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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1895. MARY NEW LAWS, The Governor Approves Some of the Work of Legislators. VETO0 OF ONE MEASURE. The Letter “S” in One of the Bills Leads to Its Killing. FATE OF THE STRFETCAR BILL. The Executive May Pocket Though a Strong Fight Was Made for It. 1t, SACRAMENTO, Car., March 26.—Gov- ernor Budd’s labors on the mass of bills, Assembly and Senate, that have been sub- mitted for his signature are finished. Of the appropriation bills, including the general appropriation, there will be about eight that will receive his signature and become laws. Some will be vetoed, and or eighty—perhaps more—will be -d and, like the county government bill, will become laws two years from the present time. On Friday the Governor intends to leave for Stockton, where, he declares, he will “take to the tules’ to escape all inter- course with the world at large, and thus v a well-deserved rest. After his re- turn, he says, he will personally visit all public institutions throughout the State— prisons, insane asylums, ete. There have been several officials connected with these same institutions in Sacramento to-day, presumably for the purpose of ex: plaining the purchase of quail, turkey chicken. bird, etc., which they have here- tofore charged up to the State, but which the Board of Examiners has given notifi- cation must cease. Warden Aull is here. Iti derstood that he has a pet measure providing for the purchase of 500 acres of adjoining land to the prison grounds for farming purposes. This land is covered with rocks, serub brush and granite crop- pings. A few years ago it could be pur- chased for $5 per acre. Now that it is de- sired by the State it will probably cost at least $100 per acre. In speaking of some of the “pecnliar’” bills which passed through the last Legis- lature the Governor referred to oneasa le instance. bill,”” he said, “added a section to R the Penal Code making it a misdemeanor to poi »n any domestic animal. I thought s a pretty good thing and should become a law, when I chanced to think of ute that made the same offense a “Ilooked it up and found it wasso de- clared. That bill will be pocketed. The author of the bill evidently had some grudge against the existing law, and, fear- o that a repealing act would not meet with approval, introduced it in a form that would have the same effect and yet be sure to pass.”’ The Governor worked very late last night bills, and .the result was that ninty- selen more bills bear his signature. The Assembly bills are as follows: bill 776—To prevent the sale of imitation or adulterated hong A. B.67—Changing the fiscal year of cities operating under a charter framed under sec- tion 8, article IT, of the constitution. 91—To pay the claim of T. Carl Spelling t the State. A. B.117—To amend section 726 of the Code Assembl of Civil Procedure relative to the foreclosure of mortgages. A. B. 140—Relating to transfers of stock of corporations engaged in certain business transferable as appurtenances to real property. A. B. 148—To create the office of game wa A. B. 157—Authorizing Superior Judges of counties of over 200,000inhabitants toappoint Authorizing the issuanceof bonds and incurring of indebtedness by cities and towns for their protection from overflows and theirdrainage. A. B.246—Making an eppropriation to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for forestry stations. A. B. 221—Appropriating money for the use of the two forestry stations and the establish- ment of a third. A. B. 353—To rednce the number of Superior Judges in Tulare County. A. B. 391—To create an exempt firemen’s relief fund. A. B.433—To authorize the trustees of An- burn to remove a cemetery and donate the land for a public park. A. B. 439—To authorize the State to secure title to a road in El Dorado County, and pro- viding for the appointment of the Lake Tahoe Wegon Road Commissioners. A. B. 542—To amend the act creating a board of commissioners of the building and loan as- sociations. A. B. 567—Relating to marriages and repeal- {ng the section allowing marriage by contract. A.B.512—To pay the claim of James A. Kearney. A. B. 218—Authorizing the Controller to re- furnish his office. A. B. 599—To pay the expenses of the funeral of the late Secretary of State, E. G. Waite. A. B. 600—To pay the city of San Francisco for expe of transportation of children to the Whittier School. To pay the rent of the office of missioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistic: A. B. 616—Authorizing the Clerk of the Supreme Court to furnish his offices with. steel record cases. A. B. orizing corporations for maintaining, establishing or improving ceme- teries to take and hold property bequeathed, granted or given to them. A. B.676—To pay deficiency for heating and ventilation in the training department of the Ban Jose Normal School. A. B. 709—To pay indebtedness for providing a refrigerator for the Southern California Asylum for Insane and Inebriates. A.B.708—To pay deficiency for additional buildings for the Southern California asylum. A. B. 725—To pay deficiency in salary for the Secretary of State Board of Examiners, A. B.734—Providing for the destruction of ell bonds of any irrigation district remaining unsold after the completion of the district. A. B.700—For payment of deficieney of eppropriation for the State Agricultural So- ciety. A. B.15—Relating to Police courts and clerks thereof in cities of between 26,000 and 100,000 inhabitants. 