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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-21
INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES.

The southern section of Organism is now
experiencing unpleasant attack of 10
cent cotton.-Logansport Journal.
1t is not necessary that Senator Fair
banks should be nominated for vice pres
ident for the Republicans to carry Indiana,
but it would swell the majority.-Princeton
Clarion Leader.
Coincident with Senator Hoar's grand
motherly talk on the goodness of Aguinaldo
comes the account of the torture, behead-
ing and roasting alive of American soldiers.
Madison Courier.
So good and prominent politician as
Allen w. Thurman, of Ohio, advises the
Democrats to drop the silver issue But
William Jennings Bryan says nay and he
is the accepted oracle at present.-Goshen
News.
In the face of Bryan's grasp upon the
machinery of the Democratic party the
organization has rapidly fallen to pieces,
and there is abundant evidence that he will
never be able to put the parts together
Lafayette Courier.
Il. Benjamin Andrews has accepted the
chancellorship of Nebraska. University.
The individual in Lafayette who wanted
him as president of Purdue will be the only
one hereabouts to regret the decision just
now Nebraska will regret Ii a little later.
Lafayette Courier.
Secretary Gage predicts a surplus of s70,-
100000 during the current fiscal year, and a
surplus of $50, 900 during the year ending
June 80, 1901. Secretary Carlisle used to
predict deficiencies. and his predictions
were always verified under Democratic
methods.-Fort Wayne News.
The submarine torpedo boat Holland,
which has been at Washington for several
months. appears to be diving its way into
the good graces of Congress. If II could
be utilized to get good view of the under
currents of politics it would be boon TO
some men in both branches of Congress.
Garrett Herald.
1t may as well be written down now that
Mckinley is to be elected; that Indiana is
going to give her electoral vote TO him;
that Congressman Hemenway Will be re-
elected: that Vanderburg county l. going
to give her aid to both these distinguished
men. and that four more years OF prosper
ity are in sight.-Evansville Journal.
BY all means the Republican party OF
this State and Nation should avoid making
the Porto Rican matter a party principle
by Incorporating the confirmation of the
act of Congress in a platform. 1t can never
be made a Republican principle, though II
may be the act of Republicans.-E!khart
Review
The Republican party relies on the good
sense of the people to continue in power
an administration which has won for itself
the heartiest commentator at home and
abroad. Never In the history OF It's prog
ress has the United States stood among the
nations of the earth where II stands to-day
Never in the history of its development
has this country seen such period OF pros
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WILL USE ROAST BEEF
THE CANNED ARTICLE TO BE sup
Piled TO GEN. oTIs's TROOPS.
No Other Way OF Getting Fresh Meat
Corps I'm the Philippines.

WASHINGTON, April 20.-war Depart
ment officials have been compelled to re-
sort to the use OF canned roast beef for the
subsistence OF the army in the Philippines.
This is due to the fact that it is absolutely
essential that the soldiers shall be served
with fresh meat and because OF the i'm
possibility Of providing refrigerated beef or
cattle on the hoof under existing condi-
TONS When the bulk of the army
located near the seashore, and at easily
accessible points. there was no difficulty
In providing them with fresh meats. The
conditions have now changed and the
army is scattered among $50 posts in var
ious parts of the archipelago, a great
many of them a considerable distance
from the nearest shipping point. There
are no cattle available and the refrigerated
beef, which has heretofore formed the
principal basis of subsistence for the
troops. cannot be preserved IN good condi-
ton long enough to reach many of the
inland posts. Consequently IL became
necessary to look for some suitable SUBJ
stitute, and the American canned roast
beef was the only thing found to meet the
requirements
The suggestion for its use came originally
from the subsistence Offices in the Philip
pines and the chief commissary officer at
Manila recently cabled a requisition for
an immediate delivery OF about 100000 cans
of beef and subsequent deliveries at the
rate of about $1,000 cans a month. Acting
Commissary General Weston presented the
matter TO the secretary of war, with a
strong Endorsement of the proposition As
a measure OF precaution. however. Secre-
from Major General Otis before taking
nnai action A cable message OF inquiry
was forwarded at once and General Otis's
reply was received to-day. Its text was
not made public. but its general character
may be clearly inferred from the fact that
instructions have been sent TO Colonel
Alexander. the commissary officer at Chi.
