The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 9, 1896, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1896. BIG RALLY OF THE WHEELMEN, Importance of the National Assembly to Be Held at Baltimore. FROWTH OF THE LEAGUE Various Knotty Problems That Require an Immediate Solution. MANY SCHEMES ARE ADVANCED. Not the Least Important Will Be Advocacy of Good Roads Everywhere. BALTIMORE, Mp., Feb. 8.—Only ten States in the country will be unrepresented at the National Assembly of the L. A. W., which opens its session here next Monday. The convention promises to go down in cycling history as the most momentous ever held. More knotty problems that re- quire mmediate solution wili come up than have heretofore fallen to the province of a National assembly of wheelmen. Seventy-four amendments to the constitu- tion are down for consideration. This remarkable condition is due to the fact that the league has grown so im- mensely in membership within a recent period that the present system of govern- ment has become cumbersome. All kinds of schemes are advocated to simplify the conditions, With the arrival of the van- guard of the delegates last night and to- day, league politics began to boom, and will continue to grow in importance until the officers are elected next“Wednesday. President Willison is on hand and ex- presses unlimited confidence in his re- election. His strongest antagonist is Ster- ling Elliott of Massachusetts. The fact that two other names are being talked of in connection with the presidency has given rise to the supposition that Elliott’s followers fear his connection with the of- ficial Bulletin of the L. ‘W. has resulted in bringing forth strong opposition to his candidacy. The two outside choices in the race are Cossum of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and Mor- rison of I The racing question can- not enter into the contest as between Wil- lison and Elliott, as both candidates sup- port racing under the jurisdiction of the league. One hundred and ninety-two per- sons are eligible to cast ballots, but it is not expected that more than 150 will be deposited. The assembly will practically be started by & meeting of the racing board to-mor- row afternoon. This board has autocratic powers over all who race on bicycles. The chief bus to be considered at to-mor- row’s meeting will be in regard to reopen- ing the Titus-Murphy-Cabanne case. The suspended riders will be represented by at- torneys. There appears to be a sentiment among the members of the board in favor of reinstating at least two of the men. Monday will be given up to talks on good roads and at night a banquet will be given to 650 persons. Chief Counsel 8ams went to Washington to-day to secure the ac- ceptance of invifations by Speaker Reed, Senators Gorman, Hill, Gibson and others. Short addresses will be made on the high- way improvement association. The real business of the assembly will begin Tuesday. One of the most widely discussed amendments to the constitution which will be considered is the anti-racing proposition of Chief Counsel Potter of New York, in which it is proposed that the league relinquish control of cycle racing and turn it over tv an organization com- pored of the chief counsels of all State divisions baving membership of 1000 and over, this body to select its own chairman. The defeat of Mr. Potter's idea is antici- pated. Failing to convince the assembly that his views on the racing question should prevail, Mr. Potter undoubtedly wili make an effective fight against the continuation of class B. Chairman Gideon of the racing board, will move to amend the rules in such a manner that aclass B rider will no longer be called an amateur, but simply a class B rider. The value of prizes for class B is also cut down from $150 to $100, and that of class A from $50 to$35. Should tte recom- mendation of Chief Counsel Jacquish of Illinois prevail, the anti-negro clause will be effaced. The place for holding theannual meet of the L. A. W. will also be decided by the assembly, and the fight hasnarrowed down to the cities of Toledo and Louisville. PEARL BRYAN'S MURDER, The Police Working Hard on| the Clews They Have Obtained. who acted as spokesman and that Walling. | was his companion. Both the prisoners | deny this. A gang of men from the city street- cleaning department is searching the sew- ers of the West End, hoping to find the missing head. The doctors ridicule the confession of Walling that Pearl Bryan met her death by a quick potson. To professionzl eyes the condition of the body indicates that she died by the knife and that she was conscious when killed. J. D. Scott, a student at the dental col- lege and a friend of Jackson and Walling, is being looked for by the police. He is in no way implicated in the murder, but the detectives believe he may have been a con- fidant of the two men under arrest and may be able to give some valuable infor- mation concerning their movements. This afternoon Mayor Caldwell recerved the following letter, written by Scott Jack- | son to William F. Woced, Miss Bryan’s ad- mirer at South Bend. Ind., but which had been remailed to the Mayor by the post- master at that place. Hello Bill: Write a letter home signed by Bert’s name, telling the folks he is somewhere, and going to Chicago, or some other place—has a position, etc., etc.