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! ages 33 to 46 VOLUME XCI.— NO 15. MARCONI SOLVE PROBLEM OF SIGNALING ACROSS ATLANTIC OCEAN WITHOUT WIRES SCHLEY DOES NOT DESIRE NEW INQUIRY Satisfied "With His Vin dication by Admiral Dewey. Congress Not Disposed to Reopen the Celebrated Naval Controversy. Py Affixing His Signature the Rank ing Haval Officer Approves the Whole of the Findings of - the Court. Special Dispatch to The CalL CALL BUREAU. 1406 G STREET. N. W.. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.— Little else than the findings of the Schley court of inquiry has been talked about In official circles to-day. The Navy Department has teen a hive of buzzing -argument. Members of Congress have dropped even the Philippine tariff. Champions of Rear Admirals Schley and Sampson have re sumed their wordy battles^ on the street corners. It may . be accepted as a strong probability that there ■will b« no Con gressional investigation. Rear Admiral Schley does not seek a Congressional investigation. .While de clining to comment upon the findings, the rear admiral's friends are warranted in saying he is satisfied with the verdict so far as It relates to his conduct during the battle of Santiago. To him that wa* the paramount issue, and all of the mem bers of the court agree that his conduct ■was stlf-possessed. and he encouraged in his own person his officers and men to Ssht courageously. Some Wild Talk. ■ '. Among excitable members of Congress' there Is no end of wild talk and terrify ins gesticulations about a Congressional Investigation "which will tear to tatters the naval clique and deal a deadly blow ct the growth of an artlstocracy in naval circles." r? \- '.--. It is quite likely that some or these men will rush to the front with resolutions, but cool-headed members of both bodies are not inclined to share In the undue agi tation on a subject, which, they say, only they can effectively dispose of. The Navy Department will frown upon any attempt by naval officers to further exploit the controversy, but it would wel come an Investigation by Congress. Lin settled as it is, the department officials say the investigation has been made, and It should be regarded as closed. This is the opinion of the court, which recom mended that no further proceedings be had. Rear Admiral Sampson is in no condi tion to testify. Captain K. E. Chadwlck, commanding the New York, and other of ficers of that vessel, would like an op portunity to show that their ship was in tha battle, notwithstanding Admiral Dewey' s view, but they will not have a chance. Long Considering Findings. Secretary Long has taken under consid eration the findings of the court. It is his purpose to make a careful review of the findings of the facts and of the opin ions advanced by Admiral Dewey, as pres ident of the court and in his individual capacity. When this review is completed he will prepare an unofficial indorsement which will be the final chapter of the In vestigation. It is impossible now to fore cast Secretary Long's views. The question has been raised since" the appearance of the two reports in print how far Admiral. Dewcy. the president of the court, snhscribed to the opinion ex pressed in the first report and in the find ings by appending his signature, that sig nature being required of him apparently by the regulations, regardless of his indi vidual opinion. In response to an Inquiry on this point the fudge advocate general of the navy says: "According to naval practice Admiral Dewey by affixing his signature to the re port of the court of Inquiry in the case of -Hear Admiral Schley expresses full con currence in all the findings of fact and in all the opinions reached b'y the court ex cept those with respect to which he -has in terms signified dissent in his minority opinion." ' ■ ' . - STATESMEN UPHOLD DEWEY. :Lcath, However, to Reopen the Schley-Sampson Controversy. WASHINGTON. Dec. 11— Opinion In the Senate Is divided as to the probability of a Congressional Investigation of the Schley controversy, but is on the whole against the probability of 6ucb a course. A majority of the Republican Senators appear to be adverse to the reopening of the question, and those holding this view include friends of Admiral Schley. Sena tor Hoar expressed himself as content to abide by the opinion of Admiral Dewey because of his superior facilities for reaching a correct conclusion, and Sena tor Mason took a similar position, adding "hat the opinion of the admiral of the tavy would be accepted as the verdict of the country regardless of what conclusion Continued on Page Thirty-Four. The San Francisco Call. WAR OF THE RIVAL COPPER CONCERNS CAUSES A FURTHER SLUMP IN PRICES Amalgamated Chiefs Put Forth Charges of Unfair Gutting Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Dec 14.