The age-herald., 1902-05-09

1 final decision of MT. Mitchell. 1 At 10:D o'clock the executive commit tee took a recess until 80 this afternoon. l President Mitchell issued the following 1 statement:
 1 ''The executive committee of the anthra- cite mine workers organization have pro- posed that all questions at issue between
 
 was the last surviving member of the Confederate cabinet He knew person. ally, said Mir. Vest without having been present at that interview, that the incl dent was without the slightest founda- | ton.
 "If true" said he. it would place the 1 government and officers of the Confed- crate States in tie category of crim inals because it offered the Confederacy all that 1t ever demanded in the widest 1 hope of the most extreme partisans of that cause if they would only return to l the Union.
 If true, it would mean that the Con- i federates could have placed on that sheet 1 of paper the perpetual establishment of l slavery and the right of secession, the most extreme demand that had ever taken shape even in the dream of any l Confederate"
 1 From the lips of Stephens and Hunter had come to him, he saiZ the details of what took place. Upon the return of the l commissioners of the Confederaoy he heard their official report as MT. Reagan heard it, he being a member of the cabi- net and the speaker a member of the 1 Confederate Senate.
 1 "I am today the only surviving member of the twenty-six gentlemen who acted as Confederate Senators" he said.
 MT. Vest then stated that what did hap pen at Hampton Roads beyond question was this That when the President and 1 Secretary Seward met the commissioners of the Confederacy. MT. Lincoln, address ing himself to MT. Hunter, whom he knew well, said
 WHAT PRESIDENT LINCOLN SAID.
 "In the first place. gentlemen, I desire to know what are your powers and in- structions from the Richmond govern ] ment," avoiding, said Mr. Vest, as MT Hunter told himself, the words Con. federaee states Mir Hunter said: 'Mr President, we are instructed to consider no proposition that does not involve the independence of the Confederate States 1 of America"
 Then said MT. Lincoln, 'the inter view had as well terminate now, for must say to you gentlemen, frankly and 1 honestly, that nothing will be accepted 1 from the government at Richmond except absolute and unconditional surrender"
 MT. Vest said that this terminated the interview. and as the Confederate com missioners retired President Lincoln, ad- dressing Stephens, who was the last to go out, said: Stephens. you are making a great mistake. Your government is q i failure and when the crash comes. as 1t soon must come, there will be chaos and disasters which we cannot now foresee which must come to your people. This account of that interview" con- l tinued Mir Vest. 'substantially and al- most word for word as I have given 1t, 1 came to me from MT. Stephens and MT. ] Hunter. MT Vest said that he consid- cred it his duty to make this statement in order that history may not be falsi- fled; in order that the men who were said to have refused this offer at the hands of l President Lincoln should not be made to sin in their. graves, adding: "For If they had refused what is said 1 to have been rendered to them by the Presid snt they ould have been accessor- i les to the murder of every man who fell 1 from that time in defense of the Confed- crate cause and they should have given the lie to the intentions which they pro- ! everything that Is held dear amongst men, in defense of the Confederate cause.
 "It may be but a very short tune until I shall join the twenty-five colleagues l had in the Confederate Senate, and l did | not want this statement to go Into the record of this country without my state ] ment of these facts and my solemn denial that there is not a shadow Of truth In this assertion which has been going the rounds of the newspapers or the country for the last few years.'
 The discussion of the Philippine bill was then resumed and Mir. Carrack or | Tennessee, replying to MT. Burton, made q bitter denunciation of General Funston He said he did not question his physical courage, but a few acts of dare-deviltry in the Philippines did not make a hero.
 SAYS FUNSTON IS A LIAR.
 When Funston had stated that Aguin- aldo had burned 300 people alive at one time, sa q Mir. Ca'marl. hr told n d'lit. 1 crate and premeditated lie. In his opin- ion, he sail, Funston is not to be te- lieved upon my ques'ion whatever.
 The sudden waking up Of the Repu3Ii- cans, he sa q. was for the deliberate pur- pose of reviving sectional hate in order to l divert this debate and the attent; on of the people from the atrocities which have been permitted in tne Philippines.
 
 T suppose 1t Is in co offence to instiuc- tions from the White Housa,'' said he . that the effort is being made to reopen the wounds of the country that have been | healed"
 Facing the Republican side, and speak ing with evident emotion, MT. Carmack said:
 'I shall be ready to meet every slam derer of the South and every defamer of it's honor, whether the assailant comes from some part of the country beyond the borders of the South or whether 1t be some recreant and degenerate son who has proved traitor to the womb and bosom of his mother
 After stating that he would not be di- verted from the issue now before the Senate by the falsehoods brought into the debate, MT. Carmack said, referring to the charges of lynching, etc, in the | South:
 You canont help us by denunciation. The best thing you can do is to keep your months shut and let us alone"
 MT Carmack declared that Mir Lodge was dishonoring the American army and the American Senate by defending orders which looked to the murder of women and children. Such orders of death-a l.