The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 21, 1900, Page 2

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1900. GREAT GATHERING OF MEN OF PROTESTANT RELIGIONS D R e e S o e e o @ccies ot oiet oo . . LR S e Sl S B s o e ] DrP06 0103060000000 800802060060000b0000s00008 . YORK f eve T > delegates com- “MINENT PERSONAGES WHO WILL ATTEND THE CONFERENCE. ¢ | *-0-+-0-0-0-9 o e e e e e ] é e @ *> -0 0-00-08 I R. Huntington, rector of Gt asks a les question in th nd a s it thus: I conference on a reaching after ed action in such ze the non-Chris- inhabited earth as ate with the vastness ce of this nature was 1 1578. Ten years later n London. New and most comprehensive will be more than 2000 comprise not only the mer m the clergy but emi- rjamin Harrison nce to order to-mor- ther one-time Presi- nd, will have a part thering. Other widely ymen who will _par- ates Supreme Court wer. John D. Rocke- Charles Denby, Rear-Ad- H Hamil Farquhar, General O. O. n Mabie, Captain A. T. | | Mahan, Rear Admiral John W. Philip, | President Jacob J. Schurman of Cornel | President L. Clark Seelye of Smith Col- lege, John Wanamaker, Commander A. V. Wadhams, U. S. N.; Rear Admiral J. > Watson, John W. Foster, former Sec- | tary of State: General Leonard Wood and | Dean C. Worcester of the Philippine Com- | mission. Great Britain will send some of her most renowned men, Eugene Stock, sec- retary of the Missionary Society of the Church of England, will be there, and | with him the Rev. Professor T. M.’ Lind- say, D.D., of Glasgow; Dr. C. F. Hart- ford-Battersby of ~ Essex; George A. 5, M.A.. a London solicitor; the Rev. Edmonds of Exeter; Judge David G. ley, LL.D., of Belfast, Ireland; the Rev. W, A Barber, M.A., B.D., | of Cambridge, and the Rev. R. Wardiaw | Thompson of London. Invitations have | ended to the Archbishop of Can- the Earls of Aberdeen and Har- Dr. Munro Gibson, Professor H. Mouie and Lord Overtoun and the Earl of Moray of Scotiand. Germany's delegates will include some noted leaders, as Dr. Schreiber and Dr. Merensky. India sends Baba Kall Charan Banurji of Cal- cutta. =] TN 5 10 LONCER h REPUBLICAN Withdrawal of the Maryland Senator From the Party Is Announced. Refuses to Support the Administra- tion’s Philippine Policy and the Porto Rican Tariff. ALL HEADQUARTERS, dent and the Por ational not in- at is against ch important par- i to remamn a mmittee or do blican Nation- Millations w a diversity of takes it for aw from his f which he When return to e will Hann ics as h Wellington makes as a prodigal son he that in- m on the fatted caif of his old home, DEWEY HOPES TO WIN SOUTHERN STATES Admiral Disappointed Because Mr. Cleveland’s Recent Letter Did Not Mention Him. 3 to The Call. NGTON, April 20.—Admiral hesitating about issuing his tement. Not only the admiral several of his friends are using up quite a good deal of gray matter in their efforts to determine whether it would be advisable for the Presidential candidate o make any announcement of his position on national questions. There are gentlemen close to the ad- miral who are urging him to speak and to eak promptly ere are others who are impressing upon him the value of the “Silence is golden.” The admiral is regard this rule with favor— the time for him to talk. s callers assure him that progressing favorably. him to gain, he asks himself, by issuing a statement? The le know he is & Democrat, they know the character of the services he has per- formed for the country and they know how he views many toplcs. To some ex- tent a statement would be a Tepetition of what has already been stated. why reason for a statement? The admiral at this time rather favors a poliey of drifting. He thinks to act is when an emergency arises. The suggestion has been made that he should make a public declaration of his views on questions which wili come before the Kansas City convention on the date of the assembiing of the delegates, or a few days earlier, so that its effect will be ring- ing in the delegates’ ears. - admiral will give no indication of what he proposes to do, saying that while he would like to oblige The Call, he feels that he should mot at this time violate his “Silence is golden” rule. The ad- miral is closely watching political devel- in several States. His friends ing him advised of the situation and are actively endeavoring to break the Bryan forces in his bebalf. The ad- miral is_particularly interested in Geor- ia and Texas. States can be torn away from the Bryan movement and sent to Kansas City with- out instructions, or with instructions to vote for the admiral, the latter belicves that the “Bryan South” will be trans- formed into a “Dewey South.” Admiral Dewey's friends ngvreflme the ~ impor- tance of defeating Bryan in Alabama and r be barred Texas, and these two Btates will be, to| 00 for the skirmish } Justice buil some <¥tent, the preliminary WELLING- | Therefore i the time | If the delegates in these | n the struggle between the Bryan Dewey round 1 nd th are somewhat former gret to th lin, the Brooklyn Democratic 3 Cleveland is recognized as favorable to the admiral's candidacy, and is said ht b g politic W we admiral's fri a of fortuitous circur s something to do with the in he relative to its pub- - TENNESSEE BOLTERS. Republicans Put Two State Tickets Into the Field. SHVILLE, Tenn., April 20.