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¦PARIS; '. April". 21."— As' General Mercier.
¦formerly/ Minister ;'of ;'.War, ; was leaving
a; •political] meeting -at- La-Fcrte-Bernaril.
,in;the'department: of '; Sarthe; ¦ at which ; he
had( preslded.^he ylwaslstohed "and ; ''-su3
tairicd'a .wound in the head., ' • • ,
General Mercier" Is i Assaulted.
CARACAS,* Venezuela, April • 21.— The
'. Government has intercepted^ a. letter
written by' an officer of -the .'British' cruis-'
'er Indefatigable, belonging to the < Britl-sh
North American and West Indian' squad
ron, .to' an English friend, in which,
speaHIng*of ..the Venezuelan ; revolution,
thfcf officer asked: . ¦;.'!
"Why, " does not some one assassinate
President Castro i and- thus -save .further
bloodshed?" ,\_ : , . ¦
- Official . papers, here , have : as a result
made bitter", attacks on the British, army,
and on the officials of the lcgation'inCar
, acas: " ' '. ' ¦¦.' ' '"'•'.'.,-' V'i -
SUGGESTS : ASSASSINATION
OP PRESIDENT CASTRO
. ; Mayor ; Schmitz .was ' ' informed ¦, during
the day that' a "detective agency was arm
ing. a{ number of men- in' behalf of Uhe
Railroads .. and ¦_' that% their 'purpo'se.
'was ' to assist .in taking;^ but"' cars. . The
Mayor '.immediately^ appeared tha
Police , Commissioners and"- requested- that
In - the ; Interests • of 'the • public" peace no
permits ''.\ to^y carry: y concealed 'weapons
should' be? granted to 5 any7one.; t The .coin-'
, mission declined.iin consequence,"; to- con-
NO/ PERMITS I GRANTED.
reports of disturbances had 1 been ; received •
at ? police ¦ headquarters. . '- * .
A mu * HERE were few changes in the
Mf carmen's- strike - situation-yes
"¦ m- :' terday.. Both- sides are .watch-"
¦B . ' ing r- each . other • and ;• quietly
:'~^. ¦'¦•' awaiting! developments.:. The
prospect for an immediate ad
justment of the trouble do not appear, to
be very bright!
- Reports of , violence here ¦ and - there
were? of frequent occurrence last'l night,
but when these were run down" they. were
i i found : to i * be "canards." v.There". were . state
ments made that armed men contemplat
ed, making raids on carhouses, and :that
serious trouble was _ to be' feared. • The
strikers declare 'that these: reports are
spread for. the ; sole' purpose of s discredlt-
Ihg their cause in the minds of the public,
and they, add I that they are ¦ not;; only
avers e to violence , r bu t : are willing > to , do
all In -their "power, to protect the property,
of the company. . " . ; -T '•; .
¦.* A " rumor, having . gained : . currency, that
an : attempt v/ould ; be. made' to . do ' damage
, to ' some of .y the "company's property, '. the
executive committee of the •Amalgamated
Association of ; Railway Employes : ap
pointed nearly 100 nien .as &; peace'^coni'^
inittee, withi Instructions .to '.-.watch", every.,
carhouse of the system and 'prevent van
dalism. . .;'¦ .These men : were > on -, duty." last
night, and 'at 1 :' o'clock* this 'morning.] no
LONDON, April^l.'-Vln a, dispatch. from
Caetle I>oo the correspondent of thebaily]
Mall declares' the information
tbe"public minimizes the gravity of Queen"
Wilhelmina's condition and magnifies her
cnances for ; recovery. ; The grief-stricken
nation,- which loves the (Queen to the
pclnt'of ; Idolatry, Is in a state of i terrible''
suspense, .while ; the politicians are aghast
at . the.: possibilities i of a fatal ;termina
tio\r:of'hcr;illness.^_";;' : : . . '
The * Queen's burst Jnto tears
when she was first . told her daughter.' had
typhoid feve'rl;: • She '. seldom ; leaves"; the
sick chamber. '; ; ' ; : ; ;
-THE HAGUE, April 21.— The ; condition
of Queen Wllhelmlna is unchanged. Her
physicians say- it 5 is impossible to pre
dict the date of the crisis In her illness.
