The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 2, 1898, Page 6

.....NOVEMBER 2, 1898 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. N T R PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts.. S. F. Telephone Maln 1858, EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2I7 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1574 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is sefved by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15.cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per montb 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL \ OAKLAND OFFICE.. .908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE......... Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Riggs House €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. i CHICAGO OFFICE...... Marquette Building | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Adverti ¢ Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery 'street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes.street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister “street, -open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30.o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll-10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 930 o'clock. -NW.. corner Twenty-second ane Kentucky streets, open untll-9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS, Baldwin—“The Transit of Leo." Columbia—*"Sowing the: Wind." Alcazar—‘Ambition.” California Theater— ‘Hogan's Alley.” .- Morosco's—*“The Indian." Tivoli—* { .. Orpheum—Vaudeville. Comedy Theater—'‘A ‘Scrap of Paper.” Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. The Chutes—Lilifan F. Smith, Vaudeville and the.Zoo Sutro’s Bathis—Swimming. Oakland Race:Track—Races. Y. M. C. A. Auditorfum—Heinrich Recital Thursday dfter- noon. Saratoga Hall—Anniversary Ball, Saturday, November 5. Rosenthal—Coming .in . December. AUCTION SALES, By B. S. Spear & Co.—This.day, Furniture; at 31 and 33 Sut- |. ter street, at 10 o'clock: :COUNT HENLEY, - COME FORWARD. District Attorney, Barclay Henley, some time /\/\ ago remarked in a“card to the public'that the ,'story of his connection with Maximilian's - Govern- ment was an ancient tale. “Every time my name was T....One year, by mall, $1.50 | AYOR PHELAN’S Mexican - candidate for | | THE WRECK OF THE PACIFIC BANK. HEN the panic of 1893 was laying waste com- W mercial institutions, throwing railways into the hands of receivers, closing the doors of private banks, tumbling national banks into insol- vency and laying the cold hand of lost confidence | upon every industry, California stood the storm with |:remarkable courage and unquenched “hope. There were. a few minor bank failures, which paid out in liquidation and are now so forgotten that no ore | can recall them. 5 Only one significant bank failure occurred, and that was such a gigantic crash, such a widespread ruin ard involved so many thousands of people ill able to bear their losses, that the history of its investigation, of the attemipts.to liquidate the affairs involved, made | up a tragedy that was so long on the boards that it | will be remembered for years, and the misery it brought to thousands- will long cry out for ven- | geance upon the guilty. The ramifications of this failure of the Pacific Bank, the intrigues which preceded it, covering the | wide distance between the organization of a savings | Bank and the corruption of a Legislature to create a. new county, in the wild hope of infusing life into dead assets and moribund ventures, ‘all make up a story of suipassing interest. It involves political ambition, intrigues with women, excursions into pseudo litera- | ture, dttempts to control school badrds, the seeking | of alliance with the reputable principles of moral re- form, the effort to serve the devil in the livery of heaven, thé engagement of the honorable profession i of the law ot to do justice but to deny it, all to the common end of betfayal of confidence and robbery of the innocent and unsuspecting. The commercial and financial interest of California the world may see how few men there were in our State capable of making such a wreck, and that the wreck itself-was not caused by any ‘weak or evil con- ditions in our business methods, arid should cast no suspicion tipon our sound financiakinstitutions. The Call has' introduced this story in a simple statement of the case. The tale will follow as told in the letters, checks, memoranda, records, receipts and exchanges of confidence, made by the conspirators themselves. X We present it in the interest of business morality and as a warning to others: who may be seeking |‘financial confidence to betray. it for their profit that their sins will find them out, and that past success Iin silericing a_newspaper by letting it share in the |'robbery cannot prevent final exposure. ¥ |- “We do this also in the interest of about 