—Amalga mated Copper stock sold. at the new low record price of 64*4 cents to-day, rallying at the close to C5% cents, which was still 1 point under the closing price of - Friday. . The fear. that an open cut in the price of cop per to 15% cents a pound for electrolytic copper and 15% cents for lake is but" the opening gun in the trade war between the Amalgamated and Independent * producers of copper and is largely responsible for the further decline In the price of the stock. If a big trade war has really. begun,' it was argued, there is no telling where the price of metal may go, and with such a prospect it was even possible the quarter ly dividend of the Amalgamated 'compa ny^ ' due next Thursday, might be passed altogether. Representatives of the- Amalgamated company had' nothing to say to-day. Rep resentatives of the Independent producers of copper, on the other hand," talked rath er freely and appeared to be incensed at the cut in prices announced by the United Metals Selling Company. \ They.* intimated they had been led to believe the Amalga mated company and its allied corporations would not make any reduction \ in" the BANDITS HOPE FOR FULL SUM Legations Hand Over Case of Miss Stone: and Her.Gom panion to the Missionaries LONDON, Dec. 14.— Under a Sofia date the Telegraph publishes a dispatch t6 the effect that George , Waahburn, president of the Robert College at Constantinople, has arrived at Sofia on a confidential mis sion connected 1 with the release of -Miss Store, the captive American missionary. The dispatch further . says that : It t is ( ru mored that the United States will pay. the demand of the brigands in fulL/- CONSTANTINOFLE, Dec. : 14.— It Is un derstood here that the legations have banded over the case of Miss Ellen M. Stone ■ and ■' Mme. Tsilka to ' the mission aries in the hope that the latter, will 'be able to convince the ■ brigands that the sum subscribed in the United, States is SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1901-tSEYENTY PAGES. FINANCIAL KINGS OF THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY, CONTROLLERS, OF THE AMALGAMATED COPPER COMPANY, WHO HAVE REDUCED THE PRICE OP THE RED METAL, " THEREBY INAUGURATING WAR > -UPON EUROPEAN MONEY- BARONS HEADED BY THE ROTHSCHILDS. '*■ V * "' • : ' price, and they, asserted that many of the Independents had held firmly to the quoted price. . Now they would , be com pelled to meet the cut of the Amalgamated and were relieved of any further obliga tion to maintain prices. . • '-. • . Money j Barons Interested. The United Metals Selling Company is the selling concern for the Standard; Oil Company. John D. Rockefeller, the head of Standard , Oil, is said to be not In the fight. William Rockefeller . and H. j H. Rogers" are declared to be the real con testants who are going to fight the Roths childs. ' ' : ' ,It was asserted that contracts were be ing taken at less than the . new prices quoted.' :. Apropos of the recent reports of MINISTERS CURB HE£ DOMINATION Dowager Empress to Peking n Poor Health, and Her Power Is Failing PEKING, Dec. \ 14.— Reports received here from the court say, that the Dowager Empress . is in falling health. The peror's health is ■ Improving. '••.; /-.■The foreign Ministers think that when the court returns here the freer communi cation with the Emperor, guaranteed them by. the protocol of settlement will tend to curb the oburt's domination by.the'Em nress Dowaeer. the actual amount of money available for the ransom of the captives. -' It is reported that the authorities ■ at -Washington ; have cabled to Spencer Eddy, the ; United States Charge • d'Affalres,' approving ■ of this course. • . , the understanding to .be- reached between the Rio" Tinto Mining Company of Spain arid \ the '' amalgamated ; interests, ' the • in dependent official remarked: "What), if {the-r Amalgamated company should effect an agreement [as to'the re striction of : the production with the Rio Tintb people, , It will not" benefit, as. the Rio Tinto's process of treating Its "copper is so slow that it would . be j two or three years before the agreement .would cut any figure bo far as the world's produc tion of copper is .concerned." ; The astonishment at the action of the Amalgamated Interests which- the Inde pendents 'expressed was j. the subject" of decided criticism In ' some Wall street quarters, where the opinion was held that the '■■'. cut was .the subject of the simplest PRINCE HENRY SHARES HONORS Loving Subjects of Queen Wilhelmina Make* a; Great Demonstration at The Hague .