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2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 1895. nothing here since and should not receive E more money.” Stand up for your man. Explain, why don’t you?” called out Brusie to Ewing, who at last reluctantly admitted that what Bennett said was true. He tried to ex- plain that Bunner had done other work, but succeeded lamely By this time the full force of the situa- tion dawned upon the House. Ewing had fathered the scheme. Belshaw had loaned it his support. Yet these two were con- sidered as among the chiefs of the “holier than thou” clique. The House fairly gasped in astonish- ment, then a shout of derisive laughter went up, and Bennett had the satisfaction of hearing the resolution kiiled by a thun- der of ‘“‘noes Since the resolation was beaten, it has been whispered that the resolution intro- duced by Ewing was written at the instiga- tion of Martin Kelly, who has occupied a seat at the Populist’s elbow during a large vart of the session. CANNOT SWAP LOTS. NG A BiLL RELATING TO THE FERRY BRIDGE. SACRAMENTO, March 16.—A last at- tempt was made by Dixon of San Fran- | ) 1o effect the passage of Senate bill 61, izing the Harbor Commissioners to rfront lot for the triangular Market, East and Sacramento The bill was refused passage its consideration was oned i This was to get for quiet and effective work ixon to-day announced that a number of the members had voted against the bill under a misapprehension and that they | wanted a change. As a ‘“dreadful ex- ample” he es of Trinity for a few remar) Reid announced that he had not understood the matter fully before, as he erstood there was a great disparity in the size of the lots to be traded. He | understood, too, that any lot could be | traded, but now that he knew a particular | piece of land was specified for the trade he was willing to swap. Waymire of Alameda had made a mis- take, too. He had understood that the ! Harbor Commissioners had money enongh in their treasury to pay for the land. He therefore had opposed trading for it. He | had learned in the last two days that this | money ito beused for other purposes, and so had decided to vote for the bill. v of Contra Costa had learned | that the triangle in question broughtina | rental of §1200 a month, and he was afraid | it would cost more money than the State | would want to pay out to get a place for the foot of their passenger bridge. i Ewing, however, protested that the State wanted to keep all the land it had, and | should buy more rather than give, sell, or | trade away. As far as rental was con- OF where streets meet. two days far ed he understood that the property to | traded would bring a heavier rental | be than the triangle, and he wanted no recon- | sideration. When the bill came to a vote there were v-three members in favor of a re- and twenty-eight against. This sent the bill to the grav The San o delegation was di- vided on the question. Those opposing it Y hlin (D.), Ewing (P.), Heale; (D.), Powers (R.). Thosefavoring it were:| Bettman (R.), Boothby (R.), Devine (D.), | Dinkelspiel (k Dixon (R.), Merrill (R.). NO PAY FOR SERVICES. | Craims IGNORED BY THE LEGIS SACRAMENTO, March 16.—None of the papers printed in foreign languages will | get a cent for printing the constitutional | amendments last year. The California | Demokrat, a German paper, asked for | H750; the Franco-Californien, a French | paper, for $448% 42; the Yoce del Popolo &nd Italian Publishing Company, for| F5628 75 and $4075 50 respectively. The Senate recommended, as a compromise, | that the papers be given $2000 each. This morning the bill came up and was killed definitely. Powers of San Francisco made a last appeal for it. He urged that (Governor Markham had ordered the prirt- ing done, and the State should keep its tontracts. If the bills were not paid, he said, almost the entire vote of the foreign population of 8an Francisco would be lost to the Republican party, as-they would | consider that they had been discriminated ! against because they were not born in | America. % The House thought differently, though, and the bill was refused passage by the ‘ollowing vote: es—Ash, Bettman, Boothb; Coughlin,Coleman,Collins, Dinkelspicl, Dixon, Gay, Guy, Hatfield, Kelsey Laird, Laugenour, Lewis, McCarthy, McKel- | vey, Merrill, North, 0'Day,Osborn, Pendleton, Powers, Richards, Sanford, Spencer, Swisler, | Tibbitts, Tomblin, Wilkinson—34. Noes—Rassford, Belshaw, Bennett, Bledsoe, | Bulla, Butler, Dale, Davis, Dodge, Dunbar, Ewing, Fassett, Freeman, Glass, Hall, Huber, Hudson, Johnson, Jones, Keen, Kenyon, Nel- | son, Phelps, Reid, Robinson, Rowell, Staley, Wade, Weyse, Speaker Lynch—30. Absent and not voting—Bachman, Barker, Berry, Devitt, Dwyer, Healey, Holland, Liew- tllyn, Meads, Price, Stansell, Thomas, Tiwigg, Waymire, Wilkins, Zocehi—16, Brusie, Car- utter, Devine, All of the San Francisco delegation who were in attendance, except Ewing (Pop.) voted for the bill. WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS FAIL FUTILE ATTEMPT TO SECURE Fa- VORABLE LEGISLATION. SACRAMENTO, March 16.