter the
long distance telephone field, was completed
yesterday by the filing of papers in Trenton.
n. j.. the names of the companies CONSOLE
dated in this enterprise are still with
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II Mayor Taggart offers a Republican
member of the Council place on one of his
boards 1t will be for the express purpose of
breaking the Republican lead in that body.
The mayors purpose is 50 transparent that
the Journal believes that the offer. If made,
will be declined
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.Rizal. Bryan and Aguinaldo are the
glorious trinity Of our political redemption .
says the Independence, Filipino organ.
Loyal Americans will cheerfully accord to
Mr. Bryan all the glory he can get out of
that companiouship.