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) ) THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1897. an ettache named A. Campbell $25 for a power of attorney to draw §28. He found that Campbell had buncoed him, bis name not being on the roll. Parmenter com- plained to R. R. Duckworth about it and R. R.; who a brother of the chief clerk, said that Campbell’s name woutd be on the list. C. B.Brown and Frank Ryan told about the ‘cbicf clerk contending that he had done nothing wrong in making the ap- poi ments and remarking that two years hence, if the jaw stocd as it does now, he would exhaust the contingent fund even if he had to employ & thousand attaches The committee will meet again to-mor- row afternoon and wiil absorb some more wisdom from Assemblymen who piled on | the temporary roll all” that the tratficg would bear. Pendinz this never-ending investigation I | | | | | the pruning knife may be used on the permanent roll, and the shylocks who nave discounted warrants abead may be jeft in the lurch, which is a consoling thought. Spesker Coombs told a CALn reporter this evening that he did not be- tiaches were on the permanent 1 not nave a right to be there. But tl was that there were more | than w to do the business of the House, and if that should be found to | be the case the superfinous attaches would | Lie cut off in the interest of retrenchment. | wfternoon Speaker Coombs, yield- « the chair to Dibble, madea motion | an tue tloor of the House for the appoint- | Speaker of a committee of vestigate the payroll of the | ¥ and to recommend the necessary. lieve any s roll who d eeling re necessary reforn The id € is no question in my mind,” ombs, ‘‘that the payroll is too I don’t believe a rediction can | ade in it unless it is investigated in a anner. I would rather have tee of three also take into con- aticn any appointments in which [ e specially interested and if cken from the roll. | r here charged with ts than he is entitled to, Ifther 1ume s constituency isentitled to, he ought and in and consent to the sac v way to get at it is by the ap- 1tment of a committee. f there is any d who is not here or not d in service, his position ) itel. This committes shouid strike off the list all those attaches that are not abso! 1y needed.” The The resolution was adopted unani- mously, and Dibble in the cheir appointed Coombs, Valentine and Bridgford. Speaker Coombs asked to be excused from serv he committee, *l am | er now,” said D.bble, “and I decline se the Speaker.’” o be let off, but Dibble own with the gavel. occupy the same position as Judge | Bridgiord,” began Valentine, but the gavel cut bim short. “I decline to ex ent,” said Dibbl Vi e was red with indignation. It has s bad luck this session to be al- tood. “I was not going o be excused,” ut I was | y that the Speaker should not be excused nor anybody else.” Duckworth has not yet >m his room. It is expected that he will do so when all the so-cailed | cvidence for the prosecution shall have been pt g on cuse anybody at pres ie he said, e i UNE EMNOI1Y QUESTION. | Problem of Consolidating the Tax and Licrnse «ollectorship. ENTO, Car., Feb. L.—A knot- tutional question came up at the SACRA ty cons meeting of the Senate Judiciary Commit- tee to-night. The biil under considera- | tion was that creating the new office of | County License Collector, and making the Tax Collect officio the License Col- lector. The emoluments of the License Collector are to consist of either fees or a fixed salary, and this raised the question | whether such remuneration could be paid | to the incumbents of the office of Tax Collector in the various counties in view of the constitutional provision against ering the remuneration of an official g bis tenure of office. The matter was referred to a sub-committee to report to-morrow. Assembly bills 412 and 414, which have passed that body and which amend the | statute of limitations sn as to extend the | time to four years for bringing an action | on a written contract made outside of the State, were disposed of in short order. It was unanimously voted to recommend that they do not pass. They are bills drawn by the Code Com mission. Iroad Commissioner La Rue ap- peered before the committee in behalf of | the bill to compe! all transportation com- | panies to report to the commission. He ated that while the railroads were now making such reports the water transpor- tation companies had refused to do so. The committee agreed to report the bill favorably, but excepted street railroads from its operation. du e IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY. Vosburg Wants 4l . ttaches to Sign the Roll Every Morning. SACRAMENTO, CaL., Feb. 1.—In the Assembly this morning Burnham'’s reso- lution providing for the establisnment of the office of county expert, to be attached 10 the office-of Countv Auditor, which had | been made the special order for to-day, was, after-discussion, ruted out of order. Amendments were offered to bill 396, re- | lating to the'sale of franchises, making it | apply only to cities and towns; also pro- hibiting the surrénder of a franchise with- out the consent of. the Supervisors. Hudson-presented a petition for a Sun- day law. rid:ford offered an amendment to his resolution providing for an investigation of thé office of State Printer, authorizing the Retrenchment Committee to conduct the investigation, Emmons nioved that the Committee on Public Morals be directed 10 report at the next session a bill regulating race tracks and prohibiting winter racing. Adopted. A resolution offered by Vosbure to re- quire all employes of the Legislature to sign a roll-ull every morning was ruled out of order, though the Speaker com- mended the sbject of the resolution. Bills 10 provide for Nationai Guard ex- penses in 1504 and 1895, and for the protec- tion of game were passed; also several code amendments. Al the afternoon session a resolution was adopted providing for the collection of evidence of frand in case of a contested election Speaker Coombs called Dibble to the chair and introduced a resoiution to