The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 3, 1896, Page 4

4 : THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1896. DEPEW SPEAKS AT PALO ALTD, The Gymnasium Is Packed From the Floor to the Rafters. SOLID SENSE AND HUMOR Education and SelfMade Men Discussed by the Great Orator. TO SUCCEED WE MUST WORK. “I Come as an Elder Brother,” He Said to the Young Men and Co-Eds. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CAr., April 2.—This afternoon the Stanford gymna- sium was filled to its fuliest capacity, the audience being drawn thither by the aanouncement that Chauncey M. Depew had conserted to give a short lecture there. Fully an hour before the time ifor the speaker to appear had arrived the floor was packed, windows filled and rafters covered by those who had failed to find seats elsewhere. When the speaker appeared he was zreeted with prolonged cheers, which did not cease until Dr. Jordan stepped for- ward to introduce him to his audience. In substance Mr. Depew said: Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, boys and co-eds: I e spoken at a great many places in my lifetime—out of doors, indoors and from pulpits and platiorms—but this is the first time I have ever addressed an audi- ence in & gymnasium. Notwithstanding that 1 8o not propose to deliver an athletic address. You will not expect from me to-day a com- mencement oration nor anything which has about it the Horatian flavor. When I received the invitation of your presi- dent here our party had upon us a heavy pro- gramme in doing the material part of Califor- nia, and we did not anticipate when leaving home of comi contact withf its schools, colleges, universities or this particular life | which is represented here. However, who could come to California and pretend to have seen California and not have seen Stanford University? Icome to you in the capacity of an elder brother. Icome to you from Yale. | We have behind usea record of 200 years and we are proud of our productions and of the long line of our alumniand associations and our family tree. We come out here to find you in full yigor prospe uth. In the United States it is pos rality and mun erized the founder of this ion to do the work of a century inaday. In this country we r from the older nat . with them educatior 2 while with us it is both a neces ¥ Two great universities have been ent for the higher educational neads of England for hundreds of years and eight or ten have been found equ people upon t ihe United We are criticized about them and told that most of them are academies, I have vi with most of them snd find tk the Kentuckian's whisky—all are good, but some are better thar. ind here in this country that it is abdo- necessary to have these universities and | such institutions seattered all over the land, for the number of young mer—and now, hap- o are determined to ion has become so great utions put together will I u will, Princeton and Yale, and wnd they are not equel country. And soit is a e to America that all the st have Stale universities. d of a great college' in the State can be brought €, making them good country and citizens of the world. And it has ever been a satis- fation to us in ast that your State, with sts liberal fdeas, and the one grand man who appreciated American libertics, together have given two gre versities to this coast. American lib s a great principle. Ameri. can liberty means that that government is best which governs le After the police and sanitary arrangementsof | the country, state and town shall be taken care of, then the individual shall be left to his own Tesources, ¢ 1 as best he can by educa- of the people, aiter which he makes his own career. The charter founded in the Mayflower has been the fundamental principies which has made the United Stafes What it is to0-day, and the man who founaed this university was an exponent of American principles. de it was, coming from nothing, created & great everything, and having created it recognized the responsibility resting upon great success to use it wisely for the benefit of the public of the State where he lived. We hear a great deal in our day about self- made men. Is there anybody in this country who amonnts to much who is not in som® sense a self-made man? But the usual definition is & men who Las accumulated wealth and done | nothing else. His motto is, *I seen it and I done it.” But we ignore entirely the self-made man who has equipped himself for the great duties and responsibilities of life. Nine-tenths of all the boys in our colleges are seli-made men when they come out. I remember a seli- made man of the type who is always calling at- tention to thefact that he made himseli, who bad & head as clear of hair as a billiard-tall. A° remark was made to him by one ot the wittiest men who ever lived, who said: “Well, while you were making yourself why didn’t you put some hair on your head?” But the nobiest type of self-made man in the United States is the type represented by that man whom we all recall with pride and admi- Tation, General Garfield. He had that pride which belongs to what is called American bra- vado and is not bravado at all—a toiler in the harness, who lived in a log cabin and nad worked fifteen anfl eighteen hours a day; all the children.in the family worked equally hard. That is not bravado, it is American pride, because from these quarters have come most of the Presidents of the United States, most of the great generals of the army, most