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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 10, 1896. the Code Napoleon, but she &tops a century back; she scorns present polities. Her husband is for or against McKinley and fs disgracefully jznorant of Moses, the grent laws giver. Combine their knowledge and how bright the worid would be. He thinks and wants an out- let for his thought; she caunot ask an inteiligent auestion, telis im' that she has “no Interest in poli- tics,” 80 'he_goes downtown for a hearing. They are divorced 5o far as politics go, when they need to be unlted in all lines. The husband needs woman ‘suffrage. The chil- dren need it. They soon see that mother is subor- dinate, her opinion {s not counted on that day when great things are settled, so in the great things the son calls not for her opi: . The wife needs it. She necds an outing from function, from | ber personal cares: a participation in great things | Wil give her what she needs—breadth, perspective. | ‘The Natlon needs it. slone; he must organi needs a compl ense 0f p 3 intuition and the conscience which re- 1t ffom moihernood. Naught else can save this on. he industrial world needs it. Man can never apete with slavery, be 1t bond el, sert or | sex slavery ry for wo- | r. The la- | ers see that woman lies across the path of | man, and both they and the sgricuiturist would Hift her off by giving her equelity. They were the first and are our best friends. Morality needs it. Take from womsan her earn- ings, ail power 10 make .erms, work her sixteen or more hours perday in a den, hamper her with children, aged parents or youhger brothers or sis- ters whom she will not abandon. tecd her bread 8nd tea, most of which goes to her dependents, ut & wolf at every door and an oumaniy man to | hold “her fast, and the wopder is there is soul | enough lef: to Tesist the price of virtue. cash down, ever dangling before her hungry eyes. But mor @lity is the mainsuil of a peopie. “Give her the fruit of her hands.” Give her Amendment No.11. | Miss Severance’s paper was agreed to | have covered the ground so thoroughly | that no discussion upon it_was. had, and | the congress adjourned for lunch. | Belvyecn times Mrs. Harper of the press | committee took occasion to mention the good work done by the newspapers of the State and City. ‘THE CALL has stoad by us nobly,” she said, “and the Report was quick to follow | suit. The Cnronicle and Examiner, the Monitor and the Voice of Labor likewise have been more than kind to the cause, and will doubtless soon declare themseives its defenders. This attitude of the press is, to my mind, one ot the mostencour- aging signs of the times."” i AFTERNOON SESSION. Some Bright Papers and an Inter- esting Symposium on “The New Citizenship.” The crowd at the afternoon session was | the largest yet seen at any meeting of the | congress. Those who packed themselves into the hall numbered about half the multitude who failed to effect an entrance. | Women sat along the front of the stage | and on the reporters’ tables, their feet and flounces waving in mid-air, while one ad- venturous young lady from, across the bay took an exalted perch on‘the gallery rail- ing, making, though she knew it not, a most remarkable festoon of herself, A letter from Mrs. Mary F. McRoberts of Leeds, Yorkshire, England, was read by the president. It was a message of spirited congratulation to the women of the congress, and an expression of hearty sympathy with the cause. | Mrs. Harriet W. Russell Strong, the planter and owner of the largest walnut orchard in the world, the,only woman on the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and it is composed of 700 members, and a member of a prominent literary society of that city, had the first paper on ihe pro- gramme for the afternoon session. Bhe departed entirely from the common theme of woman and suifrage and in a thought- | ful and forcible way discussed ‘‘Rights of Property and Rights of Persons.” ?n part she said: Property Is, broadly speaking, anything that we possess or own. In the beginning of tradition there Was N0 OWnership except in continuous pos- session of & thing. Half of the property of this country isdeprived of | —nalt of the population placed in a position | « they afe poweriess to speak for their pro- | s. Haif the population of our country ls | and punished, deprived of personal libérty { property without due process of law, in ail Siates of our Union but three. Mrs. Pages of Alameda gave a glowing | picture of what the world would be after woman should ba accorded her rightful | position in the body politie, A Mr. Jackson said women were more | responsible than men for existing evil conditions, since women had much to do with the formation of the religious senti- ment in man, which sentiment, he con- tended, woman haa sllowed to become perverted. A symposium on “The New Citizenship” then took place, the speakers being Mrs. A. A. Sargent, Mrs. John F. Swift, Miss Conners and Miss Mills. Mrs. Sargent said the new citizen would never refer to politics as a filthy pool, since through the endeavors of his kin politics would have been purified. “The new citizen would not stosp to scorn his mother as an inferior being. The sex line will not be the demarcation betweén political classes. The new citizen. ship will bring about a time when men and men and women and women and men and women shall be able to