The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 26, 1899, Page 1

The Call to be . This Paper not the Library.+++* taken from VOLUME LXXXV-—NO. 8S8. THE SITUATION AT MANILA IS MOST SERIOUS It Sees Otis Cables to Is Believed That Admiral D anger of Intervention. Lawton at Co German lombo to Hurry His Troops Forward With All Possible Dispatch. COLOMBO, ailed f Her from Maj which s General = eral C ‘¢ Situation criti o received Ge 1g on tis saying Al Mantla board, ved here to-day. cal. vton ordered his offi ers coal and water hurriedly. 1 I She w 1 of Ceylon, Feb. 26, 6:30 a. m.—The United States transport Grant, k on January 19 with troops under the command of Major General Lawton received a cablegram Your early arrival necessary.” from General Corbin, United States adjutant general, a cable dispatch to buy supplies regardless of expense, ill try to reach Manila without Dewey / | 2 eyt N P NN et LI T R S S S S S S S S S Y prost I e o e o e o g SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1899—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ;‘" AN ) B S nan i o ot oo e e cain o i S e on i o g PRSP SR S S SN D SO S S S S el e e e e e CITY. -OF CERBU TAKEHN BY THE PETREL. MANILA, Feb. 25.—The German Cruiser Kaiserin Augusta, which arrived here last night from lloilo, brought news that the United States gunboat Petrel had visited the island of Cebu, in the Visayas group of the Philippines, and hoisted the American flag. The President of the local government of theisland declared @ EW YO to foreigners, and | #4444+ 44+ 4+ 44+ 4+ 4 that he yielded only to superior force. 85025000800 RNe RPIRIRIRIRIRAUIKE @04 940+ 90 4000 ¢ ¢ P02 ¢4+ P00 ¢P+0¢0 HoliofiosRetistio R e+ hoSoRotiotivtiol marin foreign men of war |4 . ould form a very sms , which | | i mdrf::r'b»ie;fe'rii\-:n:lglafr» ”?h-r ;‘m- | : THE GERMANS | W e skene NN R RS NINIRNININIRININI R RN NERNeReNeN N NeNotofeNe e Ne e o205 e NN N ahene|t "DOUBT:STORY *| : et et + OF TROUBLE +| : + | DRCY Special Cable to all and the New _ | troops he mas + 7 York Herald ghted, 189, by + | no apparent desire on his 4 James Gordon Bennett. | department to hasten reinforcement + BERLIN, Feb. 25.—Much at- | him. The statement in S |+ tention but small credit Is given that need be |+ to a special dispatch from Lon- + | Bt ey S R REVOLUTION? order this afternoon directing that two |4 Vossische Zeitung, that according 2 companies of the Ninth Infantry be [+ to the New York information of z to Vancouver Barracks, there to |+ the Morning Leader “the Wash- e and that the remainder | 4+ jington Government has received | & 3 s i + a cipher dispatch in which Ad- A” d O l: F l b F l f D l d ’ A Y A ege rganization of a Filibus- Failure of Deroulede’s Attempt to It is now apparent to the authorities | 4 that General Otis is confident he has |+ the situation weil in hand and the only | + thing over wh they feel any concern | 4 is Rear Admiral Dewey’s mysterious |4 + von Deidrich having taken steps to land a detachment of marines from the cruiser Irene to protect German interests, the American admifal'replied that if he carried tering Expedition to Invade Central America. Incite Roget to Treason De- clared a Miracle. hich was in relative to the dispatch concerning the Oregon. the proposal into execution he nded that this Secretary Long is quoted this morn- |4+ would blow up her pinnace.” n given pub- |ing as saying: “I am sure that Dewey's ‘ s Admiral von Deidrich having, dispatch has no international signifi- | + since the events of the late war, KANSAS CITY, Feb. 25.—The Times will print to-morrow the de- tails of an alleged filibustering expedition having for its object the overthrow of the Government of Guatemala, in Central America. According to this story a regiment of a thousand men has been formed in Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago, and a second regiment Speajal Cable to The Call and the New York | gpq £ v . Tecals, Copyrignted, 1, by Jaics Gordon | L ongent of the Obeerver says that M. Bennett. { Constans, who was recently appointed 22 ? : French Embassador to Turkey, has of- PARIS, Feb. It was only after the| feially announced that he is a_candi- Faure funeral ceremony was over that| date for the presidency of the Senate. cance. You may state that positively. | + Probably he wants a fine ship there, |4 as the American Commissioners are |4 about due, and it will give weight mio received a communication from home to the effect that had he been more diplomatic in his con- duct his services would have the American representations.” aval officers who were seen on the | 4 | subject were far from agreeing with |4 THE KAISER NO FRIEND TO THIS COUNTRY + ’¢¢»+¢4¢¢4¢¢*4¢¢4 His IS Intimate Friend Warns the Powers Against the Wealth and Pretensions Special Cable to The Call and the N of America. ew York Herald. Copyrighted, 1899, by James Gordon Bennett. danger for us all.” Prince Radziwill’ S persor United States. EW YORK, Feb. 25.