The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 23, 1896, Page 1

I SpBaeats pe taken | from | VOLUME LXXIX.—NO. 175. SAN FRANCISCO, SAT HARMONY CAME WITH McLAUGHLIN He Is Chairman of the Republican Executive Committee. J. D. SPRECKELS NAMED HIM. The Popular Mayor From Oroville Honored With a Unanimous Election. ORGANIZED FOR AN EFFECTIVE CAMPAIGN. The First Meeting of the Committee Ends in Vigorous Plans and Good Feeling. The executive committee of the Repub- lican State Central Committee effected complete organization yesterday amid perfect harmony and good feeling, and when this important body adjourned it was ready for energetic campaign work and free from every possible cause for future friction or discord within itself. The chief result of the forenoon meeting at 419 California street was the election by acclamation of Frank McLaughlin of Oro- viile as cbairman, on the nomination of John D. Spreckels. The morning proved the wisdom of the adjournment taken on the previous after- noon. When the convention adjourned on Thursday the chairmanship was the subject of much contention and uncer- tainty owing to an opposition to E. F. Preston which had developed quickly and unexpectedly. Mr. Preston’s long experi- ence in State campaigns, his executive ability and his prominence in the party had made him the favorite with a large number of the members, but when several of the committeemen indicated that they would not support him a candidate on whom all could agree was sought. The members of the committee recog- nized the need for harmonious action, and earnestly desired it. As quickly as the situation concerning the executive head of the committee appeared with its tangle Frank McLaughlin became the one to whom a large majority turned in recog- nition of the fact that he was the nataral, logical and most available man for the place. In the first place McLaughlin had a friend in every member of the committee, as he has in nearly every member of the party in the State. His election could be an offense to none, and amity in - the com- mittee would naturally follow. Mr. Mc- Laughlin’s wide personal acquaintance throughout the State together with his close aquaintance with its conaitions and needs were further apparent qualifications. His well-known executive ability, energy and force of character were as quickly recognized, and these things, coupled with his broad experience in politics, gained through several years of active interest in the State affairs of the party, were seen to especially fit him for the place. Still another important consideration in his favor was the one that he hails from the northern part of the State and that his selection would be a discreet and deserved recognition of that section. Thus it came about that the popular Major McLaughlin was turned to as the most available man for the place and received an honor wholly unsought by himself. It was thus in the interests of harmony that Mr. Preston magnanimously with- drew from the candidacy yesterday morn- ing, and his friends cheerfully gave their support to MeLaughlin. The outcome is satisfactory to the whole committee, and the members parted somewhat elated that g0 happy an outcome had followed what for a few hours had seemed to be a promise of a close and possibly bitter contest. The other officers of the committee were easily agreed upon, and it was ordered that the chairman appoint the usual com- mittees. Nineteen of the twenty-one members were present again when the committee- men came together in the one inner room on California street which the State Cen- tral Committee has been holding between campaigns. Frank A. Miller of Pasadena was represented by Frank P. Flint of Los Angeles, proxy. W.F. George of Sacra- mento had returned home, leaving his proxy with John D. Spreckels. E. K. Tay- lor of Alameda, who was absent the day before, was on hand. Those who answered the rollcall were: John D. Spreckels, Louis Bloss, W. W. Shannon, Cornelius O’Con- nor, M. R. Higgins, A. Ruef, Harry N. Gray, W. A. 8. Nicholson, Paris Kilburn, 8an Francisco; E. F. Preston, San Mateo; Frank McLaughlin, Oroville; Allen B. Lemmon, Santa Rosa; James W. Rea, San Jose; M. H. Weight, Pasadena; irving B. Dudley, San Diego; Frank P. Flint, H. Z. Osborne and W. F. Parker, Los Angeles; E. K. Taylor, Alameda. As soonas the rolleall was finished in executive session which was called to order by James W. Rea temporary chair- man, John D. Spreckels rose and said that in the interest of harmony he would nom- inate for chairman.of the committee Frank McLaughlin of Oroville. Several members quickly seconded the nomina- tion and Mr. McLaughlin was elected by acclamation. E. K. Taylor of Alameda, nominated by A. Ruel, was unanimously elected first vice-chairman. For second vice-chairman W. A. 8. Nich- olson of San Francisco was nominated by A. B. Lemmon and his election was like- wise unanimous. M. R. Higgins was elected secretary by acclamation on nomination by F. P, Flint, The contest over the assistant secretary- ship appeared, but the place was given with nodissenting vote toJacob Steppacher, who has ably filled the position for several