The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 17, 1900, Page 1

The FonFORYy i e 2 TC AT £ — VOLUME LXXXVII-NO. 1 - 8. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CLARK'S STRATEGY MAY PROVE FUTILE Opponents of the Montanan De-| termined to Keep Him Out of the Senate. His Latest Coup Regarded as a “Trick”” Hardly | in Keeping With the Dignity of the Upper House. Special Dispatch to The QUARTERS, WELLING- anll & ¢ £ th shows t whole pr nected & Call. are incensed €0 much r which Mr. Clark 2 eing expelled from the Senate re now seriously talking of ring that he w. i the Legislature, re- tion. Althcugh stricken from the ation was present- and other members that the Senate on the resolution. By n, it is argued, the Sen- | ear up the record as ce in the Se time make the CI 1 s to the Quay case. Senator Clark Sanguine. ark s frank in expressing his he ment and in will re- believe serv 1 on these cred his and and t pro tem URGES IMMEDIATE : CANAL BUILDING *::0o2e RELIEF FORCE FIGHTS BOERS AT KRAAL PAN British Public Is Feverishly Awaiting News of the Expected Succor of the Hunger-Bitten Garrison at o THABA NCHU, Mafeking. T e e Hi it T % Sharp Fighting at Mafeking—Boers Attack British Works. From the Spear. Senate Committee Files Its Re-[continue to be taken daiiy. port Favoring Nicaraguan | Route. | to both the Nicaragua and a routes. takes strong position to build tk paying French is $95.000 bine, we w 7 ographers left there to and the fiuctu River. If this - hydrographic work is to be prosecuted hereafter as long and thoroughly a&s it has been hereto- fore it will be a balf century before wi | can determine the practicability of the nal 8o far as it depends on the and the fluctuations of the | River. “It e hydr phers is not a vital fac- the question of the practicability of | canal. ‘Our engineers have come to no conclu- on pot 3 v and have he decis the whole matter the French engineers, to be determined ¢ further experiment. When these en- re in posse on of all the facts known and are not able to de- el at which the shall wait until they have settled put ourselves at thelir only pre = for the of our own Government and people n they have decided what is the hest 1 interests. Congress owes a this to the American [: on of the construc- canal the committee takes the that whatever canal be construct- ownership must bs American, and be ratal to the suc s of It is arguea by the com- t delay in construction cannot | advance the settlement of any tion as to the canal after its comple- | The committee therefore annournces ion to be that Congress should mears and authority for con- g a canal by the Nicaragua route ave it to the President to deal with questions of a diplomatic sort that be raised by other nations in the rogress of the work. After the bill be- | comes a law, it is declared, ur first duty | is gree with Nicaragua as to terms, to the future all dealings with | r powers as to the privileges they | enjoy in‘the canal. PATRICK O’CONNOR ACTED AS A SPY May 17.—The Dally Express & three-column New York spe- Patrick O’Connor, who signed by pathizer. As a matter of fact, Mr. 0'Con- erstands the Dutch language, and he claims to have overheard much private conversation, in the course of which Mr. marens is reported to have said to ” nor cher: k we should be careful of what this man, as he may be a spy. Are cure he is an American?” Mr. ¥ r—There is no doubt of it. can tell t s accent. Mr. Wessels—It would never do, of course, for the British to know that we last extremity, or for we are thinking of the English language, by blaming Cecil bringing on of the war. of doubt that Sir it to South Afriea ation of the Boer necessary. The humbug. Presi- 150 much at the Milper was his requests should should thereby lose Transvaal.” Fischer, in X k we had better tell how Kruger broke off the confer- »emfontein cor n mortal fear le: be granted and lest h him ence?” Mr. Fischer—No. Mr. Woolmarens in Dutch—Our posi- tion just now is precisely that of Jame- son at the time of the raid. He expected Johannesburg to rise to his assistance. He expected the same of Cape Colony and ed the Atlantic with the Boer dele- | gates on the Maasdam under pretense of ; being an Irish-American and a Boer sym- | I | | H { years,"” tal. We are bitterly disappointed. Teli | m how Schreiner decetved us. | Mr. Fischer—He knows well, as well | as we do, that Schreiner is loyal to Great Britain uming English, Mr. Fischer sald: € ere going to win the war if it takes Addressing Mr. Wessels, and using| by cher then sald: *“We had | o much. We are getting | beaten now. We are going to| America in the hope of obtalning the | friendly help