The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-24
MAY GO TO PHILIPPINES
III. c. IDE, GEN. l.. Il. WRIGHT AND
PROFESSOR MOSES.
Three Probable Members of the New
COmmi ssion-Inyestiga of the
Idaho Mining Riots.

Henry c. Ide, of Vermont, and Gen. Luke
z. Wright, of Tennessee. as members OF
the Philippine commission, and unless
something now unforeseen occurs their Sc
lection probably will be announced shortly.
He has also summoned Prof. Bernard
Moses, of California, to Washington for a
has in contemplation the tender of place
on the commission TO him.
Mr.. Ide is a lawyer by profession, ma
tive of Vermont and ffty-six years of age.
He is a graduate of Dartmouth, and from
1852 to 1885 was a member of the State Sem
ate of Vermont. He was president of the
Republican state convention in 1884 and a
delegate to the Republican national con-
vention in 1888. He was United States COM
missioner to Samoa in 1891 and chief jus
tice of Samoa under joint appointment Of
England, Germany and the United States
General Wright is distinguished lawyer
of Memphis, veteran of the civil war and
q friend of Judge Taft, the head of the
commission, before whom he has practiced
and who was one of his sponsors for a
place on the commission.
Bernard Moses, of Berkeley, Cal, has
been professor of political economy in the
University Of California since 1876. He was
born in Burlington, Conn.,, in 1876. and was
graduated from the University of Michigan
in 1870. He is the author of several works
on political economy and kindred subjects.
The investigation of the action of the
military and civil authorities following the
Couer d'Alene mining riots were continued
to-day by the House committee on military
affairs. William Randolph Stinson testi-
fed at length as to life in the bull pen"
where the accused miners were incar-
ce.ated. His description was supplemented
by large number of photographs show
ing the prison Enclosure, consisting of a
number of rude shanties surrounded by q
wire fence. The witness was a school
commissioner and was removed for alleged
sympathy with the miners and subsequent
ly arrested. He said the bull PEN was
very filthy. The men ate off the ground
and the food twas bad There was prac-
tically no sanitary arrangements. The wit
ness said his mail was opened. On one
occasion when his wife was badly injured
and was in a delicate condition he was re-
fused permission to go to her. Mr.. Stin-
son also told of the guardhouse, a part Of
the bull pen," where he and others were
held most of the time. The rain beat
through it and the inmates were often
soaking wet. The straw had been tram
pied into the ground and the officers in
charge of the United States forces re-
fused to allow hay TO be brought in. Many
SOlulerS were put In the guard
house with the accused. An army officer,
he said, ordered corporal to take a cigar
from the witness, and when the latter
threw the cigar down the officer reduced
the corporal TO the ranks for not snatching
it. The officer ordered that the men be
treated with severity. The testimony of
Mr.. StinsOn was in progress when the COM
mittee adjourned until tomorrow.
BY direction of the secretary of war
Paragraph 15s of the Army Regulations has
been amended to read as follows: when
a soldier is killed In action or dies at any
post, hospital or station 1t shall be the
duty of his immediate commander to Sc
cure shis effects and prepare the inventory
required by the 126th article of war accord
ing to prescribed form. and to notify near
est relative of the fact of death. Dup1i-
Gates of the inventory, with final state
ments, will be forwarded direct to the ad-
jutant. general of the army" Heretofore
there has been no requirement as to noti-
fication of the relatives.
By direction of the President the new
military post at Mongolia Bluff. near Seat
tie, Wash, will hereafter be known and
designated as Fort Lawton In honor Of the
late Maj Gen. Henry w. Lawton
At the Cabinet meeting to-day some time
was consumed in a discussion of the per-
sonnet Of the Philippine commission The
Cabinet also discussed the situation in
Porto Rico with special reference to the is
sue of food supplies to the destitute. The
question of committing these supplies into
money In some cases was also discussed
The instructions to the Philippine commits
sion were gone over at some length. Sec
retaries Gage and Wilson were not pres
ent at to-day's meeting:
The secretary of war has confronting him
a difficult problem requiring a decision
whether or not the United States is in a
time of war. any United States soldier may
purchase his discharge from the army on
certain prescribed conditions. More than
two score applications of this kind are now
before the department. If it is held that
this is time of peace that decision might
carry with it the reduction of pay of all the
soldiers now in the Philippines by one-half.
a contingency that cannot be contemplat ted
without apprehension. There are equally
dangerous complications lurking in the
try Is in state of war. War Department
officials regret that a decision should be
required at this time.
The House committee on commerce to-
day acted favorably on the bill providing
for commission of five members to be ap-
pointed by the President to visit China,
Japan ana Otner oriental countries to In
vestigate their commercial resources and
the opportunities for the extension OF
American trade. The bill was changed so
as to conform to like bill in the Senate,
one of the changes being limitation Of the
salaries of the commissioners to 1000 an
nually. Mr.. Gallinger reported the bill in
the Senate. -
The House committee on library to-day
made favorable report on Representative
Rays bill for a statue in Washington to
Major General George B. Mcclellan.
Representative Richardson, of Tennessee,
introduced joint resolutions to-day against
the steel trust, and against trusts in barbed
wire, wire nails, ETC., in the form similar TO
those introduced by him against the sugar
and paper trusts.
The President has appointed Mrs. Daniel
Manning a commissioner to represent the
United States and the National Society of
the Daughters of the American Revolution
at the unwilling of the Lafayette statue in
Paris and at the Paris exposition
The Senate committee on commerce to-
day made public the amendments TO the
shipping bill which have been made by II.
Payments of subsidies are limited to ten
years in case of vessels completed prior
to Jan. 1. 1900 and to twenty years IL COM
pleted after that date. Another amend
ment provides that no vessel shall be en-
titled to full compensation under Clause A
unless she shall have cleared from a port
of the United States with cargo TO the
amount of so per cent. of her gross tom