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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-14
ERWIN AT CAPITAL
C0NsULTs WITH ATTORNEY GEN
ERAL KNOX.
CASE WILL NOT BE DROPPED.
FORFEITURE OF BONDS WILL Noc
SUFFICE.

still 81 100000 of Fraud Money to
ment Has No Intention of Resting
the Case, Says MIR. Eryvin-The
Work of Looking Up the Law sim
i'm Progress, and No Direct step
Taken in the ExtraditiOn Proceed
ings So Tar as known.
Washington, March 13.-Marion Err
win, United States attorney, in charge
of the Greene and Gaynor conspiracy
case, in Savannah, Ca, is here to con-
suit Attorney General Knox as to what
steps are being taken to have the de-
PENDANTS brought back from Canada.
Mr.. Erwin declines to anticipate what
action the government will take to re-
capture Greene and Gaynor, further
than to say the prosecution will be to
the full extent of the law, all state
ments to the contrary Notwithstanding.
Mr.. Erwin says he came to Washing
ton to report the situation to the At
torney General and receive instructions
as to what further steps shall be taken.
He says there is no foundation for the
suggestion made by unauthorized per-
sons that the government does not in
tend to press the case further, and be
satisfied with the forfeiture of the
bonds of Greene and Gaynor, amount
ing to $4,000 and the $45O,O00 of Capt.
Carters funds now in the hands of the
government receivers. He says there
is still more than $1,OOO,OOO of fraud
money to be accounted for and the
government has no intention of rest
ing the case at this point.
Mr.. Erwin was asked if there is any
probability of Greene and Gaynor es-
Gaping further prosecution by reason
of the complications incident to the
extradition of the parties from Can
ada. He replied that sit has been the
policy of the government to prosecute
every serious crime committed against
the laws regardless of cost and with
out let up or compromise. The civil
suits and the results reached will not
affect the course to be pursued in the
criminal prosecution of Messrs. Greene
and Gaynor."
Mr. Erwin spent the afternoon in
the law library of the Department OF
Justice hunting up precedents applica-
BILE to the pending case. He expects to
returne to Savannah next Monday,
when the cases against e. H. and w.
T. Gaynor will be resumed.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-14
Mr.. BRYAN AT THE CAPITOL.
Most of the Democrats and Many
Republicans Join in Giving Him
hearty and n Cordial Greeting.

Washington, March 1S.-William ].
Bryan arrived in Washington to-day
from New York. en- route to Harris
burg, Pa. The fusion members of the
Nebraska delegation in Congress took
breakfast with him, and later he visited
the CAPITOL.
At the Capitol Mr.. Bryan appeared
in the members corridor of the House
of Representatives, and was imme-
diately surrounded by large crowd of
representatives, who gave him hearty
welcome. For some time he held an
informal levee, most of the Democratic
and quite a number of Republican
members being presented to him.
The informal reception lasted some
time and during it's continuance Speak
er Henderson came from his private
Maine temporarily vacated the chair
of the House In Committee of the
Whole in order to join in the greeting.
When Representative Grosvenor of
Ohio shook hands with Mr.. Bryan
there was an exchange of good natured
badinage on presidential candidates..
Representative Swanson of Virginia
raised a laugh when referring to the
Republican controversy on Cuban re-
clpTOGlAN ne Sdlu MI. 0iOoNGhOl nav
been INFUSED with 20 per cent. of
Democracy"
Mr.. Bryan took lunch at the House
wing.
Later in the day Mr.. Bryan paid
visit to the Senate wing. He was en-
tertained there in the marble recep-
ton room and met most of the Dem
ocratic and many of the Republican
senators. His conferences with them
were generally brief and they were as
rule devoted simply TO an exchange
of social greetings. Mr.. Bryan said
that his visit to the capitol was with
out political significance.
FavOrs Election by the People.
Mr. Bryan left the city at o'clock
this afternoon for Culpepper, Va.
where he made an address tonight
He will return to Washington to-mor-
row.
The Post tomorrow will say that
the chief matter discussed by Mr..
Bryan with the Democratic senators
was the resolution proposing con-
stitutional amendment for election of
senators by direct vote of the people.
Mr.. Bryan urged Democratic senator's
to use their best endeavors to force an
early vote on the resolution by the
committee, which now has it in charge
and that an issue be made on 1t.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-14
CUBA'S FATE IN THE BALANCE.
Republican COnferees Seek COmpro-
mise, but No Reciprocity in Sight
as Yet.

