The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 13, 1895, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1895, TALKING INCOME TAX Attorney-General Olney Upholds the Present Statute. CONGRESS IS SUPREME. No Court Can Ignore the Action of the National Body of Lawmakers. THE TEST CASES LOST TIME Unless Former Declsions Are Dis- puted the Present Law Must Be Upheld. WasmINGTON, March 12.—The proceed- ings in the income-tax case in the Supreme Court to-day opened with an argument by Attorney-General Olney, on behalf of the Government, for the validity of the tax. The courtroom inside the bar was crowded, and there was no time when the limited capacity of the room was sufficient to ac- commodate the audience. Mr. Olney began by interest of the Govern: tion was limited to co: which the several pl s allege to be involved. Whether they are really in- volved he would not attempt to determine. An examination of the plaintiffs’ bills and briefs and arguments scemed to him to show that many of the alleged objections to the validity of the income tax are simply perfunctory in character. They are taken pro forma by way of pre- caution because of the possibility of a point developing in some unexpected connection and just as a good pleader, but his knowl- edge of this case and of the pertinent remedies ever so thorough never fails to wind up with the general prayer for other and further relief. No time need be spent ng the averments that the in- tax law is an invasion of vested s, or taxes property without due pro- cess of law. The propositions are pure ent in the litiga- titutional questions, generalities and if there is anything in them it is because they comprehend others which are the only real subjects of proba- disagreeable but are infringe- personal rights, the consequence that the law is void but that the denounced inquisitorial methods resorted to. The like considera- to the objection that the law ronounced void becau: i s and instrumentalit of the several State: 1 definitely ns $smot 1e income municipal secur! s - the United States when rt of the total income of the it in these observations,” he ) ional contention down to two income tax is a imposed according rtionment, and the o ved violation n with regard to uni- ether the income tax on describes as a s completely ljudications as It is not a direct g of the constitution g judgments of this erroneous. % r on another point raised by the appellant id no land tax is aimed at or attempted by the statute—there is no lien on land for payment—and the whole scope and tenor of the statutes show the ed subject of taxation to be per- y and to be nothing else. devoted considerable time to Jing of the word *‘uniform” as ap- plied to the collection of imposts, excises, declaring that the word had a terri- al application and no other. ‘The power to tax,” he said, “is for actical - use and is necessarily adapted to the practical conditions human life. These are never the same for any two persons, and as applied to any community, however small, are infinitely rd being paid to t! nothing is more evident, nothing has been oftener declared by courts and jurists than that absolute equality of taxation is im- ble, is, as characterized in an opinion is court, only ‘a baseless dream.’ country, for example, no State of Union, ever adopted a plan of taxa- tion that did not except some porsions of the community from a burden that was imposed upon others. The power to do so is unquestioned and is universally exer- cised. Nevertheless the power to exempt has bounds. It cannot be used without regard to the end in view nor fo gratify a mere whim or caprice. The rules of uniformity place no restriction upon any division of the community into classes for taxable purposes which the Legislature may deem Wi Uniformity between members of a class created for taxable purposes is required. It is quite beside the e to argue in this or any other case that Congress has mistaken what public policy requires on that point. Congress is the sole and final authority and its de- cision, once made, controls every other de- partment of the Government. The statute makes no exeeption in favor of a class that is not based on some obvious line of public policy, and the class being established one uniform rule is applicable to its members. “Take, for example, the principal ciassifi- cations of all, the grand division by which the entire population of the country is separated into people with incomes of §4000 and under, which are non-taxable, and people with imcomes of over $4000, who are taxable. It is manifest that in this distinction Congress was proceeding upon definite views of public policy and was aiming at accomplishing a great public object. It was seeking to adjust the load of taxation to the shoulders of the commu- nity in the manner that would make it most easily borne and most lightly felt. “Take another illustration—that of busi- ness corporations. Their net incomes are taxed at the standard rate of 2 per cent, but undiminished by the standard dedue- tion of $4000. The result may be that a man in business as a member of a corpora- tion is taxable at a little higher rate than a man in the same business by himself or as a copartner. Here, it is claimed, is a distinction without a difference. It