Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1897, Page 1

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Sub- ecribers changing their address from one Post-office to another should WASHINGTON, D. ©., RETURN OF THE PRESIDENT TO GO IN TOMORROW To Send the New Hawaiian Treaty to the Senate. The Trip Through the South Greatly. En- joyed by AIL Satisfactory Conclusion of the Un- PRESIDENTS PRESENT INTENTION pleasant Incident at Biltmore—Mag- nificent View From the Mountains. Understanding Reached at the Cabinet Meeting. The southern trip of President McKinley and his Invited guests was completed at 7:30 o’clock this morning, when the spe- cial train over the Southern railroad rolled into the city. The entire party returned in good health, although for several days threatened with illness owing to the in- tense heat which prevailed from Friday to the time of the arrival of the party yesterday at Asheville, N. C. Both Prest- dent and Mrs. McKinley enjoyed the trip immensely and expressed the deepest ad- miration for the hospitality they had re- ceived at every point. Many portions of the country through which the party went had never before been visited by the Pre: dent and he found !t new and interesting. At every point in the south the President was hailed with the respect due his office and with as much enthusiasm as if he had been a democrat of the full-fledged southern type. The popularity of the Pres- ident throughout the country was never more fully illustrated than on this trip. Everywhere, among democrats of the most rai type, it was acknowledged that not since tne days of Lincoln has there been a more thoroughly people’s man in the ex- ecutive ohair. Mrs. McKinley shared the honors extended her husband, and by the women of the south was svoken of as the ideal of the sweet, Intelligent and home- like woman. Her kindly face and graceful manners made her sought after more than her health would consistently permit, but she did not give a thought to this and gave herself over to friends wherever she step- ped. COURSE OF PROCEDURE ———— It is understood to be the President's In- tention to send the Hawatlian annexation treaty with a message to Congress tomor- row. The understand! of the Senate is that this decision was definitely reached at the cabinet meeting today, where the subject was fuliy discussed. The sugges- ton has been made tivat- the President csight delay the message until both houses are in session Thursday, but this does not correspond to the information directly re- ceived, which is that it will surely come in tomorrow. The suggested course of procedure when the annexation treaty is sent to the Senate is that it should be made public, in order that the proposition to restore the House provision in the tariff bill may be accom- plished with the understanding that the treaty of annexation will Possibly be in effect before a year’s notice of abrogation could be given. One reason given for mak- ing the treaty public would be that it could be discussed in connection with the Ha- wailan provision in the bill. It is not belfeved that there will be any attempt to secure immediate action on the treaty, and possibly it migh not be consid- ered at this special session. Power of Senate to Act Alone. Some question has arisen as to whether the Senate alone was competent to act up- on a treaty which acquired territory, end if the House would not be called upon to concur, but the precedents are that the treaty-making powers—the President and Senate—can act, and the only manner in which the House would be considered would be in case an appropriation was necessary to carry the treaty into effect. Ne Pension for the Former Queen. The one point of importance in which the annexation treaty differs from the conven- tion negotiated by Secretary Foster in President Harrison’s administration is in the omission of any provision for ex-Queen Lilivokalani and the Princess Kalulani. In the original treaty it was provided that the government of the United States should pay the ex-queen the sum of $20,000 cash and the same amount of money each year during the remainder of her natural life, provided she, in good faith, submitted to the Bovernment of the United States and the local government of the islands. The Princess Kalulani, being the next in line of royal blood, was to recelve a cash pay- ment of $150,000, under a similar proviso, as in the case of the ex-queen. Immigration of Cooles. It is understood that any objection that might have been expected to the annexa- tion of the islands based on the large pro- portion of coolies in the population, has been forestalled by an article not only pro- hibiting the further immigration of such laborers to the Hawalan Islands, but also prohibiting the coming of any of the Chi- nese from the islands to other parts of the United States. The Biltmore Ineident. The leading incident of the journey was that over the trip to the Biltmore estate near Asheville, mentioned in yesterday's Star. The program from the time the presidential train left here was that the Biltmore estate, one of the most magnin- cent in the