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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-15

Senator HOaP Introduces "A ResOIu-
tfOn-PopuIfst Allen Criticised.


Senator HoaP Introduces "A ResOIu-
tfOn-PopuIist Allen Criticised.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14-Mr. Hoar to-
day introduced the following resolution in
the Senate:
Resolved, The people of the Philippine
islands of right ought to be free and inde-
pendent; that they are absolved from all al
legiance to the Spanish crown, and that the
political connection between them and Spain
is and ought to be, totally dissolved, and
they have, therefore, full power to do all
acts and things which Independent states
may Of right do; that II is their right to in
stitute new government for themselves,
laying a foundation on such principles and
organizing it's powers in such form to
them shall seem most likely to effect their
safety and happiness, and that with these
rights the people of the United States do not
propose to interfere"
81 should like to have 1t adopted lmme-
diately," said MIR. Hoar.
IT object" said Mr. Davis, of Minnesota,
chairman of the foreign relations commit
tee and the resolutions went over.
A letter was presented from Mr.. Frye, of
Maine, president pro tenn, appointing MIR.
Gallinger, of New Hampshire, to preside
President and himself.
Mr.. Proctor, of Vermont, introduced a
joint resolution providing for busts of the
late Senator Morrill, and Senator Voorhees,,
to be placed in the National Library. The
resolution was referred to the library COM
mittee.
The resolution OF 14r. Allen, for the APP
pointment of committee of five senators
IN ipuacffpofa ba eondlInf IF tho late
was laid before the Senate, and Mr.. Allen
took the floor in advocacy of it. He said he
had no desire to enpbarrass the President,
but so many complaints had been made by
the press and individuals of the conduct of
the war that he thought it time for rigid
and impartial investigation of the war to be
made. He had, he said. no confidence in the
'Alger relief comm ssion," which was now
conducting an investigation of the war He
criticised the sending of troops to Chicka-
manga, where they were faced by sickness
and death. He intimated that the troops of
the West were sent to Chiekamauga for the
benefit Of transportation companies. He
declared that there had been gross irregu-
larities in the handling of the commissary
and other supplies. He said it had been
charged that the supplies were in many
cases unfit for use and he was satisfied the
charges were true If the troops had been
furnished "embalmed beer the people and
the world had a right to know it.
Interrupting Mr.. Allen, Mr.. Spooner, of
Wisconsin, criticised him for his anticipa-
ton of an unfair and partial report from
the commission, and suggested that he
might better wait until the report was pre-
scented before he attacked it. No action was
taken. and the Senate soon adjourned as a
mark of respect to Mr.. Dingley.
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ism and purity Of purpose Of William Nc
Kinley He is no usurper of power, no
stranger to American institutions, but one
of the American people called to his high
office by their SURFACES. and it would be
strange indeed if he did not share to the
fullest extent in the love of our Constitu-
ton and the principles that underlie it.
What less than this can be truthfully said
of an American President? It will be the
beginning Of the end to our great career as
a nation.
But the solution Of the problems which
confront us is not with the President When
the treaty is ratified no policy can be adopt
ed without the sanction Of Congress. And
the whole American people will determine,
through their representatives, what rela-
lions we shall sustain to the Philippines
Shall we hold the sovereignty in trust for
their people, as we will do in Cuba or shall
we, with their consent, establish a protec-
torate over them or govern them as we will
the island of Porto Rico? All these impor-
tant questions viii properly come up for de-
termination after the ratification Of the
treaty. l will not entertain the fear that
the American people will not stand by the
principles of the Constitution and the Dec
Iaration; that they will not curb the ambi-
ton of territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and ex-
hibit to the world an example of modera-
tion, justice and self-restraint that will be
worth to us in moral strength more than
all the islands of the seas"
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Washington officials Now Hopeful the
COnciIiatOry Policy of the American
Commander VIII Avert War.
GERMANS ARE NOT PLOTTING
AMBASSADOR WHITE DENOUNCES RU-
MORS CURRENT IN AMERICA.
He Says the FURRY of Indignation Is
BaseIess, and that Germany Has
No Motive to Assist Spain.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE War De-
partment officials were very much encour-
aged to-day on the receipt of news from
General Otis, at Manila, that indicated a
distinct Improvement in the situation there
The generals dispatch completely negatives
the absurd story from Madrid that the
American troops at Manila have mutinied
and refuse to proceed to Iloilo, necessitat-
ing the Withdrawing of General Millers
force from that port. General Otis is mas
ter wherever he has placed his foot, and
undoubtedly is able to carry out any policy
as to the treatment Of the natives the adj
minstration is likely to dictate. There are
indications that encourage officials here to
believe that the conciliatory policy toward
the natives that was recently adopted will
succeed, although it cannot be expected
that the Filipinos will be convinced at once
of the absolute good faith in which General
Otis is acting towards them.
Tho Sixth Regular Infantry, stationed in
Texas, has been ordered to be held in readi-
ness for prompt transportation to the Phil
ippines in case it is found that the six in
fantry regiments already under orders to go
there are not sufficient for the proper adj
ministration of military affairs in the
island. There are several other regiments
held in reserve for possible service in the
Philippines, but so far the Sixth Infantry
is the only one directly ordered to hold it
self in readiness for such a movement on
short notice The six regiments now pre-
pairing for the long journey to Manila are
the Third, Fourth, Twelfth, Seventeenth,
Twentieth and Twenty-second, aggregating
about 1900 troops.
The Navy Department to-day took the in
itial steps for the prosecution of its plans
for the formation of a naval transport serv-
ice 1t promulgated schedule for the sail
ing of the two vessels now available for this
service, by which the Solace is to sail from
New York for Manila in January and July,
and the Buffalo is to run from San Fran
cisco to the same port in April and October.
The schedule win give a three-monthly
service to begin with, allowing the vessels
ample time to reft between trips. They will
carry stores for the naval forces in the
Philippines, and Admiral Dewey will not
only erect a storehouse for the goods, but
will have the Celtic and the Culgoa to use
as refrigerator ships to use for the storage
of fresh provisions
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-15

