The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 29, 1895, Page 1

v Call VOLUME LXSIX.—NO =29 SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY ey 1ORNING, DECEMBER 29, 1895-TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. N0 PROSPECT OF AN ALLIANCE France and Russia Do Not Favor the Doctrine of Monroe. NO LOVE FOR ENGLAND, But Nations Object to the Warn- ing of America to Keep Off the Grass. 80 DECLARES WHITELAW REID. The Ex-Minister to. France Tells of | the Uncertainties of Old Span- ish Boundaries. . —Whitelaw \ce, refused to a controversy acts of the cor- PH@ENIX, Ariz., Rsid, ex-Minister to talk about the Venez when the telegraphic abs respondence were f ed. He said e wasunwilling to form an opinion, even much less express it, until he had an op- portunity to see text of the corre- spondence. To-day the ex-Minister was more willing to be commun i He was asked by TrE CaLL was any possi could make an all Rus: cor War ov break with us. n they would not be in favor of ¢ doctrine, unless | on the p v club is good enot ¥ with.” like some of our doctrine is good, “You don’t belie papers, that t} is about the America: m of Govern- repugnant to ican fc out svery been a moment anced, when itute an extra- ire. :The Monroe tice to all monarch- 1d the United an with g notice. ort doctrine is na he pean nations, up to thistime, b it pretty well, but what non like it, pose that the and wo as any way pelled to. re to be dividing up weak countries ey and China, or to be colonizing »arous ones 1 Africa. Over ‘the whole stretch of the two American conti- nents the Monroe docirine stands as a ne- re not to trespass. There isn’t a nation rope that doesn’t thus told to keep but not one either that will fight us in order to get in. They have too meny chances just ow to fight nearer home, and are too much afraid they may have to embrace some of them. “XNo, we are not going to have any war, if things are well maunaged. A littl ferent turn to the message would b maintained our attitude just a created less alarm, and en E better chance to get out. The mess; splendidly American, but Mr. Cleveland is not strong in diplomacy, and diplomatic situations which compel either the humili- ation of your adversary or w with hi are always to be avoided if possible. Never- theless, with time and a little common- sense on both sides, we shall get out with- out fighting. The whole affair, though deplorable in some of its present aspects, will turn out to be a good thing. Europea nations will reals spe? doctrine is more than a phrase, and will all learn, as Louis Napoleon did in 1865, that the United States cannot be trifled with about American interests. “There ought to be another excellent good thing resulting from 1t. This ought to give the crown to Mr. Blaine’s splendid work in the Pan-American Congress, the reciprocity treaties and his other efforts, not merely to strengthen the volitical ties between us and the other American re- publics, but to knit us far more closely Wwith them in intimate and coustant com- mercial intercourse. Senator Allen of Nebraska has already offered a wise reso- Jution to that end. This is the golden op- pertunity for our merchants to extend our trade to every quarter of Central and South America, and never before couid they have had such a welcome as now awaits them, if only our diplomacy and our commercial enterprise can work to- gether to seize it. «Don’t mistake me, however, about the jnternational obligation of the Monroe doc- trine. Europe, to be sure, has never ac- kKnowledged it. But England ought to recognize and obey it. Sheinspired it orig- inaly, rejoiced over its declaration, and e. 212 then to accept it. Lord Salis- y adm as much even now, but only ntains that since then the times have ed, or as Disraeli once said more when likewise convicted of an ‘a good many things have happe ce then.” They are right; a good many things have happened. One of them is that the United States has fought a preat civil war in the face of the scarcely disguised hostility of both the British and French empires, and has nobly reunited the warring sections. Another is that the loose-jointed, feeble infant among nations, w#ch this country was in Monroe's time, Suropean Gov- | » | Departn st that the Monroe | \WAN A\ N W \ U N | AN | % 7% 27 v, 7 % 5 107, Wi, b/ MY L) 474 i L 7 l,/ § 2 ////////,,// W JOHN BULLS BAD . K DREAM | | has now double Great Britain’s population. | | No doubt our coasts are defenseless, but so i is Canada. Our cities could be bombarded ; | but so could England’s commerce bedriven | from the ocean by American privateers. | If there were a war we should be sure to | bave more than one Bull Run at the out- set. But our people didn’t stop fighting at | Bull Run. In the long run, it is notto ingland’s interest to attack us, and she won’t do it unless by awkward diplomacy we leave her