Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-10
WADE COURT OF INQUIRY.
Its Report Will Soon Be Made Pub
lic---McKinley Considers It
Strong Document.
A REPORT ON SEWAGE IRRIGATION.
A Porto Rican Appeals to President Nc
Kinley to Select Native Judges and Al
low the Island Self-Government-
Department Orders-Solicitor Generals
Dispatch from Gen. Merriam.

Opinion-Dispatch from Gen. Merriam.
Washington, May THE report of
the Wade court of inquiry will be made
public on Monday. The president will
approve it before he leaves Washington
for the Hot Springs in Virginia. AL
though he has been urged strongly to
supplement his approval with cita-
ton of his reasons, he will go no fur
ther than to formally indorse the re-
port. The president is greatly i'm
pressed with the report and has said
that it is one of the strongest docu-
ments of the kind which he has ever
read. He has been urged strong
ly to accompany the report with
brief message, and it has been pointed
out to him that what he might say
would be universally read, while the
findings of the court would probably
not be considered by the public with
so much care. An examination of prece-
dents, however. disclosed the fact that
it was quite unusual for president to
make extended comment on the find
ings of military court. 1t is practi-
cally settled that the president will
take no action against Gen. Miles as a
result of the findings of the court. He
assumes that Gen. Miles will accept
the report and that he will desist from
further agitation, devoting himself
conscien tiously to his strictly military
duties.
A Report on Sewage Irrigation.
Washington, May THE United
States geological survey has just pub
lished report on sewage irrigation
which contains much interesting data
| on stream pollution and sewage dispo-
sition. This publication reports total
of 143 sewage publication plants in
operation in the United States and
Canada, about 12O of them having been
| either built or projected in the last IL
years. 1t says it is probable that as
soon as the advantages of irrigation
and filtration are more fully known, a
number of chemical publication plants
will be changed to either irrigation or
| filtration or, even without complete
| change of plants, the eff1uents treated
| by either one or the other process. All
| town authorities are advised that, with
other conditions equal, the cost of the
land publication process ordinarily is
| less than that of the chemical
A Porto Rican's Appeal.
Washington, May 7.-President Nc
Kinley has received letter from Har-
mino Diaz Navarro, secretary of Justice
of Porto Rico, in which he appeals to
| the president in the name of the whole
| judiciary of his native land to select
| judges from among the people of the
| island and to allow to the new state
| the same liberties of self-government
that are sacred to other states of the
| great American union. At the same
| time he attacks Judge Curtis and Gen.
| Kennedy, of the insular command. and
| quotes from Gen. Henry in stating that
| the people of Porto Rico are fully able
to administer justice in their own land
War Department Orders.
Washington, May An order of the
war department gives to the commando
| ing officers in Cuba, Porto Rico and the
| Philippines, absolute authority in the
matter of transfer from the line and
| enlistment and re-enlistment of the
hospital corps. Acting Secretary
| Meilklejohn has issued an order form
| ally disbanding the Second and Seventh
army corps. Volunteer officers of the
army, who are responsible for public
property, shall be paid only mileage
and travel allowances hereafter until
they have accounted for all public
| property for which they are RESPONSE
| BILE.
Solicitor Generals Opinion.
| Washington, May 7.-Solicitor Gen
eral Richards has rendered an opinion
in which he sustains the views of the
navy department as to the proper con-
struction of section 2, of the act of
March 8, 1899, known as the navy per-
sonnel bill, to the effect that engineer
officers, who, prior to the passage of
the act attained the relative rank of
commander, became entitled to take
| that actual rank in the line of the
navy.
Dispatch from Gen. Merriam In Idaho.
Washington, May THE war de-
| partment has received the following
dispatch from Gen. Merriam at Ward
| ner, Ida:
Three hundred and fifty arrests have been
made so far; prisoners guarded by troops State
| officers investigating. Understand the governor
Of Montana will surrender fugitives escaping
over mountain trails I will furnish force to
| Idaho sheriff to secure them.