The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-26
MR.. w. D. FOULKE is INDIGNANT
TERRE HAUTE INQUIRY NOT IN
sPIRED BY PARTISAN MOTIVES.
Charge that the Sugar Trust Owns
the Cane Crop of Cuba TO BE
PrObed by the senate.
pecial to the Indianapolis Journal.

In these dispatches on April 10 It was stated
that six Indiana cities would be included in
this bill These indiana cities are pro-
vided for, and since then Crawfordsvllle
has been added to the list. The appropria-
tons authorized for Indiana cities are as
follows: Elkhart, $4,000; Logansport, $75.-
600; Muncie, $4,000; Richmond, $4,000; Vim
cennes, $4,000; Charlottesville, $4,000, and
Hammond, S135.O0O. When asked why the
appropriation for Hammond exceeded that
of other cities the chairman of the commit
tee stated that * was on account of the
United States courts at that city and the
recommendation of the Treasury Depart
ment In several instances the representa-
tives will insist that the appropriations be
increased from SIS, 600 to $125, 900. This will
be matter for the House and Senate con-
ferees to settle.
The bill will carry authorizations for
public buildings in every State in the Union
except Delaware and Idaho, for which
States no bills were introduced. In all
there are 173 authorizations in the BILL hf-
ty-eight increasing the limit of cost OF
buildings already provided for, seventy
seven for new sites and buildings, six Tor
the construction of buildings on sites al
ready purchased and owned by the govern
ment, sixteen for the construction of build
ings on donated sites and sixteen authorize
tions for the purchase of sites only
William Dudley Foulke, commissioner of
the civil service returned from Terre Haute
to-day, where he has been taking testimony
in the collector of internal revenue inquiry.
He was very angry over the published re-
ports in an Indianapolis newspaper to the
effect that he had been making an investi-
CATION inspired by partisan motives. He
said that il was absolutely false that he
trNri IN "A
or a set of men and to shield another and
those associated with him. He said that he
went to Terre Haute for the purpose OF
finding out all there was to be found out
and that he would be governed entirely by
the evidence. Mr.. Foulke said he would
venture no opinion on the result until the
testimony was written out and he had been
able to consider the case in its entirety.
The Fletcher National Bank of Indianapo-
lis was to-day approved as a reserve agent
for the National Bank of Carmi, ILL.,, the
Hamilton National Bank of Fort Wayne,
Ind, and the First National Bank of
Knightstown, Ind.
The Senate to-day passed bills pensioning
the following Indianians: James S. Myers.
$50; Nimrod Heddington. $50; Winfield S.
Piety $780,
The Senate committee on relations with
Cuba this Afternoon decided to institute
an investigation into the charge that
the greater part of the present crop of
Cuban sugar is held by the sugar trust of
this country, as directed by the resolution
introduced in the Senate by Mr.. Teller on
the 10Th inst.
The action of the committee was favor
able only to the first half of the resolution
which provides for an inquiry affecting the
present holdings of Cuban sugar. 1t was
decided to strike out that portion OF the
resolution requesting investigation of the
normal cost of making sugar in Cuba and
also into the general question OF reciprocity
with Cuba. The committee held that those
questions were always before the commit
tee and that to adopt that portion of the
resolution would be equivalent to instruc-
ton of the committee to perform its or
binary duties. A provision was ADDED en-
towering the committee TO send for persons
and papers, and a subcommittee, consisting
of Senators Platt of Connecticut, Burnham
and Teller, was appointed to hear the tes-
timony. Senator Plat announced that ii
was his purpose to extend all facilities to
those making the charge that the Cuban
planters would not get the benefit OF the
proposed reduction in duties to prove those
charges adding that he would do all in his
power to render the inquiry exhaustive.
The resolution as adopted and the preamble
upon which il is based follow:
Whereas, 1t has been currently reported
that nearly the entire crop of Cuban sugar
has been purchased and is now held by
what is generally known as the sugar
trust and which is the principal consumer
of raw sugar in the United States, and
that any concessions given to the raisers of
cane sugar in the Island of Cuba, or any
measures intended for their relief by ad-
hitting their sugar at reduced rates of
duty into the United States will only ben
eft the said sugar trust, and that the
Cubans will receive no real benefit from
such concessions;
Whereas, 1t is alleged that a large num-
Der Of citizens of the United States have
acquired large holdings of reproducing
lands in Cuba and are now especially urg-
ing the reduction of the duty on sugar un-
der the claim that such reduction will ben
eft the people of Cuba; therefore. be il
Resolved That the committee on rela-
tions with Cuba be, and is hereby, directed
to make an investigate as TO the truth of
such charges and to report to the Senate"
The President to-day received a delega-
ton consisting of members of the Mer-
chants Association of New York, the Cham
Der of Commerce and the Cotton Exchange,
accompanied by ladies. The delegation is on
it's way home from a visit to the Charleston
exposition and numbered about forty. Will
liam +. King, chairman of the delegation
from the Merchants Association, made a
brief address. The President responded as
follows:
Mr.. King, Ladies and Gentlemen-I ap-
preciate very much your visit 10 me- and I
am very glad you were down at Charleston.
L was deeply touched by the reception /
met there-a reception not personal TO me.
but given TO me as representing the nation
TO which all of us belong, and all the parts
of which and the success of any part of
which are matters Of pride for every one
of us everywhere. l feel in the strongest
way that nothing can be more important
than the building up Of the great industrial
interests Of the South through just such
organizations as you represent here to-day.
/ thank you for calling upon me- You rem
resent bodies of the kind that have made
New Yorks greatness what il Is AS re-
CARDS what Mr.. King said concerning the
expressions used by the people Of Charles
ton about me l can only say that / am
going 10 do my best TO deserve them and
TO deserve your good will. and 10 do all that
l can. all that in me lies TO help In keeping
up the wonderful prosperity. material and
moral, OF our country" GApplause.l
Xxx
The President to-day sent the following
nominations to the Senate:
Consuls-Alfred NJ. Gotschalk, Of New
York. at san Juan del Norte, Nicaragua;
Rufus Waterman, Rhode Island, at Dublin
Ireland.
Revenue Cutter service-second Lieuten-
ant +. G.. Dodge. Massachusetts. first lieu
tenant.
Navy-Commander Albert Ross. captain
Paymasters TO be pay inspectors. Charles
w. Littlefield William w. Gait and Arthur
Peterson. Passed assistant paymasters tC
be paymasters-John Irwin, jr.. and j. T.
Merriam. Assistant paymasters TO be