world, should be visited. by the party, the arrangements having been made by the committee of Asheville citizens in. charge of the matter. Neither President McKinley nor Secretary Porter supposed for a moment that an invitation had not come from the managers of. the Biltmore estate. When the party arrived at Ashe- ville yesterday and Secretary Porter was informed of the peculiar order of Edward J. Harding, forbidding any but a few of the immediate friends of the President to accompa! him to the Biltmore estate, he was naturally incensed. He did not wait to speak to the President about the matter, but promptly informed Mr. Hard- ing by telephone, thi knowing the Presi- dent as he did, he was satisficzd that the President would not put his foot on the Bilimore estate unless the entire party with him, as well as the local committee of Asheville, accompanied him on the driv Mr. Porter was respectful, but firm, in k talk to Mr. Harding and left him et the telephone with the purpose of not again bothering him. Upon being informed of Mr. Porter's ac- tion, the President commended him warmly and instructed him that if he again spoke to Mr. Harding to inform him that he, the President, would not insult his invited guests by going to Biltmore without them, ard furthermore, that he had not sought an invitation himself fo visit the estate. Late in the afternoon Mr. Harding tele- phoned to the Battery Park Hotel to Mr. Porter, again making further inquiries about ‘the party and attempting to hedge upon his performance of a few hours be- fore. Mr. Porter then repeated the instruc- tions he had from the President. He told Mr. Harding that the newspaper men. on the trip were not the riff-raff of the news- paper world, but men of ability and brains and the personal friends of the President. Mr. Harding, as stated in yesterday's Star, immediately said that under those circumstances he would. be very glad to have the entire party visit the estate and mansion. This statement from Mr. Hard- ing did not satisfy many members of the party and their advice was for cutting Biltmore entirely. The President, how- ever, looked et the matter more calraly. He knows Mr. Vanderbiit and said that he was satisfied that if the party did not visit the place the owner would be mortified. He thereupon requested that the newspa- per men and the local committee would ac- company him. The entire party was driven from the Battery Park Hotel to Biltmore and enjoyed the sights far more than they had expected. The train was taken at 5 o'clock in the afternoon for Washington and arrived here on schedule time. The entertainment given the entire party at Asheville was highly satisfactory. The party was placed at the Battery Park Hotel, and each member was looked after by local committeemen, while Maj. E. P. McKissick, the proprietor of the hotel, took charge of the President himself, being a warm personal friend of the latter. The Trip From Nashville. From the departure of the train from Nashville the party was in charge of Col. S. L. Brown, agent of the passenger de- partment of the Southern railway. At Chattanooga he was joined by J. H. Bar- rett, superintendent of transportation of the entire Southern system, and one of the best-known railroad men in the country. They personally looked after the manage- ment of the train, and there was not a hitch anywhere. Coming down the mountain this side’ of Asheville President and Mrs. McKinley witnessed one of the greatest scenic treats of the trip. The railroad, to reach, at one place, an air line of three-quarters of a mile, traveled around the mountain a dis- tance of fourteen miles. Looking above and below on every side the track can be seen. Superintendent Main of the Pullman com- pany accompanied the party from Washing- ton to Nashville and return. The President took no stock in polities while away, talking with only one or two intimate friends. The only thing said to have-been mentioned on the trip In these talks was the Spanish mission, in which something will be done within a few days. Unable to Attend the Gold Mining Convention at Denver. DENVER, June 15.—The managers of the international gold mining convention have received a letter from Private Secretary Porter conveying the regrets of Presideat McKinley at his inab{lity to be present at the convention. A large corps of gov- ernment geologists and meteorologists will be present. The Japanese legation at Washington has been notified that a delegation from that country will be present. Letters have been received from the state authorities of South Carolina and Georgia asking for syace for the display of ores from those states. Plenty of space will be assigned to all such dispia Thus far the gov- ernors of eleven states have appointed del- egates-at-large. They are Alabama, Carolina, West Virginia, souri, Montana, New Mexico, Nebraska, Texas and California. From twenty states legates have been appointed by mayors various mining and commercial asso- clations. Secretary Mahone estimates the attendance of accredited delegates at not less than 1,000. Se L. S. DAVIES DEAD. Georgia, North Mississipp!, Mis- Author of Law Prohibiting Germany From Drafting American Citizens. SANTA CRUZ, Cal., June 15.