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~ WILL SEARCH FOR CAUSES OF EPIDEN 10 INVESTIGATE CONDUCT OF WAR First Meeting of the Commission. GENERAL EXCHANGE OF VIEWS M’KINLEY OUTLINES THE WORK TO BE DONE. Those Selected for the Task Instruct- ed' to Probe All Scandals Without Fear ox Favor. Speclal Dispatch to The Call “‘ASIIIN(;T\'N. Sept. 24.—The com- mission to investigate the conduct of the War Department dyring the recent conflict with Spain held lts initial meet- ing in the office of President McKinley at the White House to-day. There were eight members present, as follows: Major General Granville M. Dodge of Iowa, Colonel J. A. Sexton of Illinols, Captain E. P. Howell of Georgla, Ma- jor General J. M. Wilson (chief of en- 'S of the United States army), Charles Denby of India (late Minister to China), ex-Governor Urban A. Woodbury of V nont, ex-Governor James A. Beaver of Pennsylvania and Major General H. McD. McCook of the (retired). e commission spent an hour and a with the President and then ad- Journed to the room assigned to it at War Department for the purpose of ganizing d beginning work. proceedings with the President ted in the main of a general ex- e of views as to the scope of the ission’s investigation, in which President participated quite freely. the He told the members that the organiza- tion of the commission had been under- t 1, at the request of Secretary Al- 1 read a letter from the Secre- hich he made the request. The resident had put his own views in writing and read them before proceed- ing to the al discussion. In this statement he said that complaints had been directed especially to the surgeon the quartermaster general's sary general's depart- v, and he sugestged duct of these departments e especial consideration at of the commission. To this >quest he added that it was hi at the entire military orgai should, if necessary, be made ject of inquiry, saying that he 1 the commission g0 to the bot- f the subject in all cases and to d with its work without fear or ' he said, in the informal discus- that occurred, *“the commission k Id have difficulty in securing the attendance of witnesses or in obtain- ir cess to papers thought to be es- sential to the prosecution of its labors, I hope the matter will be brought to my attention, when I will do allin mypower to overcon the difficulty. I want the commission to have a clear field, and I will do all that possible for me to do to see that it has.” er's request, as made in the letter read by the President, was for a complete inquiry into the conduct of the war, especially on the line of the charges published in the newspa- pers. He said that these charges had assumed such magnitude that he did not feel satisfled to have the depart- ment rest under them, and that he de- sired an investigation by those eminent in military and civil life. After the close of the conference at White House the President e th ed his ss m with the pe of the fon, adding that he be- d the investigation would be thor- , and the report falr and impartial. & commission organized by electing wille. M. Dodge chairman_ and Richard Weightman secretary. Major Mills of the inspector gemeral's office is to be military recorder. The com- mission 1 about 1:30 to meet at 10 o'clock on Monday The session was devoted to method of procedure, nothing definite being reach- ed. It was said that probably the in- r as the examination concerned, would be proceedings would e in executiv sion. Dr. Phineas 8. Conner of Cincinnati as announced as the ninth member of ission. He was not present at ion, but no doubt was ex- sed that he would serve. He was £ ted because of his eminence as a physician, and the President has been nxious from the beginning to secure services of a medical man because ADVERTISEMENTS. WHOLESOME ADVICE. People Whoser Stomachs Are Weak and Digestion Poor. Harlandson. whose opinion in dis- is worthy of attention. says when a woman comes to me complaining gestion, loss of appetite, sour stom- . sour watery-risings, head- aches, si ssness, lack of ambition and a general rundown nervous condition, I advise them to take after each meal one or two of Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets, al- fowing the “ts to dissolve Iin the mouth and thus mingle with the food eaten. The result iz that the food Is speedily digested before it has time to sour and ferment. These tablets will di- gest food anyway, whether the stomach ¢ants to or not, because they contain mless digest principles, vegetable ssences, pepsin and Golden Seal, which gupply just what the mweak stomach lacks. I have advised the tablets with great success, both In curing indigestion and to build up the tissues, increase flesh in thin nervous patients, whose real trouble was dyspepsia, and as soon as the stomach was put to rights they did not know what sickness was. A ont package of Stuart’s Dyspep- gia Tablets can be bought at any drug store, and as they are not a secret patent medicine they can be used as often as de- sired with full assurance that they con- tain nothing harmful in the slightest de- gree; on the contrary, any one whose stomach is at all deranged will find great benefit from the use of Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets. They will cure any form of stomach wealkness or disease except can- cer of the stomach. Full size package at druggists 50c or $1, or by mail from Stu- art (a., Marshall, Mich, l THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1898. GENERAL G. M. DODGE, CHAIRMAN OF THE WAR INVES- TIGATION COMMISSION. ALGER’S DEFENSE SHOWN BY SPEECHES The Secretary of War Holds Com- manding Officers Responsible for Conditions at Camps. ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 24.—The Southern tour of Secretary of War Alger has developed the line of his defense to be made before the commission to investigate the War Department methods appointed by President McKinley. The first inkling of the Secretary’'s position developed in his speech to the commanding officers at Camp Po- land, Knoxville, and his speech to the officers of Camp Shipp this morning at Anniston undoubtedly made it clear that the Secretary has his pl of action. He will make the point that he is not re- sponsible 2&‘: the evils of the camps, and that he could not justly be held responsible because it was impossible for him to attend to his duties at Washington and at the same time look after condi- tions at the various military camps. He had declared repeatedly that he holds camp officers responsible for sanitary and camp regu- lations, and that unless the commanders require their subordinates to see to it that the camps are clean and in good sanitary condition at all times he will hold them to account. Secretary Alger made a speech to General Frank's officers at the headquarters at Camp Shipp this morning in which he repeated what he had said in Knox- ville about holding officers responsible, and declared if there were evils in the camps at Chickamauga, Tampa or elsewhere the blame must rest upon the commanding officers first and then on colonels and captains and so on down the line. fagcFeRegaFuFegegeFegegoFegeFeReFaFeyeFeRaF:RuFeFaFeRaFaF TPy VROV VOOVOVUVOVOLVBVOBOT COVOVORVVORVEVOVLQBLALNT the medical department of the army is much involved in the charges that have | been made. TRANSFER OF THE | REMAINS OF COLLMBUS HAVANA, Sept. 24—Captain General nco in view of the Government's decision to transfer the remains of Co- lumbus to Spain has issued the follow- ing order: necessary measures shipment to Spain. meet on Monday cathedral. for their prompt The commission will September 2, at the al. The Finance Department will appropriate $3000 to defray the expenses of packing and shipping the monument. Curzon Elevated to the Peerage. LONDON, ‘Sept. 24.—It is officially an- nounced that the Hon. George N. Cur- zon, until recently parliamentary secre- tary for the Foreign Office, who ‘is to to succeed the Barl of Elgin as Viceroy in India, has been elevated to the peer- age as Baron Curzen of Kedelston. —_——— First—The monument containin~ the re- mains shall be removed from its mount- Sale of a Fruit Farm. ing, leavir it now is, the base upon | REDDING, Sept. 24.—The Alexander which it rests, and it shall be properly | fruit farm of 460 acres located a. Happy packed for shipment. Valley, in this county, has been sold to Second—A commission presided over by the Captain General and composed of the Bishop of Havana, the Colonal Secretary of Justice, the civil and militarv Gover- nors, the dean of the cathedral, the state architbet and a_doctor commissioned by the Board of Hea 1l examine the niche containing the ins and adopt Mary C. der is a Sandwich Island planter. sides fruits of all tains an extensive olive culture. Be- kinds, the farm con- acreage devoted to Advances made on furniture and planos, with or without remaval. J. Noonan, 1017-1023 Mission. re DISEASE AMONG TROOPS AT MANILA Sanitary Conditions of a Most Menacing Character — Sick List Increases Rapidly. BY SOL N. SHERIDAN. Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1888, by James Gordon Bennett. MANILA, Sept. 24.—The sanitary conditions are of a most menac- ing character. Six hundred and eighty soldiers are now in the general hospital. They are suffering from typhoid and dysentery, for the most part, and the new cases run from ten to fifteen daily. ‘Within the walled city the conditions are even worse. Ten Span- ish prisoners died from typhoid fever yesterday. Hundreds of the others are sick, despite efforts of the Americans to keep the place clean. The American officials realize that matters must continue to grow worse unless orders come to remove the prisongrs either to Spain or-to Cor- regidor Island, where they could be kept safely away from infection. The death report for the American troops for the week is as fol- lows: First California—Dgve Drum, Clayton Cunningham, John O'Neil