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ROOSEVELT’S MESSAGE
URGING RECIPROCITY
President Ask Congress
to Do For Cuba What
the United States is in
Honor Bound To.
WASHINGTON. June 14.—After talking
With a number of leaders in congress re
garding Cuban reciprocity. President
Roosevelt yesterday determined to send a
message to congress reaffirming his atti
tude on the subject. The president has
aarncotiy considered th* matter for sev
eral days, and it is st-ced that the action
of the anti-reciprocity Republican sena
tors yesterday, tn deciding to hold out
against the policy advocated by the ma
jority of the party, did not Influence the
president in the least in deciding to trans
mit his message to congress yesterday.
The president’s action, it may be stated
from sources close to him. was influenced
by the broad question of the duty of the
United States to Cuba and of fairness to
the new republic.
It has been pointed cut to the president
that his warmest political support is in
the section of the country where there is
the greatest opposition to reciprocity, the
west and northwest, and that he should
remain content with the stand he had
taken without accentuating his Y*rws in
a special message. It Is known. Irowever.
that the president did not hesitate to ar
rive at the conclusion that he would not
let his political prospects Interfere with
what he regarded as his plain duty. It is
further known that he told his friends
that it was a source of great regret to
him to take a position hostile to the
wishes of his warmest supporters. but
that be felt that it would not be in keep
ing with his own nature and his position
of chief executive to longer remain sHent
on this subject, and thereby give an op
portunity for false speculation as to his
attitude.
The president was further led to con
clude that the relations of the United
States and Cuba must necessarily grow
ckwer and that the United States should
not at the outset, after its declared pur
pose toward the island, assume a position
contrary thereto, and thus arouse the
suspicions of the Cuban government as to
our real intentions toward it.
It Is stated that the president's positive
declaration in his message as to the
duty of congress probably will end his ac
tive efforts to bring about reciprocity.
ROOSEVELT MAKES PLEA
FOR STRUGGLING REPUBLIC
WASHINGTON. June M.-The president
yesterday sent the following message to
congress:
“To the Senate and House of Representa
tives:
"I deem it important before the adjourn
ment of the present session of congress
to call attention to the following expres
sions in the message which in the dis
charge of duty imposed upon me by the
constitution I sent to congress on the first
of December last:
“Blewhere I have discussed the question
of reciprocity. In the case of Cuba, how
ever. there are weighty reasons of moral
ity and of national interest why the poltcy
•hould be held to have a particular apll
cation. and I most earnestly ask your
attention to the wisdom. Indeed to the vi
tal need of privilege for a substantial re
duction in the tariff duties on Cuban im
ports into the United States. Cuba has in
her constitution affirmed what we desired,
that she should stand, in international
matters, in closer and more fijendly rela
tions with us than with any other power;
and we are bound by every consideration
of honor and expedltiency to pass com
mercial measures in the interest of her
material well being.
“This recommendation was merely giv
ing practical effect to President McKin
ley's "words. when, in his messages of De
cember 5. 1898. and December 51839, he
wrote:
“Tt is Important that our relations
with this people (of Cuba) shall be of the
moot friendly character and our commer
cial relations close and reciprocal. We
have accepted a trust, the fulfillment of
which calls for the sternest integrity of
purpose and the exercise of the highest
wisdom. The new Cuba yet to arise from
the ashes of the past must needs be bound
to us by ties of singular intimacy and
strength if Its enduring welfare is to be
assured. The greatest benefit which can
come to Cuba is the restoration of her
agricultural and industrial prosperity.'
"Yesterday, June 12. I received, by ca
ble. from Cuba, a most earnest appeal
from President Palma for legislative re
lief before it is too late and (his) country
financially ruined."
"The granting of reciprocity with Cuba
is a proposition which stands entirely
alone. The reasons for it far outweigh
those for granting reciprocity with any
other nation, and are entirely consistent
with preserving intact the protective sys
tem under which this country has thriven
so marvellously. The present tariff law
was designed to promote the adoption of
such a reciprocity treaty, and expressly
provided for a reduction not to exceed 20
per cent upon needs coming from a par
ticular country, leaving the tariff rates on
the articles unchanged as regards all other
countries. Objection has been made to
the granting of reduction on the ground
that the substantial benefit would not go
te the agricultural producer of sugar, but
would insure the American sugar refin
eries.
"In my judgment provision can and
should be made which will guarantee us
against this possibility, without having
recourse to a measure of doubtful policy,
such as a bounty in the form of a re
bate. The question as to which is any
of the different schedules of the tariff
ought most properly to be revised does
not enter into the matter in any way or
shape. We are concerned with getting a
•friendly reciprocity arrangement with
Cuba. This arrangement applies to all
the articles that Cuba grows or produces.
