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SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS: MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 17, 1916.
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NOT ALARMED, BUT PRUDENT.
After the European wir ends, no
matter which side wins, gfcve danger
of foreign aggression will confront the
United States, is tbe opinion of Hudson
Maxim, a member of the Naval Ad-
visory Board.
No matter how the war ends, the J
victor, if there should really be a vie- <
tor, instead of what would amount1
practically to a drawi sat Me, would I
hardly be left able financially to prose-
cute another great war until after the
lapse of aufficient time to recuperate,
according to what might be considered j
the reasonable assumption.
At (he same time, it is quite true, as |
Mr. Maxim says, that the great nations
now at war, despite their immense
losses, would sti.ll have millions of
war-tried veterans ready for a trial at
arms with any defenseless power that
might invite aggression or that might
s'eiff, "to offer opportunities for ex-
ploitation. We have been forced by
events to the conclusion that our ef-
forts to preserve strict neutrality, and
at the aame time to exert our beat en-
deavors in the cause of humanity and
for the upholding of international law,
have not had the unqualified endorse-
ment of any of the belligerents, and
that, though trying sincerely to be
wholly impartial, we have been charged
with partiality. Thus, while we have
not strengthened the friendship of any,
we have rot wholly escaped the ill will
of many.
The Monroe Doctrine may be more
of a thorn in the side of Europe after
the w<ir than it had been before and
the desire for a foothold on this side
of the world may incline one or more
of the great European powers to put
it to the test. In that case the enemies
of today may become the allies of to-
morrow, and in that event the United
States would face a danger that is at
present too remote to consider, but that
is nevertheless. at least a possibility.
No vision can penetrate very far intb
the future, save in a specufative way,
but we can to soire extent judge the
future by the past and remembering
the suddenness of the upheaval which
came like a bolt of lightning from a
clear sky, we cannot fail to realize the
advantage of preparedness for any
eventuality,
Hudson Maxim probably overstates
the case when he says that "our ene t>y
would be able to land upon our shores
at least a quarter million men inside
a month and after that contin-
ually bring reinforcements at the
rate of 250,000 a month if they
6hould happen to be required.
Our little, poorly equipped army
would not be able :o offer re-
sistance enough to make a ripple in
the line of the enemy's advance. Our
army would be just about one good
day's killing."
w* orobablv would be i:ble to mus-
ter a sufficient force to resist inva-
"'on when the necsitity should arise,
but it would be cheaper and better to
make the preparation now than to
wait till the last moment and thus risk
the destruction which Mr. Maxim pre-
sumes to be possible and the long
•truggle that might follow as a result
""preparedness at the start.
Tnt United St»'e'
confident and unafraid, but civilisa-
tion. in the light of recent events, has
not yet reached the point when war
equipment is not essential to national
defense and the discharge of national
obligations, and, realizing this truth,
the people of the United States, frith-
t alarmed er the least bit
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THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
There is not a member of this board who would not gladly retire
from the service of the Chamber of Commerce. Hut there is no one
who will do so under attack b> The Express.—Statement lrida> b>
twelve of the twentv-one directors of the "Chamber of Commerce,
addressed to "The 1'eople ot San Antonio."
Overnight the plain-dealing statements of The Express as to the record
and restrictions of, and restraints on, this organization seem to have spurred
some of its perennial bosses to the novelty of a little plain dealing in turn.
On Thursday its office manager bestowed the characteristic information
that its lately announced "campaign" to enlarge membership, augment serv-
ice and generally behave somewhat as a real chamber of commerce ought to
behave—after nianv years—provided $50,000 a year be forthcoming from the
citizens for the purpose, was not, as to its most essential detail, "considered
by the directors a matter with which the general public is concerned"!
But on Friday, The Express meanwhile having dealt with this confession
and avoidance of the fact that the "Chamber of Commerce" does not bear
any dependable and dependent relation to the concern of the "general pub-
lic," behold an address to that same "general public"—"To the People of
San Antonio." Verity a case of while the light holds out to bum!
Now, as to that afterthought, above quoted, in the address of a very small
portion of the chamber "to the people of San Antonio."
At the latest election of the board of directors—and the usual proxy love
fest it was, with but a tiny handful of real members present—neither the
board nor any of its long-time habitues was "under attack by The Express.
