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THE MACON TELEGRAPH FORECAST FOR GEORGIA FOR WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY* GENERALLY FAIR} LIGHT TO l'HESII SOUTH WINDS. ESTABLISHED IN 1820. MACON, GrA,, "WEDNESDAY MORNING, .JULY 24*, 1901 DAILY—«7.00 A YKAR SCHLEY’S TIME TO STRIKE MACLAY, HIS MALIGNER The SampsoipSchley Controversy to be Re= opened by a Court of Inquiry===Scbley Asks an Investigation, and Afterwards Will Institute Civil Action Against the Historian—Secretary Long to Appoint Court====Case Promises to be Most Ce!e= brated in Naval and Military History. •WASHINGTON, July 23.—The Wash ington Post last night telegraphed Ad miral Schley that in an editorial It In sisted that he owed It - to himself as well as to his friends to begin proceed ings against Mr. Maclay, the author of the History of the United States Navy, to disprove the latter’s charges, add ing: “Will you do this? Please wire state ment." Today it received the following tele gram: “GREAT NECK, L. I.. July 23.—Edi tor Washington Post: I believe the ilrst step should be an investigation of all matter by a court, then by a civil action afterward. I am preparing to take this course. (Signed) “W. S. SCHLEY." The Post In the morning, as a result of extensive inquiries, based upon the admiral’s dispatch, will say In part: "Admiral Schley proposes to make an investigation at the hajids of a naval court of Inquiry and then suo Histo rian Maclay for libel. "Ills action Is the sequel to the de velopments during the past week when the entire country has been atlrrd by the publication of the unexplained abuse poured upon him in the third volume of E. S. Maclay’s History of the United States Navy, in which pub lication Schley is said to have run away ’in caitiff flight,' and is, in addi tion, denounced as a coward, a cur and A traitor. ••The Schley court of inquiry will un doubtedly be one of the moat celebraod enses In naval or military history of the country. The high rank of the of ficers involved In the controversy and the Intense public feeling which has been aroused will combine to give to the Investigation a dramatic Interest.* Nothing has occurred In Washington for many years that will compare With it. “The appointment of the court of in quiry Is expected to be made by Sec retary Long, though It would be In the power of the president to make the selections If he chore. This Is hardly likely* to occur, however. Admiral Schley’s letter asking for the appoint ment of the court will be uddressed to Secretary Long, who Is his lmmedlato chief. To uddress the communication to the president, ignoring Secretary Long, would not bo a breach of naval etiquette, but would be totally at va riance with Schley’s careful observance of punctilious procedure. The court, therefore, will be named by Secretary Long, unless he shall prefer to refer the mntter to the president. “Mr. Long ban already stated that If Admiral Schley requested a cjurt of inquiry he would grant the request, and has also expressed his-willingness j to personally select the court. While lie bu* not made any statement us to its personnel, there is every reason to believe that he favore Admiral Dewey and Rear Admirals Ramsay and Ben- ham, the latter now being on the re tired list. The name of Admiral Walker has been suggested, but It Is known that ho has expressed views upon the Sanrpeon-Schley controversy In antag onism to Schley and his appointment would, therefore, be seriously ques tioned. It Is said that Ramsay, Dewey and Bonham have always carefully avoided giving an opinion as to the merit* of the controversy. All these officers nre residents of Washington, although temporarily out of the city to escape the summer heat, and could be quickly summoned to take their places around the table of the court. “Thrto names are mentioned because that number Is specified In the naval regulations for courts of Inquiry'. There fa a possibility that Admiral Dewey might ask to be excused, ns he would have a right to do, but It Is also mor ally certain that In this event he would be specifically detailed by the secretary for service on the board. This would to the turning of the fleet from San tiago toward Key West.) Fourth, the battle of Santiago and the destruction of Cervera's fleet. It la to be expected, nays the Post, that Admiral Schley, In Ills letter to the secretary requesting a court of In quiry, will specify thes*e grounds ol criticism, and that Secretary Long will, In turn, repeat them In his orders as sembling the court. It is expected that as soon as Sec retary Long receives