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Atlanta Semi-week Id VOL. IV. 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.