The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 8, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1895. e e s O e CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprictor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—$6 per year by mail; by carrler, 15¢ wee er et CALL—$1.50 per year. KLY CALL—$1.50 per year. The Eastern office of the SAN FRANCISCO CALL (Daily and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Bureau, Rhinelander building, Rose and Duane streets, New York. W DAY Hail, Santa Rosa ! Every flower fete counts for pleasure. ‘We may as well eall this the floral year. i 3 et No two gold men agree in their defini- jons of bimetallism. e he G TRG Fruit-growers who pack their fruits best get the biggest profits. A genuine determination teo promote home enterprise is itself an enterprise. Healdsburg will see Santa Rosa’s show and go her another one, if not one better. Santa Cruz will float away from other festal cities by putting her fete in a real swim. Cleveland, Toledo and Detroit are afraid that Chicago is trying to hog the great lakes. The cloudburst at Fresno 1s a proof that even the golden rule of our Elysian climate has its exceptions. Now that the war is over Japan has found out that the battle for reform in the Orient has just begun. s Don't forget to co-operate with the Man- ufacturers’ Association in making a home market for home goods. No sooner do the Hawaiian “Royalists” meet together in a social way than the Dole moon reeks with the blood of revolu- tion. Judging from the number of festivals to which San Francisco is invited it would appear that she is getting popular with the Seate. However sympathetic we may be with the sufferers of Eastern floods and cyclones, we cannot help rejoicing in our own de- Iights. A Texas reformer wishes the people of that State to compel the legislators to serve without pay and make a living on the side. Voices of progress are heard everywhere in the State, but at present the loudest and most harmonious chorus comes from Stockton. 2 X BVt of One of the first good things the Half- million Club might do would be to list all the Government land in the State suitable for homes. In the demoralization of Democracy and the collapse of Populism, the only prospect of good government is in the success of the Republican party. Having promised to pay England $75,- 000, the Nicaraguans are now fighting among themselves for the pleasant privilege of collecting the taxes to pay it. The non-partisan movement in New York has resulted in producing a political quagmire, through which there seems to be no road for anybody to go anywhere. The best thing intelligent Democrats can do in 1896 will be to vote the Republican ticket and let their own party leaders set- tle their faction fights outside of Congress. Ex-Senator Martin of Kansas was un- doubtedly correct in saying: “If Democ- racy does not adopt a platform in favor of free silver coinage, it will not cairy a single State in the Union.” In trying to evade the monetary ques- tion by harking back to the tariff issue the Democrats are evidently actuated by the belief that it is better to bear the ills they have than fly to others they know not of. R R ) It seems pretty hard in these days when in an American city, as Chicago, industrial conditions have been so depressed by a bungling management of National affairs that women have to go into the brickyards to earn a livelihood. —— The rich silurian who objects to public improvements which beautify the City and make it inviting as a place of residence very likely keeps his daughters out of school and society, dresses them shabbily and then wonders why the stupid things never catch a beau. A racket has been #ised in New York because the matron of the Kings County Almshouse for women employed six elo- cutionists to read Trilby to the 700 inmates, Bome crities declare that was too much luxury for the poor,and others assert it was too much punishment for the aged. If the Hawaiian Government is not more circumspect the suspicion may arise that it finds the occasional discovery of a “hatch- ing revolution'’ necessary to its own holding together, possibly deeming this a more important consideration than the further settlement and development of the islands. The announcement that American art at the Berlin exhibition has been praised by German crities for its vigor and origi- nality will be received with great gratifica- tion in this country by everybody except our own critics, who have always asserted that there is nothing original in our art work at all. The report that Bourke Cockran may become a candidate for Parliament from an Irish constituency is not altogether im- probable, and yet it would be curious if Tammany should in that way annex Ire- lapd and use seatsin Parliament as con- solation stakes for Democrats who are beaten in the race in New York. Our good friend the Bulletin decries the issuance of bonds for “improvements which are objects of luxury and embellishment,” and includes the paving of streets among them. For that matter, why have streets atall? Few things except articles of food are absolutely necessary to existence in this climate, and in that view of the case we might get along even without houses. The editor of the Omaha Bee turned his paper over to