The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 5, 1904, Page 3

THE - SA \ FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1904 ST VICTORY R TE TR | 1 Judge *Squashes Con-| Against Nebraska Indictment r From e ! CHARGES PEXDING | Will d at Omaha To-Day | ! on Minor Aeccusation | 1 Lawmaker Be against ect viola- P n a demurrer er ' . e indict- acking sufficiency and al- ging ve the effect of he S n trial twice on 2 Vandeventer irt that the de- the conspiracy t the Gov- for trial large number en subpenaed and the city ctment charging ng by the leas- e United States iember of Con- with bribery in tment of & 1 to-morrow the rator Dietrich fiting by a contract t for the leasing of located the POLICE GUARD ROOMS OF MME LILLIAN NORDICA Receint f Many Threatening Letters Causes the Singer to Appeal for Prc time has tion of the pleting her ar- BENSON ————————— FURNISHES CASH AND IS RELEASED BAnl r Puts Up $10,000 for Quarters in Apartment House. Jan. 4.—J. A. Ben- this morning on $10,- resting apa however, other an or 8 s that the L oner will not separite bond for each in- s son’s confinement in f. e time ng at least. s corpus will be ap- plied for immediately to prevent his ates court for —_— ADVERTISEMENTS. ¢RrOlUCE AND . GU WR ANTTL b v ON MULK C e DENSING [ This Cap Label | is a guarantee of the purity and richness of our Economy ‘ Brand i Evaporated i Cream We offer $5.000 reward tc anyone zble to prove 2dulteration of our product is worth your while, who-| you are, to knaw| Schilling’s Best tea haking-powder epices i coflee favoring extracts wooa and the moneyback dealing by which they are sold by the best [ | he grocers on this Coast. | McComas | asked Bacon. had mnade a political blunder and had | mistaken their partisanship for a moral | | sense. TAFT . Democratic Senators Criticize President’s Message. Panama Policy Is the Theme of an Acrid Discussion. —— WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—The Senate’s first session following the holiday re- devoted entirely to Panama. President Roosevelt sent a message on cess was the subject, which was received with great Interest. Discussion continued throughout the day, speeches being made both in defense of and against Fil +* has defended the President and asserted that his action would stand if | | tried in court Stewart of Nevada severely eriticized | the Bogota Government for its selfish action in preventing construction of the canal Morgan of Alabama stated his prefer- | ence for the Nicaragua route, and maintained that the present course of the administration was breaking down the established policy of the United States regarding neutrality Rev ward Everett Hale pronounced | the invocation on tbe convening of (ha‘ Senate. Dr. Hale, who was elected | chaplain just before the Wgliday rece wore ecclesiastical robes. In the invo- | cation he referred to the recent death | of Mrs. Hoar in these words ‘Remember those in great sorrow | who have seen the last of those they | love.” | The Chicago disaster also was touched | upon in the praver as “‘the city in trib- | on and trial.” | McCOMAS OPENS DEBATE. Following the reading of the Presi- dent’'s message McComas of Maryland began a discussion of the isthmian sit- uation, in which he characterized the message “a clearly cogent and ndantly convincing presentation of | the Morgan interrupted with a question | to bring out the point, as he held, that the recognition of the republic was sim- | ply de facto. | McComas held otherwise, maintain- | ing that the recognition was “official” and would be held so by the courts. | Culberson questioned the right of the | executive to make such recognition, but | maintained positively that | the executive had such authority, and | said he could bring to the attention of | | the Senate two instances in which the | same power had been exercised. Till- man wanted the instances cited, and | | McComas promised to present them | later. ¢ | “But T want to know,” broke in Till- | man, “whether the Senator contends | | that the executive, without the instruc- | tion of the Congress, can employ the army and navy to defend his executive | action by warning away and prevent- ing Colombia asserting her supremacy anywhere except on the Panama rail- road.” In answer McComas referred Tillman to the closing statement of the Presi- dent’s message. BACON ASKS QUESTIONS. Bacon inquired how long the new re- | public