The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-09
HARRISON STATUE SITE'
CONGRESS TO Be ASKED
TO LEGAl|lE LOCATION
Joint Resolution on the Subject
Will Be introduced by SEN
ator Fairbanks.
MANY PENSION BILLS
House Gives George w. Spahr
$50 Month-No Trust
Legislation.


the Senate early next week a joint resolution
permitting the construction Of the proposed
statue of Banjamin Harrison on the fed
eral building site in Indianapolis. While
at home during the holidays, Senator Fair
banks had a conference with the directors
of the Memorial Association, at which the
question of a location was thoroughly can
vassed. 1t was agreed that the federal site
was the proper one for the Harrison stat
ute 1t is understood that objection was
made to accept permission from the gov
eminent in the form of a revocable license
as was proposed by the secretary of the
treasury. decision was reached that Ii
would be better TO have Congress author
ize the placing of the statue on the govern
ment land, and accordingly Senator Fair
banks will introduce a joint resolution for
the purpose. This measure will be approved
by the Treasury Department
John Kennedy, formerly OF Indianapolis,
who is behind the movement having for it's
purpose the placing of typesetting machines
in the Government Printing Office, finds
that he has delicate task to perform. Ken
nedy was formerly Identified with labor or
CARNATIONS, and was appointed as a repre-
sentative Of labor on the Industrial Com
mission. His action in undertaking to in
troduce machines into the Government
Printing Office is bitterly condemned by his
former associates. Mr.. Kennedy SAYS that
modern methods in the printing of govern
ment publications are certain to be adopted,
and that opposition on the part OF the labor
unions will prove ineffective. Mr.. Kennedy
has conferred with Representative Charles
y. Lands, chairman of the House committee
on printing, in this connection So far,
Chairman Lands has given no expression as
to what attitude he will take relative to
placing machinery in the Government Print
ing Office.
Notwithstanding the fact that Senator'S
Fairbanks and Beverage are very well
known in Indiana, amusing mistakes are
made by persons in the State who address
mail TO them. The senior senator has Just
| received a letter addressed to Hon. Albert
jeremiah Fairbanks The junior recently
received a letter addressed TO Hon. Charles
| w. Beveridge-
A voluminous package, containing news
| paper clippings and letters from prominent
men in Indiana. bearing on the life of the
late George ]. Langsdale. of Indianapolis.
have been placed on file in the Postoffice
| Department. They testify to the worth of
the man to whom credit is cue for the cree
| ton of the soldiers and sailors monument
in the Indiana capital. Several months be-
| fore his death efforts were made to force
! Office where he held a position as book
keeper. The papers Just received at the de-
| partment are made a part of the record of
| the deceased as an official of the postal
service They were forwarded to the first
assistant postmaster general by Senator
| Beveridge.
The impression prevails here that there
will be no effort made TO secure at this ses-
| clio Of odl oicIo
the trust question. The plan now seems
to be to wait for developments through the
operation of the bureau of corporations in
the Department of Commerce. The work
undertaken by the bureau has been moder-
ate and so little calculated to arouse OPP
position that the public Is hardly aware
that ii has been at work at all. However,
leved to be the means, If required at any
time, to set a number Of hitherto exceed
| ingly difficult problems at rest. For in
| stance, the coal strike. which for time
taxed the ingenuity Of the best minds in
the government, ii is now said would have
| had no chance TO occur had the informa-
ton in its possession been gathered prior to
the strike. No serious obstacle has been
| encountered thus far in the aim of the
bureau to get all the data needed TO carry
out the publicity cure for the trusts when
| occasion requires. The President will not
| ask Congress to add in any way TO the
present law and 1t is doubtful IL any of
the score of bills proposed since the as
sembling of Congress will ever reach the
stage of serious consideration. The
bureau Of corporations will go on with its
work under the present law.
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Interest in the postal Investigations was
renewed by the dismissal OF Daniel S. Rich
ardson. cashier In the San Francisco post
office Richardson was the manager of the
Postal Device and Improvement Company,
to street letter boxes, showing the hours
of collection. He is alleged to have dis
tributed blocks of stock in the company
among Machen, Beavers and others in
order to secure the adoption of the device
manufactured by his company. The Bris-
tow report strongly intimates that Perry
s. Heath former first assistant postma ster
| general the beneficiary of Richard
sons lberality with stock TO the extent of
1000 shares. The details of the dealings
| of Richardson and his company with the
Postoffice Department officials mentioned
are fully set forth in the Brstow report
which states: THE evidence in this case
was submitted TO the United States at
torney for the District of Columbia and
Beavers, Machen and Erwin were indicted
on Sept. s, 1903, for conspiracy to defraud
the government. The district attorney de-
cided that the evidence against Heath was
not sufficient to justify his Indictment "
The secretary of the treasury to-day trans
mitted to the House a request for an APP
preparation of $40 200 for the payment of Of
ficers and men entitled. according to judg-
raents of the Court OF Claims, TO bounty fol
destruction of the enemys vessels at San
tiagO, Cuba, July 3, 1898.
| Secretary Root has transmitted to Con
gress an estimate OF 1000 for an appro.
priation for the purchase of land in the Dis
trict of Columbia for a site and the cree
ton thereon Of an army general hospital
''for the treatment of special classes OF
cases, for purposes OF instruction in con.
! nectiOn with an army medical school train.
ing enlisted men of the hospital corps IN
nursing and TO serve a base hospital in
time or war.
| Representative Williams, OF Mississippi
introduced a bill to-day providing: THAI
from and after the passage OF this act NJ
duty shall be levied or collected upon Goa
of any form or description imported into IN,
United States from foreign countries" Alss
a bill requiring the secretary OF the treasury
! to make full rebate of duties paid on al
coal Of every description imported into tn,
United States from foreign countries for tn,
period OF one year.
The House was asked to-day by the Stat,
Department for authority to allow Rea.
J Admiral L. II. McCalla, of the navy, TO ac