the ladies for a Mayday edition, and one beautiful prophetess who wrote the paragraphs cheers us with the prediction that by Thanksgiving day the Trilby fad will be over, the Gould wed- ding will have been forgotten, Japan will have finished her Chinese war and the Durrant murder case will have been con- cluded. THE LEASE REJECTED. The lease of China Basin as amended by the Harbor Commissioners has been sub- mitted to the directors of the Valley road and after due consideration has been unanimously rejected. This to the people of California is the most important news that has been published for many a day. It is fraught with momentous conse- quences to the business interests of the people and threatens to check the advance of that great enterprise on which the com- ing prosperity of the State is so largely dependent. It behooves the Harbor Commissioners to look carefully to the work of their hands and consider well what they have done. The construction of the Ban Joaquin road was undertaken by public spirited men for the purpose of breaking the monopoly of transportation and liberating the energy, the enterprise, the industry and the trade of the people from the oppressive bondage of the excessive freight charges which have 20 long burdened them. While the promotion of the road was mainly due to the efforts and zeal of a few able leaders, it was none the less under- taken in response to a public need, it has been aided by popular subscriptions,and is in the truest sense the people’s road. The people have favored it, and have indulged the hope that it would be soon completed. They will closely scrutinize, therefore, the act by which it has been checked in its career. They will note who have voted for the objectionable amendments and who they are that in this supreme crisis have cunningly attempted to render the old railroad monopoly the important service of crushing the competing line. We speak of the objectionable amend- ments to the lease as an attempt to crush the competing line, advisedly. Practically it amounts to just that. The directors of the San Joaquin road were unanimous in rejecting the amended lease, because it would render their City terminal insecure and thereby materially lessen the value of their road. What would be the use of the road without a sure terminal? How could bonds be sold, loans negotiated or any of the complex financial transactions of so great an enterprise be carried on, so long as there were clauses in the lease of its terminal facilities that would enable an opponent at any time to raise some legal question or quibble that would cloud even if it did not invalidate the title? 1i the Commissioners who voted for the amendments were sincerely convinced of the necessity of them, they are certainly more remarkable for excessive caution than for due discretion. What is there to be feared from the San Joaquinroad? Are there not guarantees enough that it will be a competing road in good faith and honest purpose? Are not the promoters of it citizens of San Francisco who have every interest in maintaining it asan inde- pendent competing line? Has not the stock been pooled for ten vears under terms that assure its continu- ance as a people’s road competing with the monopoly? Isthere not a complete legal guarantee that the dividends from the earnings of the road shall not exceed 6 per cent, and that the rates of freightsand fares shall be fixed so as not to exceed that amount? What further guarantees can common-sense ask? What more can even the law give without weakening the legal standing of the road beyond the possibil- ity of successful operation? The people of California look to the Commissioners to review their actions, rescind the amendments and give the competing road fair play. It isa require- ment of the time. Industry needs it, trade demands it. Without it the State must delay its development and the City its growth. Progress will be checked, pros- perity will languish. It is plain beyond all argument that the San Joaquin road must have a well-secured terminus on the water front of San Francisco. To grant that terminus is to confer a benefit on the Btate. To refuse it, either directly or by cunning indirection, is an outrage. POLITICAL PARTIER. The difference between the elements composing the Republican party and those of which Democracy is made up was, per- haps, never more clearly manifest than at this time. The financial problem has put both parties to an equal test. Each has had to confront it as the dominant issue of the country. Each is aware that the ques- tion involved in it cannot be evaded. Each in its own way is preparing to meet it, and the difference in the method of preparation is full of significance. In the Republican party we find wide differences of opinion in regard to the proper solution of the problem, but not- withstanding this fact there is everywhere evident an earnest effort to reconcile differ- ences, a desire for a platform broad enough for all, and a determination to maintain the bharmony of the party so that it will not only be possible to devise the right policy of action, but to rally all the ele- ments of the party to its support and thereby be able to carry it through both branches of Congress and defend it before the people. In the Democratic party we find