The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 5, 1897, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1897. CALIFORNIA + MEMBERS AT WASHINGTO Each Maps Out His Own Line of - Work. WHITE OPPOSED ANNEXATION. TO Says the Fight Against the Treaty Will Be Long. CONGRESSMEN AND THEIR PET PROJECTS. Loud Has Scored One Impor- tant Victory on an Appoint= ment. &pectal Dispatch to THE CALL. CaLL OFFIcE. Rices HoUsE,] WasHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 4. All of the members of the Cal delegation are here ready for the session of Congress except Senator Perkins and Representative Hilborn. Perkins is ex- pected to-night. Senator White arrived at the Normandie Hotel, with Mrs. White and children, this morning. Senator White said to-night that he had no rezu- ular programme planned out for this ses- sion of Congress “The main thing,'’ sa fight against the annexation of Haweii, and this will begin early in the session and continue es long as need be. Aslong as I can talk and as long as my fellow- Eenators who are also opposed to annexa- tion have 1 irance, just so long will the debate continue. Thess sup. poriers. who think that annexation w he, “will be the e physical enc 1 Be accomplished easily are very much mis- | taker tor Pett fron the eiieson his assistance, 1d has taken quart-rs Jverett for himself, wife and daugh- He said to-night: “I have blocked no programme for this winter. Nat- ¥ my work as chairman of the Com- tee-on Pos'offices and Post Roads wiil ocoupy 2 good deal of my atiention. 1 sha 1o secure an appropriation for the Tem:val of Shag and Arch rocks in ie harbor of San Francisco, and an ap- sropriation of $12,000 to $15,000 for Red- i- Creek, if there to be a river and hor appropriation bill passed this ses- | But 1 doubt whether there will be y, as Chairman Cannon of the Appro- | ion .Commiitee i posed to it, and ! said so to tne President, as I under- K of the matters to claim my atten- will ‘be the establishment of a free- 2ry ‘system Santa Clara County, the Postoffice Department has nated as the :deal location for rural- ment defeated Perkins. | Representstive Barham is at the Enbitt | House. He said to-night there was not much use in pushing the Nicaragua canal bill, his pet hobby, until aiter the com- mission had submitted its report to Con- ress. . Barlow (the Populist) talks loudly abouf what he will do ‘n case the Secretary of War does not carry out the San Pedro ject. He also wants a breakwater at | vr Por to settiers the $200 excess payments made | on each quarter sectior of land. He will | endeavor to secure monev for improve- ments at the Santa Monica m Dr. Solaiers’ | .. Castle will introdzce a bill to pro- vide for impoundin: water for purposes | tion of other territory of this kind. | will of navigation; also bills to abolish na- tional banks and to secure the independ- ence of Cuba. ; Representative Maguire has arranged no programme for himself, but will, as usual, be content to deal in glitt-rinz ge ies, such as opposition to the Pacific Congressman D>Vries wiil urge at this | session the creation of a ‘‘department of | mines and mining.”’ He will also u-ge | p ssage of the “mineral lands b:ll"’ thinks that siould be changei. It is (oo iarge. A | commission should be appointed (o in- | tizate the need for new roads in the | k. DeVries will try to secure $100,- 000 1o $1-5,000 ‘or a new puolic building at Stockion. : Mr. DeVries says: “l intend making a sirong fight to secure the pas-age o! my mineral lands bill. Iam amember of the Public Lands Committee, and will try tc favorable report in the House at rly date. Regarding the proposed 1 for which Congress ha«already made appropriation of $500,000, the Govern- | ient.engineers have not as yel hupmnuad | eir report to the Secretary of War, and | ite has therefore besn chosen, but it reneraily thougkt thai it will be ted at Point Drguerr: on Yuba River. 1.will also try to have passed a resolution providing for a_commission 1o locate roads in Yosemite National Park and 1o o have the limiis of the park cut do Iintend a<king increa<ed ap- provriations for dredging and other im- provements for the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. 