The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 10, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCL—NO 41. — SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1902. GUINALDO’S BRAVE CAPTOR COMES HOM PRICE FIVE CENTS. E TO SEEK REST FROM HARDSHIPS OF WAR e, o TWO BR ’E OFFICERS AND TRANSPORT THAT BROUGHT THEIT HOME FROM PHILIPPINES. | | NICARAGUAN CANAL BILL . “1S PASSED IN THE HOUSE BY OVERWHELMING VOTE All Amendments Favoring Delay or Purchase of the Panama Company’s Ditch Are Quickly ASHINGTON, Jan. Hepburn Nicaraguan canal bill passed the House late ernoon by practically au mous vote. Only two members out of 310 voted Fletcher ssiter (D.) of Virginia were gaitve votes. ostion to committing the Gov- Nicaraguan route attempt- dments 1o lodge with discretionary power. to te the Panama canal for $40,000,000. test came on the first vote, when.the 1 alternative route polled ) votes, At each succeed- r strength dwindied, until n in undet whose leader- ship 1t was made, was unable to get the ayes and noes on a motion to re- commit. All other amendments falied and the bill was passed exactly as it came from the committee. None of the votes except that on the final passage of the me President the 1 comple 14 be purchased Defeated. 9.—The , bill was a record vote. The debate which preceded the taking of the final vote was | made raemorable by a clash between Hep- | burn, the author of the bill, and Cannon, | chairman of the Appropriations Commit- tee. On several previous occasions ' they { have measured swords over- canal legle- lation. Two years ago a similar bill was passed by a vote of 224 to 36. What the Bill Authorizes. The bill as passed to-day authorizes the | President to secure from the states of Costa Rica and Nicaragua, in behalf of | the United States, control of such por- | tion of territory belonging to said states las may be desirable and necessary, on which to excavate, construct and main- | tain a canal suitable to the wants of mod- | ern navigation and commerce, and appro- | priate such a sum as may be necessary | to secure the control of the said terri- tory. Section 2 authorizes the ' President, after securing control of the needed ter- > — |IAMERICAN OFFICERS FACE = AND |Captain Benoist Closely | v LL . determined to shift, if possi- ble, the responsibility of the re- cent marine horror from their own shoulders, the officers of the lost Walla Walla and those of the Frenchman Max, whose fron prow wrought the steamer's fate, faced one another in the rooms of the United States Inspectors of Hulls and Boilers yesterday. The master of the Frenchman, which survived the shock that sent the big passenger ship to the bottom, was on the defensive. Before him were the men who charge that he and his crew are alone responsible for deathi’s dread harvest. He and his men defended themselves agalnst the charge, while for hours the officers of the Walla gle of cross-questions. The investigation to fix the' responsi- bility for the wreck | opened yesterday morning at 9:30 o'clock. The testimony of the master and a portion of the crew of the. Max was taken. It was substan- tally . the same a3 “heretofore published. -“Walla sought to enmesh them in a tan- | "FRENCHMEN BEFORE HULLS BOILERS INSPECTORS Questioned by Captain Hall and Second Officer Lupp of the Walla Walla. though new interest comes from a knowl- edge of the minor details of the wreck, as given by those who were actors in this tragedy of thé sea. The investigation was somewhat ham- pered 'n.y the absence of a good interpre- ter. Two were pressed Into service, but reither proved a shining success. Fred- erick Henry, agent for the owners of the Max, essayed to translate for Captain Be- noist, but he was slow, as each question bad to be explained to him. In the after- ncen a court interpreter attempted to fill the position, but his vecabulary did not contain as many nautical terms as the inspectors and witnesses “sprung”on him, Captain Hall and Second Officer Lupp of the Walla Walla were interested lis- teners at the hearing. They were invited to ask questions and they availed them- selves of the privilege. Attorney Milton Andros and E. C. Ev- ans were present as repregentatives of the owners of the Max. M. Page of the —_ e ISR 2 < 1_ ER = General Funston Tells Modestly the Story of His Heroism-—Transport Warren Brings - - . AM glad to get back home once more,” sald General Funston, as he stood ‘on the ‘deck of the Warren Just before leaving the transport. “I have been very ill for the past few months and I think the charige of climite will have'a good effect on me. Just before leaving the Philippines I was for three months in the hospital with a bad attack of appendicitis. .I' was operated upon in Manila, but I did not convalesce rapidly and I am yet in a very pgor state of health. The hard campaign and the fortunes of war have made in- roads into 'my health. “My future plans as far as my return to the Philippines is concerned will de- pend largely on-the state of my health. I am now _home on a two months’ sick leave, but # I do not improve greatly in that time ft may be necessary for me to request the department to grant me a longer leaveé or I may not be able to go back at all. I will stay at my home An Oakland for & week or two and then I will go back to my.old home in Kansas. Holds Kansas People Dear. “The Kansas people are dear to me, and I intend to spend some time with them., After staying in Kansas a week or so I will leave there and go directly to ‘Washington, where I have some impor- tant business to which I must give my attention. “The situation in the Philippines is about the same as it was a few months ago. The desultory fighting is still going on, but not as fiercely as in former days. The American troops are drawing in the reins on the insurrectionists a little every day, and the time is not far distant when