is common knowledge that corporations are 80 successful an agency for the conduct of business and the accumulation of wealth E to 1 of t ng that the chief | that a large section of the community views them with intense disfavor as ma- liciously and cunningly devised inventions for making rich people richer flnfi poor people poorer. When, then, this inceme tax makes a special class of business cor- porations and taxes their incomes at a higher rate than is applied to the incomes of persons not incorporated, it recognizes existing social facts and conditions which it would be folly toignore.” Mr. Olney closed as follows: “It would certainly bea mistake to infer that this great array of counsel, this elaborate argu- mentation and these numerous and vol- uminous treatises, miscalled by the name A NEW ORLEANS RIOT. White and Black Labor- ers Fight With Heavy Rifles. FIVE MEN WERE KILLED. of briefs, have any tendency to indicate anything extraordinary or unique either in facts before the courts or in the rules of law, which are applicable to them. All these circumstances prove is the immense pecuniary stake that is being played for. It is so large that counsel fees and costs and printers’ bills are absolutely of no con- sequence. It isso large and so stimulates the efforts of counsel that no rule or prin- ciple that stands in the way, however well settled and -however long and universally acquiesced in, is suffered to pass unchal- lenged. It is matter for congratulation, indeed, that the existence of the constitu- tion itself is not impeached, and that we are not treated to a logical demonstration that, for all taxable purposes, we are still under the old articles of confederation. “Seriously speaking, however, I venture to suggest that all this laborious and erudite and formidable demonstration is bound to be without effect on one distinet ground. In its essence and in its last analysis it is nothing but a call upon the judicial department of the Government to supplant the political in the exercise of taxing power; to substitute its discretion for that of Congress in respect to the sub- ject of taxation, the plan of taxation and all the distinctions and discriminations by which taxation is sought to be equitably adjusted to the resources and capacities of those who have it to bear. Such an effort, however weightily supported, can, I be- lieve, have but one result. It is inevitably predestined to fail, unless this court shall, for the first time in its history, overlook and overstep the limits which separate the { judicial from the legislative power, and the scrupulous observation of which is ab- solutely essential to the integrity of the constitutional system of our country. When Olney closed James C. Carter be- gan his argument. He stated that he ap- peared for the Continental Trust Com- pany, which had been advised that the tax was constitutional, and he was glad to say | they had decided to obey the law, for he was pleased that there were some rich men who did not object to theimposition of such a tax Carter asserted that he agreed with counsel for the appellants in the necessity for equality in taxation, but he stated that the true test in the matter of equality was the ability to pay, according the principle of Jevying burdens. Awaiting the Decision. ‘WesHINGTON, March 12.—It is now re- garded as certain that if the Supreme | Court decides the income tax to be uncon- | stitutional an extra session of Congress is | inevitable. The decision will be handed down immediately aiter the case has been argued. The law goes into effect in April, and politicians, who are confidently ex- ;| pecting that the court's decision will be adverse, are speculating upon the organ- ization of the Hou: THE NEXT SPEAKER. A Western Man May Displace Reed of Maine. WasumveToN, March 12—The cry of a ‘Western man for Speaker is being invoked in certain quarters, and while itis not prob- able that anything of consequence will come of it, there is an effort being made by certain old Republican members, re- elected to the next Congress, who do not like Mr. Reed, or who fear that their pros- pects are not bright for committee assign- ments which they desire, to get a Western man among the contestants for speaker- ship against Reed. These men have selected Mr. Hopkins of Illinois, but it ap- pears that he is not willing to enter the contest, but they may find some other man who will go through the candidacy merely for the precedence it would give him. This movement might have some small chance of success if it were not for the large number of new members electell to the next Congress. Among the old members there have been some rivalries during the past three or four years, which have weakened Mr. Reed’s influence. Moreover, the fact of his being prominently mentioned as a Presidential candidate leads the friends of other candi- dates tg discourage the disposition to make a hero of the “ex-Czar.” Among the new members, however, Mr. Reed is greatly admired. He is known to them through his reputation, and none of them have been put in contact with him in a manner to excite jealousies. All of these new members take it for granted that Reed will be elected Speaker. ——— Of Interest to the Coast. ‘WasHINGTON, March 12.