Nebraska Newspapers

    Auditor Cornell Speaks In Language Most
Plain to Mr. Armstrong.
-OVERHEAD INSURANCE.”
It Will Mot lie Permitted to lie Written
In Nebraska—The President of the
Mshattsn Company Roundly Roasted
toy the Auditor of Nebraska.
Auditor Cornell Is after P. B. Arm
strong, president of the Manhattan
Fire Insurance company of New York
city. In a letter, which is herewith
given, he intimates that the company
of which Mr. Armstrong is president
xnav lust as well retire from business
In Nebraska as not and the sooner the
better as far as the auditor is con
cerned.
The 'difficulty arose over the writing
of the “overhead” insurance on large
properties by which the home office of
the company saved commissions to lo
cal agents and also evaded paying a
tax on the premiums to the state. Aud
itor Cornell has for some time been in
correspondence with several com
panies in regard to the matter and
they have almost to a one agreed to
dispense writing insurance in that
manner. The auditor in writing to
Mr. Armstrong says that in securing a
license for 1898, his company agreed
to suspend writing that kind of pol
icies and from correspondence which
he has had he rather thinks this was
not done. While Nebraska has no res
ident agency law, the auditor intimates
that an agreement should lie lived up
to. He explains things in the follow
ing manner:
P. B. Armstrong. President Manhat
tan Fire Insurance Co.. New York City
—Dear Sir: Citizens of this state have
frequently called my attention to the
practices of eastern insurance com
panies doing business in Nebraska, in
having insurance on property here,
written through Chicago and New
York brokers and agents, entirely dis
regarding their legally licensed agent3
in this state. Our statute provides that
■"insurance agents shall render the lid
of net premiums" for taxation; it is
therefore urged that when Nebraska
agents do not receive the premiums,
■our assessors do not meet with tlip men
who receive them, and these premiums
for that reason generally escape taxa
tion in this state. This caused me to
send a circular letter to eastern com
panies early this year, requesting that
before I re-licensed them for 1898. they
should agree to stop this overhead
■writing, and have all the Nebraska in
surance written by Nebraska agents,
who could under the law. “lie personal
ly holden for taxes on the premiums.”
All hut. two companies agreed to stop
the practice and many of the compan
ies spoke of it as a had practice, which
they were very happy to see discon
tinued. If Nebraska had a “resident
agency lav/” there would have been no
need of trying to effect this agreement
Between the state and the companies,
Mr. II. F. Neefue, secretary of your
■company, answered my letter under
date of April 12. 1898, as follows: “It
is not our intention, now that we have
■a commissioned and duly authorized
agent in your state, to write business
there, other than through such agent."
I regarded this as all in good faith on
your part and accepted it as a con
tract between your company and the
state. I then sent you your license for
1898.
on juiy zz, isss, 1 caned attention to
your violation of this agreement by
Insuring property in this state through
New York agents. I asked if you would
have the kindness to cancel this in
surance and have it re-written through
your Nebraska agents, so this state
could tax the premium. Your reply to
me under date of August 9. to say the
least, is rude and in several respects
It is false. You intimate that "compan
ies pay into your treasury, taxes upon
all such premiums received for this
overhead insurance." You had our
law in hand when you wrote this and
knew its falsity quite well. Neither
your company nor any eastern com
pany you may mention, pays taxes on
premiums into our state treasury.
You convey the idea that you "sent
the bulk of our insurance covering the
■Cudahy plant, to our Omaha agents to
be written,” and they refused to write
1t because you placed the rates too lowr
to please them. The truth of the mat
ter is that the New York brokers con
trolling the line of insurance in ques
tion. placed the insurance with your
New York office and your office then
sent same to your Omaha agents to
liave the policies written: hut they re
fused to write the policies for the rea
son that by doing so they would ma
terially help the New York brokers to
continue to keep the enormout line
of insurance carried by the Cudahy
Packing company away from the Oma
lia local agents, who are as justly en
titled to the business, as the stat« is
to the taxes on the premiums.
Your remarks that l have joined an
Insurance trust to assist in oppressing
the people of this state are very silly
nnd unworthy of the president of any
great corporation. The people of Ne
braska do not need the assistance of
outside corporations to keep their pres
ent state officers from onpressing
them. I stand enjoined by the federal
courts now and have been so enjoined
for many months because I was con
sidered too active in enforcing anti
trust and anti-combine laws relating
to insurance agents.
