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Fall Leased Wire Service of the Associated Prow. Leads all North Carolina 'Afternoon Papers in Circulation, LAST EDITION. ALL THE MARKETS. THE RALEIGH EVENING TIMES VOLUME 27. RALEIGH, N. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1906. PRICE So. THE SAME ACTION WOULD HAVE BEEN TAKEN HAD THE TROOPS BEEN WHITE, SAYS ROOSEVELT Standard of Honor and loy alty to Flag the Same For All BLACKEST GRIME IN ANNALS OF THE ARMY In His Reply to the Semite's Request for Inroriiuition us to His Reasons for the Discharge of the Negro Battalion at Brownsville the Presi dent Repudiates With Indignation a Suggestion That Had the Raid ers Keen White Such Action Might Not Have Been Taken, Briefly Re. culls the Salient Features of the Sense of Duty as Commander-in-Chief at the United States Army. do, when,ns it happens, they were and at first evidently believed that the firing meant that the townspeople were attacking the soldiers. It was not until 2 or 3 o'clock in the morn ing that any of them became aware of the truth. I have directed a care ful investigation Into tho conduct of. the officers, to see If any of them were blameworthy, ;:r.d I have approved tho recommendation of the war de- ma;; by officers born in different states. t . '' " " The iActuul Ft idence. i Major Bloeksoin's report is most careful, is based upon" the testimony of scores of eye-witnesses testimony I which conflicted only in non-essen-I Hals and which established the essen- Ih.i1 tanta hnvnnrt pb.inpp nf HllCpeKR- NDEPENDENT CONTRACT FOR THE SHIPPER CAN HOPE INVESTIGATION N. C. BUILDING Foraker Favors it as to ; Awarded Yesterday to J. D. ful .contradiction. Not- ottiy has nolpartment that two lie brought before successful effort been made to tra- a court-martial, verse his findings in any. essential fts to the non-commissioned offlcors particular, buf as a matter of fact, land enlisted men. there can be no every trustworthy report from out-j doubt1.' whatever that many were siders amply corroborates them, by , necessarily privy, after If not before far the best of these outside reports the attack, io the conduct of those being that of Gen. A. B. Nettleton, who took actual part in this murder- made in a letter to lite secretary ofjousriol. I refer to Major Blocksoin's war, which I herewith append; Gen ! report for proof of the fact that cer eral Nettleton being an ex-Union sol-tainly some and probably all of the dier, a consistent friend of the col-1 non-commissioned officers in charge ored man throughout his life, a life-j of quarters who were responsible for long republican, a citizen of Illinois. the gun-racks and had keys thereto and assistant secretary of the treas-' In their personal possession knew ury under President Harrison. . j what men were engaged in the at- It appears that in Brownsville, the j tack, city immediately beside which Fort Major Penrose', in command of the Brown is situated, there had been I post, in his letter, gives the reasons Murderous Outrage, Calls Atten- considerable feeling between the citi-1 why he was reluctantly convinced tion to the Conspiracy to Shield 'sens and the colored troops of the! that some of the men under him--as the Gnlttv and Declares That He i Garrison companies. .Difficulties had j he thinks, Iron, seven to ten got UH t.ulltj and Dedans that He occurred tl)(M.0 being a con(Uct of j their rifles, slipped ont of quarters to Ordered the Discharge From HI evidonce aa ,0 whether the citizens 1 do -the shooting, and returned to the or the colored troops were to blame. ! barracks without being discovered; My impression is that, as a matter j the shooting all occurring within two !of fact, ia these difficulties there was i and a h.1If short blocks of the bar- (Bv the Associated pre . , j blame attached to both sides; but this racks.' It was possible for the raid Washington Dec 19 In a com-!'8 a wholly unimportant matter for j ers to go from the fort to the farthest munlcation read in the senate todav our present purpose, as nothing that PoJttt of firing and re' trn in less than the president gives the Information ! occurred offered in any shape or way; ten minutes, tor ine distance met not use or justification for Cue excuuu oau yarus. Fired on Children. Sach are the facts of this case. recently figured in a raid at Brown ville. The president writes: To the Senate: In response to senate resolution of December 6, addressed to me, and to the two senate resolutions addressed to him, the secretary of twar has, by mrrmrecuou, suonmted ta jme a ro asked by