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SOOTHERN MERCVRY.
Vol. XXV. No. 13
Dallas, Texas, Thursday, March 30, 1905
$1.00 Per An um
TRIUMPHS
OF MR. HAY
porary" affair, and that the British
(government Is now gently charging
[Col. Younghusband with an undue ex-
hibition of zeal. So was ISngland's
seizure of Egypt twenty-five or more
'years ago "only temporary." and so did
.the British government deplore and
j disavow the rash violence of Dr. Jame-
son's'raid in South Africa. All the
same. England holds Egypt still; and
r s tir j_ . .r /\t Dr. Jameson was followed by Buller,
unCVOUS Wounds in Lourse OI UI- Roberts and Kitchener, who succeeded
ficial Duty.
CHINA'S OPEN DOOR
Pitfal s in Diplomacy Qted to Show Re-
sults of Negotiations In
Strenuous Career.
where he failed
The fact is that England has invad-
ed Tibet since we paraded our devo-
tion to the territorial integrity of
j China, and reniaine in possession there
while we call heaven and earth to wit-
ness the glory and the altruism of our
achievements.
3. As regards the "opening" of
those new ports in Corea and Manchu-
ria. It is not necessary to waste words.
Everybody now knows that they are
not seaports in any proper sense of
SENATE
HAS
DEADLOCK
BEEN BROKEN
SENATE PASSED WILLIAMS BILL TO
GROSSMENT THIS MORNING.
EN-
Austin, Tex., March 29.—After being in session for twenty-live conseeu-
the word; that no vessel bigger than a tive hours, the senate today at 10 o'clock passed to engrossment the Williams
steam launch can ascend the Yalu Intanglble tax blu b a Vote of 26 to 4.
river to Wiju and Antung, and that ... A
Mukden is an inland city. 3<M) miles: 1 he bill will now pass finally m the senate without opposition, and be-
from navigable water. come a law upon receiving the governor's approval.
4. The noble appeal on behalf of The bill did not pass, however, until It was punctured with amendments.
An amendment wvas adopted by a vote of 15 to 15, lieutenant Governor
bune prints the following from Rich- men took notice" of the explanation at Neal casting the deciding vote. In favor of the amendment, exempting tele-
ard Weightman, its Washington cor-, the end thereof. It was _a virtuous phone companies from its provisions.
respondent:
"It is a pleasant hearing that
ncss of transporting oil (generally
known ns pi no line companies) are au-
thorize.! to be formed by the act of
1S99 (pajre 202 of the General Laws)),
of which pectlon 1 reads: "Any num-I ___
, her of persons, not less than three, .. .
j may organize themselves Into a cor-! editor of this department do-
; porntIon for tlip purpoflo of storing, sires to have a correspondent in each
transporting, buying and soiling of oil; t'amp of veterans, and among tho
and gas. salt. luine and other mineral 1 Daughters and Sons. If items of in-
solations in this state." Iterest to the veterans, their families
nil f°r ♦ransnetlon of and friends, be sent in each week from
K-po'ias f.h; arsr nf ihe br,ga<^n,uch *°s*
poses stated therein, but no corpora-] W,,J "a""' an(l many comrade's
tion can bo formed with powers otlior friends will hear of eaeli other
than those contained in the particular agnln, who had long since believed
section under whirli it is Incorporated. ! each other dead. The Daughters of
tltnmsev vs. Todd.. 95 Texas, 614.)) |the Confederacy especially are re-
.„.!.I1,<;rt'f,iro ,w* "'I V'10 cor" Ifltiested to tiso this paper for their pur-
poratlon under the present laws of | „„,i ,,,111 „i.n.,.i ..
Texas with power to produce, transport1 .ail will aiwa>s find a hearty
and refine oil.
This department -
that, at leant one corporation In the!the command and birth place of each
oil business In this state In addition to is given and of the wife's also. Come
the carrying on by it nf the business along, boys: you can talk well enough
authorized by Its charter. Is also en-| in your camps; lot's see how you can
gaged In. an oil business not authorized , ,. j Confoderato mure
by its charter. This information how- 1 1 OUr M>nlenerttte lmte'
Department United Confederate Veterans
T1, 00 t>,0 nvu ' the Roumanian Jews made mighty fine j
Chicigo, 111., March 29.—The Tr - literature, no doubt, but thoughtful'
wh^s'^l^Tt'by'ronfe^is'l'ng ! An amendment was also adopted exempting the Pullman company by a
John [h^t^one chlef^conoem was the fear vot© of 21 to 9. Other amendments were adopted exempting street car, gas
Hay hay reached the Azores much im- -that these degraded and brutalized and electric companies from its operation.
