The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, December 16, 1903, Image 1
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SUMTER. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 16, 1903.
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Contracts for three months, or longer viii
Be ?ade ut reduced ?atas.
. AU eoomnnieaticot which subserve private
tatarata will be Charged for ss ad versements.
Obi maries and tributas of respects will be
ch&rsod for.
16EME80IS SIHSIMalL
eave $50,000 -te Erect a Schoo!
Bo?ding la Columbia.
The will of Charles Legan who died
in Columbia a few weeks ago was filed
for probate ou Tuesday. He leaves as
estate of $300,030 to $500,000. In his
will he gives $9,000 to the city of Col?
umbia ia trust, to invest and use the
income in aid of carrying out all laws
and ordinances for the protection of
animals ?ad prevention of cruelty to
animals. He gives $5,000 to the Col?
umbia Hospital Association. He be?
queaths $5,300 to St Peter's Catholic
.Church. After the death cf his wife,
he gives four acres of the race course,
fronting ca Elmwood avenue, next the
lands of W. A. Clark, for .a public
school for white children, and - if the
property be accepted he further gives
$40,000 for buildings and other im?
provements, The school is tc be
known as the Logan School, or the
Logan High School, and is to be un?
der the control and direction of the
* city and a part of the graded schcol
system.
The remainder of tbe estate goes to
his wife and relatives in this country
and Ireland.
A Break in the Cotton Boom.
New York, "Bec. Influencbd by a
bleak in the Liverpool market, where
spot cotton was about half a cent low?
er, ?&A futures at a decline, of from
13*io H points, the cotton market to?
day bad a weak opening under liqui
dation and bear pressure, with first:
prices ll to 18 points lower. Good ;
support developed on the decline, how?
ever, and shortly after the opening
prices had rallied to a net loss of about
9ai& paints. There was a continuation
of the heavy selling at the partial re?
covery, and the market ruled irregular
wi th. trading active and the room sen?
timent unsettled.
Trading was rather l?as active after
.the eariy recovery and fluctuations
continued "very irregular. At the best
Janna ry sold at 12.34, March 12.50,
%May and July at 12.52, a gain
from the low point of 36 to 39 points,
: and a net advance of 19a28 points, but
the higher level attracted a renewal of
heavy realizing and the market was
finalry steady, 2 points higher. Sales
estimated at 800,000 bales
A Cfepgyarran Talked Too Much.
.v?te
Dssv?Be*" Va., Dec 8.-Dr. J.
Cleveland Hall, Episcopal rector, who
preached a sermon recently in which
he declared that the Danville prohibi?
tion law is being violated daily, was
before the grand jury in Corporation
Court today, and he refused to divulge
the sua wes of bis information.
Tba fact was reported later to the
Court, and a subpoena was issued, re?
turnable for trim at 10 o'clock tomor?
row morning, Be will be required to
testify or declared in contempt..
Dr. Hall ?tated tonight that he
would sot testify, and it is expected
that be will ge to ?ail for contempt of
Court
Herbert Spencer Dead.
LondonvDee. 8.-Herbert Spencer,
the famous author, died today at his
home in Brighton. His health has
ben failing for some months. The
illness took critical turn a few days
ago and be. became unconscious last
night, passing away without pain.
By his own desire, the least possible
information was given out during Mr.
Spencer's illness. He was born in
1820.
The newspapers all publish long
appreciations and anecdotes of Mr.
Spencer, whom they universal!v de?
scribed as the "last of the great
thinkers of the Victorian age.'' *
Letter to L B. Durant.
Dear Sir: Do' you want to sell
Devoe lead-and-zinc for your town
and country*
The whole doctrine of it tunis on
these three points:
il) It is all paint and true paint;
(2) It is the strongest paint;
(3) It is full measure.
Because it is all paint, true paint,
proportioned for strength and full
measure,
(1) It takes least for a job;
(2) Looks best ali the time;
(3) Lasts longer;
(4) Gathers the trade and holds
customers.
