The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 20, 1903, Page 1

Call. VOLUME XCII-NO. 110. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, MARCH =20, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. UNREQUITED LOUE EXPL HARRINIAN'S 0 AMAZES . BYAN OVERWHELMING voTE FINRNCIER Keene'sCéurse Puz- zles All Wall Street. Union Pacific % , s a represer which he believes w e as a check on the majority of tt He a elieves that the publict present fight will any effo! oresta to sever the the the Union Pa- ention to Pacific b o Southern it with merge these fac have to b eene wil he Harriman par so far as the Cen- here is no more at property from the to merge e concern. claim that a an there is arriman p w man for the m down. Further- is not relevant t between Keene and arriman, h is that of paying divi- As to the number of directors which Keene party can elect under the cum- Jative plan, it is feare® that every 140,000 es constitute a director. It is there- fore considered 1fkely that Keene can elect two directors. There are fourteen direc- tors altogether, so that Keene's voice in affairs of Southern Pacific will t be very vigorous. There is a vacancy the board caused by the death of John W. Mackay Jt is believed that this will be tilled at the forthcoming annual elec- toa. 'SENATE RATIFIES TREATY OF RECIPROCITY WITH CUBA More Amendments Are| Made Before Meas- ure Is Passed. House Notifies and Is Upper President Adjourned. made tion to the treaty and in favor and then, promptly at the our, 2 o'c oting commenced s e ad on a number o ndment and the treaty itself w made the subject of an aye and no vo was adopted b tha two rati- n to ratify som o chee wh at more a ure ter the doors were ¢ k the He urs ke address had half 1 carefully, ar His red d on its the Ame He spoke sts of Louisiana ar interest w of especlal his own importance paramount in State en account of the cane ~produced beet sugar industry had gro ions that many other por- Iso were coming_to Union mounced interest in ™| He drew a_graphic | 1t conditions in Loulsiana, | should be ratified ty to disas- s of his constituents. WORDS IN OPPOSITION. also made the point’that there g to prevent the introduction of coolie into Cuba, and said ach labor should introducca [ could not compete with very bor speec in - opposition to the were made by Senators Berry and rmack, and Senator Simmons of North lina spoke in support of it, Senator v based his opposition to the agri nt on the amendment offered’ by ittee on Foreign Relations prov further reduction on force. the duty in by sugar while' the Senator Ca treaty on general p remair opposed t in- to that it w ent declaring ¥ of goverr s contrary »r Simmons was the only o mi Demo- le a speech in advocacy of the rati on of the treaty. He replied | at some length to the speech of Senator Fos declarir for the treaty as a | means of promoting friendly relations be- tween the United States and Cuba. He | aid that he spoke for the United States, | not for Cuba, declaring that he did | accept the theory that the United not States is under any obligations to Cuba, ing he thought that we had done all | for the Cubans that any one nation could be expected to do for another, | But he believed that with the ratifica- | tion of this treaty Cuba's prosperity | would be materially enhanced, and that on account of the Improved feeling on the part of the Cubans toward this coun- try our exportations to Cuba, which now amount to about $28000,000 annually, would soon be doubled. He said he ra.| | fused to accept the theory that the Ameri- | | | | | | | { | can sugar producing industry would be injured by adopting the reciprocity rela- | tions proposed by the treaty, and co.,.