The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 19, 1895, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1895. THE ANTI-LOTTERY CRUSADE IS SUCCESSFUL, Much Good Resulting From a Knowledge of the Many Frauds. FUTILE INDIGNATION OF AN AGENT. A Bogus Lottery Company De- nounces the Federal Statutes. ATTORNEY BEN E. HASKELL HAS A PLAN. The Police Search Metzger Franklin’s Quarters In the Nucleus Building. & Whether the CaLy's anti-lottery agita- tion is bearing fruit can be best decided, perhaps, by making the rounds of the lot- tery-dealers and peddlers, and inquiring from them the condition of their business. | 1f you do this yon will soon be convinced | that the lottery tra as widespread and | as dangerous to the community as it still | is—has not the same grip on the public | morals that it had six months ago. Public sentiment on the lottery question | has changed—or perhaps it has only been | aroused. Fewer people are buying lottery | tickets to-day than there were six months [ | known to ly drawings —or what purports to be monthly drawings. A late number of that publication contains a leading article against the lottery law that reads as fol- lows: The new lottery law, about the passage of which there appears to have been some doubt, is an interesting statute, not so much on ac- count of its subject maiter as because of the extent to which the National legislature has sone in the censorship of the mail. 2 It permits the postal authorities_to open pri- vate letters should a company, firm or indi- vidual receive & large mail and the Postmaster- General have reasons to suspect that a lottery orother fraudulent enterprise is being con- ducted. Aside from auy moral sentiment sur- rounding an innovation of this character upon the long-establisned privacy of the mails is the 1 question as_to where the limitis to rawn. A new firm or an individual un- e postal authorities may com- mence receiving a large mail at once in & per- fectly legitimate enterprise and yet arouse sus- icion and have valuable sacred secrets of the usiness obtained by the emploves of the pos- tal department to the firm's great damage without even knowing whence the blow fell. It is reserved for the mails {o carry important private business matters that cannot be trans- mitted by telegraph. But the dangerous fea- ture {s in the precedent against which there seems to have been no protest in Congress. Once private letters are opened upon the dis- cretion merely of the department where will it stop? The individual is already protected against threatening, blackmailing or obscene letters Decause the recipient can if he choose turn them over to the courts and secure the punish- ment of the sender. To virtually uncover pri- vate correspondence, however, at discretion, is a usurping change for a Government like ours to inaugurate. In trying to reach one evil, it is possible to lay the foundation for others. Itis not likely that sacredness of per- sonal correspondence will be violated often if at all under such a law, but it is certainly let- ting employes in the service do great vio- lence to our American repugnance to anything like a press or postal censorship. Following this article in the gamblers’ monthly (which is being circulated ex- tensively in this City by Mr. Kahn of 120 Sutter street, room 7) is this original defi- nition of what constitutes a lottery ticket: A ticket properly “signed” and ‘‘seried” and the prize thereon awarded the date mentioned therein. L Stale Goremmment ol ~ "A Plpersseintvis e Rt e T ol i t i soR22EREE st /3 o ES3ISSNSE 2353 ¢ 5 3 3 g i 22 N.833¥3FEII 2R3 & T s 2ézw Neg \ TATiS mmnc IR S s iE 338835335 = ? tiro2833332Fss¢¥ 5 SO R e ‘3;*5$3l< @ o2l = =Rt eSSl Sesxter $Es=se T3S ! :3 < H220 £% ~s3gggise 33:::,;; CCRMERLY OBVERSE AND REVERSE OF THE BOGUS LOTTERY TICKET s0LD BY J. A. TROST IN THE COLUMBIAN BUILDING. THIS I8 ENGCWN AS THE TICKET OF THE FOX & CO. LOTTERY. ago. Fewer people are selling them. | Some of the agents have gone out of the business and turned honest. Others are being forced out by the police. Oakes of the Honduras has announced his intention of retiring. “The business is getting too dangerous,” he “What with the police constantly dogging one’s footsteps and this confounded agitation in the CaLr the business is getting to be unprofitable, and | Iam now closing up my accounts.”” | Whether he is or not remains to be seen. At all events, his business is done very carefully and very secretly these days. Frequently the police search bis premises. Of course, they find nothing but some old circulars, but the constant surveillance | makes the business more difficult and. con- sequenttv. less profitable. Up in Wells, Fargo & Co.’s big express building is the general office of the Little Louisiana, the bank where the tickets are. cashed and the agents dealt with. It is uite a concern in its way, employing a ?