proved in health, and that he will now victims might be tempted to emigrate j ij>he bijj beComes effective in 1906. Representative Williams, author of
proceed to spend several months in hnve^hem^on our'lmnds? The8 state the bI11, was seen today, and said that while some of the main features of
completing the work of restoration. department said a word for the laws . the bill had been knocked out, he preferred to have it passed thiin have no
Just how far his physical condition and two for itself. j bill at all.
has been impaired—considering it quite o^QhjJj^meandT^mAefw^ be an- I This session of the senate wvih one of the most memorable in the his-
apart from his spiritual and emotion- , otb^r "term f<fr ™^™orfal integrity," I tory of the legislature. The long hours of night were spent in speech making
al condition—I have no means of know- ;do not pretend to know. I!t belongs In and In recommitting bills in order to coiUlnc the attention of t'-.e senate to
ing. It is my opinion, however, that the phrase book of diplomacy, I sup- . the Williams bill. At 11:30 o'clock today the senate adjourned until 10 a. in.
the physical breakdown is a conse- 18 ^ ,ntended for the aVer* | tomorrow.
quence, not a cause. Those who know Now we go back to the "Hay-Paunce- I
him most familiarly have believed, at fote treaty, which made the Panama HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
l.a.t „p ,0 ,„r« ,„«k. that ,„,n- i '
welcome, Send along your lists of vet-
has Information I erans for publication nnd he sure that
over, is of a general nature and Is not
of a character which would justify me
in instituting' legal proceedings, and I
tlwrefore l>eg to suggest that If It Is
desired thait I shall take such notion
ns Is contemplated by the resolution
adequate means should be made avail-
able to enable me to have the neces-
sary Investigation made to ascertain
if facts exist which will support suc h
notion. Yours truly.
(Signed) R. V. TVWmSON,
Attorney General.
The house to-dav look up for con-
sideration the matter of sine die ad-
journment unless something unfore-
seen ocr
the house
GENERAL ORDER NO. 76.
Dallas, Tex., March 20, 1(105.
One of the greatest and noblest men
of the State of Texas and of the whole
South has passed to the great beyond—■
Judge John II. Uengnn, who died on
the tith day of March, at his home lit
Palestine, Texas, surrounded by his
family friends, during my absence from
the State. It Im not necessary for ine
to tell you of his many virtues. This
Is not the proper time nor place, as a
great majority or the Ca.inps through-
out the Division have pass al resolu-
tal worry was at the bottom of his treaty made nothing possible, except Hon. Martin W. Littleton Invited to Ad-
troubles, and that if the affairs of the perpetuation of England's interference ; dress the Lawmakers.
state department had been conducted by th? sen^. * M^'l^gel Austin. Tex March 29—The house
In accordance with his judgment there „/Massachusetts led the fight against adopted a resolution inviting Hon. Mar-
would have been little, If anything, the that precious pitfall, and would have , tin W. Littleton, president of the coun-
matter with him To this conclusion I contrived the defeat of the amended cil of the city of Brooklyn who is a
matter with him. 10 this conclusion 1 oonventjon hfld H beeT, of any serlous former Texan to address the house
subset 11",e. consequence one way or another. As ne*t Friday night.
It is no secret in Washington that a matter of fact, it amounted to noth-j A resolution was adopted In the house
many important and momentous meas- ing and the senators contemptuously b^Taxes dufthe stXSy
ures have been inaugurated without his Pa™e<" "• t tr!umph 1nv0,ved refrigerator, fruit and other private
approval- and sometimes without hlB ,n the arbitration of the Alaskan cars doing business in Texas,
knowledge, and this humiliation, be-, boundary was actually a recovery of ho"se to-day killed the Cottrell
falling him at the close of a creditable on" April loVa vote of 7« to ll ™
and, in some respects, brilliant career, ^ a ear or tw0 before. Our diplo- j The house passed finally the bill to
may easily have affected his physical macv had surrendered to England an establish a home at Austin for the
health. He has the poetic as well as arrear considerably larger than, the state ?}ate veterans indigent Confed-
the judicial temperament. He la, there- • ^He^^e^me'lancho^y6 blunder" was The remainder of the morning ses-
fore, peculiarly susceptible to wounds to accept the proposed tribunal. T as- Bion was consumed in the consideration
through the medium of his emotions, j ^hat outslde of mSSSo.
