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MAFEKING'S RELIEF ANNOUNCED
BRITISH COLUMN FROM THE SOUTH DRIVES AWAY THE
BESIEGERS AXD EXTERS THE TOWN.
A DAY OF NOTABLE SUCCESSES FOR ROBERTS.
A dispatch from Pretoria announced that a British column, coming from the
south, had relieved Mafeking. The Boers, after their laag-crs and forts had been
severely bombarded, abandoned the siege.
General Robert? announced that General Hutton's mounted infantry sur
prised and captured General Botha north of Kroonstad. The British War Oft'ice
doubted if the prisoner was Louis Botha, the Boer Commander in Chief.
President Steyn paid a hurried visit to Pretoria, going from the Orange Free
State to consult the Transvaal Government. 5
General Buller announced the occupation of Newcastle, in Upper Xatal, by
his army, the Boers retreating northward, being described as a disorganized
rabble of seven thousand men.
General Methuen occupied Hoopstad. an important point near the Vaal
River, in the Orange Free State, capturing two Boer Generals and forty men.
British cavalry under General Broadwood occupied Lindley. whither the
capital of the Free State was transferred after the fall of Kroonstad.
FEW DETAILS KNOWN.
NAME OF THE COMMANDER OF THE
BELIEF coLFMN EVEN A MYSTEKY.
[< opyrigtit; Z'JOv: By The New-York Tribune. 1
[BT CABLE TO TUE TRIBUNi:.]
London, May W. rt a. m. — All this morning's
BMWnpapera devote large portions of their space
to stories of the siege of Mafeking and reports
of enthusiastic celebrations throughout the
ciuntry in consequence of its relief. The War
Office has not yet made any announcement, but
Mr. lialfour in the House of Commons last
night remarked that the Government had good
reason to think the news telegraphed from
Pretoria was true.
A brother of Colonel Baden-Powell is said
to have yesterday received in London a tele
gram from a Dutch friend in Pretoria advising
him of the relief of the garrison, but there is
nothing to show the exact date on which the
relief column entered the town. It appears,
however, that there was sharp fighting around
Mafeking on Thursday, so probably the Boers
v»ere defeated by the southern column before
they raised the slfge.
By many people General Kitchener is believed
to have been in command of the relieving force,
but "The Nets" understands that the column
was led by Colonel Bryan Mahon, who, like so
many distinguished officers now serving in
Sc-jth Africa, won distinction under Kitchener
in the Soudan.
It in reported that the Boers have blown up
Latag*fl Xek Tunnel and thereby interrupted
communication by that route between Xatal and
the Transvaal.
All messages frnm Pretoria indicate that the
burghers are feeling d< sp..n>lent, owing to their
continued reverses. From Lourengo Marques
"The Times" reports that Boer agents are buy
ing up provisions and forwarding them with all
speed to the Transvaal, in anticipation of the
closing of the railway from Delagoa Bay to
Pretoria. I X. F.
XEWS ELECTRIFIES LOXDOX.
A NIGHT OF UNPARALLELED PATRIOTIC
FRENZY AND REJOICING.
ICopyrlehr. ]'.«*>: By The New- York Tribune.]
Ibt Cants to the TitimwK.]
London. May li>. 1 a. m.— The glad tidings of
the relief of Mafeklng were received soon^ after
9 o'clock last night and were the signal for a
pandemonium of patriotic rejoicing. "The Dally
Telegraph" was the first newspaper office to
bulletin the news from Its window, and the
crowds in Fleet Street set up a mighty shout.
which was taken up on the Strand. Trafalgar
Square, Piccadilly and Kensington Way.
Other newspaper offices posted the news, and
it was announced at the Mansion House and in
the hotels and clubs. The streets were filled
with multitudes waving flags, singing the na
tional anthem, blowing fish horns and shouting
themselves boars* Th news spread with re
markable rapidity from street to street, and be- |
fore 10 o'clock there was an undertone of re- !
JoJcinp and revelling so loud that people in the
remote suburbs knew that the nation had its
heart's desire, and that the plucky, heroic gar
rison of Ifafeking bad been cued. The tid
ings une too late for a genera] illumination,^
but the masses turned out to wave flags In the
FtreotF, to take possession of Pall Mall, St.