ap- point a committee of three to review the salary roll, with a view of weeding out such employes as do not perform their duties and abolishing ali useless positions, The resclution was adopted, and the Speaker pro tem. (Dibble) ‘appointed Coombs, Bridzford and Valentine, refus- ing to consider excuses for not serving. Kenyon’s bili providing for the disins corvoration of municipal incorporations was passed. The bill makes a two-thirds vole recessary to disincorporate. Bridgfoid’s bill excluding barred claims from voling in the election for assignee of an insolvent debtor was passed. A resolution was passed ordering the | merce, Harbors, etc. | Diego, but owing to | iniroduced by Senator Withington. [ accordance with constitutional req It provides ‘or four different ap- | Which | propriations, { age bil At a meeting of the Committee on Labor | of, and State Printer to print 500 copies of each bill as adopted. For several days past the ' each violation of the provisions of the printer has furnished only five copies of | bill. Amended bills to the engrossing clerk. Dibble declared that this was not consti- | tutional, and many bills on the third- reading file were passed over because not Frinted after being amended. Manure sold at not exceeding $3 ver ton shall be exempt. This bill is instigated by 8 man who has a certain brand of fertilizer on the market. Goodhue introduced Assemoly bill No. | 662 to-day, providing that all contracts Bills were passed providing the time for | for the construction, improvement or re- commencing actions not specified in the | pair of any public’ school buildinz or code of civil procedure, and providing for | structure connected therewith amounting the distribution of tuee-tate of & deceased | to §250 or more shall be lev to the highest person to his widow without the necessity | responsible binder after publication for of appointing & guardian for minor chi dren. Bettman’s bill providing for the empioy- | ment of citize on ail public work was | duced this morring. thirty days. Plans and specifications for the same shall be open to competition. Pohlman's Assembiy bill 665 was intro- It authorizes the amended by Cutter to inciude as eligible | State Harbor Commissioners to open a aliens who have deciared their intentions to become citizens. Dibble’s bill to raise the salaries of San | south, and 10 expend not less than $100,. boulevard 200 feet wide paral’®l with the waterfront line 1o Folsowm street on the Francisco Superior Judges was passed on | 000 in the construction of wharves, piers, the file by request. Valentine’s bit available as an emigration fund in county treasuries from $2000 to $5000 was given a third reading, but passed on the file. Shanahan’s bill prohibiting the deposit of private funds with county treasurers was passed. Several bills of minor importance were ferry siips or bulkheads between the increasing the amount | westerly line of Mason street and the east- erly line of Kearny street, the work to be done within one year by contract. The cost of the paving of the East-street thor- oughfare shall be chargeable to the owners of the lots abutting thereon and the City and County of San Francisco. No fran- chise for a railroad track along said thor- introduced out of order. | oughfare shall be granted by the Super- Dibble held the chair all the afternoon and made the record of the longest after- noon session since the Legislature con- | duced to-day, vened. Adjourned. The Senate had barely a auorum when Lieutenant-Gov: rnor Jeter called it to or- der at12:3) to-day. The second reading of bills was taken up. At the afternoon session no quorum ap- peared and an adjournment was taken till to-morrow morning. | o AUTHOKS WERE ABSENT. 50 the Senate Committea Cowld Not dct z on Three Imnportant Bi SACRAMENTO, Car., Feb. | important bilis were to have been passed upon by the Senate Committee on Com- Two of these per- tained to San Francisco and one to San the absence of the authors of the measures the hearing went over until later in the week. Tke first was Braunhart’s bill to rescind the power of the Harbor Commissioners to meke long teases of water-front prop- erty. Action on this was deferred until Friday night, though Thairman Gleaves expressed himself as being opposed to it. He was the author of the bill xiving the commission power to make such leases, and by means of which the Valley road was enabled to secure the lease of China Basin. Braunbart's bill to issue State bonds to the amount of $1,000,000 to extgpd the sea- wall to Channel street aiso went over till Friday night. Then came a bill of great importance to San Diego, which had been Its object is the improvement of San Diego harbor. erection of a State wharf, the purchase of a dredger, and for paving the lecal ex- penses incident to securing possession of the tide lands on the bay of San Dieco and the other indebtedness of the State Board of Harbor Commissioners for the bay of San Diego. Chairman Withington called attention to the fact that the bill was not draw ments, and four ceparaie have been presented. bills should He also visors. Assemblyman Elliott’s bill 664, intro- provides for the introduc- tion of the kindergarten schools into the public school sysiem g GENERAL LEGISLATION, Withington’s Bitl to Establish a New Retail Liquor System. SACRAMENTO, Car. Feb, 1.—For the past four days Sen:tor Morehouse has | been apparently glued to the seat of his desk. Come in at what time one might | there be was bent down over a pile of 1.—Three | Manuscript or documents, or a copy of the codes. Sunday brought no exemption from his self-imposed and absorbing task, and the outlook is that he will spend at least another two day He is engaged in preparing the bill which i3 to establish in Santa Clara County in the former Home for Feebl. minded the female department of the Whittier School, which is at present a part of the institution in Los Angeles County. All the preliminary work of visiting and inspection has now been completed, and the task now remaining is that of prepar- ing a bill that shall meet the favor of the Governor and also the Los Angeles dele- ation in each house. This is what Sena- tor Morehouse is now engaged upon. measure wiil of necessity be a voluminous one, and must be prepared with great care and precision, 8o as to keep it clear ol al! snags. 