—At the eley- enth hour the woman suffragists gave up in despair. Through much travail they had obtainea the passage of their bill m the Assembly. The Senate was a scene of many vicissitudes. Every victory was the forerunner of a defeat.. S Twice to-day the conference committees ed to agree, or rather met with the in. lention of not agreeing. There was no use of discussion. Each member of the com- mittees knew the temper of his fellows. The committees met, talked and agreed to sagree. Each time the Assembly committee had fwo members who favored the bill and one who opposed it, and the Senate one mem- ver in favor of suffrage and two opposed to THE SECOND IS PERNICIOUS. | teenth and thirty-sixth sections of land be- | Registrar. If the land proposed to be purchased | | chased by one person. | ment T have ascertained that since these res- t. There was, of course, but one result-- Qisagreement. The last conference stood, Assemblymen Phelps and Llewellyn and Senator Orr for ihe billand Senators McAllister and Ship- pee and Assemblyman Coughlin againstit. [heir report gave the matter its quietus, ind the gallant struggles of the ladies ighting for their “rights’’ are now but memories. Bills Approved. SACRAMENTO, March 16.—The Gov- srnor has approved the following bills: Providing for examinations for admis- sion to bar to be held by the Supreme Lourt Commissioners. Appointing a guardian for Sutter’s fort. Paying a deficiency bill of $13,500 for the tupport of the Los Angeles Normal School. Various bills amending the codes were Mlso approved. TWO VETO MESSAGES Gov. Budd Rejects the Lieu Land and Anti- Scalpers’ Bills. iy | HIS REASONS THEREFOR. The First Would Favor Speculator and Aid the Land-Grabber. e It Would Be Unjust to the People and Inteffere With Indi- vidual Liberty. SACRAMENTO, March 16.—Governor Budd vetoed the lieu land bill and the anti-scalpers’ bill to-night. His reasons for vetoing the lieu land bill are as follows: 1 herewith return without my approval and | with my objections thereto Assembly bill No. | 695, entitled “An act to amend section 3398 of the Political Code, appointing the Surveyor- General locating agent in the United States Land Office and declaring the effect of selectio accepted by the United States.”” The change which will be made in this section by the bill is by adding to the section as it now is the words, “A selection made in lieu of the six- teenth or thirty-sixth section, if accepted by the United Si s, shall be a waiver and con- veyance to the United States of whatever claim and title the State may have to said section.” The application for the purchase of the six- longing to the State, or lands in lieu of the sixteenth or thirty-sixth sections of land lost to the State, must be made as provided in sec- tion 3495 of the Political Code,and on forms pre- pared and printed by the Surveyor-General and be suitable for cultivation, then the proposed purchaser cannot purchase exceeding acres of such land; if not suitable for cultiva- tion, then 640 ncres of the land may be pur- Whether the land be or be not suitable for cultivation, is determined by the ex-parte affidavit of the proposed pur- chaser, and by the ex-parte affidavit of two other persons. The selection of lien lands must | be based on a sixteenth or thirty-sixth section st 1o the State, because embraced within the limits of & Mexican or Spanish grant, or by reason of settlement thereon at the time of the survey, or because of reservation by the United States for public use. By the amendments in 1891 to sections 2275 and 2276 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, a sixteenth or thirty-sixth section of mineral land could be made the basis for the selection of lieu lands, and by the same sec- | tion it is provided that the Secretary of the In- | terior without waiting for the extension of the public surveys may ascertain, by protraction or otherwise, the number of townships within a Government reservation, and the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections in each of such town- ships, if lost to the State, could be used as s basis for the selection of lieu lands, and such selection could be made on any unappropriate surveyed public lands, not mineral lands, in | any part of the State. | By the same amendment it was provided that the State could await the extinguishment of a reservation and then take the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections therein as school | lands. Under the authority of an act of Con- gress passed in 1891 the President of the | United States by a proclamation dated Decem- ber 20,71892, and by another proclamation dated February 19, 1893,and by two other proclamations dated February 23, 1893, set apart as reservations a large quantity of public iands, wholly or in part covered by timber or underbrush. But since under the provisions of said amendments the State could await the extinguishment of these reservations and then take the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections therein as school lands, these sixteenth and tnirty-sixth sections would not be lost by the State and would not be a proper basis for the selection of lieu lands unless the State exer- cised its option not to take such sections as school lands. In order to ascertain the amount of lands | applied for as for lieu lands under these amend- ments and proclamations I addressed a letter 1o the Surveyor-General on the 7th day of this month, requesting a statement showing the | existing applicatiéns filed in his office since and during the year 1891, relative to selections of land in lieu of the sixteenth and thirt sixth sections embraced within the reservi tions by