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There Is reason to believe that a number
of Indiana Democrats sat with Boss Croker
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It is the clash of races which produces
the disorders in the Austro-Hungarian Diet.
Time seems not to soften these animosities,
hence the Austro-Hungarian empire is not
a nation.
There seems to be a lamentable lack of
discipline in some of the regiments which
will be sent to Cuba. This is due to the fact
that so many officers have not had experi
ence in commanding men.
There are probably many men in Con
gress like Representative Cannon, of Illi
nois—in favor of expansion because the
people seem to want it and not because they
are assured that it is for the best.
While the Philippines have never been a
source of revenue to Spain, of late, be
cause of the insurrection, they have been
a burden. Such being the case, the Span
iards should thank us for taking them.
There are two days in the year when Amer
icans abroad are very much in evidence—
the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving day.
The latter was celebrated with equal fervor
In London and Paris, in Porto Rico and the
Philippines.
Speaking of difficult situations and
weighty responsibilities, Senor Sagasta,
Spanish premier, has had his share of them
during the last few months, and candor
compels the admission that he has shown
great ability in meeting them.
It natural that Intelligent Cubans,
after ilieir long struggle for “free Cuba,"
should desire to experience at least a short
period of Independence under an experiment
at self-government, but all must see that
the ultimate destiny of the island is annexa
tion to the United States.
That the sentiment In favor of sound
money Is stronger than any local feature In
Western campaigns appears In the fact that
both Republican candidates for Congress
were elected in South Dakota, while tin offi
cial count is necessary to determine who
has been elected Governor.
Or.e man has frankly declared that he is
(opposed to the movement to put township
government on a better basis, because it will
take from "the boys” the encouragement
which the present methods afford. All the
opponents will be stimulated by this view
of the matter, but they will not put it so
bluntly.
Few officials in Marion county are in a
position to render society a greater service
than the judge of the Criminal Court The
criminal class keep an eye on him, and if
they discover that he is lenient they will
take chances. Besides, dignified procedure
and dispatch of business will give that im
portant tribunal the public respect that it
bag not always enjoyed.
The wild statements that Mr. Carnegie Is
reported to be making In Washington
against the annexation of the Spanish pos
sessions will not promote the hostility to
expansion. To charge that a corrupt clique
of speculators controls the President will
help no cause. It was the bull-headed con
duct of Mr. Carnegie more than anything
else which caused Republican defea’t in 1892.
If the people received the full benefit of
the excess of the expenditure for the post
offlco department over the receipts, there
could be no objection to It, but there Is rea
son to believe that several million dollars
are paid for railroad transportation which
would not be paid if the business of the
postoffice were managed as is successful
private business. If the congressional com
mission that Is investigating postal expendi
tures shall go to the bottom of the matter
and full to find a basis for the general Im
pression there can be no cause of complaint.
For that reason the result of the Investi
gation Is awaited with interest.
Pres'dent McKinley yesterday furnished a
new illustration of his political tact. When
the secretary of an organization in Massa
chusetts calling Itself the Anti-imperialist
League presented the President a protest
against any extension of the sovereignty of
the United States over the Philippine islands
the President informed the secretary that
he would be pleased to consider any plan
the league might offer short of surrender of
the islands to Spain. In other words. If the
league can suggest any honorable way out
of the present situation that does not In
volve an assertion of United States sov
ereignty the President would like to know
what It Is. Really, what the league pro
poses is surrender of the Islands to Spain,
but it does not dare to say so.
Superintendent Geeting’s argument In be
half of the present method of selecting the
State Board of Education proves too much.
If a better board of education can be ob
tained by selections made as they now are.
It la fair to assume that all the officers of
the government had better be selected In
the same manner. It follows that a prison
board, consisting of the heads of prisons
and reformatories and the superintendents
of police in Indianapolis, Fort Wayne and
Evansville would Insure better results than
to have the appointment vested in the Gov
ernor, and it would be better to have the
state superintendent of public instruction
selected by some board which the people
and the executive cannot reach. The policy
of government vests appointments of state
boards in the Governor, and there Bhould
be no exception. Besides, there are good
men outside of the heads of these institu
tions and three city superintendents whose
services would be valuable on the board.
Massachusetts has such a board, and it is
probable that other States are able to avail
themselves of the services of educated men
who are not the heads of institutions or
employed in the schools. Let the board of
education be selected just the same as the
other boards, except with the provision that
not more than one-half be selected from
men who are known to be of one party.
LET US HE AMERICANS.
From the beginning of the discussion re
garding national expansion the Journal has
maintained that the question was one on
which there might be an honest difference
of opinion and which should be discussed in
a temperate spirit. The situation is in some
respects entirely new, the interests involved
are great, and there are many things to be
considered. As Americans we should be for
' t>ur country right or wrong,” and while
we are all interested in arriving at a right
solution of the question it behooves us all
to stand together on the side of the coun
try, no matter what policy may be adopted.
