The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 28, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, JOHN D. SPRECI KELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to'W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE .Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS.. ...2I7 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year: per month €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL, 18 pages ..One year, by mall, $l OAKLAND OFFICE ....908 Broadway | NEW YORK OFFICE. DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative, -.-Room 188, Worid Building WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE cosans .......Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising 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 untll 9:30 o'clock: 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 241 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2991 Market vireet, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh cireet, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. — AMUSEMENTS California—""Magda."" “olu finstrel Jubilee. ‘A Midnight Bell."” ‘The Yellow Dwarf.” Morosco's—*"The White Squadron.” | Orpheum—Vaudeville. | The Chutes—Gorilla Man, Vaudeville and the Zoo. Olympla — Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialties, Oakland Race Track—Races. Metropolitan Hall—Rosenthal Piano Recital, Tuesday even- | ing, January 3. | B | AUCTION SALES, Sullivan & Doyle—This day, December 28, at 11 o'clock, Buggles, etc., at 327 Sixth street. F dorses, THE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION. | would choose from it. | nounced himself | will strengthen the Republican party in California or WHAT ANSWER. Tis said that Republican members elect to the l Legislature are found who are willing to vote for Burns for United States Senator. There were candidates in the field during the late campaign. Barnes, Knight, Bulla and Grant all de- clared themselves openly. If any candidate for the Lecgislature announced himself before the election for either of these he was dealing fairly by the people. If none announced his choice among that field, still he was voted for in the supposition that he might and There might easily be wide differences of opinion as to the relative merits and fitness of these four gentlemen. But the candidacy of any Republican for the Legislature might have suc- ceeded after a declaration for either of them, and his reputation might have survived a vote for either in the party caucus. But how is it with Burns? Can any member-elect say with his conscience that he believed he could have won in any Senatorial or As- sembly district in California if he had in advance an- for Burns? The fact that not the one hundred Republican candidates Legislature announced Burns as proof sufficient that every candidate knew such announcement would have been fatal to him. They all stood in the position of being likely to vote for either of the four open aspir- arts for the Senatorship, and the people found noth- ing so offensive in either of the four as to drive them intc opposition. But no candidate, by direction or indirection, by implication, by jest or intent dared say that under any circumstances he would vote for 2utns. Now that the election is over, has any Re- one of for the choice is Czn any stand up in the caucus and announce that | the editor of any respectable newspaper, the pastor of any church, a professor in any university or college, or a teacher in any school, has urged him to support Burns? Czn any stand up in the Republican caucus and 1y that any leading merchant, banker, manufacturer or business man, lawyer or doctor, farmer or labor | unicu, has urged him to support Burns? | Can any stand up in the Republican caucus and vith his conscience say that the election of Burns add to its ranks usefully in the Senate in this critical his | which exempts the mad from the operation of the law against the shedding of blood. It has come to pass that every destroyer of a human life who stands at the bar of justice utterly without pretext or excuse enters a plea of insanity. Strange as the fact may seem, this plea is often po- tent for acquittal. It is known to be fraudulent in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. Where a man can plan and execute a murder, definitely arrange a method of escape, cover his tracks, and if cornered | reason that his way to safety lies through this plea, he is sane enough to suffer any penalty the law may prescribe. Nevertheless, anybody pleading insanity can find | experts who will swear to anything necessary to bolster up his absurd and insclent claim, and the in—mre clear the evidence against