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SECRETARY LONG SELECTS
COURT OF INQUIRY
Admiral Dewey at Its Head, With Rear Admirals
Kimberly and Beaham—Special Effort to Choose
Officers Who Have Not Expressed Opinion on the ™ e
Controversy and Are Free From Prejudice by Reason
of Service in Navy Under Schley or Sampson.
WASHINGTON, July 25.—The court
of Inquiry which Is to Investigate the
controversial points in connection with
Admiral Schley's conduct during the
Spanish war will be composed of Ad
miral Dewey, president of the court;
and Rear Admirals Lewis A. Kimberly
and Andrew E. K, Benham.
The court will meet at the navy de
partment in Washington, September 12.
Secretary Long announced these facts
today. The judge-advocate of the court
lias not yet been selected, and the pre
cept to the court, which is being pre
pared by Capt. Lemley, Judge-advocate-
general, has not yet been completed.
Tbe scopo of the Inquiry will not b9
known until the precept and order for
the convening of the court are issued.
It is expected that they tjlll be pro
mulgated by the navy department to
morrow. Secretary Long says, how
ever, that the proceedings of the court
will be open and the widest latitude
will be permitted in the matter of wit
nesses and that Rear Admiral Schley
will be allowed to be represented by
counsel. The secretary had nothing to
say about the composition of the court,
except that he thought it spoke for it
self. and to express the hope that the
members chosen would be satisfactory
to all concerned. He pointed out that
none of the officers chosen had. so far
as he knew-, expressed an opinion con
cerning what Is known as the Samp-
ron-Schley controversy, and it was
therefore to be presumed that they
would enter upon their work In an Im
partial and unprejudiced spirit.
All day Secretary Long was engrossed
In the consideration of- the details of
the court, seeking particularly for a
suitable Judge advocate, realizing that
upon this officer would devolve the
Urge share of responsibility for the
conduct of the Inquiry to a successful
Issue. It was thought that such a man
had been found In the person of Com
mander John K. PJllsbury, a sailor who
has the brightest reputation profes
sionally and Is moreover regnrdcd as of
a judicial temperament. In fact. It
was announced early In the dny at the
navy department that ho had been se
lected for the place. But later, on
more mature consideration, his name
was abandoned.
It was recalled that ns commander of
the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius ho had.
served under Snmpson off Sanltago.anrt
moreover, as equipment officer of the
Boston navy yard, was now a^nln a
subordinate of tho same admiral. Ip
Jils desire to escape all criticism on
the point of biaB, Secretary Long felt
that these reasons were sufficient for
looking for material and for a man
who was absolutely disassociated from
tho groat controversy In any phase.
Late this afternoon he believed that
he hod found such an officer In the
person of Capt. Samuel C. Lemly, *.h©
Judge-ndvocate-genernl of tho navy, a
selection calculated, because of the
rank of the officer, to constitute a full
recognition of tho dignity and Import
ance of the forthcoming court of In
quiry. While it cannot be said that tho
matter is absolutely settled. Secretary
Long went so far as to ask Capt. Lom-
ly if he felt free to accept the assign
ment If It were offered to him, und it
Is believed that Capt. Lemly will
answer affirmatively.
Capt. Lemly would feel hurt to have
It even Intimated that he had sny per
sonal feeling whatever fit the Sampson-
8chley controversy. In all the time he
has been at the head of the legal de
partment of tho navy, his service dat
ing back to 1892, he has never had oc
casion to pass upon any question that
Involved either Schley or Snmpson in
any personal aspect. He has known
both men—Schley better than Samp-
eon, perhaps. He waa one of PehlfV’s
personal friends when he (Lemly) was
In active line service. He accompanied
Schley on the famous Greely relief ex
pedition and he rendered valuable ser
vice to him on that occasion.