13,000 de- |:pcsitors, whose-savings were stolen by conspirators, presented as a candidate,” he said, “‘the affair referrEd_r in the hope that this revelation may put them in the to by The Call was charged against me; and ‘every time 1 was- elected.” - But; added’the Mexican can- didate, “I shall have more to say'about these matters further on.” The period designated by Maximilian’s ‘old subject .as “further on”” has now arrived. ~We are within'a few, days of election. What has become of .the things Henley was going to say about his- Mexican ¢itizen- ship? full of defenses, but is too busy to make them, or. who hopes that the people will forget his bluff? { Mayor Phelan’s Mexican candidate may have been elected on other occasions, but unless he * explains “these matters” he is going to bé defeated this time. How: about Maximilian;. Count Henley?. -Speak out. JUDGE - MURPHY'S SLANDERERS. campaign MONG the victims. of the /\ archists, one ' of ' .whose -principal cards-is slander.of Judges and misrepresenta-’ tion of the courts, is ex-Judge D.J. Marphy, Répub- lican candidate for District Attorney. rgec against Mr. Murphy that while sitting’ in ‘Departinent 12 of the Superior Court a few years ago he ré;éased a politician ‘named Chute on habeas corpus.~ Chute had- been called to testify before the Wallace Grand- Jury and had refused to appear.. He was committed for coptempt and applied for 2 writ of habeis corpus | to test the right of the jurors-to question him, alleg- ing that they constituted an illegal body. The matter was enjoying some public ‘attention at the time. Judge Wallice had impaneled- a Grand Jury for the purpose of bringing to his judicial mill a number of legislative boodlers, and the court was playing the same part in its création that he played last year in the petition of ‘George K. Fitch for the removal of the Board of Supervisors. The lawyers were divided as to the legality of the unusual process by which the Grand Jury in question had beéen. sum- moned, and the matter was being hotly discussed by the politicians and the newspapers.. At the most ex- citing stage of the difficulty Chute was summoned and refused to testify. * He .unfortunately . selected Judge Murphy as the jurist to wham he ‘desired to submit his case. 5 The latter heard the evidence and listened to the arguments of the lawyers. Then he wrote an opinion, which, if our-memory serves us, filled a page of the newspapers.” He discharged Chute on the ground that the Wallace Grand Jury was an illegal body and had no power to punish for contempt. .Perhaps it will do no good to point out to the Democratic, anarchists of this period that Judge Murphy’s view of the law was subsequently upheld by the Supreme Court. If however, they desire to inform themselves they will find the opinion of the latter tribunal in the ninety-sécond volume of the California Reports, on page 239. This vindication of his motives in the Chute case is all that Judge Murphy needs at this Jate day. He declared the law as it exists, and it can make no pos- + sible difference whether Chute was a good man or a bad man, a railroad hireling or a saint. If the Wal- + lace Grand Jury was an illegal body it had no right to summon Chute or send him to jail for contempt. It was afterward declared to be an illegal body, and so, in discharging Chute, Judge Murphy followed the law. It is unnecessary to refine the law points involved in the Chute case at this time. The purpose of the Democratic anarchists is to use against Judge Murphy their old political resource—abuse of courts and slander of Judges. It is not easy ordinarily to get away “with this sort of political “argument.” The people do not understand law and are prone to look upon decisions. which offend their prejudices as un- just or corrupt. The anarchists know this and make “the most of it. But no sensible person should vote against Judge Murphy for upholding the law in the Chute case. It would have been his duty to do that had Chute been a highbinder instead of a politician who had in- curred the enmity of a few Democratic purists. The fact is, Murphy is a fine criminal lawyer, a matchless prosecutor and a brave man, who, if elected District Attorney, will be a credit to the people and the city. Because he sent the sandlotters glimmering while _ District Attorney in 1879 is no reason why he-should be defeated now. Democratic: an~ is A combine of the collar factories of the country is announced, but it is not believed to include the Phe- lan output, 2 i ~ Is he playing the old dodge of 4 man-who is | 5 THE CALL recently referred to the movement It is charged' |-way of 4 partial recovery of their losses. |:- All this is not done for the purposes of newspaper |'sensation. It is doné in judicial temper, as an act of |'justice not only to the despoiled but to the despoil- ers, and in this spirit # -will be exposed to the last jot and tittle of evidence furnished by the reeking record made by the guilty themslves, and not by us. The ground to be covered may be estimated when we say that its publication in our columns will re- quire many days, and every scrap of it is an original document created by the parties to the crime, with no other text than is required to properly head and give |.it chronological connection. 