You intimate that you will withdraw
from the state if I Insist that you live
up to your agreement of April 12. The
quicker all persons nnd corporations
that do not regard the sanctity of a
contract withdraw from the state, the
better for the people of Nebraska. It
Is plain you obtained your license for
1898 under false pretenses. It cannot
be returned any too soon. Parties at
'South Omaha and New York can man
age their own affairs, hut they must
also manage to pay the taxes due this
state so long as I am insurance com
missioner.
To this dnte Nebraska has been an
exceptionally fine field for eastern in
surance companies. If the next'legis
lature enacts a strict “resident agency
law" and imposes a severe tax upon
premiums, imprudent men. like the
president of the Manhattan Fire In
surance company, can feel that they
[ are to blame for it all. The Spectator,
the ablest insurance Journal in the
world, in its issue of August IS, speaks
as follows: "Our sympathy for Pres
ident Armstrong is very much weak
ened by the unwarranted statements in
his letter to Auditor Cornell, Arm
strong is by nature and education an
iconoclast, more successful in tearing
down than in building up, still ho
might refrain from attempting to prej
udice the business that he relies upon
for a livelihood.”
You believe "there are forty other
companies doing overhead insurance”
in this state, and defrauding Nebraska
of her Just revenue. If I can secure a
list of such companies I will show you
that I treat all alike. If your state
ments are true in this regard, the
auleker Nebraska puts laws on her
books to compel insurance companies
to deal fairly, the better it will be for
all concerned.
When I wrote you July 29, 1 made
a similar request of the Traders’ Fire
Insurance company of New York.
Their answer is worthy of honorable
men. quite different from yours. They
agree the state hes rights which they
will resnect. Such a spirit of fairness
is appreciated.
You have the bad grace to give pri
vate corr^snondence to the press and
take special pains to send it to the
western papers. I will save you the
trouble this time by giving this letter
out mvse'f.
Very truly yours.
JOHN F. CORNELL,
Auditor of Public Accounts.
Per SAMVEL LICHTY.
llurlky In the lumulrv.
Ex-State Treasurer J. S. Bartley,
says the Lincoln Journal, has been as
I signed to laundry work in the peniten
tiary by Warden Leigh. Bartley was
suffering from a bad case of granulat
ed eyelids when lie entered the prison
[ to serve a twenty years’ term. He had
been receiving treatment long before
his trial, but after his sentence was af
firmed by the supreme court his even
became worse and it wa3 reported that
he would be unable lo perform hard
labor. The warden did not make the
assignment until the prison physician
examined Bartley and gave him a phy
sical rating. Recently Bartley’s eyes
began to improve. The change was s >
marked that, some ventured the opin
ion that. Ills eyes had not been given
proper treatment while he was in the
Douglas county jail. It is said this is
the belief of the penitentiary physi
cian. While some believe the story
and pretend to assign a motive, others
are satisfied to give their opinion of
doctors in general and assert that
many of them would dislike to cure
a patient too speed lv when t*e patient
evinced a desire to pay rood round
feps for treatment.
Bartley's deportment is much the
same as it was while he was in the
Douglas county jail. He continues ro
attend strictly to his own business. He
has no cell mate, has received no vis
itors end seldom communicates with
others. His work in the laundry is said
to he satisfactory. He helps wash and
iron. The washing is done by ma
chinery and it is a part of his duty to
place the garments in the machine and
remove them at the proper time. The
ironing is done after the old-fashioned
manner, with bis, heavy flat irons.
Some skill -’nd muscle is required in
the operation. Garments belonging to
convicts and guards go through the
laundry and Bartley handles his share
of them, whether they he coarse striped
goods or fine white shirts. He still
wears glasses to protect his eyes, but
his poor sight does not appear to in
terfere with his work, lie has never
made a eomnlaint to the warden and
he observes the rules of the peniten
tiary strictly.
Nebraska Medals for Fruit.
Superintendent Youngers of the Ne
braska fruit exhibit, says the Omaha
Bee, is furnishing some conclusive evi
dence that this is not the first exposi
tion where the state has been in the
lead in the way of showing first-class
fruit. The evidence is in the form of
bronze and silver medals, all of which
are in a case close to the fruit tables
and under loci: anil key.
