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steel in the world These manufacturers
mad realized less than s per cent. on their
investment in the making of armor. He
argued against a government plant, saying
IT would lie idle much OF the time and
would be immensely expensive.
Mr. EllSins opposed the construction of a
government armor plant He criticised the
naval committee for bringing into the Sem
ate not only an alternative proposition. but
a threat against the manufacturers. AS one
who did not understand the question, he
favored remitting to the Navy Department
experts, who, he was certain, would do the
right thing, but as he had no option In
the matter he would support the naval
committees proposition.
Mr.. Allison announced his intention Of
supporting the majority of the naval COM
mittee. He antagonized the proposition to
erect a government armor plant, saying he
cid not believe the government could manu-
facture armor at any such price as ii could
be purchased for from private concerns.
He was satisfied that S445 ton was a rea-
sonable price for krupp armor.
1t was agreed that debate on the armor
plate matter should cease at o'clock to-
morrow, and that all amendments to the
committees proposition should then be
voted on.
The Senate, at $40 p. M, adjourned.
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steady. raw cotton il a shade higher and
wool weaker owing to restricted demand
from manufacturers and in sympathy with
the lower prices set for many grades at the
London wool sales. Primary wool markets
are higher than in the East Print cloths.
though nominally held frm at Fall River.
continue TO be offered below the pool price.
Coffee is rather weaker. owing to lower
quotations in European markets and sugar
is also shaded owing to receipts exceeding
requirements. Relatively the best trade re-
ports still come from the Pacific coast mar
kets, but better weather conditions at the
South have tended to brighten trade reports
from that section.
Wheat, including flour, shipments for the
week aggregate S.iS0.57i bu, against 4,537.0 OF
last week: 3,2S4. IS2 in the corresponding
week of 1899 and 3,6i6,543 in 1895 Since July
l, exports Of wheat aggregate 169.5O6006 bu,
against 203. 05S. 7Si last year. and 004 in
1898. Corn exports for the week aggre-
gate 4,6SS, 140 bu, against 3,411,015 last week:
2,76S, 694 in this week year ago and 6.077.270
in 1898. Since July 1 corn exports aggre-
gate 17,75l PIC bu, against S07 during
the same period a year ago, and 163. Az. $50
in 1S97-9S.
Business failures in the United States
for the week number ia. as compared with,
15S last week. 169 a year ago. go in 1898, 251
In 1897 and 265 in 1896.
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If ex-District Attorney Burke should be
the Democratic candidate for Governor, and
IT was necessary to repudiate his record Of
July, 1894. when he enforced the laws, he
has made a precedent for himself. In 1896
before the nomination of Bryan, he went to
neighboring city, as the story goes, and
made sound money speech in which he
showed up the folly of 16 to in vigorous
language. After Mr.. Bryan's nomination
Mr.. Burke felt 1t to be his duty to go to the
same place and refute his former speech.
On his way to the station to fill the ap-
pointment friend asked him where he
was going. ITO Jeffersonville to tear in
pieces a goldbug speech which a fellow
named Burke made there last Mayi'
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The Colonel Getting Rid of Legal Pro-
ceedings Brought by Liquor Sellers.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, May 11.-Col. w. I. Dur
bins visit to Washington is not politics
He is here to close up a series of suits
brought against him by owners of ''shacks'
who were prevented by him from selling
whisky to his soldiers when they were in
camp at Jacksonville, Fla. In thus pro-
tecting his men the colonel laid himself
liable to local prosecution and those whose
business was interfered with have been an
rtoying him with legal proceedings ever
since. Colonel Durbin will relieve himself
Of further bother in the matter before he
quits Washington.
The colonel visited the Capitol, the War
Department and the Department of JUS
tice during the day and called on Senator
Fairbanks in the evening. He will remain
here another day, spend Sunday in Phila-
delphia with his son and be back In Indiana
on Monday evening. He is disinclined to
talk politics for publication now, believing
there will be plenty Of time for that later
on. He is very well satisfied with the situa-
ton in Indiana, however and expresses the
greatest confidence in Republican success
next November.
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Whatever one or more individuals may
have done in Cuba the government of the
United States is carrying out its pledges
in the utmost good faith. the clamor or
Democrats to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. From the beginning of the war with
Spain. which was primarily a war for the
liberation of Cuba and the establishment
of peace and order there, the United States
has conferred only blessings and benefits
on the island and its inhabitants. 1t was
as solemnly pledged TO establish peace and
order there as ii was TO liberate the island
from Spanish rule. and that is what il is
doing If we had withdrawn our troops
as soon as the Spanish forces evacuated
the Cubans would have begun to kill
the native Spaniards. the different factions
would have taken to fighting each other.
and the Democratic party would now be
charging the administration with having
broken it's pledges and shirked its duty
in not establishing peace, order and civil
government.
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1t seems that the candidacy of the Hon.
Kern to consider whether or not it is not
his duty to aspire to be Governor. Mr..
Burke is in sense the head of the anti
Taggart faction in this city, which, it is
fair to assume, explains the very belated
announcement of Mr.. Kern. If Mr.. Kern is
In the field, it is not probable that Mr..
Burke could get more than a dozen scat
tering delegates in Marion county. Being
solemnly consecrated to the track-elevation
ordinance, Mr.. Kern's candidacy would
give the public the painful impression that
he has abandoned that greatest unaccom-
plished achievement of the Taggart admin
istration
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-12

