The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 18, 1896, Page 1

OLUME LXXIX. 109. PRICE FIVE CENTS, WAR CERTAINLY EXISTS IN CUBA, Nearly Forty-three Thou- sand Patriots Are in the Field. LACK OF AMMUNITION. How the Insurgents Have Often Overcome Some Tremendous Obstacles. A DAREDEVIL ARMY, INDEED. Graphic Description of the Forces ‘Whose Recognition as Insurgents Is Demanded. HAVANA, Cupa, March 14 (via Tampa, Fla., March 17).-The present strength of the insurgent army is close to 43,- 000. Cubans themselves estimate the number of men in the field as high as 60,000, but even if unarmed camp follow- ers, men in charge of provision trains, hospitals and camps were counted it is doubtful if that number could be found actually in service. There are thousands of Cubans who wonld willingly cast their lot with the patriotic army, but lack of arms and ammunition prevents. The insurgent forces operate as a rule in zones or districts and are organized on military lines. The columns of Gomez, Maceo, Lacret and Banderas are, however, rited to no one province, but pass from one to another under direct orders of Gomez. The commander-in-chief is now in Matanzas and the others have rein- vaded Havana province. The following is a statement of the strength and location of the forces of -the principal leaders: Maximo Gomez, in Matanzas, 6000; Antonio Maceo, Miro Zalas and others, in Havana, 5000; Serafin Sanchez. in Santa Clara, 4000; Jose Maceo, Kojas, Rodriguéz, in Santiago, 3500; La- cret, in Havana, 3000; Quintin Banderas, in Havana, 3000; Masso Alvarez, Castillo, Mestro, Nunez, in Havana, 3000; Delgado, Bermudez, Sanchez and others, in Pinar del Rio, Aguirre, Diaz, Hernandez, Palacios, in Havan 00; Mayia, Rode- uez .and others, in Camazuey, 1500; , Benitez, Vasa, Wilson, Menaicita, in Santiago, 1000; Rafael Cardenas, in Matanzas, 800; Verona, Ruperto Sanchez and others, in Pinar del Rio, 800; Oliva £ 54 others, in Pinar del Rio;"600; Carillo, Joaquin Garcia and others, in Santiago, 600; Roloif, Pancho, Perez, in Santa Clara, 500 wrabel; Ferrez,Veita, in S8anta Clara, 500; Rego, Sixto, Roque, Palao, Sanchez, in Santa Clara, 500; Cortuna, Vidal, Juan Bravo, in Santa Clara, 40¢; Juan To- tedo, El Inglesito, in Santa Clara, 400; Matagas in Matanzas, 400; Robau, Cebreco, Ruen, Planas, in Santiago, 400; Borroto, Lancho, Sardinas, Eduardo Garcia, in Ma- tanzas, 400; Aulit, Mosjon, Demas, Mar- tinez, Sorolongo, in Matanzas, 400; Vil- lancoa, Acosta, Aguilar and others, in Havana, 300; Munez, Chapotin, Sosorro, Lino Perez, in Santa Clara, 200; total, 42,800. The distribution according to provinces is: Havana. 16,800; Matanzas, 8000; Santa Clara, 6500; Santiago, 5500; Pinar del Rio, 8900; Camaguey, 2100; total, 42,800, In addition to the foregoing there are innumerable local bands from fifteen men to fifty or even 100.: These do not form part of the fighting force and should not be counted as part of the army. Their chief functions are to carry out the orders of ‘Gomez, prohibiting the grinding of cane, the movement of troops and supplies by rail. the shipment of pro- visions to cities, the suppression of “‘pla- teados,” who rob, burn and commit other crimes. These small bands serve as re- cruiting agencies, and when they grow too large for local operation they are attached to one of the army columns. Of the army proper, fully two-thirds are well mounted and about half are well armed. Theothers are armed with shotguns, revolvers or machetes. Some of Maceo’s men have old-style muzzle-loading guns, and lead is 80 scarce that telegraph wire chopped into short lengths is used for the charge. Span- ish surgeons have on several occasions re- ported soldiers wounded with bits of wire. The insurgents have a few pieces .of mountain cannon captured from Govern- ment troops. There are perhaps a dozen of these guns, which have been used with disastrous effect against the small wooden forts which the Spanish trooos have erected at various points. The Cuban army of liberation, as it is called, has grown to its present size in the face of almost insur- mountable difficulties. From the begin- ning it has been outnumbered by the army of Spain in never less than four to one. It has escaped annihilation in many en- coun when ammunition ran out. It has lived on forage, been almost constantly under fire and is to-day a reckless, dare- devil army with but one idea in view, and that is to free Cuba. What comes after is not given a thought. J. FRANK CLARK. . g MOEGAN’S PLEA FOR CUBA. Demands That Justice Be Accorded the Struggling \Patriots. WASHINGTON, D.C., March17.