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to Henry 4. Wise Wood to settle Il point
that had been raised regarding IA, send
ing of the ileet to West Indian waters
when trouble was brewing between
Venezuela and Germany
81 b,g To- acknowledge the receipt of
your letter Of May o." writes the Ad-
m.ra!. asking me TO set you right re
spcct.ns certain facts REGARDING co.
Roosevelt action over \eirZueid.
Il was at Culcbra. Porto Rico. AZ IL"
time in command az n iice, consisting
OF over atty ships, includsng every bat
tleship and every torpedo boat that we
had. with orders from Washington TO
hold the fleet in hand and Ice ready to
move at a moments notice. Fortunately.
However. the whole matter was amiCably
adjusted and there was no need for
action.
Hoping the above statement is cx-
actly what you want and thanking you
for the compliments YOU pay me. very
truly yours, 'GEuRGE DEWEY"
col Roosevelt believes hat the &c
ton which he took at tina time epi'o-
mjzes what he means when he says.
Speak softly and carry a hlg stick y
The demonstration. originally planned
by New Yorker. VIII" Intended to march
from Broadway To- sycamore Hlll. ha~
tow been pat into the hands Of the
fsipstNtll NbN-liIll~tN ls''EH'' So
retary Guy Emerson and Treasurer y
:. Desmond f the league came hero
tonight, They said that they expect
100 men to come out tomorrow, and
tina there will he three special trains. in
stead of only one, as first planned, leav-
ing the Pennsylvania station at J 80
o'clock. The trains Viii stop at Jamaica
10 take or Roosevelt boomers,
When the amy outrtius here the vi.
iturs VIII face a three mile march along
a winding roid and NJ steer hill some
Of the enthusiasts Who are not equal to
the hill climbing are trying To have ar
rauEemeutS male for AN automobile
cavalcade IN addition to the foot soldiers
ami the band,
There are tho names Of man authors
and artists. iuoludinE Charles Dana Glib
son. Howard chandler Christy and James
MuutEom'rE tldES among the maivh"is,
When I'll nav reached their dest.ua-
ton and cod. Roosevelt api-aIs. kIoh-
ard NJ. Huri. state Prison Commissioner,
will make 4 short address. Then the
cN-Presldcut will sneak
col. Roosevelt next trip, on which he
starts IN sunday afternoon. Will con-
cluic with a sI.rch next Thursday eve
ming at Newark His trIp rs 1t now
stands includes a stay Of fog hours In
chiCago, where a demonstration is said
TO be planned. a ak In Kansas city Al
"A luncheon and tn, Memorial bay ad-
dress in the Afternoon, a speech the next
noon in -. Louis, III. return to Newark,
and thence home to oyster Bay.
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STAMPEDE FOR 7. r. PLAN
OF FRIENDS, G. O. p. HEARS
Missionaries for the Colonel Working With Vigor and
Success in Middle West-Hughes Right
on Policies, IT'S Said.

some other favorite son candidate 10
MIR. sherman asks them to do so. MI,
only in the event that the Illinois ma,
can prove to them that such a coar,a
will result In an immediate nomina,io,
Having performed their duty to Mr.
Sherman. who is only a long sho, a.
hest, ii is predicted by Roosevelt leaders
that a considerable number of tho m.
nois delegates will swing TO the sag,
Of Sycamore Hill.
a good deal Of interest was aroused
here to-day by "a report that William
RI. Taft would support MIR. Roosevelt,
II he were named by the convention.
MIR. Taft. who is in Washington to A..
tend a peace meeting. characterized
this report as a violent hypothesis"
81 do not feel called upon to answer
any such violent hypothesis said NJ.
Taft smilingly.
REPORT n Faisehood.
A friend fully in the confidence O,
Mr.. Taft said In connection with Il,
report
THE rumor is being circulated for
purpose. There is absolutelt nu's.ru
in IL. It has been IN circulation 10
some time. The report is not Il Hgf,a.
