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.'I‘HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1896 ELECTION LAW KNOCKED 00T, The Present Commissioners | Must Step Down and Out. | THEY HOLD ILLEGALLY. Supreme Court Decision Which | Changes the City's Politics. | THE AUDITOR NEED NOT PAY.| End of an Official Dispute Involving | the Validity of the Election Board. The is dead! Long live the king! The new Election Commission has been | lared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and it must fall by its own weight. In its place must rise the old order of ngs—the commission composed of of- ficers of the City who are ex-officio mem- bers of the Board of Election. The Supreme Court rendered its decision Yesterday, and en type-w it shows how the law is specia and at variance with the ¢ State. It creates a speci: says a special class withir ich the law can take effec de , the court the limits of beyond special n the eld to be one not sanctioned by the constitution Upon this point ti the new | ion is bow rested , one npel the on of con- of the e second 150,04 ication esc [ says noth s only ass ing about aw n created e vas to be enforced. 7The this unconstitu- e clause declaring under the act shall be en- the whole act must fall void tof the op n isas follows: ner claims to be & member of the Com i ction ers of sco, under a certain approved March 28, ed his ¢ of such and 1sed to draw such t said a is un- the petitioner pre. s o for a writ of respondent to draw s entitled “an act to add iated as article 1V of of the Political w sections, “rela- nd county Boards . The part of the considéred is a new section, | tion 1075, and is as follows: ~ | | ssioners ‘ommon Council or ity is ex-officio the ners in and for such and cities and coun- ns and , each of whom must | en an actual resident | shall respective | State com- political par- the provisions of ty appointed | ot Election Commis- | within ten qays after | the Mayor a written | ent of,a member of | nmissioners on the | is not a person of | nding with said | pointed: and the | ake another appointment | z whom the protest of said commission | ier office of public em- or appointive, during the term have appointed and of the per- d_from thereatt shall for organization | election held in | pariy ectors at such election, and the members of the board f such city or ¢ ation with and belc 2 to the | which at the last Presiden- | held at such ecity or city | polied within such or city | the next highest number of votes e candidates for Presidential electors | cal party. The members of said com- 1l The persons first appointéd as suc £ ners shall be appointed on toe first , 1895, and shall hold their office « the term of four years from and after the da of their appointment, except that the first pointed (Lo, one belonging io each polit : oresaid, » end of two shall be ap- or. Whenever any vacancy 5 board such vacanc led by appontment as herein prescribed, and erson so appointed to fill the vacancy shall be | d in the same manner and from the same | al pa zation with which his cessor in : » 0f the unexpired term for which he was ap- | % | | The salary of each member of the Board of | ers In_and for the city or city 100,000 or more inhabitants 0 per annum, pavab tutionality of this section is at-| several grounds, and it isappar v points it at least clos tacked upo ent thata aches the line which 1iimits legis Under our views of the case, however, | e y stapdpoints from which iaw it. hicn it is not While it may be rd of its provisions. Itis & matter of history that when the pres- constitution was adopted there was a great supposed evils which had secial and local legisiation, and trong purpose to prevent such iture. Perhaps some other in- nd evils which arise from 100 mitation of the legislative power in were not fully anticipated or con- | | nts the constitution is exceedingly of the power to pass local and | and this feature of the constitu- 1" he kept in view by legislators, for 8w passed in plain contravention of it, ther good or bad, cannot be upheld by the article IV of the constitution ex- prov that “the Legislature shall ocel or special Iaws in any of the fol- numerated cases; thatis to say,” and | -twoenumerated ¢ 1 subjects of legislati, In addition there is & thir- © which reads: “In ali other Cases where a general law can be made eppli- | business, or the electi | ties. | unconstitutional. | ton, Republican. | sition to avoid some complication under oowing: nth—Regnlating county and township ion of county ang town- snip officers. Eleventh—Providing fdr con- dueting elections, or designating the plates of voting, except on the organization of new counties. Twenty-eighth—Creating officers, or | prescribing the powers and duties of officers in counties, townships, election or school