The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 3, 1904, Page 1

midnight, Febraary Cionay light rain by night; easterly. THEE WEATHER. Forscast made st Sam Fram- cisco for thirty hours esding San Prancisco and vicinity— Wednesday, possibly erly winds, changing to ssuth- A. G. McADIE, light morthe - - To-Day. Tivoli—“When Johnny Comes Home.” Orpheum—Vandeville. Matinee SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. \ on New York Co ton Exchange. Quotations ~ Are - Redurced | Five and ‘Ten Paint at a Bound. - - et mated at & Total of Two -~ } n Bales. ~Heavy: seil- f a number of w the on the the upward mova- o take a vacation. of imany had all or utter . de- No. fail- violent of for exte mii- mar- Aay the 000 to the effect e a’ two move- would -hav week under normai th the liquide there was g W ulators FORTUNES ARE WIPED OLUT. continued itself. spent ng on for about 4 been wiped ng orders ap g0 red and of liquida- Then as a quick ints. But it the st nd short selling “shorts” the history of have the total day exceeded se two millien figure was reached The m was finally steady with the three active months 2 to 52 points up from the bottom, but at a r ne of 66 to 87 points on the to de old and § 27 points on the new crop The early decline was helped by re- ports of a private settlement, said to have been made last night, in which t was estimated something like 100,- 000 bales were concerned. FLOOD OF SELLING ORDERS. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 2.—The re- ted iings and prophecies of | ders came true to-day n market showed a series | f sharp breaks, the last and most se- ere of which lowered prices almost 100 nis, or a cent under the closing price pe f yesterd Unlike the two other memorable ks of this season, the slump was | t i by much excitement. A | lume of trade had been all day, with the largest amount | business coming from room traders | outside scalpers. Suddenly- the | entire ring was flooded with selling or- ders and prices commenced a mad | chase downward. They dropped five | and ten points at a time under the pressure. What weak “longs” there | were in the market quickly let go and | added to the volume of selling orders, | Some few stop-loss orders were re- ported and thrown upon the market. | But almost as quickly as it was applied | the pressure was removed and prices | showed a guick recovery on buying or- | e Vo wr Day's Sales in Demoralized Market | CHAMBERLAIN'S SON -~ CHAMPIONS HIM IN { HOM TOOK PART IN NG PARLIAMENT. 1 S SERIOUS — Even Relatives Are Excluded From His Room. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON, WASHINGTON, Feb, 2.-Senator Han- na has had another relapse and is now being cared for.by a trained nurse. Following the Gridiron Club dinner on Saturday night he entertained a dozen friends at breakfast on Sunday morn- ing and ten at dinner at the Arlington Hotel and in consequence of these taxes upon his strength he was very ill yesterday and his temperature was 103. Dr. Rixey issued orders that he was to remain in bed and see no one. As Mrs. Hanna and Miss Phelps, the Senator’s niece, are worn out with car- ing for him, a trained nurse was en- gaged to-day. Although Senator Han- na’s sister, Mrs. Prentiss Baldwin of Cieveland, and his daughter, Mrs. Me- dill McCormick, are in the city, neither was allowed to see him to-day. Pri- vate Secretary Dover also has been de- nied access to the sick room, Dr. Rixey limiting those who came to see him to Mrs. Hanna, Miss Phelps and the nurse. ——————— BIG DAMAGES AGAINST THE PACTFIC Britfn Judge in Hongkong Fixes $480,000 as Price of Gunboat Sunk by Company’s Steamer. MONTREAL, Feb. 20.—The Cana- dian Pacific Railway officials an- nounce that the company has been condemned by a British Judge in | Hongkong to pay to the Chinese Gov- ernment $480,000 for the sinking of a Chinese gunboat by one of its steam- ships, the Empress of Japan. —_———— Blizzard in New York. BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. 2.—Intensely cold weather, a forty mile gale and a heavy fall of snow played havoc with the railroads entering Buffalo to-night. All the fast tralr? are about three hours late. Two deaths were due to the blizzard. - HOUSE OF COMMONS 3 |Dramatic Incident of Parliament’s Opening. LONDON, Feb. ‘My right hon- orable ‘friend, the member from- West Birmingham,” as Austen Chamberlain described his father, was the central | figure in the drama that marked the | opening of Parliament to-day. No playwright could have devised a amore -curious situation. For the first time in years Joseph Chamberlain took | eat as a private citizen and was | arated from his former colleagues in Cabinet by the gangway. From the this seat he saw his son act as leader of the House of Commons, a position which' Joseph Chamberlain, with all his Parliamentary neyer attained. Premier Balfour was laid up with in- fluenza and therefore was unable (o { be present. When Austen Chamberlain | arose to reply in behalf of the party of which his own father