7 A. B. 829—To pay deficiency for postage, ex- pressege and contingent expenses of the Attor- y-General. A. B. 877—To pay deficiency in the appropri- ation for ballot paper. A. B. 880—To prevent the sale of intoxicating liquors in the vicinity of soldiers’ homes. A. B.907—To provide for the disincorpora- tion of municipal corporations of the sixth class. A. B.917—To pay indebtedness of the Board mmissioners. —Relating to commitments to the Whittier School. A. B. 934—To pay deficiency for repairs to the capitol buiiding, furniture, etc. A.B.953—In relation to the formation of sgricultural districts and associations. A.B.961—To pay expenses of the Commis- sioner of Public Works and his employes for the forty-seventh and forty-eighth fiscal years. -A. B. 1002—Authorizing payment of com- pensation or commission to persons employed by the State Controller, the Attorney-General or Boards of Supervisors to collect delinquent State or county taxes, and legalizing all payments made for that purpose. A. B. 1021—Relative to the engrossment and enrollment of bills and other documents. A. B.1025—Relating to the levy of taxes. A. B. 370—Relating to the suppression of riots end the parading of independent compa- nies, A. B.508—The San Francisco fee clerk’s bill. A. B. 607—To provide for letting of contracts for the lighting of streets and public buildings. A. B. 618—Relating to the National Guard and to provide for the retirement and disposi- tion of certain officials thereof. A. B. 669—Prescribing how j may be obtained against a; 000 {nhabitants may be paid. A. B. 694—Appropriating money to ‘pay the claims of the State Agricultural Society. A. B.736—To provide a schoolteachers’ re- tirement and annuity fund. A. B. 798—Concerning the completion of un- public buildings. . 799—Concerning the completion of un- ed public buildings. Following are the Senate bills approved S.B.6—To pay deficiency for costs and ex- penses to which the State is & party. S. B. 53—Relating to assignments for the benefit of creditors. §. B. 59—Relating to fraudulent instruments nd transfers. S.B. 62—To empower the Board of Harbor Commissioners to institute condemnation pro- ceedings against certain property on the corner of Market, Sacramento and East streets, San Francisco. §. B. 124—To pay deficiency in the appropria- tion for the support of the Mendocino Insane Asylum. S. B.127—To pay the claim of W. P. Lamp- Kin. . B. 106—Requiring boards Jor commissions having management or control of paid fire de- partments to grant the members thereof yearly vacations. 8. B. 116—Concerning corporations and per- sons engaged in banking. S. B. 148—For the survey of a free wagon rond from Mariposa to the Yosemite Valley. S.B.119—To reduce the number of Superior Judges of Fresno Co S. B. 121—To appropriate the surplus moneys in the special Mendocino Asylum for the uses of the Mendoeino Asylum. S.B.182—Relating to the account with the County Clerk as to disbursement of money and Dproperty of estates. 8. B. 183—Re ing to report as to the con- dition of estates. S. B. 195—Relating to the removal of human remains from cemeteries in cities having be- tween 1500 and 50,000 inhabitants. 8. B. 201—To provide against adulteration of food and drugs. . S. B. 212—To pay deficiency in appropriation for support of Folsom State Prison. S. B. 221—Relating to organization and goy- ernment of municipal corporations. S. B. 247—Abolishing the San Francisco Home for Inebriat S. B. 229—To provide for a stenographic re- porter for the Coroner of San Francisco. S. B. 200—Relating to powers and duties of the Board of Bank Commissioners. S. B. 248—To pay claim of Charles A. Hiatt. 8. B. 280—Relating to agents for absent in- terest parties in the discharge of executors and administrators. S. B. 331—To pay claim of R. J. Broughton. S. B. 332—Relating to leases of agricultural lands. 8. B.369—To provide for the formation of sanitary districts, S. B. 448—Topay claim of R. B. Young, ar- chitect fees. S. B. 486—In relation to punishwent of rimes against the election laws. B. 426—Authorizing the State Treasurer to appoint a clerk at $1600 salary. . B. 514—Concerning the right of eminent domain. S. B. 587—To provide the manner of execut- ing deeds by cemetery corporations. 