—and that they will be ad- vised later about it. Say tired of living at home or anything you want. You know about the way he writes. Send it to some one you can trust—how will Smith at Lafayette do? Tell the folks he has not been at I., but at Lafayette, and traveling about the country. Get the letter off without one second’s delay, and burn this at once. Stick by your old chum, Bill, and I will help you out the same way or some other way some time. Am glad you are having a good time. Be careful what you write to me. { Jackson admitted this afternoon that | Bert in the letter means Pearl. “Now, why did you write that letter?” “Walling told me to write it. He said thatsomething had to be done and Idid it.” SHLYKTION ARMY ORDER, The United States to Lose Com- | mander and Mrs. Balling- ton Booth. Part of a General Change of Territorial Officers Throughout the i World. | NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 8. —Comman- derand Mrs. Ballington Booth, who are | preparing to take their leave of the Salva- tion Army in the United States, in ove- | dience to the order of General Booth, have | issued in the War Cry a formal letter of farewell, addressed to their *‘brave and be- | foved comrades.”” ‘ The leaders expross regret that the news of the commander-in-chief’s order to them to relinquish the command of the army | here should have reached the officers and soldiers first in the form of a rumor and then through the newspaper press, when | it would have been fitting that a great | council should have been called and the | information made known there or through | the War Cry. | The commander and his wife state that | the order was a surprise to them, but they | say that since receiving it they have | learned that their orders “to farewell” are | only a part of a general change of terri- | torial commanders throughout the world. They urge obedience to the commander- | in-chief’s order by all of .the army in| America, and that the work here so suc- cessfully begun be pushed on. The Salva- tionists are bidden to hold up the flagand | retain the confidence of the people. “Fight on, dear comrades,” the letter | concludes, “sing on, dear soldiers; march ] on, dear warriors, and may the cross be your victorions emblem, and the love of God be the inspiration of your hearts. | Think of us ever as your loving and de- | voted old leaders for God and his warfare.”’ = > cAUCUS POPULISTS. Will Fote for Their Own Officers for the Senate. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 8.—The Populists held a caucus this afternoon to agree upon their policy with reference to the reorganization of the elective officers of the Senate. Ex-Representative Thomas ‘Watson of Georgia was nominated for Sec- retary of the Senate and H. C. Taubeneck of this city for Sergeant-at-Arms. It was decided that the Populist vote should be cast for these candidates with | the understanding that the agreement was | to be binding unless otherwise ordered by a Populist caucus. If this is carried out the Republicans will not have a plurality of the votes cast and cannot elect the ticket named yester- day, but it is claimed by the Republicans | that ultimately the Populists will decline | to vote and leave the situation as it wusi when the Republicans reorganized the | committees. Nothing was done to-day to change the | previous decision of the Populists to vote solidly against Mr. Quay’s motion to re- commit the tariff bili e HAMLIN AMUSED. Not Worried About the Story of His Im- peachment. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 8.—Assist- ant Secretary Hamlin of the treasury was | surprised when informed this morning that San Francisco advices had it that he was to be impeached by Congress for meddling wich the court-martial proceed- ings against Captain Healy of the revenue- cutter service, on trial at San Francisco. He said it was the first he bad heard of the matter. The Assistant Segretary, whose position is held simply at the volition of Secretary Mysterious Letter Written by Scott Jackson to William F. Wood. GREENCASTLE, Ixp., Feb. 8.—Marshal Starr this afternoon notified William Wooa, who is believed to be concerned in the murder of Pearl Bryan, to leave town before night. Wood lost no time, and left on an afternoon train with his father and mother. A lynching to-night was immi- nent. 5 CINCINNATI, Onro, Feb. 8.—The police are working hard on the Pearl Bryan case, and slthough nothing of a Mll?lllona] nature was brought to light to-day’beyond the letter from Jackson to Wood, they will continue to follow each clew got from the suspected men, Jackson and Walling. The efforts of tho officers of the depart- ment to-day were concentrated on the search for the cab in which Pearl Bryan was driven to her destruction. It was as- certained that two men called on the Met- ropolitan Cab Company a week ago Th_urs- day and ssked for a cab without a driver. He explained the reason for not wanting a driver—because there would be three in the party and that but two could ride in the cab. Mr. Baker, who hired them the cab, was taken to the cellroom and took a Carlisle and the President, is naturally somewhat amused by the intimation that his purely clerical official action in regard to the Healy court-martial should have rendered him liable to impeachment by the House of Representatives and convic- | tion by the Senate of *‘treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors,’” under article II, section 4, of the constitu- tion of the United States. s L OF INTEKEST TO THE COAST. The Navy Department Decides to Asaist the Naval Militia. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 8.—The Navy Department has decided to grant Governor Budd’s request that the single- turreted monitor Comanche be designated as a traiving-ship and the tender of the Beltimore for torpedo practice for the use of the California naval militia. The department will also detail some officer at Mare Island to instruct the ap- prentices. The postoffice at Lopez, Los Angeles County, is discontinued; mail to West Palmdale. Pensions have been granted as follows: California: Original—John R. Sumner, Berkeley; Ebenezer Dunton, Yountville. Re-issue and increase—James W. Adams, Los Angeles. Oregon: Original—Theodoré” Michael, Roseburg, Mexican War survivor. In- crease—Julius J. Shanunon, Baker City. i s o Ty B Recognizea as Consul. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 31.—The President has recognized Thomas L.’ good look at both men. While he was not certain, he believes Jackson was the man Duque as honorary Consul-Gsneral of Ecuador at Los Angeles, Cal. N BEHALF OF BIMETALLISM. German Statesmen Are Not Satisfied With Von Hohenlohe. FAILS ON A CONFERENCE An Endeavor Not Made to Enlist Powers Independent of England. COUNT VON MIRBACH'S VIEWS. This Country May Be Obliged to Resort to the Exclusive Free Coinage of Silver. BERLIN, GerMANY, Feb. 8.—The an- nouncement made by Chancellor von Hohenlohe in the Reichstag to-day that the Bundesrath had declined to approve the idea of holding a monetary conference, in view of the fact that the invitations sent to the Federal States asking an ex- pression of opinion in regard to holding such a conference had had a negative re- sult, has altogether failed to satisfy the bi- metallists in the Reichstag, and the Chan- cellor’s statement has been the subject of a good deal of comment, ana does not win the approval of the chariber. The talk which it has occasioned 1n the lobbies has disclosed the fact that one cause of discon- tent is the neglect on the part of the Gov- | ernment to endeavor to get the powers in- dependent of England to join in the pro- posed conference. Prince Hohenlohe’s other statement, that the Bundesrath had disapproved the proposal to issue invitations to the powers to join in a conference because the pour- parlers with England had proven abortive, is held to be a very insufficient reason for the cessation of overtures in the direction of a conference to the other powers. In- asmuch as the opposition of England to a moretary conference is deemed certain, the bimetallists are convinced that the whole action of Prince Hohenlohe in the matter has been a pure evasion. If the | Chancellor had pbeen really earnest in ful- filling his pledge he would, the bimetal- lists assert, have pushed the question to a decision by all of the states comprising the Latin Monetary Union, and relied upon them for adhesion with America to get the question of international currency again discussed. The sum of the truth is that Prince Hohenlohe has never mooted the question of a monetary conference to the powers beyond sounding England upon the subject. Count von Mirbach, the leader of the bimetallists in the Reichstag, has just issued a pronunciamento in which he de- clares that if the system of bimetallic currency is not achieved the United States will be ultimately obliged to resort to ex- clusive free coinage of silver. The docu- ment then proceeds to predict that this will make imports into America from gold currency countries in Europe impossible and also secure for American exports pre- miums of nearly 50 per cent, securing the parity of American currency with that of the gilver paying countries, and thus ob- tain for the United Statesa monopoly of the dealings with those countries. Outside of the circle of bimetallists Count von Mir- bach’s assertion in the matter has no weight; still the Reichstag, as a whole, is in sympathy with bimetallism and is dis- appointed with the Chancellor’s state- ment, a majority of the Deputies being of the belief that Prince Hohenlohe ought to have made a more genuine effort to bring | about a conference. The special committee of twenty-one to which the new civil code has been re- ferred has a long life before 1t as well as a busy one. The Conservative and Reichs- partei members of the Reichstag opposed the reference of the code to the committee, while the Centerists, Poles and Socialists voted against the proposal giving the com- mittee power to accept certain sections of the bill en bloc without debate. The Na- tional Liberals, Free Conservatives, Frei- sinniges” and Vereinigungs favored and accepted the bill almost as a whole. Though the measure is of the highest im- portance, the Reichstag throughout the four days’ discussion prior to the reference of the bill to the committee rarely con- | tained more than a hundred members. ‘I'he party objection may be summed up something like this: The Conservatives and Centerists oppose the provision of the measure dealing with divorce, and the Centerists are especially opposed to the civil marriage clause. The Socialists are of the opinion that the code wus conceived for the purpose of maintaining the existing sociai structure and leaving the popular grievances un- touched, contending that the measures give the employers a powerful advantage of the working people. What the code will be like when it has been subjected to the amendments with