The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 31, 1897, Page 20

"THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 1897. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, ditor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: carrier..$0.18 mail | BUSIN 710 San Francisco, California. Telephone. .. ...Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay .. Main—1874 Telephone. BRANCH OFFICES ry sireet, corner Clay; open mntll 627 Montr: 30 o'clock. open until 8:30 o'clock. Larkiu street: open unifl 9:30 o'clock. orner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open y'cioct 30 o'clock. ook OAKLAND OFFICE: 08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: 3 Row, New York Cit}: Mansge CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Easte THE ! d Cabinet. are always over- zer will a to get rid of 1 legislati kmail jour- | The time has come in California when CINCH BILLS AND BLACKMAIL. decent people should unite for the purpose ; of putting an end to cinch bills and blackmail. These foul offenses of legistation and | journ m have been tolerated too long. They have erown from bad to worse until | in alliance they now constitute a menace to invested capital and thireaten the welfare | of the State. The time is propitious for attacking them. Both have shown them- | selves boldly and if public sentiment can be aroused to combat them now thereisa reasonable prospect of destroying them altogether. ticed in California can only be guessed at. legislators and vicious journalists. The tices have been carried on boldly, defiantly Pacific Company of $1000a month, That the contract under which it drew the su great corporations. Blackmailers do not been at one time or another compelled degree of secrecy. since hypocrisy is no longer possible. The interest of the public. tu publication of these sheets earned a dollar in his life by at way. nt e Willi o Its other tricks for obtaining ave paid. Its efforts to get advertisin advertisement have been equally wasteful. ¥ offeri has run up a fraudulent subscription list has it made money. Will bas but one resource lett. d their cry is for boodle and blackmail. not certa or Wolcott d, but he has b s Eng well feted. { Demol binde! ting the wolf go free. The Senate has adopted the bill provid- ing for an internationsl money conference, stey rd a return t oward bimetalism. According to reports from Sacramento the examination of withesses in the y roll scandal freg “roars of lsughter.” I then a comed Vith a trained statesman for Secretary f State, a soldier for the War Dep: ment, and a farmer for Agriculture, it evident we are going to have an admistra- tion of experts. Up to date, bills have been introduced into the Le es of Illinois, Tows, Michican, Missouri and Kansas to reduce railway fares to 2 cents a mile; and there are more to come. There are rumors on the street that the exposure made by the Southern Pacific Company of the Ezaminer’s extortion is to be foliowed by similar exposures from other corporations. The Courier-Journal insists “the Indi- anapolis platform is Democracy pure and undefiled,” whileall the rest of the country is under the impression the thing was dropped in the mud and left there. When an American millionaire of ma- ture years like Bradley-Martin has noth ing else to do than to dress himseli up li Louis XV and dance, it is time for bim to 2010 a water-cure and soak his head. If the Courier-Journal is correct in i statement of the rapid growth of the poul- try industry in Kentucky tbe State will soon be abie to work up all its whisky egguog and quit the raw malerial. The bill before the Legislature appro- priating $10000 for an exhibit for the Nashville exposition should by all means be adopted. California should never fs 10 show herself at every display of her sis- ter States. Inberited money doesn’t last a fool always and if the faker journalist doesn’t s00n becomé known as ““No. 741,” accord- ing to the New York prophecy, te and b gang of blackmailers will have to work for a living or tramp. Since the Russian Government has de- cided 10 crush out Tolstoi it should apply to ex-Senator Wanamaker for informa- tion as to his success in wrestling with “Kreutzer Sonata.” en it comes to a tussle with genius moral - Governments ehould help each other. It 1s noted in New York that Sherry con- tinues to receive the cream of the social patronage despite the scandal of the See dinner, and some say this is a proof that New York society despises scandals and others assert it is because Mr. Sherry hap- pens 1o be & protege of the Astors. Whoen McKinley gets throuzh with the hard work of making up his Cabinet he will bave a nice easy task picking out men for foreign embassies. It will be no job atall to get the man who applies for a position as Embassador to England to be satisfied with a consulship at Shanghai. A Washingion clergyman who was can- didate for the office of chaplain of the House bl Representalives and received but three votes in caucus told a friend he had in his pocket letters from thirty members | promising to give him their continuous support. He is now probably more con- inced than ever that the average Con- gressman needs a heap of praying for. The newly elected 1ilinois, in an address to the State Legis- lature, said: “Iem in favor of a new in- terpretation of the Monroe doctrine. I believe we should go farther in the light of the new civilizat on and declare that in ail struggles between a monarchy and a republic, between liberty and slavery, we are for liberty.” There is certainly a great deal of jingoism in that, but not enough to hurt. as been taken to- l iently interrupted by | to | Senator Mason of | ‘There is reason 1o believe that su tions have also been cut off | sfr. Huntingt | wonder that tne hi, longer. have exhausted the fortune left by Senat The extent to whick cineh-bill legislation and blackmail § Ezxaminer to reiterate the statement and add that it is absolutely true.” certain, moreover, that this was not the on!y subsidy the Ezaminer was drawing from The managers of the paver are, in fact, in desperate straits. # of Willie Hearst is well nigh expended. York Journal bas ever been on s paying basis. he must get money from somewhere. legitimate methods, and does not know how to earn it In his despair he has turned his blackmailing highbindersloose to ort money from whatever corporation they can. Every man who has any intelligent conception of newspaper business knows that the Eraminer and the Journal have been losing fakes from the start. Hearst is regarded as “anybody’s soft thing. can work bim for a big salary or for “lots of stuff” for a freak. g u large number of copies to every advertiser of importance. urnalism has been prat- Lven those who think they know most af the way affairs have been conducted st Sacramento,and the way in which the San Francisco Eraminer has continued to live despite the drain on the Hearst estate, have but little conception of the manifold iniquities which have been practiced by corrupt full degree of their rapacity will never be made known, but enough has been exposed to well assure the people that such prac- an1 impudently. It is known that the Examiner for a long time drew a subsidy from the Southern much was made clear by the publication of bsidy, “and it-is hardly necessary for the It is quite confine their extortions to a single victim. It is likely, if the truth were known, that every corporation of wealth in the City has to pay tribute to the blackmailers of that infamous journal in order to save themselves from its lies, slanders and- vilifications. In times past the Eraminer conducted its blackmailing schemes with a certaiu The exposure made by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company stripped away the mask, however, and it now seeks to seize its prey with impudence, villainy of its attacks upon the water and gas companies is hardly concéaled by the pretense of being made in the | The inherited for- Neither the Eraminer nor the New If Mr. Hearst is to continue the In New York Any kind of a faker or schemer His papers have sed to pay any attention to news and are now seeking to gain notorlety by every kird of trick and scheme which cunning can suggest and vice adopt. | Take the Examiner, for example. bscribers have cost it more than the new subscriptions coupon schemes, lottery fakes, and all its g by offering a “‘yard of puppies” for every It has attempted to boom its circulation In that way by a fake advertising list. In neither case, Hearst has been compelled to go every week deeper and deeper into the estate left by his father, The sums be has thus squandered on fakes, freaks and | frands amount to millions of doilars, and he is now near the end of his purse. His highbinders have been turned loose on San Francisco He The subsidy once extorted from the Southern Pacific Company car be extorted no sidies hitherto drawn from other corpora- Rumors go about the town that the exposure made by on will soon be followed by exposures of other iniquities. Is it any hbinders and blackmailers of the Ezaminer are desperate? They r Hearst. They have drawn from his | wasteful son every dollar that be can putup. They have drained every interest he in the Anaconda mine, kmail, M r-gard for ce, hones: this depraved and convicted journal. It ve earned by honest industry. Now they are endeavoring to make an Anaconda of of decency, men of capital invested in legitimate industry, men who hava and fair dealing, should unite in opposing tue schemes of should no longer be allowed to co-operate h cinch-bill legislators and Eupervisors to extort money which men of business HELP FOR INDIA The mass-meeting held at the Chamber | of Commerce hall on Thursday to devise | means for giving assistance to the famine ana plague stricken people of India r sulted in the appointment of a well- | chosen committee to undertake the work. is committee should receive cordial istance from the people generally and it be able speedily to make & report which | Courage to bear up against the clamor of | | will amply manifest that the sympathy of | California for