The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 31, 1898, Page 2

2 / THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1898. ARMING THE PHILIPPINE INSURGENTS General Aguinaldo Gather- ing an Army to Aid the American Forces. Admiral Dewey Still Holds Manila by the Throat, and Spaniards Must Starve or Surrender. by James Gordon Bennett. \ of Furopeans here, as conveyed through the foreign Consuls, shows how critical must be the situation. The health of the cfficers and men con- tinues good, in spite of the severe heat and humidity. Natives are now. bring- | ing off plenty of supplies of chickens, | eggs, mangoes, bananas, a few pine- | apples, and nothing else. When Captain Gridley left the Olympia on sick leave the wardroom officers manned the gig and rowed him | to the departing steamer, and the sea- men suddenly thronged the rail and gave him hearty cheers. Copyrighted, 159, by Jam BY JOSEPH L. STICKNEY. MANILA, May 27, via Hongkong, May 30.—The British oruiser Pique, which was just entering the bay when I sent the previous dispatch, will take this one to Hongkong to-day, the 27th. The Philippine insurgents received last Tuesday 2000 Mauser breech-load- ers and 20,000 rounds of ammunition and have been busy ever since getting their men together. I saw General Aguinaldo to-day. He told me he had 5000 Mausers captured from the Spaniards which with the rifles just receive' will enable him to arm a force equal to the detachment of Spaniards now in the province of Cavite. About two miles back of the | town of Cavite General Aguinaldo has HONGKONG, May 30.—Supplies are reaching Manila plentifully from the | surrounding country. The Spaniards are working upon the fortifications, but their guns are old and useless and they are short of ammunition. Rear Admiral Dewey' has informed | the authorities at Manila that he will five modern breech-loading field pieces with a moderate supply of common fleld | shells and shrapnel. The men of Gen- eral Aguinaldo’s force are of small stature and look as though they had not had enough to eat for a long time, but they are very .siry and tough. Two of them, whom I noticed, were carrying a heavy forge and Bellows | slung on a pole and two others were similarly laden with a large anvil, and four of them carried a bench with two vises. They had taken a field guu; from one of the sunken Spanish cruis- | | will aw A steamer is reported to have landed | ers and were trying to make it fit for service, showing marvelous patience and perseverance. | hold them responsible for the life of the wptain of the Spanish gunboat Callgo, aptured by the United States fleet. The Spaniards have been threatening | to shoot him for surrendering, although | confronted by the whole American fleet. All the American ships are at Ca- | vite, in Manila Bay. Salt provisions are plentiful, but fresh provisions are | not obtain: There is no sickness in the American fleet. In reply to the Spanish attempt to | win over Aguinaldo’s men, the in- surgents are said to have informed the Spaniards that they are neutral and it events. s at Cavite for the use of the ents. There must be something out of the | Spaniards have offered $25,000 common_ about their lead r, = General Aguinalc r wher our weeks ago | for the head of Aguinaldo, the insurg- there were not one hundred persons at | ent lead Cavite after the Spaniards moved out, | The Governor of Hongkong has pro- there are now more than 00 men cap- | hibited the United States auxiliary able of bearing arms, most of whom | gunboat Zafiro from taking war stores have assembled since. Aguinaldo will | to the American fleet, but he has per- be able to take the field with more than | mitted b to ship “officers’ luxuries.” 5000 men. He tells me his force is The Zafiro sailed from here for Man- nited can get, but many of the native soldie in Manila will de: t to him as soon a he attacks that place. The s of the recent expedition the insurgents a’supply it in a larg Xt two week: is confident of 1 Dewey still holds Manila by the throat, and the Spaniards are un- able to escape from sure starvation or surrender. It is fmpe e to get defin- ! ite news from the city, but the anxiety | nly by the number of rifles he | ila to-day. The American forces at Manila have | captured the Spanish gunboat Leythe, which was attempting to run dis- into_Tioilo. DON. May 31.