The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 11, 1906, Page 4

SECRETARY TAFT REPL Secretary Taft has replied to an article in the Independent written by Pouliney Bigelow which charges the isthmian commission with neglecting sanitaticn at Colen, mistreating negro laborers and intro- ducing politics into canal affairs. The reply is a denial of all the accusations and is supported by the statements of Chief Englncer Stevens. Answ ers an Article in The Independent Written by Poultney Bigelow. Denies That Negroes Have Been Mistreated and Politics Introduced, Jan. 10~An elabor- , nsive answer to the | the Isthmian Canal | ed in an article in | been made by Sec- form of a let- t, who on January 1 to the Secretary, bee directed to ing to have Bigelow, “at- on of affairs and yourself and adding: “Will | first | rges as fol- | | =5 ding > 80 in pro , the Se n the Markel | diligent | re sufficiently | blished { there is no | Taft | < h m Governor | g him that of the two ry the Colon and | he latter place walk from the one was completed on | her in the latter | total capacity | , amply sufficient- for | that there s no | Colon; that a per- | a capacity of 700,- dry season under contract e statements Governor Magoon, the t variance with those is article of t TREATME Secret res that the rate of d throughout the s gold an hour for which may be in- SCOTT’S EMULSION. FOOD— NOT MEDICINE. If all the treatments for consumption were put in book form it would make a pretty big library. But after | all there has been little im- | provement over the old treat- | ment of rest, fresh air, sun- shine, plain, wholesome food and Scott’s Emulsion, The latter supplies nourish- ment that cannot be secured in any other way, and after | all, nourishment is what the consumptve needs first, ! A gain in weight, however | light, is a long step toward improvement. If there is the | least thing to build on Scott’s “mulsion will enable the pa- t to make that gain, Peo- ple have gained 2 pound in weight from a bottle of Scott's Emulsion—it's an exception when they don’t. We have seen Scott’s Emulsion take hold of a pa- | tient and bring about a change for the better inside of a week. It always helps | playe | portance if the truction, with | | Tracy creased by diligent work to 13 cents an hour. ' It is also untrue, he says, that a great prejudice exists against negroes in the rallroad management. The Secretary says it is charged that the chairman of the commission and all others wrongly look upon the tropical negro laborer as poor labor. The ‘conclusion of Stevens and of observer on the isthmus, he de- is to the effect that this labor is inefficient. Regarding the statement that the ne- groes are leaving the isthmus in great numbers because of mistreatment, Ste- vens testifies, the Secretary says, that just before the holidays a great number of laborers returned to the islands whence they came. This, the Secretary says, has been the custom ever since the beginning of the Frénch construction. Many of the laborers jeave their families, and because transportation is cheap are able to go back, and then return. The Secretary chows that there are mow on the pay- rolls 17,000 laborers. Secretary Taft refers to the personnel | of the court of the canal zone, and says it would be difficult to select a better one for the dutles it has to discharge. As to the charge that officials on the hmug were appointed through Congres- sional or political influence, the Secretary says the chief engineer categorically de- ! this, “and I am able from the stand-. point of Washington also categorically to deny § itical influence, he says, has part whatever in the selection . He adds: has been great difficulty in securing the civil service law methods men for of doors work on the isthmus—skilled me- nics, track-layers, carpenters and others— ertainly t cts In their qualifications have been found to exist have never ue to the exercise of political influence! Secretary Taft says the charge of delay by “red tape” in the construction of buildings on the isthmus is shown to be untrue by the statement of the chief en- ineer. As to the allegation that the dredges in the Culebra cut were not working to 20 per cent of their promised the Secrefary says there are ges within a long distance of the app been cut and that the instruments e steam shovels, Taft says that the charge that quarantine officials construe aw and enforce It as far as possible to interfere with commerce is “‘utterly un- founded.” The isthmus is being freed from danger of vellow fever and other contagious dises observes the Secre- tary, by an effort unprecedented in the history in the world. Being surrounded ses, | on every side by disease-breeding ports, the Secretary says it is of the highest im- work done upon the isthmus is to remain permanent that the quarantine be strictly enforced. Natives of the isthmus, he