The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 4, 1897, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1897 HOLD - OVER REPUBLICAN SENATORS. J. H. Shine. J. H, Mahoney. A. J. Pedlar. J. M. Gleaves. Eugene Eugene Aram. F. Bert, E. C. Voorheis. W. A. Shippee. J. C. Holloway. newspaper publisher was quoted by Ed- itor Craig, and was also the text at the recent meeting of the California Editorial Association. The story in brief is that a servant woman employed by a prominent merchant of Sacramento called at the office of the Chief of Police and complained of her employer, accusine him of a serious crime against her.. Upon the woman’s statement and affidavit the man was ar- rested. A reporter of the Sacramento Bee wrote the woman'’s story as she had given it to the Chiet of Police, and in the same issue of the raper published a denial of the accused. On a preliminary examina- tion the man was held to answer, but on the trial in the Superior Conrt he was acquitted on the ground of insufficiency of evidence. The merchant began a libel suit for $50,- 000 dam. e being tried before McClatche; lated the law against hbel and were ordered to pay the merchant $500. The prosecution conceded that the publicatior Lad been withont malice, but the court belda substantially that as the merchant had not been found guilty of the charge brought against him by the woman, the publication of the item had injured him and that he should be entitled to receive damages. The point of the case was the fact that the statement of the woman to the Chief of Police was not a privileged communication or such matter as would be allowed by law, not being made under oath and in a court proceed The Su- preme Coart sustained the decision of the Sacramento Judge and h-ld that it was the law. Under the decision a woman who had been wronged would be debarred irom exposing the wrongdoer if the police magistrate should refuse to issue a war- rant for him, for it would be unlawfu! for a newspaper 1o publish her statement and the whim of a Judge could prevent her making one that could be published. Mr. Craig lamented fhe fact that the conduct of such papers as the Examiner had made it necessary that a Judge hould interpret the law so strictly as against the defendans, but, he added, 0 matter how strict the laws might be made and no matter how severe the punishment might be such unscrupulous journals as the one he named would manage to evade it and escape punishment. Thomas V. Cator was among the arri- vals to- main for two or three days. came also. thout a jury, the s were adjudged to have vio- | | NOT TIED BY PLEDGES. | Members of the Lagislature Will Act for the Best Interests In Selecting a Senator. SACRAMENTO, Can, Jan. 3.—The | Democratic Examiner, the Sacramento Record-Union, tail-ena organ of the rail- road kite, tozether with all the place- | hunters and chronic loafers around the Legislature are telling respectable Repub- licans that it is treason to mention for the | senatorship any aspirant other than George C. Perkins. It goes without say- | ing that every place-seeker has a promise | | of a place from Perkins. The vaporings of the Examiner in Perkins’ support has disgusted many decent Republicans who entertain ideas of | their own in regard to the fitness of canai- dates for United States Senator. Now the spectacle of the out-and-out organ of the railroad c rporation proclaiming in col- umns of double-leaded type that Perkins can only be dafeated by treason, corrup- tion and party dishonor, deepens the disgust of sensible higb-minded repre- | sentatives of the Republican party. There are some things in politice, even | California politics, that are altogether too raw for Republicans. When it is ob- | served that the San Francisco Democratic orzan and the Sacramento rosette of jour- nalism are pulling together in Perkins’ fight honest Republicans who do not get their political instructions from the Democratic varty or the railroad camp are inclined to resent the advice as insolent and intrusive. Itis already ihe talk of the sanguine supporters of Perkins that if sixty-one votes eannot be secured in the Republican pariy to elect him to the Senate the Democrats followi the advice of the Examiner will get into the fight and give him enough votes to pull through. The Republican members of the pre ent | Legislature are not tied up and fast bound | by Senatorial pledges. Instructions given | to them by their constituents contemplate | that they shall use the'r judgment and | select the best Republican for the Senate. They have not been told to consult the Examiner and Record-Union and_get in- | structions from those quarters. They are | free to act as their intellizence and oon-i | | & scirnce dictate. In view of developments at Washington recently and the subse- quent attitude of subsiaized railroad or- | zans in Calitornia many Republicans who | do their own thinking are gravely consid- night. He says that he will re- | ering whether ihe interests of the party | mein the opinion that Mr.' Shortridge Dan T. Cole | wonld not be conserved by holding aloof | possesses all the elements that can bring | from the caucus. Itissure that they will b us together and solidify the party, so that | Francisco Bulletin | publican party. not be herded and corraled by the double- leaded rails of the Record-Union. spirit of independence is still elive in the ranks of California Republicans. S PRETTY CONTEST. Candidates for the Office of Ser- geant-at-Arms of the Assembly Lined Up for Battle. SACRAMENTO, CaL, Jan. 3.