The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. XVth Year, No. 6, Ed. 1, Monday, April 10, 1899 Page: 1 of 8
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WEATHER DtUAnTMEXT
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ijirtlcttou April 0Th storm which
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mttxtt th itulf of Mexico Tbursdav has
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Prices
Special pattern Kinetics wide for burning
sawdust lignite etc
HARXWELL IRON WORKS
tiou rcxAS
Prolinlillltlr
nastern TcxasVlr Jlondav with warmtr
leather In eastern portion fresh somboly
tilnd Tuesday fair nlth colder iu weatcrn
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AVest Texas and New Mexleo Inlr Monday
soiitb fKt winds fair and cooler Tuesdav
Oklahoma Indian T rrltory and rkanpas
Fair uud viarmcr Monday south winds Tues
day fair
LeuWIani ralr and warmer Monday with
fresh southeasterly winds Tucsdai fair
COMMISSARYS INCOMPETENCE
FACTS UHOIG1IT OUT I1Y TIID 1IUKK
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Itiitlon
Hod
rmnlslicd the Men Mlilch
fcver Iluforr llcen Ucil
and AVn TVortlilcsn
Nqw York April 9 The WtEhlngton
correspondent of the Herald says
JVJtvsUier or not the flndltiss of tho beef
court of lcrfnrryfcrTitMltcwln additional
cnarges being prsterred agalpst General
Eagan and hs rettlal by caurtmartlal the
oply conclusion that can be drawn from
the testimony Is that tho administration
of the commissary generals department
during the war with Spain was character
lzcd by gross incompetency
It was tho imperative duty of the officers
of that department to hao Knonn what
sunylicK wore suitable for use as food for
the holdlers in camp and field and to
ha > o seen to it that sufficient quantities
of proper foods reached tho soldeit Yet
ontlrcly aside from the question of whether
choratcdlly pieservcd frcoh beef was pup
plled to the troop tlin testimony shows
that a large part of tho ration was made
up of an utterly unfit article the canned
roast bcof Tt had notr been uaed in the
army as a part of the daily ration and
although it had been used In the navy for
many years It wao never used except In
a stow two or three times a week and tho
navy never bought it otccpt after the most
rlgd Inspection
Despite tho pica of Ignorance of tho
coramlssarj department ns to thevalue of
the canned roast beef hundreds of thous
andti of pounds of it wero bought and
little of It was Issued until tho troops got
to Cuba Then It was found when It was
too lute that tho menVouId not eat it as-
a steady ration They could sund it for
a few days but aftertbdt they vutiH 311
without meat of any kind rather than
at It though tbev might hae been with
er food for day or more
Wrshlngtcn April 9 MaJor William K
Ehufter arrhed hcte this afternoon to tes-
tify before tlw army court of Inquiry into
ho beef charges
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THE STANDARD OF DEMOCRACY
It Means hat the Will of the Majority J
Is the Parlys Law
CHICAGO CONVEM ION REPRESNUT1VE
The Rank and File Expressed Themselves
Through Delegates
JEFFERSON FAYORED A DOUBLE STAiDARD
MelCtulrr nnil Curllsle n One Time
Pointed Out tlic IMI > of le
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Lincoln Neb April 0 Colonel William
J llryan today mailed bis answer to tho
last letter received from Hon Perry Bel-
mont some weeks ago The correspond-
ence thus far has dflalt largely with the
rival Jefferson dinneu to bo held In Now
York but Mr Bryan Ignores that matter
and devotes his atlcntlou to the differ-
ences olsttng between blraselt and Mr
Belmont on questions of democratic policy
His letter in part Is as follows
Hon Perry Delmont New York
Lincoln Neb April S 1S99 Dear
Sir Upon ray icturn to Lincoln
1 found jour letter containing the orlglnnl
letter Jnd postscript given to the press
seme days betoro I can not find anything
In my latter to which you can consistent-
ly object You began your speech In Mad
lEop isquaro garden on August IS 1SP6 by
saying that It was time for plain speak-
ing and proceeded to accuse the Chicago
convention of a bctrasal of tho demo-
cratic paitj In jour Brooklyn speech on
September IB 1 you spoke of the Chi-
cago platform as the strange doctrines