James's-st., Piccadilly. Whitehall and the
Strand, and to hold a rollicking carnival. The j
excitement over the relief of Hadysmlth was
exceeded. The thoroughfares were • iked with
immense crowds, cheering and singing. Long
after midnight a mob of spectators was sere- ■
nading St. James's Palace and Marlborough I
House, and enthusiastic throngs were singing
"God Save the Queen" before Buckingham
Palace, empty and dark as it was. It was a
night of unparalleled patriotic frenzy and popu
lar rejoicing.
The news which electrified London was defi
nite, but neither official nor from British i
6ources. The War Office was silent at midnight, j
and there was no official announcement in Par
liament. The message came from Pretoria,
where the truth had reluctantly been told by i
President Kr£)ger*.s officials that a relieving force I
had entered ?4afeklng with ample supplies and i
that the Boer commandoes had fallen back and !
raised the siege. When this force drew near the I
town at the end of last week the Boers made a '
desperate effort to carry Mafeking by storm, but '
•era repulsed by the garrison after hard fight
ing. The relieving force came up on Tuesday j
and could not be beaten back. Th' ; rescuers j
<sifipereed a rear guard and marched Into Mafek- j
ing. the Boer commandoes retreating toward i
R"£tenburg.
Great depression was f-aubed In Pretoria at the \
complete collapse of the campaign on the west- \
crn border. The defence of Mafeklng began j
"Ith, the outbreak of war, and as an exploit of
arms ranks with Delhi. Lucknow and the mo
glorious achievements of Hrltlfh history. A
Colonial force not over one thousand strong, with
aman of genius, a true natural scout, at its
l^ &d ' h 3* he Its ground against a superior.
(Continued on Dace three.
PRETORIA SENDS THE NEWS
THE BRIEF TELEGBAIf WHICH SET
ALL BRITAIN WILD WITH JOY.
Pretoria, May IS.— lt was officially announced
to-day that when the laagers and forts around
Mafeking had been severely bombarded the
siege was abandoned, a British force from the
south taking possession of the place.
It is reported that five thousand British troops
have surrounded Christiana, and that the.
Landrost and other officials have been taken
prisoners.
James Milne, the correspondent of the Reuter
Telegram Company, who has been a prisoner
her.', was liberated and escorted to the border
this morning.
President Steyn arrived here on Wednesday
night and was in close conference with the
Transvaal Government. He left here for the
Free State last night. Addressing a crowd on
the platform he urged them to be of good cheer.
Till: TOWN RELIEVED ON TUESDAY.
London, May IS.— A special dispatch from Am
sterdam says a telegram from a Boer source an
nounces that Mafekint? was relieved on Tuesday.
The recipient of the telegram is credited with
bavins heard of the relief of Ladysmith before
it was announced.
AT BADEN -POWELL'S HOME.
CHEERING AND SINGING THOUSANDS BE
FORE THE HOUSE.
London, May 19. — Ten thousand people stood
in front of Mrs. Baden-Powell's house, In St.
George's Place, to-night, cheering and singing.
and a 6core of cabe brought congratulations.
Miss Baden-Powell, the Colonel's sister, said:
The same tale has been brought to us many
times during the last anxious months. The "War
Office has promised us the earliest information.
We only hope it is true.
Later in the evening Colonel Baden-Powell's
mother sent word that she had retired, and that
if any telegrams came she was not to be dis
turbed until morning.
The boys of the Charterhouse School, where
Baden-Powell was educated, were aroused from
sleep by the news, and the institution quickly
became a veritable pandemonium of noise and
enthusiasm.
As soon as information of the relief was re
ceived, the Lord Mayor, A. J. Newton, sent the
following dispatch to Colonel Baden-Powell:
The citizens of London are relieved. They re
joice in the good news received. Your gallant
defence will long live in British annals. Cable
me what money is wanted for the needs of the
garrison and inhabitants after long privations.
BULLEB OCCUPIES NEWCASTLE.
UF-TUKATING BOKHS DESCRIBED AS A DIS
ORGANIZED RABBLE.
London. May IS.— General Duller, in a dispatch
to the War Office, dated Newcastle, May 18,
says:
Newcastle huf occupied last night, and to
day the whole Second Division and the Third
Cavalry Brigade will b> j concentrated there.
i have b« Qt the mounted force through Nqutu
t" expel a small force of the enemy, and to
reassure t i;<- natives.
Tin- enemy hav< burned the chapel, broken
much glass, plundered many houses, and taken
cash From the banks, but otherwise they have.
::< t done much I'irm.