—There is a pretty contest on for sergeant-at-arms of the Assembly. By common consent the position was conceded to San Frantisco, but the delegation from the City couid not agree as between Banks, Wilkinson and Parkinson. Now J. H. Tibbetts of Amador, an ex-Assemblyman who recent- ly returned from South Africa, is in the | race. Tibbiitsis now known in Amador | as the uncrowned king of Matabeland. = | R. C. Crothers, proprietor of the San , made his aavent in the swirl at the Golden Eagle this even- ing. Thisis new business to Mr. Crothers, and be gozes on the surging crowd of place-seekers with evident surprise. The San Francisco delegation of Assem- bly Republicans essayed to caucus this evening, but adjourned without aceom- plishing anything. kil Ve R DES:ZRVES THE HONOR. Colonel Kowalsky Tells Why He Supports Samuel M. Short- ridge for Senator. BACRAMENTO, CAL., Jan. 3.—In an in- terview this evening Colonel H. 1. Kowal- sky thus defined his position: “Tuhe reason I am for Samuel M. Short- ridge for United States Senator is because | Isee an opportunity of uniting the Re- Everybody knows the bitter contest waged in San Francisco be- | tween the factions and the position I took. Mr. Shortridge, while on the other side, occupied an honorable and dignified posi- tion, working at all times to produce har- | mony, and if that result was not obtained it was not because his efforts were not earnest and untiring. “For fifteen years I have labored side by side with Mr. Shortridge, in season and out of season, for the success of the Re- publican party, and I know of no man more worthy of being honored by his perty at this time. My friends with whom I have co-operated in the past join A Thei hereafter we can present a solid front, and it is to the interest 'of the party throughout the State to have the Repub- Iicans of San Francisco united. ‘‘Mr. Shortridge is in the very prime of life, gifted and learned, and would return to California the honor conferred by his election to the place of United States Sen- ator. Itistime thatthe Republican party bonored one of its young men, and par- ticularly one who has labored so unself- ishly as Mr. Shortridge has, and I feel sat- isfied that his selection at this time will be the means of bringing proper Federal re- cognition to California and to the earnest workers of the party who are honestly entitled to consideration. “I may say in conclusion thatas a law- yer Mr. Shortridge stands in the ad- vance line of his profession, and as an orator he has few if any .equals on this coast. Born and reared a Republigan, he has given his time, energies and great talents to advance the cause of his party. Every man in California knows of bis long and _faithiul service. Although I have fought him politicalty 1 have been and am now his personal friend. For this reason and for the others stated I have gone into this fight wishing to do honor where honor is deserved.” oF o O SEEKERS OF POSITIONS. Many Will, No Doubt, Be Disap- pointed, for There Is a Promise of Economy. SACRAMENTO, Cav., Jan. 3—The ap- plicants for clerical and other positions— and their number is legion—are very much alarmed because of the action of the Assembly caucus yesterday at which it was decided to make au effort to conserve the interests of economy by reducing the | number of attaches from 150 to 100. The country members were particularly in- sistent on this point, their constituents baving bad two or three bad years, and they have demanded that ths strictest economy shall be exercised in the manage- ment of the State’s affairs. The gentlemen who will endeavor to inaugurate this reform are just beginning to realize what a difficult task they have before them. Placesare few, and place- hunters are many, and most of the appli- cants have so large a number of influen- tial friends that the new member will be staggered when he is confronted with the average pull of the average office-seeker. He will realize the fact that the appli- cants have been very busy for the last few weeks, day .ana night, 1n massing their HOLD -OVER REPUBLICAN SENATORS. C. M. Simpson. J: L. Beard. R. Linder, D. L. Withington. S. C. Smith, forces and concentrating their strength. The new member who intends to keep his pledges and to save to the State every doliar of expense that he can, will find it mate friends and persons who favored him 1n a business way, and heis lost in won- der at the strong hold that the applicant has gained on those friends. Then when he finds that his neighbor in the Senate or Assembly is disposed to be a little lib- eral with the funds of the State in order 1o maintain his popularity among the ‘workers as a good