1t will probably contain 10,000 words, The first draft Senator Morehouse ex- pects to have completed by Tuesday night. It will then be submitted to the Governor and the Los Anczeles representatives, so 1t appropriates $50,000 for the | as to remove all features of possibie fric- tion in committee or on the floor. He caiculates that it will be in shape for in- troduction Thursday mornin Ample compensation is being made by the Republican Senators for the alleged sins of the Povulist and fusionist infected Assembly. While the conglomerate mi- nority of Democrats, Populists and fu- sionists in the northern wing of the Capi- tol is raising a howl over a state of affairs they more or less contributed to create the Senate, barren of hybrids and | freaks and comprising twenty-eight Ree stated that the author, who posed as the | publicans and but twelve Democrats, goes ““watchdog of bills,” 10 see that they were constitutional, had singulariv omitted the enac se from his bill. In the ao- sence of Withington the bill went over on with its labors and daily adds toits enviable record. It has previous'y been told in these | columus how it has outstripped all pre- until Wednesday night, when the pnm.'kus Culifornia Senates in the extraordi- is to be again considered. and Capital to-night it was decided to re- port favorably on .Treacy’s Assembly biil, placing the minimum wages ai $2 per day on all public_work. Similar action was taken-on the bil! fixing the tenure of the Board of Public Works. Action on the Labor Bureeu bill was deferred. sy NEW ASSEMHLY Legal Drfinition of a Newspaper of Gen- eral Cirenlation. SACRAMENTO, CaL, Feb. 1.—Assem- bly bill 654 was introduced by Melick this morning. It adds a new title to part four of an act entitled “*An act to establish a Political Code,” approved March 12, 1872, t0 be known as “Title 5. It provid-s that whenever any public tion, or notice by publication, or official adveriising, is required by the codes by BILLS. | any public officer, such publication or official advertising shall be made only in a newspaper of general circulation, where such & newspaper is publi-hed within the jurisdiction of said official. A newspaper of general circulation is | defined s a newspaper published for tne dissemination of local news and intelli- gence of a general character having a bona- | fide subscription list of paying subscribers | and which shall have been esta ished, printed and published in the State, county, city, city and county, or town where sach publication, notice of publication, or official advertising, is given or maae, jor at least one year. A newspaper devoted to the interesis, or published for the en- tertainment of a particular clase, profes- sion, trade, calling, race or denomination, or any member thereof, is not a newspa- per of general circnlation. Hudson’s Assembly bill 65 vrovides that within thifty days prior to the ex- piration of .the sentence of any convict confined in any State prison the warden shall forward to each Sheriff and Chief of Police of this State a photograph of such conyict, together with a minute descrip- tion of his person and marks of idexntifica- tion, together with a statement of the nature of the crime for which he is im- prisoned. This will apply only to convicts who havé served a prior term in a State prison or House of Correction. Assembly bill 658 is by Goff. It fixes wit- ness fees and muleage as follows: For each day’sactual attendance upon the Supertor Court §2in civil cases, and $1 50 in crim- inal cases. No fees are paid in eriminal cases now. Mileage actually traveled, one | way. only, per mile ten cents, provided that in criminal cases the court may disals low any fees to a witness unnecessarily subpenaed, and that no fees shall be al lowed to ‘Wwitnesses in the examination of insane persons or inebriate: Assembly biil 659 by Goff, provides that any ten residents of a road district, at least two of whom are taxpayers, may pe- tition in writing the Board of Supervisors to vacate and close up any park, plaza, wublic square or other public reservation, situated in.such district not. belonging 1p the State, and not situated in any manici- pality. _Any person feeling aggrieved. by the de- cision of the Board of Supervisors m. appeal 1o the Superior Court within six months from the date of recording of the order, and the decision of the Superior Court shall be final. Assembly bill 657,by Waymire, provides for tue boundaries of incorporated towns and cities by the annexation of uninhab- ited territory.thereto and for the ineor- poration of such annexed territory in and as a part of such municipality for the districting, government and municipal control of annexed territory. The petition required must be signed by not less than one-tenth of the number of qualified electors of such municipal cor- poration. The matier must be decided at a special election’called for that purpose, the electors of the municipality taking part therein and deciding the issue by g majority vote. Assemblyman Toland, a fusionist from the bean district of Ventura, introduced tkis morning a bill which has a strong odor of cinch. Itis number 661 and pro- vides that .every commercial - fertilizer offered for sale within the State of California shail be accompanied by an analysis showing a certain number, kind and quality of chemical constituents. Punishment shall bea fine of $100 for to the front with an this session, the expenses of the Senate, aside from the salaries of the Senators and _statutory officers, were $5101. For the four weeks ending to-day they are but $3077—a reauction, as compared with two years ago, of very nearly 40 per cent—and ihe same ratio is likely to be maintained to the end of the session. One the most remarkable and inter- esting Toeasures placed before the Senate for its consideration this § 'ssion is No. 