The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 12, 1903, Page 1

A all. VOLUME XCII=-NO, 102 SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TREATY OF RECIPROCITY WITH CUBA IS DEAD; PANAMA CANAL CONUENTION IN GRAUE DfiN GER and unless President Roosevelt is able to swing some of the opposing Senators into line it is dead. Two-thirds ma]onty is necessary for its ratification. The canvass showed four votes lacking of the requisite number. wASHINGTON March r1.—Republican leaders in the Senate completed a canvass of that body this afternoon on the Cuban reciprocity issue. The result showed that enough votes could not be mustered to ratify the treaty, The Panama canal treaty also is in grave danger of defeat. SECOND VICTIM OF BUFFALO AUTOMOBILE TRAGEDY DIES WITH HER SECRET UNTOLD PREVENTS DISASTER TO TRAIN Y Man Rac Passing of Pennells Causes Mystery to Deepen. Detectives Adhere to Their Theory of Suicide. Speclal Dispateh to The Call. UFFALO, March 11.—Without regaining consciousness, Mrs. | Arthur R. Pennell died in mel Sisters Hospital at 8 o'clock to-night, from the injuries re- celved in the plunge of her| husband’s automobile into the Jammer- | thal quarry. Thus passes the only nope | the authoritles had_of learning whether | or mot the tragedy was due to design un1 the part of Pennell. All day a representative of the medlcal} examiner and a detective waited at the | hospital in the hope that Mrs. Pennell would rally from the coma into which she | sank soon after the accident and make a statement which, as well as throwing light upon the cause of the fatal affair, which proved so sensational a denoue- ment to the Burdick murder, might also shed some light upon that tragedy itself. There growing belief in the was a | lombia also is in { the condition that Senator Morgan shall | be allowed to publish in the Congressional | treaty. | night that the end of the extraordinary | session of Congress would come before | ators united in a demand for | oth | amendment which would force the fight Canvass of JSen- ate Forecasts Results. \Agreement UWith Island Republic. Doomed. Even should it be ratified it will be so amended as to make its ratification by the Colombian Congress doubtful. PREMIER DELCASSE IS TRIUMPHANT IN HOUSE OF DEPUTIES FEAR FELT Frerich Leglslatofs Vote Confidence in Min-| istry After Its Attitude Upon Pending Foreign Questions Is Explained in Detail | Dote on Isthmian Pact Set for Tuesday. Will Be Amended, If It Pass | at All. ‘ Special Dispatch to The Call | CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. | W., WASHINGTON, March 11.—Cuban reclprocity has again been done to death | | in the United States Senate. Two Repub- | lican leaders who finished a canvass of | | the situation to-night admitted that there | | | were not votes enough to ratify the treaty and that the contest has practi- cally been abandoned. The Panama canal convention with Co- bad way, and unless | along the lines laid down it is amended by the Democratic minority it may fail. | | If it is amended, especially with a view | ! of giving the United States sovereignty | | over the cenal strip, there are those who | | predict that it will be defeated in the Co- | | lombian Congress. Py A tentati greement was reached late | } this afterncon between Senator Frye, Presid pro tem, and Senators Morgan | | and Gorman, providiug for a vote on the amendments to the canal treaty on Tues- | | day next, to be followed at once by a vote | | on ratification. This agreement includes | | i Recor¢ his ten spasches on ‘the canal The Republican leaders predicted to- the last of next week. BLOW TO RECIPROCITY. One serious blow was given to the Cuban treaty when the Democ ic Sen- an amend- ment providing for joint action by the House. Senator Sanguilly delivered an- r in the Cuban Senate, when he sald that Cuba did not need reciprocity. The Republigans will not yield - v to an all over again in the House next winter, involving further attempts at general tariff revision on the eve of a national election. Senator Hanna has already said that to amend the canal treaty by providing for American sovereignty, as insisted upon by the Democwats, would kill it in Colombia. The Democrats are strengthened in their attitude toward both treaties by the feeling of a small majority of Repub- licans in the Senate. There are several Republican opponents of both treatles and these Senators are willlng to allow the Democrats to defeat both. Nearly all of the Western Republican Serators are in an indifferent frame of mind over the canal treaty, while the beet sugar element among the Republicans is still anxious te encourage any condition of affairs that will defeat the Cuban measure. CANAL TREATY'S PERIL. A leading Republican Senator, who has tl tl he donian, Moroccan, Siamese and other ques- tions in which France is especially con- cerned, his remarks extended over engaging attentlon, taken by the United States in the recent in February, still existed. tocol has been signed by our Embassador and Washington which concedes our demand for the reimbursement of our claims out of 30 per cent of the customs to be devoted to payment of, the claims of the powers. It is evident that, could not be mediators, and for the set- ARIS, March 1L.