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34 nation conferences today to arrange for protesting against the occupation by a negro coachman of Charles E. McLane, Assistant Treasurer of the Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company, of a house in the block. The coachman and his family, a wife and seven chil- dren, have moved in, and the white property-owners are devising a plan to move the negroes out. A delegation will visit Mr. McLane to-morrow and demand the removal of the coachman to another neigh- borhood, and, should he refuse, a mass-meeting will be held to express publicly the indignation of the neighborhood, which is populated entirely by white people, most of whom own their houses. Mr. McLane recently bought the property occupied by the negro, who then moved in. It is likely that Mr. McLane will have the coach- man move. There has been considerable agitation in several sections of the city over the encroachments of the negroes which has greatly depreciated the value of property. Again, General Fitzhugh Lee, a typical Southern man, who fought for the Confederates during the Civil War, held an important command in the Spanish- American War, and after it, was American Consul at Havana, Cuba, has expressed a brief opinion on the point It was published in the same paper as above on an earlier date (July 29, 1903, page 1), and reads thus : ^- FITZHUGH LEE ON LYNCHING Nobody Believes in it, He Says, but One of Its Objects Is Worth Considering. (Special to The New York Times.) Kansas City, Mo., July 28. — Gen. Fitzhugh Lee was in Kansas City today on his way to lecture in Beloit, Kan. " I don't believe in lynching," said the General, when that subject was brought up. '' Nobody be-