—L. S. Da- vies Is dead, aged seventy-five years. Be- fore coming here ten years ago he was prominent in Waterbury, Conn., serving as mayor and probate judge. He studied law in Wm. H. Seward’s office and called the attention of the latter, who was then Sec- retary of State, to the fact that German citizens im this country were held liable for military duty in Germany. At Seward’s suggestion the deceased pre- pared a measure, which became a law. which prohibited Germany from drafting German citizens of America into the army. A brother of the deceased is Bishop Thos. F. Davies of Michigan, —_———.__ ONLY ONE TROOPER WOUNDED. ————_-e-______ INDORSED BY THE PRESBYTERY, Memoriul on Congressional Action District Charities. Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire presented a memorial to the Senate today setting forth that “the presbytery of Washington city takes pleasure at this time in indorsing the recent action of Con- gress, that ‘from and after the 30th of June, 1807, no money appropriated for charitable purposes in the District of Co- lumbia shall! be paid to any church or re- Ugious denomination or society which is Firat Report of the British Loss at Mashow!t Exaggerated. VRYBURG, Bechuanaland, June 15.—The statement from Mashowing, to the effect that the police camp there had been at- tacked by 500 natives and that six police- men had been killed, turns out to have been incorrect. Only one trooper was wounded and six horses were killed. Vol- The memorial is attested by the Rev. Dr. Bittinger. : —————__o-—____ TO BE GOVERNOR OF ALASKA, unteers, however, have started for the nominations to the Senate: acene of the disturbance. Interior—John G. Brady of Alaska, to be Movements of Naval Vessels. governor of the district of Alaska. The flagship San Francisco left Smyrna this merning for Mitylene. The Bancroft has arrived at Saida, and the Michigan is at Detroit. and steam heating” plants; In water reservoir, ‘were wh: ntact. to rajured, ‘ithough it i poe pal uninjui was impos- sible to. Aarts wacertain about records. ‘The vaults of the main: building also ap- pear to have escapéd destruction. f: “As. to the -futuré.I propose, with your bets soar fF ote ext Jom cane arriving passeagers on shipboard, un’ barge office annex, whieh was used for tmmigration -purposes up to January 1, 1892, and given up for the storing of selzed goods ist my. decided. opposition, is refitted temporarily ‘for. the handling of business. “Please order immediate removal by cus- toms authorities of-seized goods stored in the barge office annex and have this annex turned ever te me as custodian in order to start without iélay on refitting same for nospeees: aAutiiérity by wire is re- spectfully requested.” Department Sends Instructions. After consultation with Secretary Gage ‘the acting secretazy sent telegraphic in- structions for the use of the harge office annex as a temporary immigration station in accordance with the recommendations of Commissioner Senner, Acting Secretary Spaulding said to a Star reporter that the department will not=be able to erect new buildings on Ellis Island unless: Congress makes appropriatiow for the sams, and that in their abseace the immigration serv- ice will be administered: with difficulty. A Great Loss to the §ervice. The destruction of the immigration st tion on Ellis Island. was. a serious loss FIRE AT: ELLIS ISLAND Allthe Big Immigrant BuiJdings Com- pletely Swept Away. FORTUNATELY HO LIVES WERE LOST The Loss on the Buildings is Esti- mated at $800,000. VALUABLE RECORDS BURNED NEW YORK, June 15.—Ellis Island today is a mass of black, smouldering ruins. All the huge buildings which since 1892 have housed hundreds of thousands of immi- grants were during the night demolished in a conflagration which constituted one of the most brilliant spectacles ever seen in New York harbor, and which threatened the lives of 200 immigrants who were on the island. As far as can be learned there was no loss of life. The exact amount of damage the service. Impo! d-exps i has not yet been ascertained, but {5 1s said | ‘provements had jyst bedn finished and the that the loss on buildings wya-Gmount to | oficials regardgd” it. as. the finest plant something iike $800,000, whife hundreds of d.for a giafflar purpose in existence. volumes of valuable records ave been de- | /Gommissioner General Stump ‘att for New stroyed. J York at ncon today to direct the transfer The first steps taken today the im,/| of what is left of tha station to the barge 7 office, where temporsry quarters will be secured. Assistant tary ‘Howell will go to New York this evening to consult customs officials as to new quarters for the present occupants of the barge oftice, and it. is expected taat there will be no great difficulty in affecting a change that will be reasonably satisfactory to all until more permanent agrangements can be made. Ellis Island ts regarded by the officials as the best and most available site for an immigrant station In the vicinity of New York, ahd Assistant