the request for a court of inquiry from Admiral Schley, he will name Its personnel and Issue an order for Its assembling. It may be some time, however, before the court can get.squarely down to work. A host of naval officers will have to be summoned as witnesses, and theso offi cers are now scattered over a wide area. court <of Inquiry differs from a court-martial In thnt It has no power to Inflict a sentence. It Is organized rlmply for the purpose of Investigating questions of fact, but it has ample authority to make the Inquiry com plete and exhaustive. The naval reg ulations say courts of Inquiry "shall have power to summon witnesses, ad minister oaths and punish •contempt tu the same manner as courts-martial, but they shall only state facts and shall not, give their opinion unless ex- vssly requested to do so In the or- •r for convening " Recent congressional enactment con ferred upon these courts ample author ity to compel witnesses to testify, In cluding civilians. An important officer of the court will be' the Judge advocate and recorder who interrogates the witnesses. Sec retary' Long will undoubtedly take un usual care In. tin* ybvti m of thin offi cial who may be chosen from the 1IST of captains who participated with Dew ey In the Manila battle. Under the naval regulations Admiral Schley will bo allowed tho attendance of counsel, who will have the light to suggert questions to the Judge advocate. It Is not known whether Admiral Sampson will ask tho privilege of being also reprc.«vMitcd by counsel. The sessions of the court undoubtedly will open although 1U members havo tho right to prevent this. Thero Is no appeal from the decision of tho court as to the exclusion or a<r.ni38lon of tes timony, questions arising as to the rel evancy or propriety of which are Inva riably decided behind closed doore. BOERS WORRY BRITISH FORCES Held I p and Captured n Train of Stores—Several Killed aud Eigh teen Wounded. LONDON, July 23.—The British war office has received the following dis patch from Lord Kitchener, dated Pre toria, July 23: 'A train from Cape Town with 113 details and stores was held up, cap tured and burned nt Scheepers, e'ght miles north of Benufortweet on tho morning of July 21. Our casualties were three killed and IS wounded. An in quiry Is proceeding. “French reports that Crabbe, with :00 men, was attacked In the mountains near Crad-dock by Krltzlnger July 21. The horses stampeded. An all-day fight followed. Crabbe fell back on Mortimer, ur Oolss was slight." SUFFRAGE IN ALABAMA. The CoiiHtlfutlonHl Convention Fix ing the Uunllflcatlona of Electors, MONTGOMERY. Ala., July 23.—The constitutional convention began today the consideration of tho report of the committee on suffrage and elections, after Mr. Lowe, of Jefferson, who Is chairman of the State Democratic Com mittee, had Introduced a substitute for the committee report. Tho Lowe sub stitute eliminated tho educational and property qualifications and strikes out tho board of registration clause. Its basis Is a school contribution and a poll tax scheme. When section 1, the predicating para graph, was read, Mr. Boddow, of Jeff erson, sent up an amendment extending the franchise to every male citizen of foreign birth who has declared bis In tention of becoming a citizen of the United States. An amendment to the Beddow amend ment by ‘Mr. Smith, of Mobile, which provides that foreigners shall Decome citizens an soon as they arc entitled to do >», way adopted, and the lied- dow amendment and tho section were adopted. Section 2, proscribing the length of residence and fixing a poll tax quali fication was adopted. It provide* that the elector shall have paid nil poll tax- cs accrued agnlnat him by February 1, of tho year In which ho offers to vote. Section 3, providing that nil elec tions shall be by ballot and all elec tions by persons In a representative capacity shall-be by viva voco vote, was also adapted. CAPT. REES RECOMMENDS SUMS FOR STREAMS IN ALABAMA, NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA— II ARlIOIl WORK TO HE CONTIN UED AT VARIOUS PORTS. NEW YORK HERALD'S VIEWS. NEW YORK, July 23.