There is no such argument for any
other paint; there is no other paint;
there is nothing but talk for any
other paint. Devoe is the paint, if
yon want the facts on your side.
The country is full of experiences;
we bring these experiences to bear
oe your trade, if you sell Devoe.
Yours tm Iv,
F. W. D? VOE & C.,
31 New York.
Gen. Wood's Bad Record Damaging.
Testimony Before the Senate Com?
mittee Throwing Much Light
on Military Rule in Cuba.
Washington, Dec. 8.-When the
Senate committee on military affairs
convened today to continue its inves?
tigation of charges against Gen. Wood,
M. C. Fosnes, a postoffice inspector,
told of a visit he had received from
Judge Ortiz, president of the Audien?
cia, which Court tried the Cuban pos?
tal cases
The visit was for the purpose of ob?
taining translations of the Bristow re?
port on the Cuban postal -frauds for
use in the trials.
Mr. Fosnes was asked whether he
had learned that the request made
bj Judge Ortiz was at the suggestion
of Gea. Wood and answered that such
was his understanding.
It was shown that the translations
ware made at a cost of $350, and that
the cost was paid ont of the Cuban in?
sular i ands. The Spanish version of
the report was filed as documentary
evidence, and used by the Cuban
Judges rn the-trials.
Mfrjor Edgar S. Dudley, U. S. -A.?.
retired, was the second witness. He
said that lie bad served In Cuba as
Judge Advocate under the administra?
tion of Gen. Wood as Governor Gener?
al. He said that when Gen. Wood re?
ceived the application of the Jai Alai
Company for a concession to erect a
. 'fronton, " or amphitheatre, for the
playing of the Cuban game of pelota,
the application had been referred to
him for investigation. After making
a thorough inquiry into the character
of the games the witness said he had
informed Gen. Wood that he should re?
fuse to endorse the application, on the
ground that the game was a gambling
institution, and, therefore, should not
be permitted during American occupa?
tion. He said that the application had
been changed to represent the mere
building of an amusement amphithea?
tre, and that in that forra it had re?
ceived the approval of the war depart
men The ten-year concession to the
Jai Alai Company was subsequently
granted by Grenu Wood.
Gen. James H. Wilsen, U. S. A.,
told the committee! of his meeting
with Capt E. G. Bellairs at Havana,
saying that he had become convinced
that Bellaire came to Havana with the
purpose of wilfully falsifying condi?
tions in the island; that Bellaire call?
ed on him at his headquarters in the
province of Matanzas, and that he
(Wilson) then accused Bellaire of
writing dispatches which gave a wrong
color to affairs in the island and in?
jured the work of Gen,. Brooke and
jthere. The witness said that Bellaire
sighed and admitted that he was
standing by his friends, declaring
that his position was^a necessary one.
Gen. Wilson said the remark.could
have but one meaning, and that was
that he was backing* Gen. Wood, that
this was evident from the nature of
Beliairs's dispatches. The witness^as
serted it to be his belief that Bellaire
went to Havana for the purpose of
promoting "the * advancement of Gen.
Wood.
When asked concerning the rapid
strides made by Gen. Wood in jump?
ing over himself '/"Gen. Wilson) and
Gens. Ludow and Lee, the witness
showed a feeling of bitterness against
Gen. Wood. The effect of the response
was that he considered the promotion
was ?one brought about by preferment
satber than warranted by merit.
AIRSHIP WOULOri'?" FLY.
Washington, ?ec 8.-Under weather
! ?smditioDQS which were regarded as per?
fect the .Langley airship or aeroplane
today ?*as .gi ven a -second trial a short
distance from Washington down the
Potomac, the result being a complete
wssek of the airship. Everything has
bees in readiness for the trial for some
days, so that it .was felt all that was
needed for the test was the right sort
of wind ?md weather. This afternoon
these conditions presented themselves
and the test was made. On the word
being giren to iaunch the aeroplane it
glided smoothly along the launching
tramway antil the erkl of the tramway
w?s reached when on being left to it?
self the aeroplane broke in two and
turned completely over, precipitating
Prof. Chas. M. Manley, who was
operating it, into the icy water beneath
the tangled mass. One of Iiis assistants
leaped overboard and brought him
aboard the houseboat on which the
launching tramway was laid. Prof.