says, regard them- lves as immune from yellow fever and many of the other diseases and therefore aturally resent the strictness of the quarantine against such disedses, but are greatly alarmed over the importation of the bubonic plague. NO WOMEN IMPORTED. Secretary Taft repeats his former state- ment that the charge that a boatload of black women were imported from Mar- tinique for immoral purposes is false, and refers to documents to corroborate this denial N Secretary Taft says the twelve mem- bers of the advisory board of engineers spent seven and one-half days on the isthmus apd made an extended examin- ation of the proposed sites and appuzte- nances quite sufficlent and minute enough, he asserts, for them to pass upon the proper type of the canal. Secretary | Taft continues: Finally made against ¥ I come to the charges specifically e Becretary of War. They | consist in a refusal to accept the uidance of Tracy Robinson in visiting the purlieus of Colon and a refusal to have an Interview with die, chief engineer of the electric and refrigerating vlant in Panama. To the first charge 1 plead guilty. The Secretary says an impression was sought to be given that Lundie's appli- cation for an interview was made in the interest of the negro laborers on the isthmus and declares that the correspon- dence shows “how unfounded this is and that, in fact, Lundie did not ask for an interview at all.” Secretary Taft states that the writer of the article containing the charges ar- rived in Panama on November 30 and left on December 1, and “that it is not unfair to say that his opportunities for observing were limited to twenty-eight hours including day-time and night-time.” THRUSTS MADE BY TAFT. In view of this, the Secretary says, the writer should not take exception to the seven or eight days which twelve of the most distinguished engineers in the world in canal construction deveted to the same task. But; remarks the Secretary, the writer will answer that he did not depend upon his own observations, but consulted witnesses. “Two witnesses we are able to identify, Robinson and John Lundie,” he adds. “The others are unnamed, and most of them negroes from the West Indies.” Secretary Taft says Robinson is the owner of property in Colon. “His animus against the Government,” says Taft, “is because i devoted fits first attention to the expenditure of | money in Panéma and thus raised the value of property in that eity; and, sec- ondly, that in the enforcement of the health regulations by the sanitary de- partment in Colon, he found it necessary to complain that his vested rights were being interfered with. ““Thirdly,” the Secretary says, “Mr. Robinson applied to the former chajrman of the commission for a position at $5000, declinig the position of Mayor of Cristobal at $1800, and he applied to Governor Ma- goon for a position, but was told there were no vacancies. 2 Lundie, the Secretary says, is an elec- trical engineer who was employed to visit the isthmus to superintend the construc- tion of a plant for the generation of elec- tricity and for the manufacture of ice by a private company. Lundle, says Taft, made application to become a member of the advisory board and urged his appoint- ment with great vigor, but his application was rejected. Wallace appointed him as consulting engineer to make & report on olls and fuels on the isthmus, but Shonts disapproved the appointment and it was not made. Secretary Taft charges that Lundie ‘“objects seriously to the Government's even the most stubborn cases. SCOTT & BOWNE, 405 Pear] Street, New York. furnishing its own light and ice, and insists that it is its duty to patronize his company”; that he protested to Secretary Taft while the latter was the | on the isthmus, and later wrote the President a = letter. The Secretary says: “It is quite certain that a copy of Lundle’s letter to you was shown to the writer of the article,” in view of similar language used. Taft” sharply arraigns on this score the good faith of the writer of the article. He de- clares that no engineef in the country is better fitted for the work than Stevens. In the letter addressed to the Presi- dent by Lundie and referred to by Taft the writer says: “I have never seen such a plece of mismanagement . and utter demoralization as exists to-day on the isthmus of Panama.” He charges that Secretary Taft had a great deal of time for soclal entertainments while on the isthmus, and said the engineers might as-well have stayed at home and studled the data furnished in book form. He Teferred to Shonts in un- complimentary temms, who, he says, seems to dictate the physical and moral tone of what is done on the isthmus. The United States, he declared, under such influence would become the laugh- ing stock of the world. ~ Appended to Secretary Taft's letter is a memorandum of comments by Chief Engineer Stevens on these