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PEACE MOVEMENT NOW NO SECRET Mexican Chamber Calls for Full Details on Subject. Intarvention Much Feared, and Mex ican* Think It I* Imminent — Would End Revolt. Mexico City, April 2(1. At the re- queet of the chamber of ileputiex Min uter of Foreign Affair* do la Barra will make to thul Inxly tomorrow a full report regarding the negotiation« for peace and the relation* of Mexico with the United States. Il waa announced lu»t night that the minister proposed to render a r«»|*irt to the state senate on the subject of the controversy between the two coun- trie* a* the result of the revolution, but when the chamber convenivl at 4 o'clock this afternoon it became evi dent that many of it* member* were not at all satisfied with thia arrange ment. They demanded all informa tion available. There I* no doubt that now the Mexicans Itelieve American interven tion is imminent and a large part <>f 1 them, ignorant of just whut ia being j done, consider it inevitable. In a letter to the President« Ro-1 electionist Club*, the organization ' formed for the support of General j Diaz during the last political cam paign, llosendo Pineda, the leader of , the group, issue* a warning based on I the possibility of United States inter vention. Mr. Pineda recently relumed from New York. A* he was there when the la-rnianent committee of congress adopted the famous measure for the su*|>enMion of guarantee*, he bs>k no part in thut move, although president of the committee. So fur the negotiation* for jieace have Iwen carried out largely by , ag<-nt* unofficially representing the government, but it is no secret that the minister of foreign affair* is the man who has been most instrumental in their direction. In asking for the report* the cham ber of deputies ia bringing into the open not only the question of the rela tion* with the United States, fast be coming a bugaboo, but the negotia tion* for jieace. The report* will bo made in open session and all Mexico is to know just what is being done to end the war. A still deeper significance is that by their act the deputies have practically placed their country in a position where it can deal frankly and openly with the rebels, something which up to this time has been impossible for the un official agent* to do. it is not at all improbable that, nf- ter having heard the ministers' re port*. the deputies may take an active part in the settlement of the revolu tion by assisting in the negotiations for peace. Officially the chamber has not been asked to assist, indeeri, offi cially, it has known nothing of nego tiations for fieace and could not, inas much as the government ha* not rec- ognized the existence of a revolution ary army of sufficient |*>wer to justi fy it in treating with it* emissaries. JAPS INFURIATED. Superior Right* of Russia and Japan In Manchuria Ignored Pekin Discovery that some portion of the revenues of Manchurian prov ince* has been allotted a* part of the security for the four-power loan of $50,000,000 to China has amused deep resentment in Japan Tok io dis patches state that the aemi-offieial pres* teems with bitter criticisms, characterizing the loan a.* an un friendly act like the Knox proposal, since the powers holding this security have an opportunity to interfere in various question* which may arise hereafter. China is severely censured for hy pothecating these revenues, disregard ing Japan’s and Russia's contentions that they hnve superior rights in Man churia. Earth Swallow* Cattle. Goldfield, Nev. Through the open ing of wide gap* in the ground in the eastern part of White Pine county, cattlemen rejxirt losses that arc gain ing serious pro|*irtions. The gaps in the range country vary from eight to 20 feet in width, and there is no ex planation of the phenomenon, except the fnct that th«» country is of volcanic formation. Stockgrowers have ap pealed to the gorenment for permits to fence in the dangerous district, but as the ground is not in Jhe forest, re serves, the government can do nothing. Ice Cream Men Indicted. Chicago Three Chicago ice cream companies were indicted by the United States grandl jury, charged with ship ping impure ice manufacturing and cream. The indcitments charge that samples taken from shipment* made by the indicted companies were "full of filthy animal substance" and “unfit for human consumption.” The gov ernment chemist reported 50(1,000,000 wbacteria to approximately one-eighth 'of a cubic inch of the cream. Pari* World’* Third City. Paris Paris retains its positions« the third largest city in the world, the census taken last month showing a population of 2,846,986, an increase of 124,255 over the figures of 1906. ALASKAN STEAL WAS CREAT. BRIEF REPORT OF THE DAILY WORK OF NATION’S LAWMAKERS WfflEKT ÎTIÏÏE SïïWE W sas IE wmeid Coal, Harbor* and Transportation In Grip of Combine. Washington It looks now like the Morgan-Guggenheim Alaska «yndicate Washington, April 17.