—Ina four-hour speech to-day Senator Morgan of Alabama closed his defense of the action of the Committee on Foreign Relations in reporting the Cuban resolutions. He re- plied to the criticisms of Senators Hale of Maine and Hoar of Massachusetts in con- hection with the statements from the Bpanish Minister, and he placed against these arguments on the side of Spain the statements of Queseda, the Cuban repre- s ntative in Washington, « and various aewspaper publications, besides various written communications detailing’ stories »f atrocities practiced in Cuba during the last insurrection. His speech to-day and esterday occupied altogether seven hours. It will be followed to-morrow with a ipeech on the .same subject by Mills of lexas. The resolution offered yesterday 'by Etkius (R.) of West Virginia, instructing the Committee on Foreign Relations to re- port material facts as to the war in Cuba, was laid before the Senate, but at the suggestion of Eikins it went over till to- morrow. At 2 p. M. the Cuban resolutions were taken up and Morgan (D.) of Alabama continued his speech in support of them. Morgan began by speaking of the super- sensitiveness of Spain because she felt the and slipping from under her feet while “the gem of the Antilles was passing out of her grasp.”” He sent to the clerk’s desk and had reaa what he calied the Spanish Minister’s *‘dlatribe against the Senate and Senators.” He spoke of Senor de Lome as “a superciliotis foreign Minister,” and said that it was high time for the House and the Senate to close their doors against such attempts to influence them. Morgan spoke of the censorship of the cable between Cubaand America by the Spanish authorities, and said that, so far as the mails were concerned, he had been informed yesterday by a Catholic priest, who knew perfectly well both Spain and Cuba, that the mails between Cuba and the United States were constantly opened and their contents examined. He charac- terized Senor de Lome’s statement to the press as “a flagrant abuse of privilege.” It was certainly time, he added, that the diplomatic affairs of the United States were withdrawn from public tinkeringand tampering. 1f the Senate was to be con- tinnally kept in “uproar and confusion by telegrams coming from the Premier of Spain to some newspaper editor in the United States to be read in the Senate as authoritative statements, the State De- partment might as well be abolished, leav- ing the people to rely on those men who had acquired eminence in newspaperdom for the purpose of gaining knowledge of what is transpiring in foreign countries.’” Morgan then discussed the point of the constitutional guarantee against Senators or Representatives being held to account for words spoken in debate. He might, in his place in the Senate, calumniate any citizen of the United States having some connection with public affairs without be- ing accountable for libel. Gray (D.) of Delaware asked Morgan whether the citizen in question would not have the same freedom of speech? Morgan admitted that he would, but it turned out in this case, he said, that the Minister from Spain was not a citizen of the United States. He was entirely pro- tected by the law of nations against any proceeding to hold him accountable for libel, either criminally or civilly. There was where the rub came in which sealed a Minister’s lips. Morgan read the historical incident of the interview between Jefferson and the French Minister, Sevet, and exclaimad passionately: “Would to God that we had somebody here now who had a just conception of the constitutional rights of the different parts of this Government!” “I have not asked,” he continued, ‘‘for the dismissal of this Minister. Let him stay if he wants to, but I have aright to claim the protection of the constitution of my country against any assault that may be made upon my votes or speeches. I have a perfect indifference to what Senor de Lome : may say, but I am not going to. subordinate myself quietly to any man in the world, but more especially to a foreign Minister whose country is now being made a subject of serious examination in the councils of the Senate.” Hale (R.) of Maine called attention to the fact that the chairman of the Commit- tee on Foreign Relations (Sherman) aid not share in Morgan’s opinion as to the Spanish Minister’s