Republican Conferees Seek COmpro-
mise, but No Reciprocity in Sight
as Yet.
Washington, March 13.-Late this
afternoon the work of harmonizing the
conflict over Cuban reciprocity had
progressed so far that a committee of
conferees or arbitrators, representing
the two sides of the controversy, as
sembled to frame a compromise agree
ment The meeting occurred in the
private quarters of the Ways and
Means Committee room, with Chair
man Payne and Representatives Dali
2ell and Cannon present in behalf of
the Ways and Means reciprocity ele-
ment, while five members of the oppo-
sition, namely, Representatives Met
calf of California, Dick and Tayler of
Ohio, Fordney of Michigan and Nor
ris of Minnesota acted as arbitrators
In behalf of the Republicans who have
resisted the Ways and Means origi-
nal plan of 20 per cent. reciprocity for
an unlimited period.
The conference lasted about two
hours and was not productive of final
results, an adjournment being taken
until 2 p. M, tomorrow. All plans of
compromise which have been suggest
ed were reviewed, particularly that
limiting the reciprocity period until
December 1903. Beyond discussing
the several plans, no ac
ton was taken. When the
conference was ended it was stated
that the discussion had been along
such harmonious lines that an agree
ment seems assured.
Chairman Payne and his associates
seemed to be less confident than the
other conferees that an agreement was
in sight.
Prior to the meeting of the arbitra-
tors, the element opposing the Ways
ana Means Committee plan assembled
10 determine on a course of action. 1t
was decided to name five conferees in
stead of three, in order to make the
pody more representative of the vari-
gus sctions interested. 1t was also
deemed desirable not to give the con-
1erees final power to make terms, but
only to consider and report back. This
precaution was taken in order that
mere might be a full understanding
vi the compromise plan by all of those
VINO opposed the original Ways and
means Committee plan.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-14
Mr.. MEALrS CASE
SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST AM
BAsSADOR CLAYTON.
THE FACTS MISREPRESENTED.
MR.. CLAYTON INTERESTED IN A
RIVAL COMPANY.

,,o,Iv,s Counsel Submits His side of
The Case to the State Department
Tbrou:h Senator NeIsOn-Mr. Clay
ton Alleged to Be Interested i'm
Rival Mining Company in Which
Mexican officials Are Also Inter
ested and which Is Seeking Fav-
ors of the Government.
washington, March 1S.-Mr. Theall,
local counsel for Mr.. Mealy the Ameri-
can citizen who is held under an order
of court in Mexico for contempt, has
submitted to the State Department,
through United States Senator Nelson,
q long statement of the case from
Mealy's side, which reflects upon
United States Ambassador Powell
CLAYTON. 1t is alleged that the ambas-
sador has misrepresented the facts in
the case to the department and that he
is interested in a rival mining company
which has affected his attitude towards
Mealy and his legal fight with the de-
velopment company, which forms the
basis of the present action against him.
In sending the papers to the state
department, Senator Nelson wrote quite
a lengthy letter, and refers to the ac-
companying papers, among which is
an affidavit in Spanish by Juan Barrera
with an English translation showing
the alleged connection of Ambassador
CLAYTON with certain mining companies
in Mexico, in which Mexican govern
ment officials are also interested. SEN
ator Nelson refers to what he calls the
serious import of the charges and sug-
gests the improperly of an Ambassa-
dor from this country being member
of a large mining company which is
looking for favors from the
Mexican government. He says
such an Ambassador will not
be in a condition to protect an Ameri-
can citizen against the encroachments
of a company in which many of the
leading officials of the Mexican govern
ment are interested. He says there is
a rule as to consuls which does not
allow them to engage in trade in coun-
tries to which they are sent and states
that the necessity for such a rule
should be much stronger in preventing
a diplomatic officer from engaging in
speculative mining enterprises. The
senator suggests that the questions in
volved in the Mealy case are impor-
tant, especially as they affect the star
tus of the ambassador to Mexico.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-14
BEAUMONT'S HORROR
MURDEROUs GANG TOOK LIVES OF
MANY.
FIVE BODIES FOUND IN RIVER.
FIFTY PERSONS ARE SAID TO BE
MISSING.