On the other hand. Captain Lemly
hat known Sampson officially In the
navy department when the Admiral
■was at the bead of the ordnance bu
reau, and they thua were thrown Into
close contact In a business point of
View for several years
Captain Lemley had arranged to de
part from Washington on hie annual
leave on a trip through Canada some
time In August. Should he accept
this new trust he will arrange to
leave on an earlier date In order to |
return In season to study thin cele- I
bra ted case before the court meeta Sop- [
tember 12 Meanwhile the clerical |
force of the Judge advoc
ment can prepare the m
mentary evidence necesf
before the court, and
distant point® may be sui
der the ordinary rules of
judge advocate general o:
THE TRAIN OF BLACK L.XnoBEIIS
TO TAKE PLACES OF STRIKERS
WERE FRIGHTENED SO THAT
THEY DECIDED TO RETURN AND
TAKE A “BACK TRACK.*'
CHICAGO, July 25.—General Mana
ger Aertsen, of the Latrobe Steel and
Coupler works at Melrose Park, gave
out the statement this evening, declar
ing that the company has .abandoned
the effort to bring colored laborers to
Melrose Park and that, they will bo
pent back to their homes In Alabama.
All day tho 300 colored men sat In
their cars, 28 miles from Chicago, In
fear. A committee of five citizens of
Melrose Park called on them during
the morning and urged the men to tp-
turn to their homes in Alabama. They
informed the negroes of the actual
state of affairs In Melrose Park, where
300 armed men were awaiting the
rival of their train, determined that
they tihould not be allowed to alight
In the village. Their rtatement
alarmed the Imported men moro than
ever, and finally five of them stepped
eff the train and made their way into
Chlcngo, where they sought nn lnt«*
view with Chief of Police O’Neil, nel
Ing protection which he could not giv
an tho trouble was not within tho city
limits.
After the five men had left th»» train
to come to Chicago, the fears of those
left on the train increased greatly,
nnd it was with difficulty that the
trainmen managed to ke«»p them from
running away In a panic. Nearly all
of the colored men said that they
would not go to Molrose Pork and
that if taken there on the train, they
would refuse to get off.
At 2 o'clock Marshal Rau, of th<
town of LaGrange, ordered the train
bearing tho colored men to move out
of the village. It did so and was
placed on a siding at Salt Creek, two
miles routh of LaGrange. In the
meantlmp, attorneys for the steel com
pany called upon Sheriff Magerstadt
and a.vkod that the company be given
ample protection against the mob vi
lence which was threatened. They
stated positively that the laborers
would ho landed in the ehops of the
company late this afternoon whether
the sheriff furnished any aid or no!
Out at Melrose Park the armed cit
izens remalnpd on watch until assur
ed the negroes were not coming, when
they dispersed.
GRANDFATHER CLAUSE DIS
CUSSED IN CONVENTION—HEFLIN
SAYS THE “NEGRO IS NOT FIT TO
VOTE, AND THE TIME HAS COME
TO LOOK AFTER YOUNG BUCKS.**
WEATHER CONTINUES DRY AND
HOT WITH NO PROSPECT OF IM
MEDIATE CHANGES IN THESE
CONDITIONS—SLIGHT SHOWERS IN
SOME SECTIONS HAVE FALLEN*
MONTGOMERY. Ala., July 25.—The
issue in the constitutional. convention
today was the grandfather clause in
section 4 of the suffrage article. Will
iams of Marengo took the floor in de
fense of the clause. His people, he
»ld, wanted to got rid of the negro
i>ter, and wanted to disfranchise]no
hltc man. lie would be glad to /lx
ip heredity feature so that every white
tan would have the hereditary right to
ote.
Gen. Georgo Harrison of Leo spoke
against the grandfather clause. lie
pudlated for the sons of Confeder
ate soldiers the idea that they desired
such discrimination in their favor. He
painted what might happen If the
courts should declare the clause uncon
stitutional.
