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THE OMAHA DAILT 11KE: TiUTKSDAV, MA11CII 27, 1102. the minority stockholders," Mid Mr. Mor gan. "Vou bought )our stock on the open market?"-Yes. elr." "Vou did tint buy anything by private tie?" "Not a share" "Whst did you learn ahn you came home bout the dissensions and a to who had control of the road?" "We had control." "By we, you mean yourself and Mr. Hill?" "Not at all. I mean J. P. Morgan A Co. nd their associates." Mr. Morgan said t'nlon Tarlflo men were put on the Burlington board In carrying out community of Interest plan. Old Krlirrar of HHPs. The project of tha holding company for tha Northern Pacific common stock had been contemplated for a considerable time as far back aa two years. Mr. Morgan aald Mr. Hill had approached him two yeari ago about organizing a holding company which would throw the Northern Pacific and Great Northern Interests together. . "I told Mr. Hill that we could work together." aald that witness, "but that we could not form any closer alliance, aa that was against law. The Idea of forming the Northern Se curities company waa never thought of prevlout to May 9," Mr. Morgan aald. Mr. Morgan further explained that after the experience of May fl he became more trongly imbued with the Idea of forming a holding company for the Northern Pacific itock. "Thla waa what occurred to me." Mr. Morgan continued. "I might, die or the firm of J. P. Morgan A Co. might be dis solved and In such an event I wanted the Northern Pacific stock to be In safe hands, that the stockholders might not suffer. 1 did not rare who went Into the company so long as the Northern Tactile Interests were safe, at they would be If I held a majority of the stock." "Such a majority you could not have without Mr. Hill going; In with you?" asked Mr. Lamb. "I could. Mr. Hill did Hot have control, nor did I." Mr. Morgan later testified that he had made a large sale of Northern Faclflc stock to J. J. Hill. "How much was It?" aaked Mr. Lamb. "I can't remember." replied Mr. Morgan. "Somebody has testified here thai It was $10,0O0,00 worth?" said Mr. Lamb. "Well,, that may be." "This seema rather a large transaction. Can you not tell us something about the negotiations?" asked Mr. Lamb. "A $10,000,000 purchase of stock doea not seem a very big tranaactlon to me. I have forgotten the details," said Mr. Morgan. "Hill and I worked together. I'll work with him any time. If It bad been different I'll tell you an Instance of what I could have done. Bay that I had bought the Union Pacific- interests In the Great North ern, what would Hill have doaa then?" Mr. Morgan smiled at this suggestion of what might have happened. He said he did not help organise the Northern Securi ties Company, but he approved the plan. He thought $180 a share for Oreat Northern rather high and $117 somewhat low for Northern Pacific. Tha witness wanted to put his Northern Pacific In a company that was so large that nobody could buy It. If It was deposited In a small company It might be bought. He saw Mr. Harrlman on his return from Europe, but they did not talk about Union Pacific nor about Northern Pacific. Tha witness said J. P. Morgan & Co. hold between 120,000 and 130,000 shares of North ern Securities at the present time. There waa a friendly cross-examination of Mr. Morgan by Francis Lynde Stetaon. To him tha witness said the retirement of tha Northern Pacific preferred stock was not part ef tha plan which culminated In tha formation of the- Northern Securities company, nor was It part of a plan to al low tha Northern Sscurltlea company to ob tain a majority of the Northern Paclflo common. .... Mr' Morgan denied that there was any understanding or agreement In tha organ ization of the Northern Securities company looking to the control of rates or traffic, or any agreement that would In any manner obstruct or contemplate the obstruction of commerce. . He said that all parties to the agreement had acted Independently. Mr. Morgan said It was never contem plated that the holders of Northern Pacific preferred could change that stock for com mon. The retirement of the preferred stock as early aa possible was part of tha re organliatlon plan of 1896. The retirement. however, was not practicable until after the common stock sold at par or above. Tha preferred atockholdera, the witness thought, would have changed their aharea for com mon stock It they had had the opportunity. Thla cloeed Mr. Morgan's testimony and the hearing went over until tomorrow, when Oeorge F. Baker wilt be called. ALLEGED FORGER IS JAILED Heeea Sekwarta, Cbarajed with For geries Aggresratlsa; f lOO.OOO, Cap tared In Pbllaaelpkla. PHILADELPHIA, March 2. Moses Schwarts,. who is wanted in New York for alleged forgeries on the Seventh Natloaal