OF the Imagination. 1t Is an absolute
falschood, put out to make MIR. Roosevelt
appear strong as ~ Republican oalI'.
date.
mir. TAFT believes Mr. Roosevelt , mo-.
less pf a menace to the country than
Mr.. W son. Instead Of there h''us 1
reason for the assumption that Nj TAI
viii support Mr.. Roosevelt u lo .
nominated it is to be ssumcd that NJ
TAFT will feel it his duty to be active I
opposition IL Col. Roosevelt Is NON
mated"
There aIe sim many questions, isbeI
as to where Justice Hughes stands Oh
the public questions of tno day Ger.
tain senators who have Pronounced
views on subrerts that will bc considered
In the Republican platform hdl. said
that they are satisfied thar Mr. IIghe-
Is thoroughly In accord with the PARTY
view,
Those leaders are not proceed ~ upon
assumption, it l. said. but on d-i'it, ln.
formation that the Justice on 'hIr, Of
tn. questions which the platform ~
discuss. H. in accord with the NepJblcaa
view. These three questions rUrrcju
Mexico. preparedness and neutrality
Republican leaders say dl>o That 'U'.'
h. not the slightest doubt of Mi. Hughes
stand ON Nmo.icuuisn that he favuts
as strongly as does col. Roosevelt re
pr,tcct. ou % the lives of American ''-
zens wherever they may be. whether IN
MeNlc, or on the Atlantic. l;eruhl IN
Leaders are lkewiS" satisfied f1H' Jus.
tee Hughes stands for preparedness
Concerning Americas relation. '' tu"
European war no declaration .- lrr>.u't,
t'r-, leaders say. either nv the keput-
liclu party or the Government Itself
except one. That the United S'I'"s IS
strictly neutral.
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NEW YORK MAIL HELD UP.
Norwegian Line Hereafter VIII In.
vite Inspection at Kirk wall.

CHRIsTrANIA May Elm order to
avoid complications and trouble with the
British authorities all steamships Of the
Norwegian American Line will from
this time on voluntarily put into Kirk
wall for mail inspection on their way
to n from America.
All the mail on the steamship Ber-
gensfjord. which arrived at Bergen from
New York to-day. was removed and de-
tanned at kirkwall.
In order to be more Independent OF
British coa supplies the company will
transport coal from the United states
to Norway in Il steamship Of 1900 tons
recently purchased.
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BRITISH SEIZE DANISH MAILS.
Fake Parcel POst From ship Hound
10 Copenhagen, Despite Promise.

BERLIN. via London. May 2S-The
overseas News Agency announces that
according to a statement issued by IN.
Danish Post Office the parcel pos, on
board the Danish steamship Tyaldur,
bound from Farver Island to Copen.
hagen. was taken of by British officials
at Leith.
as saying that the seizure Of the post
was In violation of the British promise
not to interfere with mail from one
Danish port to another.
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COMMITTEE UPHoLDS NEARING.
ProfesnOrs' Inquiry Hoard Criticises
Action Of 4. of y. -

PHILADELPHIA, May c6.-The report
Of the inquiry committee named by the
American Association OF University
Professors To investigate the case Of
Prof. Scott Nearing and his failure to
he rcappointcd n member Of the faculty
of the University Of Pennsylvania was
made public Tonight, The report up-
holds Nearing throughout,
sharply criticising the action Of the
university board of trustees, the inQuir-
ing professors decide that the action can
only he regarded as an infringement
of academic freedom, despite the assur-
ances NJ the trustees that any such mo.
tive In not encouraged by them.
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Charles NJ Pepper, publicity agent of
the Root campaign committee, who ar
rived yesterday. had things ready for the
firing Of the first shot by the Root
brigade. About june !, II was announced,
100 business men from Utica and vicinity
will come to Chicago to help put Root
over" They VIII constitute the New
York "buttonholing committee"
David Mulvane ~ Kansas, eX-national
Committeeman and one of the regulars"
of 1879. was among the arrivals AT the
congress-. The one thing he knew about
the Kansas dclegation was that ii is
anti-Rooseyelt.
There are some Hughes men OF the
delegation, but not "A nan that know of
~ for Roosevelt" sad Mr.. Mulvane, who
was swampcd in the Roosevelt uprising
of 1872.
