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2 —_— THE 8AN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1896. X shall be uneble to attend the conference to De held to-morrow in the interest of interna- tional arbitration at the city of Philadelphia, It would be entirely unnecessary for me to assure those who advocate this cause of my hearty sympethy with any movement that tends to the establishment of peeceful agencies for the adj ent of international disputes. The subject should be discussed with a clear perception of all the £ and in a spirit of patriotism, as well as love for mankind. Hoping the conference you contemplate may result in stimulating a sentiment in favor of justand fair arbitration among nations, I am, yours very truly, GROVER CLEVELAND. The Cabinet officers also expressed sym- pathy with the movement and regretted their inability to be in attendance. Secre- tary Morton wrote: “If after all these centuries of alleged civilization and Christianity England and the United States must settle their differ- like wild beasts by mere brute force, then is our boasted superiority over sav- agery and barbarism a myth.” Commendatory letters and telegrams were also read from Major-General Miles, U.S. Captain Mahan, U. S.N.; Jus- tice Brewer, United States Supreme Court; Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia, Con- gressman Dingley, Charles Francis Adams, Congresgman Hitt, chairman of the Com- mittee on Foreign Affairs, and United Etates Commissioner of Labor Carroll D. Wrignt. LONDON, ExgG., Feb, 2 American Arbitration Comm quested the United Press to p following cablegram sent by the committee to the chairman of the arbitration demon- delphia to-day: ublish the to onr American kinsmen who ere celebrating Washington's birthday. We join with you in doing honor to your 1 heto ivocat al union arbitration for tment of all manent cou in the 1g T REV. BROOKE FOREES WESTCOTT, Bishop of Durham. PLAYFAIR. Rev. F. W. Fann, Dean of Canterbury. DR. PAR Pastor of tne City Temple. —— CELEBRATED IN NEW YORK. There Was Great Enthusiasm at the Nation’s Metropolis. NEW YOR Y., Feb. The one bundred and sixty-fourth anniversary of Washington’s birthday was celebrated with enthusiasm in New York City to-day, business being generally suspended. At sunrise there was the usual ceremony of raising the United States flag at the Bat- tery. Following the custom which has prevailed for many years, the National tlag was also raised on old Fort Fisher, at the northern end of Central Park, at the same time the Battery celebration took place. No business was transacted on any of the exchanges to-day,and all public huiidings were closed. it et WITH APPROPRIATE ADDRESSES. Boston's Patriotic Organizations Joined in the Observance. BOSTON, Mass,, Fe ‘Washington’s birthday was observed here to-day in about the usual manner with the excep- tion of the omission of the annual recep- tion by the Governor, whose illness pre- vented this functional observance. Among the events were the meetings of the pa- triotic societies to listen to addresses ap- propriate to the occasion, reunions of the military and social organizations, memo- rial entertainments, p cal-club dinners, skating races, athletic meets, etc., with the closing of the exchanges and public buildings and general suspension of busi- ness. T irg e ROOSEVELT S THE STAR. York’s lteformer Made Speeches in Chicago. CHICAGO, Iri., Feb. 22.—Orations on George Washington and patriotic music were the order of the day here, and thou- sands of Americans, both young and old, attended the exercises in all parts of the city and its suburbs. The celebrations ar- ranged under the auspices of the Union League Club, as in past years, were the most conspicuous events of the National day. Theodere Roosevelt, the reform Police Commissioner of New York city, was the star attraction of the University of Chicago in the morning, at the Audito- rium Theater in the afternoon, and again at the Union League Club’s annual Wash- ington birthday banquet in the evening. His loity sentiments of patriotism and ideal zenship werereceived on the three occasions with applause from large ana sympathetic audiences. Twelve patriotic demonstrations in as many public schools were held under the Union League Club’s auspices. An orator from some university or college spoke at each of the meetings, the exercises at each institution closing with the general sing- ing of ‘‘America.” The Sons of the Revolution for Iilinois gave their annual celebration in Central Music Hall this morning, the orator being Rev. T. B. Vrooman of Washington. S New Three \COMMISSIONER WHITE TALKS. 4n Address on the Diplomatic Relations of the Country. BALTIMORE, Mp., Feb. 22.