boin In Chicago of a coalition between
the unthinking element of the old party
and the socialists who masquerade as
populists
It seems that tn using the words be-
trayal and masquerade I unconsciously
foil Into the stylo which you emplojed in
1896 but I did not reflect upon the Intelli-
gence of the gold standard advocates by
chuiacterlrlng ns an unthinking element
You ask first that I point out whetcln
your utterances arc unpatriotic undem-
ocratic unAmerican and in conflict with
the democratic creed as set forth lu Jef
fersons first inaueural address
We hao no accepted standard by which
to determine whether a given opinion is
ratrlotlo or American but wo have means
of determining whetbT an opinion la
democratic and ln accord with tho tojeh
ingB of Jefferson I presume you uss he
wqM democratio lu the parly sense oth-
erwise that term Would be as difficult to
deflno as patriotic or American
Tho right to determine what Is demo-
cratic in a party sense bqlongs to th dem
ocratic party The Chicago convation
was more putely representative than any
ether convention held In recent year be-
cause tbo rank and file of tho partv spoke
on public litcstlnns through lun < t uated
delegate The Chicago platform < t > tha
latest authorltatho definition of d mos
racy as applied to existing condiloin
If a minority of the delegates to a Na-
tional com option representing a mluoilty
of the member of the democratic party
has a right to duterinlno what u iktno
tratlc then each member of that party tns
a right to define democracy for himself
tnd In assert that ho 1b a better dcoo
cml th n an > ono else Let mo nprlv this
principle lo thiee questions on which > ou
Itavo taken a position In tho volumes tent
mo Pit st standard monoy bcrnnd paper
money third income tax
Jefferson fnyored tho doubjo standard
us igalnrt tho single gold ctand pd and
duiing his administration pur Nation had
tho free and unlimited coinage of gold and
sliver ut the legal ratio of t i to 1 Tho
ration was changed lo 16 to 1 dining
Jacksons administration Tho Chicago
platform pronounced against tho gold
standard In favoi of tho return to the
fieo and unlimited coinage of god and
Oliver at the ratio of JS to 1 without wait-
ing for tho aid or consent of any other
nation
As a delegate to tho Chicago conven-
tion > ou voted for a minority report which
dtclared nnnlnst Indopendent frea coin-
age on tho ground that it would not Jra
pcril finances but would retard or entirely
prevent international bimetallism tn
which the effort of tbp government should
be steadily directed
As a delegate to tbp Indianapolis con-
vention two months later on you bup
portcd a platform which declared in favor
of the sold standard ulthout any doclara
tlon for international bimetallism You
may be able to exphtn why tho minority
rejected at the Indianapolis convention the
plank for wbiih It fought at Chicago
Mr McKlnley ln 1 > 91 charged in a
public speech that Mr Cloviiland during
his first administration was dishonoring
ono of the moat precious metals itscred
Itlng silver and enhancing the urlec of
gold He insisted that Mr Cleveland waa
trying to make moiioj tcarco and there-
fore dear and added Ho would havo
Increased tho value of money and dimin-
ished the value of everything else Money
the master and everything else the ser-
If Mr McKInly then understood tha
ual purpose of the gold standard as I
believe he did who cum think jencrennit
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Bllah Arc AVrnn
London April 0thn Berlin cor-
respondent of the Standard eay
After receiving Mr White tha
United States ambassador and Sir
Frank Lascelles tho BrltUb aot
bissador las week and explaining
tho attitude of Germany regarding
Semoa Kmperor William sent In
structlonn to the German ambassa-
dors in London and Washington to
tho effect that Germany consider
the new government In Samoa Il-
legal and the aetlon of the flrltlih
and Americans a clear violation of
0 Bamoan act
The report of the behavior of Ad-
miral Kauti toward tho German
cruiser Kalko has given umbrags
throughout the empire and it Is
considered cortaln that If tho re-
port Is confirmed tho United States
wilt readily admit Germany e right
to satisfaction and will repair Ad
rqlral Kautss errors It is hopod