Matte Bennett, the Negress Leader
of the Gang, Confesses to the
sheriff and duplicates Others-Her
Runners, who Were White Men,
Brought in Men with MOney-The
Women Gave Them Beer With
Knock Out Drops and Then They
Were Reaten and Robbed or TAX
en- to the Hobo Yard"
Beaumont. Tex, March 1s.-Mattie
Bennett has confessed to Sheriff Lind
ley that she was at the head of a gang
of negro women and white men who
had for months been Turing men into
her house, drugging them, beating
them and robbing them. If they were
only stunned they were taken out of
the house to a remote part of some
street and left for pedestrians or police
men to find.
A fear is felt that more than twelve
men, among those who have come to
Beaumont and were afterward reported
as missing" have been murdered and
that their bodies are now at the bottom
of the river. In the last three months
at least fifty inquiries for missing men
have been received, and while no one
supposes that the gang has murdered
so many as fifty, there is fear that
some of the disappearance are due to
their work. Five bodies have been
found in the river since the first of
the year.
Matte Bennett's Confession.
Beaumont, Tex, March 15.-John
Welsh white man, who has been inn
plicated by allegation by Matte Ben
nett, the negress leader of the gang
of robbers and murderers, which has
been operating here, was brought to
Beaumont to-day, having been arrest
ed at Houston on the strength of the
woman's confession. Welsh denies
completely in the murders. He was an
iron moulder employed in the foundry
where Benjamin Pearson, one of the
murdered men, worked.
In jail to-day the Bennett woman
talked freely to a reporter. She con-
fessed everything except direct MUIR
der, and went fully into the details of
the plans followed by the gang.
THE business has been going on for
six months" said she. 1.-The men
would go out to the saloons and street
corners and find men that had money
1ney would DIlDS lnem 10 my mouse,
and / and the other women would give
them beer with Knockout drops in it,
Then the men would either heat them
up there and rob them, or take them out
into the Hobo yard. l do not know
how many men l have drugged too
many to remember, and all of them
were robbed.
II don't know what them folks that
I've told the sheriff about will do to
me-. l know I'm safe in Jail now, but
If / ever get out they will kill me, If
any of them are alive and are out of
the penitentiary then"
The Neches river, where five bodies
of supposed victims of the gang were
found, skirts the town of Beaumont
1t is about $50 feet wide and 80 feet
deep. In some places swamps run
back. A body thrown into the swamps
stands small chance. of being found If
it is true that so persons have disap-
peared from Beaumont. this may be
the solution of the mystery of the miss
ing bodies.
The case In some of it's features re-
calls the Bender family murders in
Labette county, Kansas, thirty years
age.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-14
GERMANY'S AFRICAN COTTON.
Grade Above MiddIing In Togo
land, West Africa.

Berlin, March 1S.-The negroes of the
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial In
stitute, who We're engaged the latter
part of 1900 by the German government
to teach the natives of Togoland, Ger
man West Africa. how to grow cotton.
have, according to the report of the
Colonial Committee, succeeded in pro-
ducing cotton which is graded on the
Bremen exchange above American
middling. The Tuskegee negroes have
demonstrated that the land in Togo
land is suitable for cotton of which
there is great abundance. The only
obstacle to the commercial utilization
of this product is transportation, and
especially getting the bales to the
coast. The Colonial Committee has
sent an expedition of engineers to sur
vey for railroad from the coast town
of LONE to Palime in the interior.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-14
THE NICARAGUA CANAL BILL.
senator Morgan Takes Up Question
of Date of Consideration.

Washington, March Ex-senator Nor
gan, chairman of the Senate Commit
tee on Inter-Oeeanic Canals, was in
conference to-day with members of the
Republican steering committee of the
Senate with reference to the matter
of date for the consideration of the
Nicaragua canal bill and, while no in
dividual member would undertake to
say what the committee as a whole
would do, several of them expressed
the opinion that the bill should be
made the unfinished business imme-
diately after the disposal of the oleo-
margarine bill, which had been sched-
uled for the place of preference after
the bill for the protection of Presidents
of the United States. Senator Morgan
is not disposed to unduly press the
consideration of the measure.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-14
ANOTHER ANTI-MERGER BILL.
steel Corporation to BE Made Party
Defendant to Suit in Minnesota.

ST. Paul. Mimi, March 13.-Gov. Van
SAINT has instructed Attorney General
Douglass to begin proceedings in the
state courts against the merger Of the
Iron Range railroads. The bill will be
filed very soon and the United States
Steel Corporation, which is reputed to
own the stock Of the Duluth, Mesaba
and Northern and Duluth and Iron
Range railroads, will be made a party
defendant The steel corporation has
offices at Duluth and it is thought
there will be no difficulty in reaching
i. through the state courts.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-14
SUFFRAGE ABANDONMENT.
crump"cI>er Introduces Resolution
for Investigation.

