Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1895, Page 9

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Leadbeater & Sons, Alexandria, Va. ey Seesaesteesstestesesstssssesesstsaesassesasstecesessesesseseeees ee EPSP ESSE SS ESSESESSS SSS SESE SS CEES PSCSCEEEE TEES ewes SS eESeELYEYereegresre ee eee SRE RASA EERE ESSE SESS Pe ta aes tote te toate te eine tote oe ee See eee egerere Se eeeeeeas SECS FES COOCEE EERE EE EEOC EE SEE EERE CERO EEE: cXERREKE SSS SS CAPT. CROSSMAN’S STORY He Tells It in a Letter to Secretary : Gresham. §¥ants to Know What Right 2 Spanish Vessel Has to Detain Him on the High Seas. Immediately after the steamer Allianca reached her pier at New York yesterday afternoon Capt. J. A. Crossman sent, the following letter to the Secretary of State, detailing the firing on that vessel, as told ,in_yesterday’s Star: Sir: The American mail steamer Allianca, under my command, while on her home- ‘ward bound voyage from Colon, R. C., to ‘New York, was on the morning of March 8 off the coast of Cuba. At 6:30 o'clock a barkentine-rigged steamer was sighted under the land, steam- ing directly for us. At 7:15 she set her colors, proving to be a Spanish gunboat. Immediately I ordered the American en- sign hoisted on the Allianca and _ saluted the Spaniard, which salute was duly re- turned by her. I then saluted once more, and supposed the matter was at an end. But about five minutes later the Spaniard fired a blank cartridge, and a few moments later another one, followed shortly after- ward by three solid shots, all of which fell short of the Allianca, but showing very conclusively that the Spaniard was firing at us. I, being fully six miles off shore and on the high seas, paid no further attention to the Spaniard, but kept my course. The Spaniard kept up the chase, although grad- ually dropping astern, for fully twenty-five miles. I desire to know if the Spaniard had any right to fire on my ship, with the possible chance of endangering the lives of the pas- sengers and crew under my charge, or to compel me to heave to, as he probably in- tended. T respectfully ask for information on that subject, as I did not and do not propose to heave to, thereby losing time on my voy- age, to oblige the Spanish gunboats or any other, except in case of distress. . Respectfully, J. A. CROSSMAN, Commander. Capt. Crossman and His Vessel. Capt. James A. Crossman, the comman- @er of the Allianca, came into public notice in the fall of 1893, when he was put in com- mand of the cruiser America, formerly the Britannia, which had been purchased by Flint & Co. and fitted out as a war vessel for the Brazilian government during the late troubles there. The crew for the vessel was recruited at New York, and all enlisted for service in the Brazilian cause. On the voyage to Brazil the America met with an accident to her machinery, which delayed her, and later Capt. Crossman slipped and fell down the steps from the bridge, breaking one of his legs and in- capacitating him for further service. He left the America and went to his home in Jersey City. Capt. Crossman was born in Hudson, N. Y., fifty-five years ago. hhas been a seaman twenty-five years. He served in the United States navy during the civil war. The Allianca is a screw steamship of 2,20 tons. She is half-brig rigged, and was built at Chester, Pa., in 1886 by the Pennsylva- nia B. and E. Works. The Spanish consul general, Arturo Balda- sano, said yesterday at New York that he had not heard of the firing on the Allianca by the Spanish gunboat, and con-. sequently was not in a position to make a statement. He presumed, however, that the Allianca, sailing in Cuban waters, re- fused to obey the commands of the gun- boat, and in consequence was fired upon. An Investigation Needed. Gen. Newton, president of the Panama Railroad Company, said at New York last night that he approved of what Capt. (Crossman had done. He could not imagine what motive the Spanish captain had in ‘fring upon the Allianca. The company ‘would not demand indemnity, he said, for ithe ship had suffered no damage. The Spanish consul general, Arturo Bal- Basawo, thought the captain of the gun- boat, with knowledge of the law govern- ing ‘such matters, would not have fired upon the American flag had he not been justified beyond question in so doing. ‘Admiral Gherardi was seen last night at his home. He said of the occurrence: “It is not always safe to tell what one thinks of a story when he only hears one side of it. But If Capt. Crossman’s story is true, that Spanish fellow made a bad mis- take, and the whole thing was certainly a high-handed proceeding. But we must re- member that Cuba is now a scene of great disturbance, and in such times some things are allowed that would not be tolerated in peaceful times. But war has not been formally declared and therefore the Span- jards have no right at all to pursue such high-handed methods on the high seas. “You must remember also that the United States has the reputation of fitting out many expeditions to assist the rebel forces there, and that the laws of nations allow the Spaniards to search and over- haul everything and anything they wish to in their own confines. It, therefore, de- pends on the distance the Allianca was standing out from the Cuba coast. Capt. Crossman says he was two leagues off the coast, and if that is true, the shooting was perfectly unjustiflable. But if he was within a league of the shore (and one league is but a short distance away, from his own account) the Spaniards had a right to stop the Allianca and