{ | tended that the ouly advantage Cuba would have over the United States. in the production of sugar would be found in the fact that the Cuban soil is some- what better adapted to that industry than is ours. ¢ | vote taken on t STATES LIVERED AD- ON THE TREATY. | ! e UNITED WHO conclusion of mons’ speech g began. The Commi 1gn announced through Senator Cul- the acceptance of two ddition to those already tee on F ation nded by the committee. The first of these was the amendment increasing the rate of reduction on flour, corn meal and corn imported into Cuba from the T 1 States. Senator Nelson spoke yes- pport of and Ser mendment along 3urton of Kan- ed the amendment. As offered, provided for a reduction of 40 per cent, committee modified the amend- tor re; but tk per ce The othe amendment adopted by suggested by fixed a uniform reduction of 2 on: Ameriean cotton ported into Cuba per cent The only aye and no committee amendments amendment adopted some time ago by -the committee at the in- stance of the beet sugar Republican Sen- ators providing against further treaty re- duction the” duty on sugar imported into the United States for the next five <, or while the treaty remain in force, was on the in ment, and it was sustained by a majority of twenty-two votes, the vote being forty- | four for the amendment and twenty-two against it, the negative votes being cast | by Democr The other committee amendments, including those accepted to- day and the amendment making the ap- proval-of the entire Congress necessary to render the treaty effective, then were adopted. TREATY 1S RATIFIED, After the committee amendments had been accepted the Democrats offered a number of amendments, but they were all voted down by a strict party vote, One of these amendments provided for the striking out of article 6 of the treaty, which makes specific declaration against the granting of any concession to Ameri- can tobacco imported into Cuba. That article was left just as it was when the reaty was sent to the Senate. Senator Fostér presented an amendment provig. ing that the treaty shall not go into efrect until Cuba should accept the Chinese ex- clusion laws of the United States, but it met defeat. Senator Newlands withdrew his amendment authorizing the Uniteq States to issue an invitation to Cuba to enter the Union and become a State there.- of, but gave notice that he would reney jt when the question of approving the treaty should come up in the next regular session. The vote then was taken on the motion | to ratify, which was made by Senator Cullom, and the motion prevailed 50 to 16, the vote being In detail as follows: Aves—Aldrich, Alger, Allee, Allison, Ankeny, Bacon, Ball, Beveridge, Blackburn, Burnham, Burrows, Burton, Clark (Wyo.), Cockrell, Cul- tom, Depew, Dietrich, Dolliver, Dryden, Elkins, Fairbanks, Foraker, Foster (Wash.), Frye, Fulton, Gallinger, Gamble, Gorman, Hanna, Hansbrough, Heyburn, Hopkins, Kearns, Lati- mer, Lodge, Long, McComas, McCreaty, Me- 4 the | ¢hey said they were in a hurry. and re- Senator Ba- | ¥ lled for on this amend- | 1 { { | l | | to provide for a reduction of | | | of a goods im- | | i i | disclose their identtities, | opium fiends. | FALL RIVER | | STEAMERA . SHAMBLES | s | pln e ! EW LONDON, | Comn., March 20.— The Fall River line | steamer Plvinouth put into this pprt at 3 o'clock this | morning, she having been in collision off the Race. i No details haye as vet been | | .learned. but upon her ar- rival ambulances and phy- sicians were sent for. Later it was learned thgg | | fifteen on | twelve or persons i were killed the Ply- | mouth. The steamer was ! bound from New York for | { o EATH AIDES AT NIGHT IN THE GOURE Killing of a Steve- dore; Poisoning of Companion. ey S Boston. i Knock-out drops, evidently administer- | ed by two men well versed in the use of | the deadly potion night of one man and poasible death of another. The two men who are supposed to have plied the victims with the poison cluded the ¢ by a narrow margin, end at 3:30 o'clock this morning bad not been captured About 2 o'clock a eoupe numbered 130 drove up to a saioon at 13 East sireet, which is ran by “a FhEr mamed Kelly. ¥Froni it degeahided @ roughly dressed man who entered-the saloon and-nsked one of the customers at the bar, named Archie Dean, concerning several saloons along the water front. He gave his name as Jimmy Nevada and said he was a steve- dore. He explained In what at the time was thought to be a maudlin manner that ng for his partner, whom he caused the murder last | Within a few moments he fell into an unconscious condition, and this aroused | Dean’s suspicions. He went to the door of the saloon. and, noticing the <coupe nding at the entrance, he to it and in. ond dressed man was sunk on the rear seat a stuportand two well-dressed young fel lows were chatting togi t. Dean tried to arouse the unconscious . and failing in this he called upon 'wo other men to help him lift him into the saloon. They