The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 28, 1898, Page 1

" This Paper not ! to be taken from the Library.**** IS all ¥ gTALE ———r {_{JB:BA@ ¥ VOLUME LXXXIV._NO. 150. PRICE FIVE CENTS. DREYFUS MAY GAIN FREEDOM, NOT REVISION Sensational Hearing of the Appeal in the French Court of | Cassation. , It Is Said That the Prisoner of Devil’'s Island Will Be Released Without Reopening | the Army Scandal. Special Dispatch to The Call. [oYolokc PEPEPVINEEOOOO® e ® LONDON, Oct. 27.—According to the Na- © oh : : g ) ° tional Review Emperor Nicholas of Russia ¢ ® has become an advocate of Dreyfus re- g I ® visi ® ® vision. 2 @e® ©wooo0o0o000000000000C PARIS, Oct. 27.—The Court of Ca he gave seven principal arguments | which to decide upon the re- | against the probability of the guilt of | \fred Dreyfus, | Dreyfus, including the impossibility of | Devil's Island, who is | Dreyfus procu g the plans of fort- | > been fals convicted | resses and projects for the movement | portant milita: plans troops, unless detected, whereas | " Major Esterhazy had free access power, hall w around the Pale of which were closed precaution only mitted, and gua the corridors. Maitre for counsel famous Labourie, was M. Zola during the ed d with a seat in a corner. | represented by Maitre Mor- | was The Dre; ppeal case was called imm the opening of the cour! Reporter Bard opened the pro- | ceedings by referring to the scandals aroused by the case, even before the appeal for a revision of the trial w. demanded. He then reviewed the hi tory of the case from the arrest of Dreyfus and said his condemnation wss | for one of the crimes which inspire uni—j versal horror and which implicated | one of those in whom the country put | much confidence. Continuing, M. Bard spoke of the efforts made to obtain a | r n of the case, referred to the de- nunciation of Major Esterhazy and re- viewed Mme. Dreyfus’ appeal for a re- | vision In so doing M. Bard said this appeal was based on the assumption that the | bordereau was written by Major Ester- | hazy. He then pointed out that lherei were suspicious facts which justify the | request for the revision. Mme. Drey- fus contended that her husband did not write the bordereau, which some of the experts reported he did write. The| court, therefore, would have to examine these facts and decide whether a re- vision was justified. M. Bard added that the appeal for a revision decided upon In conse- quen late Lieutenant Colonel Henry sion that he had forged | a document in the case; but Bard said | this forgery was committed in 1896. and | could not alone be regarded as ground | for a revision or for an annulment of | the judgment rendered in 1894. Not- withstanding the fact, M. Bard said that Lieutenant Colonel Henry had committed forgery, his evidence was most crushing against Dreyfus, but, he continued, the -vidence of a forger is open to suspicion. There was, there- fore, the presumption of innocence, based upon fresh facts that led to the appeal for a revision of the case and there was also ground to ask whether or not any other fact had been brought to light, and if Dreyfus was really the author of the bordereau and note writ- ten to Major Esterhazy and found in the apartment of Mme. Pays, In which the writer asked what he should do respecting the bordereau. M. Bard next read Colonel Paty du Clam’s report of the arrest of Dreyfus, then captain in the French artillery, doing staff duty, in which the colonel said that Dreyfus, while writing at his dictation, “betrayed intense excite- ment."” “But,” M. Bard added, “the photo- graph taken of this writing does not glive the slightest indication that Drey- fus was laboring under excitement.” Dreyfus, M. Bard also said, denied to Colonel Paty du Clam that he had ever had relations, directly or Indirect- ly, with foreign powers. Colonel Paty du Clam’s report further showed that Dreyfus had to write Incriminating documents in ten different ways, sit- ting and standing, with and without gloves and with ordinary and broad- pointed pens. Later M. Bard cited further facts favorable to the revision and expressed astonishment at the manner in which the whole affalr had been conducted. He referred to the fact that the resi- dence of Colonel Picquart had been searched, while the residence of Major Esterhazy, who was directly accused, was not searched. The reporter also severely criticized Major Ravary’s report on the charge against Major Esterhazy, and he fur- ther said that the handwriting experts, Benhomme and Varnierd, were luna- tics, whose testimony was