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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-20
FAIR AND WARMER TO-DAY.
Weather Conditions Moderate Over
the Whole Country.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, s p. m.-Forecast
for twenty-four hours:
For Ohio Indiana and Illinois-Fair and
warmer; fresh southerly winds.
Weather conditions and general forecast
The weather conditions are moderate over
the whole country. A ridge of high pressure
extends from southern New England to
Texas, and thence through Utah to the
middle Pacific coast. A storm of consider
able intensity appears to be developing tc
the north of Montana. Light rains have
fallen in the south Atlantic and north Pa
cifc States. and it has been general in all
other districts. The temperature has re-
manned stationary in the middle and south
Atlantic States, and from the Rocky noun
tains to the Pacific coast and has generally
risen elsewhere. Generally fair weather
may be expected in all districts. 1t will
grow warmer in the Atlantic and gulf
States the Ohio valley and lower lake re-
gion, and the temperature will remain near
~ stationary elsewhere. Light southerly
winds will prevail on the north Atlantic
coast. variable winds on the middle Atlantic
and light northerly winds on the south At
Iantic coast
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-20
SUCCESSFUL TEST.
The Howell Disappearing Gun Car
riage Said to Work Well.

NEW YORK, Jan. 19.-The board of fort
ifcations to-day conducted a test of the
Howell disappearing gun carriage at the
Sandy Hook providing grounds. All the
members of the board were present except
General Miles. The carriage is the inven-
ton of Rear Admiral Howell and is con-
structed on radically different lines from
the Buffngton-CroZier carriage. which is eX-
tensively used by the United States govern
ment. The Howell carriage does not sink
the gun under the ground and uses no pit.
Five shots were fired from a ten-inch gun
with regular service charge of a projectie
weighing so pounds and 240 pounds of
powder. :. The time of firing. including
the handling of the gun, was twelve min
utes and thirty-eight seconds Lieutenant
Lewis SAID the test was very succe ssful; that
the mechanism of the carriage had worked
we'll
During the presence of the board a new
high explosive she'll now being tested at the
Hook was fired from a twelve-inch gun.
The charge of the shell consists of gun cot
ton detonated by a special primer At this
test the gun was aimed at an armor plate,
heavily backed up. The shot struck near
the center, penetrated the steel and eX-
pioded. After the smoke passed off the mem
bers of the board went down and looked for
the plate. Here and there they found few
ragged pieces of steel, but the main part
of the plate was blown off the face of the
Hook. A twelYe-inch shell fired from a
mortar also did destructive work.
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WAR WAS EXPECTED.
Views of a Newspaper Man on the
Situation in Samoa.

CHICAGO, Jan. BE. w. Pickard a Chi
cago newspaper man, who has recently re-
turned from Samoa. has this to say of the
situation: Everybody at Apia knew that a
bloody conflict would result if the court de-
cided in favor of young Tanus and even the
friends of the latter admitted freely that he
would have no show if there was a fight.
Mataafa has had a very large majority of
the natives with him from the first-fully 50
per cent, L should say-and, Furthermore,
he is by far the best man for King. He is
Intelligent, dignitied, courteous, and has the
years which the natives respect. Aside
from the question of expediency, there is
no doubt in my mind that Mataafa was
rightfully elected King. L reached this con-
clusion after two months careful inquiry
into the status of the case The trial itself
had been farce up to the time l left, two
days before its close. Very few Samoans
can be relied on to tell the truth, even under
oath. if the truth would harm their cause,
and the chief justice knows this as well as
any one else.
THE German consul has been at logger
heads with the American and British con-
suls throughout the whole affair and has
persiStently> refused to act with them. He
openly eSpoused the cause of Mataata, and
certainly went further than cOnsuls usually
do. The British and American consuls main
tanned a neutral attitude throughout the
trial. only giving assurance that they would
protect the lives and property of the white
residents. The dispatches say that Mataata $
army looted and burned Apia. That evil
IDENTIFY does not mean the municipality a
whole but the native village of Apia, which
is only one of several within the municI-
pality
If the powers undertake to enforce the
chief Justices decision they wiz have a
tough job. The, war ships now thtPe cannot
land over four hundred men. and Mataafa s
forces number many thousands. The natives
are fairly we'll armed, though they have not
Withdraw a little way from the coast and
keep up the fight for months in the country.
where the white soldiers would find food
very scanty and the bush too dense for eff
fective movements. 1t would not be SO easy
to subdue and capture Mataafa as it was
in 1888 for at that time he had sent nearly
all his followers to their homes, not desir-
ing war"
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EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.
Figures of 1898 Compared with Yearly
Statistics of the Past Decade.