—A dfspatch to the Telegraph from Manila, dated May 26, via Hongkong, says: ‘“The American warships are still in the bay, cept a couple of the smaller ones, h are being used on patrol duty outside. Rear Admiral Dewey is los- ing men from d S almost daily. Smallpox and dysentery are said to be rife in the American squadr®n.” Daily T0 BE TABLED Lodge Amendment Can- | not Go Through. | WAR REVENUE COMES FIRST, CONGRESSMEN WHO WILL NOT | PERMIT DELAY. But the Senator From Massachusetts Can Make a Speech on Hawaii in Open Session. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, May 30.—A Washing- ton special to the Herald says: Sena- tor Lodge’s Hawaifan amendment to the war revenue bill will probably be lald on the table if the Senator persists in pushing it to a vote. Many of the strongest advocates of annexation in the Senate think it would be a very serious mistake to risk indefinitely de- laying the revenue bill and weighing it down with free silver and other amend- ments for the sake of expediting Hawalian annexation. Senator Lodge will accomplish a great deal, however, by his course. He | will be able to present arguments for | annexation in a speech In open session | of the Senate and show how theminori- | ties in both houses of Congress are! obstructing the majorities and the ad- ministration, and are proving a serious | ot tacle in the way of the successful | secution of the war with Spain and putting the country in danger of very serious foreign complications. Strong efforts are to be made to get the annexation resolution through the House of Representatives during the present week, in spite of the opposition of Speaker Reed. It is believed the Speaker will ultimately vield to the overwhelming desire of his party in the House, but he has not yet shown any signs of doing so. He has not abso- lutely refused to grant a special rule for the consideration of the resolution, but he has not givem Representative Hitt or any other advocate of annexa- tion any rance he will do so. TO AID NEEDY VOLUNTEERS. Splendid Work of the Walnut Creek Red Cross Society. WALNUT CREEK, May 30.—The Red Cross Society organized here has a membership of seventy-five. The call for supplies was answered by handsome donations from all over the valley. Mrs. J. O. Reis and her sister, Miss Brooks, sent a bolt of flannel. One hundred and fifty bandages have been prepared thus far. The officers have opened headquarters at Dr. Leech’s office, where supplies will be received by W. 8. Burpee and V. Mar- tinez. The school children have col- lected quite a fund. The ladies who are prominent in the local work and the officers are: Mrs. Arthur Willlams, Miss Dora Berry, Mrs. C. A. Leech, Mrs. James Hook, Mrs. Durham, Mrs. George Reed, Mrs. E. G. Larkey, Mrs. 8. F. Johnson, Mrs. E. A. Anderson, Mrs. A. G. Cameron, Miss Fidna Johnson, Mrs. Myron Hall, Mrs. J. O. Reis, Miss Brooks, Miss Johnson, W. S. Burpee, V. Martinez, Mrs. Cameron and Mrs. Hall. — - England Protests to Spain. LONDON, May 31.—The British Gov- ernment, according to a statement of a London news agency, has sent a friend- ly protest to Spain with respect to the latter’s strengthening of the fortifica- tions opposite Gibraltar. ADVERTISEMENTS. 809 Market Strect, Corner Fouréh. SECOND FLOOR FLOOD BUILDING. CONSULTATION-FREERE. Extracted WITHOUT Otfice Hours—0 a. m. to 10 p. > ! CLEANING TEET! AR R Ik RECEPTION ROOM—No. 7. We will Ex- ARMY and NAVY. gact z;;,; o BLUE, AND GIVE 10 PER CENT Diay COUNT from our regular prices on all work done for them, T FULL SET OF TEET-. fo A Physician Always in Attendance, BKILLED OPERATORS—LADY ATTENDANT PHONE DAVIS 564. DR. T. E. STRONG. m.; Bundays, 9 @. m. to 2 p. m. il JSLEOFP QK e 1.\.°‘°, I ol ] NI 3 L3 il N 1 FROM TAMPA TO SANTIAGO DE Chart of Lower Florida and Cuban waters, showing the route and probable landing-place of the United States troops under General Shafter, now leaving Tampa presumably for the vicinity of Santiago de Cuba to co-operate with 8Schley in the reduction of that city. The most practicable place for disembarking troops for a land attatk on Santiago is at Surgidero Justicia, about nine miles east of the city, from which the only road for many miles cast or west leads through the high mountains to the country beyond. point can be entirely protected by the guns of the war vessels, which can lic right up to the shore. The grade of the road, though rather heavy, is passable for artillery and leads to hills commanding the city and nearly the whole of the harbor. 