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- - - - " ' r - t v . , : 1 - , j . , THE WEATHER - V.-." Unsettled, probably rain or snow in " "ViM, iMV WHOLE NUMBER GOAL TRUST DIAZ DEMANDS SURRENDER IK,. Ll . .... . HALED INTO COURT L BE IN LINE OF THE NATIONAL PALACE vr ,1 ,,r mMmmv. " '-men who advetoe- : -w f - foi: WHOLE DUMBER j.3,24 7. inM' K p h hk - - -i Harm Ijj Florida (Jroesiis III. nunll t. - ..-- . ii aa n ' I I 1 1 1 1 I V WIL fS 'f FOR STATE DEFICIi Issue of Four Per Cents for This and Other Purposes is Proposed. THE LE6ISUTIVE SESSIONS Requirements for Practice of Medicine House Resents Aichbatd John son EditorialBagging and Ties : Deductions (By Wm. J. Martin.) Raleign, N. C, Feb.- ,13. A joint resolution for four per cent State bonds to meet $500,000 of the deficit caused by the expenditure of that amount in round figures for perma nent improvements at the State insti tutions and $75,000 for equipping and heating the new State building and an amount necessary for re-arranging the old Supreme Court' building for other State departments and providing for converting into the State Treasury or fcr cancellation of the $217,000 stand ing to the credit of the penitentiary, was introduced by Senator Long in the upper House of the North Caro lina General Assembly today. ; Medical - License Bill ' The House bill amending require ments for license to practice medicine was passed providing sufficient liter ary attainments equivalent to' the -State University entrance examinat ion putting this State upon a parity with other States east of the Rockies. The bill does not go into' effect before hit. v r . - The building and loan bill with the House amendment cutting down the borrowing limit ' of such companies from 50 to 30 per cent of money paid was concurred in, in spite of opposi tion by Senator Jones who held out aeainst what he-considered a monop-, oly in the business. ' v . Thanks ' to Mr. Home Senator Long introduced a joint res olution . expressive of the. thanks jt the General!JAssenabJjr- to Ashley Home for donating to the r State the mcnument to the North Carolina Wo men of the Confederacy and thjs was adopted at once by a unanimous yote. After Archibald Johnson The House adopted this resolution by Devin resenting, strictures on the House by Editor Archibald Johnson: Resolved, That the House of Rep resentatives condemns the unjust crit icisms of this bodj contained in an editorial in Charity and Children, Feb ruary 13th, as reflection upon the in tegrity, patriotism and intelligence of this House." - Members found copies of the, paper on all desks this morning. The edito rial headed, "Divorce Bill Dead," creO its the Senate with saving the State from disgrace and refers to members oi the House as" "A lot of moral molly coddles, whose intentions are good enough, but Who axe as innocent of rolor and conviction as so many gate posts. They are led around by the nose by men stronger than themselves and have about as much foresight as 'a drove of mules." Stewart, of Mecklenburg, author of the divorce bill, first arose to a per sonal privilege and denounced the. edi torial and its author as devoid cf charity and tolerance and congratu lated the members of the House that Archibald Johnson would not be their judge when they came before the "pearly gates." - The House passed the Sykes bill to penalize telegraph companies for er rors and delay in transmission, as amended by Miller, of Cleveland, to reduce the penalty from $100 to $50. After a lengthy discussion the bill to prohibit the deducting of the weight of bagging and ties from cotton bales when it does not exceed "six per cent of the total weight of the bale was passed. - . House36th Day. The House convened at U0 o'clock; prayer by Rev. M.' A. Barber. During the reading of petitions Rep resentative Roberts stated. that he no ticed a number of times petitions read as presented through himself and he had in fact presented no petitions for six months schools such as had been credited to him. Speaker Connor ex plained that petitions came addressed to the General Assembly from Bun combe county and that he had himself directed that the name of Mr. Roberts, the representative, be placed on them. The explanation was thoroughly satis factory to Mr. Roberts. There were numerous petitions'? for six months schools, eompulspry attendance .and tor other purposes. ; Child Labor Bill. During the reports of committees the Williams child labor bill and the committee substitute therefor came from the committee with recommenda tion in accordance with action taken last night, that is, unfavorable report for the original Williams bill and fa vorable report for thecommittee sub stitute which nrovides for only one in spector of factories and for, $3,500 inH mead of $5,000 appropriation. , There was also a minority report through Mr. Mauney against the passage of either the Wiliams bill or "the .substitute This was signed , by- Representatives Mauney, Hillian, CofHeld and Witty. Bills Introduced. Connor Authorize Wilson to issue street and .electric light bonds.