The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-07
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further legislation is necessary and II so
what form it should take. Representative
Bell was made a member Of the transporta-
ton subcommission.
By direction of the President the acting
secretary of war has issued an order for
the re-esta blishment Of the military depart
ment of Texas and the assignment of Col.
Chambers McKibben, OF the Twenty-frst
Infantry. to command of the department.
Colonel McKibben is now on duty at Colum-
bus barracks. Ohio. He has a splendid
rc I'd and is one of the most popular Off
GERS in the army
The Cabinet to-day transacted no bus-
ness Of general Importance The entire time
of the meeting was devoted to routine mat
ters connected with the various depart
ments- The Philippine situation only came
up incidentally and developed nothing new.
Attorney General Griggs and Secretary
Alger were the absentees.
The German government has nominated
and the President has accepted Baron
August Won Bruck as consul at Havana for
Germany. The baron is now on leave of
absence and the duties of the consulate
meantime are still intrusted to Herr
Fake, the retiring. consul.
L. p. Mitchell. the assistant controller of
the treasury, holds that If an enlisted man
in the regular or volunteer army enlisted
subsequent TO the declaration of war for
the war only, and afterwards, before the
war Is over, seeks and obtains his discharge
for his own convenience and not on account
of Ill health or disability he is not embraced
within the meaning of the act of March 3,
1899. and is nor entitled to the extra pay
provided by it.
According to a private letter received here
from Munich, German-American Journal
ist, Mr.. Louis Hoiler, editor of the Camden
County Journal, on the occasion of a lec-
ture delivered by him in the hall Of the
radical German Union Odin at the Bavarian
capital, on the German-Americans. their
life work. ETC., most bitterly criticised the
present American administration and the
President. His remarks became at last so
violent as to cause the interference of the
supervising official, who declared that he
would not tolerate any attack on the head
of a nation with which Germany enter
tained such friendly relations as with the
United States. The proposed discussion OF
the lecture also was not tolerated. A
number of American students living at
Munich, who had been present during the
lecture, promptly expressed their apprecia-
ton of this manifestation, both of tact
and good will shown, In preventing what
otherwise might have furnished the Amer
ican press with German version OF the
Coghlan incident.
The regulations allowing the volunteers
70 purchase the arms and equipments which
they carried during the Spanish war viii
be continued In the case Of the volunteers
returning from Manila. They may purchase
the Springfield rifles at $40 each and the
revolvers and equipments at the same price,
while the other portions of the outfits are
sold at cost.
To-day's statement of the condition of the
treasury shows: Available cash balances,
s2ss. .s1S; gold reserve. s2sosso,ss2
A story is current here to-day to the effect
that Senator Hanna is very much broken
in health, so much so that he intends to
retire for a time from active work, both
political and private. He intends to seek
rest and recuperation, it is said, at Aix-Les
Banes France. and will be accompanied
thither at a not far distant day with his
family. 1t is further asserted that Hanna
will not manage President Mckinley's cam
paign in 1900, owing to the precarious con-
dition of his health.
The following Indiana surgeons of the
Pension Bureau have been recommended for
appointment as examining surgeons of the
Pension Bureau: DR.. James II. Christi. of
Canaan. and DR.. George C. Lewis. of Mad
ison, for appointment on the board at Mad
ison; DR.. Samuel NJ. Doeis. at Columbia,
and DIR. S. L. Mcpherson. at Washington.
1t is announced at the Navy Department
that the Solace will sail from San Fran
cisco, about July I, for Manila, stopping en-
route at both Honolulu and Guam, and that
the Yosemite. which is to be the guardship
at Guam, is expected to reach that country
before the arrival of the solace.
The final details have been arranged for
the laying of the cable between the United
States and Germany. the last step being
satisfactory arrangement concerning gov
ernment messages and rates of cable tolls.
The authorities here have been informed
that the actual work of laying the cable
will begin during the present summer
months, so that the first message may pass
over the line during the coming fall.
In this connection 1T is denied in official
quarters that Germany reciprocated the
granting similar right to land an Ameri-
can cable line on one OF the new German
possessions. the Carolines.
The statement made in the Canada House,
by the premier, yesterday. TO the effect
that the Canadian government has proposed
to the Americans to establish a customs
house on the Dalton trail and regard it as
marking the provisional boundary there,
causes great surprise here, the officials as
serting that this is the first time that they
have heard of aIy such proposition. They
admit the accuracy of the statement that,
for the past two years, by tacit agreement.
the customs houses on the Chilkoot and
White passes have been recognized as
marking the provisional boundary, but
know nothing of the Dalton trail The last
Canadian proposition. il is said. embodied a
vague proposition to locate a provisional
boundary by some unrecognized mountain
peaks. but contained no reference TO the
Dalton trail customs house
Negotiations on the new reciprocity treat
les for the British West Indies are proceed
ing rapidly. The treaty for the Barbados
Is furthest along and will probably be the
first signed. Commissioner Kasson is de-
slrous of taking an early vacation on ac-
count of his health and for that reason the
negotiations are being pushed with the hope
OF signing all three treaties before he leaves
Sir Cavendish Boyle held long session
with Mr.. kasson yesterday relative to the