\-rr-(-, of clerks, typewriters and sten- ographers and bookkeepers. Metzger & Franklin are the responsible men of the concern and Chris Buckley is said to be their backer; maybe he is not. their backer. Black sheep are often blamed for sing of others, but it is pretty certain that he used to be.if he isn't, and most people who know about lotteries and things think he is. Yesterday the police searched the office of Metzger & Franklin in the Nucleus building upon information furnished by the CarL. Franklin has declared that he was going out of the business. That was when the police drove him from 2614 Kearny street. Now the peddlers and dealers in lottery tickets go to room 31 in the Nucleus building for their Little Louis- iana tickets. It is a bare, uncarpeted room, furnished with _only adesk and one chair. Detec- tive H. J. Wright, who made the search yesterday, spent a good deal of time in going through that_desk, in sounding the walls and baseboards and looking for secret places in the floor. in the window frame and in every conceivable nook and corner where experience had taught him lottery tickets might be hidden. All he found were a lot of old lottery circulars and an- nouncements of drawings that had taken place. This is not legal evidence. A short and stout, well-dressed man, who was con- siderably excited when the search warrant was read to him, openly admitted in his conversation that he was in the lottery business, and had been for years. But that is not legal evidence. Very likely this excited little man had a few hundred tickets in his pockets. It is still more likely that he has a secret place in his room, or, possibly, a closet downstairs or somewhere else in the building where his stock in trade is kept. He and his part- ners may escape for a time, but Chief Crowley is thoroughly awake on the ques- tion, and the police will give these gentle- men a deal of trouble, if nothing else. Detective Wright has charge of the lot- tery detail now. He isa young man, full of energy, and has done some effective work, but it is hard to secure the legal evi- dence, and since the penalty is only a fine at most it takes a good many arrests to drive an agent out of the business. There is the case of Upson, for example. He is one of the counterfeiters. The charge against him is swindling. Judg’e_ Low has sentenced him to six months’ imprison- ment. He bas appealed to the Superior Court, is out on_bail and at _his old tricks. The police seized his counterfeit tickets and lates from which they were printed. %}J: lrl‘a:'find new plates made amfxa even now flooding t?e"n;‘quéet with counterfeit ry tickets of all kinds. htltxfsf»ecmi Erwin of the Postoffice Depart- ment is now working with the police. Un- doubtedly a good many tickets are passing through the mails. “If we can only ge’g the rascals down in the Federal courts, says Chief Crowley, “‘we can do something with them that will tell. The violation of the Federal law is a crime, and a convic- tion in the Federal courts means some- ‘hfigfiuld, there is a counter-crusade. A lottery-ticket seller has started an agita- tion against the United States law on the lottery traffic. Down in Texas there is published the Monthly Review, on the in- ide pages of which are printed the month- A ticket properly cancelled, or after the drawing, ceasesto be a lottery ticket, but mere- 1y becomes a piece paper. ‘s - - Tickets drawing prizes cease to be a lotter; ticket, but become a voucher, due bill or draft against the company named therein and at- tached to a draftaccompanying same can be safely sent for colleetion through any bank or express company. And now the uninitiated would never guess who it is and what it is that promul- gates this literature. It is a pure bogus company, a fraud from start to finish—the so-called “Original Juarez Company.” No one who is ;)osted will buy a Juarez. The Juarez is a fraud. There is no such com- pany outside of its tickets and in its liter- ature. The Jugrez never had a drawing, never gave a prize—unless a small one for a bait—has no headquarters, except those of Mr. Kahn at 120 Sutter street, and is known to be u pure and simple swindle from top to bottom. Rather laughable, isn't it, that a swindle should become in- dignant at the encroachment of the Fed- eral law that ‘‘opens his private letters?” Yes; it is a mammoth swindling lottery fraud that is conducting the pro-lottery crusade—the Juarez. *‘The State Government Lotter‘z Com- pany" is the pretentious title on the fake tickets printed and solu by J. A. Trost, 29 Columbian building. This is the E. Fox & Co. lottery—a fraud of the first water. The information is gradually spreading that one-half of the lottery tickets sold are counterfeits of the genuine and that the city is also flooded with the tickets of a dozen or more fraudulent lotteries that never had drawings or gave prizes. And the epread of this knowledge is doing a reat deal toward discouraging the ticket uyers. Some of the peddlers and dealers declare