oago, TO arrange for the immediate dis
patch OF large quantity of roast beef TO
san Francisco for shipment to Manila by
the hrst available steamer. Special pre-
cautions will be taken TO secure the best
quality of beef and to insure its proper
care and preservation at all stages of its
long journey TO the Philippines
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1t appears that Representative Dick, sec
rotary of the national Republican COM
mittee, took 1t upon himself to write let
tiers to the delegates of the Stark county
Republican convention, which was held on
Thursday in Canton, o., the Presidents
home, declaring that the convention was
under obligations to send delegates to the
state convention who would support Mr.
Laylin for secretary of state, and further.
that such was the wish of the national and
state administrations. The convention re-
sented this interference of Senator Hanna
and Colonel Dick. A warm friend OF the
Presidents denounced the attempt to die
tate the personnel of the convention as a
high-handed outrage, saying that every
body in the county knew the President too
we'll to think that he desired to dictate to
the voters of his county. After discussion
the opponent of Mr.. Laylin was Endorsed
by a vote of two to one.
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WORK OF THE SIGNAL CORPS.
1t Has 1851 Miles of Wire I'm Opera
ton I'm the Philippines.

correspondence of the Associated Press
MANILA, March 15.-The signal corps of
our army in the Philippines, Colonel Allen
at present commanding, has in operation
to-day 1,551 miles of wire on Luzon and
the Visayan islands. 1t has established 1eo
telegraph offices, and, with total muster
of 331 men and p officers, this department
handles 135, 900 messages month the mes.
sages containing from 20 10 1000 words
each. Every officer on the system receives
daily at III a. m. the official time from
Manila. This ,551 miles of wire was first
laid in the wake of our advancing soldiers,
thus keeping our firing line i'm communities
ton with corps headquarters i'm Manila
Then, when time permitted, the light cop
per wires used for quick running during
marches and fighting was replaced by an
iron wire on temporary poles. and even
tually this second wire was replaced by a
heavy iron wire. well strung on strong
poles. Thus the 1851 miles of wire has
actually been laid three times Our army
on July 81 of last year had but 12s miles OF
wire In operation, and during the months
or August, September, October and Novem-
Der $40 more miles were added to this orig
inal 49, During December, 1899, the signal
corps set up AIS miles of wire: during jan
Uary, 1900, 402 miles, and during February
2S5 miles. these figures giving the total dis
lance in operation to-day. The central
office of this entire system is, of course, in
Manila, where eight trunk lines converge,
and preparations are making 10 receive
four more trunk lines this month
There Is a cable from Iloilo, from there
TO Negros island, and from there TO Cebu
Our wires in the Visayan islands amount
to 40 miles. From Iloilo we have line to
Capiz through the interior, and then down
the coast back to Iloilo On Negroes we have
lines north and south to Manalpa and
mammalian, respectively. In Cebu we have
a line from Cebu, the capital. to the interior
of the town of karkat.
In Manila itself the signal corps operates
a local system of wires for the use OF the
several governmental departments here
located, as well as an official telephone sys-
TEN. The signal corps has had and is still
having much difficulty in securing good
telegraph operators. A good operator can
do pretty well at home. and this service in
the Philippines is not attractive enough to
draw good men from the United States.
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THE EARLIEST .rMpERIALIsT.,.

The real friends of Admiral Dewey are
indignant that Washington correspondents
are sending out reports which present him
to the country in the character of a weak
and spiteful man. One of these CORE
spondents asserts that the admiral will ac-
to be revenged upon President Mckinley.
Another says he was forced to say that he
desired the reelection of Mr. Mckinley
because Senator Hanna asked him if he
favored the reelection of the President
while Mr.. Mckinley was present, when he
could make no other answer. There are
other statements which would put the adj
miral in an unenviable attitude before the
country If people could or would believe
them to be true. The fact u.s. on two or
miral Dewey expressed the hope that Mr..
