The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-24

tniru ana Inlrty-10urtn michigan NOiun-
teers, the Seventh and Twenty-fourth Reg
ular Infantry. Twenty-second and Tenth
Regular Cavalry.
The President to-day sent the following
nominations to the Senate:
Navy-Lieutenant commanders to be COM
manders, William w. Kimball. William u.
Day, j. G. Wilson; lieutenant TO be COM
mander general, Robert II. Irid; Past Sur
geon Hatton and n. I. Harris to be sur
geons. Marine corps: Col. Henry c. Coch-
rane to be a colonel, Maj. Allen g. Kelto1
to be a lieutenant colonel. Capt. Lincoln
Karmany to be a major. To be second lieu
tenants in the marine corps: s. A. w Pat
terson, of Pennsylvania. and Herbert =.
Hirshinger, of North Carolina
War-Second lieutenants to be first lieu
tenants, Charles b. Drake, Fifth Cavalry
Charles McSaltzman. First Cavalry.
George I. Finlay. Manuel Fernandez Jun
clos and Henry Luco. the delegates to this
country from the Chamber of Commerce of
Puerto Rico. called on President Mckinley
to-day. accompanied by DR.. ]. j. Heuna,
a prominent Puerto Rican, who lives in
New York. The three delegates represent
ing the agricultural interests of the island
Lucas Amanda, Enrique Gonzales and NJ.
Solomon-called on the President a few
days ago. Both delegations are working to
the same end, relief for the commercial
and agricultural interests of the island. The
Chamber of Commerce delegation repeated
to the President the same facts submitted
to the committee on Puerto Rico yesterday.
1t is stated at the treasury that for the past
ten years the Bureau of Currency has been
greatly hampered by insufficient vault room
for the storage of national bank currency.
With the past inadequate facilities for stor-
age a sufficient amount of incomplete cur
since
1T requires from twenty-five TO thirty days
to complete an order received from bank
TO print its notes the public and the banks
were put to great inconvenience from this
fact. Within the last few days the Cur
rency Bureau has been allotted by Secre-
tary Gage the use of an additional vault in
the treasury building, and an additional
stock of currency will be provided. which
will enable Ii to meet the demands upon Ii
more promptly.
officers recently promoted have been as
signed to regiments as follows: Col. Charles
w. Miner, to the Sixth Infantry; Col.
James M. ]. Sanno. to the Eighteenth In
fantry; Lieut.. Col. Charles l.. Davis. to the
Sixth Infantry, and Lieut.. Col Frank d.
Baldwin, to the Fourth Infantry.
Representative Knox, of Massachusetts,.
to-day introduced a bill for the taking up
and recoinage of the Hawaiian silver coins;
Mr.. Brossard, of Louisiana. for surveys or
an inland water route along the margin of
the Gulf of Mexico, connecting the Missis-
sippi and Rio Grande rivers, and other
waterways; Mr.. Boutell of Illinois, to re-
move the tax on proprietary medicines;
Mr. Cochran of Missouri, for consti
tutional amendment authorizing an income
tax. Resolutions were introduced by Mr..
Levy, of New York, asking the secretary
of war for itemized account of all re-
ceiptS and expenditures in Cuba.
The Senate, in executive session, again
to-day discussed the Samoan treaty upon
the basis of the motion of Senator Jones,
of Arkansas, to reconsider the vote by
which the treaty was ratified. Speeches
were made in support of the motion to
reconsider by Senators Jones, Pettigrew,
Allen and Money, and in opposition by
Senators Davis and Foraker. At the con-
clusion of the debate vote was ordered.
but roll call disclosed the absence OF q
quorum The call, so far as IL went, showed
IL for and % against Senator Jones stated
that when the ratification of the treaty
took place 1t was the understanding that
there was to be no attempt on the part
of the government of the United States to
establish a civil government in the Island
of Tutuila. The very next day after the
vote of ratification the newspapers mad
published a very positive statement In ex-
act opposition to this understanding. APP
parently this statement was authorized. Ii
was to inquire into this and other mat
tiers that he had asked for reconsideration.
Watterson Stealey one of the bright
young men on Newspaper Row, and a son
of O. o. Stealey, of the Louisville Courier
Journal, has been appointed by Commits
sioner Peck to an important position in
the press bureau of the Paris exposition
mittee on naval affairs. to-day reported
favorably the bill authorizing the secretary
of the navy to permit the repair Of the
old United States frigate Constitution and
to recommission ii. The bill gives the sec
rotary of the navy discretion to allow its
use as a naval museum and floating
monument to the glory of American sail
ors," to be stationed at the Washington
navy yard or elsewhere.
Mrs Robert Piling, Paul Schlossman and
Joseph Feldenhein, of Philadelphia. repre-
sentatives of the Association of Cotton
knit Goods Manufacturers, called on Sen
ator Davis and other members of the Sen
ate foreign relations committee to-day and
protested against ratification of the French
reciprocity treaty. The knitting mills of
this country, they said, employ over 100.-
600 people, who turn out an annual product
OF nearly $lUJ,UUu,WD. OnGer the ~Dlngley
tariff act the American manufacturers of
hosiery and underwear, they said, are rap
idly gaining control of the home markets
for popular classes of goods, and they
feared this market would be lost IL the
duties were lowered, as proposed by the
treaty, which they asserted would result
I'm lower duties than under the Wilson bill
schedule. While the importation of cotton
knit goods from France at present
amounted to only per cent. Of the total
imports of these goods, the protestants
believed that under the lower duties given
In the treaty France would soon take the
place held by Saxony when the tariff was
low.
President Mckinley to-day sent to the
Senate papers bearing on the claim of the
Cuba Submarine Telegraph Company, a
British corporation, for expenses incurred
in repairing damages done to the COM
pany's cables and other property by the
United States forces during the war with
to 2S,1H. President Mckinley sent a brief
message recommending the payment Of the
account as IAN act of comfy and equity"
Senator Fairbanks to-day introduced a
bill to pension James Collins, Company G,
One Hundredth Indiana Infantry. at so
monthly, and Mary L. Law, widow of
Captain Richard Law, United States navy,
at $50 monthly.
John A. Lazarus, president, and /. n.
Gordon, director OF the Indianapolis Board
Of Trade, are in Washington attending the
national meeting of boards of trade. Only
routine business was transacted to-day.
erick Frailey, of Philadelphia, Ex-Governor
E. c. Stanard. of St Louis presided