The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 17, 1895, Page 14

14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1895. EZETA'S PLAN TO CAPTURE SAN SALVADOR, Three Important Ports to Be Taken Sim- ultaneously. THEN THE CAPITAL CITY. How He Will Build Up the Republic and Educate the People. LIBERTY OF SPEECH TO REIGN. The Present Minister of Finance Makes Some Pointed Remarks About the General. Saddle-bags, personal equipments, car- tridges, blankets and munitions of war were scattered around General Antonio Ezeta's room in the California Hotel y ay, preparatory to his leaving for San Salvador, where he will proceed to take on in the most approved Central an way. On the bed reposed the general himself, engaged in the art of applying a hot-water | sively. Meanwhile he continned to toy with the revolver. 4 *What will be your purpose provided you succeed 1n re-establishing yourself at San Salvador?”’ was asked him. His whole demeanor changed at this question and he got up from his comfortable posi- tion and %cgan to walk around the room. He rubbed the hot-water bottle vigorously and thought a long time before making answer. “Iwill,” he said finally, ‘‘do just what I say in my manifesto.” He thereupon drew from his fatigue coat a proof sheet of the document and spread it out upon the table. ““I have stated here that after an absence of many months I am about to return to my people and do what Ican for them. | Among other things, aside from those I | have already mapped out to them, I will | try to make a Central American union, comprising all of the five republics on the | isthmus. I will renew the obligations of | the Government to educate the children and re-establish the original amount of the school fund which Gutierrez cut down so that he could give Reina Barrios of Guata- mala $10,000 a month for the Central Amer- ican Railroad. That is the claim he sets | up, but in reality it is tribute to Barrios. For shame thaf San Salvador should pay tribute to a country that she once whipped with a handful of men. I have instructed | 'my followers in this manifesto, 200,000 of which will be printed, that they st treat | all prisoners of war with kindness and forbearance and that vengeance will not be tolerated. I have issued a protest | against any kind of revenge, and beg of | them to remember ihat the laws of the | country are sufficient to take care of pris- oners an{ traitors. “I want them to understand that we SEN. ANTONIO EZETA. yom @ photograph.] bottle to his cheek to allay the suffering incident to a severe touch of neuralgia. He was, nevertheless, communicative, and had received a great many visitors during the day. He is right in the midst of his plans of procedure, and is confi with the a ance of his faithful gener- als, he will be able to regain his govern: ment and the respect of the inhabitants. In regard to the method of entering the republic the general was not at first dis- posed to converse, but finally, after a re- view of the poss es of conquest, he en- tered into a minute description of his | military intentions. ill first go to the city of Acapulco,” he said, “and there meet my main sup- sorters, Generals Colocho and Cienfuegos. [here a council of war will be held and we will then proceed to take separate routes, as has already been arranged, and move on the three ports, Acajutla, La Li- | bertad and La Union, where we will be supplied with sufficient re-enforcements to operate. “It is our purpose to land at these three ports simultaneously, and we will be as- sisted by General locho and Cienfuegos will land at Acajutla. I will jand at La Libertad, so as to be at the terminus of the cable, and General Casin have got a mission to perform, and that it | is our duty to show the outside world that we are not savages, but progressive and republican men. They can count upon me till death, and I will try to give them a government of freedom both for the peo- ple and the press. No man will be de- prived of his_opinion, nor will any the Government is not properly conducted can say so, and for that opinion they shall not suffer. I will try to cultivate and be agreeable to all foreign nations and elevate the commerce, the arts and the education of San Salvador. Church and state must be kept to their separate paths, and will never be allowed to mingle. Those who have religious opinions at variance with mine will not be disturbed, neither will they be allowed to disturb the state. “To-morrow I will leave this City for Acapulco, and thence for San Salvadcr, as I have described to you. Those whom I expect to be faithful to me to the last are Generals Manuel Casin, Jacinto Colocho, Leon Bolanos, Tomas Vilanova, Ceballos de Leon, Emilio Avelar, Rosendo_Ferrera, Rodolfo Ceistale, Francitce