The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 15, 1902, Page 1

Paper not | ken from | VOLUME XCL-—NO. 7 SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDPAY, FEBRUARY 15, Call, 1902. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GREAT BRITAIN REPUDIATES PAUNCEFQTE'S CONDUCT IN ATTEMPTING TO CAUSE NATIONS T0 MEDDLE IN AMERICAN-SPANISH DISPUTE Lord Cranborne, Parliamentary. Secretary for the Foreign Office, Declares Embassador Was Promptly Overruled - & SR JULIAM —3 | I { When His Views Were Communicated to Government % 4 of all classes of the British that there should be permanent peace and friendship between Great Britain and the Unied States, the committee views with alarm that there should be any attempt to use that natural bond as a means of offend- ing the moral sentiment of the rest of -the world or in betraying those supreme interests on which depend general peace.” GERMANS MAKE DENIALS. Declare Holleben Could Not Have Taken the Initiative. BERLIN, Feb. 14—The National Zeit- ung, In a long article mainly devoted to controverting the views and alleged mis- sinterpretations by London newspapers of the Holleben-Pauncefote incident, de- clares that it is well known in Washing- ton that the incident of Admiral von Diedrichs in Manila Bay has been fully cleared up. The paper also points out that it is al- most impossible for Dr. Holleben, the Ger- man Minister at Washington, to have taken the initiative in such a matter with- out the Imperfal Government's authority, or that the Reichsanzeiger should have published the documents it did without the Emperor's express consent., The Na- tional Zeltung adds: “It goes without saying that the publi- cation of the note was made at the com- % FPAUNCETOTE- ONDON Feb. 14—The Parla- | Secretary for the For- Lord Cranborne, & question of Henry _beral) con the the British Embassador Lord Pauncefote, April 14, ened Lord Pauncefote, the Embassadors, at the ver- of some of colleagues. expressed by by were rward an identical tel- their respective governments suggesting 2 r communication Government he British Gov- d by objecting to repl er Lord Pauncefote was Majesty’s Government We, at act} e no Governmer after full consid- he Under Secre- ign Affairs, Lord Norman (Liberal) mmons “‘from which ain declined to asso- RIOTERS ARE SUPREME IN STREETS OF TRIESTE Mob Stones the Police and Troops Are Stationed in Public Squares. Feb. 14.—This city hands of riotous the factories are c sed and which opened for business were compelled to close, owing to the which paraded the streets. Traffic was suspended. whose fire- men were first to strike, were pro- tected by force of police, who repeatedly charged and attempted to drive k the rioters. The military have sblic squares and other The mobs frequently police and some shots were ting held this afternoon in the was followed by a street ich the troops fired a vol- six of whom were killed y wounded. meeting was attended by 4000 strik- E ressed by the labor lead- pacific vein, but owing hooting they could not scrimmages the con- bs of rioters attacked the rear with cutepant was se- fell. His men then The further dis- complished swords, and ve consented that a court the dispute of the strike 000 men of ail trades have gone on strike. The tram- ways, the ds and the newspapers are all = city is quiet to- might. All the buildings are protected by troops. re- | he House of Commons | ject of the at | g which occurred April 14, he communication as in- | formation of the at- Austrian | + + ‘ ; GREAT BRITAIN'S EMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES WHO | TRIED TO CAUSE POWERS TO INTERFERE IN DISPUTE WITH ; SPAIN, AND FOREIGN OFFICE PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY. + i | powers In a second note to the United | States urging a peaceful settlement of the | dispute with Spain, which course The | Hague convention declared it to be the | duty of the powers when a dispute oc~ | curs between any two of them, and while e chief continental the committee fully shares the dpsh'ej | UNCONFIRMED RUMOR | OF TOLSTOI'S DEATH | Conflicting Reports Are Sent Out Concerning the Aged Author’s Condition. VIENNA, Feb. 14.—The Neueste Wiener Journal publishes an unconfirmed rumor that Count Tolstol is dead. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 14.—The Mos- | cow Courler says Count Tolstoi’s condi- tion is hopeless. On the other hand, the | St. Petersburg Viedomost! publishes a | telegram received from a physiclan yes- terday saying that acute inflammation of | the lungs and pleura set in February 6, but that since then there has been a gradual improvement in the patjent's | condition, and that there is still hope that | he will recover. | EARTHQUAKE DESTROYS THE TOWN OF SHAMAKA Few Houses Are Left Standing and Great Loss of Life Is Reported. LONDON, Feb. 14—A News dispatch from St. Petersburg snnounces that the | large town of Shamaka, Trans-Caucasia, | has been destroyed by an earthquake. No | details of the disaster have been received. | ©Only a few houses in Shamaka are standing and the earthquake was attend- ed by great loss of life 4 -— | Sues for Quarter of a Million. | CHICAGO, Feb. 14.