An extraordinary cabinet council ;was
held to-day. . The .meeting engendered
numerous • rumors concerning a '. decision
In the matter of .the regency, ;',but It is siiid
upon good authority that this matter was
not .discussed Tat: the council. / / : ' .':, ' :
. It Is reported that one of the maids of
Queen Wllhelmina's household -has }bcen
attacked by; typhoid fever.
in - State of Terrible
Suspense.
People of Grief -Stricken Holland Are
QUEEN WILHELMINA'S
CONDITION NOT CHANGED
I The responsibility for the strike and the
countless •Inconveniences 'it Imposes upon
th&,public is flied upon General Manager:
Vinlng-and '"WV F. ; He'rrin.-':" Business men
say? that ,these gentlemen;" whose connec-i
tion with the system is practically at an'
end; . are : disinterested • parties in the '
premises' and that' no. matter what the
outcome : may be they have "nothing to
gain ;? or «¦ lose.: : This,* it ;. Is said, ; accounts '
for their.' apathy ;at -af time 'when all the !
residents of San Francisco; are demanding j
.the"- immediate adjustment of the trouble I
and the resumption of traffic on the Mar- j
ket-strc*et : system.' ' .
VINING ; IS BLAMED.
J The failure of the officials of the,United
Railroads to take advantage of the offer
"of , Mayor; Schmitz to act as mediator in
the settlement of the strike is occasioning
considerable gossip in business circles. It
is regarded as very; strange that none of
the company -seems to be vested, with
sufficient authority to take the Initiative.
In . the matter and . to treat with the men
for a ; settlement. These" officials are in
constant communication with" the : Balti
more .syndicate, -but- the result ¦ of their
inquiries' or. the instructions they receive
are kept a '.close secret.
... , . ...... . . . f . ,^ . .
sider applications for carrying concealed
weapons, although several were on file. ¦
Scarcely ' a wheel was turned . upon * the
system .' yesterday. The" ; officials of the
company \ made " no attempt to send out
any cars for business purposes, .but a car
was sent over.the main line for prudential
reasons.: The question as to the franchise
rights,-' of! the company . lapsing ' should
they., miss , sending out , at • least one car
daily prompts the \ corporation . to taka
this : precaution. Although / the- strikers
are [ present when these cars ; are taken
from the carhoiises, the nien in charge
have: not been molested in any way.
Prospects for the Early Settlement of the
Controversy Are Not Bright.
WASHINGTON. April 21.— Senator, Tel
ler, to-day introduced a resolution . declar
ing it to be the 'sense of the Senate that
the sedition laws In -force in the "Philip
pines should be repealed. The, resolution
Is preceded by .a'.'prcamble citing the ar-
ish Sedition Laws.
Teller Introduces Resolution to Abol-
TO EESCT7E ,THE EDITORS.'
Before . the adoption . of this resolution
the Democratic members of the Insular
Committee explained the terms of -the
first separate Pnilippine measures now
proposed. The Republican bill < in the
Senate provides a temporary form of.civil
government. In 'effect continuing the .pres
ent system. The Republican House^bill
proposes a complete form .of; civil 'gov
ernment with " a . Philippine Legislature.
The Democratic bills, both in .'the. Senate
and in the House, - look tp ultimate inde
pendence of the islands, \ but ..the'. House
measure goes more . into detail) on 'the
period preceding ~ ' independence, ,. fixing
July 4, 1311, as the date for a complete
insular independence. It Is with a 'view
to reconciling the details of the two Dem
ocratic measures that the resolutions
were/ adopted •- to-night. . Speeches *, were'
made In " support , of thc . resolutions J by
Jones of Virginia. Williams 'of Mississippi
and Gaines of Tennessee.
agreement upon one bill to be heard -in
both branches of Congress. "
WASHINGTON. April 21.— The .Demo
crats of the House held a. caucus to con
sider the Philippine government bill
agreed upon by the Democratic members
of the Insular Committee. The caucus
lasted until shortly before midnight, when
a resolution by Representative Jones .of
Virginia was adopted unanimously approv
ing the minority bill and -requesting the
Democratic members on the Insular Com
mittee to confer with Democratic Sen
ators in order to reconcile any differences
existing as to the details of a Philippine
measure, with \ a , view to reaching . an
pine Government Bills.
House Democratic Caucus on Philip-
RECONCILING THE MEASURES.