The reason for this was that The Express, knowing the cut-and-dried method
of retaining some of these bosses in power, and knowing, too, that so long as
they made no direct new claim for appreciable monetary support upon the
business interests of the community there was little likelihood of forcing a
genuine reorganization, ^)idea its time until such a claim should be imposed
on the population.
The "general public" here does not forget that this is not the first tims
The Express has fixed attention on the make-up and methods of the "Chamber
of Commerce's" domination. The /Express did so early in 1915, when that
domination raised an outcry against The Express for refusing, as a news-
paper public servant, to deal with the people of this and other regions on
a basis of false pretense regarding inexcusable sanitary conditions in a por-
tion of San Antonio; for refusing to extinguish the sanitary light of pub-
licity in favor of the artificial glow of mutual admiration with the "Chamber
of Commerce" bossdom in the spotlight.
At the latest election of the chamber's board of directors, to repeat, none
of them was under attack by The Express. If the repeating holdovers, the
holdons, "would gladly retire from the service of the Chamber of Commerce,"
why did they persist in sticking at that time?
Why have they ever and anon persisted in adhering to their "round
table" jobs, when they were under no public attack—however much they may
have been under individual critictfm—unless they were assured of some
distinct, definite, exclusively personal advantage therefrom, if they really
"would gladly retire from the service of the Chamber of Commerce"?
This very limited number of "Chamber of Commerce" bosses and ex-
clusive beneficiaries cannot succeed in giving to The Express' issue on their
unfitness to serve, and on the present chamber's costly, wasteful, detrimental,
misrepresentative uselessness of management as regards the legitimate in-
terests of the whole communitmy, the semblance of a "personal fight." The
"general public" knows better; even the "Chamber of Commerce" domination
cannot fool it all of the time.
The little coterie of the chamber's controlling outfit, however, are enlisted
head-over-heels in a personal fight that they cannot possibly win—a fight
against The Express for its prosecution of the right public policy of an un-
bought newspaper, a newspaper. Failing to boss The Express, some of their
most active workers sought to buy The Express; failing to silence The Express,
some of them vainly sought to secure it in the service of their own ways.
The Express' issue with the management of the "Chamber of Commerce,"
as it exists at present, is an issue in behalf of the advancement of San An-
tonio's trade interests, development interests, producing Interests, and of
those of Southwest Texas in their relation to San Antonio ss a trade center.
Only this and nothing more.
The Express refuses to stand silently and idly by while the money ot
these interests Is again either sunk in slothful propositions or wasted in the
pursuit of practical propositions impractically handled.
It refuses to tolerate an attempt to raise further Isrge sums of the peo-
ple's money for disposal by a system that has failed to get results for the
community—definite, tangible, valuable results in accord with the only legiti-
mate policy of the greatest good of the greatest number.
It refuses to countenance a scheme to perpetuate this system by the rais-
ing of large funds from the "general public," when the system not only has
utterly failed to win the popular confidence, but has so little confidence in
itself that it feels obligated to create some new, special organization to
handle every sizable project that comes along, regardless of the fact that the
subject matter of the project is the obligatory, legitimate province of any
genuine chamber of commerce.
It refuses to stand for the continuance of a so-called "Chamber of Com-
merce" whose managing board, or office executive, or both, considers that
the "general public," which it is in duty and design bound to serve, has no
interest in the working-out of a iMO.OOO-s-yesr proposition to spend the money
of its business on the cl»im of faming and constructing a greater San An-
tonio I
There is nothing "personal" in all this, but there is something intimately,
interestedly and strategically personal in the feeble endeavors of some of
these objected-to bosses, whose thumbs are down on the cause of general,
equitable development of all the business interests of San Antonio, to give
the issue the sppearance of an exercise of individual animus!
In these sorry endeavors they do not even hesitate to involve some of
the sound, sslutary, worthwhile public enterprises of the city. They have
even tried to drag in the conduct of the Fiesta San Jacinto Association, an
independent concern that depends for its success not,upon the manipulations
of the chamber's directory, but on the contributions of all the business houses
of San Antonio.