It is not in our power to determine what
these articles shall be; and any discus
sion of the tariff as It affects special
schedules or countries other than Cuba
is wholly aside from the subject matter
to which I call your attention.
"Some of our citizens oppose the low
ering of the tariff on Cuban products,
just as three years ago they opposed the
admission of the Hawaiian islands, lest
free trade with them might ruin cer
tain of our interests here. In. the ac
tual event their fears proved baseless as
regards Hawaii and their apprehensions
as to the damage to any industry of our
own because of the proposed meausre of
reciprocity with Cuba seem to me equally
•'ln my judgment, no American industry
will be hurt and many American indus
tries will be benefited by the proposed ac
tion. It is to our advantage as a nation
that the growing Cuban market should be
controlled by our own producers.
—The events following the war with
Spain and the prospective building of the
Isthmian canal, render it certain that we
must take in the future a far greater in
terest than hitherto in what happens
throughout the West Indies. Central
America and the adjacent coasts and wa
ters. We expect Cuba te treat us on an
fiMERICA ROUSTED
FOR BRUTAL
CRIMES
PAMPHLET IS ISSUED DECLARING
' UNITED STATES THE MOST IM
MORAL COUNTRY ON
EARTH.
BERLIN. June 14 —A pamphlet by Felix
Baumann is having an extraordinary cir
culation. It is entitled “In Darkest Unit
ed States," and contains extravagant de
scriptions of the immorality alleged to ex
ist in American cities.
There are long chapters on New York,
Chicago, New Orleans and San Francisco.
The writer has raked together accounts
of cruel lynchings, police briberies and
the sale of justice in cities.
He contends that the United States is
more deeply immoral than any other coun
try in the world, and warns Germans,
especially women, against emigrating to
such an evil atmosphere. The black cov
er of the pamphlet is conspicuous on ev
ery news stand. The stars and stripes are
emblazoned on IL
exceptional footing politically, and we
should put her in the same exceptional
position economically. The proposed ac
tion is tn line with /he course we have
pursued as regards all the islands with
which we have been brought ihto relations
of varying intimacy by the Spanish war.
Porto Rico and Hawaii have been includ
ed within our tariff lines, to their great
benefit as well as ours, and without any
of the feared detriment to our own Indus
tries.
“The Philippines, which stand in a dif
ferent relation, have been granted sub
stantial tariff concessions. Cuba is an
Independent republic but a republic which
has assumed certain special obligations
as regards her international position in
compliance with our request. I ask for
her certain special economic concessions in
return, these economic concessions to
benefit us as well as her. There are few
brighter pages in history than the page
which tells of our dealings with Cuba
during the past four years. On her be
half we waged a war of which the main
spring was generous indtgatlon against
oppression and we have'kept faith abso
lutely.
"It is earnestly to be hoped that we will
complete tn the same spirit the record so
well begun and show in our dealings with
Cuba that steady continuity of policy
which tt is •aaentlal for-our natkm-to es
tablish in foreign affairs if we desire to
play well our part as a world-power. We
are a wealthy and powerful nation. Cuba
is a young republic, still weak, who owes
to us her birth, whose whole future, whose
very life, must depend on our attitude to
ward her. I ask that we help her as she
struggles upward along the painful and
difficult road of self-government and in
dependence. I ask this aid for her because
she is weak, because she needs it, because
we have already aided her. I ask that
open-handed help, of the kind that a self
respecting people can accept, be given to
Cuba, for the very reason that we have
given her such help in the past.
“Our soldiers fought to give her free
dom and for thYee years our representa
tives, civil and military, have toiled un
ceasingly. facing disease of a peculiarly
sinister and fatal type, with patient and
uncomplaining fortitude, to teach her how
to use aright her new freedom. Never in
history has any alien country been thus
administered, with such high integrity of
purpose, such wise judgment and such a
single-handed devotion to the country’s
interests. Now, I ask that the Cubans be
given all possible chance to use to the
best advantage the freedom of which
Americans have such right to be proud
and for which so many American Ilves
have been sacrificed.
"THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
White House, June 13, 1902.”
to ar ®
ELKIHS SCHEMES
SENATOR INTRODUCES RESOLU-
TION IN SENATE ASKING THAT
REPUBLIC BE MADE STATE.