3 e e e ] TAXATION VS. LAND CONFISCATION in many Eastern States for reform in the methods of taxation. In New York the discussion of this question harks back to the report made to the Legislature in 1871 by a commission consisting of the eminent economist, David A. Wells, and Edwin Dodge and George W. | Cuyler. - These .gentlemen were * appointed by" Governor { Hoffman -to revise the Jaws for the assessment and collection’ of taxes, under authority of the Legisla- ture. Their report is a textbook on the subject of assessmient and taxation of property for public rev- enue. It was printed by Harpers, and is very scarce, | as all the official copies were destroyed when the | State Library was burned at Albany. References to it | have caused.some readers to think it recommended | the Maguire plan of land confiscation. This is a mistake. As published by Harper the report is en- titled, “Wells, Local Taxation.” The report recommends that all railroads be taxed | by State ‘authority, and that the sole assessment be upon the franchise at a valuation equal to the aggre- gate ‘market value of the stocks and funded and float- ing debt, less cash in hand, exempting such corpora- tions from all other taxation. The revenue so derived to be taken for the general fund, as in Pennsylvania, or be distributed to the towns and cities in which the line runs. Mr. Wells says that to take it for a State fax is fairer, since the franchise is given in the name of all the people, “ and every city through which the line runs has had the valuation of its property and the trade and convenience of its citizens increased by reason of the road’s construction.” Secondly—The commission recommended taxation of land, exclusive of buildings, at a uniform valua- tion of 50 per centum of its true marketable or fair value. Thirdly—Tax the house or building as real estate | separately, at the same rate of valuation as the land, | 50 per cent, and then, assuming that the value of the | house or building, irrespective of its contents, be such i contents furniture, machinery or any chattels what- soever, is the sign or index which the owner or oc- cupier puts out of his personal property, tax the | house or building on a valuation of 50 per cent ad- ditional to its real estate valuation, as”the represen- | tation of such personal property; or, if.other words, | tax the land separately on 50 per cent of its fair mar- ketable valuation, and tax the building separately from the land as representing the owners’ personal property, on a full valuation. S These propositions rest upon the fact that the mar- ket value of real estate is always proportionate to and dependent on the amount of personal property, or rather productive capital placed uponit; or in its immediate vicinity. Land in itself has no orignal value, as it cost no man anything to produce it. + If there is no personal property or productive capital connected with it or reflected on it, it will not sell in the market or only at a nominal value. If by chance any buildings should be on such land, they will pos- sess no rental value. Only as personal property or productive capital is brought in connection with land does its value become appreciable and augment. The report continues: “Applying the proposed system for taxing personal property through buildings or rentals as its representative, we should find that the aggre- gite of taxation would be lowest in the most sparsely settled agricultural districts of the State. here is mainly in land, whose low marketable valua- tion would be still further reduced on the tax list if a valuation of 50 per cent was taken as the standard for assessment. The marketable value of the brild- ings is low also; and. what should be especially borne l’in mind is this-circumstance, that here, and, ‘ialxg ngs in all agricultural districts, the value of the b is much less than the value of the land with ; requires that the story should be told, to the end that | Property | | tion that his re-election will be given they are connected. As we leave the sparsely settled agricultural districts and rise through - the more densely populated portions of the State, from the villages to the towns, from the towns'to the cities and from the cities to the great metropolis of the continent, we shallfind that the value of land, of buildings and the aggregate of taxation valuation will increase, as the amount and accumulation of personal property increases, until land and buildings attain their greatest market and tax valuation in Wall street,” Broadway and Fifth avenue, where the accu- mulation of personal property is greatest. It is also to be observed that, starting at the bottom of aur scale, with the value of land greatly in excess of the value of the buildings connected with the land, this difference, as we progress upward through the more densely populated districts, gradually diminishes un- til the value of the building greatly exceeds the value of the land ®n which it is situated.” 