unreliable. After referring to the fact that the experts who examined the bordereau differed widely in opinion, M. Bard con- cluded by expressing the belief that, as the bordereau was the principal factor in the condemnation of Dreyfus, on the testimony of experts his condemnation ought to be revoked. Great stress was laid by M. Bard on Colonel Picquart’s letter of July 14, 1898, to tha Minister of Justice, in which was of “the [CXCIOROXOROROXOKO} thereto. This letter also cites interviews which | Colonel Picquart had with Generals | Billot and Gonze and says: ‘“With the | precof in his hands I have established the innocence of Dreyfus.” To this General Gonze replied, accord- ing to the letter to the Minister of Jus- tice: “What is it to you if Dreyfus is on Devil's Island?” Where the Court There were no demonstrations and no cries of any sort. | During the session of the court an anti-revisionist mob numbering about 100 persons, and headed by MM. Drum- mont, Mulvoye and Lasies, shouting | “Vive I'Armee!” and “A Morte les Juifs!” attempted to enter the Court| of Cassation. But the passage of the mob was barred by the police and| large reinforcements were sent to guard the approaches to the court. The belief is general to-night that the Court of neither for revision nor annulment ofl the decision in the Dreyfus case, as| either course would entail awkward ' consequences, | To avoid these it is expected the | court will decide that as the affair now | presents itself there has been no trea- | son, and that therefore the condemna- | tion pronounced upon Dreyfus by the | court-martial cannot be upheld. The Courier du Soir says that the| revelations in the report of M. Bard | before the Court of Cassation as to the part played by some members of the | general staff have produced a strong | effect in military circles and are “likely | to result in a reaction tending to put an end to the antagonism between the civil and military authorities.” The sensation of M. Bard's report was the shorthand notes of the examina- tion of the late Lieutenant Colonel | Henry by M. Godfrey Cavaignac, then | Minister of War, after Henry's forgery had been discovered. These notes showed that the confession of forgery | was only obtained with the utmost dif- | ficulty, Henry stoutly denying and then | prevaricating to the effect that he had only added one phrase to the genuine | letter, and then, when driven to the | last corner, protesting that he acted for the country’s good. | The drift of M. Bard’s conciusion was that Comte Esterhazy was the real cul- prit, but his condemnation would mean the ruin of the Intelligence Department. | M. Bard dwelt severely on the with- hélding of the secret dossier from Drey- fus himself, as the presenting of the documents to Dreyfus could not have compromised the national interests, and said the course adopted was in flagrant violation of the French prisoners’ code since 1888. Although the meetings so far are fa- vorable to Dreyfus it must not be as- sumed that there will be any real clear- ing up of the mystery. It looks rather as though an attempt is being made to stifle the real truth by liberating Drey. fus without a new trial. It is asked by the Dreyfusites if the secret dossier exists, as alleged, what good purpose can be served by the Court of Cassation giving a decis- ion without seeing it, since that is the only real proof, if any, of the guilt of Dreyfus? To-morrow’s sitting of the Court of Cassation is awaited with the most in- tense anxlety. FAILED TO PROTECT ARMY FROM SLANDER LONDON, Oct. 27.—The Paris corre- spondent of the Dally News says: The “Colonel Picquart—But he is inno- | cent.” 00000000000 000000 : (nfl](‘l“:\lll Conzeii"v;u ;(now Mercier | @ [} (former Minister o Var) and Saussier | (former Military Governor of Paris) | g NEW CABINET g are mixed up in this affair. Do you| wish to compromise them?"” = |e FOR FRANGE = The letter then continued that on|© ° leaving General Gonze Colonel Picquart | © e declared he was convinced of the inno- |© PARIS, Oct. 27.