—"After a Washington, April 21. Ex-Speaker ha* achieved an amazing coup in view Cannon, Representatives Hanna, of thorough canvass of the Republican of the executive order signed October North Dakota, Nelson, of Wisconsin, membership of the house, 1 can say 28 last, in which President Taft elim inated 12,81*0 acre* from the Uhugach and Sloan, of Nebraska, attack«*! the ¡xjsitively a substantial majority of national forest, on the aouthem coast Canadian reciprocity agreement In the the party will vote against the Cana of Alaska, and restored them to entry. debate on the reciprocity bill in the dian reciprocity bill.” said Dwight, These land* had been withdrawn by house t/xiay. Gudger, of North Caro of New York, the Repubican whip, Pre*ident Roosevelt) and lie along the ! tonight. The bill is to be put upon waterfront of Controller bay harlior, lina, a Democrat, *i*o attacked it. , its passage this week. Rapid-fire speeches were made by 20 mile* from the Bering coal field* wherein lie the celebrated Cunning Republican* in r* ply to Republican This will not prevent its passage, ham coal claim*. Already the Mor and Democratic supjiorter* ef that even though stiveral Democrats vote gan-Guggenheim interest* were in against the majority of their party. control of nearly all other harbor* measure, headed by Representative* When the reciprocity bill passed the Underwood anil McCall. Hubbard, of along the southern coast the termin j house in the last session, a majority of als of the Copper river and North Iowa, spoke in favor of reciprocity. western railway at Cordova bay and at Mr. Sloan referred to the house »up- the Republicans voted against it, but Resurrection bay, where the Alaska porters of the Reciprocity bill a* "a the Democratic majority in favor of it Northern, formerly the Alaska Cen tral, had terminal*. The syndicate Tammany and Dixie combination ha* greatly increased in the new con gress. also had the harlstr facilitie* at Skag against the welfare of the country.” way of the White Pa** and Yukon, Five »peaker* participated in the The general debate of the measure which road it control*. Only one har will continue tomorrow, but Chair- debate today. Fordney, of Michigan, bor remained as the hope of the peo man Underw«*>d, of the ways and a Republican member of the ways and ple that some independent railway in 1RT BAM HOUSTON. In Ban up hl* cot and rerry him over th« line. terest might gain entrance into Alas means committee, will endeavor to get means, committee, and Lenroot., of Antonio, Tex., to which 20,000 A few hour* later he became delirious ka, and that was Controller bay, a the bill before the house under the Wi«c«>nsin, an insurgent Republican, troops were hurriedly dis and never recovered con*ciou«nea*. few miles to the cast from Cordova five-minute rule before adjournment. patched. I* looted close to the Dawn of the Morning of Death. *poke against the bill. Harrison, of bay. historic spot where the battle of The morning of the final attack waa Aided by a large map of the Unite«! ( New York and Peter«, of Massachu R. 8. Ryan, president of the Con he Alamo wss fought. There a small a warm, bright Sunday. Colonel Bowl« troller Railway A Navigation empany, States and Canada, Cannon play«xl the' setts, Democratic members of the ,’orce of American pioneer* of the died about three o'clock. Death had ways and means committee, and Crum role of a schoolmaster to a crowd«*! was the lobbyist who apparently become so common that no one paid packer, of Indiana, approved its pass southwest fought against overwhelm- "put it over" for the Morgan-Guggen floor and filled galleries. Hi* re .ng odds until death gave the Mexican any attention to the dying pioneer. age, heim interests, lie spent al>oul two marks follow«*! those of Representa Lenroot gave an emphatic statement army a temporary victory. The strong They were blackened with gunpow year* lobbying for the elimination of tive Gudger. of insurgent policies and views. Ques hold whither they are bound bear* der; they looked wild from lack of the land* of the Uhugach forest, which , the name of the general who brought sleep and food; they seldom spoke bordered upon Controller bay and | Cannon assail«*! the proposed agree tioned from the Democratic side, he Independence