The matter of calling.Sixto.Lopez,:Ma
binl and Aguinaldo was left for future de
termination. The committee r then ad«
journed until Tuesday,, April 29, on which
day General ¦ MacArthur will again be
heard. ¦•;..-, :. ¦¦;>¦'*.-.- 'i :¦.'>;¦
"Resolved, That it is. the sense of the
Senate of the United States that the se
dition- laws' should ] be immediately re
pealed- and , prosecutions under them im
mediately ' ceased, . and that > no person
shall thereafter be punished by death,, im
prisonment or fine in the provinces of the
Philippines in which armed. resistance to
the authority of the United States has
ceased unless. the accused on demand has
been tried before a jury of his peers and
officially pronounced guilty; and, further,
that thereafter, in, the courts of said arch
ipelago when the offense charged consists
of "words ; spoken or written against any
citizen or; official or department of said
Government "the truth of said words
spoken or ¦ written may j be given in evi-'
deriee and shall constitute a full and per
fect defense." ..¦'. i ':'<'.¦ r':.l-
. "Whereas," by the enactment of such
laws and the denial of trial by jury of
those accused under them, the adminis
tration of such laws by Judges appointed
by the officials against whom the offenses
are alleged to have been committed, and
who have reserved to themselves the
right to 'remove such Judges j.t pleasure,
every vestige of civil liberty is destroyed,
personal liberty and property are without
the security of law and the Filipino peo
ple are being taught to hate the .United
States, even . as much as they' hated
Spain;', therefore, be it -
rest of the newspaper editors of the Free
dom, and- the Volcano, published, in the
archipelago,^and asserting that they are
to: be; tried under these laws by Judges
who: owe their appointments and tenure
of ! office ¦ to , the Government commission
for the criticism of which the men are to
be tried./ . ' :
'.': Thelast paragraph of the preamble ar.d
the. resolution are as follows:
The railroad company claims that yes
terday morning 300 men applied for posi
tions. In the afternoon there were fully
100 applicants. v Of these few would hav«
been accepted, however, as they appeared
to be young men from the small towns
in the . country, .unused to city life and
attracted to San Francisco by the pros
pects of going to work as conductors. At
the offices of the railway company there
are s'gns hung conspicuously on the walls,
drawing the attention of applicants to tha
rules for those who wish to enter the ser
vice of the road. The first step taken is
to -ill out an application blank. A medi
cal examination must be undergone and
if passed by the company's doctor the ap
plicant must deposit $35 as a guarantee
of the faithful performance of his duties.
The sum of £5 Is also demanded for tn»
purchase of a uniform and to pay a pre
mium i to the National . Surety Company.
APPLICANTS FOB PLACES..
The railroad people, from the few state
ments they made, seem to feel confident
that those who struck last Saturday even-
Ing will have to come back to work at the
old .terms or have their places Oiled tjy
local men. remforced by. some experienced
motormen.* gripmen and conductors front
the East.
About 5:30 o'clock the directors, one by
one. left *he building. They refused to be
interviewed, but. to all . questions replied
that there • was no change in the, situa
tion. It is known/ however, that all yes
terday the directors were communicating
with the members of the Baltimore syndi
cate in the East and that they will not
act upon their own responsibility, but will
take orders from the heads of the road
in Baltimore.
In the afternoon H. E.'Huntington. who
was president of the old Market Street
Railway Company, for many years, called
at - the .offices of the syndicate and spent
several houre in consultation, evidently
advising the officers of the company as to
what course to pursue."
•|jf «mt ROM early yesterday morning
B until late In the evening the
B y directors of the United Rail
"- B ' roads, their attorneys and
•^*" General Manager VIning wen
In consultation at the offices of
the syndicate in the Wells-Fargo build
ing. The usually quiet corridors of th«
building were crowded by a long stream
of persons who were interested in tha
strike situation: .
AMERICAN OFFICER IN COMMAND OF-.TROOPS ON THE ISLAND
OF ; SAMAR WHO :.WILL \ BE TRIED BY ¦ COURT-MARTIAL ON A
. CHARGE OF CONDUCTING A CAMPAIGN OF' EXTERMINATION.
Railway Of ficials Say
Men May Be Brought
From the East.
OFFICIALS OF THE UNITED RAIL
ROADS IN CONFERENCE. SCENES
OF ATTEMPT TO RUN CARS.. .
The conferees -on the Chinese exclusion
bill held their, first conference to-day and
without reaching a . conclusion adjourned
to meet to-morrow. The meeting to-day
was devoted to a general exchange of
opinions on the merits of the two bills.