1 am opposed to extend- ing the Pscific roads’ debt and am ready to fight any scheme tbat looks like re- tundine. Judve Maguire, who 18 2 mem- er of the Picific Roads Commitiee. will be our ieader in this fight, and I suppose bhe delegztion wiill map out a pian of . ampaign.”’ fornia | srew of N rth Dakota also | Pucific Coast, | Virginia to express for THE CALL h tion of Hawaii. Mr. Swanson is on Means Committee he is one of the sentative Swanson consented and p: WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—1 have care- | fully considered the proposition made for | the annexation of Hawaii, and am bitterly opposed to the scheme. I can readily see how it would be advantaceous to the | islands, but am at a loss to see how any | ©imply to possess a beautiful but useless | tie | territory of this kind. ne limits of Yosemite Park { €ign to the genius of our people and must | fected by the political revolutions of tne rzood can accrue to the United States from | annexstion. I am opposed to the policy | of the United States annexing an 1sland | about 2000 miles from her shores. In the time of war its possession would be a source of weakness instead of strength. | It would require an immense navy to pre- | serve it if we were engaged in hostilities with any first-class power. Much of our | navy being at these islands fo afford pro- | tection to them, would to that extent | lessen the real defense to the Pacific Coast. | It is ridiculous to suppose that ships 2000 | miles from the coast could afford any de- fense or protection to the coast. T:us, to my mind, pos n of these islands in time of war, with the obligation upon us to protect and defend them, would be a | source of weakness in defending the Pa- ) 2 A cific Coast, instead of strength. ivery experiments. I will endesvor to ; { dite work on the San Francisco Post-| 1 8m opvosed to the inception of a ¢ building, and with tbis purpose in | policy of acquiring islands which will ne- | view called on the Assistant Secretary of | cessitate a greatly increased navy ta prop- ine Treasury to-day and urged that the | erly defend them. The moment that syecifications and plans for the super- | these islands become a part of our terri- 8 be rusued and tne bids ad-i,,y will witness appropriations for a those life-saving stations at | reatly increased navy, because it had as Arena and Point Bonita, there is| Well be undersiood that annexation will more that can be done. They | necessarily create the necessity for an in- ave both been authorized by Congress. | creased navy. An increased navv means The sungsy awvil Apuropragions l‘fllll T | a great increase of taxation. The Federal propriates a iump sum for light and lite | & : P SIF;OM APl e ])ll-'mm“em is | Government, alrelt'iy baving an annual Supposed to set aside the sums to be ex- | €xpenditure of over half a billion of dol- pended at each place. There i~ no reason | lars, cannot afford to further add to this why these stations shouid not be con- without imposing burdens upon the peo- structed at both Point Arena and Point | ple which will paralyze trade ana in- Bonita. I will see what I can doat the | 4ty Treasury Departmentand will do it im- | “py¢ oxpenditure that tne Government Mr. Loud said he had no recommenda- | Mmust incur to be prepared to defend these tions for Federal appointments in con- | islands and to give them a zood system of templation. He was evidently very much | government would far exceea anythine gratified over the appointment of Dawson | that this Government would ever receive as Drug Inspector at San 1618¢0 ID- | 4rom them in the shape of taxes or of | stead ot Dr. Tufts of Sacramento to suc-| ceed Kern, the incumbent: Senator Per- | Wealth to ourpeople. kins Bad recommended Tufts, a kinsman | Lbe people of the islands are already | of Congressmande Vries, and re- | overburdened with taxation and debt to | zarded asa seitled thing that Tufis would | support their present Governm ent. Their | - be appointed, but Loud at the last mo- | public debt, amounting to a large sum for | so small a country, must be assumed by ! Government. The proposition sim- | ply means taxine and imposing burdens | upon the people of this country for tue benefit of these islands, without any cor- responding benefit to us whatever. we | have already, in remitting duties upon sugar, given to the people of these 1slands enough to purchase every acre of land in i