The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 19, 1896, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 1896 L MG BE-FUNDIG, United States, his Cabinet, the Judges of the United States Supreme Courtand the members of both houses of Congress, and that a committee of five be ap- tion to prepare a memorial toaccompany these resolutions, with full power toact. | These are the resolutions that were unanimously adopted by the State con- vention which met in Metropolitan | pointed by the chairman of this conven- { | | | | | | Temple yesterday afternoon to voice the Enthusiastic State Conven-| tion at Metropolitan Temple. STIRRING RESOLUTIONS. The Entire State Well Repre- sented and United on the One Platform. A PERMANENT ORGANIZATION. Congress to Be Memorialized and the Sentiment of California Made Known at Washington. | Sacramento on a representative basis of sentiment of the people of California on the question of re-funding the debts owed to the Federal Government by the Pacific railroads. The convention wascalled by the Mayors of San Francisco, Oakland, Stockton and one delegate for every 5000 of population in the larger cities, one delegate from each | township of over 500 population, and one delegate from all other counties. The convention was an unqualified success. It was enthusiastic and unani- mous on the main proposition throughout, and the resolutions were carried by a rising vote. The following committee was chosen to prepare the memorial to Con- | gress: HENRY E. HIGHTON ADOLPH SUTR A. CAMINETTL. 1t devolved upon Mayor Sutro, as chair- man of the convention, to name the com- mittee. He called upon Messrs. Estee, | Doyle, Heighton, Cannon and Davie to serve. And then, by a special vote the | names of ex-Congressmen Caminetti and | Mayor Sutro were added. M Caminetti | requested the privilege of retiring from WHEREAS, Several bills are now pending in Congress having for their ob- ject the re-funding to the United Stutes Government of the debts owed by the Pacific railroads; and, WHEREAS, The people of California are deeply interested in this question, and are now assembled in State conven=- tion to express their opinion thereon, and desire to respectfully submit the fol- lowing: First—That the United States Govern- ment, by a large grant of land and bonds, | the committee in favor of ex-Judge E. M. | Gibson of Oakland. A large majority of all the delegates in- vited by the call were present when Mavor Sutro opened the meeting. But even this number made rather a poor showing on the floor of the convention hall, and at first there was some talk of ad- journing ti!l next week so as to enable the | distant counties to send their delegates, and also to permit a larger representation from the various counties. It was pro- invitation card requesting my presence at the mass-meeting in opposition to the funding bill, to be held on Saturday evening, the 18th inst., is athand. Iregret to state that on account of my enforced absence from the City, I shall be unable to be present at the meeting. 1 sincerely trust that the meeting will be & success in every way, and will do much to aid in defeating the audacious ana outrageous scheme, in the form of the funding bill, now pending in Congress, the success of which | would entail upon Californis, for fifty years to | come, the burden of discharging the enormous | and-increasing obligation of the aided rogues. 1 deem it of great importance that the mass- meeting should be confined, as to its result, to | the precise question before it, viz.: the expres- sion in emphatic terms of the opposition of the whole people of California to the funding bill. To go beyond this, and indulge in either the- | ories or resolutions es to the best means to be | | adepted by the Government for the solution of | | this railroad problem would, it seems to me, | | be most unwise, snd would be more then likely | to involve the meeting in a discordant debate | over issues which are not logically or properly | | vefore it. Again regretting my inability to be | I beg to remain yours very truly, | CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE. | | The following telegram was received i | from one of Mayor Sutro’s trusted Eastern | | agents: l | | present, | WABHINGTON, D. C., January 17, 1896. A. Sutro, Mayor of San Francisco: Huntington | is organizing some secret particular dodge. | | Has distributed some circulars among select Congressmen, which others cannot see. I cannot find what it is yet. From Visalia came a resolution couclfed in terms fully coinciding with those ulti- mately expressed in the resolutions adopted by the convention. These resolu- tions were forwarded by Ben M. Madaox, who had been chosen to represent Visalia at the convention, but was unable to at- tend. It was also signed and indorsed