Secretary Spauld- ing expressed the opipion today that Con- gress would be requested to make an ap- Propriation of at least*600,000 to rebuild the plant. Several: of the old buildings were wood, and it i intended to replace them by practically fireproof structures of brick or stone. immigtation bureau now has to its credit about $225,000, which has accumulated from the head tax on im- migrants, but it ts dewbtfut: whether the department would consent tozthis fund be- ing used for the purpose of rebuilding. As soon as Assistgn@ Secretary Howell ‘and Commissioner Stumip.retarn to Wash- ington a scheme for*veMuikiimg the station will be prepared and presented to Con- migration - authorities were to ai tein definitely, 1f possible, whether any of the persons who were on the island last night had been caught in the flames. There were no records left by which the temporary in- habitants could be accounted for, so the im- migrants were divided up into groups. ac- cording to the ships they came in. Then they were submitted to close questioning. They were asked whether they missed any of their fellow passengers. It was a chatter- ing, noisy crowd, and little Italian children threaded their way between the eager men and women in search of playmates. At last everybody seemed satistied that all his or her shipmates were safe and sound on land, and the authorities came to the con- clusion that in some wonderful way the fire which ate up the buildings on Ellis Is- land as if they were match wood had been without fatal result. No Telephone Communication. The absence of telephone communication with the island and the more er less con- fused statements of the persons who were hurried from the licking flames that threat- ened to leave them no safety, but in the waters of the bay, make it difficult to as- certain the exact cause, extent and details gress ‘for its action. - ——————_-2-s—___—_. of the fire. The thousands of people who “ stood on shore throyghout tne night and] NO PRAYERS FOR VICTORIA watched the immigrant bufidings burn 3h themselves out. had a better idea of the : actual happenings than eroeeren 5 a . themselves. It was a wonder! sight. We’ ¥ out in the center of the harbo: was a livid | Bishops Refused . to, Pray for mass offlame that shot upward and out- * . Qheen: ward and only seemed to gain new life 4 “ a ond when the roofs fell inward to-the heart: of the fire below. The shores of New Jersey, Staten’ Islund and the docks on the river were aglow with England's KANSAS CiTY, Mo;\ June 15.—Phillip E. the reflected light. On the edges of the | Buroush.- British. vigs gonsul.fierts is exn: island where the flames had not reached | ¢rting. himeel celebrac there looked t> be hundreds of little dark | tion in honor of Queen ‘Soria. He has dots, like black ants scurrying to safety. | organized the Kansds~C#g Vietoila,.Dia- Then frum out of the dark water in the distance countless tugs steamed into the 5 flood of light, and soon the island was sur- | ™eTous subjects and -ex-sibjects of Great rounded with craft of all kinds. Britain, and this asspelation has collected Night Watchman Christiansen <tells.the |:@ substantial memorial charity fund to be story of the fire very graphically: distributed on jubilee da¥, Other features Watchman Christiangen’s Sto: of the celebration, as { , will be the “I did not know anything about it,” he} offering of prayers for the queen in scme says, “until I found myself in a cloud of|of the local churches ahd a big public. smoke. I rushed to the northwest end, | meeting at Fairmount. Park. where the flames seemed to come from, and} It was desired to secure the participation shouted: “Fire!” Six men slept there, and| of the Catholic clergy. int these exercises, they only just got out. Then somebody | and with this énd in yew Eonsul Burrough rung the alarms which communicate witn| and Rey. W. P. George’ of Westminster all the departments. The immigrants seem- | Presbyterian .Church. galled upon Bishop ed as and we ae = almost cee Hogan and his coadjutor;! Bishop Glennon, out. en some of them ran back for tthe iplition. ‘Moreover, some bit of trinket or bundle. of clothes. | Whos tiie resaiest re eee the ens We thought we'd: lost’ fifteen Itallans for | clergymen were given to understand: thet certain. Their friends stood around 1n| 09 of the memorial fund would be the blistering heat and prayed and cursed] Piven to the local ‘ORG hospital, and swore that their fellow countrymen |®30r the pian fell th. ‘The bishops were being burned to death. declined to attend the’ meeting and aveveral people made a dash into the! they declined to offéf pfayera. for Eng- main building in search of ‘them, but it I rg > land’s queen in thely churches. Bishop was useless. Then, when we'd given uP| Giennon said to his thterviewers: “I shail hope, we found the fifteen Italians huddied order no prayers for’England’s queen in together at the far end of the island. — our churches. More, f shall, if nec ys “It was a few minutes before 1 o'clock | Ovtrcasty’ prohibit pies ese when the fire started in one of the towers | Churches in this diocd#e. “Our people