The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-04
SaIutes to BE Fired and Flags Dis
played at Half Mast on All ships,
Forts and Public Buildings.
SENATOR HANNA INDIGNANT
INsINU ATIONS OF "THIS MAN LEE-
CALLED CONTEMPTIBLE.
The Ohioan Says He Had Nothing To
ter from Secretary Hitchcock.

WASHINGTON, April Arrangements
have been practically completed for the fu-
neral ceremonies on the occasion of the re-
interment in Arlington Cemetery at o'clock
Thursday afternoon of the remains of about
$50 soldiers and civilians who lost their lives.
either as a result of wounds or disease in the
campaigns of Santiago and Porto Rico. The
ceremonies will be of the simplest character,
being confined to the commitment service
conducted by Post Chaplain Charles w.
FreeIand, who has been summoned here from
the military post at ft. Monroe for that pur-
pose. Full military honors will be paid the
memory of the patriot dead, and all the reg
uiar troops In the vicinity, the District
National Guard and battalion of marines will
participate in the ceremonies at the ceme-
terry. Colonel Francis L. Guenther, of the
Fourth Artillery will have command of the
military escort and exercises. The remains
of $50 of the heroes of the have already
been deposited in tents near the spot Sc
lected for their interment, and it is ex-
pected the remaining 200 bodies will he
brought on from Jersey City tomorrow or
| next day. The President and most Of the
| officials of the administration in the city
| will attend the funeral service. President
Mckinley to-day issued the following order
1T is fitting that in behalf of the Nation,
| tributes of honor to be paid to the memories
| of the noble men who lost their lives in their
| country's service during the late war with
| Spain. II is the more fitting. inasmuch as in
| consonance with the spirit OF our free ipsti-
| tutions and in obedience to the most exalted
| promptings Of patriotism, those who were
| sent TO other shores TO do battle for their
country's honor, under their country's flag,
went freely from every quarter of our be-
| loved land. Each soldier, each sailor. part
ing from home ties and putting behind him
| private interests III the presence of the stern
emergency of unsought war with an alien
| foe, was an individual type of that devotion
| of the citizen TO the state which makes our
Nation strong in unity and in action.
| "Those who died in another land left i'm
many homes undying memories that attend
| the heroic dead of all ages. 1t was fitting
| that with the advent of peace, won by their
| sacrifice their bodies should be gathered
with tender care and restored to home and
kindred. This has been done with the dead
| of Cuba and Porto Rico. Those of the
| Philippines still rest where they fell,
watched over by their surviving comrades
| and crowned with the love of a grateful
| nation.
THE remains Of many brought to our
| shores have been delivered 20 their families
for private burial. But for others of the brave
| officers and men who perished, there has
been reserved interment in the ground sacred
| to the soldiers and sailors, amid the tributes
of military honor and national mourning
| they have so deserved.
| II therefore order. that on the arrival of
| the cortege at the National Cemetery at
| Arlington, all proper military and naval
honors be paid 10 the dead heroes that suit
| able ceremonies shall attend their nterment;
that the customary salute of mourning be
} fired at the cemetery; and that on the same
| day at o'clock p. m, Thursday, the 9th
day of April, the natioI al ensign be dis
| played at half-staff all public buildings.
forts. camps and public vessels of the United
States. and that at IL O'clock, noon of said
day, all departments of the government at
| Washington shall be closed"
| In the same connection Acting Secretary
| of War Meiklejohn issued this order: 1.-The
| remains OF officers and soldiers who lost
| their lives in the war with Spain during the
| operations in Cuba ard Porto Rico, will be
| inferred with due and fitting ceremonies, in
| the National Cemetery AT Arlington, Va, on
| Thursday. April 6, at p. IN. By direction
| of the President, all of the United States
| troops serving in the vicinity of Washing
| ton together with the Naticral Guard of the
| District OF Columbia. will be assembled at
| Arlington on the date in question to par
ticipate in the funeral ceremonies"
!
| Secretary Hitchcock has sent a letter to
| Frank 5. Gardner, secretary of the Board
| CT Trade of New York city, in which the
| secretary says: Il have the honor 10
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
| the 31st ult.. replying TO mine of the 18th,
| and, if understand its contents correctly.
| you protest against the opening of bids for
the Indian supplies this department Is re-
| qured to furnish, elsewhere than in New
| York, excepting in the case of such cities
| as are best equipped 10 furnish such as
| We are glad TO admit those cities can best
| furnish your claim being that New York
| is, first. or primary market in many lines
and, therefore. inferentially, not in all lines
| In reply l beg to assure you that il is not
| proposed to in any way discriminate
| against New York. nor yet TO favor any
city or section, but simply TO provide the
equal opportunity TO which each is entitled
The departments advertisements
and schedules call for bids from responsible
contractors regardless of their place of resi-
| dence. Such bidders as are successful can
| purchase the articles they may contract TO
| deliver. either in New York or elsewhere
| so long as such articles are delivered i'm
| strict conformity with the conditions of the
| contract with the government, which i'm no
| way dictates as To the primary place of
| purchase. You Will pardon me if I decline
TO either discuss or criticse the actions of
| my predecessors, especially with reference
| 10 official orders issued eve years ago. The
| manufacturing and market conditions of our
leading Western cities, as you must be