There was not very much difference be-
tween the Bryan Populist and the middle
of-the-road Populist conventions. Both
were characterized by that abundance of
talk which is sometimes called discussion
In regard TO platforms the Bryan Populsts
have outdone the middle-of-the-roads. 1t is
longer specifies more heresies and is even
more radical. 1t demands that the govern
ment shall not only own and operate the
railroads. but, in order to destroy trusts,
shall own and operate the manufacturing
plants Of the country. 1t denounces the
efforts to uphold our supremacy in the
Philippines as murder and arson. Upon
this platform Mr.. Bryan was nominated.
How much of it will he indorse? How much
of II can men who once applauded the De-
mocracy of Tilden. Cleveland. Hendricks
and Mcdonald indorse? And Mr.. Towne.
who was never a Democrat, and who would
be Republican now but for his devotion
TO 16 to 1. what do Democrats think of him
as a candidate? He may and probably will
decline the candidacy; nevertheless the in
dorsement of his candidacy by the Michi-
gan Democracy means that Mr.. Towne may
possibly be the running mate of Mr.. Bryan.
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The London Times of yesterday con-
tained an editorial reiterating the purpose
of Great Britain to prosecute the war in
South Africa until she can impose her
own terms Of peace. which will include
the annexation of the entire Transvaal
territory to the British empire, and add
ing: Secured in this way upon a firm
basis we shall with liberal hand give our
Dutch fellow-subjects new territories. and
constitutional rights such as no continent
tai power ever yet dared to bestow upon
a conquered population" Read between
the lines this is notice to the continental
press that its condemnation of England's
harsh policy" is regarded as impertinent
sad insincere
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-12
ODD FELLOWS COMMITTEE


The committee on grievances and appeals
Of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows began
session yesterday at the headquarters of
the Grand Lodge. The committee will be in
session until next Thursday. 1t is COM
posed of j. b. Kimball. of Kendallville, u.
u. Wiley. judge of the Appellate Court, J.
b. Cockrum, of this city. w. II. Talbot,
of Orleans. and Enoch Hogate, of Danville.
One of the members of the committee said
last night that no matters of especial in
terest or Importance are 20 be considered
at this session.
The Grand Lodge will begin its semi
annual session next Wednesday morning.
In the afternoon the members will attend
the dedicatory exercises at the Odd Fell
lows Home at Greensburg. Grand Sire
Pinkerton. of Massachusetts, will deliver
an address at the home, and there will also
be an address by Mrs. L. u. Wiley, presi-
dent of the Rebekah Assembly. The Re-
bekah organization will begin its session on
Monday morning, closing on Tuesday
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The turn in the tendency of prices has
begun to be recognized. For a year and a
half most prices advanced rapidly and in
come, and 1t might as well come now as
any other time. Thus far the most marked
declines have been in iron and steel, tin
and refined oils. Lumber has held it's own
and glass has continued to advance. The
New York Tribune places the decline in
iron and steel thus far at 10 per cent and
at 2.3 per cent in the whole list of products
The Pittsburg Dispatch and other conserv-
alive papers see nothing disturbing in the
conservative and gradual lowering of
prices.
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MANILA. May ia force of 500 insur-
gents attacked twenty-five scouts Of the
Forty-eighth Regiment near San Jacinto.
province of Pangasinan. on Monday, but
were routed by the scouts, ten of their
number being killed. The Americans lost
two killed
On April 2s the rebels burned and sacked
the town of Trocin, near Bulan, numbering
natives, who were friendly to the Amer.
leans. and two Spaniards. The Americans
killed thirty-seven of the insurgents on the
same date.
Major Andrews's two companies OF troops
attacked General Mojica's stronghold near
Ormuc, Leyte island. Mojica had brass
cannon and plenty of ammunition. but
after three hours OF lighting the insurgents
fed. Their loss is not known. The Amer
isans lost two killed and eleven wounded
They destroyed the enemy's rifles. powder
and stores.
The islanders OF Masbete received Col.
Hardin's expedition differently from those
of Marinduque, when he left one COM
many NJ the Twenty ninth Regiment. On
snnroaching the principal town Palanoc.
the insurgent trenches appeared TO be
accounted and the gunboat Helena bonn
harded them vigorously after which three
companies were landed and took the
trenches with little resistance. One Fill
insurgents hold the neighboring towns and
the natives appear unfriendly. AS previ-
ously cabled, but few armed insurgents
were found at Martinique.
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RELATIVE DULLNEss.
II Has Marked the Industrial and
Speculative Situations.