WASHINGTON, June 14.-Senator El
kins today introduced a joint resolution
in the senate providing for the annexation
of Cuba and for Its admission as a state
of the union. The Resolution grants the
consent of congress to the erection of the
republic of Cuba as a state of the union,
“to be called the state of Cuba, with a
republican form of government, to be
adopted by the people of said republic by
deputies in convention assembled with the
consent of the existing government."
A condition is specified that the consti
tution of the proposed state shall be sub
mitted to congress not later than January
1. 1904. There is a provision that the island
of Cuba shall not become a charge on the
general government.
It also provides an alternative giving the
president authority if he prefers to proceed
in a more direct way for Cuban admission
as a state. This provision meets the ad
mission under the terms of the resolution
itself Instead of proceeding to submit the
resolution to Cuba as An overture on the
part of the United States.
If the latter course is pursued a state
is to be formed “out of the present repub
lic of Cuba, with a republican form of
government and with representatives in
congress and be admitted into the union,
by this act, on equal footing with the ex
isting states as soon as the terms and
conditions of such admission shall be
agreed upon by the governments of the re
public of Cuba and the United States.”
The resolution provides for the appropri
ation of 3100,000 to carry its provisions in
to effect.
Senator Elkins, speaking of the resolu
tion introduced today for the annexation
of Cuba, said that Texas was admitted
under precisely the same terms as this
resolution provided for Cuba. He said he
preferred the admission of Cuba in pref
erence to granting 38,000,000 a year on
her account out of the revenues without
knowing where it would go. Providing for
the admission of Cuba, there would be no
more differences in the Republican party
on the subject of the train relations with
the island.
El 15 5001
15 COM PARED
TO SINH
SO DECLARES WALLER, WHO
SAYS HE MADE THE PROV
INCE “A HOWLING WILDER
NESS.”
SAN FRANCICO, June 13.-Major L. W.
T. Waller. United States marine corps,
by far the most interesting personage to
reach here on the transport Warren,
which bfought the battle-scarred remnant
of the fighting Ninth Infantry into port,
expressed emphatic views in the matter
of the war in the Philippines.
"You can't stop the revolution in the
Philippines unless you take the severest
measures,” said Major Waller, in an in
terview. "You would hate to see your
wounded and dead mutilated. I cannot
deesribe the fearful condition in which
weTound some of the bodies of men upder
my command who were murdered by in
surrectionists. I received both verbal and
written orders from Gen. Jacob Smith to
kill all insurrectos who were caught armed
or who refused to surrender.
“It was the only thing that could be
done and I never have questioned General
Smith's orders with one exception. This
exception I refuse to state. A fair esti
mate of the number of natives killed by
the men of my command would be four
to five hundred. These were all killed in
battle with the exception of eleven car
riers, insurrectos at heart, who were tried
by courtmartial and shot.
“There was only one woman shot and
she was only slightly wounded. She hap
pened to be in the breastworks of a fort
my men were storming. I have fought in
every country in the world except Aus
tralia ” said Major Waller, "but Samar
well, hell is a winter resort compared to
Samar.”
The major spoke huskily through a deep
cold that he had contracted during the
home voyage on the transport, but he was
obviously sincere. His dark eyes snap
ped and his nostrils twitched at the men
tion of the island that Gen. Jacob H.
Smith had ordered him to convert into a
howling wilderness.
“I left Samara howling wilderness.
They tried to make it that for us. but we
made it a howling wilderness for them.”
"Want any more of it?” was asked.
"No, I’m getting to be on old man now."
His face relaxed. “I’m in my fifties. Be
sides they’ve surrendered, and it's all over.
It’s always all over when they surrender
in the Philippines,” and a sarcastic smile
curved under his military mustache.
"Have you anything to say. Major, re
garding your courtmartial on the charge
of executing Samar natives without
trial? Or was that charged?” •
"The charge against me,” he said,
“was murder. Yes, one plain word—mur
der. and as for ha vinegary thing to s*y
about the courtmartial, of course I have.
I objected to being courtmartialed; it was
not done at my pleasure; I was not con
sulted in the matter; I was simply court
martialed.
"I know who caused that courtmartial;
I know who brought it forward; I know
who was at the back of it all; and Wash
ington knows as muca."
IN DEATH’S EMBRACE ~
MAN AND WOMAN FOUND
NEW YORK. June 14.—The body of
Clarence Foster, who has been missing
since Monday night was found in Shln
necock bay, Long Island, today. The
head and face were battered and there
were marks of violence, which were re
garded as indicating that he was mur
dered and his body thrown into the bay.
Later in the day the body of Miss
Sarah Lawrence, in whose company Fos
ter was last seen, was found in Shlnne
cock bay, near where Foster’s body was
found.
