The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 9, 1897, Page 1

SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 9, 1897. PRICE FIVE CENTS SHORTRIDGE 1S GAINING, Aflfl@é@flg@ Now the Forces of Perkins Are Routed and Badly Scattered. | Judge Daly Reiterates His Opinion That No One Is Bound by the Alleged Caucus. " LEGISLATORS SO ADVISED BY| CONSTITUENTS. | Friends of -~ Shortridge Declare That He Has| the Enemy on the Run — Both Branches of | the Legislature Adjourn Until Monday, | and Many Members Come to San Francisco. ; SACRAMENTO, Cal., Jan. 8.—The opinion is now freely expressed | that the Perkins forces are breaking up and that no election of a | S:nator will occur next Tuesday. | Senator Gleaves and othe; ked Judge Daly to-day -~ hether he| had been correctly reported in this morning’s CALL to the effect | that a caucus was a conference of persons of sufficient numbar and with sufficient power to effect the common object. The Judge replied ! that such was the fact. case, and this disposes of all the h on the snap ** caucus.” As Perkins is losing, so Samuel M. Shortridge is gaining in strength and popularity. the enemy on the run. His opinion is now accepted as the law of the The friends of the latter are now sure that he has | opes of Perkins which were based the Cafe of the /m: ¥ =L | NOT BOUND BY PLEDGES. | So the Honest Leglslators Are In~ formed That They Wil Not Have to Vote for Perkins. INTO, CAL., Jan. 9. — The | e demoralized and in full d been secretly and working for a year, and when the which was to decide the matter d forall was held, there was, ac- to their own admission, but one Tt of ending the contest. Why stop on the very tnreshola of Simply because their strength | had been spent and exhausted and they 1ad not a solitary round of ammunition a dangerous thing to come toa emiddle of a charge when in the loaded guns of the enemy. s what the Perkins people did on of the alleged caucus. On the they did worse. One of lhe‘ st men weakened and left the | His example was contagious, and | r hours several more | | | telegrams indicate it never was a question To-day the desks of the Republican members in both houses were littered with letters and *rush” telegrams from their constituents to the effect that George C. Perkins had sung no siren song of the sea that couid entrance them. Those con- | stituents reminded their representatives | the resolutions: that the candidacy of Mr. Perkins was not | an issue in the primaries, and when the | resolution indorsing his candidacy was | read in the county conventions, there be- ing no other aspirant for the place, the | resolution was adopted, and for the further | reason that the delegates did not wish to | arouse the animosity or the resentment of Mr. Perkins’ friends. The letters and | that was seftled—no one considered it, | and which have been furnished from time to time tothe Lighthouse Board and our Representatives at Washington. | SAN JOSE DEMANDS BETTER REPRESENTATION. SAN JOSE, CaL,, Jan. 8.—In an emphatic manner the Board of Trade directars expressed the sen{iment tha¥ Oalifornia IS not ably represented in the United States Senate, and coming as it does at this partis cular time the action 1s about as significant as a body of conservative business men could take. It was brought about by the defeat of the proposition to improve Alviso Creek. Vigorous resolutions were offered by { Director A. C. Darby, and aiter warm opposition on the part of Director C. J. Steeple, who is aistrict freight agent of the Southern Pacific Company, were alopted, Steeple alone voting against them. Following are RESOLVED, That in the recent report of Major E. G. B. Davis of the Lighthouge Engineer Corps against an appropriation by the Government for the improvement of Alviso Channel, said report contained, perhaps unconsciously, intimations that these improvements are in the interest and benefit of the proposed Santa Clara Valley Bailroad Company; and this report further states that through | the extension of the above proposed railway to a point three miles farther than the present fixed terminal deep water may be reached. RESOLVED, That the Board of Trade most strenuously obj ects to the first of tho above propositions, as not being in accordance with the facts, as the movement for these improvements was inspired by the public demand made by the citizens of San Jose and Santa Clara County, based upon the necessities of the case, as shown through shipping statistics, carefully and honestly compiled, We object, aldo, to the second of the above statements, in that it is not a fact that deep water exists at the point stated, and cannot be found at a nearer point than at least five miles from the point known as Port Alviso. RESOLVED, That in the above report a great injustice has been done to this valley in postponing relief confidently looked for, and which would be cheaply purchased even with an appropriation of 846,000, as suggested by the engineer’s report. RESOLVED, That this report emphasizes the need of an able, energetic Representative in the United States Senate, one famillar with the needs of this and all other sections of the State, and who will be prepared at all times to champion the rights of the people as against any antagonistic influence. RESOLVED, That we continue our struggle for the improvement of this waterway in the name of the citizens of this county, and that we appeal to Congressman E. F. Loud of this district and our Representatives in the United States Senate for the relief sought for. and therefore no fight was made. The | whole southern delegation were pledged | able attention among the Republicans, to Senator Perkins, yet the letters and tele- | #nd several who had attended the caucus, grams show that the people represented| SMONE the number Senator Gleaves, asked | Judge Daly whether his remarks had been | correctly reported. The Judse replied The opinion of Judge Daly of the Code | 1at they had been, and reiterated that, Commission, published in THE CALL of | gpeaking in a general sense of all caucuses, yesterday morning, attracted consider- 1 there can be no caucus of a less>r number by that delegation are not for him. = = ——— Sig Bettman, Sam Rainey and Major Gillis Ho'd a Caucus, With Russ Stephens on the Right Wi-g. | ramento yesterday. }man are required to effect the purpose for