The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 27, 1898, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1898.° ' SIX DAYS’ WAR, \d So Far Nobody Has Been Very Bad Sampson’s Fleet Takes Prizes, but No Effort Is Made to | Engage the Batterics of Havana. Call Office, Riggs House, ‘Washington, April 25. This was the sixth day of the Span- ish-American war, and not a drop of blood shed as vet. Our ships have taken a number of prizes, some of which will B have to be given up, according to law- yers who are thought to be well versed in international law and comity. They claim that the bill passed by Congress vesterday and signed by the President troactiv 1, therefore, as it vio- ites o ution, may be ed by the Admiralty Court, which s to try the several cases at Jackson- 3ut however the court may decide as those prizes taken prior to the date on which Congress passed the dec- ion, there is no doubt thet the sh vessel Panama, captured b: thouse tender Mangrove off XKey ht is our prey. She is ours e facto. She is a rich prize, laden with a rich to 13 rded as prisoners and will probably be liberated to depart hereafter the This will not be the circumstances of mation issued to- anish subjects now in ports of nited States may depart without ¢ time between this arce be lowed they s unc esident’s pre bassador, who, in the er Polo, is acting for was at the 100n, and Secre- that Spain He explained s to arrange terms of ex- , one captured ve: for an It is understood proposed ap- a further confer- have the Conflct. , be dc her | p forty St ref- ug a question which is both. er yartment of Justice. Thi WITH NO BLOOD | | ly Hurt in Thus far we have captured a half dozen of Spain’s merchant vessels, and up to date she has taken none of ours, | but there are indications that the Span- | | | iards will make a business of priva- | | teering, notwithstanding their profes- sions, and that their operations on the | sea, cspecially in the Pacific, will| amount to piracy. _ This information | reached the Navy Department to-day | and Admiral Miller of the Pacific squadron, and Admiral Dewey of the | quadron, have been apprised o s intention to make a specialty of piracy on the Pacific. ‘“This only mercenar: said a d usted Congre: nan to-day, when he learned at the Navy Depart- ment that Sampson’s fleét had not yet fired a shot at Havana's batteries. “Let | us have a little Spanish blood to atone | for the murder of the Maine's s: atic warfare,” | The *peaceful” blockade of Havana is not satisfactory to the statesmen on | the hill. They want gore. The gen- eral impression in Washington among | | those best informed and who have a technical knowledge of naval matters, is that two battles royal will result, one before Havana and the other in the far away Pacific. It is the belief in naval | | circles that the first news of a battle will be from the Philippine Islands and that within a week word will have been received that Manila has been taken | by Admiral Dewey's fleet. | It was pointed out in official circles | that although no great strategical ad- | vantage would accrue to us from the | | possession of the Philippine Islands, they were nevertheless greater in area | and more valuable in wealth and na- | tural resources than Cuba or Porto | Rico and their loss to Spain would be The permanent occu | by the United States of any of Spain’s colonies is not contemplated, for it is the policy of the administration to in- | duce the friendship of ali nations by its insistence that the war was not ac- uated by selfish or ulterior purposes | | sire for the acquisition of territory re- | mote from our own shores. less the Philippines could be held for ‘‘ransom,” ransom enough to pay for the cost of the war with Spain and.the loss of our battleship Maine. { AWALTS NEWS OF THE WAR Hawaii Deeply Concerned the Present Struggle. Over Citizens Suggest That President Dole Declare the Islands Neutral. Spectal Correspondence of The Call. HONOLULU, ship Miow: days overd pril 19 steam- ra arrived yesterday, three and again brought to us the wearisome advice, “wait till the next steamer. At the sound of the signal whistles, as the sun was setting, cyclists, pedestrians and hacks rushed pellmell by the hundreds down to the Pacific Mail in full expectation of hear- ing that once again the scions of the | and if a citizen naturalized prior to Janu- | ary 17, 1883, possessed at such time of the | privilege of voting for representatives. Now, Mr. Hatch, Minister at ‘Wash- ington, carried an amendment to the | }anm that if sc naturalized they must | be “natives of a country having or hav.