dis- As the statute here underreview deals bjects enumerated in said section 23, it that 1t is unconstitutional if it be local | isl. But as it relates only to a part of territory and people of the State, it is clearly local'and spemf (Earle vs. Board of Ed- ucation, 55 Cal., 489), unless there are some other provisions of the constitution and_some principle of law abplicable thereto which takes it out of the category 3 There are two provisions in the constitution which somewhat relieve the pressure against local and special legislation. One is section article XI—not particularly npplicable here which provides that the Leglslature, for the purpose of regulating the compensation of county officers, may “classify the counties by population,” and section 6 of the same article which provides that “corporations for munici- al purposes shall not be created by special aws, but the Legislature, by general laws, shall provide for the incorporation and cl fication in proportion to population of cities and towns, which laws may be altered, amend- ed or repealed.” Now, this court has held that when there has been a ciassification, author- ized by the constitution of counties or munici- pal corporations, & law which aplies to all of any one class is not !xll\ id upon the ground that it is local or special. z The consiruction of the constitution on this subject has been liberal, it being neld that it the classification be in other respects sich as the constitution warrants, the fact that only one or two counties or municipalities are put in & class, will not invalidate it (Cody vs. Murphy, 89, Cal. But if there must be a ation, it must be & general law, which, ree, mey be amended. And the classific st include all the counties or muri- jes. Beiore 1883 the Legislature neg- lected the duty imposed upon it by the consti- tution to make such classification, and its attempts before that time to legislate specially for municipalities were held invalid. (Desmond ve. Dur Earle vs. Board of Edu- {s. Dunn the court held that* 7 of article VI of the constitution plated the enactment of gene- ng for all corporations, for orations and not for some only, must be as general as the sub- 1 they relate.” In 1883 the Legis- nade a classification of municipal cor- s as follows: “All municipal corpora- ithin the State are hereby classified as Those having & population of more 100,000 shall constitute the first class; waving & population of 50,000 and not ing 100,000 shall constitute the second 1 5o’ on to the sixth class, and this | cation has never been repealed or amended. (The Statutes of 1883, page 24.) Since then court by Temple, J. C., sa1d: ‘On this 5th day of March, 1885 i 5, the I ¢ did by a_general law, as the co sires, classify all the cities of the State. s mentioned by the law in question is notone of those classes, but isa class created by the act itself. 1am of the opinion that this | cannot be done. Section 6 of article XI wes | intended to limit and not to enlarge | horized was to be by a geaeral law in the same sense and in the same way in which it was necessary to provide for the incorporation and organization of cities and towns. Legisla- | on in regard to such corporations would thereafter be made by reference to the classes thusmade * * * -1 think & law in conformity with this special permission of the constitution must be a law classifying all cities of the State, or a law mendatory of such & law. It must have all the municipal corporations classified.” Darcy vs. Mayor of San Jose, 104 Cal. 6 We see no distinction in principal betwe that case and the case at bar. In that case, f the purpose, no doubt, of affecting the cit ¥ of San Jose alone, an act was passed by which & certain provision was made applicable only to “all cities containing a population of not less than 10,000 nor more than 25,000,” but therc was no such classification under the general law. e ws in the third class, which is of cities with & population of more 00 and not exceeding 30,000, &nd he actin_question in that case did was inval ation of cities or cities and counties 15 150,000 or more inhabitants.” or cities and counties having that number of inhabitants are in the first class, which in- cludes ‘‘all municipal corporations * * * aving a population of more than 100,000.” The statutes of 1883, page 34, and the act | here in question therefore does not affect all | the corporations of the first class. Moreover, there is an attempt Dy the act itself to create class for a special purpose, without reference to the existing classification by general law, | which was heid to be unauthorized in Darcy vs. Mayor of San Jose. It is therefore local and | special, and for that reason unconstitutional and voia. We_see no force in the point that the re- spondent has no interest in the question