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VOL. XXIV.
PLYMOUTH,. C, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1914.
NO. 45.
CONGRESS ANXIOUS
FOR ADJOURNMENT
IS HOPED BY ALL MEMBERS
THAT SESSION WILL END
JULY 1.
JT MAY BE AUGUST FIRST
Many important Measures Are Before
Legislators for Disposal This
Year.
Washington. After more than a
year of . almost continuous work, Con
gress is getting restless and leaders
in both houses began an earnest ef
fort to arrange the legislative pro
gram so that adjournment may be
taken early in July. Majority Lead
er Underwood, after a conference with
President Wilson, announced that in
his opinion the house can complete
its work on the necessary appropria
tion bills and the - other legislation
which the president has insisted upon,
long before July 1.
The Senate steering committee
held a meeting and discussed the
possibilities of adjournment. It came
to no decision, however, except as to
the appointment of a sub-committee,
which will be named by Chairman
Kern, to confer with house leaders la
ter on this suaject, and on the meas
sures that must be passed before the
session ends. k
Although Senator Kern was hope
ful that the program can be complet
ed by July 10, other Democratic lead
ers ?vere not inclined to share this
viet and said that if the Panama'tolls
repeal bill, Uhe anti trust bill and the
rural credits bill and the usual apprb-
nrlfttlnn hlUa sm to h nut throuarh
the senate, adjournment cannot pos
sibly be arranged before August 1.
These measures made up the "pro
gram" which Mr. Underwood annouap
ed the house could pass in time.
In the senate the fight over the
tolls repeal bill can be said hardly
to have started. It was the business
before the senate for little longer than
an hour and present indications are
that it will not be taken up in earnest
with dav-lone . devotion to It.
WILSON NAMES RESERVE BOARD
Five Members to Serve Under the
New Currency Law Appointed.
Washington President" Wilson had
selected the live men, who,, together
with the Secreary of the Treasurer
W. G. McAdoo and the Comptroller of
the Currency, John Skelton Williams,
are to compose the Federal reserve
board.
All of those selected had not yet
will not be made for another day or
two The men to whom the president
has offered places are:
Richard Olney of Boston, Mass., for
mer secretary of state under Presi
dent Cleveland, to be governor of the
-board.
Paul Moritz Warburg of New York,
member of the banking firm of Kuhn,
Loeb & Co.
Harry A. Wheeler, of Chicago, vice
president of the Union Trust uom
manv of Chicasro and former president
ad organizer of, the United States
chamber of commerce. '
W. P. G. .Harding, of Birmingham,
Ala., president of the First National
Bank of Birmingham and one of the
leading bankers of the South.
Dr. Adolph Caspar Miller of San
Francisco, now assistant to Secretary
Lane of the interior department, is an
economist and authority on finance.
The nominations will be sent to the
senate in a few days. As yet Messrs.
. Olney and Harding have not indicat
ed whether or not they will accept.
Upon the new board will devolve
the task of setting in- motion the
"banking system of the country through
the 12 regional reserve banks already
selected.
They also will constitute a govern
ing board, which is given wide power
to regulate th 12 banks and isaue
currency. The president had told hU
Mends that he regarded the member
ship of the board equally ksaorUat
that of the supreme eourt of t&e
Waited States.
Huerta's Delegate Named.
Mexico City El Pais anseuM4
that AtJRUstin Rodrigwea aid Luis H
gaero, both connected with the Mes
ican National Railroad and Senator
Eiio Ra,basa woald -4eeve here eeea
tor Montreal to attend the metiatioa
conference, initiated by , Argentine,
Brazil and Chile. This is the tret
indication given here that the een
ference .to settle the differenoea be
tween the United States and Mexico
may ba held in Canada. At the same
time it was stated that the meetings
would not take place in Havana.
HAP OF VERA CRUZ
3000
Vera Cruz is now facing
PEACE HANGS I
THE BALANCE YET
ECHOES OF "WAR TALK" ARE
DYING AWAY IN NATIONS
CAPITAL.
THE ENVOYS PERSEVERE
Accomplishments of the Mediators
So Far, Are Unprecedented in
History.
