The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 18, 1897, Page 1

D This Paper net i to be taken from j the Library.+++* VOLUME LXXXI.—NO. 49. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY MO RNING, JANUARY 18, 1897. PLAN T0 CHECK TREASURY RAIDS Proposed Bill to Fix the Number of Legislative Attaches Would Prevent the Paying of | Ten Men to Do the 1 Work of One. | The Se-Called Scandal at the Capitol | May Result in a Restrictive Enactment. SACRAMENTO, Car., Jan. 17.—This t Sunday noted in legisla- | s since the session opened. Few members were left in town, and most of them w of the at-home kind. alled legislative scandal will be settled to-morrow by the report of the Committee on Attaches and Employes in the Assembly. The committee 1s expected to report exonerating Chief Clerk Duck- worth from all blame and presenting bill restricting the number of empl that may be appointed on organizatior From a statement made to-nig! Duckworth 1t appears that a gen understanding exists concerning the mat- ter of the organization of the Assembl In the first place, the clerk says that the attaches appointed by him at the request of nearly ail the members were appointed to serve during the organization only. The Assembly completed its organization in one day, and at the close of that day the term of the employes on the tempo- rary rollcall came to an end. They were no longer attaches or employes of the Assembly | Their compensation smounted to $620, but on the next day the Assembly voted m an allowance for one week. The vote was unanimous. This action ran the bill up to something more that $4000. The roll was certified to as correct by eaker Coombs, and upon that the Con- ler drew the warrants. Wesley Dixon, whose name appears on the roll, was not in Sacramento at all. The chief clerk explained this by saying at Mr. Dixon was a total stranger to him. He had never seen him, but had | appointed him on the recommendation of | a member from Alameda. The person Dixon’s appointment | Di id not come | n d the warrant for his pay cashed, but remains in the Feos, dtapvesrs, | further, from Mr. Duckworth’s statement | tnat nearly ail the Assemblymen requested him to appoint friends on the temporary | roll, and these Assembiymen did not think that they were - eizhty in number, and that if each of them vut & man on the roll there would be eighty employes draw- ing pay for services which could be per- formed by ten. have placed men on the temporary roll at the request of Democrats,” said Mr. Duckworth, “and nobody has made except Shanakan and Dry- mplai statement of the chiet plain that the system un- rture has been organ- om at all. f the Legislature should be to make | ole, by the passage of the neces- | a thing to occur again. time that 1t has occurred. | emptation to give hungry camp- rers a job for a week was 0o strong. | town was full of them from all parts of | ate, and when an indebted in the s favors te two of his con appoint only one to a clerkship, he settled | the matter by having Mr. Duckwoth place the other on tne temporary list. Thus | | Assemblyman was egree for political u s and could his political obligation was paid out of the | contingent fund of the Assembly. The number of men necessary for the | »ses of the o zation oi the Legis- Jature is as well kuown as the Lour and | the minute on which the sun will rise to- | morrow, and it wozld be tne easiest thing in the world to pass & law fixing the num- ber of temporary attaches, Then the As- semblyman who had promised the same job to two men would have to face the music und pay the fiddler. The Democrats in the Senate bave not improved since the party received such a | thrashing at the hands of the people in he last campaign, and placed themselves on record in the first week of the session as opposed Lo the protection of the pro- ducers and laborers of this State from the ruinous competition of cheap foreign labor. It is almost unthinkable that | Americans should object to the shutiing | out of foreign competition which has | closed #0 many factories in the Kasr, and | it is unthmkable that Californians should | vole against a resolution protecting the | industries of this & from competition | with European anc iat.c products. Yet | this is what the Democratic Senators aid | SR Father Time Not Pleased W ‘emaTER) ith Scenes at the Golden Eagle Hotel, Sacramento. moTIcE v BoAsoyy PRICE FIVE CENTS. on the first Thursday of the session. Here is