would last should the sustaining | power of the United States be with- drawn. | “For many years,” replied McComas. | He added that but for the restraining power of the ¥nited States the inde- pendence of Panama would have been | established long ago. “Will the Senator state the respective population of Panama and Colombia?” | “Panama has about 300,000 and Co- lombia 4,500.000,” was the reply. | “And vet the Senator thinks the 300,- ‘\ I i 14 maintain themselves against the 4,500,0007" again interjected Bacon. uch things are frequent events in V) .5 the reply, and McComas mentioned the contest of Japan, with 35.000,000 population, * against China, with 400,000,000; also Montenegro’s suc- cessful contest of two centuries, $ McComas, addressing the Democratic ide, declared that some excelient men | He added that this opposition | was not only unpatriotic, but that it| was perversely, persistently wrong. STEWART'S BLUNT SPEECH. Stewart followed with an indorsement of the course of the administration on | the Panama question, although, he said, he had formerly been in favor of the Nicaragua route. Stewart declared that the object of Colombia was to de- lay matters until the expiration of the French canal cencession. “Jt is time,” he added, “we should begin to treat them according to their true characters as bighway robbers, | the canal —e | SECRETARY OF WAR ROOT'S SUCCESSOR AND THE PRESIDENT'S | | NOMINEES FOR CIVIL GOVERNOR AND VICE CIVIL GOVERNOR OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. | WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—The Presi- ent to the Senate the nom- ination of William Taft of Ohio to be Secretary of War. The President also nominated Luke E. Wright of Tennes- see to be Civil Governor of the Philip- dent to-da | pine Islands, and Henry C. Ide of Ver- mont to be Vice Civil Governor of the Philippine Islands. Other nominations were made as fol lows Civil Service Commissioner—John W. | Black of Tllinois. Consul General—Henry D. Saylor of o Pennsylvania. at Coburg, Germany. Assistant Secretary of Commerce and | Labor—Lawrence O. Murray of Illi- neis. s | Postmasters: California—Sarah H. ‘Lalrd_ Alturas; Angelo Genelly, Los Banos; William C. Campbell, Los Ga- tos; Jochn W. Liloyd, ‘Porterville; George F. Beales, Paulson, Weaverville. | 'The Senate has confirmed the follow- | ing nominations: | Postmasters: California—Horace B. Gardiner, Crockett; Charles 8. Gra- ham, Pleasanton. < biackmail on the nations of the world. “We have the right of way now for concluded Stewart. “The people want the canal, and,” turning to the Democratic side of the chamber, ‘you had better get on the band | wagon, because it is moving. The peo- ple don’t care anything about that little band of robbers at Bogota and we are going (o build the canal, and I am go- ing to try and live until the canal is, constructed.” Morgan said that the message of the President to-day contained no new rec- ommendations. “It seems to be an argument against the resolutions and remarks of the senior Senator from Massachusetts (Hoar) and of remarks of Senators on this side of the chamber,” he said. FEARS PRESIDENT'S POWER. He (Morgan) might yield in his judg- | no ship could ever pass through the isthmus of Panama, but he could not a in the breaking down of our fixed policy of neutrality between belligerents or in enlarging the diplo- matic powers of the President until they reached a stage of usurpation on the part of the executive. Morgan said that his colleagues could not fail to see that the President’s atti- tude was intended to force them to vote for the Panama route. ¥or himself, he was not opposing the President on slight grounds, but because he believed the course of the Eresident to be such as to threaten the integrity of the United States. 