—President Q cence of Dreyfus and that he proposed | © Faure, at 9 o'clock this evening, Q to fight the matter out and reveal what |© asked M. Dupuy to form a Cabi- @ he knew. © net in succession to the Brisson © These statements upon the part of |© Ministry, which resigned on © Reporter Bard caused a sensation in the (@ Tuesday. It.is thought that the O court. O Cabinet will be composed as fol- © After further reference to Colonel |© lows: o Picquart's message that the Minister | @ M. DUPUY, Premier and Min- © of War and the general staff had tam- | @ ister of the Interior. o pered with documents and had manu- | M. DE FREYCINET, Minister © factured evidence in the Dreyfus ease, of War. © and a presentation of the contradictory M. CONSTANS, Minister of © statements of Colonel Picquart and the | Justice. o Minister of War relative to the secret | M. DEL CASSE, Minister of © document alleged to have been commu- | @ Foreign Affairs. ) nicated to the court, the hearing of the M, RIBOT, Minister - of © case was adjourned until to-morrow. Hinaioe: : o The courthouse was emptied quietly. M. BOURGEOIS, Minister of © o (4 o [+] o (] (2 (] Qo o (<) (<) (] Cassation will pronounce | eral Chanoine all declined to assist the | | honor on the plea that it was useless to THE PALACE OF JUSTICE, PARIS, of Cassation Is Sitting in the Revision of the Dreyfus Case. Public Instructicn. M. Dupuy has asked until to- morrow to decide. But he will doubtless accept, unless unfore- seen difficulties arise. M. Dupuy, who was inter- viewed as he was leaving the Elysee, said the question of the Dreyfus revision was purely ju- dicial, adding: “No honest poli- tician will decline to accept the difficulty which shall be given.” ©00000CQC000000000 sibly because it failed to protect the| army from slander. The real facts are | that the Ministers constantly but vainly | urged the staff officers to take proceed- ings against their slanderers. General Mercier, General Seurildinen and Gen- Government to vindicate the army’'s proceed against filthy newspaper rags. General Chanoine's resignation was timed to prevent the civil power getting hold of the Dreyfus dossier. It was calculated ‘that 1f he went out slam- ming the door the -Government would be beaten by Parliament, afraid of hav- ing the army and the people against it. The coup was fixed for to-day (Thurs- day), but M. Roulede’s sting provoked Chanoine to precipitate the matter. However, the desired object has been accomplished. M. Brisson was unable during the suspension of the sitting of the Chamber on Tuesday to obtain M. Faure’s signature for the nomination of a new Minister of War. Had he suc- ceeded the secret dossier would now be before the Court of Cassation, but M. Lockroy, who was then ad intrim War Minister, could not take the initiative. The custodians of the dossier can re- fuse to let him see it WOULD VIRTUALLY MEAN DECLARATION OF WAR PARIS, Oct. 27.—At 9:30 o'clock to- night a report reached here that Salis- bury and members of his Cabinet had voted to proclaim a protectorate over Egypt. The statement was circumstan- tial and was accepted as authentic wherever it gained currency. It was too late for it to become generally known except on the grand boulevards, but there the effect was electrical. The news spread consternation in the clubs and cafes. For the first time in the present crisis Paris stopped discussing the Dreyfus case and talked of the war at its very doors. It is terribly significant of how such a step on the part of Great Britain would be met here that no other inter- pretation was put upon the story ex- cept that it was a declaration of war. ety TWO NEGROES HANGED. Both Convicted of Atrocious Crimes at Richmond, Texas. HOUSTON, Oct. 2.—At Richmond, Tex., Manuel Morris and Peter Autre, negroes, were hanged from a double gal- lows to-day. Morris murdered and then outraged a six-year-old blind girl and afterward confessed the crime. Autre as- sassinated his mistress. WAR VETERANS M@RCH IN THE PEACE PARADE President’ ‘McKinley Reviews a Pageant in Which Are Many Heroes. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 27.—For three ! and from then until 2:30 o’clock the sol- hours to-day William McKinley, com- mander-in-chief of the diers and sailors tramped on in splen- United States | did marching order, every sword raised army and navy, saw his victorious sons | in salute, every gun presented. pass in review before him. It was mill- | Many illustrious heroes were in line, tary and naval day of the great peace |but there was little partiality displayed jubilee. Twenty-five marched in the most brilliant and spec- tacular pageant the country has wit- nessed in many years. In a semi-cir- cular inclosure of the big reviewing stand, in the magnificent court of honor, the President stood erect and uncovered throughout the entire pro- cession. As the legions marched past his face was set, but not stern, and in his eves was a gleam of satisfaction. From his steadfast gaze one might have fancied him listening to sounds other than those which struck on the common ear—sounds of deeper import, telling the