here | involved. The act under which petitioner | claims being unconstitutional end void, there is no law authorizing respondent to draw the | warrant and to do the act demanded of him | would be to violate his official duty and oath and subject himself to liabilities and penal- Neither is there any room here for the | ple that separable parts of a statute valid, while other parts may be | All of the parts of said sec- prid may be tion 1075, under which alone petitioner claims | his salary, are alike involved in the vice of | uncon ntionality. Neither is there any distinction with respect ‘ to the point here involved between cities and consolidated cities and counties. They are both “municipal corporations.”” “And with re- | spect to the constitutional provisions herein | discussed, they are in the same category. Des- mond vs. Dunn, supra. The views above expressed relieve us from the necessity of determining the many other | important and_serious objections made by respondent to the validity of a statute here in | question. We hold that it 1s unconstitutional | and void for the reasons heretofore given. | The prayer of the petitioner is denied, and | the proceeding is dismissed. | MCFARLAND, J. We coneur. It Restores to the Old Election Board All Powers Derived From the Act of 1878. The decision of the Supreme Court re- stores to the old Board of Election Com- missioners of the City and County of San Francisco all the powers which it derived | | from the act of the Legislature of 1878, | which created the board and defined its duties. The board as now constituted consistsof: Mayor Adoliph Sutro, Populist. Anuditor William Broderick, Democrat. City and County Attorney H. T. Cres- well, Democrat. City and County Surveyor Charles Til- Tax Collector James N. Block, Demo- crat. The Registrar of Voters, William M. Hinton, who was appointed by Governor Budd, is a Democrat, and the chief deputy m the Registrar’s office at the time Mr. Hinton was elected secretary of the com- mission which has just been declared un- constitutional was Peter McGiade, a Dem- ocrat. Mr. McGlade, it seems, resigned that po- the new law, but from what Registrar Hin- ton said yesterday it is inferred that he will be reappointed. In other circles it was supposed that Charles Gildea, ex-mem- ber of the State Board of Equalization, would receive the appointment of chief deputy. The Registrar said concerning the or- filuiznlion of the office that nothing would e settled until the remittitur was 1e- ceived from the Supreme Court. The 'proper?’ in the hands of the Board of Election Commissioners, consisting of booths, hooks, blanks, maps, etc., was never transferred to the Commissioners appointed by Mayor Sutro under the act which has just been declared void. The Registrar has, therefore, in his keeping all the equipments of the office. The old Board of Election Commissioners, at the last meeting, adjourned to meet again at the call of the chairman, Mayor Sutro. | The Mayor will probably call'a meeting | this week, The primary election law, which was | enacted by the Legislature at its last ses- | sion, still cuts some figure in calculations, The opinion is widespread, however, that the Supreme Court will declare it to be contrary to theconstitution and therefore | of no effect. The Supervisors, in making the tax levy for the present fiscal year, were guided by the presumption that the primary election Cities | ninny band, the mountain Leroine M 1 . ‘ cnbl;\" Among these enumerated cases are | apart $32,000 for election expenses. There | the fo | A Revival of “The Ensign” at | same satisfactory performance that it was 11 the cities of the third classend | With respect to the case at bar thereisno | | Scoundrel.” | the favorite performer, on account of her law would take effect, and therefore set | of the present fiscal year, and the money | | election law will be set aside as unconsti- | money provided by the Board of Super- | which some prominent Republican of the | will be no general election during the present fiscal year, which ends June 30 next, but_according to an amendment to the ;ienerul election law passed by the Legislature last winter, registration must begin 160 days before the election. Hence voters will begin to register on March 26 | allowed by the Supervisors will be needed | by the Registrar to employ clerks and pro- vide blanks to register the names. The Commissioners and Registrar will not assume, however, that the primary tutional. Should the court sustain it, the visors will be necessary to carry out its provisions, and then there would be no money for use in registering voters 160 days before the general election. According to the law under which the Election Commissioners have acted since | the board was organized in 1878, registra- tion has begun ninety days