of the United States in the cause of . That is what we will say to the pu As a matter of fact, we | have no hope whatever. We have no cut and dried programme.” | Mr. Fischer 1t on to say that the | brother of Mr. Wessels, who happened to | be in the United States and who was act- ing in conjunction with Montagu White, | believed that some sort of peace would be , but, if the delegates failed in | d States the Boers, Mr. Fischer declared, would still not give in. SHOTS FIRED FROM BEHIND A WHITE FLAG| N | LONDON, May 16—The War Office posts the following dispatch from Lordq Roberts, under date of Kroonstad, May | 15: i “Two officers and six men of Prince Al- | fred's Guards, while out foraging yester- day a few miles from Kroonstad, visited a farm fiying a white flag, the owner of which surrendered himself, with armsg | and ammunition. They then appronchedl another farm, also flying a white flag. When wihin forty yards of the inclosure they were fired upon by fifteen or sixteen Boers concealed behind the farm wall Two of the*men were killed, Lieutenant | F. B. Walton was wounded and Lieuten- ant W. B. Eveston and two non-commis- sioned officers were taken prisoners. The owner of the farm states that the Boers threatened to shoot him when he protest- ed against their making improper use of the white flag.” s evident that the report to be made | miles south of Mafeking, on Tues- day, according to a telegram re- Wedne: Lourenzo Marques cetved m Molopo, 100 miles north of Mafeking. This Intell! som ce is accepted here with reser because it is difficult to nd how the news could have been - put on the wire from a place s from the ne of the engage- A correspondent presumably of the Morning Pos John Stuart, is reported cap- The B afeking has In army circles the opinion that this has already Office asserted he relief had not been re- 4 adfast courage of the hunger- arrison has produced 4 deep impression, and the news of succor is awaited with more anxiety than has been felt regarding any other event of the war. Big News Held Back. Douglass Storey, the Mail’s correspond- ent at Pretoria, wires: “The Boer Gov- ernment is holding back some big news. Fever prevails here. President Kruger working and night. The latest Boer official bulletin is that the relief column has been defeated with great is Lord Roberts continues at Kroonstad. His cavalry are stretching like a semi-circular screen many miles in length, without lapping flan The rail- way probably be completed to-day. The Kroonstad censor permits the pas- sage of long dispatches dealing with in- cidents prior to the occupation. It seems that General French's cavalry had one lively fight after crossing the Zand River. A mixed squadron, com- posed of the Scots Greys, the Inniskil- lings, Carbineers and Australian Horse, took a kopje and dismounted. The Boers suddenly fired from a concealed position, killing_ many horses and stampeding the rest. The Boers then advanced in over- whelming numbers and drove the squad- ron, capturing some. The Boers robbed the dead and looted the saddles. A small brigade of cavalry drove them off. Farther north the Hussars charged the Boers, killing and wounding many strag- glers with sabers and pistols. Lord Rob- erts’ infantry marched 120 miles in seven days. General French marched thirty miles in one day. The Boers, when re- tiring, dragged thirty-two guns through Kroonstad. General Buller’s Move. General Buller is moving toward New- castle. He appears to be using 25,000 men against 5000 or 6000. His operations will almost certalnly result in forcing his way into the Transvaal, possibly In time to co- operate with Lord Roberts’ advance, al- though General Buller {s now 252 miles from Johannesburg, or twenty-five days’ march. A Dane, who was captured by the South African Horse, says that there are B500 Frenchmen with the Boers who are op- posing Buller, togéther with many Ger- mans and other foreigners. The Ladysmith correspondent Daily Telegraph says that only or was ghot in the movement which resulted in the taking of Helpmaaker. | % passive immediately. 