complied and when the body was taken inside it was found that life was extinct. Dean tried to detain the two men, but walked over peered he roughly | in the front | | turned to the coupe. ‘He went in search | policeman and found Officer Smith. When the policeman reached the scene the coupe had disappeared, the occupants leaving word with a bystander that they were known to the driver, who would se. cure their attendance if they were want- ed in any manner regqrding the case. Policeman Smitih cAused both of the bodles to be taken to the hospital, where one of the men was pronounced dead, and the other said to be suffering from the effects of an overdose of some powerful narcotic, presumably chloral or laudanum. Nothing was found on either man to Seat checks for the performance at the Republic Theater last night and cards from an employment agency, numbered 336 and 337, indlcated that the two men were partners, The two men who accompanied them in the coupe are sald to have the appearance of No money or valuables was found on the person of the dead man or his friends. Nevada was treated at the Harbor Hos- pital, and is still in an uncoinscious con- dition, but the ddctors think he will re- cover. B e e e R R R ) Warren, Wetmore—Total, 50. Noes—Bailey, Bard, Bate, Berry, Carmack, Clark (Mont.), Daniel, Foster (La.), Me- Enery, Mallory, Martin, Money, Morgan, New- lands, Pettus, Tallaferro—Total, 16. In making the pairs two Senators were paired for the treaty with one against it. The pair list i as follows: Kearns and Hale with Gibson, Miflard and Proctor with Clarke of Arkansas, Scott and Quay with McLaurin, Dillingham and Clapp with Tillman, Kittredge and Platt of New York with Patterson, Platt of Connecticut and Hawley with Teller, Mitchell and Clay Wwith Dubois, Quarles with Culber- son. Hoar was absent ard unpaired. When the result had Dbeen footed up the figures were announced from the chalr, and the presiding officer stated that as the treaty had received the necessary two-thirds vote it had been ratified. Sen- ators Allison and Cockrell were appofnted a committee to wait on the President and notify him that if he had no further com- munications to make to the Senate the Senate was ready to adjourn. When Senators Allison and Cockrell re- turned from the White House Senator Allisoa announced that the President had no further communication to make to the Senate. He thereupon moved the final Cumber, Nelson, Overman, Penrose, Perkins, | agjournment of the Senate. and this mo- Stmmons, Smoot, - Spooner, Stewart, Stone, | tion prevailed without division. | | ‘capital, AINS THE DEATH OF KEARNEY HEORIES of foul play or of accidental death advanced in the case of Daniel Kcarney, fo | mer salesman for the Brooks-Follis Electric Company, whose body was found in the bay i several days ago, have been exploded by the discovery of a new line of evidence which | proves almost cgnclusively that the young electrician, after being scorned by a woman, beratel planned suicide. Kearney and a man who jumped from the steamer Berkeley the y he disap- | peared are shown to be identical, by means of a hat which the woman who discarded him recog- | | nized as his property a few days after the young man's death. P2 | | } | } I | ¥ | NTO WOMAN ACCUSED OF WITH DANIE B. WHO DROWNED HIM S g e e e e ' - it ——+ Mystery Cleared OF LINCOLN Suicide. ’ FIRE'S SPOIL e ) — Proof That Emancipation! Proclamation Was Burn- i ed in Chicago. Special: Dispatch to The Call WASHINGTON, March 19.—After a’long search Colonel Michael, chiet clerk at the | State Department, stafed this afternoon | that he . has discovered that the orlmnali emancipation- proclamation,” by which Abraham Lincoln set the slaves free, was destroyed in the Chicago’fire in 1871 A few yvears after the proclamation was issued a soclety of women in Chicago re- quested the President to place the orig- fnal of the emancipation proclamation temporarily in their possession:that they might place it' on exhibition and devote the proceeds to philanthropic work. The officials in Washington were loth to per- mit the famous instrument to leave the but in view of the charitable | purpose for which it was requested it was finally sent to Chicago. Colonel Michael now declares he has absolute proof that it was destroyed in the great fire. Lloyd C. Griscom, United States Minis- ter to Japan, to-day presented to the State Department two lithograph copies of the original proclamation. Five such copies were made by order of his father, C. A. Griscom of Philadelphia, while the original was on exhibftion in Chicago. Of | the five coples only two are now extant. 