before elec- tion. There is no contention, so far as can be ascertained, that the amended general election law reauiring registration 160 days before the day of election is unconsti- tutional. The Board of Supervisors, in making es- timates of expenses for the fiscal year be- ginning July 1, 1896, will probably allow $250,000 for the general election of next November. The Election Commissioners appointed by Mayor Sutro, under the law declared void by the Supreme Court, were: James Denman and P. M. Wellin, Democrats, and Albert E. Castle and Samuel Foster, Republicans. Leading Republicans, such as P. B. Cornwall, M. M. Estee, M. Cooney and others, vigorously opposed and defeated Mr. Foster’s confirmation, on the ground that he was persona non grata to the npolitical party he was appoint- ed to represeni, Mr. Foster, how- ever, qualified and became as much of an Election Commissioner as any one else on the board. Auditor Broderick never recognize! the board as having a right to exist under the constitution and reso- lutely refused to audit salary demands of the Commissioners and secretary. He en- gaged Garret McEnerney to contest the act in the Supreme Court, and is satisfied with the result. MIDWEEK THEATER NOTES the Columbia Theater Proves Successful. Continued Popularity of “In Old Ken- tucky”—A Child-Actress at the Grand. “The Ensign,” which was revived on Tuesday night by the Frawley Company at the Columbia Theater, has proved the found to be last season. For the closing week of the Frawley | Company’s engagement they have selected | De Mille & Belasco’s ‘“Men and Women,” a play that had a run in New York City alone of over one year. Over twenty peo- ple will be in the cast, which it is said will be one of the best yet offered by the com- | pany. “In Old Kentucky large audiences at the California Theater. The great horserace scene, the })icka» adge, the scenery and various features all com- | bine to make the play a success. *In Old | Kentucky’’ runs through this and next | week. | continues to please HETROVA, THE INTRIGUER, He Is in Japan, Constantly Watched by the Mikado's Detectives, HE CAUSED KOREA'S TROUBLE. Dr. Clark’s Story of the Russian Who Was Mixed Up With the Downfall of Bulgaria and Stamboloff. Dr. F. H. Clark, owner of the Russell House and other large property interests in Detroit, and a neighbor of ex-Governor Alger, is at tbe Occidental, having just returned from Ydkohama. He says a peculiar condition of affairs reigns in Japan, and particularly at Yoko- hama. He told this anent the discussion of the conflicting storics about the death of the Queen of Korea, and says there is a Russian intriguer going about the streets of Yokohama who is a Killer and diplo- mat rolled into one, according to common belief. He has been in a lot of trouble hitherto pital, took a fit in court and had to be taken to the Receiving Hospital. Murray went to the Sailors’ Home on Tuesday, and late that night he was taken in the patrol wagon to the Receiving Hos- Emfl with a wounded scalp and his eyes lackened. After hiswounds were dressed he was removed to the City Prison and booked on the charge of assault to murder, | the complaining witness being Special Officer Herlihy. Yesterday morning Murray appeared before Judge Low. Three sailors, friends of Olsen, and Special Officer Herlihy testi- fied to Murray having thrown a heavy piece of crockery at Herlihy, who was called in to kee m from raising a dis- turbance, and Herlihy, to subdue him, had to use his club, which he did with marked effect. On this testimony the Judge held Murray to answer before the Superior Court in $1000 bonds. Murray was not represented by counsel, and the prosecution had it all their own way. He says that Olsen’s friends had been threatening him that if he testified against him they would do all sorts of things to him. They got him drunk ou Tuesday night, and when he was going into his room three of them and Special Officer Herlihy attacked him, and he threw the piece of crockery at them to de- | fend himself. Special Officer Herlihy’s conduct may be brought to the attention of the Police Commissioners. LOSING THEIR TERRORS. The Diphtheria and Croup Death Rates Are Decreasing Rapidly in This City. The United States Marine Hospital Ser- vice is compiling a statement of the ray- “The Wolves of New York’ is well acted by the company at Grover's Alcazar and | | the success which is attending the perform- | ances proves that the play has not yet sur- | vived 1ts usefulness. | The next production will be a new comedy | of San Francisco life, entitled “A Canting ety | Little Woodie Van Dyke, the child | actress who made her San Francisco debut on Monday night, has already become quite a popular favorite with the audiences at the Grand. She plays her part of the blind child in “The Man - Without a Country” prettily and pathetically, and | she is charmingly free from affectation. The other parts in the melodrama are | well held up, and the performance on the whole is one well worth seeing. The Orpheum has quite a galaxy of new | talent this week. Rachel Walker, the | soprano from the West Indies, is perhaps | sympathetic and clever singing of popular | songs. The De Witt sisters have also vproved to be effective musicians, and the performance of the Sisters de Van on the | breakaway ladder is quite a feature of the | programme. The Fonti Boni_Brothers | and Hawley and Doyle are rapidly becom- | ing favorites. | The Christmas spectacle, “Ixion,” is in its last nights at the Tivoli. “A Gentle | Savage” will be the next production. | — | The sale of seats for the Tavary opera | season at the Baldwin will open earier | than was at first anticipated. REPUBLICAN WOMEN MEET. The State Central Club Holds Its An. nual Election of Officers. The Woman’s Republican State Central | Club met in one of the parlors of the Bald- win Hotel last night and elected officers | for the ensuing year. Steps were also | taken toward arousing general interest in the next meeting, which will be held on the third Wednesday in Febrnary, and ballot-casting sex will be asked to address. The following members were present Mrs. Emily R. Eastman, Mrs. Budd, Mrs. M. J. Jones, Mrs. Etta Poole, Mrs. Nellie Lasalle, Mrs. Howard, Mrs. M. Galehouse, Mrs. Goodwin, Mrs. Mahoney, Mrs. Wells, Mrs. F. Uphouse, Mrs. Gelwin, Mrs. E. | Gilbert, Mrs. R. E. Shanhon, Mrs. R. H. Junkins, Mrs. Addie L. Ballou, Mrs, Helen Flesher, Mrs. Jannett Harvey, Mrs. Emma Gregory. The election of officers resulted as fol- lows: President, Mrs. Addie L. Ballou; first vice-president, Mrs. Emma Gregory; sec- ond vice-president, Miss M. E. Wells; re- cording secretary, Mrs. M. J. Jones; cor- | responding secretary, Mrs. Helen Gregory | Flesher; treasurer, Mrs. Jannett Harvey. The meeting closed with a motion by Mrs. Kate Howard that a rising vote of thanks be extended to the press of San Francisco for uniform courtesy and atten- tion shown the club on all occasions. ROBBED A STRANGER. E. Dunton of Napa the Victim of a Well- known Thief. Mamie Barnum alias Ethel Brandon, a notorious thief, met E. Dunton, a sedate looking, whiskered man from Napa, on Grant avenue about noon yesterday. They were walking along together when Mamie abstracted Dunton’s pursefrom his pocket, which contained $100 in ‘gold. He soon discovered his loss, grabbecfhold of Mamie and yelled lustily for the police. A crowd of about 500 people gathered round them and watched with interest Mamie’s strug- gles to get nwlcyA Policemen Campion and Ward placed Mamie under arrest and she was observed to drop the purse on the street. When glcked up it only had $80 in it. At the ity Prison Matron Gilmore thoroughly searched the woman but could not fin(i;the $20 gold piece. Dunton refused to prose- cute her as he did not want his name mentioned in the papers, but finally he was persuaded to swear to a warrant against her for grand larceny. She was released on $2000 bonds accepted by Jud, Campbell. sot odl i Dr. F. H. Clark, Governor Alger's Close Friend, Who Tells the Strange Story of Hetrova, the Russian Intriguer. in different lands. few years ago, when every other man made mincemeat of everybody else, and Alexander bit, the dust, and it is believed that he is the man who so stirred up con- | flicting passions in Seoul as to cause the h of the Queen. Now he is over in Japan for some mys- terious purpose and the Mikado is so agi- tated about him, fearing it is a trick of | Russia to get the country embroiled with it, that detectives are constantly following the trail of the Slav. ‘Wherever the Russian goes he sets every- body by the ears. As a breeder of polifi- | cal dissension und puller of wires he is be- | lieved to have no peer nowadays. What | he does is at the instance of the Czar. “This man is now going around the streets of Yokonama carefully guarded by | Japanese detectives,” said Dr. Clark. | “Two go before him and two behind. | This 1s done on orders of the Japanese | Government. *The Japanese are afraid something may happen to the Russian which would give Russia an_exctise for war. The name of the man is Hetrova. He is supposed.to have instizated a lot of murders in Bulga- ria at the time of the death of Alexander. “He is believed, also, to have been | mixed up in the affairs at the time of the | death of Stamboloff. Besides this it is gravely asserted that from all the circum- | stances he has probably had a hand in the ate Korean embroglio. “By the way, I want to say that the Queen of Korea is really dead, notwith- standing_late denials of it in the United States. I get this from Stephen Bousal, the secretary of the American legation in Tokio. He visited Korea and got back to Yokohama just before I left. He told me that the Queen was certainly dead. *‘There were four women in the castle | when the attack was made. Three of these, including the Queen, were killed, Xhile one escaped by crawling under the ‘bouse. 