8. B. 630—To pay deficiency for transporta- tion of insane. 8. B.631—To pay deficiency for transporta- tion of children to the Whittier School. S. B. 646—Relating to the maintenance of civil actions by executors and administrators. B. 647—To pay the salary of the secretary to the Debris Commissioner for the remainder of the fiscal year. 8. B. 675—To pay deficiency for support of the Southern California asylum. B.705—To pay indebtedness incurred by ing out the National Guards in 1893 and 1894. S. B. 721—Relating to actions to determine adverse claims to property. S. B. 709—Allowing the Harbor Commission- ers to lease the water front of San Francisco. 8. B. 772—To establish a Police Court in Eu- reka. S. B. 422—To pay claim of Henry W. Taylor. 8. B. 434—Relating to the removal and sever- ance of fixtures and improvements on mort- gaged property. S. B. 462—To prevent evil-disposed persons from entering on the grounds of Whittier school. §. B. 791—Relating to libel and slander. 8. B. 891—Appropriating $200,000 for the support of the Whittier school. Substitutes for Senate bills 45, 52, 54 and 77—the insolvency bill A large number of bills will undoubtedly be “*pocketed.”” THE STREETCAR BILL. It Will Probably Be ‘ Pocketed?” by the Governor. SACRAMENTO, Cavn., March 26.—Ex- Mayor E. B. Pond, who, it is claimed, owns large railroad interests in the city of Los Angeles, made a flying visit to this city to-day and in a five-minute interview accorded him by Gowernor Budd attempted to convince the latter of the advisability of affixing "his signature to the streetcar bill. A letter on the subject from Attorney A. Rodgers was presented, being his opinion on various clauses of the bill, rendered at the request of Mayor ‘Pond. In his digest the attorney says: I have read the proposed act to amend sec- tions 499 and 501 of the Civil Code relating to street railroads, and find section 499 identical with the existing section as amended in 1891, with the exception of a few words, and itis evidently a just provision. The second re- stores the former law in force since the codes were first adopted and prior thereto. Section 501 has several changes. It reduces fare from 10 to 5 cents, adds a provision for the protection of passengers and increases the speed at which cars can run from eight to twelve miles per hour, and declares a violation ot the section to be a misdemeanor, placing the penalty at a fine of not less than $50 or more than £500. It also excluded the application of this section to the McCoppin act limiting the rates of fares in cities of more than 100,000 inhabitants, The act is general in its application, except with reference to fares in cities of over 100,000 inhabitants, and with reference to such fares the act of 1878 is recognized as still in force and {s not repealed. These amendments are clearly in favor of the passengers and against the railroads. This is the blil over an amendment to which the Biggy-Dunn scandal arose. Although the Governor refuses to say ex- actly what he thinks about the measure there is no doubt that he will pocket it. There have been almost as strong forces working against as for the bill, and its ene- mies have attempted to demonstrate that the clause prohibiting roads under differ- ent managements from occupying the same street for more than five blocks would grant an exclusive monopoly to the street-car companies holding franchises in San Francisco at the present time, VETOES ONE BILL. The Governor Finds That a Letter « 87 T of Great Significance. SACRAMENTO, CAL., March 26.—Gov- ernor Budd has vetoed but one bill to-day. His reasons are expressed as follows: The reasons which impel me to withhold my approval of the annexed bill, being Assembly 176, are these: P The bill entitled “An act to amend an act entiled ‘An act providing for the sale of rail- road and other franchises in municipalities and relative to the maintaining of franchises,” approved March 23,1893.” The body of the ect contains but few changes from the one which it purports to amend. One is & minor change as to the advertising of the application. The other provides that the hour, aswell as the day of the hearing shall be mentioned. These changes are in themselves trivial and could hardly have been the cause for the amendment in question. The act provides that “every franchise or privilege to erect or lay telegraph or telephone wires, to construct or operate railroads along or upon any public street or highway,or to exercise any other privilege whatever hereafter proposed to be granted by the Board of Supervisors, Common Council or other governing or legislative body of any country, city and country, city, town or district within the State, shall be granted upon the conditions in this act; provided and not otherwise.” This provision was in the law sought to be amended, and the words, “Shall be granted upon conditions in this act