have in the main building. Everybody but us) 14 occasion to invoke special blessings on watchmen was asleep. How ey. all got Queen Victoria. "As a:pood woman, we ad; out, goodness only knows. The fire Tabs og and police poured water on the blaze for ail} Mire her; a8 a quech, w¢ have 1.0 prayers they were worth, but for all the good it did it might have been oil. “If it was a wonder that the immigrants in the main building got out, it was still more of a wonder that the sixty-odd pa- tients in the hospital were saved. ‘Ine nurses and doctors worked as cool and caim as any trained firemen. Some of the sick shrieked and shouted. But the nurses didn’t mind. Théy hauled them out on stretchers and laid them down where they | Archbishop Janssens -are lying. in state. wouldn’t get scorched by the heat. They} Every class in the éommunity is repré- looked mighty ghastly.” sented. sb” | Commissioner Senner Takes Charge.| This morning at 8 o'clock a solemn high Dr. Joseph H. Senner, the United States | mass was celebrated in honor of the dead ccmmissioner of immigration, went over to | prelate, with Bishop Van de Vyver of Rich- Ellis Island soon after the fire started, and zee oftciating. Nin Eee: wal part: personally superintended the work of car- in the pageant today and the funer- ing for the immigrants, who lost all their | 4 Tite a tas es OS boggage, with the exception of the few-] est of San Antonio, Vertagier of Laredo, bundles they had carried in their hands. Fitzgerald of Little Rock, Heslin of Nat- The charity organization is working hard | chez, Dunne of Dal ; McCloskey of Louis- to provide them with necessary clothes. Las, ville and Van De Vyver of Richmond. The buildings entirely destroyed were the | The. mortuary procession, starting at 4 main building, 7% by 250 feet; the deten- | o'clock this evening, will embrace religious, ticn pen, the restaurant, the laundry, the | clvic and military features, and will pur- morgue, the record building, the storage sue @ roundabout way trom St. Mary's house and the disinfecting plant, which | Church to the ‘cathedra |, which has been centained costly machinery, wi was not quite completed. F. J. Scully, who has the money exchange privilege on the island, says he has lost $10,000 in currency. mond Jubilee Associtition,.composed of nu- ——._— HONORING THE; DEAD BISHOP. Imposing Ceremonies .in Connection With Bishop Janssens’ Funeral. NEW ORLEANS, Ea, .June 15.—From early morning throngs have poured into St. Mary's Church, wheré ‘the remains of already elaborately rated. Gov. Foster and stat: Jetechments of the and municipal state national Dr. Joseph F. White, who had charge of | tion will be rem the medical department cn the was traina ae pase awakened just in time to get his wife and | all sections of the s four children out in safety. His house was | attend the mee “on Whit said that th tr i J ere were twenty Crm Bish "ibe apis ds aight Say | po oe egeeme ee ren hosp! night. on! 6 a ¥ = very serious cases were those of a youny | Fumeral of Miss DeGenican at Mount woman suffering from typhoid fever, and a Lorette Cemetery. boy who is dying from an incurable dis- ‘ose. All the patients were taken to hos- pitais in this city early in the morning, and are reported to be none the worse for their experiences, NEW YORK, June —Mount Lorette Home at Pleasant Plaing:8. ky was crowd- ed today when funefal#erviges over the remains of Miss Marie A, one Dr. Senner’s Official Report. be pode Rich eee iin -mmremelaree Acting Secretary Spaulding-hes received | A pene train trom ity carried the following telegraphic report of the fire many clereyinen and cis of” the Doe on Ellis Island from Dr. the immi- peepee pee mpeethe body of gration commissioner at New York: counity, a0. Miss "DeGesreee totem! “The immigration station at Ellis Island she met her death ¢ @ wish to be was almost totally destroyed by fire, which beside her. and mother in started from causes unknown in the statis- | the Mount 1 . Her father tician’s room and spread with incredible War — wines rapidity all over the main bull } thence to the restaurant and neers pret ion further sive the last address as well as the rew one. . TWO CENTS. PRESS CENSORSHIP|#!S DISCHARGE ADVISED/ SHRIVER ON TRIAL How the Blue Pencil is Used by Span- ish Officials. ONLY CUBAN REVERSES CAN GO OUT The System by Which Havana is Kept in Ignorance. WEYLER THE CHIEF EDITOR ———_._—___. It®is ninety miles from Key West across the gulf to Havana. This is the measur- able distance. But once in Havana one seems thousands of miles away from the news of the world or of such news as bears on the existing war. The effange in sur- roundings is made so quickly that it is hard to realize the difference, but after you have waited four days for information the reall- zation {6 vivid enough. When stirring events are recorded in the United States it seems strange at times that no echo is -heard from Havana. The reason is simpie. Havana and Cuba are under martial law. ‘Phe sequence of that martial law is a cen- sorship of dispatches, newspapers and even Private correspondence as complete as ever