—There were & number of celebrations in Baltimore com- memorative of Washington. The chief feature of the exercises at the Johns Hopkins University was the address by Hon. Andrew D. White, ex-president of Cornell University and now a member of tre Venezuelan Commission. The doctor prefaced his address with a few remarks concerning the Johns Hop- kins University, and then turned his at- tention to “The diplomatic relations of the United St g — g VETERANS AND MECHANICS. They Joined in an Ertensive Parade at Pittsburg. PITTSBURG, Pa., Feb. 22.—Washing- ton’s birthday was to-day observed more generally as a holiday than ever before in Pittsburg. Business was practically sus- pended. The only public display was by the Junior Order of American Mechanics. The parade was the best and largest at- tended the organization has yet made in Pittsburg. A number of Grand Army of the Republic posts also participated in the street demonstration. At the corner of kidge and Irwin ave- nues, Allegheny, the Junior Order of America held an open air meeting and re- ceived, on behalf of the city of Allegheny, a set.of flags and a superb steel flagstaff, monumental in design, from S. S. Marvin. Congressman W. A. Stone responded to the presentation address, which was de- livered by Rev: R. S.-Holmes. e A LOST CAUSE LAMENT, General Bradley T. Johnson Speaks at Richmond, Va. - RICHMOND, Va., ¥eb. 22,—One of the features of the observance here of Wash- ington’s birthday was the formal opening of the museum of the Confederate Memo- rial Literary Society in the Davis mansion —the White House of the Confederacy— which was donated to the society by the| city of Richmond. The ceren_loniep were simple but impressive, consisting of prayer by Rev. Moses D. Hoge and an address by General Bradley T. Johnson of Baltimore, who was introduced by Governor O’Fer- rall. Among other things General John- son said : “The world is surely coming to the con- clusion that the cause of the Confederacy was right. Every lover of liberty, consti- tutional liberty controlled by law, all over the world begin to understand that the war was not a war waged by the South in defense of slavery, but was a war to pro- tect liberty, won and bequeathed by free ancestors.” Speaking next of the devotion of Vir- ginians and Virginian women to the Con- federate cause, he said: “It is this constantly growing conscious- ness of the nobleness and justice and chiv- alry of the Confederate cause which con- stitutes the success and illuminates the trinmph we commemorate to-day. Evil dies, good lives, and the time will come when all the world will realize that the failure of the Confederacy was a great mis- fortune to humanity and will be a source of unnumbered woes to liberty.” L BANQUET TO MR. DEPEW. He Concludes an Eloquent Patriotic Ad- dress With a Droll Story. NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 22.—The Lotus Club gave a dinner to-night in honor of Chauncey M. Depew at the clubhouse, 558 Fifth avenue. The banquet-room was decorated not only with the stars and stripes, in honor of Washington’s anni- versary, but also with evergreens and flowers. The president of the club, Frank R. Lawrence, sat at the head of the table. There were about 230 diners present, among whom were President Seth Low of Columbia College, Walter P. Phillips, George W. Smalley, J. Lindsay Gordon, Captain William Henry Waite, Chester S. Lord, F. B. Thurber, Rastus 8. Ransom, Arthur F. Bowers, Lieutenant F. C. Du- val, Gilbert Parker, J. Howard Jr., J. L. C. Clark, R. E. Bonner and F. A. Burnham. President Lawrence made a short ad- dress. touching on the observances of the day when America’s greatest patriot and statesman was born, and then introduced Mr. Depew, who said in part: “I do not know why you should have se- lected Washington’s birthday on which to pay me this honor. There is no resem- blance between the Father of his Country and myself, unless in my capacity as arail- 10ad man you connect me with him from his first venture, in what has grown to be the great system of transportation, or be- cause Parson Weems, in his delightful and simple story of Washington’s life, says that when a small boy he took a hack at the cherry tree. ‘“This February, for the first time, both Washington’s and Lincoln’s birthdays have been made legal holidays. Never since the creation of man were two human beings so unlike, so nearly the extremesof opposition to each other as Washington and Lincoln—the one an aristocrat by birth, by breeding and association; the other in every semnse and by every sur- rounding a democrat. *As the richest ma1 in America, a large slaveholder, the possessor of an enormous landed estate and the leader and repre- sentative of the property, the culture and the colleges of the colonial period, Wash- ington stood for the conservation and preservation of law and.arder. He could be a revolutionist and pledge his life and fortune and honor for the principles which, in