Justice Hughes Is to be smoked out"
l. II ~ possible IN "A systematic way. This
was gossip In Candidates Row, The
report got about that both the l.ousc-
vcltians II the old line Republicans are
going to demand some sort OF d~ecla,a-
ton from the Justice.
The impression IL being circulated hy
the Allies" in the "favoritc son" group
that col. Roosevelt viii beat Justice
Hughes in the Republican convention and
that the Colonel Will thereafter he found
going along with "A united Republican
phalanX.
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"rhls Is illustrated by the case Of the
French steamer Fl0rlde, captured hy the
auxiliary cruiser TrinZ Eitel Friedrich,
cited by the British and French Gov
erumen's In support of their argument
regarding parcel mails. In this Ease the
letter maiis OF the fluride. amounting
20 lit sacks. were forwarded to their
destination by the commander at the
frst opportunity upon arriving in the
United states.
eft you'd seem therefore to he con-
clLsivelv established that the Interior
ment Justly complains are wrong In
principle and in practice,
"The arbitrary methods employed by
the British and French Governments
have resulted most dlsastrously to cit
izens Of the United States. important
papers which can never be duplicated
or can be duplicated only with great
difficulty. such as United States patents
for Inventions. rare documents. legal
papers relating to the settlement of
estates, powers of attorney, fire inNlr-
anC- claims. income tax returns and
similar matters. have been lost.
Delays in receiving shipping docu-
ueuts have caused great loss and incon-
ve%niepce by preventing prompt delivery
% goods. In tn" case Of the MacSIn
Horticultural Company OF New York
largo eoipments Of plants and bulbs
from Holland were, ! am informed.
frozen on the wharven berause protection
documents relating to them. which had
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CAPT. WIEGAND RETIRED.
Had served IN New York Police De.
pnrtment for ~ Years.

Police Captain JOIN Wiegand, for
merry attached to the Rockaway Beach
station. was retired yesterday on the
order Of Commissioner Woods with an
annual pension OF S1,750. Wiegand is
80 years old and a civil war veteran,
having enlisted as a drummer hey In
1851 and subsequently serving - ' cav
alryman.
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WAsHiNGToH, May 26.-Evidence con-
aries for the Roosevelt candidacy are
active in practically every state and put
ting up n campaign which indicates that
strenuous efforts will be made to stam-
pede the convention for the cx-president.
Word was received in Washington to-
night from "a delegate at large. who Is
instructed for another candidate, but
who is at heart for Mr.. Roosevelt. that II
series of meetings will be held in the
middle West next week to accelerate the
Roosevelt movement.
Senators and Representatives. in Con-
gress who will go to Chicago as dele
gates, are being deluged with kilograms
urging them 10 support Roosevelt. Hun
dreds Of the kilograms come from Iowa,
Illinois. Minnesota and other states in
the middle West and the Northwest. In
CURRY has developed that these messages
are the result of "A vigorous campaign
that has been i~naugurated by The re-
Gently formed Roosevelt committee.
AS part OF the messages. II IL set
forth that jhe Roosevelt candidacy is
moving forward rapidly. that many of
the uninstructed delegates will swing
10 the eX-i'residcnt and that Mr.. Roose-
welt. better than any other man IN the
party. has given expression to the is
sues upon which the party Will bid for
support In the coming campaign.
Insist lie HASN'T ~ Chance.
While old time leaders are somewhat
puzzled over the new life that has been
put into the Roosevelt campaign. they
still insist thai Mir. Roosevelt has not
a chance for the nomination and that
the only effect OF ii will be to give
him a stronger strategic position In die
tating the platform IN part and in nam
Ing the candidate.
II is just as much a mystery as ever
who Mr.. Roosevelt will favor In case he
fails n no Information on this point
il forthcoming from any of the Iioosc-
welt leaders.
Information comes from Illinois that
has had a dlSqui'tiug effect on some of
the managers OF the "favoriic son"
group. SOM time ago the iavorIt. sons
announced they had Il sufficient number
of pledges to make certain the defeat
OF MIR. Roosevelt under amy c.rcum-
Stances that might arise ia the cuuNen-
ton.
