The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-18

them day or part OF a day for con-
eldeFatlon Of the measure. The committee
mas not said nay to the prayers but neither
mas i said aye While there is Life there
Is hope.
On his way home after Congress adjourn
ment Representative Lands will deliver
lecture at Athens. o., by invitation Of Cen
eral Grosvenor. whose guest he will be for
couple of weeks.
Consul Roosevelt. in Brussels has in
formed the secretary of state that the Bel
gian Society of Electricians will open an
exposition of all sorts of electrical appli-
anees applicable to domestic uses in Brus-
sells IN May next. He says it is the purpose
Of the society to make a complete exhibit
ton Of the various uses to which electricity
may be applied in the household. Besides
appliances for Illuminating purposes. there
VIII also be exhibited small motors for OPP
Grating dumb walters, cleaning and polish
ing shoes, heating kitchens, cooking stoves,
bath tubs and bathrooms, electric teaPots,
domestic telephones, and in fact al appI-
ances operated by electricity, with n view
70 the total suppression of use Of coal for
domestic purposes.
The postmaster general has modified the
order requiring the certfcation of officers
Of the army, navy and marine corps to Sc
cure domestic postage rate to letters sent
by men in our forces outside the country.
The modification permits pOstmasters at the
places where the mail is sent TO exercise a
discretionary power for the first time in
identifying the sending party as entitled TO
the domestic rates for transmission here.
There viii be no more musters. out of
general officers Of the army, except in cases
Of individual requests. pending the formal
Termination Of the war through the ex-
change of notifications Of the peace treaty
II is stated at the War Department that by
the order of yesterday, mastering out two
major generals and six brigadier generals
the number of general officers was brought
down to the minimum; the number abso-
lutely necessary to command the ninety
six volunteer and regular regiments COM
posing the United States army at present.
These general officers now include fifteen
major generals and twenty-six brigadier
generals.
Senator Frye to-day introduced an amend
ment to Ii sundry civil appropriation for
the encouragement of a Pacific cable 1t
provides for the payment of a subsidy not
exceeding 100000 year for twenty years
for a cable from some point in the United
States on the Pacific coast to Hawaii,
Guam, the Philippines. Japan and China
The contract to be let to an American COM
pany and to the lowest responsible bidder.
The contractor is TO he required to have
his cable laid to Honolulu by July l. 1900,
and to Manila by Jan. l. 1901 The details
OF the matter are to be placed in the hands
OF the postmaster general and messages of
the United States are to be carried free
forever. The government is authorized to
take possession Of the line in case OF war
and in certain other contingencies is to own
the line.
Indiana postmasters were appointed to-day
as follows: Ellis, Steuben county, Ora Ew-
ers. jr., vice Arthur L. Hanselman, resigned;
Tyner, Marshall county, Edward G. Robin
son, vice Elisha J. Robinson. dead.
Representative Crawford, of Texas, is
very i'll at the Province Hospital in this city.
He has been so low that his friends do not
expect him to recover He is suffering from
q complication Of diseases which the doctors
have been unable to cure.
Senator Turley, from the committee on
education and labor, to-day reported the
eight-hour bill without recommendation as
to the bill as a whole. An amendment is
suggested providing that the act shall not
apply to contracts for the purchase of the
ordinary supplies of the government nor to
contracts for such materials as may be
usually purchased in the open markets"
The secretary Of the interior has appointed
John D. Benedict. Iof Danville ILL.,, to be
superintendent of schools in the Indian Ter
ritory at $500 per annum under the Curtis
law.
in session at the Arlington to-day for the
usual length of time. There was nothing
whatever in the proceedings to give rise to
the belief that any disagreement had been
rec ehed which would involve the dissou-
Contrary, according to one of the American
commission, the committee is making
steady progress The meeting to-day was
adjourned until tomorrow.