Ruiz, Fernando Figueroa, Carlos Carballo, Sotero Choriego, Calixto Guzman, Wenceslao Valdez, Joa- quin LoFez, Jose Salozo and Sotera Flores. I feel confident that I will be restored, Yl ///l/)/{, GENERAL EZETA’S MAP SHOWING THE FOUR PRINCIPAL CITIES HE INTENDS TO CAPTURE. THE BLACK DOTS SHOW THE THREE PORTS AND THE STAR THE CAPITAL. [Sketched by a “Call” artist from the original by General Ezeta.] will land at La Union. By this plan we will cover the northern and southern ex- tremities of the republic, as well as the central section. “I have had everything arranged so that we will take absolute possession of these three ports, and sufficient rifles are already there to meet all demands. Ihave been informed that 50,000 Mannlichers will be on hand, and I have no doubt they are there by this time. The next move will be to gather all the followers we can mass and move together on the ity of San Salvador. What will comeof this evolution is a mat- ter that will require time to settle,” General Ezeta then lay back on his pil- lows and allowed his fingers to toy with a 38 - caliber Smith & Wesson revolver, the same one with which he took the life of the traitor Canas, for which he was tried in this City over a year ago. Canas might not have been putto the in- convenience of leaving the earth so hur- riedly had he not indulged in the fatal amusement of whispering to Ezeta that he was after his scalp, before he took the same. His conversation on that memor- able occasion caused Ezeta to get the drop on him, and the resultis known. I know,” continued Ezeta, ‘‘that upon my arrival at San Salvador, the capital, I will have enough followers to demand the removal of Gutierrez. If he refuses—well,” and the San Salvadorean general lifted his shoulders and his eyes glittered expres- and am anxious to get to the scene of war, if there is to be any. That is all.”” CALLS IT A “BLUFE.” One of the San Balvadorean Oabinet Scoffs at Ezeta's Invasion, “Itis just talk. Ezeta will not go back to San Salvador, for he knows if he does his life would be made to pay the sacrifice of the crimes he has committed.” This was the opinion expressed by C. Lemus, head of the Treasury Department of 8an Salvador, when he was asked yes- terday what would, in his opinion, be the consequences of Ezeta’s warlike campaign. Senor Lemus is one of the four Ministers who comprise the San Salvadorean Cab- inet. and it has been sometimes stated that he was chiefly instrumental in banishing the general from the country. This he strenuously denies. Ezeta, he says, was banished owing to the hatred and aversion which the entire population felt for his crimes, The Minister is paying a brief visit to San Francisco, where his young daughters are being educated. He is thoroughly con- versant with the state of public feeling in San Salvador, as well as with-the views of the Ministry with regard to Ezeta’s threat- ened invasion. ‘No attention is being aid to his talk,” he said. *It is easy or Ezeta to say that he is going back, but paper in the land. Those who think that | we know he is just—what you call fooling. 1f he were to set foot in San Salvador he would be executed, and he knows it. Yes; if he were to venture in San Salvadorean waters our people would take him—he would never be allowed to pass in a steamer a second time.” When asked if the banished general had any particular object to serve in planning a campaign on paper which he had no in- tention of carrying out in the flesh the Minister of Finance intimated that an over- weening vauity and a desire for notoriet; might be the motives for HEzeta’s blufi. *-Whatever his object may be he has not the remotest intention of risking his per- son in San Salvador, and so well do we know this that we treat all his threats with complete indifference.”” “‘Has Ezeta any following in San Salva- dor?” was asked. Senor Lemus shrugged his shoulders. ““He may have a few people here and there who would be willing to help him, but they are so insignificant and so })ew in number that they are not worthy of a mo- ment’s serious consideration, if they exist, and I do not say that Ezeta has afollow- ing at all in San Salvador. “The mass of the peopleregard him with terrible aversion; his name is odious to them on account of all the crimes he com- mitted when he had power. There are mothers in our country to-day who would ask him why he had sacrificed their chil- dren; thereare wives who would ask for his life in return for those of their hus- bands; there are sons and daughrters who would say he had murdered their parent; and besides these there are the people he has robbed and pillaged. Yes, Ezeta knows as well as we do that if he set foot in San Salvador to-day there would be a terrible reckoning between him and the people he has bereaved and robbed. Only his own life could pay it—but bah! he f;as no in- tention of putting his neck into such a noose.”’ And Senor Lemus, who had been speaxing volubly in Spanish, stopped ab- ruptly and intimated that Ezeta knew bet- ter than to turn the farce-comedy of a threatened invasion into the tragedy of a real descent upon San Salvador. “Is there no possibility of his alleged crimes being overlooked or forgotten?’ was asked. *“If our people do forget in a few years,”’ he replied, “it would only be because there is a strong catholic feeling in San Salva- dor, and forgiveness is a virtue that Chris- tianity impresses on us. KEzeta’s children and their grandmother live peaceably at Sonsonate, about sixty miles from the capital of San Salvador, but for Ezeta him- self it is not a question of forgiveness, he is acriminal, and as such he would pay the penalty of his crimes if he revisited San Salvador. “But what is the use of discussing what would happen! Ezeta is only fooling when he talks of an invasion.” CARPENTERS' NEW RULES They May Cause a Little Trouble in the Safe De- posit Building. A Strike of Journeymen at the New Ingleside Race Track May Be Ordered. The new rules of the carpenters went into effect yesterday by which union men are not allowed to work with non-union nmen. Eight hours constitute a day’s work and all union men are required to have “working cards”—the same as are used in the East. So far there has not been any- thing like a clash between the contractors, so it was reported at the meetings of car- penters and joiners’ unions Nos. 483 and 304. Many applications to become mem- bers were made by carpenters who desire to join the unions, which indicates that the new rules are beginning to have an effect among the non-unionists. At No. 483 twelve were initiated and thirty re- quested to be as soon as possible. There may be a little trouble among the men at work on the Safe Deposit building on Montgomery and California streets. Yesterday the union workmen found that there were four non-unionists on the job. Three of these said they would join the union at once, but the fourth, a man named Hope, declined to do so. The other carpenters in fulfilling their obliga- tions gave notice to Thomas Day, the con- tractor, that to-day Hope would have to join a union or be dismissed. In the event of their demand being denied, the whole force will quit work and let the contractor finish the work with one man. As the unions control nine-tenths of the carpenters in the City, it is not likely that Day will permit them to go on a strike, as he has but a short time to finish the contract. The members of ion 304, the German branch, will soon ask Unions 22 and 384 to join them in a crusade upon the work on the new racetrack at the Ingleside. They say that Alexander Campbell is hiring nearly all non-union carpenters to work on the buildings, and is paying them 17 cents an hour. He is working the men ten instead of eight hours a day. About fifty men are at work, and the job must be finished within sixty days. "It is pro- posed to call out all the union men and do missionary work among the others. If advisable a strike will be ordered in order to force Campbell to meet the re- quirements of the new union rules. el L i DETECTIVE COFFEY'S SUICIDE. Facts Which Tend to Show It Was Premeditated. The suicide of Detective Coffey on Sun- day night was the chief topic of conversa- tion in police circles yesterday. Certain facts came to light yesterday that plainly showed the deed to have been premeditated. When at police head- quarters on Sunday morning he cleaned out his locker and took his private papers and umbrella away with him. The only thing left in his locker was a sheet of paper taken from a small notebook, on which was typewritten, “From one who hopes to protect innocent men from false accusation and conviction.”” Whether it had been given to him by some one or he had typewritten 1t himself is not known. On Saturday afternoon he went to Dr. J. J. Clarke, corner of Powell and Ellis street, who was an old friend. “Doe,” he said, “I want somethin; this,”” pointing with his finger to his head. “There is something wrong. I have no energy to do any work and I feel despond- ent.” Dr. Clarke wrote him_out a prescription and accompanied him downstairs. *‘Let’s goand have a drink, Dan,” said the doc- tor. Coffey shook his head and said: “No, I don’t want to drink. Iam not drinking just now.” The general belief is that he committed suicide while temporarily insane. It was noticed by his associates that he had been getting more and more depresseda for the past two or three months. is home was mortgaged to the Hibernia Bank, but as the bank was not pressing him for pay- ment, and he had been regularly payin, the interest, that could not have cause him to end his life. The Coroner impaneled a jury yesterday afternoon. They went to the residence on Shotwell and Twenty-second streets and viewed the body, and they will hear the evidence on Thursday morning. The funeral will take place to-morrow morning from St. Peter's Church, on Ala- bama street, between Twenty-fourth and for Twenty-fiith, to Mount Calvary Cemetery. e —e—— A Word With the Wise. Beautifal Decorated Breakfast Set, 24 pjeces.