-. THE : HAGUE, Dec. i 14.-;-Queen Wilhel mina and Prince Henry, her husband,'ar rived; here to-day. ' ; Flags were displayed throughout the city and 'the railroad sta tion '•?.' decorated.:. The' inhabitants made a* great demonstration. The Queen and Prince Henry .'drove through crowded streets 'to the residence of. . the Queen mother,' - who welcomed 1 them ; before ' the public^'- kissing '* Queen '-'jWilhelmlriav and shaking hands with ; Prince • Henry. ?. Later the crowds around .the palace ; sang the national: anthem. loving subjects; of the Queen appear/ to 'have forgotten^ the recent peculiar conduct", of her consort. of. explanations, : namely that the'inde pendents had been ', cutting the . market, believing they had it all their own way, as | the .Amalgamated was "holding an umbrella" over them." This view was. expressed In one Wall street' quarter r, : .->> " r y?y!:T* ■'-} . • - Independents Are Scared. "The independent copper, producers," It seems, do not .understand how it is that the. cut has been made by, the-''Amal gamated Interests When there appeared to he such willingness on- the part "of ..these Interests to 'hold the umbrella.' • It is, how ever, very easy of explanation.' The Amal gamated ; Company. ; has been willing to have an understanding with all .the Inter ests to '.: maintain seventeen-cent - copper, EVADING RULE OF NICARAGUA Three % Delegates \ From the Mqsquito : r4"erritory Nego tiating With Great Britain :, KINGSTON, - Jamaica, , Dec. . 11— Three delegates from .the Mosquito territory^of Nicaragua have; arrived here and are ne gotiating*: with ;the British 'Government for^rellef . from \ NIcaraguan Irule. . -.Thay have sent a signed t letter^ to the newspa pers setting' forth their } refusal to believe that Great' Britain'- Is - abandoning -the Ma'nguln' treaty and : declaring - that the Moqqulto , Indians, are prepared to. fight rather." than acpept the - constitution of Nicaraguan control. . . / ' The delegates will await Great Britain's reply , to the representations } before taking" further action. ' ' ' ■ ' . *■■■■' The Money Barons of | the World Likely to -Play a Part but has , observed that the Independents have not been maintaining that price, but have been underselling' 'with guarantees, while the umbrella act was going; on. The Amalgamated ' Interests thereupon themselves sold at a v slight price conces sion 50,000,000 .pounds or more of copper on guarantee. Then they dropped the price.^ Of course the Independents are howling because the umbrella has been raised, for they will have, to' supply low copper on their . contract guarantees. . The Amal gamated Interests, I think, are better able to stand the guarantee racket than the independents generally. Now, the Amal gamated can say, If -you don't "maintain copper at fifteen and three-eighths cents, the new price for lake, why, we will drop it another peg, and. you can', supply copper at a still lower price on your guarantees." The "evidence of the way that the newer group of copper mining companies , Is hit by the cut In the price, of the metal was given to-day in - the , Broad-street . curb market, where ; theTe was a general de cline in low-priced copper shares. Dis patches from 'Boston reported a general •weakness there also in ■ copper mining shares on top of the previous 'heavy de clines. The stock of the 'Caluinet and Hecla Mining Company, the leading 'lake producer; sold as low as $610, closing at $615.".' ;»"';■ .v'-Vv\ 7.' " .."'"'' ' f ' ' ■ '■ CHICAGO REDS SHOW DEFIANCE Anarchists Recently Arrested "Issue -Manifestoes Insulting x k President of ; United States Dec/ 14.— Open letters and manifestoes addressed to President ..Roose velt,- in which*, defiance, disrespect and re bellion are^plainly, set forth, are. .now be ing resorted to by; the Chicago anarchists arrested at the tiine>of the -assassination of ■ President : McKlnley. . .'Local "Reds" hsve made their rebellions utterances • as the Vresult r'of a conference of -anarchist leaders of different' cities in Illinois held at z the . headquarters, of > the": Free " Society at 515 Carroll avenue. ' | .It : was decided that a general manifesto should be issued to be circulated through out^the country- and forwarded to every member I of the ; legislative portion >: of ■ the Federal Government at. Washington, and "also"* printed in every organ' of the "Reds" throughout the country.'