The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 7, 1902, Page 1

C all. VOLUME XCII-NO. 7 SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JUN 7, 1902. BRITISH LEADERS GRATEFUL — | | | | 1 -IN-CHIE OF | IN SOUTH ' | | Congratulations Are Sent to General Kitchener. | [ | \ i | | ONDON, June 6. ¢ r Y been re- been He g burgh- be independ- Cham- fter- i ald the empire | w colonies, which | motherland with an Soutk larger than the ght at Waterloo. S CONGRATULATIONS. r sent congratulation: e energy, skill he conducted ng campalgn South Africa and him to communicate to the he Government's profound sense it of endurance, bravery and | of their humanity, trying period. d in behalf of the 1 South Africa, tendering his sin- ere thanks for the congratulations of the Government, which he was sure the troops would receive with great satisfac- tion. Lord Kitchener, in a dispatch from Pre- toria, dated to-day, announces that the British Commissioners in the various dis- tricts report 115¢ Boers lald down their erms.yesterday, Afterward the Commis- sloners addressed the Boers, who gave | three hearty cheers for King Edward. e best possible relations exist between Boers and the British and there has no hitch in the proceedings any- = whic asked and also been where. ERUGER IS EXEMPTED; | The Birmingham Post, the organ of Co- loniel Secretary Chamberlain, to-day says that, owing to his age and infirmities, the British Government has walved its claim for the acknowledgment by Mr. Kruger | of British sovereignty over the Trans- vaal and has guaranteed to all the Boer delegates in Europe a safe conduct to their homes in South Africa. According to a news agency, Colonel Arthur Lynch, who fought with the Boers | in South Africa, was elected in November t to represent Galway in the House of Commons, and who it was announced st night in a dispatch from Paris had decided to go to London early next week and-attempt to take his seat in the House, will not be allowed to carry out his in- tention. He will be arrested, it is said, on the cherge of treason immediately after landing in England. A sharp watch is being kept for Colonel Lynch, end if he reaches Westminster it will be by strata- | gem. CAPE TOWN, June 6.—An order pub- lished by the Gazette to-day appoints Sun- dsy, June 8, and Monday, June 9, as | | ! i | B \ [ | \ 1 1 | properties held by it or by | the separation of church and state requires to | be followed by a readjustment and rearrange- MISSION OF TAFT TO ROME Root Makes Public the Instructions to Governor. Proposed Settlement | of Friar Lands Question. Negotiation at the Vatican on Points at Issue. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. WASHINGTON, June 6.—Politicians | | parties who have been watching | with Interest the negotiations in progress | | between the administration and the Vat- ican over the disposal of the lands of the | friars in the Philippines eagerly read the synopsis of the President’s letter to the | Pope, which was made public in the White | House to-day, and the instructions issued | to Judge Taft, governing his interview with the spiritual head of the Roman | Catholic church. | he step which has been taken marks | a new and radical depagture in American | diplom There was hesitation for n‘ | { | | i long time as to whether it would not be impolitic to have an officlal clothed with all the authority of the President in the | | matter consult with the Vatican on & question of administration either in the | United States or its insular possessions. Other Presidents have hesitated to con- sult with any denomination about its | | policy, but the situation regarding the friars’ lands was so difficult and possessed | so many unique features that it was | finally decided that Governor Taft should | | g0 to Rome and fully explain the diffi-| | culties of the case with a view to arri | ing at a harmonious understanding. | | TEXT OF INSTRUCTIONS. | | Secretary Root sent to the Philippine | | committees of the Senate and House tex ual coples of the instructions him to Governor Taft. These instructions | were exhibited yesterday by Governor Taft to the Vatican officials and, as will be perceived from their context, served given b; the purpose of credentfals. The text fol- | lows: May 9, 1902. | Sir: It is now apparent that Comgress will | not have acted upon the Phillppine Commis- sion's recommendations regarding the purchase of friars’ lands before the time of your departu Manila, which cannot be longer delayed. You cannot, therefore, as we hoped, receive | definite Instructions and proceed to take such | steps in the executlon of specific authority from | ngress, as should properly be taken before ¥you return to Manila. The committees of both | | houses have, however, reported favorably upon © commission’s recommendations, and It ap- | probable that Congress will confirm their tion. In view, therefore, of the critical situ- | ation of this subject in the Philippines and of | the apparent impossibility of disposing of the matter there by negotiating with the friars themselves, the