Included In tho block of delegates
whom 1t was supposed would stand ont
against Mr.. Roosevelt iu tuo cad were
most OF thos, from Illinois. /, now de-
>clops there are moro Roosevelt men
in the Illinois dcl-Ettou ;htu was as
frs; suspected and ;htt NhI.c they VIII
vote for senator sherman as Ions as he
holds them NJ. sherman cannot deliver
tie delegation at Viii.
Most Of these delegates VIII go TO
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seas as asserted in the joint note under
Acknowledgement.
ut is noted with satisfaction that the
British and French Governments do not
claim and, IN the opinion of this Gov
eminent, properly do not claim that their
so-Callcd blockade measures are suih-
Client grounds upon which TO base a right
to interfere with all classes OF mail mat
tr in tgansIt to or from the Central
Powers. ON the contrary. their contcn-
ton appears To- be that as genuine cor
i,spondcnco' is under conventional stipu-
lation 'inviolable,' mail matter OF other
classes ~ subject to detention and cx-
animation.
While the Government OF the United
states agrees that genuine corre-
spondcurc' mail - iuyiolabic. IL does not
adInit that bcliigcrents may search other
private saa borne mails for any other
purpose Than to discover whether they
,pntn'u articles OF enemy ownership
carried on beiliCcrcnt vessels or articles
OF coatraband transmitted under sealed
cover as letter mail. though they may
intercept at sea all mails coming out OF
aud going INTO ports of the enemy's
coasts which are effectively b~lockadcd.
The Governments Of the United States.
Great Britain and France, however. APP
pear TO he IN substantial agreement as to
principle. The method OF applying the
principle Is the chief cause OF difference.
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Mr. Roots strength.

Few people understand how strong
Mr.. Root Is In his W state. He can
carry 1t by a larger majority thar any
other candidate. Besides the full Re-
publican party vote. he will get thou
sands of Democratic votes.
About the platform? Tn feeling in
New York and all over the FtIst Is that
there will he no difficulty on that score.
The progressive Republicans are likely
to be fully satisfied. Harmony is In
the air.
All the talk that l have heard is tina
the convention will take an advanced
ground on the live issues of the day
preparedness. foreign policy. the in
dusirial situation and the adjustment
of the tariN to meet the new questions
growing out Of the world war.
"Mr. Root. 1t will be found, has an
ticipated all the great issues. Any Re-
publican, progressive or regular. who
IA his address before the New York
Republican convention last February
will See how far he looked ahead and
anticipated the great questions OF the
campaign. There IS a platform itself
in his analysis OF what the people ma
expect II the Republican party is re-
stored t. power. There is nothing retro
grcssive or r~eactionary In Mr.. Roots
declarations of Republican principles.
Il have been asked "A good many times
about the vote for NJ, Root on the first
ballot. There is only one reply 10 that
question. have no guosses to make
that first ballot. | could only RI
peat what | have already said. which is
that Mr., Roots friends are not seeking
complimentary votes"
Mr.. Dwight said that dob Hedges,
Henry l.. Stinson, eN-Secretaiy Of Wal
Nicholas Murray Butler, Cornelius y.
Bliss. otto r. Barnard and other NJ,
York delegates will arrive next week 20
assist in promoting Mr.. Roots candi-
dacy,
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Though giving assurances hat they
Consider genuine correspondence 10 be
'inNviulablc' and thcat they Will. true to
their engagements. refrain 'on the high
seas from SELLING and coniiscatiug such
correspondence. the allied governments
proceed 10 deprive neutral governments
OF the benefits Of these assurances by
seizing and co|niiscating mail from vcs-
kols in port instead of at sea. They
compel neutral ships without justice to
enter their " ports. or they induce
shipping lines. through some form Of
duress, to send their Oail ships via
British ports, or they detain all YES
sells merely calling at British ports.
thus acquiring by force or unjustinable
means an Illegal jurisdiction.