loudly that these statements are made only to discourage the traffic and are not true. Only half of their statement is true—the first half. The chances are they have Fox & Co. tickets for sale or Juarez, or Montana, or some of the other fake companies’ tickets. If you buy what pur- ports to be a genuine company’s ticket from them be sure to have it examined by an expert. The chances are they sell counterfeit tickets. Every lottery-ticket seller who deals in what is known as “sxaunre goods”’—and they are very few and far between—will tell you to beware of the frauds and the counterfeits. Attorney Haskeil suggests that a law be Fussed making it a crime to buy genuine ottery tickets and removing ail penalties from those who sell counterfeit tickets. His advice, in full, is as follows: Editor Call: As a constant reader of your rejuvenated nnddprogmflsi\'e journal I have become interested in one of the reforms which you propose, viz.: the suppression of lotteries. In suppressing any evil a rigorous policy should be adopted. The maintenance of every vice is dependent upon public patronage. Sen- sational literature. saloons, brothels and lot- teries are the result of & public demend; the proprietors of evil resorts and schemes are sim- ple caterers to a depraved public taste. Were there no persons who delgred by the invest- ment of a mite to e‘rln a fortune there would be no lotteries. Who, then, is responsible for their existence? Clearly the patrons. Who should suffer for the existence of an evil de- nounced by law? The question needs no specific answer. The present law is a simple sop intended to placate the opponents of lot- teries. Let the Legislature enact two additions to the existing law and lotteries must cease to exist for want of patronage. Let the Legisla- ture first enact that it shall be a crime either to pav or receive payment of any prize drawn in any lottery. Let the degree of this crime be graduated as in cases of larcony, according to the value of the prize—under & certain mount a misdemeanor and above that amount a fel- ony. At present it is no crime to hold of cash a prize ticket; as soon as the drawin, over the holder may with impunity flaunt icket in the face of the police. The law winks at the person and his accomplices while he pockets the fruits of his crime. It is as if the law pro- vided that the robber mlfiht have and enjoy the Proceeda of his theft if he only escaped de- tection in the actual commission of the crime. It is openly advertised that prize tickets will be cashed by various business institutions not known to be in any other way connected with the lottery in which the prize is drawn, thus making it easy to collect prizes, lending credit to the lotteries and gaining for them the con- fidence of the people. It is also customary to exact from the large Yflze-wiuner & number of affidavits of his winning ana_of the “prompt ayment”/ thereof, which affidavits are used or advertising purposes. The efficacy of such a law as I have suggested, making the real danger of detection commence where it now ceases, must be apparent. It would effectually revent the making of the affidavits referred 5). It would cause éhi recfiptlon of : rize to kept a secret, and thereby preven! e con- ?e ng of success from spreading. The diffi- culty and danger in cashing the prize would be such that few would care to invest their money for the chance of drawing as a prize a berth in the State's prison. And, second, 1 would suggest that a law be passed making it “lawful’ for any person to engage in the “production and sale’” of false, forged and counterfeit tickets. Such a law would destroy the public confidence, without which lotteries must cease to exist. It will no doubt be objected that such a law would be a legisiative sanction of a fraud upon the people. Not so. It would simply be a declaration that those who seek wealtt by the commission of & crime shall receive no {:rotection or assistance irom the State and no aid in collecting the re- ward of their violation of the law. Creating, as such a law would, a feeling of uncertainty as to whether a ticket offered is bogus, there are few who would have the assurance to in- vest. 1 submit these suggestions as a simple means of obliterating the lottery evil. BEN B. HASKELL, Doubtless Mr. Haskell’s advice would be effective, if it could be followed. But the difficulty would be in getting a jury to con- vict a man of a crime on the charge of buy- ing lottery tickets. And then it is not cer- tain, even if every lottery ticket in the world was known to be fraudulent, but that some would still buy, for what Bar- num said about the public liking to be fooled is still a little bit true. Not long ago a Market-street cigar-dealer received a big package of lottery tickets for him to ‘place.”” The package came from a stranger, and accompanying it was a letter asking the tobacconist to please send the name of some suitable person to to whom ‘“the