meet and | look each other in the eye without fear or false shame.” Mrs. Swift quoted President wincoln’s words as to a government by and for the people. “Who,” she asked, “are the people? Are we to believe that the brave and gal- lant women of past and contemporary his- tory are unfit to be counted among the people? Can they not be regarded as citi- zens of this great Nation? Itissaid, I| know, that woman's dignity would suffer at the polls, but I have faith enough in the chivalry of the American man, and I am sure he wouid permit no one’s mother, Iv:ire or sister to be insulted at the ballot- 0x. “Chivalry would not disappear had wo- man the ballot. In Wyoming woman suf- frage is regarded as & matter of conrse and women have lost nothing by it. Butiwhen & bad man gets on the ticket the women spot him and down him every time.” Miss Mollie Conners, lady editor of the Oakland Saturday Night, spoke next. Among other bright things she said : “So you are going to get a i 20 goln 1o that, coneress. aCross. (he bay. L ealt ‘woman's rights,’ ” said a suftrage infidel and a brother ediior—a man rich in this world’s goods and not poor in_brain possession either. “Women do not have new ‘sulis'—they leave that for | men—they bave gowns instead, you know. But no new gown wiill I have. Lt was eaten up by a samily of five children last week, likewise my new spring bonnet. I shell simply take my best jacket OF from the peg and g0 my way to the fair. { can- not have good clothes when the children about Ime Know want, aistress’s ““That Is why the women will never make a suo- cess In the outer world—thelr sympathies run away with them, you know,” sald my editor healtny, hy and “wise. s rights.’ " As 10 the ‘woman’s rights’ that is an old. old story, In the great cry of distress rising from a suf- fering Natlon—the keynote i3 men’s rights—tihe rights they have seen slowly driftingaway from them in this great republic, and it is not a question ©f woman’s sympathy, it is finding out first causes and the remedy for existing evils. In touch with the spirit of the times is this movement for a new citizenship, especially 80, coming from the West, the great suffering West which lies prostrate un der conditions pitiable In the extreme, in a land which we have learned to believe great, free, pros- perous. When the man of the house fails in business the ‘women of the house are sorry for him; they give him love, affection, symp thy, but they Lave lost confidence in bis financial abllity, and when he be- gins agalo they want & share in the financial conn- cils: they wateh c.o;elfy Jest financial falure again overtake them. That {s the attitude of the Ameri- can woman to-day. She has love, affection, pathy for the American man. but she 8ays to him. financially you have made the Nation a fallure: you must et me help you in (ke time thatis to come; now,when we are struggling to ovr feet, in the midst of the deepest financial depression that any country has ever Known. , ‘iI'he Américan woman is the prondest woman on earti—proud of her country, proud of the men who are the husbands, brothers and fathers ia it. But from the background of home she can study; it is Intelleciual stiength which she can contribute tothe new citizenstip; she can cast her ballot understandingly - she con rescue her nation. God grant that in the day of the new citizenship ‘we will not see the Goddess of Liberiy prostrate at the feet of the Britlsh lion, but with eagle in hand towering proudly above the American people, v symbol she is. If the American woman thing to say in the future it will mean that tish hon will keep his piace, and that his place will be on the ot side of the water. Never again will he roar in American ears. a w has an; the | The professor of political economy, Fai ballots. In only one precinet coula we get our votes in the box, and so noble were the inspectors that they would not allow us to vote until we had guaranteed to pay their fines and keep them out of Ea‘\ in case the election was declared illegal. That was in November, 1872. “On the evening of Thanksgiving day I was arrested. Then I was hustled about from post todpmm-, from court to court, for days and weeks, until at last I was sentenced to an $100 fine and costs of prosecution. told the Judge I had hon- est debts to sny; but so help me heaven, never would I pay a dime of the fine. The inspectors were finea $25 as against my $100—that's the rule, you know. [Great | laughter.] The Judge did not commit me | to prison, and the fines were never aid. The boys were released by the’President, through the intervention of Senator A. A. Sargent and of old Ben Butler; and there the affair ended.” “Did you pay the fine?" inquired a lady in the audience. S “No, I didn’t,” answered Aunt Susan with some spirit, ““and I never will. Iam still a prisoner at large.” A paper on “Woman in Europe’’ by Mrs. Henrotin of Chicago was read by Miss Humphrey-Smith and listened to with the deepest interest. he Rev. Anna Shaw was announced to sreak on ““Private-spirited Mothers,” but she disclaimed any desire to make a set speech, At the same time she made one, and a fineone it was., Among other things she said : “It has been said that no working- woman or man has spoken from this plat- form. That is an error. All the women on this stage know what real work is. Since I was fiffeen years old I have never had a gown or a week’s board wittiout pay- ‘"’f forit with