-, (Continued on Page 8.) 9 j (HENRY M. FLAGLER.).; New ; York, Feb. 13. Little hope is cherished by his New York colleagues in the financial world that. Henry M. Flagler, the "man who owns Florida," will recover from his present illness. The aged financier is being attended by the most skillful physicians money can procure at his palatial residence near St. Augustine. His illness is in the nature of a general breakdown more than any particular ailment. GOL WM. EDWARDS ARRESTED Candidate for Senator . Before. West 1 Virginia Legislature, is Charged With Bribing Delegate "to Vote for Him. Charleston, W. Va., Feb. 13. Wil liam Seymour Edwards, candidate for United States Senator, was arrested today charged with bribing Delegate John M. Smith, of Tyler county. The warrant was issued at the instance of Delegate S. U. G. Rhodes, one of the five , men arrested ..Tuesday. Edwards furnished bond. r y Intense excitement was created in the House of Delegates today when the Rev. Thomas J. Smith, of West Union, Doddridge county, spe'aking on a question of personal privilege, de clared that Delegate S. U. G. Rhodes and another man had thrust $500 in his pocket in a room in a Charleston hotel, after, he declared, Rhodes and the other man had offered him $2,000 if. he wouldfcote for Col. W. S. Ed wards for United States Senator. v Smith declared he did not know how much money had been put into his pockets until he had left the room. Then he went to Delegate H. C. Wil liamson, of Tyler county, had , him count the money,' enclose it in an - en velope and return it to Rhodes. Smith, explaining his position, said he had refused to accept any money from Rhodes or the other man, whom he did not recognize, but Rhodes had in sisted it was not a bribe. Smith has been voting for Isaac T. Mann for Senator. Smith asked the House of Delegates to investigate the alleged attempt to bribe him. In compliance with the joint resolu tion adopted yesterday, President Woods in the Senate appointed Sena tor S. O. Marshall and Senator O. A. Hood as members of the committee to investigate the alleged i bribery in the Legislature and Speaker George in the House named Delegates Chair man Robinson," Charles A. Sutton and W. S. , Wsong. Judge Henry K. Black today ordered a special grand jury convened imme diately to investigate the charges that money has been used in the United States Senatorial campaign now in progress in he West Virginia Legisla ture. . ' . . ; Judge Black made . it known that he desired the grand jury to begin its work not later than tomorrow and pro cess servers began-their work at once. It Is reported that the grand jury will Investigate not alone the actions of the five members of the Legislature who were arrested Tuesday afternoon, charged with bribery, but that the acts of other members of the . House and Senate, as well as those of a number of men well known in State politics, will be gone into. ; I The Legislature today took its sev enth "ballot for United States Senator. There was no choice. Col. Edwards, who has been one of 'the leaders am ong the Republican candidates, received-six votes; Mann 17; Elkins 16; Hubbard 11; White .4; Glasscock 4. Democrats: Watson 45; J Hamilton, nn1lv and Davis, one each.' - Delegate Asbury, charged with al leged solicitation of a.oriDe, voieu. , Tn a statement: .tonight Edwards characterized the charges against him as untrue and preposterous. :e ae Government Files Suit Against Lackawanna R. R. and Coal Co. CONTROL PRICE AT NEW YORK Rates Are Declared to be Excsssive ' Contracts Between the Two Cor porations Said to be Only -Subterfuge. i . ' . Trenton, N. J., Feb. 13. Further prosecution of the "Hard Coal Trust" was begun here today by the Federal government in a civil suit against the" Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company and the Delaware Lackawanna & Western Coal Compa ny, charging violations of both the Sherman anti-trust law and the com modities clause of the Inter-State Commerce Act. . It Is understood that this move may be followed by -one or more similar suits against other anthracite carry ing railroads and their allied coal 1 companies. The government's peti tion in equity alleges that the coal car rying roads and their affiliated coal companies, including the defendants, make and control the f.o.b. prices of anthracite at the terminals of New York, the chief distributing center, which regulates the prices in other markets. Arrangements and contracts be tween the two different corporations, which have practically common stock holders, are: declared to be simply devices to avoid the prohibitions of the Inter-State Commerce Act and are said to have resulted in giving the coal company a monopoly of the eight mil lion to nine million tons of coal annu ally, produced along the lines of the Lackawanna Railroad. The United States District Court is asked to enjoin the railroad from transporting i coat' mined or bought by fit and from ' delivering' such coal to the coal company under existing agree ments, which the court