The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 30, 1897, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1897, [PANING OF A CHARTER CAMPAIGN The - Committee of One Hundred Formally Organizes. PERMANENT OFFICERS ELECTED. Mayor Phelan Gets the Post of Honor Amid Much Enthusiasm, OUTLINE OF THE WORK PROPOSED. A Plan to Select the Freeholders by a Special Election in October. The “campaign for a new municipal er opened last night when the com- 6i100; appointed bv Mayor Phelan | 1ft the document and nominate a | d of irechiolders, was formally organ- | work accamplished consisted in the tion of a‘permanent set of officers and | ption of a programme for future | 1is' last involves the ap- | vis;-who will proceed, as | the: work of formulating the rter -for submission to the t that this. wlrk will be| October 15, when it is pro-| old a specizl election of free. who il 'in tarn be given six s to- complete the municipal con , anit -by April 15, it is said, the | a officers ‘of the association as t night are: Mayor Phelan, F."W. Dobrmann, first vice- 1;- Hugh Craig, second vice-presi- ames Denman, third vice-presi- Richard Freud, secretary; L easuTer. nearly half-past 8 when Mayor | léed. the meeting to order. | Ot of the 100 .members appointed by the Mayor. . Tlie-chairmean lost no time, but at gnce took up the subject-matter to be acied Hs spoke as foliows: * Charter Assocl- of mmittee tnis comini U _théy should represent d ppimon’ and be committed ¥ of munic hom and economical wanage- ffairs. After you hav your work on these lines,and to nommaie fifteen Freeholders, 1t “osshry 10 get them upon the officia 10 niorm you of the condition of cting charters I have prepared the | act; which will, no doubt, serv ur-deliberation: [ of tne constitntion y containing a popula- | bitanis may frame | ent cousistent ion and jaws | er so framed | I become t with such was smended special.” | that this section 1s am- e lirst clanse quoted, it must be “‘consistent itution aud laws he word ¥ t with such ¢ stated, prior .10 1892 i :all special lans r charier,” the sec! being amenaed by gat the word “special.” The object dment obviously was that every charter s10uld supersede and re- aivi, general and specisl, on the dif- :cis for which it might provide | sistent with it; but the courts have it this effect. johs of conflict between charter pro- ¢ t with hod.of Fublication of a resolution of in- ntion ‘prescribzd by the general sireet law or that provided b; the char- eles for ell resotutions and ordie 3 govern, and it was held that— A ordinance isalso a resolution, or, at least 86 far s this statute (Vrooman sct) is con- cerned they are equivalent. The stireetlaw provides & complete scheme or procedure for et work, and sq far as it goes governs. The cuarier cannot make a difforent procedure by requiring more or less. Otherwise tuere would not be a uniform operation of the law alicities.of a class, As (o publication the treet law ex ssly proyides that no other | xithat prescribed therein)shall be neces- sary for the validity of the procedure. 1n some ea ions the ciause of sec- fon -8 “of art [ providing that charters must be “cons with and subject tothe cons:itution and lews of the State,” and the e of section G of the same article (asit tiren 5t00d), that *"cities and towns heretofore or heresfter organized, and all charters framed or-adopled by authority of this constitution, sha-l be subject to and controlled by general laws,”-were construed together aud held to yhean thet every general law, whether in ex- ictence at tie time of the sdoption of the charter or passed afterward, governed asto \fe subject to which it relaied, even though | fuconsistent with the charter. (See Kennedy filier, 97 Cal., 428; Farrcil Los An- Cak., 603-60G: Davis vs. Los Angeles, 40, and ex psrte A You, 82 Cal., ¥is1011¢ ana gereral laws have arisen and vassed upon I upreme Court in_sev 0 in n ve Stoulters. 