1. introduced by Senator Withington, pro- viding lor a complete and radical ciiange in the manner of cont-olling the retail liquor trade, except that portion of it which pertains to vinous and maltliquors. His proposed innovation is known as the “Norwegian system,” and is in force in Norway and Sweden, with, it is said, most beneficial results. Drunkeuness has fall- en off, it is claimed, in those countries to but a small fractional part of what it was, people zet a better class of liquor, and there is less disease traceable to the use of liguor. One of the objectionsto the meas- | ure is that it creates a monopoly, limited, it is true, but stilla monopoly. The mea! ure is of suca an unusual character that its text is given in full: In any city or town which grants licenses for the sale of intaxicating liquors a petition signed by qualified voters of any such city or 10wn not less in number than one for every one hundred persons who voted at the next receding election in such city or town, but nno case less then fifty, may be pr | | the City Council of such city orto :he Trus. | tees of such- town, asking them o imsert |in ‘the call for the next municipal elec- tion or town meeting an artic.e providing for a vote upon the questi “If licenses for the sale of intoxicating. liguor light wines and malt liquor: this city (or town) shall they granted under the Norwegian system?” If said peiition is duly filed with the boud, as hereinafter pro- vided, tha City Council or Trustees, as the case may be, shall lusert such article in sa:d call. The vote shall be taken thereon, and the result determined in the manner provided by law for other questions. Said petition, together with the bond duly approved as hereinatter provided, shall be filed with the City or Town Clerk, as the case may be, at least tén days before the tiwe fixed {for the issue of the call for the city election or town meeting. The question relating to the Norwegian sys- tem shall not be iuserted in the call or printed on the ballot, as provided in section 1 of this ac, unless there is filed together with said petition a bona to said city or town, im the penal sum of $1000 in towns and of $5000 i cities, exe- cuted by not less than five citizens ot such city or town, approved by a Judge of the S. perior Court and couditioned upon the for- mation within sixty days foliowing said elec- tion of a corporation to receive the licenses which may be granted to it under the provis- fons of this act, and upon the carrying on business under stich licenses for at least three years from said first day ot May, but to be yoid if such city or town shall not vote to grant lieenses under the Norwegian system. In any city or town voting to grant licenses to sell” intoxicating liquors under the Nor- wegian system every such license shall con- tinue in force until three years from said $ix- tieth day afier said electios unless sooner forfeited or rendered void, and no vote shall be taken in such city or town on_the question of granting licenses for the sale of intoxicating liguors until the third anuual election of town meeting following the one at which such city ortown voted to grant such licenses under the Norwegian system; and iu such city or town wherein a corporation is organized to u licenses. of the first ana second classes, hereinaiter defined, no licenses of these two classes shail be granted except to such corpo- ration, end such corporation shall apply all the profits of the business above 4 per ¢entum on its cupital, except s hereinafter proviaed, 10 the nid of objecis of gemeral public benefit and utility, to Le decided upon as hereinafter provided. There shali be bui one such corpo- ration‘ doing business within such eity or town, and if more than one is formed and ap- plies’ for iicenses that one shall receive them which a commission composed, in cities, of the Mayor, City Treasurer and the Auditor, in towns, of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, the Town Clerk and Trens- urer shall decide to be the one which will best conduct its business to secure sobriety and good order conformably to the provisions of this act. Whenever more than one such corporation appligs for licenses, sid_commis- sion shall ve callell together by the Mayor or the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, as the case may be; it shall hear the claims of all ap- plicauts and shall make its decision between them, which, with the reasons therefore in writing shall'be filed with’ the City or Town Clerk, as the case may be, and be open to pub- lic inspection The by-laws and regulations governing the business of the corporation shsil conform to exnlln%luw and in this respect shall be ap- proved by a Judge of the Superior Court of the couaty Within which such eity or town is situated before the corvoration shall_begin its business; they shall be conspicuously posted in every place where the business of the cor- other than are granted in The | | a8 said Commissioners may direct. ! poration is carried on. No shareholder shall Teceive more then an annual dividend of 4 Dper tentum on the pa: value of his stock, payable semi-annuaily; and, after all the expenses of the business and the divi- dend have been paid there shall first be estabishedWa reserve fund-equel to the par value of the capital stock, and, after the pay- ment of said dividend and the establishment of said reserve fuad, the remainder of -the net profits, if eny, shail ata fixed time in each year be expended for one or more objects of zeneral public benefit and utility, such asin- dusirial education, coffee-houses and reading- roows, parks, hospitals, public baths and saui- tary improvements. The objects of such ex- penditure in each year and the proportion of said remaiuder to be expendsd for each one of the objects selected shall be determiued by the sharebolders at a meeting called for that purpose. The Commissiovers of Banks shall mnvesti- gate, examine and proceed against every such corporation in like mennerand with the same powers as is now or shall hereafter be pro- vided in the case of banks, 5o