howover that tho accounts aro ex
aggerated
stead of securing equal and exact Justice
for all makes money tho mnstor uud
everything else tho servant
Mr Carlisle In a speech In leS said
Tho conspiracy to destroy bv legislation
from thrceHvcnths to enehalf of tho
metallic money of tbo world Is tho most
gigantlu crime of this or any other age
If Mr Carlislo was then right who
can believe Jefferson eupablo of being a
party to such a crlmo
After tho election Mr McKlnley rent
a commission to Kuropo to secure Interna-
tional aid in getting rid of the gold stand-
ard and a republican congress appropri-
ated money to pay tbo expenses of the
commission Tho commission failed be-
cause of Hngllsh opposition and English
opposition was duo to the opposition of
ItATAUb MVfll viortii
Tho Die nirplinilt Kills
other Keener
Kansas City April 9 Hajah a
mammoth elephant owned by the
Lemon Brothers Circus company
which has bean wintering In Ar
tentlne Kan near hem today
killed his keeper Frank Flshor
Plantr had returned to tho tent In-
toxicated and tried to make tha
different animals perfotm Coming
to the elephant he hugged tho
heasts tiunlt and ordetcd
opeit Its mouth Booming onto
Rajah crushed Plshera arm and
throwing him to the ground mado
repeated efforts to plcrco the pros-
trate trainers body with Its tusks
0 nable to reach htm Itjjah finally
knelt uron rlsher crushing bin lit
out He Is said to bo Itajahs ninth
victim
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titaged
English financiers JeffersonUn democrats
must have a better reason fnrvtubmlttlug
to tho gold standard than the fact that
the English financiers fnvor It as a means
lor raising the purchasing power of their
money
I havo selected these three questions
because they arn important and because
your position on them has been clearly de-
nned Your speeches abound In expres-
sions of cotilldeiico ln the gold standard
jour correspondence with Mr Warner Eota
forth your opposition to tho intomo tax
and a newspaper Item quoted In your
book gives jou credit for drafting that
portion of tho Indianapolis platform vvhltU
related 10 the letlroment of the green-
backs and tbo substitution of bank cur-
rency
Your ptophecy that a law to prevent
wage oarncrs and salary earners from de
mandrst and securing payment In gold
dollars wfiuld not bo a winning issue
evlncc a tctider solicitude for tho labor-
ing man I might nuggest that bimetal-
lism alarms jou moro than it does the
wage earners It was not tho employes
who wtro frightened at tho specter of
free silver In 1S16 neither did the labor-
ing man share your deslro to add to the
privileges of the hauks
On December 20 1897 n jcar after tho
election the Federation of Labor adopted
tho following resolutions
Resolved That we declare ourselves
meat posltlvel yopposed to tho Gage finan-
cial bill recently Introduced in oongiess
by the secretary of the treasury 11 is a
measure that if adopted as a law will moro
firmly rivet tbo gold standard on the peo
plo of tho country and perpetuate its de-
structive effects In every form
Resolved That we prononnco the Gage
bill an undisguised effort to retire our
greenback currency and all government
paper money with a view to the substitu-
tion of National bank notes In their stead
and thus fasten the National bank system
for years upou the American people
I am not willing to believe that Jou
are more interested in tbo Jaborlug man
than they are in themselves or that jou
know better than tbey what Is good for
tbem Yours truly W J Hrjan
AGUNST lMPUHIAMSM
Senator Huron Outline Ills Plnfrorm
hi the lUico for Ucolrclloii
Atlanta Oa April 8 United States
Fenotor A O Bacon in a speech last
night at the Tulton club flrtd the flrxt
gun in his campaign for reelection md
there were present Governor Candler and
Senator Clay the ocuulon being a dinner
thp bcntos from Georgia Pcmttnr
rapable of advocating a policy which ln jiacons address was a powerful blov
n alust Imperialism and evidences h be-
lief that tbo general dcnocratic cainpatKU
will btf on that lint Senator Bacon Je
clarcd that the lllplnos rould only I
In Cuba and In a European ar th Ihll
Estimates Fursl > l oa Ceaalats Gla OuUls lppnea would be made tbr reat of wet
Ha tad much more to this rJfect aud at