—Tennes. will have two Republican tickets in > field in the coming election; likewise | two set delegates will go to the Na- on at Philadelphia. tate convention split here ans contingent walking | ention of its own ockett County Is fts n. while John E d of the State ticket | on over which Con- | swnlow presided. | Commissioner Henry Clay | will Jead one delegation to the| 1 Convention, while the other will rected from the background by Con- | m nd National Committeeman | lter P. Brownlow. Both delegations | re instructed for McKinley and both con- indorsed the present national ad- | ministration LIQUOR MAY BE SOLD OPENLY IN MILL VALLEY Saloon Men WinVOth and India Rub- ber Crackers Are a Thing of the Past. Special Diepatch to The Call SAN RAFAEL, April 20.—Mill Valley is to have her saloons this summer and the thirsty tourist will beer e able to expend his and obtain his steam the India rubber cracker pur- hich generally played a prominent | art in former duck-chasing expeditions. he man who is responsible for all this 18 Superior Judge Angellotti in virtue of his Honor's decision rendered in favor of the defendant in the case of the Mount Ta- malpais Land and Water Company vs. Mclnnes ef a the deed formerly given each pur- er of the company's land a clause was money open ted prohibiting the sale of liguor on ich land under penalty of forfeiture of John McInr John Landgraft the most persistent opponents of this the com 's contracts, and th years the merry war be- 1 men _and the land company has been waged. Many subierfuges were resorted to by the saloon men in order to | checkmate the prohibitionists of the tem- | perance town. e most common was the “cracker gag,” as it became known. Every prospective drinker through the farce of receivin | rubber cracker before his liquor was passed over to him. | " This and other evasions rendered the | anti-liquor clause ridiculous, and the de- | cision of Marin’s Superior Judge has been | hailed with general satisfaction. In February last Judge Angellotti sustained | the demurrer to the complaint of the li- | quor men’s attorneys, Lennon and Haw- | kins, and denled the injunction the land | company sought to obtain against the li- | quor retailers. Twenty days were granted the corporation’s attorneys to amend their complaint agalnst the saloon men and their faflure to do so in the given time caused Messrs. Lennon and Hawkins to seek final judgment In favor of their cli- ents with the result that the liquor men can congratulate themselves on a big vic- tory. NEGRO'S ORIME AVENGED, | | | | | | | Assailant of a White Girl Riddled | ‘With Bullets. | BLUBFIELD, April 2.—News has reached here that on Wednesday, at Taze- well, twenty miles west of here, John | Peters, colored, assaulted Miss Katie | Richie, a white girl, 16 years of age, and aped. Bloodhounds were used and he | captured. Shortly after midnight masked men stormed the fail and secured | the negro, who confessed. A rope was | placed around his neck and he was dragged 200 yards toward the woods. Bullet after bullet was fired into Peter's body while he was being dragged and before the woods were reached he was dead. The body was then hanged to a tree. Fight Among Indians. /BANTA ROSA, April 20.—A bloody fight took place between four Indians on the outskirts of town to-day. Two Indlans attacked two more, with the result that they were badly battered. The injured men were taken to the hospital and one may dle. The aggressors have been Todged in Sail. Al had been drinking, ‘Wants a Larger tion. WASHINGTON, April 20.—Attorney General Griggs was before the House Committee on Public Bufldings and Grounds to-day to urge an additional $800,- . Tran-Mississippi Congress As | roposed new Department of | months’ imprisonment for used for imm DECLARES FOR AN EXPOSITION AT ST, LOUIS Concludes Its Work and Adjourns. Resolutions Favor the Nicnagufl Canal, Improved Waterways and a Fostering of the Sugar Industry. AN W HOUSTON, Texas, April 20.—The elev- | enth apnual session of the Trans-Missis- sippl Commercial Congress adjourned to- day to meet next year in Cripple Creek, | Colo. The important business to-day was | the adoption of a plan for the organiza- | tion of the congress on a permanent ba- sis; the indorsement of the St. Louis Ex- position and the appointment of a com- mittee to represent the congress in the hearing on the St. Louls fair bill, in com- | mittee, next Saturday, and the adoption | of a resolution calling for the immediate | passage of one of the Nicaragua canal bills now pending before the national Congress. The personnel of the St. Louis fair committee was left to the executive committee and will not be announced for some da When the resolution indorsing the St. Louis