Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-01-23
SCBBBPBRS WAS DEAD
So Teller's Efforts to Save l'oer Le'il'
err Come to Naught.
EXECUTED LAST SATURDAY
Ignorant of This Fact. the se""'"'
Introduced a Resolution ShH"s
For Intervention In Case OF
Late COlnmaEdaHt.

Il introduced in the senate a resolutle
y calling for intervention in the case
q Commandant Scheepers of the BOZ
1 army, who. 1t was reported, would |
,. executed by the British next Satllrda.
} The senator spoke at some length 0
the resolution.
: Late in the afternoon it was state
In a disps tch from New York that
cable error had occurred and that tn
commandant had in reality been exc
cuted last Saturday.
Commandant Scheepers was wei
known as one of the most energetic o
the Cape Colony raiders. With a SINAI
but well equipped force he for yer!
long eluded the vigilance of his pur
suers and succeeded in doing consid
cradle damage. He became isolated
however, in the south last September
and was driven from post to post, los
ing heavily in every engagement.
About this time, too, he fell i'll and
finally could only be moved about in a
buggy, eventually becoming so much
worse that he sought shelter on a
farm at Ketting, where he was taken
prisoner by troop Of the Tenth hus
sars on Oct. H.
After Kritzinger the chief figure in
the second invasion Of Cape Colony
was certainly Scheepers. He pushed
farther south than any other Boer
commander, and it is said that he ac-
tually reached the sea at Mossel bay.
Senator TelIer's Resolution.
The resolution which was introduced
by Senator Teller was as follows:
Whereas. 1t is announced that sentence
OF death has been passed upon Comman-
dant Scheepers of the Orange Free State
army, now prisoner of war in the hands |
OF the British forces in South Africa; and,
Whereas, 1t is known that said Com |
mandant Scheepers was captured while |
lying sick and wounded in hospital such |
capture being in violation of articles and |
D or the Geneva convention: and,
whereas, His execution by the British
authorities will lead to acts of retaliation
and reprisal, be it
Resolved by the senate, the house Of
ldent request the government of Great
bfltaln to set aside in the interest of hu
mainly such sentence Of death and accord
10 Commandant Scheepers the privileges
tnu lmmunltles guaranteed under the Ge-
1eva convention
Arter reading press dispatches recit.
ng the statements of fact in the reso.
luton Mr.. Teller said: II am told we
AN nave very soon official evidence
nat the statements in the resolution
ire correct. This is case which Ger.
AMY calls for the Intervention of the
h'ted States or of some other povern.
hent which has some feeling of hu.
nanity War, wherever it is, should
Z conducted upon principles of hu-
lahlty or at least if not we should on.
ar our protest against it,"
Debate on New Department min |
AT the conclusion of routine business
H. nelson called up the bill establish {
L department of commerce Mr.
uarles (Wis.l offered an amendman+ {
'oVldlng that the secretary of com. /
cree should have complete contro1 -
e work of gathering and distributina
information naturally relat,
: ~ the subjects confided to bis do =,
rtiheht' and to this end the secretorr :
commerce should have authoritv d
~ upon all other departments of the r. =,
,,i,i'ieht for statistical data tn NO -
p'isiiea as he may deem wise "'
VII. Halllnger made vigorous orn,
.l' In support of the pending Mas
;. Inc establishment of such . us
'' a,, ne said had been demanded b.
commercial and industrial hodioa III
W the country for Years p p
ne president pro tenn. Mr. rr, 80
4 oeIore the senate letter fran ~ OK
huei Gompers president of t oi'i
+tnn Federation of Labor nro -
ing against the incorporation of pro- t, Bl
OF labor in the pronosn1 1 pa
ar'lleht of commerce He soi,i i'o ap his
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p pns' , labor Of The v.un,ro. W y, cot
nope ultimately that il ,ni"t+ ' ~ hay
Is 0i'e oi 'he executive GepartI1o.,| cou
n' soNerhlhent with Il secro4,.,.
u VINO should have a Sent ' 81 o.
lueiit cabinet. Nj. Comners ~, '''e IL
piilioh tlfat if the departn,pnt oe was mel
we're incorporated in the la ~ ID ner'
vi commerce it would ,pi,,; p"r'' peft
OF labor ana he nrnt '.nl"e pres
INST any such result p'o'ested dem
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