But speculation In these fields must TTntteS
be fruitless at this moment. At last states thought we should ever have: Increase Taxes Threefold.
freed from what may be called Imprls- i discussed the matter at all. The bound- I Austin, Tex., March 29.—Argument
onment by the election and installa- I ary had been undisputed for more than 0n the cotton rate hearing before the
4i„_ . : a quarter of a century. The British railroad commission, was resumed to-
tion of a vice president, no longer heir g.r(vernrnent maps sent out for the day. Judge N. A. Stedmun, general
apparent to the chief magistracy of guidance of their officials In Canada attorney of the International and Great
the nation, and so chained to a dls- ! defined it exactly In accordance with Northern railway, was the first speaker.
tasteful dutv he has pone oiirnari in the Ruaso-American, contention. He made a strong argument why the
tasteiui duty, ne nas gone abroad in , Rut thg dlBCOVery of po,a )n the cotton rate should not be reduced. Col.
search or peace and convalescence. (Klondike produced the usual effect up- A. W. Houston, general attorney of the
As regarda the prophecy that he will on England. Agitation and encroach- San Antonio and Aransas Pass railway,
resume the portfolio of state, I am per- ment, Intrigue and solicitation at once was the next speaker He declared
, . _ . . . ,, made themselves felt and, as has been that the present legislature would in-
sistently incredulous. I do not believe the invariable rule since Mr, Olney re- crease the taxes on railroads more than
that he could be induced to return to llnqulshed the portfolio of state, we threefold and that this was good reason
tbe department on the terms on which ambled eagerly Into England's trap, why reduction should not be made, and
. . „ _ t. . . Of course It was a great diplomatic revenues decreased.
he has held his place during the laf : triumph to get out again. It is a tn- ;
three years, and if I were at liberty to j umph. however, always within the
flo 90 I could give some substantial rea- j reach of the humblest citizen. One has
— _ , 111 Sil rw. •SroTny'S
Under thle circumstances, however, I then invoke the courts to decide as to
prefer to abandon the domain of con-, the ownership. The courts will prob-
Jecture for the time being and enter ably eject the tramp after awhile, and
j. - j , < < t that will be the same kind of triumph
that of established facta and legitimate our st.Ue department achieved In the
discussion. I choose. In fact, to take up matter of the Alaskan boundary.
the matter of our alleged diplomatic; There are still other features of our
triumphs .Inc. 1.01 ^ to S3?
them on their intrinsic merits.
•nrs. For the ,>a t two days|MonH ',xl"esslve of his great services
se membership has been work-'1" hls State, as well as to the South.
Ing up to the point of getting unity of "Is name and Ills fame will llvj as
nctlnn upon tills matter, and It Is be- j long as the Southern people continue
Helved that they hnve about reached I to admire true patriotism lind true
adjourning hour to different times so the proper stage to get said notion 1 courage, l therefore request every
that a roll call would have to lie had upon the mnttor. A great many of the |>|vision Mrlgnde and Camp Coin-
manner. members nre favorable to nn adjourn-' '
on each motion and In this
much time was consumed and great de- i ment on, Anrll in. nnd It Is highly prob- . , . , . , . . , , , ,
lay secured. (able that that date will be agreed upon! 'D1^ Department which has not learn-
Late yesterday evening several of to-day, ns fir ns the house i.t con-
the members discovered that Semator eerned at least.
Hale was missing. They Immediately ♦ * ♦
proceeded to have a onll of the senate. TTnless the senate gels too lvidlv mixed
The mnjorltv not having enough to "P OVPr taxation bills to-day It Is
excuse the absentees, thr sergeant-at-! Intend l that a < on«lderation will bo
arms went out and brought In Sena-! *la(' "1°' '^'r,nton pure food bill in
tor Hnle. The senate then being full, i ^ order" that | 'h'H K'eat Southern statesman and
certain Interests mlKht have nn oppor- i patriot. Hy order of
tunMy to be henrd. on It. and It Is thoj \V. L, CAItKl.Tj.
present intention to give these Inter-, Lieut. Jen. H. C. V., Trans-Miss. Dept.
munder, throughout the Trans-Mlssls-
ed of this great man's death, and. which I
has not held memorial services In i
inference to our great loss, to meet
and to take such action as may be
necessary to show our great distress at
his loss, and to call on the young peo-
ple of this great Southland to emulate
the call was suspended nnd almost in-
stantly both Senators Hale and Decker
skedaddled once more to places un-
known forcing another call of the sen-
ate and tlelng It up once more, pend-
ing their arrival.
In the meantime the minority sena-
tors resumed the tiactlcs of the after-
noon,. alternately talking and voting
on every proposition that they could
possibly rib up from any nnd nil direc-
tions. In this manner the senate occu-
pied Itself a.t n late hour laat night.
Some of the majority senators stated
last night thai the Rubicon had been
crossed and they were prepared to
meet the l«si« fairly nnd
ests a hearing this afternoon unless
something unforeseen happens tn pre-
vent.