Special to the Indianapo Journal.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE story of
the foreign commerce of 1898 is now COM
plete. It's exports are the largest in our
history, its imports the smallest since 1885,
although the consuming population is now
90 per cent. greater than at that time; and,
as if to emphasize the great work of this
greatest year, the month of December made
for itself the highest record of exports ever
made by any month in our history. The
total exports of December We're $137, S47, 44S,
and of the full calender year 81, 254 925. 1853.
Only two earlier calendar years crossed the
billon-dollar line-that of 1897 having been
81 O99, 709O45 and 1896, ST. COS S57 241. The larg
est record of any month prior to that just
eL6ed was that of November, 1898, which
was 1929 7S0,014 while only sixteen months
in our history ever crossed the one-hundred-
millon-dollar line in exports. Three months
of the calendar year 1891 and three months
of the calendar year 1896 showed exports in
excess of 500, 600, four months in 1897,
while six of the twelve months of 1898
showed exports of more than 00000.O00 each,
and the full year averaged more than $780,
100000 Tor it's entire twelve months The
following table shows the imports and eX-
ports of merchandise in the calendar years
from 1888 to 1885, the excess of imports or
exports in each year being also indicated:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-20
PUTS TO SEA.
The Transport Grant Sails from New
York for the Philippines.

York for the Philippines.
NEW YORK, Jan. 19.-The transport
Grant bound for the Philippines with the
Fourth Infantry and a battalion of the
Seventeenth Infantry aboard, sailed to-day.
AS the Grant passed Governors island the
guns fired a regulation salute in honor of
Major General Lawton. The men on the
Grant replied with cheers. AS the trans
port passed through the Narrows she was
again saluted by the guns of Forts Wads-
worth and Hamilton. All the ships in the
harbor saluted the transport and her de-
parture was marked by considerable enthu-
siasm. The Seventeenth Infantry left be-
hind four boys, who though not on the
muster rolls of that regiment, were on the
transport. They were Frank Henzman, six
teen years old, mascot of Company G.;
George Carson, aged seventeen, assistant
mascot of Company Gr' Fred Black, aged
fifteen, Company c, mascot, all Of Column
bus, o., and Albert Lined, Homestead, Pa,
fourteen years old, mascot to Company /.
They came with the regiment on the train
from Columbus and were discovered on
board the Grant this morning when they
were summarily deported and handed over
to the New York police. They were ar
raigned in police court and instead of being
forwarded to Manila were handed over to
the Gerry Society. Their parents will be
communicated with The boys were es-
pecially chagrined over the fact that two
and were already we'll out to sea on the
Grant
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THE SOUTH CELEBRATES.
Observes the Anniversary of Gen
Robert f. Lees Birth.

SAVANNAH. Ca. Jan. 19-The Thirty
given a camp dinner to-day on the annlver-
sary of the birth of Robert E. Lee, by the
First Volunteer Regiment of Georgia, for
merly the First Georgia Volunteers the
Michigan soldiers neighbors in camp at
Chickamauga and Knoxville, and now
camped near Savannah The dinner was
served by members of the Georgia regiment
and by the ladies of Savannah. The camp
ing ground looked more like a park than
military reservation. Pines and palmettos
had been placed in the ground, and the COM
pany streets looked like a grove The men
ate at long tables, which had been decorated
with potted plants. Each table was occu-
pied by one company and had the company
letter suspended over it with Welcome.
Despite the cold weather the ladies went out
to the camp and waited on the volunteers
in the bleak wind. The men sat at the Ia
lies for an hour. During the dinner speeches
were made by Colonel Gardner, of the Mich
igan regiment; Colonel Lawton. of the First
the Michigan troops After the dinner the
regiment gave a dress parade in the park
The Georgia HusSarS, the famous jeff Davis
Legion of the Confederate army. which
acted as President McKinley's escort dur
ing his recent visit to Savannah, and the
Chatham Artillery, next to the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery, of Boston, the oldest
artillery association in the country. paraded.
The artillery marched through the streets
to the park, where the customary salute OF
twenty-one guns was fired in honor OF the
Confederate general.
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ALLEGED TO BE SHORT.
st. Louis Court Clerk Said to Have
Disappeared with 100000.