Acting upou these enforced jurisdic-
tions the authorities remove all mails.
genuine correspondence as well as
postal parcels. taxi them TO London.
where every piece. even though OF
neutral origin and destination, is
opened and critically examined to de-
teimine the sincerity OF their character
In accordance with the Interpretation
given that underlined phrase by the Brit
ish m french censors. Finally the
eNpurgated remainder is forwarded.
frequently after irrcparable delay. to its
destination.
ships are detained en- route to or
from the United States or to or from
other neutral countries and malls are
held and delayed for several days and.
In some cases. for weeks and even
months, even though not routed to ports
OF North Europe via British ports.
This has been the procedure which has
been practised since the announcement
Of February IL. 1916. To some extent
the same practice was followed before
that date, calling forth the protest of
this government on January 4. 1916.
But to that protest the memorandum
under acknowledgment makes no diff
erence and is entirely u~nresponsive.
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II can only add that this continuing
offence has led to such losses to me
lean citizens and to a possible RESPONSE
b!lty OF the United states to repair them
that this Government will he compelled
in the near future to press claims for
full reclamation upon the attention o.
his Majesty's Government and that OF
the French republic.
The principle being plain and definite
and the present practice Of the Govern
ments of Great Britain and France be-
Ing clearly in ~contravention Of the
principle. | will state more in detail
the position of the Government OF tnf
United States in regard to the treat
ment Of certain classes OF sealed mails
under a strict application OF the princi
Pile upon which our Governments Seem
to be in general accord.
The Government Of the United states
is inclined to the opinion that the class
of nail matter which includes stocks.
bonds. coupons and similar securities
is TO be regarded as of the same nature
as merchandise or other articles IT
property and subject to the same exer
else of belligerent rights. Money orders,
checks. drafts. notes and other negoti-
able instrument which may pass as
the equivalent Of money are. 1t is con,
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been removed from the Nieuw Amster-
dam. Oosterdyk and Rotterdam.

been removed from the Nieuw Amster-
dam. Oosterdyk and Rotterdam.
Business opportunities are lost by
failure to transmit promptly bids. spsni-
fications and contracts. The standard
Underground Gable Company of Pats
burg, for example, sent by mail a tender
aud specifications for certain proposed
electrical works to he constructed in
Christiania after several weeks OF wait-
ing. the papers having failed to arrive.
the American company was told that
the bids could not be longer held open.
and the contract was awarded to a Brit
ish competitor.
securities. 4. =. Papers Lost.
Checks, drafts. money orders, securi-
ties and similar property are lost or
detained for weeks and months. Bust
ness correspondence relating to legiti-
mate ana bona fide trade between neu-
tral countries. correspondence Of a per-
Sonal nature. and also certain official
correspondence. such as money order
lists and other matter forwarded by
Government departments. are detained,
lost or possibly destroyed. For Instance,
the Pos;inaster-Gcneral informs me that
certain International money order lists
from the United States to Germany,
PIt'St anu Olner countries ana from
Gernnany to the United states sent
through the mails have not reached their
destination. though despatched several
months ago. II was necessary to have
some OF these lists duplicated and again
despatched by the steamship Frederic
VIZ. which sailed from New York on
Airil IL and from which all the mails
intended Tor Germany have been taken
and held In British jurisdiction.
AS a further example OF the delay
ana loss consequent upon the British
practice the Postmaster-General also
sends me "A copy Of a letter from the
britisn postal administration admitting
Una the mails were removed from the
steamer Medan in the Downs on Janu-
airy ~ last and not forwarded until some
time between the I'd of February and
the I'd OF March, and that 1s2 bags OF
these mails were lost during transmits
sion to Holland on the 26th day Of Feb
ruary by the Dutch steamer Mecklen-
burg The Medan arrived safely at
rotterdam a day or two after she left
the Downs.
Numerous complaints similar to the
foregoing have been received by this
Government, the details of which are
available. but ! believe | have cited suf-
and vexatious nature of the interference
with mails persisted in by British and
French authorities. Not only are Amer
lean commercial interests injured but
rights OF property are violated and the
rules of international law and custom
are ~disregarded.