even the warlike spirit of the wild tribes of the outlying districts will be entirely crushed out. I was stationed at San Fer- nando in the province of Panga on the island of Luzon when I took sick, and General Bisbee relieved me in command.” Asked to furnish the details of his cap- ture of the famous Filipino chief, Agui- naldo, General Funston smiled and said: “All that has been gone over and over again. The story of the capture was told fully in my official report. I was unac- companied by. Americans, save my aid de camp, Lieutenant B. J. Mitchell of the Fortieth Volunteer Infantry, Captain Newton of the Thirty-fourth Infantry, Lieutenant Hazard of the Bleventh Vol- unteer Cavalry and Captain Hazard of the same organization. = Lieutenant Mitchell is with me. He has a leave of absence and will no doubt enjoy his triy home. Trusted to Native Scouts. “In addition to the officers I have men- Many Veterans. HE United States army trans- ports Warren and Kilpatrick, | which arrived yesterday from ‘ Manila, brought, between them, | nearly two regiments of the men that have been making history in the Philippine Islands. Among the cabin passengers were two men of high military rank. One of th2m | has been in the Philippines ever since’| General Elwell 8. Otis took command of the Department of the Pacific and has been in the thick of the work of con- | verting “g00-goos” to an appreciation of | American civilization. The other is_ the | hero of a deed which not long ago sent | his name ringing throughout the world | and gained for him the next to highest | regular rank in the United Staies army. Brigadier General R. P. Hughes and Brigadier General Funston were the star passengers on the transport Warren. They are both quiet, modest men of small stature. There the resemblance | ends. Hughes Is old, thin, but wiry and | active, and not the least bit military from a sartorian point:of view. Funston is plump, dignified and correctly cloaked and:| tunicked. Hughes, in spite of his grizzled features, has a merry twinkle in his steel gray eyes. Funston looks solemn and somewhat careworn. Funston’s face lost. its solemnity, how- ever, when Deputy, Surveyor of the Port Chauncey St. John, who boarded the transport with the. customs forces, in- formed him of the recent safe arrival in Oakland of a little Funston. He _beamed all over. When St. John handed him a photograph of Mrs. Funston and the baby Funston forgot all about the respon- sibilities of his brigadier generalship and trotted in and out among his fellow pas- sengers proudly exhibiting the picture of his son and heir. 3 General Hughes would never have been picked out as one of the men in whose honor the blue flag with the white star was waving at the foremast head. He wore a most unmilitary and decidedly weather-worn rain coat, with a curtailed cape attachment. His head gear was a cloth cap. While the people on the tugs alongside were craning. their necks in search of “the other. gemeral,” the late provost marshal of Manila was curled up in a sheitered corner, puffing comfort from nrtnx stemmed briar-wood pipe. ““Three years and a half since I left here and up to the neck in work ever since, right up to the day I boarded this trans- port. T'm tired, yes. And I'm glad to get back. But I could do it all over again if necessary.” That's what Brigadier General R. P. | or less of - HERE was no one-starred flag flying at the masthead of the transport Kilpatrick, but there were somé first-class fighting men between her decks. Most of the returning soldiers have seen more twentieth century warfare, where the distance between foes is a mat- ter for strong fleld glasses and mathe- matical calculation. These particular fighting men, however, have seen war- fare as it used to be; have fought hand to hand with cold steel, and against over- whelming odds. They belong to the fam- ous Ninth Infantry, the regiment that has been the particular chopping block for the belligerent natives of Samar and other turbulent provinces. Sergeant Sylvester Burke of Company C, .Captain Connell, was at Balingiga, Samar, September 28. The command, sev. enty-one strong, was surprised by bola- men, who strrounded them in overwhelm- ing force. Back to back the members of Company, C resisted the avalanche of flashing ives. It was side arms against bolos, and the hottest engagement ever fought in modern times. Yankee pluck triumphed, but at a cost of forty-eight lives. " The twenty-three survivors man- aged to reach Basey, where Company G was stationed. A squad from the latter company returned with the twenty-three, drove away such natives as were still hovering about the secne of the masacre and burled the forty-eight. Can Hear. Their Yells Still. “It was the hottest scrap ever I want to mix in with,” said Sergeant Burke, “and I'm just good enough Irishman to like a fight as well as the next man. I can hear those ‘googoo’ yells now. In the excitement we never noticed how they ‘were mowing down our boys, and it was not until we reached Company G and counted over our ragged remnant that we realized the kind of game we'd been up against. We got mad then, and when a burying squad from G started for the scene those of us that could went along. We were fixed for the niggers that time, but just as soon as we started shooting they vamoosed into the brush. They cer- tainly gave us the surprise of our lives and they fought like demons.” Sergeant F. E. Welch and Privates C. ‘W. Burke, A. Hunter and J. Hynes be- long to Company E. They went through a similar experlence in another part of Samar on October 16. Company E in that surprise lost ten killed and ten wounded. “They came on us with as little warn- ing as an earthquake gives,” sald Ser- geant Welch. “We had only our side Rl SR . ~_Continued on. P_s—(; !“o\u. 3 ___Continued on Pags Three, -~ ... Continued on Page Four, < ~ Continued on Page Four, ',