The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 24, 1903, Page 1

:"-Y' »(P‘ f t = Thve - - T s VOLUME Xcmp-NO. 145. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS USSIA PAUES THE WAY TO WAR IN THE ORIENT WITH DEMAND FOR J OUEREIGNTY OF MANCHURIA EKING April 23.- county. taken unhl this agreement is signed. lflUTS GIff |-OWER HOUSE OF ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE THE SCENE OF RIOT LASTING MANY HOURS - | N FEDERAL - EPARTMENT Disgraced Official’s Wife in Role of Cracksman. . Tyner’s Bold Coup Startles Nation’s Capital. S ational Denouement in he Postoffice Scandal Inquiry. —A most sen- the Investigat ab- been en, and announced the circum- uld be submitted ent of Justice to- al developments n of arrests diately by At- e e W the letter ter General on and made ter follows: CAUSE OF THE REMOVAL. N. Tyner, Assistant Attorney r Postoffice Department— | | SPEAKER OF THE LOWER HOU! 2l | OF THE ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE, ARBITRARY METHODS TO THWART BRIBES. £ eby removed from the WHO SAYS HE RESORTED TO office | THE PLANS OF OFFERERS OF the 3 ! \ © of unicated to you through rarily Ousted and & mutual friend & request for your resig- net After view with gy e demand so that . 1908, with pro- that you were given leave the time of the accept- PRINGFIELD, 1L, ging and rolling over one another across the Speaker’s platform in a frenzied general fist fight at the resignation to the date of its of a score of women guests, the effect, with the request that you | members of the Illinois Legislature to- way to underteke to dis. | day surpassed the wildegt scenes in the of the office. Austrian Reichsrath. afternoom Mrs. Tyner | To-night charges by the Speaker of the to the office of the Assistant At- | House, John H. Miller, that attempts had General for the Postoffice De- | been made to bribe him were formally entering in the regular wey, made as an explanation of the’ extraor- hrough the main office to the dinary actions on his part that precipi- ce, closing the door behind her. | tated the riot. he then unlocked the door entering from the public hall, entered into the private room and and admitted her sister, Mrs. =S feet measure the track of a tornado, so gen- eral was the wreckage of chairs and Barre whose son was formerly essist- | desks. ' ent in vour office and whose conduct is Chicago street rallway franchises, more | now under investigation by the depart- veluable than gold mines, were directly | ment | at stake, Federal court recelvership pro- ceedings against the Union Traction Com. pany of Chicago yesterday having brought the matter to a sudden issue. EXPERT OPENS THE SAFE. aiso admitted, In the same man- G. Hammer, an expert in the em- She ploy the Mosler Bafe Company, with | The Federal receivership was held by whom she hed made en arrangement to | ManY to Indicate an intention by the — r 8t the department. At her di. | Street rallway company to fight out a rect Hemmer opened the safe in | C2!m t0 & ninety-nine-year franchise in- the stead of negotiating with the Chicago she took therefrom all pa- pers s and articles of every kind » away with her. A learning what had ted the Fourth Assist- to send two in- demand, in the the de- iments or any cen abstracted was refused kewise refused | I : or to ler announced that the Lindley municipal her pres. cwnership bill was a special order on sec- ated to the ond reading. The bill was read. Then » committea was recognized and offered the d by formulated at Tuesday g Before these were on a twenty-year basls, with a municipal ownership option on the part of the city. The stormiest time ever experienced in the Illinois without warning in a whirlwind of wild | disorder which arose to-day in the House over rival traction measures, or so-called | municipal ownership bills. STRIFE BEGINS AT ONCE. Lindley amendments at’s conference. this ni 3 % not necessary. ' read he made a statement to the House the case wit bmitted | concerning them. General of the United | Speaker Miller then ordered the amend- s the premises a8 ments read. The first amendment was tead and when the Speaker started to put question of its adoption to a viva respecttully, PAY the tmaster General.” voce vote the House was thrown into dis- MRS ¥RE. TYNER'S BOLD COUP. order. A large number of members were er went to the office of the | on their feet. Some of them stood on P \Miorney General, on the fifth | chairs, a few on thelr desks, demanding 1 toffice building, at 2 afternoon and h—manmd amendment fis adopted,” sald ol s -5, =he arrived acting | gpeaker Miller, bringing down his gavel. » Y aeneral Christiancy, | “You arc a Har!” retorted Allen: . e of the office’ for months | phere was now . fresh outbreak) mem- absence of General Tyner, who cen in poor health for a long period, bers shouting *Mr. Speaker!” “Mr. Speak- er!” “Roll call! Roll call!” Above the din Sherman, as he seized Lis “kitchen chalr” and placed it on his c:mtinuoi o:P:ge 2, Column &, April 23.