'he King himself, who had discarded her and sent her forth, disallowing her the title of Queen, when she was dead re- stored to her her former honor. “‘She was a wonderful woman, the last of the famous Ming dynasty, that had held the crown of Korea for so many cen- turies. Political diplomacy and “wire- pulling, however, finally ended her life, as it had so long held the Mings in power. “The Russian, Hetrova, is said to have effected the political revolution in Korea through setting one man against another there. Mr. Sill, the Minister to Korea, who was formerly from Ann Arbor, Mich., got so agitated over the situation that he came away from Seoul. I would not pay much attention to what he says, though, for when he went over from here he took two cows and a calf along with him. He thought they didn’t have any cows there. His secretary was one of the missionaries in Seoul. They all tell the same story about the intrigues, and none of them has any doubt that Hetrova was at the Dottom of it. : “Hetrova, the Russian, is a man gigan- tic in appearance. He is about 6 feet 2 inches high and weighs 260 or 270 pounds. Japan is very much stirred up about him. Everybody there is convinced that his mission bodes no good.” Dr. Clark is on his way to his home in Detroit after several months in Yokohama and To! MURRAY'S HARD LUCK. He ¥s Cut and Clubbed, Held to Answer for A Murder. Peter Murray, a saiior, is in hard luck. About a week ago he was severely cut with a carving-knife by Charles Olsen, ancther sailor, in a lodging-house at 547 Howard street. Olsen was arrested for assault to murder, and at his preliminary examina- tion on Monday, Murray, who had that day been discharged from the Marine Hos- | | and Yet Is ult to ' | | Walter Wyman, superyvi He was in Bulgaria a | ages of croup and diphtheria in the vari- ous cities of the United States with a view to ascertaining the climatic and sanitary condition most fayorable to ihe spread of the diseases. The Beard of Health res ived a letter from ing surgeon-gen- eral of the service,asking information on the subject and the board was pleased to send a statement showing that during the past five years the death rate in San Francisco from the diseases mentioned has declined to a remackable extent. The figures are as follows: 1891, 1892, 1893. 1894. 1895. 14' 229 1 § 21 49 27 The low death rate in 1895 is due to bet- savitary arrangements and increased gilance on the part of the health officials in isolating casesas soon as they appeared. R GIFTS OF BOXES OF ORANGES. How Pomona Made Glad a Large Party of Visitors. General Passenger Agent Goodman of the Soutnern Pacific Company is quite proud of a box of oranges that he has on exhibition on the top of his cylinder desk. It is a souvenir of an excursion engineered by the enterprising people of Pomona from Los Angeles, an affair in which no less than 1032 people participated. As an inducement to people to pay their town a visit the progressive residents of Poprona promised that each excursionist would be presented with a box of oranges, and they kept their pledge, despite the fact that the influx exceeded their ‘most sanguine expectations. The oranges were all selected specimens, carefully wrapped in tissue paper, and so large that each box heid but two of the olden-hued globes. And it detracted flttle from the appreciation of the novel gift that the box measured 7x3x3 inches, TO-DAY'S AUCTION. A Large Attendance and Spirited Bid- ding Anticipated for To-Day’s Auction. The low rates of interest paid by the savings banks is leading many to look for more profitable investments. This, to- gether with the bright outlook for better times, makes the sale of the Pacific Im- provement Company’s lots most oppor- tune. The property fronts on Market, Valen- cia, Mission, Twelfth, Hermann, etc., and will be sold by Baldwin & Hammond at their office at 12 o’clock to-day. AUCTION SALES. EDWARD S. SPEAR & €0., Auctioneers, 31 and 33 Sutter Street. TELEPHONE, 5181, CLOAKS, CAPES AND JACKETS AT AUTUCTION: TO-MORROW. Friday... .January 24. 1896, At 11 o'clock A. M., in our salesrooms, 31 AND 33 SUTTER STREET, ++..WE WILL SELL.... By order of a New York Manufacturer and con- signed to us for Peremptory Sale, 400 Cloaks, Capes and Jackets, In Plush, Velvet, Broadcloth, Silk and Satin. MAIN, Norr.—The avove goods are very fine aud to them we beg to call the attention of ladies desiring fine outer garments. &5~ Goods Now on Exhibition. EDWARD S. 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