The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 30, 1901, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXIX—NO. 181. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, MAY- 30, 1901. PRICE F1VE CENTS. GRAVES OF NATION’S SOLDIER HEROES TO BE STREWN TO-DAY WITH CHOICEST OF FLOWERS Veterans Will Parade in Honor of Departed Comrades. Ceremonies at National and Odd Fellows’ Cemeteries | cOoL - H PLUOM 1ERS o \ - IDLS DD 9D 13 SRAND MARSHAL . JACKIN ~y ORATO!\I . Z 7/ to Be Followed by Services in Many Halls To-Night J ] e THE VETERAN WHO WILL SERVE AS GRAND MARSHAL OF THE PARADE AND THE ORATOR WHO WILL DE THE ADD AT THE MEMORIAL SERVICES Tu BE HELD AT THE NATIONAL CEMETERY AT ST R D te — N St flowers ed to- er that of the the battles o f their countr: to the bravery heroes. and- forti- nation’s ns of three wars have been busy do fitting he their comrades sleeping t Those of them who yet have strength 11 march in parade to the “silent cities of the dead” and there give a to the esteem and af- virile within their defy the passing of the years. s from io, Nati 1 Guarcsmen march with ions to and the the will form pageants befitting cere- veterans, e memoration of the brave crifices of the soldier dead. Memorial day will be celebrated in San cisco with more than usual impres- There will be one imposing pa- morning from the Lombard- reet entrance of the Presidio to the na- al cemetery on the military reserva- nd under the same auspices and in of citizens’ general Memorial committee there will be elaborate ser o-night in Metropolitan Temple. Ancther parad of equal impressiveness will form Market street, the head of the column resting at the Palace Hotel, and will mo p Market street to Van N avenue and from there will proceed 1o 0dd Fellows' Cemetery to decorate the graves of the departed comrades of the men who do honor to-day to their mem- ory. This ceremony will be under the auspices of James A. Garfield, Lincoln and General George G. Meade posts of the Grand Army of the Republic. Their serv- jces to-night will be held in B'nal B'rith Hall Bervices at National Cemetery. The general Memorial day committee ard eloquent speakers | r to | in uniform | the Presidio National Cemetery. The parade will form at the Lombard-strect entrance to the Presidio at 10 o’clock. The line of march will be direct to the | cemetery. ANl visiting Grand Army men will be assured places in the ranks for the parade and seats at the evening exer- cises. The grand marshal of the parade will be Captain E. H. Plummer, Tenth United States Infantry, late colonel of the Thirty-fifth United States Volunteer In- fantry. His aids wiil be Major Willlam R. Robinson, Lieutenant Lioyd England, United States artillery; W. J. Watson, J. Murray Bailey and A. B. Donnelly. Captain Plummer has assigned the vari- organizations to positions in the fol- lowing order: | | First—Regular troops, comprising headquar- | ters and band, cqast artillery, two companies Eighteenth United States Infantry, two troops | Fifteenth United States Cavalry (dismounted). | Setond—National Guard of Callfornia, com- prising signal corps, First Regiment Infantry, battalion of artillery and troop of cavalry (dis- mounted). Third—Battalion naval militia. Fourth—Sons of American Revolution. Fifth—Veterans of Mexican war. Sixth—Sastro's band. Seventh—Regular and Volunteer Army and Navy Union. Eighth—Army and Navy Parlor, N. §. G. W. Ninth—Camp Richter, Spanish war veterans. Tenth—Columbia Park Boys’ Club. Eleventh—Horace Mann Grammar School Uniformed Drill Company. Twelfth—Veteran Guard of California, G. A. R, . 2 Thirteenth—George H, Thomas Post, No. G. A R. Fourteenth—Colonel Cass Post, No. 46, G. A. R Fifteenth—Visiting comrades of the G. A. R. Salute for Grand Army. The Mayor and Board of Supervisors in carriages will have position at the head of the column. Upon arriving at the-en- trance to'the National Cemetery the col- umn will halt and the escorting organiza- tions will form in line and salute the members of the Grand Army of the Re- public as they p. into the cemetery. The programme of exercises at the na- tional cemetery is as follows: Minute guns, Third United States Artillery; remarks by president uf the day, General W, R. Shafter, major general United States Vol- unteers; invocation, ths Rev. S. D. Hutsin- plller, pastor Central