him the harder they will swear. “Emotional” insanity and kindred hocus- pocus -have saved many an undeserving neck, and, more than all other causes, brought the statute and | the courts into disrepute. It is worse than the sen- timentality which permits a woman with a pretty face to kill whom she may desire, for women do not often presume upon the remarkable privilege accorded. | ; TOO HIGH @ PRICE. [ MERICAN TRADE, a journal which an- A nounces under its title that it is “published for the National Association of Manufacturers of the United States,” is naturally a keen and earnest ad- vocate of commercial expansion and the opening of | new markets for American produce. This is, of course, commendable, for we need mercantile as well as industrial extension, but there is such a thing as | | publican member been impertuned by any respect- | Paying too high a price for trade, and there are signs | able element in his constituency to vote for Burns? | our Eastern contemporary does not understand that. In the current number the chief article is one by M. R. Jeffries on the Chinese exclusion act, in which | it is maintained that the act “stands as a barrier | against the increase of trade and commerce between | the United States and four hundred millions of peo- | ple whose instincts would direct them to buy from | us—because of their getting better value for their | money—were it not for these objectionable laws.” Starting from that assumption, which, by the way, he does not undertake to prove, Mr. Jeffries goes on to argue that it is for the commercial interests of the | United States to repeal the exclusion laws and open | this country to Chinese in return for an open market in China for American goods. Furthermore, he de- OMETHING of gratification is to be found in | time? | F " S the fact that the first gathering after Christmas | I et every member sit down alone with his con- | clares the laws were enacted originally “just because to discuss matters of public concern has been | science and his best instincts and ask himseli these “ a few local miners and railway laborers on the Pacific the meeting of the Teachers’ Association at Santa | questions and answer them, and see where that| Coast had an imaginary idea that the Chinese coolie Our public schools, despite the efforts of | politicians and bosses to rule, run and ruin them, re- | main a just pride to the State and one of the best tficiency of popular government. | Ros proois of the e That the school system has been maintained at so | high a standard and has been made so useful to the community is duc almost wholly to the high char- acter, intellectual attainments and personal worth of the men and women who have enlisted in its service As a rule School Boards have injured it | as teachers rather than helped it, for, while noble exceptions are | to be found here and there, most School Directors | have used their positions more for the purpose off getting boodle or rewarding political friends than for | the advantage of the schools. The public, too, has | been through indifference more or less antagonistic | to the work of education, for the people have in too many instances voted for incompetent School Di- | rectors and elected to that office men who are ut- | terly unfit for the place. | In spite of the carelessness of the voters on elec- | tion d and in spite of the incompetency or d honesty of Directors in office, the earnest band of teachers has gone on in the great work of upbuilding the schools until from small beginnings our system of | popular education is now one of the best in the| Union; not inferior to that of the most progressive States. With what has been accomplished the general pub- lic may be satisfied, but the teachers are not. Their | thoughts and their energies are bent upon the at- tainment of higher levels of work and fuller educa- tional results. At every annual meeting the most carnest discussions are those concerning improve- | ments which may be made in the aims or the mc(h«E Almost every teacher who attends these meetings is to some extent benefited by them | s back to the management of the school a | duty or a broader knowledge of how best to train the minds of the pupils. However indifferent the people may be with respect to the election of School Directors, it is gratifying to note there is no indifference with respect to teach- ers. The demand for honor, honesty, ability, purity and I in the teaching body is as notable as the carelessness of such requirements from School Di- rectors. As a consequence even the most corrupt of School Boards has never dared to place upon the list of teachers any wholly unworthy person. That fa- voritism has been shown in