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And States that He Is Now Glad to
Have the Opportunity to Remove the
False Impression He Created.
SCHEME TO IGNORE SAMPSON
BILL FOR REVIVING RANK OF AD-
MIRAL AND VICE ADMIRAL.
Dewey and SchEey Named for the Re-
spective Grades-Cruiser Detroit
Hurried OF to BIuefeIds.
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| Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-Col. Charles L.
Jewett, of New Albany Ind, was greatly
| annoyed on reaching Washington on his re-
| turn from Manila to learn that testimony
| given by Maj Gen. Wesley Merritt to the
Paris peace commission in disparagement of
| his ability and belittling the extent and
| volume of his information about Manila af-
| fairs had preceded him. General Merritt
| having become satisfied that he had gone
too far and that he had done Colonel Jewett
an injustice, has addressed the following
| apology to the eminent Indianian under date
of headquarters Department Of the East,
Governors island. New York city, Feb. Fl:
| Lieut.. Col. Charles L. Jewett, Ebbitt
| House. Washington, D. G.:
| Colonel was surprised on reaching this
| country to find that my testimony before
] the commission in Paris had done you an
| apparent injustice, and take pleasure in
| doing what is possible to remove a false
| impression l did not have an opportunity
| to review my testimony, else would have
corrected it in Paris so as to convey the
meaning which i intended.
What / said was not in any way designed
| to reflect on your official or personal capac-
| ity. During my short service in Manila 1
official duties assigned to you, and am
| very sorry to discover that misconstruc-
| tion has been placed on what L said My
| comments on the reports of different per-
| sons whose reports | submitted to the COM
mission were intended more especially to
refer to the merits of the reports rather
| than to the abilities of the persons making
! those reports, and had an idea that unless
| yours was more thoroughly understood than
commission q false Impression.
| II will say to you here, as have said be-
| fore in Manila, that when l arrived in
| Manila Admiral Dewey spoke of your hav-
| ing rendered valuable services in keeping
@ arm n REGARD 70 vo e h Sga9a CbaTga at
| the local courts for trying cases which
might present themselves l have no reason
| to think that your services were other than
| efficient, though, of course. your immediate
| superiors in the city government had more
| knowledge of them than had l.
Il am very glad to be able to correct any
wrong impressions in regard to this matter
and, as stated above. had ! reviewed my
| testimony before it was printed 1 should
have made such corrections would have
done you justice. Very respectfully,
WESLEY MERRITT
Mr.. Lentz, of Ohio, introduced in the
House to-day bill reviving the rank of adj
miral and vice admiral, and naming Rear
Admiral Dewey and Rear Admiral Schley
as the persons to fill the respective posi-
t!ons. Mr.. Lentz's bill follows:
"That to provide prompt and adequate re-
ward to Rear Admiral Dewey and Rear Ad-
miral Winfield Scott Schley the grades and
ranks Of admiral and vice admiral in the
| United States navy be, and the same are
| hereby revived with the same duties pay
and privileges appurtenant thereto that
were by law given to the former appointees
to said ranks the grades to exist, respective
| ly, only during the lifetime of said officers;
but should said George Dewey die or retire
| before said Winfield Scott Schley then said
| Winfield Scott Schley shall be advanced to
| the rank of admiral"
Representative Steele to-day secured the
discharge of Charles S. Williams, One-hun-
dred-and-sixtieth Indiana; James w. West
of Point Isabel First United States Artil-
lery, now stationed at Fort Barancas, Fla,
and James w. Holmes, Company M, One
hundred-and-sixtieth Indiana. Williams and
| Holmes are from Logansport. Alonzo Os-
walt, of Wabash, member of the hospital
| corps has been ordered to appear before
the examining board for discharge.
| Being unable to get into telegraphic COM
munication with the commanding officer of
| the gunboat Marietta. the Navy Depart
ment has instructed the commander of the
cruiser Detroit, at New Orleans, to proceed
at once to Bluefelds to learn the situation
| there. The department thinks it possible
either the government of Nicaragua or the
insurgents are exercising an embargo on
messages to the United States.
Lord Charles Beresford IN an interview
this afternoon predicted that China will be
bankrupt in four years and said that what
| England had done for Egypt the four ma
| tions controlling Chinese trade could do for
China Save for It's strategic advantages.
he added, Egypt has not been worth a
shilling to England. She sacrificed lives and
money to make Egypt safe and secure and
she put the Egyptian army and police in
order OF course, every nation that has
ever controlled Egypt has declared it would
get OUT $50
The Postoffice Department has shipped to
Porto Rico 100000 United States postage
stamps with the words Porto Rico" over
printed on each. The shipment embraced
1,O0O,O0O ones, 100000 twos and $4,000 each of
five and ten-cent stamps. Arrangements
meantime are being rapidly completed for
a distinctive set of Cuban stamps.
Solicitor General ]. K. Richards has rem
dered an opinion, which has been approved
by the attorney general in which he holds
that the secretary of the treasury has au-
thority to admit to the Hawaiian islands
such Chinese persons as departed therefrom
under the regulations of the existing gov
ernment allowing them to return, but who
would be excluded by the extension to the
islands of the law and regulations now
operative within the United States.
|
Senator Jones' of Arkansas, is confined to
his bed with an attack of pseudo angina
pectoris, an affection of the lungs His con-
dition is not considered serious The first
symptoms made their appearance Monday
last, and the senator was suffering slightly
yesterday. although he then made an ad-
dress in the Senate. To-day the symptoms