—Senator Gor- man has conclnded to take his family for a long trip through Southern California and then up north through the State. They will then go to Alaska. If the present plan is carried out Senator and Mrs. Gor- man with their family will start for Cali- fornia on May 1 and spend the entire sum- mer on the Pacific Coast. Their v turn to their country home in Maryland some time in September. Mrs. Hearst has gone to New York to remain until Thursday or Friday. She will not go abroad until the latter part of April or early in May. Ex-Representative Caminetti and wife expect to leave for California to-morrow via the northern route. Mr. English will be here several days yet winding up his departméntal business. Among the coast arrivals to-day are: William C. Strong of S8an Francisco, D. W. Bond of Los Angeles and Henry Watson of Portland. ‘William Merry has been appointed Post- master at Corning, Cal. S An Earl as an Attaclie. ‘WasHINGTON, March 12.—Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British Embassador, has notified the State Department that the Earl of Westminister has been assigned to the embassy in the capacity of an at- tache. Ep—— Condition of the Treasury. ‘WasHINGTON, March 12.—To-day’s state- ment of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $183,- 168,976; gold reserve, $90,020,300. Vetoed in Nebraska. LixcoLy, Nebr., March 12. — The bill passed by the Legisiature enabling the State to take a change of venue in criminal cases was vetoed by the Governor as un- constitutional. This measure was primarily for the purpose of enabling the State to try the alleged lynchers of Barrett Scott. It is not believed they can be convicted in the county where the crime was committed. —————— RFLIABLE under all circumstances is Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, the people’s friend. Alaska will be so timed that they will re- | Many of the Injured Are Badly Hurt and Some Deaths May Follow. THE POLICE ARE POWERLESS. State Troops Have Been Called Out to Suppress Any Further 2 Trouble. New OrLEANs, March 12.—White laborers employed along the levee came in contact with non-union negroes this morning, and as a result a number of men are dead and others seriously wounded. The thick fog early this morning was the veil behind which the desperate white levee laborers gathered, and which they penetrated with Winchester rifles all aimed at the colored non-union workmen on the ships loading at the docks. The attack was made at points several miles apart just before the arrival of the police, and as a re- sult there are half a dozen corpses and a dozen or so wounded men. The police saw the attack, but no arrests were made, they claiming they were too few to cope with the unexpected outbreak. The day before the massacre all was quiet and the Governor saw no grounds for in- terference, but to-day the business men are denouncing both; the militia is in readiness to move; an appeal to the Fed- eral Government has virtually been made, and even the foreign Consuls have decided to join in the move for peace at any price. The causes which led to the trouble have been of long standing and grew out of the attempt of the ship agents and others in- terested to reduce rates. The white screw- men claim that the colored men who were given a share of the work under an agree- ment made secret cuts and violated the agreement in order to obtain more work, and gradually crowd the white men off. The white association then severed all ties with the blacks and refused to work with them or for the men who employed them. The white longshoremen joined the screwmen in this. Since then the | steamship lines have been gradually going over to the negroes. Lately the white screwmen quit work on the lines still loyal to them, stating that they would not work until the whole affair was straightened out. Several more lines then took on negro laborers from necessity. retaliate upon the stevedores by offering to reduce rates and deal with the ships direct. Ships in haste accepted the offer, but the agents stood by the stevedores. The latter offered to pay more than the screwmen asked, but the screwmen refused to deal with them. The agents offered to pay the screwmen their wages and place the stevedores over them as superintendents, but this the screwmen declined. Then the | stevedores began importing colored screw- men from Galveston, and the whites, grow- ing desperate, broke loose in riots. The dead are: William Campbell, colored screwman, shot at Phillips street; Jules Calice Carrabe, shoemaker, shot in front o Lyons’ clothing-store; shot in the vicinity of Cromwell line; negro, in same vicinity, not yet identified; Leon- ard Mellett, colored screwman. The injured are: James H. Bane, white, | the purser of the steamship Engineer, shot | in the head twice and arm once, danger- | ously; Henry Brown, colored screwman, shot five times in both arms and both legs, { will recover; Lem Perlsen, colored coal- wheeler, shot seven times in both legs, thigh and head, may recover; Lunis Cast, colored employe at the sugar refinery, shot in the hip, will recover; Billy Williams, colored screwman, shot in the leg, will re- cover; Frank Lighthall, colored, shot in the leg dangerously; Marion Brooks, | white longshoreman, shot in the right leg below the