3 As an alternative the commission proposed to-tax buildings: as_part of the real estate, and then tax three times the rental or rental value of the whole, as an equivalent of ‘the personal property. Taking the rate of taxdtion at 4 per cent, as it was at the date of the repott, in Brooklyn, Troy, Albany and Rochester, on land worth $2000, with a building of the same value, the method of assessment, by bringing personal p‘ropeny into taxation, would re- duce the rate to 2 per cent. { Under the old system at 4 per cent the $4000 prop-| - erty pays $160 tax. Under the commission plan the real estate assessed at 50 per cent would pay $20 tax. The building, at 50 per cent as real ‘estate and 50 per cent in equivalent of the personal property, would be assessed at $2000, and at 2 per cent would pay $40, and the building and land together would pay $60, in- stead of $160, By the alternative plan of assessing land and build- ing together at 50 per cent they would pay on $2000, or $40 tax; the rental value being assumed at 10 per cent, or $400, three times that would equal $1200, as- sessed as the equivalent of personal property, and would pay a tax of $24, the whole tax being $64, or slightly in excess of the first plan. 5 It will be seen that under either of these plans the taxes of the land-owner will be much less; the total assessed valuation of the State, through an unevad- able inclusion of personal property, would be so in- creased as to cut the rate of taxation in two. The plans of that commission presented consoli- dated taxation of realty, buildings and personalty, and assessment of railway franchises, as a simple system, economical in its operation. The amount of revenue required for public purposes fixes the rate of taxa- tion, Under the Maguire land confiscation system no at- tention is paid to the amount of money required for public purposes. It proposes that the State take as tax the entire rental value of land, thus rendering land valueless and destroying'it as private property. In the illustration cited, of property with. a rental value of $400 per annum, the Maguire plan takes the whole of that for tax. By the last report of the Board of Equalization land in California was valued at $761,348,980. Putting its rental value at 5 per cent, or one-hali the New York estimate, the State, by confiscating rents, would take as an annual tax $38,057,449, whether it needed the money for public purpose or net. But George and Maguire have both said “the rate of tax- ation must be high enough to take the whole of that rental * * * or the owners of the land will pocket it.” ¢ Now, the total tax levy in California for State and county purposes is $18,008,806, while the Maguire ‘plan will take annually $38,057,449, or - $20,000,000 more than the State and counties require. ~When Henry George was asked at St. Louis (see “National Single Taxer” for Pecember 15, 1897) what would be done with this excess over the public needs, he an- swered: “You might give every girl when she comes of mezrriageable age something to marry on. You might give every man when he reaches a certain age a pension. If you still had any left you might give everybody a trip to Europe.” THE RIGHT MAN FOR THE PLACE. MONG the members of the California delega- /E\ tion who have attained a distinguished rank and prestige in the House of Representatives is the Hon. John ‘A. Barham of the First District, who is now serving his second term and has been re- nominated in recognition of his services to his con- stituents and to the State and the nation. While his career in the House has been short in comparison with that of many members from the Eastern States, his personal strength as a worker and a debater has been such as to win for him the chair- manship of the Mileage Committee, and membership on the Arid Lands Committee, the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, -and on the sub- committee having charge of the bill providing for the construction of the Nicaragua canal. In'the course of the Congressional labors by which he achieved these honors he has accomplished much for the State, and has been at all times active and zealous in looking after its interests. Among the measures of special benefit to California which he urged in the House are bills making available $250,- o000 appropriated by Congress for the improvement of the ‘Sacramento and the Feather Rivers, appro- priating $300,000 for Eureka harbor, bills for the im- provement of Napa River, Petaluma Creek and es- tablishing a