provided,” were the controlling and mandatory portions of said clause. The act then proceeded to provide how the application and the advertising for such applications should be made, and de- clared that the “advertisement must state the character of the franchise or privilege pro- posed to be granted, the term of its continu- ance, &nd, if a street railroad the route to be traversed, the day upon which tenders will be received for the same;” thus providing, under the act of 1893, that the council should grant, after advertisement and application, railroad, telegraph or telephone franchises upon certain conditions stated. The new bill uses substantially the exact language of the old actin regard to the fran- chises, the fact that they should be granted, the persons or companies to be affected and changes the clause last above quoted to read as follows: “This advertisement must state the character of the franchise or privilege pro- posed to be granted, the terms of its continu- ance and, if a street railroad, the route to be traversed and the day and hour upon which sealed tenders will be received for the same. The only substantlal change in the bill as to the franchise that is to be granted is made by the addition of the crooked little letter “s” to the word ‘‘term,” as it existed in the act sought to be amended. In that act it provided for the grant, stating the term of its continuanec, in- dicating only the time. In the amendment, by the insertion of but one letter, it is made to read, “the terms of its continuance,” which means the conditions under which it must exercise the franchise to be granted. Under the old law before the “s” was inserted, time only needs to be stated. Under the new bill conditions beneficial to the corporation applying for the franchise may be applied for and granted. It may provi that no railroad line shall run parallel within two blocks of the petitioning company. It may provide that not more than a certain number of blocks in all of or any other line shall be used by a competing line. It may make a thousand conditions beneficial to itself, which, if secured from the municipality, gives it an absolute monopoly. The line making application may provide absolutely against competition. While the letter “‘s” is small and of seeming insignifi- cance, the manner in which it is inter- jected into this bill and is attempted to be in- terjected into the law would make it of the utmost importance. I doubt whether ever be- fore in the history of legislation the addition of a single tetter in the alphabet has had more potential significance. While the law as it was, giving a certain term of continuance for the franchise, might not have been unwise, any law allowing & corporation or person to purchase an absolute monopoly or franchise and privilege for the erection or laying of telegraph or telephone | wires, or the construction or operation of rail- roads upon any public street or highway would be plainly against the principles of our institutions. NEWS FROM L0S ANGELES SALE OF THE OLD CITY HALL TO BANKER HELLMAN OF SAN FRANCISCO. & PoLicE COMMISSIONERS DECIDE THAT SALOON ORPINANCES MUST Be ENFORCED. 108 ANGELES, CAL., March 26.—The city sold at public auction to-day the ground and buildings on Second street, | now used for police headquarte being | the old City Hall. The purchase price was $42,000 for 61 feet front by 120 feet deep. The property was knocked down to J. A. Graves. I. W. Hellman of the Nevada Bank of San Francisco was present and it | is understood that the purchase was made | by the attorney for Mr. Hellman, as the banker’s family already owns considerable frontage in the same block. The jail quarters have become too small for the accommodation of prisoners and the City Council will have a new block erected soon into which the department | headquarters will be moved, together with the police courts. A Newspaper Writer's Health. LO8S ANGELES, CAn., March 26— George A. Apperson, one of the Chicago Herald’s Washington correspondents, has been in Los Angeles for the past six weeks in pursuit of health. A mistaken idea seems to have gone abroad that Mr. Ap- person is in a critical condition. At the | present time he appears to be gaining surely and hopes are entertained that he will soon be able to return to his desk in ‘Washington, where he has achieved an enviable reputation. Christian Scientists Held for Trial. LOS ANGELES, CArL., March 26.—Jesse Samis and “Dr.”” Richard Cook, the two men arrested for manslaughter in con- nection with the Whittier Christian science affair, have both given bail for their ap- pearance in court for examination. They are charged with criminal neglect in not providing Alice Samis, the wife of one of the defendants, with medical care, Mrs. Samis having died owing to lack of proper treatment after childbirth. Police Must Enforce the Law. LOS ANGELES, CAL., March 26.