Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 27, 1902, Page 2

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: ' WMURSDAY MARCH 2 1902 the minority stockholders, gan “You bought your stock on the open mare ket 2 “Yes, air” You aid not s Not a share.” “What aid you learn when you came home about the dissensions and as to who had contro] of the road? “We had control By we, you mean yourseif and Mr. Hill?* Not at all. | mean J. P. Morgan & Co and their assoclates.” Mr. Morgan sald Union Pacific men were put on the Burlington board in carrying out a community of interest plan. 014 Scheme of Hill's, eald Mr. Mor- buy anything by private The project of the holding company for the Northern Pacific common stock had been contemplated for a considerable time—as tar back as two years. Mr. Morgan sald Mr. Hill had approached him two years ago about organizing a holding company which would throw the Northern Pacific and Great Northern interests together. “I told Mr. Hill that we could work together,” sald that witne: ut that we could not form any closer alliance, as that was against law. The idea of forming the Northern Se- curities company was never thought of previous to May 9, Mr. Morgan said. Mr. Morgan further explained that after the experience of May 9 he bécame more strongly imbued with the idea of forming & holding company for the Northern Pacific stock. ““This was what occurred to me,” Mr. Morgan continued. ‘I might die or the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. might be dis- solved and in such mn event I wanted the Northern Pacific stock to be in safe hands, that the stockholders might not suffer. 1 did not eare who went into the company 80 long as the Northern Pacific interests were safe, a8 they would be it 1 held a majority of the stock.” “Such a majority you could not have without Mr. Hill going in with you?" asked Mr, Lamb. “I could. Mr. HiIl 414 fot have control, nor did 1. Mr. Morgan later testified that he had made a large sale of Northern Pacific stock to J. J. EHI. “How much was {t?" asked Mr. Lamb. “1 can't remember,” replied Mr. Morgan. “Somébody bas testified here that it was $10,000,000 worth?' said Mr. Lamb. ““Well, that may be. ““Thi yme rather a large transaction. Can you not tell us something about the negotiations?” asked Mr. Lamb. “*A $10,000,000 purchase of stock does not seem a very big transaction to me. I have forgotten the detalls,” sald Mr. Morgan. “Hill and I worked together. I'll work with him any time. If it had been different DELAREY ESCAPES CORDON tohener Makes a Determined Effort to | Oapture Boer Leader. GETS SOME GUNS AND A FEW OF HIS MEN Larse Namber of © British Column Makes a Hard Night March to Find Delarey Gone. LONDON, March 25.—Incomplete reports of the result of the combined movement of British columns agalnst General Delarey have enabled Lord Kitchener to announce the capture of about 100 prisoners, three 15-pounders, two pompoms and quanti- tles of stock, wagone, etc, General Delarey appears to have successfully evaded Lord Kitchener's cordon. In o dispateh dated from Pretoria at noon yesterday Lord Kitchener says: At dusk. on the evening of March 23, the combined movement against Delarey was undertaken by columns of mounted men without gune of {mpediments of any sort. The columns staried from Com- mando drift, on the Vaal river, and tray- ¢led rapidly ‘all night, and at dawn, March 24, occupled positions along the line from Commando drift to the Lichtenburg block house line. The troops moved rapidly eastward, keeping a continuous line, wit the object of driving the enemy against the block houses or forcing an action The result has not yet been fully re- ported. Kekewich's "column, after the commencement of the actlon, captured threo 15-pounders, two pompome, nine Prisoners and 100 mules, carts and wagons. General W. Kitchener’s column captured elghty-nine prisoners, forty-five carts and wagons and 1,000 cattle. here are a few more prisoners on the block house line. The troops covered elghty miles in twenty. four hours. Rochefort's and Rawlinson's columns ‘have not yet reported their re- sults. Lord Kitchener in a later message says All the reports are now In. The total number of prisoners is 135. CECIL RHODES DEAD (Continued from First Page.) sults, as all his enterprises were systema- tized so thoroughly as net to need the m: ter mind which was 8o neceseary to their inception. Owing to the very great success of the DeBeers mines, the British Chartered South Africa company and other great South African ventures, Rhodes' fortune had been steadily accumulating. He lost money by the war, but what inroads that made must have been trifiing compared Tl tell you an instance of what I could have dome. Bay that I had bought the Union Pacific interests in the Great North- ern, what would Hill have dome then?" Mr. Morgan smiled at this suggestion of what might have happened. He