life-saving station at Point Arena. He also introduced and had favorably reported a bill to create a department of mines and mining, under charge of a secretary of Cabinet rank. As' Mr, Barham has become identified with the Nicaragua canal bill in the House, his return to Congress is a matter of prime importance to the State. It is not too much to say that his defeat would be taken by Congress as an evidence that Cali- fornians are not favorable to the construction of the canal by the Government, as Mr. Barham’s bill pro- vides. Certainly no new member of the House, no matter how much inclined he might be to promote the enterprise, could give it anything like the val- uable service which can be counted on from Mr. Barham. It is further to be noted that to Mr. Barham is due the adoption of the amendment to the bill of Sen- ators Morgan and White for the settlement the debts of the Central Pacific road, which provides that unless the settlement shall be perfected within one year from the passage of the bill the President shall at once foreclose the mortgage. is amend- ment thoroughly protects the interests of the Govern- ment and materially improves the bill of thé Demo- cratic Senators. So excellent have been the services of Mr. Bar- ham, and so valuable to the whole State is his pres- ence in Congress, that his defeat would be a loss to every interest which California has at Washington. Fortunately, there is no danger of his defeat. He re- tion unanimously, and all reports justify the predic- e by an over- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, ‘WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1898. COMMENDS - record. Heisays and his friends say that he has made a good Mayor, the " “uncounted” dollars. . . : * encomiums we simply ask, What has he done?. _stolen from under his very nose. * ney and WHAT HAS HE DONE? : NUMBER ELEVEN.. 3 Dear Sir: The plain citizen like you and me wishes to judge a man by his actions.” It is true. we may have our own thoughts about his pol- icy and his designs, but, after all, we may be mistaken in our surmises and suppositions. . You and I wish to be judged by our own actions, not by what other people say against us. Therefore, it is only just that we should ‘apply to Mr. Phelan the same rule by which we wish to be measured. our- selves. = Mr. Phelan appeals to the plain titizen, to you and to me, on his best ‘the city has had. They tell in general terms and in glowing words the benefits San Francisco has received from his administration. They urge. against his opponent that he is an untried man, and they urge in Mr. Phe- lan’s favor that his knowledge and experience-in the City Hall will save us -+« The:plain citizen listens tc. all these fine phrases and then he asks him< self, WHAT HAS MR. PHELAN DONE? - It is ‘all ivery well to speak of 'his greac achievements in glowing terms, but you and I like to come down to particulars. In reply to.all.his friends’ The San Francisco Exariiner supports ‘Mr. Phelan's candidacy. = In last Sunday’s issue. it had a long piece entitled, “What Mayor Phelan ‘Has' Done for the City.” In the course of seventeen paragraphs Mayor .Phe- lan’s good degds are set forth. . No one can accuse the Examiner of spar-". ing’talent or mofey in honoring- those whom it wishes to honor. . - There- fore, we may take this summary of his good deeds. as an official state- ment of Mr. Phelan’s record, the record on which™ he appeals to'the plain citizen, to you and to me. . it o T e It would be too long, and: distingiished authorities have - cntpnlain_ed, - that these letters are entirely too long, to deal in one com maunication with - the whole record. The plain citizen likes to take his knowledge in small-. bits. The record opens with GOQD DEED NO.. “He has administered his office as a. publi when other Mayors failed.” 2 B SN Cor R oy The plain citizen like you and I is disappointed at .the general char- acter of this statement. No particulars are given as to, what constitutes a. ublic trust and how it should be administered: =~ Mr. Phelan went into”of- ce once and is striving to get into office’ a-second time on the cry of busi- ness administratior. He says that the public business should be transacted as carefully as private business. He promised to take care of the interests of the city as conscientiously as he takes care of the interests of the Phelan’ estate. These promises are certainly very consoling to the plain citizen, to you and té me. If the public servants will attend to public matters as thoroughly as they attend to their domestic concerns we shall have an ideéal administration. This we may therefore suppose is the meaning of the statement that Mr. Plelan administered his office as a public trust. = But the plain citizen knows well that public. affairs. are not adminis- tered in the same manner as private affairs. -~ It is not according to human- nature that a man should attend to other people’s. interests as closely as he attends to his own. Hence we are not so very hard on our officials when® we find a certain slackness and negli-gence. As long as we cannot prove: downright incompetence or ‘dishonesty we are willing enough to pay for: thjs slackness and to put down this negligence to the credit of profit and loss. g But Mr. Phelan does not wish to be judfied by such slipshod methods. He is -the exponent of business methods. e demands that the city busi- ness be conductgd as the business of a -private firm.