that body relative to his 'an e action in the discharge of a battalion j atrocious conduct of the troops when, of negro troops, members of which i 'a lawless and murderous spirit, and i under cover of the night, they maooj General Nettleton, in his letter here I their attack upon the citizens. ; with a!),)eKueti, state9 that next door The Midnight Attack. to where he is writing in Browns- The attack was made near mid- vino is a small cottage where a cliu night on August 13. The following ! dren's party had just broken up bc facts as to this attack are mado clear fore the house was riddled by United b.v Majov -Plocksom's investigation J States bullets, fired by United States unrt i,avo Whf lvpj.,, nnd trt liiv troops, from United States Spring- boil which i herewith send to the i ment. cannot be. successfully contro-! "eld rifles, at close range, with the senate, together with several docu- j verted: ' From nine to fifteen or j purpose of killing or maiming the ments, including a letter of General twenty of the colored soldiers took Inmates, including the parents and Nettleton and memoranda as to pre- part in the attack. They leaped over t children who were still in the well cedents for the summary discharge the walls from the barracks and hur-j lighted house, and whose escape from or mustering out of regiments'or com- ried through the town. They shot at death under such circumstances was panics, some or all of the members of j whomever they saw moving, and they astonishing. He states that on an wltich had been guilty of misconduct. ! shot into houses where they saw. other street he daily looks upon fresh ! ordsred the discharge of nearly j lights. In some of these bouses there j hnllet scars where a Volley from sim all the members of Companies B, C, were women and children, as the j I,ar government rifles was fired into and D of the Twenty-fifth Infantry j would-be murderers must have j tll(- "nd windows of a hotel oc by name, in the exercise of my con-i known. Iu one house in which there ! cupled at the time by .sleeping or Btitutional power and in pursuance . were two women and five Children I ingnteneo guests nom nproau, uno of what, after full consideration, I j some ten shots went through at a I could not possibly have given any of l'ound to be my constitutional ditty height of about four and a half feet t fenso V10 assailants. He writes as commander-in-chief of the United j above the floor, one putting out the at Uu' tyief of ,h(' Brownsville States army. I am glad to avail my- lamp upon the table. The lieutenant uo,Ice is 'again cm dity from hos HOif of the opportunity afforded by : of polic e of the town heard the firing ' Pital-, a" carries an empty Bleeve these resolutions to lay before the land rode toward it. He met the because ho was shot by federal sol congress the following facts as to the j raiders, who, as he stated, were about die, s fl'om ,ne adjacent garrison in murderous conduct of certain mem-! fifteen colored soldiers. They In- the course of their murderous foray; Brownsville Affair ft A Kill Designed to Extend Belief to the Monef Market Along (he Lines Recommended l.V Kerivtipy Shaw is introduced Jtllo (lie Senate by Mr. Elkins. j . d I Elliott of Hickory OFFERS?'! RESOLUTION WORK BEGINS AT ONCE as.) i. The qu.es- should make gat ion of the raised in the r Foraker im 'ading of the He offered a committee on (By the Aasoclai Washington, Dec. tion whether- the sen; an independent inve; Brownsville 'raid wa: senate today '.by Sena mediately niter the president's rtessage. resolution giving the military affairs author:);, to make Each iirvt'stigtitioa, if deemed neces sary, after' cffisideraiion of the testi mony transmitted by the president. A Mil designed to extend relief to the money market along the lines of recommendations made by tiie secre tary of the treasury was Introduced today by Senator Elkins, It author izes the deposit in national banks of receipts from customs as well as from internal revenue, requiring the banks to pay a tax en such deposits, and making all nation. il banks eligible for designation' as depositaries. The; bill also expressly authorizes the sec-1 retnry of the treasury to make trans-' fers of public moneys from the treas-1 ury to the banks, which has hereto-j fore been done b; the secretary on his own respAnsi.iiiity without au-' tfcority of law. Under a special order tne senate j today cleared is rf . aie pension cal-j enfliiiS passing more than two linn- died bills. President Roost sage is to be in "normal" tredge today an order foi copies of i Lodge reriiar