—Foreign Min- ister Delcasse made a vigorous presentation to the Chamber of Deputies to-day of the part France is taking In the various international questions. Though chiefly on the Mace- dwelt the hole range of International affairs now including the part ‘enezuelan affair. He said he had been reproached with not having more often appealed to The Hague arbitrationf court, notably in the Venezuelan conflict. motive for this abstention was that arbi- tration imposed itself upon the attention of those powers interested in the difficul- ties. The “We,” continued M. Delcasse, “had set- ed our chief difference with Venezuela 19202, but other difficulties I can announce that a pro- the representative of Venezuela being claimants, we ement of our own claims it has not been necessary to have recourse to The Hague tribunal.” During his speech M. Delcasse declared that the independence of Morocco was es- sential to the security of the French in Chasm on Ha Rails s ANE, M The prompt ac- | whose saved £t night reservoir owned b a few miles from | I g o g 0 te DING FIGURES IN THE BURDICK MURDER MYSTERY. IT NOWN THAT BURDICK T! HONED TO MRS. PAINE SEV- — ERAL HOURS BEFORE THE VISIT OF THE ASSASSIN. but for the timely wa s results would h: - F: 2 ‘ 3 minds of the detectives at work upon the s s B ot s PAS l ORS case that Mrs. Pennell knew something | | | possibly which, while not sufficient to | TO SETTLE | cear the mystery, wouta be ot great as- | sistance to the authorities in accomplish- | been regarded as an advocate of the Pan- said to-night that he was about convinccd both treaties were dead so far as the present session was con- ama project, cerned. “It looks to me,” the Senator contin- ued, “as though it would be difficult for us to hold a quorum here more than a number of Republican week longer. A North African possessions. While expressing the hope that the movement for a general disarmament might eventually succeed, the Minister said France was not called upon to take the Initiative in such a movement. He explained in detail the part France had taken in connection with Macedonia, and referred also to the satisfactory status of the alliance between France and Russia and to the rapprochement of France with Italy. A. STRIKE ing this end. While she'was dying and her husband's epees oy wad lying in an undertaking room, .o o . g | dctectives sat at the door of Pennell's Rez e ther 'gl,‘:p“::rm Are Named as Arbitrators | omce in the Austin buttaing and patroflea . - g i . | the family cottage in Cleveland avenue, Atte the_mesient the in a Chicago Labor walting for the time when they could get ngers, who v\u—h~l to I recognition of ir covers an area of ten ained twenty feet of water rce of men worked all night build- mporary track around the wash- MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN A LODGING-HOUSE | CLES, March 1L—A myster- | rred at a fodging-house Twentieth street about 10 ght. James Walters and a man s “B took a room at the it and retired. Shortly after- ward an unknown man walked into the | with a revolver in his hand. He aimed it at who got behind Wal- ters to shield himself. As the man walk- ed around the bed he fired five shots into - one of which was fatal. The murderer then calmly walked out of the puliding with the revolver in his hand and escaped. The police have a good de- scription of him. It is supposed that the | murder was one of revenge, as the mur- derer made nmo attempt to injure Wal- ters room Dispute. 1al Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, March 11.—Three prominent ministers of the gospel have been chosen as arbitrators to settle the labor contro- between the packers and the en- | gineers at the stockyards. They are Rev. | Frani W. Gunsaulus, for the packers: RP\'. Willilam M. Lawrence for the en- gineers and Rev. Father Bdward A. Kel- | 1y, as umpire of the board. The selection of clersymen as arbitra- | tors 1s a new departure in the local labor ‘wcrld and the findings of the board wiil be awaited with interest by labor unions. The men are contending for an eight- hour day and 37% cents an hour wages, which is the union scale paid In most of the establishments throughout the city. MAD MULLAH'S LOSSES HEAVY IN RECENT FIGHT One Thousand of His Men Killed in Battle With British and Abyssinians. ADEN, Arabia, March 11.