the Government of the United States, | showing the names of the applicants, the | quantity and description of the lands applied for, and the action taken thereon and the pres- ent status of such applications. #This statement was furnished to me on the 15th of the present | month, and from an examination of the state- | ervation applications have been filed with the | Surveyor-General for the purchase of many | thousands of acres of land in lieu of school lands lost to the State, that many thousands of | acres of lands in sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections embraced in these reservations have been used as & basis for the selection of lieu lands so applied for, and that many of these applications have been made through the aid and assistance of land lawyers. Under the provisions of Section 3515 of the Political Code, certificates of purchase of lands | and all rights assured thereunder are subject to sale by deed of assignment. An examina- tion of the places of residence of many of these | applicants for the purchase of these lieu lands indicates that they are not engaged inthe | farming or grazing business and the use and benefit they expect to have from the purchase of these lands are those which result from sale for the purpose of speculation. In fact many applieations for the purchase of school and lieu lands have been for the purposeof specula- tion; and this is contrary to the intent and spirit of sections 2 and 3 of Article XVII, of the Constitution. In my opinion, the operation of the amend- ment embraced in the bill herewith returned will be to favor land speculation, which is con- trary to the intent and spirit of the constitu- tion of this State. 1f the Legislature of the State relinquish the rightof the State to the sixteenth and thirty- sixth sessions embraced in the reservations, it should be before these sections are used as a Dasis for the selection of lien lands, and not after they have been soused, perhaps in the interest of land speculators. In vetoing the anti-scalper’s bill, the Governor says: 1 return herewith without my approval Sen- ate bill 239, entitled “An act to regulate the sale and redemption of transportation tickets.” ‘While this bill professes to be a regulation of the selling and redeeming of transportation tickets, it goes far beyond that. While it is claimed that it is an attempt to regulate or prohibit the sale of tickets by individuals who have received or purchased them lawfully and in good faith, under the provision of this act a citizen purchasing a tick®t with a bona fide intention to travel upon the same, may sell the ticket to any individual or corporation, and thelaw thereby authorizes the purchase of such ticket by such other person: yet the per- son who thus purchases, under authority of law, and for a valuable consideration, the ticket, becomes a criminal when he either sells or gives to another the property and the right he has procured under direct authority of the act. Again, the minimum punishment prescribed by section 6 of this act is $200. Should a man steal a railroad ticket of any value under $50 he is by the law punishable for committing a misdemeanor. There is for the offense of steal- ing a ticket, if & misdemeanor, no fixed pen- alty, and the maximum penalty would bea fine of $500 and six months’ imprisonment. So that the man stealing a ticket of the value of not less than $50, with intent to deprive the owner thereof of his property therein, could | THE GoVE | at Folsom. not he punished by a fine not to exceed §500 nor by imprisonment to exceed six months, or both, and might be fined by the court in the sum of $1 or even less. Yeta man purchasing | & railroad ticket from Oakland to San Francisco for 1) cents, or a ticket from San Francisco to Sacramento by way of Stockton for 3 30, may sell the tieket or give it toa friend, but if the | person to whom he sold or gave the ticket should sell or give it away, honestly and with- out any criminal fntent, he wonld become & criminal and be liable te punishment by a fine of not less than $200, and the court would have no power to impose & less punishment upon him. Why & man selling a railroad ticket, because it isa railroad ticket, should thus be severely punished, while the man who steals the prop- erty of a private individual of many times the value of a railroad ticket may be fined but a small amount, is something beyond my com- prehension. To sell a railroad ticket of the value of 10 cents a second time makes & man a criminal under this act, with no less & penalty | attached than a fine of $200, and yet a person may steal from a poor man all he has so long as it be under $50 in value, and the penalty therefor is & fine in any sum less than $500 and imprisonment not to exceed six months. For no other reason than this the law should not be enacted. Beyond this there are other objections, all of which it is needless to state. Under section 1 of the act it is provided that it shall be the duty of owners, lessees, etc., of transportation companies, as stated in the bill, to provide each agent who may be authorized to sell tickets or other documentary evidence of the right to travel upon ‘‘such railroad, | steamboat or other conveyance” with a certifi- cate, ete. If this bill could have interstate operation, and even though it may not have such opera- tion if it became a law, the meaning of the little