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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-06

To the Editor Of the indianapolis Journal:
Some weeks ago, when the statements in
my letter in the Journal of last Friday were
made before the municipal league then in
session here the city administration in all
it's parts Historically characterized them as
lies. Now, when shown it's own records its
answer, judging by the Journal of Saturday,
is a good deal tanner. 1t simply says that
the morale of the police department is as
high as it ever was. 1t cites it's record of
trials of 1885, Judging by the past, It's
records are conclusive only against itself
We have the same board under Whom
former records were destroyed. and the
record is silent as to 1898 offenders who had
a pull. What about the system of ap-
pontment by which anybody may be picked
up and put upon the police force whether
he can pass the surgeon or whether he has
any other qualifications or not? When it
| came in, the present city administration
turned out twenty-nine policemen and filled
their places in a manner which, mildly
! speaking was grossly scandalous. What is
to prevent a repetition of this, or a repetition
of the admitted two years of astonishing
delinauency? Are we TO be taxed to pay
pensions under such system?
What about the provisions of the bill max
ing pensions payable to the wlfe, children
and parents of a policeman VINO may not
have been in the service of the city q week
ard who may have been drowned Wnlle
fishing a Broad Ripple? Are the enormous
political assessments to be turned into the
pension fund or not? What about paying
pensions upon the examination or single
doctor appointed as a personal or partisan
faVorite2
If the city administration is going to an
swer, let it answer these and the other
objections raised and not dodge behind the
claim that il is better to-day than ii was
Yesterday. Who knows under the present
system what it will be tomorrow?
There has been and can be no question
but that our police force contains large
number of faithful and efficient men. The
worst service of any kind has a proportion
of such men. For twenty-five years the
faithful and efficient public emplOye has
had no better friend than have been. But
/ do not mean without protest 10 be taxed
to pay pensions under a system full Of loop
holes, or TO pay pensions in a service which
is run on the principles OF Tammany ttali'
and that is the way the service of this city
is run. l cite another and recent instance
where three men OF the highest efficiency,
the superintendent of the City Hospital the
clerk of the Board OF Public Works ard the
clerk of the Board of Public Safety were
forced OCT of their places for no reason ex-
cept that they were gold Democrats. How
do we know that the gold Democrats on the
police force will not be forced out and their
places filed by men chosen without regard
10 fitness and who will later swell the PEN
4 correspondent. in the Journal Of this
morning saws that the law provides for a
| suitable system of appointment. The law
| saws that the board shall adopt rules for
| the appointment Of members OF said IRE and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-06
FORECAST FOR MONDAY.
storm Area Shifted Rapidly on sun.
day-Fair To-day.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-The storm which
was cedtral Saturday night in Louisiana
moved nortnwestwaId with almost unpre-
redented velocity, avel aging over sixty miles
an hour, and by this morning reached North
Carolina. AS a result there We're again
general rains in the Southern States, heavy
snow in this district and snow in lesser
quantities northeastvard and nOrthWard
into Massachusetts, and the lower lake re-
gion. At Washington 81 inches of snow fell
in trife over four hours. A moderate
depression still persists in the Southern
States, with its center off the Louisiana
coast. In the upper Mississippi valley, upper
Jake region and the West generally fair
weather has prevailed except in New Mex
leo and Colorado. where there has been
snow.
The temperatures have changed but little
Sn the middle north Atlantic and in tie ex-
IRENE south Atlantic States. They have
fallen from to % degrees IN North Caro-
lima and from to Is degrees in the west
gulf States. Cold weather has continued in
The remaining districts, with temperatures
ranging from ? to IS degrees below zero
in the extreme Northwest. On the Pacific
coast generally fair weather has continued
except IN the nor hern portion, where there
nave been light rains and snow Killing
frost occurred at San Francisco ana heavy
frost at Los Angeles
Generally fair weather, with but little
change in temperature, is indicated in 3ll
districts except rain in the central and east
SulI ana extreme south Atlantic States and
in the western portion of the middle slope,
where 1t will snow. 1t will be colder in
The east gulf States, except Florida and
continued cold through the West and North.
In the Atlantic coast States light TO fresh
northerly winds will prevail, except i'm Flor
ida, where they win continue southerly.
FORECAST FOR THREE STATES.
For Ohio-Generally fair; light to fresh
north winds.
For Indiana and Enthusiastically fair:
light to fresh north winds
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-06
INSULAR CABINET OUT
PORTO RICANS DEMAND NATIVES BE
APPOINTED TO OFFICE.
Discomfort in Santiago Province
Growing DaiIy-Gomez VIII Re-
ceive an Ovation a Havana.

