The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 12, 1897, Page 1

N TSN GTY LLLLLLE) LR LR L R R R R R L R R R R L L R R R R A R R A R L R R R R R R L R L R R L A R R R L L L LR LR L R VOLUME LXXXIIIL.—NO. 12. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDA ¥ M ¢ all ORNING, DECEMBER 12, 1S897—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE FIVE CE ANNEXATION FORCES ARE LOSING STRENGTH AS THE DAYS GO BY WHITE OF CALIFORNIA. 1200 male Americans on of age, and nearly half of nexation, while néarly all lation is against it. port of the United States Dubois, “keeps the pres- a republic—in power. It day if the United States port, It will require a stantly to maintain any States may establish there. consent to the destruction WASHINGTON, Dec. in a position to know that urged in treaty is not REED OF MAINE. | | | | E Cawr, Orrice, Rices Hovse, | W ASHINGTON, December 11.{ There is & considerable number of Re- publican Congressmen whose position 1tis inaccurate to describe as either “for” or | “against’’ the anuexation of the Hawaiian J-<lanas. They would like to have the United States *‘control’’ Hawaii; but they cannot think of having statehood in the American Union accorded to those jslunds os even the remotest possibility. In short, they want something our con- stitutional system has made no provision for, and that is annexation or an aliiancs which does not confer either now or at future date the political rights now en- joyed by the States of the Union. The proposal to make Hawaeii a county of California is believed 10 be impracti- cable. 1f this were done something here- tofore unheard of in the way of county government would have to pe devised, and the electoral troubles in such a case would be merely transferred froun the Union itself to one of the States. How would the Californians in a closs guber- natorial or legislative contest like to have the voters on the islands, thousands of miles away, overrule the majority of the people of the rest of the State? It is not regarded as wise io make any stipulation that the islands shall remain permanently s “territory.” Besides be- ing oneof the worst systems in the world our territorial government has alwavs been regarded as an anomaly which time must swecp away. Hence, cautious Congressmen are say- “Hawaii ought never to be a State; ave too many of that kind now; she ought not to remain a territory, as that is only & temporary expedient anyway; he cannot well become a part of any vresent State, and so‘what are we going do with her?” \ Here is a great opportunity for original- ity in statesmanship. If some aspiring younz Congressman who has careiully studied constitutional systems would only devise a colonial plan which would meet 1he needs of such communities as Hawaii, aud would at the same time be fully accord with fundamental American po- litical theorie«, be would awake to find himself famous. Everybody is looking for some such plan, and saying that s commi-gion should be set to work to de- “ise it; but is there any guarantee that i LEADERS AGAINST ANNEXATION. VIRTUALLY A BAYONET GOVERNMENT BLACKFOOT, IDAHO, Dec. 11.—Ex-Senator Du- bois, who has just reached home after an extended visit to Japan, China and Hawaii, says the United States will not annex the islands against the bitter opposi- tion of the natives. He says -there are less than HOAR OF MASSACHUSETTS. friends of the measure have been compelled to admit that they cannot secure the necessary two- thirds vote. It has been found that ‘@ number of Senators who were con- fidently counted for the treaty are against it, while others have expressed doubts about the advisa- bility of hasty action. E S A such commission would be successful in its search? Hawaii is thought to be but the fore run- ner of Cuba and perhaps other scattered parts of the western hemisphere. I would pe but natural that the weak and poorly governed Stutes of Spanish Amer- ica should rush toward the United States with our door once open. Circumstances have brought these Pacific islands within American reach a little earlier than the Test; but once admit these and there is no Knowing where the colonial extension appetite may end. If Hawaii is to be annexed then it is of enormous importance that some plan should be discovered for itszovernment. This is a puzzle which makes it impos- sible for a goodly number of the more careful lawmakers to say whetherthey are really for or against annexation as the case now stands. Thefriends of annexation have definitely decided to consiaer the question in exccu- tive session of the Senate. A lew of those who subport the measure were at first in- | clined to believe, uniess it became evident | that the two-thirds necessary to secure the ratification of the treaty was assured from the beginnine, 1t would be a waste of time to take the matter up at all. Upon the basis of the treaty they appear to have changed their minds and to be disposed to defer to the opinions of the majority, who oppose this course. It is now stated, on bebalf of the an- nexationists, that to abandon the treaty at the present time woula create the im- pression they lLad surrendered the fight entirely. They think the consideration of the question will serve to bind those who profess to be in favor of annexation, and to hold