The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-12
He Does Not Favor Spending Five to
Seven Millions Merely for
Adornment Of the Capital.
NOW SEEKING INFORMATION
HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS AsKEI
FOR EXPLICIT STATEMENTS.
Their Views to BE Made the Basis of
a Report to the Senate-New
Rural Mail Routes.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Feb Ex-senator Fair
banks has requested the secretary of the
treasury, the secretary of state and the
attorney general to make reports to the
Senate committee on public buildings and
grounds as to the necessity of making ap-
preparation for the construction OF build
ing to accommodate the offices of the ex-
ecutive, the State Department and the De-
partment of Justice The senator is not
disposed to favor a five or seven-million-
dollar building merely for the adornment
of the District of Columbia. He believes
in furnishing public buildings as rapidly
as consistent with the needs of the gov
eminent. For this reason he asks the
heads of the departments mentioned to
appear before the committee either in the
form of reports or in person to make a
showing to the needs of the building.
The State Department is now on the point
of being crowded out of the state, war
and navy building. Both the War and
Navy Departments rent more room on the
outside than they in the building
owned by the government devoted to their
purposes. The Department of Justice has
no building of its own and is a tenant in
private dwelling houses scattered over
Washington. The President is so crowded
in the White House that there is scarcely
room for the force of clerks necessary for
the transaction of public business, to say
nothing Of the space necessary for the
living rooms of the President and his fam
lily. 1t is apparent that new building is
needed for the purpose Indicated, but Sen
ator Fairbanks desires an explicit state
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economy of a building the site desig-
mated and as to the desirability of placing
all under one roof in a large and very
expensive building. The reports TO be re-
ceived and the Investigation which the
senator's and members Of the committee Of
which he is chairman will form the basis
of the report which the senator will make
to the Senate.
Representative Tayler. of Ohio, chairman
of elections committee No. 1, raised ques-
ton at last nights caucus of Republican
representatives to consider the Crumpacker
proposition, as to the application of a fed
eral statute of June %, 1868, fixing the terms
upon which the late revolted States should
be admitted to representation in Congress.
That act provided that the States of North
Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Geor-
gia, Florida and Alabama should be ad-
mitted to representation when the Legis-
lature of each State had ratified the four
teenth amendment to the Constitution of
the United States, and upon the follow
ing conditions: That the Constitution of
neither of said States shall ever be so
amended or changed as to deprive any citi-
zen or class of citizens of the United States
of the right TO vote by the Constitution
thereof herein recognized. except as a pun
ishment for such crimes are now felonies
at common law, whereof they shall have
been duly convicted under laws equally ap-
plicable to all the inhabitants of said
"
and by Mr.. Tayler is viewed as applicable.
Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, has. given
notice of an amendment he proposes offer
ing to the District appropriation bill when
1T comes up in the Senate fixing the salary
of the warden of the jail in the District at
$500 per annum.
Four more rural free delivery routes will
be established in Indiana on April 1, as fol-
lows:
Dunkirk, Jay county.-One carrier; length
of route, twenty-five and three-eighths
miles; area covered, twenty-three square
miles population served, 593; number of
houses on route, 119; carrier, William II. H.
Moore. Star route 80, 7l6 discontinued. Post
office at Ridertown TO be supplied by rural
mail carrier. Mail to Dunkirk. Ind
Bryant, Jay county.-One carrier; length
of route, twenty-three and one-half miles;
area covered twenty-six square miles: pop
ulation served. 695; number of houses on
route, 139; carrier, Ernest NJ. Whiteman.
Star routes 1858 and 80, 73S discontinued.
Postoffices at Dick and New Corydon to be
supplied by rural carriers. Mail to Bryant,
Ind.
Carbon Clay county.-One carrier: length
of route, twenty-five and one-half miles;
area covered. twenty-five square miles;
population served, $40; number of houses on
route, 100; carrier, Thomas Jones. Star
route SO, 442 discontinued. Postoffice at
Mansfield to be supplied by rural carriers.
Mail to Carbon, Ind.
Borden, Clark county.-One carrier; length
of route twenty miles; area covered, TWEEN
ty-one square miles; population served, 100;
number of houses on route, 100; carrier, Z.
]. Porter Postofiices at Blankenbaker,
Washington county, and Henze, Clark
county, to be discontinued. Star routes
80, 754 and SS,172 discontinued. Mail to Bor-
den, Ind.
Former United States Senator Pasco
now a member of the isthmian canal COM
mission, testified before the Senate COM
mittee on interoceanic canals to-day that
he had carefully investigated the PROPOSE
ton made by the new Panama Canal Com
pany for the sale of the Panama canal
rights. and that he was fully convinced
that under the French laws and the usage
of the French courts that company has
wand title TO the franchises and right
of way 10 the canal and could therefore
make a transfer to the United States which
Adjutant General Corbin has received a
letter from Major Hunter, Fifteenth Cav
airy, repudiating the newspaper interview
in which he is represented as criticising
General Skaters conduct of the Santiago
campaign and as making the assertion
that army appointments are Influenced by
political considerations. Major Hunter de-
MES having made the statements attributed
TO him, either at the Contemporary Clut
dinner or at any other time or place.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jones has
given formal notice that the new leases OF
the $4,000 acres of Kiowa Indian lands
in Oklahoma. bordering on Texas. will take
effect April l. as originally proposed. Ar
effort had been made TO have the date post
poned some months.
Clarence Z. Dawson, chairman of the
civil board of the rural free delivery serv.
ice. has resigned to enter private business
He was for years secretary TO the postmas
ter general.
Presley NJ. Rixey. the new surgeon gen
eral of the navy, to-day entered on tn,
duties OF that office.