The representatives of the Senate pressed
very hard for the acceptance of the Sen
ate substitute, and while the House mem
bers indicated no definite purpose" to yield,
the indications now are that the "Senate
measure, with ' a few possible additions,
will be accepted I by the * conferees. , It ; is
expected by the members of the' confer
ence that a conclusion will be reached
at to-morrow's meeting.
CONSIDER ' SENATE I : BILL.
"On the contrary, the -enforcement of
that section ; as - amended \ will serve to
advance the purposes of the two 'coun
tries in respect of Chinese laborers as
avowed in the treaty of 1894. Despite the
ingenious argument to. the contrary, we
do not perceive any difficulty . whatever
in reaching this ' conclusion after care
fully scrutinizing 'the treaty and statute.
A different conclusion would be hostile to
the objects^ which, , as avowed, in , the
treaty, both 'the United States and China
desire to accomplish. : This •- is so.clearly
manifest that - argument cannot make it
more so."
ADVANCES ALL PURPOSES.
The Chinaman in this. instance entered
the State of . New _York from Canada in
October, 1900, and was immediately ap
prehended. , '
LAW IS ., NOT DISPLACED. \
Justice Harlan delivered, the opinion of
the court, saying :'¦' "A statute enacted
by Congress ' . expresses '- the will of
the people < "of . ; v the .7, -United States
in ,the most' s61emn ;form. ., If not:re
pugnant td'the constitution' it ismade'by
that instrument a part of the supreme law
bf^*:lsnd : ajS'<s;Stio^:^rtft>T3r ijiTbeld^tC^ofie 5
I by,{a' treaty • subsequently^con
cluded unless it" is 'impossible for both to
stand together'artd rbe "enforced:" So far
from there- being any r inconsistency;.be
tween statute : . and . treaty.' herein ques
tioned, the twelfth ' section ' of . r the act" of
1S82, as amended in 1S84, and continued in
force for ten years from and after the
passage of the act of 1892, is in absolute
harmony with .the treaty and can be en
forced without affecting, or impairing any
right secured by the treaty.
WASHINGTON. 'April 2l.—The'-_ United
States Supreme Cpurt. to-day rendered a
decision In the case, of the 'United States
vs. Lee Yen Tia,' coming : from the Court
fo Appeals for the Second Circuit, submit
ting the ' question .;. as to ; whether the
twelfth section "of /the' Congressional i act,
of 1882, requiring certificates j from China-
men about' to enter the' United States,
had been abroga ted V by the treaty : of -1S94
between the United ' States / and China.'
The question was answered. in the.nega
tive, the law being thus' held to be still
in effect.
Conferees Are Likely
to Accept Senate
Measure.
Decides That Chinese
Musi Still f Furnish
Certificates; ;
¦-TM-- April 21.— A jcourt
/B /B martial has becn ordered
/ mr B for thc trlal of Gencral Ja "
/ W B cob H. Smith, who was in
"•¦ ' -^- command of the United
States troops on the island
of Samar. Generals Lloyd Wheaton.
Scmuel Sumner. James M. Bell and Wil
liam U. Bisbee and Colonels Chambers
McKibben, William A- Rafferty, William
E. Dougherty, Alfred C. Markley and
Jesse M. Lee compose the court. The
judge advocate is Major Harvey C. Car
baugh. Colonel Charles A. Woodruff will
appear for the defense. The charge
brought against General Smith Is con
duct prejudicial to good order and dis
cipline. The trial will begin Thursday.
WITNESS OF "WATER CUBE."
WASHINGTON. April 21.— The Senate
Committee on the Philippines to-day re
sumed thc examination of witnesses In
The investigation of affairs in the Phil
ip pines.
Grovcr Flint of Cambridge, Mass., who
served as first lieutenant in the Thirty
fifth Volunteer Infantry, testified that
early in May, 1900, he had been a witness
to the "water cure," as administered to
the natives by Macabebe scouts, and that
this v.as done to get information as to the
¦whereabouts of their guns. The guns
were delivered. The following day some
rccn of his own regiment applied the cur?,
but their act was without the authority
of their commanding officers. The Maca
bebes at the time referred to were not
under the command of a commissioned
c!Fcer. but of a sergeant of the United
States army. Flint had been, he said, a
witness to at least twenty cases of wa
ter cure. He had never seen any one die
as a result of the cure, but had seen a
hospital corps man working on a native
who had been rendered unconscious.' It
also had been represented to him that
ccp Filipino died from the cltccts ef the
water cure.