to the Lone Star atate. and all their word* and acts were »aid he oppos«*! the reciprocity agree which could not be located under any ment as dangerous to American trade, "Thermopylae had Its messenger of those of men terribly In earnest. The public land law unless eliminated from inimical to the best interests of Amer ment becau*e he believed it increas«*! iefeat. Alamo had none.” sole idea of each was to sell his life the national forest. Working with 1 ican farmer* and certain to result in many duties. He said if the Demo This inscription, ascribed to Lord as dearly as possible. Santa Ana de crats were sincere in their desire to depreciation of American farm land*. Ryan, apparently, war former Secre- j iacauly, is engraved on a monument termined to take the Alamo by as "Not since the war with Spain and put more articles on the free list, tary Ballinger. n the grounds of the Texas capítol sault. The bond struck up "Duguelo” they would attach the free list to the When the matter first caae up, the all that followed it has there been con ■A Austin In commemoration of the (assassin) and amid a boom of can He then accused forest service prepared to eliminate j sidered by the house of representa reciprocity bill. ¿arrlson, all of which died fighting non ladders were brought, the wall* them of wanting the president to veto tive* so important a bill as the one .120 acre* under order* so to do. | their free list bill when it finally Mtalnst overwhelming odds in the of the building were scaled by 2,000 These finally landed in the hand* of i now pending,” he declared. passed, so as to make political capital battle of the Alamo, which ended cavalrymen, while battering ram* "On the action of th«- house rests Ballinger, who alone was consulted by beat in the door*. The Texans ran to March 4. 183«. the president in further negotiations j the well being and th«- prosperity of the for them. American* in Texa* rose in rebel the roof, where several cannon had "The progressive Republicans have people of th«- United State*. I* it for elimination of the lands in ques- ' ton against the government of Mex been stationed. As fast as the Mexi tion. The order was signed in Octo- ; proper on »light con»ideration to vital- never been free traders,” said Len ico in 1835. Early in 183« the rebel cans mounted they were stabbed and root. "I challenge anyone to point to l>er and although for 12,800 acres, no ize into law an agreement that affects iton grew into warfare. The Texans the ladders overturned. Meanwhile one seems to have known of it except-I the prosperity of every home in the any speech made by a progressive Re rere under the leadership of the bluff the Mexican riflemen on the ground publican in congress or elsewhere ad land?" ing those most deeply interested as I stand for a Jen. Sam Houston as president of the shot down the Texans on the roof and Mr. Cannon declar«*! that the treaty vocating free trade. worker* for control by the syndicate, protective tariff, measuring duties by aew republic of Texas and as com the battle raged with the few Texan* The coun for when information of the elimina had been made in «ecret. mander-in-chief of their little army of who stayed on guard behind the bar tion of the lands, and their location, try, the senate and the house had act the difference in cost of production at rolunteer*. It was a daring undertak- ricade. home and abroad. ” ually nothing t«> do with the prepara probably with soldier** additional , After an hour the Mexican* had 3>g for a scant 2,000 men to attempt scrip, by friends of the syndicate, ' tion of the agreement with Canada, "President Taft.” said Fordney, Texans and were • jo wrest the state from Mexico with overpowered the “ will be the candidate of the Repub flashed forth, the whole |x>litical he declare«!. lican party for re-election, and I will t* 15,000 drilled troops. But the Tex- swam Ing to the roof. The defender* structure was shaken to it* founda Washington, April 21. - Senator vot£ for him gladly, but I differ from xs. headed by 8am Houston, Davy retreated down the stairs, fighting ev tions. ery inch of the way. Then the door* Work’s maiden speech caused a brief him radically on this Canadian tariff Brockett, William Travis and John below were beaten down with huge Baydon, feared no failure. The Mex question. ” BLACK HANDS THROW BOMB. revival of the Lorimer controversy in Fordney said he had lost all the ican general. Santa Ana. *et out from timber* and with a yell the frenzied the senate today. The speech was de money he had put into the flour mill the Rio Grande northward to quickly soldiers