the house is by order or I may call suggest tlui :t Panama mes- ill Be Surpassed in Beauty By No Building On the Jamestown Expo sition Grounds Mr. fipgur Says There is Practically Jio Doubt About Opening On April Wlh. Mr. Joseph E. Pogue returned from Norfolk this morning, where he had been in connection wit!) bis duties as commissioner general from tills state to the Jamestown Exposition. At a meeting of the commissioners, held in Norfolk yesterday afternoon; the con tract was awarded for the erection of the North Carolina building, the suc cessful bidder being Mr. J. D. Elliott of Hickory. The plans were drawn b.v Zimmerman & Lester of Winston-Salem, and the building' Is to be of colon ial design and will be surpassed in beauty '1v none on the grounds. It will cost in the neighborhood of 20,C09, Mr. Elliott is one of the leading contractors nt' tlte state and is well able to carry out his pari of the contract. Work on tin building is to commence at once and Mr. Pogue states that he has no fear of it not being completed by the time the exposition opens on the L'6th of 1 est April. This week Mr. Pogue says the com mission went over the grounds and they were highly gratified with the pro gress being made., which was beyond their expectations. He expresses the belief that the Jamestown Exposition will be iu better condition as far as the completion of the various buildiii& is concerned when the date for the open ing arrives than any ,f the pig exposi tions held in this country in fennel' years. He tit. If aiiy not being opened on the date previous ly decided upon April "6th. FOR NO RELIEF UNDER THE EXISTING LAWS Stricken With Apoplexy the Eleventh Instant Though Indications at First Seemed to Promise a Speedy Recovery, the Itishop Early Realized the Serious ness of the Attack. BISHOP M'CAiE DEAD An Almost Intolerable Con dition Created by the Scarcity of Cars Vnf.'r,.,ln- lh Menu!.. ivtsweil the 'printed for the senate. M p,.OViding for a loan of $1,000,000 to I'd ling. Senator Kit- ,h,, exposition and it is believed that I red the adoption ol (there will be no doubt about the house passing it. d and not far away is the fresh grave of an unoffending citizen of the place, a boy in years, who was wan- bers of the companies in question and I stantly started firing upon him. He as to the conspiracy by which many i turned and rode off, and thoy Con or the other members of these com- i tinned firing unon him until they had panics saved the criminals from jus-! killed his horse. They shot him inltonlv shot lown bi' lhese United tfee, to the disgrace of the United the right arm (it was afterwards am- States soldiers while unarmed and States uniform. putated above the elbow). A num-1 attempting to escape. her of shots were also fired at two The effort to confute this testimony 1 call vour attention to the accom panying reports of Mai. Agustus p. other policemen. The raiders fired Blocksom, of Lieut. Col. Leonard A. i several times into a hotel, some of Loveriir.r. and of Rricr. Gen. Ernest A. i hots being aimed at a guest sit- Uaiiiugton, the inspector-general of! tmg by a window. They shot into a the united States army, of their in vestigation into the conduct of the troops In question. An effort has been made to discredit the fairness saloon, killing the bartender and wounding another man. At the same time other raiders fired into another house in which women and children of the investigation into the conduct j were sleeping, two of the shots going of these colored ' troops by pointing jthrOUgh the mosquito bar over the on. that General Garlington is i bed la Which the mistress of the southerner. Precisely the same ac-! house and her two chUdren were tionvwould have been taken had the ! lying. Several other houses were troops been white indeed, the' dis- i struck by bullets. It was at night, charge would probably have been and the streets of the town are poorly made In more summary fashion. Gen-; lighted, so that none of the individual eral Garlington is a native ot South ! riders were recognized; but the evi Carolina ; Lieutenant-Colonel Lover- jAice of many witnesses of all classes ing is a native of New Hampshire; was conclusive to the effect that the Major Blocksom Is a native of Ohio. I raiders were negro soldiers. The As it happens, the disclosure of' the shattered bullets, shells and clips of guilt of the troops was made ini'theUhe government rifles which were report of the officer who comes from j found on the ground are merely cor Ohio, and too efforts of the officer j roborative. So are the bullet holes who conies from South Carolina were in the houses, some of which, it ap- confined to the endeavor to shield thei pears, must, from the direction, have j chlslvely th.lt n numuer 0f the sol so far has consisted in the assertion or implication that the townspeople .