my own earnings.” The question-basket was then called into requisition, and many of the queries evoked tempests of laughter. Among the inquiries was the following: “Is it true that THe CALL is zett(n; up 8 monster petition for equal suffrage?” “My! Isn'tTHe CaLLgreat!” ejaculated Miss Shaw. “I don’t know,” she resumed, in answer to the question, “whac THE CALL may be doing, but we all know what it has done. And a more gracious, graceful and chival- rous stand was never taken by any grest paper than that to which THE CALL com- mitted itself last Sunday. Perhaps it is getting u else of that kind. “At ail events we may own way, and a_very good way that has proved to be thus far. We look to TuE OaLy for aid and encouragement, and we know we shall not be disappointed.” T g EVENING SESSION. Professor Powers Gives a Closing Surprise to the Ladles of the Congress. An immense crowd gathered in Native Sons’ Hall at the closing session of the congress, the place being packed long be- fore the exercises commenced. Professor H. H. Powers of Stanford Uni- versity read a paper having for its theme the guestion *‘How Far Is Woman Adapted and Adaptable to Political Functions?” The essay was rather a surprise to many of those present and called forth much adverse criticism. It was in part as fol- lows: How far is woman adapted and adaptable to political functions? Iapproach the question with ditfidence, knowing that I shall give occasion for pleasantry 10 thosé who are so disposed. Aside from thé physiology of sex there ars sundry characteristics 0f women not so obviously con- nected with the sex functions. It is the secondary chafacters and functions which it is proposcd to modify, the primary ones being unalterable. First of all woman is somewhat smaller and weaker than mau, though the difference is one of kind as well s onc of degree. She excels in en- durance long continued as man does in violent, intense action. Woman's esthetic perceptions are quicker and more delicate and irtense. Woman's moral pre-eminence is ofien ex aggerated. “Forty-five years ago,” commented Miss Anthony, “for 1 am not young, a girl attended’ Oberlin College.” She was a younger sister of Antoineite Brown, the first woman ever ordained to the ministr: child by name, now vresident of that institution, condemned slave labor. Young Miss Brown told him slave labor wason a par with the unpaid work of a married woman. But he didn't see it that way. Of course not. How could he? **And now comes this college professor to tell us that 1f we fizure in public no man will marzy us. What a pity! But men have married women of strong minds and stout hearts before now, and will con- tinue to do so, all things to the contrary notwithstanding.” Mrs. Emma_Gregory spoke of women composers, artists and writers. ‘I wonder,” observed Miss Manning, ““if the professor has heard of Mrs. Brown- ing, of Clara 8chu n, of Rosa Bonheur and so many others?’ Miss Shaw was to have spoken on “Children of a Larger Growth,” but she gave fair warming that she would do nothing of the kind, and proceeded to demolish Professor Powers’ points in this wise: 12 a woman hasn't a right not to marry, what 15 marriage? And from the picture we've had of marriage to-night, I SUDPose that every unmarried woman is longing forit. I bhave always been told that it was an evidence of a superior mind to wish to assoclate with superior people. What is superi- ority, anyhow? A woman can hang closer to her husband while he goes lower and lower in debauchery and drunk- enness, until sue finally gets bim up again, and through 1t all isuntarrished herself, And yet if she shouid go to the polls to vote against thé crea- tion of that kind of man she would be forever dis- graced. I hope that the time may never come when a WomsaD may enier upon the duties of mother. child-rearer and home manager simply for those functions alone. Whatever else may result from this congress this coming together cannot help making us better mothers, better women, better old maids. Mrs. Cooper, being presented by Mrs, Van_ Pelt, delivered the closing address of the congress, taking for her subject “The Practical Ethics of Home and Gov- ernment,” Bhe spoke in part as follows: During the past week this congress has been de- ‘voting itself to the great and comprehensive sub- ject of “Woman and Government.” Those of you who have 1.tened carefully to the papers pre- sented cannot fail to admit at they have con- tained much of valuable sugzestion along m: ny lines of practical thought and work. You havi by your presence, your appreciation, your cheer and your helpful co-operation aided in making the congress one of great profit and won- derful success. 3 It now remalns for me, in closing this congress, to offer a few thoughts on “Practical Ethics for the ‘Home and Gover ment.” It seems to me that the whole scove and drift of argument the past week may be summed up in one brief sentence, which s this: We must learn that nothing will preserve soclety, but the living force of true and 6arnest men aod women, united {n & common purpose. 1o advance the common weal. There cen be no reformation or renovation in a community unless the whole community are lified up to a higher level. The reformation is to be, first of all, & personal matter. There is to be a reformation in the Individual, the ho: sehold, the school, in commercial circles and in civil and Nationzal government. We must rise to the argument of American 1ib- erty, and_enter 1o & conviction of the responsi- bilities and dignities and grandeur of the Ameri- can ballot, as we have never yet done. 