President does not feel at lib- erty to lose the opportunity for effective action | aftorded by your presence in the West. He wishes you to take up the subject tentatively 1 the ecclesiastical superiors, who must ul- timately determine the friars’ course of con- . and endecavor to reach at least a basis of negotiation along 1 s which will bs satis- to them and to the Philippine Govern. accompanied by a full understanding on both sides of the case and the views and pur- poses of the partles to the negotiations, so that | when Congress shall have acted the business may proceed to a conclusion without delay. CHURCH AND STATE. You are accordingly authorized in the course your return journey to Manlla to visit Rome and factor; | men there ascertaln what church authorities | have the power to negotiate for and determine upon a sale of the lands of the religious orders, in the Philippine Islands, and if you find, as we are informed, that the officers of the church a1t Rome have such power and authority, you will endeavor to attain the results above indi- cated. Any negotiations which you may en- ter upon are always subject to granting of power by Congress to follow the negotiations by binding action. In any conferences and negotiations you will bear in mind the, follow- ing propositions which are deemed to be funda- mental and which should be fully and frankly stated to the other side in the negotiations: 1. One of the controlling principles of our Government is the complete separation of church and state, with the entire freedom of each from any control or interference by the other. This principle is imperative wherever American jurisdiction extends, and no modifica- tion or shading thereof can be a subject of dis- cussion. 2. It is necessary to deal now with the re- sults of establishing & government controlled by this principle in the Philippine Islands, which have for centuries been governed under an entirely different system, with church an state closely united and having functions of the one exercised by agents of the other; where the church has long controlled and acted virtually as the agent of the stite in the field of public instruction and public chari- ties, and has from time to time acquired large its subordinate corporations or officers for these public uses. A novel situation has been created under which the adjustment of means to ends appropriate to the former system entirely falls to produce the intended result under the new system, and ment In the interests both of church and of state, and for the attainment of the great ends of civil government, of education, charity and of religion. OBJECTS OF HOSTILITY. 3. By reason of the separation, the religlous orders can no longer perform in behalf of the state the duties in relation to public fn. struction and public charities formerly resting upon them and the power which they formerly exercised, through their relations to the cfvil government, being now withdrawn, they fing {hemselves the objects of such hostility op the part of their temantry against them as jandlords and on the part of the people of the parishes against them as representatives ot thanksgiving days «nd holidays through- out Cape Colony. Continued on Page Two. HANNA TALKS FOR CANAL; Senator Still Argues for the Panama Route. ASHID GTON, June After transacting some routine business to-day the Senate resumed con= sideration of the isthmian 2 canal bill, Hanna of Ohio continuing his argument in support of the Panama canal. The Ohio Senator de- clared that no political conkiderations wére involved in the canal preblem. He presented the opinions of e'ghty-three shipmasters and pilots in faver of the Panama route as against the Nicaragua route, for many reasons which they eited. Hanna urged that the construction bf the Nicaragua canal was beset With un- known difficuities, while the construction of the Panama canal was “‘an open book."” He lald particular stress on the danger of the Nicaragua route from volcandes and urged that it was not good business policy to ignore those dangers in a pro- ject involving an expenditure of $200,000,- 000. In conclusion Hanna appealed to the Senate to consider the measure as a busi- ness proposition, and with some feeling repudiated the suggestion that those fav- oring the Panama route were not in favor of any canal. CRITICIZES MERRY. Hanna discussed at length the engineer- ing difficulties. presented in the construc- tion of the Bohio dam of the Panama route, maintaining that it was a feas- ible project in ‘the hands of ‘modern skilled engineers. Hanna criticized the testimony of Cap- tain Merry, United States Minister to Nicaragua, who supported the Nicaragua route. He sald Captain Merry. was a stockholder in the Maritime Canal Com- pany, which of course wanted the Nicar- agua route adopted. The Ohio Senator suggested that Captain Merry would bet- ter attend to his official duties and not in, terest himself in questions of this kind. DANGER OF VOLCANOES. As to the possibilities of danger from selsmic disturbances, he thought it was practically an even