Th<- railway is badlj damaged; the Ingagane
an I Kkader bridges are destroyed, as .'in' many
culverts and the pumping stations :m<l water
works.
Of the ■-' ■• !i thousand nen (lying before 'is
about one thousand seem to have gone to Wak
;•-!:• . and som< by Mller's I'us-s to the
Free State. Tin remainder, who are described
as "disorganized rabble." have from- north, and
say they Intend to make a stand at luting's Nek.
Dannhauser, May 17. — General Buller entered
Dannhauser at I<i o'clock this morning. The
hi uses in the town were found to be not much
damaged, owing to the sympathies of the Boer
Inhabitants. A house .it Hatting Spruit, how
ever, was destroyed. A number of i<>b»-is were
found at their homes and arn-st>-d. The rail
way Is little damaged, but several large cul
verts have been destroyed.
Tli- Boers north of Newcastle are falling back
on Amajul>a.
General Buller has received a message from
the Que<-n congratulating him upon the taking
of J>!in<l"- and expressing appreciation of the
work "f the troops, to which he h.is replied.
The Boers !<'ft two doctors and an ambulance
here.
THREE BOER GENERALS CAPTURED.
ROBERTS BENDS THE NEWS OF IMPORTANT
BRITISH SUCCESSES.
London, May IS.- The following was received
from Lord Roberts to-day by the War Office:
Kroonstad. May IS.— Methuen entered Hoop
stad yesterday unopposed. Generals Daprey
and Daniels and forty men have surrendered.
Broadwood occupied Llndley yesterday after
slight opposition. Only two of our men were
wounded, - Bteyn was not there, and his Gov
ernment officials had left last Sunday.
Hutton's mounted infantry yesterday sur
prised and captured, about thirty miles north
west of this place. Commandant Botha. Field
Cornet Gassen. Jive Johannesburg policemen and
seventeen Boers. There were no casualties on
our side.
Buller reports that several Natal farmers are
banding in arms.
CHANGE IN TIME OF PITTSFIELD EXPRESS.
The fast PfttifleM Express via the Harlem Dl
listi of the .Ww-York Central Railroad leaving
Grand Central Station at 1:56 ;i in., will, umler the
r.ew schedule taking fleet May 20th. leave Grand
Central Station daily, except Sunday, nt 3:35 p. m..
arriving at Pawling at 5 08 p. m..-Mlllerton Ml p. • '
in.. Chatham C:00 p. m. and PHtdiield at 7:34 p. m.— |
Ailvt.
NEW-YORK. SATURDAY. MAY 10, 1900. -SIXTEEN PAGER^WWS«SU.
THE DEFENDERS OF MAFEKING.
Men who under Lieutenant-Colonel Baden-Powell made such a gallant and effective defence.— (The Xavy and Army
HEROIC ItAHEX POWELL.
CHIEF FIGURE IN ONE OF THE REMARKABLE
SIEGES OF HISTORY. .
The eyes of , the world are now. fixed on Colonel
Robert Stephenson Smith Baden-Powell, whose he
roic and picturesque defence of Mafeklnar is on*
of the finest passages Mn the history of the South
African war, Since the ' middle of October his
LIEUT. -COL. It. S. S. BADEN-POWELL
little band of soldiers— now redtu ed to 'five hundred
or less effective lighters by Boer buHeta and dis
ease — hits kepi at bay an army of from two ;\";i
eond to sl\ th6U£und B< • rs, c immanded first by
crinj(> and later by Snyman. At the beginning of
the war Colonel Baden-Powell undertook ;; ' ;> de
fence with a force consisting if a part of Mi- isi
Battaliqn of tbr- Lancashire »K> -yal North) Regi
ment, the Ist Battalion Munater Fusi'lers and one
thousand colonials, with on. battery of artillery —
in all probably less than two thousand men.
i General Cronje conducted the sect- In r.=on un
. til he weal to Klmberley to oppose Methuen. Ba
: den-Powell was bombarded almost daily. lie made
, occasional .sorties, but his force was too small and
' his weapons were too Ineffective to make headway
against the besieging force. Colonel Plummerj who
was stationed at Fort Tuli. in Rhodesia, raised; a
force of two thousand irregulars to go to the relief
of Mafeking. This intrepid ofßeatr got within sight
I of the town on March 31. hut was compelled to
| retire north along the railway after a stiff fight
j with a superior force, of lioers. Early In March
j also a force including theTKlmberley Light Horsa
i began an advance from the south. .
i Colonel Baden-Powell Joined the Hussars when
he was nineteen years old. and la now a lieutenant
j cclcnel in a regiment of Dragoon Guards, His, life
1 has been spent in the army and In special service
• and travel, and he is an authority on cavalry lac
j tics, having written' manuals on reconnotsbance
, work and .scouting. He is ■ natural leader of men.