of the men of letters and statesmen. General Garfield worked to mssist his mother on the farm, at night reading by the firelight, going out on the tow path that he might add & little to the family til}, a1 the same time preparing Iimself for college and later, by teaching, to work himself through college; becomes princi- pel of a college, learns to be & lawyer, and & £00d one, 1005 goes to Congress, goes in the army as major-general and dies President of the United States. Thisis a type of the seli- made man. Now, young gentlemen, T am not here for the purpose of giving you & moral lesson—you ought to know that as well as I—but for the purpose of giving kind advice, which is all too cheap; but I wiil say as a result of personal experience and observation in the world that there is one fault in every college, and it is al- - ways an injury, and that is the belief thau genius can enable a man to do anything with- out work. I have known fellows who would idle around all day long and wofk ali night long, with the windows darkened and cracks in doors puitied up. frying to produce the im- pression that learning was obtained through secure a liberal ed that all the older in notequal the demanc Harvard, C reduplicate f to the demands o source of honest States of the W All tave felt the which the youth of citizens of the who! institution, for there is nothing in this world worth having unless it comes by work,and there is nothing so much promotes honest thinking, good health, bonest living and longevity and so much occupies life properly, I think, as honest work. Now, young gentlemen,I see you have a gymnasium. I believe in athletics. . When I wasa student at Yale we had no gymnasium; athleties was at a discount, that man was sup- posed to be the most intellectual who was the most dyspeptic, and that one most spiritual who was neares. and closest to the yawning grave. We cultivated a round back and round shoulders to show how studious we were. At the beginning of the Civil War when students and schoolteachers eniisted they were far from a stalwartand soldierly type. A story is told of a young man who had been a teacher who went into the navy. A Britisher, looking at him, asked, ‘“What is that on your back?’ The answer was, “Why, that is Bunker Rill.” But since then we have progressed gloriously in athletics. We have discovered now that a healthy mind hasgot to have a healthy body and the soul is broader and healthier and standsa better chance of getting into paradise in a healthy body. We have progressed so far now that we challenge the old universities and ask sportsmen to come over here with their yachts and race with us. They found the course too crowaed and then they went back,and Dun- raven was ‘‘Done-racing.” We asked Oxford to come over here and enter into sports of various kinds with us of Yale,and we had seven of the legitimate exercises of the gym- nasts of the Olympian field, and we gave them the second prize in one. Now we are going to carry out the same principle by the Yale crew ing to *he Henley regatta, 5o the American lue can vie with the Oxford blue, and if we don’t get the Oxford blue to hang up here we will keep going until wedo, and then put it up with the old stars ana stripes above it in the old gymnasium. America is learning more and more every day that this country is big enough, that its opportunities are grand enough, and that its liberty is pure enough and its humanity is rich enough not to be drowned carrying the spirit of goodwill toward all the world. The American is becoming self-contained and so self-satisfied that he can stand a good deal of what he sees in other countries and hears without being discouraged. There is one thing 1 want to impress upon you, and that is the need of oratory. I notice that speaking is dying out; debating societies disappearing from colleges; speaking and de- bating is being left to the district school. You will notice away back in the generations the many orators, but within twenty-five years you find no new orators in the country. Itis not because oratorical power does not exist, nor because the genius for it does not exist as much now as then, but because nothing suc- ceeds without effort and training and without experience. Our college boys go outin the world, having lost the power by not having the training. Another caution I will give youis not ex- actly “to improve each shining hour,” but to improve the idle minutes. My experience is that we waste more time than we utilize. Loafing is an art and should have certain times set apart. Butloafing as steady occupation is demoralizing to nerves, prain, morals and di- gestion. Any man can get a liberal education on top of the education he possesses by using odd minutes and odd hours. Read good books. When you get married you will find that if your wife is never ready for the theater it is not her fault. She is doing something for her persoral appearance that you require. Do not find fault, but use the time in reading and you will find the delay is for your benefit. Women are not constituted for time, but eternity. 