The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 6, 1901, Page 1

o —{S Papbr neoe e taken fror VOLUME XOL—NO 6. SAN FRANOISCO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6. 1901. PRICE FIVE OCENTS. SCHLEY IS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN CONVICTED BY THE DISTINGUISHED NAVAL COURT OF INQUIRY FORTTER FILIPINO OFFICIALS ARE PUT TO DEATH ROOSEVELT'S - GAMPAIGN FOR bUBA'S RELIEF General Wood Continues to Explain Situation in the Island. | | | | | The President Entertains and | Enlightens Congressmen at a Dinner. Commission Has Prepared a Bill for | the Reduction of Duties on Prod- | ucts Imported From “Gem of Antilles.” Special Dispatch to The Call. | § CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—President Roosevelt continued his campaign for the Telief of Cuba to-uight by inviting to meet Secretary Hay, Secretary Root and Gov- | ernor General Leonard Wood of Cube at | dinner to-night Senators Foraker, Mor- | . Lodge, Hale, Cockrell, Fairbanks, E McEnery, Quarles and Clapp, and Repre- | sentatives Hitt, Henry A. Cooper and ‘William H. Moody of Massachusetts. | General Wood laid before them the sit- | tation In the island as he 4id to a similar | party on Tuesday night, and as he will continue to do 50 @s long s the Presi- | dent continues his “Cuben dinners.” | The Cuban commission has prepared Al | b for introduction in Congress which provides that after January 1, 1903, Cuban molasses and raw sugar up to No. 1§, | Dutch standard, shall be admitted into | the United States free, and all other Cu- ben products upon payment of one-half he rates of duties levied under the tariff laws of the United States upon similar products of the most favored nations, pro- the people of Cuba shall consent | oducts of the United States | mitted into Cuba upon pay- half the rates of duty levied ff laws of the island upon cts of the most favored na- has been in Washing- | s and left this afternoon | 'w York. General Wood took lunch- the delegates to-day. eon wi MAJOR CARRIERE DENIES ACCURACY OF INTERVIEW | Claims That He Has Been Misrepre- sented in Connection With the Dreyfus Case. Dec. 5.—Major Carriere, who | he Rennes court-mar- Dreyfus and who has the retired list, to the morning papers n which he characterizes as, unauthorized f published here | ew Major Car- T as saying he could ntment from the Minister of istry hated him for | tion of Dreyfus, and | fet, who was Minis- time of the Rennes d denied that he (Car- sum up in favor of has written a lette s he must have been ad not entered his | t had ordered him to con- | innocence of Drey- | 4 mever said so. | e i CAPTIVE MISSIONARY ‘ REPORTED TO BE ALIVE | Secretary of American Legation 3t‘) Constantinople Receives Mes- sage That She Is Well. CALL BUREAU, 406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—Communica- tion has been established with the bri- gends who hold Miss Stone, the Ameri- | can missionary, captive. Secretary Hay received to-day a dispatch from Spen- cer Eddy, Charge d'Affaires of the American Legation In Constantinople, in regard to the latest development in this remarkable case. Eddy says there has been a heavy snowstorm and the passes in the mountains are blocked. Traveling is almost impossible. Eddy expresses confidence that better results will now attend the efforts to secure the woman's liberation. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 5.—Spencer Eddy, first secretary of the United States Legation at Constantinople, has recelved 2 message via Salonika that the Ameri- can missionary, Miss Stone, and her com- panion, Mme. Tsilka, were well Decem- ber 2. SBRITISE SURROUND THREE BOER LAAGERS Capture Two Hundred and Fifty Pris- oners With Few Casualties on Either Side. PRETORIA, Dec. 5.—The largest cap- tures of Boers made in many months oc- curred to-day when three columns secured an aggregate of 250 prisoners. General Bruce-Hamilton, near Ermilo; Major Dawkins in the Waterbury District, and General Methuen in Northwest Transvagl, rounded up three laagers with only a few casualties on either side. THE HAGUE, Dec. 5—The attempt of Socialists in the Chamber to induce the Foreign Office to intervene in South Africa falled again to-day, the Forelgn Minister, Meltvil Van Lynndon, informing the interpellators that the Government __BY THE TIILITARY AUTH Denial of Story That Aguinaldo Will Be Deported. ANILA, Dec. 5—The -military authorities to-day hanged the presidente, chief of police and police sergeant of Tay Tay, convicted of murdering seven natives by stabbing them and burying them alive while the town was under American occupation. The crime was committed at the instance of insurrec- tionist leaders. A priest named Leposoy, also convicted and sentenced to death, who was regarded as the worst of all because he heard the confessions of the murdered men when they were at the { point of dcath, had-his sentence com- muted to