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HOUSTON DAILY POST
XVTH YEARNO G
HOUSTON TEXAS MONDAY APRIL JO 1899
BRYAN TO BELMONT
A Letter tthich Is Convincing in Clear
Cut Argument
PRICE 5 CENTS
JUSTICE FIELD DEAD
His Service on the Supreme Court Bench
Exceeded that of Marshall
WAS APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT LINCOLN
In tjie Early Dnya He Was ClUcf Justice of California Voted with
the Democrats on the HaycsTIIdcn Commission The
Killing of Judge David Terry
Watblngton April 9 < JiMice Stephen J
Field of the United Stales Supremo court
rctiud died at his homo on Capitol Hill
this ct > nt t 30 oclock this evening ot
kidney complications About his bedside
wero his wife and bcr slsttr Mrs J
CondllSinlUi Mr Justice David J Brovvcr
his nephew Mrs Udporton of California
Mr Linton his prhnto secretary tho Itev
Edward Jf Mott tvetor ot the Church of
tho Advent and tho family ernnts Ho
had been unconscious hlmo Saturday and
death came painlessly Ever since justice
Floldfi retirement on Decembct 1 1807 Uo
had enjojed conipar tiely good health
and being teev d ot tho responsibilities
which ho had borno ao many yeorr bo
hecamo moro cheerful than formerly uud
seemed Jo uijoy tho Bocluty of hla friends
uud acquaintances moro than ever before
All during tho winter when tbo weather
was fair he took drives about tho city
apd through tho grounds or tho goMtcrs
Home and returned refreshened About
two weeks ago however bo took a longer
tide than usual In an open carriage and
contracted a atvero cold which inpldlj
developed Ihu kidney troubles from which
hi has suffered though tdtgutty for oorao
time
Tho disease readily yielded to treatment
and on Thursday last ho sat up for a
time and seemed himself again but on
Saturdiy morning a change for tho worse
took place and about noon ho lost con
fcloufiicHH From that tlmo ho sauk rap-
Idly and expired at C IO oclock
No arrangements have as yet been mudo
for th funeral It Ih piobablo that hie
remains will be taken to Stockbrldge
Mass where are burled his father and
mother and hla brothers Cyrus Dudley
and Jonathan two nlstcrs and other mrm
bcrH nl the ramllj It Is possible how
appointed him a member ot tho Supremo
bcnh
Justlrfe nd Mr rield never had any
children and tha oply surviving membertt
of his fathers family Is tho Justices
joungest biother Dr Henry Field tbo
editor of the Hvangollst
During eevcral years prior 0 bis retire-
ment front the bench tbo Justices health
at times seemed on tho point ot breaking
but ho usually recovered promptly uud
ln a few daja would ngatn robiimo his
Judicial duties Jisr tho past year or
moro those most lutliniito with him knew
that his mental powers wero becoming
eomewhat impaired Tho result of his long
career of grctt mental Activity was be-
ginning to show Heclf In a falling memory
after hla retirement from tbo benob
though pbjslcally ho imptovcd a little
Stuilttu Johnson Field was born at
Haddam Conn November 1M0 Ilo
was tbo son of David Dudley Field and
ono of four brothers woo bccilno o fa-
mous David Dudley Cyius W and Henry
M Field being the other m Jibors ot tho
qtiattel that made their namoa known
thtoiisbout tho country His early boy-
hood was Spent at iHocltnldge Mass At
tbo rgo ot 13 Htupbcti J Field vent to
Smyrna where his 6lMnr had married a
mlenlorarj tho Ur Joslah Brewer who
bad undertaken an educational mission to
tbo Orcoks and ho there acquired a knovvl
edgo of oriental language On returning
to this rountrj afar two and n ball
yeiro ho later eutired Williams college
from which ho was traduatcd In 1857 at
the head ot his clats Ho then went lo
Now York where b iiteied tlm lav of-
fice of his brothci David Dudley Field Ho
was admitted to the bai and brcamo a
partner in tho Arm lomilntntc as such
for auroral yesri In 1848 ho wont to
Europe and spent some tltuii fheio travel-
ing In November 1SW ho nailed for
San Fisncljeo group 1 Capo Horn and en-
tered upon the practice of law in tho oc
oldental metropolis After a short time
be moved to Marjsvlllc a small mining
camp ml brcamo one of tho founder ot
what aftepvard grow to bo a thriving town
When the little city wan organized Jus
lice Field waa elected tho olcilde of the
uwUii
on tho bench ho was In very feeble health