by the Board of Supervisors of Tulare County, as follows: T. E. Henderson (chairman), T. B. Twadeler, S. M. Gilliam, S. L. N, Ellis and J. H. Grimsley. W. P. Ink, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Cloverdale, forwarded a reso- | lution, the substance of which was: *‘Our people want to see the funding bill de- | feated.” i i Omitted, all the voyage of their lives Ts bound in ghallows and in miseries. That tide has come: the tide of popular feel- ing against tne encroachments, the oppres- sions and the villainies of the powers which rule over us; that octopus, which, with brazen assurance, now stands before Congress, asking that its crimes be condoned and that it be given for all time the property it hasconverted from the Government. Let us all work together to beat the funding bill and we may escape the shaliows and the miseries of half a century to come. Let one shout go up from all the throats of the people on the Pacific Coast and grow in volume till it will reverberate {rom the Pacific to the Atlantic shores—“Defeat the funding bill"—for its passage means the enslavement, the degradation, the downfall of our people and the triumph of all that s vile in human life and affairs. The men who now lord it over us have from year 1o year grown in insolence and arrogance. They have set at defiance our laws, they have bribed judges, packed juries, and, through a system of bossism, corrupted and controlled our elections and introduced & system of es- Pplonagand punishment of opponents which has M;ell nigh made slaves and cowards of our citi- zens. Our noble constitution and laws have been set aside, they have been supplanted by the mandates of the octopus, who 1n secret con- clave sits as judge and jury and decides who shall be rewarded and who shall be punished. It holds out both arms; in one hand a sack of | money, in the other the assassin’s dagger, and cries out to.the people, “Take your choice; if you do our bidding we will reward, enrich you and give you office, honor and a foremost place in society; if you oppose us, we will ruin you financially, socially, and we will disgrace | you.” American citizens, descendants of Revolu- tionary fathers, will you stand this? Will you permit these low-minded villains to take from you your birthright, your citizenship, your | flag, your legal rights? Will you become cow- ards and slaves and do the bidding of these highwaymen? That you will do if you permit this funding bill to become & law. For fifty more years you will be deprived of your rights as American citizens. For fifty years vou will be ground to the dust. For fifty years the last cent you possess will be squeczed out of you, and during all that time the farmer, the mechanic, the . laborer will be permitted to barely exist, while which stands ready to gain its own infa- mous ends to-day by the same methods. Mr. Rogers addressed the convention, first requesting those in the galleries to come down to the main floor, the band meanwhile playing “Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean.” He said equality ot all men before the law was the basisof this Government. This fundamental principle was directly assaulted by the funding bill. If one man, or one set of men, could go roughshod over the laws and the cher- ished institutions of the Republic, in that day American liberty would be at an end. He said: What are we coming to in California? Where is the man in our own City who dares to stand up before this villainous corporation and say thet his soul is his own? Not a pound of human flesh enters or leaves our City without paying tribute to this monster. Thne mer- chants, the business men of San Francisco, are utter cowards when brought face to face with the railway magnates. We ought to strain every nerve and put forth every endeavor in order to crush and defeat this damnable bill. Yet how weak and unmaniy is the attitude of the average California business man in relation to this weighty issue! From the East we can expect nothing. The people there areas arule densely ignorant regard- ing California, its people and the California needs. Ifanythingis tobe done we mustdo it ourselves, and lose no time doing itif we wish to save our State from slavery. James H. Barry, editor of the Star, made a stirring speech against the bill, which he characterized as one of the most infamous measures ever broached in the world’s his- tory: We all know how the railway nas terrorized and subjugated the business men of this State. They, of ell others, oughtto bein the front rank in this fightagainst the funding bill. Every men of them would hail with joy the establishment of a Government railway sys- tera. But they fear to be crushed by the ini- quitous corporation which rules our State. Let us not be deceived. If anything is to be done