ST. LOUIS, Mo, Jan 19.-M J. Wagenman
clerk of the Court of Criminal Correction. has
disappeared it is said by his intimate friends
that he has confessed to subverson Of witness
and jurors fees to the amount OF $4,000. To-
night he is missing and his friends fear he has
committed suicide. Wagenman has filled one
term as the clerk OF the Court of Criminal Cor
rection and was reelected to the office last fail
A prominent city official, whose name is with
held at his request said tonight: Last Satur-
day night l conversed with Wagenman regarding
his affairs. He greatly depressed, and said
he was in a bad fix. Finally he broke down and
confessed to that for the period Of time he
had been in office ne had raised. jurors fees and
after paying the jurors the amount due them had
pccketed the balance and had also taken witness
fees until the amount had reached about $5Oe0V
but the exact amount he did not know himself.
He said that he had made no record Of the
amount taken and that they would not show up
on his books. Wagenman went on to tell ME thar
he had loaned the larger part of the money taken
and had personally had the use of very little OF
It, II the Lexow committee discovers me | will
commit suicide. and he pulled a bottle Of NOR
mime from his pocket significantly. l told Wag-
enman that l did not think his affairs We're as
bad as he thought, but that did not pacify him.
He said he was there was but end to
the whole matter, and that was exposure"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-20
GAGE OPPOSES THE HILL BILL.
He Submits "a Substitute for the Cur
rency RefOrmer's Measure.

Fency heIOFmeFS MEASURE
WASHINGTON. Jan. 19.-secretary Gage,
of the Treasury Department, to-day APP
peared before the House committee on coin
age, weights and measures to explain his
view of the Hill bill to define and fix the
standard of value and regulate coinage
This is the bill with which the advocates
of currency reform propose to supplement
the currency bill of the banking and cur
rency committee. 1t makes the gold dollar
the standard of value. Secretary Gage gave
his general approval to the measure, but
took strong exception to Section II, which
proposes to assess one-quarter of 1 per
cent tax annually upon the capital surplus
and undivided profits of national banks.
The secretary contrasted the burdens under
which national banks labored compared with
the trust companies. He explained that ma
tional banks were compelled to pay, in local
taxation, two and one-half times as much
as trust companies and they were required
to carry large reserves which trust COM
panies were not. He did not think it fair
that this additional burden should be placed
upon them.
do not the national banks pay large
profits?" asked Mr.. Maxwell (Pop.. Neb.)
1.-The profits are very small" replied the
secretary.
on national banks so per cent, would it
not?" inquired Mr.: Hill.
1T would, replied the secretary. land I
suggest that it be left as it is With that
exception the secretary agreed that the bill
was feasible and practicable so far as the
Treasury Department was concerned. Il
believe he said that the bill is in the
right direction and would be beneficial
'''Fhe bill would place the country fatty
on the gold standard, would it not?' asked
Mr.. Cooper. of Texas
1T would.
Secretary Gage submitted substitute bill,
with Section II omitted and various other
minor changes. At the request of Mr.. Hart
man. of Montana the secretary agreed in a
few days to appear and reply to certain gen
eral questions which were asked of the gold
standard advocates at the Omaha monetary
debate last September.
Mr.. A. j. Warner. one of the leading
double standard advocates, was invited by
the committee to give his views at the sug-
gestion of Mr.. Hartman He argued against
the establishment of the single gold stand
ard. He protested against the increasing
power of national banks. In the issue of
notes they would be governed only and sole
ly by self-interests He declared that all
the authorities on both sides of the money
question and upon both sides of the ocean
secuted the idea of basing currency upon
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-20