'He argued that, ac- cording to precedents, the de facto gov- ernment of Panama had no right to transfer territory, but he declared that the President knew that onl# by his recognition of Panama could he acquire a concession there. Indeed, he asserted, in the prospect of securing this acquisi- tion was found the only motive for the President’s recognition. He said that, instead of the rising being as of one man, as declared by the President, it had been a rising of eight men, who for months had been in conspiracy against the real people of Panama. He declared that President Roosevelt's interference in Colombia’s affairs on the isthmus was unjustified by the constitution, and asserted that if there was to be a gen- eral policy on the part of the United States of upholding civilization, that policy must be undertaken by Congress and “not left to blaze on the lance of some individual American Sancho Panza to be thrust into the bosom of a friendly pal.” BUNAU-VARILLA'S PROPHECY. For one, he would not vote to ratify the wrong done by the President, who, he added, desired this ratification to justify what he and the Panama junta had done. “And for what purpose?” asked Mor- gan. “He wants the assistance of the Democratic Senators to do what he and his party cannot do.” Morgan read an article from a Paris wvager, printed last September, and of ment that which, Morgan said, M Varilla was the author. The article { purported to outline the President’s plans with reference to the Panama canal. That article, Morgan declared, was a correct forecast of the message which to-day had been sent to the Sen- ate. | "How,” he asked, “did that inflated Frenchman become possessed of the se- cret of the President’s policy if not through the President himself?" He appealed to the Senate to stand by the Spooner law, and declared that the President’s course w:s as if he were above the law. “That law Is,” he said, “in the way of his personal ambition, and he spurns { It with contemptuous indifference.” As for himself, he could not see the President join hands wit.. the Panama conspirators not without sorrow, but without shame, for he was not one of those “who bend the pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift may follow fawn- ing.” He predicted that even though the Government of the United States | should undertake the construction of the Papama canal, a canal would be first built over the Nicaragua route be- | cause of its superior feasibility. He | again referred to President McKinley's | attitude toward the canal routes, and declared that Nicaragua has a better friend in the grave of Willlam McKin- ley than Panama has in the present head of the American army and navy.” i e achi ASKS FTOR AN INQUIRY. House Member Charges in Bristow's Report Investigated. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—With the re- assembling of Congress to-day after the recess the chaplain of the House in opening the session of that body prayed that war between Russia and Japan might be averted by a peaceful adjust- ment of their differences. A privileged resolution offered by Hay (Democrat) of Virginia recited that certain statements contained in the Bristow postoflice report reflected upon ter Bunau- the membership of the House. It pro- villed for an investigation by a commit- tee to be appointed by the Speaker. A point of order made against the resolu- tion by Gardner was overruled, and the same fate met Payne (Republican) of New York, who desired to refer the res- olution to the Postoffice Committee. A vote on ordering the previous question developed no quorum, and the House adjourned. Hay's privileged resolution was as follows: Whereas. The Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, in his report to the Postmaster Gen- Qated Cotober 24, 1003, and which report been transmitted 'to a committee of this se, has charged that long leases for post- office premises were canceled and rents in- creaged upch the recommendation of influen- tial_representatives; and, Whereas, It is charged in the same report that If a member of Congress requested that increased clerk hire be allowed a postmaster. Beavers usually complied, regardless of the merits of the case: and. Whereas, Certain cases of an aggravated character are cited on pages 136, 135, 134 of #aid report to sustain the above charges; and, Visalia; Albert L.’ 11 ¥\y |COMMITTEE REPORT FAVORS WOOD; NAMED FOR WAR SECRETARY Promotion of General Leonard Wood Is Recommended. —_— Scott and Blackburn Vote Against Con- firmation. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. — Senater Foraker, a member of the Committee on Military Affairs, in executive ses- | sion to-day submitted a brief in favor of Brigadier General Wood's confirma- | tion to be major general. Eight of the | eleven members of the committee have concurred in this report. Hawley, Proctor, Quarles, Warren and | Alger (Republicans) and Cockrell and | Pettus (Democrats) voted for a favor- able report, while Senators Scott (Re- publican) and Btackburn (Democrat) | voted against confirmation. Senators | Hawley and Proctor were absent and | voted by proxies, and the vote of Sena- | tor Bates will be recorded when he re- turns to Washington to-morrow. Senator Foraker's report contains| more than 10 printed pages and deals | with all the evidence introduced in the | exhaustive investigation conducted by the Senate Committee on Military Af- fairs. It also covers the 167 army nom- inations held up pending action on Gen. eral Wood’s nomination. TAKES UP EACH CHARGE. In his report Senator Foraker quotes the charges which were filed by Major | Estes G. Rathbone against General | Wood and says that every witness be- | | fore the commission was allowed to ! testify as to any fact of which he| might have knowledge, but that with all this latitude the witnesses had been | unaBle tc support the charges made, | while in most instances the facts had | brought out that the witnesses were holding real or fancied grievances | against General Wood, which made them biased in their .views to an ex- tent apparent to the commission. Each charge is taken up by Sena- | tor Foraker in its turn. The orders General Wood is said to have ed | to the courts in the Rathbone case, it ! is argued; were wholly within the | province and duty of General Wood as Governor General. In the postal | cases, it is declared, the testimony | showed Genéral Wood to be following | the instructions issued by the Secre- | tary of War. The revort declares that no evidence was offered to the commission to show that Major | Rathbone was not given a fair trial | in Cuba. THOSE JAI ALI GIFTS, In regard to the gifts which Gieneral | Wood accented from the Jai Ali Com- pany, the report says that ‘“iu the mere fact that General Wood accept- ed gifts from the Jai Ali Company there is nothing to be criticized,” and | adds that General Wood's acceptance | was with the full knowledge of Sec- | retary Root. The question of the ad- mission of the silver service to Cuba | free of duty is summed up in one! paragraph taken from the testimony | of General Tasker Bliss, as follows: | “It was admitted free of duty, but I take all responibility for that upon | myself. I never heard a word from | General Wood on the subject.” Reference is made in the brief to | the conflict of testimony in regard to | the Runcie article, and the word] of Major Runcie is placed against | that of Ray Stannard Baker, the! magazine writer, and General Wood, | both of whom have declared that the | article was not talked of at a dinner at Santiago, as reported by Major | Runcie. i WOOD AND BELLAIRS. The charges made by Major Rathbone | that General Wood had been unduly intimate with an ex-convict, Captain, Bellairs, are .pronounced by Senator | Foraker to be seemingly only spiteful and maljcious declarations, made with- out excuse of any kind in a spirit of re-| venge and wanton vilification. The testimony of Secretary Root is| quoted at length to refute the charge that General Wood had improperly, if not corruptly, granted what is known | as the Castenada concession. It is declared that the charges made by General Brooke that General Wood was guilty of insubordination were! proved to be without foundation, and it[ is added ‘that General Wood was fully sustained by the War Department and the President as to all points of differ- ence between him and General Brooke.” | | members of the | Senator Scott iz preparing a state-| ment which will give the reasons of the! minority members of the committee for voting against a favorable report on| the nomination. | L | = = Whereas, On page 145 of said report it is | charged that members of Congress have vio- lated section-3730 of the Revised Statutes and that In face of the statute Beavers has made | contracts with members of Congress for,the | rental of premises either, in their own names, the names of their agents or some members of their famili and, ‘Whereas, charges and others con- tained in said report reflect upon the integrity of the membership of this House and upon indi- vidual members of this House, whose names are not mentioned; therefore, be it Resolved, That the Speaker of this House | appoint a committee consisting of five mem- bers of this House to investigate said charges; that safd committee have power to send for DPersons and paners to enforce the production ot the same; to examine witnesses under oath; to have assistance of a stenographer and to have p wer to sit during the sessicns of the House and to exercise all functions necessary to a complete investigation of said charges and to report the result of said investigation as soon as practicabie. 