Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1908, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION. Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Avenue. | The Evening Star Newspaper Company, | THEODORE W. NOYES, President. European Office: 3 Regent St., London, England. New York Office: Tribune Building. | Chicago Office: First Nationa! Bank Building. | sinh | The Exening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, Is delivered by carriers. on their ywn ac! count, within. the efty at 50 cents per month: | without The Sunday Star at 44 cents per month. y mail. postage prepatd: ineluded. one mont! Daflr. Sundar excepted. one month, Saturday Star, one rear, $1.00. Sunday Star, one year, $1.50. H eo nts. cents. Daily. Si WAS ON, D. ye Evening Star. | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1908—TWEN ry PAGE Ss. TWO CEN No Haitian Embargo on the Associate of Stoessel in a Foreign Legations. Military Duel. COUNTRY NOW MORE QUIET SMIRNOFF BADLY WOUNDED France Thinks the Worst of the Trouble Grew Out of the Port Arthur | Danger Past. Trial. NORD ALEXIS’ RESIGNATION MET IN THE RIDING HALL Report That It May Be Demanded Authorities Knew in Advance and Gave the Affair Their Approval. | } | by the Powers—No More Exe- cutions Permitted. Ladies Present. PARIS, March 18--Official advices re- | Special Cablegram to The Star ceived here form Haiti indicate that the | ST. PETERSBURG. March 18.—Gen: arrival at Pert au Prince of fereign war- | Fock and Smirnoff fought a duel th. ships has produced the desired effect upon | morning, the latter being severely. perhaps President Nord Alex M. Carteron. | fatally, wounded. Fock — challenged the ¥ ister, cables that the gov- | Smirnoff on the ground that the memo- | ernment Ff ndoned its intransigeant | randum written by the latter on the siege attitude; that the re-embarkment of refu-|of Port Arthur wounded his honor ana{ \ gees has been authorized, and that safe | damaged his reputation. |X condu have been granted for the de- | bane men eee in the riding school of : he other | the Chevaller Guard Regiment and fought parture of Gen. | the other | with pistols at twen nes. | revolutionary agitator have taken | ‘The riding school was placed at the asylum at the legations and consulates | disposition of the combatants by the at Port au Prince and Gonaives commander of the regiment. and the due M. Carteron gives much credit for this | Occurred with the full knowledge anc f 1. ron £ nies ie facie [approbation of the military authorities. improved state of affairs to the ac It was witnessed by several officers of | intervention of M. Borno, the minister | high rank, and it is even reported that of state, who was the first to counsel | Several women were present. | this course of action. All danger of an | Four Rounds Fired. attack on the legations or consulates 18 | Shortiy before 10 o'clock Gens. Fock Mow considered at an end and Smirnoff appeared at the riding Warships Are Effective. school. Without saluting they took the A special dispatch received here from |Places assigned by their seconds. For Gen. Smirnoff the seconds were his broth- er-in-law, Vladimir M, Purishkevich, a member of the duma, and Capt. ‘Schultz of the navy, while far Gen. Fock, Capt ‘ vecienation of |Sd9 adjutant to Gen. Stoessel, and Lieut. mulate a demand for the resignation of | Podgursky. one of the Port Atihut heroes, President Nord Alexis.and the formation | officiated. of a provisional government, to be fol-) The distance between the two combat- lowed immediately by the elections. ants was twenty paces, and th duelists ; $ | were insiructed to open fire at the word In the meantime, the dispatch further | Gr command and’ continue: tntil one nt states, no further executions will be per- | the other was hit. At Gen. Fock's fourth mitted. Arrangements have been made, | shot Gen. Smirnoff groaned and sank for- 7 raeeh som. | Ward. had been wounded in the ab- continues the dispatch, with the com- | WaT je! u manders of the German cruiser Bremen | omen above the right hip. He was car- anes British cruiser Indefatigable to |Tled in a litter to the military hospital, jund ‘marines at & signal from the lega-| Where doctors this afternoon employed tions. The minister of war, Gen. Celes- | Roentgen rays to locate the bullet. tin, has brought reinforcements | from Another Duel to Come. Gonaives by order of the president, and], Beats cae a ies boa ge ns he is manning the town defen: The | The word: “fire” was given each presence of the warships appears to have a salutary effect. Germany Not Combative. | Port au Prince states that the represent- atives of the foreign powers there have decided that unless there is a rapid settle- ment of the present cri: they will for- time jueling. At the second exchange Gen. ock’s coat was perforated. At the third exchange Gen. Smirnoff accidentally fired BERLIN, March 18.