Mckinley would be reelected. With re-
fusal to be considered a candidate he
coupled the statement that the President
should be reelected.
1t may be that Admiral Dewey will con-
sent to run with Mr.. Bryan on an anti-ex-
pansion or anti-imperiaIist platform. The
only objection Republicans can offer is that
IL will be humiliation to a man who has
won such renown. The admiral was the
earliest and greatest imperialist. Aug. %,
1898. when the country was in doubt about
the matter, Admiral Dewey, standing on
the deck of the Olympia and looking to
Manila, over which the American flag
New York Tribune: ''I hope it floats there
forever" Oct 3. 1898. he wrote TO Presi-
dent Brown. of Norwich (vt) Univer-
sity. as follows: 81 trust the entire archi-
pelago will be retained by the United
States: any other arrangement will lead
10 no end of trouble" In an interview
with the Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald Nov. 8. 1899. Admiral
Dewey said:
There has never been a moment since the
first gun was fired when the United States
could have withdrawn from the islands.
and the reasons set forth in the Phillip
pine commissionl report as TO why Amer
lean control is essential are. in my opinion
immovable. There is no alternative.
Admiral Dewey signed the report of the
commission. and said emphatically: 81 in
dorse every word of it, IN personal
memorandum attached TO the report of the
commission Admiral Dewey states that
mo alliance OF any kind was entered into
with Aguinaldo. nor was any promise of
independence made TO him then or at any
other time" He characterizes Agufnafdo's
government "as a severe military des-
potism." In other words. Admiral Dewey
was the earliest advocate of the retention
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-21
GATES STILL in OFFICE
NO CHANGE IN MANAGEMENT OF
THE STEEL AND WIRE TRUST.
Board of Directors Decided to Reduce
Prices to Get Rid of the Over
production of Material.

NEW YORK, April 20.-A special meeting
of the directors of the American Steel and
Wire Company was held to-day in the New
York office of the company. The chief pur-
pose of the meeting, according to reports,
was to take some action relative to the re-
cent closing of twelve of the company's
mills by order of the chairman of the ex-
ecutive committee, John w. Gates. The
meeting was scheduled to begin at IL
OF clock
There were a number of newspaper men
present when Mr.. Gates reached the Of
flee, and he requested them to leave. He
had nothing to say regarding the rumors
concerning his relations with the company
i've stopped guessing" he said. Il find
that some of my recent guesses have been
bad, so I've decided to say nothing
After a continuous session of four hours
the meeting adjourned. The following for
nal announcement was made: 1.-The board
of directors discussed the general business
situation, and unanimously decided that
until the overproduction of materials has
been disposed of the executive committee
may make such reduction In prices as they
may find necessary TO accomplish this and
resume operation at the idle plants"
When Mr. Gates was seen at the close
of the meeting he would only say: There
has been no change in the management of
the company.
Mr. Seligman and Mr.. Strauss declined TO
say anything to the action taken. Later,
when a rumor spread to the effect that
they ana Thomas Dolan, of Philadelphia,
had resigned from the board, Mr.. Seligman
said: "We have not resigned, and the
meeting was adjourned to May r.
The presence at the meeting Of Robert
Bacon and President Gary, of the Federal
Steel Company, caused some speculation.
Steel Company. He refused to talk about
the object of his visit to the meeting to-
day. and President Gary was equally reti-
cent Another director of the Federal Steel
Company was seen and asked to give his
views as to the possibility of coalition of
that so far as he knew there would be no
closer relations between the Federal Steel
Company and the American Steel and Wire
Company than exis. at present.
There were various rumors regarding the
part taken in the meeting by President
Gary and other officials of the Federal
Steel Company present. According to one
notice was served that the contract for
$4,000 tons of steel billets which the Fed
eral Steel Company has with the American
Steel and Wire Company will be Cancelled
unless Mr.. Gates is put out OF the chair.
manship Another rumor was that the
steel and wire company will be held strict
ly to the contract and not be allowed to
postpone the acceptance of the billets. The
latter was thought more likely to be true.
as the billets had been contracted Tor at a
very high price.