bank aggregating $100,000, was arrested here today by Detective Sergeant Mc- Naught of New York and Detective Meyer of. thla city. Catarrh Hie beit authorities say, ia a disease ot tha blood. ' Therefor local applications cannot cure. . -Being t constitutional disease It requires a constitutional remedy Hood's Sarsaparilla. By thoroughly purifying the blood, tht great medicine reduces the in flammation of the mucous tuembrafift and slope all catarrhal discharges ot the nose, throat, stomach, bowels, bladder and generative organs. Catarrh la especially dangerous In persona who Inherit or have acquired a predisposition to consumption. In these and all other catarrhal cases, - Hood's Sarsaparilla so thoroughly ren ovates the blood and restores strength and rigor that It permanently cures. In tact, because of the character of the disease, and the peculiar merit of the remedy, Hood's Barsaparilla is tha eommon-inss treatment for. catarrh. ' I was a sufferer from nasal catarrh, grad ually growing worse, I began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla which completely cared, me of that troublesome disease," Mitrs Doaa, 1615 Arrow Ave., Indianapolis, lad. Be sure to get Hood's Sarsaparilla t, is sold erexy where. k Prepared by C. X. HOOD 't CO., Lowell, Mass. I DELAREY ESCAPES' CORDON Kitchener Makes a Determined Effort to Capture Boer Leader. GETS SOME GUNS AND A FEW OF HIS MEN t.arare amber of rattle taatared RrlHah C'olanin Makes a Hard Marht March to Find Delarey Gone. LONDON, March 2.V Incomplete reporta of the result of the combined movement of British columns against General Delarey have enabled Lord Kitchener to announce the capture of about 100 prisoners, three 15-pounders, two pompoms and quanti ties of stock, wagons, etc. General Delarey appears to have successfully evaded Lord Kitchener's cordon. la a dispatch dated from Pretoria at noon yesterday Lord Kitchener says: At dusk, on the evening of March 23, the combined movement against Ielarey waa undertaken by columns of mounted men without guns or Impedimenta of any sort. The columns started from Com mando drift, on the Vaal river, and trav eled rapidly all night, and at dawn, March 24, occupied positions along the line from Commando drift to the Uchtenburg block house line. The troops moved raplrtly eastward, keeping a continuous line, with the object of driving the enemy agnlnst the block houses Or forcing an action. The result has not yet been fully re ported. Kekewi''h's column, after the commencement of the action, captured three 15-pounder. two pompoms, nine prisoners and 1W mules, carta and wagons. General W. Kitcheners column captured eighty-nine prisoners, forty-five carts and wagons and 1,000 cattle. There are a few more prisoners on the block house line. The troops covered eighty miles In twenty four hours. Rochefort's and Rawllnson's columns have not yet reported their re sults. . i Lord Kitchener In a later message says: All the reports are now In. The total number of prisoners Is 135. . CECIL, RHODES DEAD (Continued from First Page.) suits, as all his enterprises were systema tized ao thoroughly as not to need the mas ter mind which was so necessary to their Inception, Owing to the very great success of the DeBeers mines, the British Chartered South Africa company . and other great South African ventures, Rhodes' fortune had been steadily accumulating. He lost money by the war, but what Inroads that made must have been trifling compared with the many millions he possessed. He never lost his open-handed, but some what reckless, methods af handling money. Not long ago he walked into the office ot one ot his confidential subordinates and threw down a bundle of notes, bonds, etc., saying: "Invest these for me," and went out without watting to have them looked at. Inspection revealed the fact that they amounted to mora than 1,000,000. How they were Invested Mr. Rhodes never knew, or cared, for months later, as that night he went oft on one of his wandering tours and refused to allow himself to be bothered with the details of the investment of his millions until he returned to England. Too Late to Affect Market. The news of Mr. Rhodes' death reached London too late to excite comment either on the stock exchange or In the afternoon newspapers. The . bulletin announcing his death, which waa. sent, from- Capetown at (:36 p. m., reached the newspaper offloea just as tha final editions were. going to press. Some of tha half-penny .sheets turned out posters' telling of tha event, but most of tha papers did not have tha bars announcement of hta death. Throgmorton was deserted when the- news arrived, so there waa not a flutter in the market. "Tickers" soon disseminated the news in the clubs and hotels, where It formed tha main topic ot