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HUNDREDS ARE DEAD , Earthquake in Southern Mexico Proves to Have Been Disastrous , New $200,000 Sugar Mill , Just Fit ted with American Machfnary Totaly Destroyed. Mexico City , Jan. 21. One of the most terrible disasters in the' history 'of the state of Guerrero is reported to have occurred late Friday after noon. An extremely violent earth quake shock was felt at Chilpanclngo , causing a great loss of life and 'injur ing many persons. Details from the stricken district are very meager , but scattering reports received here indi cate that probably 300 persons were killed and as many more injured. It is known that the state capital , the parish church and many business houses and residences were in ruins and that there is much suffering as a result of theawful , seismic disturb ances. One of the edifices that suf fered most was the federal telegraph office , which explains the scarcity of news thus far. Meager details finally .began to ar rive here. The telegraph linesand apparatus at Chilpanclngo were badly damaged , but the employes , all of whom were uninjuredquickly proceed ed to erect an improvised telegraph of fice on the outskirts of the city. The number of deaths in the parish church was greater than at any other single place , as a crowd of worshipers was gathered there for the afternoon serv ice. The solid masonry walls and the roof came toppling down on the wor shipers and many of those within were killed. The war department ordered troops in the neighborhood to co-operate in the work of rescue. Until this work is completed it will be impossible to accurately learn the number of vic tims. It is believed , however , that this is one of the most destructive earth quakes that ever occurred in Mexico. The greater part of the population of the city are now camping out under tents around the town , which is five days journey from the national cap ital. Earthquake shocks were felt in many other cities and towns. In Mex ico City the earthquake occurred at 5:07 p. m. , and was of such violence as to shake the most substantial buildings. The Pan-American congress was in session at the time and many of the delegates were greatly alarmed. The first movement here was one of trepidation and was very sharp. It was followed by an easy oscillatory movement northeast to south-south west. The duration was fifty-five sec onds. The damage in this city was slight. SHORT SHOCKS THE WORST. The state of Guerrero has always been the focus of seismic disturb ances. Reports received here state the shock was very severe at Chilapa. No casualties are so far reported froro there. The duration ofthe Chilpan- cingo shock was less than that in .Mexico City , having lasted fifty sec onds , against fsfty-five seconds at the -capital. . .The earthquake was also intense at Ignila , in the state of Guerrero , de stroying the parish church and many buildings. Amons the latter was the sugar rnill of General Frisbie. The mill had just been completed and fit ted up with American machinery at a cost of $200,000. The property loss is Immense throughout the state of G-uerrero. ADMIRAL SGHLEY TO TELL THE TALE , -Chicago , 111. , Jan. 22. Rear Admiral Schley is said to contemplate making the banquet in his honor at the Audi torium next Saturday the occasion for sending forth a message to the coun try. At least he is to speak , that much having been announced official'y ' by President E. A. Munger of the Hamilton club. President Munger has been tendered the services of a chorus of 100 women , who will gather at the reception in the Fine Arts building Saturday night prior to the banquet. They are to be dressed in sailor blouses and will be led by Prof. Gabriel Katzenberger. Mrs. W. D. Washburn , Mrs. John Morris , Mrs. Fred A. Bangs and Mrs. v A. A. Taylor have been named as a committee of entertainment for Mrs. Schley. They will entertain her with a few invited guests at the Auditori um at luncheon. In the afternoon a reception will be given at the Audi torium , to which 2,000 Chicago women are to be invited. At 6 p. m. there will , be a dinner party , and in the evening a theater party. Sunday morning Mr. and Mrs.Wash- burn will escort the Schleys to church , after which a luncheon will be'given by Mr. and Mrs. Washburn. At-8 p. m. Mr. and Mrs. John Morris will give a dinner to which forty persons have been invited to meet the distinguished guests. Orman WillIssue Call. Denver , Colo. , Jan. 22. Governor Or- - man has announced that he will issue -a call for a special session of the leg islature to consider the following sub jects : The revenue bill which was at tacked by the trusts and pronounced unconstitutional in part by the courts ; the control of the corporations , espe cially railroads , by a commission or other board , an employers' liability bill and a measure for financing the Gunnison tunnel and canal for irri gating purposes. NEELEY SAYS HIS ACCUSER LIES , Havana , Jan. 21. When the trial of the cases resulting from the Cuban postofiice frauds were resumed in the Audencia court the cross-examination