—At a meeting of the Police Commissioners held this morning, resolutions were adopted recommending that the saloon - closing ordinance be strictly enforced after 12 o'clock at mnight until 5 A. M., and on Sun- days, and that all lawful means 'be used to confine disreputable women to particular limits in that {vortion of the city occupied by disreputable houses. Future of Northern California. LOS ANGELES, Carn., March 26.—Ex- Lieutenant-Governor Reddick of San An- dreas is in town. In discussing the busi- ness prospects of the State to-day, he spoke encouragingly of the outlook in the north, and expressed his firm belief in the build- ing and successful operation fof the San Joaquin Valley Railroad. A Woman. Held for Incendiarism., LOS ANGELES, Cav., March 26.—Mrs. Amelia Platt was held to answer on a charge of arson by Justice of the Peace Young to-day. Mrs. Platt is accused of having set fire to her own dwelling on Pico Heights in order to get insurance money. Washed Up by the Sea. LOS ANGELES, CAv., March 26.—Carl Single, a young German bartender, dis- appeared at Santa Monica Sunday. He was intoxicated when last seen. His body was washed up on the beach to-day. —————————— Langley’s Directory has 2594 more names than the opposition. Two maps. ILLINDIS TO BLAME All the Violent Acts of Strikers Due to Neg- ligence. SO DECLARES MR. OLNEY. The Inactivity of the State Ag- gravated . All the Evils. THEN UNCLE SAM TOOK HOLD. Argument of the Attorney-General g!n Support of Debs’ Con- viction. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 26.—The hearing on the application of Eugene V. Debs and others for a writ of habeas corpus for their release from imprisonment was resumed promptly on the opening of the Supreme Court of the United States at Attorney - General Olney made the first argument, speaking in be- half of the Government in opposition to the application. Mr. Olney said the single question before the Supreme Court was whether the court below had jurisdiction of the case made by the original bill, and proceeded to show that as he viewed the matter it had. He devoted but very little time to the discus- sion of the Government’s technical rela- tion to the mails and the mail-bags or to the provisions of the act of 1890, which he characterized as ‘‘an experimental piece of legislation,”” and passed immedi- ately to the consideration of the strike as a violation of interstate commerce regulations. The interstate commerce, which is subject to the regula- tion of Congress, comprehends, he said, a great variety of different subject-matter. Tt is held as respects some of them that in the absence of positive legislation thereon by Congress there may be action by a State. But it has always universally been con- ceded that the moment Congress does act upon any matter which is part of com- merce from that moment the jurisdiction of the United States becomes absolute and excludes all other authority. Intercourse and transportation between the States and all the instruments of either are admittedly parts of interstate commerce. Transpor- tation of passengers and freight by rail- roads is of course included. Not only is that so, but it is also true that interstate railroad transportation has been taken in especial charge by Congress. Having power to control it Congress has not per- mitted the power to lie dormant, but has freely and decisively exercised it. He then enumerated many of tne Fed- eral laws bearing on the question of inter- state traffic, including those applying to the mail service and those relating to the carrying of livestock. But in this connec- tion and for the purpose, he continued, it «is more important to note the provisions of several general statutes which cover the whole field of interstate railroad transpor- tation and show most conclusively the purpose of Congress to exclude every other source and form of regulation except its own. Section 5258 of the Revised Statutes declares as follows: ‘“Every railroad com- pany whose road is operated by steam, its successors and assignees, is hereby author- ized to carry upon and over its road, boats, bridges and ferries, any property on its way from one State to another State and to receive compensation therefor and to connect with roads of other States so as to form continuous lines for the transporta- tion of the same to the place of its des- tination.” Having by this legislation made street railroads interstate commerce carriers for both Governmental and private purposes, Congress, by the act of 1887, known as the interstate commerce act, inaugurated measures more radical and comprehensive than anything ever before attempted by virtue of its power to regulate commerce. By that act the principles in accordance with which interstate transportation shall be conducted are laid down and defined, their violation is inhibited under several penalties, and to crown the