115 Cal, 1: ion urose as to wnether t ot (Vrooman e er 6f Lios d4: 1496 sectior 6 was amended by inserting ihe cianuse -#and/all charters framed or ted by suthority of this constitution,” words- “‘except in municipal affairs.” ve words were construed by Judge Seawell & Firé Department Case, How [-ehdmg on o tie Supreme Court, s limiting the ommittees on twenty-one | e Mayor ‘makes the appoint- | < i will be submitted to the people i 1 | assessmeut aud co lect | made. and the bu; a, delegated | 4 Dles ot & new | & scrite L | and 1 ymmediately preceding them, to wit, rlars.iramed or adopted by authority is constitution,” and not as restricting ier of the Legisiature to pass laws on 5, murnicipal ana otherwise, sffect- ng: ties ard towns heretofore or hereafter orghnizod,” but which had not adopted a free- Lolders’ charter, and hence sustained as con- stitutional.the law raising the saiaries of Fire Department oficials in San Francisco. So far as the sacredness of charters is concerned, and as both siaes concede, this is sound inter- ypretation. But as san Francisco has no char- 1erit will be subject 1o interference by general laws on &il subjects until it adopts one, in case Street improvement act (Vrooman act), | pening and widening acts. | concerning public park ncerning the police force. | ot Civil Code concerning street hises and general laws on the raiiroad subject ersction of public lating to purely cipal officer: X utionsl am that ey Propos: Th 5 of this articie (X ) shall statinn passed | pursuan: ¢ nso iduted city ow existing or Le after 2com or shall become or secure a charier organz under ion 4 of article XI, which is decl 11 not apply 4 by rat- The county goveraments which shail be throughout the State, and by general laws shall uniform et which ¥ may Organize whenevers majc of qualitied electors of such county voing at a eneral eiection shall o determing never a county I adopt 1o n. ess of such c local affairs of the several (ownships ther scribed by such general laws. Section 5, which is likewise declared by said proposed amendment not to be applicsble to | San Franci: provide: Tne Legisl 1 and uniform laws, | e.ection or appointment {d of Boards of Supervisrs, District require, and sou fes aud fix (heir terns of off shall regulate the compenusaiion of ail suckio s purpose may classify the conat such o as pubii ers, o5 by pepaiat ‘ therefore, of amendment 37. if 4, will be to excepi San Francisco from cneral revenue law, £o far as it relaces ssessment and coliection’ of taxes, ax also of the county government act and ot e salaries and prescrib- 1 powers of county officers, | atters may be provided for in | which shal not sutject to | nose matters by laws appli- | s in genersl. s our duty in order to secure to agitate the adoption 1i the e b r. 1898, aud a: IRT- ¢ until aprroved by 1809, the v 115 bemefiis on all of the chart alteca cable t T There is a new el is the new section ( to consider, which | ) added to article XI of sl the last election, and that It shall be competent framed under * * * this on to provide, in addition (0 those s allowable by this constitution and f the State * * * ‘ior thecon- | gulation, government and juris- tion of Police courts,” ior the manner and time of electivn aud ferm of office of Police Judges, and for the manner an | tion or appointment and the ter Boards of Education, Boards of Poli il mssioners and Boards of Election.” This new section also provides that in con- solidated cities and counties a cherter provide ‘“for the manner in which, the ti at whicn and the terms for which the se couuty officers shall be eiected or appointed, for their compensation and for the number of deputies that each shail have &nd for the com- pensation payable to eacn of such deputics.” | Now, while this amendment says it shail be | | | may be invoked. | law or emendment enacted by the Legislature | tion, which under the ne compatent for Freeholders to act on these matters, it apparently do2s not go far enough by ssaying that such proyisious in ci ail not be amenable to that provision of sec- tion 8 which deciares that shall be “'consistent with and subject to the constitu- tion and laws of th's State.” That is the ques- must o in order to obtain ters which are not purely enumerated above—tnat is, poiice courts, boards of edncation, e this difficulty the so-called . aitied to people by iding 10r a new kind of charter, namely, = Counts