capital prize might be awarded.” And now you can't get that man to buy a lottery ticket of any kind. “The whole business is a fake and a fraud and a swindle,” he says. And that is true enough. It is also illegal, and cannot be gone into conscien- tiously by an honest citizen. HOME FOR THE INEBRIATE Dr. William Gavigan Gives His Opinions on That Insti- tution. It8 Transfer to the City WIll Not Interfere With the Contem- plated Home. ‘Whether the presentation of the Home for the Care of the Inebriate, which was made by the trustees of that institution to the City at the meeting of the Board of Supervisors on Monday, would fill the re- quirements of the law for the erection of a home for inebriates in San Francisco, was a general question yesterday. Dr. William J. Gavigan, who was chiefly instrumental in securing the pas- sage of the law, said: ‘There are several reasons why the existing Home for In- ebriates and the one in contemplation will not conflict. *In the first place the deed -presented to the Supervisors is one of trust. Itwill not go into effect until the corporation ceases to exist, which will be eighteen years hence. Itis quoted too as legal opinion that the trustees cannot give a valid deed to the property, which is a portion of the auxiliary of the old Dashaway Association that has been in litigation so long. The purported deed is conditional upon the City paying $500 a month for the expenses of the institution. It reserves private man- agement of the home. “While it is true that a coloring of the public institution is given by making the Mayor and the chairman of the Finance Committee ex - officio trustees it is equally true that there would still be seven trustees to outvote them. All of this shows that the institu- tion would be public only in name. I notice that the $30,000 cash promised b; the deed of gift includes $10,000 deposite with the People’s Home Savings Bank which is insolvent. In that particular instance it would seem that the provision that the amount remain intact foreighteen years was superfluous. That does not affect the main question, however. “The provisions of the law passed by the last Legislature and signed by Governor Budd March 27 are mandatory. It requires that within the next fiscal year a suitable home and hospital for the treatment of in- ebriates and dipsomaniacs shall be erected, The home just presented to the City has but fifty beds and there have been 189 of that class of patients in jail here at one time. The bill contemplates treating them as victims of disease not as criminals. “The Board of Health exercises juris- diction in the matter of plans of construc- tion of the home and the tenure of treat- ment of the patients. In fact it shall provide for the management and govern- ment, says the statute, and that embraces all but the minor details. “The institution is in no way the sort that is contemplated by the law and will in no way affect the one to be opened by August 1, 1896."” In reply to a question as to his expecta- tion of his being medical superintendent of the new home Dr. Guviian replied that “The talk about that is all gossip.” BANKERS' ALLIANCE. This Popular Los Angeles Company Establishes Permanent Oifices in This City. J. D. Mouser, the well-known life insur- znce agent, has taken the management of the Bankers’ Alliance in San Francisco, and has elegant offices on the fifth floor of the Mills building. Among the trustees we notice the names of General E. P. John- son, J. M. Elliott, president First National Bank; F. C. Howes, cashier of the Los Angeles National Bank; and Dr. W. G. Cochran all men of prominence in Los Angeles. the headquarters of the company. The Bankers’ Alliance issues a combined policy of life and accident insurance upon what is known as the natural premium plan, which is about one-half of “old line”’ rates, and has over $12,000,000 of insurance in force. A few reference policy holders are ex- Governor H. H. Markham; Hon. M. R. Higgins, Insurance Commissioner; T. H. Ward, Clerk of the Supreme_ Court; Hon. ‘W. T. Jeter, Santa Cruz; Hon. P. B. Fra- ser, president Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank, Stockton; Dr. F. B. Sutliffe, Sacra- mento; T. V. Mathews, Santa Cruz; Dr. George M. Terrill; Floyd Walker, manager Clark’s Spool Cotton; E. P.'Gates, drug- gist; J. D. Maxwell, fire insurance: R. C. Gardner, dentist; Byron W. Haines, den- tist, and A. J. Hatch of San Francisco. —~— WILL WED MISS DAVIS, A Married Man Who Eloped With a Mar- ried Woman Takes Out a License. A license to wed was yesterday granted to Thomas A. Ley, the lady in the case be- ing Miss Jennie Davis, 1130 Market street. Thongas A. Ley is a photographer and formerly lived at Woodland, and was there a family man. But about a year ago he created a mild sensation by leaving his family in company with Mrs. C. A. Bay- ington, who was the wife of a laboring man. Since then many things have happened in that little