the record : Senator Smith offered the following resolution and moved its adoption: WHEREAS, The Committee on Ways and Mesns of the House of Representatives is now engaged in revising the tariff laws of the coun- iry for the purpose of providing sufficient rev- | enues to meet the needs of the Government, a8 well as to afford protection to American in- dustries; and, whereas, the agricultural, har- ticultural, pastoral,umining and manufactur- ing industries of California are vitally inter- | ested in receiving protection from the competition of foreign products; therefore be it Eesolved, By the Senate of the.Siate of Cali- fornis, that we instruct our Senators and request our Representatives in Congress to use their utmost endeavars to secure for our varions industries the. full measure of protar: 1ion whickh they deserve, 1o the end inat the | producers and laborers of this Stale may be shiglded from the ruinous competition of cheap foreign labor. WHEREAS, California is but one State in this indissoluble union of forty-five States; and, whereas, all laws of Congress should be e guit- | able and fair to all the people; therefore oe it Resolved, That we cheerfully request for the laborers on the farms and in the mines and | workshops of other States the same measure of protection which we ask for those of Calfor- nis. The question recurring on the adoption of the original resolution, the roll was called and the resolution adopted by the following vote: Ayes—Senators Androus, Aram, Beard, Bert, Bulla, Denison, Dickinson, Flint, Franck, Gil- lette. Gleaves, Holloway, Jones, Langford, | Linder, ‘Luchsinger, Mahoney, Morehouse, Pedlar, Shine, Shippee, Simpson, Smith, Strat- ton, Troutt, Voorheis, Withington and Wolfe— | 28, Noes—Senators Braunhart, Chapman, Doty. Dwyer, Feeney, Hall, Henderson, LaRue, Prisk, Seawell ana Toner—11. Every one of these except one (Lang- ford) voting to protect California labor and Calitornia products was a Republican. Every man voting in favor of European manufacturers and laborers was a Demo- crat. How do the woolmenm, the me- | cbanics and the fruit-gzrowers feel who voted to elect the Democratic Senators? - OPPUSES DIBBLt’S BILL. Ex-Supervisor Burling to Fight for Laurel Hill Cemetery. SACRAMENTO, Caw., Jan. 17.—Ex-Su- pervisor James W. Burling of S8an Fran- cisco arrived on the early train this even- ing to oppose the passage of Assembly bill No. 9, introduced by Mr. Dibble of San Francisco, as follows: SECTT ON 1. Any person who, from and after the 1st day of January Anno Domini 1900, shall bury or inter the body of any deceased person within the limits of any incorporated city or city and county in this State having a population exceeding 100,000 persons, ss shall appear by the then next preceding Na- tional census, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fineof not less than $100 nor more then $500, or by imprison- ment in the county jail for a period mot less than thirty days, nor more than ninety atthe discretion of the court, or by both fine and imprisonment, as the court shall adjudge. Mr. Burling 1s a trustee of Laurel Hill Cemetery and has three chiidren buried there among the 30,000 population of the Contiriued on Second Page. THINNER EVERY DAY, CHERSELF” ““SAY GINRAL.IM GETTiy THEIR PORTRAITS SIOF BY SIDE | McKenna Next to McKin- ley in the Canton Cottage Study. Smith and McCleary Strong Possibilities for the Treas- ury Port’olio. A'ger’s Friends Working Hard—West Virginia Wants a Cabin=t Piace. A Diy of Rest CANTON, Osio, Jan. 17.—The usual | quiet of Sunday at the McKinley home was undisturbed to-day. Cabinet-making ceased. the Mujor's study was deserted, | the litter of papers had disappeared and the Presiden t-elect rested and went to | churek. ‘Webb Hayes, a son of the late President, dined with Mr. and Mrs. McKiniey and took a drive with them in the afternoon, returning home an early evening train. Now that Senator Sherman has accepted the portfolio of State, publicinterest seems to center upon the appointment of a Sec- retary of the Treasury. Charles Emory Smith has been mentioned more fre- quently and considered in connection with this position more than any one else to the present tinie, but another name has been suggested which will also receive due dent-elect. The other Treasury possibility is Congressman J. M. McCleary of Min- nesota. He attracted the attention of the Presi- dent-elect by his forcible speeches in Con- gress on the silver