charges, He takes up specifically va- rious statements and denies their truthfulness. Stevens also makes a general afraignment of parties from whom he alleges emanate “constant and nipparcnuy systematic misrepresenta- tions.” S ELABORATE HOSPITAL SYSTEM FOR GOTHAM Mayor McClellan Favors Plan Calling for Seventy-Five Million Dollars. NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—Details were made known to-day of plans for a chain of municipal hospitals which, when fully realized, will, it is-declared, give New York the greatest system of free treatment for the sick that the world has seen. Mayor McClellan, | former Controller Grout, Bird 8. Coler, president of the borough of Brooklyn, and Commissioner of Charities Robert W. Hebbard are the. leading advocates of the project. An estimate of the total cost is $75,000,000. The pifin is for the development of a central system of hospitals in the five boroughs, the buildings to be of uniform architecture, the service to be organized on a scheme of unity, and all under the control of one department of the city government. Events from time to time demon- strate, say those who favor the under- taking, that New York's hospital ser- vice in its several branches is not up to the point of efficiency that the sec- ond city of the world has a right to expect. For this condition the advo- cates of the new plan find a reason in the indefiniteness of responsibility. —_— HARRY ORCHARD'S COUNSEL APPEALS FOR MORE TIME Preliminary }eariog of the Alleged Dynamiter May Be Delayed a Week, BOISE, Idahe, Jan. 10.—The defense in the case of Harry Orchard, accused of bhaving assassinated former Gov- ernor Steunenberg, has asked for a postponement of the preliminary hear- ing for a week. The,chemists have not completed the analysis of the powders and other ma- terials found in Orchard's room at Caldwell after his arrest, and it is be- lieved the hearing will be postponed ou that account. James McPartland arrived here this evening froni Denver. He was in con- ference with the Governor this even- ing. It is the understanding that the famous detective was asked to come here to give advice and assist in ar- rangements for enlarging the force of men at work, so that the alleged con- spiracy may be exposed in all its rami- fications. —_———— BIG SMELTING COMPANY ORGANIZED IN MAINE Owens Property in Callfornia and Pa- pers Call for Seventy-Five Mil- lion Capital. 579 BOSTON, Jan. 10—Announcemdit was made to-day of the incorporation of the United States Smelting and Refin- ing Company under the laws of Maine, with an authorized capital of $76,000,- 000. The company is formed for gen- eral mining purposes in the West, and will be controlled largely by the same persons who own a controlling interest in the United States Mining Company. Property is already owned by the organization in .Utah and California, and it is proposed to extend operations in other States of the West, as well as in the South. There will be 750,000 shares of 7 per cent cumulative pre- ferred stock and 750,000 shares of com~ mon stock. ———— NEGRO WHO KILLED A MAN “FOR FUN” LYNCHED IN TEXAS Taken From the Officers and Put to Death by a Mob of Seventy Men. HOUSTON, Tex., Jan. 10.—B. F. Har- ris, the negro charged with the assa: sination of Osro Polk at Berings Mill on Monday night and who was taken from the officers last night at La Balle by a mob, was lynched early to-day at Moscow, Tex. = There were about seventy men in the mob. The negro, when asked why he killed’ Polk, sai at first that™it was an accident, Later he said he killed Polk “for fun.” Objects to Two Judiclal Districts. BUTTE, Mont., Jan. 10.—A Minar spe- cial from Helena states that the Mon- tana Bar Association s - afternoon adopted a relolguonth!dnflig' Uni Broviting s asnitiona) Peag "‘)'mm;:g Pro ng an for Mcntana. The a Firte TG P not provide for the into two Federal Co fots recommends that posed measure, ES TO AN ATTACK | PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION KEIFER SCORES - FREE TRADERS Veteran Fx-Speaker of the House Opposes the Phil- ippine Tariff Measure WASHINGTON,\Jan. 10.—A vigorous speech in favor of the Philippine tariff bill by Dalzell of Pennsylvania opened the proceedings in the House to-day. It was followed by several others against the measure, the most notable of which was a two hours’ address by the vet- eran statesman, Keifer of Ohlo, ex- Speaker, who returns to the House af- ter a retirement of twenty years. Keifer bespoke a ‘“stand pat” doc- trine of the most pronounced type. He sald he jwould oppose the pending bill because it was a concession to Demo- cratic principles. His speech was re- plete with recollections of earlier days, and received the closest attention and liberal applause from both sides of the chamber. About twenty-five years ago, Kelfer said, he had made a prophecy in a ten minutes’ speech in the House which