LAMAR COUNTY CYCLONE.
(Ofhcla.l:)
Mll/I'ON PARK, Asst. Adjutant Gen.
TACTICS OF
THE MINORITY
Austin, Tex., March 29.—The fight is
analysis." The demonstrations at Bel- on and apparently It is on to a finish,
rut, In Asia Minor, the Skinner expedl- ' it started about the noon hour yes-
chlef counts upon which Mr. Hay's pre- tlon to Abyssinia, the hurrah oyer the terda and wa8 t a h, h he.lt
nrlie«l tulmiirers demand for him a kidnapped Greek. Perdicaris, at Tan-I . . , , . , .. * .
tended admirers l°r nlm a ; sler th^ Venezuelan and Santo Domin- « a late hour last night with promise
conspicuous place in the American Pan-, go imbroglios, and so on. But pend- of continuing In/Jeflniteiy. The whole
theon may be listed thus: ' * K-
i
stand
uvwj ... — .go imoropiios. ana so on. r>ui penu- 01 uonimuing iiwjeiinueiy. i ne w noie
° HinsiaVcour^eous and successful ,n* arl aPP™prl'lt^ treatment of these trouble arose over the taxation bills
. His couiageous ana suqcessiui matters, it is necessary to explain that . ,
nd for the "open door" in Asia, criticlSm of the state department is not and 11 came about ln Pretty much the
U.tflV'pr 1 Hfl,t niSLV mean. 1 <.xUwiip n nf T/.kn Un DiiUa ma nnar ou rlnu/n'IKod 14 nfAiild ! #> I
whatever that may mean. .'always criticism of John Hay.
2. His maintenance of the territorial th contrary.
Integrity of China. — m m
3. Tte heroic defense of our commer- | GROWING CITY
clal Interests ln the Orient, together j
Quite manner as described It would be in
j The Times Herald yesterday. When
| the senate met yesterday morning a
I good man.y of the senators were in an
wiV\ihe •" pe.n 1" g..'_ - -. "ff*111.! a 1. y °',an Sherman Citizens Insist Public Build- ugly humor to say the iefist of it. The
and Manchurian ports —sucn as W1-, . , , _ _, ...
iu. Antung and Mukden. lnB Pi«ns Should Be Changed. I majority had expected to get down to
4. That noble and humane appeal for] gherman, Tex.. March 29.—Congress-' work at once on the taxation bills and
Jews ^ n RoumanH °' ^ downtrodJen man C. B. Ran dell has wired to the su- began kicking early about one of the
fi. Thc enlistment of the European pervislng architect of Washington re-j bills not having been printed. In or-
powers in favor of the "principle'' of questing him to hold up the contract tier to (juiet them they were assured
China's ^'a^Jrrdnlstratlve entity w'la'*;on the federal building to be erected at that the bills would be forthcoming
*VThen there are some other "triumphs" Sherman, for the reason that the build- very shortly and this assurance pa< I-
innugurated before 1901. For example: ing planned will not be adequate to the n,f(l them for a time. About noon they
1. The Hay-Paunc. fote treaty "which ne< ds the city by the time it la began to get restless again and the
^^^r^e^Xlt^aTion^oi^adjmhcation8'of erected and the cost is far less thai, only thing th.t quieted them this time
our Alaskan boundary, which has "re- the sum appropriated for the erection ,V1IS the appearance of the Williams bill
moved the last cause of difference and building. 'n printed form. At the very outset it
contention h'tween the two great Eng- Congressman Rnrvdell was seen by a was evident that the poll of the taxa-
'"Det'us take these hosannas in regular J^T'he sUded t haY'h7 "had' 'l n't on d" Jlon a"J a'.tl-tajcatlon, senators printed
send the message Saturday, but that yesterdays Times Herald was cor-
he decided it would be best to first con- red. When the majority tried to get up
fer with prominent Republicans, who the Williams billH they were met with
are In touch with the administration. ,. . , . ,
"I find." said he. "that when the mat- th« Proposition that It required two-
ter is called to their attention they thirds vote to suspend pending business
want new plans drawn for a building and take up the Wililums bill arid then
that will be adequate to our nM. the bHll!e w.lfl on t royaI „lljsh.
years hewe. Sherman Is a growing ...
- - - buildings cannot be 'he majority wanted to recommit
every special order bills on the senate
They, admit'"d that the minority "ouhl
tie them up for many hours by talking,
but that when the ultimate end came
that they would hnve to go down in
defeat and that the majority was dis-
posed to crush (hem by a solid vote
when the time .Mine. At the oultel It
was the intention of some of the ma-
jority to entertain amendments to thp
various taxations, but one of the ma-
jority crowd si a led last night in (he
Much Damage Is Done, but There Are
No Reports of Lives Lost.