which the members had gone into caucus. y Judge Daly’s opinien has had consider- able weight with the members, and the idea is now prevalent that the action of the so-called caucus can bind nokody. A large number of legislators went to San Francisco on this afternoon’s train and the lobbies of the hotels wherein the “push” and **puli” most do congregate are as lonely and deserted as the banquet hall of which the poet Moore wrote: ““Whose lights are fled, whose garlandas dead, and all but he departed.” g IN SAN FRANCISCO. Many Members of the Legislature Discuss the Senatorlal Situatlon in Hotel Lobbles. There was quite a breakaway from Sac- The session of each branch of the Legislature was brigf, and adjournment was taken unul Monday to allow members to catch the early after- noon trains for their respective homes. Among members of the San Francisco delegation who came to the City last night were Senators Makoney and Wolfe and Assemblymen Dibble and Dennery. Sam- uel M. Shortridge and Colonel Isaac Trumbo arrived in the City on the train which left Sacramento at3:10 p. M. Others arrived on an earlier train. After tbe late hours incident to the organization of the Legislature and the activity of the Senatorial contest the mem- bers were pretty well worn out and imme- diztely went to their respective homes for a good night's rest. At the Palace, Grand and Baldwin hotels and the Union League Club but few of the legislators were seen. In the Palace court W. B. Hamilton, L. Bromwell and ex-Asseniblyman Pendle- ton of Los Angeles discussed the outlook for next Tuesday’s balloting, Major Frank ‘McLaughlin, chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, left the Palace shortly after 10 o’clock and went up to the Baldwin for a talk with Jacob Steppacher, Jacob Shaen and others. Major MeLaughlin will go to Sacramento, probably Sunday, to atiend the meeting of Presidential electors at the State Capitol on Monday. Thg contest for tue honor of bearing California’s vote to Congress is s!ill in progress. Democrats around the Baldwin Hotel talked of the rumor that 8«nator B.F. Langford of S8an Jozquin and A, Caminetti of Amador might, in a certain contin- gency, cast their votes for United States Senator for a candidate other than a Dem- ocrat. The opinion was expressed that neither the Senator nor the Assemblyman wouid desert his party. One of the Democrats said: “Senator Langford bas received many honors and emolaments from his own party, and he will not be found ready to close his ¢ cal career in California. It certainly would be closed if he should waver now. Caminetti, who was sent to Congress by Democrats, will not imperil his chances for further political honors by acts of de- sertion, | Monday evening the union minority of | Democrats and Populists will meet in Sac- | ramento again to caucus on the Senator- ship. The caucus held Thursday evening from the Democratic camp. Conceding the obstacles which Mr. Snortridge was oblized to encounter in order to break the programme it is acknowledged that he has made a masterly canvass. The tactics of the opposition to Mr. Ebortridge bave changed. The whip is not plied to force reluctant Republicans into the Perkins corral, but soft words, blandishments, pledges of patronage and place are employed to hold the wavering. The ridiculous ciaim that a binding Mg e LT = P // disclosed the fact that Maguire, Cator and Lane will be the candidates for the honor of a complimentary vote. In Republican circles it is now con- ceded that there will be no choice for United States SBenator on the _ballot next Tuesday. The prominence which Samuel M. Shoriridge has gained and the expres- sions of the leading Republican press in his favor were freely commented upon. The programme which promised Per- kins sixty-one votes on the first ballot cannot be carried out. The proof of this assertion is evident by the desperate out- reaching of Perkins’ managers to get votes caucus was held and that either the Re- publicans who attended or those who did not were bound thereby has been shown to be so absurd that it has been prac- tically abandoned by the Perkins man- agement, ana it is generally conceded that no‘actual or suflicient caucus was held. ‘The opinion of the Attorney-General that the pretended caucus of last Monday was in any way binding upon those who attended has set this issue finally at rest. No one is better posted on party usages than Judge Daly, Assistant Attorney- General and one of the Code Commission- ers appointed to revise the laws of the State. Judge Daly scouts the notion that any- thing like a binding caucns was held. The Perkins managers attempted to hold a caucus and boasted of their early ability | todo so by securing at least sixty-one | votes. To that object they bent all their energies, but they failed to realize their boast. “Why,” said a well-known Republican in the Baldwin Hotel lobby last evening, | “Youmight as well claim that twenty or even ten out of the entire membership of the Legislature would constitute a bind- ing caucus. The claim of the Perkins managers 1s simply ridiculous.” B e {ADJOURN UNTIL MONDAY. Saveral Bills Introduced In the Assembiy and the Tariff Reso- lution In the Senate. SACRAMENTO, CAL., Jan. 8.—The ses- sion of the Assembly to-day was unusually brief. A resolution to adjourn out of re- spect to the memory of the late Cyrus Coleman was passed without opposition and recess was taken until Monday morning. Bills were introduced as follows: By Dibbie, to amend the law in regard to street grades. By Ryan, to complete theseawall of San Francisco. By Guy, amending riparian laws. The tariff question absorbed the atten- | tion of the Senate this morning for some {time. Senator Langford’s motion to adopt the resolution embodying the memorial to Congress of the California State Fruit-growers’ convention fixing a tariff on all imported fruits was passed after considerable debate and by a mixed vote. A petition from the growers of South- | ern California asking the Legislature to memorialize Congress to amend the pres- ent tariff Iaw on citrus fruits was ordered Rheu- matism affects the joints and muscles and causes coustant suffering. Cure it by nentral- izing the lactic acid and purifying the blood Dby takiog Hood's Sarsaparilla The best—in fact the One True Blood Purifier. = e Hood'’s Pills 2o et atter-dinner