L.‘ Heflin of Chambers spoke in
favor of the majority report. “The ne
gro," said Mr. Heflin, "is not fit to
rote, and tho lively imagination of the
minority cannot paint him so. They tell
us what tho supreme court may say
and do. 1 tell you to beware of what
the people may s ty and do unices we
obey their mandate.” He answered
the plea of Governor Oates for the
faithfulness of the old slave. “They
all right," said Mr. Ilellin, “hut
are passing away. The time has come
hen we have to look after the young
bucks.” (Aplause and laughter).
Frank White of Jeffer.ion spoke for
the minority report. In the course of
his address he said:
The question is not what wo would
do or what we want, but what can wo
do In the face of the Fifteenth amend
ment. Do not the same ojebotlona np-
ply to the soldier clause ns to the
grandfather clnuso? The old soldiers#
excepting those of th*» civil war, are
nearly all dead, and most of them are
maimed. Including the descendants of
the soldiers of the civil war, !*5 per
cent, were white men and only G re*
ent. negroes."
VIRGINIA ON SUFFRAGE.
RICHMOND. Va.. July 25.—The con
stitutional convention was in session,
only thirty minutes today. Mr. Robert
son laid before the body a memorial
from the associated merchants of Vir
ginia on the subject of homestead ex-
mptlon and offered a s-H of resolu
tions embodying their views.
Mr. Parks offered a suffrage clause,
which was referred. It calls for the
payment of the capital tnx provided by
low. All Persons desiring to vote shall
be nble to read and write a selection
of the constitution of Virginia or pay
taxes on <300 worth of property, real
nnd personal, or either, except that
this shnll not apply to those who have
rendered military service or their sons,
to those who were 21 years of ago
on January 1, 1871. A minority report
of the committee on reduction of ex
penses, signed by Merer*. Btebblns,
nnd Willis R. Crlsmond was presented,
setting forth that they did not cor.dur
In the report offered by tho majority
the committee on tho following
points: Reduction of tho governor's
salary, reducing the contingent funds
of state officers nnd electing nil state
officers by the people. This report was
laid on the table and orJ»red printed,
Delegate Dnrman of Rockingham pre
sented a resolution providing for th*
election of superintendent of public In
structlon by the people.
WASHINGTON, July 25.—Weather
bureau official reports show that the
corn belt region continues hot and dry
with no prospect of Immediate chan
ges In these conditions. Showers have
fallen in the northern, half of the corn
belt area since last night, including
eastern Nebraska, Iown, northern Ill
inois, northern Indiana, and Ohio.
Most of these rains, which generally
were light la amount, fell Inet night.
Today there were some slight rain r
falls In western Nebraska nnd Oklaho
ma. These slight precipitations, how
ever, tho forecast officials say, are
not always conducive to the best re
sults to tho growing crops, hs they are
mostly thunderstorms Immediately fol
lowed by a hot sun.
Showers, It is said, poealbly may oc
cur in the drouth-stricken region to
morrow ns they usually are insepara
ble from visitations of Intern*? heat,
but no general occurrence of them 18
forecasted. Temperature® in tho corn
belt, while a few degrees lower today
than yesterday, were again high, rang
ing from 05 to" loo degrees and'higher.
Nebraska, Kansas nnd Missouri, the
otter two particularly, are greatly In
:1 of rain, the other states of tho
orn belt, including Iowa, Nebraska
lorthern Illinois, having had somo
ainfnll, though generally very light in
mount 4
PRESIDENT McKINLEY
ISSUES PROCLAMATION
The Provision of the Foraker Act Becomes Effective
Giving Porto Rico Civil Government and Free Trade
With United States=*-The Issuance of the Proclama
tion Is in Accordance With Resolutions Passed by
the Porto Rican Legislature.
CHAIR OF ST. PETER
IS IN DEMAND
will contain the detail of officers who
cannot be said to be officially appoint
ed until It is promulgated.