ParU, Tex., March 29.—A small cy-
clone struck nn Reed's prairie, several
miles northeast of Paris, about C:.10
sqrarciy. j o'clock yesterday evening and did some off to Hie left the heavy rumbling of
FORREST AT CHICK AM AUGA.
The sun was but little past Hie
meridian. There was a gentle rusthj
of leaves In the woods ciownJng the
slopes that led (fown to the sparkling
waters of the creek, shnken by the
soft autumn breeze, September 1H, 1S«I3,
that fated day of Chlckainnugn. Awu.v
damage to fences and timber, though, artillery moving, and the steady tramp
so far as learned, tin lives were lost of Infantry inarching, could be heard.
The Confederate army was moving on
the serried ranks of Rosecmiia. Along
I'eavlne Creek, a small tributary of
the Chifkumiiugn. not far from Ueld's
The cloud came from the southwest K,wl,h bis escort
and went east and a little north, ap- V/out 1M0 men, the remnant of
pearing lo gather size as It proceeded. n,"ii. John H. Morgan's old command,
It rose and fell. Ilie point next to Hie somewhat between the Infantry dlvls
and no persons hurt.
Telephone wires beyond there are
down.
Ilm'o' raml \t' - 'i''' W ''P"t x'"""g ' earth being red as fire, while the upper Ion. of Hushrod It. Johnson and bis own
I- .i":1"-;'T,!"
ll'ams bill nnd that the minority mlijlil ! At John Ingram's farm several gates t'eine ilkhl of tin onfi.ilc i.i i in,
Igl
as well y.rerare f t (r,i«?ition for lh.--t
condition of af iirj. Tie .idJe.! ih.it
there would • • ;i ■ .oii. f. r t he <■ • i
er two tax bills and thai could be de-
pendtd 0 1 «'so
„ , , . he being In front of the entire line,
were blown down arid some fences de- ,
stroyed. but his house was not in the ".aklng a reconnolssame with a
path. | view to developing Hie enemy s exact
At Mr. Patterson's the storm pa used position iiiwl
between his barn and house, carried
the bed off a wagon and dropped It a
hundred feet beyond, arid bleu away
a dog that has not been seen since.
Farmers some distance away beard
the r.paring and the trash of trees
when the timber was struck.
The following loiter Is self explana-
tory:
Hon. George n. .Veal. Lieutenant Gov-
ernor aiwl President of the Senat",
Capitol:
I have received the senate resolution
requesting me to inform the senate:
I'irst—What, If any. corporations
have been chartered uilh privileges to
produce, buy soil, transport and r lln«
oil. or what. If any corpora thins. In
addition to btiyiiie and transporting
oil, have chartered iii;ht to either pro-
duce or refine oil?
Second- What, if any, statute Au-
thorizes a corporal ion. chartered for I,oPt> private
the pin pose of transmitting oil to nlso; , . , , , ,,
produce or refit <• o I" i dent, a message giving the following
The information requested by the !,R the personnel of the distinguished
ROSEVELT'S PARTY.
List of Those Who Will Accompany the
President Throuqh Texas.
Sherman, Tex., March 29. — Hon.
Cecil A. Lyotj, who has had much to
do with the Itinerary of the president's
Texas t'lp. has received from William
secretary to the presl-
lils surroundings,
A puff of white smoke a shnrr
crackle of rifles and He lford Forrest
had opened the battle of Chick imauga.
The blue of the sky bent above the
white, upturned faces of stricken men
and the dabble of blood on Hie yellow-
ing grass and newly fallen leaves, war
the first flow of that awful crimson
tide to he poured forth along those
hillsides ami1 valleys. It was not many
minutes until Infantry, artillery and
cavalry Were nil engaged, steadily
driving the enemy before them towards
Reed's bridge, which they crossed1 so
hurriedly, In such rout. Indeed, they
took not time to burn. It, but left It
for the Confederates to truss over In
pursuit. At 4 p. m. Major General
John H. Ilood, arriving on the ground
first paragraph is obtainable only from party :o accompany the chief executlv® ("ok eominnnd of that part of the field
the records In th" otllce of the secre- lr|p. |fon. Theodore Hoosevelt Continuing the forward movement un-
tary of state. That office I am In- nr,. i.on M„rton secretary nightfall, the Infantry, sleeping Ir
formed. no separate Index or rec- P'' d ,,f' Hon' •' M rl " H' ,'ry |i,„. „f battle near the lltttle log schoo'
ortl of charters i f e rporatlous formed of (lie navy; William I«oeb. seiaelary
for the transporia'li,n of the various to the president; Di . Alexander Dim-
branches of 1 he nil business. Cot po-
•rder:
1. What is "the open door." who clos-
ed it. and when did the statl- depart-
ment open It? During the years 1901,
1902 and 1903 the United States shipped
more m Tchnndise to Manchuria than
it has shipped In any ten years pre-
viously. We sold millions of dollars'
worth of steel rails, locomotives, cars,
rolling stock of all kinds, tools. Imple- -
Bients. electric light plants, bu'idlng! r,ty. a"d re'''®™' «ir„nw
material, f tc. to customers in Manchu- £ ®very hi. l
rla. and those customers were Rus'lans. should be made to ha\e the plai.s
the largest purchaser being the Rus- changed so as to conform more close-
ulan government. Hundreds of miles of 'y to the city's requlrments.