we, the people of the State, must do it. F. J. Sullivan was the nextspeaker. He id the Government should conduct the railways, and he contended that any member of Congress who could vote in Government ownership of railroads, but deprecating any attempt to load down the resolutions with planks upon which every honest and fearless man in the State could not unite. Chairman Sutro pointed out that noth- ingcould please Mr. Huntington more than to have an amendment such as that pro- posed by Mr. Hough inserted in the reso- Intions, That would give him the very chance he wanted of misrepresenting the whole matter to the Eastern Congressmen who are not familiar with the question. Then he ruled the amendment out of order, under the call which gave birth to the convention. This course was heartily aporoved by the delegates, even by those who were the strongest advocates of Government owner- ship, and the resolutions “were passed unanimously. . Then, as if to prove the words of Mayor Sutro, Denis Kearney—though not a dele- gate—jumped to his feet and tried to raise a technical point in favor of the amend- ment. Atonce a dozen delegates jumped up and demanded that no outsiders be per- mitted to speak. Denis Kearney kept on, but his voice was drowned by cries of “Put him out!” Mr. Highton moved the appointment of 8 sergeant-at-arms to remove from the hall all persons not delegates who Insisted upon speaking. Taylor Rogers called upon the policemen at the door to do their duty. Kearney gave up the floor and went out of the hall. After the appointment of the committee on memorializing Congress Mr. Highton | moved that the convention adjourn, to be | called together again whenever, in the judgment of Mayvor Sutro, there should be | further work for it to perform. In spite of the shortness of the time since the call for the convention was promulgated nearly 70 | per cent of the delegates created under the | terms of the call were present. Their | names are as follows: Alameda—B. C. Brown, Green Majors, Charles | E. Naylor, E. M. Gibson, J. M. Bassett, T.J. Roberts, J. F. W. Sohst, F. R. Girard, Ben Mor- gan, John Gelder, H. McKinnon, Eugene Hough. Amador—A. Caminetti. Fresno—D. F. Fowler, George A. Nourse, Humboldt—Rober: Burns. Sacramento—Robert Brown. Bolano—E. M. Bi!lings. Sonoma—J. C. Sines, D. E. McKinlay, W.P. MAYOR SUTRO ADDRESSING THE ANTI- FUNDING STATE CONVENTION AT METROPOLITAN TEMPLE. AND [Drawn from life at the convention by a “Call” artist.] SOME CHARACTERISTIC FREE - HAND SKETCHES OF DELEGATES. generously aided the construction of the Pacific railway. Second—That the bonds are now partly due, and the grantees refuse to pay them and ask the Government to extend, for fifty or 100 years, the time of payment at half the ruling rates of interest. Third—That the assets of said railroads have been fraudulently converted by the original stockholders of the Central Pa- cific Railroad Company — Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins and Crocker—who and whose estates now declare the roads are bankrupt, while they are each worth | many millions of dollars which right- fully belong to the security. Fourth—That these same parties have, by all sorts of illegitimate means, kept out competing railroads, and thereby managed to extort from the people of | this coast exorbitant rates of freights and fares. Fifth—That these extortions have im- poverished and well nigh ruined our farmers and brought the country gener- ally into a state of abject dependence. Sixth—That by such legislation they would also escape liability, as trustees for the United States, having abstracted the asset: onstituting a large part of the security and which are now in their possession, and which had been en- | trusted to their management. Therefore be it RESOLVED, That we, the citizens of California, in State convention assem- bled, hereby enter our solomn protest against the passage by Congress of any re-funding bill whatever, and demand that the law shall be permitted to take its natural course without interference by the legislative branch of the Govern- | ment. RESOLVED, That the President of | the United States be requested 1o | promptly do his executive duty under | the constitution and statutes, and to in- struct the Attorney-General to com- | mence foreclosure proceedings withou delay in such form as to enforce the | trust and rehabilitate the security itself, | and be it further RESOLVED, That our Senators and | members of Congress be reguested to | pursue the course indicated in these res- | olutiona, as representing the wish and demand of ninety-nine out of every hundred of all the inhabitants of the | State of California and of the Pacific | Coast. RESOLVED, That the secretary be | instructed to forward copies of these resolutions to the Presidont of the | | posed