the starving people of that unfortunate country is not contined to | words merely. India is a land where the population is s0 large that it presses at all points upon the extreme limits of possible subsist- ence. When a crop fails it means starv. tion to many people of the district unless outside help is provided. In this case the district over which the famine prevails is | s0 large and the inhabitants so numerous | that the charity of the whole world is re- | quired to afford adequate relief to the suf- ferers. Following the famine has come the plague. The haif-starved people are dy- ing by thousands of disease. Even when | we make the fullest allowances for ex- aggerations in the reports irom the stricken districts enough will remain to make it certain that India alone is not | | cavable of grappling with the evil which | Help must be sent from | has befailen her. abroad. It should be sent from every land that bas een blessed by providence. California is one of those lands. She | should eive help and give it promptly. | OECIL RHODES AT BAY. Unless all signs, like dreams, go by contraries the coming investigation by the British Government into the prooseedings | of Cecil Rhodes is going to result in a fine | fight or a big backdown. Mr. Rhodes has | defiantly challenged the “‘unctuous recti- tude’ of his opponents and they L:ave re- | torted with equal vigor. The issue be- tween them is now fairly made up and | there is no chance for evasion on either side, Interestin the struggle will be almost | as wide as the civilized world. It is no 1znoble offender who is thus brought to the bar of British judgment nor are the charges against him of a commonplace or unimportant nature. Neversince the trial of Warren Hastings has the impeachment | of a single man meant so much to the | British empire as is meant by the threat- ened impeachment of Rhodes. The present offender, like- nis predeces- sor, is a maker of empires. If his accom- plishments have not been so great or so splendid as those of Hastings it is only be- cause South Africa as yet is not so rich, so femous or so renowned as India. Itis, nevertheless, a mighly country, which Cecil Rhodes has dominated and added to the British crown. Nor does it detract from bis dignity that in expanding the possessions at Cape Colony he has acted | with such self-reliant independence as to | raise the suspicion that he aims not to widen the dominiors of his sovereign, but | 1o make in South Africa another United | States and establish it as a free, separate | and independent republic. At present the dramatic interesiin the struggle is centered in the personality of | Rhodes. His onponents are as yet an un- | known and confused multitude. It will | not be until some champion comes forth | {0 lead them that the public will turn its attention at all from the eingle splendid figure that now stands apparently alone against a host of foes. 1t may not be long, however, before the champion of the other | side appears, and it would not surprise | the world to find him no less a man than Joseph Chamberlain. The famous South African is to malke his fight under great disadvantage. He has not now Lhe prestige of brilliant and , unbroken success to-dazzle the eyes of the world he had a short time ago. The Jameson raid has discredited him in tae eyes of those who worship success as much |as in the minds of those who condemn lawless aggressions and judge men by the | morality as well as by the result of theit | actions. He has therefore something | more than “unctuous rectitude” to fight | against when he meets his foes in the bat- | tle before bim, and it will require all his | indignation that now rages around him. I The outcome of the contest will affect | more than the fortunes of Mr. Rhodes and any distinguished champion who may come forth to fight him. The leadership of the strong man powerfully affects the minds and hearts of all the ardent, ambi- tious ana aggressive young men of Cape | Colony. They share his desire to lay the | foundations of a great nation in South Africa and they look to himas the one man who has the inteliect, the resources and the will todo it. Such a man with such a following and with such opportuni- ties is never beaten until he is dead or sent to St. Helena. In his fortunes, therefore, all Africa is concerned, and through Africa he affects the world. BAILWAY STATISTICS. That the railways of America form a great part of our industrial system is known to all, but probably few, except those who have examined the official statistics, know how vast a part it really is. According to recent reports about one-fifth of the total wealth of the Nation is invested in railways. As assets of the vast dominions of the United States they are seeond in importance only to the | farms, and to those they are almost equal. miliion dollars, and the railway valu- ation is twelve thousand millions, The | amount invested in manufactures is only half what is in railways. The great army of railway employes count upward of three-quarters of a million. Before the reduction