17, 3:20 a. m.ATl\fl‘ column fought the at Kraal Pan, thirty-two | R e General Rundle is sweeping through the | northeast of the Free State. The Boers are dissolving before him and some are | surrexdering. Thelr. main forer €8 aseem- | bled between Ficksburg and Winburg, but | 1t 1s without close organization. Guerrilla Warfare. | To-day’s instaliment of the war story Ty part of the war fleld is, there- emingly a narrative of British . but with the Boers preparing t desperate fling farther in the | | interior and with Boer guerrilla parties | looting houses and stores in the north- west section of Cape Colony, it is not all roses for the British. { The Upington district s the locallty where the guerrilla tactics of the Boers are just now most in evidence. The postponed congress of the African- der Bund has been called to meet at Paarle June 15. A Canadian battery of 15-pounders ar- rived at Beira, Portuguese East Africa, | May 10. | | _The Daily Graphic, which refers to the | Boer misston to the United States as a by- | | product of the war, says: “There is no | | name of importance among the orators | who saluted the deiegates. We fear they | have fallen Into a sort of Anglo-Saxon | ambush and are being victimized for | | purely party purposes.” The Times considers the rumors cabled herc. as to President pro-Roer sympathies ‘*u baseless.” Tt says: “Mr. McKinley is convinced that the country does not wish him to interfere and that interference would be in all re- spects inexpedient as well as impossible.” | The Times also refers to the admission by the American State Department of | Portugal's general right to refuse pas- sage to contraband goods. The Lourenzo Marquez correspondent of the Times under Tuesday's date says: “There has been a heated discussion in | the Raad In secret session respecting the expediency of destroying the mines. The | result Is not publicly known. The for. eign mining representatives are greatly alarmed and have addressed strong rep. resentations to their respective Consuls.” Persons acquainted with Colonel Baden- Powell's scheme of defense at Mafeking assert that the occupation of the Kaffir location by the Boers would not endanger the garrison, provided rellef came quickly. A telegram from Cape Town says that Cecil Rhodes has decided to retire alto- gether from Cape Colony politics. HARD TIMES AHEAD IN GREAT BRITAIN LONDON, May 16.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, speaking at Bristol this evening, congrat- ulated the audience on the fact that the cloud of war was fairly lifting and that there were streaks of light portending a | glorious dawn. Continuing, he said: “We | are contending with a foe whose courage and skilled tenacity we have learned to| respect. But we are entitled to hope that | the beginning of the end is coming.” The Chancellor denied that he was per- sonally responsible for any delay in for- warding troops to South Africa and an- nounced that it might be necessary to still further increase the navy. He disagreed with the suggestion that a large perma- nent increase of the army might be nec- essary, but said that the country must Sl ey DL R o O e e oY 1 D S S R S R 3 sesser sessseitibslivac ot itreit i niaiociietd May I7.—The British force advanced this morning twenty miles to the northwest and took possession of Maquatlings Nek. Prisoners look to the volunteers and the militia. “The expenditure of the country,” sald | r{M!chael. 'is growing at an enormous, | Si, & dapgerous rate.. I bhave always put a strong navy as a primary necessi: have t in view of the hostile feeling toward Eng- land in some European countries But T regard the country's increasing expendi- ture as the real danger. If we go on as we are going there may be very hara times in store for the country, particular- Iy for the working classe R e TRANSVAALERS HAVE EVACUATED BIGGARSBERG LONDON, May 16.—The War Office has posted the following dispatch from Gen- eral Buller, dated Dundee, May 1: “We occupled Glencoe yesterday. The Transvaalers have now evacuated Big- garsberg. The Free Staters on the Dra- kensberg are much reduced in numbers. The Pretoria commandoes trekked north | from Hlatikulu on the 13th and 1ith of May. Eleven guns were entrained at Glencce. The Jast train, with ambulance, left there at dawn, May 15. This result has been largely produced by the action of the Fifth division. which during the last few days as done a great deal of very hard werk—marching, climbing and roadmaking. Trains are now running to Wessel's Nek Station.” REPORTED REPULSE OF BOERS AT MAFEKING LORENZO MARQUE tuguese officlal dispatch ter has occurred at Mafeking and that the Boers have been repulsed with heavy loss. PLUMERS CAMP, Friday, May 4. via Ootsi, Monday, May 7.—Natives who have arrived here say that the bombardment of Mafeking May 1 was not heavy. Twelve hundred and eighty refugees from Mafe- king have reached here. Patrols who have returned from the northern borders of the Transvaal say they saw no signs of Boers, All is quiet here. The Boers reg- ularly patrol the neighborhood of Masfe- king, but do not seem to be disposed to be aggressive. —_— TO MEET BOER ENVOYS. WASHINGTON, May 16.