—Mrs. Helen E. No- | lan, formerly Miss Koch, wife of James | Nolan, sald to be a wealthy mine-owner | of Pasadena. Cal.. brought suit in the | Circuit Court to-day for §250.000 damages against John V. Farwell and Michael P. Mcnohan, the latter a saloonkeeper at 86 Custom House court. Nolan's sudden dis- appearance a few days after his marriage |@nd his failure to return, which are ai- | leged to have been caused by Influence exercised over him by the defendants, is given as the basis of the suit. Allegations will also be made, it is said, tending to show that representations were made to Nolan by the defendants that he had made a mistake in marrying, mand of Emperor Willlam and that its sole object was to establish the truth, iv"{};lch had been obscured by the other side. “In the relation betweéen Germany and Great Britain there will now be no rea- son, so far as Germany is concerned, to enter into politics.” i s 2 R S R RO SRR NORIEN Y RAILROAD MAGNATES i OBTAIN A NEW LINE Controlling Inte;t in the Colorada and Southern Passes to Gates Syndicate. CHICAGO, Feb. 14—The Tribune to- morrow will say: John W. Gates, John J. Mitchell, Isaac Ellwood and those associ- ated with them in the control of the Colo- rado Fuel and Iron Company appear to have made another railroad venture. It is learned from good authority that they have purchased a controlling interest in the Colorado and Southern. This road runs from Denver, Colo., to Texline, Texas, 356 miles, and its other division branches and extensions comprise a mile- age of 785, making the total length of miles operated 1142. The company also owns a majority of the stock of the Den- ver and Fort Worth Railroad®and has a half interest in the Cororado Midland Rallway, which runs from Colorado Springs to Grand Junction, Colo. The Rio Grande Western owns the other half in- terest of the Midland. The mines and plants of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company are all located on the lige of the Colorado and Southern and the Denver and Rio Grande. By the ac- quisition of the Colorado and Southern the Gates’ syndicate means to give all of its business to this road and thus greatly increase its earnings. The stocks, bonds and liabilities of the Colorado and South- ern amount to $67,201,870. WILL EXPEND MILLIONS FOR EXTENDING LINES Pacific States Telephone and Tele- graph Company Directors Au- thorize Vast Betterments. PORTLAND, Or., Feb. 14.—The annual meeting of stockholders of the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Comi- pany was held to-day. Expenditures were authorized for extension of the lines of the company and for other improvements which aggregate §2,100,000, Ibantid o | {customary. New-Year's call-and prasented NEW TREATY SUBJECT OF DIaGUSION Count Cassini Is Closeted ‘With Secretary of State Hay. America Has No Intention of Participating in Anglo- Japanese Pact. Report That an Arrangement of Alli- ance Has Been Made Between | Russia and China Is Not Believed. o Special Disvatch to The Call, CALL BUREAU, 06 G STREET, N.! W., WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—Count Cas- sini, the Russian Embassador, called at the State Department this afternoon, and | for more than an hour was closeted with | Secretary Hay. Such information as can | be obtained indicates that the Manchurian question, as affected by the treaty of al- | nance signed by Great Britain and Japan, | was under discussfon. 8o far as can be learned the State Department has not yet been advised of the signature of either the Manchurian evacuation treaty or the arrangement granting comcessions in Manchuria to the Russo-Chinese - bank. This Government has been officlally in- formed of the contents of the evacuation | convention, and there is' absolutely no opposition to it. Russia insists that’ the Russo-Chinese bank is a private institution and that concessions given to it are concession€ which any nation can give to its own sub- jects, for the Russo-Chinese bank, as its name indicates, has Chinese capital in- terested in it. The State Department ap- preciates the injustice of this argument, but is anxfous that American interests shall be protected. The report this morning that the United States proposed to adhere to the Anglo- Jepanese treaty is emphatically denied. The United States, it is declared, has no | intention of being a participant in that 1 arrangement. i Conger Congratulates China. PEKING, Feb. 14—An unusual incident | took place to-day at the Foreign Office. | After the forelgn Ministers had paid the | | | | an address of _congratulation, , United | States Minister Conger, sregardless of | precedent, made a speech to Prince Ching, congratulating China on the position in | which she now finds herself. It is under- | stood by fellow diplomats that Conger referred to the Anglo-Japanese treaty. LONDON, Feb. 14.