is petitioned to adjudge as constituting a combina tion In restrain of trade. Nine anthracite carrying railroads and the great coal companies united or affiliated writh them, the government declares, "have long engrossed the output of the collieries. : Each road directly or through one or more. coal companies, has contriv ed to gain control over -the output of most of the mines served by it and the sale of the same. This is espe cially true of coal moving to New York harbor and as a consequence f.o.b. prices of anthracite at the various ter minals there are made and controlled by the defendant railroad and other railroad companies and their affiliated coal companies. These prices or those averages are reported monthly by the sellers to a bureau of statistics sus tained by. them jointly, and the result Is then sent out to all of them." Practically ; all of the annual outDut of 75,000,000 tons of anthracite produc ed in the great fields of Pennsylvania is carried away, the government says, by the following nine railroads: Reading, Jersey Central, Lehigh Val ley, Lackawanna, Erie, Susquehanna & Western,--Delaware & Hudson, Penn sylvania and Ontario & Western. Railroad coal rates to New1 York harbor, upon which the price of coa so largely depends, are declared long to nave Deen and now to be, exces sive. . After the Supreme Court's commo dities clause decision the Lackawan na Railroad in 1909, the government alleges, caused the organization of the Lackawanna Coal Company, to sell the coal owned or bought by the railroad. The railroad declared a 50 per cent dividend to permit its stockholders to acquire the stock of the new coal sel ling company. The two concerns en tered a contract by which, it is charg ed, the railroad annually sells to the coal company about 7,000,000 tons of coal produced by the road's niines and about 1,500,000 tons bought by the road from others along its lines. The coal company in turn takes! "bstensU ble possession of the coal" it is added. and contracts most Of it to be trans ported In inter-State commerce by the aetenaant railroad. "The affairs of both," it is charged, "have been carried on in complete accord and with the purpose and ef fect of enriching their common share holders." . At least 85 per cent: ofihe shares of both companies, the petition declares, are in tne nands or common stockhold ers. Twenty-five of these stockhold ers are-jsaid to own a majority; of stock (Continued on Page Two.) nied emphatically he had directly or indirectly offeredS or caused to be of f ered bribes to legislators to Influence their votes. j I "I court an immediate investiga tion," said Edwards. - '' .Four , 'of the legislators - arrested Tuesday 'were not given , a preliminary hearing today, as expected. " State Senator. Smith and Delegates! Rhodes, David E. Hill and Rath Duff asked for a continuance today until February 20th,-;nWhich . was v granted. Delegate H. F.. Ashbury previously waived a hearing and Is now held for the grand jury; , , v . , ; , Inaugural, Parade Will Be t Longest Ever Seen in the Capital " miutary featureI Complete Quadrennial Harvestjof Washington Hotels Threatened by House Res olution to Prevent Exor bitant Rates. Washington, Fob. ,13. The military feature of the inaugural parade prac tically has been completed,; according td the announcement made today by Major General Leonard Wood, grand marshal. . Present ; fe figures . indicate that there will be nearly. ' 25,000 sol diers and sailors from the regular and State jnilitia seryicea-in line , Robert Nj Harper,' chairman of the civic organizations ; committee, today told the inaugural Committee that at least 15,000 marchers would be in his portion of the parade) This will be composed of political clubs and old organizations of semi political nature. In this section also will be the Governor and their staffs from States that will not be represent ed by militia. Governors of at least 20 States are expected , to be in the line of march. ''"-'if . ' Col. Allen, chief Of staff to Major General Wood, told the inaugural com mittee it was planned to have a rear guard from the United States engineer corps to keep stragglers In line. Members of the iaaugural commit tee are beginning to show signs of ner vousness over the. extent of the prob lem presented by the expected growth of the procession of 'marchers, which promises to be the longest inaugural parade that ever" passed down Penn sylvania avenue. Although almost a month off, requests for .places for 50,- 000 men In the: line already have been received. It is'tfeared? that further re quests will make" the1?ttnd of march ing men and horses difficult to direct. The quardrennial harvest of Wash ington hotels and restaurants, secured by high rates charged to inauguration visitors, was threatened today by a joint -resolution . introduced in the House by Representative Johnson, of Kentucky, chairman of the House Dis trict of Columbia Committee. 