Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-03

The House of Representatives was
interested on Tuesday when Represent
ative Lozier of Missouri paid tribute
to the memory of the late Queen Car
lotta, who is credited with having in
stigated the 1852 usurpation of the
throne" of Mexico by her consort,
Macmillan, In the midst of the strain
and stress of the United States civil
War. Carlotta-hopelessly insane
since the execution of Maximilian-
died in France last week.
The speaker not only related melo-
dramatic history of that conspiracy
of France, England and Spain to set
the Austrian usurper upon the
throne" of the Republic of Mexico,
in defiance of the Monroe Doctrine,
but he also told of the effort of a Con-
federate general, Joseph 0. Shelby, to
make alliance with Macmillan and
bring sc. 900 ex-Confederate soldiers to
the Emperor's support after Lees
surrender. Gen. Shelby proposed to
make the throne strong, in spite or
the forced retirement of the French
before the ultimatum given by Grant S
victorious army, which was then We'll
able to reaffirm that the Western
Hemisphere was no longer open to
colonization or interference by Euro
mean powers Emperor Macmillan
listened attentively to Gen. Shelby's
proposition, but upon the advice of
Marshal BaZaine, the commander-ln-
chief of the French army supporting
him. he declined it. What would have
been the outcome had this filibuster
adventure been accepted?
Lee had surrendered at Appomattox,
the Confederacy was conquered, but
Gen. E. Kirby Smiths army, west of
the Mississippi, was still In the held.
Gen. Smith decided that further re-
sistance would be useless, and he pro-
posed to surrender.
Gen. Shelby who commanded oil
vision of Smiths army, opposed the
surrender, and advised that, instead,
the transmississippi Confederate army
should concentrate on the Brazos
River and thence march into Mexico,
where It should have the option TO
fight to reinstate Juarez THE fleeing
native President of Mexico) or espouse
the cause of Macmillan"
Apparently he was Indifferent as TO
whose cause It should champion. IL
appears to historians to have been
piratical or mercenary adventure,
rather than one based upon principle
Cen. Shelby proposed that the eX-
pedition should be led by Gen. Simon
b. Buckner. and the officers who
agreed with him appointed Shelby to
break the news to Gen. Smith that the
army desired him to turn the com
mand over to Gen. Buckner. Gen.
Smith did so Immediately, in writing,
but Gen. Buckner declined to accept
the command, and a few days later
Gen. Smith resumed command, ana
surrendered to the Union forces under
Gen. Pope.
Gen. Shelby then appealed to his
own troops for volunteers, and sue
ceeded in engaging an army OF 1.00O,
with which he invaded Mexico. That
was in the Spring Of 1866. Marshal
Bazaine had already wiped out the
boundary between Mexico and the
United States by invading Texas
more than once. There was no official
protest when this filibustertng expedi-
ton from America came marching
across the Rio Grande through Mon
terey. Saltillo and Queretero into Mex
leo City, and it's general asked audi
ence with the Emperor. But the
French Marshal BaZaine looked with
| jealous eyes upon the proposal to sub
stitute an army of Americans in place
OF the only force then remaining in
Mexico, the French, since the English
and Spanish had promptly obeyed the
demand of Secretary Seward to heed
the Monroe Doctrine and vamose.
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Representative Lozier in his interest
| ing speech failed to advert to the pro-
posal made by President Jefferson
Davis soon after the triple invasion
of Mexico by the allies, France,
Spain and England, that the Amsr-