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Show ENDS ROOSEVELTS POUCHES effect the Elkina law had on these f gives efficacy to all of its orders by ef-particular prosecutions which have providing that they shall go into been given so much prominence, waa feet thirty days after they an made, 1 to make It easier to convict th corunless suspended by aa order of court, and failure to comply with them ia poration and to increase its fine, bnt to save tha guilty individual perpepunishable by a fine of $S,000 a day trators from imprisonment. Express during the delinquency. Railroads Favored Elkins Bill Because companies, sleeping car companies, and oil pioe-lla- e ef Abolition ef Jail Penalty. companies are It is well understood that the Elkina brought under the jurisdiction of the MU waa passed without opposition ty, commission ae common carriers. The act gives the commission power to fix and with th full consent of, the railthe rates for the various incidental roads and that th chief reason for services performed by railways at this was the elimination of the peniterminals and on tha Journey and to tentiary penalty for unjust discriminations. The abolltiod of Imprisonment, require them to bo performed for as a possible penalty, waa unfortunevery shipper. By withholding such services from one, and extending them ate. Experience has shown that a to another, and by imposing varying mere fine la generally nut enough to from violation of deter a charges for them, companies have Possible Objection the law corporation been able in the past to make them a Every because it then becomes n matter of mere business speculation. convenient instrument for discrimination. Tha new law requires the pubTha imprisonment of two or three Yote is Small Raised lication of rates charged for such In prominent officers of a railway comcidental services. Railroads an company, or n trait, engaged in giving or Against receiving secret rebate, would have pelled to furnish care without disa greater deterrent effect for tha fucrimination for the movement of trafture than millions in n fine fic.' After May, 19011, they are conto fined in their business strictly Rata Bill Rostered Jail Penalty. Without Weight. In tha rata bill, congress amended transportation by n prevision forbidwas final The third and objection the Elkins bill aad restored Imprisonding them, after that date, to translaw waa invalid in that con- ment aa part of the punishment fur port for themselves anything but that the waa thereby delegating its leg- secret rebates. Had the rebating and what la Intended for their use ae com- gress mon carriers. Experience haa shown islative power to another body, and dishonest practice fit the railroad waa violating tha general constltu-- 1 companies and the traits, been ae that the railroads cannot be trusted to deal fairly in matters of transports, tional rule that delegated power can-- clearly known to congress and tha tlon between themselves and their not be delegated. The rule haa an public, when the Elkina bill was cos' may delegation of alderrd, aa they wen when tha rats competitors in an outside business. exception. There where the purpose bill was passed, the Elkina bill would The new law makes radical changes legislative power la the matter of the publication of in the original conferring of the power havs passed more smoothly. rates. Under the old law, by means can be subserved only by its delega- Narrow Scope ef Elkins Bill as Comof what was called the "midnight tion to an agent It Is admitted that pared With Rata Bill. the constitution gives congress tha I do not wish to daciy the merits of d tariff," a railroad company gave fix rates. Obviously, howevthe Elkina bill because, aside from Its shipper advance information of power to n contemplated reduction or rate and er, It la Impossible for congress as n elimination of imprisonment aa punto spend tha tlm and tabor to ishment, It la n most useful measure, immediately restored the old rate body when these shippers had profited by do so. If the power It to be exercised j but Its scope la ao narrow la respect alt practically It can ha done only t of tha regulation of. railways that It it Thirty daye notice Is now re- at a tribunal or an agency like cannot be compared in Importance through unquired of any change in the rates commerce com- of operation and effect to th rata bill. less the commission, for good cause, that of the interatate eon Hence mission. gross may dele- The increase by the rata hill in tha modifies the requirement. gate the power nnder proper togielar powers of the commission in superResembles National Banking Act tive limitation! and rules of decision. vision, investigation, mteflxlng and Again, (he new law enables the conclusion haa ben reached effective to prevent disg commission to prescribe n uniform A similar n number of state courts with refer-- : crimination la great Elaborate masystem of accounting for railroads. by unchinery for making It difficult to vioUnder tha old law tha commission enee to the power of legislatures late toe law without discovery and for could call