The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 26, 1898, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, ATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1898. N EXPOSITION IS NOW ASSURED Mayor Phelan Authorized to Appoint a Committee to Take the Matter in Charge and Arrange All of the Necessary Preliminary Details. ; An Appeal Will Be Made to the National Government and State Legislature for Financial Aid in Carrying the Project to a Successful Issue, ded to m That an ex C fit not entire al Pac same year? r Phelan to devise and plan | tion that will properly bring ion of the > re- ducts o Pacific the by ne that the 1 draw many people city if there were For that rea- d by 1se who rd with tk move- 1 the hold it a we defer our fair n that fi terday morn- the . exposition. al in- part in the etting that other away from the ent assurances of ) seve we Kept bu the £ the meeting and profes- them to co-operate ion that would State and its re- sted by The Call,” »osition he held in the fiftieth anni- | versary of the adm into the Union. I am heartily in favor of an exposition. With me it i ply a question as to the advisabili holding the exposition that year. Joseph Leggett said that, w he favored the exposition, he feared that the World's Fair to be held in Paris in 1900 would prove a counter attraction that would be the means of keeping many people away, who under other circumstances would visit this coast. “I believe in expositions, and think the id suggested by The Call an e cellent one, added Mayor Phelan. “This is a holiday State, and an expo- ion would prove of great valtue in ad- vertising the resources and product: not alone of California, but of the tire coast. In 1900 the Paris Expos and I fear it w! for Eastern people. They will find it just as cheap to jour- ney to the other side. They are the people we want to visit us. It is un- fortunate that our fiftieth anniversary is contemporaneous tc the Paris Expo- m. I met Mr. de Young, the pro- tor of the Chronicle at lunch yes- terday, and he id that, while he fa- vored an exposition, he did not think that 1900 was the year for it. He sug- gested that it might be postponed until 1901. The Native Sons have declared | will be held, great attraction ill prove a P sion of California | their intention of holding a celebration | in 1900. The State's admission will be celebrated by them. Why not have an exposition in the fall and winter months of 1901? We can send a commissioner to Paris, and he could spend his time making arrangements for the shipping of exhibits to this city. The foreign ex- hibits can be shipped around the Horn from Havre or eilles much cheap- an frem Chicago or other points. all will remember the Midwin- ter r was made up of attractions from the Chicago Fair. We could step in now and keep the field open for a coast exposition in 1901, In that year there would be a practicability of hold- ing one.” 2 “I am like you, Mayor Phelan,” said Joseph L t. “I am in favor of an exposition if we can get it. I consider, however, that 1900 would hardly be In good taste to hold an international ex- position. 1 think one year later would be bette en or eight years after “It will be s the Midwinte or Phelan. “I think it would be easy to get up an exposition after the one at Paris. 1 believe it an excellent plan to wait. There will be many who will be unable to see the Paris Exposi- tion in 1900 who would visit our exposi- tion in 1801.” it. DISCUSSING PRELIMINARY DETAILS OF THE EXPOSITION. ir,” interrupted May- | “Don’t you think it would be a good | idea to adjourn until the other mem- | bers of this committee could be seen,” | said John H. Grady, “and their opi |ion as to the advisability of holding the exposition one year later was had?” | 'here is no need of that,” said! Mayor Phelan, “as it is my intention | to appoint a committee of fifteen and they will decide on the y in which | the exposition shall be held. California was admitted to the Union on Sep- | tember 9, 1850, but it did not put on its | statehood until some time later.” | “What vear was the Chicago falr! opened asked Leggett. | | “They started to open it in 1892, | | which was the four hundredth anni- | | versary of the discovery of our coun- | try, but did not open until 1893,” replied | the Mayor; “yet it was no less a grand celebration. We might pass some reso- | lutions and get the affair started,” he concluded. The following resolutions were then | presented and adopted: WHEREAS, There is a general desire to celebrate in a fitting man- | ner the fiftieth anniversary of the | admission of California into the | Union by an international exposi- | tion to be held in San Francisco; and | whereas, San Francisco, by reason of her climate and past experience, is well-fitted as a location for such a | fair to be held in the fall and winter | months; and whereas, the fiftieth anniversary of the admission of the | State occurs in the year 1900, when | the French exposition is also