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The Washington times., 1901-10-11
FEES OF ENQUIRY WITNESSES.
A Decision on Compensation Believ-
ed to Refer to MacIay,s Case.

An interesting decision in the matter
of the payment of witness fees at the
schley Court OF Enquiry has been rem
| dered by L. p. Mitchell, Assistant Comp
| troller of the Treasury. and was made
! public yesterday.
1t is the opinion at the Treasury De-
partment that the request to the Comp
| troller for his opinion by the Secretary Of
the Navy was made in regard TO the
prospective attendance at the Court of
Enquiry of E. S. Maclay who is en-
pioyed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in the
capacity of laborer-clerk. and who wrote
the history OF the West Indian naval
campaign in which Schley is accused of
cowardice and other shortcomings The
Secretary of the Navy requested on Sep
tember ls a decision in regard to the pay
as a witness at the Court of Enquiry of
a civilian empicye at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard
Mr.. MitchelFs decision, as contained in
a communication to the Secretary. is as
follows:
Il have your letter of the 18th ultimo
stating that civilian enploye at the
navy yard, Brooklyn, N Y. receiving
per diem compensation is desired a
witness before the Court of Enquiry in
the case of Rear Admiral :5cnley. now in
session at the navy ya<d in this city.
You request my decisi1n as TO whether.
ness, he would be Obliged to lose his pay
during his absence from the yard for this
purpose, and have the time consumed
thereby charged against his leave of alb
sence with pay allowed by law to such
employees. and. If not, what compensation
he would be entitled to receive for at
tendance upon the Court as a witness
In reply / have the honor to state that
if such employe is ordered by competent
authority to attend and testify before the
Court of Enquiry, and he should do So
I am of opinion that he would be en-
titled to his actual expenses while going
to and returning from and wEile in at
tendance upon said Court, and that his
compensation as such per diem en-
ploye while necessarily absent from his
place Of employment before attending the
Court, and while going to and returning
from the place of trial, should be al
lowed him, and not the per diem of 150
allowed witnesses generally by section
SIS. Revised Statutes 1t follows that the
time while SO necessarily absent from
his place of employment should not be
charged against his annual leave allowed
by law 10 employees of his class
1T may be added in this connection
that. being a Government employee he
would be entitled only TO his actual ex-
penses of travel. as provided by the act
of March g. 1875 dS Stat. 452).''
The Washington times., 1901-10-11
LIQUOR MEN DISMAYED.
Consideration in Virginia Over u
Proposed Amendment.

RICHMOND, Va. Oct. I0.-The Commit
tee on Bill of Rights of the Constitutional
Convention today decided to report favor
ably an amendment to the constitution
which will require every man applying for
a license to sell liduor to accompany the
application with a petition signed by a
majority of the registered voters of the
precinct in which he proposes TO do busi-
ness This action has caused consterna-
ton among the liquor dealers. who say
that it will be impossible for large ma
iority of them to secure the required
names.
A strong effort will be made to defeat
the measure on the floor of the conven-
tion. The members of the convention are
disinclined to take any action before the
gubernatorial election next month. as
they are afraid the liquor people may turn
their guns on the Democratic ticket with
disastrous results.
The Washington times., 1901-10-11
wANAMAKER LOSES HIS SUIT.
Jury in the Rochester Matter Gays
There Is No Case.

ROCHESTER,, N. Y. Oct 10.-Simon ].
Weaver whose wife has been indicted for
forgery of prer,issory notes. and who has
been sued by several tradesmen for large
bills contracted by his wife. among them
john Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, took
the stand in the Wanamaker suit in
County Court. He denied that his wife
was empowered by him to open an ae-
count with Wanamaker.
He said she made payments from her
own bank account. She had accounts, he
testified in three Rochest banks and
besides had 81. 500 allowance for running
the house. The jury spent several hours
in the case and tonight returned a YER
dict of no cause of action.
Mr. Wanamaker will appeal.
The Washington times., 1901-10-11

Some of the Republican newspapers are
triumphantly proclaiming that the Massa-
chusetts Democracy endorsed Mr.. Nc
K;nley's reciprocity views as expressed in
his great speech at Buffalo. Democrats
al over the country are doing that, and
wat is more, if given an opportunity they
will help carry the policy into full effect
But what are the Republicans going to do
about it? That is the substantial ques-
tion before the country. The party Of
the late President is in fun control Of
the Federal Government, and if that party
really favors reciprocity there is nothing
on earth to prevent its adoption as
broad national policy. 1t might begin by
ratifying the treaties which Mr.. Mckin-
ley negotiated.
The Washington times., 1901-10-11
YAqUIs ON THE WARPATH.
A Large Band of Braves Said to
Have BrOISen Out.

