The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 31, 1898, Page 2

2 B PARIS, Oct. 30.—The French press is beginning to manifest a much more concilia- g # tory spirit regarding Fashoda, apparently with a view to preparing the public mind for the re- g ¢ call of the Marchand expedition. 8 s LONDON, Oct. 30.—There has been the greatest activity at Davenport, the site of ? ;i the largest arsenal in Great Britain and two of the fines_t dockyards in tl'!e world. The Gov- g ¢ ernment is assembling an emergency squadron, which, it is understood, will go to Gibraltar. s Despite the fact that the wind has been blowing almost a gale, the second class battleship g f; Colossus arrived from Holyhead, the first class battleship Howe from Queenstown and the & g first class battleship Ben Holt from Greenock. Other warships are coming to join the squad- § ¢ ron and to coal.. The Government has 200,000 tons of coal. I3 b ESQUIMALT, B. C., Oct. 30.—In the British North Pacific navy yards here seven g ¢ first and second class cruisers and torpedo boats are all preparing for active service. On Fri- s @ day important cables were recéived.- The flagship Imperieuse was absent coaling at Comox. g; :; The warship Icarns was sent to signal “Make all haste to naval yards.” On the arrival of the g ¢ admiral the Amphion was taken from the drydock and prepared for war. The Leander was = g recalled from Comox and is preparing for sea. The Imperieuse is victualing and has steam up Si & ready to start, but is waiting for a body of men expected to-day across the continent from g st England to give her fighting strength.” The Amphion sailed to-day for the Society Islands, & :E France's South Sea possession. Incidentally it was learned that the Phaeton, now at Co- g} ¢ quimbo, is also ordered to the same group. - P 3 B snunnuy ARE BENEFICIAL Thus DeclaresChauncey M. Depew. REVIEWS RECENT DECISION HE SAYS IT TENDS TO CREATE MONOPOLY. | Trafic Association Dis- | Stronger Lines Will to With the solved, Force the Weaker the Wall. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—Chauncey M. Depew, having made a study of the de- cision by the Supreme Court on traffic | associations, gives his opinion as fol- lows: | The decision of the S | cessitates the disso | Traffic Associati | tuted. Broadly stated | that there shall be no a or agreement in re maintenance of rates rate cutting or the criminations against favor of Strong ones or ag calities and those along the of the great terminal cities. 3 The object of the Joint Traffic Associa- tion was, frst, to assist the interstate commercé act; second, ‘to prevent secret Tate cutting, and third, to prevent the | favoritism to great cities and to great shipping firms which had been gradually i out intermediate towns and the small business men. 1t _is' absolutely necessary for the rz roads of the éountry to know the move- ment of traffic and trafic conditions as to frelght which is torbe moved at different reservoirs where it is concen- trated. It is also necessary know whether and why this securing an outlet, if for export, through | the Gulf of Mexico or the Canadian route, or b; board. 1t will be ne: , that some association should statistical | a bureau for the purpo: thering thi: g it in frequent ch are members. All that the raflw k is that under & form of voluntary agreement or a pool- ing law they may be pérmitted to arran, emong hemse s so that there shall uniform rates to everybody who ship: over the various lines for the same se {nformation and p. reports to the ice. In other words, as the rallroads are | semi-public corporations, then the public should be treated upon lines the same as | the Government treats people who use the postoffice or the. s as people are treated who use the telegraph lines, viz.: | Uniform rates and the same treatment governing for like service. The great efror of the peopla framed the interstate commerce supposing that in preventing the roads agreeing upon rates and having a | pool they are getting lower rates for the people and preventing discriminations. | Luelr legislation proceeded” upon the thought that there is but one line, for in- stance, between New York and Chicago, ‘whereas there are elght lines. Now, it is ossible for a combination of capitalists | o take the weak line and ship its product over that line upon an agreemtn much be- Jow the current rates. The weak lines | nay be in the hands of a recelver and have no obligations to pay either upon its stock or upon its bonds—in other words, | upon tha invested capital which built it. | he other lines cannot afford to go into | bankruptey by following this rate and so | they let theé weaker lines have this traffic, or they conduct their own traffic upon reasonable rates. The effect of this Is very soon evident. | The rates