, 1900-03-08

In addition to this the department pro-
poses to increase the coinage OF silver
dollars to s 4,OO0.OOO per month, and an
effort will be made to have all this bull
Lion coined and all treasury notes re-
tired in a year and a half.
Sensational charges are contained In
an anonymous letter which has been
received at the Navy Department from
Manila. The communications relates
to the wrecking of the Charleston ana
makes the serious statement that a
number of officers of the vessel at the
time of the disaster were under the In
fluence of liquor. The correspondent
who furnishes the information claims
to have verified the allegations by dill
gent inquiry among the officers of the
Charleston. The letter was not placed
on the official files on account of the
peculiar nature of the charges, but 1t
has been referred to he judge advo-
cate general of h navy, with instruc-
tons from Secretary Long that the
matter be investigated at once. This
inquiry will probably not take n more
formidable aspect than of n note of in
quiry addressed to the c~ommander-in-
chief of the Asiatic station.
The United States Supreme Court has
denied the application of Captain ODER
lin NJ. Carter, recently convicted by
court martial of defrauding the gov.
eminent, for a review of his case by
that tribunal, md thus ended one of
the most desperate contests in the his.
tory of military law. Although the
punishment imposed upon Captain Car
ter Is one of the severest sentences
ever recorded, and the members of the
court have consistently refused to rec
ommend clemency, his attorneys and
many loyal friends still assert his In
nocence and consider him the victim
of n conspiracy. No defendant in n
criminal case, however, had better or
more influential counsel, and they have
exhausted every resource that could
be devised. Nothing except the pardon of
the President now remains between
Captain Carter and the penitentiary.
Carter will probably be taken to Leav-
cnworth, Kansas at once, under a
guard. to begin serving his ~five-year
sentence in the military prison there.
Major General John II. Brooke, who
has been in Washington since his re-
cent detachment from duty as COVER
nor general of Cuba, has been slated
for the command of the military de-
partment of the East. with hcadquar-
tiers mt New York City. The change in
that command will not occur until
June next, when Major General Yves
ley Merritt will retire. General
Brooke was offered his choice of the
commands of the Department of the
Lakes and the Department of the East,
and expressed his preference for the
latter assignment. General Merritt's
retirement will result in the promo
ton of Brigadier General L. S.. Otis
(maiOr general United States volun-
tcers), commanding tht military forces
in the Philippines. to the grade OF ma
jor general i'll he regular establish
ment. 1t will also make n vacancy in
the list of brigadicr generals of regu-
lars, which will he filled by the ap-
pointment of some office who has rem
dered distinguished services in the
Philippine campaign.
The Industrial Placer Company,
which has headquarters in New York,
and is operating near Golden, Santa Fe
county, has located 9GO acres of gold
bearing gravel and cement on the Ber-
nalillO-Santa Fe county line, fou miles
from Golden. Assays and tests shows
that the ground carries $3.50 to 81 per
cubic yard in gold. A mill is being
erected by the company which is to
save the gold values. and which in
many ways is experimental. If 1t is n
success there is enough material in
sight to supply n dozen similar plants
with ore i'll the next twenty-five years.
This immense deposit is in the Tuerto
valley and was accumulated as the re-
suit of disintegratiOn of the e%nvironing
Ortiz and TuertO mountains, which are
scanned with quartz lodges carrying
free gold. The water problem has been
solved by driving some deep wells near
some natural sps in the Tuerto val
ley, half n mile above the mill. when
the water is pipcd. Other wells will
be sunk. The mill is of the Snodgrass
pattern, in successful operation in
many parts Of California. The power
is supplied by n siXty-horse power en-
CINE.
Mr.. Tfllman has been trying to JUS
tify the policy of the southern states
in DISTINGUISHING the negroes by show
ing that the Republicans of the Sen
ate are not willing To allow universal
suffrage in the Hawaiian islands. He
argues that the half-civiliZed natives
Of Hawaii are just as competent to
east II ballot as the negroes of the
South. and that the Republicans are
inconsistent when they deny IL TO one
and demand 1t for the other. He has
spoken on this subject with appalling
candOr. In his speech the other day,
cNllhlIlnE WHY the negroes 0ld not
vote in South Carolina, Mr.. T1llman
said: 1--WE stuffed ballot boxes. We
shot them meaning the negro voters).
We are not ashamed of it. With thai
system-force, tissue ballots. etc.-we
tired ourselves. So we called n constl-
tutional convention and eliminated all
Of the colored people whom we could
under the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments" Senator Tillman also
made the extraordinary declaration
that in every state except South Caro-.
lima and Mississippi the Populists and
the Democrats have controlled the cleo.
tons by means of bribery, for the ne.
gro vote is n purchascable one"
Edward Flanagan of Mullan, Idaho,
continued his testimony before the
House committee on military affairs
Saturday concerning the Occur d'Alene
troubles. He said notices were posted
early last July forbidding members of
organized labor from going to the
Miners cemetery on July 18th for their
annual ceremony over deceased miners.
The order. witness said. gave notice