existed. People who have been under Spanish rule are accustomed to repression. Where an American frets and fumes they take {t quietly and philosophically. If there 1s a paucity of news they wait in patience. The censorship is under Gen. Weyler’s immédiate direction. When he is in the field, as was the case during Mr. Calhoun’s stay in Havana, the palace officials would not dare permit any important information to become public without first submitting it to the savage woldier, who has his own notions of what should be fed the public in the way of news. So they were in the habit of telegraphing to him at Santa Clara, Placetas,“er wherever he happened to be, a summary of the information which they were holding under cover. Sometimes after three or four days an answer would come graciously permitting the publication. Oftener no attention would be paid to the intelligence forwarded him, and the palace Officials would not give it publicity. The control of the telegraph and cable being an inherent right of sovereignty, probably the action of the Spanish govern- ment in Havana during a state of war is not open to question. But the lack of dis- cretion with which that right is exercised is frequently of great inconvenience. ‘There might be’a fight of great importance he- tween’ the Spanish troops and the insur- gents, the news of which reached Havana Saturday ‘afternoon. If the troops were ‘whipned, as will somettmes happen, the Chances sre'that not a word of the news would reach the United States till the fal- lowing: Thursday. Then it woujd come. by way of Key West, the dispatches having been. sent there for transmission by the undérgfound channel, and as this under- ‘ground channel is only open twice a week, that ts as often as important news Adverse to Spain can be sent out from Havana. There might be a bare Possibility of a cable which would give the news being transmitted, but the chances would always be against it. Every cablegram directed to a newspaper in the United States or Europe must first be submitted to the censor at the Palace. If it relates to political news the political censor passes on it. If it has anything about military operations the military cen- sor determines whether it shall pass. if the dispatch is to an American newspaper it must be submitted in both Spanish and English. Then if there is nothing in it which is. considered hostile. it is stamped, the initials of the censor given it, and it may be transmitted. Private telegrams are subject to the same scrutiny, though os- tensibly they do not need to be submitted to the censors in advance if they relate only to private affairs. But the govern- ment is suspicious, and not a cablegram goes out of Havana or reaches the city that is not first passed under its inspection. A certain degree of liberality is exhibited in passing on war news which is favorable to Spain. If the insurgents have blown up @ train with dyramite and killed a few soldiers that may be transmitted because Gen. Weyler wants the outside world to jaw the inhuman methods employed by the insurgents. But an account of the burning of bohios or palm huts, of the de- struction of insurgent hospitals and kill- ing of the wounded irmates by the Span- ish troops, is not permitted, though it may be published in the Havana Papers. The explanation givcn me was that the Amer- ican public did not understand these things. Gen. Ahumada, who is supreme at the ralace in Weyler’s absence, used to com- plain bitterly of the discrimination of the newspaper correspondents against Spain in sending out war news.’ The Marquis Palmerola, now governor of the province of Havana, who was formerly press censor, had the same complaint. So they shut down cn all war news except the reports of Sparish victories. A string of these can be sent out at any time, and the palace of- ficials do not understand why American newspapers are not willing to pay cable tolls on news for the reliability of which they themselves vouch. The Havana Press. yy It may be gueesed that with so strict a surveillance kept on what goes out of Ha- vana, nothing is permitted to come into it without an equally close watch. The Havana newspapers are at a disadvantage ecmpered with their ccntemporaries in the states. Anything which is got to an Amer- ican rapes is sure of publication, but the Havana journals, after great enterprise, would still be unable to reap the fruits of Result of the Court-Martial of Professor Fanciulli, Newspaper Correspondent Arraigned on the Charge of Contumacy. FOURTH OF THE SUGAR TRUST CASES Surprise to Everybody—View Taken by the Officers—Protecting Their Dignity. A Mass of Documents Introduced and Admitted as Evidence. The testimony taken by the summary court-martial convened last week for the purpose of hearing charges of insubordina- tion against Prof. Francesco Fanciulli, the leader of the United States Marine Band, was finally transcribed by Recorjer Theo- dore Lowe yesterday evening, and, to- gether with the findings of the court-mar- are eee tial, was submitted to Capt. Frank H.