Washington. Assurances of peace,
with a steady abatement of "war
talk" was the dominant feature in
(Mexicam developments here. Atten
tion stiU was centered on the work of
the South American mediators, who
reported steady progress and no dead
lock between the parties.
In other quarters, however, the
failure of General Carranza thus far
to accept the mediators' proposal for
a suspension of hostilities, caused
continued doubt over the outlook for
broadening the 'scope of the media
tors' work to a settlement of the
whole Mexican situation.
the report . that Dr. Edward Ryan,
an American in the service of the
United States Government, was about
to be shot as a spy by Mexican Fed
erals .at Zacatecaf caused serious ap
prehension through the day, but reas
surances as to Doctor Ryan came
direct from Huerta late in the day.
, While the gravity and the hopeful
ness of the situation varied from hour
to hour, the South American envoys
kept steadily at their work holding'
two sessions at the Argentine Lega
tion. Their long conf erenee with Sec
retary Bryan was f allowed "by a con
ference with the Spanish Ambassa
dor Senor Riauo, who represents the
Huerta Government. The mediators
mads no announcement
It was known they were expecting
another definite development soon,
which miajht lead to a statement Wtw
but its purport was net disoked.
There was reason to believe, however,
that it related to the attitude of Car
r&asa. iamataf HP what the Mediator
ha4 eoslished, a well-yeeted auth
ority sett it represented ere aetu
aHy don fat a given tine then erer
bad oecurre in the kkrtory inter
nedfetteo He cpeeifiedL b1ining
April 21, a4 continuing six days in
etwaive. .
rtmt, aeptaee f good efficee ay
the UaHed States; second, acceptance
by Huerta.; third, feccepteaee by Car
ranea; fctfrth, suspension ef hostili
ties by tfi United States; fifth, sus
pension 0t hostilities by Huerta.
A sixth development, it was expect
ed, would further emphasize what
was being done.
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FOR WAR OR PEACE
MILITARY FORCES OF THE UNIT
ED STATES CONTINUE PLANS
FOR EVENTUALITIM.
THE MEDIATORS STILL WORK
vVhile Three South American Envoys
Are Planning, Many Speculations
Exist
Washington. Restrained but none
xhe less steady preparation for any
military eventualities that may be
come necessary and the quiet but de
finite progress of the mediation pro
gram being worked out behind closed
dors these were the two outstanding
features of the Mexican situation here.
The three mediation envoys of Ar
gentine, Brazil and Chile continued
their private sittings. Their first
move for an armistice, was succeeded
by the virtual suspension of hostili
ties, or a truce, between the forces
of the United States and the Huerta
reeime. although there were still omi
nous sounds of conflict between the
Huerta and Carranza forces.
Secretary. Bryan formally notified
the three South American envoys- that
the American Government took it for
granted there would be no hostilities
during the mediation proceedings.
While there has been no period set
within which the negotiations must
be cancluded, Secretary Bryan said
he believed they would hove forward
"as rapidly as possible." A report
that they might be prolonged by the
mediators going to Mexico wae met
by the statement by one of the media
tors that in these days of the telegraph
and cable a journey was unnecessary
While the envoys were not ready
to make an announcement several in
teresting phases of what has omai;tti
duriag the discussion were learaed
from authoritative sources. It aa
T.r that while tee attitude of Gaa
eral Huerta was definite in accepting
intermedation as between the UaWei
States and the Huerta Governnaeat,
it bas not yet been made clear taat
hi accenUnce will aaply also to in
termediatkm that ineludes Carraasa.
It is emeeted that this nuestie will
be cleared bd by inquiries mew ader
way, so that it will be definitely estab
lished that Huerta aot only accepts
mediation with the Uaited State bet
also with Carransa. ' :
Huerta AeeeDfte Peace Pro Tera
Wmhinrton. Geaeral Huerta ae-
eepted the proposal that there be no-
furtber hostilities between the uauea
States and Mexico pending the efforts
of the envoys of Argentina, Brasil
and Chile to bring an amicable settle
ment of difficulties between the coun
tries. This was announced by Secre
tary Bryan.