the appointment of teachers, that bribes have been demanded in pay- ment for positions is undoubtedly true, but there has been a well-defined limit in appointments which even the stupidest of School Directors has been able to understand, and that limit none has dared to pass. We have, therefore, a body of teachers worthy o our school system and of the State. This fact is| everywhere recognized and full credit is given to the | teachers for their worth and their work. Wherever they hold their meetings they are received with wel- | come and honor. Santa Rosa has on this occa- sion the privilege of showing forth the esteem with which the teachers are regarded throughout the State, and she is doing it with a whole-souled hos- pitality that redounds to her credit. ods of teachir and carri truer conception of a teacher’s THE TRANSGRESSOR'S WAY. HEN young Rosser of Tennessee escaped the Wpcnnhy of the crime he committed here he doubtless felt that the incident had been closed. He was free to go, or free to stay and kill another citizen. It is hardly probable he reckoned upon any punishment. Yet it has come. He sowed, and the reap ng of the harvest was inevitable. During the trials of Rosser the figure of the old father sitting by his side was the embodiment of pathos. The son did not seem stirred by emotions, but the sire bowed his gray hairs in shame and grief. It was natural that he should have come to comfort the erring boy. It was a sorrowful journey for the old man. The shock was too much, and in his South- ern home he lies dead. With truth might it be said he died of a broken heart. The wanton shot which slew a stranger has been the cause -of slaying the best friend of the murderer. Over his crime Rosser never appeared to be con- cerred. Doubtless the second tragedy will succeed ia touching even the author of it.” If the soldier cared nothing for the tears he had caused to strangers, when there is mourning in his own home he cannot feil to realize the desolation he has wrought. He chose the way of the transgressor, and, bearing his double burden of guilt, will find the way as it ever has heen. | eminence in talents, energy in public service, honesty answer will place his vote, for Burns or against him. In the Republican Senatorial caucus what reason | can a member give to prove that his constituents vant Burns for Senator, and what answer can he make to them to account for his support of such a candidate? Will he say that Burns has had any ex- | perience in office, when it is known that, as County Clerk and as Secretary of State, he was a defaulter in | hoth offices, that he was arrested, that he was put in jail that he refused to make restitution, but pleaded the statute of limitations? Will he say that Burns has elevated politics, reputably benefited the State, led great movements for the common good? When? What has he done as a business man? He is béing sued for a fee by | the lawyer who found him in jail, a beggar and de- | fauiter. and defended him when indicted. He betrayed | Mr. Waterhouse, the friend who found him bank- | rup T in purse and reputation and put him on his feet, only to be robbed by him of the whole property of which his benefactor had given him a part. He had betrayed the people of Yolo County, who elected him Clerk. He had betrayed the people of California, who elected him Secretary of State. He | had betrayed the lawyer who defended him and saved | nim from the penitentiary, and then he betrayed the friend who had trusted him and he now riots in a for- | tune which he filched from that friend by the crim- inal violation of the mining laws of Mexico, for which | he had to sweat in a Mexican jail. | Fiay, Republican members of the Legislature, what | answer can you make at home when you are asked | why you voted for such a man to represent the Re- | publican party and the State of California in the | Unired States Senate? How long do you suppose it will be before there | is ancther Republican victory in this State if he -is | elected? How long can a party stand that passes by in office and bestows its greatest prize upon such a person as Dan Burns? Tmark the celebration of Christmas by the ac- quirement of jags so wobbly and pronounced as to have passed the stage of hilarity. There are cracked pates and broken noses to attest that the sea- son when peace is supposed to hold special sway has DROVES OF INEBRIATES. HERE seems to be an increasing tendency to | | of the Government to would come to this country in swarms and destroy their chances for high wages.” He then goes on to say: “This was twenty years ago and a mere local affair. It did not concern the United States as a nation at the time, but from little