question. He was here once during and once since the campaign. Major McKinley is very favorably im- pressed with Mr. McCleary, who is a Canadian by birth, and was an educator before he went into politics. The Presi- dent-elect would be glad to find a suitable man for Secretary of the Treasury outside of New York, in that no suspicion of com- plications with Wallstreet may attach to bim. Btill, if the best man for the place is clearly shown to be in New York, the appointment will be made from that State. The friends of General Alger, who was here from time to time, are very hopeful at present. He wants to be Secretary of the The Republican party of an has practically been consoli- dated in favor of General Alger, according to Senator Burrows, and in this respect be 1s & much stronger Cabinet possibility than Henry C. Payne of Wisconsin or ex-Governor Merriam of Minnesota, who are opposed by influential factions in | their respective States. It1s apparent to all careful observers that Mr. Payne, ex-Governor Mersiam and Governor Alger cannot all be ap- pointed to the cabinet, for the reason that they come from the same section; so, if Mr. Payne and Governor Merriam should be: dropped from the list o* possibilities, the chances of ex-Governor Alger would be greatly improved. It is thought that the present week will see the President-elect reach a derinite conclusion respecting the appointment of a Cabinet officer from the Pacific Coast. Judge Joseph McKenna is thought by those much given to Cabinet speculation to be in the lead. He served in Congress with Major McKinley, ana was on the Committee of Ways and Means with him. There hangs in Major McKinley's study. a portrait of the members of the Ways and Means Committee, of which Mr. Mc- Kinley was chairman, and (he man next to the President-elect in the picture is HOW Buyr. Joseph McKenna. On the walls of the same room is a large and handsome picture of Judge Nathan consideration at the bands of the Presi- | | | | | | | | | | | | serions | restoratives. Goff of West Virginia, who is one of the strongest Cabinet possibilities. An effort of persistency and vigor is be- ing made to secure the appointment to the position of Secretary of Agzriculture of a West Virginia man. The name heard most frequently in this connection is Congressman James Wilson of West Virginia. Mr. Wilson is strongly indorsed by many as a succe-sful farmsr and busi- ness man. The President-elect is in no haste in making this appomntment, and it may be one of the last agreed upon. DIED OF HEART FAILURE. Charles A. Kirk, the Chicago Soap Manu- faciucer, Cxpiedd % Omaha Desp.te Great Efforts to Revive Him. OMAHA, Nespr., Jan. 17.—Charles A. Kirk, partnern the firm of James S. Kirk & Co., the big soap manufacturers of Chi- | cago, died to-night at 10:15 o’cleck at the | Paxton Hotel of heart failure. He had been in the city since Friday, but had made no complaint of ill-health till yesterday afternoon, and, aithough no results were anticipated, his personal friends kept close watches after they knew that Mr. Kirk had heart weak- | ness, despite his rugged appearance. At 7 o’clock to-day they found him uncon- scious, having suffered an attack during the hour previous. Every effort possible was made to resuscitate him by nis physi- cians, and with such hope of success that shortly after 1 o’clock one of them went to lunch while the other began preparing Just as the patient seemed about to revive, he suddenly collapsed at 10:15 without having regained conscious- ness. in Chicago Mr. Kirk was known in pub- lic us an ex-Park Commissioner. He was one of twelve members of ex-Chief Bade- noch’s staff at the time of bis death and a member of several prominent business ana social clubs. He resided on the North Side. S S ANNABEL'S FATHER DEAD. The Man Who Complained of the Seeloy . Dinner Is No More. NEW YORK, N, Y., Jan. 17.—William S. Moore, the theatrical agent, who was the cause of Captain Chapman of the Tenderloin station raiding the famous Seeley dinner at Sherry’s by revorting that his stepdaughter Annabel, the dancer, had been asked to do an im- modest dance, died at his residence inthis city this afternoon of pneumonia. Moore was 52 years old and was born in Philadelphia. He was at ons time the manager of the “Little Tycoon’’ opera company and also acted as manager of H. R. Jacobs’ theaters and of Henry Miner’s Kighth-avenue Theater in this city. He was also manager of the Im- perial opera company. Since the Seeley dinner Moore has been greatly worried over the publicity that came to him and his family over the affair. Mrs. Moore thinks that it has- tened his death. CZARINA SELIOUSLY ILL. Absotute Kest and Quiet Necessary for Her ELecovery. LONDON, ExG., Jan. 17.