by Henry E. Heighton that the call be amended go as to permit a delegation of not less than twenty-five from each county to be present. This question wasdiscussed a little, but before it was seriously consid- ered, Taylor Rogers, the temporary secre- tary, had examined the credentials and found that the entire State was fairly well represented on the floor of the convention. Some of the delegates had made the dis- covery at the same time, and the end of the preliminary discussion was that the conventicn resolved to get down at once to business. Mayor Sutro explained that the call was in no sense for a mass-meeting, but for a convention of delegates from the various districts. Considering the nature of the call it was found that the convention was well attended. This fact was even the better realized when several of the country delegates announced that they had great difficulty in reaching the City in time, and that in some of their neighbor counties there had not been sufficient time to permit the selection of a proper delegate. Proceeding to the business of temporary and then permanent organization, upon motion of Mr. Highton, Mavor Sutro was unanimously chosen first temporary and then permanent chairman of the conven- | tion by a rising vote, and in the same order, upon the motion of Max Popper, Taylor Rogers was selected as the perma- nent secretary. Communications were then read from a number of prominent men in all parts of the State who were unable to be present. All of them expressed the utmost sympa- thy with the anti-funding movement and the best wishes for the success of the con- vention. Among the communications read was the following telegram from W. R. Hearst, dated New York, January 17: Railroad combinations so strong in Wash- ington, it seems almost impossible to break them; yet certainly it is the duty of all having interest of the Pacific Coast at heart to make the most strenuous efforts. send Davenport from here, and the Journal will use whatever power it has to assist. W. R. HEARST. Another communication, from Charles M. Shortridge, was as follows: SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17, 1896. Hon. Adolph Sutro, City—My DEAR SIR: Your 1 will | Resolutions came also from a mass- meeting held in Newcastle. They were signed by the chairman, A. J. Shellham- mer, and the secretary, Ed Katzenstein, and were couched in plain and strong words denouncing the funding bill. The mass-meeting was held on January 16, and the resolutions were adopted unanimously. From Colusa came the following resolu- tions, passed at a mass-meeting of the citi- zens on January 13: WHEREAS, We believe that strenuous efforts are being made to pass a funding bill in Con- gress, extending the time for settlement of the debts of the Central and Union Pacific Rail- road companies with the Government; and | whereas, the citizens of Colusa, in mass-meet- ing assembled, believe it to be inexpedient to 60 extend the time; therefore be it . Resolved, That we are opposed to the passage fa funding bill, ora bill in any form whatever, het will extend the time of settlement of this just debt. FRANK WILK! Chairman. ED. ST. MAURICE, Secietary. Another communication, signed by P. T. Boone, president of the Board of Trust- ees, and H. V. Keeling, Town Clerk of Lakeport, contained the following lan- guage: We voice the sentiments of this town by de- | elaring thatall are unanimously united against | the funding bill, believing it to be an in- iquitous measure, and its passage would be a National disgrace. We applaud your action and add this, our small but determined voice, 10 the success of your effort. On motion of George K. Fitch, the chair- man was empowered to appoint a com- | mittee on resolutions. | pointed the following, giving them an hour in whick to propose a set of resolu- tions which would embody the sense of the assembled delegates: George K. Fitch, San Francisco; J. L. Davle, Mayor of Oakland; H. M. Baggs, Mayor of Stockton; Robert Brown, Sacramento; B. A. | Ostrom, Yuba; John T. Doyle and Henry E. | Highton, San Francisco; M. M. Estee, Napa; Marion Cannon, Ventura; L J. Truman, Gavin McNab and Colonel T. F. Barry, San Francisco; Ben Morgan, Oakland. | Upon the retirement of the committee on resolutions, Mayor Sutro was roundly applauded as he stepped forward and made the following brief address: GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION: ‘There is a tide in the aftairs of men Mayor Sutro ap- | ‘Which, taken at its flood, leads on to fortune, your masters take from you the result of your labors and productions. Bribery and corruption carry the day; hon- esty and honor are at a discount; we are forced into acts of cowardice and slavery, be- cause individusls are helpless and cannot re- sist. Let us make one united, supreme