It's Friends Before the House Com.
mittee ON Commerce.


mittee ON Commerce.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-The Maritime
Canal Company, representing the old con-
cession for building the Nicaragua canal
had hearing to-day before the commerce
committee of the House in accordance with
the plan to hear all parties concerned. The
Maritime Company was represented by its
president Hiram Hitchcock; the president
of the construction company, j. w. Miller
and the solicitor of the company, Mr. A r.
Mason. Professor Haupt, one of the Mica
ragua canal committee, was present to dis
cuss engineering features involved and Hon.
Warner Miller, former president of the
Maritime Canal Company, was also present
President Hitchcock opened the hearing
with an historical review of what had been
done, particularly referring to the course of
Mr.. Blaine when secretary of state to pro-
tect the interests of the concession held by
the company. Mr.. Hitchcock then took up
the organization of the Cragin-Grace syn
dictate and stated that his understanding
was that owing to discOura gements the syn
dictate had dissolved prior to the time when
the contract for the concession was secured
He declared that the last concession was
in violation of the rights and interests of
the Maritime Company and of the United
States government
Mr.. Stewart asked Mr.. Hitchcock if the
company had gone into this plan with
view of unloading it on the government
Mr. Hitchcock answered positively in the
negative. There had never been such Il pur-
pose he said. The finances of the company
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-20
TO REIMBURSE SOLDIERS.
MIR. McCIeary Introduces Bill for
Relief of Volunteers.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-Hepresentative
McCleary, of Minnesota, to-day introduced
a bill authorizing the secretary of the treas
ury to reimburse officers and men of the
army and navy who served in the war be-
tween the United States and Spain for
necessary and reasonable expenses incurred
while on leave or furlough for medical at
tendance, nursing and medical supplies
necessitated by disabilities incurred through
military or naval services in said war.
When seen tonight Mr.. McCleary said:
Il was prompted to introduce this bill by
a feeling that equity demanded it. Num-
erous instances have come to my attention
where men were sent home because sick
and incapacitated for duty. The folks at
home nursed them back to life and rejoiced
in the opportunity of caring for their loved
ones. But in many instances the expenses
for medical attendance and supplies have
been a charge that the family could i'll af-
ford. 1t seems only just and right that
these expenses should be reimbursed by the
government, III whose service the disabilities
were incurred. If the soldier had gone to a
military hospital the charges would have
been paid by the government under exist
ing law. But there is no law authorizing
the payment of such expenses for soldiers
absent from their commands on sick leave
or furlough. To grant this authorization is
the purpose Of the bill. In preparing the
erai and the auditor of the treasury for the
War Department in order thar its pro-
visions. while dealing justly and generously
with the soldiers, should properly guard the
public treasury. To this end 1t is provided
that the reimbursement shall be made under
rules and regulations 10 be prescribed by
the Treasury Department. that the rates to
be paid shall be those usual in the locality
where the services have been rendered, and
that TO receive consideration claims must
be presented within two years after the
passage of the act.
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a court-martial for a grave infracton of the
rules of the War Department, and, being
found guilty, was ordered to be publicly
reprimanded. He escaped punishment, how
ever, because of the recommendation OF his
superior officer. General KeutZ, that to
merely reprimand an officer for so grave an
offense as Captain Eagan had committed
would set q bad precedent Thus Eagan es-
capped punishment simply because the SEN
tence of the court-martial was not as severe
as the offense merited in the eyes OF his su-
perior officer. Captain Eagans offense con-
sisted in ''habitually playing cards for high
stakes, although disbursing officer: He
was also charged with not paying his debts.
He admitted the card playing, but denied
that it was for high stakes. AS for not
paying his debts a plea in bar of trial was
entered and sustained by the court.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-20
THE PHILIPPINES COMMISSION.
Schurman Will BE Chairman and e.
w. Harden Secretary.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-President Schur-
man of Cornell University Prof. Worcester
of Ann Arbor and Colonel Denly. the three
members of the Philippine commission now
in the United States, had long conference
with the President at the White House to-
day. They will receive their commissions to-
morrow when Mr. Schurman will be for
mally designated as chairman and Mr.. Ed
ward w Harden. of Chicago, as secretary.
With the exception of Colonel DENLY, who
will be unavoidably detained here about
two weeks, the members. with a corps of
clerks and stenographers, will leave New
York next Tuesday for Vancouver, where
they will take the steamer Empress of
Japan on the S0th inst for Hong Kong. 1t
is understood that at to-day's conference
the President went over with them, in a
general way, the full instructions, which
will be issued tomorrow, as to the purpose
of their mission to the Philippines, the scope
of their investigation, and the general con-
duct of the work in hand
Mr.. Harden, who has been appointed sec
rotary Of the commission, served as vol
unteer on board the McCulloch, and partlci-
pated in the memorable victory Of May at
Manila. He IS a newspaper man of AFFINITY
and while in the Philippines was appointed
special commissioner of the United States
to report on the financial and industrial con-
ditions of the islands. The report has been
warmly commended by Secretary Gage, and
his knowledge Of Philippine affairs is re-
sponsible for the selection to his present I'M
portant post. He is an enthusiastic admirer
of Admiral Dewey. with whom his work In
Manila brought him into closer relation
ship, and has the advantage OF acquant-
ance with Aguinaldo and other insurgents
of influence. Mr.. Harden is member or
the Union League Club, and before going
to the far East was the financial editor OF
the Chicago Tribune, ana later held that
position on the Chicago Evening Post.
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DocKsrADER ON EXPANSION.
story of an Illinois Farmers Unsa tis-
fnctOrN EXnerience.