—The Sunday Times confirms the report of the illness of the Czarina. It says that her condition, which is very serious, has ended for tne present the hopes of the birth.of an heir. To this fact was due the abandonment of the usual receptions during the Russian New Year week. Her physicians say that it is necessary for her to take a long rest at Livadia on the Czar’s estates in South- ern Russia, where Czar Alexander IIL died in 1894. Here she can have perfect quiet, which is a prerequisite to her re- covery. — SCALES ACANCAGUA'S PEAK. Feat of @ Swiss Mountain Guide in the Argentine Republic. LONDON, Exa., Jan 17.—The Chronicle has a dispatch from Mendosa, Argentine Republic, ‘stating that Zerbriggen, the Swiss mountain guide, who is accompany- ing the Fitzgerald expedition, which went to South America for the purpose of as- cendin’g Mount Acancagua, n the Andes, reached the summit of that mountain on Thursday. Th.s is a feat that has never before been accomplished. The height of the mountain is stated in the dispatch to be 24,000 fret above the level of the sea, but according to Prolessor Guyot its al tude is 22,422 feet. GALE OF HISSES GREETS HIGH HATS Chicago Audience Forces Ladies to Sit Bare- headed. | One Plucky Woman Who Sat Unmindiul Nearly Caused a Riot. Exciting Scene in Columb a Theater During a Periormance of Sousa’s “El Capitan.” | CHICAGO, IrL, Jan. 17.—Hundreds of excited and indignant theatergoers took the high hat question into their own | hands to-night at the Columbia Theater by hisses and yells that amounted 1o a tumult. They compelled every woman who was present at the first night of Sousa’s “El Capitan’ to sit bareheaded through the performance—all but those in the boxes and one woman in the parquet, who, in spite of the yells and cat-calls that came | down at her from the balcony and gal- lery, kept her wide-brimmed headgear on all through the opera. The noisy demonstration began before | the curtain went up for the first act and continued until after the opera had be- gun, drowning out the music and, for a few minutes, threatening to break up the performance altogether. Finally it was quieted by the ushers when there were no more hats to come off, and the play went on smoothly. The au- dience, however, was noisy all the even- ing, and the excitement did not subside till after the people were outside the play- house. The theater was packed when the trou- ble began from the top row of the gallery to the front row of the orchestra. Nobedy knows who started the demonstration. From the suddenness of the outburst it might have suggested itself to a hundred persons at the same instant. It began with vells of “hats off” that were interspersed with hisses and groans as some of the women showed a disposi- tion not to obey. When the hisses came the hats in tue parquet and dress circle went off as if they had been caught by a gale behind. REDMOND ON ENGLISH PRISONS. The Member of Parliament Says They Are the Most Brutal and Revolting in the “World. LYNN, Mass,, Jan. 17.—Houn. John E. Redmond, M. P., who is visiting in this city, was this afternoon tendered an in- formal reception by about 150 of the lead- ing oitiz>ns at the Clover Club. Mr. Redmond, at the request of the chairman of the reception committee, de- livered a brief address, in which he said that what interested him in this country was the prison system, which was far ahead of England. The latter was, in his opinion, the most brutal in the world, and might be declared as a system of solituae and silence. The entire system was so brutal and revoiting that it drove many men insane from the tortures inflicted on T hem. “The treatment of the Irish political prisoners in the British prisons is some- thing too horrible to contemplate,” he said. *Ori ‘inally-there were eighteen of these prisoners, but three of them died of the hardships they underwent, and five were driven insane, two of the latter be- ing Dr. Gallagher and George A. White- head, who are now in this country in the care of their friends.” Gerntan Mr. Redmond said that he once visited John Daly in Portlana prison, and through the cape broke to him the sad news of the death of a very dear friend. Daly broke down at the news, and when he recovered Mr. Redmond wished to give him a small photograph of the friend and a lock of his hair, but the prison officials would not allow e TR SURGEON'S KNIFE FOR THE CZAR. Made Necessary by an Injury Received in Japan on His Noted Trip Around the World. ST. PETERSBURG, Ru.sia, Jan. 17.