As the Journal has said before, the ques
tion of expansion relates only to the acquisi
tion of the Philippines. As far as Haw-aii
and Porto Rico are concerned the question
is closed. We have already expanded. The
fact that public sentiment has acquiesced so
readily in the acquisition of these islands,
practically admitting their commercial and
strategic value and tne ability of the United
States to hold and govern them without
much trouble is itself a tacit recognition
of the merits of expansion. Nearly every
argument that could be advanced in favor
of the acquisition of Hawaii or Porto Rico
applies to the Philippines, together with
some of a special nature. For anti-expan
sionists to admit the propriety of acquiring
two of the islands and denounce the acquisi
tion of the third as unconstitutional and
dangerous seems very illogical. If expan
sion is a good thing as far west as Hawaii,
why not five thousand miles farther? If a
group of islands in the midpacific has com
mercial importance relative to Eastern trade
it would seem to follow that a group lving
much nearer Asia would have still greater
importance. This is a fair argument for ex
pansionists to make. On the other hand, it
must be admitted that there are grave ob
jections to the acquisition of the Philippihes,
with their mongrel tribes of Asiatics and
Malaysians, and that the establishment of
stable government there would be slow and
difficult work. But the same may be said of
Cuba and Porto Rico. Probably the case of
the Philippines is the worst of the lot, but
otherwise it is not essentially different from
the others. It differs in degree more than in
kind. It will take longer to civilize the Phil
ippines than Porto Rico, but the same
methods that will succeed in one will suc
ceed in the other.
There is one aspect of the question that
does not seem to have been taken into ac
count, and that is that the acquisition of the
Philippines by the united States does not
necessarily mean their annexation or their
permanent retention. At first, and probably
for a considerable length of time, they would
be under military government, thus giving
the people time to consider the matter in
all its phases and decide whether they
wanted to hold the islands permanently or
not. Once annexed and taken into the Union
there would be no constitutional way of
getting rid of them, but at any stage prior
to annexation they could be disposed of if
it should be found desirable to do so. And
there would be no trouble on that score, for
there are no anti-expansionists in England
or Germany. If after a few years of mili
tary occupation we should conclude that we
did not wish to hold the islands permanent
ly we could sell them for a good price or
exchange them for other possessions. The
question of the permanent retention of the
islands does not have to be decided imme
diately.
There are indications In some quarters of
a disposition to get heated over the ques
tion, and to treat it as if there were only
one side to it, and that the anti-expansion
side. At a meeting of the Massachusetts
Board of Trade, in Boston, a few days ago,
Mr. Edward Atkinson, who is noted for his
narrow views and a disposition to cranki
ness, introduced a resolution against “any
extension of the sovereignty of the United
States over the Philippine islands in any
event.” In speaking to his resolution he re
ferred to those who differed with him as
“deluded.” The word was not received
gratefully by the audience. Instantly there
were cries of “thanks,” “much obliged to
you,” and “deluded!” Another speaker, al
luding to the possibllitv of military control
of the Philippines, said he hau nothing to
say against the rank and file of the army,
but ho thought we had reason to be far from
proud of Its general officers, "who,” he
added, “are unequaled for Imbecility.” A
foreigner who should say such a thing be
fore an American audience would be hissed
off the floor if not pitched out of window.
The man who did say it is not an American
at heart, and it is a pity there was not
somebody in the audience to tell him so. Mr.
Atkinson’s resolution did not meet with
much favor and was finaly disposed of by
reference to the executive council. There are
some strong reasons against annexation of
the Philippines, but the anti-expansionists
should confine themselves to argument and
not denounce those who differ with them
as deluded and imbecile. There are Ameri
cans outside of Massachusetts, and quite a
respectable number of them are expansion
ists. However we may stand on this ques
tion, let us all be Americans.
REPUBLICAN REFORM.
In 1895 the Republican Legislature de
stroyed the fee system in state and county
offices. The change was opposed with ve
hemence by many of those in county office.
This was not because the officers w r ere dis
honest, but because the change deprived
them of a large part of the usual compen
sation. Two years ago an effort was made
to modify the law, but the opposition on
the part of the people was so decided that
no action was taken. Probably a few offi
cers do not receive adequate compensiMon,
but in every county in the State scores of
men were active and eager to obtain the
favors of their respective parties and of the
people at the present compensation. Evi
dently the mass of taxpayers ore so satis
fied with the present fee and salary law
that no change will be made by the incom
ing Legislature.
The most significant change in compensa
tion which the Republican Taw made was In
that of state officers, yet none of them
fought the legislation of 1895. Mr. Hender
son was the last Democratic state auditor
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1898.
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under the fee system. He did not take a
cent more than the old law authorized.
Nevertheless, during the four years he was
in office he received 10 per cent, of the fees
and taxes collected from insurance com
panies, aggregating for that period $464,219.
This means that Mr. Henderson obtained
from one class of collections $46,424, or sll,-
GO6 a year. If the 10-per-cent, law had been
in force during the four years of State
Auditor Daily he would, to the close of last
month, have received 10 per cent, of s6*l,-
384.34. Fees of $68,438 in four years would
have made the state auditor a rich man.
By the Republican law of 1895 this large
sum of money that would have been fees
under the old law went into the treasury,
except the salary of SI,BOO paid the insur
ance clerks. Thus the Republican Legis
lature inaugurated a system of reforms
which it is now proposed to extend to local
governments. •
A PERNICIOUS ASSUMPTION.
Several speakers have given the impres
sion that the President has the right to in
terfere in the race troubles or other out
breaks in States and that President McKin
ley does not do so because he is not the
friend of the colored people. One speaker
said, on Thanksgiving day, that this atti
tude is a revival of the state rights heresy.
Others who should know better have taken
the same position.
There is no provision of the federal Con
stitution more explicit than is that defining
the powers of the United States and the
States regarding such matters. It declares
that “the United States shall guaranty to
every State in the Union a republican form
of government, and shall protect each of
them against invasion, and on application of
the Legislature or the executive (when the
Legislature cannot be convened) against do
mestic violence.” The Constitution further
declares that “the powers not delegated to
the United States by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the States, are reserved
to the States respectively or to the people.”
The federal government has power to su
pervise or hold elections of representatives,
and to protect the people in voting for such
officers, but all laws of that character have
beep repealed by a Democratic Congress.