'We must redeem the ballot by throwing about it a new life and sanctity. If we cannot do that, the less we chatter and clatter about reformation the bette-. A woman's nature will never be changed; never fear that. Men migh: spin, and churn, and kuit, and sew, and cook. d rock the cradle for a hun- 'S and not be women. And woman will not become man by external Gecupar tions. God's colors do not wash out. Sex is dyed in the wool. The fact is, it is the men that are Lthemselves nearest women, who are the very ones most afraid that women will lose their sex. It is a sort of latent nivalry. Power and versa- tility will not change the social nor the moral qualities which men admire in women. Letting God take care of that nature of things which man is powerless 10 Change, all that we need to ask is that power may be given to virtue and that these opportunities may be free by which power 18 o be secured. ‘I'his congress, now about to close. has done some- thing during the past week toward answering these vital questions. Itis not a question of the new man or the new woman. It 18 not a question of what we latellectually think, but what we mora Iy love and reverence and pursie, that will determire onr destiny and the desciny of 'Our great common St s question of how to resch 1t 18 & question of how the le with spiritual a0 physical health s how o make T happler and r: hOW 10 Insure a purer govern. ment of the people, by the people and Jor tne Miss Mill said: “We hear much of the dreadful polls, but I am sure we have nothing to fear from the chivalric honor of American man- hood. I congratulate the people of Cali- fornia on the noble stand which thg better element among them have taken.” ~I voted once,” said Miss Anthbny, in answer to repeated calls. “In my own city of Rochester fifteen of us cast our people. Good men and good women, banded {o- gether for & common puipose, with equal civil and religlous rights, can aione solve this mighty blem. PTWith this highest ideal in view, side by sde and shoulder to-shoulder, the New Man and the New ‘Woman, inspired to the highest things by a sub- iime_estimate of exislence, will walk steadily up the slope with patient step, the eye fixed npon the zoal of a new republic wherein dwelleth righteous- ness. Miss Anthony and Miss Shaw addressed monster petitions or something | be sure it is working for our cause in its | words of thanks to the congress for the courtesies extended to them. Mesdames Van Pelt, Gaden, Swift, Krebs and Sperry were appointed 4 committee for the revising of the constitution, and Miss Manning and Mesdames Swift, Bid- well, Burns and Miss Severance a commit- tee on resolutions. It was announced that Miss Shaw would preach in the hall at 7:45 o’clock_this evenilng on “Doubt as a Faetor in Prog- ress.’ The congress closed with the -lnzi‘xg of the *‘Battle Hymn of the Republic,” W. C. Campbell leading and the vast assemblage joining in the chorus, During the last verse great enthu: was manifest, hats, handkerchiefs and bouquets waving all over the hall, while Mrs. Van Pelt fetched an American flag and draped it over the shouiders of the Rev. Mmiss Shaw and Miss Anthony. And then amid a storm of cheering the third annual meeting of the Woman's Congress of the Pacific Coast adjourned. 600D NEWS FROM RUSSIA A Nihilist Receives a Document Telling Him of a Restored Fortune. In a Few Weeks He Will Inherit the Veast Estate Belonging to His Father, OAKRLAND OFFICE SAN FrANcIsco Cnu,,} 908 Broadway, May 10, Dr. 8. A. Ambrosewf, the Russian ex- iled nobleman, who is charged with being & nihilist, received an important docu- ment from Russia to-night. The news it conveys will greatly disconcert several officials in this city and San Francisco who have, the doctor alleges, persecuted him during the past year at the instance of spies sent to this country from the Rus- sian court to follow and report upon his movements, He is living here in mortal fear of being shot down by these Russian spies, who he ays are now and have been watching him ever since he left home. Dr. Ambrosewf at present conducts a free clinic at 857 Clay street, in this city, and resides on Telegraph avenue. He has bever been be- fore the public to any extent till a year ago, but has always stood ready to assist the needy. Very little is known of his history. ¥rom what is known, however, he was banished from his native land on the ground that he wasa nihilist. He received word some time ago of his father’s death, and at once appealed to the Russian Con- sulin San Francisco to assist him in secur- ing the estate. He claims now that the $300 he paid that official was accepted, but that no adequate service has ever been rendered. Dr. Ambrosewf says that the Russian Consul has hindered rather than helped him, and attributes this to influences at St. Petersburg. When he discovered how things were working Dr. Ambrosew! worked on his own responsibility, and believes now that | be has affairs in such shape that he will come into possession of the entire estate | before the first of June. | The letter received to-night bears an official seal and contained tidings that made the doctor feel jubilant. *“I have been branded by the Consui in San Fran- cised,” said he, “as an impostor, but the day is