4 The . resolution recites that citizens desirous of attending the- ceremonies have "generally complained that they have been required to enter into un reasonable contracts at exorbitant prices." As a-remedy the resolution . would provide that the rates charged "by hotels, lodging houses, boarding hous es, cafes, restaurants and similar plac es of entertainment, shall be the regu lar rates charged during the year prior to February 25th, 1913. A penalty of $100 fine for violation is fixed by the resolution and the de fendant is made responsible for the maintenance of the complainant in Washington during the litigation if the complainant should prove his case. Bryan's Friend at Princeton - Princeton, N. J., Feb. IS. Colonel E. M. House, close friend of both William Jennings Bryan and President-elect Wilson came to Princeton today at the invitation of the President-elect. Colonel House had just returned from a visit with Mr. Bryan at Miami, Fla. In response to an in quiry the President-elect said Colonel House had come for a, social visit. "Colonel House telephoned . me last night when he returned," said the Gov ernor, '.'and I invited him down to spend the day." No information was forthcoming to indicate whether Mr. Bryan's views on the personnel of the cabinet were brought here by Colonel House. The President-elect said merely that Col onel House had brought "no message" from Mr. Bryan. The Governor sent for his secre tary, Joseph P. Tumulty, to spend the evening with ColonePHouse and himself.- Secretary Tumulty has been so occupied with the Governor's corre spondence in Trenton that he has not been able to Visit Princeton. . in four weeks. Mr. Wilson took a" long walk late in the afternoon and nearly met the army of suffragettes who are walking to Washington. He passed along Nas sau street, the main thoroughfare, where more than 1,000 students were huddled- together cheering and sing ing in anticipation .of the arrival of the women campaigners. When the correspondents visited the Governor, he inquired if the suffra gettes had arrived, and was told they had hot but that they might visit him later tonight: The . President-elect only smiled. ' ' Anti-trust Bills Pass Trenton, N. J-, Feb. 1.3. Governor Wilson's seven anti-trust bills passed the Senatetoday, all pf the bills re ceiving at least 14 votes, those of the 12 Democrats and two Republicans, Nichols and -White. - Only three of the bills 'were serious ly opposed,! the others goingthrough practically unanimously. The three bills opposed were the , main', bill, which defines trusts, prohibits acts calculated ; to create monopoly and makes a violation of the provisions of the bill a misdemeanor'; , the bill to (Continued on Page Two.) Rebel Leader Trains His Hea vy Batteries on Refuge , of Madero. BATTLE WAS RESUMED EARLY American Club Riddled With Shrap nel, and Many Occupants Have Miraculous Escapes Reb els Extend i heir Zone. Mexico City, Mex., February 13. At 4 o'clock this evening it was reported that General Diaz, commanding the main rebels, had demanded the sur render of the National palace. All through the day the rebel batteries of heavy guns were throwing a fierce fire - of shrapnsl around the palace. Many of these dropped, into the Zocalo which fronts the building, and the Federal soldiers Were compelled to move to cover. " Before dark the fire on both sides was intermittent, but -apparently less vigorous from the Federals. .The' gov ernment troops were receiving ammu nition, in small consignments, and it was said tney were running short. Today's resumption of the ; battle began at 8 o'clock, a "battery of Fed eral artillery opening fire on the ar senal, but although the bombardment was kept up without cessation for an hour or ' more, it had no "appreciable effect on the rebel defenses. That Di$ had prepared for the threatened overwhelming movement by the government wh'ich Madero promised would bs carried through to day, was shown by the fact that he had stationed sharpshooters oh the roofs of buildings, had despatched a force outside the city to the . west, and had placed his heaviest guns in positions commanding all approaches to his stronghold. . General Huerta, commanding ' the Federals, .had promised to rush the fortifications of . the rebels, but he elected, instead, to employ his artil lery from "the various polnts:tjfaiSt age: Only once during the early part of the .day did the infantry come into action. i During the heavy shelling of the palace, Diaz apparently moved some of his forces to the southeast of the city and shortly after 12 o'clock the palace was made the target of both shells and rifle fire from that dis trict. Coincidentally the rebels suc ceeded in extending their zone of ac tivity in other directions. The rebel fire towards the palace wasTn tended not only to bring about its surrender, but had for its purpose also the clearing cf the intervening high buildings of machine guns and riflemen, and of silencing the Federal battery operating in San Juan Letran street, at a point midway between the arsenal and the palace. i This shelling wrought havoc among the ' buildings in that section of the city. The American Club