The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-19
Amount Named to Represent Rental
for Fourteen Years at Five Hun
dred Thousand N Year.
WATERWAY TO BE P0LICED
BY A CONSTABULARY FORCE OF
AMERICANS AND COLOMBIANs.
Appointments by the President and
other National Capital News
of General Interest.

WASHINGTON. April 1s.-The Colombian
canal protocol. which was delivered at the
State Department on April l and afterward
recalled by Minister Concha for modihca-
tions, was again presented to Secretary
Hay to-day.
The proposal as TO price is set out as fol-
lows: One year after the exchange of rati-
~ications of a treaty the United States shall
pay Colombia the lump sum of 100000.
This figure will represent fourteen years
rental at $500, 900 a year. At the end OF the
fourteen years period the price which the
United States shall pay each year is TO be
fixed by mutual consent of the two coun-
tries. In case the parties cannot agree
upon a sum it will be left to an arbitrator
selected between the two governments.
The protocol provides for the appoint
ment of a joint commission representing
Colombia and the United States, which will
arrange and provide for all matters per
tanning to the administration of affairs
within the proposed canal belt, including
the membership OF the mixed tribunals for
the administration of justice and other
steps necessary TO the joint occupation of
the belt. 1t is realized that the building of
a Panama canal would bring great num-
bers of persons of all sorts and conditions
to the isthmus. and for this reason it has
provided that the policing of the strip shall
be performed by both American and Colon
bian constableS, neither of these national-
ties, it is held, being efficient without the
aid of the other.
1t is stated positively in an authoritative
quarter that the notifications for which
the protocol was recalled were in no sense
a retraction of any of the proposals en-
bodied in it at it's former presentation and
were in the nature of explanations which
make certain points clearer, but do not
change their effect. The retention of Colom-
bian sovereignty over the canal Is a point
which has been consistently adhered TO
all through the protocol, and not one of its
provisions relinquishs this sovereignty in
any degree, 1t is stated. The protocol con-
sists of twenty-seven articles and repre-
sents an exhaustive stud of more than a
year. Viewed as a study and as a com
prehensive presentation, it is regarded
very favorably at the State Department.
The President to-day sent the following
nominations to the Senate:
Promotions in the regular revenue cutter
service-First assistant engineers to be
chief engineers, George b. II. Mayer. Dis
trict of Columbia; Henry o. Slayton. Maine.
First Iieutenants to be captains, Frank II.
NewcOmbe. Massachusetts; E. G. Clayton.
South Carolina. Second lieutenants to be
first lieutenants, Percy II. Brereton, New
Jersey; Godfrey l.. Garden. California.
Third lieutenant to be second lieutenant,
William c.. Blasdell. California.
Marine Hospital Service-Assistant Sur
geon Hill Hastings, passed assistant sur
geon.
~Army-Clark Elliott. Minnesota, second
lieutenant of infantry.
Xxx
In view of the action of the Senate last
night in making the Chinese exclusion sub
stitute an amendment to the House bill
it is expected that the action of the Senate
will be disagreed to in order to send the
bill to conference. BY this parliamentary
procedure the California members feel as
sured that the ultimate measure of exclu-
sion can be no less than that in the Senate
bill, and they hope to secure the accept
ance of some of the House provisions in
conference.
In view of published reports that Speaker
Henderson was opposed to the ship subsidy
bill, following the opposition of the Iowa
senator's, it was stated to-day by those
aware of the speakers views that he had
expressed no opinion and has reached no
conclusion on the subject thus far pre-
ferring 10 wait until the committee in
charge of the measure has formulated &C
ton.
AT the meeting to-day the Cabinet dis
cussed at length certain features of the
isthmian canal situation. matters connected
with the New York customs and the immi-
grafton service, and also certain subjects
connected with second-class mail matter.
The future postal relations Of the United
States with Cuba were touched upon. The
President heartily approved of the under
standing reached with the President-elect
of Cuba to continue the 2-cent rate OF pos
tage between the two countries and also in
relation to the money order service.
xxx
The Senate committee on the Philippines
did not hear testimony to-day because of
the failure of a witness to arrive. This ex-
pected witness is Grover Clint, of Cam
bridge, Mass, who spent some time in the
Philippines and who is reported TO have
stated hat he had seen the water cure"
administered He will be heard Monday
On motion Of Senator Beveridge the COM
mittee by a party vote OF . TO I adjourned
until Monday. although Senator Carmack
stated that he had requested Edward At
kinson to come TO Washington for the pur-
pose of testifying.
The secretary of war to-day sent TO the
Senate a communication from General
Wood again asserting that the planters and
Cuban sugar dealers hold the bulk of Gu
ban sugar. The amount held is so great,
he says, that they must unload very soon.
He says this large amount when thrown on
the market will greatly reduce the price.
anu LAidl cid VI III ONa t14All
of the duty on sugar in the United States
is playing directly into the hands of the
sugar trust.
The ~triennial conclave OF the General
Society, Sons of the Revolution, convened
here to-day. President Roosevelt received
the delegates at the White House at $3.50
this morning, and half an hour later they
left for Mount Vernon, where a business
meeting was held.
The joint special committee of Congress
on the exercises for the late President
Mckinley to-day adopted a resolution
which will be reported TO the House by
Representative Grosvenor, giving the
thanks of Congress to Secretary Hay for
the Grafton delivered on the occasion of the
exercises. Representative Champ Clark, OF
Missouri. stated that he might determine
TO make a minority report. He referred to
Mr.. Hays grafton as a literary gem. in
which no single sentence could be found
violating any political propriety. And yet
as a whole. Mr.. Clark said, there was a
thread OF politics running through il. and
for that reason he might want TO dissent.
Mr.. Parker. of New Jersey. asked Mr..
Clark not to take this course. but the mat
ter was left open. Representative Hooker.
as TO the political aspect of the Grafton.
He pointed out that Mr.. Mckinley had
been through the many political struggles
of recent years and his work was a part
of the political history of the times. so
that il was appropriate that the eulOgy