Exposition was taken up, ex-Gov- ernor Francis was given the floor to speak on it. At the conclusion of his address a number of seconding speeches were made and by a rising vote the resolution was adopted. Section 3 is as follows: We cordially indorse the bill introduced into Congress by Representative of Iowa, pledging the Government of the United States 1o authorize the expenditure of $5,000,000 in aid of such exposition. At the afternocn session the committee on resolutions reported as follows, all of the recommendations being adopted: Call- ing on the National Congress to foster the sugar industry; calling on the National Government to open the gilsonite reser- | vation in Utah; recommending exhibits at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo; urging a systematic plan of improving waterways; indorsing various enterprises for improvement of waterways; recom- mending the opening of Indian reserva- tions and favoring irrigation and settle- | ment of reclaimed lands. | On the Nicaraguan canal the following was adopted: That we note with deep regret the d | the paseage of a measure of such supre: | portance to the best interests of our country | a8 the Nicaraguan canal, and we accordingly would respectfully urge upon the National Congress the enactment into law ot tne bill now pending before Congress. A resolution was presented favoring the bill to amend the interstate commerce act, but recommending the amendment of the Cullgm bill in certain particulars; that the enactment of such amended bill is an immediate necessity. After a warm dis- cussion it was adopted. Hon. T. L. Cannon_of Missourl spoke on “Population in the West.”” A committee of three was appointed to visit the irriga- tion congress which will meet in Chicago in November and to invite the irrigation congress to become a member of the Trans-Mississipp] Congress. The executive committeé reported a plan for a permanent organization which was adopted. Under this plan the following officers in addition to those already elect- ed were named: Chairman of the execu- tive committee, E. R. Moses of Great Bend, Kans.; vice chairman, A. S. Goetz of Carlsbad, N. M.; secretary, Robert C. Morris of New Orleans; treasurer, George R. Harrigon Jr. of Glasgow, Mo. After the adoption of perfunctory reso- lutions the congres ourned sine dle. CHANGE OF FREIGHT S RATES TO THE EAST Rearrangement of Schedules An- nounced by Transcontinental Lines. NEW YORK, April 20.—Tt is announced by a Wall street news agency that the through-freight rates between the Pacific Coast and all points south of the Ohio and east of the Mississippl River were canceled to-day. All of the interested roads, including the Southern Pacific, have issued notices to that effect. As a result of this action the transcontinental rates east of the Mississippi River are added to the rate between San Francisco and the river and the through rate - vanced In the exact amount of the added local, which ranges from 30 cents per 100 pounds to $1, and more in some instances. et ‘Hotel-Keeper Fined. SANTA ROSA, April 20.—Justice Brown this morning sentenced Oscar Boehm, pro- prietor of the Hotel de %ndsor at Wind- PO *P P+ 0000606000600 00 | | issue by declaring that the Sultan's & : i : . b o STHND THKEN B STRALS 5 APPROVED Department Satisfied as to the Accuracy of His Statements. eI In Commercial and Political Circles Abroad the Firm Action of the United States Is Gener- erally Commended. ey ol CONSTANTINOPLE, April 20.—The firm attitude of the United States Gov- ernment regarding the claims of Ameri- cans for losses and massacres in Armenia | is entirely approved in political and com- mercial circles, and it is hoped that the United States will steadfastly maintaln its | demand, such a course being the only one | likely to succeed. It is thought that all the powers should follow the same course not only concerning indemnities, but al with regard to the increase of duty. Negotiations regarding the American in- demnity are now being conducted in | Washington, owing to the presence there of United States Minister Straus. When the prohibition against American pork was issued, Lloyd C. Griscom, American Charge d Affaires, addressed an energetic note to the Porte. WASHINGTON Hay returned to Washington to-day from New York. An accumulation of depart- mental business awalted him, but nothing in the nature of an ultimatum directed to the Turkish Government was included in the mass of corresponden It is ap- parent that, though detemmined upon posi- tive action, the State Department is pri ceeding decorously and with due precau- tlons agalnst being led into any position | which it cannot maintain. It may be | stated by authority that the State De- partment is entirely satisfied of the ac- curacy of Minister Straus' statement relative to the promises made to him by the Porte, notwithstanding the attempted | explanations and efforts to becloud the | rom- | ises were conditional. The Minister's dis- i patches, sent while he was in Constanti- nople, are couched in exact