is believed to be the most powerful member, the House was spellbound. Until that moment Akers-Douglas, Secretary of State for | rs, was generally expected to take Premier Balfour’s place, and [ experience, | | | | | | interest in the proéeedings were height- ened by the fact that Sir Campbeil- Bannerman, the Liberal leader, had just concluded a merciless: satire on | Austen Chamberlain's father. - The sit- | vation was without parallel in thé recollection ¢f the oldest politician, and | all eyes were fixed alternately upon the father and the son. CHEERS HIS SON ON. Joseph Chamberlain, who had sat un- moved under the ridicule of the Liberal leader, turned nervously toward his son, who now takes precedence over him. With his monocle-in his eye, an orchid in his buttonhole and his hands clasped across his knees, the most prominent figure in the British empire sat and listened to his own defense from the lips of his son. Austen Chamberlain spoke halting- | ly and under evident strain; yet, when he referred to his father it was always as “the member from West Birming- ham.” There was a tinge of impas- sioned feeling in his words, which brought constantly to his hearers a realization of the relations between the two men. Now and again jeers greet- ed the youngest member of the Cabi- net, whereupon, with unmistakable anger, his father turned his glance in the direction of the offender and oc- casionally Joseph Chamberlain cheer- ed his son on with an emphatic “Hear! hear!” As Austen Chamberlain neared the conclusion of his defense of the atti- tude of Premier Balfour and his father toward the fiscal question the inter- ruptions grew more frequent, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer clutched the brass-bound treasury box, on which Gladstone was so fond of lean- ing, and addressed his remarks al- most solely in the direction of his father. Defiantly Austen Chamberlain accused Sir Henry Campbell-Banner- man of attacking the Premier in his absence, and with a touch of pride he said: “The member from West Birming- ham is here; he can speak for and look after h)msel(." SPEECH REGARDED AS WEAK. The House finally expressed its re- Continued on Page 4, Column 3, | [ ‘| sition taken by the President in con- | should have know | too much when they accepted our pro- DENOGRAT ARGUES Fon THE CANAL Clarke of Arkansas Praises Course of President. ———— Says Mr. Roosevelt Did His Plain Duty in Recog- nizing Panama. Minority Party, He Asserts, Will Give | Treaty Sufficient Votes fo In- sure Its Ratification. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Clarke, the new Democratic Senator from Arkan- sas, made his first speech in the Senate to-day. He spoke two hours, and an- nounced his indorsement of every po- nection with the Panama revolt and in the negotiation of the treaty with the new state. He even said that, in view of the provocation given by Co- lombia, the President might have been expected to go further than he did in advancing the cause of Panama. He declared that there was more popular support of the course of the President’s policy among Democrats than among Republicans, and said that the Demo- cratic votes necessary to ratify the treaty were assured. Clarke said that the civil war now going on in Colombia was but a re- action of the revolution which had been in progress for the last three years, and in support of this statement he re- viewed governmental conditions in Co- lombia, saying that its rulers were men who found in warfare their most profit- able and congenial cal¥ing These men were for the canal, he said, simply because they saw a prospect of get- ting $10,000,000 out of it, and not be- cause they cared anything about the United States or even about the wel- fare of their own country. Clarke also found in the treaty of 1846 justification for the attitude of the United States, and contended that Co- lombia did not have unlimited sover- eignty in the sense that England, Ger- many or France had. He insisted that if Colombia itself could not build the canal it was bound, because of the at- titude of the United States toward it, to permit this country to build it. He | | then declared that as the republic was an accomvplished fact it would be an act of foolhardiness for the United States to refuse to deat with it. Our acts of “friendly supervision,” he said, should have convinced Colom- bia of the determinatien of the United States to do Tizht under all circum- stances, and the Colombian people they were asking | tection under the Monroe doctrine for | eighty years and then demanded the right to be treated as an equal power | with the United States. Instead of | maintaining a friendly attitude, Co- lombia, he said, had begun a course of double dealing and bad faith even before the Colombian Congress had be- | gun consideration of the Hay-Herran treaty, and this, he asserted, had been continued to the time of Panama'’s se- cession. Clarke contended that the Colombian authorities knew perfectly well that the revolution was