—The Wash- ington correspondent of the Her- ald telegraphs: Administration officials with whom I talked to- night severely criticized the dec- laration of Prince Radziwill in these “There is another country against which the continental powers ought to come to an agreement for the organization of their economic defense —TF mean the United States.” It has been apparent to the authori- s for some yvears that Germany looks the United States as her most formidable commercial rival, and she had been subjecting American trade to many petty annoyances in the hope of crippling it. The action of tihe German Govern- ment in reducing the number of inspec- gives tenfold weight to the foregoing pas seem the true sentiments of Berlin 2 PARIS, Feb. 25.—Prince Antonio Radziwill is either 5, very indiscreet or else he has been badly misquoted by La ¢¢ Liberte. ¢ The Prince was sent to reperesent the Kaiser at the ?E “funeral of the late Felix Faure. In an interview with a dip- g g lomatic personage attached to the service of La Liberte he g 8 goes out of his way to-night to destroy the good effect of & # Baron von Bulow’s declaration of friendly feelings on the P & part of Germany for the United States. : ter painting the Kaiser’s sympathies for France in y colors, and after showing how improbable, if not Sf impossible, is an understanding with England, Prince Rad- EZ ziwill makes the following grave declaration: P “But there is another country against which the Conti- = “ nental powers ought to come to an agreement for the or- & ganization of their economic defense. I mean the United # States, of which the pretensions and wealth are becoming a ? 1al intimacy with the Kdiser sage, for it would regard to the with 2 F F @ [ tions of American meat products to one | general inspection had led the authori- ties to hope that a beginning made in| the way of establishing friendly com- mercial relations with the German Em- | pire had been made, but the declara- | tion of Prince Radziwill shows clearly | that Germany is still bent on injuring | the trade of the American nation, and | | finding that it is impossible to do it her- ‘sel( she is now bidding on a Eurcpean alllance to accomplish the result she desires. No apprehension exists that her ef- forts will be successful. In some quar- ters there is a disposition to believe that Prince Radziwill spoke with- out authority, and it is highly proba- ble that inquiry will be made to ascer- tain if his sentiments are indorsed by the German Emperor. | been more appreciated, and also having knowledge that his gov- ernment has stated, by the Mi ister of Foreign Affairs, as first announced in the Herald and subsequently in the Reichstag, that it has no wish to hinder the United States in any way in the Philippines, the suggestion of his having made trouble is not cred- ited. Should he have done so he will undoubtedly suffer. AR R R R R R e R R e R R R R R R E R R R i s b g |+ | + + 5 + |+ |+ ' | Secretary Long in the above opinion. iIt was said, with some degree of in- | dignation, that Admiral Dewey would | hardly ask that a battleship of the | Oregon’s proportions be dragged 3000 miles across the Pacific merely to pro- | vide luxurious quarters for the Ameri- | !can Commissioners, or to impress a‘ { handful of German marines with the | | might of this government. The general | | opinion expressed was that Admiral | | Dewey, in sending his dispatch, had in | view much more serious business. | 1If the dispatch assigning ‘‘political | reasons” for desiring the presence of the Oregon had been recelved from | | some one less careful in his choice of | words and forms of expression than | | Dewey the same importance might "mi | be attached to it. But Admiral Dewey | | is a diplomat and far-sighted, and his | dispatches have all been remarkable for | their