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Show ' A if r. The. Weekly entinel Stockton, Utah, Wednesday, December 19, 1906. Vol. VI. PRESIDENT TELLS OF CONDITIONS IN PORTO RICO Special Message the Result of Chief Execu- tives Recent Visit. MUCH GOOD WORK DONE Progress Made Under American Administration Is Pointed to with Pride Last Year the Most Prosperous the Island Has Ever Known Congress Urged to Confer Full American Citizenship Upon the Porto Ricans Afould Have All Insular Governments Placed in One Bureau. Washington. President Roosevelt's message, describing conditions in Pop to Rico, and making recommendations (or legislation he believes necessary, was read to the congress. It is as follows: To the Senate and House of Representatives: On Novemlmr SI I visited the island of Porto Rico, landing at Ponce, cross-In- g by the old Spanish road by Cayey to San Juan, am returning next morning over the new American road from Arecibo to Ponce; the scenery was wonderfully beautiful, especially among the mountains of the interior, which constitute a veritable tropic Switzerland. I could not embark at San Juan because the harbor has not been diwdg-cn- i trmlcair not receive an American battleship. I do not think this fact creditable to us as a nation, and I earnestly hoie that Immediate provision will be made for dredging San Juan harbor. I doubt whether our people as a wlwie realize the beauty and fertility of Porto Rico, and the progress that bas beeu made under its admirable government. We have Just cause for pride In the character of our representatives who have administered the tropic Islands which came under oiir flag as a result of the war with Spain: and of no one of them is this more true than of Porto Rico, it would be Impossible to wish a more faithful, a more efficient and a more disinter ested public service than that now being rendered in the island of Porto Rico by those in control of the insular government. I stopped at a dozen towns all told, and one of the notable features In every town was the gathering of the school children. The work that has been dene in Porto Rico for education has been uote worthy. The main emphasis, as is eminently wise and proper, bas been put upon primary education: but in addition to thla there ia a normal school, and agricultural school, three Industrial and three high schools. Every effort Is being made to secure not only the benefits of elementary education to all tbe Porto Ricans of the next generation, but also as far as means will permit to train them so that the Industrial, agricultural and commercial opportunities of tbe Island can be utilised to the best possible advantage. It was evident at a glance that the teachers, both Americana and native Porto Ricans, were devoted to their work, took the greatest pride In it, and were endeavoring to train their pupils, not only In mind, but In what counts for far more than mind in citizenship, that Is, in character. I was very much struck by the excellent character both of the insular police and of the Porto Rican regiment. They are both of them bodies that reflect credit uikmi the American administration of the island. The insular police are under the local Porto Rican government. The Porto Rican regiment of troops must lie appropriated for by the congress. I earnestly hope that this 'sidy will be kept permanent There slciild certainly be . and it is wise troops in the Islon-l'Shat these troops should lie fheinvelves native Porto Ilicjnw. p wird he from every standpoint a mi, ale not to iierpetuate this regiment. In traversing :he island even the most cursory survey leaves the beholder struck w:th the evident rapid growth in the cul'.ore huth of the sugar cans and tobacco. Tlie fruit industry la also growing Last year was the most prosperous year that the island has ever kro vn before or slue? the American occupation. The total of exports and imports of the Island lS.0b0.0U0 was 145,000,000. as axa!n-- t In 1901. Thla is the largest in the island's history. Prior to the Amerl can occupation the greatest trade for any one year was that of 1896. when It reached nearly 623,000,000. Last year, therefore, there wac double the trade that there was In the most prosper ous year under the Spanish regime. There were 210,273 tons of sugar exported last year, of the value of $3,555,163 of tobacco, and 28,290,322 pounds of coffee of the value of 63,481,102. what Unfortunately, used to be Porto Rico's prime crop-co- ffee has not shared this prosper ity. It has never recovered from the disaster of the hurricane, and, moreover, the benefit of throwing open our market to it has not comiiensated for the loss Inflicted by the closing of the markets to It abroad. I call your attention to the accompanying memorial on this supject of the board of trade of San Juan, and 1 earnestly hope that some measure will be