The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-16
PREPARATIONS HAVE BEGUN
CAMP Is BEING PUT IN CONDITION
FOR RECEPTION OF TROOPS.
Great Britain, Ii Is Said. Has Not
Abandoned the "Open Door Policy,
Despite the San-Mun Affair.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

any possible quarantine that may be insti-
tuted by the Southern States against Ha-
Vana and other Cuban ports. The Southern
guarantees are especially aimed against
yellow fever, which has so often ravaged
the gulf States. They are established regu-
larry every year on May /, and earlier if
cases of yellow fever are reported in Ha-
When the Indiana and other volun-
teers are brought from Cuba they will, ac-
cording 10 the present intentions of the War
department, be taken to Camp Meade, near
Harrisburg, Pa, where they will recuperate.
In other words, Campo Meade will be util-
lied as a military detention camp, and re-
turning troops from Cuba will be held there
until after the period of incubation of any
contagious or infectious diseases they may
have contracted or been exposed to has
passed The war officials do not admit that
Camp Meade is 10 be made a detention
camp, but il is, nevertheless. Common
sense suggests that If a detention camp for
our troops who have served in Cuba is
necessary, il should be at the place of dis
embarkation and not two hundred or three
hundred miles inland. where il can only be
reached after six or eight hours ride on a
railroad.
An Associated Press dispatch says: The
establishment of Camp Meade. near
Middletown. Pa, for the muster out of vol
unteer troops. is going rapidly forward. An
officer of the quartermasters department
has been there some time and is now putting
the camp in condition for the occupancy of
the troops. To-day Maj. Harry wilkins
chief commissary of subsistence al New
York. was ordered to Camp Meade to pur-
chase and have on hand supplies TO feed
the troops when they reach Camp Meade.
The difficulty that has already been en-
countered in southern ports has fastened
matters at Meade.
One of the highest officials of the admin
istration is authority for the statement
that there may be decided misunderstand-
ing to the attitude of England towards
the "open-door policy in China, growing
out of the San-Mun affair. He saw no
reason for the broad assumption based on
this one incident to suppose that England
had determined to abandon this important
policy. Her purpose in supporting Italy, for
advices received so far in Washington indi-
cate that England is lending such support,
he believed to be inspired simply by de-
sire to help another and trusted ally to
small fragment of Chinese soil without In
ton of the expediency of a partition OF
China. There appears to be a deadlock
listing so far the foreign concessions in
Shanghai are concerned. The American and
British consuIs combined and were sup
ported by their respective ministers in an
energetic protest against an attempt on the
part of the French representatives to ex-
tend the limits of the French concession to
mise proposition it was suggested that there
be cosmopolitan extension, that the lands
desired to be added to the foreign conces-
sion be regarded as common to all of them.
but this was rejected by the French. and
there the matter stands.
Four companies of the Seventh Regular
Infantry have been ordered to take stations
vacated by companies of the Ninth Infan-
try and Sixteenth Infantry. which regiments
are under orders to proceed to the Philip
pines as soon as the transports are ready
for the trip from San Francisco. The move
ment of the Seventh Infantry has been ar
ranged as follows: Company G, from Fort
Wayne. Mich, TO Plattsburg Barracks. New
York: Company /, from Fort Wayne to
Madison Barracks New York: Company X,
from Fort Sheridan, Illinois, to Fort Porter
New York; Company L., from Fort Sheridan
TO Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.
The following notice was given to the
press to-day by Adjutant General Corbin
THE secretary Of war requests that parents
and friends of soldiers who were killed
around Santiago or who have since died in
Cuba, desiring their remains sent home send
their home addresses TO the quartermas ter
general, United States army, Washington,
ID. G., the remains upon arrival in this coun-
try will be sent by express to the address
given. Otherwise the remains will be in
TERED at Arlington"
To-day's statement of the condition of the
treasury shows: Available cash balance.
S211SOs'S7l; gold reserve. s2h.Sn,Si7.
Acting Postmaster General Heath has
issued an order directing that on and after
March IA the fees for postal money orders
issued in the United States for payment in
Cuba shall be the same as those fixed by
law for domestic money orders
Timothy Howard, of Australia. who will
have charge Of the government telegraph
and telephone system of that country, is in
the United States making an investigation
of American methods on these lines He has
been in consultation with the postmaster
general and other officials, and will observe
the installation of a complete electric service
in the postoffice building here. Mr.. Howard
will report TO his government the results Of
his Investigations. which deal with the
establishment, management, bookkeeping
and other phases OF the telephone and tele-
graph business.
About sixty senators and representatives
have accepted invitations for trip that has
been planned to inspect the routes of the
proposed Nicaragua and Panama canals
coming homo by way of Santiago and other
points of interest in the West Indies They
will go a the guests of the Panama Canal
Company, in accordance with an invitation
extended on the last day of Congress TO
Representative Burton's committee on
rivers and harbOrS and Senator Frye's COM
mittee on commerce. The invitation has
since been extended so to include a num-
Der of the members of both houses outside
of these two committees. The party will
have an ocean steamer to itself, and will
sail from New York about March % and
from Mobile April ].
1t is said at the State Department that no
selection has yet been made of representa-
tives of the United States at the approach
ing peace conference at The Hague. The
President is awaiting the action of some of
the European governments to gather an
idea of the number of representatives who
are expected TO attend from each nation in
vitCd TO the conference. In addition TO some
delegates chosen from among the American
ambassadors in Europe, the honor of i'm part
representing the United States proba bly will
be conferred upon some distinguished Amer
lean
Mr. Calvo, the minister of Costa Rica.
gave out a. statement to-day denying the
report brought by passenger of a steamer
arriving IN New York that the revolt was
spreading. Mr.. Calyo declares that corrs-