sald he d1d not help organize the Northern Securi- ties company, but he approved the plan. He thought $180 a share for Great Northern rather high and $117 somewhat low for Northern Pacifie. The witness wanted 1o put his Northern Pacific In a company that was so large that nobody could buy it. If it was deposited in a small company it might be bought. He saw Mr. Harriman on his return from Europe, but they dld not talk about Union Pacific nor about Northern Pacifie. The witness sald J. P. Morgan & Co. hold between 120,000 and 130,000 shares of North- ern Securities at the present time. There was a friendly cross-examination of Mr. Morgan by Francis Lynde Stetson. To him the witness sald the retirement of the Northern Pacific preferred stock was Dot part of the plan which culminated in the formation of the: Northern Securities company, nor was it part of a plan to low the Northern Securities company to ob- taln A majority of the Northern Pacific common. Mr; Morgan denled that there was any understanding or agreement in the organ- ization of the Northern Securities company looking to the control of rates or traffic, or any agreement that would in any manner obstruct or centemplate the obstruction of commeroe. He said that all parties to the agreement had acted Independently. Mr, Morgan said it was never contem- plated that the holders of Northern Pacific preferted could change that stock for com- mon. The retirement of the preferred stock as early as possible was part of the re. organization plan of 1896. The retirement, however, was not practicable until after the common stock sold at par or above. The preferred stockholders, the witness thought, would have changed their shares for com- mon stock If they had had the opportunity. ‘This closed Mr. Morgan's testimony and the hearing went over until tomorrow, when George F. Baker will be called. ALLEGED FORGER IS JAILED Moses Schwarts, Charged with For- gerles Aggrematl tured Phil PHILADELPHIA, March 26.—Moses Schwarts, who is wanted in New York for alleged forgeries on the Seventh Natiomal bank aggregating $100,000, was arrested here today by Detective Sergeant Me- Naught of New York and Detective Meyer of this city. Catarrh The best authorities say, is a disease “of the blood. ‘Therefore local applicatio; cure, . Being & oconstitutional disease it requires & constitutionsl remedy— Hood's Sarsaparilla. By thoroughly purifying the blood, thi¢ great medicine reduces the in- flammation of the mucous membrand and stope all catarrbal discharges of the nose, throat, stomach, bowels, bladder and generative organs. Catarth is especially dangerous in persons who inberit or have acquired & predisposition to consumption. In these and ali other catarrhal cases, Hood’s Sarsaparilia so thoroughly ren- ovates the blood and restores strength and vigor that it permanently cures. In tact, because of the character of the disease, and the peculiar merit of the remedy, Hood’s Barsaparilla is the common-gense treatment for catarrh. " “Iwasasufferer trom nasal catarrh, grad- uslly growing worse, I began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla which completely cared me of that troublesome disease.” MAUD Doaw, 1615 Arrow Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. Be sure to geb - Hood’s Sarsaparilla 16 18 00ld_everywhere. , Erepared by C. L HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass. ) cannot with the many millions he possessed. He never lost his open-handed, but some- what reckless, methods ef handling money. Not long ago he walked into the office of one of his confidential subordinates and threw down & bundle of notes, bonds, ete., saying: “Invest these for me,” and went out without walting to have them looked at. Inspection revealed the fact that they amounted to more than £1,000,000. How they were invested Mr, Rhodes never knew, or cared, for months later, as that night he went oft on one of his wandering tours and refused to allow himself to be bothered with the detalls of the investment of his millions until he returned to England. Too Late to Affect Markets. The news.of Mr, Rhodes' death reached London too late to excite comment either on the stock exchange or in the afternoon newspapers. The bulletin announcing his death, which was seat from Capetown at 6:35 p. m., reached the newspaper offices just as the final editions were .going to press. Some of the half-penny :sheots turned out posters telling of the event, but most of the papers did not have the bare announcement of his death. Throgmorton was deserted when the news arrived, so there was not a flutter in the market. “Tickers" soon disseminated the news in the clubs and hotels, where it formed the main toplc of conversation, but the event has been so thoroughly dis- counted that it can hardly be said to have caused a ripple of excitement. RHODES A PIONEER OF EMPIRE Earl Grey Furnishes Personal Eati- mate of Character of NEW YORK, March 26.