word “such” would be so broad as to allow any transportation company to prevent Any other transportatson company having con- nections with it, from selling any tickets through the connecting lines withont the | authority of the owner of each and every such line. In other words, a railroad company owning a line running from San Francisco to Martinez or Stockton, connecting with a line of another company running from Stockton to Tulare, and that of another company owning a line running from Tulare to Los Angeles, might be prevented by each and every one of these companies, whether under a lease or other- wise, from selling any tickets except through an agent of such other companies. The agent of company “A” might refuse to give to the agent of company “B"” the right to sell tickets over company " line, and it would be so anthorized to refuse by this act, and thereby & system, either State or interstate, of requiring owners of connecting lines of railroads to pay owners of other lines of railroads for the privi lege of (hus selling through connecting tickets would be established. Whether this was con- templated or not, it would work a great hard- ship to the people and to connecting trans- portation lines, The Legislature will observe that there is no regulation ot the sale of tickets by “scalpers,” and while “scalpers” are denounced, whether unjustly or not, in transacting their business the dragnet of the law proposed reaches far be- yond them. If they forge tickets, or allow them to be changed, there are criminal laws to punish them. If they deal in tickets as they onght not to do, and these tickets cannot now be traced, & law regulating or even prohibiting the business of “scalpers” might be passed. We prohibit, license or regulate the business of selling liguors, but we do not usually prohibit, license or regulate the giving of liquors to man by his friends. There is a vast difference between an act to regulate or prohibit a busi- ness as such and an act reaching to an indi vidualin the exercise of his rightful use of property belonging to himself. A VETO MESSAGE. NOR REFUSES TO PROVE SENATE BILL 75. SACRAMENTO, March 16.—Governor Budd sent the following veto message to the Senate yesterday : I return herewith, without my approval and With my objections thercto, Senate bill . entitled “An act making an appropriation for reimbursing the county of Marin for moneys expended by it for the prosceution of crimes committed within the State Prison at San Quentin and for inquests held over the bodies of convicts who have died within said prison.” The State owns and controls the State Prison The State also owns and controls te institutions in various counties of ate rcimbursed one Ap- institution in that county, and for inquests held over the bodies of prisoners restrained by the State in such institutions, who have died therein, it should reimburse other counties for moneys expended by those counties in the prosecution of crimes committed in State in- stitutions therein, and for inquests over the bodies of prisoners restrained by the State in such institutions who have died therein. The State owns and controls insane asylums and reform schools in different counties of the State. It is provided in” section 24 of article IV of the constitution that the Legislature shall not pass local or special laws in certain cases enumerated in that section, and in all other cases where agent law can be made applicable. If the State should reimburse counties for money expended in the proscention of crimes committed in State institutions in those coun- ties, and for inquests over the bodies of persons restrained by the State in such institutions who have died therein. it should, in my opin- ion, be under the provisions of some general law. It is, however, certain that if the bill bere- with returned becomes & law, it will be a pre- cedent for other counties to claim from the State reimbursement for any moneys expended uch counties under like circumstances; and in-that way the expenses of the State gov- ernment may be greatly increased, although such expenses are now so large that they are heayy burdens to the taxpayers of the State. Jaxes H. Bupp, Governor. THE ASSEMBLY. Many Brrs RUSHED THROUGH WiTH FEVERISH HASTE. SACRAMENTO, March 16.—With fever- ish haste the Assembly attacked their file to-day. A few hours was all that remained to pass upon bills. A few that had been left off the file were smuggled in, but the greater part of the day was spent in clear- ing up the files. It was decided to cease considering bills at 1o'clock. At 12:30 o’clock it became evident that the time would not suffice, but the clocks in the Assembly were stopped and 1 o’clock was not reached till after the Assembly adjourned. Finally all the important measures were in frow the Senate, except'the tax levy and the revenue bills. The Assembly waited for these, but wasted no time. At last at 2 o’clock the two bills arrived. The amount of the tax levy was materi- ally reduced. The general fund was re- duced from $5,163,106 to $4,913,106 and the school fund from $2,903,870 03 to $2,681,371. | Dinkelspeil of San Francisco called up the bill appropriating $20,000 for the maintenance of the State Board of Horti- culture for the next two years, and told of the important work of the board. The bill passed by a vote of 61 to nothing. The bills passed paying the widow of A. W. McGinniss $7500, paying the claim of Cornelius Lynch, amending the law relative to municipal bonds for public im- provements, and repealing the acts of 1885 and 1887. Hall of Placer endeavored to call up the bill regulating tho practice of pharmacy, but the House would not per- mit it, and the bill went to the graveyard. New Deputy Attorney-General. SACRAMENTO, March 16.