differ- ences of opinion but no effort at harmony. Fach leader holds to his own views and denounces those of his colleagues. In place of earnest efforts at reconciliation we find faction fights becoming every day more and more intense and bitter. Cleve- land denounces one-half of his party as the advocates of dishonest money, and the leaders of that half retort upon him the angry charge of being a tool of Wall street, an agent of the money power. a traitor to party pledges and an enemy to the welfare of the people. These differences in the methods of the two parties are matters of serious political importance. Organization, harmony and discipline are as essential in representative government as in war. Unless a party is sufficiently coherent to act together, it may beable to elect a majority to Congress, but that majority will be powerless to meet the issues of the day or to manage the affairs of the country. We have had an example of that in the last Congress, and & repetition of it is certainly desired by nobody. If, therefore, we may judge the condition of affairs likely to prevail in 1896 by that which exists now, the most important issue before the country will be that of deciding whether the Government be intrusted to an organized, harmonious party that can govern, or whether it is to be turned over to a combination of factions without cohe- rence, consistency or true leadership. Even more important than tne silver ques- tion is the importance of an efficient Goy- ernment. The country can stand anarchy in Congress, but it cannot stand it without serious injury to all the interests of the people. It is well, therefore, that intelli- gent men should pay attention to this great difference between the two parties that will solicit their suffrages in 1896. They can see in Democracy every evidence of disruption and disorganization over the chief problem of the day, and they can see among Republicans a growing spirit of harmony and a completer organization, and certainly no good citizen can hesitate under these circumstances in deciding which party will be best able to efficiently govern the country and provide for its wel- fare. THE SANTA ROSA FETE. The most cheering indication of an awakening of a patriotic spirit among the people of California is the fact that festi- vals of one kind or another are being held in all parts of the State, so that it has al- most become difficult to say where the next feast will occur. We know for a cer- tainty that Santa Rosa’s carnival is to open to-day and that the two railroads leading to this charming city are offering special inducements to visitors thither. We are reminded, too, that the daily pa- pers for some time past have been publish- ing portraits of extraordinarily handsome young ladies, whose friends have been “urging their claims’’ as the prettiest girls in the Sonoma Valley. One certain very beautiful young lady has been se- lected to serve as the Queen of the rose carnival, and we may be sure that she is surpassingly lovely. ‘We must admit that there is a large de- gree of wisdom behind the conduct of those California communities which begin the presentation of their material attrac- tions with a show in which their flowers and their daughters are given the first position. These and the fruits of all that is whole- some and beautiful in California go to- gether, and there is no more graceful way of representing all that is charming and beautiful in any particular section than by choosing as the queen of the festival some young woman who best represents and embodies the graces of her community. Those who visit S8anta Rosa during the festival season will find a beautiful valley with peculiar and distinctive charms. Our people as a rule have not yet learned the whole lesson of the blessings that await them in all parts of the State, as they have accustomed themselves to visit only cer- tain places as a matter of rule or fashion atone time of the year or another. In their struggles to do what to them seems best, they have exhibited such restricted wisdom as mjght have been expected from those who go to this place or that as it happens to be the present vogue, or as there may be better or worse opportunities for displaying good clothes or securing a foothold in this or that “set.” Gradually are we growing away from these provincial considerations, and the extent of this de- parture from a settled rule is the measure of the advancement of those moving con- siderations which distinguish a people. Thus, those of us who visit Santa Rosa during her carnival show first of all that we are Californians, and that as such we are in sympathy with all of the finer con- ditions which have made us what we are, There may be some of ustoo lofty to know that whatever we are has been the work of the peculiar processes that have made us Californians, and that as Californians we have the right to the exercise of a unique independence. Among the privileges with which these conditions have invested usis that by the exercise of which we recognize and are ready to enjoy certain peculiar pleasures that are local to us, and that are thus local solely because we understand their value, while at the same time regret- ting that a larger number of the world’s inhabitants have not a similar privilege. It would not be