which these big shippers get over this bankrupt line enable themto make the'r product so much cheaper than the people who are situated upon the | other lines, or who send to market from | other places than the terminus of the | bankrupt line, that they drive them out of business. Then the anti-trust, anti-cor- | poration, anti-¢ombination people by their | own device have created a combination | and a trust. This process has been going | on ever since the interstate commerce act and ° the anti-pooling combination were in force. If the process continues | the present rapid progress of the con- | solidation of every product into the hands | of one ¢oncern or a few men will ¢on- tinue, until both the producer and con- sumer of the country would have their | prices fixed by the combination in th various products of the people. If the | elfiht lines, howiver, were in a position where they could protect each other and | the public in giving equal opportunities by all lines, then the eénterprises and | energy and natural facilities of inter- mediate places with smaller expenses and less capital In their business, with the owners attending to r own affairs, would result in a wide distribution of in- dependent business, in the farmer find- ing many c¢ompetitors for the produce of his farm and the railways having thou- sands of customers instead of a very few. The objection to a pooling law has always been that the railw: ‘would ADVERTISEMENTS. Pears’ No other soap in the world is used so much; or so little of it goes so far.. | every takin | rying. o they will bé bankrupted and altimately absorbed by the stronger lines, and the business of the country.will be in | their investors and_their employes may PYOPRTS R TETS S UGS PUPPTTTRRReTeY iNNNNNNRNNNNN nuunLRN SR NRNRY combine to prices. It is apparently useless for the railroad man o say what he knows to be a fact, that the demands of the different markets, the competition of the waterways and the conditions of different cent e it impossible -for the rail- rates. But the railways are the ga way not but maintain, that this | dange; obviated by.securing the ntrol over all pooling ays ask for no pooling these condition r: ailw t upon —That the pooling contra not be made unti! it has been approv Interstate Commerce Commi cond—That if the rates prove oppres- t which freight is | SPANARDS MUST PULL UP STAKES Only Two Short Months to Stay in Cuba. which sive or unjust in the traffic ! subject to the pool, the Interstate Com- | Commission shall have the right | to step in and right the Wwrong, bjection I have ever heard is | vernment cannot be trusted. there has been nothing in the f the interstate commission | formation which justifies such | ich a charge is true, then governe t is a failure when great | bilities devolve upon it. The rail- do not care how much the Inter- 1merce Commission is strength- | -d if in its present formy it iS not en- if there | The faflroads ars commisslon should be | as strong and judicial as possible. The | nearer it approaches the gbsolutely in- dependent form of the Supdeme Court of the United States, the bettfr it will suit the rallroads. z Failing, however, in legiflation on the suvject and supposing that the law re- mains as the Supreme Court has decided, t railroad -pooling and agreements the present statutes, the natural cy of the raflroads will be to follow the general trend of the other business of the country. This will not be a rapid | proc but this tendency will be sure. | The weaker lines will be unable to stand the strain of irregular and wholly uncer- tain or unremunerative compensation vhich follows. They will not be able to | se the money which the stronger lines | can to take advantagé of every invention, | every improvement, every elimination of grade crossing, every lowering of grade, out of cufves, every substi- n of machinery and automatic appli- s which can cheapen the cost of car- the hands of the latter. This absorption and the consequent formation of a few gi- ntic corporations to do the carrying business of the country would threaten another railway agitation, whether wise or not, and a long period of disturbance of business—that sort of disturbance which makes bad times, because the busi- ness man has factors to deal with in leg- and i uncertain rates which impossible for the wisest head to e. ecision will be a fortunate docu- ment, if Congress in a calm, broad way will take up the whole question and so legislate that, the public and railways and be fully ; that large freedom for granted to the railways among under strict supervision and rigid_control of the Government' of the United States. If thé Government is equal to the task of impartial super- on of this business under these condi- it better retire from the thought of resuming the responsibilities for Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawall and the Philippines. protected S BEEEERaT Gl DEATHS AMONG THE TROOPS AT MANILA. WASHINGTON, Oct. 80.