In the troubles in North Carolina no such
election was pending, and the Governor had
not requested the President to protect the
people of the State against domestic vio
lence; consequently, if the President had
desired he could not have interfered. Such
is the knowledge of every man who has ex
amined this subject.
There are doubtless cases where it would
seem that the welfare of the citizen de
mands federal interference., but the more
one considers the matter the more he will
be Inclined to believe that the limitation of
the federal Constitution in regard to affairs
in the States is wise. When the federal
government should once Interfere with mat
ters pertaining to the police of the States
there could be no limit to the exercise of
federal authority, and there would be a con
stant clash between federal and state au
thorities. It is probable, as Mr. Curtis, of
the Chicago Record, says, that the political
troubles in Wilmington were incited by a
lot of poverty-stricken, idle politicians who
control the Democratic party, in order to
prevent whites from joining the Republican
party in that section. There Is one wise
colored leader, Booker T. Washington. He
stands in a position to speak plainly. In an
address *o the colored men in Brooklyn,
after the disgraceful proceedings instituted
by Democratic place-seekers in Wilmington,
N. C., referring to the first impression given
the colored voter in the South by those to
whom they looked as loaders, Mr, Wash
ington said:
In my mind there Is no doubt but that we
made the mistake at the beginning of our
freedom of putting the emphasis on the
wrong end. Politics and the holding of of
fice were emphasized almost to the exclu
sion of almost every other interest, and we
accepted responsibilities which our experi
ence and education had not fitted us to per
form with success and credit. To my mind
the past and present teach but one lesson—
to the negro’s friends and to the negro him
self—that there Is but one way out, that
there is but one hope of salvation, and that
is for the negro in every part of America
to resolve henceforth that he will throw
aside every nonessential and cling only to
essentials—that this pillar of fire by night
and this pillar of cloud by day shall be prop
erty, skill, economy, education and Chris
tian character.
The remark will apply to whites as well
as blacks—too many people are led to take
an Interest in politics, not for the Indirect
advantage which will come from good gov
ernment, but in the expectation that they
can get public position.
The point, how’over, which the Journal
seeks to emphasize here is that the Presi
dent has no warrant in the Constitution to
interfere in behalf of negroes or white men
who may be the victims of local mobs, and
the man who asserts otherwise is either ig
norant or wicked. There can be no hope In
that direction. The two races must live to
gether in this country. The prosperity of
the negro is better for the whites than his
degradation. He is a better man to employ
when he has intelligence and’ lives com
fortably.
While the press and people of the middle
Western and Northwestern States are dis
cussing the beet-sugar industry and build
ing factories on paper, California goes right
along enlarging the business. From a capi
tal amounting to $300,000 in 1890, the total
Investment in the industry has grown to
over $10,000,000, and the area of sugar-beet
fields from 2,100 acres to 36,000 acres. There
are seven factories in the State, which pro
duced, last year, 56,000 tons of sugar. This,
however, is but a small fraction of what wo
consume, and live hundred factories as
large as the largest one in California could
not supply the demand. The largest factory
In the State employs 240 mere At the same
to produce all the sugar we consume,
nearly 150,000 men would be taken from oth
er and overcrowded pursuits to work in the
sugar factories, over 500,000 men would be
employed in growing sugar beets, and not
less than 6,000,000 acres of land w r ould tie
brought under anew and profitable cultiva
tion. Yet we keep on paying Germany and
France something like $120,000,000 for their
beet sugar, while they shut out our pork,
turn up their noses at our beef, which they
declare is diseased, and put the ban on our
oleomargarine. This condition cannot last
forever, but while it does last it makes the
balance of trade with those countries large
ly against us, and that balance has to be
paid in gold. It would be far better to pro
duce our own sugar and keep the gold at
home.
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
Deserving Case.
Weary Watkins—l ain’t had nothin’ to
•at fer two days
Victim—You told me that very same story
just a week ago.
“Oh! Then surely you would help a pore
bloke ’at ain’t had nothin’ to eat fer nine
days?”
Worth.
"Yes, sir, that man across the street—the
one with the silk hat—doesn’t know how
much he Is worth.”
“Yes, and the mkn right behind hlnv—the
one with the tin can—doesn’t know how
worthless he is.”
A Village Pe*aml=it.
Si—l didn’t see you follerin’ our new band
this mornin’.
Rube—No, I didn’t have n-> gun.
Dad Brenjf.
"Did you ever read ‘Breaking a Butter
fly?’ ” /
“No, but I have had some experience in
braking a freight train.”
THE LATE MR, KEELY.
He Really Did l)icover a New and
Mysterious Force.
Philadelphia North American.
It is vastly easier to dismiss the late John
W. Keely as a charlatan and the Keely
motor, so called, as an imposture than to
do justice to the one or criticise the other.
Had Mr. Keely refused to have his experi
ment capitalized, and had he worked on
without taking the general public into his
half confidence, he would perhaps not have
demonstrated the subject of his experiment,
but he would have escaped a great deal of
severe and ungenerous censure. For Mr.
Keely was not an Impostor. Though he may
not have discovered or developed any new
force in nature, nobody who knew him well
doubted that he believed he had discovered
such a force. Whatever may be said of him.
the worst that he merited was to be called
an impracticable visionary. He had no
training either in science or in mechanics,
yet he constructed some of the most ingeni
ous machines, and operated them by some
energy not referable to what Is known of
motive powers in use. The fact that his
machines were not applicable to the work
of this practical world need not be brought
against him in order to discredit the man
or his work.