charter, | The cligrter authorized to bs | framed by this section in every resnect resem. | bies a Frecholders’ charier for cities, except that 3t relates to purely county affuirs, which | are specificaily enumerated as fol ows: | he manner in which. the times at which and | terms for which the several county and town- | ficers * # sball be elected or appointed, ton | | | | eir_compensation, * ¥ * the num- ber of such office:, * * * the consolidation o I of offices, * * ¥ the .umber of the manner fn whic * n shall be elected or ppointed, constitution, regulation, compensation t of such boards and of ‘heir cierks 4 * % & themanner in wuich and | the method by which all elections by the people | shall be coniucted * * % and the tests aid | iions npon wt , political parties uizations may participate In any primary boards of and ume 1t is also provi ment act shall ed that “sa1d county govern- | * * * not be subject toany except by amendment first suvmitted to the lectors and ratifiel in the mauner herein- ove set for = Mahn vs. Sutro the Supreme Court heid | that San Francisco wes a City for some pur- poses and a county for other purposes, and thus ridiculous position in which we have been d may require the adoption by us not | ¥ of a city cnarter, but also« county char- in e te ase the amendment prevai When this convention appoin's a law committee we mar expect from them a report waich will elucidato this difficult problem. From this you will see that we are in a ler positio to-dny than stany Unie in our | istory to draft a charter. Now, as to the machinery of drafting a char- ter. The first step the election of a board | of ireeholders, who must within uizety days | be harier for the City, It lished for atleast twenaty days, the first publi- cation to be made within twenty days afier its completion. At any time after thirty days | publication it may be submitied to_the at a general or speciel election. It is oposed that this convention request the Commission to order a special elec: ceholders not Inter than October 1 eted their work (after ‘election to vote upon d about April 15, 1898, convention two monihs hich can essily be ering tne excellent have fora charter in the re- tent of last year,and also the | Vuluanie experience we gaimed by its discus- | sball then be pub- sion, Tevealing to us the wishes of the people. Atter the compietion of tne work of the | charter-makers, there will be two months and | a half for the discassion of the completed In- strument before it will be submitted to a vote. By this means we will avoid the primary elecs | v Jaw must be held | in May, and eliminate v partisan co sidersations, whien would d the popniar | judgment o a great extent if the special elec- | tion was hela too close to the general election | in November, 1895. As you are aware, after a | charter has been adopted by the peonle, it must go to the Legisiature early in 1899 for its approval. | The obj-c's to be obtained by a charter have | been so widely discussea tnat 1 will not here | dwell upon them again. Suflice it to say ihat | San Francisco is the prey of every Legislature | Limitntions, and |JAMES D. FHELAN, the Chairman of the Charter Committee. e ntrive to exist are in evers respect unfit for ihe government of a modern city. They conduce (o_corruption, extravagunce and in- cfficiercy. In many respecis the City officials are_acting without authorily of law and in violation of law, and several departments of This condition brings the Iaw into disre acluss of politicians an in circumyenting it. The confusion created by legislative enac ments, ordinances and court decisions, and the very absence of law upen important mu- nic pal matters, make gzood government a practical impossibility under the system as it now exists. We can make no muuicipal prog- es¢ without a new cnarter. and I am sure the citizens of San Fraucisco are sufliciently inter- ested in the welfare of the City to conier upon ita charter which will be unequivocal in its terms and_wise in 1ts provisions, to the end that the chosen sa1vanis of the people may know their duiles, their powers and their lowing them may serve the municipalily faithfully