years and gained great and valuable famil- iarity with the men and affairs of the -- DvoLev o R e e e re> RE- AL B = aag URDAY MORNING, MAY 23, 1896. framk MéLavenLin ~ (HAIRMAN « <, 00 B iyt G e 4 B 0 10 08 mmramm B 00 0 ] MEMBERS OF THE NEW REPUBLICAN STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, WHICH EFFECTED A HARMONIOUS ORGANIZATION YESTERDAY. party. He was nominated by Cornelius | 0’Connor, and W. A. 8. Nicholson placed | George Lee in nomination. Paris Kilburn spoke warmly for Steppacher and his elec- tion was practically by acclamation. | Then Leon Sloss presented his resigna- | tion as a member of the committee, stat- | ing that his reason was solely a press of business, owing to the absence from the State of his partners for the next few months. He assured the committee that he was in full sympathy with it and the party, and as an individual would do all he could for the Republican cause. Charles W. Manwaring, chairman of the San Francisco County Committee, was on motion of Harry N. Gray unanimously elected to the vacancy caused by Mr. Sloss’ resignation. The vacancy in the State Central Com- mittee from the Thirty-third District was filled by the election of A. J. Martin. On motion of F. P. Flint, the chairman was authorized to appoint the usual stand- ing committees within ten days, and on motion of A. Ruef a committee of five on by-laws was also ordered appointed. The chairman was further authorized to appoint a committee of three to recom- mend a location for permanent headquar- ters for the campaign. A resolution was passed recommending to the county committees of the State.that they hold ratification meetings on the night following the nomination of a Presi- dential candidate. Flint moved the creation of a sub-com- mittee which should have direction of campaign details south of Tehachapi, sub- ject to the direction of the whole commit- tee. Thisnovel but apparently wise idea was referred to the committee on by-laws. The committee adjourned to the, call of the chair, and it 1s not likely that another meeting will be held until immediately after the National Convention completes its labors. The committee will then be fully ready to take vigorous hold of cam- paign operations. The make-up of the committee, its organization and the spirit it has already displayed promise that the Republican campaign of this year will be the best organized and effective in the history of the party in this State, clean throughout its progress and triumphant at its end. All of the Southern members left for their homes on last evening’s train, and the other interior members went their ways. During this afternoon all of the members of the committee expressed their gratification at the amicable, judicious outcome of the initial meeting of the com- mittee. Queen Victoria’s Birthday. LONDON, Exc., May 22.—Queen Vic- toria’s birthday falls this year on Sunday next, when the ruler of the United King- dom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Empress of India will bave reached the seventy-seventh year of her active and honorable life. Celebrations are heing ar- | ranged in the leading towns and country districts of the country for to- morrow, and the usual celebrations at the military posts will take place on that day and also on Monday. RECENED wiTH ROYAL SPLENDOR, Noted Diplomats Pay Their Respects to the Czar. IN FULL CIVIL DRESS. Minister Breckinridge and Secre- tary Pierce Don Knee Pants and Brass Buttons. OTHER EMBASSIES ATTEND, Gi'ded Six-Horse Coaches Sent to Con. vey Representative Foreigners to the Palace. MOSCOW, Russia, May 22.—The Czar received in private audience to-day In the great palace at Kremlin the United States Minister, Clifton R. Breckinridge, and then received the special envoys sent to represent the United Btates Gov- ernment at the coronation, General A. McD. McCook and his brother, Aid-de-Camp Scriven, Commander Bron- son and Major J. W. Patzki of the special embassy, and Admiral T. O. Self- ridge, in command of the Mediterranean squadron, who brought his flagship, the Minneapolis, to Cronstadt to attend the coronation as the naval envoy of the United States. Minister Breckinridge, H. H. Pierce, Secretary of the legation, and the other civil representatives wore for the first time at the Russian court the full civil dress prescribed for those not allowed 1o wear official uniform. This dress consists of an evening coat with plain metal bnttons, a white vest, knee breeches, black silk stockings and no ornament, The Ministers, the special en- voys and their staffs attended to-night a reception given by the Russian Foreign Minister, Prince Lobanoff-Rostovsky. Mr. Breckinridge will give a dinner next week to distinguished American | visitors and later, probably June 3, a re- ception, inviting tbe Russian princes and foreign princes attending the coronation, the {foreign Embassadors and about a thou- sand others. The special embassies of France, Spain, Japan and Korea were also received in a dience by the Czar and Czarina, A gilded six-horse coach and several four-horse car- riages were sent to fetch each Embassy and suite. Each embassy was escorted by six mounted grooms and received by the guards of honor at the Kremlin, where they were conducted with great ceremony to the Alexander salon, and thence to the Ekaterina hall, where they were received in audience. The Duke of Connaught, representing Queen Victoria at the coronation festi: ties, has presented to the Czarina a grand cross of the Victorian order, newly found- ed by Queen Victoria, and an ornamental vase of the Armads pattern. MRS. ANNIE DYER CONVICTED. If Found to Bc Sane the Notorious Baby- Farmer Will Pay the Death Penalty. LONDON, Exe., May 22.