—The statement pub- lished by La Lanterne of Paris that a | treaty of alliance has been signed between | Russia and China does not find support |in any quarter. | ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 14.—The Rus- | stan official view of the Anglo-Japanese treaty was communicated to a corre- spondent to-day as follows: | We accept the news of the entente with the | most complete gquanimity and are happy to ascertain that England and Japan are pledged to maintain the integrity of China and the in- :dependence of Korea, two principles which | Russia was the first to establish as the basis of her foreign policy in the Orfent. Russia iwould willingly have subscribed to the agree- ments in the preamble. The English-Japanese say their convention has only essentially pacific aims. This makes it all the more astonishing when they speak of war and coalitions. What power they have in view we cannot say. But in any case, if peace is menaced in the extreme Orient, Russia, for her part, will not fail to take all the measures necessary to safeguard her interests. All Russia’s conventions with Japan have almed at the preservation of the integrity of China and the independence of Korea and it is true that Minister Kurino came to us immediately to communicate the text of the agreement and to give the most amicable assurance. We have reason to be- lieve that it is not true that America, with whom we are in perfect accord, is a silent part- ner in the agreement. We have given America positive assurances that Russia will do nothing which will disturb the interests of America in China. We do not belleve America is anxious about the situation. Furthermore, we have ‘received satisfactory assurances that America is not taking any steps against us in China. Welcomes General Intent. The few morning papers which com- mented on the treaty intimated that Rus- sia was & party to both the preliminary negotiations and the treaty itself. The St. Petersburg Zeitung welcomes the general intent of the agreement to preserve the integrity of China and Korea, “which Russia has so frequently, fully and entirely expressed itself in favor of. The aims of the two island powers therefore in no wise clash with Russia’s intentions. So the agreement raises no anxiety whatever.” . The Herald declares the alllance was by no means unexpected, ‘“as the Japanese report kept the Russian Foreign Office fully and loyally informed of the progress of events. At the time of the Chinese troubles Russia laid down its programme for the integrity of China, so it can have no objection to Great Britain and Japan formally adhering to the same policy.” “We hope,” the Herald proceeds, “‘that we now have before us a period of five years of undisturbed peace in the Far | Bast, which we shall not fail to utilize in consolidating relations with our Asiatic neighbors.” The Herald concludes with hailing with the highest satisfaction the recognition of the integrity and independence of Korea, ‘ias fears of Japan's designs against Korea had heretofore caused anxlety in Russia.” -« —— Appeals to Catholics. PARIS, Feb. 14—In a pastoral letter the Archbishop of Bordeaux condemns the educational policy of the Government and appeals to Catholics to protest by votes against the closing of religious schools. The Lenten charge of the Bishop of Valence, department of Drome, is also concetved in the same spirity), , .. . | POLICY IN CREATING GOOD WILL OF EUROPEAN NATIONS IS STYLED “FLUNKYISM” Wheeler of Kentucky Protests Against President’s Daughter Going to Lon- don and Scoffs at Prince Henry L] g REPRESENTATIVE FROM KEN- TUCKY WHO DELIVERED A MOST REMARKAELE SPEECH. * ASHINGTON, Feb. 14—The monotony of a private pen- slon day of the House was enlivened to-day by a very sensational speech from Rep- resentative Charles K. Wheeler of Ken- tucky in denunciation of what he denom- inated ‘“flunkyism’ to foreign countries. He took the recent statements emanating from Continental cabinets regarding the attitude of Great Britain during the Span- ish war as a text for a wholesale attack upon the trend of our recent diplomacy. His speech aroused the House to a high pitch of excitement and elicited from Boutell of Illinois a spirited defense ot Secretary Hay, whom he eulogized in high terms. Several other members on the Republican side took a hand and later in the afternoon Grosvenor of Ohio took Wheeler to task for his “inopportune pro. test” and rehearsed the history of the visit of the Prince of Wales to this coun- try in 1860 and his reception by President Buchanan. Flunky in State Department. Wheeler delivered his sensational speech during the consideration of one of the private pension biils. “Mr. Chairman,” he began, “I have read with lively interest the recent exposure and criticism in the press of the attitude of Great Britain and the other European powers toward the republic during the war of 1808 Diyisions of public sentiment among the people of the United States are to be desired. But