The first medal Nebraska won on its
fruit was P.t a horticultural exhibit in
Baltimore in 1871. This was on a gen
eral exhibit. The next was in Boston
in 1873. and was riven on account of
the largest variety of pears being
shown by any one state. At that time
Nebraska had forty-three varieties on
exhibition. The first prize was award
ed in 1870, at the Centennial, when the
slate was given a m°dal for tlie best
collection of grapes. Prior to this tim •
(he state h°d won medals at Boston
and Philadelphia, where it had shown
its fruits.
Hot and Dry.
The weather of the past wepk, says
the last Nebraska crop bulletin, has
been much like that of the week which
preceded it and the results have been
much the same. In the northern coun
ties the week has been very favorable.
Corn has matured rapidly and has not
suffered from the hot. dry weather.
The yield will be reduced somewhat in
most other counties as a result of the
heat and lack of moisture. Threshing
from shock is about finished. The
weather has been so favorable that
very little or no grain has been dam
aged in the shock. Fall plowing is
well advanced, but the ground is now
getting too dry and plowing has about
stopped. A very little wheat and rye
have been sown, but generally seeding
will be delayed till after a rain.
Killed nt Manila.
Osceola dispatch : There have been
so many reports in relation to the
death of William Lewis and people
here were so anxious to know the
truth that a tele.fiani was sent to the
war department to have the mystery
cleared up, and yesterday Postmaster
Campbell received a reply from Secre
tary of War Meikeljohn saving that 1
William l5. Lewis was killed while in '
the trenches before Manila. on the
night of August 2 by tlx* bursting of a
shrapnel! thrown by the Spaniards into
the trenches.
Dennis Grimes of Saunders county,
stopped to care for his horse, when the
animal, presumably maddened by the
fiies. gave a vicious kick, the blow
grazing the right sida of Mr. Grimes'
head, severing one ear. The blow, had
it struck Grimes snuarely, would have
caused instant death.
Buffalo county is harvesting an ttn
! usually large crop.
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Eighty-Three Volunteer Organiza
tions Ordered Discharged.
THIRTEEN REGIMENTS TO STAY
They Will Probably He Retaln«Hl In the
Service tntll Next Spring—No Western
Troops In the 1.1st — Mostly Pastern and
Southern Regiments for Garrison Duty.
Washinotojt, Sept. 5.—A statement
prepared at the War department shows
that including to-day eighty-three of
the organizations in the volunteer
army have received orders looking to
their being mustered out of the service.
This number includes fifty-three regi
ments and a number of minor organi
zations, such as batteries of artillery,
independent companies of cavalry,
etc., and probably represents almost
one-third of the approximated 220,000
men called for by the President in the
two proclamations issued by him.
The appended bulletin was issued by
the War department to-day announc
ing the additional regiments to be
mustered out of the service. Adjutant
General Corbin said that in ull prob
ability few if any other troops would
be ordered relieved from duty at this
time. The bulletin of the organiza
tions to be mustered out follows:
First United States volunteer cav
alry, “Rough Riders,” at Galveston.
Texas; Ninth Massachusetts infantry:
batteries b, C and I). First Maine ar
tillery; Companies A, It, C and I), Sec
ond Washington volunteer infantry;
District of Columbia infantry: First
battalion, Nevada infantry; Third,
Ninth and Fourteenth New York in
fantry; Second New Jersey infantry;
First Massachusetts heavy artillery.
In connection with the orders mus
tering out the above named regiments
it is significant of the government's in
tention to retain many of the volun
teer troops in the service that orders
were issued transferring thirteen regi
ments from their state camps to the
various camps of mobilizat ion through
out the country. It is understood that
the orders were issued with a view to
the retention in the service, perhaps,
until next spring, of the organizations
named in the orders. The regiments
included in the orders are as follows:
Third Georgia, from Gritlin, Ga.. to
Jacksonville; Fifteenth Minnesota
from St. Paul to Camp Meade, Middle
town, Pa.; Fourth New Jer.ssy from
Seagirt, to Camp Meade: Kighth in
fantry (regulars) from Fort Thomas.
Wash., to Lexington; Fifth Massachu
setts from South Framington, to
Camp Meade; Thirty-fifth Michigan
from Island llaven. to Camp
Meade; Third Mississippi from
Jackson, Miss., to Lexington;
Two Hundred and First New
York from Hainstcad, to Camp Meade;
Third North Carolina from Fort Macon,
to Knoxville, Fourth Kentucky from
Lexington, to Knoxville; Third Ala
bama from Mobile, to Jacksonville;
Third regiment United States en
gineers from Jefferson barracks, to
Lexington; and First Territorial regi
ment from Tucson, Ariz., to Lexing
ton.