effort, and pray Congress to turn a deaf ear to the false pleas of our oppressors, who, through the aid of a venal press, are trying to impress on Con- gress that but a few agitators are at the back of this movement, while as & matter of fact the Dpeople, with the exception of & few flunkies, hirelings and dependants of the octopus, are a unit on this overwhelmingly important ques- tion of the defeat of the fundlng of the Pacific railroad debts. Let resolutions go forth to Congress which cannot be misunderstood. Let it be shown that our liberties must not be destroyed by handing us over body and soul to the octopus for half a century to come; that Congress has no right to fasten on us a monopoly which will exclude all competing railroads from coming to California. Our Government has three branches—the legislative, the executive and the judicial. After legislative action in favor of these rail- roads Congress has no right to interfere. It belongs to the Executive Department to carry into effect the law, and to the judiciary to de- fine it. It is the President’s duty to request the At torney-General to commence foreclosure pro- ceedings and tnereunderlet these roads be sold to the highest bidder. Again, I say, this is a momentous time in our affairs, and if the unanimous voice of the peo- ple is heard in thunder tones at Washington right, honor and justice may yet prevail. Dr. Cleveland then took the platform and made a ringing speech that was heart- ily applauded. He characterized the atti- tude of Mr. Huntington in asking that the debt of the Pacific railroads be refunded again, for the seventh time, as a piece of monumental impudence. But Congress could no longer act in ignorance on the question, he declared. Any man who voted for the bill, or any President who should sign it, would be a traitor to his country and to the people, for he must do it with his eyes wide open. In concluding his brief address he eulo- gized the chairman of the convention and predicted the ultimate triumph of the inter- ests of the whole people over those of a railroad monopoly that had in years past bribed Congressmen and legislators and favor of the funding bili would be recreant to a sacred trust and altogether unworthy of any post of public confidence. He said he had been deprived of all hope of political advancement through the mach- inations of the railway kings, and he referred in caustic terms to the influence of Southern Pacific gold in Congress. Colonel Barry then announced that the committee on resolutions was ready to report, whereupon the Mayor ordered the resolutions read. Eugene Hough of Oakland got the floor after the reading of the resolutions. He offered an amendment providing that the Pacilic railroads should be taken by the Government and run for the benefit of the whole people. His amendment was roundly applauded by those not delegates, and particularly by Denis Kearney, whose enthusiasm was amusing to those who noticed it. Mr. Hough followed up his amendment by a ringing speech in favor of Govern- ment ownership of railroads, saying that the people he represented demanded not only that the funding bili should be killed, but that the Federal Government take possession of the railroads. He was followed by Henry E. Highton, who calmly pointed out the necessity for the convention standing together unani- mously on the resolutions as reported, and not burdening them with issues, which, though excellent in themselves, many honest men could not agree upon. John Gilder of Oakland spoke to the amendment. He made a strong speech Ink. Tulare—Ben M. Maddox. Ventura—Marion Cannon. Yolo—D. A. Ostrom. San Francisco—Joseph Britton, James H. Barry, Colonel Thomas F. Barry, E. §. Barney, W. J. Biggy, Dr. C.D. Cleveland, E.A. Den- nicke, Joseph I. Dimond, Henry L. Davis, J. T. Doyle, George K. Fitcn, M. Greenblat, Henry E. | Highton, J. C. Jordan, A. B. Kinne, Joseph | Leggett, Stewart Menzics, Gavin McNab, E. W. McKinstry, B. McKinne, J. H. Moore, M. Mec- Glynn, Max Popper, Taylor Rogers, Charles Wesley Reed, Colonel James F. Smith, Mark Sheldon, F. J. Sullivan, L. J. Truman, Issac Upham, P. N. Welli SAR 15 STILL AT LARGE, The Chinese Letter-Thief Did Not Try to Board the Steamer Peru. Efforts of the Postal Inspectors to Capture Him Were Again Baf. fled Yesterday. Sam Yick, or rather, Sam Hing, the leader of the gang of young Chinese “Native Sons” who succeeded in looting the Postoffice boxes of Fong Hai & Co. 715 Dupont street; Tsue Chong Wing Mon Kee & Co., 715 Commercial street; and Chew Ying Lung, 738 Sacramento street, and getting about $2000 worth of money orders and checks by the scheme, has not yet been apprehended by the Postal TInspectors. Inspectors Munro and Thrall were at the Pacific Mail dock when the steamer Pern left for China yesterday afternoon, but