Langley was present to witness the
test, and appeared crestfallen when be
saw tbe product of months of study
and labor disappear beneath the water.
- '. i II nm?
The Journal of Tropical Medicine
tells of an apparently harmless bever?
age which is tho sole" stay and stimu?
lant of the working classes of Paraguay
and the Argentine republic. It is
often known as Paraguay tea or mate.
It is usually drunk as a hot infusion,
through a metal tube, but may be
raken like rea, with milk and sugar.
Workmen take it with them wherever
I they go and sip it occasionally. Wood
cutters will work on it for five or six
hours before breakfast, and the writer
of the article declares that, taken at
night, it makes nursing, study, or
what doctors call "night work"" real
pleasure. Analysis dees not explaain
these results and life long and per
sistent use appears to have no evil con?
sequences.
Is Beauty Only Skin Deep ?
Beauty is only skin deep, but the forces
that create beauty are HS deep as the foun?
tain from which they flow, when the Blood
is charged with impurities Beauty disap
1 pears, when the blood is pure Beauty blos?
soms in face and form. Rydales Liver
Tablets keeps the Liver healthy and the
Rowels regular, prevents the blood becom?
ing ladened with bile and waste matter,
make the skin clear, eyes bright and
beauty mure than skin deep. All dealers.
TURKS ASSAULT AMERICAN CONSUL
Consul Davis Then Hauls Down
Flag and Leaves Alexandretta.
Constantinople, Dec. 8 -The United
States flag over the consulate at
Alexandretta, Asiatic Turkey, has
been hauled down and Consul Davis
has left his post for Beirut, in conse?
quence of a serious diplomatic incident
during which Mr. Davis was insulted
and assaulted by the local police.
The affair grew ont of the arrest of
an American, Ohannes Attarian, a
naturalized American citizen.
Attarian bad been in prison at
Alepho during the last two months
and had just been liberated through the
intervention of the Amercian consular
agent on condition of leaving the
country forthwith. Mr. Davis was
accompanying Attarian on board a
departing steamer when the police
intercepted the party, assaulted and
insulted Mr. Davis, and despite the
resistance of the consul and his atten?
dant guards, rearrested Attarian and
took bim back to prison. Mr. Davis
immediately lowered the flag over the
consulate and formally broke off re?
lations with, the Turkish authorities by
quitting Alexandretta, leaving the
consulate in charge of the vice consul
A mob of .Moslems seized on the occa?
sion to make a hostile demonstration
against the consulate and against the
Christians generally.
The local authorities assert that Mr.
Davis struck the police with a cane
and that after he rearrest of Attarian
the consular cavasses (military cou?
riers) attempted to rescue him and
that in the fracas which ensued the
cavasses broke the windows of the pri?
son. The matter is engaging the ener?
getic attention of the United States
legation here. Minister Leishman bas
made urgent representations to the
porte and is now awaiting a fuller re?
port before taking further steps.
"THE SHADOWS ON THE YEAHS."
Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix Preaches
Stirring Thanksgiving Sermon.
New York, Nov 26-Thanksgiving
Day services in old Trinity Church
were conducted by the Rev. J. Nevitt
Steele. The Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, the
rector, preached a sermon, in which
he reviewed many of the evils that
threaten the nation He said inpart:
"Tell me, if you can, what can be
done to stop men from beating down
values and making worthless the pro?
perties in which multitudes of people
of modest fortunes have invested all
they have? What can be done to stop
strikers from their violent acts by
which they prevent honest men from
working because thev do not wish to
join their unions? What can be done
to prevent organized labor from step?
ping the industries of the country and
"forcing on employers their exaggerat?
ed and preposterous claims?
"Shadows fall, and under them we
add intercession to thanksgiving.