1 did not know until coming up here to-day that this is a coeducational institution. I am glad tosee it. Itis only within this century that it has been considered proper to educate the girls beyond the three R's—reading, writ- ing, arithmetic. But we have discovered that women can be educated without .spoiling them. I recall an address I gave at Smith Coliege, and the voung ladies were amusing themselves before my arrival in debating upon the question whether a liberal education of a man fits him for domestic life. As long as we are destined to be as we are destined to be from the competitive standpoint, a liberal edu- cation is demanded alike for boys and girls, and I am glad to see the idea adopted in Cali- fornia. Our party has been simply carried away off our feet up into the blue ether, and I do not know whether we will ever get down or not. We are wild with delight. We have every- thing in our party got upfor enjoying our- ves, We have information on every subject on the face of the globe from some one of our varty except Callfornis, and on that Cali- fornians are now receiving points that they have never heard before. There has been no cloud upon our horizon, nor teardrop in our water. I understand that water is a great thing in this country, but we do not notice it. There is & line which has been moré impres- sive and suggzestive to me than any short sen- tence in the English language, and that is that superb couplet of Kingsley’s: Be good, my boys, and let who will be clever, Do noble things, not dream them all day long. And so make life, death and that vast forever One grand sweet song. THE TEMPLETON ELOPERS. After Many Tribulations Nelson Rejoins His Runaway Wife. STOCKTON, Car., April 2—Hy Nelson, the husband of Minnie Nelson, who ran away from Templeton with Charles Poul- son, a painter and acrobat, is in all sorts of tronble. Nelson is a Swede, and not too well couversant with the customs of this country, and so does not know the ropes as well as many people. He was hunger- ing for a glimpse of his wile, who had been locked up in jail pending the arrival of a constable from Salinas City, where a warrant had been issued for her arrest and that of Poulson. Nelson walked around the jail several times, until the jailers began to think he had some scheme for getting a prisoner out. Finally, hespied his wife at one of the grated windows and hailed her. He had just entered into conversation with her when Jailer Benjamin hailed bim and told him he would put him behindithe bars if he attempted to talk with any of the priscners witbout obtaining a permit from the Sheriff’s office. Nelson hied himself to the police station and told his troubles to a police officer. He was finally fitted out with a permit and went to jail to see his wife, While Nelson was closeted with his recreant spouse in the jaii, Chief of Police Kingsbury received a teie- gram from Constable Tillman of Salinas City, informing him that the District Attorney there had ordered the char. es against Poulson and Mrs. Nelson dis- missed and gsking that they be released. They were taken before Justice Parker this afternoon and released from custody. Mrs. Nelson returned to Templeton with her husband. e SEATTLE BARBERS SHAMPOOED. They Invested About $400 in an Auto- v matic Car Coupler. SEATTLE, WasH.,, April 2.—Seattle’s contribution to the list of victims of the automatic car-coupler swindle unearthed by the Government Patent Office at Wash- irgton City consists of two barbers, Joseph Berryault and John Taggart. These in- dividuals were fleeced to the tune of about $400. The swindler gave his name as Bond and claimed to have been at ne a telegraph operator in the New tock Exchange. Berryault believes Bond is residing at Hancock, N. Y., and there is no doubt but that he is the man who, according to Washington dispatches, has swindled so many people throughout the country. —— DROWNED AT SEATTLE. Boatswain Edward Nolan of the Steamer Mexico Falls Overboard. SEATTLE, Wasn., April 2.—Edward Nolan, boatswain of the steamer Mexico, fell overboard Tuesday night, while the ves- sel was moored at Ocean dock, and was drowned. He was returning to the ship after having mailed his wife a remittance from his month’s salary. The. deceased - the pores. Such men sre & nuisaece ip every ]c¥es & widow and two children residing in"San Francisco. CONVENTION OF SUNDAY-SCHOOLS, Important Topics Before the Noted Gathering at Sacramento. IMPROVING THE WORK. President Morton Tells - of the Vast Opportunities for Doing Good. UNION OF THE DENOMINATIONS It Has Done a Great Deal to Bring About a Closer Relationship of Christians. SACRAMENTO, CAL., April 2.—The ex- ercises of the Sunday-school Convention ‘were opened to-day in the Congregational church with a service led by Ira D. 8an- key." The next order of business was the appointment of the several committees, but this was postponed with the exception of the appointment of Annie Aitken of Sacramento as chairman of the enrollment committee, in order that the president could have access to her report in making up the committees. H. Morton of San Jose, president of the California State Sunday-school conven- tion, then read his annual report. Mr. Morton said: *‘No doubt many opportunitles for doing good have been neglected. Too often have we acted as the priest or Levite and pussed by on the other side when we should have imitated the good Samaritan and rendered the pest service 1in our power to those wno needed our sympathy and assistance. Let us honestly seek pardon for all our past failures and implore grace for the future in order that we may be thoroughly furnished unto all good works. “Our ioternational Sunday - school Association has very plainly stated the great purpose of these ' conven- tions, viz.: organization, evangeliza- tion and education. The union of the different denominations in our Sunday-school