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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-07
ALASKAN PEAKS NAMED.


TACOMA, Wash, April s.-Surveyor Gen.
eral Diston, of Alaska, has named the most
important mountain peaks lying back of
Skagway and along the range which marks
the international boundary in honor of dis
tinguished men. The prominent peak on
the west side Of Lynn canal has been
named Carter mountain, in honor of Sem
ator Carter. The next mountain north will
be known as Mount Fairbanks, in honor of
the chairman of the American half of the
high joint commission. On the other side
of Skagway there is towering peak which
has been named Mount Dewey. To the
south of IL is a peak named Thomas Whit
ten. in honor of Skagway citizen recently
deceased. Written first suggested 10 Gen.
eral Diston the naming OF Alaskan peaks
for public men. North of Dewey peak is
a large. snow-clad mountain named after
Senator Shoup. The peak across the next
divide and the next highest after Mount
Dewey has been called after Senator F'os-
ter. Another high peak will bear the name
OF Alaska's first regularly elected repre-
sentative in Congress.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-07
NOT TO BE TREATY BREAKERS.

The Democratic convention in Pennsyl-
vania condemned the administration for
subserviency to the behest of England and
denounced the Hay-Pauncefote treaty ''as
complete abandonment of claim of
right to construct an interoceanic canal"
What American statesman has ever made
a claim of our right to construct an in
treaty is in full force? Mr.. Bryan, in his
speeches, has made such a claim; Senator
Mason has done so, and so have a few
others about the country, but they are, in
no sense, statesmen. Our government has
time and again recognized the validity of
mainly negotiated that an interoceanic
canal. when constructed. should be neu-
tralized. This government held Great
Britain to the plain construction of that
treaty for years. When Mr. Blaine, in 1881.
asked Great Britain to consider the Clay
it's validity. Secretary Fish, one of the
most enlightened statesmen who ever held
the office of secretary of state, said, In
1877. that the success of the canal could
not be compassed without guarantee of
the neutrality of the work by the chief
maritime powers" President Cleveland, In
his message. in 1855. said that the United
States by her positive declarations and
through the formal obligations of treaties
had consecrated the canal to the common
use of mankind" few days ago he ex-
pressed his approval of the HayPaunce-
fote treaty. which simply gives to the
United States the right to construct the
canal and declares that Ii shall be open to
the ships of all nations in time of war as
we'll as i'm time of peace. the stipulation
regarding the passage of warships. the
taking of supplies and the prohibition of
blockade being the same regulations as
have been adopted for the Suez canal
What is true of ex-President Cleveland in
regard to the Clayton-Bulwer treaty is
true of every prominent man of every
party who has held a prominent position
in the country since its notifications; that
is. IL is in force and cannot be ignored by
nations that regard the sanctity of treat
les. Even in the Senate. where the Hay
Pauncefote treaty is now being considered.
only a few senator's are maintaining that
the Clayton-Bulwer treaty is not in force.
Consequently the assertion of the Pennsyi-
vania Democracy that any real statesman
i'm this country has claimed that the United
States has a right to build canal across
the isthums is reckless falsehood.
Equally at war with the facts is the
statement that the administration is in any
manner subservient to the British govern
ment. When the United States has had
contentious over territory or other mat
tiers there has been no yielding. Even in
Pretoria the Kruger government asked our
consul to ask the United States to pro-
pose arbitration. which the President
promptly did.--a proposition which. 1t is
probable. no European power would have
| presented to Great Britain. When Ameri-
can cargoes Of wheat were seized on Brit
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that the senator may appoint in open Sen
ate another senator TO preside for one day.
The resolution adopted.
Mr.. Allison, of the committee on appro-
priations. reported the District of Columbia
appropriation bill and gave notice that he
would call 1t up at the earliest possible
time.
a bill was passed permitting the build
ing of a dam between Coon Rapids and the
north limits of the city of Minneapolis.
Mimi, across the Mississippi river.
The Senate agreed TO conference on
tobacco. authorizing the adjustment of
rights of settlers on Navajo Indian reser-
walton, Territory of Arizona, and Sena-
tors Shoup, Stewart and McLaurin were
named as conferees the part of the
Senate.
MIR. Thurston called up the Indian appro-
priation bill. but yielded to Mr.. Sullivan.
who addressed the Senate i'm support of
NJ. S. Quay's claim to seat in the Senate
as a senator from Pennsylvania. He MAIN
tanned that both a matter of policy and
as matter of justice to the State the
Governor should be conceded and should
exercise the authority to name the sena-
tor IN event that the Legislature for any
reason should fail to elect. For these rea-
sons he declared his intention OF voting
for the seating of Mr.. Quay.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Sullivan's speech
consideration of the Indian appropriation
bill was begun. The measure, as reported
to the Senate, carries S. 3,64l.
AT O'Clock the unfinished business, the
Spooner Philippine bill, was laid before
the Senate. Mr.. Lodge said that although
many speeches already had been made on
the Philippine question, he knew or several
senators who desired yet TO speak on the
bill AS it was desirable, he thought, to
dispose of the measure at an early date,
he gave notice that on "Wednesday next ne
would ask the senate either then 10 vote
upon the measure or fix a time for a final
vote upon it.
Consideration of the Indian bill was re-
sumed. Without disposing of it, the Sem
ate, after a short executive session, at Ola
D. m. adjourned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-07
EXPANDING WIRE SERVICE.
Gen. GreeIy's Statement OF the Work
of the signal Corps.