. ,-'; T ".. . . . Pages 33 to 46 PRICE FIVE CENTS. STARTLES , OF WORLD Message Sent in England Is Received at Stl Johns,- N. F. By the Use of a Kite the Let ter "S" Is Twice Sent to Signal Hill. Careful Preparations and Host Pow erful Apparatus Arranged by tna Wizard Before His Wonder* . . ful Achievement. Special Dispatch to The Can. ST JOHNS, N. F.. Dec 14.— Marconi an nounced to-day that he successfully re ceived by wireless telegraphy at the sta tion on Signal Hill messages from i sta tion recently erected irear The LJz;ird, In Cornwall, England. These messages, Mar coni said, were received on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. He had ar ranged with the Cornwall station that the letter S was to he signaled at 6 o'clock In the evening, which would bs 2:30 o'clock here, and the signals were received as ar ranged on Wednesday and Thursday, though no signal came yesterday or to day. "I thought it advisable," said Marconi, "with the machinery which had escaped damage at Cornwall to see whether it was . possible .to obtain signals here from Eng land at the same time I tried experiments with the transatlantic liners. When the kite elevated the wire to a height of 400 feet above Signal Hill on 'Wednesday a number of signals, consisting of the letter S, which Signals 1 were ordered to be sent ftom Cornwall, were clearly received on Signal Hill by the receiving; Instruments.- We again ; received signals perfectly- on Thursday, . \ , •;"/ .'. * Success Changes Plans. . "The signals were obtained only when the kite was up to a considerable height. For some reason yesterday ""nothing was received, and to-day we could not get the kite up on account of the weather. It has been blowing too heavily every day for the balloons, which would be best to ex periment with. "The success of these tests will alter my plans. I intend to suspend further tests with kites and balloons for a short time and eiect a large station here at z. cost of $50,000 having towers or masts for sup porting the wires. . This, of course, pro vided there is no Governmental or other objection. This will necessitate my going back to England at the end of next week in order to have the necessary equip ments sent here with suitable transmit ting machinery and other requirements. By that time I hope to have the Cape Cod station in working order again, so as to complete the regular triangular service. No doubt the success of my experiments here will cause a sensation in telegraph circles and many will find it dlfflci.lt to believe It. I myself had very little doubt as to our ultimate success, but I thought It advisable not to communicate before hand the exact scope of these tests, as I considered it would be better "to assure myself of : success before publishing; tha details even of the Installations at Corn wall. Station Very Powerful. Slgnor Marconi's station in Cornwall is very powerful. He possesses an electric force, generated there, a hundred times greater than his ordinary , stations. When certain of success Slgnor Marconi cabled to his principals In England and also informed the Governor of Newfound land, Sir Cavendish Boyle, who apprised the British Cabinet of the success of the experiments. Slgnor : Marconi, though satisfied from the genuineness of the signals that he has succeeded in his attempt in establishing communication across the Atlantic with out, the use of wires, emphasizes the fact that the system is yet only in an embry onic stage, and that the possibility of its ultimate, development Is demonstrated by the success of the present experiments with incomplete and Imperfect apparatus. as the signals can only be received by the. most sensitively adjusted apparatus and Slgnor Marconi is working under great difficulties owing to the conditions prevail ing. ' ■ ■ f ■'■'.-. Distance Is 1700 Miles. The Cornwall coast Is 1700 miles from St. Johns. -In view, of the success attending these trials Slgnor Marconi will for the present disregard -the matter -of communicating with trans- Atlantic. steamers. He will re turn to England: next week and will con duct the "experiments from Poldhu him self. He explains that the' great eljctri cal-power there will enable him to send more effective signals. He will undertake this' work himself, leaving assistants here to erect a mast. and receive the signals as' he^ forwards them. It Is not possible to send return signals from here until a powerful electric battery shall have bees installed. Sir Robert Bond. Premier of Newfound, land, offers Slgnor Marconi every facility Continued on Page Thirty-IVyBX.