of C. F. W. Neeley , ex-chief of the bureau of finance , was continued. Neeley said that his "OK" on bills under the miscellaneous accounts only signified that the goods had been re ceived. None of Rathbone's private- bills for receptions given at El Cerro , Havana , the Avitness said , were paid from the postal funds. Neeley denied telling C. M. Rich , his first assistant , that he ( Neeley ) had saved Rathbone $5,000 by including his private accounts with those of the postal depaitment. He also denied that he had entered into a conspiracy with Reeves and Rathbone to defraud by issuing duplicate warrants. He said that all warrants were drawn in Reeves' office. They might have been cashed in the postoffice or in a bank. Neeley was confronted with Reeves three times. He maintained perfect composure and evaded no questions , explaining all transactions clearly and giving Reeves the lie direct. When Neeley denied that he had forged the names to the warrants Reeves was put on the stand to eriterate the state ment previously made that either he or Neeley had forged the name. He looked Reeves in the eye and hade him to repeat the statement. " This Reeves refused" to do. Neeley's law yer then asked the court to appoint experts to examine the signature , with the object of discovering theforger. . The fiscal objected to this step , but the court said it would not grant the request. Reeves again confronted Neeley with the statement that Neeley told him when he was departing for the United States in September , 1899 , that he was taking with him $8,000 which he had collected on duplicate warrants. The court asked Neeley what he had to say to this , and he replied that Reeves was crazy and that he would show to the court that Reeves was not with him under the circumstances related. FIVE MILLIONS FOR THE SIOUX , Washington , D. C. , Jan. 10. The South Dakota delegation intends to urge the passage of a bill providing for the'payment of $5,000,000 to the Sioux Indians of the state , due them under treaties with the government made some years ago , providing that after their lands were opened for set tlement they should receive at the ex piration of ten years 50 cents an acre for what remained. The ten-year per iod expires February vo. It was stated at the interior depart ment that Secretary Hitchcock will not reverse his order dismissing Agent Hardin bf Yankton. Secretary Hitch cock claims a review of the case con vinces him that he actedn accordance with the evidence presented. It has been the intention of the officials to abolish the Yankton agency , but the South Dakotans do not think this will be done. It is likely they will again call the attention of President Roose velt to this matter. The senate committee on public buildings and grounds has reported fa- vorabl yon Senator Clark's bill appro priating $1,000,000 for a public building at Evanston , Wyo. Gustav Ayres of Nebraska has re signed as third assistant examiner in the patent office. FOUND DEAD IN THEIR HOMES , Marysville , Kan. , Jan. 22. Carl E. Holt , aged 55 years , and his niece , Miss Hilda Patterson , aged 30 , were dis covered murdered at the Holt home , twenty miles west of here. The people had been missing several days and an investigating party went to learn the cause. The man was found in the kitchen with two bullet holes in his head. The woman was lying on a back porch with one bullet hole thro' her head and one through her neck. She had been assaulted. The house had been rifled. The coroner's jury returned a ver dict that the two were murdered for the purpose of robbery. Holt had $1,000 in the house. The murderer stole the money and a fine team belonging to Holt. The bodies of Holt and his niece were badly mutilated. THEY WORSHIP FEMININE LEADER , Jerusalem , Jan. 22. The Theocratic unity , or Diss De Bar , scandal in Lon don , has attracted attention to a sec tion here whose principles and prac tices are similar. The section numbers 10 devotees. They are chiefly Swedish , though the society is cosmopolitan and includes in its membership a few Americans , Germans , Servians , Arabs , Hindoos and Turks. They live under one roof , claim to be above all laws , discard marriage and all the other sac raments. Their leader , a woman , Is worship ped as a god. They make a great show of religion and affect to live "pure and holy , " but their first practical tenet is free love. Quarrels and scandals are frequent. Charges of systematic in fanticide have been made repeatedly , but there is no press to expose them , no public opinion to overawe them , and authority here is so divided that it i& nobody's business to put a stop to their enormities. The Schley Case. Washington , , D. C. , Jan. 21. Repre sentation Watson of Indianachairman of the subcommittee in charge of the bills and resolutions relating to the Schley case , repeated his belief today that nothing would be. done to revive j the controversy. He made the same statement when the committee was appointed a week ago and his reiter ation of it is taken to mean that the republican majority likes to have