conversation, but the event haa been ao thoroughly dis counted that it can hardly ba said to have caused a ripple ot excitement. RHODES A PIONEER OF EMPIRE Earl Grey Furnishes Personal Esti mate ot Character of Decease. NEW TORK, March 26. Earl Orey before sailing for England gave to the Associated Press an interview concerning Cecil Rhodea, tha earl having received cablegrams from South Africa which led htm to believe that Mr. Rhodes had but a few days- to live. Lord Orey knew the famous South African leader intimately, having served with him on the board of the British South Africa oompany, and the intimacy grew when tha earl was governor of Rhodesia. Lord Grey satd: "Cecil Rhodes Is the only exemplar, per haps, in our generation, of those idealists who In ths daya of Elizabethan adventure made the Anglo-Saxon the predominant partner in the world's firm. I need not call up their names and tltl Admirals all, they went their way To the haven under the hill. "They were all, after their kind, both the admiration and the terror ot their con temporaries, and I believe that with all of them, from Drake to Robert Cllve, terror rather than admiration was 'the keynote they atruck. The conservative forces are those who naturally are in control ot gov ernments. 'We never know what ha will do next,' said a friend to me ot Rhodes. Some thing big, soma great development that might Involve perhaps a change in the very constitution of our empire. Ths world, at least Its governors, do not much like such men as these who keep them awake at night, and so the greateat Englishman ot our day baa coma to he looked upon, and not by tbs British mandarin only, with some mixed feelings. Faith In Aaaerleeat Principle. "One thing I should Ilka especially to point out. He had a never-falling con Sdenoe in the growth ot tha federal prlo ctple ot government. He admired the American nation enormdualy.' but for this strange and detached reason he believed that you owed your prodigious, orderly de velopment to tha splendid construction ot your constitution. I personally always have opposed home rule. Being at that time la the House of Commons. I left Mr. Glad atooe'a party over thia lasue. Rhodes, how ever, never wearied ot assuring me that ought to have gone forward, that In thia direction alone was safety, that tha Irish were building better than they at all knew that their demand was on all fours with the American state right platform and that in the very rapidity of the proposed cbanga was our best promise ot safety. "Ha gave, you may recall. 10.000 to Mr Paraell. Thia girt waa a rock ot offense to the best whig element In our country for example, to tha Spectator but Rhodea believed with Sir Hercules Robinson that Ireland would make one or two orderly states of a federal union; he saw that the federation of Canada had been agreeably arranged and that la tha Canadian settle meat a race problem bad keen solved; that tha time for Australian federation was now at hand,' that a peaceful (aa he thought) federation of South Africa was Inevitable and that with certain modifications la our second chamber, ae that It might evolve as aa Imperial senate, the federation ot these vartoae components late en imperial union would be secured ana In our time." Earl Orey then turned the coaversatloa to the famous Jameson raid, calling It the "Unhappy raid which obscured my friend's bright lUht." "But let us be fair to him." continued Lord Grey. "Rhodes, in the first place, waa premier In Cape Colony. He knew that Kruger would fight to the death any federa tion of South Africa under our flag. He knew that either South Africa must come under the Dutch flag or the English flag, or that the alternative was the 'national system,' or, rather, the welter and chaos you see In South Africa today. It the Tranavaal, arming to the teeth, continued this condition, then also every man In our colony ot Natal must similarly arm. It la no longer possible that a chessboard of little armed 'nations' can be permitted to menace the peace and orderly progress of the entire world. You have got this in South Africa, we have got it In the Balkau peninsula, and, therefore, war clouds gather at all times over central and eastern Eu rope. Rhodes saw this, he saw that 'Inde pendence' on the Kruger plan was Incom patible with individual freedom, that It In volved all-round militarism. "Then, again, he had great financial In terests In the Transvaal, and these gave tho moral right to effect a revolution If he could. Here was a so-called republic re fusing to a majority ot its community the franchise, while levying taxes at the rate of J0 per capita per annum and turning two-thirds of this misbegotten revenue Into munitions of war. Kruger aimed at arm ing all the Dutch in South Africa with the gold he