possible for residents or strangers to find in all California & more beautiful spot than Santa Rosa, or one whose people are more refined or better understand the rarest and most gracious of all the arts—that of entertaining. THE CHICAGO COANAL. ‘While Chicago is exulting in her onward career and winning praise from cities afar off, she is spreading fear and dread over all the surrounding country and rousing the opposition of all the cities on the lower lakes, and not a few of those on the Missis- sippi. All this comes about because of the great scheme of constructing a canal which will not only carry off the sewage of the city to the Mississippi River, but also serve to make Chicago a port to which great steamers can come direct from the Gulf of Mexico. The carrying out of this vast enterprise, which wonld give Chicago transportation advantages superior to those of any other city in the world, threatens the cities along the canal and the rivers through which the sewage would fldW with the danger of disease. The refuse of a large city floating through the sluggish waters of a canal, or stranded along the banks of ariver and exposed to the hot sun of an Eastern summer, is very sure to be more or less pestilential, and as a consequence there has been all along, more or less pro- test against the use of the canal for such a purpose. The complaints of the lake citiesare even more serious than those which come from the cities along the rivers. It is feared the opening of the canal will bave the effect of lowering the water in the lower lakes so much that the connecting rivers and some of the harbors will no longer be deep enough for navigation by the larger class of lake vessels. The engineer of the canal estimates that the lowering of the lakes will not exceed five inches, but the Cleve- | land Leader says even that amount would be too much, as the waters of the lake riv- ers are already too shallow for the demands of trade. It is very likely that Congress will be called upon to deal with the question, for the Boards of Trade of the various lake cities have taken steps to appeal for pro- tection, on the ground that as the “Govern- ment has expended vast sums of money to improve the harbors and connecting chan- nels of the great lakes, and other costly improvements are now under way, it seems worse than folly to permit all that has been done in the way of deepening river channels to be offset by the city of Chicago, if there isany way of preventing it.” NEW JERSEY AND LINCOLN. The fact that New Jersey has been one of the first States in the Union to make Lincoln’s birthday a public holiday has recalled tne failure of the State to vote for him when he was candidate for President. In 1860, when Lincoln swept every free State by large majorities, he succeeded in getting only four out of the seven electoral votes in New Jersey, and gained even those only because a good many Douglas men refused to support the fusion ticket. In 1864 New Jersey again voted against Lincoln, being the only free Btate that did so, and in this way emphasized the adverse vote of 1860. To-day the State puts itself in the van of the Union and leads the way in honoring the memory of the man whom its voters rejected. The incident is interesting mainly as another of the multiplying evidences of the growing reverence for the martyred President in the minds of the American people. He is no longer seen throngh ::il_ouds of party enthusiasm or party preju- ice. Throughout the entire North the people behold him in the clear atmosphere of his- toric truth. The lofty nobility of his nature is recognized by all, and New Jersey, that voted against him asa party candidate, fitly comes forward among the first to honor him as one of the most emi- nent of those whose lives have beena glory to the Republic and an inspiration to its people. It is not too much to expect the action taken in New Jersey to be the forerunner of a wider and more general honor to the memory of Lincoln. There is no reason why his birthday should not havea Na- tional commemoration and find honorable observance in every State in the Union. As the clouds of party politics have swept away from his memory in the North, so will the clouds of war prejudices fadeaway from it in the South. The great sentiment of “malice toward none and charity for all” must sooner or later find an_equally generous response from every noble heart, and the fame of Lincoln, like that of Washington, become dear to every loyal American South as well as North. PERSONAL. I Bird of Merced is at the Grand. A. Dinkelspeil of Fresno 1s at the Occidental. Dr. C. Z. Hennessy of Napa is & guest at the Grand. W. M. Harrington, a Colusa banker, is at the Palace. Dr. P. T. Turner of Stockton was in the City yesterday. William Niles, a Los Angeles merchant, {sat the Occidental. James Dowdell, a wineman of St. Helena, is at the Baldwin. P. A. Buell, a Stockton lumberman, has regis- tered at the Grand. I’A. L. Bigbie, a mining man from Nevada City, is at the Grand. D. R. Richie, a vinyardist of Rutherfora, is registered at the Lick. Lieutenant-Colonel McDonald, surgeon of the Bengal army in India, is at the Palace. H. W. Wellington of Boston is in the City. He is with his family at the California. H. W. Johnson, editor and proprietor of the Marysville Appeal, is at the California. Lieutenant W. H. Aulderdice of the United States navy is registered at the Palace from Mare Island. J. L. Delano, owner of a large granite quarry in Placer County, is registered at the Lick from Rocklin. Herman Oelrichs, Mrs. Oelrichs, Miss Fair and some friends will leave for the Eastina private car this evening bound for New York. They will probably go abroad before returning to California. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Princess Beatrice of Battenberg, the youngest daughter of the Queen of England, is president of the Visiting Nurse Society of the Isle of Wight. John Ruskin’s health has so much improved that he is able to play chess, but it is feared that he will never be able to do any more liter- ary work. By the will of the late Leverett Salstonstall, ex-collector of the port of Boston, the sum of $5000 is left to Harvard University to found the “Leverett Salstonstall scholarship.” The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Con- naught are honorary colonels respectively of the Eleventh and Thirteenth Bengal Lancers, which have distinguished themselves in the Chitral expedition. Max Simon Nordau, the author of the present topical book, “Degeneration,” is 46 vears old. He is of incisive personality with a iace of un- mistakable intellectuality and an eye trained to see everything about him. Arthur Balfour, becoming tired of golf, has taken to the bicyele. The British Parliament, it is said, is watching Mr. Balfour’s experi- ments in wheeling with deep interest. Upon his success or failure rests the question of how the English statesman shall take his exercise. Rev. Mr. Fairbanks, an American missionary in India, attributes a large part of his success to the use of a bicycle. Notonly is he enabled to cover a more extensive territory with it, but the natural curiosity of the natives brings large crowds to see “‘a horse that needs neither grass nor grain.” Dr. Oliver Walcott Gibbs, who has been elected president of the National Academy of Sciences, is 73 years of age. He was graduated from Columbia College in 1841, and from 1848 10 1863 held the chair of physics in the College of the City of New York. He afterward held the Rumford professorship in Harvard. He is the only honorary member of the German Chemical Socie SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. P An Oregon Judge has set a good example by discharging from custody 8 man who had been guilty of eounterfeiting, but who had proved that a detective egged him on to commit the crime. The silly fellow pleaded guilty, but the Judge dismissed the case and said that he would not allow the man to be tried under such circumstances. The decision is right. There are altogether too many detectives who per- suade others to commit crimes in order that they may get the credit of the arrest and con- viction of their dupes.—Bakersfield Cali- fornian. Warm weather is coming and already scores of neighbors are making preparations for long sojourns in the mountains. That is right. We have the most besutiful resorts in the world but one day’s drive from town. Three months chewing gum, playing snowball and eating fish and bear will meke you healthy and free from doctors the balance of the year. The expense will be light and you profit by patronizing home institutions.—Porterville Enterprise. The oldest paper in the United States—the ‘Weekly Massachussets Spy—is ten times older than the Santa Maria Times, and yet at the present rate of increase our circulation will equal that of the Spy in five years. Some people and some enterprises live a long time without making mueh progress, while others have greater ambitions and the Times belongs to the others.—Santa Maria Times. There is not a city of any size in the United States that has not advanced in growth and wealth by manufacturing interests. Let us offer every encouragement within our power to every legitimate business enterprise. Weshall surely reap a rich reward by so doing.—Ven- tura Free Press. A scare about bogus $20-pieces has given our brother of the Escondido Times some alarm, but we are pleased to learn that an examina- tion of his large stock shows that he has nobad ones.—Pasadena Star. San Franclsco divorces &re not necessarily profane because they have taken so many Dames in vain.—Los Angeles Express. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “How are you, General!” exclaimed & rather elderly gentleman to General Warner, the sil- ver champion, in the Palace grill-room yes- terday. “What do you think about giving the railroad question a little recognition in this next fight?” “There you go again. Keep your eye on one thing ata time, my friend, and yowll find you have got all you can attend to. 1f some- body had kept his eye open in 1873 silver would not have been demonetized. I did not know of its demonetization until one year af- terwards and then Samuel Laing, the English financial authority, told me of it. Yes, sir, an Englishman told me we in 1874 had demone- tized silver, one year aiter it occurred. I de- nted it at first, but he proved that the only man who knew of its demonetization was John Sherman. Even Blaine, the Speaker of the House, knew nothing of it.” *You don’t meen to say, General, that the measure was put through illegally?” “No. Butit had the odor of a very well regulated job about it. Haven’t I said so a GENERAL WARNER, THE SILVERITE. [Sketched from life for the *Cald” by Nankivell.] hundred times from the platform? Don’t I accuse him of selling out America whenever 1 geta chance? Didn’tI blush for shame when Samuel Laing gave me, an American, the news that we had passed a very important law and I knew nothing of it?