A coroner toolc charge of the bodies and
has started an investigation.
Foster was married and he and wife
went from this city to Good Ground, L. 1.,
for an outing. Miss Lawrence left the
hotel Monday night and walked towards
Shinnecock bay where she is said to have
met Foster. Several persons are said to
have met them in the bay, and a young
man friend of Miss Lawrence was with
them. This young man left the place
next day, and he has not been seen since.
CAKE MADE OF CASSAVA
SENT TO THE CAPITOL
a—-
B. D. Lumsden, of Macon, has sent to
the .state department of agriculture a
piece of cake made from cassava, the new
plant which is being so much talked about
in Georgia at present. The bread is very
white and has an excellent taste. The
fact that bread can be made from the
Cassava root will be a new thing to many
people in Georgia, but it is understood that
many people in south Georgia are using
cassava bread every day.
New Rural Delivery.
WASHINGTON, June 14.—The postoffice
department has ordered the establishment
of a new rural free delivery route out of
McDonough, Henry county, beginning Ju
ly 1. There will be one carrier, the length
of the route will be 26 miles, the area cov
ered 30 miles and the people served 425.
IT MEN AND HOUSES
THIS MAN SHOT
AT RANDOM
OPELIKA, Ala., June 13.—Robert Go
ins, a well known farmer of this county,
came to town Wednesday and before leav
ing got drunk and terrorised the city.
He began firing his revolver at every
thing in sight from the courthouse to the
city limits.
He shot into the residence of Mr. W. C.
Beck, and at other houses. Passing tlje
residence of Mr. G. L. Webster, city clerk,
he flred point blank at Mr. Webster, who
was sitting on the veranda, and the bullet
whistled above Webster’s head and/lodged
in the wall.
Goins was aiming to fire again, when his
team veered out of the road and he miss
ed the house.
Several horses and people narrowly es
caped instant death.
The affair created great consternation
and terror.
Goins was pursued by Deputy Sheriff
Moon and Chief of Police Morgan and
brought back and jailed after a desperate
struggle.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1902.
LEONIRDWDDO
CENTRE IF
SCANDAL
SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES,
IT IS BELIEVED, HAVE DOOM
ED BOTH GEN. WOOD AND SU
GAR TRUST.
WASHINGTON, June 12.—Advocates of
Cuban reciprocity, le< by Senators Aid
rich and Platt, of Cfnnnectlcut, are to
day denying that yesferday’K»ensational
disclosures will kill tie Cuban>relief bill,
but on the other hind the beet sugar
men are more confident than ever today
that the scandal haa. driven away from
the bill the support ojb'many of its form
er sponsors.
Thurber's admissionjthat he was a paid
agent of the sugar |rust when General
Wood paid him thouindi of dollars out
of the Cuban funds jkw the same cause
as that to which th< trust contributed,
startled even the staiAthest of reciprocity
advocates, and mor® developments are
expected to follow thA statement.
It is hinted that a fig scandal is pend
ing which will disclose purchase of lands,
appointments of relatives, and unwar
ranted extravagance en the part of high
American officials in Cuba, a state of af
fairs which the secretary of war has
winked at.
How Senator Teller secured the docu
ments he pulled on Thurber in the com
mittee is another mjfrtery which is ex
asperating the administration. This' new
leak in the war department, following the
leak of scandalous Philippine secrets, has
started a new investigation. The admin
istration is in the attitude of a balloonist
in the clouds who frantically plugs up one
hole in his air ship only to find the gas
escaping at another, the ship going down
in the meantime.
There are a dozen senators ready to
fight a confirmation if Roosevelt tries to
promote Wood to a major general. While
they do not believe the young soldier is
dishonest, they declare he has shown a
lamentable lack of ability and a looseness
of administration in Cuba which cannot
be overlooked.
■ ' - -y ■
Investigation is Wanted in Phlllpplnea.
WASHINGTON, June 12.—Representa
tive McCall, of Massachusetts, today
presented to the house a memorial signed
by Charles Francis Adams, Andrew Car
negie, Carl Schurz. Edwin Burrltt Smith
and Herbert Welsh asking that a con
gressional committoe of investigation be
appointed to go to the Philippines to In
quire into and report upon conditions ex
isting there.
The memorial’ starts that the signers
are a committee appsisted at a recently
held meeting of persons, irrespective of
party, interested in thptpolicy pursued by
the United YCsW*? U* Pliipnos.
BY BARTLETT SHOT IS
FIRED AT GENERAL WOOD %
WASHINGTON. June 14.—The Demo
crats refuse to be put aside in their efforts
to look into the administration of Leonard
Wood, as military governor of Cuba.