—The Associated | premature but Gen. Fock magnani- Press is authorized to state that the | nousiy declined to shoot at a defenseless German foreign office is fully in accord |opponent, and the fourth and final shots were then exchanged. This duel will be followed by another, between Gen. Fock and Gen. Gorbatoffsky. the commander of the western front at Port Arthur, who was severely criticised with the viewpoint of the United States regarding the situation in Haiti as set forth by Secretary Root. There never was any intention on the part of Ger- many to intervene in the internal affa Gen, Fock during the court-martial » Haitian republic. It is tne firm /proceedings. Gen. Gorbatoffs bidbewa penets . jonds some time resolve, however, of Germany to protect | raiteg to secure permission to fight a duel. her subjects trading in Haiti, and sne } = 11 instst also on the inviolability of her} Gen. Smirnoff was acting commandant temattons | ae so of the Port Arthur fortress during the legation and consular buildings. | X0 | siege and at the time of its surrender to complications in the Haitian situation | e Gimae ati ice aunren den the Japanese. he prepared a of Port Arthur are foreseen here. The report that se t report of the defense ht possi- es ie ich was the basis of Germany w Oe ee ee ar THe moet ye. |the indictments on which Lieut. Gen. cent advices report the situation at Port | Stoessel. Lieut. Gen. Fock and Maj. Gen su Prince as much calmer since the ar-|Relss were tried for their lives before rival of foreign warships. It is noped |the supreme court-martial. Gen. Stoessel that the presence of the German cruiser | Was accused of cowardice and incapacity Bremen will not be necessary for long.|and Gen. Fock, according to the indict- wut she will remain until quiet has been | ment. displayed thorough incapacity and completely restored want of judgment. Dispatches to the State Department |tencing to death of Gen. Stoessel, which from Haiti today indicate that the situ. | finding was later commuted to ten years ation has been greatly relieved by the | imprisonment, while Gen. Fock was arrival of several foreign warships. Min- | dered to t manded for a discipli ister Furniss says that the Haitian min- | offense. ister for foreign affairs has officially noti-| Gen. Smirnoff also was on trial before fied the French and German ministers |the court-martial charged with having that the refugees in their consulates wil! | failed to remove Gen. Fock from his he allowed to embark and depart from|command, although he suspected an Haiti. It is indicated in the dispatches | agreement between Gens. Stoessel and that the presence of the ships has quieted | Fock to surrender the fortress. He was public feeling and that no danger of fur- | acquitted of this charge. ther casualties is apprehended. except in | the event of the possible refusal of the iTAFT BOOM IN MAINE French authorities to permit the deporta- tion of Gen. Firmin and the other ralled cons} s now under the pro- | tection of the French consul at Gonaives. The Haitian officials ¢ ze that these |ASSUMING LARGE PROPORTIONS men are fomenting rebellion against th overnment. and that the safety of the| DESPITE EARLY SENTIMENT. demands that they be y from the island. As understood here, the French authorities cannot properly refuse the request that Gen. Firmin and his as- sociates be deported without leaving themselves open to the suspicion at least that they are interested in the success of the Firmin cause. In the apsence of de- tails it is not known how the deportation republic Special Dispatch to The Star. PORTLAND, Me., March 18.—Ex-Gov John F. Hill, national committeeman from the state of Maine, is out for Taft, and in Portland and western Maine the Taft boom is assuming large proportions. A of the prisoners is to be conducted. but ; it is said that President Nord Alexis is | few weeks ago it was the general opinion willing that the French warship shall be |of republican leaders in western Maine used in taking the refugees to a place of |that the delegation to the national con- safety outside of Haitian jurisdiction. anlidis tebtal Gini tale woulacdarentt | uninstructed. {But conditions have changed within the pig NO HOPE FOR HAU. | past week. Dyer, former district Former Washington Professor Re-| ttjiney for this state, made a trip to ported Dying of Consumption. Washington, and while there was: in KARLSRUHE, March 18.