imminent and there was no foundation for the charge that the Panama revolt had been incited since the adjournment of the Colombian Con- gress. It was not to be denied that the United States knew what was go- ing on in Panama, and if it were nec- essary to show that the President was unaware of the state of affairs in order to establish his integrity that must be done at the expense of his Intelligence and even of his performance of offi- cial duty. Clarke announced his disagreement with the Senators who contended that the President should have turned to the Nicaragua route after failing to secure Colombia’s ratification of the canal treaty. His principal reason for this was announced to be his belief that we should have only a sea level canal, which, he said, was possible in the Panama route. and not possible on the Nicaraguan route. He did not believe that any but a sea level canal would pay expenses. He declared his gratification that the House expression given in favor of the cathl had come from Democratic | day night at the performance of “Rigo- WILLIAM C. WHITNEY DIES FROM EFFECTS 'OF AN OPERATION ALY oy o -, »: X A e . 5oy 39 N | 7 g s Cotde o | | +— v Under the Influence of Ether When Death Comes. NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—William Col- lins Whitney, .former Secretary of the | Navy, died a few minutes after 4 o’clock this afternoon at his home, 871 Fifth avenue, in his sixty-fourth year. He died while under the influence of ether, administered preparatory to a second operation for appendicitis. At his bed- side were his son, Harry Payne Whit- ney; his daughter, Dorothy Whitney, | and Dr. Willilam T. Bull, the chief sur- geon in attendance, Mr. Whitney was taken ill on Fri- letto” in the Metropolitan Opera-house, and had to leave before the opera end- ed. Dr. Walier B. James, the Whitney | family physician, was summoned and | found that the condition of the patient was such that, after consultation, an operation was decided upon and was performed by Dr. Bull. The patient rallied so well that it was confidently believed he would recover. Mr. Whitney’s condition became very grave, however, on Sunday and to-day, and at a consultation neld this after- noon the conclusion was reached that the only hope lay in a second opera- tion. PREPARE FOR OPERATION. A bulletin issued in the morning stated that there had been a slight improvement in the patient’s condition, but shortly before 3 o'clock alarming symptoms were noted and hurried preparations were made for a second operation. Mr. Whitney was placed un- der the influence of ether, but whether the operation was proceeded with or not is unknown. ‘When the physicians perceived that the patient was in danger of death, Harry Payne Whitney and Miss Dor- othy Whitney were immediately noti- fled. They hastened to the side of their father, and in a few minutes he had breathed his last. Oxygen was used and all the skill of the physicians and surgeons brought into play to save the life of the distinguished patient, but to no Avail. It was 5 o'clock before the simple fact of his death was made public. Later the following statement was is- sued: “Mr. Whitney died at 4 o'clock of peritonitis and blood poisoning, follow- ing an operation for appendicitis.” PLANS FOR THE FUNERAL. States, and added that Democratic votes would make the ratification of the treaty certain. The Republican party could make no such claim and the President had recelved no assur- ances of support from the Republican party at large. Fail to Choose a Senator. ANNAPOLIS, Md., Feb. 2.__The Maryland Legislature joint ballot for Senator to-day resulted: Isidor Ray- ner (D.), 35; John Walter Smith (D.), 29; other Democrats, 16; Louis McComas (R.), 32. Necessary to elect, 50. ——————— Students Arrested for Plotting. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 2.—Seventy pupils attending the Catholic schools in this city have been arrested on charges of starting a secret revolutionary asso- clation. X The interment will be at Woodlawn, at a date to be hereafter fixed, in the family plat, where are the remains of Mrs. Flora Payne Whitney, Olive Whit- ney and Mrs. Whitney's grandchild, Flora Payne Paget. The funeral ser- o+ . STATESMAN AND FINAN- | CIER WHOSE DEATH IS || MOURNED BY NATION. [l +\ COLOMBIA'S ST BLO AT PANAMA AttackEpO—H Indian Allies of New Republic. Sple;lal Cable to The Call and New York Herald Pavtaaien Corpieny U New Yok PANAMA, Feb. 2.