— Yesterday & summons was sent to Berlin for Professor Bergmann, the distinguished w0 “10 “this city io| perform an operation upom the Czar to prevent the extension of an osseous ex- crescence which “has appeared in the region of the cranium. This trouble is due to the blow inflicted by a fanatical Japanese when he was traveling in Japan in 1891 His Majesty was visiting the town of Otsa on May 11 of that year, when he was making a tour of the world, and was set upon by the fanatic, who would probably have inflicted more serious injuries bad it not been for Prince George of Greece, who accompanied his Majesty, and who knocked the assailant down. This osseous growth, which Professor Bergmann will re- move, has, combined with overwork, caused the attacks of ,vertigo from which the Czar has suffered for some time. —_—— REUDD SMITH ASPHYXIATED. Fate of a Journalist Known Throughout the Country. NEW YORK, N. Y, Jan. 17.—Rudd Smith, a well-known newspaper man, was found dead in bed this morningat the Putnam House, Twenty-sixtn street and Fourth avenue, death having been caused by asphyxiation. Mr. Smith had gone to the hotel about 1:30 and was assigned to a single room on the third floor. He was shown to his room at once and that was the last seen of him alive. Mr. Smith’s associates are ot the opinion that death was due to an ac- cident. He was apparently in good spirits and light-hearted and so far as known, in periect healto. Mr. Smith was 33 years old and had been in newspaper work in New York and in the West for fifteen years. He wasa brother of Ballard Smith, the European correspondent. Mr. Smith was one of the telegraph editors of the Journal. ginbairid-is 2HIS MAID MARES DENIAL. Boyd Eobbed of $6000 Worth of Diamonds Waile in Society. NEW YORK, N. Y. Jan. 17.—Mrs. Goodwin Boyd of 320 Fifth avenue was rohbed last night, as alleged, by her French maid of $6000 worth of diamonds | and jewelry. Mrs. Goodwin Boyd went to a social function last night and when she returned home at an early hour this morning she found that the desk in which she kept the diamonds had been broken open and the jewelry taken. : The maid, who, it is said, intended to sail for France next Saturday, was ar- rested this morning and remanded for ex- amination to-morrow. - The jewelry has not been recovered and the woman denies her guilt. ROBBERS WRE Fatal Attempt to H Id Up a Train Near Dallas, Tex. DALLAS, Tex, Jan. 17.—The through express from St. Louis on the Iron Moun- tain and Texas Pacific route, due at Dallas at 6:20 A. 3, was wrecked last nigntat the little station of Forest, Cass County, Tex. Engineer Clemmons had both legs broken, and sustained other injuries, so severs that Le died this afternoon. His home was at Mass Hall, Tex. The express messenger is reported as fatslly hurt, and a postal-route agent se- riously injured. The wreck was the work of train-wreckers, who had piled crossties on the track. Half a dozen or more pas- sengers are reported injured, but none fataily. Mrs. AND KILL, fochs U n i The Assyrian Not Damaged. PHILADELPHIA, PA., Jan. 17.—The Allan line steamer Assyrian, which went ushore below here in the Delaware Kiver last Friday, lightered part of her cargo and moved off without damage. As soon CUBANS I NEED OF AMMUNITION Maceo’s Successor Makes a Statement of the Situation. Plenty of Men, but No Rifles or Pewder With Which to Equip Them. Still Abie to Harass the Enemy, How- ever, and Hopeful of Taking Havana. BOSTON, Mass., Jan., --The Globe to- day publisnes a lengthy leiter from a special correspondent sent to Pinar del Rio to substantiate the reported death of Maceo and to present the actual facts bearing on the situation among the insur- gents in that province in Cuba. The letter was rent from San Cajento on January 10, and at the outset says that unless assist- ance of many kinds come to the rebels in this province within the next month or six weeks, there will be no rebels to assist. Oi the force that Maceo had when he made his second invasion only a remnant of 650 remain, under the commund of Brigadier-General Rivera, says the writer. Rivera, who has received no intimation