— “By the way, Laing is one of the finest Shakespearean scholars I ever met. A wonder- ful man. Shakespeare isa grand study.” “Do you think Bacon had a hand in the pro- duction of Shakespeare's works ?"’ “No,” answered the General, looking side- ways at the questioner, “and I think Ignatius Donnelly has not made out his case with the cryptogram. Ben Jonson once said of Homer that he did not write the works credited to him, but it was done by a man of the same name. I think the same case applies to Shake- peare. He knew what he was about.” “Which of his characters do you prefer, General?” “Hamlet, Otheilo, Falstaff and—" it “Bhylock?” interpolated the man of railroad tendencies. “Yes; yes! That'sright, that’sright! And—" “What do you think of the ‘Merchant of Venice? " General Warner had forgotten all about his silver question, and continued: “The ‘Mer- chant of Venice’ contains some of the finest passages in English. Grand, sir! Sublime, sir! There is nothing like it.” And he rubbed his hands together with satisfaction. “Say, do you recall what Dr. Johnson says of Dryden and Pope? Grand expression, gentle- men. A grand epigram, gentlemen. Think of it. He said: ‘Dryden never rose above the expectations of his readers and Pope never fell below.” How’s that? “Yes, my dear sir,” again resumed the Gen- eral, turning to his friend as if he had awak- ened from a brown study, “stick to one thing at a time. Silver is the question to-day. We will handle the railroads next.” Arthur G. Wheeland and John D. Siebe, two well known young men of this City, left Mon- day afternoon on the steamer Oregon for Port- land. Their trlp will not end at Portiand, however, for before they again see the sun- shine and the fogs of San Francisco they will have encircled the earth. Their intention is to see all the principal countries of the world, and to see them in greater detail than the average tourists; for that reason they have setno really definite date for their re- turn, but will stay away until satiated with the sights to be seen on the continents of the Old World. They will cross the Pacific and come back to the Sunset City once more. Both young men are well known in local so- clety, and scores of their friends wereat the dock, waving farewells as the yessel bore the travelers away on the beginning of their voyage of adventure. Both are familiar with the principal languages of the European Con- tinent and traveling there will be easy. For the other countries a ready wit and a knowl- edge of human nature will carry them through all right. UP TO DATE IDEAS. Harry A. Given. a Western Union telegraph operator, has drafted and built & hand-power tricycle that he uses daily in going and return- ing from his daily duties, says the Phila- delphia Inquirer. The machine is really not a decided novelty, but is here illus- trated for the purpose of setting forth the me- chenical qualities embodied in its comstruc- tlon. It is 36 inches in width, weighs fifty- two pounds, 48-inch wheel base. The wheels are 35 inches in diameter and are fitted with SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Sunday-school teacher—Where did Adam and Eve live aiter they were created? The entire class is silent. Teacher—Well, children, I'll give you a hint, The name of the place begins with a P. Johnnie Chaffie—I know—Philadelphia.— Texas Siftings. 3rs. Le Rounder (angrily)—You have no ex- cuse for staying out so late. Mr. Le Roundor— Haven’t I? Whatchus s'pose I been standin’ down on the corner thinkin® 'bou for last half hour?—Puck. Fuddy—Oh, you let Snaggers alone! He knows what he is about. By keeping his mouth shut hemakes people think he is a great man. Duddy —But he doesn’t do anything to prove it. Fuddy--Of course he doesn’t. Solong as he keeps quiet he is not to blame if people think he must be a great man; but should he really do something to show his greatness that would be rank plagiarism, don’t you see?’—Boston Transeript. R AN ARM-PROPELLED TRICYCLE. cushion tires. Propulsion and steering are en- tirely effected by the arms of the rider. The driving power is supplied through the medium of a chair running from a sprocket attached to the steering-head to another sprocket wheel located on the frout wheel axle. The head sprocket has a pair of cranks with handles at- tached thereto, which are manipulated by the rider's arms, the peculiar features being that the steering is notin any way interfered with during the process of propulsion. JUDGE BELCHER'S ACTION. The Reason Why YoungLough-~ porough Was Not Sent to Prison. HIS HONOR ON THE DUELLO. District Attorney Barnes Responsi- ble for the Leniency of the Court. Judge Edward A. Belcher is indignant at the criticism which has been excited in some quarters by his release of young Loughborough on payment of a fine, while other culprits convicted of the same offense have not fared so well. His Honor feels that he is well