to be | held, and which may on that account force upon the citizens of San Fran- | cisco the propriety of holding theirf | fair in the following year, just as | the anniversary of the discovery of | in 1893 instead of in 1892; there- | fore be it RESOLVED, As the sense of this | meeting that a fair be held com- | | memorative of the fiftieth anniver- | ary of the admission of California | | into the Union; that a committee of | fifteen be appointed by the Mayor to | devise a plan and submit it at a meeting of citizens subsequently to | be called, and that they be given discretion in determining in what | year it would be most advantageous | to hold such exposition and as to the | character’ and scope of the enter- | prise. | “I think an exposition in 1901 will | go,” added the Mayor. ‘“We shal want to get appropriations from the Na- | tional Government and from our own Legislature, however. The Omaha ex- position, to be held next summer, re- | ceived over $200,000 from the National Government, and if we could get that amount we would have very little trou- ble in making a fine showing. The Su- preme Court decided not long ago that the Legislature could vote funds for an exposition. In order to get legis- lative aid we should get the movement a-going. If we can show to the law- | makers the value of such an affair they | may materially aid us. | “If we get national aid and legisla- | tive aid we can send a ship to Paris | and offer to carry the exhibits of the | Paris Exposition around the Horn to this State without cost to the exhib- , and we can hold a successful ex- sition. 1 have another idea for a fair site,”” he concluded. “I think it | would be a good idea to get some of | the sand hills by the ocean. The Park | Commissioners could cultivate that | should be 11901 to hold our exposition, and I have portion of the park and make a gar- den spot around the fair. A few elec- tric lines could be extended out that way and the land in the vicinity would attain more value. Ex-Mayor Sutro owns most of the land out there, and I think he and his family would be glad to let us have the use of it. I think a Midwinter Fair by the ocean would be delightful. Just think of holding an exposition beside the ocean. I think no better spot could be chosen.” After the adjournment of the meet- ing Mayor Phelan said he would not name the members of the committee for several da, “I do not intenu nam- ing any one,” said he, “unless 1 am certain that he will take an active in- terest in forwarding the movement. With the proper amount of energy we can give an exposition that will draw the attention of the whole world to our coast. I believe the exposition planned on international | lines. If we wait until 1901 we can un- doubtedly secure the best of the Paris exhibits and give a miniature repre- | sentation of the World’s Fair. The | Midwinter Fair was a success. The exposition proposed by The Call should be a greater ome. Let us wait until no doubt but that we will be success- ful. Energy and concentration of ac- tion are all that are required.” | —_—- SUCCESS IS g ALREADY ASSURED | All of Our Citizens Should Take | an Interest in the | Exposition. EX-STREET SUPERINTENDENT ACKERSON—The idea of holding an | and products of the Pacific Coast. An exposition such as has been suggested by The Call would pruve of great and lasting benefit to California and con- tiguous States. The Native Sons have been for a long time engaged in pre- paring for a grand celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of California’s ad- mission into the Union. That they will co-operate with the directors of the exposition and assist in every way pos- sible to make it a success goes without saying. If the people enter into the movement with the proper spirit suc- cess is assured. WOULD BENEFIT BUSINESS MEN Henry J. Seegelken Gives His Views on the Proposed Exposition. J. SEEGELKEN HENRY of the | wholesale liquor firm of Secegelken & | Buckner heartily indorses the proposed exposition, and gives his opinion that | it will be of untold advantage to the | State. “San Francisco,” said the merchant, “is rapidly on the decline, and unless it gets something of this character to help it along there is no telling where the present state of business depression will end. An exposition planned on such a stupendous scale as proposed by The Call is bound to be of advantage in helping and bettering the present state of business affairs both in the city and the State generally. It is sure to attract visitors here, no matter how much positive truth is expressed that America was celebrated in Chicago -5 EEEEEEEE e There is no doubt. but that with the friendly assistance of neighboring | States we will be able to hold an ex- position that will draw the attention of the world to the wonderful resources “‘The great obstacle that will have to be contended with and a satisfactory adjustment made before Eastern people will come to this coast is the present exorbitant rate