The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 6, 1899, Page 8

8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1899 PINGREE SAYS TWAS AN UNRIGHTEOUS WAR CRITICIZES THE ADMINISTRATION Declares Politics Forced the Strife. SOUGHT TO COVER MISDEEDS | MICHIGAN GOVERNOR OPPOSES | EXPANSION. Scheme of Annexation Simply a Weak Imitation of the Policy of European Monarchies. Special Dispatch to The Call. LANSING, Mich., Pingree to-day rez the Jan. b.—Governor | d his message to the islature. The ate on its ra of prosperity which it. Equal taxation he 1s opening before treats of at length, saying that it is| the most important question in the State to-da that the present State administration was put into pow. “ b xpressly to take some action look- | ing to an equitable system of taxation. | He argued that railroads and other cor- porations should be brought under the general tax law, instead of being as- |should take this matter in hand, as| sessed upon their gross earnings as at | State Legislatures, he says, are power- the corporations would nt. He recommends the repeal of ! ta Bieen > en from one State to an- > special charters of the Michigan Central and Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwauke¢ roads so as to bring them | under the general laws. The attempt &t the special session last spring topass te | the Atkinson bill, which has equal tax- | ?,,’,f,“"l,,‘,’,’,‘"5}i“‘:‘33“;;’&.‘“’l;;;f(;n‘m{,‘l‘m}:‘exig,‘;;’ ation for its object, is referred to and | titeians who hoped that the itement | o Governor criticizes some of the |and hysteria of war would distract the | the Governor critlcize popular mind from the abuses of their The Governor fault with the present national ad- ing: | he war was precipitated by the clamor | o Fede “l‘ {“’““4‘5 for alleged lobbying | misgovernment and from the gricvances e 5 which people_suffered and still suf- The Governor favors a moderate in- | fer gry E those which Spain’s sub- -om x upon all incomes above $1000 | jects had to complain o come tax upor b $1000 i lain de by trusts | alarmed the that Congress year, The progres Deci in the last few-year: ded opp Governor. - He advocats ernor ci aiming that they are in no way | GOVERNOR PINGREE OF MI CHIGAN. necessary for our safety or even use- fulness, as are the Hawalian Islands or the Antilles. He s The scheme of annexation is simply a weak imitation of the policy of European monarchies, conceived in apparent ignor- ance or indifference rospect&g the va ly different conditions which have forced those powers into distant colonization. Relative to the public ownership of railways Governor Pingree says: I most earnestly recommend that this Legislature inaugurate a_policy lookin, to the ultimate purchase by the State o all the railroads within its limits. The Governor recommends that a law be passed providing that all candl dates for each elective office from Gov- ernor down-to ward officers be nomin- ated by direct vote of the electors. CANADA TO BAR ALIEN MINERS B HENRY IRVING LL D ¥ NEED Health Shattered and Fortune Lost. |Americans to Be Kept| | Out of Atlin. ‘ gl RETIRES FROM THE STAGE MAY NOT ACQUIRE CLAIMS| | FRIENDS RAISING A FUND IN EXCLUSION BILL TO BE INTRO-| HIS BEHALF. ] | DUCED AT VICTORIA. Famous Actor Broken Physically and | Significant Utterance of Lieut.-Gov. | Financially by Overwork and Repeated Business Failures. McInnees in a Speech to the Biitish Columbia Lag- islature. al Dispatch to The Call. VICTORIA, Jan. 5.—An announce- | ment of the utmost importance, par- ticularly to Americans who have inter- The Herald will have been so s to the“true terious Tumo inwardpe: of § Henry Irving’s en- in the Atlin mining district in the deavor to lease his London theater, and | far north of British Columbia, was | the real fdcts in the ce have been so made in the speech from the throne, misstated and distorted that it is as |8Iven by Lieutenant Governor McInnes, | _well to give the public the whole truth | at the opening of the provin alb:gisla-} of the affair. | ture of British Columbia this afternoon. | Sir Her v Irving's condition for some | Lieutenant Governor McInnes said in | time. p. has caused his friends seri- | Part after congratulating the members | ous concern, |on the prosperity and bright prospects: Both physically and fihancially he is In nearly all the leading industries of 0 Tonch Caistress: brok health— | the province growth and improved condi- | b e tions are observed. The output of the | e At B coal mines largely exceeded' that of the | ously crippled in his vear and is likely to continue | i increa: The development of the | and expensive productions at | quartz mir especially those in Koote- eum. Overwork and public fail- | nay, has been most satisfactory, while | h have been dn intense strain | a like activity to that which has occurred | upon a man of peculiarly sensitive or- | there it seems probable may soon be wit- canism and the added demands upon | Nessed in the Boundary Creek district, | his strength due'to his social entertain- | When, by the completion of the railway ments after an evening's work upon | IOV in Progress of construction, the im- ; mense bodies of ore known to_exist there the stage have wreckid his liealth and | can be profitably developed. On the west | ruined his once .large fortune. He is | coasts of the mainland and isiand there | now at Bournemouth seeking the re- | S, also every probability of considerable covery of his strength and his most in- mining developments ~ shortly place. timate friends are endeavoring to raise | a $ubstantial fund which shall provide | 1 €labor: taking | There is also_ like to be a large in- crease within the pr: ent year in placer b & i and hydraulic mining operations. Al- | for his needs during the remainder of | ready some large enterprises of this char- | his life. acter have been put into successful ope- i ook ik bl ration in Cariboo and on a smaller sci e o s confidence SOMe | in the Omineca district, while the recent : - . discoveries at Atlin Lake, in the north- told them candidly. of the straits to | ern part of the province, have disclosed which he had been reduced by recent | deposits of auriferous gravel, rich in losses and d for their assistance quality and spread over a large area. In and