poured in the opening. The Oakland Bakery Escapes Destruction liver«*! in support of the initiative, ing business at the time of the Wilson »uquer and punish rebellious Texans. little band of Texans was pitifully in By Miscalculation. referendum, recall and direct election tariff bill, and that he had been a His army of 6.000 men, after a march significant against the horde of Mexi Oakland, Cal. With a detonation "dyed-in-the-wool protectionist ever if nearly 600 miles across a desolate cans. There were yell* and gunshots of senator*. , wuntry. reached San Antonio, confi and groans in one long, hideous cho that sruuKid the entire neighborhood, since. ” The senator touched on the ’Lorimer tent of capturing that town and mov- rus. Not one of the Texans sank to a Iwmb was exploded uj»>n the front |«>rch of the Reno lodging house at case in connection with hi« plea for Washington, April 18.—Contending ng on to the new capítol at Washing- death till he had exhausted all hl* strength. Coloned Crockett stood In 568 Fifth street, shortly after 2 honest politics. Senator Works was that the constitutions of New Mexico on, Tex. the corner of the main room and with o'clock Saturday morning. Thirty nam«-<! in the resolution introduced at Unprepared for Battle. and Arizona are in accordance with the lodgers were sound asleep at the time The garrison at San Antonio was a cutlass slashed all who attacked HI* shirt was soaked with of the explosion, but owing to the th«- present session by Senator La Fol constitution of the United States, Sen unprepared for Santa Ana’s coming. him. manner in which the bomb was placed, lette calling for another investigation ator Chamberlain, of Oregon, today The first tidings of bis approach were blood and a bullet had pierced hi* no one was injured, the force of the of the Ixirimer case, as chairman of delivered an argument in the senate given by the sentinels posted on the cheek. Shot by a man In front of explosion ex|>ending outwardly. roof of the Alamo, which was an aban him, he lunged forward, selling hl* the committee on investigation. in support of the Brown resolution It is the theory of A. Satuer, pro doned Franciscan mission, built in life as dearly as possible. Colonel "This widespread unrising against approving the two instruments. prietor of the Reno house, that the 1723. It numbered about 185 men un Travis was shot through the head the corruption that, if persisted in, He pointed out that the constitution der command of Col. William Travis. while defending the stairs. bomb was not intended for his place, must eventually overthrow our rep was similar to the systems of Oregon. No one was spared, and every one but fora French bakery at 811 Clay resentative form of government,” he Oklahoma, Montana and South Dako When the news of Santa Ana’s ap of the Texans sank to the floor fight street, running back to Fifth street, proach reached Travis he determined said, "is founded upon the most con ta. which is conducted by J. Cassou and to make good its defense until re ing. So ended the Alamo. vincing evidence that corruption is Mr. Chamberlain defended the pro Nearly all the Information that his M. Michael. In this connection a pe eating at the very vitals of the repub vision for the recall of state officers, enforcement* could arrive. With him torians have concerning the events In culiarly sinister aspect is given the lic and threatening the perpetuity of including judges, contained in the was Col. James Bowie, whose name side the Alamo during the siege ha* case by the circumstance that (’assoit was always associated with his famous our free institutions. Arizona constitution. He said there ccme from Señora Dona Andrea Cu- recently received two letters signed “We n«-«-d not go outside of this is no reason why members of the ju knife, and Davy Crockett, the fron tarion de Dlllanueda, the nurse of "Black liitrxi,“ and threatening that chamber to find evidence of this fact. diciary should not be subjected to the tiersman and hunter of history and Colonel Bowie and the sole survivor. if he did not pay $2,000 his place of The pages of th«- Congressional Record will of the people as much as other romance. They had a few pieces of The state of Texas pensioned her foi business would be blown up and he srtillery, little ammunition, 90 bushels of the past few months will disclose a officials, and that such a law would 40 years. with it. of corn and 30 beef cattle, which were condition that has brought the whole have no tendency to deprive that They Remember the Alamo. nation to shame. It was charge«! that branch of the government of its inde