SOME SIDELIGHTS ON
By A VETERAN:
The fever-port of Vera Cruz had
been captured four times before Uncle
Sam seized it on April 21. Once it fell
to Gen. Winfleld Scott, once to the
allied forces of France, England arid
Spain, and twice to the buccaneers of
the Spanish Main.
I know several men today who. were
present' at the siege of '1847. It is
probable none of these veterans of the
first Mexican struggle will see service
this time, although I have just seen
a letter from Brig. Gen. Horatio G.
Gibson, U. S. A., retired, eighty-eeven
years old, in which the venerable
fighter offers his sword to the stars
and stripes and refers to Major Gen.
Leonard Wood as sponsor for his
physical and mental ability. General
Gibson served through the Mexican,
Civil and several Indian wars.
It was March 7, 1847, when the fleet
bearing General Scott and hie little
army appeared off Mexico's principal
seaport The troops landed without
much trouble after the city had been
bombarded, but it took a sanguinary
siege of thirteen days to capture the
defenses. Trenches were dug and reg
ular operations conducted..
So our troops this time can com
mence their march toward the capital
with much less of a handicap than
General Scott's.
While the troubles of : the United
States which culminated in the Civil
war were brewing Mexico grew arro
gant to this country and to Europeans.
The crowning insult was President
Miramon's seizure of $630,000 in specie
from the British ' consulate. Great
Britain, France,' Spain and Prussia de
cided to move. Meantime the great
Benito Juarez, the General Washing
ton of Mexico, was conducting a re
volt in the North. He overthrew Mlra
mon, but the foreign troops kept on
their way. On December 14, 1861,
Vera Cruz was seized by a Spanish
force under General Prim. The result
was the elevation of Maximilian to the
throne and, after the European troops
had been withdrawn, the unfortunate
Austrian's execution.
The pirates, with force equal to a
respectable army, captured Vera Cruz
in 1683. They burned, slew and
robbed for many days before they
were driven to their ships. In 1712
the notorious buccaneer kings, Lau
rent and Van Horn, seized the port
and held it ten days. They killed hun
dreds of Mexicans, carried away wom
en captive and did an immense
amount of damage.
To this day the nurse girl of Vera
Cruz, seeking to still the fretful child,
says: "Be quiet or I will give you to
Van Horn."
Reparation for One Insult.
I was much amused by the ill
informed if well-meaning persons fo
cried out that Dictator Huerta had
given sufficient reparation for the in
sult to the flag at Tampico by his
meager and half-hearted apology.
From the files of the navy depart
ment I have dug up a report from
Commander J. Blakely Creighton, U.
S. N., commanding the Oneida, who
"witnessed Japan's atonement for an
offense against our bluejackets. It
reads:
"Hiogo, Japan, March 14, 1868.
Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the
United States Navy, Washington,
D. C. Sir: I have the honor to com
municate the particulars of the execu
tion of the Japanese official Tatl Zan
zutaro, retainer of the Matsdaira Bi
zen, No Kami, who ordered his troops
to fire on the foreigners at this place
on the fourth ultimo.
"This execution was witnessed by
me at the request of our minister, Gen.
R. B. Van Valkenburgh, and was as
follows:
I left the legation at about 9:00
p. m. in company with the officers at
tached to the foreign legations and
proceeded to Hiogo, where we were
met by a guard, who escorted us to
the temple where the execution was
to take place.
"There was a large number of
poo pi 9 on each sldd of the street lead
ing to the temple, and quite a num
ber of sodllers drawn ua inside and
about the temple. We were shown
Is to a room adjoining the Japaneee
officials, where were asked if we
wisaed to faastwn the person about
to be executed, tehich we aaswered
in the negative. They also took the
names ef every official present.
-After waiting about half aa hour
we were conducted by tke Japanese
officials inta what appeared to be the
srineifal room of the trnple, which
was lighted with ctanciles, and in
froat ef the altar was raised a plat
form of about a foot in height, which
extended across the room and which
was jtlnoed on the right of the altar,
within a few feet of where tke execu-
ioa w t take place, with the Japan-
ee officials on the left.