and Harry Robertson, dysentery; P. Hellan, A. Lenchal and H. R. Fry, typhoid fever. Astor Battery—Daniel Prysbie, dysentery. The hospital ship Rio sailed Thursday, having 150 invalids on board, The Raliegh, Boston and Callao have gone to Iloilo to take pos- session of the place. Seven insurgents were arrested Thursday, charged with impress- ing men in the city for Aguinaldo’s army. Three are held for exami- nation. One of the dictator's aids has been sent down from Malolos to be present at the hearnig. o 0000000000000000020000000000000000 0000000000000 000000000CO ©0000000000000000000000000 AND DEATH| CONFESSES THAT - HE WROTE THE FAMOUS NOTE Esterhazy’s Admission That He Forged Evidence to Con- vict Dreyfus. While the Intelligence Office Suspected the Captain It Had to Forge ‘Evidence to Convict. LONDON, BSept. 24.—The Observer | this morning continues its Esterhazy | revelations, begun last Sunday, in a long article, the most salient feature of which is Comte Esterhazy’s disclos- | ure, made, it is asserted, in the pres- ence of more persons than one, that he was the author of the famous Dreyfus bordereau, which he wrote “at the re- quest of Colonel Sandherr, now dead.” It was intended, he said, “to consti- tute proof of Dreyfus’ guilt. It was known through a French spy in the service at Berlin that certain docu- | ments had reached the German general | staft which Dreyfus alone could have | obtained. It was a list of these docu- | ments which constituted the bordereau. | Dreyfus had been tested in several | ways. For instance, a plan for the con- | centration of trocps of the southern | frontier had been dictated to him, which | was quite fantastic. “A short time afterward our spies in | Italy informed us that the Italian staff | was making wmodifications in the forti- fications around Nice, which corre- | sponded with the changes announced | in the imaginary scheme dictated to Dreyfus. Then Dreyfus managed to | spend long holidays in Alsace without giving any reason. “In fact there was considerable moral proof against Dreyfus before the trial | took place, but no material proof. “Colonel Sandherr, who was an Al- satian like Dreyfus, but intensely anti- Semitic, determined to form his proof. He was convinced of the accused man’s guilt, but it was necessary for the pur- poses of the court-martial that docu- ments should exist. I was attached to | the intelligence department, my duty being to watch the movements of mili- tary attaches accredited by the powers of the triple alliance. #When Colonel Sandherr told me to write out the borderea> did so with- out the slightest compunciN1 I am one of those men who, by prcXession, cling to o1l r -“jeval traditions of military discipline. When I received an order I obeyed it implicitly, and with- out question. I wrote the bordereau be- cause Colonel Sandherr told me to do | so. 1 knew, of course, the purposes it | was intended to have. I was commit- | ting a forgery; but I also knew that all | intelligence departments in all coun- tries were run on the same line, and | that it was impossible to achieve the | results in any other way. | “In the Von Tausch case, for in- stance, which made so great a sensa- | tion in Germany, Major Von Tausch confessed to having committed forgery, adding that the crime was nothing to the infamies the Berlin'staff had forced him to commit in connection with other matters. Therefore the court attempted to silence him. He ultimately received the minimum punishment prescribed and has since been released long before his time. “It is nearly always necessaryto man- ufacture material evidence against spies, because otherwise they would never be punished. The bordereau hav- ing been written, it became necessary to give it the indispensable air of an authentic document. As you know it was supposed to have been stolen from the German embassy. Colonel Schwarz- koppen (formerly German military at- tache in Paris) denied ever having seen it. What he said was perfectly true. The bordereau was handed by an agent of our Intelligence Department to the porter of the German Embassy, who was a spy in our service. The porter gave it to another agent named Genest, and by him it was brought to the In- telligence Department and there dock- eted and numbered as a document ob- tained from the German Embassy in the usual course. It thus received of- ficial baptism. “It was exclusively on the evidence of the bordereau that Dreyfus was con- demned. The document privately shown to the officers of the court-mar- tial was fetched from the War Office during the Huis Odes with the object of convineing the judges, should they show signs of wavering. It was the let- ter containing the phrase, ‘De Canaille de D—.' Now, this letter, which is genuine and was really written by Colonel Schwargzkoppen, did not refer to Dreyfus at all. The general staff was absolutely aware of the fact that ‘D’ was a certain Dollfus, a building con- tractor, who years before had