TO ABANDON CAMP WIKOFF.
Kegulars to He Ordered to OarrlHon* —
The Twentieth to Fort Leaven worth.
Nkw York, Hept. li.—A dispatch to
the New York Tribune from Washing
ton says: Orders were prepared at
the War department to-day for the
practical abandonment of t amp Wikoff
at Moutauk Point. All the volunteer
regiments now there will soon start
for their homes and will receive fur
loughs us they are mustered out. while
most of the regulars, as soon ns they
have recuperated sufficiently, will re
sume duty at the posts which they
garrisoned before t he war began. The
orders for the regulars may be issued
to-morrow. The Twentieth infantry
will go to Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
PANDO FLED WITH MILLIONS.
A Vhst Sum Taken by the General In Ills
Secret Departure From II avail a.
Nt:w York. Sept. 5.—A dispatch to
the New York Herald from Havana
says: Having successfully done every
thing In his power to convey the im
pression he was sailing for Spain by
way of New York on the steamship
Philadelphia, Thursday, lieneral Pan
do, instead, secretly started for his
native land about ten hours later on
the French steamer Notr.. Dame <111
Salut, it is said, with £.“,400,000. The
secret was so effectually kept that
very few persons here have any knowl
edge of it, and all the Havana news
papers announce Pando’s departure on
the Philadelphia.
The Only ''Official Caj*'* on Record.
Washington, Sept. 1.—The alleged
overcharging by stewards on board
transports as stated at the quarter
master general's office, is said to be
one single instance where a steward
charged a soldier twenty-live cents for
a sandwich. No other complaints of
the kind have been made at the quar
termaster’s department
A Young Girl In Trouble.
St. Johki'h. Mo., Sept. ,r>.—1 la Tot
man, a Cameron girl IT years of age,
was arraigned before Commissioner
Pollock to-day, charged with opening
and destroying mail not her own.
Mrs. Linda Totman. the girl's mother,
entered a plea of guilty for her daugh
ter, and the young defendant was
bound over to the federal grand jury.
Mrs, Mary Totman of Cameron, an
aunt of tho defendant, is the one
whose letter was tampered with. A
check for £10 was taken from the let
ter, the signature forged and money
obtained and spent by the girl in
having a good time. Hail for 31,000
was furnished.
SPANISH ARMS CAPTURED.
•J3,t3» III lip* and 3.500,000 Cartridge*
Surrendered at Hantlago.
Washington, Sept. 5.—Colonel H. P.
Hortip, the chief ordnance officer of
Santiago, has forwarded to tiie war
department a complete list of the ord
nance captured from tho Spaniards.
The number of rifles and carbines cap
tured far exceeds the expectations o.'
the authorities in Washington. The
list ns received by General Flagler,
chief of ordnance, is us follows;
Rifles:
Spanish Muusers. IR.PO*
Argent . *-,!
Remington. 0.I1S
t 'urhines:
Mausers. 813
Argent. 81
Remington. 33t.
Revolvers.
Ammunition for small arms:
Mauser rifle cartridges .1.510,909
Argent rifle cartridges. 471.30)
Remington rifle cartridges. .. 1,140,0)0
The worthless smnll-arin ammuni
tion amounts to 973,000 cartridges.
Forty-four smooth-bore siege guns and
five inortars were also raptured, to
gether with the following rifled guns:
Bronze, 3t); east-iron, 10; steel, h.
Projectiles captured: Solid shot,
spherical, 3,551; shell, spherical, 078;
shell, cylindrical, 1,871); shranutji.
cylindrical, 437.
NAVY TO KEEP 20,000 MEN.
>'o drpat Fall ini; € MT From tin* lVar j
Quota to He Allowed.
Washington, Sept. 5.—The enlisted
force of the navy is to lie maintained
at its full strength and as fast as va
cancies occur through discharges and
the expiration of enlistment periods I
they will be tilled. The number of
men enrolled in the navy during the
war with Spain reached 'J4.000, includ
ing about 4,o k) naval militia.