It is a pitifully weak, but nevertheless characteristic, pretense that these
bosses are experimenting with in the hope of blinding the eyes of San An-
tonio business men to the feal question—that of the detriment, to all the
city, of the "Chamber of Commerce" as it is now stifled and used. And that
The' Express takes, rtot a "personal," but a popular issue, is amply demon-
strated by the accumulation of written and spoken evidence that has mounted
by way of public expression since it again began to call for a San Antonio
Chamber of Commerce—either a wholly new organization or a thoroughly
reorganized body—that will bear a bona fide relation of devotion to the in-
terests of the "general public."
paign is to be carried on throughout
the State by the Industrial Congress
and the live-at-home idea impressed
upon the farmers as forcibly as pos-
sible, not so much to decrease the cot-
ton acreage as to increase the produc
tion of tood and feed crops to meet an
assured world-wide demand, regardless
of whether the uar's end be soon or be
protracted indefinitely.
EXPEDITING LEGISLATION.
ABSOLUTISM ALMOST A
NECESSITY FOR CHINA
The Theory I pon Which the Change From a Republic to a
Monarchy Has Been Founded.
Bv DR. FRANK J. GOODNOW
iPresident Johns Hookins University; Until Recently American Advises to]
Yuan Shi Kai.)
WHAT EXPRESS FILES
TELL OF YEARS AGO
the dignity and well-being of a great
world power, and, in the language of
Uncle Joshua, "that is all they are
to it."
SAFE AND SANE FARMING.
What is called a "safe aid sane''
farming campaign has been conducted
in Victoria County by representatives
of the Texas Industrial Congress and
the State Department of Agriculture,
assisted by the Victoria Chamber of
Commerce.
The purpose is to persuade farmers
to continue this year the policy of
diversified farming which was pro-
ductive of such good results last year,
instead of returning to the one-crop
ides which was the cause of so much
distress in 1014,
The idea sought to be Impressed is
that If Texas produces the food and
feedstuffs necessary to feed itseu
there will be neither land nor labor
enough left to produce a surplus cot-
tan crop. If the farmer has raised at
ten* all tiitt Ir required for home
consumption, has well-stocked barns
and smokehouses and plenty of poul-
try and live stock, he will be measus-
ably independent of the fluctuations in
the cotton market and of money lend-
ers and supply merchants.
It is claimed by many Texas farmers
that they raised their last year's cottor.
crop at one-third less cost than usual,
because they had raised their food and
feedstuffs at home instead of having
to buy them, and because of the smaller
cotton crop they obtained better prices
for the staple, their "money crop." As
a result, the farmers of Texas are in
a better position at the beginning of
this season to maintsin their indepen-
dence than they have been heretofore,
and they should hold on to their ad-
vantage. The large cotton surplus car-
ried over from the season of 1914-15 is
still undisposed of snd even if the war
should end with the coming summer,
which is doubtful, another great cotton
crop like that of 1014 would mean low
prlcee because the iQtiply would be in
cause fh> lQfel
r .
coniumpnw 1
nderstood the
It/ "understood (hi diversity
The Senate Committee on Military
Affairs broke a precedent when it de-
termined to open the hearings on a
measure while it is still being consid-1
ered by the equivalent House commit- ]
tee, and that was one of the best
things a Senate comm'ttee has done in
some time.
When a bill originates in the House
it has been the custom of the Senate
to wait until the House has acted on
it before giving It any consideration,
and that is one of the principal rea-
sons why important legislation is near-
ly always so long delayed or possibly
unaccomplished before the end of i
session.
It has happened in the past that the
Senate, having nothing particular to
do, has merely marked time while wait-
ing for the House to act on a bill with
which it has been wrestling for months.
Then, when the House has passed the
bill, the Senate takes it up, tears it to
pieces and practically submits a new
one, and if all needs to be gone over
again. The better plan would seem to
be for both branches of the Congress
to get busy at the same time, as is now
proposed, and have the separate bills
appear simultaneously, or nearly so,
and the differences promptly threshed
out in free conference.
Senator Chamberlain, chairman ot
the Senate Committee on Military Af-
faiTs, believes that the importance of
National defense legislation is such as
to require despatch and that the best
way to assure it Is to have the Senate
bill ready to be reported as soon as 1
the House committee is ready to report
its own bill. Of course, the passage
of the defense bill would be expedited
if both houses were prepared to act
at the same time, and there seems to
be no sufficient reason why they
should not be. While there is no pres-
ent emergency there is such palpable
need for preparedness for possible
eventualities as should impress Con-
gress with the advisability of prortipt
and decisive action in a matter of such
vital Import to the safety and well-
being of the country. But even if there
were no sort of danger ahead of which
there might be apprehension, Congress
should get out of the habit of wasting
valuable time as has been its custom
heretofore.