th? great Siberian railway were luidj * ^ ■
on pine ties cut in Oregon. The trade' CHANGES IN ARMY.
door was wide open all that time. Who I
closed it, then, and who has again Transfer of General Funston Necessi-
flunff It w:de?
It Is all very well to coin a catch
word and pass It about with vigor fori
tates Changes.
Chicago. March 29.—Col.
Walter T.
calendar, some thirteen in number, so
as to have no special orders arid give
th--in a chance to take up the Williams
1 bill. No sooner had this proposition
been made than the minority
began, its work of killing time and pre-
venting the majority from either tak-
1 Ing up or considering the Williams'
intangible bill. In order to do this thev
forced tTie majority to con.iJder the
the applaus* of the unthink'ng. but Duggrm. first Infantry, T'nlted States
What are the real fa^ts as lesrards the n, Rrle flen Kreder-
cc.mmerce of late years in Manchuria. arm>; w"' H"g. t.en. r reaer
art what are its prospects since the Ick runston as commander, tempornr- ir,.,tter of recommitting the bills on the
melodramatic opening of the Imaginary, Hy, 0f the department of the lakes, w ith special calendar, one at a time. Each
door? headquarters In Chicago. Col. Dug- ..." ,. ' . _ . . ,
2. territorial in tefrrity of China. <gar. If now at Kort Wayne ana will ' " length by
Has ur m**ch lauded policy been of . come fo Chfca#fo within ten days. Gen. the penatorn composInK the minority,
ary avail In this regard? Since the Kunston. who has been transferred to following the disposal of each special
promulgation of that policy, welco ned the command of the department of
bv the plu-idlts of the American peo- California, with headquarters at San °rder by recommitting It wh.ch tht
pte and by the swe-s of B'iropeaii Fianclsco, will leave for the west next majority did whenever they got a
spectators China hna lost Tibet, ati' Saturday. IJeut. E. C. Ijong and chance, the minority would Immediately
iMii it to oar qonsl-ally. Kngland. or Lieut. B. J. Mitchell, his aides de move to adjourn am) some half n
It is .lily t "tan- camp, will accompany hioi. doian of their members would tlx tbe
rations forme l for Hie pur(Kw«e of ri
fining oil are organised under subdi-
vision 14 of article M2 of the |{e.|j,,.,|
taituites nuthorlzb corporations for
"the transaction of my inanufactnrlr.g
or mining basii ess." and therefore it
would probably be necosnnry. In addi- Sloan, ,fr
Hon to exainln'r tr ilie charters of liaise
t ompanles. v. lace names phow them to
b oil companies, also to exainlne all
cluiiiers of corpot a I ions forme I for Hie
transaction of inanafactiirlng bushes*.
I am Informe I bv tbe de|rirtrneiit of
stale that the pre«-«ure of business In
that department !•■ "<> Kreat. particular-
ly during Hie legislative se.'-slon, that
It is Impossible ai ihls lime to > leit
and turn over U> ice tlie charters nec-
essary to Im* exai"l'ied In order to en-
able me lo furnish the information re-I
quired, without additional clerks, or'
unlesH Hie emereepcy Is deemed sol
great us to require and warrant the
withdrawal of ore r.r more of the de-
partment clerks from their regular
dutles.
Repljlng to t'v> s-corvl nnrngraph. I
beg to say that ror-Kiratlons for th"
prodmctlon of oil are formed under
Kiib-divblen ,1a of article <112 of the
Revised Slatcles vvhlch re^ds; "For
lh" eritabllshtr.ent and maintenance of
rll com pan lea wit'i authority to con-
tract for the |e is« and purchase, and
house on the Chattanooga road. (Sen.
Forrest scouted the couniri for a mile
to the right, patting out pickets and
gin>; Into bivouac, with the 'i.aln bo ly
or Ills cavalry near Alexander's bridge
II was a brigade of Federal cavalry
under Col. Mluty, that Forrest flushed
near I'eavluu Creek, and with whom
he opene, th<* battle, a brigade th.it
proved Itself lo be foemen worthy ol
his steel.
