The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 26, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 1897 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDQE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES-—Postage Free: Daily snd Sunday CaL, Cae week, by carrler. .$0.18 Daily and Sunday CALL, oue year, by mall.... 6.00 Daily and Sunduy CaxL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Dally snd Bunday CaLL, three months by mail 1.60 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Sunday CaL, oe year, by mail 1.80 | W ARXLY CaLL, Oué year, by mail. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, Californis. Telephone........ EDITORIAL ROOM: 517 Clay Btreet. Telephone. BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montromery sireet, corner Clay: open until | 0:50 o'clock. 339 Hayes sireet: open until 8:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open 41 9 o'clock 18 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock. Ninth strect; open until 9 o'clock. 18 1305 Polk street: open until 9:30 o'cloek. OAKLAND OFFICB: €08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: oms S1 and 32, 84 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. FRIDAY.. During the week ending Sat- urday last THE CALL published ASO0O0 inches of advertisements, which is 4. O3, inches more than was published by any other San Francisco newspaper during the same time. Work on the new Federal building should begin bafore summer. The new Postoffice we need, and the new Postoffice we must have. Every day we have some new reason for rejoicing that the remaining days of Cleve- | landism are few. Bryan has been welcomed in Washing- ton and given a banquet, but all the same he is a sideshow. It seems well assured that San Pedro is to get the deep-water harbor. Here's to you, Los Angeles. The powers seem to have interfered in Crete, not =0 much to save it for Turkey as to keep the Greeks from getting it. The Senate has made another effort to force Olney to action, but the effort was in vain. Mr. Olney will not move until he moves out. 1t looks asif the administration had a | special pite against San Francisco and | held back the work on the new Postoffice building to gratify it. The design for the new Federal building isnot handsome, but the structure will | please the people betier when completed than it does on pa The way to get a move on the officialsat | Weshington and start work on the Fed- | eral building is to begin a movement here and make it energet The trouble with “yeilow-dog journal- ism” is that it chases its own fake tail sround, instead of shcwing a nose for news and following the trail. There would be work for a good many of | the unemployed if the Government would | expend the money which Congress has appropriated for use in this City. | One of the merits of the boulevard scheme is its capability of indefinite ex- | vansion. There is no telling how far it will go when it once gets started. The differences between Olney and Lee renew the old contest between the Puritan { and the cavalier, but fortunately both are roing out of office very soon and they will not disturb the country long. By energetic action we may bring about the beginning of work on the Government building in this City before spring is over, ‘and the result will amply repay all the . energy employed to attain it. Before the powers venture upon the ex- periment of providing a government for Crete under international supervision, they bad better make a new study of the result of & similar experiment in Samoa. The very fact that the Greeks are con- fronted in Crete not by the Turks but by otber powers isa proof that the Turkish empire has virtually ceased to exist and the territory is now in the hands of a syndicate. Eatern papers are announcing the re. appearance of robins in their city parks, just as if they had forgotten that such an- noancements are almost equivalent to -advertising for spring poetry aad pre- - cipitating the ruskr. People who wish to see old Egypt must hurry up, for a new one is coming fast. A concession has just been granted to a com- pany to run an electric road from Cairo to the pyramids. The day of the donkey- boy will soon be over. The Cleveland administration will turn the affairs of the country over to Me- Kinley tangled op both at home and abroad. The advance agent of prosperity will have to whirl in and do a lot of house- cleaning and straightening up before he can begin business. Cleveiand has managed to get one more message to Congress condemning the pen- sions given to those who were wounded in the war for the Union or to the widows of those who died. He seems io be under the impression that everybody ought to have hired a substitute and let it go at that. The Democratic members of Congress from California did not have influsnce enough with the Democratic administra- tion to advance the construction of the Federal building in this City, but we can count on the Republican members to do vetter when McKinley comes in. Because Senator Sherman denounced the fake interview witk him published in the Ezaminer as a lie, and said the publica- tion of such statements is *'sheer idiccy,’” it must not be supposed he is unfavorable to the Cuban cause, He is silenton the subject now because of the fact that he is soon to be Secretary of State, but his record as chairman of tne Foreign Rela- tions Committee of the Benate shows what | City. | ca e gives way in public interest to the | will be brought out in the testimony to be | BEGIN