The energy embodied in steam was recog
nized more than two thousand years before
it was successfully applied to the use of
man. The nature of the electric fluid —if tt
be a fluid—was about as well known a hun
dred and fifty years ago as it is to-day, yet
it is easily within the recollection of com
paratively young men that anybody har
nessed that subtle energy and made it sub
serve human uses. The world owes the
progress of chemistry to men who sought
by it to discover the philosopher’s stone and
the elixir of life, some of whom were char
latans and Impostors, no doubt, but by no
means all. It was in the search for the im
possible that the possible was demonstrated
and that chemistry became a science. This
should be a warning against hasty and un
just judgment of men and what we deem
their vagaries. That Mr. Keely had a clew
to something that may be demonstrated and
made to subserve human uses is denied by
some and believed by others. Os those who
deny it the most that can be said is that
they know r nothing. about it, and of those
who believe, that they have no sufficient
warrant for their belief in what has been
demonstrated. 'The fact that Mr. Keely
failed to give his alleged dtscovery a com
mercial value does not warrant any one in
dismissing him as an Impostor. If he was
an impostor he was no less a victim of the
imposture than his backers If he had a
secret he evidently knew as little about it as
any who believed without evidence.
It is supposed that his secret died with
him. But if he had a secret and that secret
embraced anew force in nature—new be
cause hitherto unknown to man—it has ex
isted beginning and will continue
existent and active forever. We cannot sup
pose that any secret relating to future dies
when a man dies. Hence If there is any
secret about the force Mr. Keely believed
he had discovered it will be pursued and
made plain to the world. If no data have
been preserved it may be difficult to get
the clew and follow it out. But if data can
be had the family of Mr. Keely and the di
rectors of the motor company should call in
the most painstaking explorers of nature’s
secrets and give the work into their charge.
Such men as Edison and Tesla should be
summoned and the plans of Mr. Keely, if
any, should be laid before them. Their
knowledge of the energies of nature fits
them to pronounce judgment. If Mr. Keely
was on the threshold of a great truth they
may be able to discover the truth. While
Mr. Keely lived the world cared little about
him and his Secret. Now that he is dead
interest will revive, for the world will want
to know what it has lost.
EX-SENATOR EVARTS.
The Aged Statesman Totally Blind,
but He Is Still Able to Enjoy Life.
W. E. Curtis, in Chicago Record.
Ex-Senator Evarts has entirely disap
peared from the public qye, and, according
to the fickleness of mankind, Is almost for
gotten. You never see his name in the
newspapers and seldom hear him spoken of
these days, although twenty-five years ago
he. w'as ono of the most conspicuous men
of the Nation. He still lives in a large old
fashioned red bvick house, with green
blinds, in Stuyvesant square. In the old part
of New York, at the northwest corner of
Fourteenth street and Second avenue,
where a l’ew conservative families have suc
ceeded in fighting back the tide of saloons
and boarding houses that has submerged
what was once the most aristocratic portion
of the city. Mr. Evarts is now eighty-one
years old, and totally blind. He sits all day
in a reclining chair in a sunny room in the
second story of his residence, where a young
lady secretary attends to his correspondence
and reads to him the newspapers, maga
zines and novels. He retains full posses
sion of his faculties, and continues to enjoy
life, for several old cronies call upon him
every day and some of his numerous grand
children are almost always around his chair.
The neighbors say that when they see a
w’hite-aproned nurse and a babv carriage
they know it belongs to the Evarts family.
No pleasant day passes without a visit
from all the grandchildren, and the old gen
tleman watches eagerly for their coming.
Some of them he has never seen. The light
began to leave Mr. Evarts’s eyes about ten
years ago, after an accident, when he was
thrown from a ear and struck his forehead
upon the pavement. The doctors say the
shock burst the blood vessels of his eyes and
caused a film to spread over the retina which
could never be removed. He has received
treatment from the best specialists in Eu
rope and America, and Dr. Delafield. a cele
brated oculist of New r York, calls upon him
at least once a week, but gives him no hope
of recovery. Otherwise his health is as
vigorous as one could expect in a man of his
age. He has taken no active part in affairs
since he left the Senate, although he stm
retains a nominal connection with his old
firm. Evarts, Choate & Beaman, the junior
partner being one of his seven sons-in-law.
Two of his sons and several other members
of the family are employed with the firm.
Sherman Evarts. his oldest son, who has
already distinguished himself at the bar,
lives around the corner on East Thirteenth
street, where he can look into the back win
dows of his father’s house, while Allen W.,
the second son, lives with his family on
West Twelfth street, seven or eight blocks
away. Maxwell Evarts. the youngest son,
lives at home. Prescott is an Episcopal rec
tor in a Massachusetts village.
Notwithstanding his eventful career of
nearly sixty years at the bar, in politics am!
public office, Mr. Evqrts has resisted all per
suasion to write the reminiscences of ills
busy and eventful Ufa. He was attorney gen
eral irj Johnson’s Cabinet, secretary of state
for four years and served six years in the
Senate. He was the attorney for the United
States before the Geneva arbitration tribunal
and secured a judgment of $15,000,000 for this
country. He defended President Johnson
against the impeachment of the House of
Representatives, defended Henry Ward
Beecher in the Tilton scandal, for a quarter
of a century was the acknowledged leader of
the bar of this country, and is said to have
received the largest fee of any lawyer in
history-
Health In the Philippines*.
Prof. Dean C. Worcester’s Book on “The
Philippines.”
It is unfortunately true that the climate
of the Philippines la especially severe in its
effect on white women and children. It is
very doubtful, in my judgment, if many suc
cessive generations of European or American
children could be reared there. We must
then, I think, necessarily admit that we have
here a serious, though not necessarily in
surmountable, obstacle to the development
of the grejit resources of this remarkably
country.