no honorable way to avoid it.” “Do you think there isany justice in her | boundary claims?” | “Who can tell? glish side has ble, even briefly, until Lord Salisbury’s present very adroit and skillful letter. In 1890 General Guzman Blanco, then Minister of ezuela, had to leave Paris before the al of his successor and desired to leave his legation in my hands, and our State ment gave me the a accent General Guz had been President and Minister to Eng- Jand and Minister to time in opposition. His statue thrown down by the mob at Cz property had been seized and ti So far as T know the never been acce: ng to thwart the new Government. Yet even then the one thing which seemed Venezuela nearest his heart was that should lose nothing through his in her boundary controversy with Great Britain. He spent hours in explaining to | me his view of it, and I am bound to say | he impressed me strongly. I never hadan | | opportunity to see a full presentation of | | seems to contradict some of the statements | than of argument. | uncommonly well done. | ter get into Mr. Cleveland’s hands and | into a position which comes very near be- | zuela’s submission to the British claim the other side, nor do I know that any- body has until Lord Salisbury sent the second of his letters in the present corre- spondence. You will notice how flatly he | 1 Mr. Olney’s resume of the case.” | ich seems to you to have the better | it? “Oh, that is a question of fact rather | Mr. Olney’s letter is It is a pity he couldn’t have written an equally strong reply to Lord Salisbury’s latest, with facts to back it up, instead of letting the mat- of g a diplomatic cul de sac. It is not a question on which Great Britain wants to | fight us, and it would be bad diplomacy to | put her where she must. A needless war | between two such nations would be almost | the greatest of human crimes. ““The present situation seems to be about | | this: At the end of very long negotiations the British Government is willing to arbi- | trate about a part of the disputed territory, | not all. It was open to us to continue the | argument with further facts and try to show that the arbitration ought to be ex- | tended to cover the whole question, saying | meanwhile (if thought needful) that pend- ing the negotiation any step to force Vene- could not be regarded but as an unfriendly act. Instead of this the President says sub- stantially since you won’t agree to arbi- | trators to determine the whole boundary Continved on Fourth' Page. 7 % o N N N HON, WHITELAW REID, EDITOR [From a recent whotograph.) OF THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE, * ‘raven’s visit,’but in the end the diver- getice appeared after the manner'of . para- DUNRAVEN GOES HOME With Glennie the Earl Hastily Sails for England. CHARGES NOT PROVED. All the Insinuations of Unfair- ness Against the Defender People Are False. NO LOAD-WATER JOCKEYING. Experts Say That Extra Ballast| Would Have Greatly Retarded | the Yacht. : | NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 28.—The Earl | of Dunraven, accompanied by his friend, | Arthur Glennie, rear-commodore of the | Royal Portsmouth Yacht Club, sailed for England at 2 o'clock tbis afternoon on | board the Cunarder, Umbria. | The investigation of the charges made by Liord Dunraven against those in charge | of the Defender had not concluded when | the moble Earl and his' henchman took | | their departure’ to day, and only part of | the evidence’in ‘Tebuttal had been given | when the special committee, consisting of | J. Pierpont Morgan (chairman), George | Lockhart' Rives (secretary), William C. | Whitney, Captain A. T. Mahan, U. S. A., and E. J. Phelps, adjourned the hearing | till 10 o’clock Monday mozning. The manner in which the Irish Farl | made his second visit to New York this year and the extraordinary means that were taken "to avoid his being interviewed | by reporters were only slight precautions in'comparison” with the efforts that were resorted to'in order that even the bare fact of his exit to-day might be kept from the public. There seemed to'be somewhat of ‘a division of sentiment between members of the' New York Yacht' €lub as' to Dun- dox toconverge in a unanimity of opinion that he was nonsuited. Some of the members said, plainly that the noble Earl bad not left the country any toosoon for his own good, while other prominent yachtsmen regarded his ver- sonal reiteration on this side of the water of the charges made in ‘the Field in the lightof a huge game of “bluff.” While | the secrecy imposed by the committe= on all connected with the case was observed as to definite statements ‘of what had oc- curred in session, it did not take any breach of .confidence to find out how the tide had turned. 