—Representa- tive Sulzer of New York has announced the Congressional committee which will go to New. York to-morrow night to meet the Boer delegates as follows: Senators— Heitfeld, Idaho; Mason, Illinols; Welling- ton, Maryland; Teller, Colorado, and Al- len, Nebraska. Representatives—Sulzer, | New York:; Robinson, Nebraska; De Ar- mond, Missouri; Shea, Kentucky, and Champ Clark, Missouri. The committee will +rain, arriving at New York Friday. Sul- zer says he understands the call of the delegates on the President will be unoffi-| clal in character. NEW YORK, May 16—Charles B. Pierce, the Consul General of the Orange Free State, to-day received the followiug cablegram from Pretoria: “Messrs, Wessels, Fischer and Wolma- rens: May justice and righteousness be with you. KRUGER.” B . ] MARKS GREAT ADVANCE _ IN MILITARY SCIENCE * : ONDON, May 17.—An armored train, constructed for the War Office, was tried yesterday at Leeds. The officers present at the trial think the invention marks a great advance in military science. The armor is half an inch of nickel and steel and it is proof against bullets and shell splinters at a distance of twenty yards. Each of the three trucks of the train carries one 4.7 naval gun. The trial, which was made under severe conditions, was completely successful, and the train will proceed to South Africa v of the | country, and it may be that assent will | be given to a further expenditure mountain | take a midnight | 'SENATE TA Bacon of Georg Investigation of Off May 16.—Discussion of affairs in Cuba by ted the e greater . Bacon of Geor- ate at length on g the Comm! tration of ons with C tion of the of the island peaple of t s in the oon Con- the honor of on its being able c id and corruption which. it . had been ered. He e United Cuba, d to redeem it the government of the habitants. The following measures were passed House bill repealing the provision of law allowing merchandis ing through the United States foreign country to be transported free of duty, so far a the Mexican free zone is concerned; also a resolution offered iling upon the Secretary of the Treasury for infor- mation In regard to the Influx of J. n- cse labor into the country, and whether e had been any violation of the con- act labor law. National Honor at Stake. The Bacon Cuban investigatioh resolu- tion was then called up by its | who, in opening, said that there c | no more mandatory duty than that which | rests upon the United States that every dollar collected in Cuba shouid be app | to the people of Cuba. Every dollar island to its in- collected, he sald, belonged to the people | of Cuba, and not a dollar to the 1 | States | States. | Obligations of national honor demanded ba or to any official of the T that we investigate the affairs of ( and see that they have been rightly c ted. Perhaps at no time had any peo- stituted themselves the agent for such as that we had imposed upon slves in Cuba. In the degree of honor with which this duty was performed would the country be adjudged by the | world. If there were no rumors, he said, | of maladministration on the Ismnd of Cuba, the duty to investigate the busi- | ness and governmental affairs of the isk | and would still be upon us. | “But’ he declared. alone by the voice of duty. The facts urge the investigation to be made. There has been in Cuba the most exorbitant | and extravagant expenditure of money. | It we had before us only the naked fact that the receipts on the island during the single year were more than $16,000,000 and the expenditures more than $14,000.000 we would be bound tg Investigate the ab- ject to see that this vast sum had been properly and prudently handi Continuin Mr. Bacon presented statement sncwing the receipts and e penditures of the various States, ‘ncl ing Georgia, Missouri and Massachus ance les: = those of Cuba. “These expenditures in Cuba,” sald Ba- con, “are so much arger in proportion to | those of many States that cven if there | were no rumers of extravagance and | fraud and corruption in connection with »an affairs they would call in trumpet | tones for an investigation. We have had all sorts of accusations in the press of the . and finally there have been ad < rities in the financ affairs of the island.” Allowanc: to Army Officers. Bacon discussed at length the ailow- ances made to various officers in Cuba by direction of Secretary Alger. He inquired why such allowances were not made to Genera] Wilson and General Lee. He read the order of Gereral Alger making an al- salary to Governor General Brooke. What was there, Bacon inquired, in the office of the Governor General of Cuba which required him to exercise functi Charges That Fcurteen Million Been Expended Through the “we are urged not | lowance of $7500 per year in addition to his | $ KES UP 'FRAUDS IN CUBA ia Demands an of the Island Government. Dollars Have Profligacy icials. of greater dignity than a general com- & army in the fleld? What ob- he Gove any one w to have an official d y in Cuba sh of the promi- furt week the act has been d@ the that they were $30,000. I4 amount to $75.