Rear Admlray Schley was not noti
fied today by tho navy department of
the officers who will decide hit case,
but the precept will be sent to him
and ft wHl constitute his official not!
ficatton
retary Long dW not formally no
tlfy the officers who had been chow
to constitute the court, of their o?le
tion and he was disappointed to learn
from the Associated Press dispatch
that Rear Admiral Kimberly would
ask to be relieved on account of 111
health He said that Admiral Dewey,
•with whom he has consulted, had ex
pressed tbe opinion that Admiral Kim
berly’s health would permit him to dis
charge the duties which he will be re
quested to perform Shoplrt he decline,
the secretary will Meet one of the
other retired rear admirals to take his
place Rear Admirals Ramsey Luce,
Jouett, Gherardi and Walker are s9me
of the name# that have been advanced
I for consideration.
Schley Has Nothin* to Sny.
NEW YORK. July Z5.-Ilear Admi
ral Behley Is spending the day with
his family at Great Nsck, I.
THE KAISER TO ACT
FOR THE BOERS
Is Raid Tlmt Eti
ny Inaugurate t*e
irror Wllllnn
ce Negotiation
call
to re vie
the pr
id courts
Lemly tha
cate of th
empted fr<
proceedlni
advocate *
quiry.
The pr«
will be la
to be a r
tbe scope
s depart-
of docu-
for use 1
ZtvV.
'•1 sm mttnc," he »!<1 to an A»»i-
clated Pre« reprenent.tlve, "an<i have
nothin* to fay an to the proposed In
quiry In the Kantlafo controversy,”
'eilngji of
KIMBERLY TOO SICK TO SERVE.
WEST NEWTON, Mass.. July 25.—
f Inquiry.
,111 Ha
dry that, owing to ill health, he would
aak to be relieved from wrvlng on th.
Bampaon-Schley court of Inquiry.
ewin# the
w« judge
art of tn-:
SAMPSON JS SICK.
BOSTON, July 25.—An attack of 111-
ness prevented Rear Admiral W. T.
Sampson from attending to his duties
at the Charleston navy yard today, it
was said that the trouble was not of a
serious nature and that the command-
ant would be at his post again in a day
ipe or
that, yielding to the advice of friends.
; Admiral Sampson will have nothing to
say about the Schley matter until th*
j lnresUgxtkw begin*.
LONDON, July 25.—“The rumor as
to early peace negotiations which has
pervaded tho house of commons for
aome flays,” says tho Pally Express,
“has taken the more definite form that
Emperor William Is soon to enter the
role of peacemaker. Mr. Kruger and
his advisers are represented as having
empowered the kaiser to act for the
Boers, and he Is considered willing to
take the Initiative in order to popular
ize his relations with the German peo
ple, who disprove the friendship for
Great Britain. Something Apparently
la on foot, whether Emperor William
Is In It or not.”
Mr. Krugers' arrival at The Hague
Is connected, the Express thinks, with
the rumored peace suggestions.
THE HAGUE, July 28.—Mr. Kruger
arrived here this afternoo.) and pro
ceeded to the residence of Mr. Wolmar
an*, one of the Boer envoy* at 8<hev
enlngf, a watering place on the North
BAHIA, Brazil, July 25.—Le Solr to-
lay publishes a dispatch from Rome
rblch says Mr. Kruger will arrive iu
Elome early In October on .Tils way *o
South Africa via Naples.
THE RACE 15 OFF.
vrrnl Candidates Wlm
Eye
th
Have Tlieli
ROME. July 25.—Although the popo
Is in excellent health, the feeling pie-
vails that a mooting of tho collcgo of
arctinnls cannot be far off and there
4 no secret that the candidates to the
apacy aro making claborata* prepara
tions for this conclave.
One of tho chief characteristic* of
the next .conclave, according to a high
prelate, will be tho largo number of
candidates for lho chair of Ht. Peter,
whereas, aftor tho .death of Plus IY.
there were only two or three cundldatas
hose chances for the papacy were se
rious. Today half the Hicrod Collcgo
aspires to tho chair, and a flrat scru
tiny Is oxpectcd to enow six or peven
cardinals are favored for the pontifi
cate.
Those who are well Informed antici
pate a deadlock, nnd tho ultlmute se
lection of an outsider, who has not yrft
been mentioned.
