The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 7, 1902, Page 17

BITIFFFEFTEFFFIAIFIIFFFSFS 03 Pages 4444445542300 04 000 Bretrem 2 + + + + + > & *44 VOLUME XCIHI-NO. ~ LEGISLATORS WILL CHECK THE FRALS VigorousCampaign Is Begun in Congress. Violation of Land Laws Promises Great Excitement, Rich Western Territory May Be Saved to the National Government. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., 'WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—The land frauds in Nebraska and other Western States, which President Roosevelt is hiuing, have led to the introduction of lis by setts, repealing the timber and stone act, the desert land act and the commutation ciause of the homestead act. Frauds are made possible by violating these laws. nty millfon acres of public land bave passed from the Government into private control during the last five years, | Millions of acres have been absorbed in the Western § tes, where there has been ing increase in population. the Dakotas are no ex- immigration of home- ccptions, as the sheepmen, financed by s and through the pack- nes in Chicago, are hiring persons in ves to file homestead, tim- cr and desert land claims along thelr fence Every person filing a claim for t purpose violates the law, but the laws have become a dead letter. BIG GOVERNMENT SALES. Western newspapers are printing big display notices urging their readers to take e of the laws and secure land e they may. These newspapers reward in publishing notices of and final proofs as required The Government has sold more wi reap the land fliny by w 500,000,000 ac of saw-mill timber ng the iast twelve months for $2 30 an acre, when a single tree ylelds enough lumber to pay for an acre of this land. Wisconsin, Minnesota and Pacific Coast 1 er men- a thus providing for the re at small expense to themselves and are proposing to strip the watersheds their protection of timber. In one Western State land offices have accepted degert land filings on 120,000 acres of land for which there is no possible way of & water to comply with the pro- u; estly fraudulent. is the story told by the reports of the Secretary of the Interior, Com- missioner of the General Land Office and s) al agents of the Land Depart- is a recital of stupendous frauds by which millions of acres of the best of the remaining public lands are being un- wifully acquired by those whose inter- ests osed to the incoming of set- tlers and home builders, OPPOSITION TO LAWS. ment. It are of and Powers e private inter- measure. One member ot the House from a State in which vio- lations of the notorious said to- that he was opposed to the repeal of ihese laws because it deprived clerks and cther worthy wage earners in his State Bold and aggressivi ests oppose the from exercising the right to sell to oth- crs and thus make a few dollars. In that State the land office forms, oaths and aMdavits have become a jest. This volume of fraud, it is said, has been reasing from year to year for twenty years and now the report of an- other department is taken up with its recital and every agent in the field com- plains of his inability to deal with a hun- dredth part of the irregtiarities which come under bis notice. The best of the remaining public lands are taken each vear, and what is considered one of the most serious features of the situation is that much of this land now being ab- sorbed is that portion of the public do- main which the Government has in con templation for reclamation under the ra- tional irrigation act of last year. — NICARAGUA MINISTER REFERS TO HISTORY | Central American Republic’s Confer- ence With Salvador the Cause of Speculation. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6~Confirmation of the dispatch from Panama to the ef- fect that Nicaragua has sent a represen- tative to Balvador with a proposal for a defensive alliance should Colombia de- mand an explanation of Nicaragua’s ac- tion in rendering active assistance to the Colombian revolutionists has not yet been received at the Nicaragua Jegation in Washington. It was the understanding, however, of Minister Correia that Salva- dor had sent an envoy to Nicaragua not I ago, though his mission is not be- i to have been in connection with a defensive alliance against Colombia. Re- garding the mttitude his Government would assume in case a foreign power should demand an explanation of its poli- cies the Minister said: he Government of Nicaragua does not d 1o draw up treaties of alliance with e states of Central America between whom there is already a cordial under- standing. History has shown that when a foreign power attacks one of the re- publics of Central America it attacks not one but all, and this is a case where history may be depended upon to repeat delr” Senator Quarles of Winconsin | and Representative Powers of Massachu- | those States has been large. | ns of the law, and the filings are | Matters of public policy govern those | PREMIER CO FORCIBLY & FROM THE ROSTRUM Unprecedented Scene in French Chamber of Deputies When the Right Engages in Free Fight With Members of Center Party e MBES EJECTED | | | | | |} & PREMIER OF FRANCE, WHO WAS CENTRAL FIGURE IN AN EX- -CITING DEMONSTRATION. L | | | i *+ . ARIS; Dec. 6.