"In front of the altar was a green
loth and in front of that a red oue.
Ve "were informed that the execution
would take place on the red cloth.
Seating ourselves upon the mats on
THE MEXICAN WAR
the platform, we awaited the execu
tion. "In a few moments the prisoner
came in, dressed in the usual Japanese
dress of a person of rank, accompa
nied by the executioner, who was his
pu'fil and most intimate friend. He
walked with a steady, firm step in
front of the altar, where he knelt in
prayer. He then arose and went to
the red cloth, where he knelt and
made the confession that 'he was the
officer that ordered his troops to fire
upon the foreigners and also to fire
upon them when they, were trying to
escape and that 'he was sorry for
what he had done.'
"He then disrobed himself to his
waist and reached out for a knife that
was near him, which he thrust into
his bowels and drawing It toward his
right sida, and leaning forward at the
same time the executioner, with one
blow from his sword, severed his head
from his body. This occurred at
about 10:30 p. m.
"The Japanese then bowed to the
floor, on which we all did the same.
We were then asked if we were satis
fled with what we had witnessed, when
we replied in the affirmative.
."After the lapse of a few moments
we were informed that all was over,
when we arose and took our departure.
The whole scene was one of great sol
emnity and very impressive.
"Very respectfully,
"Your obedient servant,
"J. BLAKELEY CREIGHTON,
"Commander."
What War Really Means.
Let us hope we " will . have peace
again soon. The jingoes are not found
among the veterans. War is worse
than Sherman said It was. This de
scription, which I copy from the In
dependent, is all too true:.
No more thunder of artillery, no
more blare of trumpets, no more beat
of drums; only the low moan of pain
and the rattle of death. In the
trampled ground some redly-glimmering
pools, lakes of blood; all the crops
destroyed, only here and there a piece
of land left untouched, and still cov
ered with stubble; the smiling villages
of yesterday turned into ruins and
rubbish. The trees burned and hacked
In the forests, . the hedges torn with
grapeshot. And on this battle-ground
thousands and thousands of men
dead and dying lying without aid. No
blossoms of flowers are to be seen on
wayside or meadow; but sabers, bayo'
nets, knapsacks, cloaks, overturned
ammunition wagons, powder wagons
blown into the air, cannon with broken
carriages. Near the cannon, whose
muzzles are black with smoke, the
ground is bloodiest. There the great
est number and the most mangled of
dead and half-dead men are lying lit
erally torn to pieces with shot; and
the dead horses and the half-dead
which raise themselves on their feet
such as they have left them to sink
again; then raise themselves up once
more and fall down again, till they
only raise their heads to shriek out
their pain-laden death-cries. There is
a hollow way quite filled with corpses
trodden into the mire. The poor crea
tures had taken refuge there, no doubt
to get cover, but a battery had driven
over them, and they have been crushed
iby the horses' hoofs and the wheels
Many of them are still aive-f" mlpy,
bleeding mass, but still alive.
It is impossible to depict it accu
rately. Flies were feeding on their
open wounds, which were covered with
them; their gaze, flaming with fever,
wandered about asking and seeking
for some help for refreshment, for
water and bread! Coat, shirt, flesh
and blood formed in the case of most
of them one repulsive mass. Worms
were beginning to generate in thi3
mass and to feed on them. A horrible
odor filled every place. All thee sol
diers were lying on the bare ground;
only a few had got a little straw on
which they could repose their miser
able bodies. Some who had nothg
under them but clayey, swampy
ground bad half-sunk into the mud it
formed they had not the strength to
get out of it ..