directness and their discrimina- | tion in the use of words and phrases. | The use of the phrase “for political reasops,” coming from him is regarded | as surely bearing all the significance | that the most careful use of the wordsl could imply. In Congressional circles the opinion | is almost universal that the dispatch | cannot relate to anything but an inter- national phase of the Philippine situ- | ation. It is felt it does not necessarily | follow that any foreign complication is | actually at hand, though even that might be inferred, but it is thought, rather, that Dewey sees danger ahead | and desires to guard against it and to | prevent the development of a serious | crisis. | It is not thought among men abreast of the situation that either the Presi- dent or the administration officials be- | lieve in the explanation of the dispatch | which they want the public to accept. The censored press dispatch announc- ing the meeting of foreign Consuls at Manila, with the exception of the Brit- ish Consul, and that British saijlors ' have permission to land every evening | | for the purpose ‘“of wetting down the | Consulate and banks,” is regarded as peculiarly significant, and is thousht | to furnish a key for the interpretation of the Dewey dispatch, although tha of- ficials say they have not been advised that the Consuls did meet. The disposition in well-informed Congressional circles is to look upon | the situation as threatening, if not ac- tually serious. {PLAN TO MAKE DEWEY AN ADMIRAL APPROVED | has been formed in the East. Two companies are to leave Kansas City by rail to-night, it is said, en route to the scene of the proposed inva- sion via St. Louis and New Orleans. According to the information of the Times formed in Kansas City have been recruited from volunteers recently _mustered out of the Third and Fifth Missouri Regiments. Two cap- tains of the Fifth Regiment and several non-commissioned officers of the regiment are said to have been the recruiting officers at this point. A representative of the Times was present at a meeting in a hall here to-night at which 100 men signed for the expedition and pledged themselves to secrecy. Another meeting at which fifty men signed was held in another part of the city. The volunteers were told that they would leave Kansas City Sunday night, and that all the transportation by rail and water had been ar- ranged for. A Guatemalan named Sandoval, the representative of a former Governor of Guatemala, is said to be the organizer of the expedition, and it is stated that the invaders are to receive their pay in grants of land and other privileges in the event of the success of the revolu- tion. Colonel Milton Moore, late commeander of the Fifth Missouri Regi- ment, was offered command of the expedition, through a Kansas City lawyer, who spoke for Sandoval, but Colonel Moore states that he re- the two companies | becoming more accurate in their firing. | | During the skirmish last night two | is mortal. W404040404040+40+040+040+00+0+0+0+0+0+E fused to have anything to do with the filibusters. HHO+0+0404 04024 040+0+040+ 0404040404048 Committee of the House to-day di-| rected a favorable report on the Senate bill creating the grade of admiral and intended for Rear Admiral Dewey. The bill was recently added as a» amend- ment to the naval appropriation bill, but as some question was raised as to this method of procedure the commit- tee determined to report the bill as an | independent measure. The committee also acted favorably on the Senate bill granting two months’ extra pay for naval service outside the | United States during the war with Spain. _———— FIRE OF FILIPINO IS MORE ACCURATE/ MANILA, Feb. 25.—Later reports show there was considerable fighting at Caloocan last night. The Filipinos are Americans on the railroad were slight- ly wounded. A member of the Kan-| sas regiment was shot through the head | this morning. It is believed his wound A Spaniard with a flag of truce came | through the lines of the Kansas regi- | ment this morning at half past 8 g'clock. Filipinos are visible in force to | the northward. The deputation from Negros Island | which came here after the people there had accepted the rule of the United | Stats is evidently pleased with its re- ception. Its members will return to Bacolet, the capital of the island, on Tuesday. The inilitary police have raided sev- | eral suspected houses in the various districts, capturing small bodies of | twenty or thirty persons in each place. This and the 7 o'clock ordinance is ef- fectually dispelling the fears of the na- tives of a threatened outbreak, who did not care, singly or collectively, to appear on the streets after dark. The feeling in the city has decidely im- proved. The Chinese are still timorous. Hun- _dreds of applicants for cedulas besiege the Register's office, the ap- parently being ' under. the sion WABHINGTON, Feb. 25.