The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 28, 1897, Page 1

m—— e i e e —————— e e e e SAN FRANCISCO, TiIiJRGDAY MORNING, JANUARY 28, 1897 PRICE FIVE CENTS. GAGE HAS GONE T0 SEE McKINLEY Summoned by the Major i Regard to the Treas- ury Portfolio. Regarded as an Indication of an Informal Tender of the Piace. S pator Sherman Will Not Till He Is Confirmed as S:c- retary of State. JHICAGO, IiL, Jan. 27.—Lyman J. esident of the First National cago, received a telegram this Major McKinley, asking e to Canton. Mr. Gage left on ain to-night over the Pennsyl- d snd will arrive in Canton at Tow afternoon. McKinley’s mess cation that he will is taken as tender the an in portfolio to the Chicago banker. N, Orro, Jan. 27.—The complex problem o ng the selec- or McKinley's Cabinet is now be prat ly solved, and d as the key to th certain choice of nt-elect. This moral certainty hened by the fact that the presi- First Na ank of Chi- is now on his way to Canton, in re- onse to the telegraphed request of the at Mr. Hanna approved of Mr. treasury. Itiskn election of Mr. McKin- nal ana political pre xerted on the rom frienas and Repub- hicago and the Miadle e, to procure the appointment Gage for the treasury portfolio. been done in such a quiet ley powerful per. sure has been e d dignified manner that public atten- n has not been directed towsrd the | ence until recently. It is now be- d that Mr. Gage’s appointment to the ury will be determined this week. When that position is filled the other portfolios can easily disposed of, ex- cept as to that to be given to New York. That problem remains as intricate asever, the impression prevails here that General Woodford has the best chance of appointment. The President-elect does not seem to have been influenced against General Woodford by the mild protest which was | éntered against him yesterday from East- nel Jobn Hay is here in the interest of afriend and does not mow expect a | Cabinet position for himself. Ex-Governor Osborn, who has been the guest of Cornelius Bliss at Jeykill Island, on the Georgia Coast, will remain here until Friday and then return East. Mr. Hanna’s visit1s not taken to bave ng on the Ohio Senatorial situa- net and inauguration matters ed the time of his conference with herman, stating that he will not resign his seat in the Senate until he is confirmed as Secretary of State. LY¥M2N J. GAGE'S CAREER, Was at One Time Night Watchman at a Lumber- ¥ard. CHICAGO, Irn, Jan. ~Lyman J. Gage, the foremost financier in the West- ern metropolis, and who is likely to suc- ceed Secretarv of the Treasury Carlisle, was born at DeRuyter, Madison County, r 928, 1836. His parents, Eli A. ison Gage, were descended from English stock, and were born in New York State. Lyman was taken to Rome, N. Y., when 10 years old and placed in the Rome Academy, where he remained four years. His term in that institution practically constituted his entire scholas- tic ed on. His first position in business life was as clerk in the Rome postoffice, and later he became route agent on the Rome and Watertown Railroad. In 1854 Mr. Gage tained his first bank position, being employed in the Oneida Central Bank, at Rome, at a salary of $100 a year. He remained there a year and a half, and in the fall of 1885 he arrived in Chi- cago. He took the first job he could get, with & lumber-yard and planirg-miil firm. He was engeged as bookkeeper, but he did other utility work, such as loading and unloadinz lumber and teaming. treme b weeks as night watchman of the firm’s property. While engaged in that humble but bread-winuing capacity the opportunity of Mr. Gage’s life came to him in the shape of an offer of a position as book- keeper for the Merchants’ Savings, Loan and Trust Company. From that position, nearly two score years ago, Mr. Gage’s career has been up- d by long, steady strides until now he occupies the highest positior which can be attained in any financial institution 1n Chicago, that of president of the First Na- tiona! Bank. Jn the spring of 1860 he had become assistant cashier of the Merchants’ Bank; later cashier, which office he heid until 1868, when he accepted the same position in the service of the First Na- tional Bank with which he has remained continuously. His promotion was rapid. The old charter of the bank expired in 1852, and upon the reorganization of the bank Mr. Gage was elected