conventions has done more to cultivate that spirit of oneness—to bring into closer relationship all those who love the Lord Jesus Christ, of whatever name, than perhaps any other agency. ““Why should there exist any jealousy? ‘We be brethren’ comes ringing down the centuries. Let us rejoice in the fact. One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and father of all.” He then went on to exemplify by anec- dote the power of the unity of numbers, and in the course of his remarks said there are 11,000,000 Sunday-school members, with 1,500,000 teachers, in the United States, and claimed that but little progress had been made through the State during the past year in advancing the interests of the Sunday-schools, and spoke at length of the needs and the lack of interest which is seemingly portrayed. He advocated house-to-house visitation. He also advocated an implicit trust and belief in the Bible, and went on to say: *It seems to me that one of the obstacles to our advancement as an organization is the lack of some better means of commu- nication between the members of our as- sociation in different sections of the State. If we could only have an organ through which wecould express our thoughts on the needs of the hour, stimulate the weak, encourage the fainting, rejoice with the strong, ask and answer questions, talk with our friends once every month, instead of onge a year, I believe great good would come to our Sunday-school work. May I not ask that this matter be delezated to a committee for consideration ? ‘‘Besides the consideration of the subject I have named at this session you will be called upon to elect delegates to the inter- national convention which meets in Bos- ton June 23 to 26.” At the close of the president’s address the following committees were appointed: Enrollment—Miss Annie Aitken, Miss Jennie Miller, J. Leiter and Fred Hollis. Committee on conference—Pastor, Rev. M. V. Hoskinson; superintendent, W. W, Lewis; teacher, Grove F. Ekins; primary teacher, Mrs. M. M. Harding. The different conference committees ad- journed to various parts of the building, and at 11:30 returned and made their re- vorts, after which an adjournment was taken until 1:30 in the afternoon. During the afternoon session Dr. Ketcham of the California S8abbath Ob- servance Association delivered a short address, in which he advocated that Christians discourage the purchase of Sunday papers and devote the amount saved to missionary work, and a resolution to that effect was introduced and passed. During the evening session the church was simply packed and it became neces- sary to hold an overflow meeting in the Sixth-street M. E. Church. An able ad- dress was delivered by Rev. E. 8. Chap- man on the subject, “How to Teach the Word,” and the meeting adjourned aiter, consecration service. CANNEERS AND FISHFRMEN, Serious State of Affairs on the Columbia iver. ASTORIA, Or., April 2—Trouble now seems inevitable between the cannerymen and fishermen of the Columbia River. Two weeks ago the fishermen held their annual meeting and decided that the price of the raw fish for the season should be 5 cents, with the uliimatum that if the cannerymen refused to pay this they would refuse to fish. Yesterday the Columbia River Packers’ Association completed its organization, and declared that their ultimatum was to pay but 4 cents per pound. Both haye de- clared themselves with a full knowledge of surrounding circumstances and the 1ssue that it is sure to bring about. Sofus Jensen, secretary of the Fisher- men’s Union, this morning said he was not surprised at the action of Em cannerymen, but it would result in no fish being packed this season -unless they pay 5 cents, and that probably after May 1y they will be willing and will pay 6 cents per pound. Early' this morning 400 fishermen left here with a snag-puller and went to Sand Island and destroyed all the fish traps owned or supposed to be owned by tge canners, Four pile-drivers found at work were turned adrift and went out over the bar. The owners of the tra intimi- dated by numbers, stood by and saw their property destroyed. The fishermen claim that the traps were in the channel sur- veyed by United States engineers, thereby int.erlaring with the legitimate place for using their nets. This is the first blow in the great strike to follow, which promises to be the great- est in the history of the Columbia River. Neither side was ever so strongly organ- ized as this year. V184LIA STABBING CASE. .. A Japanese Woman Horridly Cut by a Chinaman, Who Escaped. VISALIA, Carn, April 2.—About 11 o'clock last night a Japanese woman, known as Hannah, was horribly stabbed by a Chinaman, who escaped after com- mitting the crime. City Marshal Gilliam was aroused, and hurried to the scene of the stabbing, 4 Dr. Mathewson arrived about the same time, and the woman was found to be ter- ribly mangled. She was stabbed in the abdomen till the intestines protruded. She was also cutabout the neckin four places, the cuts ranging from three inches in length to seven inches, The woman had bled profusely. The woman herself gave| the alarm by screaming and hurrying over to the house of Ed McGowan near by. McGowan fol- lowed her back to her house on the porch of which she fell down in a faint. ecar- ried her into the house and ran for a doctor. When the woman recovered conscious- ness she said a Chinaman had attempted to kill her. She described him, but did not know his name. Marshal Gilliam found the bloody knife wielded by the Chinaman in the street near the corner of :il-_nel}muse, where he bad dropped it in his ight. It is of Chinese workmanship and is sharp, heavy and well made. It was covered with blood and the blade is fully 81X or seven inches long. The terrible cuts in the woman’s body were sewed up by the physician, but there is little hope for her Tecovery, District Attorney Howard and Court Re- porter Elliott went to the bedside of the Woman this morning to get her statement, but she could say fittle coherently on ac- count of the great pain she was suffering. All efforts to find the guilty Chinaman are futile, for the Chinese will not tell on each other. 