I and rallied around him at Mafeking not only a well
known group "' officers of high social position, hut
also a seasoned bund of frontiersmen and" advent
urers. The defence of Mafeklng nas been that of
v natural scout. . ',
Kike Cecil Rhodes. Colonel Baden-Powell was
born in a rectory. He Is the son of the late Pro
fessor Baden-Powell, of oxford and Lajigton Man
or, and was born on February --. IS")". ■ Kducated
at Charterhouse, he joined the l-fth Hussar? in 1876,
and as adjutant served with his regiment In India
and Afghanistan and South Africa. * Early In his
military career he became famiinr with the parts
of the African continent with which his name will
hereafter be associated. In issT he was again at.
i .1),.- Town as assistant military secretary to Gen
eral Sir Henry Smyth, and during his two year*
.stay there he served in the Zulu land operations and
was mentioned In the dispatches. After serving
three years at Malta, he again returned to Africa,
charged with the special service of raising and
commanding the native levies In the A shan tee oper
ations. • '■ • ■ ■ •
" For his brilliant work in this campaign he re
ceived the brevet rank of lieutenant-colonel. After
the Jameson raid, when the Matabeles rose a sec
ond time, be was chosen as chief staff orilcr of
General Sir Frederick Carrington. Promotion as
brevet colonel followed this campaign/ arid he was
plnced In command of the - r 'th Dragoons. At the
beginning ft the war he was ?fl ooted, to proceed
to South Africa to raise, n military force on the
snot and to drill It Into efficiency. That he sue
, . .-.-.. i in doing so is attested by his long and heroic,
resistance against a superor. force. ." ; '/>" ■ .'
FOUR TRACKS TO PITT.Sm T RU ,
over the Pennsylvania Railroud. Physical condition
of the iiii« psrneC— a<Jvi.
WITH BADEN-POWELL AT MAFEKING.
One of the forts used in the defence of MaffkinK .— (The Navy and Army
WIPE AN ALLEGED PLOTTER
ACCUSED OF MARRYING AN OLD MAN
TO GET HIS KICH ESTATE.
LETTERS FROM A STCDKNT IN BROOKLYN
INDICATE A PREVKH'S WEDDING —
SUIT IN* THE SUPREME COURT.
A case came up in the Supreme Court yester
day in which it v.as charged that Alice Wood,
twenty-eight years old, had entered into a con
spiracy by which she had induced Cornelius H.
Van Ness, an octogenarian, living at Cornwall.
X. V.. to marry her. with the intention of de
frauding him of the estate left him by his
wife. Emma Louise Van Xess, who died on Jan
uary 25, 1896. The suit bl brought for Harriet
B. Harmon and Marie 15. Harmon, eighteen and
fourteen years old respectively, by their father
and guardian, Frank D. H-irmon, a well known
resident of this city. The girls are the nieces of
Mrs. Emma L. Van Ness, and they assert that
by her will, although she left her estate to her
husband, Mrs. Vnn Xess intended that he waa
only to use the income of the property during
his lifetime, and that on his death the principal
was to go to them and another niece of Mrs
Van Xess, Emma Louis.- Van Xess Day.
Assistant Corporation Counsel Charles Blandy
appeared as counsel for the plaintiffs, and said
that Alice Wood was an adventuress who was
married to a young man in a college in Brook
lyn. fJhe had heard that Mr. Van Xess was in
the habit <-f making love to every pretty young
woman he mci and offering to marry her. She
accordingly laid her plans, and. pretending to
sprain her ankle outside his Cornwall home, ob
talned admission. She made love to the old
man, who finally married hi-r.
Justice Freedman had granted a temporary
Injunction In this action. Mr. Blandy said, which
was to have a tnist Imposed on Mr. Van Neas?s
estate In favor of th- two plaintiffs and th.dr
cousin, bo that he oould spend only the Income
of th<' property, to prevent him from disposing
of the estate. It was served on Mr. Van Xess In
the Xassau Bank us he was taking valuable
securities out of his safe deposit vault and
hnndlng them over to Alice Wood. She was also
made a defendant In the action. Mr. Blandy
Bald that since Van Xess married Alice Wood he
had managed to get rid of property valued at
$291,00& He therefore wanted the injunction
continued pending trial.