Resolutions calling on the secretary of
war to furnish congress with a complete
statement of the Cuban revenues and the
expenditures authorized by Wood have
been practically shelved by the secretary’s
declaration that it will take 22 weeks to
get the desired information in shape, thus
keeping it secret until after the fall elec
tions.
Today, however, Bartlett, of Georgia,
Introduced a resolution calling on the sec
retary to furnish a statement of all
money paid by Wood to F. K. Thurber,
the sugar trust lobbyist.
This is the particular information the
Democrats want just now, and it cannot
be claimed that weeks are required to get
it out.
Democrats believe they will get some
thing interesting; if the resolution passes.
MONIOEDOGTBINE
IS APPLAUDED
BY CORPUS
PROFESSOR OF JURISPRUDENCE
OF OXFORD COMMENDS
DOCTRINE IN ABLE
SPEECH.
LONDON, June 14.—The speech of Sir
Frederick Pollock Corpus, professor of
jurisprudence, university of Oxford before
the London chamber of commerce Wed
nesday, commending the Monroe doctrine,
has caused interesting and diversified ex
pressions of opinions from the Specta
tor and the Saturday Review. The Spec
tator is delighted and urges the state
department at Washington to enunciate
the doctrine clearly, as then Great Brit
ain could record her acquiescence, ex
pressing at the same time its mainte
nance of British interest, adding:
"Such a course would certainly be for
the peace of the world as well as the se
curity of Canada and our other Ameri
can possessions. The kaiser thinks now
that he only has to build enough ships to
make the United States see the advisabil
ity of dropping the doctrine, so far as
South America is concerned. That incen
tive to profligate waste of the national
resources might be withdrawn if the ac
tion we suggest is taken. The Americans,
having gotten our adhesion to the doc
trine, might submit it to Germany and
the other great powers. If their decision
was favorable a great source for future
quarrels would be automatically elimi
nated. The two Americas would, by the
agreement, be ruled out of the field of
polltcal ambitions. If Germany and the
other powers would not join in assenting,
the Americans would at any rate know
where they stood.”
The Saturday Review on the other hand
denounces Sir Frederick Pollock and de
clares his speech to be one of the lowest
defenses of what it maintains to be pure
aggression on the part of America, in
which a defensive element does not fig
ure.
General Delarey Gives Up His Arms.
PRETORIA, June 14.—General Delarey
has surrendered at Lichtenberg, Trans
vaal, with 800 men.
General Bohta, General Dewet and De
larsy intend to go to Europe next July.
LYNCH FACES
COURT FOB
TREASON
MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT WHO
FOUGHT WITH BOERS PUT ON
TRIAL IN LONDON SATURDAY
MORNING.
LONDON, June 14.—80 w street police
court was crowded this morning when the
investigation into the charge of high trea
son brought against Col. Arthur Lynch,
formerly of the Boer army, was begun.
Lynch, who was elected a member of
parliament for Galway In Novemftr last,
was arrested at New Haven Wednesday
upon landing from France. Mrs. Lynch
and other friends of the accused were
present. The solicitor general Sir Edward
Carson, in opening for the prosecution,
alluded briefly to-Colonel Lynch’s Aus
tralian birth, his residence in Paris, his
departure thence to tne Transvaal in 1900.
“The case for the prosecution,” said
Senator Edward, "will be that on arriv
ing in South Africa Lynch took service
with the Transvaal government, raised a
regiment of which he acted as command
er, to fight in behalf of the Boers and ac
tively fought against General Buller's
operations. ' .
"Lynch was in Pretoria January 15.
1900,” the solicitor general continued, “and
wrote to the Transvaal authorities noti
fying them of his desire to take up arms.
January 18 he signed a field coronet’s cer
tificate, describing himself as an Irish
man, a British subject and as born in Aus
tralia, but declaring his willingness to
fight for the South African republic in
order to maintain and defend its inde
pendence. Lynch also took the oath of al
legiance as a full burgher, the certificate
enabling him to do so well as to- accept a
commission from the Transvaal govern
ment." .
Lynch then raised the so-called Irish
brigade, joined the invading army in
Natal and issued an appeal signed "Ar
thur Lynch, Colonel, Irish Brigade,” In
viting Irishmen to assist the two repub
lics.
The Hon. Charles Russell, second son of
the late Lord Chief Justice Baron Rus
sell, of Killoween, in behalf of the de
fendants said that Lynch had' faced the
proceedings like a man.