$ Decorated Tea Set, 18 pieces. Cuspidore, Majolica Decorated, each. Gold 1lluminated Lunch Set, 18 plect You can't duplicate for double the money. GREAT AMERICAN IMPORTING TEA CO./S BRANCH STORES EVREY WHERE. Headquarters 52-58 Market street, San Francisco, 185 100 20 160 | with scurvy on the voyage here. SENT INTO QUARANTINE, Three Vessels Ordered to Angel Island by the Board of Health. HAD NO CHOLERA ON BOARD. Yokohama and Nagasakl, Japan, Officially Declared to Be In- fected Ports. The Board of Health held a special meet- ing yesterday to take action in the cases of vessels arriving here from ports infested | with the cholera. Yokohama and Naga- saki, Japan, were officially declared in- fected ports and several vessels were | ordered into quarantine. This is the first time the new Board of Health has had to deal with the quarantine law and frequent | meetings of the board are necessary in | order to get everything into easy running shape. Quarantine Officer Chalmers reported to | the board that he had detained the Pacific Mail steamer Rio de Janeiro from Hong- kong via Honolulu and he wanted to know what was going to be done with her. Aithough the vessel had a clean bill of health she had taken on a passenger, Mrs. Bacen, at the infected port of Honolulu. | The vessel did not approach the dock there and did not take on board any freight, pro- visions, water or in fact anything at all except Mrs. Bacon and the regular mail. At the timethe vessel was at Honolulu, September 8, there had been 58 cases of cholera reported in the previous two weeks. Out of this number 44 died. When the vessel was at Kobe, Japan, August 27, there had been 47 cases of cholera reported in the previous two weeks and 35 deaths. At Hongkong, where the vessel was on August 22, there had been 71 cases of cholera in the previous two weeks and 55 deaths. In all four citiesthe United States Consuls reported that the authorities were making the most strenuous efforts to con- trol the epidemic. The visit of the Rio de Janeiro to these infected ports determined action in her case. On motion of Dr. Hart she was or- dered into quarantine at Angel Island. She will be thoroughily fumigated and re- main there until the United States officials report there is not the slightest danger. he mail was fumigated before it was taken aboard ship at Honolulu. After- ward it was fumigated on the vessel. It will again be fumigated at Angel Island before it is turned overto the Postoffice officials. Yokohama and Nagasaki were declared infected ports on moti of Dr. Hart. Hereafter all vessels arriving from them, as well as from Honolulu, will be ordered into quarantine. hesebrough of Williams, Dimond & Co. asked the board how long it intended | to keep the schooner S. C. Allen in quaran- tine. She arrived Sunday from Honolulu i with fifteen passengers. Cheseorough was referred to the United States orficinfizs at Angel Island. The bill of health of the British ship Merioneth stated that cholera, smallpox | and yellow fever are epidemic at Rio | Janeiro. One of the ship’s crew suffe{;d e Merioneth’s sand ballast got her into | trouble, and she will be kept in quarantine till it can be changed. Quite a lively discussion took place in the meeting over the bodies of five Chinese shipped in salt from Alaska. No_death certificates accompanied them, and Health Officer Lovelace refused to issue any burial permits till their deaths could be satistac- torily explained. He wanted to turn them over to the Coroner, but the Coroner de- clined to haye anything to do with them. The bodies were being bandied about, when Dr. Hart suggested that the whole matter be submitted for advice to Attorney Spencer of the board. Pending an opinion from him on the proper way to treat such cases the bodies of the Chinese will be interred. The local Board of Health will meet | several members of the State Board of Health this morning and discuss methods of guarding against any possible entrance of cholera into the State. STATE BOARD’S ACTION. Recommends Stringent Precautions Against Incurring Infection. The California State Board of Health held a special meeting at 2 p. M. yesterday and accepted the invitation of the San Francisco board to meet with them at the | City Hall at 10 A. . to-day. The meeting was held at the Palace Hotel, in the rooms of the president, Dr. J. H. Davisson of Los Angeles. There were present Drs. Davis- son, Winslow Anderson of San Francisco, | C. A. Ruggles of Stockton and W. F.