of transportation. These little side issues, I believe, could be readily settled if the exposition were once started.” & NEVADA CITY WILL ALSO CO-OPERATE. L} NEVADA CITY, Cal., Feb. 23, 1898. . W. S. Leake, Manager Call, San Francisco—Dear Sir: The Call’s proposition of having a semi-cen- tennial exposition held in San Francisco in 1900, B {0 celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the admis- 2 sion of California into the Union, was brought to m the notice of the Board of Trustees of Nevada City m to-night, and the following resolution presented by m Trustee Carr was unanimonsly adopted: m Resolved, That we heartily approve of having a |m semi-centennial exposition of the resources of Cali- m fornia held in San Francisco in 1900, and will earn- g estly co-operate with other municipal officers in i making it a grand success. i Respectfully yours, T. H. CARR, i Clerk of the Board of Trusteee. 5555003 EEEEEER-ENaE-aE= exposition in 1900 is a grand one.|they won’t come. Every public-spirited citizen should take an interest in the movement. UMBRELLAS [N DEMAND the Storm Is Still With Us. Copious Rains Will, Therefore, Fall Throughout the State To-Day. The Anxious Farmers Correspond- ently Jubilant Over the Prospects. The truth of the old adage that there | gr {s nothing so certain as the uncertain of California weather has been practi- cally exemplified in the conditions that have obtained ih the past few days during the visit of the Jast rainstorm. It can well be said that for “‘way that are dark and tricks that are vain,” our climate is most peculiar. This storm did not have to overcome that area of high pressure over the plateau region in Arizona, Utah and Nevads which former storms had to meet and which were in consequence deflected from this aistrict for go long. It therefore came to us free and untrammeled, and yet| fallen | comparatively little rain has throughout the State, and as a resu_lt there has not yet been as much rain as needed In any locality. When Official Forecaster Hammon s seen at the Weather Bureau in the building and asked yesterday aft- ernoon as to what the farmers had to expect from the existing weather con- ditions, he said: “I would rather sonte- body else did the forecasting, for it is wall known that prognostications in re- gard to this climate are not infallibie. However, I am of the opinion from re- ports that we have received to-day that the present storm has not done its full duty. The storm never would have reached here at all had the conditions been tWe same as they were several weeks ago. I anticipate that the storm has mot yet fully spent its strength, and | ;55 that we will get more rain before it .lya‘!u us_entirely, and, although the] mill | barometer has t sta- all the 1 | tionary all da ion is that if it was clearing the storm the wind should be northwest instea i east or southwest, as it has been. | | “The cessation of rain, I be- | lieve to be only temporary, is due to bounded off the n, but it has not ) far that it will not come back us plenty of rain. The high | plateau region has ippeared, and has left hape for copious rain- orm shall come. the storm h t into the “We have had about one inch of rain | o one-half of the State. The pre- | cipitation has been north and west of a line drawn from Pcint Conception | | north and a little east to the eastern ed f the S nto Valley. To the > 1.10 inch fell and in the San Joaquin | v - dry spots where no rain | fel e the west end of Merced coun- It nd two or three places on the west side of the San Joaquin. The southern | boundary of the rain is between Los Angeles and San Diego, none having | fallen at the latter place up to 5 o’clock | | rains that we have had would | hardly grow a crop, but will help to a | extent the pasturage for live| t which were in dire need of it. | The San Joaquin Valley is probably in better condition than any other local- ity on account of the natural moisture that pervades the soil there, and if it | would get two inches in a period not extending over ten days it would be all | that is necessary. The warm, sultry condition of the atmosphere Friday | afternoon is also a good indication for | | more rain, as it shows that the storm has not left us, for the source of heat | is the condensing of the moisture in the | storm.” | _When seen later in the evening Mr. Hammon said: “I think that I have | described the weather situation accu- | . and Saturday it will rain ev- here from San Luis Obispo north. The sterm center is opposite the Ore- gon coast, and the barometer is falling slowly but surely. The rainfall to-day | has been very light, 2-100 inch having | fallen in this city; 1-100 in Los Angeles; | 4-100 in Red Bluff, Carson and San Luis | Obispo, and 6-100 in Los Banos.” —_— It Leads the List. | . This week’s Town Talk bears out its name for belng the brightest and best weekly on the coast. The contents con- tain anfong other things an able editorial on George Washington and the modern