1t is known that two or three strange Chinese came over from Hanford on last evening’s train. These men will be watched. —_— COFFIN'S TRIAL AT CARSON. Arguments on the Demurrer to the In- dictment Heard. CARSON, NEv., April 2.—The arguments on the demurrer to the Coffin indictment were made in the United States court to- day. Coffin’s attorneys held that the. in- dictment did net state that at the time of the paying of the money the defendant had knowledge of the fact that Langevin was to be a witness in the case, The United States District Attorney held that the indictment made all the allega- tions necessary to establish the fact thata crime had been committed, that justice bad been hampered and that the defend- ant would not have paid the money or soucht to secure the agsence of a witness unless he had knowledge of the fact that be was to be a witness. He cited authori- ties to show that when sufficient facts were set forth allegations of the defendant’s knowledge were unnecessary. The fact that he was engaged in the illegal act of bribery was a sufficient assumption of the knowledge, and the indictment in set- ting forth the facts reads as follows: ““The defendant paid $100 to one Joseph Lange- vin with the purpose and the intent and the object of obstructing the due adminis- tration of justice, by paying said sum to prevent the said important witness from appearing and testifying in the case of James Heney, then in progress in the Dis- trict Court of the United States.” The court took the matter under advise ment and adjourned until Monday. B S Luck of @& Port Townsend Youth, PORT TOWNSEND, Wasn., April 2.— Alexander Wood, 21 years of age, met with a frightful accident here last night, but miraculously escaped deatn. He climbed to the top of an elevator shaft in an unoc- cupied tourist hotel building and when de- scending lost his footing and fell to the bottom of the shait, a distance of fifty feet. He struck on a pile of boards and broken glass, but when hauled out by his com- panions it was found he had sustained no injuries beyoud a few bruises. NO PAY FOR TWO MONTHS Warrants of Collector Welburn Are Ignored by Carlisle. THE WINE-GAUGERS TO BLAME Their Reports Were Incorrect and Experts Are Trying to Straighten Them, The employes of the Internal Revenue Department in this City have not received their salaries for February and March be- cause the Secretary of the Treasury refused to honor the warrants of Gollector Wel- burn. As a result of this unpleasant condition of affairs there isa surprising increase in the number of money-brokers who aré flocking to the Federal building on Wasiington and Sansome streets. They are buying warrants atfrom 2 to5 per cent discount and consequently will reap a golden harvest. The cause of the breach between the Treasury Department of the United States Government and the office of the Revenue Collector seems to grow,out of the delay of Mr. Welburn’s clerks in sending on their reports to Washington. It is known that the reports of the sweet-wine gaugers are at least five months behind. Many of these subordinates are said to be incom- petent. They have delayed the reports of others who are capable. Anyway there is consternation all along the line, while the knowing ones wink the other eye and observe that Collector Wel- burn employs too many women in his main office. Anyway the fact remains that the salaries of employes for the last two months have been withheld, and now those who have been paying large com- missions to money-brokers are going to register a large-sized *‘kick.” It .will require an extra staff of clerks to catch up with the work in the revenue office. The rumor is current that dis- crepancies from 2 cents to $2000 have been found in the reports of the sweet-wine gaugers, and much of the work will have to be gone all over again. Collector Welburn is very much exer- cised over the mess. He realizes that he bas been greatly imposed upon by poli- ticiane in making appointments. He is inclined to believe that the majority of the sweet-wine gauzers have a greater capa- city for drams than for fractions. The fact is that all the more incompe- tent gaugers—and there are a few of them in the seryice—are assigned to gauge the sweet wine. Such an assignment is equal to a certiticate of incompetency. *Conse- quently, the staff of sweet-wine gaugers is large and influential—influential enough to bave the salary of Collector Welburn himself stopped for‘two months, and Pprobably lunger, [THE REPUBLICANS CALL A PRIMARY, Stringent Safeguards Insure an Honest and Free Election. MACHINERY IN MOTION. The County Committee Divides Into Two District Com- mittees. DIFFERENCES IN THE FIFTH. Harmony in. the Fourth and a Dispute in the Fifth Over Committee- man Rule. The Republican primaries for the selec- tion