statement, and read an extract from Sherman’s last speech in the Senate to the effect that De Lome haa a perfect right to defend his Government and people anywhere. Morgan said. he had not proposed to notice that position of Sherman, but now that it had been brought forward he would say that he did not agree with Sherman on that subject. He would now place against Mr. de Lome’s statement that of Mr. Quesada, the representative of the Cuban republic to Washington, who sent the case in behalf of Cuba to the Department of State, which statement the Secretary of State sent to the Committee on Foreign Relations. “Strip Mr. de Lome,” said Morgan, ‘‘of his royal commission and put him on his Spanish blood, on his Spanish character and his history (of which I know nothing). Then bring Mr. Quesada here on his his- tory and Spanish blood and character (of which I know nothing) and confront them as they are confronted through the news- papers, and let them both speak.” Morgan sent to the clerk’s desk and had read Quesada’s letter to a Washington paper describing several horrible atroci. ties alleged to have been perpetrated in Cuba durimg the last rebellion, in which General Weyler is represented as having had ladies stripped naked, whipped and given up to the lust of his troops. The reading was interrupted by Chand- ler (R.) of New Hampskire on the ground that the statements were too indecent for public rehearsal, but Hale insisted that the reading should be proceeded with in order to show how utterly unworthy of credit the statements were. Then Morgan had sent to the clerk’s desk and read a story from the New York Tribune—high authority, he said. on ac- count of its anti-Cuban sentiment—as to the execution of seven students in Havana in 1878 on suspicion of having desecrated the grave of a Spanish general in the cemeterv, Hale inquired what name was signed to the article, and was told that th ere was no name signed to it. He said that he thought that some authority should be given for such statements. Morgan disagreed with him on that point. It was like a statement in any pub- lic history. The Tribune was the historian in the case. It selected extracts with the view of informing the people of the Uuited States, and it would not publish such a story unless it was clearly authentic. Morgan read communications about barbarities by the Spanish troops during the last rebellion, also an interview with General Daniel E. Sickles, who was at that time United States Minister.to Spain, re- cently published in the New York Sun, and which Morgan admitted had been politely sent to him by General Sickl: s. Morgan said he might have rested the whole case on that interview with General Sickies. He did not choose to incumber the record with more of these statements,’ further than to show that a state of open, horrid war exists in Cuba—a war involving the property, rights, liberties and lives of American citizens who happen to be there. The line of action for Congress to take was to declare that open war exists in Cuba and that the laws of war shall apply to it. He had expected to have an opportunity to answer some of the flings thrown at the et { Ul b | i S i 3 f*%o'“‘\tfi\ 0= “ Now for the shearing.” Committee on Foreign Relations by the Senators from Massachusetts and Maine (Hoar and Hale), but the occasion was one of too great solemnity and too great im. portance to permit him to thrust himself into the debate, either personally or as a member of the Committee on Foreign Re- | lations. The committee had most faith- | fully and attentiveiy examined into the 'ereat mass of petitions referred to it and had undertaken to confirm its opinion to that expressed by the great body of Ameri- |can citizens. In winding up bis speech Morgan was | very severe on “American emigres in the great cities of Europe' (who owned or con- trolled newspapers in London, Paris and New York, and who flared up when £ Senate uttered a word of sympathy Cuba), and he referred contemptuously fo “the rec-nt tiasco” of publishing an al- leged dispatch from the Spanish Premier. He would commend to the Spanish Pre- mier the ptoverb about the fleas which tor- ment those who wounld consort with the canine race. He stated without hesitancy that the cry of Cuba for justice, humanity and mercy had not (in his case) fallen on dumb ears and hardéned hearts. Every { movement in favor of Cuba had the same effect, he said, on excitable Spaniards as a | banderillo in the