| Mr. John 8. Shriver, the Washington rep- Harrington, commandant of the marine | resentative of the New York Mail and Ex- barracks, upon whose authority the court press, was today placed on trial before was convened. The sentence of the court- | Judge Bradley in Criminal Court No. 2, to martial imposed upon Prof. Fanctulli is | answer the indictment returned against discharge from the service. The court, | him July 8, 1894, charging him with hav- which was composed of Capt. M. C. Good- ing refused to answer certain questions rell, Capt. Denny and Lieut. Karnany, was | propounded to him in June, 1894, by Sen- unanimous in its decision to recommend | ator Gray's sugar trust investigating com- the discharge of the Marine Band leader. | mittee. The findings have not been offizially pro-| Mr. Shriver is the fourth alleged con- mulgated as yet, but the above statement | tumacious sugar trust witness to undergo is Serra ak ex gamer a iia the ordeal of a criminal trial, Mr. Elverien barrac! at, wi ie ifle " Prof. Fanciulil on May Si, when he dectin- | - Chapman, the first one, having been ed.to concede to Lieut. Draper the authority | Convicted, while President Henry 0. Mave- claimed by the latter of seie2ting the char- | meyer and Secretary and Treasurer John acter of music to be played during the pa- | 5. Searles of the American Sugar Refining rade, might not have been regarded Company the so-called sugar trust, were Sareclent fox the Imposition of such @ #2 | acquitted by direction of the court (Judge b Bradley). sue was the broad one affe>:ing the mat- ter of discipline in the service of the | In May, 1894, Mr. Shriver wrote his pa- United States, whether in the army or in| per an account of a conference said to the navy. have taken place in this city, at the Ar- The sentence of discharge from the serv- | lington Hotel, between representatives of ice was therefore decided upon in order | the sugar trust and members of the Sen- that {t might prove as a lesson to subordi- | ate committee having in charge the mak- nates in their future relations with superior | Mg,up of the sugar schedule of the Wilson officers. There will be general and wide- | tariff bill. When Mr. Shriver was sum- spread regret and indignation at the de- | moned before the investigating committee, clsion of the court, because Prof. Fanctulli | he was requested by the chairman of the has been widely admired for his ability as | committee, Senator Gray of Delaware, to a musician, bis character as a gentleman | give the name of the person from he and his excellence as the leader of the na- | received the information on which tional band. This feeling will not be con- ticle was based. fined to the memters of the band, but will be shared by the general public, with weaennee eer whom Leader Fanciulii has become de-| That he declined to do, upon advice of ervedly popular. It is generally hoped | counsel, although he volunteered the state- that a decision of the court will be dis- | ment that his informant was a memoer cf “approved. ze the House of Representatives. De a ree, OF the court rere approved | when the trial was called yestepley & dant of the marine barracks, and also by | week ago, a continuance was granted until Col. Heywood, commandant of the Ma- | today vy Judge Bradley because of the un- rine Corps, and have been sent to the Sec- | avoidable absence of Senator Lodge of retary of the Navy. Massachusetts, and Stenographer Boswell, —_—_-+__ two important witnesses for the govern- “FOR THE GOOD OF THE SERVICE.” | ment. The court room was well filled when the case was called today. Mr. Shriver, who arrived early this morning from the south ERT, SEER with the presidential party, was represent- Since the present administration was | eq py ex-Judge A. J. Dittenhoefer of New ushered into office a number of removals | York and Mr. Jere M. Wilson of this city, have been made from the classified service. | the government being represented by Dis- In many instances those who have been | trict Attorney Davis and Ass‘stant District removed have declared that they would ap- | Attorney Baker. After Mr. Shriver had waived the reading peal to the civil service commission for re- | of the indictment, and had entered a plea instatement under the rules made by the | of not guilty, a jury was quickly selected, President under the authority ve:ted in | both sides signifying their satiefaction with him by the ‘civil service law. Section 8 of | the first-twetve men called, as follows: C. rule 2 provides: . N. Fewler, Charles Toomb, Lawrence A. Callan, Arthur B. Smith, Frank N: Cissel, “No person in the executive civil service | George Schwab, Ezekiel Tignor, Jonathan shail dismiss, of Cause tO be’ dismissed, or] Kiock, Grant Green, Lawrence G. Fletcher, make any attempt to procure the dismissal | Thomas C. Polhick. of, or in any manner change the official Mr. Davis States the Case. rank or compensation of any other person District Attorney Davis explained the therein, because of his political or religious opinions. or affiliations.” case to the jury, reading the story written by Mr. Shriver, and which appeared im When persons removed from the classified |tne Mail and Express. Mr. Dayis