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huence to collect a confessed Judgment;
that IL was too humiliating TO him to con-
tinue the accredited representative of
great Nation to government which repu-
dated just debt of such Insignificant
amount. and declared that he would go
home and advise the President against
maintaining a legation In Turkey. The
Sultan must know therefore that Mr..
Straus has made pretty strong represen-
tations to the government. and If he does
not return at the expiration OF his leave of
ton is pretty serious. No doubt he hates
by paying just claim to set a precedent
that European nations may take advan-
tage of, but in the last resort he will prob
ably pay.
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SaIuted by the Fort When He Landed
at SantO Domingo.

SANTO DOMINGO. April 2o.-General
Maxine Gomez arrived here from Cuba
to-day and met with a brilliant official
and public reception. He landed under a
salute fired from the fort, was met by
committees at the landing place, the
streets were decorated in his honor and he
was serenaded this evening.
The minister of war, Senior Brache, has
resigned.
Congress has passed by vote of IL to
(there are twenty-five deputies in the
National Congress of Santo Domingo) the
government Improvement contract But the
Belgian bondholders have reserved the
right through Signor Vicini, the Italian
CONSUL who is a creditor to a large amount,
to protest against the new contract on the
ground that they are thereby deprived of
collecting a certain part of duties granted
some time ago against the amount due the
bondholders. Public opinion is opposed
to the contract.
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TEXTILES AND CEREALS.


NEW YORK. April 2O.-Rradstreet's, to-
morrow, will say: More, rather than less,
irregularity in the trade and price situa-
ton is to be noted this week, partly the re-
suit of weather conditions, but partly, as
in the case of iron and steel trade be-
cause of the continuance of these mission
airy efforts in the direction of lower prices
which have been such feature of the iron
and steel trade of late. That the basic
conditions of trade remain, on the whole
favorable, is, however, evidenced by a
number of features. Railroad earnings
continue heavy, and the decrease noted
in bank clearings is chargeable largely to
religious and other holiday observances
and to restricted stock speculation.
Heavy rains and cool weather early in
the week had depressing effect on trade
and collections, but with the advent of a
warm spring temperature, improved con-
ditions of retail demand, which is at pres
ent a most important element in the gen.
eral trade situation, have been noted The
bear campaign in iron and steel took on
new phase this week, when a number of
wire mills were shut, down, as alleged, be-
cause of an oversupply of these goods. The
announcement has had an unsettling effect
upon general demand, as was probably ex-
pected, and new domestic business is in
terfered with. The strength of the ex-
port demand previously noted in these
columns, however. is still a feature, ana
we have the best of reasons for believing,
that very large quantity of Southern
iron, variously estimated at 10000 TO $1,000
tons was sold this week TO go abroad at
nearly or about full prices. Price changes
are mostly along lines heretofore noted
though some sympathetic weakening of
pig iron is reported. Talk OF impending
labor troubles has hardened butuminous
coal at most markets.
Ii has been a weather market for the
cereals and most agricultural products,
these advancing early this week. but
weakening toward the close. The strength
of pork products and the small movement
has stimulated corn, and there is less
weakness in this than In the other cereals.
Stormy weather and flooded water courses
at the South have checked or retarded cot
ton planting. but this feature and the
statistical strength of the market have not
been sufficient to produce any outside bull
movement. while the quietness IN dry
goods and the weakness noted In cotton
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ALLEGED INCENDIARIES.
Cincinnatians Indicted on q Charge of
Burning Insured Property.

CINCINNATI. o., April 20.-The grand
jury to-day indicted w. w. Thomas. pro-
prietor of The Peoples Tea, Spice and Bak-
ing Powder Company, for burning property
which was insured, and Harry Waters,
principal of the Waters Business College,
Mary Stone, confidential bookkeeper for
Thomas and his brother, Isaiah Thomas.
as accessories to the burning of Thomas S
wholesale grocery house, last November.