AUSTIN, Tex, Oct. 1O-A despatch
from HermosiIo. Mexico, says:
The Yaqui Indians are again giving
the military authorities trouble. A large
band of braves has gone on the warpath
and threatened to make an attack on the
city of Guaymas. The news of the pro-
posed attack was brought to the military
commander at Guaymas by a friendly
Indian, and the whole police force and
the small garrison of troops stood guard
day and night for several days to guard
against a surprise from the Indians.
AN order for the transfer of General
Torres headquarters from Potom, stu
ated in the Yaqui country, TO Hermosillo
has been countermanded. owing to this
new outbreak The prospect for another
long campaign against the Indians is dis
cuuraging the Government troops.
The Washington times., 1901-10-11

Taylor partisans in Kentucky urge upon
Governor Durbin of Indiana their claim
that murderers are not fairly tried in the
Blue Grass State. YET Caleb Powers,
who was convicted as an accessory to
the assassination of Governor Goebel, on
the strongest kind of evidence, has been
granted a new trial on a technicality. 1t
would seem that the Hoosier executive
must find some better excuse than the
alleged unfairness of Kentucky courts
for harboring the fugitive Taylor and
violating his own oath TO obey and sup
port the Constitution OF the United
States
The Washington times., 1901-10-11
The InsuIar Decisions.

CFrom the Chicago Chronicle)
The insular decisions are far from lucid
in some respects, and one is liable to err
in undertaking to say what they mean.
But if anything is clear about them it is
that our new insular possessions have not
been foreign territory for any purpose
since April H. 1899 and that the Presi-
dents power to lay duties in his military
capacity ceased at that time. 1t is hard
TO see that he has such power now in
. IA
The Washington times., 1901-10-11
joyful iIourners.

(From the Louisville Courier-Journal.)
The Republicans are in the saddle.
They have the responsibility. If agreed,
they can have anything they desire in
the way of legislation or commercial
treaties If a minority of the Senate (un-
der the two-thirds rule defeat reciproc-
ity treaties negotiated by the Republican
Administration, it is not our funeral. but
we shall be interested spectators at the
ObsequieS
The Washington times., 1901-10-11
AN ISLAND FOR ANARCHISTS.
Representative Lands to Recon-
mend Segregating the .Reds.-

CHICAGO. Oct. 10.-Representative
Chas. B. Lands, of Indiana, who is at the
Auditorium Annex, proposes to introduce
a bill in Congress this winter providing
that all anarchists be sent to some
island presumably Guam.
"A solitary island killed Napoleon"
said he. 1T will dispose of the anarch-
lists. By all accounts Guam is the very
place where anarchists might reflect in
peaceful solitude on the evils of the rest
of mankind"
The Washington times., 1901-10-11

able TO the person offering it, and to
| the influences which procured it We
may well imagine what an old dis
ciplinarian like Admiral Dewey would
think of a cub from the steerage crit
icising the commander-in-ch chief OF the
fleet. and practically denouncing him
as a coward for exercising his discre-
ton as to the position he should oc-
cupy during a tactical movement.
The incident is a fair Illustration of
the disreputable methods to which the
legal representative of the department
has shown himself willing and anxious
to resort from before the beginning of
the enquiry to the present time, in his
openly vindictive and malicious desire
to injure Admiral Schley, and to pre-
vent the introduction of any evidence
which might be favorable to him.
From the start the attitude and con-
duct of Captain Lemly have been OBJ
noxious to the military law which is
supposed to govern the course and ac-
tions of men in his position. His as
sumption of the role OF prosecutor be
fore court of enquiry is repugnant
law. His duty as judge advocate at a
court-martiaI would entirely differ from
his duty in the present circumstances.
Admiral Dewey has epitomized the
whole matter in repeatedly declaring
that the sole business of the Court is
to get at the facts. The judge advo-
cate is presumed to be there to assist
the Court in reaching the facts, and to
bring them out, regardless of whether
they show that Schley did not coal
when he ought TO have done so or that
Sampson knew the spaniards were
coming out on the morning of July 3,
and Notwithstanding that knowledge
bolted for the horizon.
But Lemly's plain duty and his no.
torious conduct Sc far during the pro-
ceedings have been extensively at vari-
ance Instead of being the impartial
emulgatOr of truth for the benefit of
the tribunal he has been bitter parti-
san of the enemies of Admiral SchleY
and has acted the part of a prosecuting
attorney determined to send a prison
er against whom he had a personal
erudge to the gallows.
Judging from the evidence produced
by the prosecution, the country is jusu-
fed in supposing that the result OF the
enquiry will be the erfGire eXoneration
of Admiral Schley from the charges of
his prosecutors and slanderers. 1t is
fair to expect that when his witnesses
shall be heard their testimony will
strengthen the case already made for
him unwillingly by the Navy Depart
ment. But. whatever may be the out
come, it should be reasonably certain
that, on the record, the department will
feel compelled to investigate the con
duct of Captain Lemly. He might fare
bette. before a naval court than he
world be likely to were he subjected
to a Congressional investigation.
The Washington times., 1901-10-11
WIN They succeed.