The return North of the Santiago
fleet, and that on patrol service, re
sulted in the mustering out of over
400 regular seamen, whose terms had
expired, and who had no desire for
further active service. Many ships
have on their list sailors who will also
leave the government service in the
next month for the same reason.
To keep the strength approximately
up to :.' ),o n enlistments have beeu di
rected to begin again at recruiting
stations, and so anxious are hundreds
of well-equipped men to join the navy
that no difficulty will be experienced
in soon having the quota filled.
NO PARADE OF MILES' ARMY.
riic Volunteers lrri»in Porto Iltcs to Ho t
sent to I lielr Monica At Oner.
Washington, Sept. 5.—(leneral Miles
and his army of between 4,000 and j
r>,000 volunteers, now on the way to
this country from Porto Uieo, will not :
parade in New York city or elsewhere
as a body upon their arrival. The of
ficial announcement of this fact was
made ut the War department, to-day.
When the transports arrive in New
York harbor they will he met by
officers with orders for the troops to
proceed directly from their ships to
the trains, to be sent immediately to
their state camps, preparatory to he*
ing mustered out of the service.
MAINE WRECK STILL THERE.
llavuna Authorities K.tabllah » Patrol
About tlie Hulk In tlie Harbor.
Nkw York. Sept. 5.- A dispatch to
tlie New York Herald from Havana
says: Within the last few days the
authorities have reinstituted the sys
tem of patrol boats about the Maine
wreck as maintained before the war,
intending to show the commission
their determination that American
property shall be fully protected and,
incidentally, that they do not regard
I the cause of the disaster as determined i
and intend to give no opportunity for !
the manufacture of evidence.
I
For the New Naval Hospital.
Chicago, Sept. ft.—A dispatch to the '
Chicago Record from W ashington says: i
The surgeon general of the navy has !
asked for proposals, to be opened Octo- 1
her 12, for .be construction of a model
naval hospital at Mare island, Cal.,
under a congressional appropriation of
$100,000. The plans are of the most
modern type, conforming to the latest
hospital practice at home anil abroad
and provide for indefinite expansion.
The Netjro Hail Kitieil t'uur Women.
Dai.I.as, Texas, Nept. ft. — From the
confessions of "Dobie" Joe Malone, the
negro hanged here yesterday, it is be
lieved that he participated in four or
five murders. Two years ago he. killed
Mrs. Durham near Dallas, and ha and
another negro killed three white wo
men at Eagle Rake, near Houston,
about three years ago.
1 • iv cm or Itlack Wants His Men Kclii-vetl
W'asiiiSept. ft. — Hovernor ,
lilaek was hii early eallerat the W ar
department this morning. As a result
of his personal inspection and obser- j
rations, the governor recommended
the mustering out of the Third, Ninth
and Fourteenth regiments of New York
volunteers in addition to those prev- ,
iuusly ordered out of the service.
A liamtu* II »tel Man Kill* lllmself.
Osawatomih, Kan.. Sept. !».— C. A.
Furr, proprietor of the Central hotel :
at this place, shot himself last night.
He recently came here from Lane,
Kan., and had just recovered from a
severe sickness. His mind has been
affected at times since coming here.
Missouri Day Probably <>lreu l'p.
Omaha, Sept. 5.—Missouri day at
the exposition will probably have to
1)0 given up. The commissioners have
been unable to secure the desired rates
from railways. 1
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Heat and Rain to Blame for Fever
and Starvation at Santiago.
DOCTORS SICK LIKE THE REST.
lie Says the Wounded Were W’ell Cared
For—Muddy Roads Kept Hack Hatton* |
— Had Too IdttleTIme to Fi|tilp If of*
pltal Ships Properly.
New York, Sept. 3.—The New York
World prints an interview with Gen
eral Shatter, in which tho general is
represented as saying: “At Santiago
wo had to deal with things as they
ure, not as they should l>e. Of course
there was sickness. It wa» inevitable
in a summer campaign. Hut nobody
was neglected. Tho doctors were
scarce at first, but we had boat loads
of them as soon as they could get
there. Doctors got sick liko the rest.
They were overworked and exhausted.
Hut their ability is unquestionable.
Look at the low per eentage of deaths
from wounds. It was never lower in
any war. Why, in the civil war I lay
on the battlefield myself until my
wounds were in a horrible condition,
and that was right near by, not down
in a malarious, sub-tropical country,
far away.