WASHINGTON, April 6.-General Greedy.
chief signal officer of the army. said to-day
that the work OF establishing thorough
and complete system Of communication I'm
the Island of Luzon by the officers and
men of his branch of the service is pro-
crossing rapidly. The island Is
spread with network of telephone and
telegraph lines extending on the east from
Manila northward to Aparri. at the mouth
OF the Cagayan river, and on the west from
Bangui. at the northwest extremity of Luz
zon, down the coast line and back to Ma
Mia Cables have been laid I'm the waters
of Manila bay from Manila to Cavite and
In Laguna de Bay from Taguig 10 Binan
and from Taguig TO Calamba and Les
Banos, thence to Santa Cruz. on the eastern
shore Of the bay,
AS there Is practically no mall system In
the islands, Ii can readily be seen what
enormous amount of communication must
be carried on by the telegraph. telephone
and cable. General Greedy said that over a
million words by these methods are trans
mitted in the Philippines daily. The de-
mand for operators still greatly exceeds
the supply. and every man in the signal
service who shows electrical knowledge TO
any degree is at once dispatched 10 Manila.
Thus experiments I'm war bailooning. wire
less telegraphy and other features Of the
service for the time are neglected for lack
of suitable men TO conduct them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-07

The action of the Republicans of the
House in caucus on the Porto Rican tariff
bill leaves no doubt of the passage of the
as that by which the House bill was passed
The determination has been recorded. and
ii only remains to bring in absent MEM
bers and take the vote. This action adds
another to the inconsistent attitudes and
changes of front made by the House on
this question, for the Senate bill is rad
ically different from the bill passed by the
House. At first the House was for the
policy of plain duty as embodied In the
bill introduced by the chairman of the COM
mittee on ways and means, providing for
free trade between the United States and
Porto Rico both ways; then there was
change of front in favor of tariff. first
of % per cent. of the Dingley rates and
then of 10 per cent. of those rates. In
recommending this change Chairman
Payne. of the ways and means committee,
said he still adhered to the opinion that
% per cent would be better than 10 per
cent, but Is per cent was better than
nothing" A very large number of Repub-
licans outside of Congress think it worse
than nothing. The Senate bill is neither
fish, flesh nor fowl-neither free trade, nor
a revenue tariff, nor consistent legislation
of any kind. 1t is a patchwork OF incon-
sistencies and a hodgepodge of make
shifts. differing in many and material re-
spects from the House bill. Falling back
by inches and conceding one point after
another, first the House and then the Sem
ate have conceded everything except a
paltry tariff duty of Is per cent on Porto
Rican importations into the United States
for limited time, and even this may be
done away with by a Porto Rican govern
ment within a few months BY the passage
of the Senate bill Congress will have shown
willingness to concede everything except
the principle demanded by the people as a
plain duty under the Constitution and a
plain act of justice to the Porto Ricans.
and by Republicans as plain act of polit-
ical policy. Every step that has been taken
to secure the passage of the bill I'm either
branch of Congress has been a political
blunder, and the arguments in favor of 1t
have been clearly disingenuous or con-
spicuously weak. Republican senators and
members who have supported the bill and
who vote for it on it's final passage will
find that they have placed themselves in a
position even harder to explain before the
people than I'm the halls of Congress, and
that they have added i'm small degree
to the task of returning Republican ma
jority in the next House.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-07