neck of a Spanish bull. He suffered the taunts which he had re- ceived in communications from the North as to his sympathy with negro insurgents {in Cuba, and he declared that he would rather be 1n the cabinet of a government with Gomez and Maceo than in a cabinet of a government with Valmaseda and Wey- ler. He preferred and the American peo- ple demanded that Spain should not de- prive American citizens in Cuba of their property. If neither party to the struggle in Cuba could defend the rights and property of American citizens who were there, then he proposed that the Government of the United States should intervene to protect them at the risk of shocking the refined sense of propriety with which some Sena- tors seemed to be troubled. When the American people and Congress had ex- pressed their opinion in a way which was practically unanimous if the President did not concur (as he, Morgan, believed he would), the President would simply have to assume the responsibility. Now that Spain was engaged in a war with Cuba that was perfectly hopeless, he thought that Congress might be pardoned for ex- pressing the opinion that war prevailed there; that the Cubans were entitled to the nights of belligerents and that the people of the United States were entitled to the opportunities and duties of neutral- ity. He did not want to give such an appar- ent ground for criticism, but if that fanatic and deluded mouvarchy committed acts of hostility against the United States, then the United States would be compelled to take up the gage of war. 4 Morgan spoke for nearly four hours, and, after Mills (D.) of Texas had occupied the floor on the Cuban question for a short time, the Senate at 5:40 adjourned until to-morrow. Bt gty 1 GARCIA GETS AWAYX. GENERAL With His Son He Will Join the Insur- gent Army. NEW YORK, N.Y., March 17.—The Re- corder will to-tnorrow say: When the case of the Cuban filibusters implicated in the Bermuda, Laurado and Hawkins ex- peditions is called in the United States court next Monday General Calixto Garcia will probably be missing and his bail for- feited. It is mow certain that he hasleft for Cuba. General Garcia did not leave on board the Bermuda, as was generally thought. He left in a tug and was trans- ferred to the Bermuda far out at sea. ‘With him were other patriots bound for Cuba. Others went to Fiorida and sailed from there to meet the Bermuda. Among those who went to Florida was Dr. Carlos Gar- cia, General Garcia’s son, and among those who left in a tug from New York with the general was Dr. Hernandez. He is going to be the chief of the surgeons’ staff in the Cuban army, which is the only sal- aried body in the insurgent camp.’ Dr. Garcia left his: home ten days ago for Florida. Friends of the Garcias say that Continued on Third Page. ‘| law, and wa: WEVER LASTING AND FOREVER,' Adjournment of the Wasted Session of Kentucky's Legislature. SENATOR NOT ELECTED. There Was Also a Failure to Pass the Urgently Required Revenue Bills. REVIEW OF THE STATE TROOPS. With the Disgruntled Statesmen the Militia Retired From - the Capitol Grounds. FRANKFORT, Ky., March 17.—“Ever- lasting, eternally and forever,”” according to “Cy” Brown’s motion, the joint as- | sembly of the Kentucky Legislature ad- journed to-day. Fhe entire session has been devoid of results. Primarily, the chief business of the body—the provision of proper means and the enactment of just laws for the conduct and administration of government—has been neglected in the absorbing 1nterest attendant upon the Senatorial contest. During the session the rare spectacie of a State Capitol filled with troops and the enforcement of mar- tial law was pres ented. The revenue bilis failed to pass to-day. The urgent necessity for their passage is apparent from the fact that the present indebtedness of Kentucky is $860,000. The militia leaves to-morrow. There was a grand review on the Capitol grounds this afternoon, at which Governor Bradley made a speech, thanking them for their services. 