“The men who ordered a summer
campaign in a fever-infested country
are responsible for the natural and un
avoidable consequences. None of our
wounded was allowed to lie on the bat
tle field as 1 was in the civil war.
Nothing of the kind happened. Anaes
thetics were plentiful.
“It was the heat that was so deadly,
and the rains. Right in the midst of
the most torrid heat a shower would
fall, it would drench everybody with
out cooling tlie air. In a few minutes,
under the sun again, every man wouid
be steaming. Men of the strongest
constitutions succumbed.
“Our first case of yellow fever de
veloped at fell Ganey. Hut tlie army
was ripe for it and it spread liko a
prairie fire. Many a man had yellow
fever who will never know it. And to
tell tin* truth it is not so dangerous as
tlie calentura or heat attacks that un
acelimated men have in the malarial
regions of Cuba. Why, it is a common
thing for a man's temperature to rise
from normal to 105 in a few hours.
That means death in most cases. It
can give cards and spades to yellow
fever in the game of death I'd rather
have yellow fever.
NOT FIT FOR FIGHTING IN IILAT.
“Our men were all unaccliinated;
they never had faced su.*h constant
beat Many of them ha I never slept
out doors before they went into camp.
How could they be moulded into
proper material for such a climate and
such a campaign? It couldn't be done.
These men you see coming back with
the thin bodies and the yellow faces
are suffering from the parasite of the
low fever of the Santiago plateaus.
“We at the front did not wait to let
the fever have its run. We wanted to
save life. Now tlie problem was to
save tlie most lives possible. We had
never had a foreign war since 1812-lb
The United Stales lias no hospital ships
It was not a question of using what
was best, but wlv.t we had. We used
the transports that brought tho troops
down.
“if I could have had a few more
weeks to equip hospital ships the con
dition would have been better. If the
war had continued we would have
stayed right there, fever or no fever.
Tiie sudden ending of the war was un
expected. I made it an invariable
rule to send home twenty-five less men
on a transport than she hud brought
south. That was a fair view to take.
“I am satisfied with the Santiago
campaign. When it is fully under
stood, all its difficulties, it will receive
just place in military history. We
were hurried off to Cuba. We landed
and could not have got our stores back
on board ship if we had wanted to.
When the invasion was planned it
was obvious that it must be a rush.
Such it was.
“And it was a success—complete and
unequivocal. Many things were done,
it is true, that were forced upon us by
the exigencies of the hour, but the
means employed, even under such
dress, proved to be wisely ehosen. I
was compelled to do a great many
tilings that under different circum
stances would not have been consid
ered.
HE SIZED THEM UP RIGHT.
“I sized up the Spaniards correctly.
For example, at San Juan 1 was sure
they would not come out from their
works ami attack us. The El Ceney
light 1 had hoped would be finished at
10 a. in., but it took until 5 o'clock,
and 1 rather feel now that it was for
the best. Had we taken tiic city of
Santiago that night only the garrison
then there would have surrendered to
us. Whereas, later, all the troops in
the region surrounding were included.
The men outside of Santiago, July-',
could have gone to General Panilo. 1
knew that the war was over as soon as
Toral spoke to me about surrendering
the troops in the Eastern province. 1
almost fell over.
“We never had on the fighting line
at any one time more than 13.090 men.
And with these we captured 117,000.
“Nine thousand Spaniards were for
tified in tlie best intrenched position I
ever saw. Indeed, the intrenchmcnts
were of such a character that shelling
with the guns we had did not do them
serious damage. Where a 13-inch shell
from our ships dropped into a house in
the town it demolished the dwelling;
but all the occupants were gone.”
“Did Cervera's men help in the San
Juan fight?'1 was usked, to clear up a
mooted point.
“Yes, indeed. Ha had 1,000 men
whore from his fleet in ths battle of
July I. 11 is chief of staff, Husamentc,
tvas killed. Ifis marines anil sailors
suffered severely. Cervera put them
ill back on board July 2, and the next
lay tried to get t.o sea.
“The Spaniards were down to their
last bit of riee when they surrendered,
but they declined on the lirst day to
accept rations offered them. They
said that American charity humiliated
them: hut I noticed that they came
around the second day
A MUDDY ROAD TO I1LAME.
“Why was your food supply short
lieforc ban Juan?”
