The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-04
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
Legislative Items and Notes About
Men and Their Work.


Men and Their Work.
Secretary Hay has so far recovered from
his recent indisposition as to be able to
spend a few hours yesterday at his desk
in the State Department.
The Port Royal board, headed by Rear
Admiral Rodgers, yesterday began further
consideration of the question of the re-
moval of the Port Royal Is. CO. naval sta
ton to Charleston harbor.
The training ship Buffalo left Port of
Spain yesterday for Laguayra, where she
will exchange a crew of green landsmen
for complement of seamen from the Hart
ford, which is lying at that port
The river and harbor committee yester-
day adopted the provision authorizing the
President to negotiate for fixing the level
of the great lakes and contiguous water
ways between the United States and Can
ada.
Bids were opened at the Department Of
Justice yesterday for the construction of a
new Department of Justice building of
marble, according to the plans submitted
by George b. Post, a New York architect
The bids ranged from s1,597,922 down to
s1,575. lbs.
Representative Rixey, of Virginia, ir-
troduced resolution for an investigation
by the House postoffice committee of the
reason why small packages are carried
through the mails for foreign governments
at lower rate than is given American
citizens. The inquiry grows out of the
parcel post conventions which the govern
ment has made with number of foreign
countries.
The secretary of war has sent to Con-
gress preliminary report on the project Of
widening and deepening the channel of
Galveston bay, Texas. The report has no
bearing on the conditions created by the
hurricane which devasted Galveston. but
is a general measure of Improvement for
the harbor to point within the city. The
cost of thirty-foot channel is estimated
at S1,5S5,0 0O
Senator Nelson yesterday gave notice of
an amendment he will offer to the bill
for the modification of the war revenue
law, providing that "all requests or lega-
cies for uses of a religious, literary. char
liable or educational character, including
works of art, on which the tax heretofore
imposed has not been paid or collected,
shall be and are hereby declared to be
exempt from the payment Of such tax.
The Navy Department has issued orders
detaching Rear Admiral a. Kautz from his
post as commander-in-chief of the Pacific
station, to take effect Jan. Is. Admiral
Kautzs retirement takes place soon after
He will be succeeded by Rear Admiral
Casey. commander of the Philadelphia
navy yard. Rear Admiral G. w. Sumner
has been detached from the command of
the Port Royal station and will succeed
Rear Admiral Casey.
A committee from the American Asiatic
station, with headquarters in New York,
called upon the President to-day and pre-
scented memorial expressing their en-
phatic approval of the efforts made by
him and the secretary OF state TO hasten
a settlement of the questions at issue be-
tween the powers and the government of
rio1fc lets fvc1e For.
special approval the demand made upon
China that, in future, the diplomatic rep
resentatives of foreign governments have
direct access TO the Emperor.
The Navy Department has called on the
superintendent of the Naval Academy for
a report on a charge submitted by Repre-
sentative Rixey. of Virginia. to the effect
that marine named Hobart Green, OF
Virginia had died at Annapolis from I'll
treatment while sick. 1t was alleged tina.
Green was obliged 10 march while i'll from
pneumonia, and that the decks were
washed beneath him while he lay in his
hammock on the Santee. The medical rec
ord shows that Green died Dec. ii from
quick pneumonia. His father is a special
pension examiner credited TO Sandusky o.
Senator Hansbrough has introduced a
bill creating a department of education
and giving the head of the department a
Mace in the Presidents Cabinet. Speak
ing of the object of the BILL Senator Hans
brough said that the educational interests
of the country are constantly increasing
and that with the addition of the new
territory comprised in Hawaii, Porto Rico
and the Philippines this interest would
grow rapidly in scope and importance in
the future. On this account. he said, he
thought the head Of the proposed depart
ment should be member of the President s
official household.
senator Harris yesterday introduced a
resolution in the Senate directing the IN
terstate-commerce Commission 10 investf-
gate Whether there now exist any asso-
citation or associations of railroad COM
panies, formed for the purpose of control
ling and restraining competition in trans
portation rates of traffic over lines from
points between the Mississippi river and
the Rocky mountains. which operate sim
ilarly TO the association known as the
Transmissouri Railway Association. that
was declared by the Supreme Court o.
the United States to be an unlawful COM
blnation and in violation of the antitrust
law" The commission is to report TO the
Senate.
Mr. Pettigrew has introduced a resolu-
ton, calling upon the President to send TO
the Senate topples OF all instructions sent TO
the officers OF the government in the Phil
ippines since May ], 1898, and OF all orders
issued by officers of the government in the
Philippines in relation to the conduct of the
war and in relation Of the government OF
that country"
Dr. Horatio Rubens, one Of the commits
sion appointed by the War Department to
revise the Cuban code, has arrived In
Washington after many months absence In
Havana. According to DR.. Rubens 1t is the
hope of the Cuban constitution-makers
that they will complete their work in time
for the United States Congress TO act upon
the constitution during the present session
Representative Hill, of Connecticut. has
introduced a bill to maintain the legal-ten-
der silver dollar at parity with gold. This
and the bill OF Representative Levy, OF
New York or similar lines. will be taken
UP next Thursday by the House committee
on coinage and time fixed for hearing
Secretary Gage and other financial au-
thorities.
bill providing for the extension of the
land laws OF the United States TO Hawaii
was introduced yesterday by Senator Hans
brough.
The secretary of war has submitted tc
Congress an additional deficiency estimate