—Karl Hau, | consultation with the managers of the the former professor of Washington, D. C..| War Secretary's campaign. When he re- who is serving a life sentence here tor|turned to Portland things began to move the murder of his mother w. Fraulin Taft's direction, and today it is gen- Molitor, in 1906, in hopelessiy ill of con- | erally acknowledged that the Maine dele- semiption) ini the: Rruchisal penitentiar gation to the national convention will be 1e Bruchsal penitentiary. | £ation to ‘The man’s flness, whieh ped only | instructed for him a few weeks ago. passed the intermediate : stages with extraordinary rapidity, and the UPSET TAFT MEN’S PLANS. doctors declare today that there is no hope of saving his life ———— HANDY WITH HIS GUN. | Antis Stampeded Meeting of the | New Hampshire Republicans. | Special Dispatch to The Star. Nyack Postmaster Has Second Ex-} CONCORD. N. H.. March 18.—The anti- | H perience With Burglars. lvaft men stampeded a meeting of the 7 . |New Hampshire republic: Lexreebectebinaperied Pratl liast night and upset the plans of the Deerepty pe beady pee David J. | members of the: New Hampshire Taft As- Smith, postme at We shot | Syclation and, it is believed, mortally wounded a| “Cre tatter were confident of securing the burglar in his post office at 3 o'clock this George Adams of Ply- mouth to preside at the state convention April 21 in Concord, which is to name the delegates to the republican convention at Chicago. The Taft plans were unexpectedly upset by Col. E. C. Bean of Belmont, who pre- sented a resolution moving the nomina- tion of ex-Gov. John McLane of Milford |to preside at the convention. Two mem- bers of the Taft association immediately | raised strenuous objections, but they were |defeated by an overwhelming vote and amid the cheers of the hostile committee- ne It has been customary for a quarter election of Ge morning. Mr. Smith sleeps over the post office. and at 3 o'clock he was awakened an explosion which shook the entire lding. He rushed down stairs with a} olver and found the safe had been Mown to pieces. Three men were in the office, and started to run as Mr. Smith entered. Smith shot one of them in the back and the man fell. The other two ran down the road to the West Shore railroad and escaped. Neighbors were aroused by the pistol shots, and the wounded burglar was brought to the Ny- |” re ack Hospital, where he is in a serious | condition. ‘The man refuses to give his |@ century to leave this work to the execu- name S tive of the state body, ome years: ago Smith shot ang /@lement would probably have proved vic- ed a burglar on his premises torious pees Sa eee eee Senator Penrose I] With Grip. ADELPHI March — 18.— United ————_-—___ Funeral Tomorrow. he funeral of Senate Whyte will held tomorrow afternoon in Baltimore, | St#tes Senator Penrose i be held at Emanuel Pretest. {Home here, suffering from a severe attack 7 1 Chureh and the remains \of the grip. His phySicians say the sena- will be interred in Greenmount cemetery. {tor will be kept indoors several days. by Gen. Kireieff the Russian authority on | he outcome of the trial was the sen-/ i | | { i | \ | of this city | ment wireless station here at Point Loma, of | despite the afternoon publication of items which the Taft | day's doings at Magdalen nfined to his| premier, says that yesterday the patient | | sued today EVANS IS BETTER NOW RAMMED A BIG LINER’ BRYAN AND ILLINOIS | i BEATS MEXICAN OFFICIALS TO; PLATES STOVE, BUT NO SERIOUS' PEACE DOVE COOS LOVINGLY IN MAGDALENA BAY. MAGDAL. ‘A BAY, Lower California, March via San Diego. Cal., March 18. —Rear for several Admiral Evans sat hours enjoying the semi-tropleal sun to-| day in an armchair placed on the after | bridge of his flagship, the Connecticut, gazing out over the broad waters of the! bay and admiring the wonderful advan-| harbor. He S as a naval base in tages of this out-of-the- pointed out its meri detail and regretted that its located the United States. counterpart southwestern “Tt exclaimed purposes. hills and of any was not on shores of the would | he be a great thing for us “What fine Deep water, high deserted