The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-10
Persecution Of Miles Will Not Go
Further.
TO BOOST THE BEEF TRADE
Was the Intent Of the Inquiry Boards
Findings.
THE REGULAR ARMY Is DIVIDED
One Faction Stands by Miles and Other
Sides With Administration-Mile
and Secretary Alger Not on
Speaking Terms
THE REGULAR ARMY is DIVIDED

Washington, May 9-(Special.) re-
suits of the inquiry into the beef question
will, without doubt precipitate a congress
sional inquiry as soon as the house meets
or is called into session. The testimony
was followed closely, as the examinations
were made. and to say that the public is
surprised at the findings of the court is
to put it mildly.
General Miles will take no further action
and it is given out that the administration
will not carry its persecution of General
Miles to a greater extent than it has al
ready done. The general belief here is that
the results of the court were the outcome
of an effort, not so much to clear the skirts
of Secretary Alger as to bolster up the
beef business, which the charges and the
testimony brought out in the investigation,
have almost ruined. Not only is the trade
injured in the home market, but almost
ruined in the foreign markets.
There Are Two Factions
The army, as represented here, is greatly
demoralized owing to the inquiry and the
findings. There are now two factions, one
adhering strictly to General Miles, the
other composed entirely of those in execu-
tive favor, opposing him. The situation in
the department is most strained. Secre-
tary Alger and General Miles do not speak,
and all business between the adjutant-gen-
eral and the commanding general has to be
done through other officers. How long this
condition of affairs can last is not known,
but the public business must be very slow
where the avenues are so clogged.
Discussion of Negro Problem 90.
MI, t1,1
of much speculative conversation these.
days. The northern man, especially IL he
comes from the New England coast, has
many remedies to suggest, the only remedy
upon which he does not look with favor
being the importation of the negro into the
northern states. Here his humanity stops.
During all this discussion which has fol-
lowed the lynchng of the rapist, Hose, IN
Georgia, there has been but one practical
suggestion made by the theorists thus far
This suggestion comes from a member Of
the cabinet who said the other day in dis=
cussing the subject that he thought 1t
would be good idea to adopt prohibition
for the negro. The states, he thought, had
the right to make 1t felony for any one
to sell or give a drink of intoxicating
liquor to a negro. This law has been put
In force in the case of the Indian and
would be a precedent should the states
desire to pass such a bill through their
legislature.
From what he had read he said, the
negro was docile to great extent until
he got whisky in him. Then his brute
passions were stirred and he seemed un-.
accountable almost for the atrocities he
would commit. This officer thought that
with prohibition for the negro many of
the assaults which so often shock the
communities would cease.
Making Itself RidIcuIous
The Afro-American Council is making it,
self ridiculous in its attempt to condemn
the president because he refuses to set the
wheels of the government in motion for
every rapist who is lynched. IN Its last
semi-monthly resolutions it stated that the