—Advices from Obbfa, Somaliland, =ay that during the recent fight between the followers of the versy S et s ‘Whitaker Wright to Be Arrested. LONDON, March 11.—A warrant for the “mrrest of Whitaker Wright, director of the London and Globe Finance Corpora- ton, was issued to-day. Mad Mullah and the Abyssinian forces, co-operating with the British, the former lost a thousand men. The Muillah, it is added, is maintaining his authority with ruthless severity, cutting the throats of male malcontents and mutilating women and children. official authority to search all of his per- sonal effects. WILL OF RECENT DATE, J. Fred Pennell, H. W. Lamb and | Thomas Penney, former district attorney | @nd former partner of Pennell, went to | the Austin building and searched Penncll's desk to-night. The policeman on guard | stood by while the search was being made. A number of important documents were found, including a will of recent date. There are many detectives and officials of high rank who have declared from the outset that Pennell was the person on whom suspicion first fell. The detectives tell how Pennell left the city the day after the murder; how he trembled and paled when the detectives confronted him for the first time, and how he grew more haggard every day and showed his de- spair in other ways; but they admit frankly that there is absolutely nothing in the way of actual evidence to connect him with the crime, and some of them declare that he was never even a sus- pect. The entire city is speculating as to whether the fatal plunge of Pennell's au- tomobile into the Jammerthal quarry, known as the “Valley of Sorrow,” was due to design or accident. Knowing how distressed he was in mind over the un- pleasant publicity which the Burdick Continued on Page 5, Column 5. Senators have informed me that they pro- pose to pack up and go away next week.” The Democrats have suddenly developed a spirit of harmony and party discipline. Senator Gorman has had a personal con- versation with every Democratic mem- ber of the Senate and as a result there is an almost unanimous sentiment in favor oi amending both treaties before they are | ratified. —— CUBAN SENATE RATIFIES. Reciprocity Treaty Has a Bare Two- . Thirds Majority. HAVANA, March 11.—The Senate to- day by a vote of 16 to 5 ratified the reci- procity treaty with the United States. Fifteen Republican-Conservatives, or ad- ministration Senators, and one National- ist, voted in favor of the treaty and five Nationalists against it. ENORMOUS NET PROFITS OF TOBACCO COMPANIES Treasurers of Three Corporations Submit Reports to the Stock- holders. G i i confidence in the course the Government o This was a notable personal tribute and triumph for M. Delcasse, and was signifi- cant of the strength of the Ministry on the eve of the opening of the debate on the application of the law of associations to the various religious congregations. L e e e i e o ] WIFE MUST NOT PULL At the conclusion of the speech the hamber adopted a resolution expressing as pursuing toward foreign questions. HUSBAND’'S WHISKERS Chicago Judge Issues an Injunction Restraining Young Spouse of Aged Man. CHICAGO, March 11.—His wife's alleged inclination to pull out his whiskers led F. ‘W. E. Steinbach, 67 years old, to secure an injunction in Judge Dunne's court to- day restraining her from assaulting or in- sulting him and from going to his home in rossdale. Counsel for Steinbach appeared in court with an envelope containing por- ons of his hirsute adornment said to have been extracted from his chin with- out aid of local anesthetic, and asked NEW YORK, March 11.—The annual | Judge Dunne to extend the strong arm of meeting of the stockholders of the Ainer- ican Tobacco Company was held in Jer- sey City to-day, the court in protecting his client from the attacks of his wife, who is thirty-two after deducting all| years his junior. The restraining order charges and expenses the net earnings| was granted. for the year were $7.450.574. The stock- AR RSV holders of the Consolidated Tobacco Com- | AUSTRIA WILL NOT HAVE pany also held their annual meeting to- day. Their net earnings were $13,201,459. At the annual meeting of the Continental EXHIBIT AT ST. LOUIS VIENNA, March 11.—As a result of the Tobacco Company the treasurer’s report | recent ¢onferences at the Ministry of Ag- showed npet earninzs of $1L.777.934. ricpltura which was attandad bv raeara. FRENCH PREMIER AND THE STATESMAN WHO ATTACK- ED AMERICAN TRUSTS. * i . URGES WAR UPON TRUSTS OF AMERICA LK ARIS, March 11.