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Y., on every bottle. —— e —— CUARDS OLT Revolution in Departments of Florida and Maldonado Forces Summons of Troops — MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jan. 4.— The National Guard has been called out. A dispatch from Montevideo, dated January 2, announced that a re -lution had broken out in the Department of Florida and that the Government was sending troops and war munitions to the disturbed district. It was announced from Buenos Ayres night that a dispatch had been received there saying a revolutica had been declared in the Department of Maldonado, Uruguay, and that a state of siege had been proclaimed through- | out the republic. The revolutionary movement is un- derstood to be due to the white party, or Nationalists, which fomented the revclution which ended March, 1903. e —ee———— Cattlemen Elect Officers. . Jan. 4—The Cat- tlemen’s Association of Arizona crean- ized to-day at a meeting held in the Territorial Capitol by the election of the followire officers: Captain W. H. McKittrick, Willcox, president; J. E. Bark. Phoenix, vice president; M. A. Perkins, Prescott, gecond vice president; Harry L. Heff- ner, Vails, secretary; O. H. Chris Phoenix, treasurer. An executive committee of thirty- nine wis appointed, There was a large attendance of representative cattlemen from all over Arizona. —_——————— Will Suffer for His False Oath. SAN RAFAEL, Jan. 4.—Vincent M. Lewis of Oakland, indicted by the Grand Jury for alleged falsifying of the license register of Marin County in 1901 by claiming he was 21 in order to marry Sarah Hood, gave himself up to-day and will be charged with perjury. 3 the vote as 78 to 88—no quorum. The Speaker ordered the doors closed for a call of the House. Payne sug- -gested that it was doubtful if a quorum could be obtained to-day, afd on his motion, the minority leader assenting, the House at 1:35 p. m. adjourned un- til to-morrow -+ SCANT SERVICE - 0 CALIFORNIA Officials of i Louis Expo- sition Give Obseure Place to Bear State Building ! — e 1 Special D atch to The Call* | SACRAMENTO, Jan. 4—Lieutenant Goverhor Alden Anderson, who has re- turned from an eastern trip, to-day ex- | pressed great disappointment over the | location of the California building at | the St. Louis exposition. Mr. Anderson said: p “I regret very much that the Cali- | fornia building is not located in a more | accessible ‘part of the fair grounds. I do not know why the present site was | selected, but it is in the most remote | and inaccessible part of the grounds and upon a hill. “It is on the opposite side of the grounds from the entrance, and nearly two-miles away, I should judge. This is to be regretted, particularly in view of the fact that California will make an exhibit of unusual merit, and we were, in my judgment, in a position to de- | mand the very best location.” —_—— Practical Points. “Brightest and Best” Heaters hold one gallon of oil and will burn tweive hours in succession or an hour night and morniug for six days on one filling. Jn- | dicator sMows quantity of oil in fount at all times. Water may be boiled or cook- ing done by unhooking and removing nickel-plated cap at top. “B. & B.” Oil Heaters, clean, odorless, safe, 34 25 each, Nathan-Dohrmann Co., 130 Sutter street, San Franci Cal. ——— Pleads Guilty and Is Sentenced. SAN BERNARDINO, Jan. 4.—A. Eldridge, said to be the principal in The Needles frauds practiced upon | the Santa Fe Railroad Company by means of padded payrolls, pleaded guilty to-day and was séntenced to two vears and six months at Folsom. Fldridge turned State’s evidence after his arrest. assisting in the con- { viction of the other members of the conspiracy. Secretary Root. after a long and high- Iy successful record as head of the War Department. is about to resign and vote himself to his legal business New York City. His worst enemies ad- mit that he has conducted the War De- partment in a highiy able manner. Buy a gas range from S. F. Gas and Electric | Co.. 415 Post st. . 1 ———————— | TOKIO. Jan. 4.—Judge W. H. Taft, recent- Iy Civil Governor of the Philippines. was ln\-en a dinner to-nizht by United States Mise iatar Griscom i 5 iegation.