fellow the temptation in many cases becomes t0o strong to be re- sisted. He will find what more experienced men than he have found before—that a volitical pull, when it is genaine, is the strongest kind ot a pull. The tug-of-war 1s nothing but the play of an infant in comparison with it. So the friends of the applicants are bidding them to be of good cheer and to wait patiently the turn ol events. Many of the old familiar faces are seen in the old familiar places. There is Mrs. Harris of Sacramento, whom everybody knows, again at her post, the entrance o the Golden Eagle Hotel, for an houror two, and the ladies’ parlor, lying in wait for Senators and Assemblymen, asking them 10 help her to get the appointment 2s custodian of the ladies’ cloakroom in the halls of le:islation. She had the job before-and was enabled to better care for her invalid husband. She isa persistent worker and knows neither rest nor re- fusal. Long John Wilkins makes the sidewalk his tall form rising above the crowd like an ebony monument. He is after any- thing that may come bandy to keep the wolf from the door while the Legislature is in session. T. H. McCarthy is here in the interest of the teachers’ pension bill, and although it is almost too early to talk about bills until after'the election of a United States Senator he is on deck day and night, doing like the rest of them—talking, talking. ‘Wherever a body of politicians are gath- Mose Gunst’s biggest 43-caliber cigars with Jake Steppacher behind it. Jakels and has been the secretary of the Repub- lican State Central Committee for ‘many years, and no man in the State is better acquainted with the routine of Republi- can politics than he. Of him Major Mec- Laughlin, who knows something himself, said that he was a valuable mine of voli cal information. Jake is noted for his reticence. Nobody except the person offi- cially entitled thereto can get any infor- mation out of him. He is a mystery of the lobbies, and even his cigar does not know how strong a pull he bas on it. Jake isin evidence day and night, but he is not saying anything. W. B. Hamilton, Sena- tor Perkins’ political manager, is on the ground looking on‘z for the interests of his friend. There is the usual number of ladies lob- bying for clerkships and other positions in both housss. The feeling against the employment of women in politics is grad- ually wearing away. They make good clerks, don’t get drunk and run eut all night with the rest of the boys, and every year they are making serious inroadsin the ranks of the “push,” who regard the pretty women as interlopers into an ancient and honorable order. The fact that women have no vote has always been the greatest snag in their way to political employment, but they are holding their own very well indeed against the men in recuring positions by persistentlobbying for the same. Some of these have invalid mothers to support, and it is after alla very good sign that politics does not always stifle the finer feelings of human natare. A wagon-load of boys are seeking ap- pointment as pages, and 1t is believed that most of them are the brightest and most gentlemanly lads that the State can pro- duce. In a modest and altogether unob- trusive way they approach the members and present their cards with the request respectfully made that their claims should not be forgotten ia the distribution of the patronage. Some day those little fel- lows, or at all events the greater number of them, will be occupying seats in the State Capitol and growling at the slow- ness and inattention of ‘‘those confound- edly lazy boys.”’ They will be Senators and Assemblymen, and will, nodoubt, improve on the methods of their vprede- cessors. LRit i ECONOMY THE ORDER. Speaker Coombs Talks About the Probable Organization of the Assembly. SACRAMENTO, Car., Jan. 3.—Organi- zation of the Assembly may be effected to-morrow, yet obstacles unforeseen may delay the completion of this work until l very hard to resist the pleadings of inti- | in front of the hotel look like old times, | ered together there you will find one of | Tuaesday. Spesker Coombs, as he is al- ready designated, because no one has en- tered the list to deprive him of the honors and prerogatives of the Speakership, has been a busy man to-day, In an interview this evening he remarked: “1 have not taken up the subject of standing committees, and will probably not settle down to that task until the Assembly is organized. My time to-day has been devoted to a long conference with the committee appointed to con- sider the matter of patronage. It is our purpose to retrench all along the line and make a recuction in the number of at- taches of one-third as compared with the number engaged by the Assembly at the session two years ago. One hundred and tifty-two attaches were on the payroll two vears ago. The force was exce sive and added largely to the contin:ent expenses of the Legislature. We recognize that there is a public demand for retrench- ment and we propose to respond to 1t, Of at least make an honest effort to get into line with the taxpayers of the State. I have talked