vice-president and general manager. About the same time a* special compli- m-nt was paid to his abilily as a banker by bis election to the presidency of the American Bankers’ Association. About two years ago this week Mr. Gage was elected president of the bank on the re- tirement of Mr. Nicholson, although Mr. | Resign next Presi- | The ex- ress depression of 1858 com- pelled the firm to dispense with his ser- vices as bookkeeper, but rather than bave no jobat all Mr. Gage worked for six = ILYMAN J. GAGE, Probable Secretary of the Treasury in President McKinley's Cabinet. Gage had been the real president of the | bank for several years. At the inception of the World’s Fair enterprise, Mr. Gage showed his faith in the financial outcome, guaranteeing, with three other gentlemen, that Chicago would | carry out her part of the contract and raise §10,000,000, which was largely 1n- strumental in securing the fair for Chi- Mr. Gage was the first president of the World's Fair directory, but on his eleva- tion to the presidency of the bank, he was obliged to retire from the presidency of | that board. He refused to accent any of the princely salary the directors had set aside for the president of the directory. in 1864 to Miss Sarah Etheridge, daughter of Dr. Francis B. Etheridge of Little Falls, N. Y., who died in 1874, and in 1887 to Cornelia Gage of Denver, Colo. He is a | lover of art and literature, being adirector | his evenings in his library, although be- ing con-iderable of a club man and s fre- | quent figure at banquets. S S MHERMAN MUGGE>MIS HANNA, But It Is Thought Gorernor Bushnell Will Not Appoint Him. { COLUMBUS, Oxio, Jan. —Governor Bushnell to-night admitted that it was true that Senator Sherman had written a | letter to him in regard to his resienation from the Senate. private and as he had regarded it as con- fidential he would still do so, though he might ultimately give it to the public. No one but himself had seen it. He would say, however, what every one would guess anyhow, that the Senator told him that he would probably soon resign and that he thought it would be best for the party and for the State and country if Mr. Hanna would be appomnted as his successor. It is generally believed that the Gov- ernor will not comply with Senator Sherman’s request and his manner of speaking of the advice he had received from the Senator seemed to corroborate this view of i AN EARLY TIHIFI-:BILL. New Admmistration—Dingley and Aidrich at New York. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. special from Canton, Ohio, says: man Hanna left at 4 o’cloek thisafternoon for Cleveland. Before leaving he gave, in a somewhat indirect way, the programme for early legislation under the incoming administration. He relerred to the current gossip that it is the intention of Major McKinley to convoke, Congress in an extra session on He said the letter was , Hanna Speaks of the Programme of the | 1 March 15, and he also intimated strongly that an understanding has been reached with the doubtful Senators which insures the success of an administration tariff bill. The programme as arranged is that Chairman Dingley of the Committee on Ways and Means’ where the bill will orig§ inate, will frame a bill. Heis at it now and Senator Aldrich is assisting him and preventing the incor- voration of any clause that will meet with objection in the upper branch of Congress. When the measure reaches the Senate he is to pilotit througn. The programme, as it is arranged, calls | | for the passage of a bill within sixty days, Mr. Gage has been married twice—first | and the schedules to be arranged so as that the measure would be in full force and effect with the beginning of the fiscal year, on July L The bill is to be distinctively a protee- tion blll, incornorating, so far as it is of the Art Institute, and spends many of | practicable, the main features of the Me- | Kinley law, but the first requirement of the new measure is that it shall produce sufficient revenue to meet the needs of the | Government. The desire of the administration, Mr. Hanna said, is to get the tariff measure into operation as soon as possible, so that the country may experience the relief of its increased revenurs. That, he said, is what the country needs, and until it is secured no substantial improvement can be expected. He expects an era of pros- perity to immediately follow the enact- ment of the new tariff bill and hopes for | but little relief irom the present depres- sion before that tinie. | etoims (S0 | QUITS HER GIPSY LOVER. | | After a Violent Quarre/ Princess Chimay Packs Her Trunks and Leaves for Monte Carlo. | LONDON, Exe., Jan. 27.