The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-25
BACON VISITS WASHINGTON.
SEEKS TO ADJUST MACON'S CLAIM
AGAINST TROOPS.

Trying TO Secure ReIease of Private
burnett of Rays Immunes-BacOn's
Pronounced Views on the Hose
Lynching Casc--W ould Have Hap
pened AnyNvhere-Evans' Views OG
GOmez-MOBey for the Port Royal
Naval station Is Available.
Washington, May 2I-(SpeciaD Senator
Bacon is here making a round Of the de-
partments in the interest of his consut-
uents.
He called at the war department this
morning to see the quartermaster general
about the adjustment of the account the
city of Macon has against the government
for water and gas used by the troops
while quartered there.
He also filed an application for the re-
lease of Private Burnett of Col. Rays I'M
mune Regiment, who is now confined in
prison in Cuba, serving out a sentence of
courtmartial. Burnett is from Columbus,
Ca, and was found guilty of some slight
offense and sentenced to six months i'm
prisonment. Senator Bacon, after con-
ferrlng with the war department officials,
feels confident that he will secure a pardon
for the unfortunate soldier from Columbus,
Bacon on the Hose Case.
Senator Bacon has some very pro-
nouuced views on the Sam Hose lynching
case in Palmetto, and he does not hesitate
TO express his indignation at the total
misunderstanding OF the case In some of
The Northern communities He says he
deprecates the resort TO lynch law, but
there are times and circumstances when
a crime is 50 revolving that even the most
law-abidlng communities cannot await
the sometimes tardy hand of justice.
He says he does not believe the people
of New England would be holding indlg-
nation meetings and condemning the
lynchng of Sam Hose if they were fully
advised Of the enormity and fiendishness
of the scoundrers crime. The details of
his heinous assault upon Mrs. Crawford,
after having murdered her husband, are
too horrifying and repulsve to be pub
nshed even in the most sensational of
newspapers. The depraWty and fiend-
ishness of Sam Hose in connection with his
attack upon Mrs. Crawford, cannot be de-
scribed in the newspapers, but Senator
Bacon says there is not community
North South East or West, knowing the
facts in the case, that would have hesitat-
ed moment to deal out summary punish
ment to the wretch.
Evans Sees the President.
Mai. John Gary Evans was among the
callers upon the president to-day. He Is
here to adjust his accounts with the war
department, having recently been muster
ed out of the volunteer service.
He called to pay his respects to the
President, and incidentally the Cuban
question, with which Maj Evans Is some
what familiar was brought up He has
not a very high regard for Gen. Gomez
and his insurgent followers, and he but
shares the opinion of Gen. Butler and
nearly all Americans who have personal
knowledge of the insurgent chief.
IF you could have seen the army that
marched into Havana behind Gomez. !"
Mai. Evans said you would have ac-
knowledged the impossibilty of decent
self-government on that island. OF all
the heterogeneous assemblages ever gath
cred, lnlS was the WORST. COXeyE army
was a company of aristocratic gentlemen
by comparison. All this talk about the
patriotism of the Cuban army is a myth.
They were largely actuated by desire
for plunder and for office. They now
want to rule the island because they see
their chances of looting the treasury will
not be good so long as It remains under
American control To turn the island
over TO the Cubans would be a worse crime
against civilization than to have allowed
the Spanish to rule it,"
Port Royal Naval station.
After many delays, the $4,000 appropri-
alton for improvements at the Port Royal
naval station is available. The Attorney
General to-day notified the Secretary OF
War that the government title to certain
disputed land along the water front is
clear. After the government acquired the
property the point was raised, under an
old state law, that the ground between
the rise and fan Of the tides did not pass
with the uplands.
The right of the government hav-
ing been established by the decision
of the Attorney General, the work on the
engineering shops and other additions
to the government plant there may now
proceed without further delay.