for n report of (he railroads der the state constitutions presenting the asm and white tha case discovering violation when they exist and might ask questions of railroads, haa not. question, with respect to n federal and for affording affirmative and maw but it had ao way to compel n combeen brought directly be-- 1 commission, relief in requiring railroads to pliance with its request, and no pen- ton the supreme court of the United datory fnrnlUt equal facilities to all, to found fan-are waa provided in the law for alty ia a plain dictum In one In the provisions of to new rate MIL them States, to file them under oath, aad pew in favor of the validity at Criminal prosecution will eoctini altlea are prescribed for failure to file decision of legislative power, such delegation to ba nnder toe Elkins law, .but as them with, the commission within a ' ' " Small Vets Against Bilk amended by' tha new,1 rata bilk Tba certain time. The commission caa cab ' The opponents of toe hill ware not ia because tbs Elkins law, aa amended, for monthly or 'special reports. It to muster j contains toe part of toe interstate may prescribe the bookkeeping meth- able with these objections ia commerce legislation which presods or the carrier and has access at more than seven negative 'votes tha house of representatives, or three cribes the punishment fur violations aM- - times the examiners to through of the tew and ao, in ordinary praccarriers hooka The carrier la for- votes in tha senate. tice, cornea into operation after the bidden to keep any other books than have been discovered under violations those prescribed. The commission's of the rate bill. other the provisions inauthority, under the new law, over Ineffective Why Bid is If Rets the terstate commerce railroads is tons in Such Railroad Opposition T many respecta like that of the compIf the rata bill waa likely to be n troller of the currency over national failure and to accomplish nothing in hanks, which has the approval and tha regulation in their business, tha confidence of tha country. query naturally arises, why did tha Qrsat Opposition by Railroad Their railroads spend no much money and Arguments Agalnat Bill. so great effort to defeat it? Why waa Never before waa there such a If It bad no effect, that in tha inM, united opposition by toe railroad inbetween the time at Its passage terval terests to any national measure as and its going into effect, there were Bill. Rate toe instituted they against filed with the Interstate commerce A campaign of education was entered more notices ef reduced commission, were in made upon, speeches every toe railroads the ever bad rates by part of the country, and literature been filed in toe previous twenty was showered upon the members of of tbs life of tha interatate comyears every community, with the hope of merce tew? convincing the public that tha bill was Effect of This Bill Was Good Effects ef Rate Bill Naturally n dangerous innovation. Not Shown In Statistics. The objections urged against it The Rate Law has not been in opwere three: First, it was nld to he to Save Rebate Giyers eration a year, aad tha beneficial rennwiee because it wee n departure sults from Its operation though dear, from the lueses fairs doctrine of aa and Takers are not ready to be presented In little government as possible, and array. Moreover, tha chief waa n long step toward socialism and benefit of tbe act ia likely to be ite government ownership. influence In discouraging attempts to Outraged Public Opinion Carried the Opponents of Rate Bill New Belittle renew the old abuses and tnch beneBill. It and Praia Elkina Bill. fits do not appear in statistics. The The revelations of infidelity to trust Tha opponents of tha measure eon- - immediate effect of the act has cerInvestiIn Insurance tha obligations tinne to denounce it. but now instead been to compel railroads to regations In New York, the fraudulent of pointing out its disastrous effect, tainly the commission now ss the Imgard In toe traffic of the they say it la a failure and that in . discriminations portant tribunal whose views they coal carrying roads disclosed by the the year since its passage, it has not must follow. They are manifesting comInquiry made by the interatate a tingle shipper.. They insist every outward dlipodtion strictly to helped merce commission and the disclosure tost the only effective and an with the law and to avoid of secret rebates on an enormous law to regulate railways la the comply or complaint. The time prosecution Scale granted toe Standard Oil com- Elkina act, passed in 1901, and that has gone by In which the action of pany by the railroads In the report of thla la shown by the fact that an to can be ignored or ; Mr. Garfield, as commissioner of cor- prosecutions in which convictions the commissionThe commission Itself at laughed porations, overcame inch a specious have been had agqlnst railway com- haa Its duties with renewed token argument, created a strong public panies and fovored shippers in tha teat energy, hasnpproceeded, without await-- j radical a favor in of remedy two years, have