—Positive infor- mation was received from Colon to- day that an attack had been made by Colombian troops on an Indian vil- lage on the San Blas coast, several miles this side of Cape Tiburon. It is sald that the soldlers arrived in canoes and drove away the Indians. After firing a few shots and killing and wounding several Indians the Co- lombians took possession of the houses. It is not possible to obtain further facts. Rear Admiral Coghlan, immediately upon receipt of the news, sent the gunboat Bancroft, which had been coaling with the expectation of start- ing to-night for Chiriqui Lagoon, to investigate. Officers who have recently been scouting along the coast fully credit the report. It has long been said that the Colombian plan of campaign would be to take possession of some point admittedly in Panama territory and not on the line of transit on the isthmus, in the belief that while such vices will be held in Grace Church, where Mr. Whitney was a pew holder. The full list of pallbearers will be given out later. - Soon after the death visitors began to call at the house. Among them were Cornelius Vanderbilt and ex-Secretary of War Elihu Root. Mr. and Mrs. Payne Whitney wes in Thomasville, Ga., when Mr. Whit- ney’s condition became critical, but they left for New York immediately on a special train. A cablegram was sent on Saturday to Mrs. Almeric Paget, Mr. Whitney’s daughter in Lon- Continued on Page 2, Column 1, would be admittedly a hostile action the United States would not attack, but would leave the affair wholly to Panama troops. One theory is that a few companies of soldiers, with officers, left Titulati without the sanction of their su- periors aften getting weary of the ill- ness and poor rations in the Colom- bian cambps. 1t is said that no provisions have been sent to Titulati from Cartagena since a month ago, when twenty days’ rations per capita were distrib- uted. The supplies consiSted of lard, rice and kerosene, WRECKERS FANTEN TIE 10 A RAIL Bold Attempt s Made to Derail Elec- tric Cars. Serious Smash-Up Is Nar- rowly Averted on Hunt- ington Line, Operator Discovers Obstruction on Track in Time to Save Motor From Going Down Embankment. Special Dispatch to The Calk LONG BEACH, Feb. 2—Under tha cover of darkness three attempts have been made in as many days to wreck trains of the Pacific Electric Railway Company, the Huntington line rynning between here, Los Angeles and Alami- tos Bay. The latest work of the would- be train wreckers was done last night on the Alamitos line, which runs along a high bluff above the beach. A train was speeding along when the motor- man saw a dark object on the track ahead, and stopped just in time to pre- vent striking a tie which had been se- curely lashed to the inside rail in such 2. | position that had the car struck it, it would have been hurled down a thirty- foot embankment. As it was the car struck the tie and broke the fender. The other attempts have been made in much the same manner. On Sunday night two tles” were placed crosswise over one rail, the ends being buried in holes dug for that purpose. Baling wire had been used to tie them so that they could not be knocked from position when struck by a car, | and near the place the bolts holding a fishplate had been tampered with, the object evidently being to cause the track to spread as the train passed over it. In the third instance several ties had been piled on the track, but were not fastened to it. Electric trains which traverse this line are rarely heavily loaded, and whether the motive of the criminals who have attempted to wreck them be robbery or revenge is a matter of con- jecture. The work of double tracking the lines in that part of the system is now in progress and ties are scattered all along the road. The track is now being carefully guarded. S — FALLING WALLS KILL FIREMEN Men Are Baried Under De- bris That Crashes Through a Roof at a Fire in Knexville i KNOXVILLE,, Tenn., Feb. 2.—Fire in the heart of the wholesale district to-night caused a loss of $400,000 and the lives of two firemen. The dead: WILLIAM A. MAXEY, captain Hose Wagon Company No. 2. JOHN J. DUNN, an ex-fireman who was assisting at the fire. of The fire started in the six-story Phoenix building, on Gay street, be- tween Wall and Union avenues, and the wholesale hat and millinery house of Murphy & Robinson. The fire spread both north and south into the store of Cullen & Newman, wholesale notions; M. L. Ross & Co.; Cullen & Shields, wholesale glassware and machinery house. The walls of the Phoenix building crumbled and crashed through the roof of the Ross building on the firemen. —— PRELATES NOST NOT CRITICIZE PARIS, Feb. 2.—Premier Combes an- nounced at a meeting of the Counecil of Ministers to-day his intention of taking drastic measures against certain pre- lates for addressing open letters to President Loubet criticizing the pro- posed law for the further restriction of teaching by members of the religious bodies. Although no names were mentioned it is well understood that the prelates referred to are Cardinal Richard, Arch- bishop of Paris; Cardinal Lanfenieux, Archbishop of Rheims, and Cardinal Couille, Archbishop of Lyons, as they recently addressed letters of protest and criticism to M. Loubet. Combes also informed his colleagues of his intention to refer the letters to the Council of State, and made known the fact that the Minister of Justice had been charged with the preparation of a law making the criminal code ap- plicable to prelates who publicly pro- test against or criticize the acts of the Government,