—The following cable was received at the War Department to-day from General Otis: MANILA, Oct. 30.—Adjutant Gen- eral, Washington: Following are the deaths since last report, Octo- ber 21: o Sergeant Major Roy W. Hover, First South Dakota, malarial fever. Private Henry H. Weaver, Tenth Pennsylvania, chronic dysentery. Private Alfred J. Erysman, First a, typhoid fever. ate Thomas W. P. Infantry, Harney, malarial braska, acute diarrhoea. Private Frank H. Heeley, hospital corps, typhold fever. Private D. Lee, Twenty-third In- smallpox. Private Charles J. Jorgensen, Eighth Infantry, typhoid fever. rate John Morgan, First North Dakota, smallpox. Private Barl Wosterhout, First Nebraska, typhold fever. Private Walter J. McLean, First Montana, typhold fever. Private Edward Manches, South Dakota, typhoid fever. OTIS. D R T P PG VICTIM OF CARBUNCLES. + + + + + First B i Tk S e o e e R R R s ath b o o o o o o [ the date when the troops now at Sa- NO FURTHER DILLY-DALLYING | FIRST OF JANUARY THE DATE | SET FOR EVACUATION. [ | Uncertainty ‘as to the Departure of | General Lee’s Corps—Two Re- calls From Havana That Are Sigmificant. Special Dispatch to The Call. . WASHINGTON, Oct. $0.—No definite determination has been reached as to vannah will be sent to Cuba. A promi- | nent administration officer said to-night | corps would be dependent, to a certain extent, upon the movements of the | Spanish forces in evacuating the island. | The American troops, he said, might | sail this week, and they might not sail | for a month. It is the intention of the administration, however, to land Gen- eral Lee's corps in Cuba before the 1st of January. "8 been fixed definitely as th. 1e final evac- uation of the I e Spaniards. An effort was the Spanish authorities tc extension of the time of * the 1st of | February, buc m was de- | clined. Arrang “e landing | and camping o an forces | have been compl: cu. , although some of the det have not been worked out yet. £jue recall at this time of Colonel HeckeF and Colonel Lee from Havana is sifnply to secure their aid he‘l;e in the working out of these de- tails. General Fitzhugh Lee came to Wash- ington from Richmond last night, but | remained only until an early train this | morning. His business was purely pri- vate and he called on no War Depart- | ment officials. Important orders will | be sent him early this week relating to | the movement of his corps, but as yet | the War Department has not disclosed | their nature. HAVANA, Oct. 30.—Colonel Hecker and Colonel Lee of the United States Special Transportation Commission, received cablegrams from Washington by the first steamer avallablé. The messages, which were from Secretary Alger, were very brief—simply direct- | ing the recipients to report to the War Department—and there is considerable perplexity as to the object of the recall: Answers were immediately cabled to ‘Washington, but up to the hour of fil- ing this dispatch no rejoinder had been received, thus leaving the matter of Colonel Hecker’s departure doubtful, though Colonel Lee will leave to-mor- row by the Ward line steamer Seneca. The supposition is that the death of Colonel George W. Waring Jr. in New York City has necessitated some change in the plans of the War Depart- ment. General Wade and Lieutenant Colonel Clous had a long conference with Colonel Lee and Colonel Hecker this afternoon. Colonel Lee's departure will leave the commissions on trans- portation and the selection -of camp gites without a chairman and the quar- termaster's department without a dis- bursing officer. Dr. O. Reiley, upon whom the chairmanship of the two commissions will devolve, is now head quartermaster. The impression is general among the Americans here that the recall of Col- onels Lee and Hecker at this particular juncture is highly significant. MESSAGE FROM DEWEY. Congratulates Philadelphia on Suc- cess of the Peace Jubilee. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 30.—Mayor War- ‘wick to-day received the following cable- gram from Admiral Dewey, in response to the one extending to him Philadel- phia’s congratulations on the occasion of the clty’s peace jubilee and regretting his inability to take part in it along with the other heroes of the campaign. The tele- Prominent Mary;vflle Citizen Dies of Blood Poisoning. MARYSVILLE, Oct. 30.—H. R. D. Townsend; a prominent member of the Masonic, Odd Fellows, United Workmen, Knights ‘of Pythias and Eastern Star lodges of this city, died at 4 o’clock this morning of blood poisoning, superinduced by carbuncles. He was a native of New: York, aged 5. The funeral will be held on Wednesday afternoon. A widow and daughter survive him. ebifisr More Bodies From Elevator Ruins. TOLEDO, Ohio, Oct. 30.