circle. Bayington in tge first pliee secured a divorce from his truant wife and Mrs. Ley has secured a divorce from her truant husband, and the truant husband has forsaken the truant wife who was foolish enough to go with him. ‘What has become of her is not in evi- dence, but the marriage license indicates that the man is to marry another woman. The bride’s residence is given as 1130 Market street. : ——————— . There are forty-eight different materials used in eonatrueung a piano, from no fewer than sixteen different countries, em- ploying forty-five different hands. FAVORS A TUITION FEE, Rev. Horatio Stebbins on the Point of Berkeley Pupils Paying. WOULD BE A DEBT OF HONOR. In a Letter to Regent Slack the Divine Closely Reasons the Question. Rev. Horatio Stebbins, one of the re- gents of the University of California, has written the following letter on the subject of the board of regents establishing a tuition fee at Berkeley: HowerL VENDOME, SAN JosE, } June 17,.1895. Hon. Charles W. Slack, Regent of the Uni- .versuty—UEAR Sir: Your interest in the university and your official relations with it seem to me a sufficient justification of my addressing you a public note concern- 1ng a matter of much importance now be- fore the board of regents. I hope this will not seem to you an intrusion nor an un- due assumption on my part. [ refer to the proposition before the board to es- tablish a tuition fee in the university. There has been some difference of opin- ion on tms matter from the beginning, some thinking that the irstitution should be entirely free, others that a moderate fee should be imposed. The Legislative act establishing the university leaves the matter to the discretion of the regents. Time ana events aevelop what always proves to be the case with institutions not established to make money—that wants exceed means. Kducational institutions are always in want, and from the very nature of the case they always must be, as education is such a boundless thing, for- ever aggressive, encroaching upon the un- known and making conquests over new realms, that its wants are ever increasing, and just enough is never enough. The question arises fairly, squarely and honorably: OQught not those who have peculiar and exclusive vrivileges to do something to relieve this ever-pressin, want and bear a part in the expense o their privileges? The very question seems trite and obvious to the moral sense. How does it happen that there is any confusion about it? It happens thus, T image: From our habit of calling the university a part of the common-school system of the State, In a certain sense it is, and in an- other very certain sense it is not a part of the common-school system. The common school and the university, both in respect of the idea and motive that underlie them, and in_their accessibility and commonness, are distinct. The com- mon school is common; it is everywhere and accessible to ail. Theuniversity is ex- clusive, by the necessary conditions of lo- cation and concentration, and is accessible to but few. They are distinct also in idea and motive. The idea and motive of the common school are the duty of the State to furnish all its citizens the means of intelligence that they may act their part well a8 citizens. The idea and motive of the university are a liberal education to those who voluntarily seek it. The one is primarily for the State, the other is for the man himself. They are identical only in this, that they are free from partisan con- trol of politics or religion. But if we go from theory to practice the truth seems to me equally clear. Asa matter of fact, only a small number of the youth of the State can or will avail itself of -the privileges of tha.wflvufi.ty._ As a mat- ter of fact, the pupils of the university are a privileged class, made so by legislation, and the necessary exclusiveness of loca- tion. With what propriety of private or ublic justice does the State pay $300 or ?500 a year for a youth from the age of six- teen to twenty-one? The motives that in- fluence young men to go to the university are not widely different from those that in- fluence honorable f‘oung men in other walks. The eeneral motive, and it is not necessarily mean, is to get on in the world. Why shotld the State give John $300 to go to the university for a liberal education, and let Henry go to the iron business with- out a stipend ? 