- Therefore, we can- not judge of the administration of his office ‘on the ordinary ‘terms we ap- ply to the ordinary politician. He has made his own terms and he de- mands that we try him by them. it 5 25 The plain citizen knows that it is absolutely necessary to count cash on hand at frequent intervals if accounts are to be kept straight, - The city has cash on hand and that cash has to’be counted from time to time. . ‘The law lays down the persons who are to conduct that count, how often it'is té'be made and prescribes the various essential circimstances. . . Among those whose duty it is to count the’ cash is the Mayor.. -Mr, Phelan, when he was confronted with’ this duty, was by ‘his own. terms bound to perform it as carefully as le performs the same operation for-his own cash on hand. Mr. Phelan's success as a_business man._is testimony to the care with which he watches every cent and dime of ‘his-family. fortune. It is not likely that any of his employes would have a charce, were. they so minded, to abstract any of his cash. 2 AR G BUT IN COUNTING THE CITY MONEY : Mr. Phelan appears to have forgotten his principle of doing the' public. busi- ness in the same careful manner that he performs his private business.. He continued a bad habit inaugurated by Mayor Sutro and excusable in an old and failing man. He trusted .to his_delicate appreciation of the force.of gravity and relieved himself of the laborious task of counting the cash by “hefting” the sealed mint sacks. A ik The result, of course, was ifievitable. - “The “pldin citizen knows: that gower ‘when methods for temiptation is close to Treasurers. It has double checking the Treasurer are lax. The city of San Franciseo was robbed, and though: the larger portion of the money was recovered fromh the surety com- pany, the city is still out some $16,000.: o & Of course this is not a yery large sum to a wealthy municipality, and it is very easy to get careless in attending to public business. If Mr, Phelan stood on the same ground as other men, the plain citizen like you and I would not judge him'too heavily. -~ But Mr. Phelan i§ not content te stand on the same ground. The reason why he asks for office is that ‘he stands on quite other ground. ~He will attend to public busimess as carefully: as he attends to his private business. The plain citizen, therefore, is compeiled to take him at his word and to judge him by his own standard. Tried by that standard Mr. Phelan has not attended to his public pusiness as’ care- fully as to his private business. ~He has in such an elementary proceeding as counting cash employed methods so slipshod that the city money has been e. Facts do not warrant us in saying that Mr. Phelan has admipistered this portion of his office at-feast°as a public trust. It is true that the second portion of the paragraph is justifiedr “He has succeeded where ‘other Mayor's have often failed.” All our other Mayors, with one or two exceptions, have failed to allow their Treasurers’ to run off with the eity funds, Mr. Phelan has succeeded admirably. This one examg]e brings home to the plain citizen, to you and to me, the value of Mr. Phelan’s professions and the worth of this great and good deed as a reason why he should be re-elected. As far as you and I-can see, Mr. Phelan has administered his office not as a public trust, but as a lever to. his own advancement in politics. ‘By means of it and of the prestige at- tached to it he has obtained supreme control of the machinery of the Dem- ocratic party. He has nominated a ticket composed of men who owe their nominations to him, who have promised him 80 per cent of the _patronage* and who are pledged to do his bidding. He has a personal power that no boss ever before attained in an American city, or dreamed of attaining. His office has made him ruler of a great political party, and sole ruler. -He has cast out all prerenders to his throne: If he wishes to buy them back he can buy them ip open market, so that evefy paper knows the negotia- tions, and even as he buys them he can afford to treat them with contempt. Henry VII made one of the defeated claimants to his crown a scullion in the royal kitchen. ~ Mr. Phelan accelerates the é)ro%ress of Rainey and Har- Biuckley toward the sacred asylum of the plug hat with a royal kick. Of a truth, Mr. Phelan has administered his office as a public trust. The trust crushes &ut all competitors or buys those it cannot crush. Mr. Phe- lan to-day is the Democratic trust. and no citizen dare be a Democrat in this town without his leave. A PLAIN CITIZEN. openly will not desert him now that he fights the moral cowardice that truckles politically to'that same bigo- try. EUGENE P, MURPHY. 