Malaria and digestive troubles aside, the
health of the colony is fairly good, and the
danger from epidemic disease is compara
tively slight. Smallpox is always present,
but it seldom spreads rapidly, as a large
percentage of the natives have it during
childhood, so that there is hardly material
for an epidemic. Cholera is infrequent, but
when it once starts cannot be controlled. The
natives believe that a black dog runs down
the street, and the disease breaks out be
hind him. They declare that it is the will
of God, and refuse to take the simplest pre
cautions.
Leprosy occurs, but is not common. There
is a great deal of birl-blrt In Balabac, and I
have seen it in Mindoro. The bubonic plague
has fortunately never gained a hold in the
Philippines.
Generally Believed.
Washington Post
Notwithstanding the activity of Brother
Wanamaker, it is believed that Mr. Quay
will help himself liberally to the white meat.
No, Indeed.
Washington Post.
The members of the last crew of the
Marla Teresa will not be compelled to dodge
the k’ssable girls.
In Need of a Job.
Phiadephia North American.
Mr. James J. Corbett wil bo glad to accept
a clerkship in a bank.
COL. PICOUARTS CASE
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IT PROMISES TO RAISE A STORM
LIKE THE DREYFUS AFFAIR.
Gen. Znrlinden’s Determination to
Try the Colonel by Court-Martial
Severely Denounced.
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M. DE FREYCINET CRITICISED
FOR QIAILIKG BEFORE THE MERCI
LESS MILITARY PARTY.
Mrs. Maria Druee’a Efforts to Prove
Her Son Should Be Installed us
Duke of Portland.
PARIS, Nov. 25.—The Piequart case seems
In the way of raising even a greater storm
than the Dreyfus affair. The papers favor
able to the general staff are dumb in the
face of the bai-efaced decision of the mili
tary Governor of Paris, General Zurlinden,
to try Colonel Piequart by court-martial,
while those favoring revision are furious at
this new attempt to defeat justice and pro
test against the court-martial being ordered.
Nobody believes that Colonel Piequart 13
guilty of any crime, except a courageous
desire to render justice to Dreyfus, but on
ail sides it is recognized that in a practically
secret trial he may be condemned on some
technicality, thus attaining the apparent ob
ject, which is to throw doubt on his depo
sitions before the Court of Cassation in the
Dreyfus trial.
Every one is asking the motive of General
Zurlinden in so persistently pursuing Col.
Piequart and why a court-martial, if neces
sary, could not be postponed until the de
cision of the Court of Cassation has been
given. Every one is asking whether it is a
desperate attempt to shield the former min
ister of war. General Mercier, and the gen
eral staff, even at the risk of precipitating
disaster and the nation’s hatred, and in any
event of driving every doubting person into
the Dreyfusite party. A protest against the
court-martial of Piequart, bearing the sig
natures of leading authors, politicians and
journalists, is being widely circulated for
further names, and will be presented to the
government. This evening it is reported that
M. De Freycinet, minister of war, has con
sented to be interpellated on the subject in
the Chamber of Deputies next Monday,
w hen a sensational scene may be expected.
Another feature of the case is the torrent
of hostile criticism now poured upon M. De
Freycinet, who is accused of quailing be
fore General Zurlinden and the general staff.
Maitre Labor!, Colonel Picquurt’s counsel,
says lie is convinced it will be impossible to
condemn Piequart* on the charge of forgery,
but that the accused officer may possibly be
condemned on the charge of communicating
secret documents, although their communi
cation was in no way inimical to the inter
ests of the state.
Colonel Piequart continued his evidence
before the Court of Cassation throughout the
whole day, and his deposition is expected to
occupy several days more. There is still
some hope that he may receive justice, ow
ing to the presence on the court-martial of
Colonel Bonnal, who is a great friend of
Piequart, but M. Clemenceau, in Aurore,
declares that the court-martial is packed
and accuses M. De Freycinet of allowing an
innocent man to be victimized in order to in
crease his own chances at the next presi
dential election.
FIGHT FOR A GREAT ESTATE.
Mr*. Drnce Trying to Prove Her Son
I* the Rlglitfnl Duke of Portland.
LONDON, Nov. 25.—The faculty of the
diocese of London has granted Mrs. Maria
Druce, a daughter-in-law of the late Thomas
C. Druce, who, she asserts, was the fifth
Duke of Portland, a permit to open and
inspect the coffin alleged to contain the re
mains of her father-in-law or a man buried
as Thomas C. Druce. Chancellor Tristam,
in rendering the decision at the Consistory
Court of St. Paul’s, granted fifteen days for
an appeal. Notification of an appeal was
immediately filed.
A final order was obtained by Mrs. Druce,
in the High Court of Appeals, on Nov. 22,
directing the faculty and chancellor of the
diocese of London to issue a permit to al
low her to open the coffin. Mrs. Druce claims
that the alleged death and burial of her
father-in-law were deceptions and that he
lived and finally died in a lunatic asylum
as Dr. Harmei. Her son, who, she as
serts, is the rightful Duke of Portland, is
said to be a domestic servant and was last
heard of in Australia. Mrs. Druce says her
father-in-law, as the fifth Duke of Portland,
having suffered keen remorse and abject
fear as the result of the tragic death of his
brother, Lord George Bentinck, both of
whom were in love with the same woman,
adopted the name of Thomas Charles Druce,
thereby transferring to himself as Druce an
immense property from himself as Duke of
Portland. Having realized the risk of ex
posure from his double existence, he caused
a coffin to be buried with his supposed re
mains. If Mrs. Druce can establish her
contention that her father-in-law did not
die in 1864, as supposed, the will can be
invalidated and her son will become entitled
to the estate and title now neld by William,
Duke of Portland. A recently published es
timate of the duke’s rent roll placed the
amount at nearly £400,600 yearly.