Ambassador White Says They Are Not
Milking. Trouble in PhiIipnines.

BERLIN, Jan. 1.-THE ambassador here
of the United States in an interview to-day
with a correspondent of the Associated
Press said that the whole furry of indigpa-
ton in the two countries is just as baseless
this year as last, and may even be more
baseless. He added: ''In my judgment it
emanates entirely from small number of
people who seek to fish in troubled waters.
AS a matter of fact, Germany knows her
only true policy in the East is to remain on
good terms with the United States She has
no earthly motive to take the side of the
Spaniards or the insurgents or to stir them
up or egg them on That there are some
Germans at Hong-Kong and elsewhere who
think they do not like Americans is just as
true as that there are some Americans there
and elsewhere who do not like Germany.
But such gentlemen direct neither the policy
of our State Department nor that of the
German Foreign Office. The relations of
our country and Germany We're perfectly
harmonious during the war, and since the
war the Germans have acquiesced in our
suggestions. They saw from the beginning
how the war was to end, and they accepted
the situation cordially. So far from quar-
reling at this late day over Pacific posses
sions, they are more and more inclined to
work with us in the extension Of commerce
and civilization. Only about week ago
they telegraphed to their consular represen-
tative at Iloilo on no account to land any
force for the protection of the Spaniards,
but to leave that matter to the Americans.
Regarding the question Of acquisitions
in the Pacific and elsewhere the feeling of
the two governments is excellent. The Ger
man Foreign Office shows every desire that
this state of things should continue, and
the German officials in every way work in
harmony with US. In the Pacific as else
where there is not the slightest cause at
present for any i'll feeling arising out of
the ambitions of either power and all other
questions are being steadily placed on a
better footing"
The Cologne Gazette this morning pub
fishes an inspired article explaining the al
legged injustice OF the American imputation
against Germany, concluding with saying:
THE German government does not fight
with its wiser down. Besides. In view Of the
fact that German industry necessarily needs
the American market, it would be incred-
IDLY foolish to indulge in a policy of hostility
towards the American people
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MOUNT RORAIMA EXPLORED.
Never Before TrOd by Foot of Man
Plan to benefit Jamaica.
Copyright, 1899, by the Associated Press