whole all the interstate commerce railroads of the coun- try are practically put in charge of a com- mission, which isto see to it that their du- ties as interstate carriers, as prescribed by Congress, are faithfully discharged. Fi- nally, recognizing the existence of an evil of great magnitude, Congress, by act of October 1, 1888, made provision for the cre- ation of boards of arbitration to settle con- troversies between railroad companies and their employes, which controversies are having the effect of hindering and inter- rupting. As a matter of fact, he said, in July, 1894, interstate railroad transportation was being interfered with in the State of Il- linois and the city of Chicago. It was an interference for which, with all its conse- quences and incidents, the present petition- ers are to the fullest extent responsible, unless it be true that men can wantonly touch the match to powder and yet be blameless because not rightly realizing the ensuing devastation; unless it be true that those who seek to execute a plot by any means possible in the open and taking the legal consequences upon their heads are,to be branded as criminals, while those who sit in an office and hatch the plot and urge on its consummation are to go unwhipped of justice because of the lond-mouthed pro- fession of virtue in general and respect for law and order in particular. The Attorney-G eneral admitted that it was the duty of State authorities to deal with certain phases of the offenses com- mitted, and said: *“If they had done so promptly and vig- orously the interruption of interstate rail- way transportation might possibly have not ceased; but instead of their doing this they allowed day after day to pass, marked either by total inactivity or by effort so ill directed and inadequate as to aggravate all the evils of the situation. Hence it be- came necessary for the Government to step in, not only in defense of individuals, but in obedience to its obligations to protect interstate commerce, and because it is the duty of every government to exercise its functions whenever occasion requires.” Mr. Olney then passed on to the consid- eration of the means at the command of the Government ior the suppression of the strike, the principal of which was the courts, which must be depended upon, so far as practicable, to deal with it. He next considered the assertion that the Chicago effair was exceptional, and to controvert the allegation of errors in the court below and in closing said: “What wasdone by the Government and its court at Chicago 1n the summer of 1894 was done on a conspicuous theater and 1 dealt with events striking in themselves [ and in the scale on which they were con- ducted, and which strongly appealed to the imagination as well as to the pas- sions of men. Its action was denounced from the outset as novel and unprece- dented, so that it even became expedient to publicly proclaim the right and familiar principle that for the execution of national functions every foot of every State is na- tional soil and national property. Since then the same policy has been persistently pursued and the Government bill in equity, the injunction and the proceedings for con- tempt have all been loudly condemned as analogous, extraordinary and revolution- ary. To such charges there could be no more decisive answer than is furnished by this debate and by the contentions of the respective parties.” Mr. Olney closed at 1 o’clock and was promptly followed by Mr. Darrow in the interest of the petitioners. There was no interruption of the Attorney-General dur- ing the progress of his argument by any member of the court, and he received the closest attention. Mr. Darrow opened by saying that he agreed with Mr. Olney that the case was one of vast importance. Not only was it of importance to the corpora- tions, but to the countless millions of working people. He asserted that the Attorney-General had overlooked the in- terest of this latter class in his argument, as he had also overlooked the fact of the danger to civil liberty embraced in the case. He replied with some warmth to Mr. Olney’s criticism of the failure of the State courts to take proper cognizance of the acts of violence accompanying the strike, declaring that the State had ever been anxious to preserve peace and was capable of doing so. I the contrary had been true the United States troops could be called on, but there was no excuse under the law for appealing to the Federal courts. He then took up the legal aspect of the case, criticizing what he asserted to be the abandonment by the Government of its original position in bringing its bill under the anti-trust law. The search for a prece- dent for an action like the present under the common .law powers had been in vain both on the part of counsel for the peti- tioners and the Government. He con- tended that the interstate commerce act was not