Revolution In Irnguny.
NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—A dispatch to the
Herald from Montevideo, Uruguay, says:
Revolutionary bands from Brazil have
crossed the frontier and are threatening
to unite and march toward the capital.
Troops have been sent to pursue them.
These bands are supposed to be the van
guard of a large force which has been gath
ered in Brazil for several weeks and await
ing a favorable opportunity to move. The
government received notice of the presence
of the revolutionists in time to mass troops
on the frontier before the invasion began.
The Sultan Urged to Make Reform*.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 25.—Several of
the Turkish ministers have submitted to the
Sultan memorials pointing out the disturbed
state of the empire and the reforms they
considered necessary’. The Sultan is irri
tated at this attitude on the part of his
ministers, and it is expected that he will
dismiss several of them, although it will be
difficult to find substitutes N who do not favor
reforms.
Menellk Canning Uneanlne**.
LONDON, Nov. 26.—The Rome correspond
ent of the Daily Mall says: "The govern
ment is alarmed at the receipt of reports
that Emperor Menelik of Abyssinia is ad
vancing on Boru-Mieda with 100,000 men,
armed with rifles, and a numerous train of
artillery. It Is believed that the objective
of the Negus Is the Bahr-el-Gazal basin
and that he will attempt to force a definite
boundary settlement.”
Demomtratlon at Samoa.
SYDNEY, N. S. W.. Nov. 25.—The French
government has decided to make Noumea,
capital of the French colony of New Cale
donia, Its naval headquarters in the Pa
cific. A large dock and naval works will be
constructed there.
The German and British war ships have
made a combined demonstration against Mu
llnu in Samoa.
Nine Sailor* Drowned.
LONDON, Nov. 25.—The local steamer
Fitzjaines, bound from this port for Swan
sea, foundered yesterday morning off
Beachy Head, In the English, channel, dur-
ing a gale. Throe of the crew were rescued,
the remainder, numbering nine. were
drowned.
Forty Girls Injured.
PARIS, Nov. 25.—There was a very nar
row escape to-day from a repetition of the
terrible disaster of the Charity Bazaar Are.
While a religious ceremony was in progress
in the vestry room of a church, where many
girls from the schools were in attendance,
the cinematograph lamps were suddenly ex
tinguished and a fearful panic ensued,
everybody instantly recalling the Charity
Bazaar fire. The priests finally succeeded In
allaying the panic, but not before forty girls
were more or less seriously injured by be
ing tramped.
No More Paper Money.
VALPARAISO. Chile. Nov. 25.—1n the
Chamber of Deputies to-day the minister of
finance declared, in the name of the Pres
ident, that there would not be another dol
lar of paper money issued.
Cable Notes.
Tito United States charge d’affaires, Mr.
Henry White, and Mrs. White dined at
Windsor Castle with Queen Victoria last
evening and passed tl\e night at the castle.
The London County Council has upheld
by a vote of 62 to 33 the decision of the
licensing committee to refuse licenses to
halls where Sunday concerts are given for
profit.
The French Cabinet has decided' to author
ize a loari of 270,000,000 francs for the pur
pose of establishing an Indian-Chinese rail
road system in connection with the Chinese
railroads.
The second-class protected cruiser Kasagi,
built for Japan by the Cramps, which left
New York on Nov. 5 for Newcastle, in order
to ship her Armstrong guns, has arrived at
Shields, England.
In a twenty-round contest at Newcastle
on-Tyne, last night, for a purse of $1,500,
between Frank Craig, the “Harlem Coffee
Cooler,” and George Crisp, of Newcastle,
Craig won in the thirteenth round.
NO HARDSHIPS IN CUBA
REV. D. GALLOI'PE’S TESTIMONY BE
FORE THE ARMY COMMISSION.
♦
He Says the Stories of Neglect Were
Greatly Einggerated—Ur. Lesser
Declines to Criticise Anybody.
NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—The Rev. Dwight
Galloupe, of Jecsey City, who went to the
front as chaplain of the Ninth United States
Infantry, testified before the war investi
gating commission to-day. He told of the
condition of the regiment at Tampa, of the
voyage to Cuba and of the work of the reg
iment at the front. “Colonel Roosevelt,” he
said, “testified that his regiment had some
difficulty in finding a transport to Santiago,
and that great confusion prevailed at Tam
pa. I saw no confusion, and the only delay
to my regiment was one of one and a half
hours caused by the jamming of a gang
plank. All of our men landed in Cuba in
splendid condition. There was no sickness
on board, and I attribute their line physical
condition to the discipline maintained. The
men were made to exercise on deck every
day.” Mr. Galloupe said there was no hard
ship in sleeping in the open air in Cuba. The
air was warm and the ground was dry sand.
He slept several nights in the open air from
choice, and he heard no complaints from
any of the men. He described at length she
preparations made for the reception of the
sick after the Santiago battle, and said the
stories of neglect and lack of accommoda
tion had been grossly exaggerated.
Dr. Lesser, who was in Cuba in medical
charge for the Red Cross Society, was the
first witness at the afternoon session. Re
plying to questions by Dr. Conner, he told
of the arrival of the Red Cross in Cuba and
of the offers of supplies made by him at the
instance of Miss Barton.
“Were those offers refused?”