terms; his written statements were fully confirmed by his oral explanations to the depart- ment upon his return to the United States, and moreover the piedges he secured were similar to those made to the two preced- lug United States Ministers to Turkey. In the opinion of the State Department offi- clals, it is inconceivable that three United States Ministers should be successively deceived in the terms of a promise or should have reached similar misunder- standings. The approval which the State Depart- ment's latest action seems to have re- ceived in Europe was anticipated, it being realized here that several of the Conti- nental powers having claims similar to our own against Turkey being themselves prevented from lnilinling any forcible de- mands upon thé Turkish Government by reason of the jealousy of their neighbors are entirely willing that the United States Government shall act as a pioneer In this matter and clear the way for a prosecu- tion of their own claims. It 1s also believed here that the Euro- pean powers are hopeful that the attitude assumed by the United States may indi- rectly serve to deter the Turkish Govern- ment from the proposed arbitrary in- crease of 3 per cent in customs duties which it seeks to make in defiance of the joint protest of the Kuropean powers. It appears that our Government is lending its moral support to this protest, for while not joining with the others in the combined note, our Charge, Mr. Griscom, has been instructed to make representa- tions on our own account in opposition to the increase of duties. All Ferrough Bey, the Turkish Minis- ter, said to-day that he probably would hear from his -Government in & short time concernlnr’mn American claims, He - April 20.—Secretary | | sufficlent capacity and depth that it may be i | changes in the bill, Hepburn said that it | had been definitely arranged that the | House would take up the canal hill on May 1 and 2. Although the Committee on | et | desired to have the words “fortify™ and COMPROMISE ON THE CANAL BILL 'House Committee Decides to Strike Out the Fortifications Provision. Taken Up on May to Be Passead. { WASHINGTON, April 20.—The House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce to-day made an important change in the Hepburn Nicaragua canal bill, striking out the provision for the “fortification” and thus providing what is ! expected to be a compromise which will aid n bringing the measure to an early consideration. The amendment was proposed by Rep- resentative Barham of California. The chairman of the committee was instruct- ed to offer the same upon consideration of the bill at the proper time as a com- mittee amendment thereto. The amend- ment was agreed to, not without some ex- pressjon of reluctance, but with a view | to overcoming opposition and securing ac- tion. In its new form the sectign reads | as follows: Be it enacted, etc, that the President the United States be and Is here to acquire from the States of C Nicaragua, for and in_behalf of the Unit: States, control of such portion of the te: ritory now belonging to Costa Rica and Nica- ragua as may be desirable and necessary on which to_excavate, construct and protect a canal of such depth as to enable the mov ment of ships of the greatest tonnage and draft | now in use, from a point near Greytown, on the Caribbean Sea, via Lake Nicaragua, to Brito on the Pacific Ocean, and such sum as | may be necessary to secure such control is | hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. | Section 2. That when the President has se- | cured full control over the territory in the section referred to he shall direct the Sec- retary of War to excavate and construct a canal and waterway from the shore of the Caribbean Sea, near Greytown, by way of Lake Nicaragua, to a point near Brito, on the Pacific Ocean. Such canal shall be of of authorized a Rica and used by vessels of the largest greatest depth now in use, and plied with all necessary locks and other ap- pliances to meet the necessities of vessel: passing from Greytown to Brito; and the Sec- retary of War shall also construct such safe | and commedious harbors at the termin! of | said canal, and such provision for defense as | may be necessary for the safety and protec- | tion of said canal and harbors. Early Action on the Bill. Following the announcement of tonnage and shall be sup- the Rules had taken no formal action, this appears to be the definite under- | standing. Hepburn says the passage of the bill is unquestionable. The main dissent to the change in the bill came from Adamson of Georgla, who ful or compromising phrase. Barham, upon whose changes were effected, sald: motion the “‘defend” retained as against any doubt- | | The changes are designed to overcome ob- | Jections which have been raised, and I have reason to believe they will accomplish that end and make the bill generally acceptable. | original bill at the s 1 and Is Certain The words ‘‘fortify" to Invite controver: nd_“defend” appeared and diplomatic complica- tions, and in view