| ‘Wiard and J. R. Laine of Sacramento. The following resolution was unani- | mously adopted: WHEREAS, The State Board of Health at a special mecting held on September 3 requested | the General Government, through the Marine | Hospital service, to deciare certain oriental and island ports infected with cholera, and that such quarantine be declared against them as would insure complisnce with the quaran- tine laws, rules and regulations of the United States: and whereas, Surgeon-General Wyman on September 4 replied, stating that the pres- ence of cholera at oriental ports and at Hono- lulu was verified by consular advices, and that all querantine statutes on the United States Pacific Coast were in a high state of efficiency, and that active steps were in operation to pre- vent the entrance of cholera into the United States; therefore be it Resolved, That the California State Board of Health, ncllhg in its advisory capacity, would recommend that the local health authorities at every port along the coast declare a quarantine against such foreign ports as have been de- clared by the General Government to be in- fected, and that they appoint inspectors to examine every sailing craft or vessel of every description or size that may attempt a landin] at the smaller ports; and further, that all local Boards of Health in the State be advised to urge the cleansing of towns and villages, the putting of all sewers in a sanitary condition, the annihilation of all odors from animal or v:#euhle decomposition, the cleansing of offices, and eflbccml!y the cleansing and flush- ing of such offices at railroad stations and fer- Ties, or at any points where people congregate in considerable numbers, ana that the eople be instmcteddlo boil the water for drinking purposes and to eat nothing but recentl cooked food. e ST In view of the continued prevalence of smallpox on the Mexican border, on motion of Dr. Davisson the board urged vaccina- tion as the essential precaution against the infection. The secretary was instructed to procure a new supply of diphtheria anti-toxine and the bqa,rd adjourned to meet at the Mayor’s office this morning at 10 A. M. Lt QUEENSLAND QUARANTINE That Against Cattle and Horses Sald to Be Less Stringent. According to official advices just re- ceived in this City from the Government of Queensland, Australia, the stringent quarantine regulations existing there relative to the importation of cattle and horses from countries other than the colo- nies of Australia, Tasmania and New Zea- land have been greatly modified in the direction of leniency. For the past three years or since the period when it is claimed by the authori- ties of Queensland that glanders was in- troduced there by the horses taken over from here with Sells’ circus the quarantine regulations have been of a most irksome character. No cattle of any kind could be shipped from this country direct to Australia. They had first to be sent to some English or Scotch port, Glasgow being that mostly six weeks. Then if they showed uo signs of infectious or contageous disease they were sent to their destination, but were there again placed in quarantine for thirty dn[ys. n the case of horses the procedure was less roundabout, but not less severe. On leaving port ail animals were examined by Dr. William F. Egan, inspector of live- stock for the colonies of Australia and New Zealand at this port, including the sheep taken on board for food purposes. On reaching the port of destination the captain of the vessel was required to certify to the absence of all kinds of contagious or infectious diseases among the animals aboard, and then, before any could be landed, they were kept in guarantine for thirty days. Quite recently, that is within the past two or three years, important develop- ments have been made in veterinary medi- cine, which permit of the early detection of both glanders and tuberculosis in cattle, and in view of this the new regulations re- ferred to have been promulgated. A copy of them has been sent to Dr. Egan, the salient portion reading as follows: WHEREAS, Tt is desireable to prevent the in- troduction of cattle suffering from tuberculosis and of horses suffering from glanders and fnr('?', which diseasesare communiciable from cattle and horses respectively to the human subject: and Whereas, Tuberculin has been found to be an almost infallable diagnostic of tuberculosis, and maliein, an equally effective diagnostic of glanders and farcy. Now, therefore, I Sir Henry Wylie Norman, Governor ot Queensland, by, and with the advice of the executive