- | | ing had treaty reiations with Hawasi.” | ‘Tha intention of this amendment was | to debar Chinese from becoming natur- | | alized and possessing the franchise, for at that date nearly 1000 Chinese had becomenaturalized. Further, they must | have taken the oath set forth in the constitution. It is now contended that | as there is no country having a treaty | with Hawalii in which there is the | slightest reference made to naturaliza- tion, all naturalizations already grant- ed and all papers of denization with citizens’ rights are null and void so far as the allegiance due to the | country of origin is concerned. If the | Government should feel inclined to ac- | cept this ruling it can by disfranchis- ing the alien voters destroy at the polls nine-tenths of its political opponents of foreign birth. To add to the excitement the steam- ship Peru was off port a little after 11 o'clock last night, but it was long be- fore any news came on shore, as she could not come’ into the harbor until this morning. In the meantime the ex- citement had increased by the issu-| ance of “extras” by the evening papers, but cool judgment showed that it was merely whetting the appetite for the | | “news by the next steamer.” The main anxiety, enthusiasm and | curiosity centers around a telegram re- a distinct gain for the United States. | pation and tenure | on our part and that we have no de- | verthe- | GREAT BRITAIN 1S NEUTRAL The Proclamation of the Queen Has Been Issued. Other Countries Will Probably Follow in the Wake of England. There Is Still a Considerable Degree of Doubt as to Germany's Position. Copyrighted, 1898, by James Gordon Bennett. WASHINGTON, April 26.—Sir Jullan Pauncefote, the .nglish Embassador, to-day received a cable dispatéh from the British Foreign Office signed by Lord Salisbury announcing that the Queen’s proclamation of neutrality in the war between Spain and the United States had been signed. The dispatch adds that the proclamation is similar to those issued on former occasions, but in addition directs special attention to the three rules of the treaty cf Wash- ington of May 8, 1871. article 6 of which will be observ:1 towar. both countries. The three rules to which Lord Salis- bury directs special attention are of ex- ceptional moment just at present, ow- | ing to the presence in British ports of several warships, including the Somers and Albany, intended for the United ]St:nes Navy. The three rules are as fol- ows: “A neutral Government Is bound, first, to use diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming or equipping, within its jurisdic- tion of any vi which it has reason to believe is intended to v on war with a power with which it is at peace, and also to use iike diligence to prevent thedeparturefrom its jurisdiction of any vessel intended io cruise or carry on ~ir as above, such vessel having been specially adapfed, in whole or in part, within such jurisdicrion, to warlike use. ‘Second—Not to permit or to suffe- LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER EVERETT. - | Career of the Naval Officer Whose Little Craft Captured' ‘ the Panama. Lieutenant Commander William H. Everett is a true type of American manhood. Born in Connecticut, hewas at an early age left an orphan by the death of his father, who came to California in 1849, and died in Tuol- umne County. The young man. left to his own resources, worked his way through the schoois of New Haven, and late in the fifties was apr~inted by Governor English of Connecticut a cadet at Annapolis. He graduated with honors and has seen much sea life. | In August, 1897, he was appointed commander of the U. S. S. Michi- gan, stationed on Lake Erie, but on April 5 he requested to be transferred | to active duty, and on the 13th took command of the Mangrove. He at | once has made for himself a name that will be honored in history. Lieutenant-Commander Everett is 2 nephew of S. L. Everett, editor ot Pacific Coast Wood and Iron of this city. KEEPING BLOC KADEB BY NIGHT Cruise of a Call Man Outside of Havana Harbor. First Two Prisoners of War Taken by the Cruiser Cin- cinnati _and One Is Paroled. On board the United States torpedo- boat Porter, with the blockading squadron, off Havana, via Key West, Fla., April 26.