PURPOSE IS VO INCREASE CAPITAL
STOCK FROM HALF MILLION TO
JULftOO.OOO AND ISSUE 42,4)00,OOO
MORE IN STOCK-TUB OLD OFFI
CERS ARE VO RESIGN.
HAIL STORM
STRUCK LONDON
Streets Turned Into
around Railway Flo
nnlki Overflowed.
vers, Under,
ed nnd Side.
5.—Trainer
jnred thit
* The Ab-
AHUI) OFF.
LONDON, July 25.—A phenomenal
thunderstorm, accompanied by hall
and Incessant lightning, raged for a
couple of hours in London this after
noon. Tho streets were turned Into riv
ers. The water, overflowing the side
walk, entered dwellings, and pourtd
down every opening. Tho underground
railroad was flooded and trains were
s toped.
The storm flooded Mrs. Lantry's
new theatre, the Imperial. A number
of public buildings were damaged,
crops In tho surrounding country were
laid low, and the telegraph wires were
torn 4lown. Several suburban trans
portation lines are temporarily block
ed as a result of the storm, the water
In some cases reaching over the foot
boards of th trains.
ROOSEVELT CLUB
WAS ORGANIZED
Konftit* City Repnbllrsns to Urge
Hla Nomination for Presidency In
IDOL
KANSAS CITY, July 25.—Fifty prom
inent Kansas City Republicans organ
ized a 1904 Theodore Roosevelt Club
here today. Its purposes are these: To
secure the nomination of Vice-Presi
dent Roosevelt for president In the Re
publican national convention in 1904;
to have th!* convention held In con
vention hall, Kansas City, and to turn
Missouri present a solid Roosevelt del
egation in the convention.
A public meeting urn
of tbe club is planned
Kansas CKy soon, at
States Senator Burton
others will b* n*jc* d to <
NEW YORK, July 25.—With tho fed
eral grand Jury In session on an Inves
tigation of their affaire, the board of
directors of tho Seventh National Bank
met today and decided upon a plan for
tho reorganization of tho bank. The
capital stock Is to bo Increased from
<500,000 to $2,500,000 and tho additional
Issue of $2,000,000 In stock will bo sold
at $130 per sharo with flrut purchaso
prlvllego to the present stockholders.
Tho cash proceeds of tho a»sc«tfinent
on the existing stock and the salo of
tho new stock will, It Is claimed, pay
all present obligation® and completely
restore solvency. Existing stockhold
ers are to bo required to pay tho as-
reosment ordered by the comptroller of
tho currency. Edwin It. Thomuw, Ed
win Gould, WUUam Nelson Cromwell,
Frank Hay, William H. Taylor and
Edmund K. Stalls )mvo boon consti
tuted a committee of subscribers with
plenary powers to carry out tho plan.
They aro to receive mibncrlptloriH and
represent tho stockholders in all mat
ters relating to tho hank and receiver
ship.
The present directors and officers are
required to tender their resignations
und a majority under tho new *
scrlptlon will elect their successors.
The plan Is made binding upon
stockholders when 00 per cent, of the
wtock Is subscribed ami 80 per cent, of
assessment Is paid. A subscription
form embodying the main featurea o
the plan of reorganization was nls<
drawn up and approved. A substun
tlal amount of the now stock has a!
ready been subscribed.
United Staten District Attornej
Henry L. Burnett says tho plan to re
organize tho Sevonth National Bank
will not affect tho Investigation by th
federal grand Jury. WlUlnm E. Btoken
who Is a stockholder of tho Soventh
National Hank, has taken out rw
menses in tho supremo court agal
the directors of tho bank. President
Thomas and Receiver Raynor. Tho
complaint charges tho directors with
making reports to the stockholders to
tho effort that tho capital of the bank
was unimpaired when, as a matter of
fact, it waa already Insolvent. It fur
ther charges that the directors "utterly
failed and neglected to perform their
official duties;** that they suffered nnd
"permitted tho accounts of said bank
to bo kept In on Inaccurate manner,
which failed to show the true character
of its affairs."
