The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 24, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCI-NO, 14 5 STRIKING CARMEN SUB PRICE FIVE CENTS. MIT DEMANDS OF THE UNION TO DIRECTORS f T a meeting of the Board of Directors of the United Railroads to be held this morning, the demands of the striking carmen, submitted at a conference between the em:Dloyers and employes 3'Es!em.fa_v af- ! ternoon, will be passed upon and a decision by the management of the corporation will be reached. At the conference the diffcrences between the strikers and.the railroad company were dispassionately | discu OF THE UNITED RAILROA d. The best of feeling prevailed throughout. TVhat the result of the conference will be cannot be foretold. | — DS, WHO AGREE TO GIVE ANSWER TO-DAY L e —_ 1 | CHAFFEE MUZZLES | | GIVEN HIS | GENERAL | OWN WAY FUNSTON | i | ‘ \ . . . i . . Obtains Permission| President Indicts an to Wage War on | Order to Stop | | 1 | the Moros. i Talking. Asked to Endeavor to|Unpleasant Action Is|| | s e o B Prevent General | Due to Criticism i Conflict. of Hoar. H . | A e A AR i Danger of an Uprising | Captor of Aguinaldo | P . ‘ e [ of All Philippine | Takes Medicine || Mohammedans. | Gracefully. ; | 11 Special Dispatch to The Call. i | CALL BUREAU, 406 G STREET, N.| | 4 in dealing | W-- WASHINGTON, April 2.—Brigadier | | the island of | General Frederick Funston, who captured | | 4 to exhaust | AEuinaldo, has been reprimanded by the | ! e egotiation he | President for indiscreet discussion of the | | & =2 ¢ on & war against | Phillppine question and reflections upor | o oy £ them to terms. | Senafor Toar of Mascachusetts. The | | g g oy of the ad- | President has further shown his dissatis- | | + offictal cor- | faction with General Funston by refus- | | War Department | 18 o grant him permission to dsliver] | affce, made pubiic | 2R 2ddress before the Middlesex Club of | | | Boston. The action of the President fol- | | gins with the | 10Wed a perusal of the speeches which | | s <t week, dated Ma. | N2Ve been recently made by General Fun- | | 2 in which General Chaffce |Ston- At the banquet of the Colorado | | " pgp e o Y ; | Sons g i G al Funst - . g of the first American | E,uw or:he Rexolu:q\r\ 1>enoral F un,mu.‘\ | 2 or Malabang and the forming | TCfSFTIng to the Philippine insurrection, | | pe b Pt To arnest | ¥ :::-:r::d ta m{:-e;lnadf this statement | . nswer to this the | SOnCerning Senator Hoar: Nl : | I have only &ympathy for the senlor | | g wLica | Senator from Massachusetts, who is sut- | | s whoadamdisc « (TR fering from an overheated conscience.” | ! e wntil you hear from | Semator Hoar is understood to have | | p Z22-, <+ nowever, interfere with | been deeply ‘offended by = General Fun- | | y 7 = 2 i CommIN. | stom's criticlem, and the administration, | | V2 . X e | learnirg of his dissatisfaction, decided to | | ASEED TO AVOID fl.WAB“ wax | take General Funstomfo aecount. fn ac-| | pril e following telegram Was| .oraance’ with instructions®glven: by ths | | . S ous | President, Colonel Sanger, acting Scere- |.| D atil anl of. | taTy Of War, sent this letter to-day to | | % Moros H 2 T, | General Funsten: 1 egotiations have been exhausted | | e Soniuiie ok you evedis: Sl iwith MUST STOP DISCUSSION. [ g In event the force | WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, | ! se the im- —Sir: Tam directed by the President | | : The Pres. | to instruct you that he wishes you to cease | | & desires ex- | further public discussion of the situation in the & - | Philippines, and to also express his regret that | | 4 you should make a Senator of the United | | | States the object of your criticism or discus- | sion. Very respectfully | WILLIAM CAREY SAN % | - Acting Secretary of War. | * Brigadier General Funston, Commanding De- | . partme do, Denver, Colo. B | A copy of the letter was sent to eSn- | | - norable peaceful remedy | ator Hoar, w it is understocd, ex-| x ed CORBIN. sfaction with the action | < to the I d announced that he was willing | | - ¢ given out at let the matter drop. | 8 The President is determined to stop the | TIREY L wvomD QA on of public questions by army | | s\ officers, and the reprimand ad- | + ministered to General Funston was made ?\ public both for the additional punishment D M l =~ which publicity involves ana to sow o- | ASCITIEITAS/VIAY | | 3 | ficers of the two services that they must | 3 | A keep within the bound of propriety if | O | 5 hey desire to escape official rebuke. | CC&SIOH \ EXPLAINED BY FUNSTON. | \ DENVER, Colo.; April 23.