his judgment, safeguarded the rights and liberties of his country. But in the construction of the republic and in the formation of its institutions, and in the critical period of experiment until they could get in working order, he gave to them and implanted in them conserva- tive elements which were found in no other system of government. And yet, millionaire, slaveholder and aristocrat, in its best sense that he wes as he lived, o at any time he would have died for the im- mortal principle put by the Puritans in their charter, of the equality of all men before the law. and of the equal oppor- tunity of all to rise. “Lincoln, on the other hand,was born in a cabin, among the class known as poor whites in slaveholding times, who held no position, and whose condition was so hopeless as to paralyze ambition and ef- fort. His situation, so far as his surround- ings were concerned, bad considerable mental but little moral improvement by his removal to Indiana and subsequently to Illinois. Anywhere in the Old World a man born amid such environments and teachings, and possessed of unconquer- able energy and ambition and the greatest powers of eloquence and constructive statesmanship would have been a socialist and the leader of a social revolt. He might have been an anarchist. His one ambition would have been to break the crust above him and shatter it to pieces. But Lincoln attained from the log cabin of the poor white in the wilderness the same position which George Washington rlacned from his palatial mansion and baronial estate on the Potomac, *‘He made the same fight unselfishly, patriotically and grandly for the preserva- tion of the republic that Washington had Qone for its creation and foundation. Widely as they are separated, these two heroes of the two great crises of our national life stand together in separating the solvent powers, the inspiring processes and the hopeful opportunities of Amer- ican liberty. “It is a curlous trait of this period,” said Mr. Depew, branching into pleas- antries, ‘‘that we are inclined to take nothing seriously. A story goes faither than an mrgument and a joke captures more than a speech. To hit a Populist Senator and get a hori- zontal view of & great statesman they tell the story of Senator being shaved by aa aged colored barber at the Arlington and remarking to the bar- ber: ‘Uncle, you must have had among your customers many of my distinguished predecessors in the Senate; many of tie men now dead who have occupied the great place which I fill? * ‘Yes, sir,’ said the barber, ‘I've known most all of dem. By the way, Senator, you remind me of Daniel Webster.” “The gratified statesman raised in his chair and placing_his fingers upon his forehead said, ‘Is it my brow ?” ‘*No, boss,’ said the barber, ‘itis your breath.’ " S g NO SPEECHES MADE. How the American Society Celebrated in London. LONDON, Exg., Feb.22.—Th2 celebra- tion of Washington’s birthday by the American Society here took a new de- parture this year. Instead of the cus- tomary dinner a reception was held in the Grafton Galleries, followed by a collation. Embassador Bayard and Consul-General Collins and their respective staffs were presént. Several hundred guests sat down to the collation. No speech-making was indulged in A French railway company has ordered clocks to be a;laced on the outside of every locemotive, BOOTH AND WIFE ARE YET MISSING, Resignation of the Popular Commander Followed the Recall. APPEALS MADE IN VAIN The General of the Salvation Army Refused to Change the Order. COLONEL NICOL'S EXPLANATION Says the Resignation of the Missing Leaders Has Not Been Accepted. NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb, 22.—It appears that the resignation of Commander and Mrs. Booth from the Salvation Army, fol- lowing the row that was raised by their being ordered to “farewell” by the general in London, has already been communi- cated to the headquarters across the sea. This afternoon the following statement was made by Colonel Nicol, editor-in-chief of the army’s publications in England, and one of the commissioners who was to try the Booths by court-martial. The statement shows that the Booths have been superseded in command. It says: First—The resignation of the commander end Mrs. Ballington Booth, which has been tendere hem to the interpational head- quarter: not yet been accepted by the general, in whom alone is vested the power to accept resignations of territorial leaders. Second—We do not accept auy responsibility for the commander’s deplorable action.