5 Both alike have honorable ambition to become successful and useful men. Will it be said that the educated man is worth more to the State and, therefore, his bills should be paid from the public chest? It may be so, that he is worth more; but before it can be assumed as a ground of public policy for paying the expenses of a student in the university it must be shown that there is an essential, elementary and necessary relation between science or lit- erature ard public or private virtue. Will a man give bonds for that? Knowledge 1s power. There is no doubt about that; but power for what depends on something besides the power of knowledge. Isit not a plain and simple truth that if a man woukrenjoy peculiar and exclusive vrivileges, every sense of honor, seli- respect, public and private duty, urge him to do something to pay for those privi- leges? He cannot pay fully; no man can pay fully for the benefits he receives from society or the State—but if he receives ex- clusive benefits through institutions not accessible to all, every manly sentiment suggests that he should do something that at least confesses a debt of gratitude that he can never pay. I imagine, sir, that every young man will confess this at the very bottom of his heart, when he looks these facts fully in the face. Let it not be supposed that I am indif- ferent to the trials and strugglea of the student of narrow or limited means—I congratulate him upon his opportunities in a community of learning, where men are valued by their manhood, to show him- self a man. If the good man, successful in a great cause, or calm and strong in ad- versity, is the most sublime vision on which our eyes may rest, then the young man who is poor, but whose mind"is so athletic and his heart so unworn that he never thinks that he is poor, is the best example of human ambition. Let him not be discouraged—the long-minded powers are with him. Doubtless the policy of the university should be liberal, but it should not be in- fantile. The university is not a nursery, nor an orphan asylum, nor an almshouse, nora place to get something for nothing. It is a place for liberal education, and every one whoj resorts there should pay something for the great privilege. If the tuition fee is made $50, or any other sum, provision should be made that those who are unable to pay during their %rivilege may give their obligation vear by year, without interest, until graduation.” Then interest should beézin at a rate about equal to that of the funds of the university. This would be a bond of honor, pride and grati- tude that every one would Elnd to co! fess. If the maker of the bond dies, that event dissclves the obligation; if he lives and does not pay, it may be a fair question whether or not he belongs to that class of ungifted minds that should have gone to another institution. There is one other matter not immedi- ately connected with the question of tui- tion fees but cognate to it.” There should be, in my opinion, noscholarships founded by the state. There is a tendency, tha} bears different names, to have the state take care of us all and to concentrate all buman interests in the state. Theaniver- sity should set no example of this, It is the office of the state to execute justice and equity among men, not to take care of men, save in the exceptional instances of fauperhm or constitutional misfortune. n time the university will attract the at- tention of the wise and benevolent and scholarships will be founded, and no man of character and ability will be turned away from the Jn.th of conquest over cir- cumstances and victory over himself. The action of the Reg;:ng in this matter I believe will not only important in re- lation to the university, but important in its influence upon public opinion. I am, dear sir, yours very respectfully, ORATIO STEBBINS. THE NATIONAL GUARD. A New Method of Appointing Stafl Officers in the Infantry In- troduced. Colonel Bush of the First Infantry, N. 1 G. C., has taken a new departure relative to the appointment of his staff officers. In- stead of making permanent appointments at present he proposes to make details from the line officers at different times, the object being to instruct such officers in the various staff duties, thus enabling all the lieutenants in the regiment to be- come conversant with such duties. | Each officer will be required to attend meetings for instruction at different times during his tour of duty, at the close of which a series of fifty questions will be submitted to him to answer in writing. The foliowing appointments of non- commissioned officers have been made: Corporal Alfred H. Kennedy of ComEuny C to be quartermaster sergeant, with rank from June 18, 1895, and the following to be corpo- rals: Privates O. C. Baldwin, Company G; William W. Thompson, Company G, with Tank {from March 27, 1895; David G. Atwood, Com- any G, with rank from April 23, 1895; A. B. off Jr.and Joseph N. Ross, Company C, with rank from June 13, 1895. The annual inspection and muster will be held on Wednesday evening at the regi- mental armory, on Market and Tenth streets, by General Warfield’s staff, and the regiment expects to make its usual fine showing. DEALING N TAK' TITLES, City Attorney Creswell Says| No More Speculating | Can Be Done. A Last Effort to Overcome the Law on This Matter Is Summarily Suppressed. The thriving industry of buying and | selling tax titles has received a further | quietus in an opinion submitted to the Board of Supervisors yesterday by City and County