7 8 The Defender syndicate presented testi- mony in rebuttal of that offered by Lord Dunraven yesterday, and - although- the gentlemen who were 'present at’ the in- quiry declined to-talk ‘for publication it was learned on autliority that the charges made by Lord Dunraven were totally dis- proved. Lord Dunraven’s case was based upon suspicion and inference from the fact that the Defender’s tender, the Hattie Palmer, had remzined alongside until a late hour the night before the first race. This and other allegations made by Tord Dunraven were explained by those in charge of the Defender, and positive statements were made by Mr. Iselin, Mr. Herreshoff and Captain Haff that no tam- | pering with ballast took place. The proceedings to-day opened with an argument between Joseph H. Choate, counsel for the Defender syndicate, and Mr. Askwith, Lord Dunraven’s counsel, as | to the admissibility, of a portion of the avidence offered in support of the charges. After this Lord Dunraven was recalled for « few minutes to make ciear one or two points in the testimony offered yesterday. He was followed by Nat Herreshoff, builder and designer of the Defender, who said that any such changes of ballast as were charged would handicap rather than aid the yacht. He said that she had been found to be stiff enough for any weather and the addition of ballast would only re- tard her. After Askwith had made Mr. Herres- hoff go over his statement several times and had failed to tangle him up, C. Oliver Iselin, the managing member of the De- fender syndicate, took the stand. He declared with some feeling that no ballast had been added after tne official measurement had been taken, and that, of course, none had heen removed before the remeasurement. His testimony was direct and convincing. v Mr. Askwith gave him a severe cross-ex- amination, and Mr. Iselin became quite hot ungder the questions that were asked by the English barrister. - At 12:40 o’clock recess was taken for luncheon. At 2 p. M. the hearing was resumed with Mr. Iselin still in the witness chair. He was followed by Captain Hank Haff,"who testified positively that there was no ad- dition of ballast and no. increhse of the water line. It was nearly 6 o'clock before Mr. Ask- with finished with Captain Haff and it was concludea to adjourn thé hearing until 10 A. M. on Monday., It is said that David Henderson, who was Lord Dunraven’s representative on the Defender, has declined to testify for business réasons. s EIGHT PASSENGERS INJURED. One Coach Smashed by a Collision at a Orossing. , DES. MOINES, Iowa, Dec. 28.—Eight persons were injured in arailroad-crossing wreck near here to-day. The injured were: E. A. Daughterty, Eidon, Iowa, both hands crushed; 8. E. Hou- lette,” Des Moines, both hands and left hip injured;. Mrs. S. E. Houlette, Des Moines, hands cut and head hadly bruised; Rev. D. Lingfelter, Des Moines, head left knee and right sheulder badly hurt; Mrs. Lingfelder, slightly injured: F. A. Rhodes, aged 5, Tueskego, Iowa, slightly bruised; C. C. Rhodes, Tueskego, Iowa, injured on the head and face; John Tim- mons, Prairie City, Towa, head bruised. The wreck took place at the crossing of the Des Moines and Kansas City and Chicago and Great Western Railroads, in | the outskirts- of the city. ‘A Kansas City passenget train was Standing on the cross- ing when a Great Western freight train crashed into it. The rear passenger coach was overturned and crushed. e ey SURROUNDED BY A POSSE. of the Pope County Wife- Murderer. MARION, 1rL., Dec. 29.—The Sheriff’s posse has John Shufflebarger, the Pope County wife-murderer, surrounded in the hills east of Parker, ana his chances of escape are small unless he is furnished as- sistance by some of his relatives wlho live in the region. Shufflebarger was seen near Parker City afew hours ago, making his way into the hills east of that place. Those who know him, best say that he will never be taken alive, and that he pre- fers death to surrender under the circum- stances. He 1s afraid of bemng lynched by the excited populace and his fears are well grounded. T0 RESTRAIN THE TRUST, Proceedings Will Be Taken to Prevent Operations of the Joint Traffic Association. Lively Pursuit Agreement of -the Lines in Conflict With the Interstate Com- merce -Act., - NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 28.—United States District Attorney Macfarlane, act- ing wunder instructions from Attorney- General Harmon, willinstitute proceedings in the United Circuit Court. for the.South- ern District of New York to restrain the railroad rate trust, styling itsélf the “Joint Traffic Association,”” from operating under agreement, which is designed to_go into effect January 1. The association includes twenty-nine of the largest railroad corporations in the | country. Attorney-General Harmon in his letter of instructions to Macfarlane inclosed a letter from Chairman Morrison of the In- terstate Commerce Commission. Chgjrman Morrison'’s letter covers acopy of. the Traflic Association’s agreement, with a comment that the commission .be- T0 KEEP UP ThE GOLD RESERVE, Passage of the House Bill Authorizing the Issue of Bonds. SALE OF CERTIFICATES, No Opposition to the Plan to Meet Temporary Revenue Deficiencies. DEBATE ON THE MAIN MEASURE One Democrat Voted With the Majority of the Republicans in Favor of the Proposition. WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 28.