—THhere was an | unprecedented* seerie. in the | Chamber of Deputies: this af- ternoon over. the Humbert | . ‘case. Members of the Right | party engaged in a free fight with Center pafty members. The Premler, M. Combes, was forcibly ejected from the rostrum and the sitting was suspend- ed amid intense excitement. The disturb- ance arose when M. Vallee, Progressive | Republican, described Frederick Humbert |asa “Boulangist’ deputy.” ; The general melee occurred in the space | in front of the tribune, requiring ‘the sum- | moning of the military commandant of | the Palais Bourbon with a platoon of co- | lontal infantry, who forcibly ejected two disorderly members who declined to re- tire after an order for their temporary expulsion had been voted. WORDS CAUSE TUMULT. The affair was the outcome -of much | feeling which has been aroused lately be- tween the Government's supporters and | the minority. The Government had de- sired to close Parliament to-day for the | holiday recess, and -this was resisted by | the minority .on the ground that the | Chamber should remain in session to dis- | cuss the budget. ‘The feeling was intensi- fied when the revisionist deputy Gauthier | made a savage attack on the Government for its laxity in prosecuting parties con- | nected with the Humbert scandal.” Even worse than this scandal, he declared, was the state of anarchy existing within the | courts, within the police and within ‘the Government. He called on Minster- of Justice Vallee for an. explanation of the affair, and the Minister made an em- phatic rejoinder, deélaring that the scan- dals of the republic were-far less nume- | rous than those of the empire, which still | lived in memory. ~ He ‘closed with the as- | sertion that Frederick Humbert had been | & Boulangist deputy. This immediately threw the Chamber S into violent tumult, the members the | Right shouting indignant denfals. mid | the din Deputy Coutant, Socialist, ‘ex- claimed that Minister Vallee's statement was a lie and was known to be a falsifica- tion of facts. President Bourgeois sought to restore order, but in vain. AN ANGRY DEMONSTRATION. The Minister of Justice, who had taken the tribune, was unable to proceed | against the tumult and, quitting the tribune, resumed his place on the Minis- terial bench. The group of Ministers now became the center of an angry demonstration. M. Syveton, a Nationalist member, made his way toward the Min- isters and addressed them with angry imprecations. The friends of the Min- isters and the members of the Left pre- cipitated themselves into the space before the tribune toward M. Syveton amd thé latter was soon seconded by’ scores of Deputies from the Right. The two angry elements surged back and forward, exchanging blows with clinched fists, and for several minutes the scene of riotous confusion continued. Premier Combes at last separated himself from his Ministerfal colleagues and mounted the tribune in the hope that he would be able to read a decres of the Government suspending the session, but and refused to vacate it. The Premier ap- plied to President Bourgeois, who ordered M. Coutant to descend, but the latter again refused. M. Combes - withdrew k1 + .Meacham will donate a tract gratis. Deputy Coutant already held the tribune |' and four guards were summoned to ‘eorduct M. Coutant from the _tribune. In the meantime the disorderly scenes on the floor continued, many members of the Chamber seeking to gain the "tribune. Finding it impossible to restore order, President Bourgeois declared a recess. After 'a recess of fifteen minutes the session was restmed and the president of the chamber called on M. Syveton and M. Coutant to apologize for their conduct. M. Coutant made the first re$ponse, de- claring that he withdrew not a word of what he said, and the disorder again broke out, but was quickly quelled. Pres- ident Bourgeois then asked the Chamber tc act arid an‘order of cerisure was adopt- ed, with temporary expulsion, all the niembers of the Left and a portion of the Center’ party ' Voting ' for the order. As Deputy Coutant remained in his place the usual formalities of expulsion by force were -adopted . and..Colonel de Teissyre, commandant of the military at the Pal- als Bourbon, with a platoon of ‘colonial irfantry, was ' suimmoned. The soldiers merched into the Chamber and D:puty Coutant was escorted out amid derisive cries from the’ Government supporters and the cheers of his friends. . M. Syveton also declined to make‘a re- traction, declaring that Minister ' Valle was the aggressor and stating that he had sent his seconds to the Minister. President Bourgeois thereupon referred the Deputy’s case to the Chamber, which voted censure, with temporary expulsion and the President requested him to with- draw.’ The latter refused to do so, where- upen M. Bourgeois once more suspended the’ session temporarily, while the mili- tary .contingent again marched into the Chamber and. escorted Deputy Syveton out amid cheers and groans. Order wasnow fairly re-established and the Minister of ‘Justice ‘mountéd the trib- une to finish his interrupted speech, in which he defended the Government's course in’ the Humbert affair, declaring that everything possible for the Govern- ment to do in the matter had been done. Following: this the Chamber, by 'a de- cisive majority of 336 votes. to 136, adopt- ed -an order of the day expressing confi- dence in the Government. The decree closing the session for the recess was then .read. The seconds of MM. Syveton and Valle will make final arrangements for a meet- ing of their principals on Monday. — LEGISLATORS CONFER WITH POULTRY RAISERS Promise to Work for Establishment of Experimental Station at . Petaluma. PETALUMA, Dec. 6.—The largest gath- ering of poultrymen ever held in Peta- luma occurred to-day at the ‘City Hall, where, at the invitation of the Petuluma Poultrymen’s Association, the Stato leg- islators for this.district assembled and discussed ways and means of establishing a poultry experimental station here. Four hundred meil composed the gatherirg. President Snow of the committee of the assoclation presented a report on statis- tics to-day, giving as the chicken csnsus of this city and vicinity 800,000 heud of poultry, to feed which it costs $2000 Jaily. He thought that $500 a vear would be ample to cover all expenses of an experi- mental station. "An option on a suitable site has been obtained already. Harrison The legislators present pledged support to the proposition. sl Naval Apprentice Drowned. - VALLEJO, Dec. 6.—James W. Mar:hall, a naval apprentice on the Independence, while engaged in work on the Independ- ence launch this morning, slipped ani fell overboard. - He was drowned. Marshall was a native of Cambridge, Wash., GOAL TRUST A5 PLANNED BY MORGAN Scheme to Control the Anthracite Mines. Capital Represented Is Four Hundred Millions. Baerof the Reading Promises to Accept the Presidency of Holding Company. —_— Speclal Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—J. Plerpont Morgan's new coal trust will rival the Northern Securities Company. It is to be equally as prodigious in scope and in some respects will outdo it. In planning the big deal the great financier has reached out for all the an- thracite properties in the country worth owning and nine coal-carrying roads. The capital to be represented will be very near $400,000,000 and all the workings of the concern will be on a mammoth scale. Morgan has already chosen his lieuten- ants and is ready to pay down $145,000,000 for the mines of the independent opera- tors. He will control the huge combine as absolufely as other projects he handles and will be the real coal king of the United States. It is expected that details of the anthracite deal will be soon told, together with the announcement that the independents have accepted Morgan's price for their properties. President George F. Baer of the Read- ing Railroad, also head of the New Jer- sey Central, whose refusal to aceept the presidency of the Lehigh Valley put | Thomas there, has promised, Morgan to become the head of the holding company when the anthracite coal road deal is car- ried. through. This statement was. made positive to- day by -competent authorities. Morgan- wanted Baer to- the?’L alké ot things in, the way. Tefusal to take on any greatér burden and the lesser problem of law which stood in the way. Baer is reported to have said to Morgan: “I cannot accept the presidency’ of the Lehigh Valley because I now carry as great a burden as the president of two operating roads as I can. stind. When | you want me to become president of a general corporation to control the anthra- cite roads 1 shall be glad to accept, but I do not care to direct the individual ope- rations of any roads other than those I now have in charge.” It is a distinct understanding that Baer shall become the ‘head of the new combiné of coal roads that is being evolved. LEADERS OF TIP TOP MINERS UNDER ARREST Deny the Charge That They Forcibly Ejected the Superintendent From the Camp. SAN. BERNARDINO, Dec. 6.—Joseph Brazil and David Henderson, the Tip Top miners, who a few days ago compelled the superintendent of the mine to leave, have been arrested and taken to River- side. In that city they were to-day ar- raigned before a Justice of the Peace and their preliminary hearing was set for De- cember 16. Bail of $500 each was produced and the men are at liberty. All of the miners in the Tip Top have been dis- charged and the mine closed for an in- definite period. b The men claim that Superintendent ‘Woodard's story that he was treated with violence is untrue. They say that before his arrival they made up their minds not to work under him and when he appeared they called for their time checks.? These Woodard refused to give them. Wood- ard tried to get the men to go to work and when they refused the quarrel grew violent and the superintendent decided to return to San Bernardino. When he tried to get some one of them to drive him to Walters, the nearest railroad station, no one responded and he was ‘obliged to walk. When the officer went to arrest the pair they at once gave themselves up. el Qe LURID TALE OF AWFUL BARBARISM OF YAQUIS Georgia Paper Prints Story of Al- leged Mutilation of Captured Scout. ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 6.—A special to the Constitution from Bisbee, A. T, says: Colonel Kosterlostski, commanding the international boundary riders of So- nora, ‘Mexico, hag received from the Mayor of Rio Yaqul a letter giving an account of the tragic death of “Califor- nia Dan” Ryan, chief of scouts under General Luis Torres, at Torrin, on No- vember 23. Ryan and George W. Wilson were sent out on a scout. They were surprised and taken prisoners by the Yaquis, tried by a council of war and ‘“/California Dan” was condemned to death, Wilson being ac- Guitted. In the presence of Wilson the Yaquis with dull saws cut off the feet of “Californfa Dan’’ just above the ankles, After tHjs they unbound him and told him to gc back to duty under Torres. By goading him they compelled him to walk beyond their entrenchments, only to fall dead in the bush a hundred yards beyond their stronghold. The next morning the Yaquis took the body of “California Dan” and suspended it from the limb of a tree growing by the road. Wilson was then released and told to bury the body. . —— Woman Swears Falsely. DES BOINES, Towa, Dec. 6.—Mrs, ila Gallagher, who was recently acquitted at Iowa City of the murder of her hus- band, has been indicted for perjury. She cannot be located and is reported to have gone to Canada. She is alleged to have sworn falsely in her own defense. ’ - s + -+ + zx FIFFFFFTFFFFHIFF55575550 Pages + . L L e R e S S e o g 030 - + + bl + bl - L ' SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1902—FORTY-FOUR PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS. DEATH CLOSES BRILLIANT CAREER OF FAMOUS FORMER SPEAKER THOMAS B. REED PR | ATTORNE r GEm e 1870 5 - NSRS of B PROMIINENT CANIIOATE NN\ cow ARESIENT 189¢ w0 2 sentatives, Passes A After a Brief Iliness the Noted Maine Statesman, Who Achieved World-Wide Celebrity as “Czar” of the Houstr‘ of Repre- way Peacefully at the Nation’s Capital — PAYMASTER U.5.01.186%-65 " prominent fh public*life,” died here to-night at 12:10 o’clock in his apartments in the Arlington Hotel. The immedfate cause of death was uraemia. A change for the worse was noted in Reed’s condition early this morning..At 9:30 o'clock he was given a subcutanequs saline transfusion in order. to stimuylate his kidneys, which were ‘failing to per- form their proper functions. At 5 o’clock this afternoon a saline solution was again administered, about three quarts of fluld being used. The heart became, weaker and weaker, but the patient retained con- sclousness until 11 o'cjpck- to-night, when a complete coma camd DID NOT REALIZE OON'DITION At the bedside when he died were Mrs. Reed and Miss K Katherine Reed, Drs. Gardner, McDonald, Bishop and Goodnow and the nurses. . Dr..Goodnow, who. had been in consuitation with the local phy- siclans Thursday, was again summoned from Philadelphia this afternoon and ar- rived at 9:30 ~o’clock this évening. Mr. Reed’s mind was in such state dur- ing the day that he did not realize the aeriousness of his condition. He -was cheerful and conversed with those about his bedside. When it became apparent that he would not survive his illness the wife and daughter were notified and they remained constantly at the bedside until the distinguished patient .breathed his last. With only a faint hope of saving his life oxygen was administered through- out the day. It was stated to-night that Mr. Reed was suffering from Bright's disease for some time, which reached the acute stage to-night, and this furnished an additional cause for alarm. Mr. Reed passed away peacefully and without pain. No arrangements have been made for the funeral. IN APPARENT GOOD HEALTH. Mr. Reed reached Washington Sunday, having come to attend to some matters in the United States Supreme Court. He was at the Capitol Monday visiting with friends and former associates in Con- gress, and witnessed the convening of the second session of the Fifty-elghth Con- gress, Apparently he was enjoying good health, but later in the day he called on Dr. F. A. Gardner and he complained of gastric dfstress. & . Y The following day his physiclan com- pelled him to remain in bed while a dlag- nosis made of his condition. Mr. Reed was strongly averse to staying in b ‘out Tuesday night-and the patient showed signs of improvement. Mrs. Reed and daughter, Miss Kittie, arrived Wednesday and have remained With Mr. Reed at the Arlington Hotel since. On Thursday the physicians announced that the appendicital symptoms were