fWViE is»?.ut? of the uprising reportt'U in
■* C'jliia uiust drtertuiue the wtalom
the r»HfUt i'bi.uge in the form Govern
nient. The supplanting of the so ••ahed
Republic b\ the Monui- hv, at this time is
pre eminently an undertaking which sue-
alone can Justifv
Ko far a* I «an *ee. am yet, it is impo<ni
ble to obtain in China an expression of
public opinion by mentis of t' e ballot. No
orifHnixatlon exists, m fa<!llttt*> art' pres
cut tor voting
When Yuan Khi Kai, as the incumbent
of the President v, lc«'lde.i to accept the
rrowu, which had been offered to him by
the Council of State, he believed he was
acting in accordance with the preponder-
ant opinion as well as for the nest Inter-
ests of his country. The uprising ha-
be*n regarded In the I'nited States as the
country s protest against his act. Should
it so prove, and should it prevail against
him, his failure must be hU • ondemuatiou
as his su-'cess will be bis justification.
At last advices, iustead of being a
revolution, the disturbance amounts to
nothiug but a mere rel*ellion. I'uited
States Minister Ileinsch hah stated that
tbe Government troops have not goue over
to the rebels. The disorder appears to be
(.onfined to the Province of Yuuan and is
due, not to resentment against Yuun Shi
Kai as Chiua's Monarch, but to autagoniaui
to the Government's drastic measures in
loppmui Um cnlUvatiou of tht poppy
mea^ur** Incident to the relentless «am
paign against opium, so long the bane of
the people. From the South of China I
learn that the change to a monarchy has
the approval of the responsible classes —
the. merchants and others who. If anyone
does, may be said to voice Intelligent
opinion In the North, the peoule gen-
erally favor the change. It would seem,
therefore, that Yuan Shi Kai ha* gauged
Chinese feeling correctly, and that Ills
undertaking, .narked for success, merits It.
In preparing for Yuan Shi Kai, as Pres
Idect of Cblua. the. memorandum which
has been so widely eftttflMtf- and not a
little misapprehended, if not misquoted- I
emphasised the mNchievousnoss of any
change whlcji would plunge China into
disorder. The only cot.rse assuring snfetv
in the future lay in securing some form
of government that should afford a rea
sonable security as to the succession to
the head of the State. The complete
failure of representative government hnd
convinced me that what China possessed
was a military autocracy with no ade-
quate provision for succession. It seemed,
therefore, that China hud about the worst
form of government that could exist. As
soon as Yuan Shi Kai should die, every-
thing must be In danger of collapse The
only safe course was to plan some form
of government glvliu reasonable security
as to the succession. If an agreement
could be reached for the establishment
of a monarchy, snd If the foreign powers
were not unfavorable, a change of that
nature would be wtae. Hut I laid con
oiderable emphasis on the rt>ks attending
any changes which would pluuge the
country into disorder.
It is difficult for us as a Western peo
pie to realise that political institutions.
In which we have cur being with such
ac. nstomed **se as to make their prln j
iplea and use almost second uature, may
be as difficult of adaptation to the Chinese
as Chinese costume would be for u*. Hut )
-enturles of development along differing
lines have produced different psychologies,
especially with regard to government
China has never developed, to an extent
such as is to be noted in Europe, the con
ceptlon of politl al authority as luterfer
ing with the dally affairs of life. China
has l>een governed, as I remarked In the
course of a study of her possibilities for
economic Mnd nollticnl reorganisation, by
the precepts of morality and custom, ra
ther than by law and edict. Where laws
and edits have been used to supplement
the force of moral precept and customary
usage, It has usually been deemed expedl
ent to convince those affected of the rea
sonaldeness of the aciiou proposed to be
taken.
China's lack of discipline and her lack
of appreciation of individual rights make
it probable that a form of government
which has many of the eajmarka of ab
solutism must prevail until she develops
greater, submission to political authority,
greater powera of social co-operation, and
greater regard for private rights. Cnlesa
a strong government 's established, polit-
ical disintegration is liable to occur and
many petty tvrants will probably develop,
tyrants In whose presence the growth of
the conception of Individual private rights
will be well nigh Impossible
The ndvsntsges of a monarchy a;* com*
uated with a republic, lie especially in tho
fixing of the succession and are eondi
tloned very largely upon the adoption of
that law of succession which experience
has shown to be the best—succession in
the oldest nearest male line
It is, however, very doubtful whether
China ^an derive anv permanent benefit
from the change to monarchy unless pro
vision Is made for the development, under
the monarchy, of some form of constltu
tlonal government. The government must
increase In strength, in order to resist
foreign aggression, if China i* to take her
proper place among the nationsand the
people must acquire a greater patriotism,
something which cannot come unless they
have a larger participation in the govern
inent than they have enjoyed In the past.