jdea of patriotism; Phil Garlic's ironics; Saunterer stories about a man who fell | asleep at the Baldwin; the District At- torney at the race track; late weddings, and news political and social; dramatic critique upon Marie Wainwright’'s new storiette from real life; stories and chat from Sacramento. Miss Ca- ley is pictured upon the title page® | fuse to give way to the Trustees elected | who will claim office next Monday let- THE STATE LIBRARY FIGHT Present Trustees Will| Not Surrender Their Offices. Their Successors Will Not Be Given Certificates of Election. Governor Budd Claims That the | Purity of Election Law Has Been | Violated by Pledges Made. The Board of State Library Trustees | will meet in Sacramento to-day, and | nothing is more certain than that a lawsuit will be the outéome of it. The present members of the board will re- by the last Legislature unless they pre- sent the proper credentials signed by the Governor. The Governor will not sign the credentials. The charge has been made that the Trustees elected to take office next Monday have violated the purity of election law by making an agreement as to how the patronage of the Li- brarian’s office shall be divided. 1In fact, it is charged that four of their number signed a pledge to not employ any but Republicans in the library. Prior to the election of the Trustees ters were sent out by John H. Dickin- son, Thomas Flint Jr. and W. F. Price, members of the Legislature appointed at a Republican caucus, notifying can- didates for election as Library Trus- tees that it would be necessary to pledge themselves to Republican rule. The letter was so worded that any Trustee living up to its obligations could not under any circumstances ap- point or vote for a Democrat to hold place in the State Library. The caucus letter was published in full in The Call on the 16th inst., and Governor Budd was not slow in tak- ing notice of the political document. He says that he will not issue certificates to_the Trustees cliosen_by, the last | | in 1898, | efiect in 1873, the Legislature, and also says that he ex- pects to be brought into court in the matter. o “I suppose that I will be manda- mused,” said Gove r Budd yesterday ncon, “but that will not in the t bother me. I will not issue the ificates to the trustees who will ¢ for several rea- ith the possible Neff, they all took a pledge that is in violation of the purity of election law. The gentlemen who claim office by virtue of election by the last Legislature will, if I am correct nformed, attend the meeting of the Library Trustees to-morrow and ask for their credent . I intend be- ing present, and will decline to give them commissions. The stand I will take is on the ground that their elec- tion in joint session of the Senate and Assembly was never properly certified to by the President of the Sepate and Speaker of the House. In addition, the pledge given by them to the Republican caucus is in violation of the purity of election law. Another and important fact to be borne in mind is that the section of the Political Code governing the management of the State Library and the election of its trustees went into effect in 1873, and provided that the term of office of the trustees should be for a period of four years. Under that law I fail to understand how the term of the present trustees could terminate In other words, if each term of office as State Library Trustee is to be for four years, and the law under which we are now working went into incumbents’ terms would not expire until 1899 It is understood that the State Con- troller, who is a Republican, will rec- ognize the Trustees elected by the last Legislature, regardless of the position taken by Governor Budd. If the Con- troller recognizes the new board it will have absolute control of the library funds. being necessary, and that is almost cer- tain, W. W, Foote will represent the Governor. The point advanced by the Governor that the election of Trustees was not certified to by the President of the Sen- ate and Speaker of the Assembly does not, in the judment of lawyers, present much of an obstacle. The journals of that day’s session of the Legislature were certified to as correct by the pre- siding officers, respectively of the Sen- ate and Assembly, and this certificate covers the proceedings of the joint con- vention at which the Trustees were elected. This approval is believed to be sufficient. The second point concerning a viola- tion of the purity of election law may receive a different construction from that which the Governor apprehends. An enlightened court would probably construe a pledge to appoint Republi- cans as a pledge to administer the af- fairs of the library in an honest, intelli- gent and creditable manner, claim office on Mond: sons. I hold that, exception of J. H. In the event of a legal warfare | NO CHECK 0N COURT REPORTERS Police Judge Prac- tices to Be Inves- tigated. Stenographers Have a Free Entry to the City’s Vaults. Bills