abat- | ing, but that kidney trouble had devel- | opeéd, giving a more serious aspect to the case. from Philadelphia for consultation. An attack of nausea Friday night distressed the patient greatly. because of his weak- ened condition.” To-day’s bulletins offered little or no encouragement. NOTED STATESMAN’S CAREER. Wit and. Sarcasm Makes Reed Fa- mous in Congress. Thomas Brackett Reed was born in Portland, Me., October 18, 1839, of real old.New England stock. Just adjoining the house In which he was born' was the one in which Henry Wadsworth Longfel- low first'saw the light, and on the same square was the first house built in Port- land, which was erected by George Cleve, the first white settler of the town and the grandfather seven generations re- moved of Mr. Reed. Two of George Cleve’s daughters, Anna and Mary, married respectively Thomas and Anthony Brackett, and from the un- fon of Anna and Thomas six generations later came Thomas Brackett Reed. His people were neither very poor nor very | well-to-do. . Hie father was at one time a saflor, but left the sea to take a posi- tion as watchman In a sugar factory. He married a Miss Matilda Mitchell, whose relatives declared she was throwing her- self away when she married “Tom’ Reed. At the age of six young Reed started to school and for three or four years was attentive and fairly studious, and then tie very reverse until near the end of his college days, fifteen years’later. As a boy and youth he was lazy and indolent. Those who knew him admitted that he was bright enough, but predicted that he would never amount to anything. He ‘was fond of swimming and fishing and his father's cow was the bane of his youth, because minding and milking her ‘and churning the cream interfered with his sport. At the age of 12 years he be- came the possessor of a 14-foot boat, and thereafter the family larder was well sup- plied with fish and ducks. He was a great reader of dime novels of the “Beadls’ Dr. T. L. McDonald was summoned | ok LATE MAINE STATESMAN WHO EARNED THE TITLE OF “CZAR” FOR HIS MASTERFUL AND NOVEL RULE. WHILE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; ' PICTORIAL_ STORY OF SOME OF THE MOST. CONSPICUOUS EVENTS OF HIS CHECKERED LIFE. e . ASHINGTON, Dec. 6.— | bed, but a rise in temperature made it im- | stripe and had no aspirations higher than Thomas Brackett Reed, | perative that he remain quiet. Symptoms | being a sailor. former Speaker of the | of appendicitis appeared, though his con- CHARACTER DEVELOPS. House of Representatives | dition was not considered alarming. A 2 S 3 and for xzany years | trained nurse remained with him through- | When' he ‘was 14 years ‘old a revival spread over Portland and young Reed join- ed the church. Life assumed a moreserious aspect to him and he became an active and zealous worker in the church and Sunday, school. The good people recog- nized the spark pf genius in him and in- terested themselves in his behalf. He was sent’to Bowdoin College with the purpose of preparing for the ministry. but he soon discovered that he did not wish to be a minister. He had a hard time at college. The spirit of industry that had brought him there subsided and he re- lapsed into his old indolence. He worked some to pay his way, but spent much of his. time reading trashy novels. » He stood fairly well in grammar, rhet- oric and history, but was sadly deflcient in mathematics and technical studies. He seemed entirely without any ambition be- yond amusing himself. In his closing year,. however, he threw off his indiffer- ence and pulled up in his standing, grad- uating well up in his class, and was awarded the honor, of delivering the class oration. His subject was a . grewsome one, entitled “The Fear of Death.” This was in 1860, when he lacked some few months of his majority. TEACHES PUBLIC SCHOOLS. On leaving college Reed went to teach~ ing in the public schools of Portland and other places and at. one time was prin- | cipal of a grammar school with the salary | of $46 per month. He was a strict disci- plinarian and master in the full sense of the word. It was here perhaps that he had his best training for bandling the lower house of Congress. While engaged in tpaching he also began the study of law/jsreading in the office of Sewall C. Staput, a netable lawyer of his day. I 1863 Reed was admitted to the bar and soon after came out to California, thinking that- Maine was too crowded with lawyers to afford a poor young man a proper chance. He did not attain any success in California and before the year was out returned to the East. Through the influence of Senator Fessenden he se- cured a vposition as acting assistant pay- master in the navy and served on the “tinclad” Sybil, engaged in patrol work on the Mississippi and tributaries. At the close of the war he returned to Maine and began the practice of law. In 1368 he was elected to the State Leg- islature and so launched on the career which later made him such a conspicu~ Continued on Page 18, Column 4.