Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-28

with the PROOF III ny hands hay'
established the innocence IT Dreyfus.
10 this Gen. Come replied, accord
ing to the letter TO the minister o.
justice: What is It to you If Dreyfu'
is on DEVILS Island?'
COL Picquart- But he is innocent.
Gen. Gonze-"Ycu knew Merciel
CORNER minister of war; and Saussiel
(former military governor of Paris)
are mixed up in this affair. Do you
wish to compromise them?"
The letter then continued that on
leaving Gen. Come, Col. Picquart de-
clared he was convinced of the
INNOCENCE OF DREYFUS
and he proposed to fight the matter
out and reveal what he knew.
These statements on the part OF
the reporter caused sensation In
court.
The sensation of M. Bard's report
was the shorthand notes of the exam
ination of the late Lieut.. Colonel Henry
by M. Godefroy Cavaignac, then min
lister of war, after Henry's forgery had
been discovered.
The drift of M Bard's conclusions
was that Comte Esterhazy was the real
culprit, but that his condemnation
would mean the ruin of the intelliger &c
department.
It looks as though an attempt is
being made to stifie the real truth by
liberating Dreyfus without new trial.
It is asked by the Dreyfusites if the
secret dossier exists, as alleged, what
GOOD purpose can be served by the
court of cessation giving decision
without seeing it since that it is the
only real proof if any Of the guilt OF
Dreyfus.
Tomorrow sitting of the court OF
cessation is awaited with the most IN
tense anxiety.
After further reference to Col. Pc
quarts charges that the ministry of
war and the general staff had tam
pered with documents and had manu-
featured evidence in the Dreyftis case
and presentation OF the contradictory
statements of Col Picquart and the
ministry Of war relative to the secret
document alleged to have been commu-
nicated to the court, the hearing OF the
case was adjourned until tomorrow.
The court house was emptied very
quietly. There was no demonstration
and no cries of any sort.
Paris. October 27-The belief is
general tonight that the Court of Cas-
sation will pronounce neither for re-
vision nor for annulment of the de-
cision in the Dreyfus case, as either
course would entail awkward circum-
stances.
To avoid these it is expected that
the court will decide that as the affair
now presents itself there has been no
treason and that therefore the con-
demnation pronounced upon Captain
Dreyfus cannot be upheld.
The Courier du Soir says the revela-
tics in the report of M. Bard before
the Court of Cessation as to the part
played by some members Of the gen
eral staff have produced a strong eff
feet in military circles and are "likely
to result in a reaction tending to put
an end to the antagonism between the
civil and military authorities
Washington, October 27.-The init
nation conveyed by the American COM
missioners to the Spanish commission
eTs at Mondays session of the peace
conference in Paris that the position of
the United States with respect to Cuba
and the Cuban debt could not be re-
garded as subject to change and that
consequently the American commits
sioners were ready to proceed with the
consideration of other heads under the
protocol the Paris advices show had
the desired effect. The one concession
as to Cuba that our commissioners Will
make will be to guarantee for the Unit
ed States that life and property shall
be secure in Cuba. This responsibility
the United States will assume only to
such time as a stable government
shall be formed and operated in Cuba.
There will be no perpetual guarantee
on this score.
Undue significance has been attached
to the dispatch of a special messenger
from Washington yesterday to the
President at Philadelphia. Almost
every day a long report has come by
cable from Judge Day, President of the
American commissioners at Paris, tell
Ing what had been accomplished, what
the Spanish commissioners were seek
Ing, and what the American commits
sioners propose to do at the next meet
Ing. The President has gone over
these reports very carefully in COM
pany with Secretary Hay and some
times with military or naval experts il
their advice seemed to be necessary.
Yesterdays report was very long and
to have reduced it to cipher code, for
the purpose of telegraphing it to Phil
adelphia would have consumed more
time and been less satisfactorily in re-
suits than the services of messenger.
AS a vital stage has been reached it
was thought advisable not to delay I'M
til the Presidents return, and so AS
sistant Secretary Cridler's confidential
clerk was sent to Philadelphia with
the daily report.
1t is expected that the commissioners
will now take up the subject of the
Philippines. The American commits
sioners have given this subject much
attention, but so far it has never APP
peared before the joint commission
save in the shape of one spasmodlc
effort made by the Spaniards at the
very beginning Of the sessions to have
the United States abandon Manila as
a precedent to further negotiations on
the subject of the Philippines. The
American commissioners among other
things have been looking into the sub
ject of hte Philippine debt, about
which there is much ignorance at THIS
end of the line 1t is unlikely that