AT THE DOOR WITH SPRAINED ANKLE.
Mr. Blandy submitted an affidavit from M.-iry
East, who, with her husband, Frederick East, had
been In the employ <.f Mr. Van Xess since May.
lS'.tT. in which she paid that Alice Wood, whom
ho subsequently married, rang the front door
bell of his home on November .">, ISIH>. and said
she had sprained her ankle; that she had comti
to Cornwall to be cured of malaria, and was
boarding In tho village. Mr. Van Xess inquired
as to the extent of her injury, and had her
driven back to her boarding house. The next
day Alice Wood drove to the honse and Mr.
Van NCH usked her if she would like to ss * ••■ tnt
place, and showed it to her, after which he in
vited her in to hear some music. She accepted
the Invitation, and shortly afterward remarked
to him that she could live there all her life.
The next day Mr. Van Xess took her driving
In his phaeton, and the following day drove her
to the station, where, as he Informed Mrs. East,
she had kissed him goodby. Shortly before
Christmas Mr. Van Xess went to New-York,
and visited Port Jervi3. On January 1!» last he
returned to Cornwall accompanied by Alice
Wood and her mother, who remained until Sun
day. January 21. "During her stay Alice was
constantly hugging and kissing the old man.
and repeatedly asked him to marry her. From
January '_'.T to February & Mr Van Xess bsj
t (Hiiliiuril t>n «e«-ou«l |M«»t<-.
TRAVEL IS REST
on the I'.-nr.fjH.ii'l"- Limited. No earklng cares
eaa l«ach you. "Every prospect pleases."— AJvt.
.4 SENSATION IN THE XAYY
COMMANDER TODD. THE HYDItoG
HAPHKK. SUSPENDED ON CHARGES
OF DIPT-ICITY.
[nr THt.K>;R.\iu to the triium:.!
Washington. May IS.— Commander C. C. Todd,
the hydrographer of the Navy, has b«en sus
pended from duty pending investigation by the
Department of the charge of duplicity. The
gravity of the charge has caused the utmost
astonishment in the naval service on account of
Commander Todd's high standing and excellent
reputation. Officers acquainted with the details
of the affair refuse to give any information on
the subject beyond expressing indignation over
what they term "the wanton reflection upon an
officer's character to offset a political exigency."
The only obtainable version of the affair comes
from members of Congress who are interested
in the fight between the Naval Hydrographic
Office and the Coast Survey, which reached an
acute stage when Representative Cannon suc
ceeded In cutting the naval ocean and lakes sur
vey appropriation down from $lOO,<K>O to $HM)MX
and to offset this reduction of .?!>!>,<KH> procured
an increase of more th\n 9300^000 in the Coast
Survey appropriation for the same work. This
economical manipulation, promptly reported In
The Tribune, resulted in protests from Chambers
of Commerce. Maritime exchanges. Boards of
Trade and individual ship owaetl and shipping
men in all parts of the country.
THE FIGHT OVKR tfI'RVEYS.
Members of Congress who had been instru
mental in stopping the surveys whi h the Navy
had been effectively prosecuting for years, and
tu-riiii; the hydionraphic work over to the Coast
Survej Office, which had failed after thirty years
of Ineffective effort to chart the coast line of
the united States, suspected that the Navy
had been stirring up seafaring interests against
them, and more than a week ago the chairman
Ol the House Apruprlutions Committee ad
drtssed a letter to Secretary Long calling for
copies of all letters sent by the Department or
any ol lt« bureaus or otllcers to Chambers of
c« nunerce, Maritime Exchanges, Boards of
Trade and individuals. This call for informa
tion was circulated through the Department,
ami returned to Congress with the statement
that no letter! had been dent out und» r any
of the beads mentioned. Promptly on the re
ceipt of this reply another deuiiirii was made
on the Secretary for a eocnpk te > opy of a letter
declare. l t<> have been sent to Lieutenant Malli
son. the branch hydrographer at Seattle, by
Command.r Todd. setting forth the inury to tue
Navy contemplated by the pending legislation.