—A dispatch to | the Mail from Vienna says that a violent quarrel .occurred between Princess Chi- may, formerly Clara Ward of Detroit, and Janos Rigo, the Hungarian gipsy musican for whom the Princess recently deserted ! her husband. The screants of the Princess | and the violent language of Rigo created | great excitement and alarm among the | guests of the hotel where tbe couple were staying and _complaint was made to the tandlord. The affair ended by the depart- | ure of the Princess, #bo <tarted unat- tended by the eypsy for Monte Carlo. | Before leaving the Princess paid her own share of the board Gue at, the hotel, but refused to pay thet unpaid by Rigo, who is consequently in an awkward position, being in need of money to settle his ac- count. S Five Railroad iborers Killed. NEW HAVEN, Coss., Jan. 27.—The Colonial express on the Consolidated road struck and killed five repairers at-Nor- | walk this afternoon. of the Bakers, ; PILOTS GIVEN THEIR INNING Attorney Frank Pleads Their Cause at Sacra- mento. Discrimination Against ‘Small Shipowners Charged by Hugh Craig. Senator Gillette Suggests a Compro- mise—Furthor Hearing Deferred to Next Wednesday. SACRAMENTO, Car., Jan. 27.—The Committee on Commerce and Navigation held a late session 1 the Senate to-night and was addressed by Lawyer Frank of San Francisco, attorney for the pilots, who said that to-day sixty disengaged ships were lying in San Francisco harbor waiting for freight. Captain Barber spoke also, and said that only one-ninth of all the vessels entering San Francisco harbor were American, the others beinz foreign. He said that Captain Plummer remarked that he didn’t care how much pilbtage was charged foreign vessels so long as his own vessels were not charged so much. Captain Plummer argued that a com- petitive system/of pilotage would send boats fifty or sixty miles outside the Farallones picking up vessels. Pilots would then seek business instead of busi- noss seeking them. He was asked whether he knew of any port in the world that did not have compulsory pilotage, and he re- plied that he did not and had not studied the matter. Hugh Craig of San Francisco remarked that the worm had turned to kick. He charged that big shipowners were “al- lowed rebate which they were not required to pay,” while the small owners were the sufferers, No association or company had a right to monopolize the business of pilotage and to pay rebates to certain shipowners which it did not allow to others. The speaker poolpoohed the idea that the occupation of a pilot was dangerous. Pilot-boats were the most seaworthy of all cratt, and he had never heard of a pilot being drowned. He suggested that the whole receipts of pilotage should go into the State treasury. No foreign man-of- war required a pilot ‘to take it into the harbor of San Francisco, because they knew the entrance to this harbor so well that they couid come in in the dark or in a fog. $ * Craig asked how it was possible that the State should’ allow pilots to charge so much in excess 'of the value of their ser- vices that they could afford to rebate thousands of dotlars. The fees zhoulu be paid into the State treasury, and then the pilots could be paid handsomely for their services. Senator Gillette, through Senator Braun- hart, suggested a compromise to the effect that the pilot fees should be reduced and paid into the public treasury; that the boats be maintained out of the treasury and the pilots paid a liberal salary. Lawyer Frank asked for more time to consider the proposition. At 11:30 P. M. the committee adjourned until next Wednesday night at 8 o'clock. THE DUCKWORTH INQUIRTY. How Additional Names FFers Attached to the Tempdary Roll. SACRAMENTO, CAr, Jan. 27.