knee. Two negroes, names un- known, jumped into the river and it is supposed were drowned, General John Glynn, commanding the State troops, was seen this afternoon by an ociated Press reporter and asked what action the militia would take in case of further trouble. General Glynn stated that he was en- gaged in keeping Governor Foster well in- formed upon what was taking place; that orders received by him from the Governor would not be disclosed, but that orders issued by himself he could make public, and he had not given any, awaiting the commands of the chief executive. A visit was then paid to the British con- sulate on Carondelet street, between Canal and Common. The Consul stated that Captain Woods of the British steamer En- gineer had called upon him in the morning after Purser Bane was shot and made a statement of the fact of the shooting. The Consul declined to make any statement as to what action would be taken. Leonard Mellett, the negro who was shot in front of the sugar exchange this morning, died at the Charity Hospital at 5:30 p. . J. H. Bane, the wounded pur- ser of the British steamer Engineer, is comfortably quartered at Touro Infirmary. His wounds are by no means so serious as they were at first supposed to be. Another body has been identified as that of Henry James, a colored laborer. Henry Bland, a colored laborer, who resides in Algeria, crossed the river this morning in search of work and bad just left the ferry when the fight began. He received a load of shot in the body and was taken back to hisjhome, where he now lies in a dangerous condi- tion. The police up to 8 o’clock to-night had made but two arrests in connection with the riot. Robert Brooks and Mike Fitz- patrick, both white screwmen, were taken into custody early in the evening. Both were wounded, Brooks in the groin and Fitzpatrick in the wrist, and are said to bave been shot by their comrades during the promiscuous firing. -The prisoners were charged with inciting to riet and were remanded to await hearing. Calmly reviewing the happenings of the morning everytking would seem to indi- cate the attack to be a prearranged affair. It is rumored, and there is every reason to believe the rumor to be correct, that a secret meeting was held last night and the bloody affair of this morning carefully mapped out. The details seem to be that the crowd of rioters who were sent uptown were resi- dents of the lower districts, while these who were sent downtown were those who live uptown. The guns and rifles which were used by the downtown men who went | unknown man, | The white union finally determined to | BB NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING. ---FOR--- SUITS and OVERCOATS In Fine Double Twill Thibets, ONE THING YOU ALL DO KNOW— When we make a Cut it’s very deep. No margin is too small for us. SUITS AND OVERCOATS-=- no last season’s styles, but the latest for spring. How much do we save ? Just HALF at = = « « - -What Pretty Styles. some Fabrics for Spring. Good value at $25. B & GASI/E A2y S/ Here’s a Cut! Can You Appreciate Such 3 Goods at Half Price? ---FOR--- S --AN OVERCOATS! Hand- Suppose you drop in and § see 'em P AT THE URGENT REQULST OF r7ANY FrR7RONS WELL AELP OFPEN EVENMINGS 772 L V2788 STpAE AAND Qclock ®ccoe pp - uptown seem to have been deposited in the various saloons along the levee. The men assembled somewhere in the vicinity of Nun street and in a dense fog proceeded up the levee. It seems to be renerally under- stood that the guns used by the men who went uptown were taken to some place in the vicinity of the sugar refineries in a wagon and then were secreted until such time as they were required. It also seems to be agreed that the preconcerted attack hooting should be done between 6:45 and 7:30 o’clock in the morning, a time when the men would be going to work. TROOPS. NO NATIOX 7 The War Department Has Not Been Called Upon for Assistance. WasHizgToN, March —The United States will not send troops to New Orleans until it has been fully demonstrated that the city and State officials are no longer able to maintain the peace and protect the interstate traffic. This determination was reached late this afternoon and telegraphed to United States Attorney Earhart at New Orleans. Mr. Olmey in speaking of the situation at New Orleans said that so far as he has been | able to learn neither the city nor the State authorities had called out the local militia or taken any vigorous means to suppress the existing lawless He had no doubt, however, of the ability of the local authori- ties to handle the mob if they really set about doing so, and in any event the Gov- ernment would not interfere until the situ- ation was beyond the control of the gov- ernment of the State aided by all the mili- tary force at its command. The British officials here regard the present trouble as part of a racial agitation. The progress of the trouble is being closely observed by the British offic though they feel confident the local authorities in Louisiana are doing every- thing possible to suppress the disorder, and if the trouble pusses beyond local control the Federal authorities will take such steps as are necessary to protect foreigners and Americans alike. If the cause he was an Englishman it is expected that Sir Julian Pauncefote would demand an explanation. If, however, Bane's nationality had mo part in the affair and he was hit ‘because he was in the mob then no atlention would be given to the inci- dent. The action of the Italian Government at the time of the New Orleans lynching is cited as showing the mf);nmmic aspect of the trouble. Tfm lynchings were against Ttalians as such, and not_against a mis- cellaneous mob, including Italians. WILL FIGHT A SELMA LAW. A. A. Rowell Convicted of Vielating a Peddling Ordinance. Fresyo, Cal., March 12.