—By & vote of 170 to 136 the House to-day passed the section of the bill introduced yestere day by the Committee on Ways and Means, authorizing the issue of 3 per cent bonds to maintain the gold reserve. Forty-seven Republicans voted with the Democrats against the proposition, as did all the Populists present and Newlands (silver) of Nevada. Hutcheson of Texas was the only Democrat to ally himself with the great body of Republicans in support of the measure. There was no op position to the second tion of the bill directing the sale of cer« tificates of indebtedness to meet tempo- rary deficiencies in revenue, and it was to, and the bill passed without & ion. The debate on the day of the vote on the bill developed nothing new or strange and was not marked by any incident of une usual interest. Crisp (D.) of Georgia, in’ answer to questions by Boutelle (R.) of Maine, declared his belief to be that the Government obligations were not payable in gold alone and that the Democrats ope posed the pending bill because they be- lieved there was no necessity for the sale of bonds. Dalzell (R.) of Pennsylvania expressed his amazement that Secretary Carlisle had such an idea of the proprieties and de- cencies of public life that he could in an authorized interview attack the legislation proposed by the House of Representatives for protecting the credit of the Nation. A resolution offered by Tarsney (D.) of ‘Missouri to reopen the contest of Van Horn vs. Tarsney for the Fifth District of Missouri for hearing on newly" discoyered evidence on behalf of the contestee was referred to the Committee on Elections No. 2. Several resolutions of inquiry. crdersd by the Committee on Foreign Affairs, at its meeting yesterday to be reported, were reported by Hitt (R.) of Illinois, chair- man, and agreed to. They related to the Waller affair, Embassador Bayard’s speeches at Edinburgh and Boston, Eng- land, the Cuban insurrection, and an American schooner fired upon by Santo Domingo troops, December 10, 1: The Senate joint resolution directing the Secretary of the Navy to accept tne ram Katahdin and make it a part of the navy was adopted. It now goes to the Presi- dent. At 4:30 o’clock the House ad journed une til Tuesday next under an agreement an- nounced by Dingley (R.) of Maine, chair- man of the Committee on Ways and Means, that no business will be transacted until Monday, January 6. After the reading of the journal to-day the discussion of the bond bill was re- sumed in the House, the discussion to close at 3 o'clock. The first speaker was Brosius of Pennsylvania (R.). The gold reserve, he said, must be maintained. and the revenue to meet the expenses of the Government must be procured. These propositions, he said, were fundamental and indisputable. The deficiency of the revenues, in the opinion of the Republicans, was the chie sinner in the comedy of errors that had brought the Nation to the condition which confronted it. When the deficiency ceased the treasury would no longer suffer. Brosius said that the present wasthe third notable revenue deficiency which had occurred in time of peace. They had all been caused by the same thing—going too far in the matter of taking off customs duties. In his opinion it was not proper that the treasury should be farmed out to a foreign couniry. There should be no politics . in dealing with the situation. Patriotism and duty were the two words which alone could fitly describe the in- spiration of the hour. Parker (R.) of New Jersey bill, because he thought w supported the ould provide LEVISTRAUSS lieves that it is_“in conflict with the act to regulate commerce and cannot be carried into effect without violating the provision of -said act.”” S G e P MUKDERED BY A LUNATIC. Dr. Young Became the Victim of a Crazed Farmer. FARGO, N. D., Dec. 28.—Dr. A. A. Young was murdered this afternoon near Buffalo by C. A. Peterson, a farmer, who recently went insane. Dr. Young was called to Peterson’s house, and when he entered the farmer grabbed an Indian club and beat the doctor’s head to a pulp. The crazy man leaped out of the house and mounted a pony, half clad and bare- footed, and drove to Buffalo. He went to a bank and cried that wolves were after his sheep. The cashier tried to paciiy him, but without avail. The murderer beat the cashier.on the, head until he fell to the ground senseless. Peterson was arrested ‘ &COs COPPER RIVETED OVERALLS " AND SPRING BOTTON PANTS. EVERY PAIR GUARANTEED. #OR SALE EVERYWHERE,