The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-22

tectives are dead and another IS not eX- | pected to live through the night, while one robber suspect Is at the morgue' and two others are in the hospital prop- ably fatally wounded and the other badly beaten up as the result of desperate battle today between five officers and three men whom they tried to arrest. Harry Adams who escaped at the time of the shooting was captured later by Detective Lee Killlam, who fired twice in making the arrest
 The Dead.
 John J. Shea, detective.
 Al. Rose, suspect.
 Thomas Dwyer deetectiye.
 The wounded:
 James McCluskey, detective, critical
 c. c. Blair, fugitive, shot four times through body.
 The fight occurred in the front room of house on Pine street and the men whom the dectectives sought to arrest are suspected of being implicated In a train robbery at Centralia Iowa, few weeks ago.
 The house has been under police sur veilance for several days. A few min utes before the light occurred, Vaughan left the house and started to walk down Pine street. The detectives closed in on him as he had gone some distance from the house and he was arrested.
 Returned and Entered House.
 Accompanied by their prisoner, the de- tectiVes returned and entered the house. Shea, McCluskey and Dwyer were leading ha11f ffd Ina prisoner. Hardly had the detectives en- tered the room in which Rose and Blair were seated, when they were met with a volley of shots from a heavy callbre re- volYer. Shea sank to the floor at the first shot and Dwyer followed almost in- stantly. By that time the detectives had drawn their reyolvers and there was deafening exchange of shots for several moments.
 During the excitement Vaughan en- deavored to escape from his captors and assist Rose and Blair. Boyle and James, however clubbed him with revolvers and beat their prison over the head till he was unconscious and then went to the aid of Shea, Dwyer and McCluskey. the latter having in the meantime sank to the floor with critical wound In the stomach.
 Several hours after being taken to the hospital Detective Thomas Dwyer died. It was stated then by the physicians that it was feared Detective McCluskey and c. c. Blair could not live.
 that the chances are that an attempt to execute such a policy will require much larger army than we have now and much greater expenditures of money than $l15,- 100000 a year. But the people have not as yet approved the administration s pol icy in dealing with the South American states. They have not yet said by their vote that they are in favor of conferring upon the President the power to inter- fere with the internal affairs of a South American state at pleasure; to investi- gate their form of government; to see whether or not he is satisfied with 1t and in the event that he is not to summarily decree such punishment as in his judg- ment the circumstances warrant.
 But the President has not the power to declare c policy equivalent to threat of armed intervention whenever he shall decide circumstances justify it. An att tempt to exercise such a power would constitute a usurpation prohibited by the constitution of the United States. Hence it is safe to assume that notwiths landing the letter of Secretary Root, which was read at the Cuban anniversary dinner TO administration will dare attempt to establish a universal protectorate over American states or to become responsl- 1 ble for their misdeeds.
 MT. Olney Defines Doctrine.
 MT. 0lney admirably stated the pur- l pose of the Monroe doctrine in his ad- dress at Harvard college, March 2 1898:
 The vital feature of the monroe doc Urine is that no European power shall l -T A sf..ssTa 4r.aiI | and forcibly control the political fortunes l and destinies of its people.
 That is the national position and it | will be maintained
 But how South American states shall l behave toward each other whether they shall govern themselves well or be prosperous Is not a part of the Monroe doctrine. Until the people shall amend the | constitution so as to permit the execution .of the remarkable policy suggested by the letter of Secretary Root, it is perfectly | safe to say that we shall have no more need for a larger army than we formerly ! had In the conduct of the war depart ment alone there can be saved to the peo- pie many millions a year, which the ad- ministration not only does not propose to save, but is furnishing strong presumptive | evidence of extravaganza. Seven years ago under democratic ad- ministration the civil ana miscellaneous expenses of the government amounted to $9O, 900 for the year. During all the his- l tory of this country the expenditures of l this character had been gradually mount ing up as the country increased in popula- l ton, until finally it had reached the sum of s90. O0O 600.
 Expenditures Grow Tremendously.
 Now what has happened? So tremen- | dously have our expenditures under that | head grown under the last seven years | that the last fiscal year they amounted to | $1S6, ,0O0 GOO, more than double the expendi- lures of 1897. If we deduct the extraor- dinary expenditures for the Panama canal and rights, amounting to s50,OOO,00 we still find the expenditures under that head to be $46.o00.O00 greater than they were several years ago, an increase of | more than 50 per cent.
 "I have on another occasion referred
 to the waste of money in the Philippines, | putting the cost to us at S650' OOo,OOo. In ad- | dition to the s2O,O0OOO0 paid to Spain for
 the opportunity of taking it's place in 1 wasting lives and money on the Philip | pines. asserting not dollar of it will | ever come back to us. The answers so