couucil, do hereby notify and declare that, until this, my procla- mation shall have been altered or revoked, all cattle arriving from any place beyond the colonies of Australia, Tasmania. and New Zealand shall, on arrival, be subjected by & duly qualified veterinary surgeon to'a tuber- culin'test, and all horses be subjected to & mollein test, and that if any of such cattle or horses shall be found to react to such test they shall be either returned to the places from where they were shipped or be destroyed, or shall otherwise be dealt with as the Minister charged with the administration of the above- named act shall direet. In an interview with Dr. Egan he said he construed this proclamation to mean that all former regulations were super- seded by these new ones, and that cattle and horses could now be shipped direct to the colonies, subject only to the tuberculin and mollein tests respectively. By these the presence of tuberculosis_ana glanders can be detected within eight to twelve hours, and the thirty days' gquarantine would thus be made unnecessary. Dr. Egan has written for more definite infor- mation, which, however, he will not re- ceive for two months. B THE RIO ARRIVES. A Report That Cholera Is Spreading in Northern China. The Pacific Mail steamship Rio de Janeiro from China and Japan by way of Honolulu came into port yesterday morn- ing and anchored off Black Point. The quarantine officer boarded her and after a careful inspection found no sickness and the vessel in good sanitary condition. There were ninety-eight passengers, of which eighteen were whites, eleven Jap- anese and sixty-four Chinese. One pas- senger, a Mrs. Bacon, had been taken on board at Honolulu. Herself and effects had been fumigated before being received aboard the vessel. There were many others ashore at Honolulu anxious to take passage for this port. No freight was shipped at Honolulu, and the mail was received only after Cap- tain Smith was assured thatit had been thoroughly fumigated. The steamer did not come to the dock, but remained in the outer harbor during 'the shipment of the mails. There had been fifty-eight cases and forty-four deaths reported in the city since August 17, which shows that the disease is decreasing. The number of cases had fallen from eight to three per day. The surgeon of the ship reports that the city of Yokohama is in a bad sanitary con- dition from cholera. There had been up to the steamer’s sailing forty-seven cases and thirty-five deaths. At Nagasaki no passeners were taken on board and no freight taken from the shore, only from a steamer direct from Shanghai, China. There had been seventy-one cases and fifty-five deaths from cholera. No whites have been attacked by the plague. There was no cholera at Hongkong. In Honolulu the steerage and holds of the Rio Janeiro were fumigated with sulphur. No water was taken aboard either for use by the people of the vessel or for washing decks. All water was supplied by the steam condensers. Yesterday the passengers of the bark C. S. Allen were released from quarantine after undergoing fumigation at Angel Island under the direction of the United States quarantine officials. They came over to the City last evening on the tug Redmond. To-day the people on board the steamer Rio de Janerio will be released as she has been over nine days from Honolulu and no cases of cholera have made their ap- pearance—the period of infection being five days. Dr. Chalmers states that he wouid not have put either the Allen or the Rio de Janeiro in quarantine, as they both pre- sented clean bills of health, and there was absolutely no danger of the disease from those vessels. But in the case of the British Marionette from Brazil with a bal- last of sand shoveled up on the beach at Rio de Janeiro the case is different. That cargo must be disposed of by being dumped overboard and the vessel fumi- ated. = Captain Smith of the steamer Rio de Janeiro reports that the cholera is spread- ing in Northern China and the authorities have really no control over the epidemic. At Chee Foo the disease is attacking natives and whites alike and hundreds die daily. It has crossed the frontiers and is ravaging the Russian territory and amon, the poor classes the mortality is frightful. The bark S. N. Castle 1s now due here from Honolulu and she will be quaran- tined with all her passengers when she arrives. Captain J. McFarland, late of the tug Governor Perkins, has been put in charge of the Federal quarantine tug George B. Stern, and will be actively engaged during the danger period. STEEL RAILROAD RAIILS. Judge McKenna Yesterday Reversed the Decision of the Board of General Appraisers. Importers got a setback in the United States Circuit Court yesterday and the Anglo-California Bank will