taken for the benefit of the excellent and high grade Poito Rican coffee. There is a matter to which I wish to call your esjiecial attention, and that la the desirability of conferring full American citizenship upon the people of Porto Rico. 4 most earnest ly hope that this will be done. I can not aee how any harm can possibly re suit from it, and it seems to me a mat ter of right and justice to the peopl of Porto Rica They are loyal, they are glad to be under our flag, they art making rapid progress along tbe path of orderly liberty. Surely we should show our appreciation of them, out pride In what they have done, and our pleasure in extending recognition for what has thus been done, by grant lng them full American citizenship. Under the wise administration of tha present governor and council, marked progress has been made in the difficult matter of granting to the people of the island the largest measure of that can with safety be'given at the present time. It would have been a very serious mistake to have gone any faster than we have already gone to this direction. The Porto Ricans have complete and absolute autonomy In all their municipal governments, the only power over them possessed by the insular government being that of removing corrupt or Incompetent municipal officials. This power has never been exercised save or corraption or on the clearest-proo- f of Incomiietence such as to jeopardize the interests of the people of the island; and under such circumstances' it has been fearlessly used to the immense benefit of the people. It is not a power with which it would be safe, for the sake of the island itself, to at present. The lower house is absolutely elective, while the upper house is apiMilutlve. This scheme is working well; no injustice of any kind results from It. and great benefit to the island, and It should certainly not be changed at this time. The machinery of the elections is administered entirely by the Porto Rican people themselves, the governor and council keeping only such supervision as is necessary in order to insure an orderly election. Any protest as to electoral frauds is settled In the courts. Here again ft would not be safe to make any change in the present system. The elections this year were absolutely orderly, unaccompanied by any disturbance; and no protest has been made against the management of the elections, alrhongt three contests are threatened where the majorities were very small and error was claimed; the contests, ot course, to be settled in tbe courts. In short, the governor and council are cooperating with all of the moat enlightened and most patriotic of the people of Porto Rico in educating thq citizens of the Island In the principles of orderly liberty. They are providing a government based ujion each citizen's and the mutual respect of all cltixens; that la, baaed upon a rigid observance of the principles of Justice and honesty. It has not been easy to Instill into the minds of people unaccustomed to the exercise of freedom the two basic principles of our American system; the principle that the majority must rule, and the principle that the minority has rights which must not be disregarded or trampled upon. Yet real progress has been made in having these principles accepted as elementary, as the foundations of successful I transmit herewith the reiwrt of the governor of Porto Rico, sent to the president through the secretary of dls-M-n- self-respe- TIFT UPHOLDS PRESIDENT MEXICAN fill DISCHARGE OF SOLDIERS Clifton. Arizona. Visited by Flood and Many Lives Reported Lost i Washington. An extract from the nnual report of Secretary of War Taft relating to the Brownsville, Tex., - Frame Buildings in Which People Were Living Were Dectroyed by the Raging Waters and Helpless Woman and Children are Drowned. 10 ecretary of War Thinks Roosevelt Did Proper Thing in Dismissing From Service Battalion of Negro Soldiers. by negro soldiers, was made Wednesday. Secretary Taft writes the crime of the soldiers, as already described in news dispatches; jtke failure of the war department to obtain the names of the offenders and tbe discharge of the battalion. SecBisbee, Arl. One of the wore! retary Taft justifies tbe discharge. floods in the history of Clifton, Arts ping came down the San Francisco rinp may be that in the baltulion are a number of men wbolly innocent, and Chase creek Tuesday night Who know neither who the guilty men principal business section of the wee almost completely ruined. Fro: re, nor any circumstances which even to twenty persona ia the report 111 aid in their detection, though of the lose of life. Then name of only this cannot be true of many. Because one victim, however, hae been ob there may be innocent men in the battalion, must the government continue talned, Mrs. Joscrh Throm, who with to use it to guard communities of men, her husband