acorns massive oaks do grow. It does affect the wealth producers of this whole country now, for by these laws we are handicapped in trading with one of the most populous nations on | the globe, a nation with which all other large manu- facturing countries are doing their utmost and using their armies and navies in order to secure a foothold for trade and commerce, when, if the Chinese were allowed to come to our shores the same as the Japan- ese, Siamese, Burmese, Malays, English and others, their trade would naturally drop right into our laps by gravitation, because we can and do give them the best value for their money.” Ii the view of Mr. Jeffries, given circulation by a journal of such repute as American Trade, find any considerable support in the East, we may have the | Chinese exclusion fight on our hands again and in a more dangerous shape than ever. The first appear- ance of a threatened agitation for a repeal of the laws is, therefore, a matter of no little importance. In the absence of any argument on the point, it is not clear upon what grounds is based the theory that the exclusion laws interfere with our Chinese trade. That trade has increased while the exclusion policy has been enforced, and is increasing now. The Chinese consumer who can get better goods for less money from the United States than from any other country is not likely to turn aside from them and seek other goods simply because he is not permitted to come to the United States and work for wages. Even if the theory should be proven true, however, it would not in any wise justify a repeal of the ex- clusion act. It would be a poor policy on the part sacrifice California to the Chinese for the sake of making a new market for Eastern products. Commercial expansion is undoubt- | edly worth a great deal, but it would be bought too high if we paid for it by the free admission of Chinese laborers. Portland, Or., as seen by its own people in the glow ;o( Christmas, is well depicted with pen and pencil in | a special edition which the Evening Telegram of [!hat city issued in celebration of the holiday sea- son. The portion devoted to a description of the city | and the industries of the State forms a supplement of again arrived. | twelve pages, richly ornamented with photographic The logic of this is difficult to grasp. The man with a holiday can by a little thoughtfulness put it to better use than the swilling of bad liquor. For the nonce this may produce a bogus joy, but when it eventuates in a ride in the patrol wagon, a night in jail, and the inevitable “day aiter,” its signal failure | as a promoter of peace is easily realized, and the situ- | ation evolves no strain in consonance with that which filled the night upon the Judean hills. If there is a remedy it must be in making the an- nual swear-off at a week earlier than the usual date. It is as wise to keep sober Christmas as at New Year's. While this swear-off is only temporary in | effect, it would surely last seven days, and thus carry the thirsty beyond ‘the period of greatest danger. The price of the average drunk would fill many a stocking, take the family on a pleasant excursion or to a place of amusement, or even look well added to a bank aecount. Christmas this year the City Jail was jammed with the inebriate in every stage of collapse. It was in many localities marked by violence. The lawless scemed to give particular attention to making them- selves obnoxious, and the foolish followed the pat- | The celebration, hedged about as it is with | tern. sacred tradition, was in a measure made a traversty. | It is impossible not to view this fact with regret, but there appears no particular reason for anticipating a change. R LUNATICS WHO KILL. ECENTLY the matron of an asylum was at- tacked by an inmate for whom she was per- forming at the time an office of kindness, and but for opportune rescue would have been murdered. | As it was she was frightfully injured and received a shock from which she will be long in recovering. The sanguinary lunatic was wholly irresponsible. The law can do nothing with her beyond increasing the rigor of her restraint. Had it been necessary to kill her to save her victim no harm would have been done, and yet society has no desire to take the life of a crazy person. The incident may serve as indi- cating what was meant b;‘ gl;e statutory provision illustrations and adorned with a cover illuminated in | brilliant colors. The Telegram has just reason to | be proud of the city of its home, and the city may well be congratulated on having so able an advocate to make known its attractions to the outer world. NS S Some scoundrel over at San Rafael is creating tur- moil by writing anonymous letters. There are few meaner crimes. Anonymity is the weapon and shield of the cowardly liar and blackguard. Anybody guilty of it would be guilty of any felony, save for the lack of courage. The rascal should be hunted out, and the community made too warm for him. He is despicable to a degree that renders impossible any hope of reform, but there is a chance of abating him. There is said to be a woman burglar operating in | the city, and she is described as having a “sweet face.” And when her victims sing “Her Sweet Face Haunts Me Still” there is a note of actual plaintive- ness so marked as to attract the ineffective attention of the police. D S A Texan, having been fatally shot, expended his dying energies in shooting the daughters of his as- sailant, killing one. From what is known of the Texan temperament, he probably expired with a sigh of content. Hearst is the new leader of Democracy, but the Examiner has scored a scoop on the fact, which, be- {ing its only scoop for many a day, causes it to re- joice and be glad. Perhaps it is because the Governor of Kansas does not believe in capital punishment that there is such | crying necessity for its application .there. Christmas_time may be a season of peace, but the mortuary record shows that after a certain number of drinks people are prone to lose sight of this fact. e g The death of a boy from the bullet of a parlor rifle ought to go far toward demonstrating the inutility of deadly weapons as Christmas gifts to children. Perhaps Bryan has abandoned free silver. An astute rat \yill leave a sinking ship 1898. AROUND THE CORRIDORS Fred Dodd of Fresno is a guest at the Lick. Edward Twitchell of Ukiah is a guest at the Grand. Irving W. Rand, U. 8. A, is a guest at the Palace. J. O. Carlisle, a miner from Seattle, i at the Lick. Lieutenant L. G. T. Kuhlwain, U. 8. N., is at the Lick. Hon. Raleigh Barcar of Vacaville is at the Occidental. Postmaster Baer of Cloverdale was in town yesterday. Hon. J. D. Connolly of Santa Rosa is a guest at the Lick. Attorney L. T. Garausey of Los Angeles is at the California. A. Nowell, a rich coffee-grower of Guat- emala, is at the Lick. N. Field of Manchester, staying at the Palace. ‘Willlam Thomas, a prominent rancher of Chico, is at the Grand. Ex-Postmaster Thomas Angeles is-at the California. James Rennie, a wine grower from Na- toma, is a guest at the Lick. R. H. de Witt, Treasurer of Siskiyou County, is at the Occidental. Assistant Surgeon W. L. Bell, U. of Mare Island, is at the Palace. Sam Thall, theatrical man from New York, is a guest at the Occidental. A. A. Grant, a mining man from Al- buquerque, New Mexico, is at the Palace. Paul Frege, a coffee grower from Guate- mala, i{s at the Occidental, with his wife. W. A. Kinney, former Governor of Ha- wall, arrived at the California yesterday. ‘Wilfred Taylor of Auckland and G. C. Steedholme of New Zealand are at the Lick. Henry Landes, a prominent citizen of Port Townsend, is a guest at the Oceci- dental. Dr. W. H. Davis, one of the most promi- nent physicans of Detroit, is at the Occi- | dental. X H. Crum of Shanghai and E. A. Warn- holtz of Hamburg are registered at the Palace. Major A. V. von Sonnenberg, the Ger- man military attache at Manila, is at the Palace. Professor Garrett Droppers and family of Tokio are at the Occidental. They ar- rived on the China. William F. Wilson, a mining engineer from the City of Mexico, arrived at the Occidental last night. Professor Alexander G. Bell, with his wife and daughter, is at the Palace. He is en route to Washington, D. C., where | he will deliver an address before the Smithsonian Institution. K. Nakashina of Tokio is at the Occi- dental. He has come to San Francisco as the assistant general passenger agent, un- der Willlam B. Curtis, of the new Oriental Japanese Steamship Company. E. S. Pillsbury, the well-known attor- ney, has returned to the city from an ex- tended Eastern trip. Mr. Pillsbury ap- pears to have been much benefited by his trip and looks to be in the best of health. Captain J. H. McClintock and A. C. Mc- Millan, both of whom served with the Rough Riders at San Juan, are at the Palace. The former is from Phoenix and England, is Lewis of Los 8. N.; the latter from New York. They are here on pleasure. | M. Walheim, Mexican Minister to Japan, | arrived on the China yesterday and is at | the Occidental. He is on his way to Mex- | ico to consult with the high officials of the Government concerning the Mexican in- | terests in the Far East. He says that business is somewhat slow at present in Japan, but that both houses of the Par- liament will stand by the Govern- | ment and that affairs will come around | right as soon as confidence is restored. | versity. He bespeaks a great future for Japan and says that the time is not far distant when | her influence as a nation will be felt the | world over. | R T T | NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Miss J. Flood of! San Francisco is at the Windsor; E. E." Fay and wife of Los Angeles are at the | Grand; E. C. Barclay of San Francisco is at the Cosmopolitan; J. A. Barham of Santa Rosa is at the Imperial. Mrs. Frona | Eunice Waite of San Francisco is at the ‘Waldorf, where she will make her head- quarters while lecturing in this city for the California State Board of Horticul- | ture. —_—————————— | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. GOAT ISLAND—A. K., City. of Goat Island is 14 9 acres. EASTER SUNDAY-D. D., Forest Hill, Placer County, Cal. Easter Sunday, 1849, |fell on Aprisl _ NOT IN ZOLA’S LIST—*The Fate of a Libertine,” published in the B. & T. se-| i kdoes not appear in the list of Zola's s. The area McKINLEY AND HARRISON—-G. H., City. President McKinley never was in California. Ex-President Harrison visited | California while he held the office of President. GARNISHMENT—A. City. If a man works in San Francisco and lives in Oakland, his wages would be subject to garnishment in the first-named place, as he no doubt is paid in the place where he earns the wages. NOT A RARE COIN—L. A. N.,, City. A half dollar of 1819 is another of those coins that do not demand a premium. Such_are so plentiful, from a numismatic standpoint, that they can be purchased for 8 cents apiece. FRAMING PICTURES—A Patron, Westport, Cal. As you do not state in your letter of inquiry what kind of pic- tures you are framing, it is impossible to advise you as to the matter that you de- sire to bé informed abhout. DID NOT DO IT-—S. C., Novato, Cal. If in playing dice A shakes out three fours and B says that he will beat that throw, and then throws three fours, he ties A but does not beat him; conse- quently if there was a bet accompanying the assertion by B he would lose his bet. THE NAVAL ACADEMY-M. C. F. City. If you desire to enter the Naval Academy at Annapolis, file an application with the Congressman of the district you live in. For detailed information about admission into. the academy go to the Free Public Library reference room, ask for the World Almanac for 1898, and on {!mg'e 376 you will find the information you esire. THE GREAT EASTERN—G. H., City. The Great Eastern was built as a steamer in 1854-38 for passengers and freight. In 1862-64 she was converted into a cable lu,flrelg ship; in 187 she was again con- verted into a passenger ship to carry pas- sengers to and from the Paris BExposi- tion, and in 1868 she was again chartered b" the telegraph company. In 1884 she was placed in the harbor of Gibraltar to be | used as a coal hulk STEALING FRUIT—A Rancher, City. A court could not declare a man who shot and killed another for entering his grounds to steal fruit guilty or inno- cent. for that is not the province of a court, but of a jury. Whether killing un- der such circumstances would be justifi- able would depend upon the facts of the case. The Penal Code of the State, which vou can find in the Free Public Li- brary, ‘will give you in detail all the law on the subject of justifiable homicide. DIVORCE PUBLICATION — S., Odk- land, Cal. In regard to the publication of summons in a civil action, and an action for divorce is a civil action, the law of California says: “The order must di the publication to be made in a newnr:;E per, to be designated as most likely to glve notice to the person to be served, and for such length of time as may be reasonable, at least once a week, but pub- lication against a defendant residing out of the State, or absent therefrom must not be less than two months.” The law does not specify daily or weekly dnewspaper, but simply hewspaper. CALIFORN1ANS IN NEW YORK. it gage. We are all talking freely about this matter. I do not think the responsibility | of Mr. Bird was so great. Any well-in- | the court never intended that Bird should get the whole fee.” learning that I received $150 a month.” Judge Hyland in the matter was legally binding. the money will be paid. salary. REGENTS HAVE A TILT DVER COUNSEL FEES Judge Wallace Brings on a Warm Debate. AN OBJECTION THAT FAILED MAJOR MHOON GIVES HIS FEE TO ASSOCIATE COUNSEL. The Recommendation for Degrees Are Unanimously Adopted—Names of Scholars Who Won Them. Judge William T. Wallace and Major J. B. Mhoon tilted Jances yesterday at the | monthly meeting of the regents of the University of California, and for a long | H time the wordy combat looked as if it might end in the ruffling of both gentle- men’s temper. The discussion, which was replete in nicety of expression, quiet sarcasm and forcible statements, was over the pay- ment of a $2000 fee to C. T. Bird of San Jose, which was allowed by Judge Hy- land to the attorney for services rendered in foreclosing a $75,000 mortgage held by the State institution against Tyler Beach | on his St. James Hotel property. The well-known jurist arcse to protest | 2gainst the payment of the fee, on the | ground that it was excessive. In his re- marks Judge Wallace said he believed the | allowance was binding, but he for one | was not disposed to pay it if it could be | avoided. Judge H. S. Foote, his fellow- regent, stated that in the present condi- tion of the university’s finances he was adverse to paying the bill, and asked for information on the subject. Major Mhoon, who is the legal adviser of the board, then outlined the history of the transaction. He told of the employ- ment of Mr. Bird and of the valuable services performed by him. The fee was first fixed at $3000 by the court, but on the | objection of Judge Rhodes, a former re- gent, it was reduced to $2000. { order, don’t you Major Mhoon thought it would be a deli- cate matter for him to undertake the bur- | den of determining the justice of the claim, but as a matter of law he believed | thetjudgmem was binding and the claim | ust. The debate then went into & discussion | on the right of the attorney of the boarad | to employ outside counsel, and on motion | it was decided that in future the finance committee and Major Mhoon should agree | on counsel and the amount of their com- | pensation. Judge Wallace said he hoped that in drawing up mortgages in future they would be made less ample, as it would save the university a large amount of | money. He then delicately asked Major Mhoon whether he was interested in the payment of the fee, and the latter, in a voice that had a shade of anger in it, replied: “To cut off all discussion, I will | waive my share in the fee, so that there | can be no question of the board's attor- | ney ever accepting a fee from the uni- I therefore donate my share to | Mr. Bird.” Undisturbed by the major’s words, the aged jurist replied: “I would suggest that counsel accept it and turn it into our treasury, as it would | save us that amount of money.” Without a moment’s hesitation, Major | Mhoon sharply answered: T think Mr. | ‘Bill':d is entitled to it, and I would not do | Judge Wallace returned to the fray with | a dissertation on the legal profession, | saying that no lawyer would demean him- | seif by informing a Judge that certain legal services were worth a less sum than | | the amount already agreed upon. “In my opinion,” he said, “it is not worth more than $500 to foreclose a mort- g formed clerk could have filed the necs sary papers in the case and have attended to it. At any rate, I am very clear that | “I am sure he did,” retorted Mhoon. | “He reduced it from $3000 to $2000 after | As Major Mhoon would not accept Judge Wallace’s terms and as the action of Judge Wallace and Judge Foote tried to mollify Major Mhoon by making a num- ber of motions for the increase of his ‘The first named regent eulogized the board’s attorney for the faithful services he has performed and spoke of his arduous duties, ending his remarks by saying he did not think his compensa- tion was sufficient. Judge Foote followed with similar expressions, adding that $1%00 a year was small payment to one whose duties were SO numerous. ‘Wallace moved that, beginning with the first of the year, Major Mhoon receive $2000 annually. Foote went him one better by amending the motion, fixing the compen- sation at $2500 a year, payable monthly. The matter was shelved for the time being by being referred te the finance committee. Previous to foregoing discus President Kellogg read the follo g recommendations for degrees, which wera unanimously adopted: College of Social Sciences—Bachelor of Phil- the osophy: Mary Elizabeth Bell, Berkeley; Ella Castelhun, San Francisco; Birney Hogin Don- nell, Los Angeles; Roscoe Adams Goodeell, Oakland; Edith Valerie Henrici, n Fran- cisco; Florence May Jones, Berkele: Viva Barbara_ McArthur, San Francisco; Leon Lazare Roos, San_ Francisco; Rex Willlam Sherer, Ventura; Clara Hettie Smith, Nord- hoff; Otto Theodore Wedemeyer, Los Angeles; Ralston Whitcomb, Berkeley’ Bachelor of Let- Edna Blum, Barbar; Guy Van of Chemistry—Bachelor of Science: Irving Cowan Allen, adena. College of Civil gineering—Bachelor of Seienc tutt, Berkeley. Coll t Doctor_of _Philosophy, Magna cum Laude: Milicent Washburn, A. 1880, Niles. College of Rocial Sciences—Master of Let- s: Vida Sherman, B. L., 187, Oakland. 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