meaning of this glittering panorama. Behind those martial tunes he might have heard the music of can- non volleys, the sound of falling cities and the dying shrieks of a decadent people. But over these and louder he might have heard peans of praise from a helpless infant nation, lifted out of servitude and cruelty by the work of the embattled hosts. Here and there, when some particular renowned body of troops marched by, the President pleasantly waved his hat and motioned the crowds across the way to cheer. Mrs. McKinley reviewed the proces- sion from a small stand on top of the conservatory of the Lippincott man- sion, back of where the President stood. There was not an untoward feature of the day—the weather tonic, autumn, sunlit, gusty; the vast crowds were handled with commendable skill and whatever accidents occurred were of the most trivial character. Over the President’s head hung a canopy bear- ing on its face the coat of arms of the United States and surmounted by the new President’s flag, for the first time unfurled in the United States. During the parade the President was surrounded by a small party consisting of Vice President Hobart, Secretary of War Alger, Secretary of Agriculture ‘Wilson, Postmaster General Smith, Pri- vate Secretary Porter, Mayor Warwigk and a few members of the jubilee eox;- mittee. Mr. McKinley rose early this morn- ing and after a light breakfast taken in his! Bellevue apartments he and his party were driven In open carriages along the route of the parade, about seven miles in length. The drive was of course marked by incessant applause from the crowds. While driving up ‘Broad street he passed General Miles and his staff, who were riding to the place of formation. The moment the general's sword made its salutary sweep the President arose in his car- riage and raised his hat, holding it aloft until they had passed. Returning to the Bellevue, the Presidential party was escorted by a squadron of the First City Troop of Cavalry across Broad street to the reviewing stand. They had been preceded a few moments by Generals Shafter, Lawton and Chaffee, with their aids and a party of ladies. Ten minutes later, at 11:25, the platoon of the emergency corps, which held the head of the line, reached the stand, thousand men | in the kind or quantity of enthusiasm accorded the men. Major General Miles, as chief mar- shal, rode at the front, immediately behind the emergency corps, until he reached his special reviewing stand at Broad and York streets, the northern end of the route. Here he dismounted and from the stand watched his men file past. General “Jo” Wheeler rode behind the Governors, his gray head bared for some minutes before and after the Presidential stand was reached, and bowing repeatedly to the President's waving hat and the applause of the others of the party and the people gen< erally. General Sumner, Captain “Bob™ Evans, Commodore Philip, Captain Sigsbee, Colonel Huntington, with his marines of Guantanamo fame, all re- cefved tumultuous greeting, but, after all, perhaps the loudest ovation was that given Hobson and his Merrimac crew. They rode on a tally-ho, and as they reached the reviewing stand all arose, faced the President and bowed their bared heads. So far as any body of men was con- cerned perhaps the Twenty-first Reg- ular Infantry, “the President’s own,™ received the greatest tribute. They marched 300 strong under Col- onel McKibben. With them marched the “fighting ~musicians” of the regiment, the men who, in the thick of the combat, flung their instru- ments from them and made music with the guns snatched from their fallen brothers. There are only twenty left of the original thirty-eight bands- men. The others fell in the fight. The Twenty-first carried the colors pre- sented to them by Mrs. McKinley, who called them “the President’s own,” and also those given by a lady of New York City. The Tenth Cavalry, colored, was dis- mounted, and to them the President re- peatedly flourished his hat. Huntington’s marines, who made the first hostile landing on Cuban soil, were immediately preceded by the Ma- rine Band. Of course the highest degree of local enthusiasm was bestowed upon Colonel Hulings and his Sixteenth Pennsyl- vania Regiment. The sailors were no less well received than the soldiers. A line of jackles from the Texas, Gloucester, Mayflower, Marblehead and New Orleans, with a few scattering men from the Yosemite, Yankee and other ships, followed. The rear cf the line was held by the Grand Army of the Republic and their allled military organizations. As these ancient warriors filed past with none too lusty step they saluted the Presi- dent in their own way. Some waved their hats, - others timorously. raised their hands in the conventional way, while several companies halted, turned, and, fronting the chief executive, pre- sented the tattered battle flags. One ‘of the posts carried a battery of'two guns and saluted with a shot from each as the stand was passed. The President responded with a sweep of his hat and continuous bows. Between two of the Grand Army of the Republic posts rode P R R R L L L R S T T RO SRR D R o e g TRIBUTE T0 THE ARMY AND NAVY PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 27.