shores, a place fer our surrounding which permit ice.” range of target prac Admiral Evans said that very likely he would go out on the target range with the Connecticut when she engaged in her record target practice. He said that h tender, the Yankton, would be here by that time and he might go aboard hei but like he would remain on the flagship. Welcomed His Hosts. The refrigerator «ship -Glac’ some evidence of her voyage. | | | more ' shows Her port hawser pipe has been broken‘in two and|{ | her bowsprit-broken off.short. The hawser pipe was broken at Punta Arenas, whe a merchant ship-ran-into her while she | was-al anchor. The figurehead had been | broken off the bow and was lashed tem- porarily with ropes. The Mexican gunboat ‘Tampico arrived | in the bay shortly before sundown of the 12th and came to anchorage between | the flagship and the town, Lieut. An- tonio Ortegay, who was’ in /command, | stated that he had come to add to Gov.| Sanchez’s welcome to the fleet, but the} premature arrival of Admiral Evans’ fleet | has precluded his participation in- the] ceremonies. The Tampico brought the} Mexican government officials, as had been | expected. | Admiral Evans has placed a limit of seventy-five words nightly on wireless) press dispatches to be filed by the cor-! respondents with the fleet. in order of pr edence, established by drawing lots under direction of Li Commander Lloyd R. Chandler, flag secretary s is cleared up, and so far there is no indi-| cation but that the official dispatches will} monopolize the wireless establishment for | some time to come. Communication with | Point Loma seldom is established until | well past midnight. Daybreak puts an. end to the atmospheric connec nd | so the hours of sending and receiving are limited indeed. HAMPERS THE WIRELESS. Daylight Interferes With.the Send- ing Current. 1 DIEGO, Cal., March 17.—Despite | earnest endeavors to do so the govern- | which is regarded as the most powerful and efficient on the entire Pacific coast, has been unable to get into communication with Admiral Evans’ fleet at Magdalena bay during the daytime. Rarely is com- munication established until well along into the night, and as only one ship is al- lowed to send at a time the press of offi- cial business keeps the operators con- stantly at their keys and telephone re- ceivers during the early hours of the morning. Daybreak always interrupts the connection with Magdalena bay, the distance being too great for the ether waves to travel in competition with the short, fast-flying light waves put in mo- tion by the sun, No dispatches have been received during the day at any Pacific coast station, the operators here declare, purporting to give a record of the il se ee British Premier's Condition. LONDON, March 18.—The bulletin reg Lng the condition of Sir Campbell-Bawnerman, the British | i Henry passed a more comfortable da The chief i symptoms are no worse and Sir Henry's strength has improved’ slightly.” b | Bremen at 2 a.m. INJURY. NEW YORK. March 18.—While the great transatlantic liner Kronprinz Wil helm of the North German Lloyd line lay at anchor in a thick fog off Staten Island today the steamer Crown of Castile ran into the liner and tore a hole more than ten feet in diameter in the overhanging stern. penetrated thd steward's quarters on tne Kronprinz Wilhelm to a distance of about fifteen feet, but nobody was injured. Wa- tertight doors on the hull of the Kronprinz! Wilhelm closed, but it was quickly ascertained that she had suf- feredyno damage below the water line were promptly | and, after a wait of several hours for the fog to lighten in Hoboken. The Kronprinz Wilhelm arrived from today, carrying 392 pas- She anchored off the quarantine tion to await the visit of the health officer and, after his inspection, started from quarantine to come up the harbor to her dock the fog was not thick enough to prevent senge! a good vision of the harbor, but the steamer had proceeded only about two miles when the mist closed thickly about and Capt. Nierich brought the ship to a-stop and anchored off Rébins to await the lifting of the fog. « Kronprinz Will Sail. Fog bells were rung on both the bow and stern to warn other vessels of her presence, but the steamer had been at auchor-only five minutes when the quar- |termaster, on the afterbridge telephoned | 0crats of t to the captain that a steamer was com- in, u astern headed directly for the Kronprinz. Capt. “Nierich "promptly ordered the chain slipped, the