The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-13

ton of the people connected with the
United States at Picking who went through
the Boxer siege. and expressing an interest
in their welfare The department has re-
piled that the legationers referred to are
all well as far as 1t knows.
Secretary Root is suffering from cold
and was compelled to leave his office early
this afternoon and go home for medical
treatment
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Spaulding has sent telegram to Collector
Ivy, at Sitka. Alaska, stating that the de-
partment is unoffhcially advised that he
has issued instructions suspending collec-
ton of tonnage tax and virtually closing
Cnalaskan ports to vessels alleged to be
engaged in pelagic sealing, and informing
him that such action is unauthorized by
law. Copies of such Instructions are d.
rected to be forwarded at once to the de-
partment.
Pursuant to instructions of the secretary
of war, the commanding officer at Fort
Slocum has assigned seventy-five recruits
at that post to the Second Cavalry and
sent them to Havana by Ward line
steamer, under charge of Major Il. w. Tor
rey, Twenty-fourth Infantry. 1t is said
at the War Department that there Is
special significance in this small increase
of the military forces in Cuba, the purpose
being merely to complete the organization
of the troops of the Second Cavalry on the
island
The ways and means committee to-day
referred the investigation OF the right of
the treaty making power to conclude reci-
procity agreements affecting duties and
revenues without consulting the House of
Representatives to special committee
consisting of Representatives Dalzell and
-. ID IL.
and Robertson, Democrats. This resolution
was introduced by Mr. Tawney, of Mime
sofa, and. having benn adopted by the
House, Mr.. Tawney to-day asked that the
foregoing special committee proceed with
the investigation.
A cable message was received at the
War Department to-day saying that the
total collections at all ports in the Philip
pines except Siassi. for the month of jan
uary were about $4,000 in gold, being near
ly as much as the collections during Oc-
tober and November last and about $780,
600 more than the collections for the months
of August and September last.
The Egyptian postal administration has
advised this government that postoffices for
the receipt and dispatch of registered mails
have been established at Khartum, Fa-
shoda and twenty-five other places in the
Sudan. Postmasters throughout the United
States have been instructed to be prepared
to receive and register mail to and from
these places.
The House committee on immigration to-
day heard Charles Litchman, of the indus
trial commission. and Prof. j. r. Commons
an expert of the commission, in favor of
an educational test for immigrants i'm the
proposed bill codifying and amending the
immigration laws.
a cablegram has been received at the
State Department from A. Firmin, the
Haytien minister at Paris, expressing SYM
PATTY with the President at the illness of
his son. An appropriate acknowledgment
Will be made.
Gen. Isaac Khan, the minister Of Persia
to the United States, has received many
inquiries recently about the rumored inten-
ton of the Shah of Persia to be present
at the coronation i'm London next June of
King Edward VII. In an interview to-day
General Khan said: According to inter-
national etiquette no crowned head can
assist, of course, at the coronation of an
other sovereign, and for that reason. If for
no other. his Majesty, the Shah, will not
go to London. His Highness the Prince
MoayedeS- Saltan, cousin of the ST an
was designated some time ago TO represent
his Majesty at the coronation, as ii is the
custom in Persia to send a prince of i'm
perial blood to represent the crown at the
coronation of foreign sovereigns."