- Third—Commandant Herbert- Booth was in- structed by the international headquarters to come to New York and confer with his brother on the matters in question, and hav- ing done so has returned to Toronto. Fourth—The international headquarters have instructed Colonel Eadie to assume the temporary direction of affairs. We are await- ing further advices. We are going on with our work. God lives and the flag waves. There was very little excitement ex- vressed at headquarters and there was a well-defined fear of saying anything that might get the talker intc touble. Colonel Eadie said that he had absolutely nothing to say except what appeared in the statement above. He said be had no idea of where the commander and his wife were and all others seem equally in the dark as to this fact. It is impossible to state at this time whether the Booths will carry the army with them or not. General Booth is in India and it will be some time before the matter is straightened out. Another feature of the trouble developed to-day. It is the outcome of the mass- meeting held recently in this city, at which Hon. Chauncey M. Depew presided. At that meeting resolutions asking that Ballington Booth be retained as com- mander here were adopted and cabled to the international headquarters in London. Mr. Depew to-day received a reply which shows that General Booth, the interna- tional commander, is firm in ais decision as to the change in command in the United States, and further, that aslong ago as January 31 Ballington Booth had handed in his resignation as a result of his re- moval from the command in this country. This resignation, it appears, resulted in thesending of three mediators to this coun- try, but their mission was unsuccessfnl. The cablegram received to-day by Mr. Depew is as follows: LONDON, , Feb. .—Hon. Cnauncey M. Depew, New Y : Cabled general summary yours. He iustructs cable universal changesand equity compels him affirm arrangement. Pro- foundly deplores resignation dated 31st Janu- ary. Has done by these mediators utmost without success. BRAMWELL BOOTH. BILL NYE CALLED TO REST Continued from First Page. way in looking at things, and bhis fun is always legitimate. He shoots folly as it In a letter written some six yvears hgo from New York George F. Dobson said: “When Bill Nye isn’t, as he himself say ‘jostling and junketing around with for- eign dynasties,’ he lives on Staten Island. He owns a large house, perhaps haif a mile from the landing at St. George; has four children, equally balanced as to sex, a solemn-faced cow and a big barn. The house cost $40,000, but it fell into Mr. Nye’s hands at about one-third of that imposing sum. The owner has dipped deep enough into the thirties to be peril- ously close to forty. He has drawn his own picture too often to need the focusing of a foreign lens. Now that he is recog- nized as a peer of the realm of American humorists, be has no trouble in defraying his expenses. Many exaggerated state- ments concerning his earnings have found their way into print. They are large enough, however, to obviate the necessity for inflation. Last year his tongue wagged at the rate of about $20,000 for the lecture season, and with the receipt of about $10,- 000 more his pen is to be credited. He is in platform partnership with Whitcomb Riley,” the ‘Hoosier Poet,” for whose brother strangers usually mistake Lim. “It is only within recent years that tidal waves of prosperity began to roll over Mr. Nye. Without straining his memory he can recall the time when his literary drudgery netted him $1 a column. ‘The columns were short and the type large,’ he explains, ‘and I was glad to get the dollar.’ One hundred dollars is nearer his figure now. Most of the -humorist’s pen portraits represent him as perfectly innocentof hair. This does a gross in- justice to the vegetation with which his scalp is fringed, thoueh it is not luxuriant and thoungh truth compels the admission that the crown is of the billiard-ball vari- ety. He 1s loosely built, large boned, six feet high, and straight as a plummet-line. The kindliness that is in him seems to find an outlet at every pore. It dances in his eyes, softens the expression of his face and rings in every sentence that he utters. He was born in the woods, near Moosehead. ‘“Whatever misgivings may be entertained regarding Nye’s qualifications as an expo- nent of law, there is no debatable ground about his capacity for the mission which is bringing him fame and fortune. He must have been singularly retiring and unob- trasive in his early days. Even the fric- tion of the piatform, with all that it in- volves—constant traveling, contact with every type of human being and the cruci- le of critical assemblages in every big city on the continent—has not worn away the fine delicacies which commend him to those who know him well and those who know him little, It is easy enough to vluck out the heart of Nye’s mystery. He can be comprehended in a moment and imitated not at all. Those who try to fol low in his footsteps will have a hard road to travel. They could rise to the height of none of his excellencies and duplicate and emphasize