levied from the Rand miners. Alma to Destroy Kragerlam. "I don't want to discuss the ethics of or the cause of that war, but I want to make It clear that my friend wanted, by the help of a coup d'etat, to destroy Krugerlsm and secure for the Transvaal the same political conditions, namely, equal rights for all white men, as obtain in Cape Colony and Natal. "He failed, the raid failed. Dr. Jameson upset 'my applecart,' as Rhodes phrased It, and the abortive raid represented Rhodes himself to all mankind In a false light. Let me tell you a touching little Incident which pleasantly reflecta my friend as I see him. I was In Rhodesia with him the year after the raid. His house at Cape town, which contained tha collection of a lifetime and which, as Rhodes never mar ried, waa almost as near and dear to him as a wife and family, was burned to the ground. Coming on top of the raid, the rinderpest, the Matabele war, this culmi nating trouble alarmed his friends for him, and I was asked by wire from Capetown to break It to him. I said to him as we were riding on the veldt: 'Can you bear to hear of another great disaster which has overtaken you?' 'Rhodes la a man of great nerve, but he turned very pale and said: 'What Is It now?' I said, 'Your home is burned.' 'Oh, thank God,' he said, "I feared poor Dr. Jim (Jameson) waa dead.' The doctor had been very 111 In prison and we were both anxious about him." Passing to the expected death of his friend, Lord Grey said: Considers the World Poorer. "The world will be poorer, no one will dream such dreams and try to draw them on a map, no one living perhaps will try aa he would have tried to federate our empire on the American system. Rosebery, yes, ha will try; we will many of us try, and we will succeed. Others can carry on his work. I am happy that I went to Wash ington, where these things look at one fully accomplished. Such men as your president, Senator Hoar and others I could name give those who come near them much encouragement. A great genius goes out with Rhodea; true, his work will go tor ward in some ways more smoothly per haps, because he bad Inevitably aroused great antagonlam, but we shall not see hta like again, and his passing will, for me and many others, take much color from our lives. 'Other nations,' he once aald to me. will pursue peace, but the two great Eng lish-speaking nations standing together can enjoin it.' " Lord Grey concluded by saying: "When his will is read it will be known with what Intention Rhodes, who never wasted a precious moment on pleasure or self-in dulgence, had collected a great modern fortune." AS A CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY John Hnya Hammond Saya Rhodes Waa Truly Great, Judged by American Standard. NEW YORK. March 26. John Hays Ham mond, who was many years and up to the time of the death of Cecil Rhodes Inti mately associated with him In the develop ment of South Africa and who was con suiting engineer of the British South At rlca Chartered company and the consoli dated gold fields ot South Africa, in which Mr. Rhodes held important Interests, had thla to say of Mr. Rhodes: Mr. Rhodes, whose sun went down when It was yet day, dies in the forty-seventh year oi ms aae. ie leavea no nosteritv. but leaves bis name on the map of Africa (Rhodesia), sponsor for a commonwealth nearly as large aa our western states. Had ne uvea ne would nave devoted the re maining years of his life and would have spent every dollar of his fortune in equip ping that commonwealth. Misunderstood la America. Unfortunately, his character has been misunderstood In America. Judged by American standurda, Mr. Rhodes was truly a great man. He waa not onlv a arrat empire builder, but also a captain of In dustry. He ia oftener reported aa a shifty, unscrupulous nnancier, in league with capitalists to roax the Transvaal Into a hopeless war, In order to steal the mines of the country.- He Is alao reported as giving his entire life to the amassing of large weann ana reany io employ me most unscrupulous memoas to mm enn. nut bv the most bitter of his enemies, convers ant with the facts, such allegations are repudiated. The truth is. that Rhodes cared little for money beyond the power It gave him to assist in the development of South Africa. From a most Intimate connection with him in his buslnesa enterprises. I am able to state that his methods or finance were not only scrupulously honorable, but were characterised by unusual liberality. He waa known to South African aa a man of unbounded generosity and one on whom they could depend tor tne rurtnerance of any deserving local enterprise or worthy charity. Democratic and I'neonvratloaal. Personally. Mr. Rhodes was democratic In his tastes and colonial in his nolttlr and social bias. He was fond of the