“I cannot say they were refused. I acted
as spokesman l’or our party, and I was In
formed that there were plenty of govern
ment supplies in hand. I offered Dr. La
garde, at the Siboney hospital, the services
ol the Red Cross nurses, and he said he
had nurses enough, but he lacked cots. In
no instance was I treated with anything
out the most extreme courtesy. Our rela
tions with the medical officers of the army
were most cordial. There was never any
clash. We worked with the approval of the
army officers, and we did what we could to
supplement the work of the army nurses.”
Dr. Lesser said the wounded were prompt
ly and scientifically attended to, and that
the surgeons generally acted splendidly.
None of the fever cases was without shelter,
chose of the sick who slept in the open air
were not suffering from fever, and the night
air was good for them. The wounded were
treated in tents and the sick in regular hos
pital buildings. “As far as I know.” said
Dr Lesser, “none of the sick at Siboney
suffered from lack of medicine. There was
a scarcity of food for the sick. I believe,
"here were no supplies of sick food, except
those of the Red Cross Society.”
Dr. Lesser told of his own seizure by
yellow fever and his removal to the fever
hospital, some miles from Siboney. He said
he could never be sufficiently grateful to
the doctors at the hospital for the care and
attention he received during the seven days
he was in the hospital.
Asked by Dr. Conner to tell what he knew
of the condition of the transport Concho
and of the precaution taken In selecting the
men fit to be sent home to the United States,
Dr. Lesser said the transport was In excel
lent sanitary condition, was well found in
food and medical supplies and only the men
who were actually convalescent were sent
aboard. The trouble at sea was occasioned
by the relapse caused by the change of air.
Men who were apparently well when they
left Cuba developed malarial fever when
landed eight days later at Montauk.
“Was the supply of food and medicine
sufficient for those aboard?” asked Dr. Con
ner.
“I cannot answer that question. The Red
Cross usages do not permit me to criticise
the government.”
“You are not asked to criticise."
“I cannot tell if the supply was sufficient
or not without criticising those who put the
supplies aboard. I might tell, if I knew ex
actly what supplies were there, but I might
not venture an opinion as to the sufficiency
of the supply. I believe that not one death
occurred on the Concho but was caused by
the patient himself or by the mistaken kind
ness of one of his friends. There were more
deaths of yellow fever convalescents from
overfeeding than from the effects of the
disease itself.”
At the night session of the war investi
gation committee Major John W. Sumner
Hayes, of the quartermaster’s department,
stationed in this city, was the chief wit
ness. He devoted his attention to the trans
ports which had been fitted out in connec
tion with the war. Os these he said he had
made no personal inspection, taking the
harbor engineer’s certificate as satisfactory
evidence that the machinery of the trans
ports was In good condition. The other wit
nesses were on the stand, but their testi
mony was of no material importance and at
0:30 the committee adjourned to meet to
morrow morning.
PHI DELTA THETA OFFICERS.
J. Clark Moore President and H. T.
Miller, of Indiana poll*, Reporter.
COLUMBUS, 0., Nov. 25.—At to-day’s
session of the Phi Delta Theta convention.
Dr. J. Edward Brown, of Columbus, was
unanimously elected president, but declined
and nominated J. Clark Moore, of Philadel
phia, who was thereupon chosen. Other of
ficers elected were: Secretary, Frank D.
Swope, Louisville; treasurer, H. H. Ward,
Cleveland: reporter, Hugh Th. Miller. In
dianapolis; historian. Dr. Radcliffe, Phila
delphia; trustees, R. Switser, Kansas City;
Emma Tompkins and Dr. J. A. Bown, Co
lumbus; A. A. Stearns, Cleveland.
Miss Mary French Field, daughter of the
late Eugene Field, appeared before the con
vention by invitation and read from her
father’s writings. Mr. Field was a member
of the fraternity and at the conclusion of
the reading Miss Field was elected as the
daughter of the organization, which honor
sho accepted in the words, by saying: “I
hope to be a good daughter to the frater
nity and a good sister to you all.”
Cleveland Club Not for Sale.
CLEVELAND. 0., Nov. 25—Concerning
a reported offer of $75,000 for the Cleveland
National League Club by Vanderbeek, of
the Detroit Western League, officials of the
Cleveland Baseball Company assert posi
tively there is no truth in the statement.
It is said that no such offer has been made,
and, moreover, that the Cleveland club Is
not for sale. It Is announced that the team
will play in this city during the coming
season under the National League franchise.
DR. SALMON’S REPORT
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A YEAR’S OPERATIONS OF THE BU
REAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY.
Inspection of Cattle and Meat—Poi
sonous German Toy*—Texas Fever
Prevented by "Dipping.**
WASHINGTON. Nov. 25,-Dr. D. E. Sal
mon, chief of the Bureau of Animal Indus
try, in his report to the secretary of agri
culture for the fiscal year ended June 20,
1898, states that during the year meat in
spection was in operation at 135 abattoirs,
as against 128 for the previous year, and in
thirty-live cities, as against thirty-three in
1897. The number of animals inspected be
fore slaughter numbered 31,335,398. Os these
9.228,237 were cattle, 10,028,287 were she?p.
468,199 calves and 31,610,675 hogs, showing a
total gain over 1597 of 9.025,291 animals. At
the time of slaughter 31,116,833 animals were
inspected and 63,662 were rejected; 91,508 car
casses and 48,189 parts of Carcasses were
condemned. The meat-inspection stamp was
affixed to 14.583,780 packages of mutton and
beef and pork products, of which 374,131’
contained microscopically examined pork.
In connection with the examination of im
ports from Germany it was found that Ger
man toys and colored goods were poisonous,
and all highly painted German toys may be
regarded as very dangerous to children, who
may suck off the paint or pieces
that may be chipped off.
