The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-07
NO FINANCIAL BILL FRAMED
ATLANTIC CITY REPORTS DENIED BY
COLONEL HENDERSON.
A. z. Bradshaw to Supervise the Gen.
sus I'm Ninth Indiana District
Decision Against sampson.

House of Representatives, with very slight
changes or notifications, despite the COM
monty accepted theory that they will be
radically reconstructed. The Reed rules
were originally adopted to enable q narrow
majority to transact business. They were
found to work so well that the Democrats
kept them when they obtained a majority,
and then they were readopted by the Re-
publican House majority Of the last two con-
crosses They have therefore been In force
and operation for nearly ten years, and.
although abused as tyrannical and as put
ting dangerous power In the hands Of the
speaker and his committee on rules, they
have received the Endorsement Of Ave con-
crosses. This time. however. they were 60
ing to- be changed, and individual members
were once more to be given chance to as
sert and distinguish them. 1t appears.
however, from personal interviews and let
tiers to Colonel Henderson, next speaker
(barring accidents), that there is no general
demand among members for change in the
rules, but, on the contrary, a surprising
unanimity of sentiment against any such
course. These expressions of opinion on the
part of members have been voluntary, and
they are accepted not only as representing
the wishes of his associates. but as COM
pliment to the speaker-to-be, testimonial
of their confidence In his judgment and hon.
esty. Colonel Henderson has no views or
policy of his own to set up in opposition to
the will of the caucus. and the matter will
be settled there From present appearances
the House business of the Fifty-sixth Con-
gress will be done under the rules that gov
erned in the past five congresses. Colonel
Henderson will ut In the summer with his
family on the coast of Maine.
General Henderson had conference
with the President to-day. but at the con-
clusion of his call stated that no general
questions were discussed. az have simply
been looking after matters pertaining to my
own district" he said. When asked as to
the prospects of an extra session of Con-
gress, he said For myself i have never
gether in advance Of the regular time, for
1 have never thought that there was any
occasion for an extra session"
Regarding the prospects Of financial legis-
lation. General Henderson said that was be-
ing taken care Of at Narragansett Pier.
Moreover" he added there is no financial
bill. No bill has ever been formulated as
the result of our caucus committee work
at Atlantic City. Much that has been pub
lished was not correct. The whole subject
is. therefore. in embryotic shape, and there
is nothing to say in connection with it."
Director of the Census Merriam to-day
received the recommendation of Congress
man lands, of the Ninth Indiana district,
for census supervisor. His choice is Arthur
E. Bradshaw Of Delphi. This completes the
LIST of sulperyisors for Indiana.
Mr.. Mitchell, acting controller Of the
treasury, has replied to an inquiry from
Pay Inspector Burtis, on the United States
flagship New York, at Port Of Spain, Trini-
dad, as to the rate of pay to which Rear
Admiral W. T. Sampson il entitled from
Aug 10, 1898, when he was commissioned a
rear admiral, to March 4, 1899, the date
when Congress adjourned. The essential
facts in connection with Admiral Samp-
sons advancement are given by the Bureau
of Navigation, as follows: Rear Admiral
William L. Sampson was advanced eight
numbers and appointed a rear admiral in
the navy for conspicuous conduct In battle
under the provisions of Section 1906 of the
Revised Statutes. from the 10th day OF Au-
gust, 1898, and an ad interim commission
was issued him from that date. This ad-
vancement the Senate failed to confirm
Acting Controller Mitchell. In the course
of his decision says: 1.-The advancement In
numbers authorized by Section 1906 does not
create vacancy within the meaning of the
Constitution from the time when the Pres
ident decides to recommend such advance
ment, nor is any vacancy created prior to
the date when the Senate concurs in the
Presidents recommendation. 1t is not sim
ply the filling of an office; IL is an adjudica-
ton. not by the President alone. but by the
whether the acts of heroism constitute suf-
hcfent ground for advancement, and until
such combined action is had no advance
be filled. = The President and Senate
together constitute forum to pass on
questions Of advancement In numbers under
this section of the Revised Statutes. / am
Of opinion. therefore. and so decide, that,
as the Senate did not consent to the ad-
vancement of Rear Admiral Sampson, no
authority exists for paying him as rear ad-
miral from the date when he was commits
stoned as such for eminent and conspicuous
conduct in battle to the adjournment Of the
session Of the Senate at which such ad-
vancement was proposed"
The President has approved the sentence
Of the ourt-martial in the case Of John NJ
Neal. Fourth Infantry, and the officer has
been ordered to be dismissed from the mill
tary service. He was recently convicted by
ulatons In connection with the administra-
ton of the affairs of the mess fund of his
company and other financial matters. He
4
cisco at the time of his suspension from
duty. s"s
To-day's statement of the condition of the
treasury shows: Available cash balance,
s27s6os'51; gold reserve, sa42 lss.4ss
Senior Quesada, official representative of
the island Of Cuba in this city, to-day pre-
sented DR.. Francisco Roldan and Mr.. Thor
valid c. Culn3ell to the President. The two
latter gentlemen are the representatives of
the Cuban committee on reconstruction, and
they called TO urge the diversion of a por-
ton of the Cuban charity fund to the pur-
chase Of farming implements and live stock
for INDECENT farmers. instead of devoting
the entire fund TO the purchase of rations
for the poor. The Cuban revenues they
said were now coming in at a rate to war
rant the assumption that about s1.4o0. 900
could be devoted annually to this purpose
with profit. The President expressed in
terest in the project and promised to refer
the matter to General Brooke with favorable
recommendation.
Ambassador Choate and Lord Salisbury
are almost deadlocked over the raodus vi
vendi fixing the Alaskan boundary. Neither
side will accept the provisional line pro-
posed by the other, the Canadians demand
ing the inclusion of their Porcupine country
and the Americans the projection of the
boundary line northwes eerly from a point
two miles above Kluckwan.