This" turned out to be a circular letter which
the bydrograpaiii had mailed several weeks ago
to all naval officers in charge of branch hydro
graphic offices. It has not been made to ap
pear that any of these naval officers In charge
of branches used the information in these of
ficial letters to hound and harass the antago
nists of the Navy In Congress, but it was as
serted that they belonged in the category ol
"individuals" -ship owners, shipping m.n. pilots.
.tc— referred to in the original demand oa the
Department for information, and it was de
clared that Commander Todd was guilty of sup
pressing the whole truth.
Cnder the force of Congressional pressure
controlling the Governmental purat strings.
Secretary Long derided te —Bind Commander
Todd pe'mling further investigation last Tu. s
day. The blight thus put on this officer's caTCCff
was kept secret until yesterday, when it leaked
out in the House committee room, and soon !«?
came known in the Senate, where the Navy has
m.st Mend* Senator Lindsay, of Kentucky,
immediately called on Secretary Long for copies
of all the papers in the case, and will publish
them.
Cmmander Todd is confined to his house by
Illness, but, it is understood, has al:- it I
for a court of inquiry. Commander Todd has
been for many yean one of the leading ordnance
officers in the service, and has b>-.-n n>>t only
regarded as on.- of the ahlaM bat as one of the
DtOSi popular mea In the service. His last cruise
was in command of the Wilmington, when he
made the famous voyage up the Amazon into
Peru the expedition returning last year after
making notable discoveries of commercial value.
li a Kentuckian. and a graduate of the
Naval Academy in 1^">«'« and a graduate of the
War College In Isf.*i.1 sf .*i. As commander
Wilmington through the Sranlsh war he rescued
the 111-fated torpedo boat Winston at Cardenas.
cilt the <ab!e ar M inzanillo tin: ' - •■< part in
1,,, battle there, aasjatod In the landing of the
Bl mi it Sit* n< after com ring th< ■ : rtt
fr.-r.i Florida, and had active bio. kade uty
throughout the war.
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NEW MONTANA CLAIMANT
GOT. SMITH APPOLXTS A SUC
CESSOR TO CLARK.
THE ANT GOVERNORS ACTION
DECLARED TO BE VITIATED BY
ri:.\ri> macinnis named
I as SENATOR.
Helena, Mont.. May 18.— Governor Smith this
afternoon appointed Martin Magtnnts United
States Senator, to succeed William A. Clark.
The Governor bases his action on the ground
that the appointment of Clark by Lieutenant-
Governor Spriggs Is vitiate! by fraud. He al
leges that the resignation of Senator Clark was
written In April, and that the date It now bears.
May 11. was the result of an erasure of the
original date, which, it Is said, can be easily
proved by an examination of the document.
'He also alleges that the resignation was In
the possession of Charles W. Clark, son of the
Senator, for several weeks, and that the resig
nation of Senator Clark at the time It was made
was part of a plot to Insure his appointment by
the Lieutenant-Governor. In carrying out the
plot. It is asserted, misrepresentations and other
devious methods were used to get the Governor
out of the State. The Governor holds that ow
ing to these alleged fraudulent practices the
appointment of Clark Is void.
XO HOPE FOR CLARK.
RESOLUTION NULLIFYING HIS ELECTION
TO BE PRESSED TO PASSAGE. \
[BT TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNV.]
Washington, May IS. — The decision reached
this morning by the Senate Committee on Priv
ileges and Elections to press the passage of the
resolution nullifying W. A. Clark's »•>. -in as a
Senator from Montana for the term beginning
March 4. ISJ>O. will have the effect of closing
the doors of the upper house of Congress on that
political equilibrist for at least the rest of the
current session. The committee was not unani
mous In voting to continue its efforts to invalid
ate the Montana Legislature's original action, In
spite of Mr. Clark's cleverly devised scheme of
resignation ami r»appo:ntment. But the two
thirds support given to Mr. Hoar's proposal to
push the committee's finding to a vote in the
Senate indicates the strength of the feeling In
the deliberative branch, that no stone should be
left unturned to prevent Mr. Clark's return to
membership on terms so repugnant to the Sen
ate's sense of dignity and so suggestive of po
litical trickery and scandal.
Three members of the committee — Messrs.