The study of tuberculosis With reference
to both ;neo and animals has been continued,
and reports received indicate that in incip
ient stages of the disease the serum is of
consicerable value. Tills division contem
plates beginning investigations relative to
Texas fever, anthrax and other diseases.
The division of pathology has continued
the exieriment of dipp’ng cattle, with a view
to destroying the licks which spread the
infection of Texas fever, and a substance
lias been found in which the cattle may be
immersed without suffering any serious in
jury and which will destroy all the ticks
on an animal in a single dipping.
In making recommendations for the fiscal
year ending June S>), 1900. Dr. Salmon asks
that a sufficient appropriation for extending
and developing foreign markets for dairy
products of the United States be made, and
that legislation be sought by which the ex
isting system of government inspection and
certification of meats and meut products for
export from the United States may be ex
tended (with suitable modification) to in
clude butter, cheese and condensed milk.
Report from “Farmer” Gowdy.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—According to
Consul General Gowdy, at Paris, there are
no laws or regulations which prohibit the
Importation of live hogs into France from
the United States, but the importation of
live cattle, such as cows, bulls or steers,
from the latter country is absolutely pro
hibited. The animals upon arrival are sub
jected to a sanitary examlnAllon by one of
the official veterinary surgeons detailed for
the purpose, and if found healthy are al
lowed to enter the country, but if any con
tagious disease is detected the animal is
killed at once and the others put under
surveillance. The production and consump
tion of all live animals in France this year
are very nearly balanced, with the excep
tion of sheep. There is more demand for
those animals than for any other live stock.
Anti-Imperialist* Protest.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—The Anti-im
perialist League, an organization originat
ing in Massachusetts, and of which ex-
Governor Boutwell is president, to-day,
through its secretary, Mr. Ewing Winslow,
of Boston, presented to President McKin
ley a “protest against any extension of the
sovereignty of the United States over the
Philippine islands in any event, and over
any other foreign territory without the free
consent of the people thereof, believing such
action woud be dangerous to the Republic,
wasteful of Us resources, in violation or
constitutional principles and fraught with
moral and physical evils to outlpeople.”
The President informed Mr. WlnsaJw of hla
willingness to receive from the league any
plan it might offer short of surrender of the
islands to Spain.
i
Iglesias Shown Uncle Sam’e Money.
WASHINGTON. Nov. Igle
sias of Costa Rica, accompanied by mem
bers of his staff and Colonel Carter, United
States army, visited the Treasury Depart
ment to-day, and after being presented to
the chief officials was escorted through the
money vaults and shown the mode in which
the government handles Us vast amount of
coin and currency. He then visited George
town College, where two of his brothers are
students. One of these it is expected will
enter the United States Military Academy
at West Point under a special act of Con
gress extending this courtesy to Costa Rica,
During this afternoon calls were exchanged
between President Iglesias and Vice Presi
dent Hobart.
President Busy with His Message.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—The President
Is devoting all of his spare time to the prep
aration of his message to Congress. Minor
matters will bo considered only briefly, and
by far the larger share of the message will,
be devoted to the great questions which
have been raised by the war. Sections of the
message have been gone over by the Pres
ident with the members of the Cabinet, to
whose departments the'y particularly relate,
and the indications now are that the mes
sage will exceed in length any sent to Con
gress during the last several years.
Henry Not In the Senatorial Race.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Representative
Henry, of Indiana, has reached the city.
He will return home before the meeting of
Congress. Mr. Henry does not consider him
self in the senatorial race, but his friends
regard him as a very promising dark horse.
General Notes.
"WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—T0-day’s state
ment of the condition of the treasury shows:
Available cash balance, $296,589,288; gold re
serve, $241,191,741.
George F. McCulloch, of M uncle, Is In the
city.
IN LABOR'S INTEREST."
Gomper* Want* the President to Rec
ommend Fewer Hours’ Work.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—President Sam
uel Gompers, of the American Federation of
Labor, has addressed a letter \.o President
McKinley, at the request of the latter, con
taining suggestions as to legislation in the
Interest of labor which he believes th®
President ought to discuss in his forthcom
ing annual message to Congress. Concern
ing tho eight-hour work day for all govern
ment employes, Mr. Gomjters proposes that
a law be passed providing for the estab
lishment of the eight-hour work day on all
work done by, or for, tho government,
whether that work be done by contractor®
or subcontractors. He expresses the opin
ion that the government might, with profit
and advantage, become a direct employer
of labor where it is practicable, the govern
ment suffering the loss which ;such Inter
vention between the work and contractor®
implies.
Mr. Gompers potnts out some of the evil®
of competition between the product of fr-®
labor and that of convict lalior. j Legislation
by the several States on this subject hav
ing proved ineffective—as it ha® been held
that a State cannot prohibit the Importa
tion within its borders of the product of
any other State—Mr. Gompers suggest®
that the power of Congress be Invoked to
regulate such commerce between the States.
In the interest of the laboring men of th®
country, Mr. Gomper* proposes, further, to
restrict immigration into the United States.
He also urges that the “weapon of judicial
Injunctions,” restraining workmen from do
ing certain things 'within the lawful limit
of their rights.” be curtailed as ; to its use.
On this point Mr. Gompers dwells at length,
quoting from the opinion of eminent jurist®
in support of his argument.
Earthquake Shock* In the South.
RICHMOND. Va„ Nov. 25.—Many point®
in south and southwest Virginia and North
Carolina report having experienced an
earthquake shock about 3:30 o’clock tht®
afternoon. The disturbance was felt from
Nottaway county to the Tennessee line In
this State. There was the usual preceding
roaring noise. No damage is reported.