—General ¥ | D 1 . referring to the order from Wash- | e a - i directing him not to discuss the | e > " 4 nff. dictated the following Sta\t—} FTER considerable acrimoni- | ment. to-day; £ g { ous discussion the striking What 1 said ‘““’h" "r's‘:“”:“"" : tween two | carmen and the officials of the peopl S e SEoseme United Rallroads of S8an Fran- | did not believe what they were saying; 2 ok A i o, pavle b0 vt it hs e cisco met for the first time Mind o ot amaarhiibetts Belnass whol since the strike was declared ARTHUR oLl AND PEACEFUL REMEDIES FIRST. ai what they were saying, were per- in the offices of the.company e “President’s orders” referred to in | fectly sincere, but were suffering from over- | Yesterday afternoon. The demands of the | t ed April 20 and April | heated consciences—that iz, they were too sin- | Union carmen were formally presented, | 22 € the expedition under | cere stead of criticizing Senator Hoar, T in- | but no action thereon was taken. The par- | A i3 (U -~ AL O A onel I ot to leave the coast |tended to pay him a compliment on being ®o | ties to.the controversy separated with | further arders. The second meseage | Afcere. In regurd o my leave of absence, | tho : understanding that the company | | 'CONFERENCE OF THE STRIKING CARMEN AND THE OFFICIALS OF THE UNITED RAILROADS - dent is anxious that no | 1 made the application one evening, but de- | would file its reply to-day. K expedition be made against the Moros un. | PATtment matters came up the next morning | There was a material hitch in the pro- | negotiations have been er Davis directed 1e command of the expedition in T n to send it, and “If possible avoid by ble means a general war.” A third message suggested that the sur- ender of the Moros guilty of the murder ericans might effected through y friendly chiefs flee was instructed to confer jovernor Wright and in- rmed again of the President’s wish that engaging in war every “honorable, be exhausted.” show the deep con- administration in the Moro was General essary be of menta atches will b confined to the Moros Lanao region, it sees a pos- other natives In Mindanao their brethren in fighting the jnvader. It is especlally ~de- the President that no religious given to the war, for if this done there is danger that the ed by be be Moros in all parts of the Southern Philip- who are all Mohammedans, will the Americans, 1al troopé have been ordered the Philippines, but General Chaffee derstands that the President is ready to oréer reinforcements to Manila should they be required. Continued on Page Five. While professing to believe that | that made 1t impossible Therefore 1 telegraphed withdrawing my ap- | plication made the night before, and before the Wi Department had time to act upon it. Ths | banquet of the Middlesex Club in Boston is to | be given April 26. T recelved within one week telegrams—three in one day—urging me to for me to leave here. attend. Senator Lodge was very anxious for me to come. As you understand I cannot dis- cuss any order 1 have received or may receive. | So far 1 have recelved the order only through the newspapers, not officlally. 1 had decided to talk no further of the Philippine question. | I have nothing to retract, but I can’t refer to | these things without my blood boiling, and T have, therefore, concluded that the safest pol- { tey 15 to avold the subject. I have had my say and the people know my sentiments. 1 have no | desire to harp upon them Many People Coming West. | CHICAGO, April 23.—A special train on | | the Santa Fe road left here to-night for | California with 3% members of the Tnde- | pendent Order of Foresters, 200 of whom | swere from Montreal and Toronto. Special | trains for delegates to the General Feder- | ation of Women's Clubs, which meets in | Los Angeles May 1, will leave heré to- | morrow and the next day. The Santa Fe has had to make very extensive arrange- ments- for hauling a heavy volume of | business between now and the 27th, when | thirty-five trains will be required to carry | | West the peopie who are going to the | gatherings of the women's clubs and the Foresters. The delegates of the women's clubs from Towa, Tllinols, Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania are to meet here and go West on the Santa Fe, spending an heur in the Grand Canyon en route. ceedings of the day when the company sent Its refusal to meet the committee of strikers in the office of May: Schmitz. The company Insisted that the conference, if held at all, must convene in its offices, and .not in those of the Mayor of San Francisco, The members of the union | committee were inclined to resent this at the Mayor's of- | first, they holding that fice was neutral ground, and that the company ought in reason to accept the in- vitation of the Mayor. A disposition man- ifested ftself to refuse to meet the com- pany at its own offices, but during the afternoon it was decided to meet the com- pany in accordance with ita request. MEETING WAS CORDIAL. The meeting of the strikers’ committee and officlals was cordlal to all appear- ances. The directors seemed desirous of doing all in their power to arrive at an early and ' satisfactory agreement, and when the union demands were submitted they were read and informally discussed. The dircctors sald they desired time to consider the matter further, and the