been nnder toe Elkins opinion the Intervention of toe railroads con--, against all dishonest corporate prac- act, and not nnder too rate MIL Let log or the filing of complaints, to rulof those hands us took Into the facta In regardi to thla atrue toe tices, and held up toe administrative act by Tha chief prosecutions supporting toe hill. allegation. in order to amiat the railroads Second Objection I ncom potency ef which have beet) instituted have been ings, with th law. With in complying criminal Indictments agalnat toe Su- tha Commission to Fix Rate for correcting evils, powers large gar trust and tha Standard Oil com- which the commission now hat, we Proved Tee Much, and their certain and railways of pany, second The opposition ground may reasonably expect a marked wHr was that a tribunal like the commis- agents and officer for taking aad In (he conduct of the ; rebates. aeeret money They fix rates giving sion waa utterly unable to of the country, ways not under have been could a brought that the fixing of rates waa such of the Country Toward difficult matter, that only the expert the rate hill, because the acta prose- the Attitudethe Rat Bill. before committed the paswen traffic managers of railroads were cuted The passage of the Mil was taken, competent for the work; that each sage of the rate bill. over, and properly token, the rate was so connected with every Effect of Elkins Bill In Existing Crim- as country atop toward toe moat important a inal Prosecutions Waa to Save other that it waa Impossible for a which had abuaea of suppression safe and Rebate Givers and Taker. body of laymen to reach a period of tolerant prosla true that these prosecutions grown np inwas It Just conclusion in respect to any one thought to be aa efperity. It rate, without creating hopeleaa con- we re instituted nnder the Elkina, act, fective cure of the arterial system of fusion. The argument proved too but it la alas true had tha Elkins bill vrhlch had become poismuch. If the commission could fix never bean passed, the same acta the country and injustice dishonesty, oned by would have been could could nor and eonrt doubtless neither it then a rates, reat solace to the a waa fraud. It was ns and whether rate giving a receiving prosecuting safely determine of the country outraged unreasonable, for exactly the same unjust discriminations against (he per- conscience of railway and revelations recent by under sons was tha them needed to say committing expert knowledge Passed at the Intrust management comto to amendment the interstate that a rate was unreasonable ae Rooeevelt. it stands ae Mr. stance of I 1899 Elkins which the say what waa a maximum reasonable merce act of a monument to the principle which rate. Indeed, in toe natural mental law supplanted. Tha Elkins tew waa I! he has InoeeeanUy maintained in process, a maximum reasonable rate really an amendment to the interstate action, that toe lawn must speech most he determined before declaring commerce act, enlarging and making be so and that they can be enmade unreas- more effective tha procedure for prose-rate ia question the well forced aa agalnat the ains of the led cuting violations of the prohibitions ; thla inevitably All onable. wealthy and the powerful as against conclusion that there of tbe law aad describing them In those the to of the poor. It gave-greatwas no remedy neither by com- - more comprehensive form. latitude in respect of tha die-- j Error of Mr. Bryan aa to Court mission or court against unreasonable 1 Review. rates, that the public waa helpless, trict where the offense would be pro-no-- 1 Mr. Bryan contends that toe law ecuted and made be the it must whole matter company tha and that -greatly weakened in authorising, left to the only experts, tha traffic essarily responsible in n fine for the was or recognising Judicial intervention managera of the railroads, although act of its agente, without other proof to restrain the orders of toe commisit was the dishonesty, discrimination of direct complicity than the agency. and injustice of many of them which Under thl 1889 amendment, however, sion. This criticism has not the no had been toe cause of the trouble. the individuals convicted could have slightest foundation. There can he comNaturally, the argument had weight been sent to the penitentiary, whereas, Ij Judicial appeal la the nature of a neither with congress nor with the nnder the Elkina act, the punishment plete review on the merits from tha by imprisonment was taken away, commission to toe supreme court or piibllc. Constitutional Objection by Railrsadstoe line waa increased. . Tbe chief to the circuit eonrt of the United SUES Oik COMPANY. 