For the present, the Chinese people must
have a government which, to their think
ing, is of benefit to them and is, to some
(extent at least, under their control.
These are almost the words of my mem
orandum t<» Yuan Shi Kai on the subject
| of a change to a monarchy. I have seen
I no teason to alter mv opinion.
(Copyright,
FEDERAL RESERVE ACT PARTLY VOID
»
Supreme Court of Illinois Bars National lWks as Trustees.
By WALDO G. MORSE
(Councillor In 'he American Academy of Jurisprudence.)
Since their Galician gbry »nd their
Polish plight, the Russians' "offensive"
has been of 'he on agin, off agin va-
riety—but chiefly off.
Down swept the chill wind—but i's
service was not such as to excuse any
let-up in the use of street sprinkling
machines and brooms.
Said Justice Hughes to Mr. Roof:
"The party finds no man to suit."
"Perhaps I'll run, upon that news,"
said Mr. Root to Justice Hughes.
Wholesalers, rules the chancellor of
a court in prohi, Arkansas, may sell
proprietary medicines and varnishes
containing alcohol. What, by the way,
Is the antidote for varnish?
A contemporary suggests public reg-
ulation of practical joksrs. But when
a city is blessed (?) with a whole
Chamber of Comics the call is for
public regulation of impractical jokers.
The Hon. Patrick 4. Kelley, Rep-
resentative from Michigan, Is "in
favor of sucha navy as #111 make it
impossible for any great military
power to land soldiers on any part of
this continent," regardless of its size
or its cost. We like Kelley's coursge;
is Congress' like Kelley's?
Said Sir Launcelot Kigjell to Field
Marshsl Baron French: "Please note
they have sent me to wriggle in tho
field where your force got a wrench.
Suggest to nib some innovation that
may be In victory's behalf. I must
justify my new station—it's tough lo
be made chief of staff.'
The fact is not overlooked that some
of those Americsns who insist on re-
maining on the other side of the bor-
der sre very resdy with abuse if their
lack of discretion does not cause the
exercise of the wors? part of their
home countrymen's valor.
"Information to the Government
justifies the presumption that the Is-
sues lying between Washington and
London are susceptible of satisfactory
adjustment without resort to anything
more drastic than an occasional nott
or two." Susceptible to idlustment is
right, if Britain can be coaxed to sub-
stitute adjustment for aggression; ana
the coaxing process does not permit
•vm of drastic notes—only dismal,
dolorous s(d dilatory jnes.
WJY THE adoption of the Federal Re*prv»
" act of lUt.H Coiigrean undertook to
confer upon National nanks the right to
act u« trustees, executors, administrator*
or registrar" of mocks and bond*. The
Supreme Court of the Stiite of Illinois now
has decided ttnanlmotiHl.v that Congress waa
without power to Inject National hanka
Into the s.vnteni arranged for the devolu-
tion of property within the State of Illi-
nois.
The court held that the right to act lis
trustee, executor or administrator, Is not
necessary to lie conferred upon National
hanks to enable them to serve the purpoat
for which they were created, nor to con-
tinue their existence or vitality Certain
powers of government belong exclusively to
the National Government. The power to
regulate property within the limits of th«
State, the modes of acquiring and trans-
ferring It, and the rule* of descent and dis-
tribution of property, are subjects belong-
ing exclusively to the State. Trustees, ex-
ecutors and administrators deal with pri-
vate property. They are the Instrumental!
tics through which estates are settled and
the transfer of property effected, and
through whleta private property is pro
tected nud guarded Wr the purpose of
applying it to the ends for which it was
Intended. They are not subjects over which
the Kederul Government nas been given
control, and any attempt to exercise such
control would be In violation of the Con-
stitution.
Any other decision would have left the
State and Federal governments both at-
tempting to administer estutes with dashes
of authority Inevitable and the certainty
of an ultimate ouster of the State by the
paramount National authority^ As Jo this,
among others, witness the prohibitory tax
of 1(1 per cent upon State bank circulation,
Imposed so that National banks may have
a monopoly of the Issuance of bills to cir-
culate as money,
Should the case be carried to the Su
nrente Court of the 1'nlted States, an af-
firmance is to he hoped. The National
banks were established and their legality
sustained upon the narrow ground that
thev were the necessary agencies through
which the National Government might sell
Its bonds in the stress of lMM. No ex-
press authorisation to establish banks or
anv corporations Is found In the Consti-
tution or the t'nlted States, and "The pow-
ers not delegated to the i'nlted HtHtes by
the Constitution, nor prohibited by It to
the States, are reserved to the States re-
spectively. or to the people,"
The .Supreme Court determined that
bauks ate convenient, useful and essen-
tial Instruments of the Government In Its
fiscal operations, and accordingly may be
created as means to a legitimate end under
the grant of power to Congress to make all
laws which shall be necessary and proper
for carrying Into execution the powers ex-
pressly delegated to the Govercument of
the I'nlted States. Throughout various de-
cisions, that court has maintained the
right of National banks to carry forward
the business of hanking In Its various
branches. In one case quoting from Story:
"Whenever, therefore, a question arises
concerning the constitutionality of s par
tleular power, the first question Is whether
the power he expressed In tbe Constitution.
If It be, the question is decided. If It be
not expressed, the next Inquiry must be
whether It is properly au Incident to an
express power and necessary to Its execu
tlon. If It he, then It may be exercised by
Congress; If not, Congress cannot exer-
cise It." ■
The Illinois court Inquires therefore
whether power to act 91 trustee, executor
or administrator, is necessary to the effi-
ciency of 11 National bank for the purposes
of Its creation as a governmental agency,
and notes that such powers are not given
to all National bonks, hut are made elective
and permissive, concluding that National
banks do not require auch powers in meet-
ing the purposes of their creation.
Just here lies danger to the States, wup
pose Congress should extend such powers
to all National banks? Suppose It should
Impose transfer taxes upon the devolution
of estates and enact that all estates must
be administered by National banks In or
der to make sure the collection of the
taxes, what would the courts any then?
F.ven now Congress Is proposing to char-
ter mortgage honks to tnske farm loans
and that the Federal Treasury take all un-
subscribed stock In such banks. Many ex-
tensions of the Federal power have oc-
curred farther beyond the concepts of sixty
years ago, than the possibilities noted are
beyond the settled practice of today, hut
it seems the port of wisdom to delay as
much us may he the massing In a central
government of all authority saving such
aa that government may determine, as Ita
own pleasure, should be left with the
States,
(Copyright, 1916.)
ski ■»' rati
Swiss Newspapers Urge Action in
Pases of (ierman and Austrian Of-
ficials Who Secured Information.
fort worth enters race
Texas City After Next Year's Conven-
Mion of Western Fruit Jobbers' As-
iocistion—Delegate* Arrive.
GBNIOVA. Switzerland. ».lon. 15 (via
Paris, .Ian, 15, 5:05 a. m.—delayed).—No
decision bus yet been taken by the 8wl«s
Federal Council In the case of Colonel
Maurice de Wnttenwyl and Colonel Carl
F-gll, two officers ot tbe Swiss Generul
Staff, accused <>!' nigh treason.
Meanwhile General I'lrlch Wllle, Com-
mander of the Swiss ill my, liai placed
the officers under close arrest. The colo-
nels ore understood to be charged with
having communicate' to Germany infer
million regarding French positions along
the frontiers of France mid Swltaerland.
Several of the Swiss newspapers have
demanded that the Government request
the recall of the German and Austrian
ministers who received the Information,
nud II is expected the Government will
do so.
INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Miss Clara Wetzel Badly Hurt When
Machine Turns Turtle.
Spedil Telegram to Th* Exprsw.
KYLK. Tex.,'Jan. 10.—Miss Clara Watssl
of this city was badly Injured In an auto-
mobile accident near here Friday'evening,
(the sustained a fractured bone and a dla-
1 nested shoulder when thrown from au an
tomoblle. Miss Wetsel, together with Miss
Florin Lee Nance, her father, .lerry Nance,
and her sister. Mrs. Bumberry, were re-
turning to Kyle when tbe inucblne driven
bv Miss Nance turned turtle round— *
corner. The oeenpanta ware thro—
but with the eseapttoa of Miss
escaped with a
Minor injuries.
tie driven
undlM a
rwa
MEMI'HIH, Tenn.. Jan. IS.—More than
1.000 delegates arrived here today to at
tend the twelfth annual convention of tbe
Western Fruit .lubbers' Association, which
will convene tomorrow. The convention
will be In session three dayn und will be
dcvoled to a general discussion of matters
affecting tbe wholesale fruit and prodnco
trade.
