The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-04
No Information Concerning the Mill
tary Post Yet Given Out by the
War Department.
NOT THE scHoFIELD TRACT
ACCORDING TO ONE MAN WHO WIS.,
TIED THE DEPARTMENT.
Representative Overstreet to See Sec
retary Root TO-Day-PrOtest from
the Water Company.

Staff Correspondence of the Journal
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3-The War De-
partment has not yet made public the text
of the report of the army board that recon-
mended 'site No. A. as the location for
the military post near Indianapolis 1t
is, therefore, impossible to say what par
ticular tracts of land comprise the site. In
fact, the secretary of war has thus far
taken no action regarding the report, and
nothing has been gievn out from the de-
partment regarding the locality except the
facts stated by the Journal this morning
Just where site No. is located no one
seems to know, except that 1t is suggested
1T is the site northeast of Indianapolis.
1t was said this evening by a man who
claimed to know and who got his informa-
tion from the War Department that site
No. lies nine miles northeast Of the city
of Indianapolis. And I'm informed it is
not the Schofield site,' he added Repre-
sentative Overstreet expected to take up
the matter with the secretary of war this
morning, but that officer has been too busy
all day to discuss the question The
boards report is yet in possession of Sec
retary Root, and it was said at the War
Department this evening that the secre-
Mr.. Overstreet was told this morning that
as soon the secretary of war is ready
to dispose of the report he desires to talk
to the Seventh district congressman about
it. Mr.. Overstreet rather expected a mess
age from the War Department this even
ing, but none came He will communicate
with the adjutant generals office tomorrow
in the event he does not receive a sum-
mons from the secretary of war. 1t is un-
derstood, however, that the secretary will
examine the report more thoroughly to-
morrow. Early to-day Mr.. Overstreet was
reported to have said
1.-The post is to be located on the Big Four
Railroad and the Union Traction Company
line, northeast of the city. The site select
ed is officially designated as No. 4, but it
is a modification of what is called the Scho-
field site. There now seems every reason
to believe that the negotiations for the sale
of the arsenal grounds and the purchase
of the post site will be closed up without
further delay.
.'This being Cabinet day. the secretary
was unable to take up the subject with me
to-day. He Is to let me know when he is
ready to proceed. We are all anxious that
there shall be no delay, for the reason that
If we are to ask for an appropriation we
must get it through in the sundry civil BILL
which is now on the calendar and may be
taken up at any time. 1t Is true that the
sion that the government shall pay the
sewer assessment against the arsenal
grounds out of the proceeds of the sale but
the amendment will come out in conference
committee. The full proceeds of the sale
will be utilized in purchasing a post SITE
The government has never paid sewer as
sessments. and ii does not propose to begin
now.
The War Department has begun to won-
der whether the people of Indianapolis
really want military post. 1t seems that
when the department is about to select a
site some one comes I'm with an objection
to the location. The latest feature in the
site question Is a telegram from the Indian
apolis Water Company serving notice on
the department that If 1t intends to erect
a post on Fall creek and expects to empty
sewage into the creek the water company
will interpose most serious objection The
company announces that within the next
six months it expects to be pumping water
from the creek. c. A. c.