inspect her. “Jt is difficult to say what the govern- ment can do. All I can say is that the action by the government will depend en- tirely on what the investigation will prove.” os A FEDERATION OF SCIENCE. The Meeting of the Commission of ‘Washington’s Scientific Societies. ‘There was a full attendance last evening at the meeting of the delegates from the various scientific societies in the Cosmos assembly hall. The session related almost entirely to the organization of the new federated society, in which all the scien- tific societies are represented. The officers present were Gardiner G. Hubbard, presi- dent; G. Brown Goode, vice president; J. S. Diller, secretary, and B. P. Pierce, treas- urer. The executive committee is con- stituted as follows: J. W. Powell, Geofge M. Sternberg, Charles E. Munroe, William H. Ashmead, G. K. Gilbert, C. D. Walcott and W. H. Dall. By-laws were adopted for the govern- ment of the commission, and the regular and annual meetings provided for. Special meetings are subject to the call of the president or upon the request of ten mem- bers. The commission had adopted a constitu- tion at a previous meeting, and the details for the permanent organization of a union society were completed last night. The federated society is composed of the offi- cers and administrative boards of the sev- eral component societies, and has power to provide for joint meetings, to conduct courses of popular lectures, to act in the interest of the component societies at the instance of any of them, and to attend to such other matters as may be properly brought before it. The meeting last evening took action in regard to inviting the international geo- graphic conference to hold its next session in Washington. This is practically a Euro- pean society, and it has never held a ses- sion in this country. The matter was re- ferred to the executive committee, with instructions to act as may seem advisable. The committee met later and appointed a subcommittee of three, consisting of Messrs. G. Brown Goode, G. K. Gilbert and Dr. George M. Sternberg, to prepare a report upon the matter and report the same to the executive committee. —_.__. Addison Sentenced. . Dunk Addison, an East Washington col- ored man, was arrested a week ago Satur- day night by Policeman Frank Smith on a charge of being drunk and disorderly. Ad- dison dealt the officer such a severe blow that the latter was knocked almost sense- less. Dunk escaped at that time, but was afterward arrested, and when the case was called he attempted to prove an alibi. Two of his witnesses told straight stories, but a third witness, who had not heard them, exploded the alibi. In order that there should be no possible mistake, the case was continued several times and was finally ended today, when Judge Miller imposed a sentence of six months. WHAT CAUSED THE RIOT Events Leading to the New Orleans Dis- turbances, Attorney General Olney’s Reply to the Intimation That Regulars Were Needed in the Crescent City. ‘The causes which led to the troubles at New Orleans yesterday have been of long standing, and grew out of the attempt of ship agents and others interested to re- duce rates. The white screwmen claim that the colored men, who were given a share of the work_under an agreement, made secret cuts and violated the agree- ment in order to obtain more work, and gradually crowd the white men off. The white associations then severed all ties with the blacks and refused to work with them, or for the men who employed them. The white longshoremen joined the screw- men in this. Since then the steamship lines have been gradually going over to the negroes. Lately the white screwmen quit work on the lines still loyal to them, stated that they would not work until the whole affair was straightened out. Several more lines then took on negro labor from necessity. The whites finally determined to retaliate on the stevedores by offering to reduce Yates, and deal with the ships direct. Ships in haste accepted the offer, byt the agents stood by the stevedores. The latter offered to pay more than the screwmen asked, but the screwmen refused to deal with them. The agents offered to pay the screwmen their wages and place the stevedores over them as superintendents, but the screwmen again declined. Then the stevedores began importing colored screwmen from Galves- ton, and the whites, growing desperate, broke loose in riot. Gov. Altgeld’s Claim. Governor John P. Altgeld of Illinois was last evening asked his opinion regarding Attorney General Olney’s negative reply to the request of the United States district attorney at New Orleans asking for fed- eral troops to assist in queiling the riots there. Governor Altgeld expressed some sur- prise that the national government should change its policy absolutely regarding the sending of troops into states where trouble exists. He maintained the position he took last summer, when federal troops wére sent into Illinois to put down strik- ers. He said Attorney General Olney was clearly right. The governor gave out the foliowing statement for publication: “They are having trouble along the docks of New Orleans, and several men have been killed. The affair is so serious that commerce is not only interfered with, but in some cases is stopped. It seems that the United States district attorney at New Orleans applied to the authorities at Wash- ington for United States troops, and, ac- cording to the dispatches, Attorney Gen- eral Olney replied that ‘the state must first exhaust its resources or deny protection before United States troops can be used.’ In this the Attorney General is clearly right. That has been the doctrine of our government from its foundation, until it was trampled under foot at Chicago last summer. It embodies the very essence of local self-government and free institutions that cannot exist without respecting this principle. The moment it is ignored every- thing is left to the discretion, that is, the will, of one man, representing the central power. This man can then send troops when and where he pleases, and keep them as long as he pleases. The Emperor Wil- Ham does not claim more power than this. The country is to be congratulated on the fact that the government at Washington can have a lucid interval.” The Demand for Regulars. The intimation that troops were needed at New Orleans came from the United States district attorney there, and Attor- ney General Olney has replied that the state must first exhaust its resources or deny protection before the federal authori- ties will even consider the question of send- ing troops. This determination was reached last evening and telegraphed to United States Attorney Earhart at New Orleans. Earlier in the day Attorney General Olney received a telegram from Mr. Earhart, stating that the city was in the hands of a mob and suggesting that United States troops be sent forward at once. The Attorney General replied as follows: ‘Do not understand why state authorities are not called upon to preserve peace and repress lawless violence. If that were done national commerce would resume its operations. Application to state authori- ties ought to be made and be denied or be proved unsuccessful before the United States _interposes.” Mr. Olney, in speaking of the situation at New Orleans, said that so far as he has been able to learn neither the city nor the state authorities had called out the local militia or taken any vigorous means to suppress the existing lawlessness. He had no doubt, however, of the ability of the local authorities to handle the mob if they really set about doing it, and in any event the government would not interfere until the situation was clearly beyond the con- trol of the governor of the state aided by all of the militia force at his command. ‘The War Department officials say that the state of Louisiana with its militia force of 1,250 men, well drilled and organized, should be able to cope with the difficulty without outside aid. If it should be neces- sary to invoke the aid of the federal troops the department now has two batteries— D and L of the third artillery—stationed at Fort Jackson, in the city limits of New Orleans, and this force could easily and quickly be supplemented by troops from the department of Texas. oo THE LABOR QUESTION. Labor Commissioner Wright Points Out a Field of Usefulness. Carroll D. Wright, United States com- missioner of labor, yesterday delivered the eleventh lecture in the course given under the auspices of the School of Applied Ethics. His subject was “The Function of Government in the Solution of the Labor Problem.” “The function of government in regard to the labor problem,” said he, “is more in the nature of prevention than solution. Free trade and protection, the money ques- tion, the temperance question, transporta- tion and such issues are all parts of the la- bor question, and to them severally gov- ernment is obliged to turn its attention. It is the function of government to say that liquors which harm the public shall not be sold, or that a license shall be required for their sale. There is no class in the com- munity more interested in sound money than the men who work for wages; gov- ernment thus has its fynction in regard to this. Certainly the function of government must be clearly yecognized in respect to taxation. The regulation and control of monopolies properly belongs to govern- ment. If trusts-were operated in a proper manner this might go far toward settling the labor question. And yet, so far, every attempt to regulate trusts has been a fall- ure. Je i “The transportation question involves the most serious attention from government, and yet its fungtions are, perhaps, more questioned here than iM anything else. am absolutely jopposed| to governmental control of railways, but we must admit that government may régulate transporta- tion for the good of the whole country, for a corporation exists for the benefit of the people, and not the individual. One of the most far-reaching functions of government relates to arbitration. There is no such thing, to my mind, as absolute arbitration. If the employer and employe have not the moral stamina within themselves to agree, and if the peace of the public be threat- ened, there is a function that ought to be brought into play to assist In the adjust- ment of affairs. Whatever machinery of arbitration government may adopt, it can only go so far as to empower that machin- ery to say whether the rates of wages paid under certain conditions are reason- able and what wages would be just. Arbi- tration must necessarily be voluntary. In all these things the government has a function, but it has not always the power. The greatest function of, government li in the application of the law, not in the use of the sheriff, or the militia, but in the power which comes from investigation and publicity of facts, because it is the influ- ence upon the public mind, and because it is the function of knowledge. All the con- ditions of a case are brought to light, an@ this obviously aids in its solution.” LILIUVOKALANI TO LEAVE The Ex-Queen of Hawaii May Go to Eng- land. Has