far as such pro- visions are applicable thereto; and ii itsnail eppear to said Commissioners that the busi- ness of such corporation is being carried on 80 that its shareholders are receiving or will Teceive therefrom, directly or indirectly, more than the dividend of 4 per centum as herein- before provided, said Cammissioners shall ap- PLy to & Judge of the Superior Court to issue a1 njunction to restrain such eorparation, in Wwholé or in part, from further proceed- ing with its "business, in like ‘manner s is now provided with respect 10 banks; and such Judge shall have the same powers and duties in respect to such applications as are now given in respect to banks. Said Com- missiouers may cause any such examination tobe made byan expert, under their direc- tion, at the expense of the corporation. Every such corporation shall aunuahy, within ten days after the last business dsy of its fiscal yeir, make a return to said Commissioners, which return shail specify such details of its business as said Commissioners may direct, and shail include the names aud number of iis employes and the salaries paid to each, and the snlaries, if any, paid to the officers of said corporation. Blank forms for such returns suail be furnished by smid Commis- siouers. Said annual returns sbali be pub- lished in & newspaper of the city or town where such corporation 1s established; or, if no newspaper is published in ety such city or town, in the newspaper published nearest such’city or town, at the expemse of such corporation, at such times and i1 such manner Said Com- missioners shall biennially make report to the Lezislature of such facts and statements respecting such corporation, and in such form as they deem that the pubiic interest requirzs. Every license granted to a corporation under the provisions of this act snail be subject 10 all exis.ing laws and to al: the conditions now imposed upon licenses granted to private licensces, and which are not inconsistent with the provisions of this aci; and ihey shall be | further subject 10 the condition that no sale B iatever shall be made on credit. The number of liceused places in which said corporation may exercise the licenses granted under the provisions of this act shall be fixed by the directors, subject to the approval ol the licensing authority for the time being; but the number of licensed places for the sale of intoxicating liquors under the first four classes, as hereinbefore defined, shail not ex- ceed otie place for each 2000 of the pobulation of the ¢ity or town 1n Which the lieenses are to | be granted, as ascertained by the last preced- ing Natlonal or State census; and all licenses ;gr.u.tm contrary to or in excess of the vrovi- nary amount of business it has disposed | it is now equally remarkable financial showing. Up to the 2d of February in the session of 1895, which answers (o Februoary 1 of | | | sions of this act shall be void. The foregoing section shall not prevent the licensing of one place in any town voting to license under the Norwegian sysiem where the populution is less than 2000. The fees for licenses granted under toe pro- visions for this nct shall not beiess thau $1000 nor more than $2000. Ail existing laws or ordinances relating to the issuing, control and revocation of licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors, and not inconsistent with the provisions of thisac shall apply to licenses granted under this ac and said corporation shall be subject to & existing pecuniary penaities for the violation the conditions of licenses or of the laws re- lating to the sale of intoxicating liquor, and shail appoint a manager for each licensed place where its business i to be carried on, who snall be personaily liable 10 all penaltics for said violations occurring in the licensed place of business under his managemant. For the purpuses of carrying on the business of selling intoxicating liquors under the pro- visions of thissct, five or more persons may form a corporation under the provisious of the general laws relating to the formagion of ness corporations, and on the forlnation uch corporation shall be subject to the provisions of said laws, and may exercise all the pow- rs of a business corporation formed creunder, together with the power to sell intoxicating liquors. Nothing in this act shall be construed to ai- fect existing laws regulatipg the granting of licenses for the sale of intMkicating liquors in a city or towu voting to grant such 7icenses and in which no corporation shall be estab- lished to take the same as herein provided. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 1f this-system is adopted it will give San Francisco about 175 saloons, exclusive of beer ana wine shops; Los Angeles 45, Oukland 25, Sacramento 16, Stockton 9. Stroug opposition has developed to the two bills introduced by Senator Woife conferring new powers on the Boards of alth of municipalities andcounties. It es from San Francisco in.the form of an appeal to the Lezislature over the sign manual of the San Francisco Butchers' Board of Trade. It is in the form of an eight-page pamp let, containing the drafts of the two objectionabe measures and the protest of the organization namea, under the head of “Objections to the Bills.” THISS B Teachers’ Pemwion Bill, SACRAMENTO, Cai., Feb. 1.—The Assembly Committee on Education, Robinson in the chair, held a meeting to- night to consider the wpublic school teachers’ pension bill. After addresses by Thomas H. McCarthy and others the bill was changed so as to allow thirty teachers in a county to form an assgciation instead of fifty, and the amount to be paid by each teacher has been fixed at $1 per month in- stead of a percentage on the salary. The committee will report the bill fayorably. R Eills Reported Favorably. SACRAMENTO, Car, Feb. 1. — The Assembly Committee on Commerce and Navigation (Poniman of S8an Francisco in the chair) held a short session this after- 10on and decided to report favorably upon the following Assembly biils: Ryan’s, No. 158, for the completion of the morthern seawall; Hill's, No. 538, for the improve- ment of Humboldt harbor, and Pohlman’s, No. 568, appropriating $75,000 fer a fireboat in the harbor of San Francisco. OVERWOLKK IN HIGH 5CHOOLS. Brooklyn Girls Mentally and Physically Arecked. NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 1.