slmplwr and better pleasures oi lire, devoted es pecially to outdoor life on the veldt, and had a contempt for and dislike of social conventionalities. He was a man of Innate refinement and culture and a graduate of Oxford. Rhodes had an Indomitable spirit and dogged perserverance. He waa im aginative, but not a mere visionary. He waa built on broad lines and lie abhorred petty politics, which he contemptuously de signated as the politics of the parish pump, and he deprecated quite as strongly what he termed the "unctuous rectitude ' of cer tain statesmen. Politically, he was a great admirer of democratic Institutions, but at the same time he was a loyal Imperialist. Rhodes had hla defects and faults, but these will not obscure the glory of his name. Oreat men. It is said, are made of faulta. Of one thing there can be no doubt, that Rhodes' ideals were pure and lofty, and I believe that history will deal rather with his Ideals than with his achievements and methods, and that he will therefore rank high among the great men of the nineteenth century. Cecil Rhodea found In the meditations of Marcus Aurelius many Inspirations for hla ewn career. I'ntll the unfortunate Jameson raid, (or which he haa received far mora blame than hd deserved, as history will prove, he was popular with the Dutch of South Africa. Within a short time there would have been a revulsion of feeling, and, strange as it may sound today, Rhodes would have been able to re-establish his influence with the Putch. and be would have been quick to take advantage of th. situation, and would have pasaeU Into hiatory aa the great aaclncator of South Africa. . TUIa eatlinata of Rhodea Is shared even today by many of the progressive Dutchmen in the country. DOLLIYER FOR THE OLEO BILL Iowa Senator Arraigns the Industry as Lawless. SAYS IT WORKS UNDER FALSE PRETENSES Delivers F'orreful Argument for Measure Providing; Tax I non Pro duct Which lie Declares la for Dairy Interests. WASHINGTON, March 2. Throughout today's session of the senate the oleomar garine bill was under discussion. The de bate was Interesting at all times and some phsses of It were amusing. Mr. Hans brough of North Dakota concluded his speech begun yesterday In support of the measure, maintaining that the oleomar garine Industry had been outlawed by the legislatures of many states and that' It ought to be compelled by congress to take oft Its mask and place Its product on the market for what It really was. Mr. Stewart ot Nevada declared that the proposed legislation was -unnecessary and that there was no more reason tor taxing colored oleomargarine than for taxing col ored butter. The principal speech of the day wss de. livered by Mr. Dolllver of Iowa. He spoke forcefully and throughout commanded the attention of his colleagues and many mem bers of the house who had come to the senate to hear him. He scathingly de nounced the oleomargarine Industry, de claring that It had put Itself in oartnershlp with lawlessness and false pretenses. Mr. Dolllver concluded his speech with a glow ing eulogy ot farm life and of the Amer ican farmer. Tax on Evident Fraud. Mr. Hoar and Mr. Lodge of Massachu setts explained that their reason for sup porting the bill wis that It was a tax on an evident fraud. Mr. Dolllver, in support of the hill, said he had been much impressed by the cheer ful way In which the senator from Missis sippi had stated that the pending bill would be left with only a bare doten or votes If a secret ballot upon it could be taken In the senate. Since I made that statement," said Mr. Money, "I have had assurances from that side of the chamber (the republican side) that It Is a fact." In the course of his speech Mr. Dolllver declared that the oleomargarine manufac turers and some of the dealers In the ar ticle were evading the law of 1886, which provided that every package of oleomar garine should be stamped plain. Dolllver Producea a Sample-. In oroof of his statement he exhibited a package of oleomargarine "which he had purchased from a famous butter dealer" In Chicago. He said the package was marked, but It would tax any man's Ingenuity to find the mark. He then handed the pack age to Mr. Tillman and challenged him to Bnd the mark required by law to be on the wrapper. Mr. Tillman failed to discover the Imprint. Mr. Dolllver pointed it eut printed in fine type in a corner of the wrapper. The incident excited lively In terest and amusement. Mr. Dolllver referred to a well known oleomargarine and butter dealer In Chicago who spent more than half ot his time In the courts for violating the oleomargarine laws. "And he never gets Into the courts." he said, "unless he flads there side by side the attorneys for, the oleomargarine manu facturers." ' ' ' Mr. Dolllver- declared that "the only way