In Masloved, a place of about fifty
houses, there were lying, eight days
after the battle, about 700 wounded
It was not eo much their shrieks of
agony as their abandonment without
any coaaolation which appealed to
heaven. In oae single barn alene sixty
of these poor wretches were crowded
Every ne of their wounds had oriai
nally been severe, but they bad be
ceme hopeless in consee.nence of their
EMssieted eondition, and their want
of nursing and feeding; almost al)
were tangreaous. Limbs crushed by
ebot formed new mere heaps f pu
trefying fieeb, faces a mere mays of
coagulated blood, covered with filth,
in which the mouth was represented
by a shapeless black epening, from
which frightful groans kept wellfrig
out. The'progress of the putrefaction
fceparated whole mortified pieces from
these pitiable bodies. The living were
lying close to dead bodies which had
begun to fall into putrefaction, and
for which the worms were gettica
ready,
MEDIATORS WANT
TRIO DELEGATED
AS FOR REPRESENTATIVES . OP
CARRANZA, HUERTA AND
UNITED. STATES.
BRYAN CONFERS WITH THEM
They Yet Hold Out Hopes of Settling
the Whole Mexican Problem
Some Day.
Washington. The three South Am
erican envoys who have undertaken
the task of pacifying Mexico by dip
lomacy made another decisive move'
in their plan, by requesting the Unit '
ed States Government, General Huerta
and General Carranza to appoint rep
resentativies to confer" with them ia
Washington. .
Ambassador Da Gama of Brazil and
Ministers Naon and Suarez of." Argen
tine and Chile, .respectively, called on
Secretary Bryan, asking him to de
signate the American representatives.
At.he same time they telegraphed
their requests to the head of the Gov
ernment in Mexico City, aa well as
the Constitutionalist chief.
No announcements of the subjects
to be considered by representatives of
the three parties to the mediation, ort
of the powers or functions of the new
envoys was made except for the fol-1
lowing brief statement issued through
the State Department on the authority
o fthe three diplomats:
"The mediators have delivered to
this Government and are sending out,
to General Huerta and General Car
ranza requests that representatives ben
appointed to confer with the media
tors.'
The proposal to bring together spe
cially designated representatives was
the result of an all-day ses-ion of the
South American envoys. The sug
eestlon had been made to them from
various quarters that much time wpuld
be saved.
The envoys felt confident the stey'
they had taken would meet with fa
vor by all concerned, believing there
could be no objection to a move cal
culated cheifly to facilitate the pro
gress of the work.
COLORADO STRIKE UNSETTLED.
Efforts in Washington to Bring About
Peace Are Futile.
Washington. Messages, telling of
futile efforts thus far at Washington
to bring about a settlement of the
Colorado coal mine strike, including a
telegram from John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., saying mining company officials
in Colorado "were the only ones com
petent to .deal .. with the question'
were made public. Representative
Foster, chairman o'f the House Mines
Committee, who gave out the tele
graphic correspondence, had been at
tempting to get Mr. Rockefeller, oper
ators and officials of the mines which
the Rockefellers partly control, and
the striking operatives together, fol
lowing a White Hous" conference.
Mr. Foster telegraVned Mr. Rocke
feller recently, saying William Green,
secretary-treasurer of the Internation
al Mine Workers Union, had made
public a statement that mine workers
would waive any recognition of the
union or unionizing camps. He asked
Mr. Rockefeller if he was willing to
enter negotiations for settlement of
the strike on that basis.
Mr. Rockefeller replied that he was
forwarding the telegram to the offi
cers of. the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co.
in Denver, who with the officials of
the mining companies in Colorado, he
said, were the only ones competent to
deal with that question.
Mr. Foster repied to this with a
sharp message to Mr. Rockefeller,
which the latter up to nigbt has not
acknowledged. Mr. Foster telegraph
ed: "Ygur telegram somewhat a disap
pointment, we were in hopes that you
would deem the situation so grave
and eerkms that you would give your
pergonal efforts to prevent the further
killing of men, women and children,
and we renew the hope that you will
reconsider and resolve to me your
personal influence and authority to
this humane end. '
.... Think Huerta Will Fail.
El Paso, Texas. Several rebel lead
ers Vefcired Victoriano Hoerta was
ready to step down and out under the
pressure of his cientiftco supporters,
who, they said, already regarded re
bel success as inevitable. The con
stitutionalist leaders said that on ac
count of this belief they would make
no concessions when mediation came
nv as a result of the good offices of
diplomats. Rebel leaders in EI Paso
raid Rood offices were accepted by
Huerta only as a means of "aaving
his face."
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