4 3 The proceedings of both branches to-day were pretty much like those of other Legis- latures, being marked by a disposition on the part of members to do as little as possi- ble. In the Senate nothing of particular importance was done. From 10:30 until noon the members lounged about the chamber, while the clerks read some bills that had been enrolled. ‘When the Senate reconvened after the joint assembiy, Senator Clark called atten- tion to the fact that the revenue bills were still unpassed, and: appealed to his col- leagues not to adjourn until they had made laws. The Senate then adjourned e till 3 o’clock. - When the enrolling of the bills had been completed Senator Elliston (D.) of Grant County made the second appeal of the day to the Senators not to adjourn until the revenue bills were disposea of, but it availed nothing, filibustering being kept up for an hour until the special committee appointed to investigate into Governor Bradley’s action in calling out the troops presented its report. It was very volumin- ous and wound up with the ‘‘censure” of the Senate. Following is the closing sentence : “Your committee therefore find and de- clare and recommend tt at by the adoption of this report the Senate of Kentucky de- clare that the use of the military power of the commonwealth -by the Governor was unnecessary for the preservation of the peace or for any other -lawful purpose; that said military force was not used by the Governor ior the purpose of preserving the peace, but was- used only for partisan political purposes; that saia action of the Governor was wholly without warrant of of the civil authority to the military power of the commonwealth.” The report was adopted by a strict party vote. Shortly before 6 o’clock, the hour to which the session had been extended, a committee was appointed to notify the House that the Senate was ready to ad- journ. A similar committee appointed in the House was received by the Senate and both proceeded to inform the Governor.. While they were absent 6 o’clock. arrived and Lieutenant-Governor Worthington, with a rap of the gavel, announced the Senate ad- journed. “Is it sine die?'’ asked a member. “1t is,” replied President Worthington, | 1t is,”" repl: an"&'_kn 0) gton, and ‘so ended one most remarkable legisiative sessions in the history of Ken- |- tucky.. There was an absence of the usual noisy scenes which attended the breaking up of the Senate. The struggle for United States Senator from Kentucky which has just closed will go into history as the most remarkable contest ever waged in any State in the Union. The contest really began and was fought at the same time the campaign for State officers was being conducted. Al- though there were numerous candidates for the nomination by each party caucus, no one had any show from the start except Dr. Godfrey G. Hunter for the Republican nomination and Senator Blackburn for the Democratic. The two Houses were evenly divided on joint ballot, the Republicans having a majority of six in the House of Represent- atives and the Democrats controlling the Senate by the same majority. From the beginning of the session acrimonious bitterness governed each body, and to these who know the disposition and quick tem- per of Kentuckians the gravest results were feared. From the first ballot to the last this remarkable contest has held the interest of the entire country. Replete from start to finish with sensational in- cidents the final act in " this great political drama was a fitling denouement and the spectacle of a legislative body of a great commonwealth being guarded under mar- tial law by the State troops will go down to posterity as a lasting stain upon Ken- tucky’s escutcheon. g A BLACKBURNS BITTER WORDS. Scores Governor Bradley and Denounces the Democratic Press, FRANKFORT, Ky., March 17.—The Blackburn people beld a meeting in the opera-house this evening. A feature of the occasion was a speech from Jack Chinn, which was loucly applauded. Senator Blackburn’s address had to do with the different phases of the strange political drama just closed here. He was rather bitter in his denunciation of what he termed ‘‘the traitors in the party,’”’ and warmly eulogized the Populists for their support of him: He scored Governor Bradley 1n a bitter and impassioned man- nerfor calling out the militia, character- izing his action as despotic, cowardly and tyrannical. He also fired some hot shot at the press. Said he: *‘There has not been one single line, original, copied, ' borrowed er stolen, in the Democratic press of Louis- ville for the past twelve months that was not a lie."” SUNK IN A DENSE FOG. Loss of the Norwegian Bark Siam With a Cargo of Sugar. LEWES, DeL, March 17. — During a dense fog the Norwegian bark Siam, Captain J. Jacobson, struck a submerged wreck on Fenwick Island shoal and sank yesterday afternoon. The crew was res- cuel. The Siam was loaded with sugar and was 121 days out from Java. The estimated value of the cargo is $75,000. The vessel is a steel bark of 658 tons. R CONVICTED OF ARDUCTION. Three Men Carrvied Off a Girl and Tied Her to a Stake. J SUMMERVILLE, = Fra., March 17.