The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-18
Photographs of Plans for the Indian
hibited Soon I'm This City.
COMPETITION Is CERTAIN
DESIGNS WILL BE SUBMITTED BY
OUTSIDE ARCHITECTS.
Samoan Treaty Recalled by Senate
from State Department-Canal
Bill Changes.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator P1att,
of New York. received telegram to-day
from Representative James s. Sherman,
of New York, that he would arrive here
tonight This is taken by Sherman's
friends to mean that he has decided to
cept the office Of secretary of the Senate,
if it is pronered to him. If this be correct.
his name will be formally presented to
the committee tomorrow This
committee will then decide on the report
it will make to the Republican Senate eau
Gus, which will meet on Friday. There
appears to be no doubt tonight In the
minds of those urging a reorganization of
the Senate offices of the success Of the
movement. The ticket that will be
ported, unless fresh complications arise,
is reasonably certain to be j. S. Sherman
for secretary, vice Cox of North Carolina,
and d. NJ Ransdell. vice Bright, for SER
geant-at-arms. 1t is believed the caucus
will ratify this ticket and thus assure its
election. Mr.. Sherman is now serving his
sixth term in Congress. He entered with
the Fiftieth and has served in each Con-
gress since, excepting the Fifty-second
He was an unsuccessful candidate for
speaker after Mr.. Reed resigned from Con-
gress He is now chairman of the House
committee on Indiana affairs. He is a
man of ability and his retirement will be
a positive loss to the House. His reason
for giving up his place in the House is
that he is poor man. with three children
to educate, and that the secretaryship of
| the Senate which, with salary and emol-
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paign assessments, will enable him to do
this. while his present Office. which brings in
a little more than 5000 year, out of which
campaign expenses must be paid, will not.
Mr.. Sherman represents the Utica district,
| the same that first sent Roscoe Conkling
| to Congress He is the only man since
Conkling to be elected more than two
successive terms. -
Supervising Architect Taylor is going
about with lively flea in his ear 1t was
| lodged there by Secretary Gage. 1t seems
| Mr.. Taylor and his assistants had set
| their architectural hearts on designing the
plans for the indianapolis building. Sera-
| tor Fairbanks and Representative Over
street thought competition among leading
architects would give better results. Sec
retary Gage agreed win them. Neverthe-
| less, Mr.. Taylor went ahead, made his
plans. had them photographed and pre-
pared to send them to Indianapolis.
| This would forestall competition. Just
here Secretary Gage stepped in and
| said there would be competition all
the same. This decision. announced yester-
| day, so vexed the supervising architect,
that he first determined not to send the
photographs Of his plans to Indianapolis.
| Secretary Gage vetoed this and directed the
| photographs sent. They will go on Friday.
| OF course their going will be mere mat
! ter of form. as competition is assured
The supervising architect and his as
| sistants insist that a delay Of at least
| eighteen months, which would be saved
| by accepting their plans. They say the
| question of site must be settled before the
| list Of competing architects can be made
up. This delay they reckon at two months.
| They put down six months more for the
preparation of plans by those architects.
| eighteen months would be saved
Other inevitable delays, they say, will ex-
| tend the time ten months before a contract
| can be let for any part of the work. New
| ertheless and Notwithstanding there will be
/ open competition. $50
| In to-day's executive session of the Sen
ate Senator Jones. of Arkansas. moved to
| reconsider the vote by which the Samoan
| treaty was ratified yesterday. He based his
motion on a statement which, he said, he
had seen In the press to the effect that the
American flag had already been run up on
| the Island Of Tutuila. If this report was
| true, he thought the Senate should know
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| deal with 1t in connection with the treaty.
Senator Frye replied that the report to
which Senator Jones referred was without
| foundation. No action taken on the
motion, but it was decided to recall the
| treaty, which had been forwarded to the
President with notice Of the Senate's favor
| able action on il. -
| The amendments made yesterday by the
| Senate committee on interoceanic canals to
the House Nicaraguan canal bill have been
| printed and circulated in the Senate. The
| amendments prove to be more radical than
| at first announced by the members OF the
| committee. The language of the measure
| Is practically changed throughout and sew
eral OF the House provisions are entirely
omitted. The most important omissions are
| the provisions made in the House bill for
the abrogation of the Clayton-Buwer
| treaty and for the purchase of existing
concessions from Nicaragua and Costa
| Rica, the latter provision in the House
measure carrying an appropriation of s5.-
100000. The Senate bin also removes many
| of the limitations of the House bill as to
| persons to be employed in the proposed
| work. The provisions for a commission to
| act with the secretary OF war is eliminated.
The Senate committee also makes specific
provision that the canal shall be OF suffi-