its wishes expressed , from time to time i so no mistake can be made. REGARDING THE PACIFIC CABLE , Naval Officers Declare Acquisition Really Necessary , ' Woud | Promote Commercial Interests in Time of Peace * and Facilitate Success in Event of War. Washington , D. C. , Jan. 21. The ad- Vantages of government control of the projected Pacific cable were presented before the commerce committee of the house. Admiral Bradford , who has had charge of the cable soundings ; General Greeley , head of the geodetic survey ; Captain Russell , who has done much of the cable work in the Philip pines , and Thomas F. Clark , vice pres ident of the Western Union Telegraph company , were among those present. Mr. Clark said the plan presented by the Commercial Cable company con templated exclusive arrangements with the lines in the far east , the effect of which would restrict the business to this one line , preventing competition and such advantages to the govern ment and public as would accrue from competition. Mr. Clark emphasized the prospect ive commercial development of the orient and American trade in that quarter , and emphasized the alleged disadvantage that would accrue from any private control , which would , he said , tie up the business for an indefi nite period and place the far eastern links of the cable system entirely un der foreign control. General Greely stated that about 10- 000 miles of cable and telegraph were now under government charge. He would strongly favor government con trol of the Pacific project and showed the extent to which governments were extending their control of cables. One of the recent extensions was by Ger many on the China coast , while France and other countries were mak ing similar cable extensions. General Greely said an American cable to the Philippines would do much good in Americanizing the islands. He cited instances of the current news appear ing in the Philippines coming by for eign cables , presenting the affairs of Germany and other countries , but not mentioning the most Important devel opments in the United States. General Greely stated that during the Spanish-American war it became necessary for him to secure control of the Haytien cable for thirty days at $2,000 a day. In time of war , he said , it was impossible to observe due se crecy when cable lines were under for eign control. He had discussed the subject with President McKinley , who was favorable to an "American cable , under American control , in peace and war. " Admiral Bradford was favorable to having the cable laid , operated and controlled by the government , not for commercial considerations , but as a naval and military necessity. He said the British navy had great advantages over other navies by reason of being linke dby cable with all insular pos sessions. If there was a war with Great Britain tomorro\vAdmiral Brad ford said , it would be impossible for us to communicate by cable with the Philippines. Admiral Bradford said the navy de partment had made all soundings , had found a practicable route which was all ready for the government to begin operations on it. .It started from Monterey , Cal. , which he considered a better point than San Francisco. Pie did not recommend a cable of Amer ican make , as the industry was not de veloped here , and it was essential to get the worldi produced. Senator Morgan , chairman of the senate committee on inter-oceanic ca nals , made a brief report to that com mittee today as the result of his in vestigation of the status of the Pan ama sale proposition. He stated that he had called upon the president and Admiral Walker , chairman of the Isthmian Canal com mission , and had learned that the president had impressed upon the com mission the necessity for an early re port , fixing the time at the close or the present week , and that the ad miral hadsaid that in accordance with these instructions , the commis sion probably would be able to report by Saturday night. He also stated that he had learned officially that the French government had made no pro position to the United ; States in con nection wit hthe Panama route , and , further , that nothing had been heard from the government of Colombia , on that subject. Pardon May Come. London , Jan. 21. Baroness De Roues the mother of Mrs. Florence Maybrick , who was found guilty in 1SS9 of poi soning her husband and sent to pris on for life , is hopeful now that her daughter will soon be pardoined. She has , it is stated , received semi-official assurances that the pardon will corne during the coronation celebration next June For Harsh .Words on Kaiser. Munich , Jan. 21. A feeble-minded cvorkman named Kilian has been sen tence dto two years and six months' imprisonment for using harsh words aobut the kaiser. He already has serv ed three terms for like offenses. This time he wrote a letter to the judges in his district , saying severe things about , the kinser a.nd closing with a "hoch" for anarchfsm and all its work. Kilian has no money and is believed 'to T > e in sane , but this did not protect him. JO FRAME A CURRENCY BILL , Washington , D. C. . Jan. 21. A gen eral banking and currency bill will be framed and reported to congress by a subcimmittee composed of Represent atives Fowler of New Jersey. Hill of Connecticut and Price of Illinois. .As set currency .the parity of the metals question and all othej ; phases of the problem relating to the volume of the money will be thrashed over by this triowho will report to the house via the committee on banking and cur rency. In speaking of the matter Mr. Prince said : "Theer has been so much dis cussion about our currency system , its defects and needed amendments , that the committee has decided to review the question in the hope that a bill can be framed that will afford relief and at the same time not disturb the business world. "At this time , I am not at liberty to suggest ways and meanis for remedy ing the alleged mistakes in the exist ing system , but all efforts in that di rection must maintain the stability and uniformity of the currency. Means should be adopted for improving the elasticity of the volume of money. I don't know but that I might favor the coinage bf silver bullion in quarters and halves , but I think there is some opposition to the coinage of silver dol lars. "Sentiment seems to favor the in- 'terchangeability of gold for silver.and the committee on coinage , weights and measures already has reported such a bill favorably. It is a complex ques tion to legislate about the currency , and steps must be taken with extreme care and caution. " HAS A NEW PLAN FOR CANAL , Indianapolis , Ind. , Jan. 21. J. C. Power , superintendent of the park sys tem of this city , who as civil engineer , with Lieutenant Robert K. Peary , the explorer , made surveys for the world's isthmian canal , has proposed a new route for the great waterway and his plans will be laid before the president and congress. While detailed announcements have not been made steps haev been taken toward the organization of a gigantic stock company for the promotion of the project under Engineer Power's direction. By the route he proposes from th fleep water of the Pacific to deep wa ter of the Atlantic the distance is only twenty-nine miles. The proposed way ends in two good harbors , Darien on the Pacific side.and Ihe Gulf of Darien on the Atlantic. CHICAGO ELAVATOR BOY IS A HERO Chicago , Jan. 21. Fire , which broke out in a rear building , completely de- Btroye dthe Lake La Strain hotel , 3535 Ellis avenue , and nearly caused the death of a number of guests. Only the heroism of 'the elevator boy , who made trip after trip , with the seething flame bursting out all around him , carrying the inmates of the hotel to places of safety , prevented a fire horror similar to that of the Windsor hotel of New York two years ago. Oscar JBela is the name of the boy to whom so many owe their lives. After taking out as he supposed all the guests of the hotel , he made a search of the upper story and found Mrs. Albrecht , a paralytic , in her room , nearly dead from fright and smoke. The young hero carried her "to his car and safely descended to the bottom , reaching there only a few minutes before the roofs and floor ? began to tumble in. The loss is placed at $100,000. MORGAN MAY GOBBLE THEM UP , Berlin , Jan. 21. Many arguments are being advanced in Germany in support of the proposition that the German government should control the German steamship companies as it does the railways of the country. The chief of these is that if the government owned the great ocean flyers all danger would be past of J. Pierpont Morgan or any body else acquiring them. The possi bility that foreign capital will buy the German steamships strongly influences the managers of these lines in favor of" government purchase. FATAL WRECK ON THE ROCK ISLAND , Des Moines , la. , Jan. 21. The Rock. Island flyer was wrecked at Victor. The engineer and firemen were killed and several members of the train crew were injured. The wreck was caused by the explo sion of the boiler with terrific force. The concussion and report were felt and heard for two miles. The boiler was entirely blown from the engine and driven twelve feet into the ground. The train consisted of six coaches , four of which were derailed and thrown down an embankment. None of the passengers were seri ously injured. One sleeping car was filled with Des Moines people , but they escaped miraculously , though the car was overturned. Engineer Williams and Fireman Wil liam Hoar weer blown to pieces. Con ductor Fox was badly hurt. The bag gageman and two porters were in jured , but not fatally. Negro Shields Mistress. ' Jacksonville , 111. , Jan. 21. Ferguson , a colored man , under .a twenty years' sentence for complicity in the alleged poisoning of Dr. J. L. Barnes , while an inmate of the asylum here , was placed on the witness stand nl the case of Mrs. Barhes , now being tried as one of the principals in the crime. The ! negro , who was houseman in the fam ' ily , of the Barnes , refused to answer almost every question put by the pros ecution , evidently trying to shield hi * former mistress. DELIVERANCE IS AT