engines started ahead and ‘tiie watertight doors in. the steamer's compartments closed. There were forty-eight of these doors, and they were closed in just fifteen seconds. The big steamer was just gathering headway when the Crown of Castile struck her fairly in the stern, penetrat- ing the overhang and tearing a triangular hole fifteen feet wide and ten feet long through the steel plates. The shock of the blow was felt on’ board the big'liner. and the two vessels quickly separated. Both of them came to anchor again and lay there for several hours until the fog lifted, when they proceeded to their docks. At the North German Lloyd dock was stated that the damage to the Kron- prinz Wilhelm would not delay her sail- in only slightly fhe Crown of Castile, which was bound from Rotterdam. belongs to the New rk and Continental line. No one was ured on board. The steamer’s cut- water w: partly torn awi near the main deck. but the damage is slight. ——_>____. NAVAL PROMOTIONS. in Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate. The President sent to the Senate today the following naval nominations: Ensigns to be lieutenant, junior grade, and leutenants: Ralston S, Holmes, Fred H. Peteet, Milton S. Davis. Charles E. Brillhart, James D. Willson, John Rodgers, Charles Belknap, jr.; Daniel T. Ghent. Pay director on active list to be pay di- rector on retired list—Lawrence G. Boggs. Passed assistant paymaster to be passed assistant paymaster, rank of lieutenant— David G. MeRitchie. Carpenter to be a chief carpenter—Wil- liam O'Neill. Second lieutenant to be a first-lieutenant in the Marine Corps—Joseph A. Rossell. | DISCUSSES THE CURRENCY. Hardy of Texas Opposed to Aldrich and Fowler Bills. The currency question was disc the House today by Mr. Hardy of Texas He announced that he was opposed to the Aldrich and to the Fowler bill, as well, exeept_in so far as the latter meas- ure provided for the guaranteeing of de- posits. To that proposition, he said, heartily subscribed, and he hoped ‘the present session would not end without its Incorporation into law. ae maar Wie bi nt The bow of the Crown of Castile | she proceeded to her dock | When the liner left quarantine | reet | ed ini DEMOCRATIC RANKS. Special Dispatch to The Star. CHICAGO, March 18—W. J. Bryan and Charles Boeschenstein, chairman of the | democratic state central committee, came }to an understanding last night. ‘The siate chairman is a friend of Roger C. Sullivan, the Mlinois national committee- man, whom Bryan at times has endeav- ored to depose. In the talk with the can- |didate he wanted to know just what might be expected in the way of interfer- ence with the local affairs of the state organizations. He asked the question plainly and Mr Bryan replied. just as frankly. that there would -be none so far as he was concern- i jed. Mr. Bryan asked frankly whether he would get instructed Illinois delegates. and Mr. Boeschenstein replied that he -ertainly would if there were no meddling with purely state affair: “You can write the resolutions your- If,” he informed Mr. Bryan, “and the tate convention will adopt them just as you write them, providing there is no string at the end of them. If you or your friends will prepare resolutions in- dorsing your candidacy and instructing the delegates to vote for you and will not try to put in something to make trouble for some one eise (i. e.. Mr. Sul- livan) I can guarantee that the conven- tion will adopt them without protest or contest. We would like to have peace in Illinois, and we can't have it if some one in trying to get what he wants also tries to make trouble for some one else.” Said His Last Good-Bye. Bryan replied that he has said the ‘last word he intended to say regarding \the Illinois democracy, and that if he | could be assured of a square deal re- | garding thé delegates, providing the dem- he state wanted him to serve them, he would rest satisfied with that. ‘The relations between him and Mr. Sul- livan were discussed, and Mr. Bryan sald: Mr. ' Sullivan and and I do he contest between M myself is a thing of the pas not intend to revive it.” Mr. Boeschenstein confessed himself surprised by tne pac.fic attitude taken by Mr. Bryan regarding the Milinols situ- ation. it is apparent that so long as te principal persons in the new agreement stick to their present way of tainking there will be no internal trouble in the democratic party in the state, and this example in Illinois is expected to be followed by leaders in other states. ‘Thus apparently endeth the war of Mr. Bryan on ‘Tom Taggart, Sullivan & Co. —__—__.