1 Wm. Wantland Wants a Million Rendered. llars for Service of Quickening Public Conscience in Times. Good Cotutnbui, Ohio, Aug. IFBacretary Till arrived hire from Newark .Ohia, where he waa met by a eommlttee of cRbane aad eacorted to thla city. The more elaborately dee-ma-d the welcome of Moalnca than bility. lecreury Taft held a confer, dtp la probably ATTITUDE tec. with hie political manager, Vary during the day and will y preb-abl- tomorrow to meet lead era from throughout the here atay piuiMi 'a. I. thla evening, Secreand upheld the tf P real dent Roosevelt and the la hia epaech outlined tary Taft policy Hia opening adminietraticn. remark, were ae follewa: Mrmben of tha Buckeye Republican a of Ohio: Chib and The present la a period of tha great-ec- t prosperity, general comfort and even luxury. Throughout thla country, tha damaad.for labor haa vafM to a Ughar prtnt than trer taoarn before. Tha eompenaa-bo- a of aid tied labor uov frequently neeeda that of certain proleealoua, like teaching aud ministry. Wealth haa aeeumulated enormouily ia the handa of their fortunes to educational and charitable objects. Such conditions are apt to dim and dull the eye and the ear of tha people to abuaea aad dishonesty in the body politic and octal. It waa such perl ode in tha history of ancient republics when their foundation! were sapped and their fell ultimately brought about. Prophets of evil have foretold the ana fata for this Republic. They hire been refuted. In ppite of the cmera comfort, there have been ade manifest by signs not to ba PeHow-CItlxen- ad a quickening of tha Public conscience and a demand for tat remedy of abuaea, the outgrowth of this prosperity, and for a higher talari of builnesa integrity. Every kver of hie country should have n teHng of pride and exaltation in thla cridenee that our society la still sound t the ewe. misunderstood, Abusea In Railway Discriminations. invited by your body national Issues. Some Involve the abuses ' over hlch the public conscience has been aroused, and the proper remedies for Mr removal The and possibly be mateat, abuse flnt, haa. been in the Mugement of the arterial ava tern of ta eountry which the lnteratatc rail-- e form. - Any unjust dlacrlmlna-to- e terms upon which n of freight or paasengera ia Wonted an individual or a locality, wlaier the buBinesa of v?dJn1 m exactly w b!1ndl11 th arteries and Rleniber of tha wSMf?d ta destroys it life. Mlare of old Interetate Commerce Law and Its Causes. Of IT,uIt twenty year opera-2- ? d?J the interatate commerce to restrain abuaea discrimination and of rates, was that tha Ma came to regard (he action of mmliswn It created aa of no lra-Tde,W. due to the no-t,- . !L rwrting to the courts to tta Ltb,e Jneriu of every, order of wnmlMlon, before it became efr th aSmT, aedy of the 2w so tai bhlpper or Wd burdensome thatlocality it content- 7aB no remedy at alL Thr eommlasion was not, nnder the w dlaraaa tha trane-WWfa- I?.17. sa unrea-Wtalene- he I4 to tMIt a Particular rate - aa knreaaonable order a railroad t anjnd make It J1 tnilroad might fix a new lnf leM than the rate "npeMonable- - "d jewdortlon made was not sufficient, h,d bwbt to kclaSL eW W, also un-- Prlid,n.. Roosavelfa Reaemmcnda- two New Rata Bilk , . 01 moribund eon-eid-i. tl r.wajrth regulation under the widespread abuaea bich jrreriient IW4. tju "way Roosevelt, manage- - In his recommended that ?r t the commission be ,nceed, flint by. enabling the oeo- br1l!!u.n 10 x nis the camerata order effective without resort to Wmpel performance.' He fcM tin . Jrjt 1t be made an aJmlnlatr-wlth ral Poww. Thla the passage of the Rate H;i !?? tL ,vJuB lso- - The new act e commission to fix rates and J, -- en-m- Passage of the Bill Takes as a it. 1 -- fav-bre- order-makin- . - BILL SAVES alt-tietlc-al , 1 . -- Involving oil stock valued at lias been filed la th district court by W. M. Wantland against E. T. Brockman, C. E. Gable, A. V. A suit S1A1BA7B RATE BILL fieieral Do- Most Important Step. Taylur, J. II. Rlrhards aad tha Pitta buf-SaLake Oil company. Want-lan- d alleges that ha waa engaged to help organise th company and to purchase certain lands for It and that he waatjo receive 1.S16.87B shares of stuck. The defendants have failed to deliver thdtetock to him and ho therefore ask tqst they be compelled to transfer the stock or that he have Judgm-nr1b- r the sum mentioned above aa tba vain of the stock. lt PASSENGER Ths Train WRECKED. Collided With Supervisor, Sanderson Re ceived Envelope Containing a Handcar Twenty Person Injured. Five Thousand Dollars. Cedar Rapids, I., Aug.18. Passentrain No. I. C. M. A 8t P. Ry, ger States, for the commission is not a waa wrecked today at Keystone, thirty Ban Frandico, Ang. 19. Under the court of first Instance, but only a miles west of her. Twenty persona mere administrative tribunal. The were Injured and several aeriouaiy. guidance of Assistant District Attoronly power a federal court coaid val- lb train collided with a handcar, ney Hency, tn tip Glass bribery trial, idly exercise would be to decide first, near a twenty-foo- t embankment. The today, former Supervisor Banderaon. whether the administrative tribunal most seriously injured were, CL T. who ia slowly dying of consumption, . had followed correctly the limitations express messenger, jr. C. told th sLory of his bribery by T. upon its course of action Imposed by Myets, postal clerk. Deland, baggageV. Halsey of the Pacific Btetea Telethe act of congress creating it, and man, Bieckton and conductor, Carl Ha teitifled that