1304 Guerrero street. AROUND THE REV. P. C. YORKE. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1, 1898. To the Editor of The Call: In a prom- ‘| tax as is ¢andidate Maguire. doses, and we can deal with Mr, Phelan’s.achievenient niost instructively in - . SR £ % - = | purpose and for commerce, -| Calvados, 1027 | victory over | to return to his.property, .a Catholic ceived his renomination from the Republican conven- |- > inent article in the Bulletin of to-day the statement is made that Father Yorke's remarks ‘“are not sanctioned by the church.” Please let me state as layman that the Catholic ‘church is not in politics. Father Yorke two years ago made an earnest, de- ‘termined and successful fight against the A. P. A, faction in their attack on Catholics. As the result of that fight Mr. Phelan was elected Mayor of our city by the votes of all right-thinking citizens. The fight that Father Yorke made then was for principle—the fight he makes now .is for principle. Mr. Phelan, throwing aside principle “for votes,” placed men in nomination who vy their votes or their indorsement zxowed a leaning to those who clai Catholics were not entitled to all the rights and privileges of American citi- zens. The same reason that caused Father Yorke to enter the lists against bigotry and intolerance then actuate him to-day. Don’t let the public be misled. Father Yorke is well known by the people of this city and by the Catholics of the whole United States as a d priest—and a good citizen. ow that when he denounces fraud and h he is right and that he can :lount upon (tihelr h:uppon. Money, position, rewards, ve no temptation for him. The record of hav- ing done his duty is the only claims. This he has done in and is doing now and will always con- tinue to do. Had Mayor Phelan cared be driven to the corner he is erican citizen, see nothing to ition taken Father Yorke, on the con- trary I heartily approve of his d ward he | P: past more for principle than votes he would | Colonel John W, Moore, & p " CORRIDORS A. Nowell, a prominent Guatemalan, is at the Lick. State Senator R. P. Willlams 1 at the Palace. e Dr. W. D. Rodgers of at the Occldental. John Barr, a well-known mining of Ione, is at the Grand. . = J. R. Hebbron, a wealthy cattleman of Salinas, is at the Grand. J. M. Wilmans, 2 well-known merchant of Newmau, is at the’ Lick. Bank Commissioner John Markle; Geyserville is at the Lick. et A. D. Cutts, a prominent Mary: merchant, is at the Grand. S State Senator B. F. Langford of Stock- ta; 18’ sto) at the Lick. . P. Sullivan, the well-known St. Louls bookmaker, is at the Palace. V. B, McClatchy, editor of the Sacra- mento Bee, is again at the California. Jesse D. Carr, the well-known Salinas capitalist, Is a guest at the Occidental. B. P. Ledos, a prominent watch case manufacturer of Newark, N. J., is at the Grand. Henry T. Gage, the next Governor of California, has again registered at th ‘Watsonville is F.,J. Teggart, assistant lbrarian of Stantord; Usiyerity, I togistared o€ to ‘Henry Milliken, capitalist, and Dr, Henry J. Baldwin, both of Boston, are at the Palace. / G. N. Wiicox, a prominent Honolulu , has returned from a trip the to} Matmmmnm ‘Ocoldental. > ) Ty i’){lfa}iélirhli wbq‘len‘ merchant, 1s at §h' Palace. Colonel Moore 1§ well-known in Grand Army eclrcles, partment of Pennsylvania. ;R o e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Nov. 1—V. H, Plate of San Jose and Dr. William H. Baldine of ifornia are at the Gllsey. Mrs. J. G. ttle and Miss Kittle of Ross are at the ‘Windsor. | b 3 e e e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. BOTH ARE NATIVE SONS—J. J., City. ‘Henry S, Martin and T. F. Bonnet; candi-- dates fof the office of Sheriff, are both'na- tives of the State of California. NAVAL RANK—Alameda, Cal. Two anchors ‘and four stars on _a shoulder strap is indicative of the rank.of ad- miral in the United States navy. BATTERY C—B, C, City. Battery C, heavy artillery, California Volunteers, has'not yet been recalled trom Fort Cane by, to which-point it was assigned some time ago. PUZZLES-~Alameda, Cal. This departs ment does not answer questions in rela- tion to puzzles, arithmetical. problems or catch questions, as it has not the time to devote to such inquiries. SINGLE TAX—F, 8., Santa Maria, Cal. .This .department has. not beeén able to learn .of any Governor of a ‘State of the Union who is an advocate of the single That indi- vidual is the only man who has forced himself .into notoriety, -who since the death of Henry :George has been “‘a prominent ‘advocateé of ‘the single tax.” " STARCH—Subscriber, Sacramento, Cal. . There