twenty years' imprisonment be- cause of his calling. The execution of the others took place in the presence of thousands of natives, including fifteen presidentes. The carrying out of the sentence must have a most wholesome effect. General Chaffee informed The Call cor- respondent to-day that he did not write | the letter addressed to Major Heath, dated San Fernando, which has been published in the United States. He in- dignantly repudiates it, and says he does not know Major Heath and does not en- @ ittt tertain the views expressed in the letter, especially as regards Governor Taft. Permanent Leper Colony. Professor Worcester of the Philippine Commission, Colonel Maus and Insular Health Commissioner Huth sailed for Cagayan in Julo, where they will estab- lish a permanent leper colony. WaSHINGTON, Dec. 5.—War Depart- ment officials say that the reports printed in Berlin to the effect that Aguinaldo is to be court-martialed and transported to Guam because of correspondence he has been conducting with the Hongkong jun- ta are without foundation. Frequent mail advices reach the department from | General Chaffee, the American command- er of the forces in the Philippines, but they have not disclosed any correspond- | ence on Aguinaldo’s part containing evi- dence of conspiring against rule. Chief of Insular Bureau. Professor F. Lamson-Scribner, the agro- stologist of the Department of Agricul- ture, has been appointed chief of the In- sular Bureau of Agriculture in the Phil- ippines. He will have direct charge of all agricultural affairs in the archipelago. CONSIDER CHINESE EXCLUSION Kahn Has Some Important Amendments to the Law Regulating the Incoming of Coolies. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 5.—The con- ference of the Pacific Coast delegation will be held to-morrow at Representative Loud’'s room at the Capitol to perfect proposed legislation on the question of Chinese exclusion. Representative Kahn has prepared & bill prohibiting the coming into and regu- lating residence within the United States, its territorfes and possessions and the District of Columbia, of Chinese persons and persons of Chinese descent. It is probable some features of this bill will be incorporated in the measure framed and approved by the conference. Kahn's bill provides in its various sec- tions among other things for the return to China of all Chinese persons other than those described in the act; for the detention of cvery Chinese person by mas- ters, agents, dwners or consignees of ves- sels bringing Chinese persons to ports of the United States until final decision in the case; for heavy penalties for viola- tion of this; for penalty for fallure on the part of a captain to furnish a manifest showing the status of the Chinese persons on his vessel; for penalties for smuggling Chinese into this country; sefzure of a vessel wherever a master knowingly vio- lates the provisions of the act; for certifi- cates of the social status of Chinese per- sons; for furnishing list of all Chinese of- ficlals of the Chinese Government who desire to visit the United States and for the cancellation of all return certificates after two years. L 2 e 2 e e 2 ] ) could not interfere in regard to the con- centration camps except to relieve its own subjects and could not take the initiative in any appeal to the powers. Large Cossack Guard at Teheran. LONDON, Dec. 6.—A dispatch to fhe Times from Odessa Gescribes the great increase of Russian influence in Persia. The Standard’s correspondent says the Cossack guard at Teheran now numbers 2000 highly disciplined troops, commanded exclusively by Russian officers, TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE ON' WEST COAST OF INDIA Cne Hundred and Forty People Drowned by the Sinking of a Launch. LONDON, Dec. 6.—A dispatch to the Dally Express from Bombay says that during the celebration of the feast day of St. Francis Xavier, December 3, at the Portuguese city of Goa, on the west coast of India, the sinking of a launch resulted in drowning 140 devotees fifty yards from | the shore, American ORITIES FOR BRUTAL Tr1URDER Pay Penalty for Bury- ing Alive Unlucky Natives. 3. TWO NOTED OFFICERS AND THE CIVIL GOVERNOR OF THE PHILIPPINES. RE This is a new- office. Mr. Chamberlain, the Commissioner of Navigation, has issued a circular in which Collectors. of Customs throughout the United States are directed to exempt ves- sels from the Philippines arriving in this country of tonnage tax levied under au- thority of the act of 1886. Vessels arrriv- |CONGRESSIMEN OF THE COAST SENATE RECEIVES TREATIES. They Are Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—The Senate to- day recelved from the President the trea- ties renewing the reciprocity treaties and ing from foreign ports via the Philippines or visiting foreign ports while on a voy- age from the Philippines to the United States are still' subject to the tax. This