coming when he will have to take his_hat off to me. I am not in a position to make any detailed state- ment as to the sensational events that characterize my life, or in regard to the vast family estate to which I am heir. There are spies ready and willing to shoot down an honest man fora couple of hun- dred dollars or even less, and by such I have been watched and followed, but all to no purpose. This letter I received to-night brings good news, and before the month is out I will be able to receive and entertain you asa gentieman should. My father died some time ago, and when I appealed to the Russian Consul to assist me be wanted pay, so I gave him $800, but he only worked against me, and 1sball attend to his case after a while.” About three months ago the doctor was most mysteriously shot while going to a patient late at night. He wes badly though not seriously wounded in the hand, &nd he attributes it to tne work of | spies. On that occasion he returnea the fire and his assailant disappeared, aithough the doctor is certain he shot him in tLe thigh, He declares that many petty troubles have been created for him regarding his diploma and property. He is now confi- dent that he has overcome the sinister in- fluence that is working against him at the Czar’s court and says that an interesting experience is in store for the Russian Consul. SEARCHED FOR A LEAK, Serious Explosion of Gas in a Flat at 409 Post Street. A search with a lighted match for a leak in the gas pipes in the lower flat 409 Post street resulted in an explosion last night which caused the wildest excite- ment for a few minutes. Charles Lenhart, manager for the Mon- arch card machines, was moving into the flat, and was being assisted by three young men—James Scully of 5)¢ Harriet street, James Langstaff of 623 Harrison, and Gus Deaver, Jessie, near Seventh. The last load had been taken to the house about 9 o'clock, when Deaver thought he smelled escaping gas in the kitchen. Langstaff was standing in the rear door, Lenhart at the door of the kitchen and Scully was going toward the front door for a looking-glass when Deaver lit & match and turned on the gas. There was an explosion which was heard three blocks away. Deaver was thrown against Lenhart, and both fell on top of each other; Langstaff found himself on his back in the yard, and Bcully was blown out of the front doorand landed on the street. The front acor was blown from its hinges and torn in pieces. Scally was picked up in an unconscious condition and taken to Hughes' drug- store, on the corner of Powell and Post, where for half an hour Warren Stilson, the clerk, used oxygen gas on him to pro- duce artiticial respiration. The ambulance then arrived with Dr. Bunnell and Scully was taken to the Receiving Hospital, where he soon regained consciousness. He complained of a pain in his back, where be thought something had struck him, and also of a pain in his eyes. Deaver was badiy burned about the hands ana ears, and had them attended to at Hughes’ drugstore. Langstaff and Lep- hart escaped with slight burns. 1t was fortunste that botls the front and rear doors were om, otherwise the build- ing would have n seriously damaged and the four men severely if not fatally injured. ° e e The Age of Progress. 8. Strozynski is receiving hearty (on« gratulations upon the event of his removal to 24 Geary street. Being so centrally lo- cated it will be much more convenient for ladies who appreciate fine work to call at this elegant eafablishment, where first- class artists are in constunt attendance. Mr. Btrozynski personally superintends all work, £ e . PULLED THE HILES ON DAGGETT, Buckleyites Got Out a Record of the Party on Silver. DAGGETT AS ASILVERITE How the Present Federal Brigade Once Lined Up for Free Coinage. BUCKLEY LITERARY BUREAU. ing the Local Democratic Game With the Silver Sentiment of the Parly. The Buckleyitesare conducting a shrewd and vigorous campaign throughout the Democracy of the State on the way of get- ting the Democratic leaders of every county well informed in the merits of their cause as representing the “‘regular’’ local party, so tbat when the State Convention meets their delegation may get recognition either instead of the Junta’s 161 or along- side of them. Much missionary work is being done. Correspondence is going on, Democrats from the interior are told about the local muss at every opportunity and pulls are being used through the State to set influ- ential people at work and thousands of circulars and pamphlets are being mailed to Califorma Democrats everywhere, One that fis just from the press isa mighty interesting one to some people. It 18 entitled ““Record of the California De- mocracy on the Free Coinage of Silver,” and bears tue names of Joseph Rothschild, president, and D. M. Gavigan, secretary, of the General Committee. The Buckleyites have learned by care- ful soundings that the convention will be a silver one by a big majority. The Buck- ley General Committee has adopted some redhot silver resolutionsintroduced by. A. J. Clunie at its last meeting and it will play the sitver business for ail itis worth in the contest with the Junta delegation that will be for gold as far as Superinten- dent of the Mint Daggett and the rest of the Federal brigade can make it so. Hence this ‘‘record.’’ : ‘This eight-page pamphlet f"e! the plat- form planks on silver and gold, with some of the pertinent discussions of them, of every Democratic State Convention since 1852, showing that the record has a white and not a yellow luster., The document is quickly seen to be an attack on the Federal brigade and the Junta, Through its_pages are given the records as former silver mew of a lot of these same Federal office-holders who are now working hard to make an administra- tion and sound-mouney showing in the State Convention. The files are most effectively pulled on John Daggett. His record as an able champion of silver looms up strong and sure. The record shows, for instance, that at the State Convention of 1888 at Los An- geles the platform plank demanding “‘the free coimage of both gold and siiver’” was adopted, the plank being a verbatim copy of the one in the preceding platiorm. During the discussion of the platform it was John Daggett of Siskivou, now the administration’s chief political representa- tive in California, who rose and in the course of a brief speech said : The producer of gold had the privilege of bringing his builion to the Mint and could have it exchanged for the coin of the country. 1t means that the producers of sflver shall bo allowed an equel privilege. The tendency of the present law is to depreciate the price of standard of curreney it must necessarily follow that goid becomes appreciated. Such being the fact, the man that produces wheat and ruit has to part with more of his produce in silver, and as gold is left as the only remaining | 9 dard. The only person benefited by the appre- ciation ot gold'is the bonaholder, who is not a producer, but who makes his living by the cut- iing of coupons. Now that thing has gone far ehiough; that plank is eminently just and proper, and I hope that it will be adopted. This piatform was indorsed by Campbell . Berry, now Assistant United States Treasurer; W. D. English, now Surveyor of the Port; M. F. Tarpey and the rest of them. Daggett, as vice-chairman of the State Central Committee, called to order the convention of 1890 at San Jose, when an- other free coinage plank was adovted. The Democratic State Convention met at Fresno May 17, 1892, and adopted the following plank in the platform: “‘Section 6. That we denounce the acts of the Republican rty inst silver, particularly the act demonetizing it. and we believe that there should be kept in constant circulation a full and suflicient volume of money consisting of gold, silver and legal-tender paper currency at par with each other.” Among the delegates to the conven- tion and those who voted for the platform containing the silver plank were: John H. Wise, Collector of Customs: O. M. Welburn, Collector of Internal Revenue; William D. English, Surveyor; John P. Irish, Naval Officer; Robert Barnett, United States Mint; Barry Baldwin, United States Marshal: Max Popper, Gov- ernment contractor; W. H. Kelly, United States Mint; James H. Wilkins, Prison enue Collector, and others, now for gold, but formerly for silver. Regarding the convention of 1894 1n San Francisco the record says: The Federal office-holdersin the State were all participants in shaping the course and platiorm of that convention containing the above free silver coinage plank, and are the same men who are actively supporting the “Junta” Democratic committee of San Frap- cisco to-day and loudly demanding a gold delegation be sent to Sacramento in order to control in the interest of the single gold stan- dard the delegation to the National Conven- tion, and at one fell swoop reverse all Cali- Demoeracy has done and said in the st of free colnege of silversince the de- monetization of silver in 1873. Federalofficers in San Francisco have given theirinstructions, and all subordinates and employes know tnat they will lose their places if they do not sup- port the “Junta’” and send 161 gold delegates 10 Sacramento. The position on free silver coinage ahd other matiers of the regular General Committee of the Democratic party of the City and County | of San Francisco, who will send 161 delegat:s | to the Sacramento convention on June 16, 1896, will be best understood and explained by the perusal of the lollowing resolutions aud pledge, jormally adopted on April 16, 1596, at a reguiar meeting of that body, composed’ of 450 members of the representative Democratic party workers in this City: W. D. English and John Daggett were respectively chairman and vice-chairman of the State Central Committee which conducted the campaign of 1886 in a plat- form declarinz for free coinage. So on goes the story from the files and old scrap- books of how the leading men:bers of the present Federal brigade were out for silver in times when no patronage appointments had corrected their judgments on the financial question. There are other things in the Record. It cites State Convention precedeats which bid the Jjunta delegation stay off the tem- porary roll until the contest is settled by the convention. The State will be flooded with other cir- culars_giving the history of the local split and giving the Buckley committee the clear right of it, and “when convention delegates begin to be elected they will be assiduously looked after. Of course Christopher A. Buckley av- proves all these moves, and his adviceis kept busy as the 16th of June seems draw- ing near and the band is getting ready to, play. There was a big' councit of war at the Occidental Club %ESI night, attended by Chris Buckley and all the heavv-weights of the Buckley