Washington, March 13-Rrepresent-
alive Crumpacker of Indiana to-day
introduced a resolution authorizing the
Speaker to appoint special committee
of thirteen members to investigate the
suffrage laws of the several states, and
whether the right of suffrage is in any
way abridged or denied.
A somewhat similar resolution was
agreed upon by a House Republican
caucus at which a majority of mem
bers was not present, but no action
was taken on it by the House Com
mittee on Rules.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-14
WE'RE REPUBLICANS AFRAIDs
Resolution Referring to Irregulari-
ties in Transport Service Is Emas-
cuIated.

Resolution Referring to Irregular1-
ties in Transport Service Is Emas-
cuIated.
Washington. March ia spirited
controversy occurred before the House
Committee on Military Affairs to-day
over the resolution calling on the War
Department for information as to al
legged irregularities of the transport
service.
Representative Richardson of Ten
nessee originally introduced the reso-
luton calling for reports by Col. j. l..
Chamberlin and Col. M. F. Maus of the
inspector generals Office of the army as
to the transport service. This reso-
luton when called up in the committee
to-day brought on a vigorous discus
sion between Representative Hay,
Democrat of Virginia, and Representa-
tive Porker, Republican, of New Jer-
sey.
BY a party vote the request for the
reports of Col. Chamberlain and Col.
Maus was struck out and a substitute
adopted, requesting the Secretary. of
War for "all facts that have come
to his knowledge as to the condition of
the transport service between San
Francisco and the Philippines"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-14
WILL BENEFIT GERMAN LINES.
North German Lloyd Director Talks
of Shipping Agreement.

Berlin, March 13.-Herr Wiegand,
general director of the North German
Lloyd, in an interview published in
Bremen, says that the shipping agree
ment in no way impinges upon the in
dependence of the German companies,
but that it will benefit both German
lines, laying solid basis for constant
freight and passenger rates. Herr
Weigand added that the agreement
was as yet provisional, but that 1T
would be published as soon as 1t was
arranged in a definitive form, He said
that personally he was thoroughly
satisfied with the result of the nego-
tiations.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-14
MAY MEET PRINCE HENRY.
Emperor William May Take Him
Aboard "a BattIeshfp.

Berlin, March 1S.-Emperor William,
and accompanied by two or three
other warships, may meet the North
German Lloyd steamer Deutschland at
sea and trans-ship Prince Henry to the
German war vessel.
This report has reached the Ameri-
can embassy here. The members of
Emperor williams suite, however, de-
clare these arrangements to be uncer-
tain. 1t is thought that the Emperor
wishes TO have the first long talk with
Prince Henry and that this can be
most comfortably obtained before the
Ia tier lands.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-14
+. STONE FoR PRESIDENT.
Dallas Sons of Veterans Have "a
Candidate.

Waco. Tex. March 1s.-sul Rose
Camp. Sons of Confederate Veterans.
has decided to put in nomination for
national president at the Dallas re-
unson. T. Stone of this city, now COM
mander OF the Texas division. Judge
r. +. Haughton of st. Louis will not
be an aspirant for reelection.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-14
New road for Beaumont.

Houston, Tex, March 13.-General
Manager Leroy Trice of the Inter
national and Great Northern Railway
to-day stated positively that that road
would build a branch from Houston to
Orange Tex, via Beaumont. a distance
of 100 miles
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-14
MAI. GEN. YOUNG RELIEVED.
VIII Be President of War College
If Funds Are Provided.


Washington, March 13.-By direction
of the President, Maj. Gen. Samuel b.
NJ. Young has been relieved from COM
mand of the Department of California,
to take effect March Is, when he will
come to this city to assume the presi-
dency of the Army War College which
is to be established at Washington
Barracks, provided the necessary funds
are appropriated by Congress. Gen.
Young is regarded as one of the ablest
and most progressive general officers in
the army and was especially selected
by the secretary of war to organize
and direct the proposed war college.
Brig. Gen. Robert P. Hughes, now
on duty in this city, as president of the
board of uniforms, has been selected
as the successor of Gen. Young in
command of the department of Cali
fornia.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-14
ONLY ONE BODY RECOVERED.
Victims of Mississippi Wreck still
Lie Beneath Steamers Upturned