—Slug- | de The interior of the legis- | lative chamber to-night regembled in a | : City Counell for a renewal of franchises | Legislature began almost | | was 11:20 o'clock when Speaker Mil- Majority Faction Declares the Speaker Tempo- Elects One of Its Number to His Place. . could be heard in front of him, House. The chalr is not in order.” SPEAKER IGNORES DEMANDS. The of the second amendment was then read. The uproar was deafening as the Speak- er started to put the question of adoption, ““As many as favor—" the rest of the sen- tence being entirely lost. All .the while the demands for a roll call continued. The Speaker declared the amendment pted, although his decision could be heard scarcely three feet from him. The lird .amendment was read and in the same manner declared adopted. By this time pandemonium prevailed. Many members had seized billbooks and were pounding their desks with them, | while Cummings, from his seat in the front row on the Democratic side, was vigorously wielding a board. The fourth amendment adopted. ‘When the reading of the fifth amend- ment was completed personal violence against the Speaker was threatened. A number of ladies were sitting on the couch on the Speaker’'s stand. ‘ “Will the ladies ple: move out from | behind?" shouted Alien. was declared | *Get them out,” shouted Sherman; “get | the ladies out; don’t act the coward.” In the uproar Lindley was heard to move the previous question on the bill ?rnu Speaker put the motion, and al- | though he could not be heard, the move. ‘mvms of the gavel indicated that the !mm‘rm had prevailed. MEMBERS COME TO BLOWS. At this point a fight broke out on the | Democratic side, a few feet from the Speaker. Wordell (Dem.) and Glade (Rep.) were the central figures, but elght or ten other members—in fact, almost everybody in their immediate vicinity— appeared to be taking a hand in the melee in an evident endeavor to separate the two combatants. It developed after- ward that Wordell had started for the Speaker with a menacing air and that Glade had.seized him, thus precipifating the encounter. It was now 11:40 o'clock. Above the din an indistinct motion for a recess to 2:30 o'clock was heard, and a moment dater. the Speaker brought down his gavel and declared it carried. Fully half of the members of the House appeared now to be standing on top of their desks. On the Republican side, near the front, were Trautmann, Murray, § Church, Christian, Patterson, Schlagenhauf and Rinaker. They were Continued on Page 2, Column 3. The Speaker ignores the rules | Japan at Once Prepares for Trouble. \Three Warships Are Ordered to Newchwang. \Mikado Looks to America for | Support. ’ OKOHAMA, April 23— | Three Japanese warships | | have been ordered to| Newchwang. Marquis Ito has| held a secret conference with | leading Japanese statesmen. The Russian demands for priv-| | ileges in Manchuria have excited | the Japanese press, which insists on vigorous action, confident that the United States as well as Great ‘ Britain will support Japan. | An arrangement has been | reached by which the political | crisis has been averted, but the Government's mnaval increment proposals remain unchanged. 