The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-11
Navy Department Requests Senators
and Representatives to FIJI All Va
cancies i'm the Naval Academy.
PLEASED WITH THE MANEUvERS
ASSISTANT SECRETARY SANGER RE-
TURNS FROM FORT RILEY.
Names of Eminent Soldiers HOnored
by Secretary Root-Scope of Mica
ragua's New Labor Legislation.

WASHINGTON, Oct 1O.-Rear Admiral
Taylor, chief of the Bureau of Navigation,
has arranged for the assembling of the
three fleets which are to take part in the
big West Indian maneuvers at Culebra on
Dec. 5. All the vessels assigned will be
there then except the cruiser San Fran
cisco, which was suddenly called to Haiti
to meet an emergency. 1t will be neces-
sary for that vessel to return to the United
States for repairs which. it is estimated.
will take about months time. and thus
delay her a few days in taking her place
with the fleet in the West Indies. The
North Atlantic squadron is to sail from its
rendezvous at Hampton Roads for Culebra
not later than Nov. 20. and the European
and South Atlantic squadrons will start
from their stations about the same time.
Owing to the urgent need for naval Of
ficers the Navy Department has sent the
following telegram to all senators and rep
resentatives with vacancies for midshipmen
to fill:
lowing to the great need for naval Of
ficers the department will hold special
examination for midshipmen at Washing
ton city only, on Nov. II, under the super
vision of the naval service commission.
You are authorized to nominate principal
and five alternates under regulations re-
Gently mailed you. No candidate who has
failed to pass any midshipman examination
this year can be renominated for Nov. II.
Vacancies not filled at this examination
must remain over to be filed by members
Of the Fifty-eighth Congress"
Assistant Secretary Sanger, who repre-
scented the War Department during the
maneuvers at Fort Riley, has just returned
to this city, fully satisfied at the fine show
ing made by the troops, both regular and
State, under adverse weather conditions.
Mr.. Sanger was impressed especially with
the perfect sanitation of the great camp.
The sick report was actually lower at the
end OF the encampment than at the begin,
ming, showing that the men had improved
materially in health during their hard work
in the field. Mr.. Sanger paid special praise
to the State troops.
The annual report of Maj. Gen. Robert
P. Hughes, commanding the Department
of California, deals mainly with the routine
work of the department. He recommends
that the camp at Honolulu, Hawaii. known
as Camp Mckinley be made a permanent
post. During the year the total number
of recruits in the department was 1O.416
On the other hand, there was loss in
these recruits of 1876, resulting from as
signments to other stations, discharges,
deaths and assertions. The report shows
that the number Of prisoners increased
during the year, the majority being from
the department of recruits. The total num-
Der of assertions from the department
numbered sec.
he
of a number of soldiers who have distin-
guished themselves on the new seacoast
batteries. AT the Preside he has named
batteries in honor Of Second Lieut.. Henry
NJ Boutelle, Second Lieutenant Blaney and
Second Lieut.. Henry M. Baldwin, all killed
in action: At Fort Monroe he has
named Battery Anderson after the
defender of Fort Sumter and other
batteries after, Professor Church. of West
Point, De Russey after the builder of
Fort Monroe, Eustis after the commandant
of the artillery school. and Gatewood after
a celebrated Indian fighter. AT Fort Mott,
n. j., Brig. Gen. Lewis G. Arnold, a vet
rebellion, and Brigadier General Harper,
killed at Kenesaw mountain, have had
their names given to batteries.
Consul George w. Roosevelt, at Brussels,
under date of Sept. IL, has made an in
teresting report on the price of beef and
the scarcity of cattle in Belgium. He says
the probable increase in beef prices is
caused by the poor crop Of Indian corn
in the United States, advance in price of
American cattle, extensive purchases of
cattle by England in Holland causes which
are felt in all countries. In Germany alone
the retail price of beef has increased 10 per
cent. The Department of Agriculture of
Belgium says it is a mistake to believe
that If the frontier were free to Dutch
cattle the situation would be improved.
The sanitary inspection is not an obstacle
and nothing prevents the introduction Of
fat cattle
The State Department made public to-day
aqua, upon a law of the Nicaraguan gov
eminent regulating and defining labor in
its relations with capital. The law went
into effect on June 80 last. laborer is de-
fined as any person, male or female, over
sixteen years old and not having a capital
of 500. All laborers must have employers.
and those found without employment will
be imprisoned for twenty years. If Ia
borer desires money advance his
ployer can give ii to him only as a loan
without interest to be paid by remaining on
half salary or wages until the debt is paid.
isfactory settlement Of his debt will be i'm
prisoned, fined and obliged to return and
work it out. The consul says the purpose
of the law is TO do away with the practice
of advancing wages to the laborers on
contract which makes the laborer a slave
until he settles his accounts, and second, to
prevent idleness and vciousness, by obliging
every one without capital to be employed