forces. One campaign feature that was discussed was the naming of convention delegates, nominations for which are to Le made on the 16th inst. The Junta has a plan to win prestige by sending up a lot cof big nice men, or at | least their names. The Buckleyites are | going to play that game too. The roll of the Buckiey delegation will get lots of cousideration, too, if it does not inspire awe by the big names on it. The Junta rolls will be opened for ad- ditional names on the 11th and 12th inst., and then three days will be allowed for canvassing. The Junta rolls will be opened on these evenings at the following places: Twenty-eighth District—Third and Verona streets. Twenty-ninth—429 Fourth. Thirtieth—Southeast corner of Sixth and Minna. Thirty-first—Rausch and Folsom, Monday; Ninth and Minna, Tuesday. Thirty-second—514 Fourth, Thirty-third—Twenty-third and Folsom. Thirty-fourth—Harmony Hall, Mission and Erie. flT{Jil’l)'-fl-(th—liM Valencia, near Tiwenty- ith., Thirty-sixth—Northwest corner of Eight- order to obtain a dollar under the gold stan- | eenth and Castro. Director: Waverly Stairly, Internal Rev- | \| argument. Thirty-seventh—Southesst corner of Haves | and Llygunl, Monday; Burke's Hall, Gough and Haight, Tuesday. Thirty-ighth —611 MeAlister, Monday; 1502 Turk, Tuesday. | Thirth-ninth—Saratogs Hall, Geary, between Hyde and Larkin. ortieth—1627 Fillmore, corner of Post. Forty-first—Washington and Broderick. Forty-second—Amirican Hall, Monday ; Tur- | mers’ Hall, Tuesday. Forty-third—620 Bush. | Forty-fourth—Northwest corner of Powell i and Lombard, sMonday; southwest corner of Stockton and Union, Tuesday. Forty-fifth—717 Montgomery. HIS FATAL MISTAKE. G. B. Larkin, an Old Man, Swallows Laudanum Thinking It Was Cough Medicine. G. B. Larkin, an old man living at 1124 Howard sireet, made a fatal mistake yes- | terday morning by swallowing a dose of { laudanum instead of cough mixture. He got up at 6 o'clock yesterday morn- ing and after milking bis two cows he sat down %o read the morning paper till his wife cooked his breakfast. A severe fit of coughing came on and he reached up to the corner of the msntelpiece and took what he thought was his bottle of cough mixture. He took the laudanum bottle | instead and swallowed about an ounceand | | & half. He commenced reading again, but | soon fell asleep. His wife could not rouse him up and becoming alarmed at seeing | his face turning black she notified the | Receiving Hospital and he was taken there in_the ambuiance. Dr. Rinne, who accompanied the am- bulance, gave him an antidote, and Dr. Weil gave him another an hour or so later. | Everything was done to save his life, but | the poison had got too firm a hold upon his system and he died about 4 o’'clock | yesterday afternoon. His body was taken to the Morgue. 10 BE HEARD AGAIN, J. Howard Smith’s Suit Sub- mitted to the Supreme | Court. The Judges Are Evenly Divided, and They Want to Hear More Argument. | The suit of J. Howard Smith azainst the | Ferriesand Cliff House line, which has been pending on appeal before the Superior Court, has peen ordered resubmitted by the Justices. The order was made because the court is evenly divided on the question, and the Justices want to hear more argument. Justice Garoutte, however, dissents. He thinks the judgment of the lower court should stand ns it always does when the Supreme Court cannot come' to a decision. The order explains the cause of the dead- | Jock. Itis as follows: In tais cause, Justice Harrison befng dis- qualified and the others being equally divided in opinion as to whether the judgment should be reafiirmed or reversed, and further argu- ment being desired by some of the Justices, it is ordered that the submission of this case be and the same hereby is set aside, and that it be placed upon the celendar for further oral Justice Garoutte dissented from this order in the following words: I dissent from the order submitting this case | for further argument. It has been pending in | this court for & long time and already has been exhaustively argued. Printed briefs ably pre- senting every question raised by this apreai | are now on file, and 1o good purpose can be | subserved by a resubmission. 1f the court be | | equaliy divided in opinion the judgment | should be afirmed on well-settled principles. The suit brought by Smithis to have de- | clared invalid a bond issue for $4,200,000, to compel anaccounting from the directors of the road and to have it decreed that the action of the directors in transferring to themselyes 24,750 shares of unsubseribed stock was illegal. The action was brought to lin-evem the Ferries and Cliff House line and its branches from joining the street railway combine. It was commenced be- fore Judge Siack, and be sustained the de- fendants” demurrer to the complaint. From that decision’ an appeal was taken. ——— Song Recital to Mrs. Westwater. A song recital to be given Mrs. Eunice West- water, contralto, will take place on Tuesaay evening, May 19. at the hall of the Native Sons of the Golden West. As Mrs. Westwater has a beautiful voice and is a talented and cultivated artist, the programme to be presented will de- light her many friends, who have already sig- nified their intention to be present on the even- ing named. NEWS OF THE CHURCHES, Miss Sarah Pratt Carr Is Ore dained to the Unitarian Ministry. A PROMINENT SUFFRAGIST. The Princess of Bulgaria to Be the Recipient