-!,,. until.,,, ir, nnlav t .lio credit the soldiers an absurdity too gross to need discussion, and unsup ported by a shred of evidence. There is no question as to the murder and the attempted murders; there is no question that some of the soldiers were guilty thereof; there is no ques tion that many of their comrades privy to the deed have combined to shelter the criminals from justice. These comrades of the murderers, by their own action, have rendered it necessary either to leave all the men, Including the murderers, in the army, or to turn them all out; and under such circumstances there was no al ternative, for the usefulness of the army would be at an end were we to permit such an outrage to be' commit ted with impunity. Cold-blooded and Cowardly. In short, the evidence proves con- printing of L',0.)0 message. Senator that "the sense of that documents printed ongress shall be in what normal' spelling, and I the message be printed in 'normal sjiellihg.'- This suggestion was concurred in. A Sharp Debate iu the House. Washington. Bsc. 19. There was a sharp debate in the house today over the policy of adjourning over for Christmas holidays, during which Mr. Lacey of Iowa declared that the policy of such a course was "idiotic," and Mr. Clark of Missouri charged that many "unseemly jobs" had crept into legislation as a result of crowd ing much of the work on appropria tion bills into the closing days of con gress. On n challenge from Mr. Taw ney he said he would later specify some of these "jobs." GIVE MERRILL A LIFT Beat Off M, Last Chance of Re-Election (By the Associated Press.) New York, Dec. 19. Bishop Charles C. McCabe, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died in the New York Hospital at 5:20 a. m. today. Death was due to apoplexy, with which the bishop was stricken De cember 1 1 1 h while passing through this city on his way to his home in Philadelphia. Mrs. McCabe and the bishop's niece, who have been with him almost constantly since he was stricken, were at tiie bedside when he passed away. The night before he was stricken Bishop McCabe had delivered his lec ture, "The Sunny Side of Life in Lib bey Prison." at Torrington, Conn. Accompanied by Dr. George P. Mains, publishing agent of the Methodist Church, the bishop had reached the West Twerty-third street terminal of the Pensylvania Railroad and was about to step upon a ferry-boat, when he staggered and fell unconscious. He was carried into the ferry-house and later was removed to the New York Hospital, where he received treatment as a private patient. The -i h; ,u.. Xi i, indications of the twentv-fohr hours iy; doubt -about the exotmtffottowlngi; j$ere ta'We" okhe yjsar relattakto the work of the So Declares Roosevelt in a Letter to Attorney-General Bonaparte, Writ ing of Former Sheriff Merrill of Carroll County, Georgia. innocent men of the companies in I been fired from the fort just at the question, if any such there were, by j moment when the soldiers left it. Not securing information which would I a bullet hole appears in any of the enable us adequately to punish the j structures of the fort, guilty. But I wish it distinctly un-j Deliberate Murderers, derstood that the fact of the birth-! The townspeople were completely place of either officer is one which I j surprised by the unprovoked and absolutely refuse ito consider. The standard of professional honor and of loyalty to the flag and the service is the same for all officers and all enlisted men of the United States army, and I resent with the keenest indignation any effort to draw any line among them based upon birth place, creed, or any other considers murderous savagery of the attack The soldiers were the aggressors from start, to finish. They met with no substantial resistance, and one and all who took part in that raid stand as deliberate murderers, who did murder one man, who tried to mur der others, and who tried to murder women and children. The act was tion of the kind. I should put the j one of horrible atrocity, and so far as some entire faith in these reports if i I am aware, unparalleled for Infamy it had happened that they were all I In the annals of the United States made by men coming from some one ! army. state, whether In the south or the j The white officers of the companies north, the east or the