of delegates to the State Convention will be held on the 15th inst.,, and they will be held in such a manner and with such careful safegnards that a full vote, an honest count and a full and free expression of the will of the Republican voters of the City will be assured. The Kepublican County Committee, to which the selection of delezates was re- ferred, made this decision at a special meeting last night in Scottish Hall on Larkin street, opposite the Uity Hall. There were really two meetings, as the committee adjourned as a whole and re- solved itself into two committees, com- posed respectively of the members repre- senting the Fourth Congressional District and the seven Assembly districts of San Francisco lying within the Fifth Congressional District. The State Cen- tral Committee having this year dele- gated the convention preparations to the various Congressional committees, and these committees having no jurisdiction outside of their districts, the segregation of the County Committee into bodies for this particular purpose was necessary. When the county committee was calied to order as a whole by Chairman Charles W. Manwaring tho hall was filled with in- terested Republicans, who had come to watch the proceedings, but who were doomed to hear little of what was said and done. The rolicall by Seeretary John Jackson showed all of the eighteen com- mitteemen present, and then the minutes of the last meeting were approved as read. At the last meeting a special committee was appointed to prepare suitable resolu- tions on the death of J. E. Donovan, who had represented the Thirtieth District, but on the suggestion of John M. Chretien, chairman of the committee, that the reso- lutions would be more suitably adopted at a regular meeting, the report was laid over. The chairman stated that inasmuch as the members bad received credentials pro- viding for their meetingas two bodies it would be proper to adjourn the Countv Committee and for the members repre- senting the Fourth and Fifth districts to meet separately at convenient places in the hall to transact their business. In accordance with the suggestion the com- mittee adjourned, and the spectators heard little of what transpired thereafter. The succeeding conferences were not made execitive, but as the committees withdrew into partial privacy the audience heard little further. The seven members from the Fifth District got together at one side of the stage, in full view of the audi- ence, but their conversation could not be heard by the audience, though most of the spectators remained seated for an hour, viewing the conference on the stage, which was plainly an animated one. The eleven members representing the Fourth District went into a room at one side of the stage, and there quickly, har- moniously and unanimously adopted an election call. John M. Chretien was elected chairman of the committee and P. J. Walsh secre- tary. The other members of the commit- teeare: Albert Houston, John L. Brown- ing, Charles Berliner, Charles H. Clear, R. W. Heilman, James Gately, A. A. Louder- back, G. Bacigalupi and Thomas W. C. Landler. The call was read by Secretary Walsh and after a brief discussion it was adopted unanimously as read on motion of Charles H. Clear, seconded by R. W. Heilman. The call adopted is a lengthy one. Its opening paragraphs 1ecite the issnance of the call by the State Central Committee for a State Convention. to be held in Sacramento May 5, and for Congressional District conventions to be held at the same time, the apportionment adopted and the action of the Congressional committee of the Fourth District in delegating to the mem- bers of the County Committee in the Fourth District power and discretion to select delegates. The following paragraphs taken from the document present 1ts salient features: Resolved, That the Republican County Com- mittee of the City and €County of 8an Francisco, embraced within the Fourth *Congressional District, acting under and in pursuance of its aforesaid authority, does hereby order and call a primary election to be held in the City and County of San Francisco, that portion thereof embraced within the Fourth Congres- sional District, on the 15th day of April, 1896, for the purpose hereinafter specified, in ac- cordance with the laws governing primary elections, as prescribed by the Political and Penal Codes of the State of California. Reselved, That said primary election shall be held on the 15th day of April, 1896, the polls to be kept open continuously between the hours of 9 o’clock in the forenoonand 7 o’clock in the afternoon of said day; Resolved, That there shall be two poling places in each Assembly district of the City and County of San Francisco embraced within the Fourth Congressional District, and that for each of said polling places the board of elec- tion ehall consist of one inspector, two judges and two clerks; Resolved, That all polling places must be on the ground floor, and the ballot-boxes be so placed as to be plainly seen from the sidewalk, and that free and uninterrupted ingress must be given at each poliing place to electors en- titled to vote thereat, and also to such repre- sentative or alternate representatives of each set of candidates that mey be voted for at each -polling place as shall present the credentials hereinafter provided for to the board of elec- tion at such polling place. Resolved, That printed cards of admission to each of the polling-places shall be given to the representatives of each set of candidates re- questing the same. The sald request must be in writing and signed by a majority of the candidates on each set of tickets. ’l’he cards of admission shall be signed by the chairman and secretary of this committee and shall contain the name of the party entitled to admission and the polling-place at which 4 is intended to be used. The officers =°JONEY SAVED IS MONEY 64’ #Why pay $50 at the tailor’s for the overcoat you can buy of us for $25, the wholesale price. & Made of hig.