—Tho Herald will say tomorrow: “Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley has asked Secretary Long to appoint a court of inquiry to determine tin* facts In regard to his course In the Santiago campaign. While Rear Ad miral Schley will not discuss his de termination, or even ndmlt that he has asked for an Inquiry, since li** could not do so without a breach of naval etiquette, the Herald Is nevertheless in a position to announce the fact that the application has been made. In a small village like Great Neck, L. 1., where Admiral Schley is staying with his son-in-law, R. M. S. Wort ley, his presence is a matter of pride to all the townspeople, and naturally little that ho does passes unnoticed. The admiral drove from Elm Point, where the Wortley cottage Is situated, to the Great Neck postofflce yesterday (Tues day) afternoon, and * few minutes later after 3 o’clock mailed a letter which was adressed to John D. Long, secretary of the navy, Washington. Though the admiral would not" talk of this letter, the nature of the contents were known to others In Great Neck, and there Is no doubt that Secretary Long, when he opens It today (Wednes day) will find in It a request for a for mal and official inquiry.” When Admiral Schley was pressed to make some statement of his position he wrote the following sentence: “I really think that as this matter Is liable to take the form of a Judicial ght not to be subject GOMEZ WANTS PALMA TO BE PRESIDENT General Came to United Hlnlra to Consult Pnlinit About This Mutter. WASHINGTON, July 23.-*~Captain Thomas H. Rees, In charge of river nnd harbor work for the St. Augustine, Fla., district, recommends the following appropriations In excess of $23,000 for the fiscal year ending Juno 30, 1003: St. John’s river. $300,000. J. Key West, $200,000 to complete project. Removing water hyacinths from Flor ida waters, $50,000. Dredge for river and harbor improve ment, $38,000. Sarasota bay, $38,500 to complete im provements. Tampa buy, $75,000 to continue Im provement. Hillsboro bay, $175,000 to complete ex isting project. Anclote river, $46,500 to complete pro Ject. Capt. E. W. Van C. Lucas, in churgo of river and harbor work for the Wil mington, N. C., district. In his annual report recommends the following ap propriations in excess of $25,000 for tho fif-vnJ year ending Juno 30, 1003: Pamlico and Tar rivers, $35,500 to complete improvements. Cnpe Fear river, $378,000, of which $250,000 Is to continue Improvements, and the remainder for maintenance. Cnpt. J. C. Sanford makes tho fol lowing recommendations for rlveru and harbors in South Carol I pit: Wlnyah bay, $125,000. Santee river, $18,000. i i Congo roe river, $54,000. Charleston harbor, $100,000. Limit.-Col. Charles J. Allen, In chnrg< of river and harbor work In the Wash ington, D. C., district, recommends the following appropriations in excess of $25,000 for tho next fiscal year: Potomac at Washington. $400,000. Rappahannock, $40,000, $30,000 which Is for Improvement. James river, Virginia, $500,000 for Im provement. MaJ. .T. IJ. Quinn, In chnrge of river and harbor work In the Norfolk, Va., district, recommends the following ap propriations In excenH of $25,000 for tho next fiscal year: Norfolk, $56,774 to complete Improve ment. Capo Charles city harbor, -Virginia, $40,000. MaJ. William C, Russel mak“n tho following estimates for river and har bor improvements In western Alabama nnd eastern Mississippi: Mobile harbor, Alabama, $810,000. Warrior river, Alabama, $30,000. Tomblgbea river, Alabama, from Its mouth to Demopolls, $280,000. Tombigbee river from Domcpoll* to Columbus, $30,000. SHOTS WERE HEARD AND NEGRO MISSING THE PRESIDENT WILL ANNOUNCE HIS APPOINTMENT UPON THE RE TIREMENT OF GOVERNOR ALLEN. RE IS V SOUTHERN MAN, AND IS NOW SECRETARY OF THE LAND. INTERESTING PAPER READ BY DR. KOCH, IN WHICH HE STATED SEVERAL THEORIES AS TO IN FECTION AND HEREDITY—RE LIEVES IN ISOLATION OF CON SUMPTIVES. WASHINGTON, July 23.—Wm. H. Hunt, tho present secretary of Porto Rico, has been elected to succeed Gov. Cliaa. H. Allen, on tho retirement of tho latter from tho Insular government. Gov. Allen brought with him to Boo- ton all of his household goods when he enmo from San Juan, and he does not expect to return to Porto Rico. The nal announcement of tho selection of Gov. Hunt Is withheld until tho reg ular appointment Is nmdc, and thin cannot bo before the expiration of tho leava of Gov. Allen next September. Wm. H. Hunt, who haK been s«i*ctQd to succeed Chan. II. Allen nS governor of Porto Rico, was born in New Or leans, Ln., Nov. fi, 1857, and Is tho fourth eon of the late Win, Henry Hunt, of Louisiana, who was secretary of the navy In the cabinets of Pres idents Garfield and Arthur, and minis ter to Ituinfa. When ho was 27 years of age he was elected attorney general of the terri tory of Montana. Whim Gov. Allen went to Porto Rico he was requested »by President McKin- loy to bocome secretary of tho island nnd to nasist Gov. Allen In organlzml? tho new civil government. He Wan Arrested for Attempted A*- ■ unit* on Wlilto *.