— | Speaking at a meeting of the Association of French Industry to-night former Premier Meline said he thought there were some indications of a termination to the long European indus- trial crisis, which had been | due to overproduction, the fall in the price of silver, the American trusts, the Ger- man cartels and other causes. He declared that if the | American trusts continued their operations the Euro- pean nations would be com- | pelled to take defensive measures against them, and | he advocated as a remedy the formation of small trade combinations, like those which served to unite Ger- man industry, and the ‘per- manent establishment of | French houses abroad, on | German lines. * 5 sentatives of trades and industry, it is officlally announced that Austria will not participate in the St. Louis exposi- tion. The reason given is that no increase in Austrian exports is expected there- from, OF MARINE DIGASTER e — + Large Vessel Sends Up Signals for Help. ‘Reported as Laboring Heavily Off Point Reyes. ;Tug Defiance Has Gone to rocks of Point Reyes a vessel, Lend Whatever Assist- ance Is Possible. One mile out from the wave-battered which ap- peared to be a large steam schooner, is fighting for life or has gone down to the eool, green depths of the sea. Shortly before § o'clock last night the keeper of the Point Reyes lighthouse saw a ship on the offing firing sig of distress. Red rockets went skyward for about a arter of a lighting the out- es of a I * vessel lab ng heavily in the mountainous waves. Then the sig- naling ceased and darkness settled over the distressed ship, leaving to daylight investigatién to determine whether or not | another craft had gone with its human cargo to pay the sea. The keeper of the lighthouse, unable to lend any assistance himseif to the ship in distress, promptly telephoned what he knew of the case to this city and within an hour the Spreckels tug Deflance was plowing its way through t%e Golden Gate to render whatever aid it could to the un- fortunate ship. A Stiff southeast wind was blowving ide the Heads, lashing the waves to 'y and the tug probably tribute demanded by the | @ia not reach the scene of the supposed disaster before 2 or 3 o’clock this morn- ing. There are only three vessels listed which are likely to have been in the vicinity | where the rockets are reported to have | this port. | attle and Tacoma to San Franeisco, been sent up. The first and most likely of these is the steam schooner Chico, of 3% tonnage capacity, laden with lumber and bound from the Coquille River to The freight steamer James Dol- lar, of 1208 tons capacity, carrying lum- ber and general merchandise frém Se- is also mentioned as likely to be the vessel that signaled for help. The former of these craft carries a crew of eight and | the latter of eighteen men | tle to this port. 1 The most disquietitg of these surmises that it Is possible the ship which was seen by the lighthouse keeper was the passen- ger steamer Columbia, bound from Seat- As a rule her passenger list averages fifty persons on the southern trips and if it be that she has sunk an ap- palling marine disaster will have to be added to the already long list of this por- tion of the coast. TWO AMERICAN BISHOPS FOR THE PHILIPPINES Monsignor Guidi, Apostolic Delegate at Manila, Sends Propositions to the Vatican. ROME, March 11.—The Vatican has re- ceived from Monsignor Guidi, the apos- tolic delegate at Manila, propositions re- garding the appointment of new bishops under the archbishopric of Manila, the center around which the Philippine Catho- Hec hierarchy will gather. Monsignor Guidi proposes three American bishops as candidates for the new sees. The Spanish bishops of Cebu and Jaro having re- signed, there are now four bishoprics va- cant, and two of which the apostolic dele- gate proposes to fill by natives and the other two Americans. It is understood at the Vatican that the two Americans pro- posed are persona grata, both at Wash- | ington and with Governor Taft. precthnce a4 LADY GRANVILLE GORDON IS REBUKED BY COURT LONDON, March 11.—A 'sensational se- quel has been furnished to the scandalous Gordon trial, which occupied the divorce court for three weeks, by the flight of Lady Granville Gordon with the child, Cicely, for the possession of which the suit was brought. In giving judgment yesterday Sir Francis Jeune, the Presid- ing ‘Justice, so scathingly commented on Lady Granville's conduct that it was easy to guess what the verdict would be long before the Justice wound up with order- ing the child to be @elivered to his father. Lady Granville left the courtrogm and went home. She has since disappeared and Lord Granville declares he does not know her whereabouts. —— Justice Day’s Condition Hopeful. WASHINGTON, March il.—Justice Day was reported to be resting comfortably to-night. The attack of grip is a severe one. The attending physician belleves it will yield to treatment, but it will be ays before Mr. Day can §o out