action is taken under the authority of the recent decisions of the Supreme Court in the Philippine cases. Opposing Revenue Measure. Members of the House of Representa- tives are showing some opposition to the origination of Philippine revenue legisla- tion in the Senate and in particular to Senator Lodge's bill, which deals with this subject. Tawney of Minnesota holds | that the constitutional provision that “all bills for raising revenue shall originate in | the House of Representatives” applies to Philippine measures, and the Minnesota member will oppose any Senate bill as an invasion of the prerogatives of the House. -+ Overstreet of Indiana, and quite a num- ber of other influential members, main- tain that the Senate Philippine bill in- volves no invasion of the House rights, as it extends an existing law to the Philip- pines, and is not a revenue measure within the meaning of the constitution. In any event, the question of the right of the House over the subject is likely to be discussed on the floor of the House. Taking Troops to Manila. NEW YORK, Dec. 5.—The army trans- port Crook, with 341 men of the Eleventh Cavalry, 3% of the Twenty-seventh In- fantry, 40 of the Hospital Corps and 71 general cabin passengers on board, pulled down the bay to-night on the long run to ‘Manila, by way of Suez. The transport will make brief stops at Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said, Aden, Colombo and Singapore. TWO PASSENGER TRAINSTIEET IN A TERRIFIC COLLISION in executive session reterred them to the | Engineer, by Disregarding Orders, Kills Three People and Injures Two Score [lore. Committee on Foreign Relations. The principal ones are with Great Britain and cover the British West Indies. The ex- tradition treaty with the Argentine Re- public and the trade-mark treaty with Guatemala were also received by the Sen- ate and were referred without debate. The Senate spent some time during the executive session discussing the question of the proper committee reference of the nomination of Eugene R. Hendry to be Marshal for the Territory of Hawaii. The nomination at first was referred to the Committee on Porto Rico and Pacific Isl- ands, of which Senator Foraker is chair- man, but Senator Bacon raised the point that Hawali is a full fledged Territory of the United States, and that therefore the nomination should go to the Committee on Territories. Senators Teller, Foraker, Spooner and Bacon engaged In the controversy which followed and the question was ultimately, upon the suggestion of Senator Spooner, referred to the Committee on Rules for the formulation of a rule governing the subject, the reference meantime being held up. . Named for Office by the President. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—The President to-day sent the following nominations to the Senate: ' To be Collector of Internal Revenue for the District of Kansas, James M. Simp- son. Postmasters, Alaska—Frank W. Swan- ton, Nome; Arizona, George E. McAlli- son, Globe; Hawail, Vetlea Vetleson, Special Dispatch to The Call. % MALVERN, Ark., Dec, 5.—Three per- sons were killed and thirty-eight injured in a head-on collision between two passen- ger trains on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain- and Southern Rallroad, one mile and a half south of here, this evening. The two trains were No. 8, known as the St. Louis fast mall, southbound, leaving St. Louis at 3 a. m., and No. 14 known as the Little Rock and El Dorado northbound, due in Little Rock at 8 p. m. The dead: JERRY DICKSON (colored), Saginaw, Ark. Unknown man (colored). Unknown woman (colored). Among the injured whites are: Frank M. Henry, Malvern, ifiternal injuries, se- rious; Judge J. B. Moore, Arkadelphia, Ark., head cut, badly injured in back and hip; 8. L. Roberts, Little Rock, Ark., arm broken, head cut, legs sprained, se- rious; W. L. York, Oklahoma City, Okla., face cut, injured in back. The following injured are negroes: Mag- gle Stevenson, Landersville, Ala., right leg broken, internal injuries, probably fa- tal; Charles Densmore, Landersville, Ala., left leg broken, injured in back, probably fatal; Jennle Ware, Landersville, Ala., leg broken, injured internally, probably fatal. " Train No. 3 was to meet No, 14 at Mal- vern, but the latter train was late and No. 3 moved ahead, expecting to meet the other train at the next station. A mile and a half south of Malvern the two trains met in a terrific collision. Engineer Robert Herlot of No. 14 jumped in time to save his life and Engineer McCampbell of No. 3 did likewise. The two engines were wrecked and the colored coach next to the baggage car on the southbound train was badly smashed. It was crowded with colored emigrants en route from North Carolina, Georgla and Alabama to Texas. The smoking car on the north-bound train was badly damaged and most of its occupants were injured, but the rear coaches on this train did not suffer. —_— DISORDERLY STUDENTS BEATEN INTO SUBMISSION They Break the Windows of Business Houses and Insult People on the Street. BRUSSELS, Dec. 5.