—There was a not very lively sessioh of the Duck- worth investigation committee this after- noon. Mr. Duckworth was still too sick to get out and the committes went on without him. E. 8. Gridley, journal clerk, was called to the stand. He produced his records showing Duckworth’s original list of ap- pointments; also a letter from Duckworth to the State Printer, in which Duckworth stated that in copying the names for the Printer he (Duckworth) had omitted the name of C. H. Rodriguez, and he there- fore asked the State Printer to put the name in the journal of the next day. He also showed a slip of paper with the name ot J. L. Martin on it. This, the witness could not explain, except that somebody had given it to the State Printer to add to the list. The other names were placed in the journal. Mmute Clerk Wickham was called, but he could not make any lucid explanation. He did not think that Duckworth had any right to go over and correct the minutes without sending the correction through him. Neither had he any right to go to the printing office and make the correc- tion. Mr. Gridley was recalled and said that on January 6 another list of names was handed to him by Wickham or Duckworth, be was not certain which oneof them. He knaw that it was one of them, because he woula not have received such a list from any one else. It wasa further correction of the journal of January 4. The journal was corrected so as to include this list of names. What is known as the bond copy of the journal included this list of names. They were handed in by Duckworth on the 6th. Speaker Coombs instructed him (Gridley) to insert that list in the journal as a correction. These names had been sugeested by members in the body of the house—he did not know whom. Bond copies of the journal are printed on bond paper, with blank spaces for the signatures of the clerk and the Speaker, and these are filed with the Secretary of State. The, bond copies show that these men were ap- pointed on January 4, whereas in fact they were appointed on the 6th. North of Alameda, the next witness, produced a list of attaches with the names of the members who had recommended them to Mr. Duckworth, but at the request of Judson C. Brusie, counsel for the chief clerk, the list was not read nor given to the press, not being admitted in evidence because of the absence of Mr. Duckworth, who wished to make some correctiops in the list. The committee adjourned sub- ject to the call of the chair. Speaker Coombs denies emphatically that he ordered the additional names 4 Roman of ARTHUR NORTH, the Boy Orator From Yolo—the Youngest Them AlL placed on the temporary roll, as testified to-day. — - STATE PROPLKTY MISSING. | Furniture Taken From the Rooms of | Lrgislative Committees. SACRAMENTO, Car., Jan. 27. — The | bills for furnishing committee-rooms of | the Senate were prescnted to-day. The aggregate exceeds $500. The chairman of the committee which passed on the ac- counts—Senator Holloway—said the high- est retail prices had been charged. It was developed in the discussion that $641 worth of furniture purchased two years ago had been appropriated by various offices in the Capitol, the Governor’s office taking a good share. Senator Smith was vigorous in his condemnation of this plan of grabbing desks and cbairs from com- mittee-rooms. He insisted that State officers should furnish their own offices, paying for the furniture with money allowed them for that purpose. It was not fair that tbe Legislature shonld be made the scapegoat for all the wrongdoing about the Capitol. The upshot of the discussion was the appointment of a committee, consisting of Senators Smith, Gillette and Dickinson, to ascertain what had become of the fur- niture purchased by the Senate two years ago, and to sscertain ‘urther if the expen- sive desks and chairs recently bought ought not to be returned, with proper | compensation for their temporary use. Leave of absence for sixteen Senators to visit public institutions was granted to- day. The delegation will go to Stockton, Santa Clara, Los Angeles, San Ber nardino and San Diego. - ASSEMBLY KROUTINE, Proposed Enactments Passed Upon in the Lower House. SACRAMENTO, CAn, Jan. 27.