1t is somewhat remarkable that the law
yers in Kentucky working up the con-
spiracy to hang Republicans. published the
whole of their case yesterday morning
in the Lousville-Courier Journal. 1t looks
like bid for public support and an effort
to so commit those who have made alleged
confessions to their stories that they cam
not retract when they are no longer
threatened with punishment. 1t seems
strange that men who have so recently
declared that they have no confession to
make are reported to have knowledge of
conspiracy against the life of Goebel
Very likely the recently found confession
was provided by the prosecution and adopt
ed either under threats of punishment or
by contribution from the bribery fund.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-07
ITALIAN WoMAN's CLAIM.
She Seeks to Recover a Large Sum
from Guatemala.

SPRINGFIELD. Mass. April 6. - The
Springfield Union will say tomorrow: ITO
satisfy claim of sl,25O,OoO which Signorina
Maria Cedroni. an Italian woman of high
birth, has against the government of Qua
temala, two of the leading lawyers of Italy
are on their way to this country to levy
attachments on arms being manufactured
for Guatemala at several places. including
Hartford and New Haven.
"Signorina Cedroni left her home In Rome
under a hve-year contract with the Qua
temalan government to promote me arts
i'm that republic. She was TO have re-
ceived 1000, 600 lire. or 100000, but the gov
eminent broke its contract. Through the
influence of the Italian government the
matter was referred TO Spanish board
of arbitration. which decided in the sig
norina's favor. The award has never been
paid. and the lawyers VIII seek 10 get the
money by attaching arms being manu-
featured for Guatemala
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-07

The successive steps toward the estab-
lishment of civil government in Cuba are
being taken in regular and orderly fash
Ion that augurs well for the future. A dis
patch from Havana says that the secretary
of state under the present government.
Diego Tamayo. has issued an order to the
mayors of all towns warning them that at
o'clock in the afternoon of April IL the
time for Spaniards to register expires. If,
however. all the Spaniards who come to
register April IL cannot do so, on account
of the excessive numbers wishing to regis
ter, tickets can be issued to all of those
who go to the inscription Office before 8
o'clock, and the right of these to inscribe
subsequently, will be admitted. This no.
tice. issued by Cuban official ir, me in
terest of Spaniards, is a marked improve
ment over the times when the only use
Cubans and Spaniards had for one another
was mutual throat-cutting. The announce
ment is further interesting because it
shows disposition to comply strictly with
the treaty between the United States and
Spain in the matter of citizenship and suf-
frage. The treaty provides that native
Spaniards residing in Cuba may remain
in such territory or may remove there
from, retaining in either event all their
rights of property and the right to carry on
their industry, commerce and professions.
In case they remain in the territory they
of Spain by making, before a court of rec
ORD. within one year from the date of the
exchange of notifications of this treaty a
declaration of their decision to preserve
ration they shall be held to have renowned
1T and to have adopted the nationality of
the territory in which they may reside
AS formal ratifcations Of the treaty were
iards residing in Cuba have until the nth
inst. in which to register their choice of
citizenship. provided they wish to retain
their allegiance to Spain. Without such
citizenship and become citizens of Cuba.
The order issued by the Cuban secretary
of state is therefore fair notice to all ma
tive Spaniards in the island that unless
they file their declarations by the date
fixed by the treaty they will become Gu
bans. The order is noteworthy on account
of its fairness. and therefore its contrast
with former Cuban methods. 1t affords
ground for hope that the period of machete
rule in Cuba is passed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-07