—Two bodies were taken from the ruins of the Union Elevator fire to-day. One is thought to be that of Bert Wainwright, who is still unaccounted for, A total of eighteen dead !s the result of this fire, which oc- curred Septembaer 2. _ Terrific Hailstorm in France. MENTONE, France, Oct. 380.—This dis- trict was visited by a terrific hallstorm this afternoon, which is continuing this evening. The stones are of immense gize. The o r?dl n crops have been completely destroyed. gram reads: MANILA, Oct. 28.—Hon. Charles F. Warwlck, Mayor, Philadeiphia: The officers and men of the squadron under my command joln me in thanking you for your kind message, and we congratulate you and the City of Philadelphia on the great succees of the jubllee. GEORGE D! , Rear Admiral, Leading Presbyterian Divine Dead. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 30.—Rev. Samuel" ‘Mutchmore, oné of the prominent minis- ters in the Presbyterian church, died to- day at his home in this city. He was aged 69 years and had been ill for about a year. He was pastor of the Memorial Presbyterian Church in this city for many ears. Prior to that he had charges in gt. Louis and Loulsvillee. He leaves a widow and several children. Sig. Marasi, the celebrated Italian sculptor, who was commissioned by the Pope SOme Yyears ago to execute his tomb, has at length completed the task. The tomb is of flawless white carrara marble. Snrmountln&ths 1id of the tomb is a llon, while on the right hand is a statue of Falth, with a torch in one hand and the Bible in the other. ' On the op- {ollte side js a statue of Truth, bearing he arms of the Pope. On the tomb, be- neath the_llon, {8 carved thu‘lmflvfion‘, { them and employ temporary | that the movement of General Lee's | those for which he can WOULD ABOLISH THE STAR ROUTES Report of the Postoffice Department. LARGE FIELD FOR FRAUD SYSTEM DISCREDITABLE TO THE GOVERNMENT. Mail Service in Alaska During the Past Year Shown to Have Been Irregular and Unreliable. Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON. Oct. 30.—The im- mense work of transporting the mails throughout the United States is dealt with in the annual report of Second As- sistant Postmaster General William 8. Shallenberger, which was made public to-day. The main feature of the re- port is a vigorous arraignment of exist- ing star route methods. Mr. Shallen- berger refers to the present system of speculative bidding for star routes as “discreditable to the Government.” He says the bidders cut a little under the regular contract prices and risk being able to sub-let at a profit. The com- petition results in the greater part of these contracts being awarded at very low rates, the accepted bidders or their agents often using deceit and misrepre- sentation in securing sub-contracts from poor and ignorant men as prin- ciples and sureties. The report re- cites the subsequent steps, saying the sub-contractors, if complaining of greater requirements than they under- stood, are threatened with the penal- ties by the contractors or if the sub- contractors attempt service with inade- quate equipment, fines are imposed upon them. Finally. if the sub-con- tractors abandon the routes or the de- partment is compelled to remove service, the cost of which is charged to the ¢ontractors, the latter in turn take ac- tion against the sub-contractors, who may thus lose the little property they hs ‘Then therearethe unscrupulous con- tractors,” it is added, “who fail to pay their carriers, which causes hundreds of claims against the contractors filed in this office and necessitates voluminous correspondence to get the claims ad- Justed. Again, there will be a bidder Who, in his inexperience and eagerness, will make his bid at rates lower than secure sub- contracts. There follows a general failure to perform the service awarded him, and the department is put to trouble and expense of arranging tem- porary service and reletting the con- tracts.” The conclusion drawn is that the profit to contractors must be consider- able, and if the department could deal direedly wi e whp do- the work, the total an junt' paid by the Govern- ment being put into the service, with- out any margin to speculative middle- men, it woula undoubtedly produce bet- ter mail service. It is conceded that exclusion of speculative bidders would increase the cost to the Government, and recent examinations at the re- quest of Congress indicate the addi- tional cost would be $1,500,000, which, however, would go into effect gradually. The belief is expressed that a con- siderable larger sum for faster trans- portation would be well expended, if it resulted in improved equipment, “as | many of the vehicles now