—A warm discussion between Assemblymen Leavitt and Camineti over the motion to reconsider the vote by which the $75,000 appropriation for the State Printing Office was passed was the only interest- | ing feature of . to-day’s proceedings in the lower house. Mr. Caminetti stated that | New York State paid out less for State printing than did California. This fact, he said, was not due to heavy orders from California State cfficiais, as alleged by the Ways and Means Committee, but to gross extravagance in the State Printing fhice. Aiter the rollcall this morning the Com- mittee on Claims reported in favor of a bill to reimburse Marin County for the ex- pense in connection with the trials for crimes committed in San Quentin Prison. The Committee on Military Affairs re- ported for passage two bilis relating to rifle practice in the National Guard; also a bill to prohibit the wearing by unau- thorized persons the insignia of the Loyal Legion. The Cuban resolutions reported by the Federal Relations Committee were adopted. ber of copies of bills printed from 500 to 1000, was adopted. Powers’ resolution to favor the passage of the Southwick bill in Congress, which is intended to confine the sale of prison- made goods to the State in which they ate manfactured, was referred to the Com- mittee on Federal Relations. The Assembly concurred in the Senate amendment increasing the appropriation for the State Printing Office from $30,000 to $75,000. Bills No. 452, relating to game; 451, re- lating to fish; Chynoweth’s temporary attache bill and the bill increasing the number of Judges in Santa Clara County were passed. Clarke introduced a bill reorganizing the State Highway Bureau and making it permanent. Leave of absence for a trip to Southern California was granted to two members of the Ways ‘and Means Committee, three members of the Public Buildings Com- mittee and two members of the State Hos- pital Committee. LIMITS ABSENCE OF OFFICQLALS. Senator Boyce’s Bill Referred to the Committee on Elections. SACRAMENTO, CaL., Jan. 27.—The following bill introduced by Senator Boyce has been referred to the Committee on Elections: Section 853. No officer, State, county or mu- nicivel, shall absent himself from the State for more than sixty days, unless upon busi- ness of the State, or with the consent of the Legislature; provided, that in the case of illness or other urgent necessity, the Governor in the case of State officers, the Board of Supervisors in the case of county officers, the City Council or other governing body of the,municipality in the case of mu- nicipal officers, shall upon a prover showing of such illness or necessity extend the time herein limited for the absence of any such offi- cer from the State. FICTOKY FOR STANFORED, Assembly Commitiee Favors Tax Ex- emption on the Unirersity. SACRAMENTO, CaL, Jan. 27.—The Assembly Committee on Education de- cided this evening to report favorably on the bill exempting Stanford University from taxation. ANewspapers to Be Paid. SACRAMENTO, Cavr., Jan. 27. — The Senate Finance Committee 'to-day re- ported in favor of paying the newspaper advertising bills which were approved by the Boara of Examiners. The Dairy Bureau bill, calling for an "appropriation, received a favorable report. The appropriation was reduced from $90,- 000 to $45,000. S e % Opposes Scawell’s Bill. SACRAMENTO, Car, Jan. 27. —The Senate Committee on Hospitals have de- cided to report unfavorably on Seawell's bill providing for the transportation of in- sane people to the different asylums by attendants from the asylums instead of by the sheriffs. North’s resolution, increasing the num- “Ths Mellow Warbling of the' Joyous Meadow. Lark Charms Not the Ear of Mr. Price. He Says the Lark Eats Grain and Corn Like a Horse and Ought to Be Exterminated. SAYS LITTLE PETE RACED TO THE END Trainer Rainier Tells How He Bought Three Horses for Him. Stories of Bribed Jockeys, False Colors and a Big Coup Spoilt by Death. A Sensational Statement That if Veri. fi d Will Implicate Some of the Most Noted Trackmen. The latest sensational sequel of “Little Pete’s” untimely demise is the statement by James B. Ranier that the little nabob was not ‘‘ruled off”’ the turt as effectually as supposed last spring. Pete had apparently been ‘pla ying the horses” in his peculiar way up to the time of his death, and on Saturday next the big coup of months of craity manipulation of track men was to have been ‘pulled off.” The story implicates some of the most famous jockeys and owners on the turf, James B. Kainier is, according to him, a horse-trainer. He said last night: “After Pete got ruled off 1 overated for him on the racetrack, and while he has not been betting heavily—only a hundred or two at a time—he has been working in other ways. “At his suggestion I bought three horses. I bought them at a good price, on the condition that the people, in whose names they stood, would go on racing them in their colors, but at my orders. ©It wasa snap. U Pete had lived only a week longer the bookkeepers out on the track next Saturday would not have had sufficiont to pay car fare home. He would have cleaned up at least $200,000. “Why, I gave the widow $1800 to-day. the proceeds of one winning on one of our horses on Friday in Oakiand. Now I have sold the hurses at a pretty good price, and will turn the checks over to the widow. “Pete’s play was this: He gave mea note, or power of attorney, six months 8ago, saying, ‘Anything this man does or says for me I will stand by.’ Well, I always had some money on hand to treat the ‘push,’ and the jockeys and I would put up champagne for the high-toned ones and perhaps steer them into good feminine company. “Then when my man was mellow 1 would suggest that he wasn’t riding for his health, and that all I wanted him to do was to ride one race for me—be to get 50 per eent of the winning. They ail knew Little Pete would divide fuirly when he said, *You shall have your cut.’ “One crackajack jock came to town, and when I broached the proposition to him and showed him Little Pete's note he was alittle leary. He said he never did busi- ness with any but prinoipals. «Very well,” I said. ‘Here's a hack; jump in and T'll take you to my prin- cipal.’ I took him up to Chinatown and halted the hack a little below Pete’s. I left him in the back and went up and got Pete and introduced him. Pete climbed 1nto the hack and I left them there. “They drove off together and when I next saw that jockey atthe track, he said: ‘It’s all right; whenever you want me to ride for you, just give me the wora.’ “I tell you we had five of them (the jockeys) sure. It was the greatest thing ever done. There was no playing for place, but just straight winning. The names of the jockeys are known every- where, and the alleged owners of our horses are some of the biggest people on the turf. “1 have documentary evidence of what 1 say, including some interesting letters. “My arrangement with Little Pete was for running expenses and wages for the time being. We were looking for the big clean-up on Saturday. When that came 1 was to have 50 per cent of the total profits of the game. *And I would have got it sure. Pete was square. When be said ‘You shall have your cut’ that .was enough, and he never threw me down yet. I understood some one had got hold of part of the story and so I thought it best to make a clean breast of it.” Mr. Rainier’s sensational story 1s of the kind to furnish considerable food for solid thinking to lovers of square racing and may bear fruit on investigation. NATIONAL BOARD OF TRADE. Listens to Committee Reports and Adopts a Resolution Favoring International Bimetallism. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C,, Jan. 27.—At the meeting of the National Board of Trade this morning the time was occupied by hearing and adopting the reports of the different committees. The report of the committee of bank- ing laws proposed by the Baltimore Chamber of Commerce and the report on currency and banking proposed by the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce were read and adopted, with the following suggestions: Provisions for the retire- ment of the greenback currency; for the reduction of the tax on circulating notes issned by National banks to }§ of 1per centa year, and allowing National banks to issue circulating notes to the par value of the bonds held for their security; also a provision for the estabiishment of a National clearing-house for banks, and that on and after -the 1st of July, 1898, no notes issued by Natiomal banks shall be for less $5. £ ¥ There was also a declaration favoring international bimetallism on a basis ot an equal ratio and provision for the es- tablishment of a sub-treasury system and the selection of National banks to receive aad distribute funds. p The reportof the committee on mone- tary commission was adopted, with the following resolution : Resolved, That the National Board of Trade reiterates’ its views heretolore expressed in favor of an expert monetary commission 10 invesiigate the subject, and 1o recommena such legislation as will establish for the United States the best financial system possible. . LT Senator Wolcott’s Luropean Iravels. LONDON, Exa., Jan. 27.—United States Senator Wolcott started for Dover this morning en route for Paris, where he will continue his mission in the interest of bi- metallism,