—Karl Grey before salling for England gave to the Assoclated Press an interview concerning Oecil Rhodes, the earl having recelved cablegrams from South Africa which led him to belleve that Mr. Rhodes had but a few days to live Lord Grey knew the famous South Atric leader intimately, having served with him on the board of the British South Africa company, and the {ntimacy gréw when the earl was governor of Rhodesla. Lord Grey id ‘Cecil Rhodes is the only exemplar, per- haps, in our gemeration, of those i is! who in the days of Elizabethan adventure made the Anglo-Saxon the predominant partner in the world’s firm. I need not call up their names and titles— Admirals all, they went their To the haven und&yr the ‘\lll. il “They were all, after thelr kind, both the admiration and the terror of their con- temporaries, and I believe that with all of them, from Drake to Robert Clive, terror rather than admiration was 'theé keynote they struck. The conservative forces are those who naturally are in control of gov- roments. ‘We never know what he will do ext,’ sald & friend to me of Rhodes. Some- thing big, some great development that might involve perhaps a change in the very constitution of our empire. The world, at least its governors, do mot much like such who keep them awake at night, and so the greatest Englishman of our day bas come to be looked upon, and not by the British mandarin only, with some American Princtpl “One thing I should like especially to point out. He had a never-falling con- fdence in the growth of the federal prin- ciple of government. He sdmired the American pation enormously, but for this strange and detached reason—he believed that you owed your prodigious, orderly de. velopment to the splendid construction of your constitution. I persebally always g opposed home rule. Being at that time in the House of Commons, I left Mr. Glad- wtone’s party over this lasue. Rhodes, how- ever, never wearled of assuring me that I ought to have g forward, that in this direction alone wi afety, that the Irish were bullding better than they at all knew, that their demand was on all fours with the American state right platform and that in the very rapidity of the proposed change ‘was our best promise of safety. “‘He gave, you may recall, £10,000 to Mr. Parnell. This gift was & rock of offens to the best whig element in our country— for example, to the Spectator—but Rhodes belleved with Sir Hercules Robiuson that Ireland would make one or two orderly states of & federal upion; be saw that the federation of Canada bad been agreeably arranged 4nd that in the Canadian seitle- ment & race problem had been solved; that the time for Australian federation was now at hand, that & peaceful (as thought) federation of South Africa was inevitable and that with certaln modifications in our second chamber, 8o that It might evol an imperial senate, the federation of these varions components ‘inte an imperial uni would be secured and In our time.” ° ° Earl Grey thea turned the conversation to the famous Jameson rald, ealling it mr] | “Unhappy raid which obscured my friend's | bright light."” But let us be fair to him,” continued | Lord Grey. “Rhodes, in the first place, was | premler in Cape Colony. He knew that Kruger would fight to the death any federa- tlon of South Africa under our flag. He | knew that either South Africa must come under the Dutch flag or the English flag, or that the alternative was the ‘national system,' or, rather, the welter and chaos you sec in South Africa today. If the Transvaal, arming to the teeth, continued this condition, then also every man in our | colony of Natal must similarly arm. It is | no longer possible that a chessboard of | little armed ‘nations’ can be permitted to | | menace the peace and orderly progress of the entire world. You have got this in| Bouth Africa, we have got it in the Balkau peninsula, and, therefore, war clouds gather at all times over central and eastern Eu- rope. Rhodes saw this, he eaw that ‘Inde- pendence' on the Kruger plan was Incom- | patible with individual freedom, that it in | volved all-round militariem. ““Then, again, he had great financial in- terests in the Trans 1, and these gave the | moral right to effect a revolution if he could. Here was a so-called republic re« | fusing to a majority of its community the franchise, while levying taxes at the rate of $90 per capita per annum and turning two-thirds of this misbegotten revenue into munitions of war. Kruger almed at arm- ing all the Dutch in South Africa with the #0ld he levied from the Rand miners. Almw to Destroy Krugerism. “I don’t want to discuss the ethics of or the cause of that war, but I want to make it clear that my friend wanted, by the help of a coup d'etat, to destroy Krugerism and secure for the Transvaal the same political conditions, namely, equal rights for all white men, as obtain in