applicable as that law was enacted for the purpose of dealing with and re- stricting the operations of the railway cor- porations. It was charged that the officers of the A. R. U. had sent telegrams order- ing strikes, but it had been shewn that these telegrams advised observance of the law. The original bill itself was free from such charges. If then these men had com- mitted no offense, there was no power in the court to commit them for contempt. In almost every word uttered by the Attorney-General this court is urged, said Mr. Darrow, not to interfere because these men were guilty of unlawful acts and be- cause the' consequences of their acts were serious. Could the equity power of the courts be resorted to because Congress had not seen fit to provide an adequate penalty for certain offenses? If such a state of affairs as pictured by the Attorney-General did really exist in Chicago the situnation was one with which the executive should have dealt through the military and not through the courts. What was needed was the display of force and not the order of a court in such an emergency. Mr. Darrow concluded with a personal appeal on behalf of his eciients. He con- tended their acts were not criminal. He could say on behalf of his clients that, although they might have been misguided and unwise, they had acted from the high- est and purest motives. When a body of 100,000 men lay down their implements of labor, not because their own rights have been invaded, but because the bread has been taken from the mouths of their fel- lows, we have no right to say they are criminals. It is difficult to place ourselves in the position of others, but this court should realize that the petitioners in this case are representatives of the great labor- ing element of this country upon which the country must so largely depend for its safety, prosperity and progress. Mr. Dar- row’s argument was the last in the case, and when he had finished the court pro- ceeded with other business on its calendar. A decision will probably be rendered before the adjournment in May. RESPONSIBLE FOR REBELS, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRIES MUST PAY DAMAGES. JUDGMENTS IN FAVOR OF AMERI- CANS RENDERED BY THE VENE- ZUELAN COMMISSION. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 26.—After months of deliberation the Venezuelan Commission to-day concluded its labors and announced i‘s decision, being a judg- ment in favor of citizens of the United States for $143,500, about one-third of the amount of the claims. Of the total award the Venezuelan Steam Transportation Company of New York received $141,500 American gold, with interest, and Captain A. G. Post, Jacob J. Maurinus and David J. Sturgis received each $300 with interest. The claim of Cornelius J. Brinkerhof, master of the San Francisco, was the only one disallowed. The claims date back to 1871, when, in the course of a revolution in Venezuela, three of the vessels of the American corporation were seized by the Venezuelans on either side in the contro- versy and much damaged by use in war. The ships were finally recovered, one through the good office of the commander of a British warship and the other two by the commander of the United States ship Shawmut. The claim’ also included items based on the refusal of the victorious revolutionary Government to allow the company to exe- cute the franchise it had to navigate Venezuelan waters and also items for the imprisonment of the master of the seized vessels. The principle involved in the judgment rendered to-day is of great in- terest to the countries of Central and South America, which are subject to revo- lution, for it amounts to a declaration that such countries are responsible for the acts of the insurgents against the rights and properties of foreigners, even if these acts are beyond their control. Senor Andreade, the Venezuelan repre- sentative of the commission, has given no- tice that he will file a dissenting opinion in the case. MRS Captured in Ontario. WASHINGTON. D. C., March 26.—Chief Inspector Wheeler of the Postoffice Depart- ment has been notified of the arrest at Cape May, Ont., of Henry Smythe, who escaped from a United States Marshal at Little Rock, Ark., last November. He is charged with defrauding various mer- chants out of $15,000. An Insane Firebug. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 26.—Mary Delaney, the woman who is under arrest for having attempted to burn St. Patrick’s and St. Dominick’s churches last Thursday, has become violently insane, DD CARLISLE ERR? Controversy Caused by the Landing of His Son. ALL DUE TO ANXIETY. Taken From Quarantine by a Revenue Cutter in Haste. VIOLATED NEW YORK'S LAW. That Is Why Health Officer Doty Is After the Secretary of the Treasury. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 26.