Harford, and has a bili for refunding | them. I sm opposed to a policy which will | greatly tax the people of this country | toy like Hawail. Besides the annexation will be but the beginning of the acquisi- | It not be long before people with | schemes to serve will be advacating that | this country acquire other itlands in the south seas or in the Orient. It will be claimed that the acquisition of these will be necessary for the safe protection of | Hawaii. Thus the scaeme when once commenced will go on until this country becomes loed=d down with islanis and This poliey is for- resuli in much detriment and loss. These islands oncs possessed by us make us at once interested in znd affected by the political affairs of China, Japan and other countries of the Orient. Here- | tofore we have not been in the least af-| older countries. The moment we acquire t hese islands we will begin to watch with spprebension the growth of any great naval power in the Orient. We will by deurees become parties 10 the political af- fairs of those countries. This can result n no benefit to us and can only bring icalamity. Wisdom demands that we should strictly adhere to the traditions of our fathers and confine our territory to our natural and contiguous boundaries. I view with deep apprehension the least de- parture from this policy. The possession of the-e islands, creating for us jealousies in Japan, China and other countries of the Orient, will make us lose far more in trzde than can be ac- quired. Also most of the labor of these jslandsbeingservile Japanese and Chine e must before long embroil us in misunder- standings with these two countries in ref- CLAUDE A. SWANSON, M. C. CALL OFFIC THE CALL correspondent reque men in the House of Representatives. | which would come from annexation, but I | lezal ana medical matt-rs wiil | a glance—is a Bostox | disproportion and_distortion caused by ‘WHY SWANSON IS OPPOSED TO ANNEXATION RIGGS HOUSE,) WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. sted Hon. Claude A. Swanson of is views on the proposed annexa- e of the brightest of the younger | As a member of the Ways and | leaders of the minority. Repre- repared the following : erence to their treatment there and their right to come into the United States from there. I am opposed to reopening this question, which has teen set-led. Besides all this the inhabitants of the islands ar2 not such as are desirable to be incorporated into our Government. Of their inhabianis only about 3000 are Americans, while the residue are natives, Tapaness, Portnguese and Chinese, all of | whom are thoroughly unsuited for citizen- ship. It wouid be more than a century vefore these people could be educated and | civilized so they could be vested with citzenship. Thus annexation would mean either the | prolongation of territorial government with all of the local affairs controlled from Washington or eise the admission into this Union of these island« as a State. I am opposed to this country acquiring any ter:i ory which is not intended very soon to be formed and admitted as a State into the Unton. For territor al govern- ment besides being unsatisfactory to the people of the territory is pernicious to the | Federal Government. The admission of Hawaii as a State simply means the add:- tion of a rotten borough to statehood, with two Senators controlied absolutely by the few persons who control the sugar inter- ests of these islands. This wouid be a great wrong upon the other great States of the Union and can but be injurious to the best interests of our country. 1 favor the formation of no more rotten boroughs into States. Thus I can see no practical benefits see much that is objectionable and which is fraught with great expense and possi- bilities of much loss to this country, Sentiment and reed are the two forces which favor annexation. CLAUDE A. SWANSON. FALLACIES OF THE T-RAY PHOTOGRAPHS. Objects Not Accurately Shown if Hidden From the View. Obliquzness That Causes Glaring Inaccuracies Which R:qu're Scme Revision, Special Dispatch to Tir CALt. 3 BGSTON, Dec. 4 —X-ray pictures are fallacious; thatis, X-rays do not picture an object accurately if that object be hid- den from view, and more particularly if it is conceale ! in the human body. I:seems odd that this peculiarity has not b2en dis- covered