west, as I nowj'were completely taken by surprise, diers engaged in a deliberate and concerted attack, as cold-blooded as it was cowardly; the purpose being to terrorize the community and to kill or injure men, women' and chil dren in their homes and beds or on the streets, and this at an hour of the night when concerted or effective resistance or defense was out of the question, and when detection by identification of the criminals in the United States uniform was well-nigh impossible. So much for the original crime. A blacker never stained the annals of our army. It has been sup plemented by another, only less black, in the shape of a successful conspira cy of silence for the purpose of shield ing those who took part in the origi nal conspiracy of murder. These sol diers were not school-boys on a frolic, i (Continued on Third Page.) I MONEY ON CALL AT TWENTY-FIVE. (B.V the Associated Press.) New York, Dec. 19.- Money on call w;ts loaned at 25 per cent shortly after 1 I o'clock today. MADAME GOULD WON ONCE MORE (By the Associated Press.) Paris, bee. 10. Madame Gould, the former Countess Bonl De Castellane. has been victorious in the suits brought by creditors and money lenders against her with the object of making her jointly responsible with the count. Thirteen of the fifteen cases were dis missed today by the court with costs against the plaintiffs. Only In the cases of two art dealers did tho court express the opinion that 'Madame Gould should be held respon sible as the objects purchased in thope instances for the most part were still in her possession. There are still three cases to be passed upon and they will be decided December 26. In dismissing the thirteen suits the court held that the plaintiffs had failed to prove that the debts werte contract ed for the common benefit of the count and countess. The latter, the court de clared, had more than fulfilled the ob ligations under her marriage contract. During her wedded life she had retain ed nothing for herself, her entile reve nue being eolleeted by her husband and employed according to his own wishes either for the household expenses or for the palmenl of his personal debts. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Dec. 19. The fol lowing letter was given out at the white house today: "The White House, Washington, Dec. 17, 1906. "Dear Mr. Bonaparte: Some three years ago Sheriff J, L. Merrill I of Carroll county, Ga., lost his chance for re-election by his action iu beat ing olt a moo ot several nunarea white people who wore trying to take ti negro out of jail and put him to death. Sheriff Merrill and his depu ties fired on the mob, killing and wounding several men and beating the others off. Because of this he was defeated for re-election. Con gressman Adamson brought the mat ter to my attention saying that he hated to see a man who had done such a service as a public official de feated because of the very fact that he had rendered the service. He told me that Governor Terrell had offered Merrill a place, the best he had to give, which carried a salary of $;!u per month. I told the con gressman I thought 1 could beat that, and got him a place at $1,200 a year as custodian of the grounds of the federal prison at Atlanta. I hear he has done well. If he has done well, can't we give him a promo tion? "Sincerely yours, "THEODORE ROOSEVELT. "Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte, "Attorney General." been a slight one, and the patient's condition gave promise of speedy re covery. Just before the attack he had walked briskly and carried a grip weighted with books and papers with out apparent fatigue. Bishop McCabe, however, early realized the seriousness of his illness, and his first words upon returning to consciousness were: "Please notify my wife that I am very ill, and ask her to come at once." That night Mrs. McCabe, a niece and the bishop's secretary arrived from Philadelphia and have since re mained at the hospital, The condition of the patient did not change materially until early Satur day last, when he lapsed info uncon sciousness. From then on the bishop failed gradually, and Monday the physicians in attendance said that the outcome was no longer in doubt. AN INQUIRY INTO THE CAUSES PROCEEDING in the Annual Report of the Inter, state Commerce Commission Transmitted to congress Today, This Matter is Taken Up and Dis cussed at Some Length Thougli Without Authority to Deal Effect ively With the Situation, the Com mission is Investigating With a View to Discovering Some Rem edy Which .May Be Applied By the Carriers Voluntarily