which it is threat- ened, it will be futile to predict. Baron von Hohlenberg, in the course of the discussion of the bill in the Reichstag, voiced the honest sentiment of a consider- able section of the house by a declaration denying the necessity for the unification of law of Germany and deploring the tendency toward excessive centralization, which was menacing the federal states. The Government of the kingdom of Saxony has struck the first blow which has long been dreaded by the Freissinnigs and Socialists, against popular suffrage. A franchise bill has been introduced ‘into tEe Saxon Diet, whicn proposes to abolish the electoral system at present in operation and substitute therefore the Prussian system of indirect election in classes. The first of these classes comprises voters who have an income of 10,000 marks a year and upward, the second composed of those having incomes of not less than 2,800 marks a year and the third made up of rate payers, each class electing one-third of a college of electors, which colleze se- lects the deputies composing the Landtag. The result of the operation of this sys- tem in Saxony will be that the workmen and ratepayers, all in the third class, will be outvoted in the college of electors two to one, and consequeatly will have no representatives in the Landtag at all. The bill is recognized by all ‘parties asa step toward the restriction of universal suffrage. Prince Bismarck has congratulated the Saxon Government upon its introduction of the bill, and Herr Liebknecht and other Socialist leaders are stumping Saxony in opposition toit. The obvious tension between the court as evidenced by the withdrawal from Ber- lin within a recent period of a number of the leaders of society, is creating a good deal of talk, much of wkich would not be at all pleasant for the Emperor to hear. ‘While these personages are leaving Ber- lin, however, it is noted that Prince Fred- erick Leopold of Prussia and his wife, Princess Louise Sophie, sister of the Em- press, who were announced to leave Berlin some time ago owing to the guarrel be- tween the Prince and Emperor, which re- sulted in the confinement of the Prince in the fortress of his castle for a fortnight, bave not yet taken their departure. Itis understood that they are detained in Ber- lin because the Emperor has not seen fit to allow them to leave. The body of the late Embassador, Hon. Theodore Runyon, will be accompanied to New York by Mrs. Haskins, his daughter. Mrs. Runyon and her unmarried daugh- ters will not sail for their American home until May. —_— WILL VIRTUALLY CONTROL KRUGER, Continued from First Page. lege chooses members of the Diet. This college is to be elected one-third by citi- zens enjoying an income of $2500 or over, one-third by the class with incomes not less than $700, and the remaining third by those under that figure who have votes. This will insure that the working and small trading classes will never be able to name more than a fraction of the electors, and, of course, they will get no members in the Diet at all. It is avowedly aimed at the Socialists, who are now fourteen 1n the Saxon Diet out of a total of eighty-two. If the bill becomes a law in Saxony it is assumed that it will be extended to other states, while Prussia already has some- thing equally plutocratic. This outlook obviously threatens the whole principle of imperial universal snffrage, and it isex- citing alarm in all liberal quarters. Even Bismarck is advising ageinst it, but the current of absolutism is running so strong just now that hardly even he could stem it. Meanwhile new personal altercations and alienations in the inner imperial cir- cles are constantly occupying the gossips of Berlin. Prince Albert of Saxe-Alten- burg has given up his Berlin palace, and settled with his family on his Schwerin es- tate. Through a quarrel with the Emperor more serious still, the Kaiser’s remote Catholic cousin, Prince Frederick of Ho- henzollern, brother to the King of Rou- mania and one of the most prominent mil- itary figures in Prussia, has thrown up, his command of the Third Army Corps in dis- gust and quitted the capital for good to live in Bavaria. Lists are being published of other Princes of great feudal families, like Stolberg, Wernigerode, Ratibor, Plesses and many others who since the present reign have turned their backs on Berlin for the same cause, namely, their unwilling- ness to eat dirt. The incorporated Authors’ Society is to have its annual general meeting a week from Monday, and the literary atmos- phere is alive with rumeors of tremendous things there are to be done. An author named W. H. Wilkins, whose name, I confess, is unknown to me in connection with books, but who writes with distingunisned fluency and fervor in the correspondence tolumns of newspa- pers, 18 to move a repudiation of the re- cent authors’ address on the Venezuelan | difficulty, and what practically amounts toavote of censure on the officers who allowed the society to seem responsible for it. They say he has drummed up a lot of support for his motions, but when it comes to actual test, I fancy that the knights, backed by those who expect to be knights, will not have much difficulty in putting the temerarious Wilkins down. Speaking of knights, I hear that Rider Haggard is to have a “‘Sir” put before his name during the year following. Despite professions of the academy’s calm here, a really earnest scuffle is pro- ceeding