— President McKinley was given an enthusiastic reception when he entered the beautifully deco- rated dining-room of the Clover Club with Postmaster General Smith and Secretaries Alger and Wilson. In response to the pa- triotic introduction of Colonel McClure ‘the President of the United States referred pleasant- Iy to the fame of the Clover Club and then, after a reference to the imposing pageant of the after- noon, said: As I stood on the great review- ing stand witnessing the soldiers and sailors passing by my heart was filled only with gratitude to the God of Battles who has so favored us, and gratitude to the brave soldiers and sailors who had won such sig- nal victories on land and sea and had given a new meaning to Amer- ican valor. It has been especially gratifying to me to participate not only with the people of Philadelphia but with the people of the great West, where I have recently visited, in doing honor to the American navy. and the American army. No no- bler sailors or soldiers ever fought under the flag. You have witnessed to-day the leaders of Santiago, Porto Rico and Guantanamo. We have unfortunately none of the heroes of Manila with us. But I am sure that our hearts go out to them to-night and to the brave Dewey and Otis and Merritt and all the other gallant men that are now sustaining the flag.in the har- bor and city of Manila. (A voice, “How about the Hobson?") The American people are always ready. for any emergency, and if the Merrimac is to be sunk there is an American officer to do it. He succeeded in doing what our foe has been unable to do—sink an American ship. (Applause.) I ask you, gentlemen of the Clo- ver Club, to unite with me in toast- ing tne army and navy of the Unit- ed States, without whose valor and sacrifice we could not celebrate the victory we have been celebrating to-day. Not only the men at the front; not only the men on the battle-ships and in the battle line; but the men at home with ambi- tion to go to fight the battles of American civilization should be the recipients of the gratitude of the American people. As the President passed from the room General Miles entered. The head of the army received an ovation as he pressed through the crowd to his seat next to General Shafter. The Ilatter arose as General Miles ap- prooached, reaching out his hand and cordially greeted his chief. The public exhibition of good feeling between the two gen- erals was greeted with almost deafening applause. P L R in a carriage Harry L. Macneal, who had charge of a gun on the Brooklyn and who crawled out over the side of the ship while under fire to extract a shell which had become fixed in the muzzle. Passing the Presidential stand the troops marched in ‘“company front” formation, in three-step cadence, one third faster than the regular time. In nearly every instance the marching was almost faultless. As the last line of soldiers and the body of police behind them passed the stand the crowds broke through the ropes and made a rush toward the President’s inclosure. He merely bowed his acknowledgments of the cheering and then withdrew to the rear of the stand and to the residence of Mrs. J. _Dundas Lippincott, immediately back of the stand. Here the party took luncheon and shortly afterward the President retired to his hotel to spend in rest the time remaining until the Clover Club dinner and the Academy of Music reception at night. R i R R S R R R e T s DONS SUBMIT T0 UNCLE'S ULTIMATUM Agree to Assume the Cuban Debt. BROUGHT TO THEIR SENSES REALIZE THEY CANNOT TRIFLE WITH AMERICANS. A Long Step Teken Toward the Con= clusion of the Peace Negotia- tions—The Philippine Question. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. PARIS, Oct. 27.