at least a majority of the Senate for a resolution, if it should become neces- sary to resort to that expedient. There is another reason for desiring the consideration of the treaty behind closed doors, which actuates the Committee on Foreign Relations. Thnis is the fact that Japan’s attitude toward annexation is such as to involve some delicate questions, which the members of this committee think it not advisable to air before the public, in the way they might be sired 1f the matter should be taken up for debate in the open Senate. The stanchest friends of annexation ad- mit it will be well-nigh impossible to se- 3 a a % a a 3 a a 3 g DANIEL OF VIRGINIA. the islands over 21 years them are opposed to an- the balance of the popu- “Nothing but the sup- Government,” said Mr. ent oligarchy—misnamed could not sustain itself a should withdraw its sup- large armed force con- government the United The natives will never of their national life.” 11.—It is stated by those the reason the Hawaiian the Senate is that the SWANSON OF VIRGINIA. tlSUJJUUl Wm&wmwmmlllluwmlwmwmwww R000020202002929222292282202202002202298 cure the two-thirds vote necessary to ratify the treaty, but they contend they | will come very near reaching the neces- | sary number. Of 1he 60 votes necessary, they claim to Lave 54 jledged, ani they think it possible that they might secure | two or three more votes. Theirr plan, | howrver, contemplates a full debate of the question on the treaty in executive se sion, and a subsequent transfer of the matter, if necessary, on a resolution simi- lar to that by which Texas was annexed, and the pressing of this resolution toa speedy.vote. The' resolution will require only a majority of votes, but to be effective 1t should also pass the House, where the delay'is feared. The return of Mr. Hoshi, the Japanese Minister, from a brief lsave of absence in Japan, hasdrawn renewed attention to the queation of Japan’s attitude toward Ha- waiian annexation. Mr. Hoshi stated to- day that while he had no intention of discussing in the newspapers the official relations of nis country with the United States, he thought it was due to both Governments 10 disavow in the most pub- lic manner the sentiments and de-gas re- garding Hawaiian annexation frequently attributed to Japan in the press of this country. He feit it to be his duty, he said, to stale that it is absolutsly untrue the Japanese Government is opposed in any manner whatever to the annexa- tion of Hawaii to the United States. To an inquiry regarding the instruc- tions with which his Government had en- trusted him during his recent visit to Japan, Mr. Hoshi stated that while ol course hecould not reveal the nature of those instructions, it was not improyer for him to -ay that they wereof a kind, in his opinion, to facilitate materially the settlement of the questions resuiting from the annexation of Hawaii, in which Japan can righifully claim to be interested. Tnere is po reason, he said, why the ful( and fran k discussion, and in the end, the just settlement of all such questions should create the slightest friction be- tween the two countries. —_— Need Not kear War. BARCELONA, Dec. 1l.—Lieutenant- General Weyler has asked the Govern- ment to submit to the Chamb=r the notes exchanged with the United States on the subject of President McKinley’s message to Congress. He declares that with the elemerts in Spuin and the heroic courage of her soldiers they need not fear war witn the United States. MOTHER MCKINLEY [§ DEAD Slowly the Life of the President’s Mother Ebbed. PASSED AWAY AT A RIPE OLD AGE. End of an Active Life Most Beautiful in Its Quist Peacefulness. ALL RELATIVES PRESENT AT THE CLOSE. At 2 O'Clock This Morning tha Aged Woman Answered tha Final Summons. Special Dispatch to THE CALL. CANTON, Omio, Dec. 12.—Mrs. McKin- ley passed from life at a few minutes past 2 o’clock this morning with all her chii- dren and relatives at her bedside. She did not suffer any in her last hours, but gradually passed from the deep, palsied sleep in which sie had rested almost con- stantly for the past ten days into the sleep of the dead. No word could be secured from the house for some hours before tne dissoiu- tion. Knocks of reporters as well as hose of telegraph messenzers were un- answered. At 2:35 an undertaker was summoned and the first publicity given to the pubolic of the death. The end was most beautiful in its quiet peacefulness. She <eemed to sleep so soundly thatit wasdifficult to teil whether she had vet breathed her last. Thiscondi- i tion continued for balf an hour. There was no struggle. She seemed to sleep her life awav. Tue President and all of ner family were by her side. Thore were no recog- nitions, howew Her last consciousness was hours belore her final taking away. At 3 A. . it is impossible to make knowy any arrangements. It is not be- lieved that any will be made until the much worn family have a few hours’ rest and sleep. Tne President at 3 o’clock this morning avpeared in the bes: of health, At 3:30 A. M. the family, worn out with long watching, were retiring for the first rest in the McKinley house for ten long days and nights. The Prosident's wife has withstood the sirain better than it was feared she mizht. The family in their long vigils have all seemed pos-essed of the great strength of the mother, whose vitality at nearly ninety surpassed the expectations of the Continued on Second Page [ AS BY J. P. MAHAFFY. DUBLIN, Dec. 11.