His tortu was tho longest In tho hlatory
of that tribunal Tho great chief Justice
John Marshall woio tho ermine for a pe-
riod extending over Uilrtyfour JOam it
was tho ambition of tho Hto Justice Field
to surpass thin record and ho succoeded
lu doing bo by a few months His frlonds
fearing that tho Btraln of hard work would
shorten hla useful lite advised him to to
the from hU arduous duties But with
Indofatlgablc porsoveronce ho ilMK to
his task until the latter part of 1S0T when
ho had tho satisfaction ot having fulfilled
tho ambition of hla life During tbo term
of rnoio than n third of n century ho was
toncoiued In Mimo ot the most iinputaut
cascB ever pasted upon by tho aniiroma
court Among tho prominent decisions
was tho faniouo test oath case In which ho
gavo tho cnstlug voto and annulled the
validity ot tho ironolad oatli His die
fcontlng opinions In tho confiscation esses
tho legal lendor cases and iu tho Now Or-
leans slaughter hotiso oaiso attracted the
widest attention
Durliig this long scrvlco on tho bench
ho was also beforo tho lubllo oyo la moro
wajs than a Justice flf tho supreme court
Ho was a member ot the llaymTlliltm
clcclornl commission in 1877 und voted
with tho democratio mlnorltj In 1SE0 he
recelv ed 65 vutes for tho presidential nom-
ination nt tha Cincinnati democratio con-
vention on tho ilrst ballot In 1873 ho was
appointed by the governor of tho State ot
California ono ot tho rommitteo o tx
Hmiuo the code of laws nf that State ln
1M11 Williams college conferred upon him
tho degree of LLP and in 1S69 tho ji
gento of tho Uulvualtv of CallforiU male
lilm profssorof law In that Institution
In ifcSU one of the most Bcnsatlonat
eventa ot n rematlcibly actlvo and vigor
oub career hugely parsed In a now cnun
iry In proccsa of development torn it plo
itei > r State to 1 highly clvllUcd oomtuun
Itv biotifchl Mis personality vividly bnfoio
tbo public Snrnb Althea Mill Terry bad
brought n famous Milt agaiiift nvJtenator
Sbnron u Cullfornln iiiultlmlUlonaltr
Justice Field wntt on tho boneli The out-
come was unfavorable to be plaintiff fahd
engendered her fcollnga of hatred of tho
Jurist 1 his culminated in her attempt to
cbiutlse the nRod Justice In the dining
over that rs Field will tako his or depot eating lmuru nt Lathrop
to California whero a big purl of his actlvo ° who bad boon her ii
1 lorncy agolnut Shnon
llfe wp paesod beforo President Lincoln
who uftervvaul
man led her Interfered and wlwn it
scorned that bo vvaa attempting to do vio
lence to Fields pereou David Ntujle u
United States deputy tnarBaldjavf re
volver and killed JudfteVSTprry Kuglo
was acquired
Thero was however for many jeats in
tcnto bltorness between tbo two factious
and for this reason Justlco Fields family
fllecouragod his discission of Cilloritla
topics or tho perusal of California nowt
papora
Juetlco Fields retirement from the Su
prrtno court bench occurred December J
1807 and Attorney Ooncral McKenna of
California shortly aftornard waa nomi-
nated to Hueeced him Ho tendered his
resignation lu April lo tnko effect De-
cember 1 The president in his letter ot
acceptume of tho leulguatlnn wrote
Upon jour ictlrommtt both tho bouch
and tho country will sustain a great lo
but the high character and ability of your
work will live and long bo lemombered
not only by jour colleague but by jour
cracfu fellow cotintiymen
Tlin dead Justice mado thn formal an-
nouncement ot his resignation to bis col
leagues cm tho bench In a long letter
sketching bis own and tho courtH history
during hii oxtonded service In opo part
bo said
It i a pleasant thing In my memory
that my uppolntment cam from ricsldcnt
Lincoln of whostn appointees I am lh ln t
fcurvlvor Up lo that time thero bad been
no leprisrntatlvf hero of tho rieillo roast
A new empire had arisen in tho West
whose lawa wero thoeo of another coun-
try Tbo land titles wero from Ppanlsh
and Mexican grants both of which wero
often overlaid by the claims of tbo first
settlors To bring order oqt of this con-
fusion congress parsed an act providing
for another seat on this bench with tbo
intention It should bo tilled by tomn ono
familiar with thoso conflicting title and
with tho mining laws of the roast and an
it so happened that I had framed tho prin-