of Pope Leo’s Gold:n Rose. Mrs. Barah Pratt Carrof Lemoore, a lady who was very prominent during the Woman's Congress held last year in this City, is now entitled to prefix the title of Reverend to her name. This distine- tion was conferred by the solemn act of ordination of the Untarian Conference. For some time past Mrs. Sarah Pratt Carr has been very prominent in missionary work at Lemoore and her labors have resulted in the formation of The Unita- rian Society of Lemoore. The church which Mrs. Carr has been instrumental in orgamzing at Lemoore and of which she will be pastor is to take | as its motto, Deeds rather than creeds. Its objects will be, the preamble states, to look after the interests of religion and morality and to assist others in bearing the burden of Iife. Mrs. Carr is associated in her work with Rev. Mr. Schultz, and these two ministers have begun to extend the sphere of their operations to Visalia so successfully thal plans are already formulated for the organization of a permanent Unitarian society. The Unitarians of Redlands have de- cided to buy a lot and built a church, and when Unitarians in Southern California éuny decide to do anything it is as well as one. Ever since the members of the First Christian Church on Twelfth street re- cerved the resignation of Rev. Robert Campbell they have been looking about for a well-known preacher to step into his shoes, but have not yet decided on one. This morning the pulpit will be filled by Rev. Edward Davis of Oakland, known as the actor-preacher on account of his dramstic style of preaching, which bas caused many admirers of the drama to de- clare thet he is a loss to the stage. Dr. John Watson of Queen’s College, Queenstown, Canada, is now in Berkeley, having come by invitation of the Philo- sophical Union of the State University to de?iver a series of philosophical lectures. Pope Leo is said to have selected the Princess of Bulgaria as the recipient of the Golden Rose for this year, in token of his approval at her opposition to making little Prince Boris a member of the orthodox faith. The First Hebrew Congregation of Oak- land has obtained the desired legal author- ity to sell its present synagogue and pur- chase the new site. Rev. A. B. Elzas, formerly of Sacra- mentto, but now of Charleston, has been re-elected for three years. His congrega- tion, which was the first to use a Reform ritual in America, bas adopted the new Union Prayer-book. The members of the First Congrega- tional Church are to some extent like sheep without a fold, though the officers of Plymouth Congregational Cuurch on Post street have extended them a general invitation to worship among the members of Dr. Williams’ flock. There is a rumor that Catholic capitalists intend to buy the First Church and present it to Archbishop Riordan for a Catholic mission. DR. GERRIGUES CONVICTED. The Health Office to Enforce the Reg- istration of Births. Dr. L. F. Guerrigues, the physician for whose arrest a warrant was sworn out by the Health Department on a charge of having violated the law by neglecting to register births coming within his practice, appeared in Judge Low’s court for trial yesterday and pleaded guiity. On the advice of the Health Department Judge Low assessed a fine of $5, merely as a warn- ing to other physicians, against whom the Health Office bas evidence, that the law will be enforced. Unless the case has the desired effect a number of arrests will be made in the near future. A AN [THED :\;\\\. N X THE WHITE HOUSE, which is the Great Dry Goods Establishment of San Francisco, above illustration. The institution who have not known that we can T thing remarkable. The sanie aim is noticeable in each department—to sell the most goods at the low fits, have served to make THE WHITE HOUSE the most popular d[? The readers of THE CALL and the patrons of THE WAITE HOUS! catered for but one class of trade—namely, Every variety of Dry Goods is sold there. Dress Goode, s of their own. Gentlemen’s Furnishing Goods are also carried in great variety. NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. e, WHITE '}D"b &7 i i [ | is a source of pride to the citizens of San Francisco and t of such a HE WHITE HOUSE is a complete establis| A A ments, each with its own separate system, yet in.verfect harmony with each other. There'is, cmt store. ment of the most modern style, embodyin, est possible prices. These two vital principles of large sales, ods establishment in shis city. must bear one thought, particularly, in mind. An idea has existed that THE WHITE HOUSE THE WHITE HOUSE. situated at the northwest corner of Kearny and Post streets, is depicted in the a natural surprise to the owners of large establishments in the Eastern States, g every possible improvement. Itisdivided into Seventeen Distinct Depart- in fact, a system and a degree of order in the entire institution that is some- combined with small pro- the elite. But this isnot so. All classes are welcome there and the same courteous attention and care is shown to all. A Silks, Ribbons, Laces, Gloves, basement is alto a world of itself. Visitors will find there the Mailing Department for Country Orders and General Shipping and a ment in the entire building. Trimmings, Parasols, Ready-made Ladies' Suits and Cloaks, trip through the Art Department is as interestin, ail have departments as a visit to & European Museum. The 80 & Supply Department for each depart-