until the inaugu- ration of the President of 1897 there never was any division of sentiment upon one great question and that was the splendid isolation of the republic and its fixed de- termination to hold aloof from ,all en tangling alliances with foreign powers. Then the belief and fixed judgment of well nigh every patriotic citizen was overturned and for the first time we wit- nessed a President of the United States, alded and egged on by g pitiable flunky in the State Department, stretching his arms acrbss the water to embrace the historic enemies of the American people. From that good hour until now we have made ourselves a laughing stock at every court in Europe because of our flunky- ism, our truculency here and the dis- graceful sycophancy of the representa. tives of the republic at the feet of Great Britain, and now, when it serves the pur. pose of some other great nation, the pitia- ble spectacle is presented that we have been hugging to our bosom during the last five years a nation that has systematical- ly and persistently attempted to destroy the libertles of the American fleople since the battle of Yorktown. Roosevelt Is Quixotic. “We find now, despite the fact that the present administration Is afraid, even fo the face of its great majority, to ask an appropriation of $60,000 or $100,000 to pay some shoulder-strapped, gold-laced flun- kv to cross the . water and bow tha P> knee and kiss the hand of some English King, that while this very pitiable spec- tacle is being presented to us, it is being | heralded abroad that in 1888, when we were seeking to strike the shackles of serfdom from the ueels of Cuba, that | nation was then secretly in-our own. ita] attempting to form a coalition of the great powers of the world to prevent that interposition. And it has not caused a| ripple in diplomatic circles. It has been the boast of America, diplomacy to the contrary notwithstanding,. that when our | State Department said ‘no’ we meant | ‘no,’ and when it said ‘yes’ we meant | ‘yes’ It remained for the present and | the just closed Republican administration to Inaugurate a system of European di-| plomacy, with a kid-gloved, velvet-| tongued gentleman, who had to travel| out of his way to find a response to a plain categorical question. “We are destroying the integrity and the pride and the Intelligence and the honesty of that great department of the Government. I have a respect for the present occupant of the White House, I | frankly avow. I think he is too honest to be palatable to the average Republican partisan. A little Quixotic, it s true, hasty-tempered, full-blooded and not exactly desirable to many of our citizens, and 1 indulge the hope that the lingering element of Americanism will induce him at the first opportunity to boot out that man in the State Department who in my | judgment has brought us té this humil fating condition. Is England a Friend? | * “England a friend of the United States? I would to God she were, but what a| spectacle have we presented in order to| be able to boast that we have the friend ship of Great Britain and have become a | world power. Never before in the history | of the republic has there been a struggle | for freedom on the part of any people | that representatives in this chamber did | | not hasten to declare that we regarded | with solicitude the endeavors and efforts of a people to obtain their own liberty. For more than four years we have wit- nessed Great Britain maintaining mill- tary stations inside the borders of two republics. We have seen her agents go- ing up and down this country enlisting men and buying materials of war. “We have swung farther away from Democratic traditions, from Republican ideas and from Republican principles in the last five years than,in the previous hundred years. Things are now accepled! as a matter of course that would have shocked the Intelligence of our fore- fathers beyond endurance—all growing out of this striving to lock arms with the great European powers and become a world power, to foster this new idea o: diplomacy, sitting quletly by and allow- ing a representative of one great power to assemble in his residence in the cap- ital of the republic the representatives of every other great nation and make the cold-blooded and deliberate demand, or request, that they join with him in a de- termination arbitrarily and with force to prevent the American people from ac- complishig what they had determined to accomplish. It may be well enough to treat the representatives of foreign pow- ers with courtesy and consideration. Would Send Away Pauncefote. “I do declare that If the publication In the press is true, this man Pauncefote ought to be ordered to take the first ship to cross the waters. We want no such man in the republic. If he comes here to represent his Government, well and good, but if he comes here to hatch con- spiracles, to attempt to force his wishes and his ideas upon the American people, Continued on “e Three. | stzing for the conduct | would ostentatiously NAVAL MEN REFUSE T0 - FORGET IT Peculiar Conduct of the Germans at Manila Is Recalled. Prince Henry’s Letter Is Rather Late in Making Amends Honorable. Officers Who Served With Dewey Tell of the Many Disagreeable Acts of the Squadron Un- der Von Diedrichs. Special Dispatch to The Call, CALL BUREAU, H0§ G STREET, N. W.. WASHINGTON, Feb. M4.