had come true. That was, that the only way to get rid of the college profes- sors’ theories of free trade was to have free trade. We had had free trade and had got rid of the theories. He was opposed to joining the free traders now. He contrasted the present pros- perity with the “souphouse days” of the Wilson bill, and was followed with amusement in reviewing Democratic declarations that God and not the Re- publican party was responsible for presperity, for the better conditiin which followed resumption and for the establishment” of the gold standard. Said he: When—T say it reverently—my party advo- cates the thing that the Almighty sees fit to work out and accomplish completely, that should be glory enough for us. And it may be safd that the Democratic party, in the many things it has had on its banner and gone down with to defeat, has simply been unfortunate that the Almighty was not With it. g i SENATE PASSES MANY BILLS. Provides for Marking of the Graves of Confederate Soldiers. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—The Senate made it plain to-day that it had heard vesterday all that it wanted to hear for the present on the Moroccan question. There were two opportunities to re- sume consideration of the subject, but both were avoided, apparently with the assent of all the members, and the Sen- ate adjourned at a comparat.vely early hour rather than take it up. Notwithstanding the early adjourn- ment a great deal of business was dis- posed of. About eighty bills were passed. leaving on the calendar only six or seven measures. Of the bills passed a large majority granted private pensions and many were bridge bills. One of the bills favorably acted upon provides $200,000 for the appropri- ate marking of the graves of Confeder- ate soldiers who died in northern pris- ons during the Civil War. For the rest of the session the Senate gave attention to the question of sal-~ arfes paid to Panama canal officials, to the pure food bill.and to the merchant marine shipping bill, but without tak- ing action on either of those subjects. The canal subject was discussed by Simmons and the puré food bill by Hey- burn. The only action taken on the shipping bill was that of reading it at length. —_—— Lodge's Consular BIll Acecepted. ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to-day concluded its consideration of Senator Lodge's bill for the reorganization of author to report it favorably as amend- ed. — e PRIOR’S SUICIDE CAUSES SUSPENSION OF FIRM Broker’s Dealings With Cleveland Stock Exchange Found to Have Reen Correct. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan, 10—Formal announcement of the suspension of the firn of Denison, Prior & Co,, investment bankers and brokers, was made on the floor of the Cleveldnd Stock Exchange this morning. This action was taken as a reeult of a large number of the firm's checks being thrown out by the banks, which hold that since the death of L. ‘W. Prior, who committed suicide yes- terday, the checks could not pass the Clearing-house, It is said that the banks hold ample funds and securities to provide for all claims agalnst the firm. Secretary Wade of the Cleveland Stock Exchange said concerning the suspension: 5 “On looking over the records, I find that their business on this exchange is absolutely clean and their failure ron this exchange is a mere technicality of abiding by the rules.” e——— Army and Navy Orders. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10—Army or- ders: Major William A. Nichols, inspec- tor general, is relieved of duty in the Northern Division and will procged }o San Francisco and sail for Manila about March 5 for duty. Lieutenant Colonel Daniel H. Brush, inspector gen- eral, is relieved of duty in the Philip- pines and will' proceed to St. Louis f State | about March 25 for duty. Contract Surgeon Clarence F. Dickinson is re—| lieved of duty at Fort Logan and will report to the commanding officer Sec- ond Infantry for duty, to accompany the regiment to the Fhilippines. Cap- ; tain Francis G. Irwin, paymaster, now at San Francisco, will report to the commanding general of the Department of California for duty in San Francisce. Navy orders: Lieutenant Commander T. W, Kinkaid is detached from the Norfolk, Va., navy yard to the Chicago as fleet engineer of the Pacific squad- ron, \ —_—————— 4 Congressman in a Huff, WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Represent- ative Overstreet of Indiana, Secretary of the Republican Congressional Com- mittee, announced to-day that the Pres- the consular service and authorized its | LS OOFTS | MTE NEISURE Republicans of the House in Secret Session Agree to the Administration Bill WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—At a secret conference of Republican members of the House Committee on Interstate Commerce last night what will here- jafter be known as the