(COpyrlght, 1879, Dy the Associated PreSS)
KINGSTON, Jamaica. JAN S.-Besides the
project of English capitalists to develop the
Jamaican fruit trade on a huge scale, CEN
trail sugar factories are to be erected in
Barbados and the smaller Antilles, where
by it is supposed that West Indian sugar
cane will be enabled to fight European beet
sugar in the English market. A similar
plan for Jamaica also has been adopted
by big Glasgow firm, which has organized
a syndicate with capital of 81, 5OO,OOO for
the purpose.
The West Indian Cooperative Union, re-
Gently launched in London, contempates
making every West Indian a landholder,
whether owner or tenant and every trader
however individually impecunous, an inter-
ested party, with some stock in the con-
Germ.
Advices from British Guiana bring details
of the final scaling and exploring of Mount
Roraima, on the borders of Brazil AL
though standing isolated in an open plateau
2,506 feet above sea level, Roraima is really
the termination of the Pacarama noun
tains. Above the plateau the mountain
rises 5000 feet, 1900 feet of which presents
d formidable mural precipice. The explor-
ing party left Georgetown on Aug. 20 and
returned Nov. is, the journey each way oc-
cupying forty days of incessant toll and
hardship while nine days were spent on the
summit Of the mountain. Not an ethnolog-
ical relic was found and evidently the foot
of man had never trod its heights A de-
tailed scientific report of the exploration
will shortly be presented to the govern
ment of Guiana.
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To CONNECT the J.lands by Cable.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-General Greedy
the chief signal officer, has gone TO New
York to look after the execution of con-
tracts for the supply of ocean cable for the
Philippines. The arrangements are coming
along rapidly, and General Greedy expects
that within one month, at least, his espe-
cially chartered cable ship will have started
from San Francisco for the Philippines car
rying the cable which is to connect the
principal islands of the northern group with
the American headquarters at Manila. One
of the first links to be supplied will be
line between Manila and Iloilo. The islands
first to be connected with Manila will be
Mindora, Maibate, Oemara and Leite Later
on the cable may be extended to the Sulu
archipelago.
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ARSENIC In THE FLOUR.
Two Members of a Family Dead and
Others Suffering from Poison.

BALTIMORE, Jan. l4.-Martha Bailey,
colored, thirty-three years old, is locked
up here charged with the murder by poison
of George w. Kiah, also colored, at Cam
bridge. Md. Kiah died on Monday under
suspicious circumstances and warrants were
issued for the Bailey womans arrest Yes
terday the remaining members of Kiahs
family. consisting of eight persons, were
poisoned and to-day his mother, Mary Jane
Kaih, died in terrible agony. The poison
has been traced to a barrel of -four out of
which oyster fritters we're made for yester-
days MONDAY meal An analysis shows the
presence Of arsenic in large quantities.
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following item from Manila, under date of
Dec. 10: Lieutenant Colonel Fife and Capt.
Max F. Elerich. of the First Washington
Regiment. are under arrest and confined to
their quarters. They will be tried by court
martial under articles OF war for conduct
unbecoming officers and gentlemen. Their
arrest was ordered by Colonel Whalley, Of
the First Washington, on charges preferred
by one of the captains and sworn to by sew
eral other officers of the regiment. The
charges include drunkenness and causing
men under their command to become in
toxicated The trial will probably be pro-
longed through several weeks. All the pa
pers In the case must go to Washington for
final action
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-15

LEWISTON, Me, Jan. 14--Lewiston is
plunged into mourning by the news of the
death Of Congressman Dingley. Notices
have been issued for a meeting of the city
government. when committees will be ap-
pointed TO take action relative TO the funeral
and appropriate tributes. Flags were dis
played at half-mast on all the schools, mills,
shops and factories, and on all public build
ings. The Lewiston Board of Trade has
called public meeting Of citizens for Mon
dav evening
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-15