5 . imposed and collected on after the first d!g of June next, as follows, namely: n still wines and vermouths in casks, 85 cents per gallon. In bottles or jugs, per case of one dozen bottles or jugs, con- NO CABLE T0 PHILIPPINES Not taining each not more than one quart or twenty-four bottles or jugs, containing each not more than one pint, $1 25 per case, and any excess beyond these quan- tities found in such bottles or jugs shall be subject to a duty of 4 cents per pint or fractional part thereof, but no sep- arate or additional duty shall be assessed upon the bottles or jugs. From San Francisco to Manila It Would Require Nine Thou= sand Miles of Cable. T i This Government ed States of America, have caused the citizens of the United States of America. Done at the City of Washington, this | second. WILLIAM McKINLEY. FEARS ATTACK Now, therefore, be it known that I, Willlam McKinley, President of the Unit" | P It above stated modifications of the cus- Ready for It. om dutles of the respectivecountries to be | made public for the information of the In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the| RANK NONSENSE AT PRESENT United States to_be affixed the thirtleth day of May, 188, and of the independence o e United States America the ope hundred and twenty- | COST OF LAYING WIRES WOULD By the President. BE ENORMOUS. WILLIAM R. DAY, Secretary of State. Klondiker Unwilling to Ship Gold. Special Dispatch to The Call. Call Office, Riggs House, ‘Washington, May 30 State and Navy Department officials declare the report that this Govern- | ment is preparing to lay a cable to Manila via Honolulu is ridiculous. They say that while such a cable might be | undertaken some time in the future and | probably will be, especially if we per- | manently occupy the Philippines, it is | rank nonsense to think of such a thing | at this time. The surface distance from San Fran- clsco to Manila is 7100 nautical miles, | but the cable length would probably RUMORS SCARE DAWSONITES BELIEVE TREASURE SHIPS MAY BE CAPTURED. | approximate 9000 miles. Lieutenant- Mine Owner Stanley Leaves for the | commander Clover, the chief hydro- North to Investigate Be- grapher of the navy, after a cable route had been surveyed from Monte- rey Bay, Cal, to Honolulu, estimated it would cost $1200 a mile. The sur- face distance from San Francisco to Honolulu is only 2089 miles, but Clarke, | Forde & Taylor, the London cable con- | tractors, estimated that 2500 miles of fore Risking His Nuggets. Special Dispatch to The Call. SEATTLE, May 30.—W. M. Stanley, the man who five years ago was un- | able to get a position as a common la- borer in this city, and who is to-day one of the richest men in the country, left for Dawson on the Rosalie last night. He Is going on a strange mis- sion. Up in the Dawson dumps there is in the neighborhood of $600,000 which | belongs to Mr. Stanley and his sons. It will soon be ready for shipment to the States. Mr. Stanley’s son, Samuel, is at Dawson looking after his father’s and brother’s interests. He is sup- posed to have charge of the gold, but he wants to get rid of that responsi- bility, because he fears that he may lose the family fortune. | cable would be required. The topography of the ocean’s bed, of course, necessitates the additional | lengths of cable. This would be true | also of the cable if continued from Honolulu to the Orient. Admiral Belknap, who made sound- ings in the Pacific, found (off the coast of Japan and China) the deepest water that ever a plummet sounded. In many places it was three or four miles deep and the piano wire (which is used in deep sea soundings) broke many times by reason of its own weight before he could touch bottom. TUnder these con- ditions the cost of the cable survey | and cable construction would be great- i Iy increased. A cable from San Fran- | cisco fo Manila would cost at least | $1500 