of the action of the ad- ministration {n .negotia the Ha fote treaty, it appears entirely need a diplomatic {ssue with England the use of words. In the amended form ample authorit: Egiven to the police to protect the canal agal destruction by cvil-doers, and by the time canai is completed, six or eight vears hen there will be fu ortunity to determine whether it should be permanently protected by fortifications by our navy. Following the meeting Shackleford -Paunce- to raise stmply of | Missouri filed with the House a minority | report, as follows: | dersigned, while concurring in the vig 50 ably and tersely stated by Mr rn in behalf o | ity of the . nevertheless | ¢ mendation that presented. “ongress which auths nal should cont an ex direct assertion of the right of the ates to build, own and control said lutely free from ropean dicta- Clayton-Bulwer treaty, as so clearly by Mr. Hepburn, long ago ceased to have any binding force by reason of the conduct Great Britain. That being true sho: strictly admere to the Monroe e a stand by our traditional policy that Eur will not be permitted to intermiddle with Cis-Atlantic affairs. It Is to the Monroa doc- trine that we, as a republic, must look fo: safety. We should never, under any circu: even tacitly admit that Europe has ght to so much as Interrogate us on American questions, much less to limit our action. After citing Blaine In support of this view, the report adds: flundl.m ntal principle of our na- no e y should ause us to even momentarily I ficient to sight of it Will Oppose the Measure. Representative Adamson says changes in the bill were suggested, as unde 1ds, by the Rules Commifte answer to the petition filed for the sideration of the Hepburn bill. Adamson presented to the committee the petition of 125 Democratic members favorable to the ame time that Hep- burn presented the petition of the Repub- lican members. The only answer recelved by Adamson was the statement made to him by Hep- burn that if the bill were amended a spe- | cial rule for the consideration of the | easure could be secured. To this Adam- | , stating_ that the pmu.mi | the | hi s for the original bill. He again ob- jected to the change when Hepburn made known to-da the rule for ation could be secured if the amendmen suggested were authorized by the Com- | mittee on Interstate and Foreign Com- consid merce. Under the circumstances, Adam- son says, he will oppose on the floor of the | House the amendments omitting the ‘defend” and ‘“fortification,” as, he says, “‘the amendments emasculate the bill and surrender the case, leaving the bill consistent with the = Hay-Pauncefote treaty.” insists that an amicable settlement can be arranged and repeats his statement, al- | ready published, that in view of the high esteem in which he was held by the Sul- | tan, and the fact of his acting in a diplo- matic capacity, Minister Straus was not gmmod in making the assertion that the ultan had broken his promise in regard to the settlement of the claims. RUSHING WORK ON SIBERIAN RAILWAY Port Arthur and Vladivostok May Be Connected by Rail by Next & August. WASHINGTON, April 20.—Minister Con- | ger reports that the Russians are working with feverish activity to finish the ral- road between Moukden and Vladivostok, the eastern terminus of the Siberian ral way, and he says the bellef is that Rus- sia’s two great strategic points in the Far East—Port Arthur and Vladivostok, where she is sald to have rrisons var- jously estimated at from ,000 to 200,000 men—will be connected by rail not later | than August of this year. 3 | As a matter of fact there Is already un- interrupted steam communication between St. Petersburg and the Pacific over the Siberian railroad, though at present it is necessary to use the river route on the Shilka for that part of the distance be- tween Strelensk and Khabarovsk. The schedule from St. Petersburg to Vladivo- stok Is nineteen days. It is expected that the gap in the raflroad now covered by the water route will be completed in about eighteen months. Minister chg‘fr also reports the com- | pletion of the Chinese railroad from Tien- | | the powers of the army of doctors flock- tsin to Newchwang, 348 miles lon new line from Tientsin to Chinc already paying 5 per cent on the ment, and it {s expected that the entire line when opened will return 30 per cent. gt £ ALARMING SPREAD OF PLAGUE IN SYDNEY Terrified Citizens Are Flesing From the Infected City in Thousands. VANCOUVER, April 20.—Dr. Bennett, a celebrated Sydney, Australla, doctor, en route to England, was a passenger on the steamship Miowera, which arrived here to-day from Australia. Dr. Bennett said that when he left Sydney the plague seemed to be spreading with alarming rapidity. The health authorities were un- able to control it and thers were seven fresh cases a day in the city of Sydney alone, to say nothing of the numerous cases in the colony outside the city. The latest Sydney papers at hand have lttle else than plagus news. 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