SAN JUAN DE PUERTO RICO, Feb. O.
The insular Cabinet. late yesterday, ten
dered its resignation to Governor General
Henry because, after dismissing Senior Car
bonell, General Henry ordered General Ea-
ton to take charge OF the department of
public instruction and instructed Major
Pierce to take charge of the department of
public works. Both these departments be-
long to the interior department. The Cabi-
net demands the immediate appointment Of
d successor to Senior Carbonell. and that
natives be appointed in place of General
Eaton and Major Pierce, in accordance with
previous enunciation of the policy Of Gen.
Henry and the colonial commission that no
Americans are to hold Office here. General
Henry promises compliance with these de-
mands, and the designations of the members
of the insular Cabinet are therefore held in
allegiance. General Henry will place the re-
ligious orders in possession of the buildings
from which they had previously been eject
ed, and will restrain any further proceed
ings to dispossess them until their rights are
judicially determined.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-06
ANTIQUITY PROTEST.
A Kick Registered Against McCarrOIl
Jury Bill.

HARRISBURG, Pa, Feb "a committee
of anti-Quay Republicans issued an address
tonight in opposition to the McCarrell jury
bill. In the course of it they say: Senator
Matthew Stanley Quay is a candidate for
reelection to the United States Senate, and
has been under five criminal indictments
since October last for unlawfully using the
public funds for his personal benefit. He
has avoided trial and sought delay by such
unusual and extraordinary methods as will
make his case a dangerous example for all
future time. After failing thus far to re-
ceive a reelection, and realizing that his
defeat is inevitable he now seeks by this
bill 10 secure a trial on the indictments
against him by selecting a jury in a man
ner entirely different from, and much more
advantageous to him, than that which has
been accorded to every other defendant
since the formation of this commonwealth.
The real effect of this bill is to make it
impossible for a district attorney to pre-
vent a juror sitting in case, though it is
known to the district attorney that the
juror will render a verdict not in accord
ance with the evidence, but upon his own
prejudice or for his personal interest"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-06
BAD BEEF In CUBA.
breckenridge Finds a Spoiled Con-
signment from Chicago.

HAVANA, Feb. 5-Inspector General
Breckenridge has discovered among the
army rations issued to the destitute in
Havana hundreds of cases of spoiled beef,
and it is believed there are others, just how
many only. the inspection can determine.
The marks on the case show Chicago, July,
1S9S' They were bought by Capt. Oskaloosa
NJ. Smith, of the subsistence department,
from Armour & Libby and Mcneil & Libby
and were sent to Porto Rico. In due time
they were landed at Regla, a. suburb of
Havana, and last week they were issued to
Capt. Noel Gaines, who is in charge of the
relief work here. Yesterday some of the
cans were given to the destitute, who re-
fused to use the contents. Several cases
were then broken open, and tonight the air
at La Punta Park, one of the distributing
stations leaves no doubt as to the presence
of the offensive supplies
Lieutenant Colonel Smith, chief commits
sary in Cuba, has written to General Brock
inridge to inquire why he is here "interfer-
ing with the commissary business" General
Breckenridge has ignored the letter, but has
written to General Brooke that he is in
Havana under instructions from the War
Department.
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London Press Comment.