—____. REPEATS HIS ASSERTION. Hobson Reiterates That Spear Offer- {| ed to Use His Influence. Representativg Hobson. of Alabama. whose test/mony before the Lilley inves- ‘tigating committee that Vice President | Spear of the Electric Boat Company had offered to help him get a place on the naval affairs committee, through influ- ¢nee with Speaker Cannon, was denied by Mr. Spear vesterday, today reiterated the story he told’on the siand. Mr. Hob- son went even further than he did in tes- tifying before the special committee. “What I said before the committee was absolutely correct,” Mr. Hobson said to- day. ‘Also, Mr. Spear made the same overtures to my secretary. My secretary will testify to this. He asked to be heard by the committee yesterday, but the com- mittee refused to hear him. I shall write an official letter to Mr. Boutell, chairman of the investigating committee, to ask that my secretary be heard. This will show that Spear said he had influence with the Speaker to have me appointed on the House committee on naval af- fairs.” —_+-____ LOCAL SCHOOL BUILDINGS. Only One-Fourth of Amount Asked to Be Recommended. Only about $500,000 of the $2,000,000 ‘asked by the District committee for new school buildings in the District of Co- lumbia will be recommended by the Dis- trict subcommittee of the House comm) tee on appropriations. which is new per- fecting the District of Columbia appro- priation bill. ‘The committee has gone through the bill, with the exception of the section relating to street improve- ments, which, it &% expected, will be fin- ished this week. riage Goes > ” t ‘REPUBLICANS OF IOWA ‘Meet in State Convention at Des Moines Today. iGREAT INTEREST INDICATED 'To Name Four Delegates-at-Large to Chicago. | ALLISON-CUMMINS CONTEST Platform Subject of Much Dis- cussion—Taft Instructions. DES MOINES. Ia.. March | public n state convention, which to [name four delegates-at-large to the na- tional convention, instruct them for Taft. jeulogize Senator William B. Allison and is the tariff, was called to order at 11 o'clock today by Frank P. Woods, the state central committee. He sur. rendered the gavel to Attarney Gene! i H. W. Byers of Harlan, the temporary chairman, who made an eloquent addr Which aroused the delegates to much enthusiasm. At the conclusion of Gen Byers’ speech the result of the various district caucuses was reported, and the {convention adjourned until this afternoon to await the committee reports. Throughout the morning the wording of the tariff revision plank of the platform was the subject of discussion among the | Allison men. Numerous suggestions were debated, and when the convention ad- urned it was generally understood that meeting of the resoluti tt jeutlined last night, whic vision, ‘immediately after tion of the next President.” The demand also will be made that | special session of Congress be called. The Cummins adherents were deter- mined before the convention met to force a vote on the adoption of the Ohio re- vision plank verbatim. and two reports frem the resolutions committee were con- sidered probable. Gen. Byers’ Remarks. Byers commenced his address by the inaugura- a Gen. never had brighter prospects than at present. He congratulated the republi- cans of the state upon the part they had | borne in the creation of the party record and detailed the features of republican achievement at considerable length. He further said: “The American people have much rea- son to be grateful to the Divine Master of the world, but there is no one thing for which they should be more thankful than that at this moment there came into leadership the greatest man of modern times, the most potent force in all the world~Theodore Roosevelt. He has boldly undertaken to find his way through the labyrinth that surrounded us. has confidently appealed to the sense of justice, which always dominates American heart. His work is done, but it has been gloriously begun. “If the republican party is retained in power it promises to adopt and have written into the laws of the land every suggestion made by the President in his last message to Congress. “It seems to me to have a part in this great work ought to so fill the hearts with patriotism and love of country that there would be no room for petty jealousy and factional spirit, and I appeal to you to bury forever in harmony and good fel- lowship all purely factional differences. “Then