K.rly the next morning, the 19th
Fairest. In obedience to orders, was
obliquing to the right low.irds Chat-
tanooga to unmask Hie enemy. Tlrs
was not hard to do, for soon he was at
work, hammer anil longs, with the
Federals, who showed1 such strength
he could ilo no more than hold his
own by the fiercest sort of lighting
Thus we see, he opened thiTllglit again
Chicago, March 29.—Ten boys of on the second day of the battle. Here
Harvey, a suhirhtin (own, have con- he discovered that Itosecrans had out-
fe aed In the juvenile court, lo the gen« i,al Hiagg. I he latter, Instead of
robbery of elghtem> stores, three moving his troops down the creeek to-
ehurches, two school houses and a
berl, fh neral K. It. M. Voung, Culled
States aimv Crollie i); Lieutenant < I.
It. Fort esq ue, nliie to the preslrleut;
Messrs. I,alia and Mc'Sraw, stenog-
r.'pher i; Messrs. F. X. Tyree, James
aid Jackson S. 10111ott of
the Associated I'ress: J. Thonip-
i ill. S- rlpps Mi llac I'ress association;
It. V. f/iahan. New York Sun; II. A.
Stohrruyer, photographer; A. A. Allen,
v'ce president and goneial manager of
the Katy. Hon. Sloan Simpson, Dallas,
and Hon. t'crii Iy.voii, Sherman.
BOY ROBBERS
CONFESS CRIME
wards Chattanooga, thus threatening
nnd endangering Konsecrunz' bose of
railway station. 'supplies, had been moving up th?
The plunder consisted of candy, gum j ,.r,.« k, and Hosecraiiz hajf been sliding
an I jk.m;:!cs an t it was too free a dls-l his army down stream, concentrating
tribi tion of cavly at school that at for the protection of his buse and the
last enable I the (/olicp to capture the ' r.rfety of his communications. The
the right to prospect for. develop and h(in,| who hH(| them a merry chase j flanks of the two armies overlapped
use con I and other irdnerils and petro- i each other, the preference and ftrength
leiim; aha. (he rhrht to erect, bir.lld nn-1 r m nirns . . , I of position being largely In Rosecranx'
own all net ea arv oil tsnks cars and NN •• started It just for fan. sobhe I i f , ^ never
olpes necewarv for the operation of the . r e of the ■ nip, Its. "hut when we got lr,,vor_; J hp lr
huriness rf the sa->'e." Ir.'to it we eouh'n't stop. We Just haiiij 'eared Bragg anywhere, or under any
<*<wrrir*rationp In the b'lulncw to 90 f i'/ht on pfffillnK toeraune there j <.*11< uniKtanc^H during the time they
i f reflntni oil nw -i"f•"•rljtp'l to l.e was always son e boy that did not! confronted each other, and but for
ferme-t bv sertton H «f this same art'- h-.tvi what he wanted." ! Fori est, who had forced him to cuncen-
cl« . which reat*.; "The transaction "f The boys whoeo a«ea rans* from tiy,te his sfattered command by some
any manufacturing or mining business, twelve to fifteen yeais are ail of re- drubblnaa Inflicted at different
and «l:e purchase and sale of such spectabii families. Their hearty re- ni huv been In half-
goo*., wares and merch,«dl.e used fof-psntarxe, added to the* pleadings of Places, he wouid been In half
m>e i tfiireFt." Cielr parents. Ipdcce I Judge Unck to the condltlonc he waa. to nght the oal-
Corporations to tngage In the busl- release the prisoners on probation. U« Of Cblckamauaa.
Finding that he was up against th*
real thing on that morning of the 19tht
Forrest dispatched courier after cou-
rier for infantry reinforcements, but
receiving neither satisfactory replies
nor the Infantry, although a brlgada
of cavalry had been sent him, he In-
structed Gen. Pegr -m to hold whatx he
had, "no matter wi t r ight happen,"
he went after liHi.nu ; nself. over-
whelmlnf lv outi u.iib ^eu,. Forrest'*
Cavalry d> nou . ught every Inch
of the ground w .1: suih bulldog stub-
bornness inev l ist one-fourth their
number before the Irifaiiti; got to
them. A Georgl.a brigade mil-i Col
Claudius C. Wilson fn.illy • ning up
iliey and the cavalrj . • ' i ot pushed
forward under Forres' . csisi less h-ud.
erslilp, driviiu', th enemy before them
routing the ltd and second ilnes of
liattle and uncovering the tti.i !. Foth
sides about tills juncture received re-
inforcements. lector's Texas brigade
coining lo Forrest, but before he could
be deployed Into line a strong Federal
volume hud flanked Wilson, and a ret-
rograde movement wus necessary, but
the enemy advanced no further than
their original position. It was now
1:30 o'clock, and Major General W. H.
