The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-27
WANTS THE WAR ENDED
an gillian SAYS THERE SHOULD he
NO DELAY IN THE PHILIPPINES.
The senator Not Hopeful of Securing
Interstafe-Commerc Legislation
in Congress This Winter.

no Illinois who arrived here to-day. to re-
main probably until Congress assemblies, in
an interview to-day with a Post reporter.
when asked about the feeling of the people
Of his section toward Imperialism, replied:
| ct don't know that IL ought to be called
| impe-ialisln We are all for putting down
| this instruction in the Philippines, and we
don't want any fooling about it. We do
| not only wart TO put down the insurrection,
| hut we are for keeping the islands after we
| have fully established our authority there.
| This sentiment is not confined to any one
party"
The senator said he was not in favor of
any radical legislation at the approaching
session Of Congress. Regarding interstate
con merce legislation he said: 1--WE shall
| have a number of measures to consider by
| the committee on interstate commerce.
| There seems to be quite demand for some
amendment to the interState-com law
| from different quarters, particularly to al
| low TIE railroads certain latitude in the
making of contracts with each other. With
| q divided committee, rs is the case at pres
| emit it is very difficult to accomplish much
| in the way OF legislation"
| Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
| Spaulding has issued a circular letter
| of instructions to collectors of customs
ment so as to permit the entry without de-
| tention, under the act of Dec. %, 1897, of
sealskin garments worn by persons tempo
| rarily visiting the United States from
| Canada Under the new ruling persons ar
irving from Canada with fur skin garments.
who declare their intention of returning
| within ninety days. will be required to ex-
ecute an affidavit to that effect before a
| United States consul. Under the act of 1897
| the importation of sealskin garments is pro-
| hibited unless accompanied by an invoice,
certified by a United States consul, to the
effect that the skins were not taken from
seals killed in prohibited waters. 1t is said
| that the strict enforcement of these regu-
,ations has resulted in great annoyance to
| Canadians coming across the border to at
| tend social functions and intending to return
| the same evening. as well as to the travel
| ing public generally, hence the modihca-
There was no meeting of the Philippines
| commission to-day. Professor Worcester,
who arrived last night, was at the State
| Department. where he was Joined by Col.
| miral Dewey and Professor Schurman did
! not appear, but 1t Is expected Mr.. Schur-
man. o who hi has been by
| sor Worcester, when asked If the members
would present individual reports as well as
II
| individual reports and understood there
would be but one report, signed by all the
| The Mexican ambassador, Senior Azpiros,
| has received word that two Americans were
| killed and two Mexican gendarmes were
wounded in the border clash near Naco,
| called at the State Department to-day ac-
| companied by Mr.. Romero, his secretary,
/ and had talk with Assistant Secretary
/ AccTr mao of rat % a %
| over the affair and both sides have taken
| steps in sending troops to the scene which
are considered ample to maintain peace and
| stop border rufhanism. Secretary Root has
| ordered a company of United States troops
from Hauchuca to Naco.
The secretary of war and "a number of
prominent officials will leave here to-mor-
row night for New York to inspect the
| United States troopship Thomas. said to be
the finest ship of the kind afioat. Though
been extended to the military attaches of
foreign embassies and legations here to &C
company the secretary and view the ship.
| Mr. Sewall has notified the State Depart
ment that H. E; Cooper. at present attor,
| ney general of Hawaii, has been appointed
minister of finance ad interim.
To-day's statement of the condition of the
| treasury shows, Available cash balance,
$685. o3'lo2; gold reserve, s205'SI'225.
The Texas authorities have appealed to
the State Department for aid in the effort
to secure the extradition of Leonardo Con-
zales, now held under arrest in Porfirio
| Diaz, Mexico, on a charge of assaulting
| and numbering an American woman named
! Mrs. p. Laura, at Sanderson, Tex. The
federal judge at Porfrio Diaz, before whom
| recommended to the executive of Mexico
that the extradition be refused on the
| ground that the man is Mexican. The
American authorities point to the surrender
| of Mrs. Rich. an American. to the Mexican
| authorities, under extradition, and ask that
| the same course be followed by the Mexican
| judge. Under the new treaty the discre-
| tionary power to surrender citizen to the
| other country is reposed entirely in the ex-
| ecutive, so that President Diaz will have to
| decide the case. The State Department has
| responded TO the appeal from Texas by in
| structing United States Ambassador Powell
subject.
Naval officers are looking forward with
interest to the coming experiments the de-
partment is to make with the Marconi sys-
tenn Of wireless telegraphy. Arrangements
have been made between representatives of
the Bureau of Equipment. of which Admit
raj Bradford is the head, and Mr.. Marconi
| by which the department will bear the ex-
| penses to which the inventor may be put in
| conducting the experiments. They are to be
| of which Lieutenant Commander Newton
| and Lieutenants Hill and Bliss. all elec-
trical experts, are members. The cruiser
| New York and the battleship Massachusetts
are to be used for the experiments. the
| Navesink light station, on the New Jersey
| highlands, being utilized as the shore sta
| ton to which the messages will be trans
mitted from the ships at sea. The first trip
of the vessels to sea probably will be made
| on Saturday II the apparatus necessary for
| conducting the experiments can be properly
| rugged up by that time. The experiments
| will be made in all kinds of weather, at
| as well as rough, the purpose being TO give
| the system a thorough trial The officers
| of the department made study of the eX-
periments with the wireless telegraphy dur
| ing the yacht races, but as yet have made
no official report on the subject.
The several committees of the isthmian
canal commission are working daily at their
rooms IN the Corcoran building All the
| members of the committee which went to
Paris to investigate the records and sur
veys of the French Panama Company. have
| returned to the city, except General Ernst.
| The advance survey parties sent TO the
| isthmus are at work, with the exception of
the party which is to examine the routes
| below Panama, and il will be dispatched
| shortly. The commission itself will not leave
the United States until December The
| members will make personal inspection OF
| all the suggested routes. those not hereto
fore completely surveyed. as well as the
! Nicaragua and Panama routes. Ii is be-
| lieved that this examination will consume
| at least three months, so that the commit
tee will not return TO the United States
| until March. But inasmuch as all the pre-
| liminary work in connection with the treat
| les, contracts examination of official sur
| veys, ETC., is being done in advance, the
commission. on its return. can begin the