Cape Colony and Natal. “He fafled, the raid failed. Dr. Jameson upeet ‘my applecart,’ as Rhodes phrased it, and the abortive raid represented Rhodes himself to all mankind in a false light. ““Let me tell you a touching little incident which pleasantly reflects my friend as I see him. I was in Rhodesia with him the year after the raid. His house at Cape- town, which contained the collection of a litetime and which, as Rhodes never mar- ried, was almost as near and dear to him as a wife and family, was burned to the ground. Coming on top of the raid, the rinderpest, the Matabele war, this culmi- nating trouble alarmed his friends for him, and I was asked by wire from Capetown to break it to him. I sald to him as we wers riding on the veldt: ‘Can you bear to hear of another great disaster which has overtaken you?' “Rhodes is a man of great nerve, but he turned very yale and sald: ‘What is 1t now?' “I sald, ‘Your home is burned.’ “‘Oh, thank God,’ he said, “I feared poor Dr. Jim (Jameson) was dead.’ The doctor had been very ill in prison and we were both anxious about him. Paeslng to the expected death of his triend, Lord Grey sald: Considers the World Poorer. “The world will be poorer, no one will dream such dreams and try to draw them on & map, no one living perhaps will try as he would bave tried to federate our empire on the American system. Rosebery, yes, he will try; we will many of us try, and we will succeed. Others can carry on his work. I am happy that I went to Wash- ington, where these things look at one fully accomplished. Such men as your president, Senator Hoar and others I could name kive those who come near them much encouragement. A great gemlus goes out with Rhod true, his work will go for- ward in some ways more smoothly per- haps, because he had inevitably aroused great antagonism, but we shall not see his like again, and his passing will, for me and many others, take much color from our lives. ‘Other nations,’ he once said to me, ‘will pursue peace, but the two great Eng- lish-speaking nations standing together can enjoin it " Lord Grey concluded by saylng: ‘‘When his will is read it will be known with what intention Rhodes, who never wasted a precious moment on pleasure or self-in- dulgence, had collected a great modern fortune.” AS A CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY John Hays Hammond Says Rhodes ‘Was Truly Great, Judged by American Standard. NEW YORK, March 26.—John Hays Ham- mond, who was many years and up to the time of the death of Cecll Rhodes inti- mately associated with him in the develop- ment of South Africa and who was con- sulting engineer of the British South Af- rica Chartered company and the consoli- dated gold flelds of South Africa, in which Mr. Rhodes held important interests, had this to say of Mr. Rhodes: Mr. Rhodes, whose sun went down when it was yet day, dies In the forty-seventh Jear of his age. He leaves no posterity, ut leaves his name on the map of Africa (Rhodesia), sponsor for a commonwealth nearly as large as our western states. Had he lived he would have devoted the re- maining years of his life and would have spent every dollar of his fortune in equip- ping that commonwealth. Misunderstood in America. Unfortunately, his character has been misunderstood in America. Judged hy American standards, Mr. Rhodes was truly a great man. He was not only a great empire builder, but also a captain of in- ry. He is oftener reported as a shifty, unserupulous ' financier, " in league ~with capitallsts to coax the Transvaal into a hopeless war, in order to steal the mines of the country. e ls alio reported us iving his entire life to the amassing of arge wealth and ry unscrupulous methods to that end. by the most bitter of his enemies, ant with the facts, such alle repudiated. The truth 1s, that Rhodes cared little for money beyond the power it gave him to assist In the development of South Africa From a most intimate connection with him in his business enterprises, 1 am able to state that his methods of finance were not only scrupulously honorable. but were characterized by unusual liberality. He was known to Bouth Africans as & man of unbounded genercsity and one on whom they could depend for the furtherance of any deserving local enterprise or worthy charity. Democratic and Uneonventional, Personally, Mr. Rhodes was democratic in his tastes and colonial in his political q soclal blas. He was fond of the simpler and better pleasures of life, devoted es- Re(‘lllly to outdoor life on ‘the veldt, and ad & contempt for and disiike of wocial conventionalities. He was & man of Innste refinement and culture a a graduate of Oxford. Rhodes had an indgmitable spirit and dogged perserverance. ' He was im- | native, but not & mere visionary. He bullt on broad lin and he abhorred petty politics, which he contemptuously de- gnated as the politics of the parish pump, nd he deprecated quite as