—Brooklyn school girls will swear by homeopathy from now on because the Homeopathic Medical Society of Kings County will present a resolution to the Board of Edu- cation on Tuesday demanding the moditi- cation of thé course of study in the Girls’ High School. The resolutions will be backed up by strong verbal arguments. The persons connected with the society are convinced that the hard study required of the students is having a serious effect on their health. The large number of children wearing glasses is credited to the demands of the High School course. These persons have been studymg the subject for a long time. Their atiention was first enlisted last May by Dr. Alton S. Warner, who read a vaper before the so- ciety on the subject. One of the phy: cians interested in the matter said to- day: “The curriculum of the Girls’ High School is so extensive and the standard is 50 high that many girls have given way under the strain of trying to pass satisiac- tory examinations. It was noticeable at the recent graduation that halftie girls showed evidences of the intense mental strain to which they had been subjected. Rosy cheeks were very scarce.” Sime e Ly AKS CAKEW CONVICTED. moed 1o Death jor Murdering Her Husvand in Japan. LONDON, Exc., Feb. L—A dispatch from Yokohama says that the trial of Mrs. Carew, charged with causing the death of her husband, Walter Raymond Hallowell Carew, secretary of the Yoko- hama United Club, by administering arsenic, has ended in her conviction. She was sentenced to death to-day. The sen- tence is subject to revision by the Briush Minister. The trial began on January 5. Ses The leaf of the banana is usually six feet long by two feet wide. GROVER GIVES UP THE DOCUMENTS Complies With the Senate’s Resolution Concerning Sanguilly. Olney Says Administrative Ac- tion by Spain May Reason- ably Be Expected. But a Letter From Consul-General Lee Holds Out Faint Hopes for the Prisoner. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 1. —Im- mediately after the reading of Friday's journal in the Senate to-day that body, on motion of Sherman (K.) of Ohio, chair- man of the Committee on Foreign Rela- tions, went into executive session, pre- sumably for the presentation of the report of the Committee on Foreign Relations upon the srbitration treaty. The doors were opened at 12:45, and legislative business was proceeded with. Various petitions in favor of the ratifica- tion of the arbitration treaty were pre- sented. Hill (D.) of New York presented a bill granting a pension of §75a month to the widow of General Jo:eph B! Carr, and ex- plained that a like bill had previously passed Congress and been sent to the President, who hzd not signed it, but it was claimed at the Pension Office that it had failed to become a law because Con- gress was in recess during the ten days allowed for the signature or veto of bills. ie doubted the propriety of that ruling, but felt that the simplest and easiest way was to pass the bill over sgain. The bill was passed, as was also another bill, governed by the same facts, increas- ing the pension of the widow of General Hougn 1o $70 & moath. Bills to provide for the revision and codification of the criminal and penal laws of the United S!:ucs, to consolidate the Circujt and District courts of the United States, and relating to the em- ployment of counsel by the Aitorney- General or by district attorneys, were in- troduced by Hoar (R.) of Massachusetts and referred to the Judiciary Committee, Chandler (R.) of New Hampshire intro- duced a resoiution instructing the. Com- mittee on Privileges and Elections to inquire into the recent Presidential and State election in Delaware and ascertain whether that State 1s receiving the enjoy- ment of a republican form of government. Referred. A bill giving certain powers to the Com- missioners of the District of Columbia as to the'stretching of wires for illuminating purposes during inauguration week was fiercely resisted by Hale (R.) oi Maine, who denounced the “‘obstinucy and wron, headedness” of the commissioners. 'Aiter a long discussion the bill was passed with an amendment, probibiting specifically the construction of underground conduits for the purpose. 3 5 A message from the President, with a report from the Secretary ol State, giving the information cailed for by a Senate res- olution &s to the arrest and condemnation in Cuba of Jules Sanguilly, an American citizén, was laid before the Senate and re- ferred to the Committee on Foreign Rela- tions. In his report to the President on this case Mr. Olney savs: “It might be added thatin view of all the circumstances in this case, and especially of the long im- prisonment aiready suffered by the ac- cused, represeniations have been mude to the Spanish Government which it is be- lieved will not be without effect, as the case is one in which administrative ac- tion may be reasonably expected.’’ Among the cofrespondence is a letter irom Consul-General Lee, dated December 31, in which he says he visited the Cabanas fort and bad a talk with San- guiily, an American ani formeriy a gen- eral in the insurgent army, who, while & valiant officer in the previous war, had taken no part in thi- rebetlion. +He had,” writes Mr. Lee, *'so faras I am informed, committed no overt act in that direction (the present insurrection) and was taken without arms in his hands and while taking a bath in his house in February, 1895. His second trial took place December 21, 1596, and ended in his again being sent to perpetual imprison- ment. “The lawyer who defended this prisoner in his first trial now looks from a cell ad- joining his in_Cabanas fort, and I am in- formed that the lawyer who managed his appeal before the Madrid court has suf- fered therefor, so that it may be difficult to procure in Madrid another person versed in the law who will