BOSTON, Jan. 14-No tidings came to-
day from the fleet of overdue steamers, and
as time passes other vessels are constantly
added to the list. Tonight there are thir-
teen transatlantic liners due or overdue The
names are the Roman from Liverpool Dec.
%; Scandinavia, from Glasgow, Dec. 80;
Sycamore, from Liverpool, Dec 81 Arme-
Man, from Liverpool, Jan. l; Anglican, from
London, Dec. e, via st. Johns. N r.. Sedge-
more, from London. Dec 81 Cephaonla,
from Liverpool Jan. 8; Gloriana, from Man
chester, Dec. -; Olaf Kyrre from Dantzic,
Dec. 49, and Melrose, from London, Dec %.
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NEW YORK. Jan. 15.-The st. Louis. from
Southampton, Jan. 7, was sighted southeast
OF Fire island at Las a. m. Sailed yesterday
Traye. for Genoa; Scotia. for Antwerp
Rotterdam, for Rotterdam; La Champagne
for Havre; Umbria, for Liverpool
QUEENSTOWN. Jan H.-Arrived: Au-
rama, from New York.
NAPLES, Jan 14-Sailed: Kaiser vii
helm ii, for New York.
COPENHAGEN. Jan. 10-sailed: Thing.
valla, for New York.
ANTWERP, Jan. lA--Arrved: Nederland
from Philadelphia.
SOUTHAMPTON. Jan, 14.-sailed: Paris
for New York.
HAyRE Jan. ll-sailed; La Normandie
for New York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-15

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. H-Among the
Pacific passengers who arrived here to-day
on the steamer Nippon Maru from Hong
Kong and Yokohama via Honolulu Are three
emissaries of Aguinaldo, the Filipino lead
er. They are Seniors Morto, Lowde and
Luid, all members of Aguinaldo's cabinet.
They are en- route to Washington on a
secret mission, the purpose of which they
refuse to divulge. The Filipinos are in
telligent and speak English fuently. They
will probably stay in this city for a day
or two and then will go on to Washington
direct.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE President
has under consideration the name of Presi-
dent Schurman, of Cornell University, in
connection with most important mission.
The exact nature of the latter is not yet
disclosed, but it is supposed that, as the
President has 1t in mind to send a special
commission to the Philippines to recommend
a plan for the treatment and disposition of
the islands. something on the order of the
Hawaiian commission, President Schurman
may be designated as a member of such a
body. 1t is also suggested that he may be
sent to Spain, either minister or on a
special Grand
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Cnnt. Lenrx to Govern Gunm.

WASHINGTON, Jan. H.-Secretary Long
to-day ordered Captain Leary, at present
commanding the San Francisco, to proceed
to the island of Guam and assume the du-
ties of military Governor of the new ac-
QUESTION. He will carry with him procla-
nation to the natives, informing them Of
the designs of the United States govern
ment towards them in precisely the terms
employed in the case of the acquisition of
POvtO RjpO
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$4,000 place for j. H. Ashcraft.

PADUCAH. KY, Jan. l4-Hon. j. II. Ash
craft has been notified by United States
Senator Deboe that he has been elected com
missioner Of the Shiloh Military Park by the
secretary of war. The position pays 5000
per year. Major Ashcraft has accepted the
position. and succeeds Gen. Don Carlos
Buell. deceased
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-15

NEW YORK, Jan. 14-Gold to the amount
OF 100000 was brought by the steamer Ger
manic, which arrived to-day from Liver
pool. consigned as follows: Lazard Freres,
Sl65,ooo; Mueller. schall & Co, $4,000 and
the National City Bank Of New York, SIS 900.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-15

MADRID, Jan. 14.-Delegates representing
the Filipino colony have offered the minis
ter of the colonies, Senior Romero Giron
their cooperation for the liberation of the
Spanish prisoners held by the insurgents in
the Philippine islands,
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wnter-worlss Engineer Killed.

MANILA, Jan. 1.-THE situation here is
improving. A native engineer at the water
works, outside the lines, was murdered on
Thursday evening by an organized gang of
thieves armed with various weapons. His
wife barely escaped the same fate. The
place was ransacked The native authori-
ties are investigating the affair, but the
Filipinos disclaim any knowledge Of the
outrage
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-15