and children was caught vomen and children when it contains in a falling building and killed. The o dangerous an element impossible of detection? Certainly not. The only other members of the family had nar- means of the military service row escapes. One of the saloons which of a band ridding of would-b- e murderers of was washed away carried several men vomen and children, and actual murinto the torrent and all are believed derers of one man, is the discharge to have drowned. A women and a of the entire battalion." Strage jnt child were lost In a Bmsll restaurant CIVIL 8ERVICE REPORT. which was dashed to pieces in the buildflood. A number of email frame Participation In Politics Goes on as ings in which poople were known to In the Olden Days. be living also were destroyed and It ia feared that a number of famlles Washington. The annual repprt of perished. the United States civil service commission issued Wednesday slates that PRESIDENTS VIEWS. there is still too great a disposition on Members of Both Houeea of Congraas the part of persona in the classified Listen to Annual Message. V service to participate actively in poliof the executive orders tics, In Washington. President Roosevelts fcsued aplte to time. The sentl-jnemtime fro ta.cPDfircsi annual. mesMCC. occupIei' In" favor of ilie nierUTaysteiflf Is the attention of the senate for two growing, the commission hours Tuesday, to the ex- steadily and one-haays, not only in congress, but also clusion. of ncany all other business. among the states, four of which have The exception to this was the Intro- adopted civil service laws. The commission held during the duction of a resolution on the Japan689 examinations and a total of ese situation by Senator Rayner of year 122,034 persons passed and 41,877 were Maryland and the adoption of appro appointed, a decrease of 2G.6U6 examregarding those ined and 1,184 appointed. From 40 to priate resolutions members of the house of representa- 60 per cent of the highest eligible detives who have died since the last clined appointment on account of tha low salaries offered by the governsession. The reading of the president's mes- ment sage consumed two hours and twenty-fir- e SHEREMETIEFF GETS HIS. mlnutpu in the bouse, and was followed closely by a large number of members, while the crowded galleries Cruel Russian Police Inepector 8hot gave close consideration. Down by Workman. While the house waited upon the BL Petersburg. Police Inspector secretary to the president to appear with the message. Speaker Cannon Sheremetieff, who after the appointed Robert G. Cousins, of Iowa, outbreak at Bialystok in June last, chairman of the committee on foreign for which he was aaid in be responsl-ble- , affaire to succeed the late Robert R. was transferred to St. Petersburg, also He Illinois. of Hitt, appointed Representative Frank O. Lowden to a was shot and mortally wounded by a place on tbe same committee to fill workman Wednesday morning near the vacancy caused by the death of the Fontanka canal. While the InMr. Hitt. house which spector was passing was searched Tuesday on the susCondition of Army la Good. picion that terrorists were harltored Washington. In hla annual report, there, a man who was lurking in the made public Tuesday, Brigadier Gener- court yard entrance fired at him with a revolver. Though wounded iu the al Thomas H. Barry, acting chief of head, Sheremetieff drew his revolver staff, calls to mind the fact that the and Joined in the pursuit of the tern rorist, who fired again, fatally wound- government la without water facilities In cases of emer-- ln Sheremetieff. gency ln the movement of troops. He Denies Opposition to Governor. cites tbe case of army of pacification In Cuba, and says that the lack of Albuquerque, X. M. Major Llewwas ellyn, district attorney for New Mexuch transportation facilities "Had there been a ico, mentioned in recent. severely felL dispatches mall fleet of transporta In reserve on the Atlantic coast the movement could sent out from Sants Fc ns a particimuch pant in certain charges against Govbeen have accomplished sooner." ernor Haggerman, which, it is allege, Praise is given to the army as a have been filed with President Rooseand re- velt, flatly denies all knowledge of whole for its adaptability sourcefulness when dealing with novel the chargee in a statement given out and unprecedented conditions. Gear Wednesday. "I have made no charges said ersl Barry giving aa an Illustration against Governor Haggerman. the work of tbe army during the Ban Major Llewellyn, and I know of no one who has." Francisco earthquake and fine. lf anli-Jew-Is- trana-portatlo- 1 Saved From the Scaffold. Talltr and Cash Are Missing. Kansas City. William ('. Anderson, Kansas City. Austin Francis, a switchman, found guilty of murder ln collection teller of the First National the Aral degree at Kansas