every deficiency he has. Of course he is not a man to rhapsodize about. He is the first to smile when florid things are said about him. To fall down and worship himself will be the last of his follies.” The last time Mr. Nye was in San Fran- cisco he passed one evening at the round tavle of the Bohemian Club red room, and there talked freely to Paul Neumann, Jos- eph D. Redding, Dr. Swan, Sol Smith Rus- sell and a few others of his purposes and ambitions in life. He spoke of the great volume of his weekly contrlbutions to the press, and of the opportunity afforded by the syndicate system for readily convert- ing commonplace copy into cash. It cannot be said that Mr. Nye apolo- gized for his syndicate work, but he readily acknowledged that it was not up to the standard of his early contributions to the Denver press and to his own paper in Laramie. He had an ambition to do better—to write something that would give him a lasting place in English lit- erature, but his own judgmentand the ad- vice of many of his frienas impelled him to meet the daily demands for his work while the market was calling for the prod- ucts of his imagination. He was tola that public taste would change and then it would be time to settle down to more serions work with his pen. No one knew better than himself that the vast quantity of copy that he was turning out constantly for the syndicate could not be produced Without the sacri- fice of qualty. It was in his mind to follow up hislec- ture engagements throughout the country and make all the money he could while lyceums wanted to engage him. Then, with the accumulated capital from his writings and readings, he proposed to complete and embellish a home after his own heart, wherein he would settle down in the autumn of life and produce, as he termed it, literature worthy of himself, The home of his fancy was becoming a reality, but the demands to complete, equip and maintain it according to his desires made it necessary to remew his syndicate contracts and continue the lec- ture engagements. So he worked days and nights, getting half of his sleep on the train and the rest of it at hotels. True enough, he was making money and mak- ing people laugh, but he did so at the ex- pense of his mental and physical vitality. Nye was a genial companion, gentle and benevolent, whose kind humor brought sunshine into many homes. His work as a writer was never marred with obscene suggestions or low allusions. His mind was clean and clear. He valued the qual- ity of pathos as an element in humor, and could recite tender as well as funny things. Nye and Whitcomb Riley were close friends and gave joint readings through- out tke country until the bliss of late hours and the joy of meeting rare spirits of Bonemia compelled Mr. Riley to forego the pleasure of meeting an audience at Louisville that had assembled in expecta- tion of hearing two humorists. On this incident the humorists parted company, and each lectured for himself. If Riley, following in the wake of Nye, happened at Terre Haute or Kalamazoo to call out a bigger crowd than the Western humorist had rallied, the agent of the Hoosier poet made the fact known throughout the length and breadth of the lana. Eugene Field was the friend of both humorists, and Sol Smith Russell avers that he could surpass eitner in the line of pathetic recital. Field could mimic to perfection either Ny@ or Riley. Nye was not personally extravagant, and therefore i&is probable that he leaves to his family q®ite a store of ready money. REPUBLICANS” BIRTHOAY, The Fortieth Anniversary of the Party’s Existence Celebrated at Washington. Distinguished Public Men Address a Large and Enthusiastic Audience. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 22.—The fortieth anniversary of the National Republican party was celebrated to-night by the Union Republican Club at the Center Market. Prominent speakers served todraw a crowded house and there was much enthusiasm over some of the oratory. The first convention of a National char- acter in the history of the party was held in Pittsburg on February 22, 1856, and as this convention was arranged for in Wash- ington it was decided that the National capital was especially appropriate as the place for holding anniversary celebration. Thomas J. Lasier, president of the Union Republican Club, called the meeting to order, and at his invitation A. M. Clapp, one of the few surviving members of the Pittsburg Convention, presided over the exercises, Addresses were delivered by Senators J. RY Hawley of Connecticut, S. M. Cullom of Illinois and G. C. Perkins of California; Representatives C. R. Boutelle of Maine, R. J. Cousins of Iowa, C. M. Brumm of Pennsylvania, J. S. Sherman of New York and C. A. Towne of Minnesota. The invo- cution was delivered by Rev. G. H. Corey. A band was in attendance and played pa- triotic airs. ——— THOSE JEANNEITE RELICS. What Arctic Expert Dall of the Smith- sonian Institution Says. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 22—Dr, William H. Dall, the Arctic expert of the Smithsonian Institution, in reply to vari- ous statements as to Nansen’s theory of an Arctic current being based on a naval midshipman’s hoax, writes as follows: “Permit me to pointout that the state- ment that the hoax which I have de. scribed as resulting in the so-called Jean- nette relics was not connected by me with the voyage of the Yantic in 1883. This statement is due to some confusion in the mind of the reporter beiween the two dif- ferent Greely expeditions—that of the XYantic in 1883 and that of the Bear, Thetis and Alert in 1834. Idid not con- nect the trick with the officers or men of any particular vessel, and have never :mowu definitely who was responsible or it. ‘‘But that a foolish prank of some one during the expedition of 1884 was responsi- ble for the ‘relics’ I have no doubt what- ever, from the inquiry conducted by Dr. Bessels, which 1 witnessed, in part, in the winter of 1834-85, and I have at various times so informed persons interested in Arctic matters, including friends of Dr. Nansen,” CUBAN REBELS BURN BUILDINGS Several Towns Reported to Have Been Looted by Insurgents. A BATTLE WITH MACEO. Native Forces Compelled to Re- tire From the Heavy Artillery Fire, ABOUT TWO HUNDRED SLAIN. From Spanish Sources Also Come Re- ports of Victories in Various Engagements. HAVANA, Cusa, Feb. 22.—Further de- tails of the attack on Jaruco Wednesday by the rebels state that the insurgents burned 131 buildings. They looted all stores except those situated on Loyal street, which were protected by a stone fort garrisoned by a body of civil guards and volunteers. Another fort, after a valiant defense on the part of a body of firemen and volunteers, fell into the bands of the insurgents. Additional official reports of engage- ments on Thursday with the insurgents under General Maceo near Catalina state that Colonel Tor with a force of Spaniards attacked the enemy, who were entrenched behind stone fences and ruins on the El Gato estate. The rebels numbered from 4000 to 5000, and their line of fire was drawp up in the shape of a semi-circle. The Spanish forces brought their artil- lery into play to dislodge the enemy. The rebels made a tenacious defense from be- hind the house ruins, keeping up a steady fire for two hours, but were finally com- pelled to retreat, leaving ten dead on the field. Later the rebels took up a strong position in the neighboring hills, but were eventually dislodged. The Government troops were unable to pursue the fleeing army owing to night setting in and returned to Catalina. The casualties to the 3panish consisted of the wounding of a captain and twelve soldiers. Colonel Hernandez thinks that the total | loss to the rebels will aggregate 200. News has been received here that the rebels have burned the town of Santa Cruz, province of Pinar del Rio. The rebels on leaving Santa Cruz proceeded in the direc- tion of Palacios, declaring that it was their intention to burn that place also. Colonel Peris of the Government forces reports meeting a party of 1200 insurgents near Penon, in the vicinity of Cardenas, whom he immediately engaged. Therebels lost twelve killed and four of their num- ber were taken prisoners. The rebel leader Morejon is believed to be among the kiiled. On the Spanish side only three were wounded. The Spanish general, Barges, reports from Santiago thata force of insurgents under the rebel leader Cartagena, made an attack upon the town of Sagua de Tanamo, on the 8th inst., but were repulsed with a loss of twenty killed. Cartagena, the Aeader, was wounded. o MURDERED BY A SOLDIER. How a Cubaw’s Hospitality in Havana Was Repaid. KEY WEST, Fra.,, Feb. 22.—Among the passengers by the steamer Whitney to-day were two American citizens who have resided in Cuba for several years. One of them stated that yesterday morn- ing on one of the principal streets in the city of Havana & most horrible mur- der was committed by a Spanish soldier. The murdered man was a Cuban, who had invited the soldier to take breakfast with him. During the meal the soldier said: “Viva la Espana.”” The Cuban {ail- ing to respond, was asked outside by his guest, and 1mmediately on reaching the sidewalk was stabbed several times by the soldier with his bayonet, running it com- pletely through his body. The soldier then split the Cuban’s head with a machete. These gentlemen state that all reports sent out of Havana heralding Spanish vic- tories are utterly unreliable, as the Span- ish troops seldom if ever gain a battle, and then only against small bodies of in- surgents poorly armed. LOBBYING AT FRANKFORT Ideal Opportunity to Do Effective Work For and Against the Repeal Bill. Goebel Has the Measure Fixed as a Special Order for Tuesday Evening. FRANKFORT, Ky., Feb, 22.