an Income Large Enough to Sup- port Her in Comfort — News From Honolulu. The steamship Mtowera arrived at Vic- toria, B. C., at 4:30 o'clock yesterday af- ternoon, seven days from Honolulu. She brought no deported revolutionists. It is understood there were some offered, but the company desired to take no risk in the matter. Honolulu advices to March 5 fol- low: The work consequent to the rebellion, so far as the military orgahizations are con- cerned, was practically completed on Fri- day, when the judge advocate of the mili- tary commission announced that the gov- ernment had no more cases to bring be- fore that body. All the cases have heen acted upon, and the sentences of only a few minor offenders have yet to be made krown. The natives convicted have, as a Tule, been sentenced to five years’ impris- onment at hard labor, the usual fine of $5,000 being remitted by the president. ‘The ex-queen has been sentenced to five aay imprisonment and to pay a fine of 000. She is still confined in the room of the executive building where she was placed on the day of her arrest, and is urder military guard. Just what is to be done with Liliuokalani is a question which the government has not yet answered. Certain it is that she will not be kept in the executive building for five years or placed in the Oahu prison. Undoubtedly before the end of the month some proposi- tion will be received from the ex-queen’s representatives, whereby she will either take up her residence on one of the other islands or leave the country, doubtless to go to England. She has a private income of about ten thousand a year, which will not be interfered with by the government. It will not be the policy of the government to assume an arbitrary attitude should the ex-queen make a reasonable proposition. Martial Law Still in Force. .Though the work of the military com- mission is completed that body will not be dismissed or martial law declared off until all those who have signed agreements to leave the country have departed. The last batch is due to leave March 16. Should any of these men show a dsposition not to com- ply with their agreement, they will he promptly arrested, put on trial before the commission and sentenced. The restrictions of martial law have been retired to a great extent. Citizens are al- lowed on the streets at night without pass- es and the police have discarded their rifles. The attitude of the government in the deportation of Cranston, Mueller and Johnson is explained in this morning's Commercial Advertiser, which says the dis- cussion arising from tne deportation of three political prisoners to Vancouver, while attracting more or less attention, is not causing the government officials any fears from possible derogatory results. The position of the government briefly ex- pressed is: The act was justified by the laws of Hawaii. Second, the act complain- ed of was done by right of the govern- ment of Hawaii. Tae movement for annexation is gaining among the natives and the formation of annexation league by Sam Parker, one of the ex-queen’s commissioners to| Wash- ington, and other prominent native Ha- waiiaus and half-breeds, will doubtless re- sult in monster annexation petitions from all parts of the islands. The British Feeling. A remark reported to have come from a@ prominent British official that he ex- pected “this thing would be repeated in a short time,” shows that while the super- ficial attitude of the English may be friend- ly they have no deep-seated love for the republic c the possibility of the United States coucolling this territory. The sto- ties published in American papers of tor- tures practiced upon political prisoners to bring about confessions have caused a feeling of indignation throughout the com- munity. They are so completely without foundation that even the royalists con- demn the yarns, and it is hardly possible that steps will be taken to discover wheth- er the articles originated here, or manu- factured in the United States, the latter being the most generally accepted version. An act was passed in the advisory coun- cils appropriating $25,000 to defray the ex- penses of the rebellion, making the whole expense up to the present time $75,000. ALLAN McLANE’S ESTATE. An Order to Show Why His Daughter Should Not Be Paid. Judge Cox has ordered the executor, Jas. L. McLane of Baltimore, and the executrix, Mrs. Abby McLane of this city, to show cause tomorrow why a part of the income of the Allan McLane estate should not be paid to his only child, Mrs, Cropper. The thirteen months allowed for settling the debts of the state expired March, 1894, and since that time Mrs. Cropper has been en- deavoring to obtain her share of the in- come. The executors refused to pay and appealed. The present proceeding is the result of an order made by Judge Cox in the Probate Court last October, ordering them to pay Mrs. Cropper a part of the income, which was practically sustained by the Court of Appeals last month; this last court ordering the case returned to the Probate Court to have the exact amount determined and expressed in words and figures. The amounts of income due Mrs. Cropper, as hetr-at-law, and Mrs. McLane, as widow, have been determined, and the executors are now ordered to show cause why these amounts should not be paid at once. It is three years and more since Mr. McLane’s death, and it is said Mrs. Cropper has had nothing. The accounts filed in the Orphans’ Court, the last one dated March 1, 1895, show, it is charged, no pay- ments of any kind to the widow. Mrs. Me- Lane, however, has the right to yet show that she has paid to herself her share of the income. —_—.