give us a candidate for President a man who is pledged to walk straight on in the ways of justice and honesty. and victory s sure as the passage of time. “We need a man who is saturated with the influence of the administration now drawing to an end. We need a man who understands all and appreciates the work that Roéosevelt has done. “We need a man who knows that the tariff schedule must be revised, holding fast to the policies of protection, but giv ing heed to the rights of those who bu as well as to the rights of those who sell. We need a man who has already demon- strated that it is possible to employ reci- procity to enlarge our markets abroad without inflicting injury upon our mar- kets at home. “There may be many such men, for the republican party is rich in leaders, but the man I have in mind is, I believe, the choice of a great majority of the republi- cans of lowa, the friend and adviser of the President, the Secretary of War, Wil- ARKAIGNS OPPONENTS HULL OF TENNESSEE PREDICTS DEFEAT IN NOVEMBER. “Drunk with power, the republican party has become inert and inefficient, corrupt and servile. It has achieved its manifest destiny. It has neither reformed nor economized. It failed to | the sign- voards and ran the car of prosperity onto a commercial turntable.” In th Mr. Hull of in th pressed his opinion of the republican party. “Having thus prescribed,” he said, “our republican friends should cheerfulls words Tennessee ever bitter, that inevitably awaits them at the polls in November next. Mr. Hull discussed the issues of the day and arraigned the republicans for fail_ ing to provide remedial legislation that the country was demanding. Mr. Hull asserted that he was not one of those democrat who thought Mr. Bryan should place Mr. Roosevelt in nom- ination for President. Although the Pres- ident had deemed it wise to embrace cer- tain demecratic doctrines, he had not committed the republican party to them, but instead referred to them as “my policies.” He was not so sure “but that this controversy between the President and ‘swollen wealth’ fs not a mere love quarrel, possibly of early reconciliation.” While the President sad done many ad- mirable things, said Mr. Hull, at the same time he had contributed “more than all other influences of the past and present generations to the creation of a line of vicious and evil precedents that would be a lasting curse to the worst despotism in the world.” He charged that the President's con- tempt for plain mandates of the Con- stitution had become proverbial. The only problem with the President. he de- clared, was not how to follow the Con- stitution as it is written, expounded and construed by the fathers, “but how make the Constitution follow him on hi journey to the north pole of paternalism.” Democrac; he said, registered a loud protest against such flagrant executive usurpation =~ Wording of Tariff Revision Plank of | adopt a platform calling for revision of | chairman of | s committee | | z | Would be productive of considerable ar- |gument. The plan most in favor prior to | [the meeting of the committee was that calls for re- | the declaration that the republican party | He! the | not yet | © House of Representatives today ex- | take the dose of their own medicine, how- | to) Weather. Rain tonight. Clear’ colder tomorrow ‘CALM OVER HONDURAS LAST WARSHIP SAILS AWAY Sequel to the Washington Arbitra- tion Conference. YEAR OF STRIFE IS ENDED Nicaragua, Salvador and Gautemala i Were All Involved in the Trouble. \ PUERTO COR EZ, Spanish Honduras, March 7, via New Orleans, March 18— The last of the American war vessels which for more than a year have been continually in the Caribbean sea helping to preserve peace in Central America, sailed away today. The departure was the collier Lebanon, | which went to Hampton roads. On the 4th of the present month Hon- duras, the bone of contention in nearly every one of the uprising, ratified the larticles of the Washington peace con | ference, and this ratification was the sig- {nal for the immediate departure of the | gunboat Dubuque. which was quickly fo! lowed by the sailing of the collier Leb- anon. A summary of the intrigues over which the American sels have so long exer- cised a salutary influence is now available if connected form for the first time as gained from official soures Story of the Trouble. Following the Honduran revolution of year ago, in which Manuel Cabrera, | then president, was driven from the coun try, Nicaraguan troops