Methodist Churck; selec- tion, California Quartet; Lincoln's Gettysburg address, Ralph T. Fiske:, University of Cali- fornia; poem, At Chancellorville,’ Miss Clara Bell Brown; oration, D. E. McKinlay, Assistant United States District Attorney; se- lection, California Quartet; salute to the dead, detail of U. §. troops; taps, bugler, U. §, A. At the conclusion of the above exer- cises Oscar F. Long Garrison No. 101, Regular and Volunteer Army and Navy Union, will hcld a special service for the dead at their monument on their grounds. programme for to-night Programme for To-Night. At Metropolitan emple this evening the following programme will be ren- dered: Overture, Third United States Artillery Band; invocation, Bishop Willlam F. Nichols} “Star-Spangled Banner,” Mrs. T. C. Masteller; remarks by chairman, Colonel George Stone, commander Department of California and Ne- vada, G. A. R.; selcetion, Temple Quartet Clarence T. Wendell (first tenor); D. M. Lawt rence (second tenor), A. A. Batkin (first bass), E. G. McBain (second bass); recitation, *‘Ouj Ranks Are Getting Thin,” Miss May Powers; harp selection, Inez Carusi; oration, General W. H. L. Barnes, past department commander lifornia and Nevada G. A’ R.; selection| Third United States Artillery Band; selection, Temple Quartet; ‘‘America,” band and audi. ence. The parade fdr the services to be held under the auspices of several of the Grand Army posts will form at the Pal- ace Hotel at 10 o'clock and the line: of march will be along Market street to Golden Gate avenue, to Van Ness avenue, to O'Farrell street, where the veterans will pass in review, and thence will proT | founa ample authority to meet the situa- CONVENING OF GONGAESS o AVDIDED Spooner Law Gives the President Power to Act. This Is Decided During a Conference With Cabinet Members on Train. | - | Prompt Steps to Be Taken to Legally Collect Tariff Duties on Goods From the Philippines, Byl iy Special Dispatch to The Call. ON THE PRESIDENT'S TRAIN, AL-| TOONA, Pa., May 2.—Serious considera- tion has been given by the President and the Cabinet to the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the Porto Rican cases. The full text of the opinions was eagerly read by the President. The extent of the problem presented by the first de- cislon, annulling the duties collected un- | | der the Dingley law upon Porto Rican | imports, was then for the first time fully | realized, the mere skeleton of the decision wired from Washington having failed to | state fully this phase of the questlon. | While it was appreciated that the ques- i tion of the duty on Philippine importa- tions involved in the case of the diamond rings brought back from Manila by an American soldier has not been actually de- cided, it was felt that the court had prac- | tically settled the matter by its Porto Rican decision, and the doorway from the Philippines into the United States was now very wide open. This being the case, the idea of an extra session of Congress to enact for the Phil- ippines a law similar to the Foraker Porto | | Rico act was at once suggested and for a while was seriously entertained. Will Avoid, Extra Session. The President, however, did not hesitate to express his desire to avoid an extra sesslon if gome other way out of the diffi- culty could be discovered and the Cabinet concurred with him, believing that only a most extraordinary situation would war- rant the convening of Congress. Having decided therefore to approach a solutioh of the probjem through s6me other method than Congressiond] legislation, the | President and the Cabinet procéeded to consider other propositions. The result of | the conference was a belief that in the | act for the government of the Philippines, ; passed as a rider to the army appropria- tion bill in the closing days of the last Congress, known as the Spooner law, there might pe found the requisite reifef from the unexpected situation created by the decision of the Supreme Court. The Spooner act, it will be remembered, in- vests the President with absolute author- | ity to govern the Philippines until Con- gress shall otherwise direct. Under this | law, it is held by the Cabinet, there can be no doubt of the President's power to | frame and enforce a tariff law for the | islands. The suggestion was also made | that he could go a step farther