The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-20
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
Condition Of Sick Decentralization
Papers Burncd-GeneraI Mates

Mrs. Samuel Reid and daughter, of In
dianapolis. are the guests of Mrs. Daniel
NJ. Ransdel.
Joseph Gaspar, of Indianapolis. is in
Washington and yesterday was at the Cap
ftol calling on members of the Indiana
delegation.
Yesterdays statement of the srea sury
balances in the general fund, exclusive of
the SlO.Wo,oOO gold reserve in the division
OF redemption. shows: Available cash bal
anee, Sl37, $3.50; gold, $77,665,S31.
Representative Miers yesterday intro
duced bill to give a pension of $50 per
month TO James Brown. Brown was a sea-
man and served during the Spanish war
on the Grampus and Great Western.
The Capital National Bank, of Indianap-
oils, has been approved as reserve agent
for the Third National, of Rockford, Ill,
also the American National of Indianap-
oils, for the Perrin National. of Lafayette
Ind.
The President is reported to be steadily
regaining the ground lost during his recent
illness and is slowly assuming the full
measure Of his official functions. Secretary
Root is stated to be improving, is also
Admiral Dewey.
A dispatch to the State Department from
United States Consul Ingersoll, at Carta-
gena, states that all the ports of the CUE
OF Morrosquillo, and particularly Tolu and
Covenas. in Colombia, have been closed to
commerce by governmental decree.
Senator Clark has introduced a bill in
| creasing the salary OF officials of Hawaii.
IL gives the Governor $1,000 and $500 as per-
| quisites. the justices of the territorial Su-
preme Court 5000 with $500 additional 10
the chief justice. The Judges of the Circuit
| Court viii receive $4,000.
| Secretary Root has approved the allot-
/ ment recommended by the Board of Ord
| nance and Fortifications for the construc-
| ton of a six-inch rapid-firing gun, with
| pedestal mount and shield. The distinctive
| feature of the gun is to be the breech
mechanism, and eight shots a minute is
the firing speed guaranteed.
In the case of Passed Assistant Surgeon
Blackwood u. S. N, the controller of the
| treasury, has held that an officer of the
| navy. paid according to army rates, by
| virtue of Section 13 of the navy personnel
| act Of March 3. 1899. is entitled to only one
half shore duty pay during time absent
| on leave in excess of thirty days during his
first leave year.
More than $4,000 pension claims In the Of
| flee of Milo b. Stevens & Co. de-
! stroyed in the fire Friday night. Many of
the papers were to be used as evidence in
attempting TO secure favorable action by
the Pension Office on claims. and cannot
| be replaced In addition TO the pension
claims there were destroyed thousands of
claims pending before the Treasury Depart
ment and Patent Office In these the loss
| will fall upon the claimants.
The retirement of Brig Gen. II. V. Free
| man. Twenty-fourth Infantry, has resulted
| i'm the following promotions: Lieut. Col
or the Twenty-fourth Infantry; Mai David
j. Cragie, Twenty-fifJh Infantry, TO be
| lieutenant colonel of the Eight Infantry;
| Capt. Daniel H. q. Brush, Eighteenth In
| fantry, TO be major of the Twenty-fifth
| Infantry; First Lieut.. Douglass Settle
| Tenth Infantry, to be captain of the Sew
| enteenth Infantry.
| The Senate committee on finance yester-
day granted hearing to a delegation from
/ the tobacco growing States of Virginia
! North Carolina. Kentucky, West Virginia
and Georgia in support of the proposition
| TO reduce the tobacco tax in connection
/ with the legislation on the war revenue.
/ The delegation was composed entirely of
members OF Congress and was headed by
| Senators Pritchard, Tillman and Martin
! They represented that the tax had been
! doubled in the war revenue act. and that
over So, 100000 of the revenue OF the country
/ is raised upon tobacco, and they asked for
| a reduction from the present tax of y
cents per pound TO S cents. The commit.
tee did not commit itself. but some of the
members indicated that there probably
/ would be some reduction.
Several clerks in the dead letter office of
| the POstoffiee Department have been dis
/ missed on charges of having bought pack
| ages at the dead letter sale, knowing in
| advance their contents, and falsely repre-
| senting their character in the catalogue
/ The scheme was unearthed by Postmaster
General Smith in an investigation carried
on for over month. In order TO avert sus-
picion by the presence of local detectives
| In the office during the sale, Dec. Ii last
inspectors from New York. Boston and
! Maryland carried on the investigation and
| located the plot in the property division of
! the dead letter office. The clerks dismissed
are II. c. Walton. Miss Lillian +. Brown
| Charles Albert ana Charles Hardin the last
named being the head OF the property divi-
K sion.
Attorney General Griggs. In an opinion
| rendered upon the request of the secretary
/ of the treasury. holds: First that a per-
/ son born In the Hawaiian islands i'm 1895.
/ OF Chinese parents who are laborers. AMI
1 taken 10 China with his mother IN 1890 Is
| entitled TO re-enter the Territory of Ha-
/ wall. where his father still resides: Sec
/ ond. that the wife and children of a Chi
nese person who was naturalized in 1877
| and still resides there are entitled to enter
| that Territory by virtue OF the citizenship
/ OF the husband and father. This opinion
/ IS based upon the assumption that the Chi
| nese persons in question. born and natur-
| allied. respectively. in the Hawaiian
| islands. were in fact citizens OF the re-
| public of Hawaii under its Constitution
| and laws on Aug. l. 1885. and had not
abandoned nor lost their rights as SUCH"
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