administration | measure for the regulation of railroad rates was formally considered and adopted. It will be submitted at a meeting of the full committee next Fri- day and will come up for consideration in the House soon as other business can properly be disposed of. This administration rate bill is what is called the Dolliver measure, as amended in some details by Colonel Hepburn, chairman of the House Com- mittee. The meeting was for the pur- pose of familiarizing the Republican members with the bill as it stands, also to harmonize the different views of members of the committee regarding the details of the proposed legislation. Colonel Hepburn read the bill from be- ginning to end, and commented upon each section and paragraph, besides an- swering innumerable questions as to the general effect. At the opening of this session it be- came evident that the Esch-Townsend bill, while undoubtedly striking at the root of the difficulty, did not begin to comprehend the whole subject. It left untouched the private cars, the termi- nal railroads, the bridge companies, fast freight lines and a dozen other devices and means by which the railroads evaded the law and escaped punish- ment. The new Dolliver bill not only is ex- tremely comprehensive, but has been drafted throughout by a combination of the most experienced elements fav- [orable to the regulation of railroad rates. It is not a compromise, but is by no means radical. It treats the rail- roads fairly and, if generously inter- preted by the courts, it protects the Interests of the shippers as well as the transportation lines. It Is an admin- istration measure as far as there can be one, and it will be passed through the House as such. % MRS. MORRIS SERIOUSLY ILL Woman Who Was Recently Ejected From White House Is in a State of Collapse 5 WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Mrs. Minor Morris, who last week was ejected from the executive offices and grounds of the White House, was to-day in a state of complete collapse. Dr. Morris, her husband, said “that her condition was eritical. The ejection of Mrs. Minor Morris from the White House office building was made the subjegt of remarks by Shepard of Texas in Congress to-day. Shepard has a resolution for an inves- tigation of the incident pending before the Rules Committee. Grosvenor made the point of order that the discussion of a resolution pending before a com- mittee was not proper. “If the President had heard the howl of a wolf or the growl of a bear in the adjoining room he would have been on the scene immediately,” said Shepard. He characterized the Mrs, Morris oc- currgnce as an “unwarrantable and un- nécessary brutality which demanded investigation and merited censure. “If Comgress,” he continued, “com- posed of American fathers, husbands and brothers, permits this incident to go unrebuked it will add a passive and cowardly approval of this violation of the most sacred principle of American life.” Grosvenor in reply said he knew no difference between the dignity of the White House aud any other home in the city, and he did not consider the American Congress in the sense of a Police Court or as having anything to do with the question of disorderly con- duct of any employe in the neighbor- hood of the White House. ———————— “STRAW MEN” CARRIED ON RAILWAY PAYROLL Clerk of the Great Northern Road Under Arrest in North Daketa. MINOT, N. D., Jan. 10.—George H) Smith, a clerk in the Great Northern Railway division superintendent's of- fice here, is under arrest charged with carrying “straw men” on his payroll. The local officials for some time have suspected some one was “paddin Bogus time checks aggregating more than $200,000 have been lockted, but the specific charge against Smith con- cerns a check made out to Fred Kelly for $38, which was preserted for pay- ment by Smith last month. Smith had charge of making up all time vouchers issued from the surepintendent's office. He avers his innocence. 1 “INSURGENTS NOT CAININC Only Forty-Five Republicans Are Pledged Thus Far Against Statehood Bill ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Opposition among the Republican members of the House to the Hamilton joint statehood bill seems to be making little head- way., The leaders of the “insurgents” have prepared a pledge for the signa- ture of Republicans who will vote to defeat a rule preventing amendments to the Hamilton bill. This was freely circulated to-day among the opponents of joint statehood and is now said to bear forty-five signatures. About twenty Republican members are unde- cided on the statehood fight and the struggle to win them by the opposing faction is waxing hqt. The “Insurgents” insist that many of their sympathizers have not yet had an opportunity to sign the ledge and claim_that they will readily obtain more than sixty names. Administration supporters declare the total strength of their opponents is not'much more than forty. - An urgent deficiency bill will be ready for the consideration of the House in a few days, and it is now ex- pected that this bill will be laid before the House after the Phillppines tariff bill has been disposed of, as the lead- ers are said to be anxious to delay the statehood bill until Speaker Cannon is more certaln how the Republican mem- bers stand on the measure. DIL PIPE LINE FOR ISTHMUS Taft Reecommends That a License Be Issued to a California Company . ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.— Secretary Taft has recommended to the President that' he sanction the issue of a revoca- ble license to the Union Oil Company of California to construct and maintain a pipe line across the canal zone. In taking this action Taft overruled a de- cision of the Canal Commission. There were six applicants for suth a right, but the company named is the only one which specified the price of oil if used by the Government, and whose offer was otherwise sufficiently definite and reasonable. It is, however, easlly pro- vided that the license shall not be ex- clusive, so that other companies may hereafter compete for the business. For its part the company undertakes to pay $500 a month, to be applied to school purposes in the canal zone. and also to permit the Government to draw upon its pipe line at any point for oil at 90 cents a barrel. Secretary Taft, in his letter to the President, explains that this i{s about equivalent for real purposes to Poca- hontas coal at the present cost on the isthmus of $4 a ton, so that the ofl may be used for all power purposes If de- sired in the construction of the canal. As only refined oil is at present carried over the Panama Railroad the Secre- tary does not fear that the transporta- tion of crude oil by pipe would injure the business of the railroad company. The company undertakes to complete the line by August 1 next, and to bulld in American ship vards suitable tank steamships to supply, in addition to its present large fleet, the necessary means of conveying the oil to the pipe. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10.—A telegram from Washington to President Lyman Stewart of the Union Oil Company to-day conveyed the information that Secretary Taft had overruled the decision of the Panama Canal Commission In refusing to grant permission for the oil company to lay a pipe line across the isthmus, and had passed an order granting the com- pany right of way yaralleling the line of the Panama railway. ““We have been expeuting this for sev- eral days,” said President Stewart to- night. “The Union Oil Company will at once begin constructing the pipe line, which will be about fifty miles long and will extend along the right of way of the Panama Railroad Company from the At- Jantic to the Pacific Coast. It will cost about $500,000, including tankage and pumping stations. We shall be ready for business down there about July 1, accord- ing to present calculations.” —_———— ‘WOMAN ARISES IN CHURCH RO ACCUSE HER BETRAYER ‘Tells Congregation of Her Rulned Life and Denounces a Cholr Singer. RIVER FALLS, Wis, Jan. 10.—Ser vices In the Congregational Church in this city were brought to a startling and highly sensatfonal close on Sunday morning. ished his sermon, Miss Clara Markley arose and passed up the aisle to the front, where she requested that she be allowed to say a few words. She then told how her life had been ruined and pointed out as the father of her child one of the choir singers, C.H. Kayser, agent for a piano company, and dared him to deny the charge. No denial was made, and, although pyblicly disgraced, Kayser remained . | until the conclusion of the services. | ident’s fallure to allow him to name ‘the Surveyor of the Port at Indlanap. oplis had so discouraged him that he would not agaiu serve on the ¢ t- tee. P ———————— Duelist Charged With Murder. DURANGO, Colo., Jan. 10.—Jesse C.||Bottled at the Stansel, the policeman who shot and killed Sheriff William J. Thompson in a street duel here yeste: ;11!: ‘;mhmler in a 6." t SW 0 y the dead man's 'George W. Thompson. Stansel is in a n out y, was charged | T, (] serfous condition from a wound in the || right lung, The bullet has tre recover. acted and e may mwm: 3"@"?3%% He then hired a livery rig and drove to Hudson, where he took a train for an unknown destination. r ¢ ——— e, WOMAN IS INJURED WHILE SEEKING WORK FOR SPOUSE UPON Just_as the pastor had fin- ROUCH RIDER -GVEN MEDAL Captain James Robb Chuach Receives Award Voted by Congress From President | WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—One of the { heroes of the battle of Las Guaymas in Cuba in the Spanish-American war wa; rewarded to-day with a medal O honor conferred by Congress for con- splcuous gallantry in action. The re- cipient of the medal was Captain James Robb Church of the medical