—The Naval | that their possession insures them from £ interference and the ignominy of being searched for arms on the streets. It is generally believed that the disas- trous attempts to attack the city and destroy property, the Filipinos them- selves being the worst sufferers, will | prevent their recurrence, but every pre- caution is being taken to deal with an emergency if it arises. The insurance agents refuse to entertain any claims on account of Wednesday’s fires. They intimate that General Otis, having guaranteed the safety of life and prop- erty of the inhabitants, is responsible for these claims. The German first class cruiser Kais- erin Augusta has arrived here. Smeige. oo POSITION OF SPANIARDS BECOMING INSECURE MADRID, Feb. 25.—General Rios, who commanded the Spanish troops in the Philippines, cables from Manila that the position of the Spaniards there is ‘“becoming very insecure, owing to the movement of the insurgents of the town.” The Chamber of Deputies continued the debate on the peace treaty, the dis- cussion consisting mainly; of personal recriminations by the members. Senor - Sagasta eloquently eulogized the heroism of the army. He did not deny that some might have failed in ‘their duty, but did not believe that in- dividual faults could be laid to the army as a whole. B “If,” continued the Premier, “a di- rect accusation is made, the Govern- ment is prepared to bring the guilty persons before the courts.” Senor Sagasta declared that it was untrue that the country had lost con- fidence in the army. Marshal de Campos is about to sub- mit to the Senate a motion signed by all the generals in the Senate, demand- ing a parllamentary inquiry into the conduct of the recent war. One New Smallpox Case. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2.—Out of the four suspects that had been under the surveillance of the.officers of the Health Department !‘rld;g n{fbt. only one real of x develo] to-day. 'case mmpom = ped | | political feeling pent up out of respect | to the dead, so innate in the French, | commenced to find vent and expression, and then the army received an un- qualified ovation. | It seems a miracle that M. Derou-| lede’s attempt to incite General Roget to treason hung fire. Certain it is that the enormous crowd on the Place de la Nation if once supported by General| Roget would have swept everything be- fore them. The Place de la Republique is on the direct line of march, where they were at the time. It is estimated | that about 500,000 people crowded the Place, and gave the generals a splendid | reception as they passed. Several re- cognized acclamations by raising their | hats and smiling, while other generals and officers merely saluted. As the soldiers entered the barracks| on the Place de la Republique they | were chéered so wildly that the sound | was deafening. | It is useless forming opinions as to what might have happened if Derou- | lede had been successful, because he | was not. Still I give you the situation | as it looked to me the day of the af-| fair. As it was, Deroulede simply| walked into a trap. The gates of the | barracks closed upon him, thus reliev- | ing the Government of all responsibil- ;ty of taking any initiative in the af- | air. If guilty of nothing more or less than | sedition, M. Deroulede has committed | an unpardonable sin in making himself | ridiculous, so dangerous to would-be | leaders in politics in Paris. One paper | practically calls him a historical per- son who cannot exercise sufficient self- | control to keep his mouth shut when he | ought to, and says he let himself be carried away by the ardor of his tem- | perament. Desmoulins says General | Roget is he whom the revisionists con- sider the soul of the military plot, and | adds in conclusion in his article that| he heard some one on the boulevard | exclaiming in connection with Derou- | lede, “A brave