What casts somev of those shaudows?
Let me answer briefly: Class aliena?
tion ; the insolence of wealth and the
angry discontent of the poor, the
growth of luxuries, riotus living, the
misuse of money and its reckless
squandering on pleasures and pride,
education without religion, the steady
breaking up of homes by divorce and
adulterous remarriage ; the appearance
of vast systems of religious imposture
and their success in making converts;
the spirit of gambling in every place
where it can be practiced ; the cold?
blooded assaults on private property
by those who attack corporations and
drag them down to bankruptcy for
their own advantage; the insecurity
of life through contempt for the law
and the freedom of assassins to wreck
their will upon their innocent vic?
tims; tiie steady decline of woman?
hood from its old ideals and its deteri?
oration through copying the ways and
invading the sphere of men.
- "These are some of the things that
cast a shadow on the years. No one
sees how they are to be stopped and
none who thinks it over from a Chris?
tian standpoint can doubt that if they
are not stopped the harvest will be
frightful beyond telling."
Fight Will be Bitter.
Those who will persist in closing their
ears against the continual recommenda?
tion of Dr. King's New Discovery for Con?
sumption, will have a long and bitter fight
with their troubles, if not ended earlier by
fatal termination. Read what T. R. Beal!,
of Beall, Miss, has to say : "Last fall my
wife had every symptom of consumption
She took Dr. King's New Discovery after
everything else had failed. Improvement
came at once a?d four bottles entirely
cured her.'' Guaranteed by J. F. W. De
Lorme, Druggist. Price .r>0c. and $1.00.
Trial bottles free.
The Status of Crum.
'washington, Dee. S*.-Senator Till?
man has prepared a resolution directing
the judiciary committee to inquire
as to the status of nominations that
failed in the last session and were re?
newed at the beginning: of the present
session of congress. Thc inquiry is
for the purpose of developing the pres?
ent position of Gen. Wood in the army,
and Dr. Crum as collector of the port
of Charleston, S. C.
Head About to Burst From Se?
vere Bilious Attack.
"I hail a severe bilious attack and felt
like my head was about to burst when I
jot hold of a free sample of Chamber?
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. 1 took
a dose of them after supper and next day
felt like a new man and have been feeling
happy ever since." say* Mr. J. VV. Smith of
JulifT, Texas. For biliousness, stomach
troubles and constipation these Tablets
have no equal. Price 2.r> cents. For sale
by China's Drug Store.
TILK OF ? COTTON FAMINE.
What Mr. Sully, the Great Cotton
Bull, Has to Say.
increasing Demand and Decreas?
ing Crops Threaten a Disaster
to the Prosperity of the
United States.
Written for the Manufacturers' Record.
Just as the people and the resources
of the South have been underestimated
as elements of national strength, so
has the importance of the South's
chief staple-cotton-been undervalued
as a factor in the nation's prosperity.
Recently, however, by reason of the
higher prices which cotton has com?
manded, people all over the country
are beginning to give more considera
toin to what cotton means to American
industry and commerce. And there has
been more or less discussion of the
Juestion whether the South's capacity
or producing cotton may not be di?
minishing, and this has awakened a
feeling not very far removed from
alarm lest cotton -famines may become
possible in the course of time. Even
today there is a shortage in the sup?
ply, and if the steady diminution of
th? cotton crop which the last few
years have witnessed shall continue
much longer we shall be face to face
with a national calamity.
During the last few days I have had
several veryjinteresting talks about the
cotton situation and outlook with the
man whose movements are being
watched more closely by the alert ele
ment both North and Sonto, in city
and in country, as well as across seas,
than are the movements of any of our
presumably great statesmen, financiers
or captains of industry. This much
observed individual is Daniel J. Sully
-a man to whom the people of the
South very naturally feel profoundly
grateful for having led the movement
for higher prices for this year's cotton
crop before it had passed out of the
growers' hands. For some years past
one of the various hardships that the
grower has been beset by has been a
low price at the time he was obliged to
sell and a higher price after the fruit
of his labors had been brought up by
mill owners and speculators in this
country and broad.