CSUELTY TO OLD MEN.
The witness then described the method
of administering the cure, and said that
in some cases where It was given to old
zren he" had seen their teeth fall out.
Flint, in response to a question by Sen
ator Dietrich, said he was present upon
these occasions, "to draw the line on ex
cesses." He did not recommend to the
rr.a jor that the practice cease, nor did
he give any orders to his men to stop
the torture.
Answering a question by Senator Bur
rows, the witness declared that the effect
of the cure was Immediate, the victim
invariably turning over his gun or bolo
and giving information as to thc where
abouts of others. He said it was impos
sible to judge whether the victims were
Insurgent: soldiers or peasants, but they
appeared to be peaceable villagers. Some
of them were thrown down by force;
others who were timid would submit
readily, while those who resisted were
held the more tightly. The treatment, he
said, never got to a point of great bru
tality.
KAJOB, DID NOT INTERFERE.
Replying to a question by Senator
Lodge, the witness said he had becn re*
fused a commission In the regular army
because his colonel had accused him of
using Intoxicating liquors to excess. The
witness deplored the raising of this ques
tion, but Senator Beverldg© said it had
an important bearing on the case.
Flint denied that on any of the occa
sions when he had witnessed the watet
cure he was under the influence of liquor.
He Insisted that in justice to himself he
ought to state that he was not drunk,
but had been a careless drinker. Witness
had, he said, released several men who
did not appear to him to be insurgents
Major Earl of his regiment wa* always
near, but had not Interfered in the ad
ministration of the cure, simply assign
ing a commanding officer to see that the
men did not go too far.
After considerable questioning the wit
ness finally admitted that he approved
of the water cure, and responding to a
query toy Senator Beveridge said that it
was not an American invention, but was
as old as the "chronicles of Newgate."
Asked regarding Filipinos in guardhouses,
he said that they were treated exactly. the
same as American prisoners.
LIKE WEYLEB'S TACTICS.
The witness described the burning of
email villages, the idea, be said, being to
drive the women to thc woods or to the
towns and concentrate them.
"Whom did the army borrow- that
from?"
"I knew it in Cuba," answered the wit
ness, "under the authority of ' General
Wcylcr." ;
The committee then went Into executive
session. The committee, in executive ses
sion, refused to call Edward Atkinson of
Pcston as a witness, but directed that. a
eubpena Issue for a number of sergeants
and privates who were witnesses uf the
water cure.
Senator Lodge laid before the commit
tee a report by A. Lester Hazelett, who
was sent to the Philippines by the W. C.
T. U.. of Columbus, Wis., to Investigate
the moral conditions existing in the Phil-
Ilppines, and alfo alleged violation of thc
anti-canteen law. The report shows that
the moral condition in the Philippines is :
better than ever before since American
occupation, and that there were no viola- ;
tion* of the anti-canteen law. :
SupremeCourt Makes
Strong Exclusion
Ruling.
TREATY
UPHOLDS
THE LAW
"WATER CURE" OF FILIPINOS
IS FOLLOWED BY COURT=MARTIAL
FOR GENERAL JACOB H. SMITH
*J* HE strike situation at midnight remained unchanged. Many rumors zvpre current during the day that violence tvas threatened,' but on investigation these, were, found; to be untrue. The United Railroads Company renewed its plea for
•* police protection, but Chief, of Police Wittman, acting under instructions from Mayor .Schmitz, declined to detail any policemen- for special service until the necessity -then for arose. The officers of the United Railroads appear to evade the
Peace conference suggested by the Mayor, and their actions indicate that the struggle will be protracted. Neither side shows signs oflzveakcning, and hints are already made by the railroad people that men will be imported from Chicago and other Eastern
cities to replace the strikers. The strikers are meeting daily, and all their instructions arc headed .with the injunction to preserve the peace at all hazards. Ninety-eight per cent of the street railway employes are noiv members of the union.
PRINCIPALS IN THE GREAT STREET RAILWAY STRIKE ARE
RESTING ON THEIR OARS AND AWAITING DEVELOPMENTS
VOLUME
PKICE FITE CENTS.
SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, J APRIL 22, 1902.
XCI— NO. 143.
The San Francisco Call.