The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-15
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
Condition of Sick Observation-Disclosures
tive and Personal Notes.

Edwin NJ. Morton has been appointed a
substitute letter carrier at kokomo, Ind.
The postofice at Nutwood, st. Joseph
county, will be discontinued after Jan. 81
and mail sent to South Bend.
Leonidas A. Rizer, of Delphi, and Mary f.
Lemen, of Madison, Ind, were admitted TO
practice before the Interior Department.
Senator Fairbanks has introduced bills
to remove the charge of dese-tion against
Edward Nhelan and for the relief of Jack
son Foster.
The President has signed the bill author
izing thep lacing of Congressman Boutelle,
of Maine, on the retired list of the navy,
with the a of captain.
Admiral Dewey is confined to his home
by an attack of grip. 1t seems to be yield
ing TO treatment. and the admiral expects
to be out again in a few days.
The postmaster general has appointed
Maurice j. McGrath superintendent of
mails at the Chicago postOffice, TO succeed
j. A. Montgomery, deceased.
The remains of the late Rear Admiral
Thomas +. Phillips, retired, were Inferred
yesterday at Arlington National Cemetery
with honors accorded officers of his rank.
Congressman Neville, of Nebraska, is in
a critical condition, resulting from a re-
currence of hemorrhages on Sunday. They
have weakened him considerably, but there
are hopes of his recovery.
President Mckinley continues to i'm
prove, though ii is not expected he will be
In his office, or see anyone during this
week. He is ~transacting a little business,
but it is confined to urgent Iardon cases
and the signing of bills.
1t has been decided that President Nc
Kinley's personal escort to the Capitol and
return on the 4th of March will be Troop
A, Of the First Regiment of Cavalry, Ohio
National Guard. This organization was
similarly honored four years ago.
The House appropriations committee has
agreed to report favorably the bill appro-
priating S21 900 to provide for the electric
illumination of the exterior of the Capitol,
White House and public buildings on the
occasion of the Inauguration of President
Mckinley.
Senator Lodge has given notice of an
amendment he will propose to the diplo-
Court Of Claims jurisdiction to ~adjudicate
all claims of citizens Of the United States
against Spain which the United States
agreed to adjudicate and settle by the
Paris treaty of peace.
The Chinese minister, Mr.. WI, left WASH
ington last night for Albany, where he
will be the guest of the Bar Association
tc-night and will deliver an address. He
goes thence to ST. Louis, having been in
vited by Secretary of the Interior Hitch
cock TO deliver an address before the Com
mercial Club of that city.
General Williams. the representative of
the Cramps. has returned from Constan-
tinople. When asked yesterday as to the
reports that the Turkish government had
ordered a warship built in an American
yard. and that this would liquidate the
outstanding claims against Turkey, General
Williams said he was not at liberty. to make
any statement, as he had not yet had an
opportunity to confer with Messrs. Cramp.
Colonel Mills, superintendent of the West
Point Military Academy, yesterday was be-
fore the senate committee on military af-
fairs, which is considering the Military
Academy bill. Col. Mills told the commit
tee he felt sure that hazing was on the
decrease and finally would be stamped out.
He was ready to cooperate or receive any
suggestion from Congress, but expressed
the opinion that legislation was unneces-
sary.
The Navy Department has been informed
of the arrival of the Philadelphia at Pana-
ma to-day. Press reports have 1t that a
series of revolutionary movements in the
vicinity of the Colombian capital is afoot,
but official reports from United States Con-
sui Gudger state the situation has improved
much of hate. How long the presence of the
Philadelphia will be necessary is not known
and will depend upon what aspect affairs
in that quarter assume.
The general committee of the G.. A. R..
Leo Rassieur, of st. Louis, COMMANDMENTS
chief; Robert B.. Brown. of GAINESVILLE, o.;
Charles G. Adams, of Boston; John w.
Burst, of Chicago; o. III. Coulter, of To-
peka, and John Palmer, appeared before the
House invalid pension committee to-day
and argued in favor OF the bill for the ere
alton of a court of pension appeal to con-
slider rejected pension claims. There are
about 100000 adversely passed upon each
year by the Pension Office.
Former Speaker Thomas B.. Reed made
an argument before the Senate committee
on finance yesterday for the amendment
of the war revenue reduction act so as
to reduce the tax on the transfer of stock.
He commended for a change in the basis
of operation, saying that the tax should
be upon the selling value of stocks rather
than upon the par value, as provided in
the existing law. Mr.. Reed contended that
this tax operates as a great hardship upon
stocks selling far below par. He said there
were dealers whose stamp payments were
equal TO their incomes. This. Mr.. Reed
argued. amounted practically to confsca-
ton and was unjust.
Consul General Maxwell. at Santo Do
mingo City, has sent a partial response to
the Geographic inquiry Of the State De-
partment as to press reports of the repudi-
alton by Santo Domingo of the rights held
by an American syndicate. Mr.. Maxwell
states that the Santo DOMINICAN govern
ment has asked the consular representa-
tives, including the representative of the
United States, to receive and administer the
government revenues which heretofore have
been administered by the syndicate. The
consul general does not give full details of
the transaction, and the State Department
has not yet formulated its course, or taken
further action than that of asking Mr.. Max
well for the facts, and conveying a delicate
Santo Domingans should be deferred.