second, whether its order token as stt authorised expression of tha legislative power deprived the railroad company of its right, under toe fourteenth amendment, to derive a fair profit from th use of its property. Whether the federal courts were expressly given this power In the tew or not. they would havs had it under their general Jurisdiction. If their power had not been recognised and a purpose of congress bad been expressed to prevent an appeal to the courts, toe law would have been invalid. Tha extent of the Judicial remedy could not be either diminished or enlarged by congressional action, with due regard to tha validity of the act. Congress waa wise, therefore. In not attempting to define what tha court should or should not do, and in merely recognising the right of tha companies to appeal to tha federal aourte to test the validity of tha action of tha commission. No victory waa gained by either tha conservative or the radical party U tola regard. Importance ef Courts In Upholding Constitutional Guaranties. By what I have said, however. I would not for a moment be thought to favor any legislation which would exclude railroad companies or any on else from a recourse to th courts to protect them In their statutory and constitutional righto. The court and especially tha supreme court of the United States, era toe part of our government indispensable in making good those guaranties of life, liberty, property and tha pursuit of happiness given in the constitution and plaoed there by tha people them selvas to curb their own hasty action nnder stress of sadden Impulse or with too little deliberation. The administration of exact Justice by courts without fear or favor, nnmovad by th Influence of tha wealthy or by tha threats of tha demagogue, ia the highest Meal that a government of tha people can strive for, and any means by which a suitor, however unpopular or poor, la deprived of enjoying this la to ha condemned. It is important, however, that appeals to Judicial remedies should be limited in inch a way that parties will not use them merely to detey and ao clog efficient end Just executive or legislative action. to th Rata Bill Nsw Amendment Needed Classification. The rate law does not go far enough. Tha practice under it haa already disclosed tha necessity for new amendments and will doubtless suggest mors. Such Is the true method the of empirical and tentative method new securing proper remedies for a evil The cteniflcation of merchandise for transportation la a moat imfor by a portant matter in transfer from one class to another, the rata la ebanged and may work injustice. With the power of rate fixing, it would seem, should go to the power in the commission to classify and to prescribe rules for uniform classification by all railroads Amendment Needed to Prevent Over Capitalisation. Recent revelations have empbaslsad tha pernickma effect of tbe of railroads which aid unscrupulous stock manipulators in disposing of railway securities at unreasonably high prices to Innocent buyers. This evil would not of Itself Justify federal restraint or control because such stock and bonds are usually leaned unler state charters. Tbe practice, however, has n tendency to divert the money paid by the public for the stock and bonds which ought to be expended In Improving the roadbed, trad: and equipment of railway Into the pockets of the dishonest manipulator and tons to pile such an unprofitable debt upon a railway ae to make bankruptcy and a receivership probable in the first business strinThis result in an interatate gency. railway, necessarily Interferes with, and burdens, Interatate commerce, and Justifies the exercise of toe regulative power of congress to stop the practice. A railroad company engaged In interstate commerce should not be permitted, therefore, to issue stock or bond and put them on sale In the market except after a certificate by the interetate commerce commission that tha securities are Issued with the approval of the commission for a legitimate railroad purpose. The railroads that are honestly conducted wonll accept the certificate of the commission a a valuable one In (he market! of the world, and only nit Mershun. LIVERY STABLE FIRE. Massillon, Ohio, Aug. 19. Sixty-tw- o horses, Including Effie K. and Atwood, 8:18, were burned to death, today, in a livery stable fire. Thirty-tw- o horses were rescued. One bustier was burned to death. PRESIDENT AND FAMILY. Oyster Bey, Aug. 19. President Rooeevelt boarded tha Mayflower at 11 oclock a m. and started for Pro! Mrs. Roosevelt, vlnce town. Mast. Ethel and Quentin accompanied tba president The Mayflower frill arrive at Province tows tomorrow. ' (Continued on Page Eight) 1 n, Emil 3, Second of tha Pactflc Telephone' Vice-Preside- Zltre-ma- r,, com-- , pany, was for tha first time in the present trial of Glass, called by tha prosecution to testify that Class, first and general, bian ager, and, aa acting preaidunt of ton , company, signed the check on which ( tha alleged bribe monies were, ob-tnlned. He tefuaed to give any teatl- -' mony. Judge Lawlor let him go, but j warned