strongly what he termed the “‘unctuous rectitude” of cer- tain statesmen. Politically, he was a great admirer of | democratic institutions, ut at the same time he was a loyal imperialist. Rhodes had his defects and faults, but these will not obscure the ry of his name. Great men, it s said, are made of faults. Of one thirig there can be no doubt, that Rhodes' ideals were pure and lofty, and I belleve that history will deal rather With his ideals than With his achievements and methods, and that he will therefore | Tank high among the great men of the | nineteenth century Cecll Rhodes found in the meditations of Marcus Aurellus many inspirations for his own career. Until the unfortunate Jameson rald, for which he has received far more blame than he deserved, as history will rove, he was popular with the Duteh of uth’ Africa. Within & short tme there would have been @ revulsion of feeling, and, strange 88 it may sound today. Rhodee would have been abie to re-establish his Influence with the Dutch, and he would have been quick dy to employ the most But DOLLIVER FOR THE OLEO BILL Iowa Benator Arraigns the Industry as Lawless, SAYS IT WORKS UNDER FALSE PRETENSES Delivers Argument for Men ng Tax Upon Pro- duct Which He Declares in for Dalry Interes Forcef re Prov WASHINGTON, March 26.—Throughout today's session of the senate the oleomar- garine bill was under discussion. The de- bate was Interesting at all times and some phases of It were amusing. Mr. Hans- brough of Notth Dakota concluded his speech begun yesterday in support of the measure, maintalning that the oleomar- arine industry had been outlawed by the legislatures of many states and that' it ought to be compelled by congress to take off its mask and place its product on the market for what it really was. Mr. Stewart of Nevada declared that the proposed legislation was unnecessary and that there was no more reason for taxing colored oleomargarine than for taxing col- ored butter. The principal speech of the day was de. livered by Mr. Doiliver of Towa. He spoke forcetully and throughout commanded the attention of his colleagues and many mem- bers of the house who had come to the senate to hear him. He scathingly de- nounced the oleomargarine industry, de- claring that it had put itself \n vartnership with lawlessnbss and false pretenses. Mr. Dolliver concluded his speech with a glow- ing eulogy of farm life and of the Amer- fcan farmer, Tax on Evident Fraud. Mr. Hoar and Mr. Lodge of Massachu- setts explained that their reason for sup- porting the bill was that it was a tax on an evident fraud. Mr. Dolliver, {u support of the bill, sald he had been much impressed by the cheer- ful way In which the senator from Missls- sippi had stated that the pending bill would be left with only a bare dozen of votes it a secret ballot upon it could be taken in the senate. “Since 1 made that statement,” sald Mr. Money, “I have had assurances from that side of the chamber (the republican side) that it 1s a fact.” In the course of his speech Mr. Dolliver declared that the oleomargarine manufac- turers and gome of the dealers in the ar- ticle were evading the law of 1836, which provided that every package of oleomar. garine should be stamped plain. Dolliver Produces a Sample. In proot of his statement he exhibited a package of oleomargarine ‘“which he had purchased from a famous butter dealer” in Chicago. He sald the package was marked, but it would tax any man’'s ingenuity to find the mark. He then handed the pack- age to Mr. Tiliman and challenged him to find the mark required by law to be on the wrapper. - Mr. Tillman falled to discover the imprint. Mr. Dolliver pointed it out printed In fine type in a corner of the wrapper. The incident excited lively in- terest and amusement. Mr. Dolliver referred to a well known oleomargarine and butter dealer in Chicago who spent more than halt of his time in the courts for violating the oleomargarine laws. “And he never gets into the courts,” he said, “unless he finds there side by side the attorneys fof the oleomargarine manu- facturers.” - Mr. Dolliver declared that “the only way to break up a-mest like this was to reduce to a minimuny the profits of rascality.” He insisted that the proposed law would not interfere with legitimate industries which supplied raw materlals to the oleo- margarine manufacturers and that the oleomargarine industry itself should be wiped out, however, it must be borne in mind that the American dairy interests represented far ‘more than all the interests which contribute raw material to the oleo- margarine industry. Mr. Hoar said one of the greatest dangers to the country was the establishment of the principle that the taxing power of the gov- ernment could be used as a means of pun- ishing and suppressing vice or crime or any form of wrong doing. From that peint of view the pending bill could not have his support, but congress. undoubtedly had the right under its power to regulate Inter- state commerce, to suppress, if need be, any deleterious article. The senate then at 4:10 p. m. went into executive session amd a few minutes later adjourned. RENEWS HIS ATTACK ON HAY Burleson of Texas Criticises Secretary of State and Hitt Defends Him, WASHINGTON, March 26.