—When y me some time ago to send you some arti- cles on the state of Ireland at this mo- ment, you very naturally called it a stais of famine. That was the cry in Augast and early in September. Even the au- thorities at Dublin Castle were greatly alarmed, and one in authority there told me that the reports from the country were very serious. But having undertaken to give you my impressions it was of course my duty to make some serious inquiry into these reports and get some more trustworthy opinions than those of the daily press; for you know in Ireiand the daily press, however earnest and vera- ou invited cious, is not consistent with itself (I don’t | know whether tyou are in America), and, according to the paper you read, your im- the morning; fresh westerly winds, FIRST PAGE. Annexation Loses Ground. Mother McKinley Desad. Mahaffy on Irish Famine. EECOND PAGE. Prison Directors Meet. Los Anzeles Reform Wava. Urge Farmers to Organize. THIRD PAGE. Did Dreyfus Betray France? Kaiser Gets the Glory. Fightine Near Havana. America Loses P estige. FOURTH PAGE. Santa Clara Teachers Gagged, They Lynch the Negro. Cassell held for Murder. The Lightship Launched. FIFTH PAGE. England’s Foreign Troubles. SIXTH PAGE. Editorial. Why Texas Was Admitted. The Campaign of Siander. Fifty Thousand More. Our Coming Exposition. Journalism at the Capital. Proposed New Army Uniforms. Personals. SEVENTH PAGE. Liquor Dealers Will Organize, Trenton Place 1s Threatened. A Footpad’s Brutal Act. Arrest of a Daring Burglar, A Serious Streetcar Collision. FEIGHTH PAGE. Miller Lends the Bikers. Great Hamburg Sold. Caucus on Civil Service. Police Want Clean Streets. Bidson Lincoln School Property NINTH PAGE. News of the Water Front. Racing at Inglexiie. They Want to Go to Congress, TENTH PAGE. Box Combine Disorganized. Arroganes of Supt. Fillmora, Calendar of To-day’s Services. ELEVENTH PAGE. Durrant’s Approaching Doom. Poison in the City’s Gas, Society Tableax for Charity, E : ; E E E 3 E | E E | g E. TS B ST T T A BT T T T T Y TG EUTT VTR NEWSTHOE [THE = DAY Weather forecast for San Francisco: Fair Sunday, probable light foz in FOURTEENTH PAGE. Births, Marriages, Deaths. Decadence of Austria. FIFTEENTH PAGE. News From Across the Bay. Progress of the Golden Jubilee. SIXTEENTH PAGE The Examiner’s Latest Crime. SEVENTEENTH PAGE. A Tragedy of the Sea. From Under a Shadow. Brave Piper Milne. EIGHTEENTH PAGE. Truth About Tiburon Island. Awed by a Superior Servant. NINETEENTH PAGE. s California '49ers in 1897. Pretty Giris in San Francisco. Heroine of Many Battles. TWENTIETH PAGE. Late Portrait of Pove Leo XIIL Tissot’s Great Work. Making of Musical Composers. TWENTY-FIRST PAGE. American Prince of Moscow. Pink Silk Matrimony. TWENTY-SECOND PAGE. S:hools of the State. Do Suicide Clubs Exist? TWENTY-THIRD PAGE. Literature and Books. TWENTY-FOURTH PAGE, Society. TWENTY-FIFTR PAGE. Fashions. TWENTY-SIXTH PAGE. Boys' and Girls’ Page. TWENTY-SEVENTH PAGE. Theatrical News and Criticism. TWENTY-EIGHTH PAGE. Out of Town Personals TWENTY-NINTH PAGE. “Uncle Jim and Uncle Billy., THIRTIETH PAGE. Fraternal. Mines. THIRTY-FIRST PAGE. Commercial News THIRTY-SECOND PAGE. Den Owner Allais Convicted. New Pian for Postal Savings. Garbage Plant Troubles. ’é a a 3. a 3 a g 3 | | § mmumnm&umxunumnnnnnmnumé IRELAND’S FOOD SUPPLY AND THE FAMINE SCARE, SEEN BY MAHAFFY PROFESSOR J. P. MAHAFEY. 1 :*'ii‘k***tttttfittttiti**fit*tiii*k**i*tt*tttt*iti*)it 3 When it was reported in August last that famine was imminent in the agricul- tural districts of lreland, with a prospect of great suffering among the poor, *‘ The Call ”’ engaged Professor J. P. Mahaffy, the eminent educator of Trinity College, Dublin, to write a series of Iletters setting forth the true condition of affairs from the view-point of an impartial ob- server whose facilities for obtaining knowl- edge were of the best. Professor Ma- haffy’s first letter is published this morn- ing. i e e e ke e s e Tk e A sk s e i e i ke e e e e ek s ok ok kst e e e e e e e e e sk e e e pressions change from black to white, | money. All these classes are ready to from grave to gay. So Ihad recourse | promote the cry of famine for the pure not only to the papers of various politics | pose of bringing extraneous money into but to private inquiries among the friends | their districts, and then repaying them- I have in every county in Irsland, and | selves the various little debts the poor also to such official papers as could fairly | people owe them, the gombeen man is be put intomy hand. | thinking of the interest on his _loan, the These researches have occupied me | =———— some time, and, though you may have EEE TOTAT been impatient, this delay was not with- NN AN XA AN NN XN NN RN AN 57 ¥ AR R Ak A TR Rk Ak R R A A A R R RO AR Ok kR Rt out its profit; for, during the last SIX | iweeks, the whole aspect of things has | very much altered. Since the alarming | ‘wet weather in late August and early September there has been the finest Most Torturing, Disfiguring, land dryest autumn | ever remem- Humiliating ber in this country. 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