him that b. would be again ; called to tba stand anj that further j ' recalcitrancy might ears him punish-rneu- L a, , rate-fixin- phone company, Halsey handed him an envelope, saying. "Heres a present for yon." It contained $8,000 In currency. Under croareexamlnatioa by D. M. Delmaa, be detailed the means employed hr Lacgdoa, Henay and barns to get his ' confeasloa under promt a at Immunity. on being ' Former Supervisor recalled, declared that he voted for the telephone company franchise ap- -' plication, not because there was 93 Boo In it for him, hut because that i corporation was prepared to spend $8,000,000 In Ban Francises, if given the chance. Langdon was responsible for th flnt introduction into this cnee of the name of Mayor Pchmlts. Asked by Delmaa it li was nt a. feet that tha then administration favored tha horn company's applies-tloha said: "Tea. Mayor Bchmlls: wanted na to grant It." , . j No Material Change in the Strike Situation is Reported. New York, Ang. 19. President Clowhr eald th Western Union I sufficient to fores of operator handle traffic with little detey; ia fact, nominal conditions are resumed. Chicago, Aug. 19. A eommlttee of telegraphers visited four brokerage firms, which had not yet Igned the union scale and gave them until 1 oclock, when the men declared they would strike. The brokers reiterated that they would not sign. Messenger boys, of both telegraph companies, who followed the operators out, returned to work today. There are no developments in th general situation. striking Lns Angeles, Cal., Ang. it.Th strike situation in Bout hern California and in toe southwest in general, le without material change thla morning. Tha Western Union now haa 4B op- erators on the day and night force, as against 70, at tha time of the strike. Superintendent Lamb Bays that these men are handling aa muck business now aa to entire force before the strike. The only point, in local territory, which remains permanently tied np, la Prescott, Arizona, where the destruction of the companys property waa threatened. No violence has occurred there, how. ever, and it la believed none will The Interference with Western Union wires, by railroad operators, la growing daily, according to the officiate. Only a small amount of interference waa reported today. Saturday, one unknown railroad operator, on tha Denver and Rio Grande, north of Albuquerque, grounded six of toe companys moat Important wires at on time, and put them out of commission for many hours. Three of these The wires were transcontinental. Identity of the railroad operator causing the trouble could not be learned. Tbe Postal situation remained are changed. The company haa about a dosen operators working In the place of the usual thirty. Thera la little detey on buslnoss, however; In feet, both companies reported clear to practically all points at oclock this morning. Tbe Foetal has opened only two of its nine branch offices in the city, but the Western Union has its entire number 2B working without a single exception. The striking operators are patiently awaiting developments, confident of tha outcome. It is rumored that they an engaged in securing evidence of the alleged shipments by expresstele-at messages, filed by one of the graph companies here. oo-cnr- - Fighting Covered a Front of Sixteen Miles and Lasted Four Boors.. Casa Blanca, Morocco, Ang. IS-.Sunday. A large force of Moore suddenly descended Upon the French camp early thla morning, bnt war, driven off after n sharp conflict. The tribesmen advanced to wtthia 804 yards of tha city, when General Drnde sent against them, nnder cover of the guns of the warships, a detach- meat of flftr Algerian Spahla, "Arab horsemen," In the French service. The Moon permitted thla small body of cavalry to advance for a half .mile unmolested, when they aodJanly am-- , bnicaded them and, in a wild charge The got right among the Spahla. head of one Spabl waa cut off with one sweep of a big Moorish a word. The French officer in command of the Spahla and several iff hia men were wounded, bnt the officer rallied hia force and slowly retired, fighting until n large body iff Spahla from toe town unccored their comrades and d rooted the Moon. The fighting a front of about sixteen mite and luted from 7 to 11 a. m. The French used field and machine guns with deadly effect in repelling the attack iff the Moon and shells from the cruiser GInira alio rendered efficient service. The 8pahls and sharpshooters each lost one man killed and had several wounded. Including Captain Cond of tha Spahla, About a dosen hones were killed. When groups of Moors were first s discovered, the French and light cavalry were rent to th front, followed by Algerian horsemen. The engagement began at nine. Thereafter, a steady French volley cleared the beach of the enemy. Meanwhile, the French artillery exploded Shrapnel sheila further south and at eleven, oclock the Mows scattered In every direction. The French officer believe the main body of Moon remalner concealed behind ridges. WANT ADS BRING BIG RESULTS. eov--ere- harp-shooter- WANT ADS BRING BIG RESULTS. |