speculative Situations.
NEW YORK, May n.-Brasdstreet's to-
morrow will say: The trade situation this
week may be summed up in the phrase
inactive demand and weaker prices"
While in many respects the industrial situ-
alton is easier than Ii was, the unsettle-
ment in the building trades continues
marked. the reflex action being exhibited in
unsettled demand for building material and
weaker prices for lumber and for many prod
ucts used in the building industry. Iron
and steel brokers are still holding on. most
OF the business done being for small lots
for immediate consumption. Further de-
clines are noted in steel billets and for
some finished products, while sympathetic
weakness is reported in the other metals.
such as copper, lead and tin.
In speculative markets dizziness has been
the feature, wheat, after considerable
steadiness weakening on the favorable gov
eminent crop report, which Is taken TO in
dictate a yield of winter wheat of l00,000,000
bu Larger than year ago, notwithstand-
ing immense damage from winter killing in
the central Western States. apparently off,
set. however by high condition in States
west of the Mississippi. Corn has been
weaker than wheat. rejecting the less ac-
tive expert demand and sympathy with
the lowered price of provisions, the latter
due to the heavier receipts Of hogs and
lessened demand for pork end lard.
Finishing cotton and WOODEN pro0oCt9 ere
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-12
RECORD BROKEN BY THE HOUSE.
One Hundred and Eighty Private PEN
sion Bills Passed.

One Hundred and Eighty Private PEN
sion Bills Passed.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE House to-
day broke all records, passing $50 private
pension bills, and then adjourned over until
Monday. Among them was the Senate bill
to pension the widow of the late Gen. Guy
V. Henry at the rate of 100 per month.
This amount was reduced by the House to
$50
Mr.. fischer, of Wisconsin, called up a
bill to amend the law to provide for the
communication Of travel and subsistence al
lowance and of discharged officers and
soldiers. He explained that the bill pro-
posed to allow uniform rate of cents
per mile for officers and enlisted men. The
ILL was passed.
While this bill was being considered
Governor Roosevelt. of New York, who
had called upon the speaker in his private
loom prior to the meeting of The House.
came into the hall. He was warmly
greeted and held quite a levee in tne
Representative cloak room. Later he as
cended the speakers rostrum, and at
tracted much attention as he talked with
Speaker Henderson. The Governor also
visited The Senate
A bill was passed to allow the free i'm
portation of exhibits to the annual fairs
at San Antonio and Galveston, Tex
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countant and familiar with postal accounts.
and as the head Of the bureau could not
well be spared to go to Cuba the next best
man was his deputy The fact that Mr..
Lawshe is Indiana man should not de-
tract from the fitness of his appointment
only very slight acquaintance with
Nicely. Considering the Importance of
thorough investigation and the evident pur-
pose Of the administration to have Ii. 1t Is
not likely that an unsuitable person would
be detailed to make II. IL there has been
wrongdoing any attempt at embarrassing
would make matters much worse
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During the nine months Of the fiscal year
which ended with March the export of the
product of our manufactures reached the
OF our total export of merchandise. Dur
ing the corresponding period of last year
the manufactured goods exported were 26
per cent. of the whole, and in 1898 % per
cent During March. 1900 exported
manufactures were valued at $780, ss;
during March. 1899. they were ss6. los. 231: In
March. 1885, s2s.2l454o: in March. 1891. s25.-
STAGE. and in March. 1896, slsl2s.72s. That
Is. In four years the export Of manufac-
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form demands "a scientific and absolute
paper money based upon the entire wealth
and population of the Nation. not redeem
ab!e IN any specific commodity. but made
a full legal tender for ali debts. and receiv-
able for all taxes and public dues. and is
sued by the government only" and until
that can be secured IL demands the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio
Of Is to l. In other words they are willing
can get dollars worth nothing at all.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-12