enforcea by the present hard times they numbered a hundred thousand more, and with the return to normal prosperity they would quickly increase to a million. This million of men includes only those strictly employed by the roads. If an estimate were made of those who find remuuerative occapation as the result of railway prosperity in carshops, loco- motive works, blast furnaces, railmills, not to mention the immense industries less directly dependent on the roads, the total count would show how closely inter- woven railway interests are with the gen- eral prosperity of all the people. Railway companies have been aptly said to be great distributers, not only of freight and passengers, but of money. The statistics of the Interstate Com- merce Commission show that in years of forced retrenchment the main part of the reduction of railway expene is taken from the expenditures for keeping up the road- bed, siructures and equipments. The re- | sult of this is pointed out by H. T. New- comb of the United States Agricultural Department as sure to be great impair- ment of railway service. It is a sort of false economy, which is only resorted to when forced upon the roads, and the re- sult of it continuance is inevitable de- struction. By the most recent reports of the statis- ics of railways compiled for the United States Government it is stated that 70 per cent of all the outstanding-stock of the railway corporations paid nothing in 1895, Nearly one-fiftn of the bonds were also un- profitable. It is estumated that nearly one-half of the railway investments of this country are unproduactive, and $5,000,- 000,000 are known to be so. The reduction of rates from 1890 to 1895 equals a loss of revenue of over $100,000,000. A comparigon of our railway rates with He bas never | The farms represent thirteen thousand | | the fe foreiga rates is briefly put in the state- ment of George 8. Blanchard in his testi- mony before the Iaterstate Commerce Committee of tue United States Senate that had American railways collected the lowest of Eurapean charges they would have received $370,000,000 more than they did, PERSONAL W. N. Rohrer of Fresno is in town. J. Brown of San Bernardino is at the Palace. F. & Kenpy of Portland arrived here yester- day. A. McMillea of Knoxville, Cal, is ats the Lick. v R. A. Booth, an attorney of Grants Pass, is at tho Grand. H. A. Stansfield of Nevada City is a recent arrival her Eugene de la Cuesta of Santa Barbara is & visitor here. G. W. McElroy of the United States navy is at the Palace. Dr. W. A. Moore of Benicia was among last night's arrivals. John Sommerville of Portland, Or., arrived here yesterdey. Ben Jones,'an attorney of Sacramento, is a late arrival here, M. H. Peclor, a business man of Orange, is on & visit to the City. William Maguire, a offning man of Dutch Flat, is on & visit here. C. D. Hazzard, a business man of Minneap- olis, is at the Occidental. District Attorney Charles E. Lindsay of Santa Cruz is here on a short visit. Charles Wilson, a mining man of Denver, is a guest at the Cosmopolitan. H. B. Chamberlain, a prominent business man of Denver, is in tbe City. C. H. Hoyden, & business man of Callahans Ranch, is here for a few days’ stay. Dr. P. P. Tebbetts of Sacramento is spend- ing Sunday here. He is at the Grand. F. P. Miils, a mining man of Coulterville, is here, accompanied by his wife and children. G. L. Paine of Boston and N. B, Kennon and E.J. Rogers of New York, business men, are at the Palace. C. J. Studman, a wealthy resident of Provi- dence, Rhode Island, is among the arrivals at the Palace. Professor W. J, Hussey of the Lick Observ- atory, Mount Humilton, s on a visit here and is at the Lick. Ex:Governor J. E Rickards of Montana ar- rived here last night. He will probably be here for some weeks. E. P. Schwab, an extensive timber-owner and lumber manufacturer of Clear Lake, Minn,, is at the Russ R. A. Perkins, o business and mining man of Charleston, Utah, was among yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. J. B. Hull, a teacher of the institution for eble-minded at Glen Ellen, is a recent ar- rival at the Cosmopolitan. A. C. Rowland of Portland, who owns min- ing interests at Bakes City and over the Oregon line in Idaho, is at the Russ. A party consisting of Timothy Mooney of New Orleans A. Mills, proprietor of & lead1ag hotel at Riverside, and Mrs. Mills, are at the Palace. F. N. Meyers left yesterday for Randsburg to take the management of a bank which 1s just being opened there by prominent San Fran- cisco capitalists. D. Boyle, superintendent of the Alta, Justice, Brunswick and other mines at Gold Hill and Virginia City, arrived here yesterday and is at the Russ. Charles F. Blandin, an attorney of New York and president of the Jupiter Cousolidated Deep Blue Gravel Hydraulic Mining Company of Calaveras County, is registered at the Palace. Hownrd Sutherland, formerly editor of the News Letter, is no longer connected with that paper. He has been working very hard and will now take a vacation for & short time, when he will either return