that he is to succeed Maceo, is practically in hiding on the northern coast with his force, who are without ammunition and without hope practically. General Rivera warmly greeted the writer and discussed at length the situation, The bestpews he bad to give is as follows *I do not wish to criticize our friends in the United States, but our forces in Pinar del Rio have been somewhat neglected. We have been depending upon our strate egy and knowledage of the province to keep us out of serious trouble. We bave a dynamite gun and two shell pieces, but for some time past we have had no am- munition for them. We are not in need of men atall. You may think this is a strange statement as you look about and see my command of only a few hundred But in Cuba the whole native population is with us, and 1 am confident an army of 50,000 could be placed in Havana province before winter is overif we but had the arms and ammunition (o g.ve the men. “The natives are ready and willing to die for our cause, but we'are not ready or crazy enough to face the'enemy’s bullets. Give us 10,000 rifles and a supply of am- munifion and we will whip’ Weyler and his trocha, ) “The force with which Maceo entered the province has not been killed off by the enemy. It was disbanded because it be- came unwieldy and could not be handied with advantage to ourselves. As it is, I am able to keep 40,000 or 50,000 troops of the enemy warrin: ana yet not suffer any serious loss. The enemy has concen- trated all its attention upon this province, and while we have not suffered in a last- ing way we demonstrated that we could remain in the province and fool a big army and many generals. While Weyier has directed ail nis efforts against us, Gomez has been preparing for his march westward. Gomez will enter’ Matanzas with a much larger number of men than were in the combined lorces last year, and, you mark me, he will sweep Havana | as well.” ;- —_— MACEO'S DEATH A CERTAINTY. No Longer a Doubt as to the Intrepid Warrior's Fate. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 17.—A Tribune special from Jacksonville, Fla., says: A letter was received bere on Friday from Colonel Andre Hernandez, now in command of the Cubap army eucamped near Havana, giving the true account of Maceo’s death and his subsequent burial. As he says that he was in command of the Cuban detachment that recovered the body from Major Cirujeda’s command and afterward buried it bis statement settles the matter. The letter was sent to J. A. Huau, the foreign representative of the New York Cuban junta. It came through the “underground” channel. It is dated January 9, from the ‘‘encamp- ment near Havana.” After extending to Mr. Huau thanks for past favors the letter goes on: It was on December 7 that wesuffered a great misfortune in the tragic death by am- bush of our leader, Maceo. This is the great- est misfortune we have suffered siuce the be- ginning of the war, but it only encourages us to fight the harder and avenge his death. We were encamped near the fight thatdayand heard the firing. Maceo came across the trocha, unknowu to us, with but forty men. More than 1500 Spaniards, who had been in- formed of bis tip, ambushed him. He rode into it and was snot at the first fire. We heard the firing, and thinking that some of our friends were attackcd by the Spanish guerillas started off at once to their aid, though we bad but 400 men. When we reached the scene of the siaughter it was mostly over, and then we were told that Maceo was dead and that the enemy had his body tied to & horse’s fail and were taking it off. Our men were perfectly frantic over the report and begged to be led sgainst the Spaniarde. We dashed forward with drawu machetes, and what a fight that was! The Spaniards met us and the encounter was horrible. Our men fought to kill, only bent on avenging Maceo. Our trusty and sharp machetes fell with regularity and I think we killed more than 200 of the enemy; and what is more, we bad the consolation of recovering the body of our beloved leader, Maceo. The rds fought hard to regain it, charging Keep Your blood pure, your appetite good and your digestive organs in healthy condition at this senson, and thus avoid serious iliness,by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla The best—in fact the One True Blood Purifier, as her cargo has been reloaded the Assy- rian will proceed on her voyage to Glas- BOW. Ijood’s Pills gz nauses, Tndigestion, biliousness.