a mile owing to the great depth, The report (transportation companies | and would require perhaps as much as say it is ridiculous) has reached Daw- | 9000 miles of wire. This would bring son that pirates propose to attack the | the total cost up to $13,000,000, exclusive gold ships this year. Therefore Sam- | of landings, terminal stations, appar- uel Stanley does not want to ship the | gold down, unless his father first visits Dawson and says it will be all right. Mr. Stanley is going to Dawson for the sole purpose of sizing up the situa- tion. If he concludes there is reason for believing the report he will bury | his gold and not bring it down until for the gold ships. Mr. Stanley says he has gold enough in his mines to make him and his sons millionaires and he does not propose to have pirates get it. He believes it more than likely that some fool pirates will make an attack on the gold boats. It President McKinley does what Mr. Stanley ® believes he should do | Wheeling will be sent north to escort all gold boats to the Sound. [AVE SYMPATHY WITH AMERICA French Workingmen Ex- press Their Opinions. ¢ * 2:Turks 1p CUBA. A landing at this Modification Call Office, Riggs House, ‘Washington, May 30. The United States and France h concluded the first commercial agr ment entered into under section 3 of the Dingley tariff law. The negotiations have been pending for the last elsht months, and after many vicissitudes, were concluded on Saturday last, when Embassador Cambon, in behalf of France, and the Hon. John Kasson, Reciproecity Commissioner for the United States, fixed their signatures to the formal acreement. It makes im- portant changes in the tariff rates on & number of articles constituting the e | chief trade betv-een this country and France. The particular advantages se- cured by the United States are on meat products and lard compounds, France reducing her rates one-half on meat products and about one-third on lard compound. The chief benefits to France are in reduction in rates on brandies, stilled wine, vermouth and works of art. There is no reduction in the rate on champagnes, although the Dingley law contemplated a reciprocity reduc- tion on champagnes in case mutual concessions were given. By the terms of the agreement the- new rates go into effect on June 1, or next Wednesday. In the meantime, under the terms of the law, the Presi- RECIPROCITY WITH FRANCE PROCLAIMED of Customs Duties to Go Into Ef- fect To-Morrow. America Favored in the Products Sent Abroad and Lower Rates on Imports in Return. dent has issued a proclamation, grant- ing the reciprocity reductions specified in the agreement, and at the same time the French authorities at Parls will de- cree a reduction in the French rates in accordance with the agreement. The conclusion of the agreement is a source of general congratulation among the officlals of the State Department and of the French Embassy. Severai reciprocity negotiations have been in progress, and it was thought those with Great Britain were likely to be concluded first. The French negotiations began iast October, when M. Patenotre was the French Embassador here. It soon de- veloped, however, that they expected much larger concessions, particularly on meat prod- :ts, than M. Patenotre was.ready to yield. M. Cambon, for- merly Governor-General of Algiers, and regarded as one of the most cap- able diplomatic officials in_the French service, when he succeeded M. Paten- otre concessions were made Wwhich allowed the two Governments to come together. It was a matter of no little surprise that the arrangement was con- cluded at the present time when the war emergency compelled this Govern- ment to look for every possible resource centration of official attention on meas- ures relating directly to the war. Aside from the tariff changes made by the new agreement the convention i8 regarded as significant in showing the good will ting between the rnr revenue, and when there was a con- United States and France. In official circles there have never been ary ques- tions as to the continued cordiality be- tween the two countries, but in unoffi- cial quarters there have been reports of friction. It is believed that the agreement will serve to dispel misap- prehensions as to the satisfactory rc- lations between the two Governments, and that it will be quite as beneficial | in increasing the good will bétween the two republics as to the trade. Appended is the President’s procla- The Sentiment ‘“America for Ameri- cans and Cuba for Cubans” Is Everywhere Applauded. Copyrighted, 188, by James Gordon Bennett. PARIS, May 30.