Vicksburg, Miss, March 13.-The tug
Joe Seay with Capt. w. H. Morgan,
owner of the wrecked steamer Provi-
dence, William Crubpey. president of
the board of supervisors, and several
others returned to-day from the scene
of disaster with the body of Walter
Burns, colored, the only one they sue
ceeded in recovering. Mr.. Crubpey
states that the Providence is lying
bottom up with a slight list to star
board and that the bodies of Capt. Cas-
sidy, Engineer Roup, DR.. Lancaster
and Mr.. Scott are probably under
meath the wreckage.
Capt. Morgan left a force of men on
the scene and every effort will be
made to recover the bodies.
It is still believed twenty persons
were drowned, four white and sixteen
negroes
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-14
MoNNIsH DOCTORS INDICTED.

savannah woman ISe0 ny Atiauta
Residents to Obtain Evidence and
Makes Charge of Criminal Prnc-
tice.
Atlanta, March 13.-Dr. w. A. Mon
nish and his wife, Mrs. Rosa Monnish,
both of whom practice medicine here,
were indicted to-day on a charge of
felony, and each was placed under bond
for 81. 600. The charge is one of GRIM
inal medical practice, and the princi-
pal testimony in the case was given to
the grand jury by Ethel Royal, a res
ident og Savannah, who said she was
at one time a patient at the Monnish
Sanitarium here. Ethel Royal was
found and brought here by certain res
idents of the section in which it was
proposed by Monnish and his wife to
build a sanitarium, and which project
has so far been defeated, after hard
fighting. The permit for the building
was refused and the matter was taken
into the courts. where 1t Is still pend
ing, the Monnishs having lost out on
every attempt up to the present time.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-14
conEre.s Mny Adioprn in Jnne.

Washington, March Ex-senator
Hale, who is a leading member of the
Senate Committee on Appropriations
and also of the Republican Steering
Committee, to-day expressed the opin-
ion that Congress would be prepared
70 adjourn for the Senate by June 10.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-14
STEAMERS COLLIDE AT NORFOLK.
The Norfolk Damaged by the Ger.
man steamer Hispania.

Norfolk, Va, March 19.-The steamer
Norfolk of the Norfolk and Washing
ton line, and the steamer Hispania
(German) collided just off Lambert's
Point shortly after noon to-day. The
Norfolk was damaged to the extent OF
about $1,000
The captain and crew of the Norfolk
claim the collision was the result of
the failure of-the captain of the His
pania to pay attention to signals. No
one was injured.
The Hispania was Immediately libell
ed by the agents of the Norfolk for
S4,555.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-14
FOR GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP.
chairman Knapp Takes Extreme
View on Transportation.

view on Transportation.
New York. March 13.-Martin A.
Knapp, chairman of the Interstate
commerce Commission, delivered lec-
lure last night in Cooper Union on
transportation" in which he advo-
Gated the government ownership of all
ia"roads. In part Mr.. Knapp said:
AS L view this matter, the state has
az much right to farm out the business
VI VI collecting its revenues or preserving
me peace and allow the parties en-
listed with these duties to vary the
t ;s OF taxation according to their own
++a - or to sell personal protection
~ Ihe highest bidder, as it has to per-
I'M, ,ilt the great function of public car
tbiase to be made the subject of special
gains or secret dicker to be made
ton. " NAN-0AA ~
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-14
ONCE A CHICAGO ATTORNEY.
Alleged COunterfeiter Says He HID
Good Practice There.

Norfolk, Va. March BE. t. Ster-
ling and Joseph Sherer, white men,
charged with flooding Huntersville
with spurious cent pieces were to-
day held for the United States grand
jury by Commissioner Bowden. Ster-
ling claims to be an attorney from
Chicago and says that at one time he
had a good practice there.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-14
EXCLUSION BILL IN HOUSE.
VIII Be Amended SO ms TO Apply to
Lnborers Only.

Washington. March 13.-The House
Committee on Foreign Affairs to-day
began consideration Of the Chinese ex-
clusion bill Action taken to-day in
sures the report of the Mitchell Kahn
exclusion measure. with amendments
clearly restricting it to Chinese labor
erS.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-14
TEXAS FARMER MURDERED.
Negro Arrested and "A Lynching Mar
rOwIy Averted.

Tyler, Tex, March ID. L. Alfred,
Wen known farmer, was found muir
Ie'ed near Troup last night. Sam
IaIlei a negro, has been arrested,
- geo with the crime. A lynching
is still high.