The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-12
WASHINGTON NEWS OF
INTEREST TO INDIANIANS
Messrs. Chew and Masten Given
Important Duties-Important
Bill by Mr.. Brick.
PLEA FOR E. H. CORBIN

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, April In. L. Chew
deputy auditor of the Postoffice Depart
ment, and John y. Masten, assistant SUI
perintendent in the railway service, both of
Indiana, have been appointed members of
committee which is intrusted with the
duty of determining whether it is advisable
TO pay star route contractors and mail
messengers monthly instead of quarterly.
The proposed change, if made, will have an
important bearing The postal service.
Messrs. Chew and ,Masten are designated
for membership on the committee on &C
count of their familiarity with the subject
under consideration.
An important bill, defining the power of
the academic board at the Annapolis Mill
tary Academy, was introduced to-day by
Representative Brick. 1t provides that can
didates to the academy shall be examined
under such regulations the secretary OF
the navy shall prescribe, and that the can
didates rejected either in the mental or
physical examinations shall not be privil-
eyed to enter another examination for ad-
mission to the same class unless recon-
mended by the academy board Another
proviso is that any candidate found DELL
cient at any examination shall not be con-
tinued in the academy unless such a recon-
mendation is made in the board.
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Senator Fairbanks to-day presented res
olutions of the Retail Merchants Associa-
tons of Evansville and Sullivan in opposi-
ton to rural carriers enjoying agency priv
ileges.
Samuel Harpham has been recommended
by Senator Fairbanks for appointment as
postmaster at Hudson, Steuben county.
Application has been filed with President
Roosevelt asking Communication of sentence
for E. II. Corbin, of Vincennes, who is
serving a two-year term of Imprisonment
at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Corbin's moth
er. Mrs. Adeline Anderson, makes the plea
in his behalf. The young man was con-
victed in indianapolis Of forging his moth
ers name TO money order. In a letter
received from Mrs. Anderson to-day she
states that her son II not sound in mind,
and that it was not her desire to prosecute
him. She claims that she signed an affidavit
making the charge against him without
knowledge of it's contents. The matter will
first be referred to Attorney General Knox
before any action is taken by the President.
John E. Bixler and wife, of Lafayette,
were to-day presented to President Roose-
Welt by NJ. w. Miller assistant secretary
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Laura B. Foster, of Indiana. has been ap-
pointed to a position in the Interior De-
partment
On the recommendation of Senator Beve-
ridge Lieutenant Austin A Parker of In
dianapols. has been detailed for duty at
the st. Louis exposition. He is at present
stationed at Fort Assinniboine, Mont.
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NJ. Joel, of Valparaiso, is among the
| Indiana visitors here.
Representative Brick will appear before
| the committee commerce tomorrow to
urge a favorable report on his bill
to legalze and permit the maintenance
| of dams and bridges over the ST. Jo-
seph river. He will also make an argu-
! ment before the House committee on post
offices in support of the bill for the relief
! who lost $4,000 in the failure of the In
diana National Bank.
Lieutenant Governor Gilbert left for New
York to-day. While here he made a round
of the departments in the interests of per-
sons in the Twelfth Indiana district.
Among other things he recommended the
establishment of a complete system of rural
free delivery in Allen county.
| The Merchants National Bank of In
| agent for the Merchants National Bank
/ of Peoria, ILL.,
Zua Coulter was to-day appointed post
master at Livona, Washington county
vice Dempsey l.. Hutchinson, resigned.