The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-12
Postmaster General VIII Await Mr..
Bristow's Report Before Reor-
ganizing Department..
FIGHT AGAINST REED SMOOT
ORGANIZED EFFORT TO SECURE
THE SENATOR'S EXPULSION.
More Than 5000. 900 Pounds of Rub
Der Worth Over s3O.0Oo,ooO Inn
ported Last Year.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1l.-If the present
plan OF Postmaster General Payne is adj
hered 10 there will be no immediate dis
missals in the Postoffice Department. Mr..
Payne will not act until ne has carefully
considered the findings OF Mr.. Bristow, the
fourth assistant. who will complete his re-
port by the Goth inst II is regarded as GER
tain that number of persons who have
committed minor offenses and misdemeanors
will be compelled to walk the plank. 1t is
known that several officials have falsified
their expense accounts and they will be
among the first to go. Two months ago
Charles Hedges, superintendent of the city
delivery service, who formerly resided in
indianapolis, was dismissed for this, and
at the time. in a statement which he made
10 DEFEND the practice of putting in items
Tor expense when none was incurred, he
claimed that there were twenty-five other
men In the department who had done the
same thing, and he supposed that practice
was going on all the time. The twenty-five
have not been discovered, although 800
sharp clerks are employed in auditing post
Office accounts. 1t is said among employees
or the rural free delivery and the city free
delivery that there was at one time a good
deal OF this Justification of expense ac-
counts among the field officials under A
w. Machen, but a severe inquiry into the
charge has not produced any light on the
matter.
That an organized effort will be made 10
secure the expulsion from the United States
Senate OF Reed Smoot, of Utah, became
evident several months ago. The charge
against Smoot is that he is a Mormon and
practices polygamy. An agent of those
who are leading in the fight against Smoot
has just returned from Utah, where he
went to gather information about the SEN
ator's marital relations. He alleges that
he found plenty of people at Provo City,
Smoots home, who will swear that the
latter has more than one wife. 1t seems
that the people of Utah have no objection
TO being represented in the United States
Senate by Mormon, but they insist that
ne must be monogamist. 1t is proposed
that the Utah representation in the Senate
be divided equally among the gentles and
Mormons, with the stipulation that the lat
ter shall content himself with one wife
Smoot describes himself in the Congress
sional Directory as a graduate of the Brig
ham Young Academy. He says that he
was married Sept. H. 1884. to Alpha NJ
Eldredge." The Christian lobby is to fig
ure prominently in the effort to eject Smoot
from the Senate This is practically the
same organization that active in
the campaign against Mormon Roberts
when he was unseated I'm the House of Rep
resentatfves a few years ago. Attorney
Kitchener, formerly of Indiana, has been re-
tanned by the Ministerial Association TO
look after the legal end of the anti-Smoot
proceedings. Mr.. Michiner believes that
the evidence already in hand is strong
enough to insure strong fight being made
against Senator Smoot.
John Ross Key, the grandson of Francis
Scott Key, and distinguished artist, is
in Washington engaged upon a series of
studies for large pictures of the Capitol
Library, White House, and other public
buildings. Mr.. Key is native of Wash
ington. but has spent many years studying
abroad. He has made speciality of land
scape and architectural work The paint
ing now engaging his attention will be ten
by fifteen feet in size. These large oil can
vases will show. the magnificent buildings
of Washington reproduced for the first time
in large size and in colors number of
members of Congress have cordially in
dorsed Mr.. Keys project and say that they
hope these magnificent reproductions of the
Capitol, White House and Library especial
ly, will be finished in time to be exhibited
at the St Louis exposition. A photo
graphic copy fails absolutely TO give the
best impression of the buildings and more
lildii Onc toHSIcSSIndn III Ills 10 MT.
Key, suggests that ii will give visitors to
the exposition, who cannot afford to make
the trip to the capital city, the only cor
rect idea of the public buildings in WASH
ington that can be obtained.
More than 100000 pounds of India rub
Der, valued at more than $4,000 900, was i'm
ported into the United States last year. In
1890 the quantity only 80, 600, 600 pounds
in $780, 100000, in 1870. 100000, and in 1862
the earliest date at which 1t was separately
shown in the import statements, was only
2,l25,561 pounds. This very rapid growth in
the importation of crude India rubber is. of
course, due to the great increase in its use
III manufacturing, both TO rubber gar
ments, shoes, etc, and it's use in machinery
and as tires for vehicles. Over one hundred
million dollars worth of manufactures from
India rubber are now turned out from the
factories of the country every year. and
about half Of this total is i'm the form of
boots and shoes. So great Is the demand for
India rubber for use in manufacturing that
not only has the importation grown from
600 pounds In 1862 TO over 100000 an
nually at the present period, but in addition
10 this the forests of the East Indies are
called upon for several million pounds an
nuafly of new substitute for gutta- percha
known as ta-joolatong," while at the
same time the highways and byways of
Europe and other countries are ransacked
for cast-o6 rubber manufactures from
in combination with the new rubber from
the forests OF Brazil, Africa and the East
Indies.