(From the Chicago Journal)
For the past four years the Republican
leaders have been trying to break up and
break into the solid South. They have
discovered that force will not do it. They
are trying another plan and are going to
succeed. Their road no longer lies through
the negro vote. II is a well-divided white
Note theN are after.
The Washington times., 1901-10-11

II seems apparent that it is the intention
of the Navy Department to put Maclay'
the Brooklyn Navy Yard dock laborer
and author of the book in which Admiral
Schley was so scurrilously assaulted on
the stand in the Court of Enquiry. we are
rather at loss to guess what may De the
object of this, but possibly 1t Is to asceF-
tain whether or not the third volume %
the work. proof slips of which were sent
in advance to Admirals Sampson and
Crowninshield, was endorsed by these Off
GERS If the judge advocate is to gain
anything by the attendance of such a
witness, 1t will be by close shave-some-
thing quite foreign TO Captain Lemiy s
reputation or habit.
The Washington times., 1901-10-11
The ReaI Trouble.

(From the Boston Traveler.)
Those who have held that the law could
not interfere with the trusts under the
Constitution are likely to have their Opin-
ions changed by the decisions of the Court
of Appeals of New York State that the
antitrust law is constitutional The laws
can be made to reach the trusts easily
enough. The trouble is, as with many
other laws, to get them enforced.
The Washington times., 1901-10-11
rbe Republican Party.

(From the Louisville Courier-JOurnal.)
The Republican party is just what 1t
always has been; the party of a syndi-
Gated Government. pUrse-proud and in
tolerant: a smart Opportunist. with
bluGgeon in one hand and a bag of money
in the other; unscrupuicus in its meth
DDS and intolerant in its spirit.
The Washington times., 1901-10-11
The steel TnriH.

(F'rom the Chicago ecord-Herald)
People who believe in tariff for rev.
enue with incidental protection and those
who believe in a tariff for protection with
incidental revenue have a common inter
4 st in opposing tariff of this sort, which
resolves itself simply into a tariff Tor
squeezing this public.
The Washington times., 1901-10-11
An Excellent Prospect.
lrrnm the chienrn cnronicleA

(From the Chicago Chronicie.)
There is an excellent prospect that be-
fore very long the grand tariff combine
will be divided into two hostile camps
and that a battle royal will be fought,
the outcome of which is altogether likely
10 be advantageous to the long suffering
American people.
The Washington times., 1901-10-11
Congress May Take a Hand

(From the Cincinnati Enquirer)
The schley Court of Enquiry. though so
far iustffying the admiral himself, has
shown such a deplorable state of affairs
among naval officers that Congress may
take a hand at investigating.
The Washington times., 1901-10-11
Hull and HeIstand.

(From the indianapolis Ne,ys.)
No one doubts that IL would be consid-
cred a great scandal if the President of
the United States should be found to own
stock in any of the commercial enter
prises in the Philippines. Ii is just as
bad for congressman and army officers
TO be so interested.
The Washington times., 1901-10-11
Mr.. HuIl;s Views.

(From the Philadelphia Ledger9
1t is altogether probable that Congress
man Hulrs views as to the undesirability
Of foreign merchants operating IN the
Philippines are colored by his own IN
terests as President of the Philippine De
velopment and Lumber Company
The Washington times., 1901-10-11
The Right Iden.

(From the Chicago News)
President RooseveIt's idea of an army 10
one that IS ready to do business when
ever you call IL up over the telephone
The Washington times., 1901-10-11
rnmmnn,.. Confession.