The delegation from California and other
far Western States arrived early today
aboard a sptclal train and during the day
other special ttalns brought several hun-
dred delegates from the East and Central
West. Delegations from the South and
Southwest arrived tonight.
Campaigns for the next meeting already
have been launched by the California con-
tingent Iind nine dllea Kansas Cllv, St.
i,outs, Chicago, Fort Worth, Oklahoma
City. New Orleans, Birmingham, Jackson-
ville and Peorlo. Tbe California delegates
have not centered on any city hut want
the 101T convention held somewhere on the
Pacific Coast. Tbe next place "f meeting
will be selected Wednesday, officers olso
will be elected at the final session.
WAS FORMER HANTNTONIAN
Chihuahua Bandit Victim Attended Mil-
itary School Here.
Tom Rvans, who perished In the massa-
cre of Americans by Mexican bandits west
of Chihuahua City last week, attended
■rbool st tli* Waat Texas Military Acad-
emy about aavaa years age, according to
^ Thirtf-fl»f Ymri Ago Todtt—1M1.
'I he of the »urn ommittee on tli#
Indian approiriitiwi bill bn-u idopt>,t
by the full j mnmittee. The bill appro
priate* Among the orinciiul
item* are for the several Stoux
tribes: f«»r the removal, -ettl^mvnt
and subsistence of Indiana; I^JO.OOo fur
transportation of Indian supplier
♦ ♦ ♦
There is stiong ground for belief that
tbe bill placing (teneral Ord ou the re
tir»nl list with the rank of major general
will f«»ugr»'ss in Mt«'h a manner .n
will s^ ure the approval of the rrestdeni.
It is »o emiuently just aud proper, io
tIpw of all the eiministam-es of his rvtlie-
tijent. that the measure should pas* with
out oppositicn.
♦ ♦ ♦
The Galveston. Ilarrisburg \ >an An
t^nto Railway dies not seem to have yet
au»reeded in so uring the right of w-iy.
The city granted the company tin? prlvi
U-ge of running alnu* Walnut Street, but
H ^eeins that the tine '•HeWed euoroaehea
■ pon private property at rertaiu points
ami fully oUO will b« required to buy it.
It seems tiiat the railway eompanv ha*
asked the eity to give it the right oi-way.
but eltlr.t»ns think the> have helped their
shnre toward making the company rirh
and hold that if ther« is any right of war
to be obtained by puivha*ing the taiiwuv
company should pny it* own money for it.
Th*» ruin* of a spleudid bathing e«tnb
nshjnent, surpassing in beauty those al
ready e\< uvated at Pompeii and tler< u
lMieum. has recently been discovered
near the latter place under thirty feet of
ashes and lava The fountains are of
oriental granite, sculptured beautifully.
♦ ♦ ♦
L>r. J. H McLean of St. Louis is experi
metmiijt with a peculiar me« hani<al devica
for firing thousands of shots per minute,
whieh, it Is thought, will revolutionize
modern warfare. He Is also perfecting a
new system of armor plating an i gur
Mounting for land forts and Floating bat
terles Th- £un. which has been cbrlatt-md
the "Lady McLean." is simply a pat»nt
wheel and h* fnr a* tested seem* to be as
far ahead of a ftatllug gun as a Uatlltu
gun Is of a revolver.
4, t ♦ ♦
New York is threatened with in oyster
famine. In fact, it may be sal.i to !».»
now. The cold weather of the past ten
days that has frozen up the ovster waters
from Connecticut to Virginia has made
oyster* acurcer than for at least twentv
rive or thirty years. Ar a result pricea
have advanced 50 ner cent and, if the
cold holds, are liable to advan«e further
yet.
♦ ♦ ♦
Captain Eads has been portravlng tha
advantages of his ship railway to the
members of the Merchants' Kxchange »f
St. Louis, and that association p,isS,d re^
oliiuons endorsing his scheme and urging
Congress tuXd the contemplated road.
Fifteen tears Aan To.lsv—1MI.