( nd now it Now there are s intimated it m > order under which Major hbone w cting as Director of Posts of Cuba ar id the power con- ferred upon him by that order was so ted in a disgraceful g condition of affairs. Given Autocratic Power. Interrup Bacon, Hale of Maine as- serted th Rathbone’s offl he Senator and a yn that t to one man him, kno of this unbridled 11d be abused by the and In the end he would did not appro ng seif-g e of this fashion of ant to the Cubans. g, said the question now uld Congress sit In olations of publi gate them to . d that the majority tions with Cuba bottom? F of the Commit did not desire an Investigation of Cuban affairs by Congress because Senators were =ta d at the gnitude of the work and were afraid it might take the bal- f the year. If these Senators were Hng to undertake the work he knew of Senators who were. Bacon's re as made subject to the call of r. Platt of Con- ecticut expre ire to addr elf to some ¢ had made. HAVANA POSTMASTER PUT UNDER ARREST 16.— W ements Bacon HAVANA sued t May Edward clerks on as to the record military departm veral 1 roves th handl ef stamps was a stamp col- , for $800. They and were obtained quest 1y The arrest of The on caused great \rrests. the special in- be: the men opg keep them Inde | vision at a time when the detectives were | needed for other work. | WERE ary Brooks Sa by Paying O VANCOUVER, B. C., May 16.—Advices | by thg Empress of India are to the effect | that punishment has been meted out ID‘ the murderers of Missionary Brooks. Fif- | teen men were tried for the crime befcre the Provincial Judge at Chimanfu and C. | W. Campbell, British Consul. It was de- | veloped at the trial that only three were guilty of the actual killing, and one of these dealt the fatal blow. This one, | being most culpable in the Chinese erim- inal code, was beheaded In the presence of | the British Consul. Another, who was | only a shade lighter In guilt, was sen-| tenced to strangulation at the autumn | | Assizes. A third was sentenced to life im- | prisonment, and four others to ten years’ | imprisonment. Four head men from the | | villages to which Mr. Brooks had been | taken, having failed to proteet him, have | been flogged three times in public and dismissed forever from office. Two village | elders of the hamlet near the scene of | the murder are to pay the cost of a me- | morial tablet to be erected at the scene | of the murder at the cost of 500 taels. The Governor of the province has paild 900 taels for the following purpose: To ‘build a memorial chapel at Pingyin, Mr.l Brooks’ station; to place a memorial in his school at Canterbury, England, and to | cover the loss of the Episcopal church's | native Christians in that district at the hands of the Boxers. In connection with the execution the | North China News makes the sensational statement that the three murderers found SUBSTITUTES WHO EXECUTED Convicted Murderers of Mission- ve Their Lives thers to Die. Special Dispatch to The Call substitutes to suffer the death penalty ana life imprisonment in their stead. The au- thoritles permitted them to buy their lives back. The man who delivered the blow that killed Mr. Brooks was sentenced ro bave his head cut off. For $1000 he got an opium fiend. who had dissipated his for tune and had but a few months to live, ta allow himself to be decapitated in hid stead, and the substitute was duly exe- cuted. The second man in guflt was dindemned to strangulation. He paild a cofjumptive $600 to be strangled in his steadt’'and the third murderer got a substitute to take life imprisonment for $8. The third sub- stitute was also a morphine flend. . It is sald that there were 213 broken- down wrecks who offered themselves as substitutes, that they might perform one good act for their relatives before their lives were ended by handing them a sum of money which to poor people In China would be a fortune. House Proceedings. WASHINGTON, May 16.—The House accomplished little to-day besides passing the Senate bill to Incorporate the Ameri- can National Red Cross. No progress was made with the Alaskan code bill owing to the inability of the two sides to agree as to the time to be allowed for general debate. The conference report on the District of Columbia appropriation bill was returned after extended debate.