used their influ- ence to have Gen. Sierra of the revolu- tionists elected president of Honduras. This attempt failed. Threats of war by Salvador and. Guatemala if Sierra was chosen, were largely responsible for 8 erra’s defe Immediately following this incident Nicaraguan aid was lent to an attempt to overthrow the government of | Salvador. When this incipient revolution had failed Salvador, in retaliation, joined forces with Guatemala in plans to invade ragua with the object of opposing la | President Zelaya of Nicaragua. This ex- pedition was thwarted by the refusal of ‘the newly elected president, Davilla of Honduras, to permit the Salvadorean and | Guatemalan armies to march through his |country. Thereupon a plot was hatched in Guatemala to re-establish the deposed president, Cabrera. in Hondures, and an army of 8.000 men was collecting to in- vade Honduras when Mexico and the United States proposed the joint peace conference of Central American republics, Forbade the War. Even the near approach of this confers ence did not deter the army of 8,000 from continuing its preparations. It is prob- able that a firm note sent out from the American gunboat Marietta was the deciding factor in preventing war from breaking out anew. This note informed |the commanders of the army that in casa |a hostile expedition appeared on the coast the Marietta would capture it, and if the expedition attempted to escape the gun- boat would sink the vessels and treat the occupants as pirates. pee eee < SSETEEEEEY CONTROL OF CANAL ZONE. President's Authority May Be Ques- tioned on Floor of House. A favorable report on the resolution in- troduced by Representative Harrison of New York calling on the President to ex- plain by what authority he has exercised executive, legislative and judicial fune- tions in the Panama canal zone since the expiration of the Fifty-eighth Congress thas been agreed to by the House commit- tee on interstate and foreign commerca and will be subjected to debate on the floor of the House. By an enabling act passed by the Fifty- eighth Congress President Roosevelt was specifically directed to exercise the zone government until March 4, 1904. The posi- tion taken by Mr. Harrison is that the failure of either the Fifty-eighth, Fifty- ninth or (thus far) the Sixtieth Congres to extend that specific power left the President without authority to continue his rule of the zone. ——_—_+___- CLEVELAND'S BIRTHDAY. Only Living Ex-President Celebrat- ing Event Today at Lakewood. Special Dispatch to The Star. LAKEWOOD, N. J.. March 18.—With family and friends on hand to congratu- late him, former President Grover Cleves land is quietly celebrating the seventy- first anniversary of his birth today. At dinner a large birthday cake with seven- ty-one small candles will be presented to Mr. Cleveland by the management of the Lakewood Hotel, where the family is staying, and everything will be done to make this birthday away from his home an enjoyable one. Yesterday Mr. Cleveland t walk to the Cleveland cottage. Lakewood people as the “* House.” He appears to be from his recent illness, and faith in better health to come. that he toox was th k a long known 1.0 tle White recovering expresses The walk longest orie in nine His physician. Dr. Joseph D, Was with the former President for a short time yesterday. Hitcheock’s Accuser Out on Bail. NEW YORK, March 18.—Flora Whiston, the young woman who was arrested on a charge of perjury after she had testified lin the trial of Raymond Hitchcock, was released on $5,000 bail. The testimony of the Whiston girl, which was a com- plete refutation of a story she had told before the grand jury which indicted Hiteheock, resulted in a verdict of ace quittal for Hitchcock. ——__+____—_ Dirgctor for New Theater Sails. NEW YORK, March 18.—Granville Ba ker, the London actor-manager, who, ac- cording to persistent rumor, is to become the director of the new theater, has sail- ed from London for New York, and will reach here in a few days to consult with the founders of the theater, When it was | first reported last summer that Mr. Bar. | ker was being considered for the impor tant post the founders of the playbou | denied that any contract had been signed, but they said that Mr. Barker had been approached. A few weeks ago a meniber (of the committee having the erection of \ the theater in charge said that the mat- lter of engaging a director had been held |in abeyance,- but ‘admitted that it would | be settled soon: é ‘