1 he tarker Washington Companv,
twelve teams strong, with » force of twen-
ty one men, begun on Tuesday morning to
grade the streets surrounding the new
Market Building on Paschal Square, pre
paring then- for the usphaltum pavement.
♦ ♦ »
« ashlngtcr.-At the request of the Stale
Department tbe Navy Department has In'
structed the commander of the S.'ornlou
to proceed at once from La Guavra to
(suatioco, Vf iieztiela, to protcot \merlcan
interests. Reports are that th.; revolu
tionary movement Is Increasing.
• ♦ ♦
i.V. Onion, who has been 111 with pneu-
monia, was much Improved until yester-
day, when lie suffered a relapse.' last
night be was resting easily and Is u >w
believed to be out of danger.
♦ ♦ e
London—Mr. Krug'r Is undecided wlielli
er to visit America. He will do so If
assured that President McKlnley will re
calve him officially as President of the
Transvaal. The friends of Mr. Kruucr do
not desire the old man. In his present
state of health, to undertake anv iMuous
and fruitless Journey In cold weather Mr
Kruger has declared ho is willing -o mule
tbe trip If he could be Satisfied that his
visit would tangibly help the Kocrs. IJe
tells his IriendM that he has reasons to
hope for the Cuar's moral support.
♦ ♦ ♦
M. V. Collins, C. T. Hathaway and Fred
Lock wood, who have been on a t«n (lavs'
hunting trip in the vicinity of Slsterdnlo
and Comfort, have returned to ;he it"
and report a genual good time, nlthmtdi
no 1»er. bear or mountain lions wera killed
curing theii outing.
♦ ♦ ♦
Hcaianont The flow of the Lu<-as oil
well was got under control tonight. V
valve was placed on the pipe and *>arr 1 v
doied. Tomorrow it will be entirely clot,
eil if it is thought the anchorage will
Stand the htrsln
♦ ♦ ♦
Mavm Jlleks reports that the balance of
tbe tie I vest on rell-.f fund on haul pur-
chat'td Mid sent to (jslveston, through ;li<?
local committee here, 100 cots and mat
tresses and fifty pairs of blankets
♦ ♦ ♦
(orpus Christ) may secure rallwav con-
nection with Rrownsvllle before San An
tonlo does. If so, It will be San Antonio's
fault.
♦
El Paso- The Midwinter Carnivnl open-
ed today at noon with perhaps 1,000 vis
'tors present snd fully that number to
arrive tonight and tomorrow from all di-
rections.
-O-
"Impri8oned Spaniard"
Hoax Bobs Up Once More
Special Telegram to Tb« Express.
FORT WORTH, Tex., Jan. IS.-The
ancient "Imprisoned Spaniard" hoax. In
which an application to an American to
help free a wealthy Spaniard anil thereby
win a share of a fabulous treasure, has
reappeared here, this time In a letter to
.1 Lee, a local grocarymnn. The scene of
the Imprisonment this time, however, is
in I'uebla. Mexico. The hoax first made
its appearance about the time of tha
Spanish-American War and numerous
Americans were said to hnve been swin-
dled. It has not beau heard of hera tot
several years.
HIGHWAY BUDGET GROWING
Officers Plan Collections to End Com-
paign This Week.
Funds to meet tbe 101G budget of the
Hexar County Highway League are rolling
In, according to It. K. Colp, secretary. Of-
ficers plan collections to end the campaign
this week. William Cassln, president of
the league, has asked all who enlisted for
the campaign to report for a conference
Tuesday» morning at 10 o'clock at tbe of-
fice of tlie league.
o—
Charged With Embezzlement.
Following communications between Chief
of Police Fred Lancaster and the sheriff
at Phoenix, Arlanna, a ma" was arrested
lie re yesterday on ii charge of embezsle-
nient.' The Sheriff of Phoenix was notified
of the urrest mil wired that lie would
leave today for San Antonio with requisi-
tion yai>ers to tiike tbe man back to
Arltonu.
WORKING FOR THEIR CITY
SAN ANTONIO is fortunate in
having the following wide-
1 swake civic organisations, all work-
| Ing for their city:
International Fair Association.
San Jacinto Fiesta Association.
Real Estate Exchange.
Bexar Cour.lv Highway League.
Manufacturers' Club.
Retail Merchants' Association.
Rotary Club.
Ordar of Llona. \
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