before in the tremendous devel- orments of the X-ray photography, but it iz s0. The first person to maks this im- vortant discovery—for iis importance in be seen at physician, Dr. Ed- war.l Tracy of South Boston. I Tracy demonstraies the fallucies of the X. ray pictures in a manner which admis of no doubt, and that is by X-ray pictures themelves. He says “The indiscriminate admission of the X-ray photographs would be wrong. Their use : 8 evidence of injury isonly safe when certain conditions have been fulfi led in taking and presentation. The reason tor the distortion in the X-.ray pictures is tha! tne rays emanated from a point, and are therefore not yara'lel. To read cor- rectly the lesson of X-ray pictures the obliqueness of X ravs must be kept in mind and mental correction made for the the obliqu ness. X rays properiy used are as a searcnlight in the exposition of bone lesions. But the lesions must be pictured from d.fferent directions and the resultant |iclures compared with pictures of the normal opnosite member. More- over, the pictures of the Injured member and the opposite normal member must be taken with the same relative position of the Crouvkes tube and the limb and the sensitized plate. Tuen can truth be ar- rived at, and truth is esseatial to justice.” i Finde Few Durrant Sympathizore, PETALUMA, D:c 4 —Attorney Thomp- son and wife of San Francisco visited Peraluma yesterday, the latter circulating a petition for commutation of Durrant’s | seilers NNOGENT MEN DIED [N PRISON Children of the Victims Demand a Heavy Indemnity. PARIS POLICE RAID BOOKSELLERS. A Sudden Spasm of Virtue Causes a Seizure of Photographs. FRANCE THE GAINER BY A CATASTROPHE. Vast Am-unt of Succession Duty Pald on the Estates of Those Who Perished. Copyright, 1897, by James Gordon Bennett. PARI1S, Dec. 4 —By asingular coinci- aence, while it is veing claimed that Dreyfus may possibly be the victim ofa miscarriage of justice the Court of Cassa- | tion yesterday began a revision of the case of Prene Vaax and Jean Petit, who died in penal servitude while undergoing a sentence of twenty-five years’ deporta- tion in Guiana for incendiarism, alleged to have been perpetrated as far back as 1848, The crime has been since traced to another parly, and the children of the condemned men, one of whom isa deputy, now demand an indemnity of 100,000 francs from the Government. Mme. Rivo, ex-Princess de Chimay, has | broucht the Paris police down upon book- | and other tradesmen who have carried on a thriving trade in indecent | photographs. It appears that last vear Clara Ward contracted with Reutlinger, the famous photographer, for the sale of her wvortrait in poses, plus ou moins plastiques. By an agreement which was read in court the artist underlook to pay her a | rovalty of ver cent on every photo- graph soid. The photographs sold by ihousands, but the authoritiesintervened, seized all the coples found in shops, and also made a strict search among photo- graphs kept for sale. The result was sur- pricing. The portraits of Mme. Rizo were pronounced not indecent, as they | were all taken in tights, but the search brought to light a .quantity of photo- graphs of a scandalous character. Con- sequently it was dec.ded to prosecute all tradesmen possessing photographs in puris naturalibus, The terr.b'e catastrophy at the Bazaar de la Charite has indirectly contritu.ed largely to the French treasury. Thenum- ber of wealthy people who perished in the disaster was, as everyone remembers, very large, and the amount of succession duty pai! on their estates during the past n omta amounted to no less than 000,000 francs. I'ne annual valuation of the wine crop of 1897 has just been issued in France. The crop is estimated 1.000 hecto- litres, or a decreace of ,000 hectolitres compared with the crop of 1896, and 126,- 000 ctolitres below the average of the last ten yea Sculptor Fremiet is working on a co- lossal statue of Ferdinand de Losseps, which will be exhibited in 1900. The statue, which will be six times larger than life, 1s intended for erection at the entrance of the Suez canal. ; At last we seem likely to be supplied with matches that poison neither the peo- ple who make them mnor tne people who use them. A new kind, which is called the ‘“triumpa match,” will shortly be placed on the market. It