WASHINGTON. April Ex-senator Deboe,
of Kentucky, to-day gave notice that he
would move to refer the credentials of
former Senator ]. c. s. Blackburn. as a
senator from that State. to the committee
on privileges and elections. When the read
ing clerk had read that part of the minutes
of yesterday which related TO the presenta-
ton of the credentials of Mr.. Blackburn
Mr.. Deboe said: 81 was not aware that
those credentials were presented. | want
to know now If they are "a subject of ref
erence. If so. / desire TO have them re-
ferred to the committee on privileges and
elections"
81 suppose" suggested Mr.. Jones, of
Arkansas. that the senator Deboe) will
have no objection to the motion going
over" Mr.. Deboe withdrew the motion
for the present.
Mr.. Spooner. of the committee on rules.
reported a resolution providing that the
rules of the Senate be SO changed as to
provide. In the event of the death OF the
Vice President. that the president pro tenn
pore may designate in writing some sena-
tor to preside over the Senate In the alb
sepce Of the president pro tempore. aud
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-07
JUDGE BROWN EXPLAINS.
Tells why He Decided I'm Favor o
Carriers Alleged AccOmplices.

NEW YORK. April 6.-United States Dis
tr.ct Judge Brown to-day reviewed I'm an
interview, the grounds for his decision In
refusing bench warrant for the re-
moval TO Georgia of b. ID. Greene. J. r.,
Il. III. and w. #. Gaynor. indicted in
Savannah. In connection with the frauds
carried out by former Captain Carter
Judge Brown said: THE reported surprise
and anger on account Of my decision have
ir my mind. nothing more back of them
than passionate feeling down South thai
they would like to take these men by the
neck and hustle them on to trial down
there. There b feeling that they an
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-07

Among the changes to be made in the
next edition of maps and aliases will be
the newly christened mountains in the
Alaskan range back of Skagway, which
mark the international boundary line. The
Hottest peaks are to be named in the or
der of their occurrence Mount Dewey,
Mount Carter. Mount Fairbanks, Mount
Foster, Mount Written and Mount Shoup.
These names of distinguished Americans.
some of them, however, of only local or
territorial fame, are representative enough,
but equally distinctive and more poetical
ones might have been selected from the
native or Indian languages. Mount Ia
coma, for instance, is a much happier des-
ignation than Mount Jones would have
been, much as Mr.. Jones would have en-
joyed the honor of having mountain
named after him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-07
LIEUT.. BATSON'S SCOUTS
FIVE COMPANIES OF MACABEBES
WHICH DID GOOD SERVICE.
No Orders Issued for the Relief Of
Gen. Otfs-GreeIy's Statement ON
Philippine Wire Service.

WASHINGTON, April 6.-The War
Department to-day made public the report
of Lieut.. Matthew A Batson. of the Fourth
Cavalry. in regard to the organization and
operation of the Macabebe scouts. who
formed a part Of the armies of General
Lawton and General Young in the exciting
campaigns in pursuit of Aguinaldo in
northern Luzon. For his remarkable sue
cess with this military band of natives
Lieutenant Batson has been appointed
major of volunteers and placed i'm COM
mand of a cavalry battalion of Filipinos,
to be Immediately organized, with the
Macabebe scouts as a nucleus Major Bat
sons report is long. and covers all the de-
tails of active operations of the Macahebcs
from the time of their organization, Sept.
!. to Nov. 10. when he was Obliged TO re-
hnquish command by reason of a serious
wound of the left foot. received in an en-
gagement at Aringay river There were
five companies OF these native scouts, num-
bering about 600 in all, and they were uni
formed, armed, equipped and treated in
every other respect like United States
troops. Many of them had seen previous
service as noncommissioned officers in the
Spanish army under General Blanco.. These
men were assigned TO similar duties i'm Bat
sons command They were intelligent.
brave and hardy, and proved excellent SOL
diers. In order to avoid the possibility OF
mistaking their fire for that Of the nsur-
gents they were armed with United States
magazine carbines, and to facilitate their
movements over the numerous small
streams through the island they were sup
piled with several bancas. small native Ca
noes. Inasmuch as they were unfamiliar
with the English language the American
officers were compelled to communicate
with them through interpreter named
Fernandez, who proved Of great assistance.
Lieutenants Boutelle, Quinlan, Hall and
Faulkner and Acting Assistant Surgeon
Simpson were attached TO the command.
and rendered efficient service. Lieutenant
Boutelle was killed while bravely leading a
charge in a skirmish near Santiago The
enemy were in trenches at the time. and
although his own men were in ditch.
Lieutenant Boutelle stood I'm the road is
suing orders in plain view of the insur-
gents. Many individual acts of bravery on
the part OF the Macabebes are narrated by
Major Batson, and he also tells OF his re-
naming In command of his battalion after
being wounded himself, until the enemy
had been driven from the field. Lieuten-
ant Quinlan had a narrow escape from
death at Aringay. A Mauser bullet struck
a plug Of tobacco i'm his shirt back and
knocked him down, but did not enter his
body. In closing his report Major Batson
pays a high tribute TO all the officers and
men of his command and says: 81 think
that this expedition has fully demonstrated
the loyalty, bravery and endurance of the
Macabebes as soldiers. and | recommend
that a regiment of cavalry be organized
from the Macabebe tribe.
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The Burlington Hawkeye prints a let
ter from Captain Long. Of the Thirty-ninth
Infantry. i'm which he says that when that
regiment captured Binang a newspaper
stoned appeal TO the insurgents to stand by
their leader, as "Dr. Bryan and the Demo-
cratic party would be in control of the gov
eminent OF the United States and would
withdraw the American troops from the
Philippines" In several places "Dr.
Bryan" was alluded to as good friend of
the Ftiipinos.
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United States consular agent at Truxillo.
Peru. of insults offered the American flag
and outrages perpetrated him by Pc
ruvian revolutionists in 1898 should have
immediate attention and investigation by
the State Department. The dispatch does
not make it quite clear when his was
laid before the department, and perhaps it
is already under investigation. If the facts
are as stated a peremptory demand for
and Ii should be borne by warshp.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-07
WILL EXCHANGE PROPERTIES.