par- ties to the big strike separated with the implied understanding that some decisive action upon~ the demands as'presented would be taken to-day. The demands made by the carmen have recelved the Indorsement of = Mayor Schmitz, who says they are just and rea- sonable. Just how the directors of the raflway corporation regard them is un- Continued on Page Four. Carmen and Officials of the United Railroads Meet, Discuss Demands and Adjourn Without Action. HE conference between the striking carmen and the offi- clals of the United Raflroads of San Francisco was the absorb- ing topic of interest to the publlc yesterday. There was considerable hesitation by both sides to yleld the right to dictate the place of meeting, the company insisting the con- ference should be held in its offices and the strikers maintaining that the proper place was Mayor Schmitz's office. In the interests of harmony, however, the car-| men finally vielded and the conference was held in the offices of the company late in the afternoon. At 10 a. m. a sub-committee represent- ing the striking carmen met at the Mayor's office to recelve the answer of the rallread company as to a_joint meet- tng which migbt enable both sides to come to anjamicable understanding. The men were represented by H. A. Knox, who acted as spokesman; G. A. Lopp, M. O'Dowd, G. B. Huggins, W, Shafer and C. 8. Herron. There were also about twenty other strikers present. Mayor Schmitz, in mittee, sald he sregrefted to announca that the company ‘“‘was splitting hairs as to the place of meoting,” a matter w]\]cl‘ recelying -the com- | | he felt ought not to stand in the way of| a speedy settlement. The Mayor then read the following communication, recelved from the com- pany: His Honor, Eugene E. Schmitz, Mayor of San Francisco—Sir: We bég to own receipt this . morning of your letter of last evening. As stated yesterday we shal} take much pleasure in meeting a committée representing our employes and at th® officc of the company at the Wells-Fargo buflding. We shall be glad to see such a committee at 10 o'clock this morning ‘or at any other fime that may be more convenlent. Respectfully, UNITED RATLROADS OF S$AN FRANCISCO. By the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors. Attest: GEO. B. WILLCUTT, Secretary. San Franclsco, April 23. CARMEN PROTEST. After the reading of the communica- tion by the Mayor Harry ‘A. Knox on be- half of the men protested that while they were willing and anxious to meet the rep- resentatives of ‘the company they (the men) “were not asking too much when they .desired that the conference should be held in the office of the Mayor of Sun Francisco, which, he contended, was neu- tral ground. Ile could not see why the company’s representatives need be afraid to meet at the people's City Hall, a re quest of the ‘striking men which would. he was sure, meet with the sympathy and the support of the citizens of San Fran- cisco. He. objected to holding the meet- ing at the company's offices, where the company’s stenographers, he submitted, could take down notes and twist them and give them out in their own way 'to the press. » It was the sense of the brotherhood to refusa to go to headquarters to settle tha differences. ' They demanded, he said, neu- tral ground. Knox then handed to the Mayor the de- mands upon ‘the company, publizhed els where in this issue, which, he sald, asked for nothing but what was equitable and therefore reasonable: INDORSED BY MAYOR. The Mayon safd he did not see anything radical in. the demands and commended the arbitration clause in the submitted agreement. He was of the opimion that the demands were very fair, whereupon Knox moved that the men refuse to at- tend a conference at the company’s office, urging that they, the strikers, had some feeling in this matter as well as the com- pany, feelings which he feit should be respected. Again he urged that nowhere else should the conference be held other than in the Mayor's office. The Mayor said that if there was any objection to the conference being held in his office, then he would suggest that it take place in any other neutral place agreeable to the partles concerned and #gain expressed his deep regret that the | company should stand out against the | fair proposition of the men. He had hoped that the company’s representatives would | have met them that morning as asked, | when the matter might have been settled and the men returned to work. | Richard Corneilus said it seemed to him | that there’ was no place more <afe for | the conference than tne office of tha | Mayor of the city and moved a resolution | that the conference be held in the Mayor's | office. . G. Burton took the position suggested by the Mayor that any other jomrn for the conference, so that it was neutral ground, would meet with the sup- port of the men. Knox tnen desired to say that it- would seem like weakening for them to go to the company's offices. Continued on Page Four,