"1 had to act quickly and shovo my
men right into the Held, because I
knew they were growing weaker and
weaker every hour. We hid plenty of
rations, unloaded at the shore, but
there was only a single road hub deep
in mud, over which they could ho
brought to the front, and if we had a
thousand army wagons we eould not
have got the provisions where they
were needed. The pack trains saved
us. They were invaluable.”
“What is the conditiou of .Santiago
to-day?” was asked.
“It is in a fair state of health,” re
plied Ueneral bhafter. “Under the
military governorship now k exist
ence it will soon be cleaned and made
thoroughly healthy. It is a pretty
town, hut the surrounding country is
in a state of wreck. You can't imag
ine the destitution of the island of
Cuba.”
"Did you see any rceonceutrados?"
“Only a few. 1 fear that most of
them are dead. Hut the death rate in
bantiago had dropped from eighty a
day to thirty-iive, and most of the
deaths arc of old people or children
who had not recovered from the starv
ation which they had endured.”
CAVALRY MAY HE NEEDED.
"You asked me about tho use of
cavalry in Cuba, and I reply that if we
have to go down there aud tight tho
Cuban guerrillas, wo shall want tho
cavalry beyond question. Otherwise
not. 1 hope that small garrisons of
infantry scattered over the country
will surtice."
“How about the western part of tho
island?” was tho next inquiry.
□ “Havana will certainly be guarded
and everything possible will be done
to render the city healthy and revive
its prosperity. The Western provinces
are ready for agriculture and crops
can lie put in any time.”
Ueneral bharter was fully informed
regurding tho controversy between
Ueneral Miles and Secretary Alger.
He ivas surprised and said it was the
first hint he had of anything of the
kind. He knew nothing about tho
cauvits or tho merits of the contro
versy.
“What troops arc left to garrison
Santiago?”
"Tho only troops of tho Fifth corps
that were loft were the Twenty-fourth
infantry, the remainder of the Ninth
Massachusetts, about 100 recruits and
the last of tho sick and wounded.
These were to have left on the day af
ter the Mexico sailed and are to reach
here to-morrow or next day. This
completes tho withdrawal of the army
of invasion, which was composed of
the Fifth corps. The garrison duty is
in other hands. The Fifth army corps’
flag will fly over Camp Wikoff to
morrow.”
WON BY AMERICAN ROADS.
Differential PaMnngvr Kates Defused to
tile Canadian Pacific.
Washington, Sept. 3. — The Inter
state commerce commission, by a de
cision to-day in the matter of the pas
senger rate disturbances of the Can
adian Pacific railroad, involving tho
propriety of differential passenger
rates between Kastcrn points aud the
Pacific coast, held that tho Canadian
Pacific is not entitled to the differen
tial contended for. The case is one of
the most important that has been be
fore the commission for a long time,
the American railroad lines and tho
Canadian Pacific having been engaged
sii mouths nr more in a war In pas
senger tariff between the Hast and tho
West.
Cuban* Nut at Work.
Havana, Sept. 3.—Advices from
Guines, this province, say that tho
work of the field is not being resumed.
On the contrary, there is groat indif
erence shown by the inhabitants of
the interior. It is almoit too lata
now to prepare the ground for the sow
ing season. Thus, instead of an im
provement, this section will show a
continued poverty, giving risa to tha
inevitable thefts und robberies in the
town proper, where many houses have
recently been built.
Our Imports From Porto Illrn.
Washington, Sept. 3.—A complete
report on the importation of sugar and
molasses from l’orto Rico in the fiscal
year 1S97-98, as well as the quantities
for 1895-90, lias been forwarded to the
Treasury department from New York
by Supervising Examiner of Sugar
Jacobs. lie shows that for the past
fiscal year the importations from
l’orto Rico were: Sugar, 911,584,411
pounds; duty. $1,393,705; value, $1,854,
015. Molasses. 1,371,823 gallons; duty,
141,221; valuu. $289,183. For the year
1895-90, the imports of raw sugar were
34,397,473 pounds.
Andris's I’nluhda~ U> Moot.
Vienna, Sept. 3.—An imperial de
cree 1ms been issued summoning the
Reichstag to meet September 20. This
will lend to the resumption of constitu
tional rule in the empire which was
suspended a few months ago because
of the riots in the Reichstag. The
question of the union of Austria and
Hungary is still to be settled.
Can't Agree on Commission.
M a null). Sept. 3.—The deadlock over
the appointment of the peace commis
sion continues.