—A. A. Rowell, a brother of Assemblyman W. F. Rowell and of Dr. Chester Rowell, a very highly respected physician of this city, was brought up from Selma yesterday to serve a term in the County Jail. He was found guilty by a jury in Recorder W. H. Tucker’s court of selling meat within the town limits of Selma without paying the license of $10 a day. The ordinance cover- ing the offense reads that $10 2 day license must be paid by “each traveling solicitor, peddler or vender of every kind and species of goods, wares or merchandise of any de- seription.” Mr. Rowell conducted his own case, and when convicted refused to pay the fine.. He was released by Judge J. R. Webb of the Superior Court en a writ of habeas corpus. He will push his defense on the ground that the license, which would amount to_$3650 a year, while that on storekeepers is _only §10 a year, is un- constitutional, as it is practically pro- hibitory. | offense was shown to be against Bane be- | | station the morning following the attem pt- SOSPECTS AT STOCKTON. THREE MEN AND A WOMAN UNDER POLICE SURVEILLANCE FOR TRAIN ROBBERY. THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE TRI0 WHO ARE SO BapLy ‘WANTED. SrockroxN, March —For the last few days the officers have been shadowing three men and a woman who have been living in an old house in the southern part of town, | near the railroad track. The men are sus- pected of being the robbers who last Friday night held up the eastbound mail-train at Castle switch. The description of the two men who on October 11 last held up a train in Yolo County and secured $53,000 fits two of the individuals whom the officers suspect of the recent hold-up. One of the men in that robbery—the tall one—and the third of the trio under suspicion, correspond with the descrip- tion of the men who held up the engineer and the fireman in last Friday night's at- tempted robbery. It is supposed that the other one is the man who held the horse and buggy, the tracks of which were seen at Armstrong ed robbery. Deputy Sheriff Black had the mysteriots trio under surveillanes for the last few days, but last evening they eluded his vigilance and left for parts unknown. 4wo of the men and the weman, who claims to be the wife of one of the men, left in 2 covered wagon, while the third man went in a buggy. Sunday night a de- tective secured the measurement of the tires of the bugey, and they corresponded exactly with the impression made by the buggy that had been.tied near Armstrong switch. It is known that the buggy used by the bandits came toward Stockton, as the offi- cers traced its tracks to the Cherokee lane,{ where the trail was lost. OREGON RECE VERSHIP CASE, Arguments for the Dismissal of the Short Line Suit. PorTrAND, Or., March (2.—In the Oregon Short Line independent receivership case to-day Judge A. H. Tanner, one of the special counsel for the Government, ar- gued for the dismissal of the case on the ground that the court here is not the proper tribunal to decide the question. At the conclusion of Judge Tanner’s argument ex-Senator Sanders asked coun- sel for the Government to state what inter- est the Government had in the line from Ogden to Garrison, or in the line from Granger to Huntington. General Cowin replied thatin the consol- idation agreement the Oregon Short Line was recognized as 2 part of the Union Pa- cific. He said the receivers were opposing the -Short Line in connection with the TUnion Pacific under an order of the court, and that if such operation is wrong it can be shown and the order changed without a change of receivers. Ex-Senator Dolph continued his argu- ment against a motion for dismissal and change of venue. Ifthiscase was remanded to the Wyoming court where would the Utah and Northern part of it be remanded to by that court? Would it be remanded to the District of Idaho on the theory that it was the court of original jurisdiction? The receivers were dummy receivers, to prévent the appointment of any others, and to secure the control and operation of | the Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern to the Union Paci Senator Dolph said the first mortgag holders might be satisfied with any re- ceivers. It is the junior mortgage-holders who are interested in having the roads operated for the interest not only of senior lien-holders, but of junior lien-holders as well. Coe e DOCINO MURDER. Joseph Haqquist Held for Trial for the Alleged Killing of William McLean. Mexpocivo, Cal March 12.