—General de- bate on the military appropriation bill was concluded today and consideration of the LOST LAKE. Said to Be Fabulously Rich in Coarse Gol Prospecting for gold makes husky men even if they don’t always find the gold. Sometimes these men can tell interesting tales. Joseph Morehead, whose headquarters are in Elgin, Ore., writes: “Last fall I came down here, attracted by the rich strikes in the Baker City flelds. On my arrival 1 heard a ‘falry story’ of a ‘lost lake' in the Blue Mountalns which was said to be fabulously rich in coarse gold. The story had all the ‘ear marks' of the ‘lost mine' and ‘lost cabin' stories to be heard in every mining district: prospector driven out by Indians, brought pocket full of nuggets with him, died and left the customary rough sketch of “the locality, ete., ete. 1 determined o have a look for it, and as the formation s volcanic it 18 too rough for pack animals. The problem was how to carry food enough, in addition to my pick, pan and blanket for a two weeks' sojourn in the mountains. I had. a short time before, been prospect- ing with an old mountaineer in the Bitter Root rauge in Montana. He was an en- thusiast on the subject of Grape-Nuts and Postum Coffee. In fact he lived on them. 1 used to ‘Josh’ him about his ‘grub’ but scon grew to like it myself and finally got to eating Grape-Nuts three times a day and as much oftener as I got the chance. So with my former experienee in mind I got_five packages of Grape-Nuts and some vackages of Postum Coffee which with a lttle sugar and salt were all the supplies 1 togk with me, and for nine days laborious olimbing over the roughest country out of doors I had mothing else except an oce casional trout caught from the stream. I came back feeling first class and am offer- ing to bet that I can average thirty miles a day over mountaln tralls with thirty pounds of blankets, etc., on nothing but Grape-Nuts.” This food cad be digested and will fat- ten a4 nursing infant and it also sustaias and works wonders with the hardest phys to take ot ihe cituation, and wo v nto history as the great clficator of South Africa. This estimate of Bhodes is shared even today by many of the progressive Dutchmen {n country, fcal and mental workers, including footbal and baseball players, athletes of all Rinds, editors, doctors, ministers, lawyers, busi- Dess men od otber braln worke | bill under the five-minute rule begun, Dur- ing the debate Mr. Burleson of Texas re- | newed the attack on Secretary Hay on ac- | count of the allegations regarding the Boer rellef funde subscribed in Illinols. Mr. Hitt of Tilinols replied briefly, saying there had been no developments in the matter and the secretary had done all that was possible. Several other brief speeches were made, some In criticism of Aifferent provisions of the bill. At the beginning of the session the house passed the Burleson resolution, calling on the president for information relative to the application of General Miles to g0 to the Philippines, Mr. Warnock of Ohio protested strongly against the provision in the bill which de- prived retired army officers from recelving An increate in longevity pay after their re. { titement. He contended that this provi- slon did an injustice to officers who were wounded or had bpcome disabled in the service. The longevity pay, he argued, should be increased up to the maximum of 40 per cent allowed by law to active of- ficers. While Mr. Warnock was talking about the sanguinary battles of the civil war and con- trasting the percentage of loss with other decisive battles of the world, Mr. Burleson of Texas ralsed a laugh by asking him to furnish some comparisons with the bloody battle'of San Juan Hill. Mr. Warnock re- plied that the question was somewhat em- barrassing, whereupon Mr. Burlescn with- drew it. A moment afterward Mr. Burleson asked for a comparigon of the brevets granted at Gettysburg and San Juan. An- other laugh followed and Mr. Warnock re- plied that he knew little about the Spanish war. Mr. Burleson secured the floor and re- verted to the resolution passed by the house some time ago calling on the secretary of state for information relative to the re- fusal of the State department to grant a request preferred some time ago, in behalf of Rev. Dr. Hiram W. Thomas and wife, who desired to enter the Boer lines in South Africa for the purpose of dlstributing re- llef to noncombatants. He sald that it was not a passport for Dr. Thomas which was desired, but the good offices of the State department to secure a permit to enable Dr. Thomas to get through the