—The trial of Mrs. Annie Dyer, the baby-farmer, who, with her son-in-law, Albert F. Palmer, was recently arrested at Reading charged with wholesale murder of infants entrusted to her care, the bodies of a number of them having been found in the river, took place in the Criminal Court, Old Bailey, to-day. The woman was indicted yesterday and the jury to-day brought in a verdict of guilty, whereupon the court sentenced her to death. On May 16 Mrs. Dyer was judicially declared insane upon the strength of an examination by an expert connected with the Home Office, and in the course of the trial. to-day & number of experts were called to the witness-stand to testify for and against her plea of insanity. Experts designated by the Home Secretary will now examine Mrs. Dyer as to her state of mind, which examination will be final, and if she is found by these authori- ties to be sane she will be hanged. P YL T APPEALS MADE TO KRUGER. Asked to Exercise Further Clemency in Be- half of the Convicted Reformers in the Transvaal. LONDON, Exe.,May 22.—The Telegraph will to-morrow publish a dispatch from Pretoria, dated Thursday, which dilates upon the excitement and indignation growingout of thesentencesimposed upon the members of the Jobannesburg reform committee. Another dispatch, dated Friday, states that the situation is improving. The pa- pers generally appeal to President Kruger to exercise further clemency toward the prisoners. Elsewhere it is stated that Gen- eral Joubert, commander of the Transyaal forces and a member of the Executive Council, was the chief opponent of clem- ency to the prisoners. SR The Coromet at Homolwulu. HONOLULU, Hawau, May 15, (via Vie- toria, B. C., May-22.)—The yacht Coronet with Eclipse expedition arrived on the 10th and will sail about the 24th. Most of the party has gone to visit the volcanoes. COMPROMISE AS 10 THE HARBOR, Agreement Reached by the Conferees on the Bill. IT IS ALL WHITE ASKED. Claims of San Pedro and Santa Monica to Be Determined by Engineers. NOW GOES TO THE PRESIDENT. But a Veto of the Measure Is Confi- dently Expected Within the Required Ten Days. WASHINGTON, D. U.,, May 22.—The conference on the river and harbor bill came to a final agreement this afternoon ‘on the disputed guestion of a deep-sea harbor at Santa Monica. Before agreeing Senator White was called in and accepted the compromise, which really gives him all he has contended for. The report was subsequently agreed to in the Senate with- out objection, and will come up in the House to-morrow. The enrolling clerk of the House has the whole bill, with the exception of this item, enrolled, and an effort will be made to get the bill to the President to-morrow. He will then have ten-full days—Sunday and the day he gets it not counted—in which to consider the measure. He can either approve it or permit it to become a law without his approval. A vetc must come within the constitutional period of ten days. This period elapses at midnight of June 4. A veto before that time is con- fidently expected. The morning conference on the bill was fruitless. Senator White was present by invitation of the committee and made an argument in favor of the Senate agree- ment. ‘White denounced the provosition to strike out all the appropriations as an at- tempt to bulldoze him into the acceptance of the House proposition to name the com- mission in the bill. This be very frankly said he never would accept. Senator White did, however, make one concession in the hope of bringing the conferees goge:her on common ground. He was willing to insert a clause in the bill to the effect that if the committee of engineers decided that the outer harbor shoula be placed at San Pedro instead of Sania Monica then the inner harbor provided for at San Pedro should not be constructed. He did not believe that this should be done; but he was willng to make this much of a concession in order to reach definite results. The afterncon session was productive of result and the agreement was reached. The following is the full text of the Santa Monica agreement: For a deep-water harbor at Port Los Angeles, in SantaMonica Bay, Cal., or at San Pedro, in said State, location of said harbor to be de- termined by an officer of the navy, to be de- tailed by the Secretary of the Navy; an officer of the Coast and Geodetic Survey to be detailed by the superintendent of said survey, and three experienced civil engineers, skilled in riparian work, to be appointed by the Presi- dent, who shall constitute a board and who shall personally examine said harbor, the de- cision of & majority