Pettus, Harris and Prltchard— took the strictly
technical view that, whatever the validity of
Mr. Clark's original tenure cf office, ail processes
to question or upset his title fell with his resig
nation as a Senator. The other six members
present— Messrs. Hoar. Chan Burrows, Mc-
Comas, Turley and Caffery — contended that the
mere act of resignation did not estop the Senate
from registering its opinion of the legality or
illegality of the Montana Legislature's action,
or from determining whether that action con
stituted a performance of it? constitutional obli
gation to fill i'uo vacancy caused by the expira
tion of Mr. Mantie's tejm. A bitter attack on
Mr. Clark and his political methods is under
stood to have been made by Mr. Turley. th»
senior Democrat on the committee, and the at
titude taken by the Senator from Tennessee
probably reflects the opinion of the Montana
man's 'peanut" tactics entertained by a ma
jority of the Senators on the Democratic side.
No vote was taken on the question of referring
Mr. Clark's new recess appointment credentials
when they arrive, but not more than two or
three members of the committee believe that
th-? certificate issued by Lieutenant-Governor
Spriggs should be received without question.
A telegram of protest from Governor Smith,
read at the committee meeting to-day, offers
sufficient ground on which to rest an Inquiry,
and Mr. Chandler will undoubtedly demand an
opportunity to Investigate the peculiar circum
stances under which the Montana claimant's
new title was obtained. On a test vote in the
Senate a motion to refer would probably have
a two-thirVls or three-fourths majority.
PROTEST FROM GOVERNOR SMITH.
The protest riled by Governor Smith is dated
yesterday, and reads as follows:
Hon. W. E. Chandler. Washington:
I desire to present In as forcible a manner as
possible my protest against the course pursued by
the Hon. W. A. Clark in attempting to defeat the
action or the Senate or the United States upon the
resolution presented by the Committee on Priv
ileges and Elections affecting his title to a seat,
and to protest against the methods pursued by him
In securing an appointment at the hands of the
Lieutenant-Governor during rr v v absence from the
State under circumstances and conditions which, M
my mind, indicate collusion and fraud. His con
duct In attempting ■ resignation and procuring a
appointment under the conditions as he did. If
the matter was before a court or Justice, would
have been considered a contempt of court on his
art.
1 therefore trust that the committee and the
Senate will proceed to a proper and complete con
sideration of the question, so that the rights, not
only of Mr. Clark, l"it of Militate of Montana, in
the* premises may be determined, and that upon
the presentation of his credentials or appointment
by the Lieutenant-Governor the same M trans
ferred to the Committee nil Privileges and Elections
for Investigation, and that I be permitted to make
a more complete and detailed statement or facts
concerning the resignation and appointment of Mr.
Clark.
A hearing on the new credentials, extending
in' > the closing weeks of the session, appears
therefore to be unavoidable: nor Is there any
prospect that Mr. Clark will find himse!? In
stalled in office when adjournment comes. It
wai further ngreeil in . ommlttee to M th*
whole Montana controversy go over until Mon
day, on account of the various specia! afOSH to
be t-xecuteil to-morrow. Mr. Chandler .\-.:i not
call the nullifying resolution up. nor win Mr.
Clark's bvw certlficati i nted in the mean
time if it arrives
EFFECT OF THE NEW APPOINTMENT.
The announcement from Helena that Governor
Smith had appointed Martin Maginnis to fill the
vacancy from Montana now exiting in the Sen
ate makes more imperative than ever a decision
from the Committee on Privileges and Elections
on the validity of W. A. Clark's second set of
credentials. Mr. Maglnnls will, of course, con
test the legality of the certificate Issued to Mr.
Clark by Lieutenant-Governor Sprlggs on
grounds of trickery and collusion, and although
he may not make out a strong enough case to
obtain the seat for himself, will at least be able
to prevent Mr. Clark's readmisslon at the pr*«
ent session.
Mr. Maglnnis hi one of the beat known Demo
cratic politicians in the Rocky Mountain group
of States. He was a Delegate in Congress from
Montana Territory for six terms, from IST3 to
l v> v." and became Territorial Governor under
the first Cleveland Administration. On the ad
mission of Montana aa a State he was elated
a United States Senator, along with Mr. Clark.
by the "rump" Democratic Legislature of ISoU,
but failed to obtain a seat.
A -i>ivi\> HEALER" JXDICTED.
Boston. May IS.— Francis Truth, who advertised
himself cs a "divine healer." was indicted by th»
United States Grand Jury to-dtt'y on seven bills, ag
gregating twenty counts, for alleged fraudulent
use Of the mull.".
RIGHT AT YOUR HAND
Is Grand Central Station of the New York Central
with a through train every hour. Reservation*
made a month in ad vane*. Train* at sJI aaasa>
See lime table.— Advt.