Boer lines. Mr. Hay's letter to Mr, Hill, he de- clared, was an “evasion.” Tribute to the Boers. In the course of his remarks Mr. Burle- son pald a high tribute to the fighting Boers and expressed the hope that they would keep up the struggle for liberty until every British soldier was driven from South Africa. He contrasted “the magnanimous treatment of General Me- thuen by the Boers with the horrible exe- cutfon of General Scheepers by the Eng- lish.”" In concluding Mr. Burleson predicted that In less than one year there would be avother Interchange of notes between the president and a member of his cabinet and the “little pro-British secretary of state, follow the other cabinet officers of a former president Into private lite.” Mr. Hitt of Illinols, chairman of the for- elgn affairs committee, replied very briefly to Mr. Burleson. Everything Mr. Burleson had produced, he said, had been presented before. As far as the charge of “‘evasion” on the part of the secretary of state was concerned he sald that the secretary's frank letter completely disposed of that. He had done all he could and was now in consulta- tation with Governor Yates, through whose ipstrumentality the Boer fund had been raised. and no doubt a way would be found to get relief funds to the Boers. Mr. Patterson of Tennessee criticised the general conditions in the Phillppines and charged there which should be remedied at once. Mr. Kern of Illindis spoke in defense of the army canteen. Mr, Breazeale of Louislana denounced the action of the committee on naval affairs in refusing to report the several Schley resolutions, thus preventing the house from expressing its sentiment on the subject. He referred to the “unfalr treatment re- céived by Admiral Schley” and character- ized as most unjust the president's ruling that the battle of Santlago wae a captains’ fight. The reading of the bill for amendment was then oroceeded with under the five- minute rule. The provision limiting the longevity pay for retired army officers to the sum allowed and pald at the date of retirement went out on a point of order. Mr. Stevens of Min- nesota then offered a substitute, which, he said, involved two propositions, one providing that no further increase of lon- gevity pay shall accrue to officers now on the retired list and the other that officers hereafter retired shall not be paid any increase of longevity pay above the sum pald at the date of retirement. The amendment was adopted, and at § p. m. the house adjourned WO0OD WANTS MAINE RAISED ment to Recover Sunken Shell of the Fated v, WASHINGTON, March 26.—General Wood has brought to the attention of the War department, through the medium of a formal letter, the propriety of making some ar- rangements for the raising of the wreck fof Maime from the ocoze and mud In which it lles embedded in Havana harbor. 1t is stated by him that not only are there sentimental reasons for this, owing to the fact that according to common belief, the remains of forty or fifty American sallors lié within the sunken hull, but this heavy steel structure 1s also a menace and ob- struction to mavigation in the harbor of Havana, and it is the duty of the United States to the Cubans to remove it. The expenses attached to the undertak- ing 18 very heavy, the bids ranging any- where from $400,000 to $700,000. Several tentative arrangements were made with en- tergrising contractors who wished to use the material of the wrecked ship to make souvenirs, but they have all failed and Sec- retary Root, upon securing a more detailed statement of the facts from General Wood, will submit the question to congress, prob- ably without recommendation as to whether Maine shall ‘be raised. Nominath by the President. WASHINGTON, March 26.—The president today sent the following nominations te the senate: Indian Agents—George C. Goetschell, Devil's Lake agency, North Dakota; Albert M. Anderson, Colville agency, Washing- to Herman G. Nickerson, Shoshone agency, Wyoming; ‘A. W. Thomas, Fort Berthold agency, North Dakota. Civil Engineer M. T. Endicott, U. 8. N., to be chief of the bureau of yards and docks, with the rank of rear admiral. Mexican Secretary Drops Dead. WASHINGTON, March 26 — Earique Santibanez, second secretary of the Mex- fcan embassy in this city, dropped dead on the street here this afternocon. He was a consumptive and his bealth had been poor of late. Senor Santlbanez had been sta- tioned at the embassy at Washington six- teen years, having come to this city with former Min'ster Senor Romero. Hammond Confirmned for Fremont, WASHINGTON, March 26.—The senate to- day made these confirmations Postmasters Tllinols—E. M. Love, Lewistown. Nebraska—R. L. Hammond, Fremont. South Dakota—C, W. Nugen, Kimball, the little author of ‘Little Breeches,’ would | that a state of slavery existed |- NOT ALLOWED TO GIVE BAIL Neeley, Rathbone and Reeves Are Placed in Havana Prisons. SPANISH LAW PRECLUDES ANY BONDS Counsel for Form: Director and rer of Caban Postofice Department Will Appenl Their Canes, Tre HAVANA, March 26.