—Charles N. Post, a Sacramento attorney, was ap- pointed Deputy Attorney- General to- night and took oath of office. ? ———— In Dresden cars are driven by gas mo- tors. N COUNTY DIVISION, The Senate Kills the Bill by a Refusal to Reconsider. ANGER OF A SENATOR. Smith of Kern Charges That His Colleagues Treat Him Discourteously. | HIS EFFORTS ARE UNAVAILING. Though He Insists That the Measure Be Taken Up, His Plead- ings Fail. SACRAMENTO, March 16.—Interwoven like a silver thread in the gray meshes of the Senatorial investigation scandal, the county division proposition glistened at various portions of the Senate’s session to- day. It was agreed that each of the Senators on the investigating committee should have the privilege of placing one biil on the irgency file. The Senate observed its agreement with four of the members and broke its faith with the fifth. That was when Senator Smith sought to place the county division bill on the special file this morning. When Smith made the motion to bring up the county division bill a storm of protest broke upon the Senate chamber. Burke led the fight. Smith, glancing scornfully at the Senator from Santa Cruz, declared that a veteri- nary should be appointed to ascertain who were suffering from enlargement of the heart. Continuing, Senator Smith said he was surprised at the discourtesy which had been shown him. He had at all times tried to act courteously with all members, and as the privilege had been promised him he regretted that the members saw fit to recede from their promise. He only asked the privilege of taking up the bill. If the Senators did not like the bill they could vote it down. Ford declared : ashamed of yoursely There were calls and calls of the House. Finally the Senate refused to allow the bill to come up on urgency by a vote of 26 to 14. It required 27 votes to bring the bill up, so the divisionists lacked one vote of vou ought to be uce This was the vote: y -Aram, Arms, Androus, Beard, Biggy, Denison, Dunn, Earl, Fay, Ford, Gesford, Gleaves, Hart, Henderson, Hoyt, Linder, Mc- Allister, McGowan, Mitchell, Pedlar, Seymour, Shine, Simpson, Smith, Toner, Withington—26. Noes—Bert, Burke, Flint, Franck, Holloway, Langford, Mahoney, Martin, Mathews, Seawell, Shippee, Voorheis, Whitehurst—14. Another attempt was made to bring up the bill in the afternoon, but it was defeated by technicalities and a recess. Linder was wroth. He declared after recess that Senatorial honor was worth nothing, that the word of Senators was not to be de- pended upon, and intimated that the most potent of reasons—the jingling one—had been used to accomplish what was done. “‘The Biggy-Dunn affair does not com- pare with this’ concluded the Senator from Tulare. It was found futile at the night session of the Senate to attempt to bring up the county division bill, so the matter was dropped, and no counties may now be divided until the next session of the Legislature passes a general law. The school teachers’ annuity fund bill passed by a vote of 23 s to 10 noes, and was rushed into the Assembly. The Assembly bills passed as follows: Providing for the incorporation and man- agement of the co-operative associations. Providing for the letting of contracts for lighting streets and public buildings in cities and towns. Paying the claim of ex-Sheriff Kearny of San Benito. Amending the law providing for the man- agement of the Southern California Insane Asylum. Amending the law relative to contracts on State buildings. Prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors near the Soldiers’ Home. Paying John C. Pelton £5000. Providing for the disincorporation of. the municipal corporations of the sixth class. Amending the law relative to libel and slan- der, broadening scope of privileged publica- tions. tablishing the State Normal School at San Diego and authorizing the trustees to be named by the Governor to accept a gift of land. Creating the exempt fireman’s relief fund in various counties and cities, and authorizing the Board of Equalization to fix a tax tevy. BUNCO GANE AT SAN JOSE. | A CONFIDING SALOON-KEEPER IS THE VICTIM SHARPERS. He LoaNs MonNEy TO A POKER- PLAYER on FaLse REp- RESENTATIONS. SAN JOSE, March 16.—William Corkery, a saloon-keeper, is the victim of a band of confidence operators, and has caused a warrant to be issued for the arrest of A. Hope Johnson on a charge of felony em- bezzlement. Several days ago Johnson and other men were playing poker in Corkery’s saloon, Johnson losing. ‘Phey played late into the night, when Johnson ran out of money and asked Corkery for a loan, stating he had a large sum on deposit in the Oakland Bank of Savings. One of the other play- ers advised Corkey to make the loan, say- ing Johnson owned a valuable business block in Oakland and was perfectly good. Johnson then drew a check on the Oak- land bank for $508 and Corkery gave him the money. The game went on till daylight, Johnson losing, and sook afterward the sharpers left. Of course the check proved to fbe worthless, . Johnson was arrested at Santa Cruz this morning. He was engaged in the oil busi- ness at Santa Cruz and formerly owned a newspaper route in East Oakland. He claims that the money was lost in a gam- bling game and that the check was given to avoid trouble. ¥. M. C. 4. in Financial Trouble, SAN JOSE, March 16.