—The lob- byists who are here in force and more numerous than at any previcus session of tne Legislature—many of them under the guise of helping one or other of the Sen- atorial aspirants—left with. members of the Legislature yesterday evening, and it is their ideal opportunity to make trips with legislators and do hard service for and against the measures which they hope to pass or kill, \ The latest scheme of these heretofore quiet and unobtrusive lobbyists is to pool their issues. The men here fighting the passage of at least five big bills affecting as many different kindsof interests, and at the head of which'is the Southern Pa- citic repeal bill, have pooled their issues and gone into a sort of *'you help me and T'll help you' arrangement. 5 The chief plan of battle is to delay and wear out the session, two-thirds of which is gone 4nd only twenty days of which remain. This is the plan which has been outlined against the Eill, as has been before noted by TrE CaLy, and such a policy judicialli' worked is most effective 4 and is the only plan feared by the friends of the repeal bill, Senator Goebel forced the fight on Sat- urday, when he had the measure fixed as 4 special order for Tuesday evening. This was the bugle-call for activity on the part, of the Huntington people, who had ap- parently shown little interest in the meas- ure and had done their work secretly. The fight promises to be very bold, and they are taking the ground that it would be bad faith on the part of the State to re- | . “You may rest assured that should this g:nl the rights in the bill upon which they ve built their business. - The Huntington people try to make it appear that the fight is between Mayor Sutro and his friends and the Southern Pacific people, and that there isas much right on one side as on the other. Hunt- ington’s lobbyists have pictured him as a | benefactor in railroad building, etc. Senator Goebel and the friends of the repeal bill are losing no time in the fight for the bill, and will meet every legal and equitable objection to its passage. The iriends of the bill have so far been on the aggressive, and the opponents realize they are totally unable to cope with them in honest combat before either house, and have sought the before-mentioned meth- ods as a last resort. e KEPT THE BOOKS SACRED. Frank McCoppin' Tells How the Central Paclific Guarded Its Accounts. The policy of refusing to let interested people examine the books of the Central Pacific Company was in vogue as far back as 1863, ‘When the people of San Francisco voted to buy $1,000,000 worth of stock in the Cen- tral Pacific and the Western Pacific, shortly after construction operations be- gan, the Supervisors appointed a commit- tee, consisting of Postmaster Frank Mc- Coppin, M. Ashbury and H. de la Mon- tanya, to go to Sacramento and look into the transaction before delivering. the $1,000,000 worth of City bonds, bearing in- terest at 7 per cent, in payment for that amount of railroad stock. When the committee reached Sacra- mento the directors of the roads were waited upon and Chairman Mc Coppin in- formed them that the committee was on hand to look things over before making final arrangements. “We took with us,” said Mr. McCoppin in an interview yesterday, ‘‘Jerome Lin- coln, who was to act in the capacity of an expert accountant and to make a olote b amination of the books of the company. ‘We did that as a_precautionary measure, not caring to go_into anything of which we had no definite knowledge. Our plan of procedure was for our committee to go up and investigate the workings of theline that was at that time being built into Auburn. In the meantime, as we stated to the directors, it was our desire to have Mr. Lincoln get at the books and see how things stood. “‘Our hosts repaired to a closed room and held a consnltation, reaching the conclu- sion that no one could examine the ac- counts of the company, and least of all Mr. Lincoln, in the interests of the people of San Francisco. - “We were obliged to return to San Francisco hout the desired informa- tion, no wiser regarding the finances of the roads than when we started. A con- test then arose over the affair, and the company insisted upon S8an Francisco tak- ing the stock and delivering the bonds. | The Supervisors stood six to six,and there was a deadlock for two years. It was finally settied by San Francisco having to pay $600,000 to compromise the whole matter and call it off. That was the way the road reached the treasury, and we never learned of its conaition through its books. They were then, and are still inac- cessible to inspection.” All along they have stood on theirrights on this question, but we experienced their opposition first.”’ Mr. McCoppin scouted the idea, as many others do, that Mr. Huntington was ever worth §1,000,000 as ne stated, when he went into railroad-building as a regular occupation. A BALD-FACED SWINDLE, Representative Bowers Tells Why He Will Fight the Funding Bill. Tactics of Collis P. Huntington in Cal- ifornia That the People Cannot Forget. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb, 22.—Mr. Bowers, when asked by THE CALL corre- spondent regarding his action in case the funding bill comes up in the House, said: bald-faced swindle come up in this Congress for consideration I will have something more to say regarding it and its promoters. “Mr. Huntington yesterday notified all ovponents of the funding bill what they muy expect will be their fate when he to!d the Scnate committee that he ‘always hewed to the line and where there were fingers in the way they were pretty sure to be cut.’ All Californians will recognize the genuine old Central Pacific flavor of these words. ““Coilis was dreaming of the old days when he and his colleagues aid cut not only the fingers of those who were in their way, but cut the life out of any one who dared to oppose them. From Cali- fornia newspapers I learn that the South- ern Pacific is now engaged in building a branch railroad §°“ paper) into every town in my district. That's a splendid idea. If it would only make them of real iron and wood all the people of Southern California would become its warm friends just the same as the people of every other section of California are where it has come and thely; have become intimately -acquainted with it, and Bowers would be turned down and out. ButI warn them that the people down there won’t be satistied with the Carlsonesque variety of railroads any longer.” They have experimented with them and while they have worked fairly well while confined exclusively to political work they have in every instance failea to work at all in the way of carrying freight and passengers.” MISSIONARIES IN MOROCCO. They Establish an American Institution After Many Difjiculties. WASHINGTON, D.C. Feb. 22.—J. Jud- son Barclay, United States Consul-General at Tangier, reports to the State Depart- ment that & permanent American mission has been successfully established .after several difficulties at Mequinez, in the northern part of Morocco, by the Rev. Mr. Nathan, the pioneer head of the Morocco mission. Last October, at Mr. Nathan’s request, Mr. Barclay procured for his party a letter from the Minister of the Sultan to the Governor of Mequinez securing their safe conduct and demanding a right to remain in the city and occugy permanent prem- ises. The Moorish authorities of Mequinez refused them the privilege of renting a nouse unless they would bind themseives not to stay longer than five months. They were urged to go into a filtny in- closure and secure safety under the pro- tection of armed guards” in a quarter in- fected with cholera germs. Barclay Prevent Colds, pneumonia and the grip by putting your system in good order. Those who are strong and vigorous have little to fear. These diseases attack the weak and de- bui@ntw. Build up by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla d and demanded the rightsand E:E’:fi:f;e.s due Anericans under the treaties, and the dMimster of the Sultan 0] ly complied. 5 i Drl‘v(‘:‘.ptfizrclaypsays this concession will mark an important era in the history of Morocco, which, it is to be hoped, will be- gin to lose its character as a ferra incog- Rita to Americans now that the edge of the wedge of western civilization and Christianity has entered. i e D PR LITTLE TIME T LOSE, Suits to Be Commenced by the Government Against the Union Pacific. Large Sections of Land for Which the Company Has Not Made Settlement. OMAHA, NEBR., has gone to St. Louis to get the permission of Judge Caldwell, and when he returnsitis expected that he will begin suits against the Union Pacific Railway Company for some sections of land which the railway claims. The first grant made to the Union Pacific was of every alternate section for twenty miles on each side of the track, ex- cept a large number of sections which were either occupied by settlers or had been secured by some one under the nome- stead or pre-emption acts. Many of these sections were abandoned or neglected by tbe owners and fell into the hands of the company and were bought by other set- tlers later from the raiiroad company. The ownership of these tracts was con- firmed to the railroad company until about 1880, when the Interior Department decided that the land belonged to the Government and that the settlers must get their patents from the Govern- ment and not from the railroads. The railroad company has fought this de- cision several times, has been beaten, but nas not settled for the land. 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