also service have.appeaied to the civil service commission for reinstatement on the PROCEEDINGS IN DETAIL ar- No Going Behind This Reason for Dis- read extracts from the proceedings before. ground that their dismissal was because of | the Senate committee during the examina- their political opinions they have been told | tion of Mr. Sriver, in which it appeared to give their reasons for that idea, and | that the witness stated that his informant they have in all cases been forced to reply | heard of the alleged conference at the Ar- that they believed their removal to have |lington Hotel from a wire manufat.urer,who been for political reasons, because it could | occupied an adjoining room at the hotel, be explained in ‘no other way. Early in the | and was sald to have overheard the con- administration, departments from which | ference. Mr. Shriver, Mr. Davis claimed, clerks in the classified service had been re- | peremptorily refused to answer the in- moved have been called upon by the clvil|quiry, an inquiry which would be shown service commission to give reasons for the | to be, remarked Mr. Davis, “a vertinent removal of certain employes. In every in-| one and within the jurisdiction of the Ben- stance the reply has Es that the change ate to make.” was made-for the “good of the service,” and thet has invariably ended the “inves- ee tigation.” The civil service law and the | Counsel for the defense reserved their rules promulgated under its authority are | opening, and then Mr. Davis introduced a for the guidance of officials, but the civil | great mess of documentary evidenze, which service commission has no authority to | was admitted, subject to the objections of i det whether it is enforced or not 40 far ae ne |the defense. ‘This documentary evidence movals are concerned. It can only ask | was a history of the Senate's inquiry, and the official under whom the removal was | of all the maters which led up to it, iden- made for its cause, and must take his ster- | tical with that introduced in the Havemey- otyped reply—‘‘for the good of the service.” | er and Searles cases. A secretary might think it for the “ Mr. Davis also introduced certain doc- of the service” to have a republican in the | umentary evidence to show that the in- place of a democrat, a blue-eyed man in | vestigating committee reported to the Sen- Place of one with black eyes, or a fat|ete that Mr. Shriver was a recusant wit- man rather than a thin one—no one can| ress, and that thereupon, in conformity ask an explanation of the term used. with the requirements of the law, the Vize It has become so well understood that | President reported that fact to the dis- the back door of the government service 1s Mtrict attorney, whereupon the indictment a en fee — bese 3 the aire Neg followed. ©! service reformers, that those who are now removed no longer regard a pro- Senator Gray a Witness. test as worth while the making. But the ‘Then, +s the first witness for the gov- fight for the good places so made vacant is ernment, Mr. Davis called Senator Gray of Fined ee dOeimen already in the clas- | Deiaware to the stand. He stated that he was chairman of the investigating com- sified service and eligible to the promotion. If they are not favored it must be a man certified ‘by the civil service commission who | mittee, and remembered that Mr. Shriver is Known to no one. This condition has | appeared before the committee as a wit- given rise to a political activity in the clas- | Pos. When Mr. Davis asked the senator peg oe a eae as to the article written by Mr. Shriver, metered Places with big salaries | wr, ‘Dittenhoefer, in objecting to the dis when vacated were prey for political work- | trict attorney's question, outlined the de- oFe Quuside the service. Now they are the | conse. He called attention to the fact that cphenaer = men wiih pelt pull | the article did not appear until two days 3 Corpse eeesccetod dan after the investigating committee was ap- pointed, and for that reason, submitted Mr. Dittenhoefer, the article was not, could not have been, referred to by the Senate in adopting the resolution authorizing the in- vestigation ard the appointment of the committee. Judge Bradley, however, allow- to be put, counsel for the Heath has issued a statement of the four- | $7)the, question’ to be Dan eon. and stat. teenth annual readjustment of changes in| ing that they will later in the trial put classification and salaries of presidential | their ree, < ——— sony ere 5 Senator Gray then wen pene = crete a Mr. Shriver was asked, after admitting the article, to divulge the Maryland—Increases_Frostburg, $1,000 to | S2me"of Fis informant. He declined to an- .700; Rockville, $1,300 to $1,400, Havre de | swer, further than to say that his inform- Grace, $1,400 to $1,500; Westminster, $1,700 | ant was a member of the House of Repre- to $1,800; Rising Sun, $1,100 to $1,200. De- | sentatives. : Cam- Defense Reveals a Point. ———_2-—_____ PRESIDENTIAL POST OFFICES, 2 Announcement of the Annual Read- justment of Changes. Acting Postmaster General Perry S. r é BE H g as | E 8 F aad [ t A Hi