—Collector Kilbreth has received frcm Surveyor J. C. McGuire a report of the alleged violation of the quarantine law committed by the Sec- retary of the Treasury, John G. Carlisle, the guest of the ofiicials of the Customs department. The Collector positively re- fused to make public the contents of the document. The trouble has arisen on account of the Secretary’s anxiety to take care of his son. The young man arrived in port last Satur- day on the American line steamship Paris after a month’s tour abroad. The Secre- tary went down to quarantine in the reve- nue cutter and took his son off before the passengers had been inspected by Health Officer Doty. This constitutes a violation of the State law, hence the trouble. Much to the annoyance of Collector Kil- breth the matter became public and he asked Surveyor McGuire for a report. A reporter called on Collector Kilbreth just after the document was handed to him and he was then engaged in perusing it. He admitted that it was the much sought af- ter report, but refused to divulge the con- tents. Neither would he state what action in the matter was intended. Health Officer Doty has as yet received no official reply to his letter to Collector Kilbreth and Captain Watkins of the Amer- ican line steamer Paris in relation to the landing of W. K. Carlisle, who arrived on board that vessel from Southampton and who was transferred to the revenue cutter Hudson prior to the visit of the health offi- cer aboard the Paris. Mr. Doty was not at quarantine this afternoon, having made a visit to the city. Private Secretary Hall stated that an answer was hourly expected to the com- munication sent yesterday to the Collector and Captain Watkins, Dr. Doty, Secretary Hall said, was in the first place very loth to criticize the action of Secretary Carlisle or Collector Kilbreth, but the violation of the quarantine law was so flagrant that he was compelled to take cognizance of it. YOUNG CARLISLE'S ARRIVAL. He Does Not Think His Father Violated the Quarantine Laws. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 26.—W. K. Carlisle when on the stand said if there had been any violation of the local quar- antine laws he was ignorant of it. His father reached the ship when she was lying to at anchor, and, coming aboard, waited about half an hour for him to dress. As soon as he was ready he left the ship and came up the harbor in. the cutter with the Assistant Secretary, Mr. Hamlin, and a customs officer, before whom he made his customs declaration. One singular feature of the matter, Mr. Carlisle thought, was the fact that the New York weighed her anchor and imme- diately followed the cutter to her dock. There certainly was notsufficient time be- tween his leaving the ship and her weigh- ing anchor for the quarantine officer to make any examination, and it is his opin- ion that the examination, if any was made, was concluded before he left the ship. A prominent official in speaking of the mat- ter said that if the Secretary had violated the law, it had been done hundreds of times before. It was a very common thing for passengers to be met by friends and come with them into the city without any examination. At the most there could not have been more than a technical violation of the law. A NOBLE BENEFACTOR. Hundreds Will Reap the Benefit of His Munificenece. The benevolent man is always a pleasant theme for the pen of writer and historian, and this was what the late Mr.J. C. Wilmerding proved himsetf pre-eminently to be. Few there are who have not heard of his magnificent be- quest to the State of California, amounting to $400,000 to build a mechanical school; but not all are, perhaps, aware that he amassed his fortune selling Peruvian Bitters. Wilmerding’s generosity in founding such a college, while great, is not greater than his services to man- kind in giving to the world the celebrated Peruvian Bitters, for these stand prominently forth as the greatest benefaction to the public health which is known to modern science. The Peruvian Bitters are a certain remedy against loss of appetite and all forms of ner- vous troubles. They are a *pleasant, invigor- ating beverage, not a physic, and their use speedily corrects disordered functions, restores wasted energy, repairs lost_nerve force, induc- ing regular sieep. and healthy, natural appe- tite, and tones up the system' generally to its normal condition. They are better than whisky or brandy, for they accomplish all that either could without running the risk of creating an appetite for stimulants, since the principal ingredient—Cinchona Bark—is an antidote for dipsomania, as well as a remedy for colds, coughs and’ all malarial diseases.” Peruvian Bitters by their large sale, no less than_the wholesale cures they have effected, have dem- onstrated themselves to be the finest nerve tonic and good appetizer, producing & healthy stomach and cheerful brain. 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