—The Y. M. C. A, is in financial straits. It has been at- tached for §262 by the San Jose Laundry Association. The property is mortgaged for $20,000, and much interest unpaid and other debts exist. A meeting of the trus- tees will be held to-morrow night to con- sider the financial question. A Levanting Deputy Constable. SAN JOSE, March 16.—Otto Wolif, a dep- OF orr, | uty Constable, has gone and a warrant is out for his arrest. He collected money for Mangrum & Otter, stove-dealers, and failed to turn it in. He also collected a $41 judgment in favor of C. L. Van Graus and kept it. It is thought he has gone to British Columbi: e STOCKTON'S TELEPHONE LINE The Incorporation of a Rival Company Is Effected. STOCKTON, March 16.—The California Telephone Association was incorporated here to-day. The incorporators are M. Louis of Boston and M. 8. Arndt, Gus Gumpertz, Mrs. E. Arndt and Frank E. Lane of this city. The capital stock is $100,000, divided into 1600 shares. Each incorporator takes 200 shares. This is the corporation that will start an oppo- sition system to the Sunset company in Stockton. The incorporators say they will have their system working inside of four months and will furnish telephones for $2 a month. Football Game, STOCKTON, March 16.—There was a splendid game of football at Goodweller Grove this afternoon between the Stockton High School team and the eleven of the Sacramento High School. Both teams were in fine condition and the game was warmly contested. The visitors were the heavier, but the Stocktons won by a score of 12 to 8. To night the Sacramento team was tend- ered a dance at Pioneer Hall by the High School girls. During the progress of the game to-day Professor Francis of the Stockton High School players, had one of his legs so badly wrenched that he will be confined for two or three weeks. | EX-GOV. LAUGHTON DEAD. A WELL-KNOWN NEVADA AND ‘WASHINGTON POLITICIAN DIES AT TACOMA. He FippLep His WAY INTo OFFICE IN THE NORTHERN STATE. TACOMA, Wash., March 16.—Charles E. Taughton,*‘the fiddling Governor’” and ex- Lieutenant-Governor of Washington and Nevada, died at 8:20 to-night at the Bo- hemian Club of heart failure caused by a complication of diseases. He came here lagt Saturday from Olym- pia, where he had been during the legisla- tive session. He became sick suddenly, and Tuesday his son Ray was telegraphed or. At 8:10 this evening he felt better and was moved to the parlor of the club. Ten minutes later he complained of the room being too warm. His son Ray went to open a window when he exclaimed, “Oh, my God,” and expired, sinking in his chair. The book he was reading, “The Sunny Side of Politics,” fell in his lap. The funeral arrangements are not made. Mrs. Laughton and her two daughters are in San Francisco. Charles E. Laughton was born in Ban- gor, Me., where his father still lives, and was 49 years old. He was an Elk, a thirty- third degree Mason and a Mystic Shriner. Laughton was married in 1871 at Sacra- mento, and the same year became con- nected with the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, of which he was appointed auditor in 1875. He held this position until elected Lieutenant-Governor of Nevada in 1882. At the expiration of his term he moved to Okanegon County, a mountainous min- ing district, where he was engaged in min- ing and milling operations, as he had been in Nevada. He was known as the best amateur violinist on the Pacific Coast, and his friends say that he tiddled his way into office in both Nevada and Washington. He won the hearts of the rough silver min- ers of Okanagon County by fiddling in their camps after their day’s work was ended. A dozen of them would gather around smoking their pipes as the Gov- ernor poured forth tuneful melodies. As a result the miners elected him to the Territorial Legislature, and at the first State convention held the next summer at Walla Walla, Laughton was nominated for Lieutenant-Governor to the surprise of al- most the entire convention. The miners demanded representation on the State ticket for their favorite, and by shrewd work Laughton secured the second place. The next year Governor Ferry had to go to California for his health, and for six months Laughton, as acting Governor, car- ried things with a high hand. He secured the passage of a law creating the office of State Geologist, and promptly appointed one of his Nevada friends to fill it. After the Legislature adjourned he vetoed sev- eral bills aimed to reduce railroad rates and otherwise regulate corporations. The farmers protested in vain. For two years he had spent most of his time in California, but promptly appeared at the opening of the Legislature in Janu- ary and was the chief organizer of the lobby. One Hundred Thousand Dollar Club. TACOMA, Wash., March 16.