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Jan. l4-E. j. Hust.
ings. the crack pitcher of last years Uni
versity OF Wisconsin ball team to-day
signed contract 70 play with the Miswau-
kee Western League team next season.
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SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. H-The steamer
Nippon Maru. from the Orient, brought the
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-20

bridge days he was more prominent as
a member of the college boat crew than
as a scholar.
Since his graduation he has Travelled
much. He has achieved an unrivaled
command of vivid, picturesque foreign
slang which makes the characters in
his stories speak now and then with
telling effect. He was recently asked If
Captain Kettle was a real character.
HE is indeed replied Hyne. land he
has recently got command of a passen-
ger liner, / am glad to say; but / Won't
be more explicit, as I { don't want him on
my trail il I can help it. Curiously
enough, he wrote to me a few months
back asking me If I could help him to a
Job and incidentally complaining that
he had Just read q story Of mine called
Fortunes Adrift.' a salvage story and
all about towing through a cyclone In
the Indian ocean and, said he, that
man Kettle ought to have got the
salvage of that. I know | should. l
was amused. 1 didn't dare let on to him
who Kettle really was. He has a hearty
contempt for those writing fellers.'
st struck the original man in a Next
can gulf port. AS he couldn't take pas
sengers I signed on as doctor. I was to
get / shilling for the voyage, which,
by the way, he never paid me-. I ship
ped therefore as n of the crew. a fact
of which he reminded me pretty vigor-
ously one day-that as one of the crew
he had a perfect right to shoot me if /
didn't agree with him and II he felt SO
disposed"
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be the stakeholder. Who else will bet?'
Offers came from all sides. Princess
Marie of Meiningen bet so marks against
her sister-in-law, Prince Radolin 100,
General Count Perponcher 30 marhe, ETC.,
until Dorothy had her lap full OF coins
and bills. Then Charlotte cracked her
whip, and q groom brought IN a big paste
board containing the number three, which
was shown to Hueher Peter amid deafen-
ing shouts of Don't prompthiml r "Step
aside, SO we can watch you'll" and mo
brides in the shape OF sugar plums, If
your royal highness %pleasesf'
The princess did as requested, but Peter
won all bets for her, thereby helping her
u on a real financial problem, for Char
lotte has the reputation of being in a
chronic state Of im~pecuniosity. Then
Charlotte did other tricks with her horses,
making them dance around on their hind
legs, walk as if lame and go about bowling
to the company.
When she sent her bowing horse around,
there was another laugh at the expense OF
Prince Bernhardt, for the horse had been
taught to bow only to the boxes in which
there were women, and as there were no
women in the princes box he passed by
that serene transparency without a nod of
recognition, and all persuasion could not
make him acknowledge the presence Of the
prince.
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Fa,r c-,an.e..e. at ph,laa.iphis.

In Philadelphia society there are ten or
fifteen women at least six feet tall, says
the philadelphia Inquirer all of them
considered good looking, while among the
girls who are not yet tout" there are as
many more. And nom of them contem-
plate the c~loister OF curio hall. If it keeps
on like this it will be the short women,
and not the tall ones, who will be at a
disadvantage. For no matter how pretty
a short woman may be her beauty does
not count for much in comparison to the
woman a full head and shoulders taller
and whose regal carriage attracts the
attention of ali. The men seem to have
accepted the situation and adapted them
selves to it. OF course there are a lot OF
tall young men. but there are also a lot
of short ones, and these last do not APP
parently object to walking, driving ana
dancing with the towering maids. All OF
the fair giantesses seem to treat life
generally as a huge joke.
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A POPULAR r.UTHOR.
CnfcIiGe Hyne, Who Has Made Cap
tain Kettle Famous.

CmfcliGe Hyne, Who Has Made Cap
tain Kettle Famous.
Captain Kettle has come to be recog-
nized as one of the most entertaining,
vigorous and picturesque characters in
modern fiction. People who have fol-
lowed him in his surprising adventures
will be interested to know something
about his historian, Mr.. J. c. Cutcliffe
Hyne, the man who has written Of such
strange doings on so many strange seas.
Cutcliffe Hyne is a big, tall English
man who has been all over the world
and back again several times. He
stands 6 feet 8 inches in his stockings,
is tanned almost as ark as an Arab
and is at HON in any part of the world.
Although an author by profession. Cut
cliffe Hyne is an engineer and compe-
tent to go on duty in the hold of the
biggest steamship. He is an inventor,
too, and has just perfected a submarine
BOAT which he expects will make his
fortune. Through and through he is a
sportsman, with M trace of the literary
dflettante about him. During his CAM