During the past summer, after Dan?
iel J. Sully had put the price of May
cotton to eleven cents, he went to
Europe to recuperate his energies for a
campaign, which he had planned
several years ago, for putting the price
of this season's cotton up to what he
believed to be its real value. While
in Great Britian and in Continenal
Europe he tells me that he spent much
time studying cotton conditions from
the standpoint of the South's and the
nation's prosperity. His observations
while abroad led him more than ever
before to consider cotton in the light
of a great national asset. He impress?
ed upon foreign buyers the importance
of entering the market early in the
season, and convinced many of them
that they might look for higher levels
than they had been figuring on. He
opened the eyes of some of the Old
World's largest buyers to conditions
warranting a continuation of high
prices, giving convincing reasons for
his opinions and conclusions. How
serious was the impression made by
him upon foreign buyers was shown
by the immediate cabling to all the
world of his prediction, made to a
great Russian concern, that in five
years cotton would bring twenty-five
cents a pound.
Returning to this country in Septem?
ber, he began where he had left off in
May, and in the face of the most deter?
mined opposition from various com?
binations began the movement that
has, by the enormous sales of cotton at
high prices to Europe, saved Wall
street from what, in the opinion of
many, would have been a disastrous
panic, the etffects of wich might have
paralyzed business all over the Union.
In response to an expression of ap?
preciation of the good work he had
done, he raid that in order to act con?
stantly with his convictions he would
have to follow year by year the same
plan of campaign that he was now en?
gaged in, but that it would be broaden?
ed to meet the exigencies of situation
I demanding the most serious cousidera
i tion of every thoughtful man who has
I at heart this country's welfare,
j When asked why he felt that the
j situation was so serious he replied :
; "Four years ago I discovered that
i there was danger of shortages from
; damaged seed. Since then seed de
: terioration is discernible alike in in
j complete germination and imperfect
I reproduction. Moreover there are large,
j areas throughout the States east of
! the Mississippi River in which there
has been more or less impoverishment
of the soil. Then there is the irre?
pressible boll weevil in Texas, tint,
whatsoever the causes, the fact re?
mains that the crop is becoming
smaller, while consumption is annual?
ly growing greater. There will be a
shortage this season sufficient to keep
closed a considerable percentage of the
mills of the world, if we should pro?
duce next season as much as we produc?
ed in 1S9S-90 and a million bales more,
still under the operations of the law
of supply and demand, prices a year
hence would he. but little, if any, lower
than those now prevailing. It is very
easy to figure out how much cotton
must be raised in coming years to meet
the world's requirements. No one can
make this calculation, taking due ac?
count of the steady increase in demand,
and making liberal allowance for
diminished consumption on account of
higher prices for cotton goods, without
feeling more or less anxiety over the
world-vide distress that would follow
any considerable falling off in cotton
production.
"But" he added, although I have
for months devoted all the time I could
spare from my business activities to
the study of this question, I am not
quite prepared to give to the public
my final conclusions, but I hope in a
few days to be in a position to state
the case and suggest a remsdy. The
South must go forward, and not back?
ward, in the production of its great
staple. "
Associated with Mr. Sully as a mem?
ber of the firm of Daniel J. Sully & Co.
is that time-tried friend of the South,
S. F. B. Morse, who, as a railroad
man, made a record in development
work that will long be remembered in
Louisiana and Texas. Mr. Morse as
passenger-traffic manager of the South?
ern Pacific Railroad for some years,
until he resigned last summer to be
come a member of this firm, was the
leading factor in bringing about the
great rice development in Louisiana
and Texas. For several years he had
insisted that the cotton growers were
not receiving a fair price for their
product, and through the press and in
very wide private correspondence he
forecasted the conditions which the
world now sees-of production inade
qute to the world's consumptive re?
quirements. Thoms P. Grasty.
New York, December L
Developing Fmer Varieties of Gotten.