— James Hopson, Dabney E. Palmer and Bill Henderson were convicted yesterday of the abduction of Miss Grace Darrell, after a trial lasting nearly a week. The three men. and Miss Darrell are residents ot Center Hill, a small railroad station in nd ‘is ‘& flagrant subversion ‘ Sumter County. Miss Darrell is a pretty irl, 17 years of age, and 1s from Fort Erie, %nnmn. Hopson and Palmer are promi- nent young men (white), Palmer being & neohew of W. B. Lamar, Attorney-General | of Florida, and Bill Henderson is a negro. Miss Darrell was abducted on Thu!sd;y night, February 20, and was not discov- ered until Saturday, February 22, when she was found tied to a tree in the woods about three miles from her home, nearly dead from fright and exposure. Hercloth- ing had been torn from her. When she revived she said that on the night mentioned she was seized and gagged and-borne into the woods, where she was stripped and tied to the tree. She recog- nized her abductors as Hovson, Palmer and Henderson. No motive for theabduc- tien was brought out during the trial. b et A0 TWO MISSIONARIES PERISHED. Stanley S. Harvey and Wife of Boston Among the Victims of the Explosion on the Matad. BOSTON, Mass.,, March 17.—A ecable- gram received by Rev. F. L. Piper of this city, secretary of the American Advent Mission Society, confirms the news re- ceived of the loss of the steamer Matadi by an explosion of gunpowder on the Congo River. The missionaries who lost their lives were Mr. and Mrs. Stanley 8. Harvey of Boston and members of the Advent Mis- sionary Church and both missionaries of the American Advent Mission Society. They haa just started on their way back to America for rest. Mr. Harvey was about 30 years of age. He spent two years at the missionary training school in this city, establishea by the late Rev. A.J. Gordon, D.D., and sailed for the Congo in 1891 His wife joined him there shortly afterward. They were stationed on the south side of the Congo, near the Baptist stafion at Kimvika. COLLISION OF TWO TRAINS. Fire Follows the Wreck and the Flames Are Extinguished by Snow. HARRISBURG, Pi., March 17.—News has just been received here of a bad acci- dent on the Pennsylvania Railroad early this morning near Steelton, a few miles west of this city. The fast line express train, which leaves Harrisburg at 3: A. M., ran into a livestock train at Steel- ton, and a bad wreck resulted. Two men were killed and about a dozen hurt. Several of the cars of the cattle train were smashed, and fully 100 sheep were killed or so badly hurt that they were killed to put them out of pain. To aad to the danger, the wrecked cars caught fire and began to burn fiercely. The uninjured passengers organized them- selves into a fire department, and by throwing snow on the burning wreckage succeeded in putting out the fire before it had gained much headw: BEFORE THE ARISTOCRACY Examination of Jameson and His Raiders Resumed in the Bow-Street Court. Troopers Who Pnrficipal_ed in the Expedition Give Some Impor- tant Testimony. LONDON, ExG., March 17.—The exam- ination of Dr.Jameson and his fellow- officers in the Transvaal raid was resumed in the Bow-street Police Court this morn- ing. As at the previous hearings, the courtroom was filled with members of the aristocracy, friends and admirers of the defendants. Sir Robert T. Reid, M.P., Q.C., watched the proceedings on behalf of the Transvaal Government. Associated with him was ‘Sir George Lewis, who pre- pared the case for Mr. Parnell and the | Irish party against the London Times be- fore the Parnell commission. Among the spectators were Lady Cranborne, Lady Raleigh and Mrs. Asquith, wife of the late Home Secretary. . Sergeant Ruck, who took part in the raid, was called to the witness-box and described the progress of the expedition into the Boer country. Several troopers who took part in the fight with the Boers at Krugersdorp werecalled to the witness- box and narrated their experiences, the facts of which have already been pub- lished. The lawyers for the prosecution laid Kreat stress upon admissions made by the witnesses that stores, relays of horses, arms, ammunition, etc., awaited the Jame- son expedition at various points on roads converging upon Mafeking, showing that the raid had long been planned and was not due to the Johannesburg committee’s letter, which was read after the expedition arrived at Krugersdorp. Several witnesses testified on behalf of the Government that they had acted in the capacity of messengers. When they found the wires had been cut' behind Jameson's party so that they could not be communi- cated with, the witnesses were obliged to pursue the party on horseback. They over- took Jemeson and tried in vain to induce him to return. . The hearing was adjourned for a week. iR S POLICY OF THE PORTE. Tries to Throw the Blame on the Armen- ian Patriarch. CONSTANTINOPLE, Turkey, March 17.