"What he had done had been done open
ly and he desired to facilitate the inquiry
as much as possible. After the police had
furnished evidence of the prisoner’s arrest
he was remanded to June 21. During the
course of this evidence Detective Inspector
Walsh testified to finding in Colonel
Lynch's pocket a visiting card of Hamil
ton Holt, "introducing Colonel Lynch, of
the Boer army, to three Americana, A. S.
Hardy, United States minister at Berne,
Switzerland; H. W. Bowen, United States
minister to Teheran (now minister to Ven
ezuela), atid Prof. Richardson, of the Am
erican school at Athens,” and some testi
mony had been presented regarding Colo
nel Lynch’s presence "on commando" in
Natal.
BLISS HOLDS OUT BRIGHT
PROSPECTS FOR CUBANS
WASHINGTON, D. G., June 14.—Colo
nel Tasker H. Bliss, formerly col
lector of customs for the Island of Cuba,
.who had charge of collecting the revenue
of the Island during our military occupa
tion, does not have gloomy forebodings as
to the futlre of the Cuban republic, snch
m most public men have. He is an au
thority on the question for he reorganized
a department which under the Spanish rule
was the hotbed of corruption. He is an
authority on the economic conditions of the
republic to the south. Speaking of the
financial condition of the island /he said
today: “I see no reason why the republic
of Cuba cannot meet all its financial obli
gations. With such a man as Estrada Pal
ma at the head of the government I be
lieve the Island will have an economic ad
ministration and will succeed. Os course
the new administration will have to meet
certain expenses that the military govern
ment of intervention did not have to meet —
notably that of the legislative branch, but
in other directions there will be retrench
ments. The source of revenues for the
new government will be almost entirely in
the way of customs. From present indica
tions about 316,000,000 per annum will be
collected and with a more favorable tariff
law will augment this sum to 318,000,000
or 320,000,000.”
STRIKERSARE AT WORK
TO COMPLETE THE STRIKE
SCRANTON. Pa., June 14.—Telephone
messages were sent out today from the
various miners’ headquarters to the of
ficers of locals to call on all men em
ployed about the mines except the barn
bosses, who feed the mules, to quit work
before next Monday. This action was de
cided upon at a conference of President
Mitchell and the district presidents at
Wilkesbarre.
The order is aimed principally at the
fire bosses, many of whom have taken the
places of striking pumpmen, engineers and
firemen.
cqnfeHtem
ARE HUNDRED
BY IHBCH
COLUMBUS, 0., June 14.—The unveiling
and dedication of a memorial arch to 2,-
250 Confederate dead attracted 5.000 people
from all parts of the country to this city
today. The arch was the gift of William
H. Harrison, of Cincinnati, a former cit
izen of Columbus. The dead soldiers were
prisoners at Camp Chase, west of Colum
bus, during the war and died in prison.
For many years the little cemetery was
neglected.
Former President Hayes- paid a farmer
to keep the burial ground free from weeds.
Former Governor Foraker had the gov
ernment enclose the spot with a stone
wall.
Several years ago Col. W. H. Knauss,
a public spirited local citizens and ex-
Federal soldier, instituted a yearly custom
of decorating the graves. Mr. Harrison
was not a soldier in either army, but was
influenced in making his gift by sentiment.
The ceremonies of today were the most
elaborate ever held. There were many ex-
Confedrates present from all parts of the
south, and there were many floral offer
ings from Confederate camps in the south
land.
WAS GOMEZ BRIBED
TO AID GEN. PALMA?
MISS MB SENDS
HER ULTIMATUM
TO SEGJ DOT
GIVES THE DEPARTMENT ONLY
THREE DAYS IN WHICH TO RE
INSTATE HER TO FOR
MER POSITION.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 14.—Miss
Rebecca Taylor, of Minnesota, who
was discharged by the secretary of war
because of her criticisms of the president's
Philippine policy, Is likely to become a
prominent feature In the presidenltlal cam
prominent feature In presidential cam
paign this fall. The democrats hope to
make large political capital out of her case,
and it will be brought uj> in congress as
often as possible. An endeavor will be
made to show that Miss Taylor’s discharge
was a violation of the civil service law, and
that the law is practically null and void
under the republican administration.
Miss Taylor is the second clerk to be
dropped by Secretary Root from the war
department for a similar cause.
Her predecessor was Noble E. Dawson,
who was confidential stenographer to Gen
eral Miles in 1898 and 1899, and who it
is said furnished to outside persons written
communications practically charging Pres
ident McKinley in being involved in a plot
to entrap General Mlles into conduct which
would make it necessary to court martial
him, and thus destroy his career.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF BURTON
WILL INFLUENCE POLITICS
WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 14.—Ac
cording to Ohio men in Washington,
the announcement made by Representative
Burton of Cleveland that he will not be a
candidate this year may have considerable
Influence upon state and national politics.