hurried within the Inclosure. From that day the words, "Remem MISSING LINK DISCOVERED. Santa Ana demanded Immediate sur th«- election of a member of this body pendence. render. Travis returned a defiant re ber the Alamo!” were the slogan of was procured by corrupt practices am! Mr. Chamberlain referred to the fusal. emphasized by a cannon shot A the campaign throughout Texas. In Animal Filling Gap Between Bird and th«- bribery of votes in the legisla effort to reopen the case of Lorimer Mood red flag, signifying no qunrter, less than two W'eeks more than 600 QuaJruped Imported. ture.” and expresseii the opinion that this immediately was raised above the frontiersmen, maddened by the mas New York What is jterhaps the matter is not yet settl«?d. "No matter Mexican remp and their batteries sacre. joined Sam Houston’* army. long-sought missing link between Washington, April 21.- Party affil can be," he said, "until it is settled xpen«»d upon the garrison. Meanwhile A month later Houston, with a fore« quadrupeds and birds has just been iations were broken repeatedly today right. ’ ’ _____________ ■ Travis had dispatched messenger* to of 700 Texans, faced Santa Ana, with brought here from Colombia. in the house in the concluding hours of Houston and Washington, Tex.. 95 2,000 soldier*, on the banks of the San TAFT LOATH TO INTERFERE. Similar in general aspect to the re th«- fight on the Canadian reciprocity miles away, appealing for assistance. Jacinto. The battle was only an houi markable ornithorhynchus of Austral bill. The Mexican batteries attempted a long. The Texas force, with a mighty ia, which has a bill like a duck, al Democrats denounced fellow Dem Motives Might Be Misconstrusd If < breach in the stone walls of the mis apd exultant yell, "Remember th* though distinctively a <]uadru|a>d. the ocrats for supporting a Republican Troop* Crossed Border. sion at dawn February 26. For hours Alamo!” routed the enemy and cap creature is covered with a growth al protective principle an<! Republicans every day the Mexicans continued the tured Santa Ana. who barely escaped Washington — President Taft replied most feather-like and brilliantly col hurled criticism against fellow Repub xiege. In a hot fire which was opened death. Texas independence then waa ored in red and green, shading to licans for marching with the Demo to a messag«» from Governor Sloan, of Arizona, asking protection for citizens ■pon the garrison on the last morn established. white on the under parts. crats toward the free trad«- goal. Dur ing tn February some of the bombs It is four-footed, looks something ing the seven hours of debate 24 men of Douglas from the fire of federal» Laughing Eyes. and insurrectos, that he was loath to fell close to the spot where Davy like a cross between a beaver nnd a spike on the measure. endanger Americans in Mexico by Crockett lay. He sprang up and made That Wllkesbarre woman who badger, nnd emits a plaintive note Most criticisms of the bill were from when annoyed. It is about 20 inches agricultural sections and were based taking so radical a step as sending his way to th« ramparts just as the caused the arrest of a girl on th« American troops across the border to Mexican gunner was reloading and be charge that the latter used "laughing long and half as high. on the position that reciprocity with prevent further fighting. fore he could fire again shot him. A eyes” to "beguile” plaintiff’s young Canada under th«- agreement would in Th«» president in his telegram to the comrade caught up the match and ran son experienced no sympathy at th« Peace Overture* Rejected. jure the agricultural interests of th«» governor said the situation might to the touchhole. But already a fresh hands of the court. The judge saw no Differences in th«- Fl Paso, Tex.--All negotiations be Unite«! States. justify him in ordering troops to cross rifle had been handed the Tennesseean legal or moral ground for the arrest North Carolina delegation, all Demo tween the insurrectos and the Mexican the border anil attempt to stop fight and he picked off the second gunner He riot only set the girl free at one«« crats. were vigorously aired on the ing or to fire upon both contestants «a he had the first. Three more Mex- but comfUlmented her on the posse» government were officially called off floor. Representative Webb said Irons made the attempt and met a »ton of those "laughing eyes.” Saturday. OsCar Braniff and Esqui Claude Kitchin, who opened the re from the American side. He hesitat«»d to take such a step like fate and for a time the gun was So far as may be judged by the pub vel