consentto manage for Sanguilly the appeal proceedings. Only a few days after Sanguiliy's arrest a prociamation was issued offering am- nesty to all persons in arms who wouid give themselves up. This ought to apply to persons who hud been arrested without arms in hands. Roman Perez Trujilio and Jose Maria Timiteo Agairre were ar- rested, I am told, at the same time as Sangullly and for the same reason—be- cause they said they would engage in war. After a short incarceration they were lib- erated. Tu view of these facts and the addi- tional reason that Sanguilly has been in a cell for twenty-three months, is not in good health and is suffering from old wounds, I respectfully suggest that the department bring these facts to the notice of the Madrid Government and ask that instrietions be wired for nis releasa from prison on condition that he leave the island and not return until the present war is ended.” The letter. transmitted by President Cleveland expresses no opinion; it simply responds to the Senate resolution. The Nicaraguan canal bill was then taken up as the unfinished business, and unauimous consent was asked by Morgan (D.) of Alameda to have a vote on the measure taken at 4 o’ciock. Vilas (D.) of Wisconsin objected. Hale (R.) of Maine suggested an exten- sion of time to Thursday next at4 o' clock, but to this Vilas also objected. Hoar (R.) of Massachussetts appealed to Viias to withdraw his objection and allow time for a finai vote. Davis (R.) of Minnesota joined in the appeal on the special ground of allowing the bankruptey bill to be taken up and acted upon. ’ Daniel (D.) of Virginisa, one of the oppo- nents of the Nicaragua biil, cailed upon the-friends of the bill to desist from their activity and let the Senate take up and consider the bankrupicy bill for the relief of the veople who had been wrecked, ruined, prosirated and almost destroved by the premature brands ot prosperity served out to them under recent systems of legislation. Remarks_in fayor of speedy action on the Nicaragua canal bill were made by the two California Senators (White and Perkins). The pending question was on tha motion made by Vilas. last Thursday for the re. eommittal -of the bill to the select cofn- mittee on the Nicaraguan canal. Stewart (Pop.) of Nevada argued against the motion. Caffery (D.) of Louisiana said that it Wwas not to be taken for gramted that the opponents of the Nicaragua bill were op- posed to the scheme of connecting the Pacific and Atlantic cceans by a canal. He favored the project, but opposed the instrumentalities_by which the penaingl bili proposed to effect it. s Vilas advocated his motion to recommit, alluding to the inter-oceanic canal project as “a historic dream.”’ He reminded Sen- ators that they had been told the otber day by Mr. Sherman, who was 1o be the chief character in the next administra- tion, that the bill could not possibly pass the House during the present Congress, | and he (Vilas) trusted fervently that the | Senator trom Ohio was right.. He trusted, therefore. that the appeal was equally ad- dressed to those who opposed tie bill. The constant repetition of amendments on the part of the Senator from Alabama himsel: showed the necessity of having the bill recommitied. AT Vilas went on to criticize the bill in detail, stating that the stock was non- assessable; tnat the stockbolders were not to be called on to contribute a dollaz to the work, and that the Government of the United States was to pay all the cost of construction and become the sole owner and proprietor of the canal, assum- ing all risk, which inciuded possibly that of war. He quoted some other provisions of the bill, the efiect of wuich was that “the United States should crawl into the skin of this defunct corporation’—the Maritime Canal Company. There was one section of the -bill, he sa:d, which became immediately operative, even if no work was ever begun on the ‘“already discredited route,” and that was for the payment of $4,500,000 and interest to the company, aithough the property of the company at the present moment could not be estimated at more than $500,000. He felt bound to protest against such rob- bery of the tuxpayers of the United States, Vilas occupied the floor up to 5 o'clock, when he yielded to a motion to proceed to executive business. That motion was agreed to and soon afterward the Sénate adjourned uatil to-morrow. The second executive session to-day was devpted to a consideration of the nomina- tion of George A. Van Atta to be Post- master at Clay Center, Kans. Tne nomina- tion has not been reported by the commit- tee, but Senator Peffer, supported by Senator Hill, urged action, and Senator Baker of Kansas antazonized it. Van Atta was nominated to succeed a man who died after holding the place aimost four years, and Baker contends that the Republicans are entitied to the place. e g HOUSE PHEOCEEDINGS, 4 Session Devoted to the Consideration of Miscellancous Bill +«WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 1.—The first thing the House did to-day was to refuse to consider the bill reported by the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce to prohibit ticket scalping. In the course of the session, which was devoted to miscellaneous bills, the follow- ing were passed: Prohibiting the carrying from one State to another of obscene liter- ature or other literature designed for in. decent or immoral purposes; giving offi cers of volunteers in the United States ser- vice the brevet rank held by them and the right to wear the uniforms of thatrank; for the protection of National military parks; providing that surgeons of soldiers’ homes may be appointed from others than those who have been disabled in the ser- vice of tne United States;. extending the authority of the President to issue medais of honor to others than officers and en- listed men; to restore to his former rank in the navy and piace on the retired list Commander Jobn Quackenbusch; grant- ing to the State ot Colorado 557 acres in Fort Lyon reservation for a State soldiers’ home; authorizing the entry of public iand ‘containing petrolenm under the mining laws, and directing the issue of vatents for the located but unconfirmed lands in Lowsiana—228 tracts containing about 80,000 acres. The last hour of the session was devoted to the consideration in commitiee of the whole of the diplomatic and consular ap- propriation bili. It was not concluded, when at 5:20 o’clock the committee rose and the House adjourned. Bill Keep 4 Promise Made in Fun. CINCINNATI, Onro, Feb. L.