thing between the two routes. There was not enough danger along either route to deter the United States from building: the canal efther in Nicaragua or Panama. He laid particular stress on the danger to the Nicaragua route from volcanoes and he referred to the maps arranged on the walls of the chamber to show the active and extinct voleanoes in the régions of the Nicaragua route. He quoted Professor Heflprin, the volcano expert, as saying that the region of Panama was not in danger from vol- canic disturbances. It was a curious fact Frs that on the maps Mont Pelee, the awfulT-gescribing the earthquakes. volcano on the Island of Martinique, was marked as being extinct. Hanna sald that in the construction ot this canal the United States was invad- i | o3 TWO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO MADE REMARKABLE SPEECHES YESTERDAY. B2 oo ing the territory of the volcano; that in Lake Nicaragua {tself there were two velcapoes, one of which had been active recently. “Is it,” he inquired, “reasonable or safe to put aside lightly such conditions? We are not going backward in history to find | illustrations, but we are considering the dangers from volcanoes that may arise at any time. If there were no other reason, would not these reasons cause any party or any corporation to hestitate in the expendifure of $200,000,0002" Hanna declared that if one of the vol- canoes In Lake Nicaragua should play the same part as Mont Pelee had played enough lava and mud and rock would be ejected to fill Lake Nicaragua. “May I suggest,’” sald Harris of Kan- sas, “‘that the whole island of Martinique would not fill one-half of the lake of Nicaragua?”’ ) FAVOR PANAMA ROUTE. Hanna presented & synopsis of the statements of eighty-three captains of ocean-going steamers and other vessels bearing on the ‘use of an isthmian canal, and said it seemed to him a sound busi- ness proposition to bulld the canal along the route preferred by seafaring men. All the masters questioned had had experi- ence in navigating the Suez, Manchester and Kiel canals. They were unanimous in favor of the Panama route for steam- ers 400 feet long and 25 feet draft, pro- vided both canals were in operation and weather and expense conditions were cqual. From the answers to the questions propounded he said it was evident that the masters questioned much preferred the Panama to. the Nicaragua route. Hanna suggested that if the United States should decide to construct a canal along the Nicaragua route it would have no assurance that some other nation would .not decide to complete the Panama canal. If such jealousy should arise as would prompt another nation to construct the Panama canal the United States, in his opinion, would be at a serfous disad- | vantage. PRESENTED BY ‘MORGAN. Eenator Morgan, chairman of the Com- mittee on Interoceanic Canals, presented a letter from Secretary of State Hay in- closing copies of letters received by the State Department regarding earthquakes and riots in the department of Panama. The letters inclosed newspaper clippings The Secre- tary of State said that the report of th: riots would cover 1000 typewritten pages - Continued on Page Two. Roosevelt Is Scored in House. Objection to Arlington . Speech. | A_labama Statesmat; Enters Vigorous Protest. Special Dispatch to The Call. ASHINGTON, June 6.— General debate on the anti-anarchy bill closed to-day. The incident of the day was a speech by Representative William Richardson, an Alabama Democvat, con- demning the President in severe terms for the references in his Memorial day oration at Arlington to the epithets applied to Lincoln and Grant during the Civil War and for his allusions to lynchings. He declared that the President's remarks violated the proprieties of the occasion. Richardson recalled the visit of the late Presidéent McKinley to Huntsville, Ala., a year ago, the reception given him by the Confederate and Union veterans. noble sentiments McKinley uttered upon that occasion, Richardson said, endeared him to the South and he told of the great sorrow felt there when McKinley fell at Buffalo. Loth as he was to do so, Rich- ardson sald he felt it his painful duty to contrast McKinley's sentiments at Hunts- ville with Roosevelt's remarks at Arling- ton, Mav 30th. s PROPRIETIES VIOLATED. Richardson then read that portion of President Roosevelt's speech in which he referred to the epithets applied to Grant and Lincoln and the resolution passed by the Confederate Congress denouncing the methods of warfare employed by the Union armies. Richardson said he should not so far forget his environs as to char- acterize as it deserved language which came from the President of the United States upon a solemn Memorial day oc- casfon, when honor was being done to the thousands of brave dead who died in de- fense of their flag. But he would dare to say that it would have been far more ap- propriate if the President had referred upon that occaslon to the magnaminous terms which Grant accorded Lee at Ap- pomattox, which had done so much to reconcile the divided sections. “I doubt