—Two Spanish soldiers in blue uniforms with hairline stripes of white and straw hats, which Blanco’s men wear In the fleld, were prisoners to-day on board the flagship New York. One was a lieutenant. They were in a boat going from Matanzas to a neigh- boring port, where the lieutenant wanted to see his baby boy, that was born while he was in the field. The Cincinnati, which was lying off Matan- zas, picked up the boat and men. They were sent to the flagship, the first actual prisoners of war. They were duly astonished by the manual exercises ‘rill, which they Lighthouse Tender Mangrove, the Little Ship That Caught the Panama. either belligerent to make v of its ports o ters as the base of naval operations t.the. other, or for the purpose of 1 or augmentation of muitary su or arms, or the recruitment of m *Third—To exercise due diligence in i own ports and waters, and, as to all p sons within its jurisdiction, to prevent any violation of * the foregoing obliga- tions and duties.” The second rule doubtless accounts’| for the enforced departure of the United States fleet at Hongkong. The first rule appears to apply directly to several ships purchased by the United States abroad, and now hurrying to completion in British yards. Most im- portant of these is the fine cruiser Al- bany, formerly the Admiral Abrouall, of the Brazilian navy. From the strict rule adopted in stopping the torpedo- boat Somers and the mail steamer Ire- land, as reported by press dispatche it is believed the rule against the de- parture of warships will be given a very rigid construction. Doubt expressed here as to the report current in London that the proclamation was due to an under- standing between the again rene D sons of Semper Eadem had met the ceived by J. B. Atherton to the purport and Great Britain, in order that other descendants of the men who sailed in the Spanish Armada in battle clash. There was a sigh of relief from those who are well fixed in this world’s goods and of disappointment from those who view only the romantic and picturesque aspects of war when the indecisive news filtered out. Hawalians have been arguing with one another as to the out- come of war, so far as the islands are concerned, and have talked more learned international law on the rights of neutrals and belligerents than De Grotius ever dreamed of, or Wharton or De Maertens compiled. They have gone so r as to make preparations for a monster non-political mass meet- ing to urge our executive to proclaim neutrality in advance of the preclama- | and even conservative men tion cause are cautiously the advisability of petition- ors to advise the President | that Bacon'’s amendment was to be taken up by the Senate, as a test vote, as well as the Jjoint resolution, and further, that there were sufficient votes to defeat the amendment and to carry | the resolution. This news created a | sensation among the annexationists, and although all saloons were closed af 11 o'clock, carriages were running around all night with excited gossipers. |- It is learned this morning on highest authcrity that | will take no action | of official news the | the executive | pending the receipt | from Washington. HORACE WRIGHT. EULOGIZES THE ARMY OF SPAIN IN CUBA. Bombastic: Utterances of Marshal Count Chastee in the Madrid Scnate. countries might be urged to adopt a similar attitude of neutrality. It is hardly believed the United States would urge a proclamation, the first ef- fect of which is to tie up American warships nearing completion in Brit- ish yards. It was stated in high diplomatic quarters to-day that no further doubt | existed as to the attitude of Portugal This is re- | in maintaining neutrality. garded as specially important at this time, owing to the fact that the Cape Verde Islands, the Azores and the Ma- deiras belong to Portugal. All of these groups have fine harbors and coaling facilities, and are so located as to be of vital service to the Spanish navy in case their use were not barred by Por- tugal’s neutrality. The neutrality of Portugal will pre- vent a longer use of these islands as a base of operations for the Spanish ships, cr even a stopping place for United States | =1 the artillery concentration here. It is| the intention to organize them two battalions of five batteries each, with Majors Lancaster and Dillenback as commanders. The Second Regiment of infantry, WO BRIGADES | officers, in command of Cclonel J. C. | | Bates, which arrived last night, went into camp near the Twenty-fourth, in | 5 the Lafayette road. The cavalry ar- Troops at Chickamauga |rivals consist of Troop A of the| | Third, from Fort Huachuca, Ariz., and | to Be Formed Into | Troops E and K of the Second, from 2¥E 2 Fort Wingate. a Division. Field orders were issued for the rigid | policing of the camp. Daily inspections | — of the camps will be made and every | sanitary precaution taken. It is quite | Colonel Van Horn of the Eighth probable that the entire body of troops lecated here will be vaccinated. Regiment Put in Com- By next week the field maneuvers of mand. into | { the army will begi ORGANIZATION OF | THE VOLUNTEER ARMY. The War Depart;uent Announces the | Make-up of the Cavalry and Infantry. WASHINGTON, April 26.