—The Porte has demanded that the Armenian Patriarch write an autograph letter, admitting himself blamable for the outbreaks in Armenia, and it is the inten- tion of the Porte to print the letter, in the event of its being written, in a red book, the purpose of which will be to show that the statements contained in the British blue book-on Armenia are false. - * The Porte has also informed the Patri- arch- that his continuance in office ‘will provoke further massacres. The Armen- 1an Patriarch can resign his office onl; with the consent of the National Counecil, whick the Sultan fears to cail together. A number of deputations called upon the Patriarch on Sunday and Monday and be- sought him to remain in office. The mem- bers of the mixed council have threatened to resign if the Patriarch resigns.: Russia is using strong pressure to force the Patri- arch to do so. e Many Persons Frozen to Death. 4 ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, March 17.— The Government of Orel has been visited by a terrific snow storm. . Reports received here state that 130 persons were frozen to death in one night. Large numbers of horses and cattle were also frozen. e Treasury Gold Reserve. WASHINGTON, 'D. C., March 17.—The treasury gold reserve at the close of busi- ness to-day stocd at $127,564,110. The withdrawals for tne day were §137,600, TALYS POLEY TOLD B AU No Truth in the Reported Acceptance of Peace Proposals. FOR WAR TO A FINISH, Credit ina Large Sum to Be Asked to Continue the Big Campaign. COLONIAL EXPANSION DENIED. Humbert's Government Does Not Desire to Impose a Protectorate Upon Abyssinia. ROME, Itary, March 17.—In the Cham- ber of Deputies to-day Marquis di Rudini, the new Prime Minister, presented to the Chamber the newly formed Cabinet. Pre- mier di Rudini, in his address to the Chamber, said: “Our first thought turns to the brave soldiers who have fallen in Africa in de- fense of the flag. Let ussend a message of sympathy and hope to those who are still maintaining the honor of Italy in that country. Events of which Parliament will have to judge have led our sons to disaster, due to want of military prepara- tion, and whoever is responsible for the aisaster will be punished.”” Continuing he denied the truth of the rumors of the Government’s acceptance of proposals of peace with Abyssinia and an- nounced that the Government would ask for a credit of 140,000,000 lire for the pur- pose of continuing the campaign until Italy bad obtained an honorable situation. He rejected the policy of colonial expan- sion, but he said it would be dangerous to Italian interests to renounce the ter- ritory of the Tigre. Still, the Gov- ernment does not wish to impose an italian protectorate upon Abyssinia. The Government, be declared, sought order in- ternally and fidelity to the triple alliance externally. The Premier’'s speech was greatly ape plauded, the Radicals having been especi- ally well pleased with his statement in opposition to colonial exnpnsiom Other groups, however, found the Government’s inentions in Africa, a@s outlined by the Premicr, obscure and contradictory. “The late Ministry,” the Premier said, “ordered the opening of negotiations for peace. We have continued the negotia- tions and will still continue to treat, but we will not accept any conditions except such as will reinstate the national honor.” In the Senate a motion supported by the Marqnis di Rudini, thanking the British Parliament for its sympathy, was passed amid great cheering. The Italian press is very enthusiastic over the statement made by George N. Curzon, Under Foreign Secretary, in the British House of Commons in regard to the British expedition into the Seudan. The Popolo Romano says it is impossible to exaggerate the importance of the statement. 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