Attorney Cresswell. The question came before him through a communication sent to the board by S. F. | Sinclair, which the board handed over to | the attorney, requesting an opinion. The | communication asked the board to direct the attorney to draw up an ordinance pro- viding for the sale of property upon which City and County taxes were!delinquent—to sell it for the interest the City and County had in it, believing that this was the only way the City and County could get their taxes. This was a suggestion designed to meet the conditions of the new law directed | against individual tax-title buyers and which turns property in default over to the State. After acknowledging the receipt of the communication, Mr. Cresswell says: Section 3773 of the Political Code as amended by the Legislature of 1895, and approved Feb- ruary 25, 1895, disposes of the subject matter of thecommunication of Mr. Sinelair. This and other sections embraced in the act approved February 25, 1895, chm.?e the reve- nue law regulating the collection of delinquent taxes on real estate or personal property when the taxes on the latter are secured by a lien on real property of the owner of the personaitv. Formerly it” was required that the property, after an advertisement of the notice of sale, should be sold at public auction (Sec. 3765, Political Code), that the delinquent tax payer might in writing designate to the tax collector what portion of the property he wished the tax | collector to sell, if less than the whole, and it no such designation is made the person who would take the least quantity of the land or the smallest portion of an undivided interest and pay the whole tax due and costs would be the purchaser. (Sec. 3773, Political Code.) This, however, has been changed by the act of 1895. The amendment of section 3765 has abolished the sale at public auction, and the amendment of section 3773 has abolished the notice that could have been given under the old law, and forces the sale to the State of the whole amount of property as- sessed, unless the taxes and costs due are paid by the owner or person in possession, or some one in behalf of such owner or 'per- son in possession. The State must be the purchaser, and, unless redeemed be- fore five years from the date of the sale, the title " rests lbsolutel{ in_the State. (Section 3788 as amended in 1895.) If the ggopcr!y sold to the State should be redeemed fore five years from the date of the sale sec- tion 3816 as amended provides for the appor- tionment of the taxes, percentage and penal- ties paid in redemption between the State and the c0|lnl§< Article XIII of the constitution is devoted to revenue and taxation; section 13 thereof makes it the duty of the Legislature to pass laws ne- ccessary to carry out the provisions of that article of the constitution. The Legislature has actel in obedience to this requirement of the constitution, and if it has the constitutional right so to do it has not iven the Board of Supervisors the power to egislate upon the question. he Board of Supervisors then has no power to change the procedure for the collection of taxes as required by the acts of the Legislature of the State. ———————— SHURTLEFF'S INVESTIGATION. A Question as to Whether Sago and Tapioca Are Starches. A rather peculiar investigation was be- gun in the Appraiser’s building yesterday by General United States Appraiser Shurt- leff, who recently arrived from Washing- ton. The question in dispute is one which has arisen between certain Chinese and other importers and the Collector of the Port in rezard to the reasons why their imports of sago and tapioca should not be taxed under the same law which places a duty on starch. The query to be determined is whether tapioca and sago are made up principally of starch. It is contended by the importers that sago and tapioca are not dutiable under the starch law, and as there is a matter of from §150,000 to $200,000 involved in the issue the investigation promises to be an interesting one. Yesterday the table in the room where the investigation is to go on was littered with all sorts of samples of sago, tapioca and various starches. No testimony was taken, though, and none will be until the samples presented have been properly analyzed and reports made upon them. Two depositions were placed on file, how- ever, from parties who gave their views respecting the matter in hand, but they were not of a character to have any direct bearing upon the result of the investiga- tion. The taking of testimony will begin about two weeks hence. It is the intention of the inspector, be- fore he is through, to investigate the duties on gloves, bone mezl, jute bags and other articles about which there. has lately been some difference of opinion between the Collector and importers. —_———— Custons Deputies. Coliector of the Port Wise and Deputy Sur- veyor of the Port Ruddell deny the reports that men have been and are to be discharged from