Indorsed by the Judges Paid Without the Sanction of the Auditor. The explanation of Justinius Olsen to the Grand Jury implicating Judge Low in his alleged crime of present- ing incorrect bills to the Treasurer for fees as court stenographer will lead to a thorongh investigation by the jury of Police Court practices. In the first place it will be deter- mined how Olsen came to be appointed to so responsible a position. A court stenographer has justice at his mercy. Cases are not unknown where stenog- raphers have so changed the testimory of witnesses in the transcription for a bribe that the complexion of the evi- dence when read in higher tribunals was entirely different from that first given, so that guilty persens have es- caped punishment. Olsen, as far as pol‘ce records go, s not a man who would hesitate to accept bribe money. A few months ago he was a prisoner charged with obtaining money by false pretenses, and he was convicted by Judge Joachimsen. The court, however, was lenient with him and delayed punishment on condition that | the persons he swindled should be re- paid. | A few months after that he was ap- pointed to the responsible position in Judge Low’s court. Attorneys who | knew of his unsavory record wondered | ‘at Judge Low placing so much confi- | dence in him. % It is common talk among Police Court practitioners that the stenogra- pher is the intermediary between the principals in the cases in courts and | the Judges. It is said that the prose- | cution of a great many felony case has been dismissed in the lower cour on payment to the stenographer of the amount his fees would have come to had the person charged been held to answer in the higher court. If the Judge gets part of the money or not it is a matter so far only of ‘conjecture, but it is the belief of those who know the workings of the Police Courts that the Judge and the stenographer divide the fees. It is also said that cases where stenographers are required are disposed of not particularly on their judicial merits, but so as to incur big bills for the court reporter. The Judge of the Court is the only person in the ‘civic government to vouch for the correctness of the bills, and should collusion exist between the Judge and the stenographer the vaults of the city treasury may as well be without locks or guards as far as they are concerned. The City Treasurer has the record of an incorrcet bill that was presented by Stenographer Vernon. A long and im- s | portant case had closed on a Friday, | and the following Monday the stenog- rapher presented a bill indorsed by the Judge for fees amounting to $3900. Au- ditor Broderick happened to be with the Treasurer when the bill was pre- sented, and he asked Vernon if he had completed the transcript of the case and placed it with the proper city offi- clal. Vernon replied that he had not, but it would be ready in a few days. He, however, said he was going on a holiday, and he wanted the money. The Treasurer refused to pay the bill until the transeript of the case was com- pleted and on file, and when it was checked up it was found that the sten- ographer was entitled to over $300 less than the bill that was indorsed by the Judge called for. Auditor Broderick claims that the bills of the stenographers on the in- dorsement of the Judges only are paid contrary to law. The Auditor, in sup- port of his claim, quotes paragraph 274 of the Civil Code, which says: In criminal cases, when the testimony has been taken down or transcribed upon the order of the court, the fees of the re- porter shall be certified by the court and The fac-simile sigastuse of is on every wrapper | S paid out of the treasury of the county or city and county In which the case is tried, upon the order of the court. That, he says, does not mean that the provisions of the consolidation act shall be ignored. Section 84 of that act says: Every demand upon the treasury must, before it can be paid, be presented to the Auditor of the city and county, who shall satisfy himself that the money is legally, duwe and remains unpaid. Section 87 of the same act says: The Auditor is the head of the finance department of the city and county and as such is required to be constantly ac- | quainted with the exact condition of the treasury and every lawful demand upon, t. “It is apparently the desire of some of the judges,” said the Auditor, “to escape an_investigation of their stenographers’ bills when they demand direct payment on their orders. The law gives the judges the right to draw the warrants to pay their reporters, but it does not fmply that the safeguards now around the city treas- ury should be removed.” ADVERTISEMENTS. Expels Sleeplessness from your bed chamber and gives you sweet, refreshing Calms the Feeds and the brain. VAL BLATZ BREWIG 0., MILWAUKEE, WIS., U. 8. As LOUIS CAHEN & SON, Wholesale Dealers, 416-418 Sacramento St. NOTARY PUBLIC. A. J. HENRY, NOTARY PUBLIC instead. nerves. rests sleep MARKET ST, OPP. PALACA G5 i Tte mliier'S