—Prince Henry's letter to Admiral Dewey apolo- of the German squadron in Manila Bay during the war with Spain, the gist of which was pub. lished by The Call this morning, created a most favorable impression offictal circles in Washington. ‘While officers who served with Admiral Dewey are gratified that Prince Henry has seen fit to make amende honor- able for the conduct of Vice Admiral von Diedrichs at Manila, they say that he is somewhat late about it. One of these officers said to-night: “So far as Prince Henry is concernea his relations with Admiral Dewey in the in | Far East were quite pleasint. The oniy unpleasantness that occurred was at a banquet at Hongkong. Prince Henry did not refuse to toast the United States, as reported. At the time Admiral Dewey's rank was that of a commodore, and his | country was toasted after another power whose representative was of higher rank, Dewey and the Prince. “Just before the war with Spain Prince Henry and Admiral Dewey engaged in a conversation in the course of which the | Prince stated that the powers would not permit the United States to acquire Cuba. “‘The United States does not want Cuba,’ responded Admiral Dewey, ‘and it is useless to discuss that question.’ ‘“Vice Admiral von Diedrichs acted in a most disagreeable manner toward Americans. 1 do not believe that ne would have dared to act in such a mana- ez mithout special instructions. Instead of sending one or even two ships to Ma. nila Bay to protect German interests in Manila, he brqught to the harbor five vessels. “It gas well understood in the Amer- ican squadron that Vice Admiral von Diedrichs wanted the two remaining ships of his squadron, which were with Prince Henry at Kiachou, to come to Manila Bay to reinforce him. “The German ships at Manila were con- tinuously running in and out of the ha bor, passing through the American block- ading line. Launches were steaming about the harbor at night, necessitating con- stant vigilance on the part of American men-of-war, who might have fired on them, mistaking them for Spanish tor- pedo boats. That Message of Deflance. “When Vice Admiral von Diedrichs sent his flag lieutenant on board the Olympia to complain at the interference of the American ships, Admiral Dewey told him to tell his chief that if he wanted war he was prepared to let him have This declaration had a good effect. “The Germans were constantly showing their sympathy for the Spaniards. When- ever their ships came in the harbor they salute the Spanish flag. German ships brought to Mani4 the families of Spanish officers who were sur- rounded by insurgents on Isla Grande. “Jt is true that the Germans offered to surrender these persons to the Americans, but Admiral Dewey had no place to put them and permitted them to be landed. Just before the fall of Manila, a German man-of-war conveyed the Spanish Cap- tain General of the Philippines to Hong-~ | xong. “Before the bombardment of Manila Admiral Dewey notified the foreign com- manders that he proposed to attack, and he requested that they get out of the way. The German and French anchored on one side of the bay and the English and Japanese took a position just in the American rear. In view of these cir- cumstances, is it strange that the senti- ments of the fiéet at Manila were not triendly to the Germans? “While desiring that our country be hospitable to Prince Henry, we.cannot forget the attitude of his countrymen dur~ ing the Spanish war.” Officers Return Calls. NEW YORK, Feb. 4.—Admiral von Baudissin, commander of the German Imperial yacht Hohenzollern, was kept busy to-day receiving and returning calls. In the morning, wearing full uniform with many decorations and acecompanied by Lieutenant von Wurtemburg, he called upon Mayor Adolph Lanker of Ho« boken. The two conversed for a few minutes in German. Mutual compliments were then exchanged in English and the admiral was introduced to some of the city officials before he returned to the yacht. Major General Brooke, commanding the Department of the East, called on the admiral shortly before noon and was re- celved with much ceremony. At 2 o'clock this afternoon Admiral Barker of the Brooklyn navy yard re- turned the call of Admiral von Baudissin made yesterday. After the American ad- miral took his departure the German ad« miral left for New York, in citizen's ate tire, to make calls on several New York familles he met in Kiel, Germany. To-night he was the guest at dinner of his brother-in-law, 'Alfred C. Johnston, of this city. The Mayor of New York visited the Hohenzollern late in the after- noon, but as the admiral was absent he remained only a few minutes.