—At an en- thusiastic meeting held to-day the Tacoma Chamber ot Commerce and Commercial Club voted to consolidate, forming a Chamber of Commerce composed of 500 active members and professional men. The Chamber has taken for its motto ““Tacoma, a Hundred Thousand People in 1900,”” which means that an organized ef- fort will be made to secure that population for this city in five years. The State will be extensively advertised in the East. ON PUGET SOUND. ° A Dutch Colony to Be Established on Whidby Island. “We have bought 18,000 acres of land on ‘Whidby Island,” said H. E. Werkman of Holland. Mich., “and shall bring out a large colony of Hollanders. Some of these will come from the old country, some from Michigan and others from Dakota. The land will be sold in small tracts—not to exceed forty acres. Weexpect to bring out about two hundred families during the coming vear. -They will take up the growth of vegetables and roots, and will also go extensively into dairying and fruit- growing. *‘The Dutch are a wonderfully thrifty Eeople. They can live on a small_income, In the body of an adult person there are | about 18 pounds of blood. | The blood has as its most important ele- | ments. small round corpuscles, red and | white. in proportion of about 300 red to 1. white one. If the number of red corpuscles becomes | diminished and the white ones increased | the blood is impure, thin, lacking in the nutrition necessary to sustain the henlch‘ and nerve strength of the body. Then That Tired Feeling, Nervousness, Scrotula, Salt Rheum, or others of the long train of ills, according to the temperament and disposition, attack the victim. ! The only permanent remedy is found in | a reliable blood medicine like Hood’s Barsaparilla, which acts upon the red cor- puscles, enriching them and increasing their number. It thus restores the vital fluid to healthy condition, expels all im- purity, cures Nervousness, That Tired Feel- ing, Scrofula and all other diseases arising from or promoted by low state of the blood. That these statements are true we prove not by our own statements, but by what thousands of perfectly reliable people say about Hood’s Barsaparilla. Read the testi- monial in the next column from & beloved | been badly Rich Red Blood ““In view of the benefit I have had from Hoo.d‘u Snrsa}:fnrilln I wish to give the fol- lowing testimonial. I have several times Poisoned With Creeping lvy. As the old school of medicine simply tried to remove the symptoms instead of the sources of them, much of the poison was left in my system to appear in an itching k{umor on my body with every Yiclent ex- ertion in warm weather. Ataelltimesthere ‘were more or less indications of poison in my blood, up toa year agolast winter, when Large Sores Broke Out on my body. Ithen purchased a bottle of | Hood’s Sarsaparilla, and after using that and a half of another bottle, the sores and humor disappeared. I attended the Christ- ian Endeavor Convention in Montreal and also visited the World’s Fair in the hottest, weather of the summer. Was on the goall the time, but Had No Recurrence of the burning and itching sensation which had marred every previous sum- mer’s outing. I have reason, therefore, to be enthusiastic in my praises of Hood’s Sarsaparilla.” SAMUEL S, SCHENELL, pas- clergyman. Then take arsaparil tor of Free Baptist Church, B®alachin, N. ¥, Be i , And Sure ' ¢ Only To Get ; Hood’s a THE SENATORS DODGE, Continued from First Page. mained another reason why the matter should be referred to the Grand Jury. He said that some weeks ago a commit- tee of Senators examined the law and decided that the Senate had no power to appoint a committee to sit after the Legislature had adjourned. If this opinion be sound the appointment o the committee proposed by Senator Fay’ resolution would be futile, and their powers would be inadequate for the important work. The honor and dignity of the Senate and the well-being of the State require that the matter be exhaustively investigated. The offenses charged occurred in Sacra- mento, and the Grand Jury only has the great powers necessary to probe this awful charge to the bottom. The substitute was adopted, and Sacra- mento’s Grand Jury will be investigate. DUNN'S DISGRACEFUL ACT. ATTEMPTS TO DO VIOLENCE TO WiTNEss KaHN. | SACRAMENTO, March 16.—A fight be- tween Senator Dunn and Julius Kahn was only avoided by the active interference of by-standers at 3 o’clock this morning. Julius Kahn and a friend had entered:| the barroom of the Golden Eagle and edged their way through the crowd to the bar. The drinks had just been ordered when Dunn, who was in the barroom, | caught sight of Kahn and made a run for | him, applying to Kahn an opprobrious | epithet. One of the local newspaper men grabbed Dunn by the arm, but was thrust | aside. W. D. English and James Long | then grappled with Dunn, who tugged | and pulled to get away. Kahn looked at his adversary a moment | and then walked away without replying to | his epithets. Dunn kept up his wordy as- sault on Kahn, and had to be held several | moments before he calmed down enough to listen to the advise of his friends. This afternoon Senator Dunn stated to a friend that he was under the influence of liquor at the time of the outbreak and could not control himself when he saw the | man who had testified against him before | the committee. Kahn made light of the episode. All sorts of rumors of threats of vio- lence have been circulated, but nothing | disturbed the peace of the Senatorial day session. THEGOVERI\E(;RDISAPPOINTED How a PET MEasure CaME To BE DEFEATED IN THE SENATE. SACRAMENTO, March 16.