corps of the army, who, during the Spanish war, i was a first lleutenant and assistant surgeon of the “Rough Riders. In the presence of a dlstinguished assemblage, Including Secretary of War Taft, Lieutenant General Chaffee, chief of staff, the memmbers of the general staff of the army, and several officers of the navy, all in full dress uniform, the President presented the medal to Captain Church. The ceremony took place In the President's.private office and the adjoining Cabinet room. Secretary Taft formally presented Captain Church to the President, say- ing he had been recommended for a medal of honor for distinguished gal- lantry and for service other than that directly called for in the line of his duty. The Secretary called attention to the fact that Leonard Wood.‘uun col- onel of the “Rough Riders,” and the President himself, both as leutenant colonel and as colonel of the regiment, had recommended that the medal be conferred upon Captain Church. The Secretary then read from the official records, quoting both .Gemeral Wood and the President. The former at the time reported to the War Department as follows: During the heat of the action, Dr. Church ¢ 3a on the firing line repeatedly, and in addi- tlun to giving the men the necessary surgical assistance, took some five of them on hia back and carrfed them, under & very heavy fire and with the greatest exposurs to him- self, to the rear. Turning to Captain Church, President Roosevelt, holding in his hand the mo- rocco case in which the medal was in- closed, addressed him as follows: Captain Church, there is no distinction which confers greater homor upon any American in military or civil life.than this—the one honor coveted above all others by every man in the military service of the United States. It was my good fortune as colomel of the regiment in which you served to be an e witness to your gallantry and to bear tes mony to it by letter to the proper authorities. stating the reasons why I deemed that you were entitled to this medal of honor. I wish to state, Mr. Secretary, that the let- ters 1 wrote were written before I was Presi- dent. Since I have beeu President I have held no communication whatsoever with the mill- tary authorities on the subfect. Captain_Church, there could be no greater pleasure than that I mow experfence in hand- ing to my old comrade and friend this medal | af Bonor. Grasping Captain Church’s hand the Pfesident remarked: “There is no greater comradeship than that which comes from having lived in the trenches together.” Captaln Church bowed, but words failed him, and he accepted the medal in a silence and manner that were more eloquent than words would have been. Turning to the members of the Amer fean Medical Association, who were present, the President said with great earnestness: I want to say just a word of greeting to you and to ask your influence on behaif of the medical corps, not only of the army but of the navy. There is not & more exacting profession; there Is ot a profession which makes greater demands upon those following !t and which mofe entitles them to the grafitude of man- kind than is the profession which is yours The army surgeon has to combine the work of your profession with the work of the military man of the line. I want to call your atten- tion to two specific things—one thing that is now being” dene by men of your profession, and one need of menm of your professfom. The Japanese have given us a good lesson by the way they handled thelr army in the recent war. One of the reasons why their medical department did well—the main rea- son—was the fact that they had an ampile supply of doctors who had been practiced in time of peace in doing the duties they would have to do in war. And until we have pro- viston for an ample corps of doctors in the army, so that they can be practiced in time of peace, we will not have prepared as wo ought to prepare for possibilities of war. Jn concluding the President sald that the present medical corps was equal only to the care of 40 per cent of the present regular army. and would be utterly inadequate In case of war. Later Captain Church was a guest of the President at luncheon. —_—— MONTANA MAN EXECUTOR OF PHISCATOR ESTATE Appointed to Take Charge of Property of Millionaire Who Killed Him- welf in This City. LIVINGSTON, Mont, Jan. 10.—C. G. Scotf of Gardiner, Mont., a Iifelong friend of Frank Phiscator, the Klon- dike millionaire who committed suicide in San Francisco recently, has been ap- pointed executor of Phiscator's estate in Dawson. Phiscator lived at Gardiner for twenty years. He left there owing considerable money, but after he made a stake in the Klondike he re‘urned and repald all his creditors. \PLEASE REMEMBER This Hint— That when the appetite is poor, bowels constipated, sleep restless, nerves un- strung, complexion bad, a few doses of the celehrated Stomach ~ s