—The Spanish Peace Commissioners have accepted the nega- tive view of the United States commis- sioners toward the proposed assumption by the United States of the Cuban debt. The American commissioners have firmly but courageously déclined to as- sume for the United States the entire or joint responsibility for the Spanish financial conditions, and the Spanish commissioners have finally abandoned the effort and have agreed that the Cuban article of the protocol shall, without conditions, have a place in the ultimate treaty of peace. It was not until Monday that they became con- vinced that the Americans, who had, at the outset, made a refusal to accept the Cuban debt, meant exactly what they said. In spite of the fact that the Spanish commissioners had as a background to their efforts doubts of suceeding, their hope of so doing has been so keen and their contention has been so vigorously prosecuted that the final conviction of their inability to win their point brought the Spaniards such a shock and depression that consistently with the dispatches at the time there were grave doubts as to the continuance of the negotiatiors. In support of these statements is the fact that Senor Montero Rios, after Monday’s session and on Tuesday last, | would have rerigned the presidency of | the Spanish Peace Commission had he not belleved that his doing so might have grievously shaken, if it had not unséated, Sefior Sagasta’s government. From this standpoint, if for no other reason, Senor Montero Rios maintained his position, and at yesterday’s session, acting under the conviction arrived at on Monday. the Spaniards anrounced that they would forego further argu- ment on the Cuban debt and agreed that, practicall in the terms and ab- solutely in the spirit of the protocol, the article about Cuba should go for- ward into the final treaty. Thus Spain agrees to relinquish | sovercignty over any claim *o Cuba without either terms or conditions. All differences, if any existed regard- ing Porto Rico and the selection of the island of Guam, were also arranged by mutual understanding, and the com- missioners found themselves well nigh touching the Philippine question, which will be taken up next week. It should be said that the adjust- ments already accomplished will stand in the final treaty unless opposing views and positions on the Philippine question should develop hereafter and bring to naught the efforts of the fu- ture and at the same time the results already obtained. |SPAIN MUST YIELD UP THE PHILIPPINES NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—The Herald's | Washington correspondent says: Now imat the Spanish Commissioners in | Paris have yielded to the refusal of the | American Commissioners to entertain ilheir proposition regarding the Cuban { | debt the peace negotiations are thus | brought down to the disposition of the | Philippines, but it was the expectation of Secretary Hay, when I saw him to- day, that this would be formally brought up on Monday next. While the authorities stili refuse to make public any of the instructions to | the Peace Commissioners it can be | stated upon unquestionable authority | that the President is thoroughly con- vinced there is no possible way for the United States to escape responsibility of the control of the entire Philippine group, and it may be assumed that the instructions which have gone to the American Peace Commissioners in Paris mean the relinquishment of Spanish sovereignty of all parts of the Philip- pines shall be demanded. A high official, thoroughly acquainted with what transpired during the delib- erations at the White House on Tues- day night, says: “Neither the American Commission- ers nor the President can do anything else than insist upon Spain giving up everything in the Philippines. The peo- ple in this country will not stand any- thing else. The President has been made to fully understand this in a more forcible manner than ever by the flood of letters which continues to pour in upon the White House from religious bodies of all creeds and from every sec- tion of the country, not to speak of the commercial interests, which have been clamoring for American control of the Philippines ever since the protocol was signed. “Annexation of the Philippines seems now to be the logical outcome of the situation, but in insisting upon this de- mand the Commissioners, on the part of the United States, will be given con- siderable latitude as to the settlement of questions between Spain and the Philippines, and especially the Philip- pine debt. If the islands are to be an- nexed to the United States Spain might reasonably require this country to as- sume at least so much of the Philip- pine debt as represented moneys. ex- mnded for the improvement of the ands.”