(Erom the Chicago Trbune.)
The nomination of Shepard is con-
cossion, and even more. a confession.
The Washington times., 1901-10-11
FOREIGN TOPICS.

Inc Russians are getting ready for an
emergency. which means a war with
japan ana are increasing their navy and
putting thcir army in lighting condition
with great energy and at great expense.
he army has recently been completely
reorganized and provided with new equip
ments- The Russians unloaded 1Go0, ,O09
riiies of obsolete pattern upon the Chinese
Government and substituted new ones of
long range, high power and small
cailbre. Those Were Russian guns which
the Boxers fired at the British Embassy
IN Peking during the recent siege
In numbers and fighting strength the
armies of Russia and Japan are very far
apart, but it must be considered that the
battle-ground will be on the other side
of the world from st. Petersburg, where
Japan will be at home Last year $500
the japanese army on a peace footing
consisted of S7,S47 men, while the army of
russia numbered 1,26l,200 always under
arms. The first reserve of Japan was
'6'o~ men and that of Russia 900. The
second reserve of Japan was 23S, 900 men.
iildhlhB total force on war footing of
iu,z4. The second reserve of Russia
numbered 1,4I6,000, making a total of g.
2vV'VVO soldiers at the command of the
Szaf- Both armies have been reorganized
The same difference exists in the navy
Russia IN 1890 having $40 vessels in com
mission and Japan III; Russia 5,013 guns,
Japan l, Al.
russia has twenty-five first-class bat
tleshlps, twelve armored cruisers. eleven
nrst-ciaSs cruisers. and 1876 torpedo boats.
Japan has six trst-ciass battleShips two
armored cruisers, five first-clasS cruisers,
ana slxty-siX torpedo boats. But these
comparisons are not so significant when
the geographical situation is considered.
Inc lowest estimate of the peace
strength of the Russian army under the
present reorgani2ation since January /.
ISOi, Is 4z.W5 officers and 900 men. and
the war footing is I5e00 officers and 4.500.-
Wv men, which Is million more than the
present numerical strength. When the
vessels now under construction are com
pIeted the Russian navy will be increased
oS 10 shlps of ali classes, including TWEEN
ty-Iour battleships. twenty-five cruisers.
tOrty-one gunboats. thirty-five torpedo
boat destroyers and forty-fiye torpedo
poats- Fifty submarine boats are also un-
Ger construction, but they are expert
mental.
The Washington times., 1901-10-11

Mrs. Margaret Barclay -Allar1ice. of
England, claims to be a direct descendant
of King Alfred The Kings representa-
tive in the fourteenth century was Rob
ert il. of Scotland. by descent from Edgar
Atheling's sister, Margaret, Queen of
Malcolm III. King Robert married twice
The eldest child of the second marriage
was David, Earl of Strathern His sole
child married Graham and they were
the parents of the first Earl of Monteith
When the last earl died the representa-
tion became vested in the family of his
sister, Lady AllarGice, whose direct heir
IS Mrs. Barclay-A -Aliardice, now in her
eighty-sixth year.
II should be noted, however, that ac-
cordlng to Burke and other authorities,
Robert II, the first Stuart King of Scot
land, was not the heir OF line OF King Al
fred the Great. David 1, King of Scot
land, who. through his mother. Margaret,
sister of Edgar Atheling. was the heir Of
line Of the Saxon kings, had two grand
daughters, the daughters of his son David,
Earl OF huntington. Prom the elder,
Margaret, was descended the Bailiol fam
ily and from the younger, lsobel, the
Bruce and Stuart families. According
10 Burke $ Extinct Peerages" the pres
ent representative of the BaliiOl family,
and therefore the heir of line of King Al
fred is the Duke of Parma.
The Washington times., 1901-10-11

The majority Of French and Russian
chemists support the inorganic origin the
Dry which regards petroleum as formed by
the condensation under pressure of gases
liberated by the action OF water on metal
lie carbides Gust acetylene is now COM
mercially produced). American biologists
and German chemists, on the other hand,
favor the organic origin theory-that is,
that the oil was formed directly from the
remains of animals or plants. Some of
them. notably HOfer and Engler, the Ger
man chemists. consider petroleum of pure
ly animal origin, whereas others believe
certain types. such as the oil of Penusyl-
Vania, for instance, to have been derived
from vegetable remains. AT the meeting
of German of men of science at Munich
in 1899 Kramer brought forward the view
that petroleum is formed by the decom-
position, under pressure. of the wax at
the bottom of lakes and seas, which con-
sists of the remains Of diatoms. He called
attention to the fact that infusorial earth
exists in beds of enormous extent in dis
tricts where petroleum is found During
the discussion OF Kramer's paper Engier
admitted that some oil might be formed
in this manner, but stated his belief that
the majority of it was derived from the
submarine decomposition Of fish. The
probability is that petroleum is of both
animal and vegetable origin.
The Washington times., 1901-10-11

