The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-06
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Kinley yesterday. prior to his departure
for his new post.
Senator Fairbanks introduced a bill yes
terday pensioning Scottie E. Mcclure at
$50 monthly.
The Senate has confirmed Frederick E.
Rittman, of Ohio, to be auditor for the War
Department
The postoffice at Progress, Delaware
county, Indiana, has been ordered discon-
unued after Jan. Is, and mail sent to
Tabor
The builders trial trip of the battleship
Illinois will take place Feb. Is. off Cape
Henry. All the armor plate except that for
the turrets is on the ship.
]. A. Kasson, who represented the United
States government in negotiating the reci-
procity treaties, appeared before the Sen
ate committee on foreign relations yester
day and explained the provisions of the
treaties covering the islands of st. Croix
and San Domingo. The committee voted
to favorably report both these treaties.
Speaker Henderson was much improved
yesterday, although still confined to bed
with severe cold. He felt well enough to
sit up during the morning and attend TO
his most important correspondence. but il
was not deemed advisable for him to go TO
the Capitol. The attending physician is
satisfied with the progress of the patient
and the attack has not been of character
to give any alarm.
The postoffice inspector at St. Louis has
advised the department of the arrest Of
Luther Lambdin, postmaster at Haiti, Mo-.
for embezzlement. On Dec. 70 he wired that
his office had been robbed of two regis
tered letters, one containing $1,000 Upon
his arrest, the dispatch says, he confessed
that he embezzled the letters. Seven hum
dred dollars of the stolen money has been
recovered. The poStoffice has been turned
over to the sureties of the office.
The text of the report on the river and
harbor bill, which appeared yesterday,
makes severe arraignment of the large
expenditures, aggregating slo,sOS56o, on the
Missouri river, with an array of figures
showing that the traffic is Insignificant
compared with that of other waterways,
which have received far less from the gov
eminent. AS result the repeal of the act
creating the Missouri River Commission
is recommended.
The principal witness before the Senate
committee agriculture at its hearing on
the oleomargarine bill yesterday was Mr..
Tillinghast, representing the Vermont Man.
ufacturing Company of Providence, r. l.
He opposed the bill and contended for
free field for the oleomargarine industry
He asserted that no deleterious substance
is used in the manufacture of that article
and said that chemical experiments DEM
orstrate its complete healthfulness.
1t is proposed that one of the most con-
spicuous features of the forthcoming in
augural parade shall be section composed
on college men from all the leading uni
yersities Of the United States. Arrange
ments are making TO secure the attendance
OF very large contingent OF these, and
assurances have been received at inaugural
headquarters indicating the presence in the
parade Of delegations of from fifty 10 two
hundred men each from forty-three educa-
tional institutions. IL Is proposed that each
body OF students shall wear the distinctive
colors or insignia Of the college or univer
sity 1t represents.
Prof. Frank III. Parsons. of Boston, con-
tinued his testimony before the industrial
committee yesterday upon government
ownership of public utilities He favored
such ownership of railroads and then re-
viewed telephone and telegraph conditions.
He claimed that the charges for both teie-
graph and telephone service are excessive
and that such service could be furnished at
greatly reduced rates He said that the
rates I'm this country are much higher
than those in countries where telegraph
and telephone are owned by the govern
do not seem to justify such high rates.