—There has been constant disorder during the week among the students at Louvain In Brabant. Yes- terday these disorders became serious. The students smashed the windows of business establishments and insulted pas- sers-by. They were charged and dis- persed by the police. Several students ‘were wounded and arrested, COURT FINS JGAINST HERO OF SINTIGD Naval Men Say That the Report Will Score Schley. —— Belief That the Admiral Is Convicted on Five of the Ten Counts. Commander of Flying Squadron Crit- icized for Delay Cff Cienfuegos, Retrograde Movement and Colon Affair. —— Special Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, Dec. 5.—~The Washington correspondent of the Inter Ocean tele- graphs his paper to-night as follows: ‘While the Schley court of inquiry is not expected to make its report for a week or ten days, it is understood that the three Admirals have practically concluded their work, and the only delay is in the prepa- ration of the formal report. The proceedings of the court have been carefuly guarded from the time the pub- lic hearings were closed, but there is a well-founded and good-grounded report in naval circles that the court has found against Admiral Schley on at least five counts. Alleged Offenses Committed. There are ten counts in the specifica- tions of the precept, and it is impossible to say on which of these the court finds against Admiral Schley. Naval officers who have followed closely the whole course of the inquiry believe that Schley will be criticised for the delay of the flying squadron off Clenfuegos; for his misrepresentations of the reasons for re- turning to Key West; for his disobedience In making the retrograde move- ment; for his fallure to destroy the Co- lon, and for conduct unbecoming an offi- cer and gentleman in the Schley-Hodgson controversy. It is regarded’as possible that the court may group several of these specifications in the general criticism om the conduet of Admiral Schley; but that he will be severely criticised there seems to be no doubt. Dewey Has a Blunt Way. Members of the court practically made up their minds in the last days of the public hearings, and it is said Admiral Dewey was ready to sign a report shortly after the court began its executive ses- sions. The hero of Manila has a practical and democratic way of going at puzzling questions. He was ready to drop formal- ity and proceed to write a general report upon the case. Admirals Benham and Ramsey are, however, greater sticklers for strict form- ality In such proceedings, and they de- sired to follow the rules of courts of in- quiry, go over the specifications and evi- dence upon each, and write their report in acccrdance with this method. They followed that rule in the executive ses- sions of the court and reached their find- ings. They are now preparing a formal report and will have it ready to submit to the Se¢retary of the Navy within a week or ten days. It is possible that it may be submitted to the President and made pub- lic from the White House instead of by the Secretary of the Navy. i sbbi e DID HIS DUTY IN BATTLE Court Will Find That Schley Is Not Guilty of Cowardice. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C.,, Deec. 5.—Admiral Dewey and his assoclates on the Schley court of inquiry are putting the finishing touches upon their'findings. These find- ings are being closely guarded and will not be made public until after their sub- mission to Secretary Long. The court completed the rearrangement of the testi- mony of the various officers under each specification of the precept ten days ago, and has since been devoting itself to the preparation of its conclusions. In well informed naval circles it is Be- leved the court will find Rear Admiral Schley derelict in these particulars: That he failed to promptly determine whether or not the Spanish squadron was in the harbor of Clenfuegos. That he ordered the fiying squadron to proceed to Keéy West after arrival to southward of Santiago without trying to ascertain whether the Spanish squadron was In that harbor. That he disobeyed the department’s {n- structions to proceed to Santiago to as- certain if the Spanish ships were there, and not to permit them to leave without a decisive action. That he regarded the coap supply of the ships under his command as insufficient to enable him to remain at Santiagoe, when there was sufficient fuel for this purpose. That he failed to deal fairly with Lieu- tenant Commander Hodgson in the fa- mous “Damn the Texas” colloquy. Officials who believe Rear Admiral Schley will be found derelict upon these points are equally convinced that the court will find: That Rear Admiral Schley should not be censured for the alleged slow voyage made by the flying squadron from Clen- . Continued on