LONDON, Feb. 6.-The Times, comment
ing editorially on the dispatches from
Manila. says: "The insurgent attack was
apparently premeditated, and the presump-
ton is strong that Aguinaldo is responsible
for the bloodshed The really important
point is whether the attack is or is not the
beginning of an organized attempt to fling
off American rule. We imagine the news
will strengthen the determination of Amer
lea to take up the white mans burden.
The Daily Graphic says: by this act of
folly the insurgents have not only courted
defeat, but have reguIarized the position of
the Americans in the archipelago and have
probably obtained for President Mckinley a
free hand in the expansion policy, which The
Senate has seemed reluctant to give him.
The Daily Chronicle says: The Filipinos
have helped to assure the ratification of the
peace treaty"
The Standard says: 1.-THE paucity of news
and the bOldness of the rebels in their attack
on Manila are ominous, and it is not unlike
ly that the Americans will have a series of
toilsome campaigns over the scattered
islands"
The Daily News says: ''The fact that
American blood has been shed will secure,
we imagine, the immediate ratification of
the peace treaty. The Filipinos have shown
their unfitness for self-government at the
very outset by rash and untimely mani
Hesitation -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-06

General Impression at Santiago that
There Is to Be More Trouble.

There Is to BE More Trouble.
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Feb. 5-An order
received here yesterday from Havana has
not tended to relieve the situation or to rec
oncile the people to being ruled from dis
lance. Under its terms a deduction of 20
per cent. is to be made in the case of all
salaries exceeding 5000 per annum. This is
really an old Spanish tax, always exceed
ingly obnoxious and only used as an extreme
war measure. 1t does not touch the labor
irg class, but strikes those who have most
influence over the working people, the
mayors. chiefs of gendarmerie and judges in
the province. These officials bitterly protest
against the injustice of this deduction for
General Leonard Wood. military governor
OF the department of Santiago when reor-
ganizing their Offices reduced the salaries
paid under the Spanish regime quite 30 per
cent. on the average, and 30 per cent. in
some instances. Moreover, those reductions
were invariably made before appointing the
incumbents. Under the Spanish govern
ment the mayor of Santiago received $3.50 a
month. General Wood reduced the amount
to 500, believing this all the city could af-
ford and arguing that a good citizen ought
to be willing to undertake the mayoral du-
ties on that basis for the benefit of the
people of the city.
The general impression here is, and it is
confirmed by reports received from other
provinces, that the present conditions must
change shortly. 1t is not considered likely
that any trouble will grow out of these
latest instructions from Havana but they
have tended to increase what is undoubtedly
a growing discomfort.
General Wood. who was expected to ar
rive tomorrow by the regular mail steamer
along the south coast, arrived unexpectedly
to-day by a Ward liner. No preparation
could be made to receive him on such short
notice and Senior Bacardi, the mayor, is
greatly chagrined. Some day this week.
however, the mayor Will hold a mass meet
ing in honor of the military governor at
which the people will have an opportunity
TO express their satisfaction al his return
and their approval Of his course at Wash
ington General Wood held a reception at
the palace this morning when he was waited
or by the judges of the Supreme Court, the
mayor and other prominent officials, all of
whom assured him of their genuine pleasure
at his safe return.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-06
LOSSES FROM STORMS.
Cattle Ranges from Montana TO Texas
Are Suffering.

DENVER, Col, Feb. 5.-"The live stock
owners will be heavy losers on account Of
the continued storms in the mountains and
out in on the plains" said President ]. w.
Springer, of the National live Stock As
sociation. in speaking of the results of the
last few days. Reports which we received
from our horse ranch in Montana to-day
show that the temperature up there is forty
five below zero, and the outlook is not
bright for warmer weather Down in Texas.
cattle are dying by thousands. A heavy
rain has been followed by a long continued
windstorm and the cattle got chilled and
have been dying for several days on account
of the cold"
Mr.. Springer says that as soon as prac-
ticable he will have the secretary of the
association telegraph to all the principal live
be issued showing the extent of the losses.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-06
MERRITT HAS NO FEAR.
One Good Whipping VIII BE Enough
to Pacify Insurgents.

NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-Major General
Wesley Merritt was interviewed to-day re-
garding the attack by the Fiiipinos on the
American forces about Manila Saturday and
Sunday. General Merritt spoke first of the
condition Of the troops when he left there
in September last. He said he thought
there is absolutely no cause for apprehen-
sion by the Americans. as he considered the
American troops perfectly able to cope with
their enemies.
THE insurgents" said General Merritt.
have the habit of attacking their enemies
at night 1t was so when l was there. You
viii see they will try it again tonight. 1
think there is no use in temporizing with
them. The Filipinos are apt 10 imagine that
a temporzng policy indicates fear. 1t is a
strange fact that all our fighting is done on
Sunday, even in the far East. This seems
to he our fate. I think that they could not
do much by attacking our troops on the
north. on the south they might attack
with more success. The southeast of the
bay is under the guns of the navy"
He was asked how large ne thought the
Filipino army is, and he estimated when he
was there that they had from 1900 to 15,0 O0
men. He arrived at this estimate, he ex-
planned by counting the rifles. The insur-
gents, he said, fight in a rather peculiar
way. A man, for example. stays IN a trench
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-06

Says FiIipinOs Were willing to Blu!
Their Freedom.


NEW YORK, Feb. Ga dispatch to the
Herald from Troy, N Y, says: In an inter-
view here tonight Felipe Agoncillo, who is
on the way to Canada, said concerning the
fighting at Manila:
There may have been an exchange of
shots by accident | did not advise such a
thing. | came on a mission of peace.
came to offer the United States every posi-
friendly with the United States. We were
willing to pay the $40 900, 900 to Spain, ana
also pay all the expenses of Dewey.s fleet at
Manila. All we want is to be Independent
and to have the friendship of the United
States. We are not paupers. We are a
people and we love our freedom.
Are your people willing to accept any
thing short of Independence"
Il will not say. They want to be free and
Independent, the same as this country.
What will they do if the treaty is ratified
and the United States assumes sover-
eignty?"
tempt TO conquer the Philippines it will take
would not be conquered in heart. They
will never be conquered. They will be con-
stantly rising to gain their independence.
1T is too bad concluded the Filipino.
81 came to your country to offer you the
friendship of my people-to give you our
trade and pay you all the expenses of OBJ
tanning our freedom for us from Spain. In
return you refuse to even listen to me- If
you had been only willing to listen to what
l had to offer all this trouble could and
would have been avoided. 1t is not of the
seeking of my people. l am sorry"
Agoncillo repeated that he would return to
the United States as soon as he learned the
reliable news about the events of Saturday
manner gave was that he is very badly
frightened.
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CINCINNATI o., Feb. 5.-Capt w c.
Johnson senior vice commander-in-chief of
the G. A. r., is the head of the firm of
Johnson Bros Hardware Company in this
city. Under the constitution he becomes the
acting commander-in-chef at once on the
death of his superior and continues as the
acting commander-in-chiefu until the vacancy
is filled. The national council of admins
tration, consisting of forty-five members
one from each state department has full
power for filing all vacancies This body
may elect Captain Johnson or any other
member of the order. While it is thought
that Captain Johnson will succeed Colonel
Sexton, yet there is no certainty on that
matter until the national council of admin
iStration meets. Since the organization OF
the G. A. r. in 1866 there have been twenty
seven commanders-in-chief. Eleven of them
are now dead, but Colonel Sexton is the first
about a condition for which there is no
precedent. Logan was commander-in-chief
for three successive years, Burnside, DeVens,
Hartranft ana RoblnSon Tor two each, ana
since 1873 no one has had a second term If
Captain Johnson succeeds to the Office it
would remove the Headquarters from Chi
cago to Cincinnati and that may have some
influence III the selection of a successor. 1t
is also stated that great preparations are
Encampment there next September and that
the department of Pennsylvania may want
a voice in the selection of Sections success
sOr. Captain Johnson served throughout
most of the civil war as a private, never
attaining q higher rank, except by brevet,
than that of lieutenant. He has a very fine
heroic record as a soldier and is a very sue
cessful business man. The Ohio department
will urge upon the national council of ad-
ministraton his election as commander-in
chief. Captain Johnson realizes his re-
sponsibiity as acting commander-in- chief
until the council of administration fills the
vacancy and he will not express himself as
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-06
LYNCHlNG BEE STOPPED.
Soldiers Started for Revenge and End
ed in GuardhOuse.