or Under the Compulsion of Suitable Enact ments The Commission Has De-' voted Much of Its Time to An Administrative Construct ion of the New Rate Law, the Most Import ant Legislation of the Year. EXTRADITION OF HAU HAS BEEN GRANTED. (By he Associated Press.) London, Dec. 19. The extradition of Prof. Karl Han ot the Georgd Washington University, Washington, D. C, to Germany was formally granted at the Bow street police court this afternoon on the charge of murdering his mother-in-law, Fran Monitor at Baden-Baden, No vember 3.. SOLDIERS FIRE ON CONDUCTOR (Tiy the Associated Press.) Washington, Dec 19. No advices have been received at the war de partment regarding the reported fir ing on a car conductor last night by some soldiers at Fort Barrancas, Fla. however, unofficially was -ministers of religion and others: the attention of the de-1 transportation for care takers of live stock, poultry, fruit, and vegetables; filing of contracts or agreements for divisions of joint rates; export rates so, on cotton and other commodities; The mal tor brought to partment today and the commanding; officer of the fori has been called! upon for information. ( timing ONE DOZEN BLIND TIGERS IN THE NET. (Special to The Evening Times.) New Bern, N. C, Dec. 19. The police court had the biggest round up of blind soon after the affair at Brownsville. Texas, which has received so much attention in the public press, army officers today expressed their chagrin at the report of this latest disturb ance. Fort Barrancas, which is located application of the amended law to cases previously pending before the commission. Car Shortage. The inability of shippers to pro cure cars for the movement of their traffic is the subject of numerous short distance from Pensacola. is and grievous complaints which come tigers that it has had since prohibition I , , f th u)oat import-! to the commission from all parts of went into effect two years ago. Ten i ant posts in the service, five com- the country. A car famine prevails IU llie 4lllt, t ,i,rtc, .v, naD, nrttllorv thp Sev- wl,3rh ln iiu.s ,lltr.,Ra in nlmnat ovopv net end iu the preliiniuarv trial before , " , " ' ,. ,u "7 - - 7 ' Mayor Patterson, all the defendants , entn. Ninth, Fifteenth, Twentieth section, and in some localities waived examination but two. These 1 and Twenty-second being stationed amounts to a calamity. The extraor- had their cases continued. there. (Continued on Page Z.) 9 (By the Associated Press. Washington, D. C, Dec. 19. From the synopsis of the 20th annual re port of the interstate commerce com mission, transmitted to congress to day, tiie following facts are given: t The most important legislation of i. commission was the passage of an I act, approved June 29, Which amend- ed the act to regulate commerce in various and important particulars. A joint resolution adopted on the same day postponed the taking effect of this measure until the 28 th of August, and the amended law has been in force since that time. The scope of the statute has been mate rially enlarged b.v this enactment and the powers of the commission sub stantially increased. The commission does not present any recommendations for further amendment of the regulating statute in this report, but says such amend ments as it may conclude are neoes sary will be submitted in special communications to congress during the present session. The questions arising under the new legislation are numerous and some of them extremely difficult. It has been necessary for the commis sion to devote a considerable part of tits time to an administrative con struction of this law and the prepa- ration of decisions and rulings as to I its meaning and application. The nature and scope of these rulings and . ! decisions are indicated in a summary, land the text of the several circulars lis printed in full as an appendix to I the report. Decisions and Rulings of the Com mission. These decisions and rulings under t he now law relate to the following subjects: Money payment for trans portation; tariffs of new roads; through rates higher than the sum of locals, and reduction of such through rates on one day's notice up to December 31, 1906; desire to meet rates of a competing carrier; round-trip excursion rates, and es tablishment of such rates on short notice; round-trip tickets on certifi cate plan: party-rate tickets; filing and publication of intrastate rates applying on interstate traffic; issu ance and use of free passes; trans portation of laud and Immigration agents free or at reduced rates; free or reduced-rate transportation for