THE WORK. The only way to bring about an early beginning of the work of constructing the new Federal building in this City, for which an appropriation has long since been made by Congress, is for the people, through their Representatives, to enter at once upon an earnest and determined agitation to thatend. There is no hope of getting anything from the present administration, which is now rapidly drawing to a close, but we may accomplish something from the incoming administration if we are prompt and emphatic in pressing our claims at th Reports published in THE CaLL yesterday of inierviews with the supervising archi- tect and with members of the California delegation in Congress show that there is hardly any reason or even an excuse for the long delay which has been made in be- ginning the work. Congressman Maguire, to know something of the motives of the Democratic officials, declares that he i who, being 8 Democrat, may be supposed te isfied that the Treasury Department has been for a long time determined not to com- mence the construction of the Postoffice u nder the present administration. If Mr. Maguire has been of this conviction for any length of time it is to be regretted that he did not make it known arlier in order that popular pressnre might have been brought to force the Secretary of the Treasury to either commence the work or make public his reasons for relusing to do so. Congressman Loud agrees with his colleague Maguire that the Treasury D-part- ment has intentionally postponed the work and has been seeking excuses all along for the delay. As Mr. Loud isa Republican he could have but littie influence with the present administration, and therefore he is not to blame for not more vigorously pressing upon the Secretary of the Treasury the importance of the work to San Fran- cisco and the urgent need of completng the building. A Republican admin:stration, however, will soon be in office, and we count vpon Mr. Loud and other Republicans in the California delegation to be more active in urging the work than their Demo- cratic colleagues have been in the past. We must not, bowever, leave the whole work to our delegation In Washington. There should be sent from this City petitions and representations of the strongest kind from all associations acting for the business interests and industries of the City, setting forth the need of the building for Federal uses and the importance of beginning the work now in order to provide employment for the workingmen of the The agitation of the subject when once begun should be kept up continuously until the end has been attained. We have as we are indiffer: 1t the Government is likely to be equally so. had amole experience to show that as long The incoming admin- istration will bave a great deal on its bands at the commencement of its term of office. It will naturally overlook the claim ently urged upon the attention of 1ts official s of Sar: Francisco if they were not persist- That urging must be done by our Board of Trade, Chamber of Commerce, Supervisors and citizens generally, as well as by our delegation in Congress, and 1n order that it may be promptly effected prepara- tions for it should be undertaken at once. Congressman Loud declares that when a new Secretary is installed in the Treasury Department work. Inan interview with the represen that it may be possible to have the work certainly worth while working to that end, energy the hope may be realized. he fesls quite confident something can be dome to promote the tative of TaE CALL he expressed the belief under way by the middle of April. Itis . and if we do sowith proper unity and The important point of the whole issue is for the people to comprehend that we can attain nothing unless we work for it. Delay will bs prolonged upon one excuse or another unless the people of San Francisco act with as much vim and vigor as do the people of other cities who have equally large interests in Government appropria- tions. It must be borne in mind that since the appropriation was made for the Federal building in this City money has been voted for buildings in otber cities, and these are now weil advarced toward completion. To some extent, there- fore, we are to blame for not having our building before this. In a particular degree the Democratic Senator and Democratic Congressman bave been guilty of neglect in not exerting more of that influence which they necessarily had with the Democratic administration, and it behooves Republican delegates in Congress to show more dili- gence and zeal than was shown by their Democratic colleagues. San Francisco needs the building, her workingmen need the labor which its con- struction will give. Let us then unitedly work together to realize the promise con- tained in the words of Congressman Loud and see the construction begun before the beginning of summer. THE COONEY CABE. ‘We publish this morning a correction | by Judge Cook of certain misrepresenta- tions made of his recent charge and in- | structions to the Grand Jury in the Cooney case; and while interest in that | case is now largely discounted by the fact that the real merits of the controversy over the *‘pencil deeds” in the Fair estate liti- gation are to he fuily brought out and set- tled by the civil svit which berins before Judge Slack on Monday, the explanation of Judge Oook shonld be carefully read by all who wish a clear and exact understand- ing of the situation as it now stands. It had been stated that in his charge to the Grand Jury Judge Cook aliuded to certain certificates which had been printed | at the suggestion of counsel in a collateral | case and had reflected upon the conduct of the counsel in having the work done, | Having had his attention called to these | misrepresentations or misconstructions of | his charge, Judge Cook emphaticalty re- pudiated them, and a8 will be seen by our® report this morning, declared that such an idea was furthest from his mind when he wrote and filed his instructions to the jury. With this incident closed, the Cooney | suit which begins on Monday, in which the whole controversy will be tried on its merits and the facts involved in ths issue fully sst forth. As a matter of fact the | criminal charze against Cooney should never have bean brought at all while the civil suit was pending. If the evidence in the civil proceedings shows any illegal acts on either side it will then be time enough to take steps for the prosecution of the guilty parties. The officers of the law 1n this instance seem to have been overzealous, for it is clearly against pub. lic policy that civil suits should be fore- stalled by proceedings which are calcu- lated to prejudice the public mind against one of the parties, and thereby endanger the cause of impartial justice. As the civil suit which is to test the validity of the so-called ‘‘pencil deeds” is now about to be taken up there is no rea- son why the public should be pnt to any further expense in prosecuting the charges against Notary Cooney. Every particls of evidence concerning the deeds and all other points of pertinence to the issue given during the civil trial. The Grand Jury will then have ample evidence on which to baseits conclusion. If it under- | takes a separate investigation it will entail a considerable cost upon the County with- out gaining any compensating advantage or conferrinz any beneht either upon the people or upon the cause of justice, SAN PEDRO HARBOR. Information published in THE CALL yesterday gives ample ground for beliey- ing that the Board of Harbor Commis- sioners appointed by the Government to sclect a site for a deep-water harbor for Southern California has agreed to report in favor of San Pedro. This is the first reiiable information on the subject that bas been given to the people, and was re- ceived with no litile gratification. It give fair assurance of another trinmph over the monopoly which has so long dominated the State, and promises for Los Angeles and Southern California gen- erally a deep seaport which will be open for free commerce and in no wise subject to monopoly control. It may be some little time before the official report of the Commissioners is mede. Itappears that the findings of the board have not yet been formulated, but enough is known to make it sure that the majority will be in favor of the harbor which has been supported all along by Los Angeles and the people of the State generally. It is said that no less than four of the Commissioners favor San Pedro, and that only one is in opposition. The victory for San Pedro is therefore a most dec:ded one and ougbt to settle any doubts which may have existed in the minds of the public concerning the com- parative fitness of the two ports for the proposed harbor. his gentiments are,” | Under the act of Congress providing for the construction of a harbor, the sum of $3,000,000 has been appropriated for the work. An ample sum is ready for an early beginning of the ent-rprise, and it is not too much to expect that before long the great undertaking will be under way and Los Angeles and San Yedro will bLe receiving the benefit of the money put into circuiation. The result 15 one of which the people of the State may well bo congratulated. Los Angeles has long needed a deep-water harbor, but the benefit will not be for that city alone. All California will in a measure profit by it. It will be of advan- tare to all our coast commerce, and wilil he!p materially to build up the prosperity of tte Btate. Thereis nothing now to wait for except the official report of the commissioners and the decision of the Government to begin the work. These things will probably not be long delayed. We are to have a business administration in office in & few days and can rely upon that administration to act promptly in carrying out every undertaking that prom- ises to advance the pubiic welfare. THE LAST BLOW. Cleveland has taken advantage of a bill granting a_pension to the widow of a vol- unteer soldier of toe war to send o Con- | gress a message vetoing the bill, in which he sets forth once more his hostility to the pension system. The remaining days of his term of office are few, but his feel- ings would not permithim to let the occa- sion pass for getting in one more attack upon the pensions which & grateful repub- lic puys to the soldiers who were disabied in its service and to the widows and orphans of those who fell. There is nothing in t e message which differs in any:degree from what he has stated in former messages of a similar nature. It was only another evidence of antagonism to the soldier element of the community, another proof of his lack of patriotic feeling and another manifssta- tion of his hostility to that sentiment of the people which favors libera! pensions to every disabled soldier of the war and to every needy widow of one of those who gave their lives that the Union might be saved. Cleveland can never forget that he served in the army only by a substitute, that he evaded the duty imposed upon patriots by the stress of war and that whenever he has veen a candidate for office the veterans of the army of the TUnion have been ovposed to him. As Mr. Oleveland wiil soon be out of office tnis last attack will count for little. Wa shall goon bave in the White House a President who was a brave soldier when the country called for volunteers and whose patriotism isattested not merely by his statesmanship in Coneress, but by his valor on the field of battle. When he is President the soldiers will have a comrade in office and the people will have a true representative to show forth their love and loyalty to the defenders of the Union. This being so the message will not serious- ly disturb the public mind. It will have no other effect than that of arousing once more public irritation against the man who fough: by substitute and then turned his back upon the man who tcok his place in the ranks. It was a mean blow, but fortunately for the country it was not only as futile as it was mean. but it is the last one from Grover Cleveland. OLNEY AND LEE. The effort of the friends of the admin- istration to break the force of the state- ments made by Corsul-General Lee con- cerning the condition of affairs in Cuba by charging him with *‘playing to the gallery” in order to win popular favor will hardly prove succesaful. The people of the United States are well aware that the truth of the statements made by Lee has been amply confirmed by other au- thorities. Representatives of the press of all shades of opinion bave made public the facis on which the Consul-General bases his conclusion, and so far from ex- aggerating the condition of affairs in Havana, General Lee seems to have been unduly reticent concerning them. The coerge that Lee is “‘playing to the gallery” is furtner vitiated by the fact that the reports of the Consul-General have not been made directly to the people, nor in a way to attract public attention, but bave been sent in sealed documents tbrough the usua! official channels to the Becretary of Sta 1t was not until these representations made to the State Depart- ment had been long ignored that General Lee made any statement direct to the press at all. Even in what he has now said to the public there is nothing which in any way exceeds what was before well known from reports of reliable men liv- ing in Havana either as correspondents of the press or as merchants doing business the This being the condition of the contro- versy between the Secretary of State and the Consul-General, the American people willnot hesitate to side with General Lee in the position he has taken. Nor will they be inattentive to what he has to say concerning the treatment of Americans in Bavana. They are aware that he went to Cuba unprejadiced, and is both by training and character well fitted to act with discretion, observe accurately and decide honestly concerning what he saw. This is what General Lee said to a corre- spondent of the New York Times: From the moment I landed my American blood began to boil, snd if I stay here much longerand am forced to witness the indigni- ties heaped upon my countrymen without cause it will literaliy boil away. They trample on our flag and hiss us on the streets. Amer- icans are murdered and imprisoned, indigal- tles are heaped upon our women and every atrocity concetvable for a Spaniard to put on Americans is thrust upon us. These words, will have weight with the American people. They are not to be set aside by the statement that the Consul- General 1s makinga bid for popular favor. They will have influence in determining the sentiments of all patriotic citizens throughout the country. They will have their effect upon the mass-meeting soon to be held in this City. They will con- firm the popular judgment—that it will be well for the United States when the Cleveland administration is over and Mr. Olney goes out of office. PLRSUNAL H. L. Turner of Eurcku is at the Ru: 0. McHenry of Modesto is in the City. C. A. Kimball of Maineisat the Occidental. A. Winsor of Gonzales is here on a business trip. Dr. W. H. Davis of Detroit, Mich.,is in the City. Judge James B, Devine of Sacramento is in town. W. Duncan McKim of New York Is atthe Palace. Ex-Judge Harvey Lindley of Los Angelesis in town. M. V. B. Millard of Fall River, Mass., is at the Lick. D. M. Dysart, s mining man of Cubas, isin the City. P. H. Willy, an attorney of Monterey, is at the Grand. E. P. Stacy, s capitalist of Minneapolis, s at the Grand. Thomas Fox, Postmaster at Sacramento, is at the Lick. Tom C. Gorrie, the mine-owner of Sonums, is in the City. Dr. and Mrs. Charles Thore of New York are at the Palace. . 8pooner and N. J. Henry of Seattle are on a visit here. E. S. Ward of San Jose, is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. George W. McLean. the mining man of Grass Valley, is at the Lick. T. B. Sullivan, a mining msn of Butte, Mont., has arrived here. 8. T. Black, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, is at the Lick. Nr. and Mrs. Charles S. Eaton, prominent veople of Bostan, are in the City. Captain W. J. Bryant and C. C. Cheney, of Seattle, propristors of steam vessels, sre in town. A. J. Levy, a prominent bookmaker of New York, errived here lest night and is at the Palace. E. Mulvihill, a cattle-raiser of Nevada, is in the City and is registered at the Cosmopoli- tan Hotel. Lieutenant J. H. L Holcombof the Unitea States nagy, has arrived here {rom thejEast and is st the Occldental. John Mohr, & wealthy resident of Chicago, is atthe Baldwin. He is accompanied by friends | and is traveling for pleasure. J. McDonald, C. M. Maxwell and J. C. Me- Donough of Fresno, mong the recent rivals at the Cosmpolitan Hotel. Jerome L. Drumheller of Spokane, who has acquired & large fortune in recent years in miuing, 16 here, accompanied by his wife. He has been visiting Southern California. Rev. Ur. Hyman Ssmuelson, cantor, of New York rrived and will officiate this even- ing and to-morrow morning st the Congrega- tion Beth Menachim Streisand, on Minna street, bstween Fourth and Fifth, during the evening and moraing services. H. L. Borgwardt, who with D. M. Pyle and others has soid theSt. Elmo mine at Rands- burg for $250,000, is the Sheriff ot Kern County and is frequently at the Russ House bere. Mr. Pyle, hisassociate in the mife and a deputy in the office, lived for many years in Santa Clara County. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 25.—At the St Cloud, H. C, Cady; Astor—A. B. Bowers, G. W. Waitt; Continental, M. Wines; Imperial, N. C., Kingsley; Stuart, C. H. Gray. BITIER ANL SWEET The appie that grows highest Is the best upon the ree: The roso that is most fragrant always has the arpest thorn: The thatls the purest lies within the deep- est gen, And the deeds thatlive the 10ngest are of hardest efforts born ! ‘The love that's won t0o lightly 1s not treasured as e The words that flow too freely never have the &reatest weight: Man fepprrciaies his blessings 1f he has tostrive r them, But_he never knows thelr valus it the passed up on a plate! . —Cleveland Leader. NEWSFAPER PL .ASANTRY Yeast—Do you believe that stery about Sam- s0n losing his strength by having his hair cut? Crimsonbeak—Certainly I do. The barbers have many a time made me feel tired talking to me.—Youkers Sta The acme of politeness was reached by a mining seperintendent who posted a placard reading: “Please do not tumble down the shaft.”’—Melbourne Times. “Well, little chap,” said the stranger in the family, picking up one of the children, “what 10 be when you're & man?” the child. Nothing? Why so?” acked the stranger. Because,” said the child, “I'm only a little &lrl.”—Harper's Round Tal ‘What has become of that brother of yours Who was so active in the last campaign? Is he still waging war on great corporations?” “He is. He has accepted an agency for an anti-fat remedy.””—Ind{anapolis Journal Critic—Where did yon getthe idea for that poster picture? Painter—Out of my head. Critie—You must be glad it's out.—Tit-Bits. ‘“/Confound it!” exclaimed Carson. “That office boy ix never arouna when he's wanted.” “Whet, a splendid policeman he wouid make,” murmured Phillips. — Philadelphia North American, Covhat do you think of the fightiag in n.:nle? Ithought the Sght was to be in Carson City,”—Chicsgo Record, -tariff are face to face with a serious matter. | ing the ta-iffon imports, and with no doubt THE HAND THAT RULES THE WORLD Is the hand “that ’roo!l the cradle,” and the world’s interest in woman’s benefactions to the human race never flags. Some of the noble achievements of the good and brave women of our dey will be exploited in THE SUNDAY CALL. *TaE SUNDAY CALL will mot introduce its reeders to a study of eriminality. 1t will not dfg in the moral muck and filth of the world for. earrion to bring into the homes of the people on Sunday morning. Itwill not haunt the social backstaira for nursery gossip of soclety women and their children. It will not take for granted that its readers desire, above all things, even mental associa- tion with husband-pojsoners, woman house- breakers and remarkable girl criminals. In short, it wiil not assume that San Fran- clzco desires to “eat its peck of dirt” from off the pages of its Sunday paper. Whether we wander by stream or lake, or climbwith lithe eagerness the pine-clad hill- side, or meander with the windingsof the wood- 1and path, glorious nature forever asserts her supremacy over our affections. Byron in his passionate love of nature, by the deep sea or in the pathless wood found, rest from the many things that jarred with his supersensitive nature and fresh inspira- tion for immortal verse. Always fresh, beautiful and comforting nature s0othes our wounds and rests the weary brain and mind and soul But, ala not all res balms and simples. Thanks to the naturalist at large, you can and vale, lake and river, and enjoy the glories len for the exigencles of modern lif , and next Suuday you shall have the pieasure of hearing the notes of Californi: and the dwellers in the midst of eities, we can- Tt to nature directly at all times and soothe our wounds with her never-failing always taste of the sweets of our mountain of each recurring seasou, in some measure, at weet songsters and may form an acquaintance with the mischievous goldfinch, the soft trilling thrush and other feathered denizens of wood and gien, Another enchantress, who steals us away from the noisy hum of industry and the carking cares of everyday life, is Olive Heyden, author prose and verse. This writer h the readers of THE of many a delightful California idyl, both in given in her happlest vein a true California story—a mining romance—for NDAY CALL. and you cannot fail to enjoy it. All are interested in the alleviation of the woes of humanity, of which blindness is in a sense the worst. Alas! what misery to grope one’s way through life and never look upon the face of mature or the countenances of those most dear. John Bonner will have in THE SUNDAY CALL & most interesting article on the blind ana how their hitherto pitiful disabilities are overcome by the kind and wondrous intervention of sclence. % The practicabllity of the motor cycle has been exploited till it has entered the field of things belonging no longer to the wonderful, and its latest development exposes it asa genu- 1ne enemy of the bicycle, threatening to drive out the bike, as the bike has done the horse. Such is the rapidity of modern enterprises that the motor cycie has already fallen within the ken of the non-luxury-buying public, an end. nd 1t is possible that the reign of the bicycle is near But THE SUNDAY CALL will give you the whole story. Home iaventions, like nome industries, are, as is proper and just, of live interest to our readers. There are two important inventions now on the tapls, both of Celifornia origin, and one of them may offset the motor-car bogy, fur it is an auto-bike, driven by gasoline. No more weary climbing up stiff grades, for this bike will bear you in comfort up the highest of them. Read about it in THE CALL on Sund: The children will be charmed as usual. Waldron W. Anderson will have a poem on the page which is devoted to our darlings, which reminds us in & way of that dear friend of the little ones, the much loved and deeply mourned Eugene Field. The fashion page of THE SUNDAY CALL will be, as usual, a faithful record of passing events in the world of fasbion, a true picture of the kaleldoscopic pageant. Another feature of THE SUNDAY CALL will be a most romantic story giving a further exam- ple of the superior strangeness of truth as compared to fiction. This romance opens just after one of the great evenis of the warand culminates in San Francisco at a dinner given quite recently by a gentleman to a select party of friends. Bestdes all these advantages *the readers of THE SUNDAY CALL will have the benefit of all the news, both telegraphic and local, presented in the best possible msnner, and the most timely editorial comment thereon. Don’t {ail to order early. THE SUNDAY CALL s & d interesting and valuable literature. Its influence is elevating. stinctively California newspaper, fullof clean, fresh, wholesome 1t should be in every home. Letters From the People. THE REVENUE PROBLEM. With Declining Imyortations Under Low Toriff, What Follow ¥ To the Editor cf the San Francisco Call-Sr: Itseems to me that the advocates of high Iregard the Bulletin of this City as good au- thority on revenue statistics. In the issue of February 23 (he column devotea to “Finance snd Trade”’ contains these figures on the Jauuary forelgn trade: 1896 1807 $86,970,028 94,984,087 68647,6)0 61,327,081 $18,522,428 $43,656.986 With an_extraordinary session of Congress almost certain 1o be calied in the near future for the express purpose of materially Increas- in the pub ic mind that such increase will bs made, {nstead of & larze increase in importa- tions in order to take advantage of “free trade’ rates, as certain journr are wont to style tne pres teriff, we find_the rather startling decrease of more than $17,000,000 in imports over January last year. ButI find in the Bulietin of yesterday, Feb- ruary 24, financial department, the figures of “the foreign trade of the Unitea States for the first seven months of the current year” given as follows: 1896-97 Exports $656,215,811 | Imjort: 363,261,080 We are only concerned here witn the matter of imports, and_we note that a vear ago the imports for the first seven months of the fiscal year were $478.716,717, as against $363,251,- 080_the current fiscsl year, a dJecrease of $115,465,637, or $16,495,091 per mon:h, the Junuary decrease beiilg $17,320,519, a consid- erable increase over the monthly aversge. However, assuming 1hat the average decrease for the fiscal year ending June 30 next will see no chanve in'the average monthly decrease of $10,495,091, ihe decreate n imports for the year will 100t up to $197,941,092, almost two hundred mililons. In the face of this endrmous decrease in fm- portations of ioreign goods under a low tariff, or “free trade’” as it was called througnout the campaign by the supporiers of Major McKin- ley, it seems to me thatif the tariff is greatly increased the importations will be provortion- ately decreased, and heuce the revenues of the Government will also be diminished. Of course I uuderstand that the schédule wiil b- adjusted 5o as to incresse tne tax on such aruicles of importas show the least decline, but wiil not this prove to be articles in gen- eral use by the great majority of the people, and so will become an additional fncrease in the cost of living for these peop'e? 1f 50, gen- eral discontent wiil be sure to follow. 1n this connection I should not fail to eall attention to the fact that the chesp produc- tion of steel ral s has made a market for 100,- 000 tons 1n Europe, according to the Bulletin, which adds that “within two years the United States will do a tremendous export business in steel radls.” 1t wil be uselers, then, to place a tarift on imported steel rails, and yet the revenue derived {rom this line of imjorts in Tecent years was a Jarge item,and tuis item must now be aeducted. It way be possible for the incoming admin- fstration to frame & tanff which will Taise suf- ficient revenue for current expentes and in- terest on our increased Government debt, but it will not be an easy task. In fact, it begins to appear to a good many business men, who seem singularly slow o learn, that there is something wrong with the eountry besides the teriff. However, it hes been some time since 1 huve heard one of theso wise business men say that over-production was the cause of commercial and 1ndustrial depression, which shows that they can learn even if they are 810w, for 1t is 10 be remembered that for a long time “over-production” was the all-sufficient explanation offerad by these men {or our hard times. Singular as it may seem, it is nevertheless true that there are not a few of these same bosiness men who will now bolaly say that our dull times are aue to under-consumption, because the peop! generally poor and ean’ not purchase goods as they, always did till our bad times came, I shail not be surprised if these same men should soon begin to inquire with an honest desire to learu wny it is the people are so poor when crops haye not failed and no pestilence has swept the land or war disturbed the pursuits of the inhabitants. Such Inquiry will lead to the discovery that the tariff has much less to do with present conditions than is generally believed, and they will further learn ina few months, un- less I misepprehend the situation, that there will be something more nieded than anin crease of tariff to restore prosperity to our un- fortunate country. Much ridicule has been heaped upon the Cleveland administration because the present Wiison-Gorman tariff has failed to bring in sufficlent revenue, the Dast year especially. While I have na desire to say & word to [avor or excuse the expiring administration—for which 1 have no respect whatever—at the same time it must be seen at & glance that 1f the imports nad not decreased so enormously the past seven meuths there would be no defieit bui & surplus in the treasury. Can the incoming adminisiration insure imports equal (o the last year under & high tarief 3 % OSEPH_ASBURY JOHNSON. 8an Francisco, Feb. 25, 1997. Tyres—Have you named your boy yet? Spakes—No; my wife and I can't agree. She wants 10 name him after her wheel andl want to=ame him after mine.—Judge, FRATERNAL NEWS. Officers Elected at the Annual Meet- ing of the Barbers’ Protective Union. At the annual meeting of the Barbers' Pro- tective Union, held last week, the following named were elected officers for the ensuing term: 8. Fuchs, president; H. Scheunert, vice- president; R. Oppenheim, recording secre- tary; L. Remassa, financial secretary; John le Retter, treasurer; C. Troell, emplovment sec- retary; C. Lagrave, sergeant-at-arms; trus- tees—William Livpert, G. C. Young and A. Strohmeir. The union now has a membership of 103, and has $13,870 in 1ts treasury. F. Koch, G. Lemke and §. Fuchs have been appointed & committee of arrangements to arrange for an invitation ball to be given some time during the month of March. The Pythian Knights. Grand Chancellor C. F. McGlashan has dur- ing the month been paying official visits to lodges in this domain. Last Monasy he was with Fowler Lodge, at Fowler; on Tuesday with Sanger Lodge, at Sanger; Wednesday night with Visalia Lodge, atVisalia; last night he was with Kern Lodge of Bakersfield and Sumner Lodge of Kern City, which are to meet in joint session in Kern City; and to-night he 1s {o visit Selma Lodge, at Seima. Brigedier.General Herman Schaffaer (re- tired) visited Holmes Company of the Uniform Rank at Ange!s Camp last night, inspected the company and instalied the new officers. Colonel T. A. Nerney, assistant inspector- general, inspected the Veteran Guard Com- pany last night, and Colouel F. Dodd, B. M. 0., on the same evening inspected the officers of Unity Company. One of the most active men in the Pythian ranxs is Joseph Calegaris, deputy grand chan- cellor. He entered the ranks in 1889, joining Roma Lodge, now the banner lodge of the do- main of Gallfornia in the point of member: ship, and his magnetic influence soon caused him to advance, siep by step, until ho became cbancellor commander, and subsequently wes appointed to the position he now holds, He has heid the same pos:iion under a number of succeeding grand chancellors. He has also held a uumber of offices in the Grand Lodge. Hie occupies prominent posiiion in the Itaiian colony of San Francisco, and for me torious services rendered in behalf of h: countrymen King Humbprt of Lialy sent him # decoration—the cross of the crown of Tialy. During the discussion in the Grand Lodxe oq the proposition 1o preveut the use of the ri ual in the order inany tongue but the English the deputy grand chancellor was a loyal friend of the order, and being an admirer of American institutious stood up for Americans and Pythians first and Italians after that. The first regiwent of the Uniform Renk of this City will move into Justice Hall, and after the 1st prox. the City companies will keep open house every Wednesday night. The officers of the Pythian Hall Association, having given so much satisfaction, they have all been re-elected for the current term. Native Sons of the Golden West, Neariy all the parlors have Increased during the DAsL term. the net increase belng 517 over al suspensions resignations, withdrawa's and deaths. ‘The order now has 143 parlors, of wh <h 21 are lo- cated in San Francisco, 15 tmeeiing in the Native Sons’ Hall, 3 in Mission Parlor Hau and the 1o outlying disricia, Caliiornia Parior leade e n a membersulp of 453, having mude & gain of during theterm. The larcest Increase by any oi o Par or was by Stockton Parlor, which 8hows an in grease of 47 Jur.ug the re'm. s the largest m embership of an. or the in erior parl.rs, wi.h $6030 In its treasury. KEden Parlor, with only 7. members, owns its own hom nd bias 86763 In e treaauty. 2 ¢ Len.h anniversary ot Mount Diablo Parlor Was celebrated in good styl- by the mrmh(u‘o the parl raud he Native Daughtersof Martinez by an entertainment snd a ‘choice banquet served in a beauiifu ly deco a. hall. There were re- €310 Onsls by .« harles A. Bo.demaun, dep- Precita Parlor, N. 8. G. W. Precita Parlor No. 187, N. &. G. W., gave the first last night of a series of quarteriy soclals to be continued during the year. Itwasgiven in Mission Parlor Hall and there was a large attendance. When the first notes of the march ;’erelpll‘lyed the grand march was led by H. 8, Paulding, president of the arlor, and Miss Gracie Murphy. Dancing was kept up until a late hour, and the many couples enjoyed & most pleasant eveni: The following com- mi}le-a managed the affsir: Committee of urrangements—J. E. Behan, C. H. Buck, O L. Thomas, D. J. Wren, H. D, Lansiug.'A. F. ; ffu, J. C.'Orlavdt. FB;:c! l:::)“h tomlellket—““'llhnms l};onlldmn. he B er, Frank Ward, J. 8. Earls, J. J. n;l%g. 2T, Grnnvfl!{la,s{. M. Hickey. S T manager, 3 Spanld.ng; assistant floor manager, . H. Cavauaugh; floor come gllfie:agn ‘(e i( v:l‘l] OrdGen,TChl:l’h!l Ward, J. Pariridge,'D. M. Jansen. i Progressive Endowment Guild, The following named will get a: the recep- tion committee of San Franclsco Chapter o1 the Progressive Endowment Guild of America «‘m‘ the oce l;n o{ its first anniversary enter- ainment and bail t 5 Hall next Tuesday oveniag: . HOpm oole B. A. Mever, M. T. Moses. Walter W) Bauer, W. J. Sharp, W. L. CO:‘[QI l:’!‘.‘fl PR Eacramento Parior Bab- cock, J. T. Miiler, M. L. Hopkis 8. 3. Fulterion, C. W. Goum E" AAH!\?I,E“:\kué Lewis, H. N. Nutter, A H. Lynn, J. H. F. Fetter, e Charles F. Strong, ley, AT, Hammerson, Dillen, J. R. Wear, F. P. M. . McClinton, J. E. Dillony, J. . Wear, F. B. o . W. McGarvie, Boine. & % Millam, T % Toyor, Jonn & McCrodan, H. R Lewls, J. G. Gianois, D, Stanley, A, W. Hubbard, J. W.-Hoag, C. D. Mc- Millan, ‘George Sear!. Gettysburg Circle, G. A. R. Gettysburg Circle, Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, celebrated its eighth anniversary in Forester’s Hall last evening by entertainment and dance. There were a Tescnt. besides s large membership, many nds of the circle. There was & recitation Pines ( d of Seven by % - Highiand fling by Miss Chr sti: duetby Maud and Jennie Grind Dby Past President Mrs. Baiiy, ¢ Lulu Flemming, recitation by Bessic Alken arg Mrs. A. J. Bi song and dance by Mr. Nava. The programme Was. well received, and after the lust numbcr nearly all present took part in the dance. Bald Eagle Tribe, L O. K. M. Great Sschem Josiah Sims, accompanied by Great Chief of Recoras Charles F. Burgman Great Prophet A. Jackson, Great Semior Sag Tore ¥ WINppie, Great S-nnaviP. L. Bi Past Great Smeuem Frederick Brandt, Pasi Great faupap E. D. Weymouth, Depuiy Grea Sachem M. L. Wieeler, Pust Sachems Geory, Whitlock, E. D. Foliet, J. Fowzer. A. Ru M. Leisen and F. Swan, paid an o Baid Eagle Tribe last'Wednesday nig b great sachem delivered avery iuterestinglon talk, followed by Great Chief of Reccord C. F. Burgman, Who, ntertained the members by a relation 0f the numerical increase of tie order during the pest great sun. Words of wisdom were spoken by Great Prophet A. Jack- son and Great Senior Sagsmore F. Whipple HOW FRY:= RESEMBLES CALHOUN Louisville Courfer-Journal. The other day I walked into the Senate gal- lery and found that the roil was being called on the questlon of considering Morse's liguor bill. Frye was in the chair and while Harri- Hill and Aldrich all know more about parlia mentary law than Frye he is the best presiding officer the Senate has- known since John Breckluridge. Frye follows the rule of Cai. houn, perhaps the greatest presidi. g officer in the history of the Senate, not excepting even Aaron Burr. Calbhoun would not permit one Senator to refer to another Senator as “my friend irom Virginia.” or as “the gentleman from Massa- chusetts, The correct phrase was “th tor from Virginia’ or “the Senator from Mass- achusetts.” It is said that it was worth & journey across the continent to hear Calhoun announce avote in the Semate. Thero wos more of the Roman in his 100k than in any other public man of our history. His eyes burned like cosls of fire and there was dignity anthroned in every lineament and movement. When Calhoun announced a vote he said in & voice that penetrated the furthermost recesses of the chamber: *‘Senators,on this q the ayes are — and the nays are —. have it, and the motion is £greed to. Frye'is the only man I have ever seen pre- side over the Senate who announces & vote with that impressiveness we can imagine Cal. houn employed. and it is doubtful if even Cale houn could utter the word Senators with more rotuadity than Frye gives it. GOOD INVESTMENI FOR BRYAN. Chicago Tim Herald, William Jernings Bryan finds that running for President was a good investment after all, His earning capacity has’ increasea several thousand per cent. He looks down now on the humble $30 a week whicn he used to get as a newspaper reporter. His book is bringing him in an income of more than $100 a da. and his publisher will be glad to buy his i terest in the work for £50,000. Meanwhile, whenever he wishes ture he has only to say the word to get $500 & night. Bryan no slonger belongs to the musses; he has joined the classes, for at the present rate he s earn- ing & good interest on $1,000,000 worth of ad- vertising. BROKEN sott baby cream, 15¢1b. Townsend’s.* RS San POTATO, mushroom cakes. Guillet's, 905 Larkin oo e sl CALIFORNIA glxce iruit 50c & pound, in fire- etched boxes. 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