here and resume newspaper work or go East. liam J. Cotton, who was identified with the newspaper business here five or six years axo, but who since then has been engaged in railroad enterprises with headquarters at Pheenix, Arlz, isat the Palace, accompanied by some iriends from Baitimore. W. 8. Kinney, one of the pioneers of Astorfa, Or., who has been identified 1n a prominent way there with many enterprises, and who is one of the largest canners end handlers of salmon on the mouth of the Columbia River, is in the City on a business trip. PARINzR>. Love took chambers on our street Opposite to mine: On his door he tacked a neat, Clearly lettered sign. Straigntway grew bis custom great, For hia sigu read 50; +Hearts united while you walt ; Stepin. Love & Co.” Much I wondered who was * In Love's parinership: Thouxht across the street 1'd go— Learn from Love's own lip. S0 I went, and since that day Life is Lard for me. I was bunkoed ! (By the way, “Co " s Jew'ousy.) —KLLIS FARKER BUTLER, in the Century, NEWSPAPER LEASANTRY She—It seems almost impossible that you should love me. He—That's what my mother says. How nicely you and she will get along if you always agree like that.—Harlem Life. Fuddy—Poor Roglesworth is released from all his troubles at last. Duddy—You don’t mean to say he is dead! Fuddy—Ob, no; he's all right. He has got 50 deaf that he can’t hear Twiggs' dog stories any more.—Boston Transcript. She—And now, Charlie, I suppose to-morrow you will have to speak to papa about this? He—Yes, dearest, I suppose I must. (A'tera pause.) Has your father got & telephone?— Boston Guardian. “All great men have been more orless in- sane,” said the theorizing boarder. “Isuppose thep,” said the Cheerful Iaiot, “that Andrew Jackson got the nameof Old Hickory from being putty.”—Indianapolis Journal. “Yes, sir,” said the man in cell 711, “time was when I was aamitted to the very best houses.” “And what brought you here?” “They caught me coming out.”—Chicago Journal. % GARFIELD’S C(ABINET. How SENATOR KIRKW0OD CAME TO BE SELECTED A8 A MEMBER OF IT. The late Justice Miller of the Supreme Court once told me, writes Moses P. Handy in the Chicago Times-Herald, how President Garfield at the last moment was led to make an fmpor- tant Cabinet appointment. Justice Miller recalled the fact that at the inauguration ball he met President Garfield in the crush of promenaders and presented to the Presidents lady on his arm. The Presi- dent bowed and said a pleasant word to the lady, and then, tapping the Justice on the shouider, said: “By the way, Judge, what do you think of Gresham for Secretary of the In- terior?” “He is an admirable man for that or any other place. Upright, able and industrious, and has had a fine record on the bench.” “And what do you say to Kirkwood for the same place?’ “Well, Mr. President, that Is hardly.a fair guestion after my irauk answer lo tho other, ut wien you speak of Kirkwood you touch me on a weak spot. We have known each other all our lives, and I Jove him like a brother. As the war Governor of lowa he was second to no war Governor of them all. He has served the public in many ways aad al- ways with credit and distinction. Put him anywhere and you will not regret it Garfield sald “thank you'’ and passed on, It was thon midnight of the 4th of March, and 50 late a8 that the President was undecied as to the composition of his Cabinet. The next da; thie nominations were sout 1o the Senate, and it wes scen ihat the decision wasin favor of Kirkwood. 1happen to know that Wayne MacVeagh's appointment to the same Cabinet was not de- termined upon until almost as late, and when 1 predicted it in the presence of 'ex-Senutor Dorsey he wanted to bet me $1000 that Mac- Veagh would not heve a_portiolio, and that if any Pennsylvanian were appointed it would be Wharton Barker, HE SAVED THE GRANT B.LL Ex-Congressman James Wilson of Iows, who, it is believed, will be the next Secretary of Ag- riculture, was the central figure of a dramatic scene in the House &t the close of the Forty- \ eighth Congress, says the Washington Post, Mr. Wilson's seat had been contested by & Mr. Frederick, snd the case had driited along without de- cision untii the last day of the session. Evenat thatlate hour the Democrats were endeayorizg 10 tn- seat him and the Re- publicans were fili- bustering against such action. Hanging in the bal- ance was the Ed- 1o place Genera ut, then upon his ceatiibed at Mount MeGregor, up- on the retired list, with ihe rank and ay of generalof tne Btmy. Sr. Randall, then chairman of the Appropriations Com- m}""PWEI? Wlnisfl “;hs bill passed, but Speaker Carlisle had decide that the elections case was of highest privi- lege ana could not be displaced. At twenty minutes aiter 11 o'clock, within forty minutes of the expiration of the session, Mr. Wilson mounted & chair and appealed to his Republican friends to desist from filibus- tering, declaring his willingness to be sacri- ficed rather than have the Grant bill beaten, Amid a scene of wild enthusiasm the Re- publicans accepted his suggestion. Frederick