be out a little over $23,000 by the decision. Judge Mec- Kenna set aside the verdict of the Board of General Appruisers in the famous steel rail case, and decided in favor of the Gov- ernment. The bank has not given up the fight, however, and the case will be carried to the United States Circuit Court of Ap- peals. In the vear 1887 a large quantity of rails were imported for the Oregon Railway Company. The Bank of California had a lien on the shipment for money loared. and the rails were put into a bonded ware- house. At that time the duty was $17 a ton, and that rate was paid on many thousands of tons of rails. A few years ago the Anglo-California Bank took over the risk from the Bank of Califor- nia, and just about that time Con- gress reduced the tariff on steel rails to $7 84 a ton. There was a little over 1000 tons of rails still in bond, and the bank sought to have them released at the lower rate of duty. The local Ap- praiser refused to allow any concession and the matter was referred to the Board of General Appraisers. That body re- versed the Appraiser and ordered the rails taxed at the lower rate. The Secretary of the Treasury objected and the matter was carried _into the Circuit Court, where Judge McKenna has now held that the rails must pay $17 a ton duty. ———————— ‘Was Injured in a Collision. Mrs. Henry 8. Millzner has begun suit against the Market-street Railway for $10,775 dam- ages on account of injuries sustained in a col- selected, and kept there in quarantine for lision at Ellis and Sutter streets last March. |CROWNING INFAMIES OF THE SOLID EIGHT. Sunnyside Franchise Given to the Market- Street Company. HOW THE JOB WAS DONE. The Tax Levy Is Fixed at $2 25 on the Hundred by the Combination. SETTLED BY THE USUAL VOTE. The Minority Tries to Stem the Tide, but Falls—The Sign Ordi- nance Sent Back. The Solid Eight of the Board of Super- visors crowned their infamous career yester- day. In spite of praver and protest, indif- ference of public opinion and threatened prosecution, they sold the Sunnyside fran- chise to the Market-street Railway Com- pany, and sola it for a song. Having thus declared their devotion to their master, they passed the tax levy that they had agreed upon, in full knowledge of the fact that 1t was opposed by a great majority of the taxpayers of the City, The Solid Eight are: KING, SCULLY, BENJAMIN, HIRSCH, HUGHES, DUNKER, MORGANSTERN, WAGNER. The four Supervisors who fought for the peovle and opposed the Eight to the bitter end are: . HOEBES, TAYLOR, SPRECKELS, DIMOND. The vote on the big tax levy and the sale of the franchise to the Market-street cor- poration went the usual wav. King, Scully, Benjamin, Hirsch, Hughes, Dun- ker, Morgenstern and Wagner voted de- fiantly and shoulder to shoulder in solid phalanx. Supervisors Dimond and Taylor argued and urged, bur without even pro- voking replies. The opening of the bids for the railroad extension to the new racetrack caused the first ripple in the monotonous business of reading bids for street work. The instant Supervisor Dimond saw what was coming he was on his feet with a pro- test. “I move,” he began, “‘that all the bids be rejected unread, as the advertisement for them was irregularly drawn.”” Eight members of the board squared themselves defiantly in their seats for the test vote. Noes—King, Scully, Benjamin, Hirsch, Hughes, Dunker, Morgenstern, Wagner; total, 8. Ayes—Dimond,Taylor, Spreckels, Hobbs; total, 4. ‘‘Motioh lost,” announced the Mayor. “Proceed with the reading of the bids. Behrend Joost bid $506 for the franchise and sent in a check for that sum as a guarantee. The Market-street Railway Company bid $531, accompanied by a check for that amount, The members glanced at one another as if the business was already definitely set- tled. “I move,” said Supervisor Benjamin, “that the bid of the Market-street Com- pany be accepted and that the franchise be given them.” Ayes—King, Scully, Benjamin, Hirsch, Hughes, Dunker, Morgenstern, Wagner: total, 8. Noes—Dimond,Taylor, Spreckels, Hobbs; total, 4. A titter ran around the room when the vote was announced, but the Mayor quickly repressed it. The next big nut to crack was the tax levy. The clerk nad hardly finished read- ing the figures when Supervisor Wagner was on his feet offering his pet motion to | add $60,000 to the levy for the Folsom- street boulevard. ‘‘The Street Superin- tendent says it will take $20,000 to improve some of the blocks,” he added. “Why not add $40,000 and build the boulevard ?” Hirsch seconded the motion. Ayes—King, Hirsch, Dunker, Morgen- stern, Wagner; total, 5. Noes—Scully, Benjamin, Dimond, Tay- lor, Hughes, Hobbs; total, 6. : Wagner heaved a sigh and then blithely moved that the tax levy as read at a total of $2.252 on each $100 be