nigh helpless in the matter, as the criticisms were made when the case was not pending, and thus do not consti- tute contempt. His indignation reached a climax when the Evening Post published a cartoon rep- resenting decisions on sale or offered by Judge Belcher at amounts varied to suit different offenses. Yesterday he took official cognizance of this publication, and made a statement from the bench to the effect that he had heard that the journal thus representing him had been guilty of attempting to obtain hush money from the defendant, Loughborough. This, it isonly fair to state, the Post denied in last even- ing’s issue. But the Judge is decidedly stirred. He stated on the adjournment of court that he considered the attack outrageous. “‘The statement of the District Attorney }a;oves that what I did was done solely at his suggestion and in gooa faith. Yet, what can I do? The court is almost remediless in such’a case. “I regret the desuetude of the old-fash- ioned duel system. Except by pistol or cudgel a man has no redress in a case of this kind. Of course, I cannot in my po- sition break the law, and in the disuse of the duello I have no recourse but to place the matter in the hands of the District At- torney. I am satisfied that the matter will be thoroughly investigated in his hands.” The official cognizance taken by Judge Belcher in the matter occurred at the opening of court. The Worthington case was waiting when District Attorney Barnes arrived, and was at once addressed by the bench. “Mr. Barnes,” said Judge Belcher, “I have sent for you to come into court in the matter of Loughborough, which has been invidiously commented upon in certain of the daily papers, notably the Evening Post. 1 have here the official reporter’s transcript of the notes of the statement that you made in open court on the morning of the 4th of May and I will read them. They are as follows: 1f your Honor please, in relation to the late case of The People against Loughborough, in this department, 1 desire, in justice to the court, to have entered upon the records of the court and to have it taken down by the short- hand reporter as my statement before your Honor, that any actiou that your Honor may have taken in that case was done as a result of the suggestion and request of the District At- torney; that the District Attorney does not desire to see your Honor l)}aced in any false osition in any connection with it,but the Plstriot Attorney simply desires to say that he assumes all responsibility in connection with that case, and that it was at the suggestion of the District Attorney that the court took the action that it did in that matter last Saturday. When the defendant was called to the bar for sentence you made the following statement: If your Honor please, in the matter of The People against Loughborongh, on 1w o charges, I have attempted to give this matter the most serious consideration that I could. It wasa case which arose after the football game be- tween the Stanford Club and the University of California Club. The participants in it were ail young gentlemen of the greatest respecta- bility and good family, and the unfortunate outcome of this case to this defefMgnt makes me feel that it is my duty to state to_the court that both Mr. Whitehouse and Mr. Rosenfeld, who were the cnm'flsinin%’ ‘witnesses, have called upon me, and they have both stated that they would be more than content if, in your Honor's discretion, you should not send this young man to jail upon this plea of guilty. but, in your Honor's discretion, impose a fine. 1 believe that the interests of justice,as far asmy department is concerned, and as far as the public is concerned; would be not only &s well but better subserved by imposing a fine in this case rether than imprisonment; and in view of the iact that the complaining wit- nesses have not only intimated, but have re- quested, that this_course be pursued, I say—in view of the fact also that my department con- siders that a fine would be & suflicient penalty for this young man, I request of your Honor that, in the diseretion which is given you in this class of cases, you do not impose the penalty of imprisonment upon Mr. Loughbor- ough, but impose such fine as in your Honor's discretion may seem right and proper. “I will add that that statement does great credit to your heart and judgment. “Since the publication of the matter re- ferred to in the Daily Post in particular and since the publication of the scurrilous matterin last evening’s Post it has come to the attention of the court that Mr. Lough- borough, the defendant in the action, was directly approached by some one in behalf of the Daily Evening Post and was re- quested to pay to the Evening Post the sum of $500 in money to hush the matter, and that for that sum the Daily Evenin, Post would write him up a good record. merely ask you in open court to inquire into the facts concerning this matter and if it shall seem, after such inquiry, that it may be a matter to be otherwise presented to the court to make such presentation of the matter as you may be advised.” Mr. Barnes—I shall do so;and I have only to say at this time that I reiterate the remarks that have already been made by me in regard to this matter. 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