Mr. Burton has represented his district since
the fifty-first congress with the exception
of a single term and he is a Foraker adher
ent. He is regarded as one of the ablest
men in the House and is Chairman of the
River and Harbor Committee. Sometime
ago he asked that a certain local politician
should manage his campaign as chairman of
the county executive committee. Requests
of this character by candidates for mem
bers of Congress in Ohio are usually grant
ed, but the committee on this occasion did
not grant the request. This committee Is
composed largely of federal office holders,
appointed by Senator Hanna and they ap
pointed a man named Abel, a close friend
of Senator Hanna and not on good terms
personally with —urton.
It is said that Senator Hanna telegraph
ed asking that Burton’s request be acceded
to. If this be so, no attention was paid
to the request from Senator Hanna.
Representative Burton, after announcing
that he would withdraw I torn Congress,
took a trip to Virginia Hot Springs to
consult with his friends. It is said that
Senator Foraker advised him to take this
step.
It is further asserted that Burton will be
a candidate for the Senate this fall against
Hanna, if Hanna and his friends persist in
their determination to control the Ohio
delegation to the next republican national
convention. It is said that this is a plan
of Senator Foraker and, with him is the
entire Ohio congressional members with the
exception of Dick and Grosvernor. They
were all loyal supporters of McKinley, but
between Hanna and Foraker, they are with
the latter.
Foraker men claim that Hanna desires
to be named in the national convention as
Ohio's candidate for the presidency. At
least if, Hanna is not in this plan his
friends are. This is the reason why Hanna
and his friends wish to control the dele
gation. Foraker has already announced
that he is for Mr. Roosevelt in 1904.
miiWsM
REGADDED BEST
DE SESSION
GEORGIAN RECEIVED CONGRATU
LATIONS THURSDAY ON AC
COUNT OF HIS GREAT VICTO-
. RY OF WEDNESDAY.
WASHINGTON, June 13.—Representa
tive Adamson, of Georgia, received con
gratulations yesterday on his vistory in
house Wednesday, when he defeated the
Corliss bill, providing for the construc
tion of a Pacific cable by the government.
Hepburn and Sherman, republican mem
bers of the committee on interstate and
foreign commerce, were the leaders op
posed to the bill, but both were absent
yesterday, leaving the fight against it in
the hands of Adamson and Richardson,
of Alabama.
Judge Adamson’ speech is regarded as
one of the ablest of the present session.
GRAND ARMY POST
GIVES TO CONFEDERATS
MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 14.—1 n the
presence of 4.0C0 persons gathered here to
night, Judge Thomas G. Jones, of the
United States district court, presented
Camp Jeff Falkner, United Confederate
Veterans of Montgomery, with a check
for 350 from U. S. Grant post. Grand Ar
my of the Republic of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Judge Jones, who was a staff officer of
the Confederate army, has recently re
turned from New York city, where he
delivered the oration on Decoration day
at Grant’s tomb on Riverside Drive, up
on invitation of the U. 8. Grant post.
A big audience gathered here tonight
from every city in the state to listen to a
lecture by Jormer Governor Taylor of
Tennessee, given to swell the fund for
building a home for indigent Confederate
soldiers in Alabama. At the conclusion of
the lecture Judge Jones was introduced
and in an eloquent address presented the
check from the Grand Army post.
The money is to be added to the fund
for building the Confederate soldiers’
home. The action of the Broklyn post
was loudly applauded by the audience.
Havana Correspondent
Says Gen. Wood Paid
Gomez $25,000 To
Withdraw.
NEW ORLEANS, June 14.—“ Within a
week there will be revealed at Washing
ton the most sensational transaction that
has yet come to light with the investiga
tion now’ going on of the expenditure of
money made by the governor, Leonard
Wood, during his regime in Cuba,” said
Charles M. Dobson, the former staff cor
respondent for the Associated Press at
Havana, Cuba, who was in thia city today
on his way to New York.
“It will be disclosed that Governor
Wood paid the sum of 325.000 to Maximo
Gomez, the so-called Cuban patriot, and
the sum was a bribe paid with the sanc
tion of the Republican administration at
i Washington to prevent any outbreaks of
the populace at the time, of the last na
tional election in the United States. I
know where the check for this sum of
money can be found. I know right where
to lay hands on it. There is no secret
about the payment of this bribe among
the friends of General Wood, or those
on the inside of the secrets of the ad-'
ministration ,of affairs under the Wood
regime.