Washington Special to New York World.
Lew Dockstader, the minstrel entertained
a group of senator's and representatives in
the Senate restaurant yesterday with new
story. Here it is:
"Out in Illinois / know an old farmer who
was in the hog raising business. One day
last spring he drove into Chicago and
bought a herd of fine Berkshire shoats, pay
ing cents d pound for them. He drove the
hogs to his farm, thirty or forty miles
from town, fed them on bran. corn and all
kinds OF fattening feed. He used to get up
with the chickens in the morning to look
after the hogs and kept close tab on them
all day.
Late in the fall. having spent about $40
apiece to fatten them he drove them back
to the Chicago stock yards. There he found
that the price of hogs had gone down. and
the best he could get for them was cents
a pound. The hogs had nearly bankrupted
him, and he was compelled to make the sac
rifice.
ION his way home respondent and down
on his luck, he met old friend, who
asked:
What did you get for your hogs?'
Three cents pound; just what 1 paid
for them.
Wei. you didn't make much on the
deal eh?'
No replied the old farmer, but I had
the society of the hogs y
That" said Dcckstader. while the group
was convused with laughter reminds me
Of the Philippine controversy. We won t
make anything out of the islands but we
will have to pay for the society of the Ma
lays, half-breeds, Hottentots etc"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-20

Washington Letter in Philadelphia
granl.

Washington Letter in Philadelphia Tele-
graph.
The army scandal is the outcome of a
condition of affairs that has existed in
the department since the war with Spain
began. Some one was ambitious to demon
strate that military operations could be con-
Quoted better from the office of the secre-
tary or its vicinity than they could from
the headquarters of the army. Lest 1t
might not be fully understood by the public
that. the conduct of the war was under
the direction of the 'nonmilitary' branch
of the army, care was taken not to adver-
tise on all possible occasions that the adj
vice of the general commanding the army
was neither solicited nor regarded Con-
sequently, when things seemed to get tan
gled to a greater or less extent and com
plants were heard, the voiceless general
commanding appeared to the self-conscious
as a silent accuser. He whose look is
an accusation we most .wrathfully pur-
sue; and our fury is blinded that it may
not see its own fault"
The difference between the two contend
ing forces in the War Department is less
of opinion than of innate quality General
Breckenridge struck near the truth, as all
know here. when he said, referring to the
faction attacking General Miles: What we
need in the War Department is a set of
gentlemen