was voted into Congress with & rush, Mr. Rax- dall was recogn zed and the Eamunds bill was passed. It had already been engrossed, and was carried hastily to President Arthur, who sivned it just as the clock was striking 12. STORY OF &N ED.TOR:AL PAGE The gossip about John R. McLean and the Senatorial succession in Ohio reminnds a writer for the Washington Capital that the Cincinnati Enquirer, which is Mr. McLean's paper, gave up its able editorial page in & curious fashion. Twenty-five or thirty years 2go, when Washington McLean was alive and & great power in Ohio and all the Middle West, the Enquirer used to print six columas, at least, of very heavy editorial matter. The ideu was that this sort oi thing shaped the destinies of the whole Ohio Valley. There were six editorial writers in all who contributed to this daily broadside, and they were accustomed 10 meet about 6 o’clock in the evening to compare notes and then sepa- rate_for business, Now, this story is located on the evening of the Fourth of July,and it happened that the six editorial writers, desir- ing to celebrate the occasion, adjourned toa neighboring barroom to have a drink together. It chanced that Washington McLean was al- ready there, though he had not begun to have anything with himself. They were all caught, the editor and the edi- torial bosrd together, and the oniy proper thing, of course, was for the editorial boara 1o have 0ne with the editor, That was done, and the editor went home, as the editorial board should have done, but did not. Other drinks were ordered, aud finally six editors want home, somehow or other. One man recovered himself sufficiently after two or three hours to go to the Enquirer office and begin his edi- torial work. He wrote the sentence, “Yesterday was the Fourth of July,” and left it, he knew not where—perhaps on the top of his desk. Then he went home, and woke in the morning to be alarmed for the safety of the whole Enguirer newspaper. It came out, however, and it had a_single editorial, and' the editorial read: esierday was the Fourth of July.” ne other ediiorial columns were filled with news, anu the departure, which wes thougit to be'a caretully planued coup of journalism by the brilliant Washington McLeun himself, made such a hit (hat editorial articles were not thought to be of value in the columns of the Enquirer for years afterward. PARAGRArHS ABOUI PEOPLE. Besides & postmistress, a woman physician and a woman stage-driver, the town of Lowell, Me., rejoices in & women Justice of the Peace, Mrs. Louisa J. Cabel. Johanna Ambrosius was, a few years azo,a poor German peasant woman, who had to work in the fields with her husband in order to keep soul and body together. Perhaps as fine an autograph album as ex- ists is the visitors’ book at Hawarden,wherein the names of Gladstone's guests are recorded. It contains entries as far back as 1860, The Crown Princess Stephanie, widow of the Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria, atiracted much attention in Vienna recently by singing in & church at Saxenburg,a suburb of the capital. The German Emperor and Empress have completed their plans for a long cruise in the imperial yacht Hohenzollern through the Meaiterranean. They will travel overiand to Italy and embark at one of the Italian ports. Arthur Roberts, the great comedian, de- clares that to this day upon the first night of & new piece be is as nervous as a novice, al- most shaking with fear. The second night he is not much better, but the third he begins to settle down and to feel comtortable. At Christmas time Queen Victoria is always the recipient of various delicacies from for- ecign potentates. The Kaiser sends her Maj- esty venison and Strasburg pies: the Czar, sturgeon and {mperial cuviare; the Emperor of Austrin, Tokuy and other wines; the Grand Duke of Hesse, & wild boar from the forest of Kranichstemn, and so on. But it is known to very few that every year her Majesty receives through an agent in New York, a roya tribute of Cenadian apples, together Wwith a huge barrel of American ovsters. HINDOO RELIEF GOMMITTEE. Collections Will Be Actively Under- taken To-Morrow. It was decided yesterday, in the ab- sence of a quorum, to postpone the meet- ing of the Hindoo Relief Committee until a later date. Mayor Phelan has, however, authorized the press to state that collectors will be sent out to-morrow to canvass the City for donations and that the committee will assemble subsequently and decide as {o whether the proceeds shall be invested in gram and so forth or forwarded in the shape of money. The Columbian Banking Company will act temporarily as treasur- ers, though collections will be made under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce. The committee also appealsto the City congregations to take up the work of re- lief in the meantime, and the clergy of both the Christian and Jewish denomina- tions have been specially requested to deal with the subject from the Fulpib on Sunday and Saturday respectively. SR Union Band of Hope Meeting. Aunion meeting of