1 made by Russia as conditlons pre- | cedent to Russfa’s evacuation of Manchuria and will appeal to the other | powers for help In resisting the demands. | Prince Cheng’s refusal probably pleases | Russia as well as his acceptance would have done, because either alternative | means the relinquishment of Chinese sov- | erelgnty in Manchuria. | The Russian demands are as follows: First, no more Manchurian ports or towns | are to be opened; second, no more for- | elgn consuls are to be admitted into Man- | churfa; third, no forelgners except Rus- | sians are to be employed in the public | service of Manchuria; fourth, the pres- | ent status of the administration of Man- | churfa is to remain unchanged; fifth, the customs receipts at the port of New- | chwang are to be given to the Russo- | Chinese banks; sixth, a sanitary com- | mission is to be organized under Russian control; seventh, Russia s entitled to at- | tach wires to the telegraph poles of all | | Chinese lines in Manchuria, and eighth, | no territory in Manchuria is to be alien- ated to any other power. No explanation has been given 'to me* Chinese of the Russian interpretation of the fourth demand. Chinese officials are greatly disturbed, but they are power- less. ‘While the foregoing demands were be- | fore the Chinese for consideration, M. | Placon assured his colleagues explicitly that the only reason for the delay in re- storing the Government of Newchwang to the Chinese was the origination of the Sanitary Commission. There has been much feeling in British circles over the appointment of a Rus- slan Commisstoner in Newchwang, but this revelation of Russia's determlznuon to 4 i | EKING, April 28.—China has de- | clined to accede to the demands | retain control of Manchuria, fnd cloge the door there, robs this appointment of its importance. 3 The Chinese court returned to the for- bidden city to-day with a spectacular pro- cession from the hunting park. i ; DANGER OF A CONFLICT. United States May Be Drawn Into the Controversy. WASHINGTON, April 23.—The Peking dispatch late to-night to the effact that Russia finally refuses to evacuate Man- churia, as promised repeatedly, is re- garded by officials as of grave import- ance. The naval preparations in Japan have an ominous look, and in view of the alllance between Great Britain and that | country it is regarded as not at all fm- probable that Great Britain will be forced to take summary action to compel Rus- gia to keep her agreement. The United States s not in honor bound to support Japan in this crisis, but in view of the triple friendly under- standng between Great Britain, Japan and the United States it s altogether probable that this Government will be drawn into the controversy. —_— British View of the Demands. LONDON, April 24.—The Peking cor- respondent of the Times describes the first article of the Russian demands on China, namely, that no more Manchurian ports or towns be opened, as a slap in the face for the United States, that country having proposed the opening of Mukden and Takushan as treaty ports. — Fire Destroys Valuable Property. FAIRBURY, Neb., April 23.—Fire this afterneon destroyed fully a quarter of the business portion of the town, com- prising an entire block on the south of the public square, lumber yards near by, BRITISH COLUMN Russia has demanded that Chma sign an agreement practically ceding to her the sovereignty of Mand'huna and excluding other nations from that The Russian Charge, M. Plancon, has informed Prince Cheng, President of the Foreign Office, that no further steps in the evacuation of Manchuria will i IS OVER — WHELMED AND ANNIHILATED BY A HORDE OF NATIVE FANATICS IN SOMALILAND | A | Ten Officers and Two] Hundred Men Fall in Battle. | ONDON, April 23.—The War Office | to-day received from Brigadier General Manning, in command of the British forces in Somaliland, a dispatch dated “Twénty Miles ‘Westward of Galadi, Somaliland, April 18, as fol- lows: “I regret to report that a flying cdumn under the command of Colonel Cobbe, which left Galadi April 10, to reconnoiter the road to Walwal, had a most serious check on April 17. On the morning of April 17 Colonel Cobbe was at Gumberru, forty miles westward of Galadi, and had decided to return to Galadi, owing to the serfous difficulty in finding the road to Walwal and to the shortness of water. He was about to leave his zareba (pro- tected camp) when firing was heard in the direction of a small party under the command of Captain Olivey, which had been sent in a westerly direction to re- connoiter. COLUMN IS ANNIHILATED. “At 9:15 _in the morning Colonel Cobbe dispatched Colonel Plunkett with 160 men of the Second Battalion of the King's African Rifles, forty-eight of the Second Sikhs and two Maxim guns for the ex- trication of Captain Olivey, If necessary. As & matter of fact, Captain Olivey had not been engaged. Colorel Plunkett, on joining the detachment, continued