ismaae without vhosphorus, and although the inventor is a German, Le is likely 1o receive a trial, so disgusted is the pubiic with those in pres- ent use. A marriage somewhat out of the ordi- nary was celebraied by Paris’ Mayor this week. The contracting parties were two convicts. The groom is destined for Cale- donia, where he is sentenced to passa term of five wears’ imprisonment. The bride is bound for Central Prison, at Cler- mont, wiere she will remain three years. The couple had lived together several years before their_capture in connection with « bur:lary. The prison chaplain haa induced them to get married. There are si-ns tha: cycle racing in France is losing popularity in and around Paris and a number of velodromes are <uffering from severe financial depression, | Nearly all the owners of velodromes are anxious to seil. Mrs, J. W. Mackay has gone to Biar- ritz, where she proposes to remain somse weeks. DEATH GF JUDGE BALDWIN. The Jurist Passes Away at Stockton | After an Iliness of Two Years. STOCKTON, Dec. 4.—Judge Frank T Baldwin, ex-Code Commissioner, died this evening at his rooms ia this cit after an iliness of two vears. He was stricken by paralys's on December 20, 1895, while walking on Market sireat in front of the Palace Ho'el in San Fran- cisco, and has been an invalid ever since, Occasionally he s.oweu s gns of improve- ment, but recentiy he wa. heipless and his life was prolonged by siimulan:s. | He leaves a widow and two daughters, Judge Baldwin was & prominent luwyer of this county for many vearsand held ssveral political positicns. In 1876 he was elected by the Democrats as M.yor of Stoekton, and in 1882 was elected t~ tle State Senate. On the elevation of Jndge Van R. Paterson to the Supreme beuch in 1887, Mr. Baldwin was appointed by Gov- ernor Irwin to fill the unexpired term on | the banch_of the Superior Court of this county. Judge Baldwin was one of the delegates to the national convention that nominated Simuel Tilden for ths Presi- dency in 187 The faneral will be he!d Monday after- noon and the remains will be sent to San Francisco for cremation. i S Boyn Fived by Incendariss, CLOVERDALE, Dec. 4.—The large barn of Daniel Sink in O.t Valley, near here, | was consumed by fire last night with ali its contents, consis ing of dried fruit, valuable farming maclinery, vehicle: harness, hay and other farm outfittings. The loss wiil exceed $2000, with no insur- senience. Sue found few sympathizers here. ance. The blaze is supposed to have beeu of incendiary origin. | the privacy of her own NEW TO-DAY — CLOTHLI Under the Rule of SANTA CLAUY «eo 111E FIROT The Big Store’s completely turned over to Santw Claws, who arrived fresh, hale and hearty from the frozen north, by way of the Klondike. The golden nuggets that he will spread out to the little folks on his first reception, Monday, will linder Lowell—one of the mostremarkable al-| iy, the memories of the little folles and the big folks as leged patricides on record. Alfred Howe, | 19 years old, charzed with an attempt o | 072€ Of the pleasant things that occur in « lifetine. kili his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Howe, at their home, 267 Appleton street, last nizhr, is locked up at the police sta- tion. Three attempts to end the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Howe in their house, it is alleged, have been made within a week. ‘When the assault was reported to the po- lice it was alleged that silverware was stolen and that the assailant and thief had escaped by a rear window. Mr. and Mrs. Howe are both heavily in- sured. They haven’t an enemy in the worl Mr. and Mis. Howe ited Thurs- day night a neighbor. Their son returned | to tue house before the arrival of his pa- rents. Mrs. Howe led the way into the | parlor ant Mr. Howe was about lighting a | match when he heard his wife scream, Mr. Howe while going to his wife’s as- sistance, was struck on the head with a mallet and rendered almost unconscious. The police were sammoned. Mrs. Howe had beeu stabbed twice in the back with a Sheis very low and has not ned of her son’s arrest. Mr. Howe's wounds are in the forehead. It is said by the police that near the close of his examination the son said if he had committed the offense the silver- | ware might be found hidden in the wood- | pile. Toe police found the silverware | there. Tnhe young man was thea locked | uv on a coarge of attempt to kill. Eiward A. Howe, father of the young mun, said: “A week ago, upon returnin from another room, my wife found the gas turned on at the foot of our ted, but not lighted. 