the United States customs service for willful ne%ect of duty. Upon Mr. Wise’s re- U turn from the East he found that two or three deputies had been reported as having been negligent, and he promptly suspended three of Thom antll he could make an nvestigation of the charges. Take No Substitute.. Gail Borden Eagle Brand s CONDENSED MILK Has always stood FIRST in the estima- tion of the A People, No other is MANUFACTURERS: DEBATE, Tobacco Culture and the Nat- ural Oll Supply of Cali- fornia. FIREWORKS FOR THE FOURTH. Sonntag Elected Vice-President and Tevis a Director of the As- sociation. The directors of the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association of California met in regular session last evening, President Bowers in the chair. There were ten mem- bers of the board present. The committee appointed to arrange for a mass-meeting reported that Metropoli- tan Temple had been secured by them for the 12th prox., and that C. M. Shortridge, Horace Davis, Hugh Craig, James G. Ma- guire and Irving M. Scott had agreed to attend and make addresses. The committee an new industries re- ported on the feasibility of raising tobacco in this State, that it could be profitably and successfully cultivated. Accompany- ing the report were written opinions from several tobacco manufacturers, to the effect that the samples of tobacco grown in Cali- fornia which they had examined could not be surpassed in quality. It was ordered that the report bé printed and that copies of it be sent to every tobacco firm in the State. A sample label designed by the Cigar- makers’ Union to designate cigars made of California-grown tobacco was submitted. Tt did not receive the approbation of the board because it can be used only by union factorles. The fuel committee submitted a long re- port concerning oil and gas lands in Ala- meda County. Their conclusions are that the lands offer a field well worthy of care- ful consideration by prospectors and cap- italists. The entire report is to be printed and copies sent to every manufacturing in- stitution. Julian Sonntag was elected vice-president of the organization and Hugh Tevis a di- rector, vice P. D. Code, resigned. The as- sociation has 735 members up to date. Julian Sonntag called the board’s atten- tion to the fact that California has a bak- ing-powder factory yet in the advertise- ments for s\(lipplies for Btate institutions that fact had been overlooked. He also denounced the boards of directors for not favoring California products generally in accordance with the request of the associa- tion and the instructions of the executive. He attribute 4 the lack of consideration to the fact that the association is not in poli- tics, and favored going into politics ince-they represented 140,000 souls and ,000,000 capitalization. As aresult of his remarks the chairman was authorized to appoint a committee of five to wait on the Governor and demand their rights. The appointment will be made in a few days, but the chairman in- timated that Messrs. Sonntag, Saroni and McGlynn will be among its members. A sample - of cloth’ suitable for police uniforms was shown. It isa dark, heavy beaver, manufactured by the Golden Gate Woolen Mills of this City. The Police Commissioners came in for considerable unfavorable criticism for their action in specifying an Eastern cloth for uniforms. A communication from the Bowers Rub- ber Company was read. It thanked the association for a letter sent to the Board of Supervisors which had been largely in- strumental in securing for the firm a de- sired contract. Mr. Baroni inquired what action had been taken by the Fourth of July commit- tee regarding fireworks, and stated that if the contract had gone to an Eastern firm he would ask the association to instruct its members not to subscribe toward the cele- bration. He was asked to ascertain the facts, ana visited for that purpose the of- fice of the committee. On his return he reported that an Eastern firm had the con- tract, and much indignation was expressed. Finally a committee consisting of Messrs. Saroni, Snyder and Currier was appointed to confer with the Fourth of July commit- tee and devise ways and means to have only California products used in the cele- bration. The board of directors will meet again next Tuesday Four Coroner’s Inquests. Four inquests were held by the Coroner yes- day. The first was in the case of Max Fried- man, the Russian who shot himself in the mouth on tne 9th inst. while suffering from melancholin. A verdiet of suicide was ren- dered. Simiiar verdicts were returned in the cases of Joseph Szultz, the plumber who hanged himself on_the 13th Inst. at 423 Du. pont street, and J. Plummer, the commercial traveler who took poison in'Jefferson Square, In the case of Charles Wilson, who died from the effects of a fall in the Supreme Conrt build- ing, ld verdict of accidental death was re- turned. Mme. 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