James De Long, a farmer living near
New Augusta, died suddenly yesterday
morning of heart trouble. His wife called
him for breakfast and few moments
later, getting no response, went TO his bed
side and shook him. De Long opened his
eyes and gave evidence of suffering. Mrs.
De Long sent for a physician but her hus-
band was dead before he arrived. De Long
moved here from Boone county about 4
year ago. He leaves widow and three
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-12

The Russian Council has, with the ap-
prevail of the Gar passed unanimously a
o1I for the abolition OF transportation to
Siberia. BY the terms of the bill arbitrary
.xile without trial is abolished entirely. as
8 also transportation of criminals en-
nasse. Next TO human slavery no other
Institution or practice has caused as much
misery as the one referred to. and its abo-
ation Is distinct step in the worlds prog
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-12

NASHVILLE. Tenn. May 11s-Admiral
and Mrs. Dewey spent the morning at the
Hermitage, the old home OF President An
drew Jackson, twelve miles from the city.
as the guests of the Ladies' Hermitage As
ISOLATION. While at the Hermitage Admiral
and Mrs. Dewey were entertained at lunch
con by the Ladies' Hermitage Association.
The party returned to the city early In the
afternoon. Tonight there was public re-
ception to Admiral and Mrs. Dewey and
later . banquet was given.
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Killed and wounded I'm Recent Fight
ing I'm the Philippines.

WASHINGTON. May ia list OF casual
ties among the troops in the Philippines
has been received from General Macarthur.
II was awaited with anxiety because of the
newspaper reports of the bloody little siege
OF the Forty-third Infantry In the church
at Catubig on the island OF samar. In
which the Americans were said 10 have
lost twenty men killed. Owing probably TO
the lack Of cable information. this par
ticular ARRAY does not appear in the list
1t appears from General MacArthurs re-
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Z 1t Is said that Congress will be asked TO
reimburse to the Cubans the amount OF the
defaleation IN the postal revenues, pro-
vided. OF course, the fact is established and
that bill for the purpose will pass very
promptly. That will be new proof to the
world of the absolute good faith of this
government in its dealings with Cuba. and
viii be AT. object lesson in honesty such as
The Cubans never had from Spain.
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There Is some uniavorable comment on
the fact that the officer detailed to go TO
Cuba and investigate the Nicely affair is an
Indiana man. Abraham L. Lawshe, OF Con-
faycrabiy inclined toward a fellow In
dianian- The selection of Mr.. Lawshe
for this duty seems to be entirely proper in
the circumstance The important fact In
the case Is that he Is deputy sixth auditor
OF the treasury. which Office audits the ac-
counts OF the Postoflce Department. The
sixth auditor and his deputy are officials of
the Treasury Department. but they handle
the accounts OF the Postoffice Department.
Presumably Mr. sLawshs Is skilled ac-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-12

No political platform ever put forth
that contained so many political heresies
and as much nonsense as that of the Sioux
Falls Populists. and the fact that they
put Air. Bryan on the platform shows they
think he Is its embodiment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-12

In reply to the welcome Of his neigh
scrs at Jacksonville, ILL.,. Candidate
Yates said his campaign for the nominal
3on for Governor was made without bar
stronger for that
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The proposition of Mr.. Towne to change
the name silver Republicans to Lincoln Re-
publicans has been rejected by Senator
Teller and Representative Shafroth, of
Colorado. who declare that the present
name is satisfactory and that no one has
authority TO change IL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-12

Ignatius Donnelly, playing second lead in
the second company producing Calamity"
starred by Mr.. Bryan, will have ample op-
portunity next fall TO bring his literary
theories to bear and elucidate 1.-THE Ci-
pher in the Plays and on the Tombstone -
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tured merchandise from the United States
has considerably more than doubled. This
is something remarkable in the history of
trade, when It is considered that only a
few years ago it was predicted that be-
cause OF our tariff there could be no foreign
market for orr manufacturers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-12

Candidate Towne takes early occasion to
declare that the, convention which nomi-
mated him contained many of the ablest
men in the country, meaning Senator Allen,
5enator Butler, Senator Pettigrew. Jerry
Simpson, and so on.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-12

The attendance. upon both the Populist
national conventions was much smaller
han was expected. fact which has led
Populist in Washington to predict that
many Populists will vote for Debs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-12

General Miles is right in saying that the
Monroe doctrine stands in the way of in
PREVENTION by the United States in behalf
Of the Beers. Only two persons in this
country have thus far declared for inter-
xention.s The Bryan Populist convention
stopped with an expression of sympathy.
which is of no value whatever to the Beers.