and im- Pose an export duty upon all articles sent from the Philippines to the United States. Question of Export Duties. When it was asserted in opposition to this view that the constitution expressly prohibits the imposition of export duties the answer was promptly returned that | under the declsion of the Supreme Court | | the constitution has not been extended by | its own force over the Philippines and | | that therefore the prohibition need not be | taken into consideration. It was argued that the constitution had no force In the | Philippines uniil it had been extended | there by act of Congress. This view of the case was generally concurred in, but the question was deemed to be too important to be settled at an in- formal conference, and nothing definite will be done until the President and the Cabinet return to Washington, when the question will be discussed with Secretaries Root and Gage and Attorney General Knox. The probability is, however, that there will be no extra session of Con- gress, and thai in the Spooner act will be i tion. The President will probably issue an order applying solely to the Philippines, imposing upon goods exported from those | islands to the United States a rate of duty | equal to the tariff imposed by the Dingley law upon the cameearticles entering the United States. This, it is believed, will close the door by a method certain to be | sustained by the Supreme Court if a test case should be brought before that tri- bunal for decision. Some consideration was given to the { question whetner the President had the power under the Spooner act to impose a duty in this country upon articles import- | ed from the Philippines. The general opinion was that grave doubt existed as to whether he possessed this power, and it seemed to be accepted that the export duty plan offered the fost feasible solu- tion. The importance of speedy action was emphasized in view of the fact that if the matter is left unsettled wntil Con- gress meets next December there will be very large importations of hemp, tobaccg and sugar from the Philippines without the payment of duty. By Way of Philippines. In addition (o this, it was realized that the exporters of Chinese tea, which pays 10 cents a pound duty, and Chinese stlks, which &re also subjected to a high tariff, paying the slight duty there exacted, and then have them forwarded to the Uni States, where they would be entered with- out additional cost. i Japanese and Oriental g0ods of all de- Continued on Second Page. ‘ I Continued on Second S ELES d Page. | would send their goods to the Philippines, |, POPE EXPERIENCES DIFFICULTY IN SELECTION OF SUCCESSOR TO DELEGATE MARTINELLI This Subject and Other Important Church Affairs Relating to the United States and the Philippines Will Cause Cardinal Gibbons to Prolong His Visit to the Vatican 3 - OME, May 2.—Cardinal Gibbons has determined to prolong his stay in Rome, and he will re- main here during the greater part of June. The Cardinal says the appointment of a rector of the American College here to succeed Mgr. O'Connell, the Bishop of Portland, M; has not stage where any statement can be made. Tt is underztood the Cardinal during the audience he had with the Pope ex- plained at length the views of the Government at Washington regarding religious matters in the Philippires. Cardimal Gibbons is also advising the Pcpe to consider the question of a suc- cessor to Cardinal Martinelli as Papal delegate to the United States, but it is understood that the difficulties encoun- reached a o+ | 5 JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS, ARCHBISHOP OF BALTIMORE, WHO IS CONFERRING WITH THE POPE ON FAIRS IN ThE UNITED STATES AND THE PHILIPPINES. IMPORTANT CHURCH AF- . tered in selecting a are so great that there is little prospect of the successor R S AT — early Martinelli departure of Cardinal from the United States. r O s o ® NEGRO MURDERER BURNED AT STAKE BY A MOB OF AVENGERS IN FLORIDA Taken From Jail to the Scene of His Crime, Frederick Rochelle Meets Awful Death in Fierce Flames. BARLOW, Fla., May 29.