1o the absence of other authentic fac- similes they are very valuable and high- Iy treasured by the State Department. OPERA SINGER IS HUR ON ROCK ISLAND TRAIN Shot Fired Through Window at Guthrie Cuts Madame de La Mothe’s Arm. GUTHRIE, O. T., March 19.—On .the Rock Island train In Guthrie to-night from the West Mme. de La Mothe, an opera singer, was seriously injured by some person shooting through the car window by which she was sitting. The ghot cut her arm and broke the glass into atomis, the small pieces cutting her face and arms in numerous places, causing many wounds. ‘Her home is in Chicago, she only recently baving come from Paris. His Fate Jealed‘;XRfim_AN’s 4 by JScorn of Woman. HE cloud of mystery that has enveloped for days the c stances attending the strange death of Danfel B. Kearney former salesman for the Brooks- Follis Electric Company, is slowly rising and revealing facts that point directly to a case of suicide. Evidence sufficient to warrant the conciusion that Kearney pre- meditated gleath during a spell of de- spondency, hich was superinduced by drink, ‘has- been found, and facts, too, that will'absolve from any and all re- sponsibility ‘for his death Mrs. Charles B. Harris of Sacramento. ‘While- there is plenty of suggestion in the leters already published that Kegrney and Mrs. Harris were on very friendly terms, there is ample evidence within reach of the police to prove that she in no way figured in Kearney's deliberate plan to destroy himseif. This much The Call is prepared to substantiate in de fense of a woman whose name has fig- ured most unenviably in the case. In establishing as a fact that Daniel B. Kearney drowned himself, The Call pre- sents an entirely new line of evidenc | which will no doubt interest the detec- tives who have been working on old clews | in an effort to furnish material for the Coroner’s investigation scheduled for Sat- urday next. Kearney was last seen, so far as the knowledge of the police goes, on the morning of January 23, first on the ferry- boat Berkeley en route-to Oakland mols, and again on the mole, where hé ap- parently was preparing to take a train to Alameda. POLICE ARE BAFFLED. The police have followed every possible clew, beginning with that morning, but seemingly have neglected to learn where the young electrician was the previous uight or what circumstance might have occurred during the night to prompt him in an act of self-destruction. They have also neglected to connect existing and “Continued on Page 2, Columa 1. » | PROMISE NEAR FULFILLMENT Ll BB kT From New York to San Francisco in Three and a Half Days. e —— OMAHA, Neb., March 13.—Upon the completion of extensive improvements and cut-offs now being made by the Union Pacific, the New York Central aad Lake Shore rallroads will put on one of the finest trains and the trip to San Francisco will be made in three days and a half This announcement was made by a Union Pacific official to-day. Contracts have y let for doubling 144 milés of track. This read will have 10,000 men at work this spring if they can be obtained, on new construg- tion work. LEAVES SMALL FORTUNE BURIED IN AN OUTHOUSE Death of Supposed Indigent Reveals Fact That He Had Money and Bonds. NEVADA CITY, March 19.—Public Ad- ministrator Taylor to-day fled an app! cation for letters of administration on the estate ot John Armstrons, an old dent of Nevada County, who was found dead in his yard near Litt “abin, below Sweetland, several days ago. The man_had lived ‘alone on the place many years, and, though he never was a charge on the county, it was thought that he was without means. Dr. E. A. Victors of North San Juan took charge of Armstrong’s effects for the Coroner and in examining the place found buried under some debris in one corner of an outhouse bonds of a San Franeisco corporation valued at $1209. Continuing the search, Dr. Vietors found 4355 in siiver coin in an old can concealed under the hearth. It is thought that more valuables are secreted about the place and the Public Administrator will comtinue the search.