The French Republlc has given proof
after proof of positive as well
as a negative strength. Already it
has lasted longer, than any regime
since the old monarchy collapsed in
l7g2. 1t has survived repeated crises
and resisted without serious difficulty all
efforts TO upset it, 1t defeated the royal
lists in pitched battle on May 16, 1877,
and the royalists themselves have since
then turned defeat into rout. 1t came
Oat victorious from the long straggIe
with the Church between 1850 and 1883, it
withstood the temptation TO Caesarlsm
in 1889. the Panama scandals failed to
shake II, and from the long and hideous
nightmare of the Dreyfus affair, in which
the RAJ agtag-and-bobtail of cleriCalism
Anti-Semitism. royaljSm. anG natioDaiism,
encouraged by few-but only a few
restless soldiers, We're drawn up against
il. ii has emerged with fresh confidence
and yigOr. And beyond this the Republic
mas founded an immense colonial empire,
has concluded an alliance with Russia,
has armed the nation to the teet:I without
impai1ing its repUblicanism, and anti
clerical though it be. has forced the Off
cial appreciation OF the Vatican. Behind
a sliding procession of ministries and
groups there has, in fact, been a con
tinuity of policy and purpose such as no
autUcracy has exceeded.
The Washington times., 1901-10-11

In sharp contrast with the action of the
German army in the case of Marten. the
non-commissioned officer condemned to
death for the murder of his captain. not
because he was guilty, for no evidence
was brought forward to prove it, because
some one had to be punished in order that
the discipline Of the army might be main
tanned, is the action of the French army
court at Nantes in the case of n private
charged with arson IL Is also in sharp
contrast with the Dreyfus case During
the recent maneuyres "A number of sol
diers were billeted for night in a Farm
granary. During the night it was set
fire to and nine of the men were killed
and all of them more or less hurt one
of them. a man named Cogis. was ar
rested on suspicion. He was a pardoued
deserter and frequent grumbler against
the discipline of the army. one soldier
made direct charge against him of hav-
ing thrown two lighted matches into the
lofJ of the granary. but, on the other
hand all the other men testified in his
favor. and his officers gave him good
character The charge was completely
broken down but when the summing up
came the military prosecutor demanded
lis conviction on the general ground that
II was necessary to the welfare of the
army. He was eventually acquitted by
a vote of five 10 two and the case Is re-
rarded as making new era in the trans
actions of French military courts.
The Washington times., 1901-10-11

The German news agency which sup
plies Bremen with news from all parts of
the world recently received the following
telegram from Pittsburg: Five hundred
workmen resumed work steel-pipe fac
tory, McKeesport,' which the geograph-
ers of the Institution deciphered thus
To-day 800 wor<men resumed work in the
steel-pipe factory nf Mr.. Max Kecsport
at Pittsburg' This geographical wisdom
is about par with that of the Ameri-
can manufacturer and wOuld-be explorer
who used to address his letters to Anna
berg, Russia, and Coburg East Africa.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-04-25
Lighter Horses Better.

Farmers who have watched the ease
with which the large draft horses han
die heavy loads on good roads or city
pavements have been led to think that
a heavy horse must be the better ami
NAL In all cases, and we see many farm
teams that are far inferior in the
amount Of work they can do In blowing
or in drawing load upon soft ground
than a much lighter team would do
easily. Then the heavy horses are
driven over our billy roads often at a
rate of speed that causes them to pound
the earth so that the legs give out, and
they are quickly lame. 1t certainly
requires more food to sustain a 1000
pound horse than one weighing from
1000 to 1900 pounds, and when not
constantly employed drawing heavy
loads the amount Of work done by the
heavy horses does not compensate for
the extra cost of maintaining them.
AS farmers will have next spring to buy
horses or many will we advise them to
turn their attention to the smaller
horses from Canada if they can be
found rather than to the Percherons
and Shire horses that have been so pop
ular lately. They will cost less prices,
cost less to keep, do about as much
worH and endure much longer.-Ex-
change.