Results of the Department of Ag?
riculture Experiments Near
Hartsville. A Hybrid
with Possibilities.
Special to The State.
Hartsville, Dec 7.-Dr. H. J. Web?
ber, head of the laboratory of plant
breeding of the department of agricul?
ture at Washington, has conducted a
series of experiments with cotton at
tbis place for two seasons past. His
idea is to test, first, weather Egyptian
cotton can be grown successfully in
this country, and secondly, to produce
a prolific, long-staple, smooth-seeded
cotton for genera' upland planting.
It was demonstrated beyond doubt
that Egyptian cotton can be produced
successfully in this country, so far as
getting the quality is concerned. A
dozen or more samples grown in
this State, along with the same num?
ber of specimens of real Egyptian
grown cotton, were submitted to cotton
mill men throughout the country and
only one examiner was able to dif?
ferentiate between them. When it is re?
membered that over $1,COO,0C0 worth
of Egyptian cotton is annually import?
ed for mills in this country, it is easy
to understand the importance that this
matter would assume were the crop
readily produced here. It is yet to
be proven, however, that it can be
grown in such quantity as to compete,
acre for acre, with upland cotton,
though ir seems entirely ' probable.
To produce a . -olific long-staple,
smooth-seeded cotton for upland plant?
ing Dr. Webber has grown a hybrid
between the Egyptian and the sea isl?
and cottons. The hybrid is more pro?
lific than either parent and so far has
shown,pretty constnt Egyptian charac?
teristics. The fibre of this hybrid
averages I1 ? inches as against 1 1-4
average inches for Egyptian, 1% aver?
age inches for sea island and 1 average
inch for upland cotton. The yield from
the crop of the hybrid, this year, is
estimated at about 1,500 pounds seed
cotton per acre. The yield of lint cot?
ton will be 37 per cent, of the seed
cotton yield. The stalks average 6 feet
are long limbed and have an average
of 50 to 75 bolls to the stalk. As many
as 212 bolls were counted on one plaut.
The experiment with this hybid is re?
garded as successful and the seed will
probably go on the market next sea?
son. Prof. D. N. Shoemaker of the de?
partment of horticulture and botany
at the Welsh Neck High school has
had these experiments in charge, and
on his own account has conducted a
series of experiments looking to in?
creasing the length of \ the staple of
the ordinary upland cotton. This he
hes done by a process of selection,
planting rows from the seeds of the
choicest plants in the cotton fields
around here, and then planting in turn
rows from the choicest of these plants.
The first crop yielded an average in?
crease of 1^ inch in length of fibre and
Dr. Shoemaker is greatly encouraged
with the results. He says that the
Egyptian and the long-staple hybrid
cotton can be ginned successfully late
in the season on dull saw gins and
with low speed: cotton ginned here
last season passing the scrutiny of mill
men, to whom samples were sent, in
all but one instance.
LEVER'S CONGRESSIONAL CONTEST
To be Heard Next Week-Why there
is an Element of Uneasiness.
i Special to The State.
Washington, Dec. 10.- Representa?
tive Lever's contested election case has
been set for next Monday, when it will
come np before election committee No.
1. This is the second time Mr. Lever has
been called on to defend himself in a
contested election case, both times the
contestant being a cornfield darkey
named Dantzler. Dantzler is contest?
ing the election on the ground that
the suffrage laws in South Carolina
are uncontsitutional and therefore the
elections there are illegal.
National interest centers jn this case
of Representative Lever for the reason
that the entire principle of suffrage
qualifications in the southern states,
like North and ??outh Carolina. Louis?
iana, Alabama, and Mississippi is in?
volved. There is some uneasiness at
the acion of Senator Cannon in refer?
ring the case to election committee
No.I. This committee holds the record
for having unseated more men in con?
gress than any other committee. At
its head is Representative Mann of
Illinois, who takes a peculiar delight
in defending the negro against what
he claims is the maltreatment he re?
ceives in the south.
J' ll lill-.
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They are easy to take and produce no
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FIGHTING ON THE
ISTHMUS PROBABLE.