used in carry- ing the malils present such a dilapi- dated and disreputable appearance as to be a strong argument in condemna- tion of the present system.” Legislation is recommended. requiring all such bidders to reside cn or contiz- uous to the route covered, or formally agree to reside and personally super- vise the service, and authorizing re- fusal to accept bids deemed excessive, The report shows the number of nmx( routes at the close of the year was 3 795, total mileage 380,381, and averaging | on each route nine trips per week. There were 434,332,691 miles traveled on these routes, costing almost $107 a mile of length each, or almost 12 cents a mile traveled. The total annual rate of ex- penditure for both routes within the United States and in the foreign mail service was $53,923,454. Disc¢ussing Alaska, Mr. Shallenberger says the mall service on the overland route from Juneau by Dyea to Circle, providing for letter mail only, was ex- tremely unsatisfactory, the contractor falling to render the required number of trips, and those performed were ir- regular and unreliable, serious com- platnts following. The arrangement with the Canadian Postoffice Depart- ment regarding a monthly exchange of letter mail between Dyea and ‘Dawson also fell below expectations. To secure regular service in the Alaskan interior relay stations were established at fre- quent intervals along the routes and equipped to meet all emergencies. This was done with the consent of Canada. The establishment of an overland mail route from Cooks Inlet or Prince Wil- liam Sound through the interior to the Yukon River has been considered, but it is not practicable to establish it at present. The expenditures to railroads for mail transportation, so far as shown by ac- counts stated to September 30, was $30,- 449,837, and the estimate for railroad transportation for the fiscal year end- ing June 30, 1900, is $33,275.000. A defi- clency of nearly $1,000,000 in this fiscal year for transportation is probable. Concerning the railway mail service, the report shows there were 1268 miles of traveling postoffices, and makes a recommendation for a reclassification ‘of the service and for legislation re- quiring newspaper publishers to make primary separation of their papers and periodicals for mailing, requiring postal clerks to wear badges instead of the present regulation caps, and for the general establishment of postal stations in railroad depots. For ocean mail transportation in the next fiscal year $2,154,000 is estimated. Over fourteen million letters and post cards have been distributed in transit in our international sea postoffices and only 1500 errors were reported. CYCLONE SWEEPS A SECTIGN OF LONDON Immense Damage to Property and Many People Injured by Flying Debris. LONDON, Oct. 80.—During a severe storm last night a small area, about half a mile square, around Denmark Hill, Camberwell, London, was visited by a cyclone, Cabs were overturned, windows, doors, lmeosu, trees. and chimneys were blown down and a number of houses unroofed. i The contents of numerous hawkers’ stalls were AL ipd and many peop injured “Hie Leo XIIL, P. M., Prelvis Eat.” theairbgm&‘wlm e e lmmenyu dlm:.‘o p‘mp’-‘n‘; i g SEA TELEGRAPRY REVOLUTIONIZED Rapid Trahsmission of Information. GENERAL GREELY’S REPORT VALUE OF THE SINE-WAVE SYSTEM. Experiments Prove the Superiority of Alternating Cur~ents Over the Methods 1 ow in Use. Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—One point in the annual report of General Greely has escaped public attention owing to its disassociation with the late war. It relates to the discoveries of two young physicists, Professor A. C. Crehore and Lieutenant Colonel George O. Squler, volunteer signal officer, who have lately pursued, under the direction of the chief signal officer of the army, certain scientific investigations that promise to work a revolution in methods of ocean telegraphy. General Greely ex- presses his belief that these discoveries and inventions have assumed such form and phase as to be of the greatest value to the commercial world. The discoveries outline the true scientific methods of telegraph known as the sine-wave system. The first experiments-were made at the Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Vir- ginia, and were discussed theoretically in 1897 under the title of the “synchrono- graph,” a new method of rapidly trans- mitting information by the aiternating currents. The next step was the test- ing of this system on a long telegraph line, and for this purpose Professor Crehore and Colonel Squier visited England, where they were afforded every facility for experimental work over the Government telegraph lines through the courtesy of the Postmaster General and the distinguished electri- cian, Chief Engineer