AUGUSTA Ga. Feb 5.-This was a day
OF wild excitement and alarm in Augusta
The trouble all arose over the killing of
Dennis O'Connell, of Company #, fifteenth
Minnesota, last night by Brown Hadley a
barkeeper The difficulty began over pro-
fame language used in the hearing of Had
ley's wife, who was in a room adjoining
the bar. Many of the soldiers of the Fiji
teeEth Minnesota, when they learned of the
killing. swore vengeance. They believed
that Hadley had been taken by the police
ard it was from them that they would have
him. Shortly after breakfast the murmur-
ings took the more definite form of con-
certed action and about a hundred of the
men made plans for the capture of the muir
derer. The enlisted men had no ball cart
ridges for their rifles, but going to the regi-
mental company store they took pickaXes
and broke open the ammunition cases and
each man took about fifty rounds of am
munition.
The news soon reached the ears of Cen
eral s. s. Sumner. the commander of the
First Division of the Second Army Corps,
and he ordered out the Third Cavalry, the
Tenth Ohio and Thirty-fifth Michigan Reg
iments. The men were deployed as Skin
mishers and the woods in the vicinity of the
camp were secured most thoroughly. 1t
was some time before any of the men who
We're breaking away could be found. but
about 1890 Troop A, under command of
Lieutenant Hawkins found the entire lot,
about sixty men fully armed. When cap
tured they were taken to the First Division
headquarters and put under guard. Gen
eral Sumner issued orders that all passes
should be cOnfiScated and that no more be
issued. The ringleaders were put in irons.
The military authorities refuse TO give the
names of the men under arrest. Brown
Hadley gave himself UP to the authorities
some distance from the city, where he had
taken refuge. He was taken aboard the
night train to Atlanta, where he will be con-
fined in Fulton county Jail until his trial
can be arranged for.
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for forty-eight hours, then is relieved by
another man, who uses the same gun. 1t is,
therefore, quite probable that the Fiipinos
are much greater in number than the rifles
which he counted.
Il have no doubt" he continued. chat
since l left there much ammunition has
been smuggled to them by the Spaniards
from Hong-Kong. They have about two
thousand pieces from the Spanish deserters.
l know. Probably they are now we'll sup
piled with guns. My estimate has been and
is now that % 600 to 10000 men can cope with
the Filipinos Two-thirds of this number
might be natives. The experience of the
English with their colonies shows us that
good soldiers can be made of the colonists
by manning them with efficient officers"
The general was asked if he had any rea-
son to fear at the time he was in Manila
that the Filipinos would attack Manila. He
replied: mo, l never thought they would
attack us. ! think they have been led to
this by events that have taken place since"
He said he did not wish to be understood
as criticsing the present military surveil-
lance of the Philippines, but it was his opin-
ion that the holding in allegiance of the
treaty of peace may have influenced the
insurgents to make this attack.
General Merritt spoke of the excellent
troops that are in Manila and its suburbs.
He referred particularly to the First Min
nesota, commanded by General Reeve, and
the Colorado Regiment, commanded by
Colonel Hale graduate of West Point and
who has a superb staff of officers, and also
Of the California Regiment, which, he said,
is made up of magnificent men. General
Merritt said that when he was in Manila
he was of the opinion that he could have
cleaned OUT the insurgents in half day
if he had orders to force the fighting. He
spoke of the preparations which Admiral
Dewey had made during his stay there for
possible attack on the army, and added
that Admiral Dewey always kept two picket
boats in readiness to aid the army. They
never had been Eeeded, however. He thought
that one good lesson would be sufficient.
General Merritt spoke of the swampy en-
vironment of Manila and the difficulty to be
encountered by our troops. He said the
roads are about thirty feet wide and are
known as causeways. On either side are
rice fields There are also bamboo hedges.
Brig. Gen. George V. Greene declined to
discuss the outbreak.