to break up a-aest like this was to reduce to a minimum? the profits of rascality." - He Insisted that the proposed law would not Interfere with legitimate Industries which supplied raw materials to the oleo margarine manufacturers and that the oleomargarine Industry itself should be wiped out, however, it must be borne In mind that the' American dairy Interests represented far more than ell the interests which contribute raw material to the oleo margarine Industry. Mr. Hoar said one of the greatest dangers to the country was (he establishment of the principle that the taxing power of the gov ernment could be used as a means of pun- lBhlng and suppressing vice or crime or any form of wrong doing. From that point ot view the pending bill could not have his support, but congress, undoubtedly had the right under its power to regulate inter state commerce, to suppress, if need be, any deleterious article. The senate then at 4:10 p. m. went into executive session aad a few minutes later adjourned. RENEWS HIS ATTACK ON HAY Burleson ef Texas Criticises Secretary of State and Hilt Defend Him. WASHINGTON. March 26. General de bate on the military appropriation bill was concluded today and consideration ot the LOST LAKE. Said to Be Fabulously Rich In Coarse Gold. Prospecting tor gold makes husky men even If they don't always find the gold. Sometimes these men can tell interesting tales. Joseph Mqrehead, whose headquarters are in Elgin, Ore., writes: "Last fall came down here, attracted by the rich strikes in the Baker City fields. On my arrival I heard a 'fairy story' of a 'lost lake' in the Blue Mountains which was said to be fabulously rich In coarse gold The story had all the 'ear marks' ot tbs 'lost mine' and 'lost cabin' stories to be heard In every mining district: prospector driven out by Indians, brought pocket full of nuggets with him, died and left ths customary rough sketch of the locality. etc.. etc. I determined to have a look for It, and as the formation Is volcanic it is too rough for pack animals. . The problem was bow to earrv food enough, in addition to my nick pan and blanket tor a two weeks' sojourn in the mountains. I had. a short time before, been prospect Ing with an old mountaineer in the Bitter Root range in Montana. He was an en thuslast on the subject ot Grape-Nuts and Postum Coffee. In fact he lived on them. I uBed to 'Josh' him about his 'grub' but scon grew to like It myself and finally got to eating Orapo-Nuts three times a day and as much oftener as I got the chance. So with my former experience in mind I got five packages of Grape-Nuts and some packages cf Postum Coffee which with a little sugar and salt were all the supplies I took with me, and tor nine days laborious ollmbing over the roughest country out of doors I had nothing cIbs except an oc casional trout caught from the stream I came back feeling first class and am offer log to bet that I can average thirty miles a day over mountain trails with thirty pounds of blankets, etc., on nothing but Grape-Nuta." This food cae be digested and will fat ten a nursing Infant and It alao sustalas and works wonders with the hardest pays leal and mental workers. Including football and baaeball players, athletes of all kinds, editor, doctors, ministers, lawyers, busi ness men and other brain workers. bill under the flve-mlnnte rule begun. Dur ing the debate Mr. Burleer of Texas re newed the attack on Secretary Hay on ac count of the allegations regarding the Boer relief funds subscribed In Illinois. Mr. Hltt of Illinois replied briefly, saying there had been no developments in the matter and the secretary had done all that was possible. Several other brlof speeches Were made, some In criticism of different provisions of the bill. At the beginning of the session the house psssed the Burleson resolution, calling on the president for Information relative to the application of General Miles to go to the Philippines. Mr. Warnock of Ohio protested strongly against the provision In the bill which de prived retired army officers from receiving an Increase in longevity pay after their re tirement. He contended that this provi sion did an Injustice to officers who were wounded or had become disabled In the service. The longevity pay, he argued, should be Increased up to the maximum of 40 per cent allowed by law to active of ficers. While Mr. Warnock was talking about the sanguinary battles of the civil war and con trasting the percentage of lost with other decisive battles of the world, Mr. Burleson of Texas raised a laugh by asking him to furnish some comparisons with the bloody battle of San Juan Hill. Mr. Warnock re plied that the question was somewhat em barrassing, whereupon Mr. Burleson with drew It. A moment afterward Mr. Burleson asked for a comparison