>'0101-11 uad Taken From Officer. HAVANA, July 23.—Gen. Maximo Gomez, in the course of an open letter setting forth the objects of his recent trip to the United States, asserts that ho went to New York with a view of impressing upon T. Estrada Palma the ZTZ'ZJI C r: n ? ‘° Cuba t0 b ° tbe BEAUFORT, a C., July I.l.-nurlnu • Honor I ? H " publ,c - Inst work a n„ro sstlor namod Will xovernL , ba * "r n CaI>1C “ y H >«» C«rnl»H ontorod the home of how “* hi. course In thoL ra | w | lU , „t Port Royal one Batkin during.h»°i **! c 1 ,hc <lo!o- attrmpt.d vault, upon thorn. Ot gation during the last war," says Gen .... , Dome*. -HI* official purity whllo oc- K,lnil3y w0 “ enpturod and plucod It oupylns tho.c po.ltlon. placet) t.’uba ‘ al1 th ' r * un,ler K ,,nrd of a deputy, under obligation* to him. Not one of u. has such a standing a* he has with the Army-loan people and tholr proml- nent men, hub About midnight Bunday night the screams of a man were hoard In tho outskirts of the town, followed by six ••Tnvin- < H » 1 pl«tof or rlflo shots In rupld succession. .ui^^LrXh'^^rJrv r r r* tb *- ‘""" iy wm " ,und public will bear to the United Htates, n band and foot, and hi* Senor Palma Is the mo*t available nnd P r, * on * r missing. Nothing has since hi* attendance Imperative. Sec-1 Investigation, I ir I>mg ha* from the moment that I to Interviews, irt of Inquiry was miggeated fa- "I think that actlor the appointment of AdmiralI words and I have dec y, believing'that hi* appointment J than this, I ought 1* prefe ■* ,he only candidate. As real Cuban. 1 , •>' ouBht to make him accept. I .hall turn all my enerky to this end. nnd wh*n It has been accomplished I shall keep apart from politic*.” rd of Cornish.^ The MEETING OF ELKS AT MILWAUKEE groes outnumber the whites here about five to one. On Monday and this morning there wera muttered threats of negro vengeance for the disappearance of Cornish, though nothing has yet hap pened. EX •LOTION ON I IIOONEft. lolm r. \etthn tray Wu* Rlcrfed (■rand Einlteil Haler— In cream? In M nub I-mli Ip, would five the hb say, but I will i reat pity that there rmtroversy over matte ody did hi* beat." nm \mii:ii i in to the mitten JR, NASHVILLE hals that wei MILWAUKEE. Wi*„ July 21.—Mom- bora of the Ilenevolent and Protective Order of Elk* crowded Rabat theatre today when the .rand lodge conven tion was called to order. ani1 **• Orand Exalted Ruler Fisher pre sented his report, which showed that durln« tho past year 113 new dispensa tions had been granted and that there! KnB,n now are 725 lodge*, having a member-[ DALl(A ■hip of 96,000, an Increase rtnoe the last f rom , f convention of 33 1-3 per cent. Tie-1 mite. Wes order had contributed »17,0tl to the ternoon. ' Galveston fund. The financial condi-1 Texas Ol lion of the grand lodge showed a bal- ders and Amrrlran Was STOCKHOLM. Hw* b n, J explosion today of petrolsu the American schooner, I laid*. Capt. Orr, which Is phia April 24 for Stockholm, bor here, resulted In the •!< Orr.ten member* of the h- b* and four Swedish nr-rtoms * of the crew were saved. it of Waterloo, la., glne exalted ruler over! fine haway of Stillw.»t**r. j hhn*»df Into of Saturday oc e tonight. Th-j and destroyed I »r* were caught ■ country wax >r miles around three m:«.ros:m killed. Nethaway. 162. i i VERY WEAK. O, July 23.—AJvlf»-« to the effect that j r a Irfan* do not r-- PORTO RICO AND FREE TRADE. WASHINGTON, July 23.-Freo trndo between tho United State** and Porto Rico will be proclaimed Thursday. At- tornoy-General Knox Is preparing the proclamation* which will bo Isnuod. Two proclamations will bo issued, the first declaring tho establishment of civil government in Porto Rico and the Bceond the establishment of freo trado between the United States and tho Ix- Innd. Although civil government ha* ex isted for many months In Porto Ttleo Gov. Allen, up to the time ho went to Canton on Sunday, purposely withheld the formal notification of that fact from the president, In order that the money* collected under the Foraker aet might, m-t he plnred at the BlKponnl of the Porto Rican legislature, but could continue to bo used for tho benefit of (he Inland under the direction of the president The effect of an earlier no- tlfientlon would have been a proclama tion by the prrMklent recognising ih establishment of civil government and tlm turning over to tho Insular tree ury, for the use of tho legislature, nil moneys thereafter collected und the Forakor act Tin- other proclamation to be made by the prenldent on Thursday will r»- Clto the fact that tho JegTRlature has put Into operation a system or taxa tion npd will proclaim the removal of ull duties between tho United Htat und Porto Rico. LONDON, July 23.