City in No- bank of thla city. Is missing, and E vember, 1905, after a trial for the mnr-de-r F. Swinney, the president, admitted state. of Winona Newton, hla sweetthat he was short All the Insular governments should heart. aged 15 years, was freed by Wednesday morning be placed to one bureau, either In the the supreme court of Missouri, which 69,000 in bis accounts. Mr. Anderson, department of war or the department reversed the verdict of the trial court who had been In the employ of tha of state. It Is a mistake not so to ar- Francis is 21 years old. The girls bank for nineteen years, left the city range our handling of these islands at body weighted down with heavy on Monday last, supposedly on a tone, was found in a dry creek upon hunting trip. It has developed that Washington as to be able to take adh had abstracted I'.U'M from the vantage of the experience gained In the southern outskirts of the city. banks funds, taking the money ln Francis of was accused to her forcing when with the one, dealing problems drink three lots during the past week. poison. that from time to time arise in another. In conclusion let me express my admiration for the work done by the congress when It enacted the law under which the island is now being adminA personal guarantee goes with Aristered. After seeing the island perrowhead whiskey. Thla ia a new sonally, and after five years' experibrand. Aak your dealer for it. ence In connection with its adminisRIEGER ft LINDLEY. tration. it is but fair to those who deThe Whiskey Merchants." to law vised this say that it would be Salt Lake City. well-nigImpossible to have devised In which other the actual uny working would have accomplished better results. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Tbe White House, Dec. 11. 1906. i h No. 21. Woman Responsible for Death of Prominent Lawyer Has a Hearing. GOVERNMENT CONTROL Negotiation! Which Will Pending Place Ownership of Mexican Rail roada In tho Hands of tha Government. Mexico are City. Negotiations pending by which the government seeks to secure control of the Mexican Central railway. Further, the pveru From Verdict Was That ment contemplates the merger' aud Utah Cam to Hie Death at the consolidation of the Mexican Central Hand of Mrs. Bradley, who anil the National lines of Mexico, Now Occupies a Cell which will become the property of a ingle new couiiwny, which will be have its headquarters In Mexican, Washington. Mrs. Anna M. Brad- Mexico, and in which the Mexican Arthur ley, who shot own an absolute mawill government Brown of Utah, In tho Hotel Raleigh, of shares, which It Is said, will on December 8, was called before the jority be ln the neighborhood of 6225,000, coronenls Jury on Thursday. The in000 gold. The new company will have weon quest was one of the quickest ita main board of directors ln Mexico minutes being consumed ird, thirty-fiv-e will also have a local board in taking testimony ami identifying City, but ln New York City, and of the latter It Identithe prisoner. Mrs. Bradley was la stated that 1L Clay Pierce will be fied by four witnesses to the scene in chairman. Brown's room immediately after the BROWN DEAD. hooting und was then excused. Her with was borne In part the proceedings Mra. Bradley Ends Life of Well Known evident composure, although she i Utah Lawyer. matleaned heavily on the arm of the Arthur Washington. ron of tho house of detention, who Brown, of Salt Lake City, who was her during the ordeal, aecompanlt-hot In hla room at the Hotel Raleigh Tho verdict stated briefly that on Raturdny, Dcccnilicr 8. by Mra. Brown came to his death as a result Anna Bradley, died at Hie 'emergency of a gunshot wound In tho abdomen inflicted by Anna M. Bradley, in tbe hospital at midnight Wednesday. Witht Raleigh hotel, December 8, and or- Senator Brown at the time of hla dered her held for action by Hie grand death were hla son Mux, and daughter Jury. Alice, who hare been constantly with As soon as the Inquest was concluded Mra. Bradley was taken to the dis- hfin since their arrival here Sunday, trict Jail, where she was searched and and Dr. W. I. Sheet of the staff of the taken to the hospital on the second emergency hospital. Renutor Brown floor, having parilally collapsed from was conscious at Hie time of hla the strain of the duya proceedings death, but for several hours prior to and shock of Brown's death. She the last moment he was unable to soon recovered Ju--r usugl ..equanimity epeak a... .in.. and later' was piaced'in a cell. Renator Brown died without making The grand jury, which will take the statement concerning the shoot next atep in the procedure in Mra. any or oUicr chiikcs which led to hla lug Bradleya ease, ia now. In session and death, and so fur aa ran be learned he an Indictment charging her with mur- made no mention at of the der will he Hiihnilitcd to It by District