—Joseph Haqquist, the accused murderer of Wil- liam McLean, who was found dead last Sunday morning in front of Gus Semmler’s saloon, had his hearing to-day, and was held for trial without bonds. George Sturtevant, District Attorney of Mendocino County, came over from Ukiah last night and represented the people. Haqquist had no attorney. The evidence was very conflicting. McLean had been seen Sunday morning at 2 o’clock going up the Mansion House stairs, as he said, to bed, and the place where his body was found was about five hundred yards trom the Mansion House. Dr. McCornack testified to the fact that either of thetwo knives which were taken from Haqquist could have inflicted the wounds. Blood was found on Haqquist’s coat, but it seems reasonable that this blood could have come from a slight wound that he received Saturday night while in a fight. The blood found on his doorstep he said came from the wound also, while he was examining the porch of his house that morning. Gus Wilson, a cousin of Haqquist, said that he came up the street Sunday morn. ing, and that he hLad seen McLean crawl- THE M i ing out of Haqquist’s yard, and had seen blood along the sidewalk leading to Hagq- quist’s house. Robert Mills and John McLean festified that they were talking with Hagquist Mon- | day morning, and that he said .he never killed McLean, but he helped to do so. Acdeerente DOCTORS CONVENE AT STOCKTON. Meeting of the Northern California Med- dcal Society. Srockrox, March 12.—The fifth semi-an- nual convention of the California Northern District Medical Society was called to order in this city this afternoon byyits president, Dr. H. D. Lawhead of Wood- land. There were about a dozen visiting doctors present, and as many more from this city. Mayor McCall delivered an address of welcome, after which papers were read by Drs. Sutliffe of Sacramento, Rohm of Red- ding, Gill of Dunsmuir and Fife of Red Bluff. At this evening’s session Drs. Ward and MacFarlane, of Woodland, and Nichols and Briggs, of Sacramento, read papers. There will be a session to-morrow morning, which will close the convention. A paper that was read during the morn- ing on the treatment of insane patients brought out a great deal of discussion, dur- ing which the opinion was broached that in- sane patients were not treated with suffi- cient consideration from the time of their | arrest to the time of their being received at the asylum. Local asylum physicians stated that jails throughout the State must be in a very dirty condition, as only 5 per cent of the patients received at the institu- tion were free from vermin. . A banquet was tendered the visiting doc- tors to-might. e Fire in Brooklyn. BrookLYN, March 12.—A four-story brick building owned and occupied by Charles Feldtman and known as Tivoli Hall was totally destroyed by fire this eveninf:. Two adjoining buildings were also badly dam aged. Lossabout $200,000, insurance small- 1 PHOENIX RAILROAD FETE. | OPENING OF THE LINE CONNECTING | NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN | ARIZONA. | A FINE STREET PARADE AND Ova- TION 10 DISTINGUISHED GUESTS. Pu@x~ix, Ariz., March 12.—The formal opening of the Santa Fe, Prescott and Pheenix Railroad, which connects the northern and southern sections of Arizona by rail, took place to-day The guests of the city, railroad officials, General McCook and staff and other dis- tinguished visitors received an ovation | such as no other place has ever excelled. The street parade was magnificent. The principal feature was 150 Indians of the Pima and Maricopa tribes, in their war paint and nude except a breech cloth, astride of horses bareback. Following came floats characteristic of frontier life and incident to struggling trade; then came the Indian students from the United States Indian School. Both sexes marched in platoons to the measured time of drum corps. Their marching and evolutions were a revelation. They were uniformed {and marched in perfect alignment and looked admirable. The applause was con= tinuous as they passed. The sidewalks, windows, balconies and roofs of buildings were covered with people. The parade | last one hour. Speeches followed at the military plaza by Mayor Monihan, E. F. Kellner of the Chamber of Commerce, Governor Hughes, | Hon. A. C. Baker, Hon. N. O. Murphy, | General Kretzinger and Major - General McCook. - The speeches were replete with reminiscences and humor. Chief Justice Baker said in eoncluding | his speech of welcome: ‘Let us paint the town vermilion—a lurid red.” 1t is being painted. Snowstorm at Carson, Nev. Carsox, Nev., March 12.—A snowstorm sét in this evening after a heavy wind. UNTIL APRIL 1 To Give All an Equal Opportunity, Dr. Ellis Will Continue the $25 Rate for a Radical Cure of Rup- ture. In announcing a rate of $25 for a radical cure of Rupture, Dr. C. Z. Ellis intended that it should be for a limited time only, and pro- posed withdrawing the rate on March 1. Since that date Dr. Ellis has had many inquiries from persons suffering from Rupture, who state that it was not possible for them to take | advantage of the low rate before its with- drawal‘and requesting an extension of the | time. Dr. Ellis does not yafit to show any favoritism in extending the time, but to allow all an equal opportunity will continue the $25 rate until April 1. It must be distinctly under- stood, however, that it will positively be dis- continued on snd after that date. $25 FOR A CURE. Names of patients cured will be fur- nished on application. C. Z. ELLIS. M.D. 916 Market Street, San Francisco.