—The struggle be- mation: By the President of the United States | tWeen the United States and Spain 1s of America. A lamation: | probably followed with keener inter- Whereas, Pursuant (o section 3 of the | cst in France than in any other country act of Congress approved July 24, 1897, en- | titled “An act to provide revenue for th Government and to encourage the indu tries of the United States,’” the Govern- ments of the United States and the French republic have, in the spirit of amity and with a desire to improve their commercial relations, entéred into a com- mercial agreement in which reciprocity and equivalent concessions have been, in the judgment of the Prestdent, secured according to the provisions of said sec- tion, whereby the following artic] of commerce, being the products and - ufactures of the United States, are to be admitted Into France on and after the first day of June, 1888, at the minimum rate of duty, not exceeding the rates re- spectively appearing In the following table, namely: Canned meats, 15 france per 100 kilos; table fruits, fresh, lemons, oranges, cedrats and their varieties not mentioned, 5 francs per 100 kilos; Mandarin oranges 10 francs per 100 kilos; apples an eaches, for the table, 2 francs per 100 ilos; for cider and perry, 1.0 francs per 100 kilos; other fruits, except hot-house fVflDPS and fruits, 5 francs per 100 kilos; ruits, dried or pressed excludlni raisins, apples and pears for the table, 10 francs per 100 kilos; for cider and perry, 4 francs {zer 100 kilos; prunes, 10 francs per 100 ilos; other fruits, 5 francs per 100 kilos; common woods, logs, 0.65 francs per 100 kilos; sawed or squared timbers, mm. or more in thickness, 1 franc per 100 kilos; sawed or squared lumber exceeding 35 mm. and less than 8 mm. in thickness, 1.25 francs per 100 kilos; wood, sawed, 35 mm, or less in thickness, 1.7 francs per 100 kilos; paving blocks, 1.7 francs per 100 kilos; staves, 0.7 francs per 100 kilos; hoops, .20 francs per 100 kilos; apples o fe“”" crushed or cut and dried, 1.50 rancs per 10 kilos; manufactured and repareu pork meats, 5 francs per 100 ilos: lard and its compounds, 25 francs per 100 kilos. Herein in furtherexecution of the nrovi. sions of said section, it is hereby declared that one day after the first day ot June, 1898, and during the continuance in force of the agreement aforesaid, and until otherwise declared, the imposition and collection of the duties heretofore imposed and collected upon the following named articles and products of France by virtue of said act are hereby suspended, and in place thereof the duties shall be imposed and collected thereon according to the provisions of said -section 3, as folllows: argols or crude tartar or wine lees in Europe. In Paris, especially, all war news is closely followed by pass- ers by eagerly buying evening papers from the street venders every time new details are received from the seat of war. While all classes are interested, it is more especially among laboring sible comments on the events which brought about the conflict and it is this class that accords to free America the most sympathy. Of this fact we have been able to convince ourselves by investigations carried on at the headquarters of the large workmen's corporations in Parisian fauborgs. M. Powrier, former member of the Typo- graphical Federations Committee, gives his opinion in substance as follows: “We most sincerely hope for the tri- umph of the United States. We affirm that to the United States belongs the palm in modern social movements, by reason of the number of workingmens’ syndicates and associations, which play an active role in the solution of prob- lems which have vital importance for us. All printers in France now have their eyes fixed in sympathy on the United States, because the United States is marching with giant strides toward the socialistic ideal.” I asked the opinion of