the Bands of Hope of District 5 will be held to-morrow aiternoon at 3 o'ciock in the Epworth M. E. Church, corner of Twenty-sixth and Church streets. Mrs. & W. Kerrigan, district superintendent of juve- nile work, will preside. The following pro- gramme bas been arranged: Songs and ritusl service by the children: address of welcome, Rev. k. . Baker, pastor of the church: vocal s0lo, Miss Irene Pheips of Oakland; recitation, William Loring; recitation, Frank Wil- lard: vocal solo. Miss Ida Collins; recitation, Miss Gertie anderson; address, ““lxampl.,” Miss I. C. ‘elling, lecturer and xrand organizer of the T.U.: vocal solo, Miss Annie Coulins; reci- tation, Miss Florence Gra-ber: address, Mrs. E. M. North, general superntendent of juvenile work: vocal duet, the Misses Bl :che and Frances =proul; prescutation of tbe prize banner, Rev. J. W Webb, grand chiet tempinr: meeiiilon, Doig” 148 Barrows; closing song by the bands. The meeting is ree to the publie. — - ——— The Endeavorers. The ’07 committee for the great Endeavor convention met last night in Y. M. C. A. Hall. A report was received from the Santa Ciara County C.E. Union that it had appointed a '97 committee, consisting of ex-State President W. G. Alexander of San Jose, £arl S. Bingham, Lester L. Morse, Dr. Beattie and Minnie S. McKar, all of Santa Clara. Tne Third Baptist Church on Powell street reported that the basement was being fitied up for the entertainment of visitors during the convention, the auditorium will be decorated and every night from the tower of the church ill flash a sign composed of incandescent electric lights of the words, ““Weicome, Chris. tlan Eudeavorers.” It was decided fo maintain a literature table at the Texas State Convention from May 4 to 7 in Houston, where “California ‘97" will be well advertised by papers and circulars. SEEMEN HELD BY IRON LAWS Judge Morrow’s Decision in the Aragon Case Is Reaffirmed. Sailors May Be Arrested Any- where if They Refuse to Do as They Agree. Ex-Judge Ferral, Attormey Hutton and Otbers Say The Decision Reaifirms Slavery. Thedecision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of sailors of the private ship Aragon has created great in- terest and considerable disappointment in labor circles of San Francisco. To state the case in plain English, free from all legal verbiage, Justice Brown has decided that if sailors sign a contract to make a voyage on a private ship they be- come 5o far bound to the shipowners that they are subject toarrest and imprison- ment if they fail to comply with the con- tract. The Coast Seamen’s Union of San Fran- cisco, aided by unions elsewhere, is mak- ing diligent efforts to have the United States statutes so amended as to exempt seamen from liability to imprisonment for failure to comply with their contracts. ‘While the amendment is almost certain to become a law, the masses of workingmen had hoped that the Supreme Court of the United States would hold that section 4589 of the Revised Statutes of the United States is repugnant to the spirit of Ameri- can 1nstitutions and therefore void. It is substantialiy a copy of the old Eng- lish statutes on the subject. The Supreme Court has decided, however, that the law is good, though Justice Harlan wrote a vicorous dissenting opinion. The seamen were taken into custody in the harbor of San Francisco on the charge of baving refused to obey the orders of the master of the vessel Aragon, after having entered on articles to make a voyage to Valparaiso. They applied to the Federal District Court for writs of habeas corpus, and upon the refusal of their petition ap- pealed to the Supreme Court, Justice Brown's opinion affirms that of the District Court and the Supreme Court refuses to interfere with the case. On the first point the court held that the arrest of the sailors under the circum- siances was “a due exercise of judicial vower,” and also held that no invoiun- tary servitude was inyolved in compelling seamen to serve lor the time a reed upon. The term “involuntary,” Justice Brown said, ‘“‘must attach to the incention of the service.” It would be as culpable that soldiers should desert on the eve of battle as that seamen should decline to obey orders issued to them at sea. Justice Harlan dissented in a vigorous opinion, basing his division on the ground that the arrest was in violation of the thirteenth amendment, in that it was an attempt to enforce involuntary servi- tude. He declared that it was an attempt to interfere with the rights of iree men to compel them to serve on a_private vessel contrary to their wishes. He objected to any appeal to English precedents in this case, saying that the two governments were so entirely different as to render such reference unavailing. In England, he said, Parliament is the paramount authority, and that body could wipe out magna charta in a law of ten lines, while the power of Congress was limited by the constitution. Justice Harlan dwelt upon the fact that the Aragon was a private vessel and that Robertson and his companions were taken off it to be placed under