}ll‘gfad‘ Vicunas, Cheviots, Worsteds, or hibets, lined throughout with heavy twilled silk, Serge lining if you prefer it. Any of the new styles. Price at other stores, $40. % All wool and worsted overcoats retailed y from $7.50 to $25—half the prices charged elsewhere. & Here you select from largest whole- sale stock west of the Mississippi. BROWN BROS. & CO. 121-123 Sansome Street Wholesale l\flanufac‘!;to:;n l‘ljfig‘rict&m Oregon City ALL BLUE SIGNS of election may give permission to said per- sons presenting said cards of admission to en- ter the polling-places before the opening of the polls, and to remain there until the canvass i completed and all the returns are proper- ly sigred and sealed up. In. the event of the failure on the part of the election officers to admit such persons holding cards of admission to the polling - places such person may call upon the police officers detailed for such duty at such polling place, and such police officer may use all lawful means to take .such person inside the polling place. The CHief of Police is requested to give in- structions to his officers to enforce this resolu- tion. Persons holding cards of admission may be relieved by & duly appointea and author ized alternate, who shall have the same rights and privileges as the first regular representa- tive upon presentation of the card of admis- sion issued to the said original representative. Resolved, That no barricade or other ob- struction shall be erccted or maintained in front of any polling place, but that the said polling places shall be free from all obstruc- tions, as they are at general elections, and we hereby give notice that no returns will be re- ceived or counted as official from any polling place where this provision has been violated. Resolved, Tkat the official bellot-box atfeach polling-place must remain in plain, un. obstructed view from the opening to the close of the polls, and be so placed that the voter may easily see the top of the box end his bal- lot deposited. The representatives of all tick- ets must be permitted to remain inside the polling-places and in such position that they can at all times witness, unobstructed, the re- ception of the ballot from the voter and the depositing of the same in the ballot-box by the inspector or judge of election who receives the ballot. Resolved, That no peddling of tickets or so- liciting of votes shall be allowed within 100 feet of the polls, and the committee requests the police officers on duty to keep the polls ree and unobstructed at all times. This shall not be construed to apply to the presence of chal- lengers. Resolved, That in addition to all other grounds of challenge in the laws of the State governing general elections, this®committee hereby directs and orders that the following and additional test be given to voters: “I be- lieve in Republican principles, and indorse the Republican policy, and intend to support the nominee of the Republican party.” Resolved, Tnat this committee hereby insists that a free and untrammeled ballot andan honest count must be carried out and rigidly enforced at said primary election; that all at- tempts to deviate from this principle should be discountenanced and that those guilty of frauds or parties thereto should be disbarred from said and all other conventlons, and that if it shall appear at any poll- ing-place that there 1is or has been any fraud or wrong committed, or the rights of any citizen to cast his free and-untrammeled ballot and to have the same honestly counted, has been in any way interfered with, this com- mittee will set aside and declare null and void the election at sald polling-place, and shall proceed to provide the representation to which said district is entitlec in said convention as above set forth. Other paragraphs in the’ eall provide that the committee shall furnish ballot- boxes and precinct registers: that ballots shall be 6x12 inches in size; that the call shall be published for five days; that re- turns shall be canvassed by the committee and that none may vote whose names are not in the precinct registers used at the general election in November, 1894. It also apportions the sixty-six delegates to which the Fourth District i entitled as follows: Twenty - eighth District, 5; Twenty-ninth, 5; Thirtieth, 6; Thirty- first; 5; Thirty-second, 4; Thirty-third, 6; Thirty-ninth, 9; Forty-second, 7; Forty- third, 7; Forty-fourth, 6; Forty-fiith, 5. The appointment of election officers was disposed of in a resofution providing that each county committeeman shall nomi- nate officers of election for his district, the names to be sent to Secretary Walsh at 850 Market street before next Monday evening, when the committee will meet to name election officers and to transact other business. Each committeeman shall also provide a map of his district, showing a segrezation of precinets into two polling districts, to be numbered one and two respectively. The date for the election was left