HAND. Miss Stone and Mrs , Tsilka Soon to Be Freed from Bondage , SixtyOne Thousand Dollars in Turk- is Gold Ready is to Hand Over to Bandits in Exchange. Sofia , Bulgaria , Jan. 21. The leaders of the brigands who have held Miss Stone and Mrs. Tsilka prisoners for twenty weeks have finallyaccepted.and in writing , the conditions for the re lease of their captives prescribed by the agents who have been negotiating for the women's release. Those agents are the Rev. ' Dr. M. W. Feet , treasurer % of the American missionary station in Constantinople , and the dra goman of the United States legation in Turkey , Mr. Gargiulo. These two men left Constantinople December 17 and for one month have been unremitting in their efforts to reach an. understanding with the ban dits. The brigands waived their orig inal demand that the ransom should be paid on Bulgarian soil and will ac cept it in Macedonia , which is Turkish territory. This is supposed to relieve the government of Bulgaria from lia bility for indemnity covering the ran som paid and perhaps heavy damages besides , actual and punitive. In order to avoid such liability the Bulgarian government has aided the American plans to secure the captives' release by directing the Bulgarian cus toms officials on the frontier to allow the agents of the Americans , either those carrying on negotiations or those bearing the coin for ransom , to pass freely across the boundary between the two countries. It is understood that Rev. Dr. Peet has $61,000 in Turkish gold to hand over to the brigands in exchange for the liberating of Miss Stone and Mrs. Tsilku. ROOT SAYS TO BUY FRIARS' LANDS. Washington , D. C. , Jan. 21. Secreta ry Root was heard on the question of the friar lands In the Philippines be fore the house committee on insular affairs. He said these land holdings cause one of the chiei causes of dis content among the people. They had furnished Aguinaldo's chief appeal io popular prejudice. The secretary said the religious or ders so fully recognized the bad condi tion of affairs that they were disposed to sell out and he urgeed that the government take advantage of the op portunity to remove the chief causes of discontent in the islands. He did not believe condemnation proceedings would be necessary , as there were in dications that a fairprice .could be agreed upon. A rough , estimate of the value of the lands , he said , was from $5,000,000 to $7,500,000 , American money. Secretary Root began his statement by explaining the enormous power which the religious orders had long ex ercised in the Philippines. They were represented at Madrid , and the arch bishop was quite as powerful as the governor general of the islands. The orders had largely supplanted the na tive priests. As a result of the great political power of the orders the friars became the medium of communication between the local parishes and the cen tral government. They held large tracts of the best land , amounting to about 400,000 acres at the time of the American occupation. The people rent ed the lands , and thus a landlord and tenant system was now in operation. This caused intense hatred , and , Mr. Root said , the feeling of the tenant class was not equalled in bitterness by anything in Ireland. Aguinaldo had taken advantage of this intense feeling of the tenants against the friar land lords and the movement had become very popular. The secretary said that about the most important thing to be done at this time was to dispose of the friar question.as it 'was felt that when land ed proprietorship was brought to an end most of the agitation would be disposed of. The friars had been driven from the land in many cases , he said , and if they returned the people would kill them. BOERS DENY RUMORS OF PEACE , London , Jan. 2L Dr. Leyds , the rep resentative in Europe of the Trans- vaal.according to a dispatch from Am sterdam to Router's Telegram compa ny , held a conference with the Boer delegation at The Hague at the house of Mr. Wolmarans. No official , state ment has been given out , but there is the best authority for asserting that the conference was merely a period ical meeting. The dispatch says Ifie reports of peace are ridiculed by the Boers them selves , who say such stories are sim ply fabricated by British agents with a view to English publication , hoping to turn them to advantage in South Africa. The Boers deny that any ne gotiations are in progress. * . , . Ten Are > Killed. Vienna , Jan. 21. An uprising of'the peasantry at Alse-Dos has resulted in the killing and wounding of many persons. Agrarian agitation had been going for some time in the vicinity on account of the opposition of the peasantry to the taxes. A mob at tacked the government commissary in trusted with the collection of taxes and troops were sent to defend 'the offi cial. The troops fired on the peas ants killing ten and wounding many of them ! - - - * - - - - . _ . TRIAL OF MISS SCHOFIELDS MURDERER. Des Moines , la , , Jan. 21. The Sco- field murder trial was marked by the introduction of the most damaging tes timony the state has been