In the complaint the directors are
further charged with having employed
Incompetent persona as officers of the
bank, “who were unable to properly
nnd efficiently dBrharge their duties,
all of which was well known to the di
rectors."
After having further charged them
with having given loans to Insolvent
persons nnd corporations, without ad
equate and valid securities, the com
plaint goes on:
"That the said directors, defendants
herein, so negligently and carelessly
conducted the said bank and ♦
ness and the affairs thereof, that* the
entire capita) and surplus, and much of
th* profits and effects thereof have
been lost, and stock of the said bnnk
rendered worthless, and the stockhold
ers thereof rendered liable for a large
sum of money on account of the debts
of the said bnnk remaining unpaid."
The plaintiff then asks judgment for
the total amount of his loss as a stock
holder of the bank, and the costs of the
suit,
PROTECT FOREST PARK.
Stilt to Itefttrnfn
Htpnafflon C
»T LOUIS. Ju
court this aftern
to restrain the 1a
position Compon
park as a site f t
be held here In 11
The petitlo
WASHINGTON, July 25.—The presi
dent today issued his proclamation ees
tablishing free trade between Porto
Rico and the United States and de
claring the organization of a civil gov
ernment for tho island. The proclama
tion is purely formal, and only In the
body of the resolutions passed by the
Porto Illcan Icglslature( heretofore pub-
llBhcd) does It appear that the island
Is set free commercially today in com
memoration of tho anniversary of thi
planting of tho American flag on th:
Island.
The proclamation is headed:
"Cassation of Tariff—Porto Rico."
It recites that the act of April 12,
1900 (otherwise known ns tho Foraker
act) provided that whenever the Por
to Rican legislature has enacted and
put Into operution a system of local
taxation to meet the ncedli of the gov
ernment and by resolution so notify
tho president, tho latter shall issue it
proclamation and all duties on good*
passing between the United Stutes and
Porto Rico shall cease. Ah the legis
lature has compiled with that require
ment of the uot In terms set out in res
olutions, which are quoted In full In
the body of tho proclamation, that doc
ument says:
“Therefore, I, William MoKlnloy, 1
president of tho United States, in pur-
nco of tho provisions of law above
quoted, and upon tho foregoing duo no
tion, do hereby Issue this my proc
lamation and do declare and make
known that a civil government for
Porto Rico has been organized in nc-
cordanoe with tho provisions of th •
fgld net of congress.
"And I do further declare and xnako
mown that tha legislative assembly of
Porto Rico has enacted nnd put Into
jperutlon a system of local taxation
o meet the nccensltllt) of the govern
ment of Porto Rico.
"In witness thereof I have hereunto
set my band und caused the seal of
the United States to bo affixed.
"Dne ot thtt city of Washington, this
twonty-flfth day of July, In tho year
tlu
;iml nlno In
and one, and of tho Independence of
the United States tho one hundred and
twenty-sixth.
(Binned) "WM, McKINLEY."
By the President:
"DAVID J. HILL,
"Acting Secretary of State."
WASHINGTON. July 26.—Assistant
Secretary Spaulding today gave tele
graphic notice to all collectors of cus
toms that freo trade exists on and af
ter today between the United Stnt-;.
and Porto Rico. Tho telegram roa<Ja
as follows:
"Merchandise going Into Porto Rico
from tho United States, or coming Into
the United mates from Poito Rh-.j,
withdrawn from warehouses exempt
from duty on after July 25, 1901, under
section :i, act April 12. I'J'X), and i
lutlon nnd proclamation pursuant
theroto."
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COLUMBIA LEAD
CONSTITUTION
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windward from i
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five seconds.
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on a l.rilu
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finishing
surprising, for tlu
Wiisthtr that, nn r
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ake of tho Columbia,tho landing yu< hi
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substantial bump <
Constitution b<
All her old-tlm