Preece. The experiments, the report sets forth, proved conclusively the superior- ity of a modern alterfating current smooth wave, the typical form of which is a simple sine wave as compared with the system. now exclusively used throughout the world in code teleg- raphy. Under the sine wave system words were sent and received over a line 1100 miles long at a rate of over 3000 words per minute. Under this new ystem the speed of the Wheatstone commercial receiver was increased as much as threefold when operated under identically the system of, the old code of telegraphy. The superiority of the sine wave having been decided by ex- perimental apparatus, the next step is to construct transmitters for actual commercial conditions. Two special ap- paratuses were devised, one for operat- ing land lines and the other for the transmission of messages over long cables. The cable transmitter was com- pleted and land instruments advanced when the late war interrupted prog- ress, which has only lately been re- newed by direction of General Greely. The first practical tests of the cable transmitter have just been made through the courtesy of George Clap- perton and other officials of the Com- mercial Cable Company of New York. The experiments were made over the cable betweeen New York City and Canso, which had a length of 827 knots, and electrical resistance of 13,700 ohms, and an electric distributing capacity of 231 microfards. These tests were made between September 25 and October 16, 96. The change from existing telegraphic methods consists in the substitution for the present appliance of a_transmitter sending smooth waves. such as are ob- tained in alternating currents working, without makir- any other changes whatever in the elements of the present system. The conditions in the trans- mission of messages over long cables are distinctly and widely different from those on aerial lines. The necessity of increased speed over ocean cables, the report continues, while not generally appreciated, is strikingly obvious when examined from a commercial stand- point. Since every cable spanning the Atlantic costs several million dollars the value of any discovery that will in- crease the working power of these ca- bles is at once apparent. General Greely says he has no hesita- tion in expressing the opinfon that the sine wave system, which also admits of easy duplexing, will, within a year or two, increase very materially the working capacity of every cable to which it is applie FURTHER SPACE FOR ~ AMERICAN EXHIBIPS General] Commissioner Peck Reports Having Secured Every Conces- sion Required. CHICAGO, Oct. 30.—Director of Exhi- bits J. H. McGibbon received yesterday from General Commissioner F. W. Peck, at Paris, a telegram stating that he had been allotted 35,000 square feet of addi- tional floor space for United States ex- hibitors, and had also secured every spe- cial concession demanded. The telegram was also sent as a contradiction to a number of reports which have recently caused considerable misunderstanding. © The floor space for American exhibitors at present amounts to 210,000 square feet. In the fall of last year the exposition officials sald they could grant the United States only 100000 square feet, but before lea.vlnfi Paris Major Handfi had secured an additional allotment which increased the total to 175,000 square feet. The many requests for space and the character of the exhibits caused a renewal of the de- mands upon the exposition officlals, and although they declared the. 175,000 square feet was_the final allotment, Mr., Peck, through his recent visit to Paris has se- cured an additional floor space of 35,000 a%uare feet, which swells the total to 210,000, besides ground for a Government building, space for an agricultural pa- villon on which agricultural implements will be installed and a complete and fully equipped railroad train in operation. e MAN AND WOMAN HELD UP BY HIGHWAYMEN Halted and Robbed on a Shasta Road ‘While Proceeding to a Dance. REDDING, Oct. $0.—Two magggd high- waymen held up Bent Graham &:d a laay companion on Churn Creek, eight miles north of here, at 8 o’clock last night. They had started for Redding to go to a dance, and on the road this side of Churntown the high ‘men stepped out of the brush bx the roadside and, with revolvers point- ed at Graham and his companion, ordered them to stop. The lady was much fright- ened, but Graham quietly xxelded to being gearched, and was relieved of $40 and his watch. - The section where the holdup occurred is lonely and thickly wooded, Ot the, robbers will be. Sasy Red: ‘will amount to In Corresponding With Any ART WARE AND ANTIQUE FURNITURE, THE P. ROSSI CO., @rtistic Furniture and drt Ware Importers. 