is a firm in San Francisco that ad- vertises -jtself” as. a manufacturer of starch. The starch. for food, for laundry for use in cotton print works is- made from maige, This department cannot. devote the space to. give an_.account of the manufacture e © o ) of Staron, but that can be found in any trust and has succeeded . |.ads lvanced work on chemistry. NUMBER ' OF.. OFFICES—G. K., City, ‘| Bach voter In San Francisco who will ‘be called upon to'vote for State Senator and Assemblyman will hays, if he votes for _every. office to be filled, to stamp a cross opposite.the names of one Federal office, fourteen’ State offices, and fifty-three city offices, and wiH also be called upon to affix his stamp as to seven proposed con- ‘stitutional amendments. 3 ’ _THE .CONQUEROR—A. 8., ‘Kerby, Or.. Willam the Conqueror, call- ed the Duke of Normandy, was born in Falalse, a town in France, department of or 1028. In 1047 he gained a Guido of Macon at Val de Dunes, and in 1054 he defeated another ri- .val, Guillaume, Count of Arques. He was ded both contests by the ¥rench. ‘When he became conqueror he had as followers. men of Flanders, Anjou, Tor- raine and Brittan; _THE SAND LOT- . L. N., Oakland, Cal. “To give a history of the sand lot agitation, Denis Kearney and others cop- nected with the egitation in.1577 would take more space than this department can devote to any one answer. In “Davis’ Political Conventions” of California, un- der the head of ‘‘Workingmen's Party,” yeou will find a long account of the agita- tion and those who took a prominent part it. James G. Maguire is not men- tioned in that resume, but he approved the wark of the agitators.. You.can find -| that book in the free library. ON A RANCH-O. K., Wheatiand, Cal. If Brown tells' Jones that he may go on his (Brown’s) ranch and that he can haye all that he can make on it until he {Brown) gives him motice that he wishes rovided that make the Jones, during the - time, will necessary repairs- and .pay the taxes, Jones is bound by the terms: of the con- fract, notwithstanding the fact that it was not a, written one, for the verbal con- tract is a ‘matter of -proof. - Jones under such a contract would not, after twenty or any number of years, have the right | to claim-the ranch as his own by reason of the fact that he had had undisturbed ‘posséssion of it. He. is a temant at will and may be ousted at any time that Brown may desire to re-enter in his pos- sessions, . SFLOW FROM A SPRING—A. E. S. de ‘W., Hepland, Cal. "The question as asked cannot be answered for want of sufficient data. To compute e velocity of flow in pipes of any diameter, when the volume discharged per minute is given in tubic feet and the area of the pipe in square feet, divide the volume by the area and the quotient divided by sixty will give the velocity in feet per second. When the volume is given in cubic feet and the drea in square inches, divide the voi- ume by the area, multiply the quotient By 144 and-divide the product by sixty. ‘When the volume is given in cubic inches and the area in square inches, divide the volume by the area and again by twelve and by:sixty. * To compute the flow or volume of dis- in square charge—when area is given feet—multiply the area of flow by 'its velocity in feet per second and the/ prod\lc{ muluglled by sixty will give th volume of cubic feet per minute. Whes the area is given in square inches multi- ly the area by its velocity and -glh gy sixty and divide the product by 14./ | "To-compute the power of .a fall bf water—multiply the’ volume of flo water g cubic feet per minute by | g o and this product by the vertical heigh fall in feet. : ° CHRISTMAS BOXES FOR sox,:z‘xm. +E. P.-H, St. Helena, Subscriber and Others, City. The Government has/ not as yet named a vessel, to carry Chfistmas boxes to soldiers at Manila. Such boxes will be sent through the Commisgary De- artment, - corner of New Mo omery gnd Jessie streets, San Franci co‘,‘u the Navy Department authorizes a fessel sent there for that purpose. r received a few days since from Manilj says that the store keepers have, sincef the advent of‘the Americans, raised r prices two and three fold, so that the soldiers wish to procure any nekfessities they must y two or three ices for them. Another says that he doe§ not want any- thing sent to him for thq reason that he has no place to put anything that might be sent him. What is best to send{to the boys at Manila is a matter of{ taste with the sender, but if relatives d friends want to send =T thing they had best send s oF that which is substantiad, such ®s_crack- ers, plain and fancy, A tins; first-class canned goods, the best of jellies, con.” densed milk, soup tablets and the like. Such lhs( will enjoy lafter feeding on army rations for months, and they awill be far more acceptable than fancy ar- ticles for which they would have no use. 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