—Fred Rochelle, a negro 35 years of age, who at noon yes- terday criminally assaulted and then murdered Mrs. Rena Taggart, a weil- known and respectable white woman of this city, was buracd at the stake here carly_this evening in the presence of a throng of people. The burning was on the scene of the negro’s crime, within 100 vards of the principal thoroughfare of this city. The murder was one of the boldest crimes ever committcd in Florida. At 10 o'clock yesterday mcrning Mrs. Taggart, who was born and reared in this place and was a woman of good family and reputa- tion, went fishing alone in a small row- boat that she kept at the city bridge over Pilaco Creek. This is in full view of the public thoroughfare. A few minutes be- fore noon, desiring (o return home, she rowed her boat to tiic bridge and made it fast. A negro was fishing from the bridge at the time. Mrs. Taggart started home and had proceeded only a few steps in the swamp toward the open prairie and the street when she was approached by Rochelle, who had been hiding in the swamp. He seized her and she broke loose and, screaming, ran mio the prairie, where he overtook her. Cuts His Victim’s Throat. While she was prostrate he held her with his hands and knees and, taking his knife from his pocker, cut her throat from ear to ear, causing instant death. He then walked to the negro who had been fishing on the bridge and who was thoroughly frightened and asked him what he should do with the body. He was told to leave it | where it was. Rocheile took the bleeding form in his arms and carried it back to the swamp, threw it down and escaped into the interior of ‘he swamp. In a few minutes the crime had been re- .ported, and in less than an hour practi- cally the whole city was in arms and a well armed posse was moving in every direction in search of the criminal. Blood- heunds were secured and all night a fruit- less search was continued. This morning no trace of the negro had been secured, and the people were becoming more de- termired to apprehend him as the chances for his final escape seemed to grow. Mob Takes the Prisoner. About noon a dourier arrived announc- ing that the negro had been captured by | two other negroes three miles south of the city. Posses were immediately put on the trail, but the captors evaded detec- | tion and succeeded in getting their pris- oner quistiy into the city and turning him over to the Sheriff of Polk County. In less than ten minutes after the transfer had been made the streets became con- gested with people, and the crowd, aug- mented as it marched, moved on the jail. In spite of the Sheriff and a strong guard of deputies, who made every effort to protect him from mob violence, the | mob secured the prisoner and took up the march to the scene of the crime. Rochelle was half dragged, half carried to the bridge, enveloped by a great throng of people of all ages. Scream after scream broke from the wreteh’s lips, followed Ly groans and prayers for mercy. At the bridge the mob turned toward the prairie and then into the swamp and to the scene of the negro's crime. By common consent burning was to be the penalty. The stake was the only suggestion as to the proper expiation of the crime, and without organizing, and yet, with appar- ently unanimous understanding, a barrel was in readiness and was placed by the stake in the very spot where Mrs. Tag- gart was murdered. Burned at Scene of Crime. On this the negro was placed and chaired to the stake. He pleaded for mercy, but in the great crowd around him silence was the only response. There were i no jeers, no swearing, no disorder. Before, the chains around his body had been made fast cans of kerosene oil from many sources were passed to the fromnt | and one of the leaders stepped to the ne- |.8ro and slowly but deliberately poured it on him 2nd his clothes, until the cloth- ing and the barrel were well saturated. It was then 6 o'clock. The crowd was growing and business in the city had practically suspended. When the match was applied the blaze quickly leaped skyward. The burning body could be seen only as a dark object in the circle of roaring flame. Then the fire slackened and the writhing body came back In full view, but already the groans had ceased and the only evidence of life was in the contortions of the muscles of the limbs. For fifteen minutes the body burned and in a half hour from the min- ute the match was applied only the charred bones were left as a reminder of the negro's crime and his fate. The crowd dispersed as quietly as it had gath- ered, and by 8:30 to-night the city was Quiet.