woman who shot him. uny time Attorney Baker as soon ns it can be drawn. If an Indictment la found by OPPOSE 8PELLING REFORM. the grond Jury her case will coino up for trial in May or June. House of Representatives Says Old "THRU WITH NEW SYSTEM. Style Spelling la Good Enough. Washington. The honae of repreRoosevelt Will Drop Simplified Spell- sentatives on Wednesday went on recing Owing to Action cf Congress. ord In opixmlflon to the new spelling Washington. - Simplified spelling re- aa recommended by the president. By ceived a final qiih'liis in the house on a vote of 142 to 25, the following was Thursday. The stihjcrl has been un- adopled as a substitute to the item reder more or less continuous discus- ported liy the appropriations commitsion mi t lit floor and In committee tee in Hie executive, legislative and sinci- - congress convened, tint it was judicial appropriations bill: hnm ghi in sudden terminal iun by a No money appropriated in this a t resolution favoring the reiurn tu the shall lie used in connection with old siniulard of orthography, adopted prim fug documents authorized by law or any branch just I leio re i ho house adjourned, it or ordered by congress was iimlei'stiNHl Ihui this action had there.".!, unless Hie same shull to the orthography recognized taken as n result of an Interview wlih Hie president In which he had and used by dictionaries of the Engsaid i hm if I ho house tdinuld go oil lish language." record iiguinst the new system he THOUGHT EACH OTHER DEAD. would iitiandnii it. The resolution was adopted unanimously. Husband and Wife Separated by San Congressmen Not Averse to Accepting Francisco Disaster. Increase in Salary. Milwaukee, Win. A husband and Washington.' The house is seemingly wife, separated since the Sim Francisinclined to raise the salaries of the co earthquake, and each believing the members as well as those of the vice other dead tint ii a few days ago, are president, speaker, senator and cabi- to lie reunited as soon as a train bearconnet officers. Before resuming ing Mrs. Hattie Bollix westward cun sideration of ilu legislative, judicial resell Stockton, Cal. and executive appropriation bill on summer Mrs. lolilz brought Thursday Mr. IJitauer of New York from California to Oshkosh. Wis., the endeavored to have a resolution adopt- rhsiTcd body of a mail and buried It ed providing for faking up the quesRiverside in cemetery, in the belief tion In committee of the whole, hut was that of her husband. Mr. Underwood of Alabama objected that the lusty husband to Its ronsideniHon In committee. He Recently site teamed thatInher California. was living on a ranch obwould he no make said, however, Politx thought his wire had been jection to Its discussion in the house buried in the ruins of their home. after the bill was reported by the committee of the whole. Kaiaer Shows Mailed Fiat. Berlin. Emperor William has ait Congress Takes up Land Question. The house on Thurs- thorized Uhunrcllnr vou Buelow U Washington. new day adopted a reaoluton calling upon dissolve the relchstag aud order approIf the elections supplementary the secretary of the interior for a complete description of all public lands priations asked for by Hie government which have been withdrawn or re- are noi granted by the house. The served from entry since July 1, 19Mi, question of the relchstag appropriattogether with the reasons for such action. Th resolution also rails for ing enough money to keep the pres: a tabulated statement of the areas ent army ln German Southwest Africa withdrawn for vririom purposes in in the field ia, according to the convic; each public land state and territory, tion of the government, equivalent i and the total ureas withdrawn iu to the question whether ihe colony all of the public laud states and terri- shall be glvpn up or retained. tories. Ecuador Rebels Whipped. Young Vanderbilt Pitched Into Lake. reports of Guyaquii. Ecuador.--T- he New York. W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., the defeat of the reliels under Colonel with ills chauffeur, was speeding his Vegas are confirmed. General Paex. sixty horse-powe- r racing automobile with 400 government troops, attacked on the shore of take Success, Long the rebel forces December 10, midway Island on Thursday, when the front between Azoguez and Cuenca. After axle snapped ami the car skidded zig- three hours fighting Vegas, with thirty-fzag. A wheel became detached, the our of hla followers waa captured. body of the ear struck the ground and Mr. Vanderbilt was hurled into tha The government force lost two men lake well uwuy from the shore. He killed and sixteen wounded. The cassank through the thin Ice. but rose ualties of the rebels are not known. immediately and swam to shore unite Vegaa and the other prisoners have been sent to the penitentiary at Quita jured d j-- -- ! eon-for- In-e- |