All were released on bonds. The insur-
ance companies resisted the payment of
$50, 900 and offered 5000 reward. The in
surance companies allege that they paid
former losses of Thomas under protest
and this time employed detectives and at
torneys for investigation.
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perity as prevails to-day. Such conditions
were never attained under a Democratic
administration.-Corydo Republican.
A Democratic workman said the other
day that he was at a loss how to vote next
November. He had always voted the
straight Democratic ticket, but his taxes
kept on increasing so that he cannot pay
them. AHe said he worked hard and saved
closely to get a little home, and he had
hoped that Democratic reform would help
him. but taxes get higher and higher
New Albany Public Press.
What pity that some manufacturing In
stitution in this country does not reduce
the wages of its employees. What an ele-
CANT opening it would afford for the calam-
ity bowling Democratic press. Just think
of all the enthusiasm there is corked up in
this country waiting for something like a
reduction in wages to occur. So long as
wages are constantly being advanced 9ne
Democratic papers find nothing TO say.
Can't something be done to give them a
chance ?-Cannelton Enquirer.
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The National Civil-service Reform League
has appointed commission of three, con-
sisting of Charles j. Bonaparte OF Balti-
more, Richard H. Dana of Boston and
William Dudley Foulke of this State, to
investigate and report upon the subject of
colonial civil service in its relation to good
government in the new possessions and
also to our own civil service. The subject
is an important one, and the success of our
colonial governments requires that its prin-
ciples should be settled on right lines as
soon possible Judge Taft, president of
the Philippine commission, now on it's way
to the islands. was at one time president
of the Civi-service Reform Association in
Cincinnati and it is believed he will favor
the establishment of true civil-service
system in the Philippines. 1t is said that
Mr.. Allen, the Governor General of
Porto Rico. will favor the same policy in
that island, so it may happen that the sys-
TEN will be promulgated in both islands
before the commission above referred to
shall report.
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Spring has come at last. There Is no
doubt about ii. We now know positively it
is here. Time was when the coming of the
bluebird, the robin and the lark; the flower
ing of the crocus. the hyacinth and the
daffodil: the advent OF the Easter girl be-
decked In rainbow-hued hat and shirt
waist; the appearance on biilboards of the
charming circus mademoiselle. tiptoed on
the bare back of an Arabian steed, appar-
emily riding straight into the ink-red mouth
OF some wonderful menagerie beast depict
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While reports Of lawlessness and guer-
Luzon, the official reports from the other
islands end the greater part of the island
OF Luzon are of a most encouraging char
acter. In most Of the Philippines pacifica-
ton seems complete, and the military
governors are subdividing the departments
into districts and putting officers in charge
OF them. The people can resume their vo-
cations. as business is reviving in salts
factory manner
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The Washington Post reports Represen-
tative Zenor as saying that his section of
Indiana is interested in the establishment
of military post at the Falls of the Ohio.
He adds:
our project by the people of Indianapolis.
They seemed TO think that when the time
came to increase the number of army
posts, Indianapolis should be considered.
Recently / am informed that Indianapolis
will not press her claims, which is espe-
cially gratifying 10 us in the southern part
of the State.
Whatever rivalry there has been in the
matter was based on the eligible location
of this city. AS these facts remain there
withdrawn
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yarns have been additional discouraging
features. Wool is weak but there is rather
more inquiry, and now, as one year ago,
relatively highest prices rule at points OF
production.
week aggregate 3,S9S, i5l blu, against 1885,
e53 last week. 2.932. $50 in the responding
week of 1890, and 3,232. log IN 1S9S. Since
July !, the exports of wheat aggregate
Isl, s04,547 bu. against 1913, 262 ll9 last year
and 19l sos. $50 in 1S97-9S Corn exports for
the week aggregate 3.l5s.747 bu, against
2,a99.4A last week, 3O9i, 300 in this week a
year ago. and 1856, 4S2 in 1898. Since July /,
corn exports aggregate i66 0Sl. 396 bu,
against 7H during the same period a
year ago. and 147.13S. 325 in 1Ss7-9S.
Business failures in the United States
for the week number 161 as compared with
152 last week. Isl in this week a year ago
and 224 in 1893