arrest because they Had asserted their rights as free men and refused to work. This he did not think, should be re- garded in the lignt of a criminal of- fense and, to his mind, fell clearly within the prohibition of the thirteenth” amend- ment azainst compelling involuntary ser- vice. There was, he said, a difference be- tween imposing conditions like these on men like soldiers in the public service and upon men in private employ, even though they be sailors. He differed radically from the court in holding that the action of Robertson and the other sailors was similar to that of a soldier who should de- sert in battle, and said that the effort to compel them by the aid of the court to observe the terms of a contract and con- tinue their labor was more like an overseer standing over a slave 1o compel the per- formance of menial service. Again, if such a law could be enforced in international commerce, why not in in- terstate commerce? If men could be com- pelled to serve on ocean-goingsteamers, why not on the river boats of the inte- rior? Why was it more reasonable to ar- rest a seaman for refusing to labor than a house servant who mdde a similar re- fusal? A law providing such a penalty in the latter event would shock every one, yet the grounds for it would be as solid as for the law under which this proceeding occurred. He thougzht the law unconsti- tutional, and the arrest of the men con- trary to the spirit of the ay; Attorney W. H. Hutton, who has cbarge of-the case for the.sailors, was completely disgusted when he Leard of the decision. He said: “This restores slaverv and makes the harsh old English statutes of hundreds or yesrs ago binding on u.s\ courts of the United States. If it holds in the case of sailors on a private vessel it ought, by the same reasoning, to hold good for a contract to build a private house.” Bx-Judge Robert O. Ferral said: *Jus- tice Harian is correct, and since he has been overruled it is time the statutes were renealed on behaf of humanity. It is contrary to the spirit of our laws to pun- ish a man because he will not carry outa contract to work. This Aragon decision reaffirms the worst featnres of the old im- vressment laws under which British seamen were imprisoned everywhere and forcea to go aboard ship. That was one of the causes that led to the War of 1812, and it hardly seems possible that a court of dignity has pronounced this the law to- day.” WATOHED BY IRIENDS. James Hair of the Pacific Transfer Com- pany keceives a Handsome Gift. James Hair, who for twenty-four years past has occupied the position of manager of the Pacific Transfer Company, has re- signed his office and will henceforth be in the employ of the Gas Consumers’ As. sociation in a responsible positio Previous to his leaving the office of the transfer company yesterday afternoon the employes of (hat concern took occasion to treat him to an agreeable surprise. With Thomas Carothers, general baggage agent of the Southern Pacitic Compan spokesman, they aporoached his d and, presented him with a beautiful gold watch and chain as a token of their esteem. Mr. Carothers' speech was & happy effort and the recipient of the g sponded in a feeling address. HIS FUNERALT0-MORROW » A. H. Loughborough Will Be Buried From St. Mary’s Cathedral. re- Among the Pall-Bearers Are Some cf the Best-Known M:n in the City. The arrangements for the funeral of Alexander H. Loughborough are as nearly complete as it 1s possible to make them, considering the brief period of time since his sudden death. The remains will be removed from his late residence, at the nortliwest corner of Franklin and O'Farrell streets, at 10 o'clock Monday morning to St. Mary’s Cathedral, on Van Ness avenue, where a requiem high mass will be celebrated by the Rey. Father John J. Prendergast, as- sisted by other clergymen of the cathe- dral. From there the body will be borne to Calvary Cemetery. The honorary pall-bearers will be: John Parrott, Adolph Web-r, Judge E. W. Mc- Kinstry, Louis Parrott, Judge J. V. Cof- tey, Joseph Donohoe, John M. Burnett and L. S. Peace. All of these were per- sonal friends of Mr. Loughborough dur- ing his lifetime. The deceased leaves a widow and four grown-up children to mourn his loss. His eldest son, A. Z. Loughborough, isa law student in his father’s office. George A., the younger brother, and their sister Frances are in this City, while Miss Josephine is at present in Nice, France. Beside these there are his two sisters, one the widow of the late General Keyes, and the other the wife of Dr. E. L. Keyes, son of General Keyes, now residing in New York. It is understood that the dead lawyer has left a will in which hisentire property is left to his widow for the use and benefit of herself and her children. At least such were the sentiments frequenily expressed by him during his lifetime. E. H. BLACK, pamter, 120 Eddystrost. " i by ICECREAX and cakes. Guiller's, 905 Larkin.* St on iy TowxsEND's California glace fruits, 50c 1b in handsome joker etched boxes. 627. 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