inside the Royal Academy as to Leighton’s successor. All the papers were supplied early in the week with a para- graph expressing the academy’s profound regret that the state of Sir John Millais’ health would not enable him to accept the post, which otherwise would be his by ac- clamation, but Millais promptly had his physicians to publish a round-robin de- claring that his health was perfect, with the trivial exception of a sort of wart in his throat, which they will be able to abatein no time. There is now sent out a feeler in the shape of a hint that Millais may be prevailed upon to accept the office till, at least, the close of the year, but there is no sign that he will consent to en- ter into a bargain of that humiliating na- ture. As there is ho rule concerning the time of filling the post the date of the elec- | tion is still in the air, but the academy meets February 29 for the choice of three new associates, among whom Shannon is almost certain to be one, and after that it will be easier to get the notion into shape of canvassing for Leighton's shoes. Only one or two papers have thought it worth while to print Austin’s poem on Prince Henry of Battenberg in itsentirety, and many do not give the smallest extract from it. Such editorial allusions to it as are made are at best cautiously non-com- mittal, and for the most part frankly con- temptuous. His tragedy on Alfred, en- titled “‘England’s Darling,” has no polite treatment, however, in any quarter. Itis guyed from one end of the island to the other, and even his own Standard opens its columns to a long series of corre- spondents, showing ‘that when he said that Alfred had been neglected by the English poets he was ridiculously ignorant of the facts. % A good deal had been expected of the | memoirs of Duc de Persigny, published in Paris yesterday, but the result is described as extremely disappointing. There is not a word in them about the coup d’etat, and except for somewhat interesiing personal glimpses of Bismarck, there is little of value to the student of the second empire and its times. The memoirs of Bernadotte are creating much greater interest in Paris, where it is reported without contradiction that their anonymous editor is really King Oscar 11 of Sweden. HAroLD FREDERIC. Germany and Silver. BERLIN, GeryMANY, Feb. 8.—In the Reichstag to-day Prince Hohenlohe. Im- perial Chancellor, made the admission that the vacillations in the price of silver had somewhat injured the trade of Ger- many. As the invitation of the Govern- ment to the general States to express their opinions in regard to the proposed mone- tary conference had had a negative result, he said the Bundesrath had declined to give its approval to summoning a confer- ence. If, however, & sound basis should be presented later, he would reconsider the matter, and take such steps in the direc- tion of holding a conference as were pos- sible under the circumstances. and many members of the higher nobiilty, i NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING. Mr. Searchlight Man. Turn where you will you’ll find the irresistible figure Nine. We’ve made the figure nine talk. The figure nine has made our competitors shut up. The figure nine was a chal~ lenge for our competitors to put up or shut up--- and they’ve shut up as tight as an oyster. ~——— Just as a challenge, and it's now the third week that we have challenged our competitors to put up, or forever after shut up, their crowing about who are the bargain givers in San Francisco. We put this challenge on for the purpose of shutting these people up completely. We left it open for nearly three weeks and not one of ‘em has said a word. They can’t equal the prices, that's all, and they know it, and wisely hold their mouths. RAPHAEL' (INCORPORATED). On the side we show an aw- fully swell Cutaway Suit ; it’s in this challenge ; made from those fine English Clay Worsteds in black ; the same in gray and in neat little pinhead checks ; also a very liberal assortment of blue and black Cheviots, in single and double breasted sacks, in fancy Scotches ; goods that are worth all the way up to $18; goods that few tailors can equal. CHALLENGE PRICE, —3$9.00-- The Big Store didn’t have to keep its doors open till 12 o’clock Saturday night and work its immense force till the wee small hours for nothing. Nor did San Francisco’s most fash- ionable people crowd the big store Saturday for our gratifica- tion. It was the $9 Challenge that brought ’em to the big store. It was such Suits and Overcoats that other stores are asking $18 and $20 for, at -—$9.00-- That brought ’em to the big store. We're not egotistical enough to think that we are so popular that the people crowd our store just through our pop- ularity. While of course in a measure it has the influence of bringing you our way, as we have your confidence, we are aware of, but we know it was the $9 Challenge : that brought you to us Saturday and it’s go- ing to bring you to us to-morrow. The Overcoat on the side is a very clever garment ; it’s a Blue Kersey ; we show the same in black, drabs, tans, silk and satin sleeve lining, deep velvet collars, long and medium lengths. Tai- lors can’t build ’em better, so everyone has told us; you’ll pay $15 and $18 in other stores for garments not as good. Challenge price to make our competitors put up or shut up, —$9.00~ THE PLACE WHERE THE MASSES TRADE. TWO ENTIRE BUILDINGS. 9,11, 13 .AND 15 KEARNY STREET.