fellow, what a pity he didn't succeed,” which, however, the writer does not appear to share. An interesting detail about M. Lou- | bet’s appearance in public yesterday that his reception was lukewarm on the part of the enormous sea of people en- joying the Parisian holiday. Only one person was reported at a late hour at| the Prefecture for having cried “A bas Loubet!”” But while M. Loubet was not insulted, he was not even ordinar- ily well aeclaimed. On his return from the funeral his carriage was almost lost in the swarm of dragoons who escorted him at a gallop. | 1 hear any amount of funny things| which have been going on at the For-| eign Office in connection with M. Lou- bet. He is already said to have in- vented the word. “norgatau” for “nou- gat.” | Tt is said that M. Loubet and M. Cro-| zier, the introducer of Embassa- dors, have already had extraordinary dialogues. M. Crozier very naturally argues he must do something for his| money as he arranges ceremonies and gives officials points about state eti- quette. M. Crozier urged that M. Lou- bet on the evening of his election should stop at the Foreign Office, as it was the proper thing to do, seeing that the late President’s family has not left the Elysee, but to M. Crozier’s despair M. Loubet positively refused, saying he was goine home to his wife and chil-| dren, state etiquette or not. CONSTANS A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT OF SENATE LONDON., Feb. 26.—The Paris corre- » He will arrive here on Friday. His chances are considered good in spite of the violent opposition of the Radicals. 4> A sl ANGLO-FRENCH STRAIN SERIOUSLY INCRZASED NEW YORK, Feb. 25.— Journal from London say There has been a temporary halt some un- known reason in Lord Salisbury’s ne- gotiations with Embassador Cambon for the settlement of disputes between Englana and France. There has been no conferences between these two dip- lomats during the last week, although the Muscat incident led to an exchange of communications between the Foreign Offices of the two countries. The French declare they had no no- tion of obtaining a strip of territory in the province of Oman on the Persian Gulf, but only a coal depot for the ben- efit of trade. The English action in forcing the Sultan of Oman to refuse the French request was neither correct nor polite to France, so the diplomats across the channel assert. Coming on the heels of the Shanghai affair, it tends to prove to the Parisian mind the persistent ill- will of Great Britain toward France. On the other hand, English diplomats assert that France by a secret intrigue A cable to the | purchased from the Sultan of Oman a coaling station, and the agreement did not forbid it being fortified. The sum of the whole matter is, however, that the Anglo-French strain has seriously increased. AR e S DUKE OF ORLEANS HAS ABANDONED HOPE NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—A cable to the Sun from London says: A Central News dispatch from Brussels says the Duke of Orleans started this evening for Turin, where he will remain for some time, ~oing thence to the Riviera before returning to England with the Duchess. The dispatch says that the Duke has abandoned all hope of an im- | mediate movement in France to overs throw the Tepublic. A CABLE TO THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS Senate Committee Agrees to Incor- porate Provision for It in the Sundry Civil Bill. WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—The Sen- ate Committee on Appropriations to- day agreed to incorporate a provision in the sundry civil appropriation bill providing for the construction of a sub- marine cable connecting the United States with the Hawaiian Islands. The amendment adopted is the one intro- duced by Senator Butler, and it pro- vides for the laying of the cable by the United States and for its subsequent ownership by the Government. the Navy Department to perform the ser- vice and the cable when completed to be operated by the Postoffice, Depart- ment. Senator Butler’'s original proposition provided for the extension of the cable to the Philippine Islands, but the com- mittee decided not to make provision for this extension because of the un- certainty of tenure of the United States in the last-named islands. Senator Butler made a statement be- fore the committee showing that the cable could be laid to Honolulu for $6,942,000. ©