able to pro duce. A Ross Hansen , a druggist , swore positively that he sold chloro form and chloral hydrate to Thomas on the day preceding the disappear ance of the murdered girl , and that Thomas declared at one time he want ed it for toothache and at another time that he wanted it for an .under taking firm with whom he had no con nection at the time. Three persons who were present when the body was taken from the water testified that the odor of chlo roform was strongly noticeable , and that the same odor was present on a bundle of flour sacks near the scene. Expert Pharmacist Macy.who exam ined the murdered girl's stomach , was placed on the stand , with the expecta tion that he would testify that he had found chloral hydrate in the stomach. His testimony will not be admitted until it can be established that the stomach he analyzed was that of Ma bel Scofield. Maggie Hamond. friend of the de fendant , testified that Thomas was at home within an hour or an hour and a half of the time the other witnesses testified they saw a man slosely re sembling him driving toward the river with the form of a woman on the seat beside him. She also declared that he told her ho was at a funeral at Valley Junction on the morning of the day the girl disappeared. Other witnesses testnied that he in formed them he was elsewhere. One says that he mentioned Mabel's dis appearance to him at 6 p. m. , while Miss Hamond says Thomas acted as though such thought had not occurred to him an hour later. THE MINE WORKERS' BIG MEETING. Indianapolis , Ind. , Jan. 20. Several hundred delegates are here attending the thirteenth annual convention of the United Mine Workers of America , which opened this morning. Fear is expressed that the convention will be unwieldy , as it is believed there will be over 1,000 delegates , making it th * largest convention ever held by organ ized labor. President Mitchell is presiding. Ben Tillett , the famous English labor lead er , has arrived and will be the guest of the miners until Thursday. Presi dent Gompers of the American Fed eration of Labor may also visit the convention. It is understood that the miners will present a demand of at least 1ft per cent increase over the wages they now receive , but it is > almost equally true that the operators will make a stubborn resistance , as many of them , claim they are either operating at a loss or at a very small profit. The miners will ask for an exten sion of the run-of-the-mine basis in. the districts where the screen basis now prevails. The fact that the miners have failed to unionize West Virginia may pre vent them from getting an increase at the present , as the operators of Pennsylvania , Ohio , Indiana and Illi nois claim that the West Virginia op erators , who pay nonunion wages , are enabled to undersell them. The situa tion in West Virginia probably will re ceive considerable attention , as the miners are determined to unionize the * state. DENIES CHARGES OF CRUELTY , London , Jan. 21. A blue book Issued on the subject of the concentration camps in South Africa contains fur ther detailed explanations from Lord Milner , the British high commissioner , and Lord Kitchener , as to the causes of the excessive death rate in the camps and refutations of the charges of cruelty. Lord Kitchener emphatically denies Commandant Schalkburger's allega tions of forcible removal and ex- ure of sick women and of rough and : cruel treatment of women and chil dren , and says : "I offered Botha to leave the fami lies and relatives of fighting burghers in undisturbed possession of their farms if Botha would agree to spare the farms of the families of surren dered burghers. Botha emphatically refused , saying : 1 am entitled to force every man to join , and if they da not join to confiscate their property and leave their families on the veldt. * " The blue book gives statistics for the month of December last , when there were 117,017 inmates of the camps and 2,380 deaths , of which ntnn- ber 1,767 were children. Coal Barons Form Colony. Pittsburg , Jan. 21. A syndicate at Pittsburg capitalists has concluded ne gotiations for 11,000 acres of coal land in the first pool district. The price is said to have been $8,000,000. Eight mines are to be opened , to- have' a daily capacity of 12,000 tons and 1,000 houses for the workmen ara- to be built. The field is five miles south of Pittsburg and extends from Fairhaven to a point near Library. The property is crossed by the West Side Belt , the Baltimore & Ohio ! the Pittsburg & Lake Erie arid the Pitts- burg" extension of the Wabash rail roads. Request Colored Successor. New Orleans , La , , Jan. 21. At a. meeting of the Ninth ( colored 1m- munes ) of the Spanish war , a resolu tion , was adopted urging that a col ored man be appointed naval officer of the port of New Orleans to succeed the lat John Weber. The resolutions point to the fact that the office has. been offered to colored men through out every republican adrnlnistratioa. from President Grant's time until the present day and President Roosevelfc is urged to follow , the example .