—Estes G the former director of pos rosted last night after having been sen- tenced the day previous to ten years' im- prisonment and to pay a fine of $35,324, as @ result of his connection with the Cuban postal frauds, remained in the Vivac prison Rathbone, all night. Today he was taken to the carea (a jail) accompanied by a number of trieuds. Rathbone's bondeman, a Spanish mer- ¢hant, went to the court this morning and stated he was willing to furnish bonds in any amount, but baill was absolutely re- fused. W. H. Reeves was also removed to jail today. He was formerly deputy auditor of the Cuban postofice department and was sentenced with Rathbone and C. F. W. Neeley to ten years' imprisonment and to pay a fine of $85,616 for misappropriation of postal funds. Neither Rathbone mor Reeves has the option of bail. This Is be- cause thelr sentences are for more than six years' duration. Although the law in certain circumstances permits the acceptance of bail until the sentence shall be executed, the court holds that there are no circumstances in the pres- ent case to warrant the acceptance of bail. Under the Spanish law the court is allowed to accept ball when the accused has a good record, where there is no reason to suppose that he will attempt to escape justice, when the crime of which he is charged has not produced alarm and if it 1s not of constant occurrence. Counsel for Rathbone and Neeley will ap- peal the cases of their clients FUNSTON SCORES CRITICS ain Papers Wilfally Misin- His Remarks in Sayn Ce terpreted Lotus Club Speech. TOPEKA, Kan., March 26.—General Fred- erick Funston was in this city today on his way to California. General Funston de- livered a scathing denunciation of the east- ern newspapers which criticised his speech before the Lotus club in New York. He sald I have been nagged by that class of pa- pers until I am tir Editorially, they wilfully misinterpret my remarks and I am glad to express my independence of thelr n‘\lnlunl and their talk, and that of their kind. about my using’ dishonorable and unfair means in the capture of Aguinaldo, also that I violated the articles of war They know & great deal more about (he articles of golf than they do about the articles of war. Everything is permissible in a campaign except the use of poison or the violation of a flag of truce As a matter of fact, only four of my men on the expedition were dressed in the in- surgent uniform. The others were dressed as Filipino peasants. President Roosevelt approved heartily of my remarks before the Lotus club banquet and was very anx- fous to have me go to Boston on the invita- tlon of Senator Lddge and make the same speech there, but my orders were such that Tt was imposeible for me to go. DEATH RECORD. Radolph von Kaltenborn. MILWAUKEE, March 26.—Rudolpa von Kaltenborn, well known in German veteran circles as well as among literateurs, is dead at Merrill, Wis. Mr. von Kaltenborn was an officer in the Hessian army and served for Prussia through the Franco-Prussian war. He was 62 years of age and was the «on of the minister of war for the prinet- pality of Chur-Hesse, having grown to man- hood at the court of that country. He held the rank of lieutenant in the army of his native land. Lieutenant Commander Brainerd. LOS . ANGELES, Cal, March 26.—Lieu- tenant Commander Frederick R. Brainerd, U. S. N, retired, is dead at the California hospital, after an illness of a few da: He was graduated from the naval academy at Anuapolis In 1870, having been appointed from Illinols. His sea service as a naval officer covered a perlod of fourteen years. Commander Brainerd served with credit in the Spanish-American war, attached to Ad- miral Sampson’s squadron. Charles A. Dubee. CHICAGO, March 26.—Charles A. Dube, senlor member of the law firm of Dubee, Judeh. Willard & Wolfe, and one of the foremost lawyers of Chicago, died at his home today. He was a native of Brook- fleld, Mass. He was 71 years of age. Jeft m Carter. ARDMORE, I. T, March 26.—Jefferson Carter, aged 60 years, a pioneer Cherokee Indian and a prominent Mason, is dead here. Carter in his early years was prom- inently identified with the Cherokee tribal government. John E. Fitzpatrick. CHICAGO, March 26.—~John E. Fitzpat- rick, ex-inspector of police and ex-chief of detectives, died tonight from shock follow- ing a surgical operation. 8. 8 Ci BT. EDWARD, Neb., March 20.—(Special.) 8. 8. Case, one of the oldest residents of St. Edward, died this morning, aged 86 yen To & ©0la in One Day take Laxative Bromo Quinine Table AN druggists refund the money If It fails te eure. E, W. Grove's signature is on each box, 2L« H. F. PETRIE, The Well Known House Mover of Omaha Says He Would Not Take $7.00 a Bottle for It. 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