was riddled. The interior of this .building on the second and third floors was complete ly wrecked. Of the 40 American's within it,, at the time, several, had al most miraculous escapes from death. Seven shells tore through the walls. The first two crashed through the reading room, across the greater length of the front on the second story. Oth ers tore through the walls above the second story on the sides not protect ed by buildings. - In addition to the shell .fire, the in terior as well as the exterior of the .American Club wasi perforated in scores of places by bullets f rOm rifles and machinsi guns. , ! The shells which entered -the read ing room crashed through the stone window casings, demolished a heavy leather chair and exploded with terri fic force. Shrapnel was hurled in all directions, cutting the furniture, ,,to ribbons, ripping the; floors and walls, and puncturing in a score of places the portraits which hung about the room. The portrait most seriously damaged was that of President Ma dero President McKinley's picture now is set in a circle of holes, while the por trait of President Taft, hanging next, escaped with a single mark. Pifesident-elect Wilson's features A'ere riddled, while at the other end of the line of portraits balls found lodgment in plenty in the picture of another Democrat, Jefferson. . To the rear of this room is a large billiard hall. There many Americans were gathered," as the manager had forbidden the members to assemble in the front room, when a second se ries of shells crashed through the wall. rThese tor& a way through the story above. STOCK MARKET DEPRESSED. Mexican Situation Causes Uneasiness in the Financial Circles. , New York, Feb. 13. The Mexican situation was a depressing Influence over today's stock market. Financial interests wth Mexican x connections were without definite news from that country, save for brief advices, most of which arrived by devious routes. The local office of the National Rail way's of Mexico received a cableto the effect that the company's property in and around Mexico City, had, suffered no material damage, but .that no word had been received from the" interior. EMILIANO ZAPATA. Leader of the most desperate band of fighters in Mexico, who has joined the Diaz forces. !ARMY REACHES PRINCETON University Students Greet Suffragettes Who Cover 27 Miles in Second Day's March Several Near Exhaustion Princeton, N. J., Feb. 13. The yell of Princeton University, with the ap pendage "Votes for women! Votes for women! Votes for women!" greeted the "army" of suffragettes which is marching to Washington when it ar rived here at 7 o'clock tonight. The women, 13 strong, had covered 27 miles in eight hours of actual walking and several of them were on the point of exhaustion when the lights of the university town twinkled a welcome. "General" Rosalie JOnes, comman der of the expedition, declared . that for real hardship today's walk exceed ed anything she had experienced. "Corporal" - Martha Klatshen, who is less than five feet tall, had to be sup ported during the last four miles of the march. She staggered into ' the village an hour after the arrival of the vanguard, pluckiiy refusing offers of a lift from passing automobiles. The scheduled 20 miles between Metuchen, N. J., the day's starting point and this village, was .stretched into 27 as the result of the women taking the -wrong road. This carried them over a stretch of rought .march ing before they found the main high way again. Three women dropped out en route, leaving 13 "regulars" to night. Mrs. John Boldt, who reached ' the outskirts of the village nearly an hour ahead of the main "army," received a reception wrhich frightened her. The students who had all the roads into the village guarded, discovered her plodding along and sent word back to the "campus that the first hilser had arrived. Two hundred students march ed out to meet her. They surrounded her, .two of the students taking her arm. Thus they escorted her a mile, singing , and yelling. Mrs. Boldt finally appealed to two proctors of the. university, who- rusn ed in among the students and rescued her. . - A student-filled automobile that had been scouring the country roads in search of the "army," came into town shortly afterward and announced that the main division was approaching. -' The students immediately went out to meet them and the scene was re-hewed.- This . time, however, the marchers were. ."in force" and the greeting of the students was less vo ciferous than before. The students fell in line and march ed to the Princeton Inn, their num bers this time swelling to more than 500. Here the students called for a speech from "General" Jones, The suffragist leader undaunted, mounted a chair and asked that the students fornr a men's league for woman suf frage. This request was greeted with cheers, mingled with catcalls. The 'General" asked the "students to re turn an -hour later to hear Mis Eliza beth Freeman, "official orator" of the party. They did , and Miss Freeman talked to them from the steps ,,of the hotel. Cheers and' good-natured gibes (Continued on Page Two.)