adopted. A lively discussion followea. Supervisor Benjamin opened it by moving that the 2 mills be stricken off so as to simplify the figuring in making out the taxes. Supervisor Hughes amended that the mills be taken off the allowance made the Golden Gate Park fund. Superintendent Taylor shot in a red-hot amendment that 25 cents and two mills be taken off the wholelevy, and he proceeded to back his motion with some very vigor- ous statements. % “The business community is paralyzed with this exorbitant tax levy,” he said, “The very prospect of it has almost checked reaf estate operations. I am amazed that my colleagues are not alarmed at the outlook. When the mat- ter was first discussed, I agn:ed with them that 1 per cent on $100 for Ccunty pur- poses waslnot enough when we had $300,- 000 in back salary bills to meet. We were called upon to make good that sum, and that brought about a raise over the 1 per cent limit. But when we raise that 1 per cent over one-half, I begin to feel alarmed at the prospect. “My motion to reduce the levy 25 cents and 2 mills leaves a tax of $2 on each $100. “In the present financial condition of the City, I think we should not try to meet all the improvements planned in this tax levy. Let usmeetpart of those im- provements this year and part of them next year. I tell you, gentlemen, I'm fearful of fixing the rate at the extrava- gant figures in that tax levy. ““A great many people have told me that strenuous _efforts should be made to re- duce it. Personally, I'm strongly opposed to such a big levy. " 1 believe we can vay our way by reducing it the 25 cents and 2 mills 1" have proposed.” Supervisor Wagner shot to his feet as Supervisor Taylor sat down. “He's an alarmist,”” began Supervisor ‘Wagner. “High taxes put money in circulation. I’ve heard no one complain of high taxes. No one_kicks except holders of outside lands. If he’s going to strike off the cost of building the old City Hall, why not strike off the improvements on the new City Hall?” Supervisor Hobbs joined his voice to what Supervisor Taylor had said. So did Supervisor Dimond. ~ “I've heard of noth- ing but protests against this exorbitant tax levy,” said the latter. “The banks are already taking action and are preparing to reduce the interest on deposits in order to meetit. I the members to consider the action they are about to takein this matter.” ““The middle classes will be the sufferers by it,” added Supervisor Taylor. “The banks are going to reduce the rates of in- terest. Real estate men have told me that the proposal of such a tax is already paralyzing the real estate business.” Then tge roll was called on the amend- ment to the motion. The amendment to reduce 25 cents and 2 mills was lost by the regular vote of 3 to 8. Ayes—King, Scully, Benjamin, Hirsch, Hughes, Dunker, Morgenstern, Wagner. Noes—Dimond, Taylor, Hobbs. Absent—Spreckels. Hughes withdrew his motion to take the 2 mills from the park fund. The amendment to knock off the 2 mills and make the levee $2 25 even on each $100 was carried. ki Then came the important vote on the tax levy. It was carried by the solid vote, eight to three. . Ayes—King, Scully, Benjamin, Hirsch, Hughes, Dunker, Morgenstern, Wagner. Noes—Dimond, Taylor, Hobbs. After announcing the vote, Mayor Sutro called Supervisor Taylor to the chair and left the room. The battle of the day was over. The most interesting piece of business that came up afterward was the amend- ment to knock out the ordinance against rojecting signs. pH’ughesg, King, Wagner and Benjamin wanted the ordinance so modified that it wouldn’t be a blow to respectable business men who had spent money to erect elaborate signs with electric lights. They argued that to do away with the signs would do away with the electric light attachment, and that would be an incon- venient thing for the belated citizens, Most of the speakers had friends who had protested against the ordinance as it stood. Supervisor Hughes tried to have it sent back to the Street Committee to be put in better shape, but his amendment was lost. Supervisor King asked to have the ordinance repealed andan entirely new one framed. This motion passed unani- mously. Tre Southern Pacific Company was ordered to put up automatic signals at the crossing of the old Ocean House road and at Army street. The Spring Valley Water Company was granted permission to use the City's ground on Holly Park for reservoir pur- poses. Page street from Market street to Fill- more was ordered paved. School Director Clinton was granted a sixty days’ leave of absence from the State. Police Commissioner Gunst was granted permission to leave the State for fifteen days, beginning September 20. he meeting then adjourned. 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