the Deputy of the Exereme Left (that is t. say, the representative of the people, elected with a purely socialist programme in a center composed mostly of manual workmen), Ernest Roche, Deputy of the Batignollis quarter, and re-elected las‘E election by a large majority, who said: “In addition to the natural inclina- tion that attracts American and French workmen toward each other, many causes i -pel Frenchmen to hope that the conflict between Spain and the United States may terminate advantageously to the latter nation. “This is mainly owing to the cause of the quarrel—the emancipation of a people crushed under a cruel yoke and Srandies o Siher Spivits maniiormiq OB to which the United States -have distilled from grain or other materials, | Pént their energi s — America for Americans, Cuba for Cubans, which for us is the significance of the pres- ent war, the end of which we trust is close at hand. “In brief in popular districts, in the $1 20 per proof gallon; on paintings in ofi or water colors, pastels, pen and ink drawings and statuary, 15 per centum ad orem. 1t is further declared that the rates of heretof b Ul wines and vmg:eh..%%ew““‘:&m workshops, even in the French Cham- France, under the provisions of e Unit- | ber of Deputies, public opinion is, by ed !u‘t’u tariff of 1897, are conditionally |2 large majority. favorable to the led, and In place thereof shall be| American cause.” ~ the Government will supply protection | the | classes that one hears the most sen- | atus, instruments, repair ships, etc. Cable construction cannot be under- taken without a specific appropriation being made by Congress. Therefore the report that this Government is pre- | paring to lay such a cable is a mani- | fest absurdity. ST. LOUIS TO SCOUT FOR- THE CADIZ FLEET Auxiliary Cruiser Dispatched to As- certain the Whereabouts of | the Reserve Vessels. NEW YORK, May 30.—The Herald's ‘Washington correspondent telegraphs: Is Spain’s Cadiz squadron on its way | to Western waters? This is a question | which naval officers in authority are asking each other. They have taken | means to obtain a solution of it by dis- | patching the auxiliary cruiser St. Louis to ascertain the fleet’s whereabouts and | cable the result of her search to Wash- | ington. While Captain C. F. Goodrich, com- manding the St. Louis, was Wash- ington Saturday he carefully went over | the situation with the al war board. Confident of the hemming in of the Spanish fleet at Santiago de Cuba, the chief concern is to | prevent the S | reaching Wi he | cion entertained by the authorities that the Spanish reserve squadron is bound for Western wate 1s developed from information they reccived -on Friday last announcing the departure of the armorclads of the Spanish fleet from Cadiz, ostensibly for targ ctice. Members of the naval v d be- lieve it possible that the Spanish ves- I sels received their final instru fore their departure from | that they are now on their wa North America. The St. Louis scout for them ard probablv the Yale and Harvard will be relieved from duty near Santiago de Cuba and resume their stations to the westward of the W a Islands on the Spanish reinforcements. - | | | Gomez Rejects Peace Offers. HAVANA. May 30.—Gomez has re- | jected another offer from Blanco to | compromise. He will execute the next | messenger sent by the Spaniards. He says he will recognize no offer not recognizing the perfect sympathy be- tween the insurgents and the United States. — Reserves to Serve One Year. NEW YORK, May $0.—Five thou- sand naval militia will be examined and mustered into service in various States for one year as soon as possible. ADVERTISEMENTS. | | ' LEADING CASH GROCERS, SPECIAL SALE FOR THE WEEK, ‘BUTTER, Point Reyes, 3 squares $1.00 Creamery, fresh. COFEEE, our special blend, 5 Ibs $1.00 ROOT BEER Extract. Hire's with yeast cak Royal with yeast cak HAMS, Our Choice lic Ib Eastern sugar-cured. PORT and SHERRY WINE 95¢ gal Pearl Vineyard, Napa County—reg. $1.50 FRUIT SYRUPS 25¢ bot. Grenadine, Raspberry, Strawberry. Lemon, Orange, Sarsaparilla. ..15¢ bot. 2 bot. 250 Send for Catalogue. We ship goods to the country free of charge within 100 miles. 1324 - 1326 MARKET STREET And 134 SIXTH STREET. lookout for , TELEPHONE SOUTH 292. \