and well. “The great purpose of such an instrument will be to so place the powers of the government that re- sponsibility will be fixed and that it cannot be shirked; that extravagant administration and wastetul expendizure of the City’s moneys ean be controlled and that municipal progress may be made possible. J. Richard Freud wasjchosen temporary secretary by acclamation. He read the resolution under which the committee was appointed and called together in con- vention. Alter rollcall Mayor Phelan announcea the next business in order to be perma- nent organization. Julian Sonntag moved that & committee be appointed to submit a list of names, from which the convention should elect the permanent officers. Daniel R. Kelly offered an amendment that a committee of ten on organization be appointed by tue chairman, to report on Tuesday next. W. J. Cuthbertson moved that the tem- porary officers be made permanent. This was unanimounsly adopted, F. W. von Reynegom nominated F, W. Dohrmann for first vice-president. Mr. Dohrmann declined. Cuthberison sug- zesied G. K. Fitch, who also declined. Colin M. Boyd said the convention should insist on Mr. Dohrmann’s accentance of tbe place as vice-president, and Mr. Dohr- mann acquiesced in the wishes of the body. He was eiected by acclaraation, Hugh Craig was named for second vice- president, but declined, giving as a reason the fact that he lived out of town. James Denman was then nominated. Craig was finally elected second vice-president and Denman third vice-president. Gavin McNub moved that a committee of five be appeinted to prepare a mode of procedure for the convention. Chair- man Pheian appointed on this committee the following: Gavin McNab, Herbert E. Luw, Madison Babcock, Judge A. W. Thompson and P. J. Healy. The commit- tee at once retired to prepare a report. At this point Mayor Phelan excused himself, stating he had to be present at a meeting of the Boara of Supervisorssitting as a Board of Equalization. He called Vice-President Craig to the chair. It was decided that when the meeting adjourns it do so until 8 r. M. on Monday next. Gavin McNab, on behaif of the commit- tee on order of business, reported as fol- lows: We recommend that the permanent officers luwyers who glors ne City government could be crippled were | | the law strictiy enforced. spéct and nas creted | m their election prepare and propose & | and fts best interests is rarely or never cou- | lows: Boundaries, rights and liabilities; offi- | sulted by that body. The laws under which | cers and elections; lerislative depariment; finance and taxation; executive depariment; | judicial department: publie schools; healtn { departmeni; police de { ment; charity and corrections; pubiic parks; | public improvements; pub'ic utilities | rsilroads; harbor and wharves; civil ser saluries #hd bonds; miscellaneous provis revicion, alternntive questions aud schedule: law commitiee 1or the advice of this conves | tion, The rexular meetings of the convention shall be held on Thursday of each week, and | specinl meetings et the call of the chair. The report of the committee was adopted. [. Gutte was then elected treasurer of | the organization and the meeting &d- | journed untii next Monday evening, when a special session will be held at Balboa Hal!, Native Sons’ buildine. An Auctioneer Arrested. J. Simmons, an_auctioneer at 1016 Market street, was arrested last night by Detectives Ryanand O'Dea on a warrant charging him Portland, Or.,who alleges that Wednesday she purchased a watch and chain, ring and pair { of earrings from Simmons for $12, and & jew- eler afterward told her the articies were not worth more than $2 50. —————— Building Trades Council. At a meeting of the Building Trades Council last evening it was decided to co-operate with the San Francisco Labor Council in the matter | of the Labor-day celebration. William O0’Don- nell, Charles Hussey, J. Jorgensen and F. S. Burns were added to the committee of ar- rangements. This evening the combined committees will meet and arrange further de- tails. | Merges was elected temporary chairman CYCLE MEETS N THE NORTH California Riders to Ct;m- pete Against Oregon