—The War | Department has announced that the or- | ganization of the volunteer army will be as follows: Artillery—Light battery: One captain, 1 first lieutenant, 2 second lieutenants, 1 first sergeant, 1 quartermaster sergeant, 1 veterinary sergeant and § sergeants, 15 corporals, 2 farriers, 2 artificers,1 saddler, 2 musiclans, 1 wagoner, 141 privates, maximum, 114 privates minimum. Heavy battery—One captain, 1 first lieu- tenant, 2 second lieutenants, 1 first ser- geant, 22 sergeants, 10 corporals, 2 mu: cians, 2 artificers, 1 wagoner, 162 pri- vates. Cavalry Troops—One captain, one first lieutenant, one second lieutenant, one first sergeant, one quartermaster ser- geant, six sergeants, eliht corporals, two | farriers and blacksmiths, two trumpet- ers, one saddler, one wagoner, 78 privates maximum. 64 privates minimum. Field Maneuvers Will Begin at the | Camp Grounds by Next Week. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. CHICKAMAUGA PARK, April 26.— | | General field orders directing the for- mation of the United States infantry | regiments here into a division of two | | brigades were issued to &1y by Major- | ! General Brogke. Colonel James .. Van | Horn of the Eighth Infantry is put in | | command of the division, he being the | | ranking senior officer. The first brig- | ade is composed of the Seventh, Eighth, | Twelfth and Twenty-fifth infantries, with Colonel Andrew S. Burt of the | Twenty-fifth in command. The sec- | ond brigade, according to the general | watched with interest, after they had been told by an interpreter that they | were not to be hanged at the yardarm | immediately. as they seemed to expect. The lieutenant was paroled and set ashore in the Algonquin, which landed him this afternoon at a small fort a few miles east of Havana. The flagship this morning lay ten miles east of Morro Castle, where news of the declaration of war was received with keen satisfaction by all. Surprise and laughter greeted the news that the Mangrove had cap- tured the Panama, the rich prize for which the battle-ships and torpedo- | boats have been scouring the straits for days. The Porter last night did picket duty inside and outside the cruisers and bat- tleships. I was a member of the Por- ter's crew last night, and to-day be- cause of my knowledge of the coast, which Captain Fremont wished to ex- amine. It is the Porter and other vessels of her class which make the blockade unequaled in point of efficiency and picturesqueness in the history of war. | By day the torpedo boats hunt before and around the cruisers. By night, with lights out, they cruise inshore and outside the big warships, and friend, foe and stranger alike must | prove their identity an mission before the ceed. If he be Spanish he is surely lost. He cannot enter or leave Havana in any case unless he be so small as to be of no attraction for prize hunters. If he lack witches allow them to pro- | be big he is more easily seen and more eagerly hunted. them. They will be foreed to go to one | f their own ports, the Canaries prob- | |ably Dbeing the most advantageous | peint, now that Cape Verde and other ! | Portuguese islands are closed to them. | The reports that Germany would not | | issue a proclamation of neutrality, in | the annexation treaty enate, and to suggest in lieu a tripartite guarantee by the reat Britain and ality and independ- > of the Hawaiian Islands for ten MADRID, April 26.—In ‘the Senat Marshal Count Chastee eulogized the {army in Cuba and recalled his experi- ence forty-five years- ago, when. as captain-general of Cuba, he ordered the forts to fire on the Anglo-American from the there i 2 T 3 fleet, which was obliged to retire. He | order to leave her hands free for inter- h’llf r‘{g\?:."Ader:;ll"_"l g S::{leslmsSen;“: said he hoped General Blanco would | vention if it seems ¢ ‘sirable, cannot be | will | gather — strength. The Tlin | fulfill his promise to come through the | confirmed in diplomatic circles here. gering Lot inty of Hawails cofn. conflict dead or victorious. Senor Buig- | On the other hand, there is every indi- ceiver, the Minister of Finance, replied that the Government had great con- | caticn that Germany will observe strict dition is becoming irkso e ling irksome and gall | neutrality so long as German ships and order, is made up of the Second and Twenty-fourth Infantry, “and such | other infantry as may arrive here.” Plans in regard to the formation of the second brigade were knocked awry this evening by the definite announce- ment that the order for the First Regi- ment, from the Presidio and Benlcla’ Barracks, Cal., to proceed to Chickat | mauga, had been countermanded, and | that the regiment had gone into camp at New Orleans. This also, for the | two musicians, one artificer, Regiment—One colanel, one first lev- tenant, one adjutant (extra lieutenant), | | one quartermaster (extra lieutenant), ona surgeon, two assistant surgeons, one chaplain, three hospital stewarus, one sergeant major, one quartermaster ser- geant, one chief musician, one saddler sergeant, one chief trumpeter. Infantry company—One captain, one lieutenant, one second lieutenant, one first sergeant, one quartermaster ser- geant, four sergeants, twelve corporals, one wa- goner, 76 privates maximum, 64 privates minimum. ing, for it disconeerts all plans for pro~ or development Business js un- and “boomers” are thwarted; government is hampered. and individ- uals are worried; legislation is timid and politiclans cantankerous. It Is thought also that the pian suggested will be acceptable to the United States Congress, and more especially 1o bz e treaty frionds, the Jone European guarantors of Hawaii'a ins dependence, Great Britain and France, A Very serious point in the constee: tion of Hawaii's constitution quietly raised by foreign ,F,F‘,',.espl,’]‘;fl'_" tives In_connection With our naturall. | zation of foreign subjects, and citizens, and, consequently, of their right te vote. fidence in the army and navy. A Senator questioned the Government respecting the reported sailing of lhE‘ American_squadron for Manila, and | asked if the former rebel chiefs of the | Philippines, notably Chief Aguinaldo, | were on board the American warships! Senor Moret, Secretary of the Colonies, replied that there was no official in- formation on the subject and that the Government discredited the report re- garding Aguinaido. Spoke the Shenandoah. QUEENSTOWN, April 26.—The Brit- ish bark Carradol. from Portland, Or., on arriving at Queenstown to-cay, r As originally drawn and submitteq to the constitutional convention article | 74, qualifications of voters for repreJ gentatives, read: | In order to be eligible to vote for rep.- | iresentatives a person shall: First—Be a male citizen of the republic; ' ported that skL: spoke on Aprii 14, in latitude .5 north and longitude 39 west, southwest of the Azore Islands, the American four-masted : p Shenan- doah. Captain _lurphy, which left San Francisco on January 5 for Liverpoo’, and was reported o have been captured by the Spaniards German commerce are unmolested dur- ing the progress of the war. If, how- ever, German interests suffer by search and seizure on the high seas, then it is | not so certain a strict neutrality will be continued. It is held among leading diplomats that no question can be raised as to the status of Senor Polo at Toronto. He is said to be a private citizen, hav- ing the right of domicile in a neutral country. Mrs. Plyler Released. SANTA CRUZ, April 2%.—The case against Minnie Plyler for mayhem, com- mitted on Charles Harrs, was dismissed this morning in the Superior Court. Har- ris’ whereabouts is unknown, he having disappeared. e X S Forest Tracts Ablaze. SANTA CRUZ, April 26.—A forest fire is raging in the woods on the mountains back of Cowell's lime kilns. Much valu- able timber is being burned. Regiment—One colonel, one lieutenant- colonel, two majors, one adjutant (extra | lieutenant), one quartermaster (extra | lieutenant), one surgeon, two assistant | surgeons, one chaplain, one sergeant-ma- | jor, one quartermaster sergeant, one chief | musician, two principal musicians and three hospital stewards. fio ol g ekan Two Liners Purchased. EW YORK, April 26.—Hamburg- American officials announce that the | Fuerst Bismarck and Columbia have | | time being, at least, disposed of the ! plan of the organization of the intan‘{ try into three brigades of three regi- ments each. As it stands ncw, the Six- | teenth, from Forts Sherman, Spokane and Boise Barracks, is the only regi- ment which Major-General: Brooke is reasonably certain of having incorpor- ated in his army. Detached officers of that regiment have already reported for duty here. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth regi- ments frem Forts Bliss and Sam Hous- ton, and the latter from Forts Brady been purchased by the United States. and Wayne, it is thought, however,| QUEENSTOWN, April 26.—Report may have gone to Chickamauga, in|that the steamer Pennland from Phila- which case three brigades of three regi- | delphia sighted a Spanish warship ments each wll:ibg formed. cruising is ent.rely untrue. on rigad ———— As the sec gade now stands, Passed the Tines Paris. Colonel J. C. Bates of the fecond Reg- QUEENSTOWN, April 27, 1 a. m.