T. Walker, coming 011 the field, took
command of the infantry that was re-
inforced by Cheatham's and Clehurne's
divisions, drove the enemy, after a
bloody struggle, from their position,
sleeping that night on the field, so
hardly won. In his report, referr ng
lo Forrest and his men in this part of
the battle, Gen. Walker says:
"The unequal contest of four brig-
ades .against such overwhelming odds
Is unparalleled In Ibis revolution, and
tlie troops deserve Immortal honor for
the part borne in. tile action."
The battle had never become general
on S.iturday, Ilie 1 !• th, having lit . 11 in
what may be termed "patches," here
and the'e along the two great battle
fronts. The Confederates had had de-
cidedly the better of the fighting at
ail points, having advanced their lines
iu several places. Rosecranz seemed
to have hut one idea, and that was the
protection ot Chattanooga. Irs base
and by an v<1l night's march, had trans-
ferred Thomas' corps, strongly reln-
foiced, to his left, next to his base
and along h!s left front had felled
trees, making a strong ubattis, and
thrown up the heaviest earthworks
possible. Iu front of that stern, stub-
born old Southerner, Thomas, com-
manding the Federal left wing, for*
rest on the extreme right of the Con-
federate army, with his cavalry d'vls-
Ion, strengthened by the brigade of
Ceil. Frank ('. Armstrong, at daybreak)
was nearly ready for operation with
Major Genewil John C. lirecklnrldge
in command of lha Infantry next to
him. Gen. Hiyigg h id Issued strict or-
ders for the battle to be renewed at
daylight on the morn'ng of Sunday)
the 2<ith, the order being given to
Lieutenant General Polk. He sent the
order to D. H. Hill to open, the fight,
nt day-down, but Hill never received
It. Hreckinrh.'lge and Cleburne were
sent similar orders, but did not re-
ceive them unt'l just after sunrise and
Lieutenant General 1>. H. Hill, coming
up Jus! then, he held the orders In
abeyance "for the tioops to get their
rations and on other accounts." Then*
stood the whole army, waiting, anx-
ious, eager, for the sound, even of a
single gun, from Polk. Hill and Breck-
inridge, but deathless silence en.sued
until 9:30 o'clock, when Breckinridge
advanced only to meet with the most
determined and reckless resistance
For two terrible hours he hurled hi?
columns against the enemy's work, to
have them driven buck with sickening
slaughter. The Kentucklans fell like
leaves In autumn. While Breckinridge
was doing such desperate fighting In
front of the enemy, Forrest was pursu-
ing his old-time tactics, gradually and
surely sliding aroutvl the enemy's
flank, all his division dismounted ex-
cept one regiment and one bnttal-1
Ion, P'gram's division being held In
reserve. Steadily, un.hrokenly, Forrest
had advanced Ills line around the
Crilon leTt, his batteries, those of Hug-
gins. Mullen and Gracey^ (the latter
hoi rowed) pushing Into the open field
in front nf Cloud's spring, and hurling
shot and shell Into the now anxious
and almost despairing ranks of the en-
emy. Willi two more brigades coming
upon li'm. those of Adams and Sto-
vall from Breckinridge's division
Thomas was making frantic appeal?
for help. In respon?v. Rosecranz sent
liim General Gordon Granger's corps
thus fatally weakening his right, but
saving his left. Forrest's scouts, al-
ways active ,nnd vigilant, Informed
him of Hie approach of Granger, and
this was why Gracey had been senf
to hlin.
As the head of Granger's column
loome I up. coming at a double-quick
Forrest's three batteries opened on
It with siich a teirlflc fire that It*
progress was not only stopped, but
Granger had to deploy his whole corp*
Into line and fight his way through
For more thnn two hours Forrest held
hlin back, and Thomas had finally to
set.1 him help to get him out, which
he succeeded In doing by making a
considerable detour. One more brig-
ade. or one more battery, even, and
Forrest wou'd have put Granger's en-
tile corps out of ronimiss'on.
While Forrest and Breckinridge did
not take much ground from Thomas'
advancing their lines only six hundred
yards, they so beset the commander
of the Cnlon left wing and so bat-
tered his forces by their hard. Here*,
continuous fighting tthat he had re*
peatedly to be given assistance, thus
so weakening the Union right and ceitx
ter that Lieutenant General Long-
street, In command of the Confederal*
left, aeelnr « break
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