Report That Advance Upon Pana?
ma is Commencing-The Admin?
istration is Ready.
Our Warships and Soldiers Will
be Dispatched to the Isthmus
if Colombia Will Fight.
La Quay ra, Venezuela, Dee 9.-The
French steamer Versailles which has
arrived here from Scvanilia, reports
that Colombian steamers. have landed
1,100 men from Cartagena near the
month of the Atrato river (Gulf of
Dari en) to open a way over the Danen
mountains into Panama. ; Other troops
from the department of Cauca, Colom?
bia, are said to be converging on Pana?
ma, and from all parts -of Colomba
troops are reported to be marching or
awaiting on tbs result of Gen. Beyes
mission to Washington.
THE NEWS IN WASHINGTON.
Washington, Dec. 9.-Gen. Herran,
the Colombian charge d'affaires, today
authorizes the statement that if troops
from Cartagena have landed near the
mouth of the Atrato river, as reported
by the French steamer which has ar?
rived at La Guayra, it is directly, in
opposition to the advices of both him?
self and Gen. Reyes. Gen. Reyes stated
that the La Guayra dispatch was the
first information he had received of the
reported movement of Colombian
troops. He declared, however, that
if it is true, as stated, that such
movement has been taken without
orders from bim. Upon coming
to Washington as the special
representative of the Colombian
government, Gen. Reyes temporarily
relinquished the command of the Co?
lombian army, the duties falling upon
Gen. Gastro, second in command.
Gen. Reyes confirmed the statement
recently made by Admiral Coghlan in
a report to the navy department that
prior to his deprture for Washington
he had given instructions to the Co?
lombian troops to make no hostile
demonstration until he was heard from,
and said that those troops were now
awaiting orders, which, however, were
not to come from him direct but from
the government at Bogota.
Tlie general had been fully informed
by the president himself as to the in?
tentions of the government of the
United States respecting the isthmus.
He was told by the president, as was
set out in the president's message to
congress, that the United States had
determined to maintain the independ?
ence of the new republic of F nama
against all comers. While this guaran?
tee is contained in a treaty now pend?
ing before the United States senate
and as yet unratified, the administra?
tion nas for some time past been acting
upon the theory that the understand?
ing is in full force. Therefore ali
necessary preparations have been made
to exert whatever physical force may
be necessary to protect the isthmian
transit. No Colombian troops will be
allowed to cross the frontier into
Panama ; or, if they cross they will
be ejected in due time.
The policy of the navy department
with respect to the entry of Colombian
troops into Panama was said today to
be to prevent a conflict before it com?
menced. To this end, the naval com?
manders in those waters have been
given instructions to keep the Colcm
bian troops at a greater distance from
the isthmus, at points where a fight
with the Panamanian troops is not like?
ly to occur. In all naval operations,
it may be stated on authority, that the
department is still guided by the treaty
of 1846, under which the United States
guarantees to keep transit across the
Isthmus open. A broader interpreta?
tion of the duties and responsibilities
of the government in this respect has
been given to the treaty, by which the
protection of the United States will
not alone be confined to the canal strip
but to any part of the territory of
Panama.
When seen today Lieut. Gen. Young,
chief of staff, authorized the statement
to be made that the war department
was ready to dispatch troops to the
isthmus on short notice, should their
presence be demanded. Although the
statement heretfore has been drnied,
it is learned that the department has
taken notice of the repeated reports
that Colombian troops were assembling
at dfferent points with the avowed
purpose of making a hostile demonstra?
tion agiust Panama, and bas perfect?
ed all military plans to repel such an
invasion. Gen. Young said thar
should lie be called upon to assist the
navy it would not be necessary tc .-end
to the isthmus more fhn a regiment or
two. Although none of the members
of the joint army and navy board,
which met today, would admit that
the isthmian situation was under dis?
cussion it is known that snch was the*
case and that both the army and the
navy are now in a state of prepared?
ness for any conflict with Colombia
which might raise.
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