to push on, and at 11:45 Colonel Cobbe heard a heavy fire in the direction taken by Colonel Plunkett, and at about 1 o’clock in the afternoon a few fugitives coming in reported that Colonel Plunkett had been defeated with loss. “The news has been fully corroborated fy—— LEADER OF SOMALI FANAT- ICS AND COMMANDERS OF BRITISH FORCE. = since, and I have to report the total loss of Colonel Plunkett's party, with the ex- ception of thirty-seven Yaos, who have arrived here. FUTILE BAYONET CHARGE “The latest information extracted from the fugitives is to the effect that Colonel Plunkett pushed on after the enemy's force to the open .country seven miles ‘westward of Gumberru, where he was at- tacked by a very strong force of mounted troops and the enemy’s Infantry, who at- tacked at close quarters. He kept back the enemy until he had no more ammuni. tion, when he formed a squars and charged with bayonets in the direction of Colonel Cobbe’s zareba. He moved some distance in this manner, but a great many men, including Colonel Plunkett himself, were killed or wounded by the pursuing enemy. “At last the enemy’s infantry over- whelmed the square and annihilated them all, with the exception of the thirty-seven fugitives above mentioned.” The dispatch closes with a list of the e Colonel Cobbe’s Force Is in a Critical Position. - - “‘officers and men missing and no doubt killed in action,” namely, Colonel A. W. V. Plunkett, Captains Johnston, Stewart, Olivey, Norris and McKinnon and I tenants Gaynor and Bell, all of the King' African Rifles; Captain Vizey of the Sec- ond Sikhs; Captain Sims of the Ind medical staff, two white privates, fort eight men of the Second Sikhs and 124 men of the African Riffes. The two Maxim guns were also lost. COBBE NEEDS ASSISTANCE. Another dispatch from General Man- ning, who, on hearing of the defeat of Colonel Plunkett, started for Gumberru with 460 men, says further Information reached him from Colonel Cobbe to the effect that the latter, with 220 troops, was encamped with plenty of food and supplies and four days' water. He has about 1000 camels and does-not belleve he can withdraw from his position with- out assistance, because the scrub is thick and the enemy’s forces seem likely to act on the offensive. General Manning adds: “I march again directly and expect to ,nrrlve at Gumberru to-morrow at noon. | 1 shall accomplish the extrication of Col- | onel Cobbe ywith As much transport as | poesible and return to Galadl. T can only carry sufficlent water for the march to | Gumberru, returning dfrectly. I shall therefore be unable to advance against the enemy If the latter holds back.” L L S i o o o Y the Methodist church and parsonage a block away and several residences. The total loss is estimated at from $240,000 to $300,000. ANTI-SEMITIC RIOTS OCCUR AT KISHINEFF Workingmen Attack the Jewish Res- idents and Kill Twenty-Five 5 of Them. ST. PETERSBURG, April 23.—Twenty- five Jews were killed and twenty-seven were wounded, many of them fatally, dur- ing anti-Semitic riots at Kishineff, capital of Bessarabia, April 2, when a number of workmen organized an attack on the Jewish inhabitants. The Minister of the Interior has ordered the adoption of spe- cial measures to restore order in the town and district. TRAIN CRASHES INTO A WRECK Pa.ssengpr Coach Leaves Rails ahd Pullman Smashed. TUCSON, Ariz., April 23—A wreck oc- curred on the Sonora Rallroad near Carbo, Mexico, Tuesday night. A switch engine in charge of Engineer O’Choa and a fire- man, en route from Guaymas to Nogales, ,jumped the track near Carbo. Both men were badly bruised and scalded, but man- aged to crawl to the opposite side of the track. The engine is a total wreck, Both | men have since died. | 'No signals having been |bound international train collided with | the wrecked engine. The engine, baggage car and the third-class coach left the track. The baggageman was badly bruised and the Pullman car smashed. The rallroad office will give no details. —_— Condemned Soldiers Reprieved. PRETORIA, April 23.—Reprieves have been granted in the cases of four of the five private soldiers belonging to the second battalion of the Leinstey Regiment who were sentenced to death here last Tuesday on charges of rioting. Three of the men will undergo fifteen-year penal servitude sentences while the fuunh will get twenty years. set, the north