"President McKinley knew about it.
President Roosevelt knows about It. Gen
eral Wood did not make the payment of
his own volition; he was advised to do
so by the officials of Washington, who
were in higher authority than he. The
payment of the bribe was considered to
be a matter of diplomacy, one of those
diplomatic expedients that the officials of
every nation in high authority resort to
at times, for the reason that unscrupulous
men work themselves up into high places
and have to be dealt with occasionally oa
practically their own terms.
Just before the last McKinley election
an element in Cuba recognized Gomez az
their leader and threatened to take to the
woods unless the general was recognized
by all factions in Cuban politics as the
candidate for the first president of the
island. There were two reasons why the
administration and General Wood did not
desire to have any trouble at that time.
One was that it would be disastrous to
the election in progress in the states and
the other that the administration did not
want Gomez as the first president of Cu
ba. Palma Was the man who was favor
ed in Washington, and it was decided that
nothing should prevent to land Palma aa
the first Cuban president.
ROOSEVELT NEVER HEARD
OF WOOD’S BRIBE STORY
WASHINGTON, June 14.—Regarding a
New Oreans story that General Gomez
received 325,000 bribe from the adminiztr*-
tion to withdraw from the Cuban cam
paign, thereby permitting the election of
Estrada Palma, it was stated tonight by
tfn official close to President Roosevelt
that he had never before heard of it.
Secretary Hay said that not uhttl his
attention was called to the story tonight
had he received the slightest intimation
of it from any source.
Secretary Root thought the story was
undoubtedly an exaggeration of General
Woods' action in granting a pension to
General Gomez.
The statement that General Wood had
paid General Gomez money to withdraw
from the Cuban campaign, Secretary Root
said, was absurd on its face, as Gomez
was one of President Estrada Palma's
warmest friends.
President Palma Denies Story.
HAVANA, June M.—President Palm*
and General Gomez were questioned today
with regaru >.o the story published in the
United States that he received 325.000
from the administration of the United
States to withdraw from the presidential
campaign in Cuba to permit the election
of Senor Palma.
President Palma indignantly denied
that he had been a party to any scheme
to have General Gomez withdraw from
the campaign in his favor. He also spoke
for General Gomez, who was present when
Palma was questioned on the matter.
The president of Cuba said that to Insinu
ate Senor Gomez had been bought off
by a bribe of 325,000 was to question the
honesty and Integrity of Gomez and him
self and that such attacks would pass
unanswered.
MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS SAYS
THAT SHE WAS MISQUOTED.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has corrected the
interview which recently appeared in The
New York Press and which was telegraph
ed over country. For the benefit of
those whWdid not understand the words
of Mrs. Davis as they appeared in the
newspapers she has issued the correction,
which will doubtless be read with interest,
as many disagreed with some of the utter
ances which were attributed to the widow
of the Confederacy’s president.
In a letter of recent date to Mayor Mims
of Atlanta, Mrs. Davis enclosed the state
ment which corrects the interview attrib
uted to her, which she describes as
the Billingsgate of a reporter.
The card which Mrs. Davis has furnish
ed the newspapers for publication is a*
follows:
"An interview has been published in The
Press newspaper of a violently abusive
character in which I am represented as
saying things of General Nelson A. Miles,
which I could not have uttered, because
they were not true, and which no one
familiar with the circumstances could
have attributed to me. For instance, Gen
eral Miles is accused of having insulted
fcny daughters, when one of the only two
I had was an infant at that time, whom
he certainly could not have Insulted, the
other daughter was never at Fortress
Monroe then, or, I believe, at any other
time since.
"Though the hideous memories of that
day ‘will not down,’ and whatever irre
concilable enmity I may and do feel
against General Miles for his carefully de
vised insults and cruelties inflicted upon
my dead, I do not .wish to accuse him of
anything which he did not do or which has
not been substantiated by the testimony or
his subordinate officer, and as little do I
desire to idly rail at him.
"The reference to President Johnson as
a ‘tailor,’ etc., is also untrue.
"The sneers I am reputed to have cast
upon school teachers have pained me
greatly, as they constitute an at
tack upon a class to which
I am bound by many ties of
friendship, respect and blood. These two
occupations have been sought and honor
ably pursued by members of the oldest
and most dignified families throughout the
south, and I have no doubt of all parts
of this country, and the obligations the
country owes to the latter cannot be es
timated or diminished by the assumption
of a fancied superiority by any person
or class.
“This correction is due to myself, and I
ask a place in your columns for it.
"V. JEFFERSON DAVIS,”
NO. 79.
