The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-05

towards small farms. and added tina the
wheat and cotton and other products grown
prices. Mr.. Power also said that many of
the agricultural colleges of the country
were conducted upon lines calculated 10 at
tract boys educated by them away from the
farms. Speculation in grain. he said, did
not affect the prices OF IL except tempo
rarilyc nor affect the farmers except so far
as they engaged In speculation.
You don't mean 20 say" suggested Gov
ernor Harris: "thas the farmers speculate
They do" replied the witness. Very
largely they are the lambs which are shorn
on the stock exchanges. Stop the farmers
from gambling and you will stop it all.
Three-fourths OF the money thus lost is lost
by farmers" He thought that CORPORATIONS
and trusts should be strictly controlled and
regulated by law, adding that in his view
the country was drifting with mad frenzy
towards disaster. All corporations should
be strictly controlled by the State in which
they operate. He thought, howevet. it
might take twenty-five years Of legisla ton,
litigation and experiment fully 10 work out
the problem.
The Fourth Regiment Of Immunes, Col.
Petit commanding. will be brought home
from Manzanillo. Department OF Santiago.
on the transport Dixie. which is due at the
Cuban port tomorrow. The regiment will
be relieved Of duty in Cuba by the Tenth
Regular Cavalry, about half of which reci-
ment Is due at ManZanillo Tomorrow on the
transport Logan. The Fourth Imnunes will
De taken direct 10 New York city ana thence
transferred 10 camp Meade, Middletown,
"a, where the regiment will he mustered
out When the Logon returns to cuoa with
the second installment Of the Tenth Cavalry
she will proceed 10 Gibara Cor he purpose
OF bringing home the Second Regiment Of
lmmunes for musteT-out.
General Brooke telegrapncd the War De-
partment to-day that the Fifth Regiment Of
lmmunes, numbering thirty-eight officers
and Coz men, sailed from Guantanamo yes
terday on the transport Thomas FOR New
YORK. This regiment will be sent 20 Camp
Meade for muster-out.
information has been received at the War
Department that the transport Grant has
been quarantined at San Francisco for four
teen days on account OF a few cases OF
smallpox which developed among the troops
she brought from the Philippines. As soon
as relieved from quarantine the troop ship
VIII be overhauled and put in the best pos
HDle condition for a return trip TO Manila
with reinforcements for General Otis's amy.
she may be ready to start about the LIST
OF June -
The italian government has extended for
three months the time in which the last Of
the Cerruti claims may be paid by Columbia
The fourteenth annual meeting of the AS
ISOLATION of American Physicians came TO
an end to-day when the following officers
were elected: President. DR.. E. G. Janeway.
New York; vice president. DR.. William p.
Melch, baltimore; recorder, DR.. J.. Minis
Hays. Philadelphia; secretary. DR.. Henry
Hun. Albany. y. r.: treasurer. DIR. j. p.
Grocer Griffith, Philadelphia; councillor, DR..
William I: Councilman. Boston. A vote OF
thanks and esteem was rendered the retiring
president, DIR. ~Baumgarten, of st. Louis.