— iment is in command. Battery K of the First, from Texas, and Batteries C | The steamer Majestic rep rts passing and F of the Third, from San Fran- an American liner, presun .bly the ciscc, arrived to-day. This makes | Paris, Monday morning in "atitude 48.52, ten batteries in camp and completes | longitude 29.... Tha Porter lay off Morro Castle for a time last night while the Yi - search- | light on the castle swept sky and sea | the enemy. The low-lying torpedo-boat was unnoticed, being so far off that the | light even when it fell across her gave but few clews, if any, to the men at the guns ashore. Then, cruising westward | for ten of fifteen miles, she returned, | running close under the batteries, but still undetected. One of the warships lying off Havana, making out a black object between itself ana the shore, showed the flest signal to determine whether the flying craft were friend or enemy. The Porter burned the fleet signal in answer. would have been followed by a terrific fire from tLe warship’s secondary bat- tery. From low cruising speed the Porter suddenly increased to twenty knots to go flying after a sail creeping along the land west of . orro. It proved to be a small sloop ard the chase was aban- doned. Smoke later betrayed the pres- ence -~ a small gunboat which had moved out of Havana and was steam- ing westward still under the guns of Santa Clarn battery. It was identified as the Pinzon or one of that class, which fori arly used to run outside |in vain effort to locate the ships of | Delay in answering' Morro for guar? duty at night, returne | ing to the _arbor at dawn. Once Captain Fremont of the Porter had sized up the Spaniard he smiled, | and after sweeping the seaward horizon with his glasses darted off to the De- troit and the converted yacht Hawk with the news. The cruiser and the Destroyer headed for the westernmost end of the Vedado batteries, hoping to | cut off the gunboat before it could re- turn to the harbor, but the Spaniard had put back as soon as the Porter started seaward, and the night hunt vas fruitless. Away to the eastward went the Porter, ignoring the Morro's searchlight, which was sweeping the sen. and sky unceasingly. Then at 11 o’clock the searchlight and electric lights on the Porter were ex- tinguished, and only a faint patch of soft radiance from the houses marked the beleagured city of Havana. The torpedo-boat ran close under the bat- teries and still to the eastward. The outline of a big ship was seen dimly against the line to seaward seemingly too far in shore to be one of the fleet. Again the Porter’'s speed jumped from 'ten to twenty knots, as swinging wide of the stranger she dodged his watch forward and shut down upon him from the rear. No sign was r-ade by the Porter un- til she was far inside the distance at which guns coul? have been directed at her. Then she showed the fleet signal. Had the answer been any but | the right dne the big ship was doomed. In a second the proper signal burned at the masthead in reply. It was one of the cruisers, and the Porter faded away In the darkness and resumed her natrol to the east- ward, sweeping close under the roast and far out to sea alternately, and overlooking nothing bigger than a sea bird till the sun like a big gold piece on edge rose out of the sea and the night patrol was over. WEST POINT GRADUATES THE CLASS OF '98. HIGHLAND FALLS, N. Y., April 26. —West Point at 2 o’clock to-day gradu- ated the clasc of 1898. The stern re- quirements of the service permitted nothin but short ceremonies. The de- livery of the diplomas was made by Colonel H. C. Ernest, superintendent of the academy, and the addresses to the cla 3 . S. Michie, profes- sor of natural and experimental phil- osoph ted before the end of the ac r. There was | none of the many pleasant features | which usually attend the graduating | el but there were fifty-five ha~nv | young men. The amination, usually held in June, will probably not be held until later, as it may become necessary to graduate the second class soon. If this becomes nec ary, that examination and graduation may not take place be- fore Ju or August. Most of the new officers will be assigned to the two new artillery regiments and the rest di- vided among the volunteers. The following is the standing of the first ten men in order of general merit: Frank Boggs, Pennsylvania; C. Smith, Illinois; W. W. Wooten, North Caro- ; L. Brown, Tennessee; D- 3 Kerr, West Virginia; E. L Georgia; .A. A. Fries, Oregon; M , Philadelphia; J. E. Stephens, Tenne ; T. E. Merrill, | Kentucky; M. C. Kerth, Illinot ADVERTISEMENTS. 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