— Governor Budd is much disappointed over the re- fusal of the Senate to pass the bill giving the State Board of Examiners supervisory control of the various boards which man- age the State penal and charitable institu- tions. Samuel Leake, SBacramento’s postmaster, is the one responsible for the defeat of the bill. Some days ago Leake had a talk with the Governor, in which he said it was | a foolish thing to pass such a bill. “Hus- band and wife sometimes quarrel and make up, but with two Republicans and one | Democrat on the hoard the Republicans are not going to quarrel,”’ said Leake in his argument. The Governor could not agree with him, and then the conversation ended. “They say I beat the bill,” said Leake, “and I guess they tell the truth, but the | story that the Governor was against the | It was a pet measure | bill is a falsehood. with the Governor.” Leake’s interest in killing the bill is due to his friendship for State Printer Johnson. Governor Budd is very much put out over the slaughter of the bill. The failure of Seymour to stand up and be counted for the bill probably greatly hurts his chance of being made warden of the State prisen at San Quentin. It is said that the Governor now contemplates vetoing one of the appropriation bills for the State Printer’s office. 2 “Mr. Leake and I are friendly enough,” ut when they get ahead are liberal in | said the Governor, “but I cannot control their expenditures and generous in their customs. The climate of Holland closely resembles that of Puget Sound, and I am confident that the colonies will be entirely successful. It is our purpose to reclaim a reat deal of the flooded land on the island gy means of dikes. The island has an area of about 110,000 acres, and we expect in a ,gew years to change it into a garden spot. Mr. Werkman has just sent a carload of the groducts of Washington to Holland, Mich. That is the center of the greatest Hollander settlement in the United States. “Within a radius of thirty miles,” said Mr. Werkman, *‘there are about 40,000 of my countrymen.”—Spokane Review. Three thousand vessels have used the Manchester ship canal in the first year after its opening. Of these 501 were foreign vessels bound to Manchester direct, his action and he certainly cannot control mine. If I could have prevented Mr. Leake would not have fought the bill. I do not blame him for doing so. He has a perfect right to oppose legislation for the good of the State if he so desires to do, but the statement that 1 was opposed to the measure is absolutely and unqualifiedly false.” NEW APPOINTEES, SENATOR GESFORD Is Now INSUR- ANCE COMMISSIONER. SACRAMENTO, March 16.—Governor Budd sent to the Senate the following ap- pointments to-night: Senator Henry C. Gesford of Naga t0 be In- asked to | | speeches, referring to the many y N. surance Commissioner. term expired April 15, 1894 | Nelson Provost of San Francisco Port War- vice J. N. E. Wilson, den, vice John W. Gage, term expired. H. R. Atwood of San Francisco, Port Warc | vice A.J. Martin, term expired; Robert I | gerald of Oakland, Prison Director, | Charles Sonntag, term expired. vice All the nominations were confirmed by rn- the Sezate. Some debate oceured conc ing the Insurance Cemmissioner, it be contended that no vacancy existed in the | office now held by M. R. Higgins, who was | appointed by Governor Markham. Senator Gesford made a near speech, thanking his associates for the honor con- ferred. —_————— Nevada Legislature Adjowrns. CARSON, Nev, The arch 16 UMATILLA IND SMOKE THE PIPE OF PEACE WITH A SOLDIER. | CAPTAIN RICHARDS MOLLIF DISGRUNTLED CHIEFS O OREGON TRIBE. PENDLETON, Or., March 16.—aptain Richards, in command of tue troops, to- day held a powwow with the Umatilla Indian ehiefs. The chiefs made lengthy rs their people have been at peace with the whites, and claiming that the Umatilla tribe al- ways assisted the white settlers to repel the invasion of hostile bands of warriors from the north. The powwow was con- ducted with great formality. The pipe of peace was smoked and the captain in return brought out a box of Havanas. Sports were then indulged in. Mootenic, the champion Indian wrestler, offered to wrestle with any one of the sol- die: Several matches resulted, Mootenic winning all bouts. Captain Richards ordered out the troops and gave an exhibition drill. A large ‘crowd of spectators watched the proceed- ings, while the chiefs stood in wonderment. Captain Richards then caused the best in his commissary to be set out and with his officers did the honors to the newly made Indian citizens. When dinner was | over the chiefs and their retainers saddled their horses, shook hands as a token of eternal friendship and rode away to their tepees at the headwaters of the Umatilla River, while theirattendants beat tom toms and a few bloodcurdling yells echoed among the peaks roundabout the camp, as a reminder of the days when the warpaint was worn and the tomabawk dangled at | their belts. — SANTA BARBARA FESTIVAL. Visitors Gathering to Be Present at the Great Flower Show. SANTA BARBARA, March 16.—The Arlington has for a week past been flying the flag which signifies that the number of guests in the house has passed the 200 limit, and still the trains are daily brin ing large pa fes to swell the society con- tingent already gatMered for the coming flower festival, which promises to have | a larger and more brilliant attendance than | any of its predecessors. 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