Cracks. Portland Wheelmen Have Affil- iated With the Loocal Association, Programme of Events and Prizes for a Meet to Be Held There August 14 and 15. President A. P. Swain of the California Associated OCycling Clubs bas received information which shows that the cyclists of Portland are in earnest in their recently expressed wish to break away from the League of American Wheelmen and affiliate with the California associa tion. At a meeting recentiy held E. E and the eighty wheelmen present all signed applications for membership in the aseociation. The league’s control of racing in the Northwest is not at all satisfactory to the racing men, the clubs or the dealers, and one of the first things the new branch will do will be to promote some meets at which the riders will at least get a square deal. They also desire the brivilege of | racing on Sunday 1f they wish, which is denied them under the league rules, but which is optional under tte C. A. C. C, by- laws. There are o graat many speedy riders in the Northwest and the managers of the proposed meets have rightly concluded that ereat interest would be manijested if they could be seen in competition with the ts of California cycledom. To secure the latter was an easy task, as the rates to Portland are very cheap, and the very lib- eral prize list offered by the Portland pro- moters has been the means ot inducing all | the prominent California professionals to signify their intentions of going. Such amateurs as desire to compefe out- side their own State under the association rules will have to have a special permit from the chairman of the racing board, R. M. Welch, to do so, which he will grant on application, first satisfying himself that the amateur rules are being properly | | | with obtaining money by false pretenses. The | complaining witness is Mrs. Lydia Seaman of | regarded. | California riders are taking great inter- | est in the two Portland meets to be held | August 14 and 15, and the jollowing long | list of events and valuable prize list will probably induce many to go who have heretofore been undecided : Saturday, August 14—One mile, novice, gold andsivermedals; oteand aquarter mises, invi- ation, amateur, , $30. #15, §5; quarter | | mile, amateur, $35, %20, $10; hali mile, invita- | tlnn.ipm(es onal, $50, $30, $15. $5; two miles, handicap, amateur, ¥39, $10; one mile, open, professions], ¥85. 350, 4 | 'Sunday, August 15—Quarter m | fessionai, diamonds, $70, $40, mile, open, smateur, medals; oue mile, invi- | tation. profersionai’ (ior Califoruis riders), | $70, $40, $20, $10; haif mile, messenger race, | $15, $10,$5; one mile, open, protessional, §85, $50, $25, $10; chase, professional race, 1 mit | two’ mises, handicap limlit thirty vards, pace- maker seventy-five yards, $70, #40, $20, $10. Other meets will be arranged, so that the men will have plenty of racing until the 1st of September, when they will re- turn to California to prepare for the cham- pionsbip events on the 6th, 9th and 12th of September at San Jose, Santa Rosa and Sacramento. The Portland proiessional racers will probably compete at these meets. Floyd A. McFarland, the San Jose racer now on the Eastern tracks, writes toa friend here that so far this season he has won nearly $2000 in prizes. He ranks third in winnings, Bald and Kiser leading him. McFarland will go to Mexico atter ithe National circuit ends, and return to California about December 1. He and Stevens have signed with the Tribune people, who are planning the Mexican in- vasion. C. Michener, whose serious iliness was | reporied in THE CArn Tuesday, is about the same. His friends and the doctors | have not yet given up hove of his re- covery. Judge Frank H. Kerrigan has returned from a ten days’ vacation trip to Cala- veras County. The '‘Never Hurry Ciub,” consisting of the following members of the Cycle Board of Trade, President J. S. Conwell, R. C. Lennie, J. A.Ostendori, Edwin Mohrig, C. Christoffer and W. J. Kenney, have returned from its Lake Coanty trip. MORE TROUBLE FOR WELBURN. General Cleaning Out of the Internal Reveunue Collector’s Office. Twelve additional charges of embezzle- ment against Osca M. Welburn will be presented to the United States Grand Jury 1o-day by Special Agent Thrasher, mak- ing twenty in ail. Four new witnesses and Messenger Dillard and Clerk Aiken will appear to-day before the jary. There is to be a general cleaning out of the office of the Internal Revenue Col- lector. Deputy Edward Lannigan, Miss Kirby, Miss McCune and Clyde Welburn have been ordered dismissed. Incompe- tency is alleged to be the cause of the order. DR. A. T. SANDEN-—Dear Sir thau 1 and T bave no more losses, Tt wiil be a great pleasure o< done forme. Yours trutbfuliy, This NEW TO-DAY. 