whether there is,” sald he, “a brave Federal soldier within the sound of my voice who would have uttered the sentiments expressed by the President, even in the heat of debate, much less upon Memorial day. I say the proprieties of the occasion were violated when the President referred to what had been said about Lincoln in the heat of battle, when ‘men were alming at each other’s lives.” Richardson also condemned the Pres- ident’s references to Iynchings In the South. SECTION STRICKEN OUT. Littlefield of Maine made a legal argu- ment of an hour and a half In cloging the debate on the anarchy biil. The section of the Senate bill providing a bodyguard for the President was strick- en from the Senate bill, as a precaution in case the House substitute failed. An effort was made to strike from the first section of the substitute the words limit- ing the crime of killing the President to the President in his official capacity, but the motion was lost, 63 to 89. Only one section had been disposed of when the House adjourned. CRITICISM OF PRESIDEN T The | TRAINS | COLLIDE | HEAD=ON1 Sacramento Local Is Wrecked Near Benicia. iFireman Loses Life and Engineer May | Succumb. | Passengers Have a | Marvelous Escape | From Injury. o Special Disratch to The Call. | BENICIA, June 6.—A fatal head-on col- | | lision occurred at 5:40'0’cloek this evening | | between the Sacramento local and a work | | train just abové Army Point. The ‘ gineers discovered their situation just pa | time to prevent an awful disaster, but at that one fireman was killed, an engineer | | lies at the point of death and several oth- ‘ ers are badly injured. | Fireman R. M. Barnes of Berkeley, who | was on the passenger locomotive, was buried beneath the wreckage of the two engines and met death instantly. Engineer Charles Willard of San Francisco, in | charge of the pasenger engine, was badly cut about head and body and suf- | fered a sprained knee. Engineer Willlam Canfield of Port Costa, in charge of the | work train's locomotive, has a fractured skull and serious bruises about the body, but slight hope of saving his life is enter- | tained.. Fireman Mills of the work train | | has a badly sprained ankle. | When the engineers noticed their peril- | ous situation the levers were ~eversed and | |all jumped for their lives. Fireman | Barnes was a second too late and lost his | 1ife. | The work train was on the main track, | | when it should have been on a siding. The responsibility lies between Conductor George Martin of the work train and the official giving the orders, which he re- ceived at Goodyear station. | One hundred passengers on.the local | miraculously escaped with slight bruises. | The only one receiving serious injuries was a Japanese boy, who was cut about the head. The work train was on the way to San Pablo. Both engines and sev- eral cars were wrecked. A wrecking train was soon at the scene | a track was bullt around the smashed engine and cars. Train service was not long delayed. o el TRAIN BRINGS INJURED. OAKLAND, June 6.—The train bear- ing the injured from the Benicia wreckl arrived at the Oakland mole at 9:30 | o'clock to-night. Engineer W. L. Can- fleld was borne on a stretcher to a wait- ing-room pending the arrival of the boat which was to take him to the Railroad | Hospital in San Francisco. News of th wreck had been sent to his wife at 1556 Eighth street, and she was at her hus- band’s side to attend him. Engineer Ed- win E. Willard, whose home is at 604 Sev- cnteenth street, was able to walk aboard tie boat unassisted, though suffering from a painfully wounded hand and severe bedy bruises. Fireman Miller of the work | train did not come down with the train. His wounds, which were slight, were dressed at Benicia and he then went to a | hotel. Miller is a new man In the rail | road service and this was his first trip out | as fireman. Assistant Division Superintendent J. C. | Wilder, acting for Division Superintend- | ent Palmer, who is in New Orleans, took personal charge of the wreck and direct- ed the clearing of the line from his office at the pier. He attributes the accident to an error of judgment on the part of those in charge of the work train, but declines | to absolutely fix the blame until he hears | the evidence of the crews. “From a]l we know at present,” he said, ‘“the blame seems to lie with the crew of the work train. They knew the passenger train was due at the time they were run- ning into Benicla. Perhaps they thought they could ‘steal’ in and make a siding before the passenger pulled out. The pas- senger has been late two or three times and they might have thought they were safe. It is the duty of all work trainmen to keep clear of regular passenger trains. “We have been trying to make that point as safe as possible. Fifty feet of the embankment there had been dug away and we were preparing to lay a double track. “I am informed that Fireman Barmes was killed by the coal piling upon him. He must have been firing when the crash came. Canfield was hurt by debris after he jumped for his life. Willard stayed