117 SUTTER STREET. AUCTIONEERS. Sst., g S, KILLIP & C0."deryremers BAKERY AND CONFECTIONERY. WM. SCHOENING, &' way streets - BELTING. fact 't Belti: L. P. DEGEN, PlenTentrer ofosio ity sion St., cor. Spear. Telephone Main 562. BOILER MAKERS. ~ EUREKA BOILER WORKS W. J. 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MARINE INSURANCE COMPAN] e 5 21 Caitfornta st MATTRESSES AND IRON BEDS. Matts .. 642 Isaton THE BERNHARD 2*''Taofone “Sealn 70 PAPER DEALERS. WILLAMETTE P4z o raees co. 722 Montgomery Strest. ; PIANOS. The Dldest M and Lareses Qork. PIANO and MUSIC STORE, KOHLER & CHASE, 2 and 20 O'Farrell 8t. A ecorpe of expert tuners and repalrers. PRINTING. E. C. HUGHES, sn &55000 streec. SOAP. 123 California _strest, sy roOm §1. Tel. Main 1681 G R, LUCY & STATIONER AND PRINTER. T "“PARTRIDGE 225%: THE HICKS-JUDD CO., Pri Book- binders. s Biret w8 WAREHOUSEMEN. THE HASLETT WAREHOUSE CO., Forwardi: Agents and Publis Weighere General Storage. . Free and Grain Wareh FRESH AND SALT MEATS. JAS. BOYES & CO,, S5 f ummeiat 1o Clay. Tel. Main isSd P HARDWARE. ALACE Hardware Co.,Importers & Dealers in Hardware, 603 Market. Tel. Main 752, ..... over 000,000 | General office, 210 California st. Tel. Main 1914 i ;l;‘?ufl WALLPAPER. jour s. J. nstein & Co. e - NATIONAL 5" cor. Boctery ‘ana Facins sen. | "EOLEIALE & retal: send for samplen, sat: WATCHES, ETC. 1' LDN]’Y Headquarters for fine Jewelry and - s full 18-k. Wedding Rings, 4 34 st. WOOD AND IVORY TURNING. C. F. HAAS, mir wood articles, any desortp- tion. Planing, turning. 417 Mission, tel. M. 5627. SILVER QUESTION STILL A MENACE -Ex-President = Harrison on the Subject. WARNS THE INDIANA VOTERS DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS MEANS DISASTER. IMPORTANCE OF THE NEXTHOUSE Sound Money Majority : Imperative. H. H. HANNA SCENTS DANGER VITAL ISSUE THAT CANNOT BE: OBSCURED. Special Dispatch to The Call. INDIANAPOLIS. Oct. 30.—Chairman Hernley of the Republican State Cen- tral Committee recently invited ex- President Harrison to take part in the campaign. The ex-President has sent Mr. Hernley a letter saying that im- portant legal business will occupy his time for several weeks. He discusses national questions as follows: In New York, where I was recently, the Democratic party has pushed aside the free silver question and is making a campaign upon the theory that national issues, and especially the free silver ques- tion, are not involved. In Indiana the case is quite different. The Democratic party here has afirmed with emphasis the Chicago platform of 1836, and in our own district 1 understand the Democratic candldate for Congress is strongly urg- ing upon the people the issue of free sil- ver coinage at the ratio of 18 to 1. Now, whatever may be the case in New York, here a Democratic success would dis- tinctly set forward and strengthen the ropaganda for free silver coinage. In New York many gold Democrats who affiliated with the Rej in gubltcfln party 1896 are saying that the silver issue is not involved, but men of that faith cer- tainly cannot say so in Indiana. It seems to me that it would be a dis- tinct setback for the cause of honest money and a distinct injury to the State of Lndiana if, in a year so prosperous as this, a majority of our people should sote for the free coinage of silver. Hon- est money Democrats who have hoped that the issue might not meet them again in a Democratic national convention, will help to make its appearance there cer- tain if they aid in securing a Democratic victory in Indiana this year. The apparent settlement of that issue in 1896 contributed immensely to bring the prosperity which we now enjoy, to give confidence to capital, and to secure work and wages in good money to the workingman. These classes were awake then to the vital importance of this issue and responded with an overwhelming negative. It would be an unpleasant thing to contemplate if, while in the en- joyment of the fruits of that victory, any of those who supported the cause of sound money in should now, either from lethargy or pique, or through the influence of minor questions, be led éither actively or passively to give their aid to the revival and perpetuation of this disturbing influence. I cannot understand wh anx Republi- can in the State should withhold his influ- ence or votes from the Republican ticket. Small differences as to the details of ad- ministration and smaller differences grow- ing out of personal disappointments should be put utterly aside. Another consideration, I think, should strongly influence the voters of the State. The nation went into war h n, supported by the moral sentiment of the Yreat ‘majority of our pegple of all parties. t wns felt that as to Cuba there was a distinct call upon the United States to in- tsxxo-e for the ending of Spanish cruelties and misgovernment there. The firing lines have been withdrawn and our ships are largely in our own harbors after achieving on land and sea victories that have given increased e to American arms; but our forelgn relations are still acute and unsettled, and the appeal to which the response was so generous and non-partisan at the beginning of the war, to stand by our own country and its exec- utive and administrative officers, should be felt and responded to. Our election re- sults should not give, or even seem to ve encouragement to those who would nd in our discords and divided counsels Special Dispatch to The Call. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. 30——A' statement regarding tlie importance of the election of a sound money House this autumn was made public to-day by H. H. Hanna, the chairman of the executive committee of the Indianap- olie¢ Monetary Conference. Mr. Hanna said: 1 regard it as of the greatest importance to the business prosperity of the country that the House of Representatives cnosen pext month should have a clear majority for sound money. This issue is being ob- scured in some quarters, and an effort is being made to evade it. It cannot be evaded in Congress, nor could the effect of a silver victory be obscured in its in- fluence upon the prosperity of the coun- try. It is almost, if rot quite, as impor- tant as it was in 1896 that the friends of sound money should act together to se- cure a majority in the next Congress. The country is upon the threshold of a revival of business activity which will mean work for many hands and increased wages in many pockets. ‘The election of a silver majority in the House might not check this revival absolutely in respect to cur- rent production, but it would exercise a far-reaching effect by preventing the or- ganization of new enterprises requiring time for their development. The abandon- ment of such enterprises would react wnon all industries and interests by diminishe ing the demand for capital and tne ciu- ployment of labor. ‘What I consider important, and what I think the business community generally considers important, is that the majority of the next House shall be pledged to organize the House for sound money. The really important question is not so much the exact shade of opinion professed by a candidate upon the money question, but whether he intends to vote for a Speaker who is a friend of the gold standard or a supporter of the free coinage of silver. This- question, in my opinion, ought to be squarely answered by every candidate for Congress: “Will you vote under any cir- cumstances for a candidate for Speaker who is favorable to the free coinage of silver?”’ A candidate who answers:it In the affirmative or who evades it should not receive a single soupd-money vote from either party, no matter what haze he seeks to throw over his personal views ngon the silver problem. think the importance of the election of a sound-money House is beginning to be appreciated throughout the countri'. y » and that the issue will be more distinct! drawn durinf{ the closing days of the cam- paign than it has fhus far been. - Mr. Hanna concludes by saying that he has received letters referring to the importance of the issue and the neces- sity for a sound money victory from the following: Ex-Senator Edmunds of Vermont, John Claflin of*New York, ex-Senator John M. Palmer of Illinojs, Willlam E. Dodge of New. York, Seth Low of New York, John C. Bullitt of Philadelphia, John K. Cowan of Balti- more, Stuyvesant Fish of New York and ex-Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Charles 8. Hamlin of Boston. Hamlin’s is perhaps the most pithy of the letters received. It says: I believe it to be of the highest im- portance that a sound-money Congress be elected in the coming ylection. The silver delusion is on the waae and most of the eople begin to comprehend that it would e more difficult to get cheap doilars than dollars of the present standard; that they would have to work harder. and receive, in the end, less remuneration—in other words, that free silver would affect them their advantage. Our British cousins have n good habit of standing by when their nation is conducting delicate and ir- rittating foreign gestions. Very trul, yours, el BfiNJAlflN HARRIBON.y The Pope on Anarchism. LONDON, Oct. 3L.—The Rome corre- spondent of the Dailly Chronicle says the Pope will shortly issue an encyclical o anarchism. i3 ust as does a_protective tax. Every effort ihnn]d be mldg to bring out the voters to the caucuses and the polls that the real will of the 220915 may be made manifest. Nurse Dies From the Plague. VIE Oct. 30.—The death is an- nouncyduef Fraulein Pocha, one of the two nurses who attended the late Herr P at P?;;“gerg‘r:c otin T s laboratory, ctim of the }a‘:x!;t;'runk ‘of the bubonic plague in Vienna. 5\ A