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Stocks, and Oilier mar- Kkerable securities as collateral. . $208:80u 00 . %,185221°51 . 2,333,208 00 299,850- 60 Cash in Company’s Oftice. 641197 Cash in Bank A5 ieieees D484 84 Interest due and accrued on all : Stocks and Loaos. .. ... . 12,547.29 - Intere t due ard accrued on Bonds and Mortgage: sy 0 DAMBE, Premlums 1n due Courss of Collec- R R R, 708,201 Due for rebates on 10ases pald 265 85 Reuts due and accroed 1,645°00 ¢ Due from o her Companies for Re- 3 insurance on losses already paid.. 7,691 08 Total Assets... LIABILITIES, Losses adjusted and unpaid.......... Tosses in process of Adjustment or in Suspen . Losses resisted, incinding expenses. Gross premiums on Fire Risks roo- ning for one year or less, $1.956, 24) 40; reinsurance 50 per cent.. Gross premiums on Fire Risks ruo- ning for more than one year, $1.854.860 88: reinsurance pro Amount reciaimable by ‘the in- sured on Perpetusl Fire Insurance b Poifcies -. 1,934,352 36 All other demands agalost the Com- L pany.. 3 Total Liabllities. INCOME. Net Cash actually recetved for Fire premiums.. 2, Received for Morigages B Received for interest and arvidends on Bonds. Stocks, Loans, and from ail 0iher Sources. Recelved for Kents Receivea for Commissions. 971,503.15; inierest on Boads and Total Income.. Thers Shenld Bz No Weakness, The Nerves Should Be Sound, The Mas¢les Strong, The Mind Clear, The Eyes Bright And Sparkling With Health. T 1S POSSIBLE FOR EVERY MAN TO FEEL like this. Weakness, l0ss of memory, faflure ofthe nerve and vital forces follow the 1oss of that wondertul element of the nerves known as animal magnetism—or Electricity, It can be re- stored by DR. SANDEN’S ELECTRIC BELT. CURED ;,AND THANKFUL. 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Z = (Fire) ... .i....$1,404,485°00 RISKS AND PREMIUMS. 5 | Fire Kisks | Premiums, Net amount of ngksi writtenduring the 269,894,896 /$3,283,208 18 YOOET. 5, ov iy Netawmount of Ris expired during the 3 year. .| 252,434,261 3,024,677 75 ¢ e e L December 31,1898/ 353.711.538] 2,811,101 28 E. . 1RVIN, President. - M. G. GARRIGUES, Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 26th - sy of January, 1897 g THOMAS B. PROSSER, Notary Pubdlie. \ T. €, SHANKLAND, State Agent, of the comvention shall cousist of the foliow- ing: President, vice-president, second vice- president, treasurer and secretary, and that a :wge Seawell 1s sustained by the Supreme 219 Sansome St., San Fraacisco, Cal ourt. B 3 . How far a charter may go, therefore,in of the celebrated elecro-medical work, «THREE CLASSES OF MEN,” W. LOAIZA & ©€O., iding for the different subjects of legisl on within & municipality, as the constitu- 1on now stands, depends upon the construc- ou o be placed upon the phrase ‘‘except in municipal sffairs.” It may be fairly assumed that the following general laws, passed since the’ adoption of the new consiitution and &p- plicabie to San Francisco, affect subjects that Ccofne within the category of municipul affairs, and that they will e superseded by charter provisions on the different subjects to which they relate; 3 P MRS. L. K. BURKE, the Only Lady Ccmmittee Mcmber, as She Appeared at the Meeting Last Night, sergeant-at-arms be appointed by the chair. The chairman and secretary shail have the right (0 appoint as many assistant secretaries as in their judgment may be necessary. hAxxl committees snall be appointed by the chair. ‘The several committees shall be required to Teport progress al every meeting oi this con- vention. 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