of the brevets granted at Gettysburg and San Juan. An other laugh followed and Mr. Warnock re plied that he knew little about the Spanish war. Mr. Burleson secured the floor and re verted to the resolution passed by the bouse some time ago calling on the secretary ot state for Information relative to the re fusal of the State department to grant a request preferred some time ago, In behalf of Rev. Dr. Hiram W. Thomas and wife, who desired to enter the Boer lines In South Africa for the purpose of distributing re lief to noncombatants. He said that It was not a passport for Dr. Thomas which was desired, but the good offices of the State department to secure a permit to enable Dr. Thomas to get through the Boer lines. Mr. Hay's letter to Mr. Hill, be de clared, was an "evasion." Tribute to the Boers. In the course of his remarks Mr. Burle son paid a high tribute to the fighting Boers and expressed the hope that they would keep up the struggle for liberty until every British soldier was driven from South Africa. He contrasted "the magnanimous treatment of General Me- tbuen by the Boers with the horrible exe cution of General Scheepers by the Eng lish." In concluding Mr. Burleson predicted that In less than one year there would bs auother Interchange of notes between the president and a member of his cabinet and the "little pro-British secretary ot state, the little author of 'Little Breeches,' would follow the other cabinet officers of a former president Into private life." Mr. Hltt of Illinois, chairman of the for eign affairs committee, replied very briefly to Mr. Burleson. Everything Mr. Burleson had produced, he said, had been presented before. As far as the charge of "evasion" on the part of the secretary of state was concerned he said that the secretary's frank letter completely disposed of that. He had done all be could and was now In consulta- tatlon with Governor Yates, through whose Instrumentality the Boer fund had been raised, and no doubt a way would be found to get relief funds to the Boers. Mr. Patterson ot Tennessee criticised the general conditions in .the Philippines and charged, that a state of slavery existed there which should be remedied at once. Mr. Kern of Illinois spoke In defense of the army canteen. Mr. Breaxeale of Louisiana denounced the action of the committee on naval affairs In refusing to report the several Schley resolutions, thus preventing the bouse from expressing Its sentiment on the subject. He referred to the "unfair treatment re reived by .Admiral Schley" and character Ized as most unjust the president's ruling that the battle of Bantlago was a captains' fight. The reading of the bill for amendment was then proceeded with under the five- minute rule. The provision limiting the longevity pay for retired army officers to the sum allowed and paid at the date of retirement went out on a point of order. Mr. Stevens of Min nesota then offered a substitute, which he said, involved two propositions, ons providing that no further Increase of Ion gevity pay shall accrue to officers now on the retired list and the other that officers hereafter retired shall not be paid any increase of longevity pay above tha sum paid at the ' date of retirement. The amendment was adopted, and at 5 p. m. the bouse adjourned. WOOD WANTS MAINE RAISED trees War Department to Recover Sunken Shell of the Fated Ship. WASHINGTON, March 26. General Wood has brought to the attention of the War department, through the medium of a formal letter, tha propriety of making soma ar rangements for the raising of the wreck of Maine from the ooze and mud in which It lies embedded in Hsvana harbor It is stated by him that not only are there sentimental reasons for this, owing to the fact that according to common belief, the remains of forty or fifty American sailors lie within the sunken hull, but this heavy steel structure Is also a menace and ob struction to navigation la the harbor of Havana, and It Is the duty of the United States to the Cubans to remove It. The expenses attached to the undertake Ing Is very heavy, the bids ranging any where from $400,000 to $700,000. Several tentative arrangements were made with en terprising contractors who wished to use the material of the wrecked ship to make souvenirs, but they have all failed and Sec retary Root, upon securing a more detailed statement of the tacts irom ueneral wood, will submit the question to congress, prob ably without recommendation as to whether Maine shall be raised. Nominations by the President. WASHINGTON, March 16. The president today sent the following nominations te the senate: Indian Agents George C. Goetschell, Devil's Lake agency. North Dakota; Albert M. Anderson, Colvllls agency, Washing ton; Herman G. Nickerson, Shoshone agency. Wyoming; - A. W. Thomas, Fort