cipal ot theso laws and was moreover
chief JubIIcc of California It was thn wish
at the Betiatots and representatives ot th it
State as well an those from Oregon that I
should succeed to thn now pniltiqii
At tholr request Mr Lincoln sent my
namo to tbo senate and my name waa
unanimously confirmed
During his incumbency bo said ho alono
bad vvrltton 020 opinions which with 67
In tbo 1 Ircult court and 203 in tho Cali-
fornia supreme court rrudo up a total of
1102 cases decided by him In his life He
took Ishuo with tbo styling of tho court as
an aristocratic feature of a republican gov
nloif This office carried wl1 h It the dig eminent and said it Is the most demo
nits of tho mayor and at tho same time
InponeJ ail the dittlua of the bench Hero
the future Jurist dispensed Justice and
mado his namo widely known through tho
length and breadth of tho growing com-
monwealth Ho was fond of talking of
hlo early days in California and ofton said
that tho happiest days oflilw life wora
when ho dealt out Justice in Maryavlllo
behind u dry goods box Justice Tleld in
a sketch prepattd by himself for the con-
gressional register gave tlilx brief outline
of the duties ot his office as alcalde
Under Mexleat law thn alcalde van an
officer of limited Jurisdiction but In tho
1 Mibjugated by tbe overthrow of the free anomalous condition of affairs lie was
iribiltutltns upon which this government called upon to administer Justice punish
rests Ho said tha If there was uch a rrlmr and to enforce police regulations un
rovolutlnn ln the conquered country thero 11 reliavcd by officers under tho low con
will 1m > a still rreater revolution la the I atlttitlop
land ot the victor Senator Bacon Mid He was elected a member of tbe first
that it would tako JIOOOjOOOO per > iar legislature Ho waa Influential in sp < Ui
In addition to our regular oxprnrif to Jns legislation favorable to the miners anil
support our colonial dominion He ill aided In the absage of lawK iigulatlng
attention lo the tremendous ebarr otOcoi the civil and criminal procedure of tho
J gla in thla expeni He declared that the State At tho close of th nesslon lie re
Unltd States was carrying 03 the war turned o Maryavllfe and devoted 3 cars
tn the Philippine indet the protection of to the practice of hi profusion Me wan
tha guns of the British navy The wna elected a Judge of the supreme court of
tor declared If we Hiould enter upon a raiifornU In JS 7 for the term of six
Uuroueau war the 1hlllppires woull be vears In US bo became thief Jimtlrc sue
ouv veilt point like Cuba was tho veak J reeding Chief Jiutlcn David Terr la
point or the Spaniards Wc erutbc1 fcM < n U President Lincoln anpoloird Urn as
t
oftate Justice of Ibp Htipr WC cei of
tho United State and he held that porl
tion until hisretirement 00 December 1
153
Ourls he 1tcr yw of hla eorvlei
crane of oil
It carries ho wrote neither tho
purso nor tbo word but It possesses the
power of declaring tho law and In that Is
found tho safeguards which keeps tho
whole mighty fabric of government from
rushing to destruction
Tho court replied In a vety feeling let
tor and later called lit a body aril hide
him farewell fiince his roUremont ho bad
llvtd quietly In his old homo facing tho
eottcrn section ot tho capllol giounds
Thn IrlNh IHrcflonn
Dublin April 0 Returns received Jaat
night from tho Irish county council elec-
tions show that S00 nationalists eighty
three unionists ono labor candidate and
ono liberal havo been returned
KtZlJiSr it
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LAWTONS MISSION
Capture of the Town of Santa Craz U
His Object
WILL FIGHT INDIAN FASHION
Troops Will Be Divided Into Squads of
a Dozen Men
TWO HUNDRED PICKED SHARPSHOOTERS
An Effort to Br Made to Capture or De-
stroy Rebel Shipping
AN ATTACK B INSURGENTS WAS REPULSEp
TJioilRltt They Had Found AVcttU
Spot lu < lio American Lines but
Found Out Differently j
t
Manila April f S50 a m Tho expe-
dition of 1S00 men undor MajorQenertl
Henry W Lawton who started last night
with tho Intention ot crossing Laguna da
bij wpUnlug ho town of Sauta Crup
ott tho eastern shore of tho lake and thcu
sweeping tho country to the south con-
sists of 00 picked sharpshooters chosen
from tbo various uglmeuts lUwthomoa
