The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-29
MR.. EVANS RESIGNS.
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states United States Consul General Frank
Mason. at Berlin, in a communication dated
Feb. Is, which was made public at the
State Department to-day. But the report
has not been published, says Mr.. Mason,
and, In accordance with the usual practice
of the German government in such cases,
will not be. Mr. Mason consulted Minister
that a great deal had been learned by the
scientific study of the American railway
systems. and that he Che minister) regard
ed as especially interesting and valuable
the American plan of locomotive construc-
ton in standard types. with Interchangeable
parts. The Germans admit, says the con-
sui general, that the American system is
wonderfully efficient and capable and splen-
didly adapted TO the conditions of the coun-
try. German miners and manufacturers,
says Mr.. Mason, look with envious surprise
upon the economies Of railway freight in
America, and their main hope for the
future is in the extension and improvement
OF the inland river and canal system, which
is advocated so urgently by the imperial
government.
Secretary Root has completed his answer
to the House resolution calling for the cor
respondence between the department and
Lieutenant General Miles respecting the
latter's proposition to visit the Philippines.
The answer would have gone to the House
to-day except for a misunderstanding as TO
whether the body was in session, and 1t
will consequently go in tomorrow or Mon
day.
xxx
1t was reported about the House of Rep
%resentatives to-day that Representative
Babcock, Of Wisconsin, who has been in
i'll health Of late, would go to Atlantic City
for a stay Of some time. This report caused
quite a stir among the elements interested
in Cuban reciprocity, as Mr.. Babcock 5
vote was thought TO be necessary TO report
the bill from the ways and means commit
tee by Republican votes. Those opposing
thu pnNnl hill uvaTa mUPh QlQTn6 over tho
report. Later in the day Mr.. Babcock Wis
tied the House and conferred with ways
and means leaders and with Speaker Hen
GerSOn. 1t was said afterWard ina MI.
BabcOck will not leave the city at once,
owing to difficulty of securing a~ccommoda-
lions at Atlantic City, and that this will
enable him TO attend a meeting of the ways
and means committee before he left. II is
expected Chairman Payne will call a meet
ing early next week, and the friends of
the reciprocity measure said there is no
further doubt the bill will be reported by
Republican votes.
The session of the Cabinet to-day was
largely taken up in discussing the de-
tails preparatory TO the withdrawal of
the United States from Cuba. Secretary OF
Agriculture Wilson made a statement re-
garding the discrimination by Germany
against American food products, especially
meats. He pointed out that the German
analysis of these food products undoubt-
I'll vert AElN EGNtlt anu llliAlLalCl LllaL
If similar analyses were resorted to by
American officials against German food
products coming into the United States
millions of dollars of German goods would
be shut out OF this country every year.
The position taken by Secretary Wilson Is
regarded as a mild intimation TO Germany
that the present situation cannot continue.
Xxx
The sundry civil appropriation bill. the
most important of the government supply
measures, was completed to-day by the
House committee on appropriations. The
bill appropriates $40. 316. 295, being $12. ass. O42
less than the regular and supplemental es-
Inmates and Sl2,579.5l2 less than the appro-
priations for the current fiscal year. Among
: the contract items provided In excess Of the
buildings. &.S39 646; Yellowstone Park. 500
600; Louisiana Purchase Exposition. for
government building and exhibit, 81. 4S0, 900:
permanent census Office and twelfth cen
sus. 81, 100000; seacoast battery sites. etc,
Sl,537. $50: river and harbor continuing con-
items are as follows: Atlanta CGa.) Peni-
Tertiary, 100000; Chickamauga and Chat
tanooga Park, $4,000: Chinese exclusion act.
500. O00. defending suits. Spanish treaty
claims commission. $4,000; L~eavenworth
/ (KanD Penitentiary, $4,000: enlargement
of military posts. Si.5s7. $50; preventing de-
posits IN New York harbor. $4,000; portrait
of W.>iam Mckinley. $3.50: Shiloh Mil
tary &rk. $4,000: Nicksburg Military Park.
100000. Among the p~ublic-building items is
100000 for Indianapolis. The bill contains
a general provision directing the secretary
Congress an appropriation for the consoli-
dalton OF the existing commissions hav-
ing charge or the several military parks
! or substituting therefor a commission con-