Obergon, two congressmen from ciprocity fight last Friday, had no because of the possibility of resistance lished report of the case, the court silenced. right to criticise him or other m«m- Mexico City, who have been attempt and greater bloodshed and the danger Colonel Travis called the garrison was eminently sound and wise. II ing to get Madero to accept some bera'oT'the state delegation who pro of having his motives misconstru«»d about him March 3. He made a brief anybody should be arrested and placed peace proposal, received a telegram posed to vote against the reciprocity and arousing Mexicans against Amer talk, telling hl* comrade* that longer In confinement in connection with just after they had sent a messenger agreement, because they thought it icans now in Mexico. hope for assistance was useless. He such a matter It is the young man under a flag of truce with a final ap was opposed to Democratic ideals. »aid that the Alamo should be surren himself. The young woman to whom peal to the rebel leader. The message dered or ’t should be defended until Providence has accorded the gift ol Troop* for Island* Wait. Alaska Inquiry Ordered. was from Mexico City, nithough they Washington—The departure of all the last man was dead. He drew a laughing eyes I* a blessing to ths Washington, D. C. — Without ex refused to say who »ent it. line with his sword on the adobe floor community. There Is too much son planation or opposition, La Follette! troops now under orders for duty in row, too much occasion for tear*, in and said: the Philippines will be delayed six $20,000 in Watches Taken, put through a resolution in the senate "I propose to stay here until I am our sad old world. If any young fel months. This is generally attributed Chicago A trunk filled with gold calling upon th«» secretary of the in- killed. All who will be with me will low Is in danger of being "beguiled" watches, valued at $20,000, consigned terior to furnish all facts connected to the situation in Mexico, the presi come to this side of the line; all who unduly by that Wllkesbarre style ol dent being unwilling to disturb the with coal entries made upon lanil ’ to a manufacturer here from a Cincin wish to surrender remain on that optics, he should be placed in safe, 11 nati house was stolen from an express withdrawn from the Chugach national ’ forces on duty in the South. At th«» side." not solitary, confinement. wagon in the downtown streets. forest in Alaska and later restored to War department it is explained that Davy Crockett leaped across with a the postponement is due to a decision the public domain under order of While the driver wns in an office build triumphant wave of hl« cap. Every The Cause. The resolution also to make the term of service in the ing delivering packages, the robber President Taft. man In the file joined him. It was a "What was the cause of the quan boarded the wagon nnd drove away. calls for detailed information as to Philippines two an«! a half years, in grim decision; the garrison lessening rel between the two tramps?” stead of two, as at present. An hour later the wagon wns found what assignments have b«»en made. In number every day, the food supply "One found some money, the otbei several blocks away and later the was almost exhausted and only a few tried to make him fork it over, and Price of Timber Limited. Harper Land* Collectorship. trunk was found nearly six miles Washington Congressman Lafferty rounds of ammunition was left for the when he refused, knifed him.” Washington, D. C.—Fred C. Harper, away. «urvtvor*. Bowie, almost from the be of Seattle, will be confirmed as collec introduced a bill to require the sale of ginning of the siege, was ill with ty- A Real Curiosity. Fez Stormed by Rebel*. tor of customs for Washington, ia unreserved timber land to individuals »hold. In a little adjoining room he ’Has your dolly got real hair, little at $2.50 an acre, in tracts not exceed Madrid.- The government has re view of the announcement made today 'ay on a rude bed attended by a Mex- ginr ceived a telegram saying a native has by Senator Poindexter that he would ing 160 acres to any one purchaser. ’an woman. Hearing the speech of "Yes, but that’s nothing; I know * arrived at Tstuan who declares the not oppose Harper’» confirmation. Until two years ago the timber and oloncl Travis, he feebly called to his little girl whose mamma ba* got real stone act had been construed to re Senator Jones has already reported Moroccan rebels have stormed Fez and ripanlons and begged them to pick hair.’ quire the «ale of timber land«. favorably on it. massacre«! the garrison. F ❖