mouutaln batterj tbrco ttoops ot tho
Fourth cavalry unmounted tilth bronchoa
and Tappauo battalions Fourteenth In-
fantry Lincks battalion of tbo First Idaho
Infantry ond Fralnoa battalion ot the First
North Dakota Infantry under General
King The flotilla ot twenty canoca towod
by tugs aud convoyed by the gunboats La
guha do Ila > Clostu and Itipldau and
preceded by tho launch containing Oeuerjl
Lawton and General King started from
San Iedto Marati on tho river Paslfi
moving toward tho lake Just us evening
was eettlng in It was truly a plcturcsquo
rcenc The men wero all In high spirits
and carried ralono for ten dajs with tho
lightest marching equipment
General Lawtouu plan waa to roach
SanU Cruz this morulug at daybreak to
enptuto or destroy any rebel guubjat or
shipping lo tako tbo town and thcu to
scour the country to tbo uouth ot tho lake
a distance not yet explored by tho Ameri-
cans Tho tactics will be those of tho old
tlmo frontier lighting and tt is prohibit
that ho command will bo divided Into
squads of twelvo under noueommiasloqod
officers
In General Liwtons absence the bcv
ond division Is temporarily comrosnded by
General Overshlno whose lines extend
from tho beach near Maiate south to Ma-
nila to tho shore of Lnguna de Day bt
yond raclir distance ot about seveu
miles
Tho withdrawal of eighteen corapaoUf
constituting the oxpefiitlonaiy force madn
a tap In the lino from bbo beach to Cull
cui Just toutbwest of San Pedro Macatl
which was subsequently filled by the
1 urth regular Infantry Tho rebels pu
tho cxtremo right had evidently b n In-
formed of tbo withdrawal of tho troops
and thoy attempted to sneak through after
nightfall but thev met with a warm in-
ception and fell back in dlsordri on dis-
covering that tho line was still lutaot
Washington April 0 Tho war depart-
ment nuthorltl H look for Important nevva
frrm Manila tomotrow ptobubly an-
nouncing the rapluic of Itnta Oru u
loading town In a tountry as jet untouched
by tho American forces und now in iho
bands of tho Filipino fotcos No report
of LawtonH movement hj boon mads to
the war defnrtment but tlio Associated
Prows announcement occasioned no qi
prlfce for thn move Ik looked upon as ot
tho natural steps In General Oils care-
fully laid plans against th < Inpurscntii
Santu Crua la a plaio of tonslderoblo
Imporlanco In sovorol Vo pettB It lo tlio
rnpltal of tho province of Lsguna apd
has n population nccDidlng to tho best
available Inforpiutlon here of considera-
bly wore than 13000 pereonr It t ro
garded as likely that Cenoral Lavvton has
already gained potsession of this strong-
hold for It Is but a short Joiirnoy qver
tho Paya Lagoon a fresh water soa which
comer almost up to Manila Itself wbltb
is fortyeight miles away from Santa
Cruz
The details ot the dispatch show General
Lawton by essaying the formation of
squads of twelve men each will make u
thorough reconnolsancB of tho ground
before making a definite attack on tbu
city aud vicinity H la felt hero that there
will bo only a show of resistance by tho
nativus and whether they actually sur
lendor tho town or abandon it to tbe
eoutbward tho coniPalB against the plaee
will servo its an object loseon of tho de-
termination of our forces
Bahta Cruz is appaiently an opening
wedgo for tho country bejond From It
lead highways In all directions to Manila
by going around tho shotes of Ilaya La-
goon and to tho important point of ru
tangas und tho wolladvanced prov nee of
Tayabas whoao capital city la located
ninetyone miles from ManlJa General
Lawton however may not confemplato
any moterittl advance beyond Santa trut
at this time as Ihu region to the south i
covored vvltn
a very broken country
mountains and the rainy seiton la tom
Jng on so that this move may be merely
to gain aa advantageous position for the
future
Catliollis Torture Vrotrstivntn
Mall publishes
Ix > ndon April 9Tho Dally
lishes the following dispatch from Shang-
hai An American Protestant mlssipnavy
at Han Kau on the Yang Tse Klang
makes sensational allusions m
Jtoroan Catholics of burning IMteataat
ehnpets and torturlpg Protestants H
gives tho nawti of a pticst tonccrped ji A
certain districts
Pictures a reign of terror In
tricts
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