Berthold agency, North Dakota. Civil Engineer M. T. Endlcott, V. S. N., to be chief of the bureau of yards and docks, with the rank of rear admiral. Mexican Secretary Dropa Dead. WASHINGTON, March 26. Enrique Saotlbanex, second secretary of the Mex lean embassy in this city, dropped dead on the street here this afternoon. He was a consumptive and his health had been poor of late. Senor Santlbanes had been eta tloned at ths embassy at Washington six teen years, having come to this city with former Mlo'ster Senor Romero. Hammond (SBlrnsel for Fremont. WASHINGTON, March 26 The senate to day made these confirmations: Postmasters: Illinois E. M. Love, Lewlstoan. Nebraska R. L. Hammond, Fremont. South Dakota C. W. Nugen, Kltrball. NOT ALLOWED TO GIVE BAIL Neeley, Ruth bone and Reeves Are Placed in Havana Prisons. SPANISH LAW PRECLUDES ANY BONDS Counsel for Former Director and Treasurer of t'nhaa rnstoltlee Department Will Appeal Their taaee. HAVANA, March 26. Estee G. Rathbone, the former director of posts, who wss ar rested last night after having been sen tenced the day previous to ten years' Im prisonment and to pay a fine of $35,324. as a result of his connection with the Cuban posts! frauds, remained In the Vlvao prison all night. Today be was taken to the carca (a Jail) accompanied by a number of frieuds. Rathbone's bondsman, a Spanish mer chant, went to the court thla morning and stated he was willing to furnish bonds In any amount, but bail was absolutely re fused. W. H. Reeves was also removed to Jail today. He was formerly deputy auditor of the Cuban postofflce department and was sentenced with Rathbone and C. F. W Neeley to ten years' Imprisonment and to pay a fine of $35,616 for misappropriation of postal funds. Neither Rathbone nor Reevea has the 'option of ball. This is be cause their sentences are for more than six years' duration. Although the law In certain circumstances permits the acceptance of ball until tbe sentence shall be executed, the court holds that there are no circumstances In tbe pres ent case to warrant the acceptance of ball. Coder tbe Spanish law the court Is allowed to accept ball when the accused has a good record, where there is no reason to suppose that be will attempt to escape Justice, when the crime of which he Is charged has not produced alarm and If it Is not of constant occurrence. Counsel for Rathbone and Neeley will ap peal the cases ot their clients. FUNST0N SCORES CRITICS Saya Certain Papers Wilfully Misin terpreted Ills Remarks In Lotus Club Speech. TOPEKA. Kan., March 26 General Fred- srick Funston was In this city today on bis way to California. General Funston de livered a scathing denunciation of tbe east ern newspapers which criticised his speech before the Lotus club In New York. He said: I have been nagged by that class of pa pers until I am tired. Immortally, they wilfully misinterpret my remarks and I am glad to express my independence of their opinions ana their talk, and the,! or their kind, about my i.slng dishonorable and unfair means in the capture of Agulnalio. also that I violated the articles of war They know a great deal more about the articles of golf than they do about the articles of war. Everything- is permissible in a campaign except the use of poison or the violation of a flag of truce. As a matter of fact, only four of my men on the expedition were dressed in the in surgent uniform. The others were dressed aa Filipino peasants. President Roosevelt approved heartily of -my remarks before the Lotus olub banquet and was very unx lous to hHVe me go to Boston on the invita tion of Senator Lodge and make the same speech there, but my orders were such that it was Impossible for me to go. DEATH RECORD. ,, Kudelph. von Kaltenborn. MILWAUKEE. March 26. Rudolph von Kaltenborn, well known in German veteran circles as well as among llterateurs, Is dead at Merrill, Wis. Mr. von Kaltenborn was an officer in the Hessian army and aerved for Prussia through the Franco-Prussian war. He was 62 years of age and was the son of the minister of war for tbe princi pality of Chur-Hesse, having grown to man hood at the court of that country. He held the rank of lieutenant In the army of his native land. Lieutenant Commander Bralnerd. LOS ANGELE8, Cal., March 26. Lieu tenant Commander Frederick R. Bralnerd, V. S. N., retired, is dead at tbe California hospital, after an illness of a few days. He was graduated from the naval academy at Annapolis In 1870, having been appointed from Illinois. His sea service aa a naval officer covered a period of fourteen years, Commander Bralnerd served with credit In the Spanish-American war, attached to Ad miral Sampson's squadron. ' Charles A. Dabee. CHICAGO. March 26. Charles A. 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