in the hands of Chairman Chretien to be fixed by him after conference with the other committee. The date was later made the 15th inst. The committee adjourned to meet next Monday evening at Republican headquarters, 850 Market street. The proceedings in the conference of the seven members from the Fifth District were not so harmonious, though there was entire unity in favor of an open primary and on every point except the single one relating to the regulation of the admission of watchers to the polling-booths. The seven seated themselves on the stage and at once elected C. W. Manwar- ingchairman and John Jackson secretary. Secretary Jackson read a draftof a call, leaving blank places for dates. The call was the same as that adopted for the Fourth District. When tre reading was finished Jesse E. Marks objected to the provision requiring representatives of all sets of candidates to present credentials signed by the chair- man and secretary of the committee after they have been recommended by a majority of the candidates to secure admission to the booths to watch the voting and counting. Marks wanted the call amended so as to give the individual committeeman of each district sole power to issue such credentials. In this he was at once supported by I. H, Thompson and in some degree by James Alva Watt. This proposition was dis- cussed for nearly an hour. Watt suggested that the credentials be signed by the chairman and secretary “‘or’* by the county committeeman. Chairman Manwaring strongly object- ed to any plan which might result in shutting out the representatives of any faction, which, he intimated, might pos- sibly be done during a time of excitement or dispute if one man had the sole power to say who might enter, the polling- places. *‘The number to be admitted should be regulated end limited,” declared Manwar- ing. “We don’t want the polling places filled up with a crowd amid which some. thing wrong may be done. Do you think that the chairman anda secretary are going to shut out anybody who has a right to be inside?’ “If you won’t trust me I won’t trust you,” said Marks in reply. “Youdon't know the people in my district, and I do.” ““You forget that the watchers must be named by a majority of the candidates before credentials may be issued. My power is limited. Yours would not be. All I want is to see that at the last minute nobody is shut out and that nocinches are played.” Thompson declared that he wanted to run his aistrict, and that he didn’t want any interference. He contended that each county committeeman should run the pri- mary 1n his own district. Finally James Alva Watt proposed an amendment that the number of watchers in any polling place at one time be limited to thecounty committeeman of the district and two representatives of each ticket in the field, the representatives to be named by a majority of the candidates, the total number to be limited to six at one time, and credentials to be issued by the chairman and secretary of the com- mittee or by the county committeeman of he district. The discussion as it went on was a repe- tition of the points above expressed and finally a vote was taken on Watt's amend- ment. The ayes were J, A. Watt, Jesse E. Marks and J. H. Thomfeon. The noes were C. Manwaring, C. G. Chnch, Grove Ayers and John Jackson. The amendment was thus lost. By the same vote reversed the original provision was approved. A short discussion ensued, which showed that the differences were honest ones and Messrs. Thompson and Clinch urged an adjournment until next day, when they thought a harmonious agreement might be reached on the point which had been in issue. Watt pointed out that the precincts must be segregated into polling districts, and he too urged an adjournment. C. G. Church, who approved the call as read, thought that in the interest of har- mony and good feeling an adjournment might be wise. and one was taken until this evening, when the committee will meet in the office of James Alva Watt and officially adopt the call. WEDDED AT SANTA ROSA. Miss Josephine Byington and Lorenso D. Jackson United. SANTA ROSA, Car., April 2, —The most notable wedding of the year was solemnized here to-day at high noon. The contracting parties were Miss Josephine Byington, daughter of Colonel W, H. By- ington of this city, and Lorenzo D. Jacks of Sacramento. ¢ The venerable Dr. J. Avery Shepard, so many years pastor of the Church of the Incarnation, officiated, and the words that joined the happy couple were pronounced under a true lover's knot of pink and white carnations and rosebuds. The floral decorations at the Byington’s residence were remarkably fine, even tor thisland of flowers; “consisting of huge bunches of calla lilies,"banks of ferns and maidenbair and thousands of carnations and rose buds. Plates were laid for fifty guests at the wedding breakfast which followed .the ceremony, the invitations having beer limited to'the near relatives and intimate friends of the family. A great many elegant and costly pres- ents were received and the bride’s trous- seau was the finest that ever came to this city. The newly married couple will spend a month at Los Angeles,after which they expect to make this city their home. —_—— Suicide of a Defauiter, ASTORIA, Ok, April 2—H. E. Top- ping, treasurer of the Junior Order of American Mechanics, committed suicide to-night by blowing hi: i was a dein\{lter to thga o o e decided last night to leaves a widow, | zeles " arrest. He Who is now in Los An-