Sam Hing did not putin an appearanca. Louie Quong, merchant and interpreter, is of the opinion that Sam went over to Oak- land, intending to take an early train for the East. There were enough of Federal officers on hand at the steamer’s departure to have captured any number of Mon- golian letter-thieves, had there bLeen any | in sight, for Deputy Collector of Customs Jerome, Marshal Baldwin, Surveyor Eng- lish and Deputy Surveyor Ruddell all had business there about that time. It was learned yesterday that the Bank of California, the Nevada Bank, the First National Bank, Wells, Fargo & Co. and Sutro & Co. had honored the forgeries of Sam Hing and the identification of Hue Tin Foo. A check for $140, payable to Fong Hai & Co., was cashed by the Bank of California, and the Bank of Nevada paid a $35 check. Tsue Chong Wing Mon Kee & Co. know of three checks of $60, $10 and $56, respectively, which the banks had al- lowed themselves to pay to Sam Hing. The explanation Hue Tin Foo gives of his connection with the gang is a plausible one. The urbane young business repre- sentative of Man Lee & Co. of 709 Dupont street says Sam Hing told him a short time ago that he had stolen letters from the Postoffice boxes, and but for that he would not have known anything about it. ‘When he identified Sam Hing to Sutro & Co., he explains further, he did hot then know about his crooked work, and sup- posed everything wasall right. *Sam Hing as not been emvployed by the firm of Man Yick & Co. of 1017 Dupont street for some time, it was stated by the manager. The arrangement of the Postofti is such that those of Fong Hai & C: Tsue Chong Wing Mon Kee & Co. could be emptied of their contents by any per- son reaching through the box of Chew Ying Lung, because the last mentioned box 1s between the other two and they im- mediately adjoin it. Chew Ying Lung & Co., however, say it could not have been their young man who did the stealine. The box of Man Lee & Co. isa considerable distance away according o Hue Tin Foo. In recalling Sam Hing’s conversation Tin Foo stated yesterday that Sam had told him his method had been to call at the Postoffice about 7:30 A. M. and 9 p. M. every day and ask the clerk on duty for the letters of his victims and that he re- ceived them. This is denied at the Post- office, and the denial 1s based upon an ex- planation that there is a written rule that no mail should be given out in that way. The Nevada Bank made good yesterday the $35 check to which Sam Hing had forged the name of Fong Hai & Co. and paid the money over to the firm. The postoffice money-order which Sam bad forged was for $200, payable to Fong Hai & Co., and in connection with this be had worked his scheme of making small pur- boxes . and for Government ownership, and said that the people he represented wanted it put past the power of Mr. Huntington to buy in the Pacific raiiroads and continue tiem under the present regime. Gavin McNab secured the floor and pointed out that if it is true that when thieves fell out honest men get their dues, it is also true that when honest men fall out thieves are apt to get more than their dues. He wanted the convention to stick to the single proposition of fighting the refunding bill and to consider the Govern- ment ownership at some other time and as a separate measure, Taylor Rogers spoke to the same effect, declaring himself decidedly in favor of ¢ ases on Getz Bros. & Co., at 113 and 115 California street. Sam Hing made an effort late Friday to square himself with one of the firms he had victimized, so it was reported in Chinatown yesterday, by paying back some of the money he had taken, but this could not be verified. COSTLY AFFECTIONS. They Belong to Mrs. Curtis and She Sues for Damages for Their Alienation. Mrs. Emma A. Curtis of 1311 Green street wants $10,000 worth of damages from Miss Leonora Miles. She says Miss Miles has alienated the Curtis affections from their legitimate object, causing thereby a divorce and much worry and trouble. Mrs. Curtis married Henry C. Curtis in April, 1874. They lived tozether for ten vears and then she went East on a visit, leaving her husband home. When she re- turned she noticed that he had singularly changed and seeking for a cause she ascer- tained that be had secured a divorce in Sutter County and was no longer her hus- band. She went to the Judge who had granted the divorce and upon her testi- mony the decree was set aside, Mrs. Curtis still sought for the cause of it all and finally, she claims, she found it in Miss Miles.” She says Miss Miles has Iured the susceptible Curtis away and she wants damages for his defection from what she thinks is the cause of it. A BROADSWORD CONTEST. Sergeant Owen Davis and Ivan Malchin Are Matched at Last. 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