Special to the Indianap polls Journal.
WABASH. Ind. April 6.-The Catholic
and Methodist churches of this city prob
ably will make an exchange of church
property. Negotiations have been on for
some time whereby the old First NJ. 4.
Church building might be obtained by the
Catholics. whose edifice is in the extreme
western part of the city. committee of
priests, consisting of Fathers Weabeau of
New Haven. Delaney of Fort Wayne,
Meissner of Peru and Quinlan of Hunting
ton. have inspected the Methodist church.
and the proposition is now to put the build
ing, site and parsonage i'm at $4,000, the
Methodists to take in part payment the
Catholic church. clergymans residence
and a good building lot at $4,000 and receive
S. 500 i'm cash. The offer will be submitted
to a vote of the Catholic congregation Sun
day morning. and If approved the Metho-
dist church will be entirely rebuilt
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-07
ROMAN CHURCH ASSAILED.
Charged with Attempting to Crush
Nethoafsm I'm Rome.

NEW YORK. April s.-Rev. DR.. William
Burt. OF Rome. Italy. addressing the Wom-
ems Foreign Mission Society of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, made a bitter at
tack on the Roman Catholic Church. and
more particularly of its attitude toward
Methodist missions In Rome. DIR. Burt.
who is superintendent OF the Italian mis-
sion of the church, went on 10 say that
word had been sent from the Vatican that
Methodism in Rome must be crushed and
that a society had been organized there for
the purpose OF destroying one OF the Meth
odist schools. This society. he said. has
the Pope's blessing. II takes the names OF
our girls and has them read on I'm the
churches and then the girls are excom-
inundated. There Is no more important
work I'm the missionary field than In Italy
The destiny Of the Christian Church - sti.l
linked with the conversion OF Rome"
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No order. relieving Gen. Otis.

WASHINGTON, April 6.-The statement
is made in authoritative quarters that no
order has been given as yet TO Major Gen.
eral Otis to relinquish his command i'm the
Philippines and return to the United States.
These steps are left, in a measure at least,
to the generals discretion. and he is to de-
termine just when he feels IT pepper for
him to leave his post of duty I'm the islands
on the leave of absence the War Depart
ment has promised him. General Otis has
been absent from his family for long
time, and the opinion is expressed that he
is entitled to respite from the long and
arduous labors with which he has been en-
crossed since his departure from the
United States. He will turn over the COM
mand to the next general officer on duty
in the Philippines. General Macarthur.