-—A featuro of to- day’H session of the Brltiali congress on tuberculosis was Dr. Robert Koch's paper, which was listened to with the deepest interest by a big gathering in St. James’ ball. During his address, Dr. Koch said his experiments had satisfied him tftn: human turberoulosls and bovine tu berculosis wer« radically different dis eases and that ho had amply demon strated cattle could not be infected with human tuberculosis. Tho counter prop osition that human beings were not lia ble to Infection from bovine tuberculo sis, was harder to prove, tho docthr aid, owing to tho difficulty of experi menting upon human subjects, but that personally he was satisfied such wan se, and ho rend at length post mortem evidence supporting tho belief, lie sold If tills point v/nro conceded, It remained to determine tho chief source of contagion. Continuing, the doctor said that human Immunity to bovlno Infection disponed of the belief of i n - ' *1on through dairy products, aud •onsldercd this source of danger .so slight ns to he unworthy of precau tionary measures. •dlty was also an unimportant factor In tho transmission of tubi-mi- ds, though the contrary lmd long ' ii believed. Dr. Koch said the chief source of danger of contagion lay in tho sputum of tho consumptive pa tients und that a remedy was to b« found In a law preventing the con sumptive from strewing contagion about him. .Several methods to thl* ore available, said tlu< doctor, the of Which b-liig Isolation In «nn- JturluniH. This was Impracticable, but strongly urged tin* eHtubllnhment of special* consumptive hospitals and o obligatory notification of the au lorltles «»f the existence of the dln- ise, tho (llslnffctlon of their quarters henevor consumptives clmngd their Hldonoc, nnd the dlwiemlnntlnn of In formation to t lie people concerning the true nature of consumption to alii in avoiding and combatting It. I>r. Koch eloMt-d IiIh remarks ♦'xprew slug lit* belief that the ultimate stamp- lug out of tuberculosis was possible. FREEDOM OF CITY TO LORD MILNER London A*tlr by Demonstration In Fnvor of tbe War In Sooth Af- CRAFT FOR ARMY USE AT MANILA 1*1* H*vln« In Wtilcr Tramporta- lion by It«-<lii<-loK Number of Vrx- ssls. MANILA. July 23.—The report* sub mitted to Adjt.-Grn. Corbin by Major Jarm-H B. Alesblrc, In charge of tho water transportation department of the army at Manila, show tho suvlng of $3,000 dally for tho last three months. Hlnce Major Aleshko took charge of this’department the number of vessels ( bartered by the government as trans ports, etc., has been reduced from ten to live, and lighters and launches char tered by the government have been re duced by one-half. Tho concentration of the American troops under three brigades at Manila, Dagupan, Hollo or Cebu will furUu-r reduco tho army’s need of launches. Jt is expected. In view of thin econ omy, to operate some transport* direct between Manila and New York. Adjt.-Oen. Corbin i recommends the use of two of the fastest transports In a monthly mall ftorvlco between Ban Fraud* •» and Manila, to ln»:irc quick handling of the malls. I'OIIFEITEI DEI’OSI r. rrl )•♦* Iflo Trnunlt f'onipnny I.oncm (In 1'rlvll^K*** In \|p. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, July 23.-J arbitrators to whom the matter eferred, decided tbat the Carrib* elte Live LONDON, July 23.—Tho presentation of tho frurdom of tho city of London to I.ord Milner, of Cape Town, at th<» Gullit Hail today was made the occa • sion of another Jingo demonstration in favor of tho war In Bouth Africa un i the policy of the government. I^ord Milner, In a speech, suld the compromising of the settlement of Bouth African situation by Injudicious cunceH-dons mu>t not be thought of, n<»r should tho rfak of popular rising hr run by tiirtilrig deliberate and crim** stained tr*u>*<»n speaker wil l the feronce betwrer era of the hitn ing ruffians,“ 1 Britlnh subjects m a venial off.-rum. Th • •• w.i.h an Imin.-riHe *11 f- the stout old burgh- • public and the “rov- irrowlng th«dr fellow if (’ape Colony. VVhlh- Ire the old bo *• war w.ih over, with fan * eri gerieioxlty, end a* <r. f»g loMt their liberty th*v t th*flr freedom, , ontlnu* i th- loyalist* in South Ai d shown such ppl’-ndtd <1 ■ empire nnd the work of on*truction already goln i be alienated. My the should ■ level GROOT TO LEAD OHIO BOLTERS llrjnn Demur lilt % e « Its in TORNAIM). »<»t rnleil, Itoofi nl nnd It it 11 ill m u * s VICKSBURG. M- i