with his engine and was the least hurt.” Raymond M. Barnes, the dead fireman, resided at 1641 Harmon street, Berkeley. He had been in the Southern Paciflc em- ploy four years. Barnes was 23 years old, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar M. Barnes. His father, now in Alaska, is an attorney. There Is also a sister, Miss Beryl &, Barnes. en- —_— CANFIELD BADLY HURT. Engineer Willard of the wrecked Sac- ramento local saild at the railroad hos- pital in this city last night that his train had just started and had not gone more than two lengths when at Army Point the work train came at full speed. He knew nothing about the approaching train being on the road. He said that the col- lision, was so suddeq that neither he nor Fireman Barnes had time to jump. After the crash Willard found himself beneath the wreckage of the work train ang crawled out. At the railway hospital it was founa Willarda was suffering from extensive Jacerations of the scalp and leg and a severe cut on the right hand. W. L. Canfield, the engineer of the work train, was found to have sustained a severe cut and contusion with possibly internal injuries. He was In a semi-con- scious condition. I PRICE FIVE CENTS. STRIKERS PROTECT GUARDS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED | MINE WORKERS ASSOCIA- | TION OF AMERICA. | | - ' 0 3 Coal and Iron Police Leave Scene of Shooting. ILKESEARRE, Pa., Juns 6.—Last night's shooting had a sobering effect up- on the idle men and boys in this valley and as a result the Wyoming re- glon was a place of almost absolute pedce to-day. There were no parades, marches or any considerable gathering of persons and the police authorities of the county had little more to do than keep watch. The Stanton colilery, where the shooting occurred, was visited to-day by hundreds of persons, who expected to see more trouble, but no more crowds were allowed to congregate in that neighborhood. The colliery is closed down as tight as a drum as a result of the disturbance there. Even the ccal and iron police, with the excep~ tion of four or five, gave up their jobs and left town as quickly as they could get out. There were about twenty in the party, including several colored cooks. | Last night's demonstration was too much for them and they decided to leave. PROTECTED BY STRIKERS. The fact in some manner became known to the strikers and the latter promised to protect them to the raflroad station If they would leave the city. Accordingly under a strong guard of mine workers the ex-policemen left the colliery and marched to the offices of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company, where they received their pay and tramsportation. Later the men left for New York and Philadelphia. The preliminary hearing of the four coal and iron policemen who are charged with the shooting of the boy was not held to- day, but they will probably be arraigned to-morrow. The condition of the boy is still serious, but it is believed he will recover. There were a number of desertions among the fire bosses employed at several mines in this vicinity, which caused the companies much inconvenience. WATER IS ACCUMULATING. President Mitchell said to-day that the strike of the engineers, firemen and pump- men is practically complete. The mining superintendents say that as far as they are concerned there has been no change in the general situation in the past twen- ty-four hours. Water is still accumulat- ing in the lower levels of some of the mines, but the coal company officials seem to be indifferent regarding the flood- ing of the workings. Another boy, named John Short, aged 13 years, was seriously wounded here to-day, but his Injuries were not received as a result of the strike. He was crossing a farm at Sugar Notch, near here, owned by the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Com- pany. Robert Hayden, the tenant, has been bothered by idle men and boys cross- ing his place, so he decided to put a stop to it. The lad, who works in a ceal breaker, was shot in the back, and his ‘wound is considered serfous. Hayden was arrested. “GUARD” COMMITTEES. All the local unions, at the request of President Mitchell, to-day appointed “guard” committees, whose duty It will be during the period of strike to prevent persons from destroying property and more especially to keep children away from the collierfes. The strike of the soft coal miners in West Virginla for higher wages, which is to be begun to-morrow, will be directed by President Mitchell from Wilkesbarre. He sald that there are 29,000 men in that fieid, that 18,000 will stop work to-morrow and that he expects the others will all be out in the course of a few days. ELK HORN, W. Va., June 6.—The great coal strike in West Virginia is-now in the Flat Top, Elk Horn, Tug River and Dingess flelds. This evening probably 10,- 000 miners, all members of the United Mine Workers of America, came from the mines with picks on shoulder and declar- ed their intention to remain out until the operators make them concessions demand- ed at the Hungton meeting & fow weeks