sup- plied the German attache with plans | of the fortifications near Nice.” The ex-major added that the case against him was quashed in deflance of all law and justice. He said the velled lady who appeared in the case was no other than the wife of Colonel Patty du Clam. PARIS, Sept. 24—The Cabinet met to-day and decided to postpone its de- cision on the question of the proposed revision of the Dreyfus cas2 until Mon- day next, owing to the absence from the meeti.g of the Minister of Finance, M. Peytral, and the Minister of Agri- culture, M. Viger. It was officially announced this after- noon that the civil commission which has been examining the documents in the Dreyfus case, with the view of re- porting to the Government on the ad- visability of recpening it, is equally di- vided for and against revision, and the Government considers that this revision gives it full liberty of action and also of responsibility. Therefore, the Gov- ernment has decided, as already stated;’ to wait until Monday, when a full Cabi- net meeting will be held o aeeth and a decision NEW DEFEAT FOR Touhy for £20,000. S. T. Alexan- | BRITISH POLICY How the Chinese Puzzle Is Interpreted. DISAGREEABLE SHOCK GIVEN | IMPATIENCE TO LEARN OF EVENTS AT FASHODA. . Copyrighted, 183, by the Assoclated Press. LONDON, Sept. 24,—The recent dra- matic development of the Chinese | puzzle came as a disagreeable shock to. | the people of Great Britatn, and their | chagrin was intensified by the fact that | they were reveling In their apparent diplomatic triumph in the disgrace of | Li Hung Chang and the wane of Rus- slan influence. Not only in Great Brit- ain, but abroad, the Queen Dowager’s proclamation is interpreted as a fresh defeat for British policy. The impatience here to learn the out- come of the journey of Sir Herbert Kitchener to Fashoda is in no wise al- layed. 'There are fears that the French au- thorities may seek a foreign diversion from their internal strife. The Parisian newspapers, however, .adopt a more compromising tone, and instead of de- claring that the French flag will never be lowered at Fashoda, they now put forward the occupation of that place by Major Marchand as a lever by which France may be able to obtain advan- tages elsewhere. The alarming situation in France riv- ets the attention of Europe. The ex- citement is increasing hourly and new revelations and developments are ex- pected. The weakness of M. Brisson, the Premier, over the affair of Lieuten- ant Colonel Picquart, who is now In se- cret confinement in the military prison of Cherche Midi, placed there appar- ently without the knowledge “of the Government and in spite of the fact that he was in the hands of a civil court, has disgusted even his own per- sonal friends, who call him a coward and a dclt, while the enemies of a re- vision of the Dreyfus case accuse him | of being a hypocrite and of having sold himself to a Dreyfus syndicate, an or- ganization which is undoubtedly exist- ing. The supporters of the Cabinet declare that M. Brisson, in order to save the constitution, should dismiss General Chanoine and General Zurlinden and even arraign them for treasonable con- duct. Only bold action will secure the supremacy of civil law. One satisfactory feature of the prose- cution of Colonel Picquart is that ‘the War Office has engaged to give him an open trial, which M. Brisson insisted upon before he consented to the pris- oner’s transfer to the military prison of Cherche Midi. The friends of Colonel Picquart declare that if he is publicly tried he will throw floods of light upon the whole mystery. In an interview a former parliamen- tarian, who bhas_figured in all the po- litical events in France since 1869, pub- lished in to-day’s Daily News, is quoted as expressing opinions regarding the role which President Faure is playing, confirming previous statements on the game subject. 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Amount of loans secured by pledge of bonds, stocks and gther market- $1,985,132 33 1,571,636 53 16,055,593 1 able securities as colfateral. 3,540,153 60 Cash in company’s office 2,558 43 Cash in banks. 90,210 27 Interest due stocks and loans. 206,409 63 Interest due and accrued on bonds and mortgages.... ... 6048381 Premiums In due course of collec- tion .. 3 121,339 50 Bills receivabl for fire and marine risks. 97,871 04 Rents due and accrued 5,433 81 ["Due from other compa surance on losses already paid 778,763 17 Stamps on hand. 1218 Life Interests owned by the com- pany ... 4,000 00 Reversions owned by the company.. 132,65 73 Total assets LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and unpaid, losses in process of adjustment or in sus- pense, losses resisted, Inciuding experises - Gross premi ning one year or less, reinsurance 50 per cent; gross premiums on fire risks running more than one year, $429,897 17 112,91 08 Total liabilitles +..$18,426,570 43 INCOME. 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