__ They Should Be “Life Guards.” ‘To the Editor of The Evening Star: Sir:—If you will allow me space in your paper, I would like to say something about ¢ar fenders which I hope will interest you and the reading public. As an old mechanic I think I know what kind of an appliance street cars need to protect life. What is understood by a car fender? A fender, or defender, wherever used, is to push aside, out of the way; to clear a passage; in fact, to protect what? The car, or the people passing in front of it? If intended to pro- tect the people a “car fender” is not the proper name for it. In my opinion a car fender is to fend— push out of the way any obstruction, what- ever that may be, in front of it, while the car is in motion—and clearly only protec: the car. For example, a cow catcher on a locomotive is a fender to protect itself only. What comes in contact with it is injured or killed. Therefore, the proper name for any appliance put on a car to protect life and limb should be a “life guard.” Any lfe guard, to be effective, must be attached to the front part of the car, allowing a space of four to four and one-half feet, so that the object to be saved will come in contact with the life guard first. P. ——__. Tramps Injured. Charles Miller and James Conway, men who were making their way from place to place in a freight car, came to grief in Anacostia yesterday morning. They were in a car of lumber and while the car was being shifted the lumber fell on them. Conway’s foot was crushed and Miller’s left leg was broken. The men were near the end of the car and it required consid- erable work to rescue them. They were sent to Providence Hospital for treatment. SS Robbed the Senate Barber Shop. Jesse Jones, a colored boy, who crawled through an opening in the door of the Sen- ate barber shop a few days ago and car- ried off several razors and other articles, plead guilty in the Police Court today to a charge of larceny and went down for ninety THE REVOLT IN COLOMBIA Reports of Insurgent Defeat Are Often In- correct. The Government im Sore Straits for Men and Money—The Exact Situation. Special Correspondence of the Associated Press. COLON, March 5.—The recent reports of repeated victories by the Colombian gov- ernment troops over the revolutionists chal- lenge surprise and some amusement when they get back here from distant parts in printed form. These reports are mislead- ing, because the revolution is not yet stamped out by reported victories. It is still progressing, and the govern- ment of Colombia is in sore straits for men and money. The congress at Bogota has just passed a bill for a forced loan, This measure provides that a million dol- lars a month shall be collected from the merchants throughout the republic. The method of its collection, no less than the loan itself, will cause bitter dissatisfaction. It is believed that the officers who appor- tion the amount to be collected from each merchant will favor individuals, and as the amounts to be collected are not based entirely on the actual capital of each mer- chant, but on his supposed capital, it can be plainly seen how a supposed sympa~- thizer with the revolutionists may be as- sessed beyond his fair proportion. There is no appeal from the assessment, and the tax must be paid on demand, or property equaling the tax levied will be confiscated to its satisfaction . Industries Paralysed. The industries of the country are par- alyzed, as the government is conscripting soldiers down to the age of fourteen years, and those who are not in the army already or in the field with the revolutionists are hiding in the mountains. In order to reach these fugitives, through their families, a law has been passed imposing a fine of $100 on any one discovered slaughtering domes- tic animals for food, or selling meat, ex- cept through an authorized agent of the government. An inspector has been ap- pointed under this law, who will issue a permit to each person desiring to purchase meat from the butchers, and thus the families of actual revolutionists and those of fugitives will be prevented from buying the necessaries of life. The premium on gold has risen to 142 per cent, and that, with the increased cost of living, owing ‘to recent advances in the tariff and the low price for labor prevail- ing, is causing great distress throughout the country. Fears of Pillage. Merchants are exceedingly apprehensive that their places of business will be fired for pillage. Three attempts were made on the night of February 18 to burn Colon, and but for the prompt discovery and suppression of the fires Colon would have been in ashes, The merchants of Colon are doing night patrol duty, as most of the police force of the city are now in the army. About three hundred soldiers in Panama were ordered on March 1 to proceed to Carthagena, on the. charte! transport Premier. All but fifteen of them refused to go, saying they were from the Cauca valley, and would go there if necessary, but not to Carthagena. No action was taken by the government officials to punish these soldiers, The troops in Panama are paid their wages every other day, but the civil off- cers are in arrears of pay several months. —-——_ An Invitation to Atlanta. The standing committee of press corre- spondents has called a meeting of corre- spondents, to be held at 12 o'clock, Satur- day, March 16, at 511 14th street, to act extended the upon the invitation news- paper to visit the Atlanta exposition during the coming summer, -