—The En- quirer's speeial from X oungstown, Onio, says that James T. Cheney, a colored politician of that city, will be doorkeeper of the White House under President McKinley. Cheney and the President- elect served in the same regiment during the war and Major McKinley one day jokingly promised him a position when he became President. McKinley is now keeping his promise. e Damages From the Pullman Company. NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. .—A Times special from Fort Gibson, Miss., says: The case of Truman P. Lawrence versus the Puliman Palace Car Company was decided Saturday, the jury awarding Lawrence $34,000 damages, which afier- ward was reduced by the court to $15,000. Both parties will appeal. Lawrence al leges that he was keaten severely by a porter in the employ of the company, the incident oceurring in Illinois. S Tragic Outcome of a Lovers’ Quarrel. CHICAGO, Inn, Feb. 1.—Miss Ollie Sullivan, 16 years old, was shot and prob- ably fatally wounded by Frank Lauer at her home, 2459 Irving avenue, at 1 o'clock this morning. Lau'r was adevoted ad- mirer of Miss Sullivan and objected to the attentions of other young men. The shooting was the result of a jealous quarrel. Lauer fled from the house and committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. His body was found Iving in the street at 9 o’cl-ck this moriin«. NEW TO-DAY. 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HE MAYOR AND CUMMON COUNCIL OF the Cliy of Sun Jose, having by ordinance en- titled “An ordinauce providing for the Issuance and sale of bonds of the Oity of San Jose.” eir., passed ou tue 21st day of December, 1896, and approved on_the.48d day of December, 1898, ordained tha: there should” be fssued by sald city of San Jose six hundred higa school building bonds, of the der.omination of $125 euch. and four bundred sewer bonds of the denomination of $100 2ach, both classes of bunds 10 bear Interest at thy rate 'of 414 ier cent. ver anuum. payable semi. annually, aid aiso by said ordinance authort aud directed the City Clerk of sald City to give notice Inviting proposats for the sale of sald boads, now therefore Public notice s heredy given that the Clty of Saa Jose intends to issue one thousand bonds aforess ang that sealed proposals will be received ag the office of said City Cleck. ut_the City Hall in Saa Jose, California. unt§ the hour of eight o’clock P.). on the eighth day of Febraary, 1597 (a which time, Or as 500n (hereafter as said Mayo and Common Council shall duly convene, said bids will be opened), for the purchase of the whole of any part of said high school building and sewer bonds, or either thereof. Sald bonds are {0 beac date June 1, 1897, and the interést thereon Lo bs pald somi-annually on the first day of December a0d the first day Of June of each year thereattor, both principai and interest payable in gold coln of 1awful money of the United States Said high school bullding bonas shall be num- Dered consecutively from ome to six hundred, both inclusive, and bs divided inio forty series, num- bered consecutivel, irom one to forty, both in- clusive, each series consistlog of fifteea bonds; the first series ix (0 Include those bonds which are sumbered from one to_fifteen, both inclusive, and each succeeding series is to inciude the fitteen bonds numbered consecatively after those in- cluded in the next preceding series Eaid sewer bonds shall be numibered consecn- tively {rom ome to four bundred, both lacluaive, and b- divided into forty series numbered ron- secutiveiy from one to foriy, both Inciusive. each ries consisting of ten bonds: the firai series is to inciude those bonds which re numbered from oue to ten, both inclusive, and each succeeding series Is to include the ten bonds numbered cou secutively after those included in the next pre- ceding serles. The first series of sald high school bullding bonds and sald sewer boods shall be made payable on the firsi day of June, 1598, and_one of the re- mwaining series s to be made payable ou the first day ot "June Iu esch succeeding caiendar yeat thereatier, until and inciading the ye.r 1937, Said bonds are to be made payable to ihe order of the purchaser or payee by name, snd o each of 8ald bonds there i3 o be attached interest-beariog coupons, double 1n number o the Dumber of years ‘which such bond has o run before its maturity. Proposals must staie the price offered, the descrip: tion of the bonds desired, and_be sccompanied by ‘certified check on some responsible bank, pay- able to the order of the Mayor of said City, for ac I least ten per cent of the amount did, sald check to cepted. The purchase money for sald bonds shat be pald in gold coinof the United >tates within ninety days after notice of accéptance, The right tosccept any or all bids and o reject any or all bids, or portfons 0f bids, is_hereby expressiy re- served. - J. W. COOK, City Clerk. Dated January 24, 1697. DR. PIERCE’'S IS. THE BEST. A PERMANENT CURE. PLAINSBURG, Cal, Nov. 5, 1896, Dr. ¥lerce & Son, San Franclsco. GENTLEMEN—The fifieen-dollar Belt has been received aud delivered, but tave not heard from the | erson_yet about the rezalt, but 1 am not afraid of ‘bim cominz back on me. as 1 used one of your Belts nine (9) vears agv and have = never been troubled with paiss in my back or hips since. S0 you see why L am not afrald to recommend Belt 10 any one suffering Wit ak back, tains 1n the hips and side, as I was, because X wiil cure them—uever to be doubted. Tremain yours to help the sufferer, GEO. A. KAHL. AT~ There are no “quack” doctors connected wilh our establishment. 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