1 was in bed at the time. The roow was dark and I heard a rusiling noise on the floor. Monday night of this week my wile found on waking tne ga: e-caping. Wien we opened the door and windows we found & cap had been re-| moved. My son was threatened by a| New York firm recently if he did not send | them some money for services performea in placing his invention on the market. I never knew of my son walking in his sleep. He was partly dressed when he | came downstairs Thursday night.” Alfred Howe, the accused, says: *I have | walked in my sieep, I believe, as I have | found 1ay clothing changed from the | place where Iputit. It is possible that I | tell asteep when reading in the parlor. 1t 1 did, I may have walked in my sleep and | hid the silverware. I feit an influence come over me before I told the poircz that the silverware might be found iu the | woodpile. 1 have thought it over, but I/ cannot beiiéve that any influcnce could be | exerted to leud me to assiult my pareats. I have given some attention to spiritual- | ism and hypnotism. I have not been hypnotized since my_cousin tried to, but he did not succeed. I watche! a hypnotist TRIED T0 KILL 5 PARENTS Young Alfred Howe Made Three Attempts at Murder. But the Accused Declares He Cannot Remember His Strange Acts. Belleves It Is a Case of Walking in His Sleep and Givas Soma Experlences. Special Dispatch to THE CALL. BOSTON, Dec. 4.—There is a singulerly mysterious attempted murder case in %, My, in Boston and determined I could repeat | the experimen PHEUNE CROP. Fifty Million Pounds Produced During the Year. SAN JOSE, Dec. 4.—Professor C. W. Chiids, one of the prominent horticul- turists of the county and an active mem- ber of the Grange, has ju t completed the work of gathering statistics on this yvear's crop of prunes in Santa Clara County. In round numbers he savs the county hLas produced this year 50,000,000 poundx, and | that is but halfa crop, as against 37,000,000 pounds last vear. He says these prunes | are selling for !4 cent more on the pound | than any other prunes in the market. | The total annual consumption ot in the United States at present is i 000 pounds. With the rapid expansion of | orcuards in the county, he says, it will be but a short time until the annual output | of prunes from the orchards here will | reach 100,000,000. Even with no addi- | tional orchards, those now out, but not vetin bearing, will at maturity produce | 100,000,000 annually. At the present rate of consumption in the United States this | will leave a_ surplus of 30,000,000 pounds | annually. He believe- the Amer.can con- sumption can be greatly increased by distributing the prunes proverly in the SANTA CLALA’ S NEW TO-DAY. POISONING THE FOUNTAIN. If the foun- tain of life is ' poisoned at its very source, | there can be no health in/ any part of the body. 3 : : : When a woman hasany | Is by no means a side show. He has taken full pos sion of ouwr disease = or weakness of | go00p.( floor, and the amusing incidents that he will relate to our the delicate special _organ. | : 5 1 Late fsm of her ex, the (,,“,“.-.7uw‘lulu/;u,m/lf{,hnn, ru/] //1f' many pretty and amusing scenes ain-head of | her physical | that the little folks will witness on owr second floor, Monday, existence is oisoned and P hesthe i will demonstrate that our Santa Claws is the real thing; the until this one Others, mere side shouws. tal trouble is| It's a sight worth coming miles to see ; that will prove interesting to the little f Srown-up ones. Monday is Reception Day and the general public is invited, Santa Claws will give yow a sowvenir of the occasion. she cannot any respect | fundamen- cured. « The family physician may make the very com- mon error of ascribing all the it's @ spectacular show olks as well as to the bl super- y | o X 7 £ 2 Soial causes; he“.l’.i:y il (Frerrsrssss sy rrsrrrnye s ddddadstddatsdacs prescribe for neural- i G | & We will exhibit our Holiday Goods also on Monday. ¥ i headache, i g y i/ T on JH ond ay. 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