The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-03
k.ANs OF MR.. ovERsTREET
! y MAY INTRODUCE A POSTAL SCAN
DIAL INQUIRY RESOLUTION.
i III BE Chairman of the House Com
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n Ordered TO Indianapolis.
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goose the place and time for the national
c1nvention. Senator Hanna, chairman OF
tie national committee. objects to having
ISeath forced to resign now, owing to the
Criticism Of his administration of the Post
ofice Department In General Bristow's re-
I4rt- Senator Hanna holds that such ac-
tan would look too much like persecu-
tfn. and he also has personal regard for
oath, and has urged that he should not
kire now under fire. While some party
Ktders believe the sooner Mr.. Heath's con-
rtction with the national committee is
savered the better. yet the President and
RS advisers do not intend to urge any
dturse at this time which would tend to
SIR up further animosity in Republican
Kinks. 1t is regarded as probable that when
tie national committee is reorganlzed at
tee national convention next June Harry
81 New, of Indianapolis, will supersede Mr..
Heath secretary.
Representative Overstreet, of Indiana,
td a long talk with Postmaster General
Htyne to-day, and while neither would d.
ytlge the subject of their conference. it
II understood TO have related to. Postoffice
department affairs.
Representative Overstreet will be chair
ran Of House committee on postofices and
list roads in the Fifty-eighth Congress,
ed almost the entire personnel of the old
dtmmittee is to be changed. 1t is possible
t4at Representative Overstreet will intro
Cesce I'm the House in the regular session
q resolution similar to that already intro
q ced by Mr.. Penrose in the Senate, calling
ftr all the papers and documents bearing
81 the recent postal investigation by Gen.
ekal Bristow and the departments inspec-
ttrs. Just what course will be pursued.
ltwever, will be further considered after
lie regular session organizes next week.
Assistant Secretary Taylor has approved
tie plans for the proposed public building
Il vincennes, Ind. The designs for this
Kidding were prepared by Architects Von-
itgut & Bohn, OF Indianapolis.
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II. F. Laist, superintendent OF construc-
tabn at Cleveland. has been directed to pro-
taed to Indianapolis to certify vouchers
tyvering payments to the contractors on
TIE public building in that city. Mr.. LASTS
assignment to Indianapolis Is only tenn
J{lrary. A permanent superintendent of
obstruction at Indianapolis in place of
limos J. Bowden, deceased, will not be ap-
4inted until Rankin & Kellogg have been
Hard from. Their contract with the gov
eminent provides that an appointment
q all not be made without their approval.
kDaniel Z. Griner. of Portland. Ind, is an
applicant for a place as special agent in
tie Land Office. He has been Endorsed by
Anator Fairbanks.
HARRY Grassland and Wilbur N. Cannon,
L. -
alce at the meeting of warehousemen of
tie United States.
SENATOR Fairbanks was a caller at the
9hite House to-day. He was in confer
ace with President Roosevelt nearly an
lbur. He said that among things he dis
tssed was the candidacy OF Capt. Hoyt
9cCain for a position on the staff OF the
1dge advocate general. but was informed
at the place was to be reserved for an
4ncer Of the regular army. Captain
4 ate for this appointment.
~. Knox Taylor may visit Indianapolis
during the holidays to confer with the Har-
u son Monument Commission relative to the
Election of the statue of the late President
the public building square.
Mural free delivery will be established al
Memphis. Clarke county, Indiana, on Jan.
u The route win be twenty-five miles long
Nth a population of $50. Number OF
buses on the route, 116.
kwilliam ID. Lutes was to-day appointed
Ikstmaster at Royal Center, Cass county,
INDIANA, vice Lemuel r. Day. resigned.
IAN additional rural free delivery route
an be established at Genoa, Vernon coun-
O., Wisconsin, on Jan. l. 1t will be TWEEN.
Five miles long with a population of 500
humber or houses on route, loo.
lambert Neuberg was to-day appointed
yS,stmaster at Nenno. Washington county
vsce NJ. F. Gehl, resigned and Adeline
3lla NJ Rfstow. resigned.
3There is not the slightest probability tina,
General Wood will be recalled from the
philippines to testify in his own behalf
fffore the Senate committee The investi.
alton is proceeding in accordance with the
ISans OF the committee. but as yet it cannot
~ foretold how long the inquiry may con.
fSnue- The President sent the nomination
~ the Senate and IL Is proposed that the
Anate shall pass upon IT, 1t can be saiC
Sat 1t will not be withdrawn
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{Mr. Squiers, United States minister tc
tslba, called at the State Department to.
Aly to discuss the Cuban situation with
Secretary Hay. President Estrada Palma 1:
Striving 10 adjust the claims OF the veterans
y the Cuban army for back pay. but is con
3onted with an enormous increase in the
AMOUNT OF these claims, which originally
Acre about 100000 In the aggregate. hav,
4ow increased to So. 900. 900. In addition th'
civilians who were employed by the revo
Stionary government before Cuban indie
2sndence was achieved have united to pre-
y mt their claims for compensation, the al
4wance of which would increase the tota
Anount which the Cuban government mus
prov to no less than $75.Ooo,OO0-
sCoudert Brothers to-day filed brief II
Sae United States Supreme Court in tn
@lse OF Isabella Gonzales. the Porto Ricar
4oman, who upon attempting to land il
few York in the summer Of 1902 was takel
fto custody by immigration COMMISSIONS
Williams as an alien immigrant who wa
(kely 10 become public charge.
SThe brief Is in the woman's interest and L
"a argument against deportation, base
trgely upon the theory that she Is not al
alien. The case Ii considered important a
Soon It's decision Will depend the disposi
ION OF all the Spanish islanders who wer
II acceptance at the time the islands wer
Annexed by the United States: