The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 4, 1897, Page 1

T | the Library o, " Caper ag! to be taken from | 4 i — SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 4, 1897. PRICE FIVE CENTS. THE NATION - [RIUMPHS Clevelandism Will Give| Way to an American Regime. M'EINLEY’S CABINET IS FILLED. Cornelius N. Bliss Accepts the Portfolio of Secretary of the Iaterior. THE MAJOR VISITS THE WHITE HOUSE, | Makes a Formal Call, and Is in Turn" Called Upon by the | President. | SHINGTON, D. C., Marck 3,—The | sident-elect passed a very active day | e received a large number of callers, sde a forwal visit at the White Honse took diun to-night with Colonel ‘s most important call- al point of view, this Messrs, Platt, Bliiss and Mr. Hanna and Mr. Bliss met at 1 had a long talk about the r. Bliss, who had ouily declined up to that sider his determination not ome a member of ths Cabinet, v agreed to do so and authorized Mr. a 1o say to Major McKinley that pt the position of of the Interior if it were offered Harna went over to the Ebbitt buse at once and in a short time Mr. iss was offered a | t of Major McKin- | ary of the Interior ex-Governor John D. Long of b ehoiid mdivate a willing- ace, and if he does Mr. | ss will probably he Secretary of the | | Bliss understand each | nd itissaia they will | ed about all important appointments. Tue Republi- | s here express great satisfaction | ppointment of Mr. Bliss. { 11 ¢'clock the Presideni-elect drove White House in the rain call. Quite portico in | cipation of his srrivaland hats were oved with a slicht cheer when he Mr. McKinley acknowledged ovation by smilingly lifting his hat and nodding to the assemblage and then kly walked into the main corridor, e he was at once ushered through lass screen to the blue leveland and Sec- | Thurber stood expectantly. -grasp of the retiring chief ex- p ‘to the ed. E e was noticeably cordial in greeting successor. Within two minutes after | gor's s entry the President-elect accompanying him drove away. It lacked it T \ The Man of Depression and Disaster Gives Way to the Advance Agent of Prosperity. 3 | dition of the weather, waited under a three minutes of the noon | portico for Mr. call. The big state Cleveland’s appearance, | Thurber, soon made their appearapce | the east room & rush was made by them bour when President Cleveland left the | while about a hundred people, held in | throuch the glass doors separaling the |in his direction, but the guards pre- ‘White House to return his JOHN D.LONG; succes- | check by the policemen on duty at the | public lobby from the private apartments | vented Mr. Cleveland’s progress from be- Z RMA STATESMEN WHO WILL COMPOSE PRESIDENT MKINLEY’S CABINET. = carriage | mansion, hovered near to see the rotiring | of the White House family. When the and those | of the President, closed to suit the con- | executive. | well-known figure of the chief executive The President and his secretary, Mr. | was seen by the many visitors inspecting ]ing interrupted. The President walked |-with a perceptible lameness, consequent | on kLis attack of rheumatism, but made rather rapid progress through the lobby and across the portico to the waiting car- When Mr. Cleveland and Mr. | riaze. JAMES A.GARY Thurber had entered the door was slammed by a policeman and the carriage started off to the Ebbitt House. Com- paratively few people saw the President alight, but while he was paying his duty call the news spread around the hotel that he was.there. Major McKinley received President Cleveland in the reception-room of his apartments. With him was his secretary, Mr. John Addison Porter, who extended greetings to Secretary Thurber. The well-known figure and livery of Breckett, the White House coachman, had given the cue to others that Mr. Cleve- land was at the Ebbitt, and when the President stepped irom the elevater he found a crowd of a couple of hundred people assembled around the entnance of the hotel. As he walkel through the lane of humanity a round of hand-clappine | greeted him, and Mr. Cleveland responded by taking off his hat. Then heand Mr. Thurber were whirled off to the White House,.where they ran the gauntlet of a larger crowd. During the short absence of the Presi- dent admission to the mansion had been suspended, and as a consequence quite a fair assemblage was awaiting his return— more anxicus, however, to see the retiring President than to petaglimpse of the interior of his official home. They watched bim eagerly as he walked across the por- tico and lobby and pessed through the glass doors. Tben the entrance was thrown open again and the President disappeared from public view. : In the afternoon the Charles L. Kurtz Republican Club of Columbus, Ohto, a bandsomely uniformed political organiza- tion, accompanied by the Columbus Glee Club, serenaded Major and Mrs. McKinley. The President-elect and his wife came out ou the balcony to acknowledge the salute. Mrs: McKinley was slightly indisposed early in the afternoon, but_Jater took a drive for an hour and a half with three of her friends. This evening she was quite in her usual heaith. Among Major McKinley’s callers this afternoon were: Colonel J. J. McCook, Senator-elect Fairbanks of Ind ana, John E. Milholland, Congressman C. P. Taft of Cineinnati, Vice-President Stevenston, Henry Clay Evans and General H. F. De- vol of Kansas City. Late in the evening the A. C. Hamer Club of Philadelphia ser- enaded the President-elect. Jobn Hay, who is understood to be slated for the position of Embassador to the Court of St. James, gave an elaborate dinner to-night in honor of the President- Continued on Third Page. e A L 113 i RS AN - DT Y = SRS O 4 F | WITHIN TH GALLOWS' SHADOW The Supreme Court Dzcided Against Durrant Yesterday. JUSTICE BEATTY DID NOT SIGN. He Is Now Preparing a Separate Decision, to B2 Handed Down Soon. WILL APPEAL TO THE FEDERAL COURTS. Justice McFarland’s Views—The Prise ouner Re‘uses to Ste Reporters. The Grieved Parents. ““We find no errors in the whole case which would substantially prejudice the rights of the defendant.” Ouly one sentence, shor’ and worded so as to be easy of comprehension by a child, yet it sealed the fate of W. H. ‘L. Durrant and marked him as with the brand of Cain for the gallows. At last the slow-revolving wheals of jus- tice have done their work and by the final decision of the Supreme Court of the State of California the murderer of Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams will meet his deserts. Assoon as the decision left the hands of the Supreme Court Justices, about 4 ». M. yesterday, the news was telephoned to Chief Jailer Satier av the Couaty Jail, Proceeding to the cell of the doomed man he informed Daurrant of the decision reached. “What is that? Who said so?’ asked the prisoner eagerly, for a moment drop- ping that habitual air of coolness and bravado which has distinguishad him as oneof the most remarkabls criminals of the century. Satler informed him that the news had just been received from the clerk’s offlce of the Saprems CUourt, and that there could benodoubt as to its authenticity, In spite of this Durrant was loth to be- lieve that the cour: had decided against him. When he came to realize 1ts truth, ha made the request that no reporters be ad- mitted to interview him. To this resolve he firmly adhered, and refused to hold uny conversation at all with press repre. sentatives. The decision was signed by all the court except Chief Justice Beatty. When the Chief Justice was questioned in regard to his refusing to sign the decision, he said: “I canno tstate why I refused to do so, for the reason that I am at work ona separate opinion, now nearly finished. I do not care to say whether it concurs or not. However, as the majority of the court was in favor of denying the judg- ment and appeal, there was no use in my delaying matters.” Justice McFarland wrote a short cone curring opinion, although he had already signed the principal decision. He said it would have baen more satisfactory if the trial had been held where the force of public opinion was not so stronz. The main decision was written by Justice Henshaw. The trial of Durrant for the murder of Blenche Lamont was one of the most famous criminal cases in the history of the country and consumed many months, He is also accused of the murder of Min- nie Williams, both occurring in the Emmanuel Baptist Church of this City. , Every effort possible was made to save the accused murderer by his counsel, Eugene Deuprey and John H. Dickinson, but the skein of evidence was too come plete and woven in too strong and skillfal a manner by the District Attorney. The case wus tried before Judge D. J. Murphy, whose rulings on technical points were so just that the Supreme Court could find no flaw. Durrant was convicted and a petition for a new trial was denied. Counsel for Durrant took an appeal from both the judgment and denial of a new trial. Altuough the public has in great measure paid little attention to the case of late owing to the great lapse of time it has engrossed the attention of the court in bank for two weeks. The consideration of the arguments presented crystallized in yesterday’s decision. The decision in full is as follows: {In Bank.] STATE OF CAL lrok::ul and Respondent, it No. 196, T, tendant and Appellant, J The defendant; convicted of the murder of Blanche Lamont, prosecutes these appeals from the judgment and the order denying him a new irial. Reviewing the specifications of error in their natural sequence rather than in tha order of their presentation in argument, the first which invite atlention are defendant’s challenges to the panel. He claimed that the Tist of trial jurors had not been selected or re- turned as required by sections 204-209 of the Code of Civii Procedure. In support of this claim he offered the record of the proceedings of the Judges of the Superior Court in the matter. This record, kept by the secretary of the Judges, was incomplete. Under airection of the presiding Judge the seccetary amended his record, and as amended his minutes showed & compliance with the law. The pre- si ing Juage likewise testifid to the facts at- tending the selection and listing of the trial jurors, from which it apreared that tne pro- ceedings of the Judges were due and regular. Defendant’s claim that the original minutes of the secretary were the sole evidence adms- stble upon the question eannot be sustaired, Tt was the inherent right of the court to cor- Tect its records to make them comport with venty. (Kaufman vs. Snain, 111 Cal., 16) The secretary’s minuies are now made exclusive evidence of the proceedings they undertake to record. It was the duty of the trial Judge to determine the facts, and no bet- ter evidence could have been offered tham that of the presiding Judze himself, an actor in and creator of them. Tne further objection that the Judges falled