of which shall be final as to the location of said harbor. ' It shall be the dutyof said board to make plans, specifications and estimates for said im- provement. Whenever said board shall have settled the location and made report to the Secretary of War for the same with said plans, specifications and estimates, then the Secre- tary of War may make contracts for the com- pletion of the improvements of the harbor se- lected by said board, according to the project reported by them, at & cost not exceeding in the aggregate $1,900,000, and $50,000 is hereby appropriated, so much thereof as may be necessary to be used for the expenses of the board and payment of the civil engineers for their services, the amount to be determined by the Secretary of War. Provided, however, that if the board hereby constituted, as in this section provided, shall determine in favor of the construction of a breakwater at Port Los Angeles, no expendi- ture of any part of the money nereby appro- priated shall be made, nor shall any contract for the construction of such breakwater be en- tered into until the Southern Pacific Comvany, or the owner or owners thereof, shall execute an agreement and file the same with the Sec- retary of War, that any ratiroad company or any corporation engaged in the business of transportation may share in the use of the pier now constructed at Port Los Angeles and the approaches and tracks leading thereto, to wit: Westerly of the easterly entrance to the Santa Monica tunnel, upon such just and equitable terms as may be agreed upon between the parties, and 1f they fuil to agree then to be determined by the Secretary of War; and before any expenditure of the money hereby appropriated is made for the construction of a breakwater at Port Los Angeles, said Southern Pacific Company, or the owners of the track or approaches leading to said pier, shall exe- cute an agreement, and file the same with the Secretary of War, that any railroad or trans- portation company or any corporation desir- ing to construct a pler in Santa Monica Bay, may, for the purpose of approaching such wharf or pier, and for the purpose of construct- ing and operating the same, cross the track or tracks, approaches and right of way now used by the Southern Pacific Company, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secre- tary of War and upon the payment of such compensation as that officer may find to be reasonable. Provided further, that in-the event said har- bor is located at Port Los Angeles, no greater Toyalty on the rock used for the construction of the breakwater than 12}4 cents a cubic yard shall be charged, and the Southern Pacific Company shall charge no more than half a cent a ton a mile for freight on rock trans- ported over its road. Improving Wilmington Harbor, Cal,in ac- cordance with the project submitted February 7, 1895, £50,000: Provided, that contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete said project to be paia for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate $342,000, exclusive of the amount herein appropriated. Butno such contract shall be entered into until the board, provided for in this act to de- termine the location of & deep-water harbor for commerce and of refuge as between Port Los Angeles, in Santa Monica Bay, ana San Pedro, in the State of California, has made its report to the Secretary of War, and not at all if said report shall be in favor of San Pedro as the location of said harbor. A preliminary survey of Wilmington was agreed to, with a view of increasing the depth of the harbor to twenty-five feet over the area proposed to be improved in the . report of Lieutenant-Colonel Benyaurd, June 8, 1894, and over an additional area, extending to Smith Island, and of ade- quate width to allow towing of vessels. WIND D WATERSPOLT, Ten Persons Killed and Many Injured During the Storm in Oklahoma. Stories of Death and Disaster Come From Many Sections of the Territory. GUTHRIE, O. T., May 22.—So far as re- ported ten- persons were killed and many injured by the cyclone and waterspout which descended on this part of the Ter- ritory last night. Eight cyclones have passed over a radius of fifty miles in this region during the last five duys, but Guth- rie has always escaped owing to its loca- tion. Five persons were killed at Cush- ing. They are: Harris McIntyre and daughter Julia, Jennie- Wilmer, Peter Davis and son Frank. Twenty houses were swept away at Ed- mond and two persons killed, Harvey Rich and his daughter. At Black Bear, John Rodgers and bis wife were killed by falling timbers. At the same place George White, a farmer, was xilled and all the metbers of his family injured by their house being blown on them. In the vicinity of White Eagle a dozen houses were destroyed and many cattle killed. At White Eagle three cyclones formed within an hour and swept toward the Osage country. It seems the big storm came from the south, and while traveling north met another cyclone com- ing from the west. Several lives are reported lost in the Osage country, where the property loss is estimated to be $75,000. Relief will be sent to the suffarers in Payne County.