- . John Barrett Urges Upon President Taft i Media tion in Mexico ,'' COMMISSION FOR ADJUSTMENT The. Military Agency ofj the Govern ment Rests, Satisfied with Prep-, ' arations to Succorf Ameri cans In Mex&o' Washington, Feb. 13. --Mediation in Mexico rather than intervention by the appointment of a :pan-American commission, was urged! today upon President Taft, Senator Cullum, of the Foreign Relations Cbmmdttee, and Representative Flood, of the Foreign . Affairs Committee, by pohn Barrett,, director general of theJPan-American Union. ' I . ' 1 The commission, wh3h, it is sug gested, should seek to j bring about a readjustment of Mexican affairs, would be composed of a statesman from the United States, an emineat Latin-American diplomat now, in Washington and an influential Mexican. Mr." Barrett suggested for the '(commission such, men as Senator Roo't f r William .J. Bryan, Senor Calderon, minister from Bolivia, or Dr. 'DePena, ijminiBter from Uruguay, and Senor DeLaBarra, of Mexico, former ambassador' to ,the United States. j ' ' ' , The mediation proposal waf made after conferences with? . members of the Senate and House land following renewed assurances -4 -frbm the State Department that there j is no present intention of departing from the es tablished policy of 'dea ling with the situation in Mexico. .1 ' . In his letter outlining' the plan, Mr.x Barrett says that "it involves, media tion rather than intervention, interna tional American co-opelration rather than individual United! States actual and. a practical application of the pan- American rather 4han. te. Monroe doc trine'..- ' ' .'! "-. ' ' -v" .... . . ..N . ... The commission, he s investigate the situatio: the ground, and "maH ggestsY should in; Mexico on recommenda- tions to Mexico: which shall" re-adjust . the situation in favorf, of permanent peace and stability.-". 1 - Through Am!bassado Wilson, in . Mexico City, the plan would be pre-v sented to the Mexican government and to the revolutionary 4 J1 leaders whor would be urged to., cease hostilities "pending the action anifl report of the commission. It should lie made known -to the Mexican government and peo- . pie that they would be! expected, with this moral support and! interest of all America to carry out the conclusions! by such International -Commission." "If Latin-America aiid Mexico fail -to. act on this suggestion," says Mr. w Barrett, "they still wiJ be obliged to admit that the United States has first , trieji to proceed on tne fairest lines possible and with every effort to con- , yince Latin-America anlfi Mexico of its good faith and intentions." " Above all tnings," I he added, "it will ittring for themontent immediate peacei to Mexico, the 1 actual protec- ' tion of life and property qf foreigners, which should in due titie develop into permanent peace, stability ' and pros perity for the, Mexidin government and people without spiking a blow at Mexico's independence, and with . evidence to all Americ. that the Unit ed States seeks no territorial aggran dizement." I Mr. Barrett expresses the opinion that this government iwould find the Latin-American . government in sym pathy with this plan;! that the selec-V tion of either Senator Root or Mr. Bry an would be satisfactory in Mexico and other Latin-American countries as well as in the United f tates, and that the other possible mefibers whom he named likewise would ibe agreeable to; all concerned. I Except to prosecutela few inquiries at some of the coast cities with a view to learning what water transportation could be secured from1 private ship ' owners in case it shcftild become ne cessary to transport imore than the first brigade of the regular army. to Mexican waters, the military . agency of' the government rested today, satis fied with preparations already made ' to meet any emergency. For ! the present the entire efforts of . the administration fare.' being con centrated upon protecting foreign life and property in the Mexican capital, without actual forcibl intervention, which the Resident ji' determined to avoid until1 the last extremity." Am- -basador Wilson is . acting . under in structions of that character and it was in pursuance of tha plan that he was today given a credit ojf -10,000 to de fray the expense of removing, shelter ing and feeding helpless 'Americans and probably other distressed foreign ers, from the scene of hostilities. Such action was. necessary because of reports from unofficial sources in Mexico to the effect tbjat many Ameri cans who would willingly quit the city were prevented from doing so by lack : of funds to pay for railroad transpor-tation.- , -: .-'Vl''" v.'"' - Admiral Fletcher, " n ' Command of the naval force now Ibound . for Vera j Cruz, and Admiral U'sjker, who will ap- pear at Tampico within - the - next 24 hours on his flagship yirjrfnia, will act under similar instructions .-; : to.:.:, those, - mm m .-u : f -:-' i:l . -. ""'''J-'VV ' " "
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