with very many Assembly- men to-day, and [ find a positive and almost unanimous sentiment in favor of keeping the numb:r of attaches within a timit of 100. “When the matter of yatronage is set- tled I will take up the sabject of appoint- ing the standing committees of the As- sembly. I shall get a room somewhere in the Capitol and receive suggestions from all the members, Isee no reason why the A sembly should not organize to-morrow. The appotntment of the standing commit- tees is not at all necessary for the organi- zation of the House.” The fight is raging all around the hotel for clerkships and minor positions of every grade from page to rear porter. The As- sembly caucus to-morrow morning may deprive many of the applicants of hope. The Governor is ready to fire in his bi- ennial message as soon as he is notified that the two houses are ready to hear from him. The message is said to be a | great retrenchment paper, in which at- tention is calied to the extravagance of pablic institutions in this State. One of the first acts of the Legislature will be the adoption of a joint resolution or memorial to Congress asking that a duty of 80 cents a box be placed on oranges in the tariff measure now being framed at Washington. Senator Androns of Los Angeles will introduce the subject in the Senate and the Los Angeles delegation in | the Assembly will act simultaneously. It |is proposed to wire the resolution to Washington FRENCH RADICALS DEFEATED. Fail in Their Attempts to Oust the Mod- erate Republicans Wherever a Con- test Is Made. PARIS, Fraxce, Jan. 3.—The elections which were held to-day in various parts of | France to fill the seats of one-third of the members of the Senate resuited in the de- | feat of the Radicals, who failed in their | attempts to oust the Moderate Republican jcandidates wherever the latter contested | the districts. Even Seine-e:-Marne, thie | bourgeoisie’s own department, and the Department du Nord re-elected the retir- ing Moderate Rapublican candidates. Up to midnight returns had been re- ceived from ninety-seven districts, show- ing the election of 53 Moderate Republi- cans, 18 Radicals and 11 Conservatives. The Repubiicans gain 13 seats. | 1Inthe department of the Haute Gar- onne M. Victor Camparan, Republican, { was the only Senator re-elected. This de- pariment returns four members of the | upper house. MM, Onrnac and Valentine i Abeille, the latter a Radical Republican, | who reprecents a district of Haute | Garonne in 1he Chamber of Deputies, were | elected, leaving the fourth seat to be con- tested on & reballot by Count Paul de Remusat, M. Adrian Hebrard and ex- Minister Constans, the retiring Senators. In the department of Gironde, which returns five Senators, ex-Minister Tra- rieux, Republican, retains his seat. Ex- Minister David Raynal, Republican, who represents Bordeaux in the Chamber of Deputies, was elected Senator in one of the Gironde districts. M. Antonin Duboise was returned as a Senator for the department of Isere, for a district of which he now sits in the Cham- ber of D puties. General Paul Grevy, Republican, who has filled for many years one of the three seats for the department of Jura, is likely to lose his seat. Dr. Victor Lourties, Republican, who has represented a district of, the depart- ment of Landes since 1883, was Minister of Commerce in the Dupuy Cabinet of 1894 and Secretary of the Senate for several years, has been re-elected. Among the more prominent Senators who have been re-elected are: M. Wal- deck-Rousseau, who was ~Minister of the Interior in the cabinets of Gambetta and | Ferry; M. Louis Cochery, who has held several ministerial positions, including that of Minister of Posts and Teiegraphs in the Cabinet of M. Waddington; M. Fallieres, Minister of the Interior in 1882 in the Cabinetof M. Duclerc; M. Ernest Boulanger, a Minister of the Colonies in the Cabinet of M. Casimir-Perier, and M. Louis de Velle, also an ex-Minister. They represent districts in the depart- ments of the Loire, Loirette, Haute Garonne and Mause. The Senate is comvosed of 300 mem bers, of whom one-fourth were originally elected by the National Assembly for life, vscan- cies in this rank being filled by the Senate itself. Since 1884, however, no new life Senators have been elected, the distinc- tion being abolished for alt except the sur- vivors of the previous election. Subject to the gradual absorption of the remaining life Senatorships, the entire body of the second chamber is renewed by thirds every three years, so that the Senatorial mandate extends for nine years in each case. The qualification for Sena- tors is that they shail be of French nation- ality, nct under 40 years of age an 4 in full enjoyment of their civil and political rights; but n.embers of families who have farcished occupants of the throne and generals or admizais on active service are disquali fied. The salary of a Senator is 15,000 francs a year. Senatorial electors, in the several con- stituent departments are of three cate- gories: First, communal and municipal delegates, elected by a majority of each commune or municipality, one or more delegates for every local representative body, according to population; second, all the members of each council general and district council; third, the deputies in each department. Two montbs after the election of dele- gates the whole electoral college proceeds to nominate one-third of the total number of Senators voted to the department. A later dispatch states that Countde Remusat, Moderate Reptblican, defeated M. Constans in Haute Garonne on the third ballot. The vote stood 514 to 437, giving Count de Remusat a majority of 77. Thbe Moderate Republicans claim that the defeat of M. Constans, who isa Repub. lican, is a great victory for them. b e Carlisle in New ¥ork. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 3.—JSchn G. Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury, ar- rived in the city late to-night from Wash- ington, BRAM. MAY NOW GET A NEW TRIAL * Peculiar Charge of the Judge Causes Some Complications. Jurors Misunderstood the Mean- ing of the Words of the Court. Thinking They Were Comp>'led to Yield to the M jority They R-- turned a Verdict of Guilty. BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 3.—H. J. Booth, & member of the jury which on Saturday found Tho nas B. Bram guilty of the Her- bert Fulter murders, to-night told THE CaLL correspondent that at least four members of the jury did not believe that the man’s guilt was proved, but voted for the verdict because they believed they bad to. : 3 The jury went out at 1:05 o’ctock Friaay afternocn, and Saturday morning aske.l the court for imstructions, on just what point the lawyers in the case do not know, but evidentlv as to the proper course to follow to avoid deadlocking. To this Judge Colt said in part: “In order to bring twelve minds to & unanimous result you must examine the questions with regard and deference to the opinions of each other. It is your duty to decide the case. In conierring to- getlier yod ought to be convinced by each other's argument, and if the larger num- ber of your panel are for a conviction, a dissenting juror should considgr whether adoubtin hismind is a reasonable one, which makes no impression upon the minds of so many men equally honest, equally intelligent with himself.” Mr. Cotter, Bram’s counsel, excepted to this ruling. “This ruling,”” Mr. Booth says, “made the jury bring in a verdict. At least four members of the jury will make affidavit that they do not think Bram guilty, that they did not believe him guilty, but we interpreted Judge Col¢’s ruling as an or- der to bring in a verdict agreeable to the majority ; taking that as such we agreed on a verdict that our conscience said was wrong; Idid not know my rights in the case and if Bram 1s hung I shali ever con- sider myself responsible in part for his murder, for murder it will be.”’ This statement possibly insures Bram a new trial. His counsel is jubilant. At the jail to-night Bram said: “I am 1nno- cent and shall be free; when Idie it will be as God intends.” Y NASHVILLE'S DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. It Was Far More Disastrous Than First Dispatches to the Press Indicated. NASHVILLE, Texx., Jan. 3.—The de- structive fire wuich visited this city last night at 11:15 was not well under control before 3 . ». The fire was by far imore disastrous in its results than indicated in last night’s dispatches. A series of unfor- tunate conditions handicapped the de- partment in its work, and a very strong wind playing from the south made mat- ters much worse, The falling of a rear wall of the Burns building caused damage to the extent of $50,000 by crushing through adjacent buiidings. A feature of the fire was the fighting from roofs, as few alleys traversed the district. When sufficient’ pressure of water was finally secured the department rendered very effective service, though at first they seemed almost helples: Total estimate of damages is §600,000, of which slightly more than 50 per centis covered by insurance. Several accidents of trifling consequence were reported. The origin of the fire is still a mystery. The principal losses are now estimated as follows: Le Beck Bro: stock, $150,000, insurance $60,000; Aber. nathy, Langham & Shook, loss $23,000, ine surance $15,000; Burns & Co., loss $50,000, insurance $30,000; Lickhardt & Co., loss $25,000, fully covered by insurance; Tracey & Co., $15,000, insurance $3000; Brandon Shoe Company $3000, insurance $5500. gt il the FIRST PONTIFICAL MASS. drchbishop Martinelii Lawrenc , Mass. LAWRENCE, Mass,, Jan. 3.—The first pontifical mass given in New Fngland by Archb:shop Martirelli was celebrated to- day in St. Mary’s Church, which was fiiled with peopl-. The Archbishop was attired in his royal purple robes of office and his train was borne by four altar-boys. He was assisted by Father C. M. Driscoll, provincial of the Augustinian Order, of Philadelphia. A choir of 200 voices was assisted by an orchestra. Officiates at 1In the afternoon solemn vespers were sun g by the Archbishop beforea congrega- tion comyposed exclusively of women. 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