adwice. were men who not | anticipation of an influx of population only were adm : of the actor and | into that region my government has al- who had abundant means at their com- dy taken steps for the,proper admin- mand, but men of good practical busi- | Suration of the district In order to cons ness experience as. well. gravels for the benefit of Canadian min- | They were very fond of Irving, as is | ers and Canadian traders a bill will be all London, and they would have done | laid before you prohibiting the acqui- anything in their power financially to | Sl!lw!";rf {;1;&‘;: flfi"}fx}f i I T it i gmere Question of | poon'a successful one for the saimon pounds, s gs and pence. But, re- | cunning industry of the Fraser River, garding the actor physically as well as | owing to a combination of adverse cir- the situation financially, they saw the | cumstances; but since our ocean wealth future was decidedly doubtful, if not |is so great I can but hope that our fish- hopeless, and that if they acted the |eries may in the ensuing season prove as part of real friendship they would coun- | prolific and profitable to those cngaged sel him to retire from the stage—at all | 7, tem as they have been in previous events from the ownership and direc- |~ A preat calamity visited the city of New tion of the Lyceum—and seek the re- | Westminster in the disastrous conflagra- covery of his health. | tlon in September last, but the energies and How much they told him of what they | courage of her citizens rose to the emer- foresaw in the future is neither here | Eency and encouraged by the sympathy S and material assistance of the peoplg of nor there. But shortly afterward a all parts of Canada they put ferth number of gentlemen in England and | such efforts as have already caused (ghe on the Continent were applied to and | city to rise from its ashes. pledged themselves to provide a fund You will be asked to pass legislation %o for his use when the apparently in- | put the civic finances on such a stable evitable retirement should occur. e ;\;fifi;;‘rfl;ug;\l‘n;gn“xht;‘ g o ing '}te“‘;‘ ';:}e. 'het“:"% hopeful of re- | pse existing inequalities in the present sults o s rest at Bournemouth, is gystem of taxation measures will be sub- eagerly planning tlie leasing of the | mitted to you for the remission of that Lyceum and the undertaking of another American tour which shall recoup his fortunes and which, they say in Eng- | part of the tax on personal property com- | monly known as the mortgage tax, and land, he has asked Charles Frohman to manage for him for the repeal of the law reuumni men | working in the mines for wages to hold a | free miner's certificate. ~ Realizing the | advantages to be derived from an inex- | pensive system of transfers of real estate | titles my” government will lay before you | a bill to introduce into this province what | 5 - i 4| js known as the Torrens system of regis- brakeman over the “long haul,” was | tration, under such arrangements as will thrown from a train at Summit station: make its adoption both convenient and Brakeman Fuller Killed. AUBURN, Jan. 5.—Jacob N. Fuller, | sailed on December 15 from the latter this morning. He dled on the train as it’| advantageous to the owners of the prop- reached Auburn. 5 | erty, i r THE McCULLOCH TURNING HOME Dispatch Boat Arrives at Honolulu. HAS MADE A GRAND RE(IORDk FOUGHT PLUCKILY IN THE| BATTLE OF MANILA. | Brings a Spanish Bronze Cannon to Be Cast Into Medals for the Aid of the Maine Monu- ment Fund. Special Dispatch to The Call. HONOLULU, Dec. 30.—The revenue cutter McCulloch, Captain C. L.| Hooper, arrived from Manila on the | th, on her way to San Francisco. Early in November she received orders detaching her from the fleet and di- recting her to resume her around-the- world cruise as a revenue cutter. Un- der Dewey’s direction she was put into as many Chinese and Japanese ports | as possible, “in order to show the flag.” She left Manila on November 16, Hong- kong on November 23 and Amoy on | November 26. - At Amoy, described as the dirtiest city in the world, the Chi-| nese admiral of the province was enter- | tained aboard her and saw for the first | time in his life modern guns. The Mec- Culloch was in Shanghal on December | 1 and at Nagasaki on December 4. At that time the treaty of peace had not been signed, and the Japanese Govern- ment, treating her as a war vessel, would not allow her to remain more than twenty-four hours. Kobe and Yo- kohama were visited, and the vessel port after a stay of six davs, reaching here in fourteen days over perfectly tranquil seas. She will remain but a few days—just long enough to take on about 200 tons of coal and to do some painting. When the McCulloch was detached from Dewey’s fleet the additional guns that had been mounted on her were re- turned to the navy and their places supplied by some guns taken from the Reina Christina. One of these bears on the crank handle marks of where it was ait by American shot during the bat- e. On the forward deck is an old rifled bronze cannon, bearing the crown and monogram of Isabelia IT of Spain. It is destined to be melted and cast into medals for the benefit of the Maine monument fund. In the captain’s cabin is a beautiful gold lined silver loving cup, presented to the vessel by the children of Hugh McCulloch, Five deep sea vessels arrived in port yesterday. They were the Doric, from the Orient; the W. F. Babcock, from Baltimore; the Diamond Head and Willscott, from Nanaimo, and the W. H. Dimond, from San Francisco. The Euterpe, from the coast, and the Kan- aura Maru from Yokohama are mo- mentarily expected. The Babcock brings coal for the United States Gov- ernment, and Is chartered to carry sugar around the Horn. The Doric brought 622 Japanese and ninety-three Chinese for this port. be- sides a large quantity of merchandise, The decision in the Chinese habeas cor- pus cases has not yet been rendered, and the fight will be resumed over the Chinese who arrived to-day. Tesla Culprits Sentenced. LIVERMORE, Jan. 2—A. W. Lewis, “Jack” Dalton and J. Jones, who were brought down from Tesla recently, were sentenced to-day, Lewis to six months for attempt at robbery, Dalton three months for battery and Jones torty days for dis- turbing the peace. HOW BRESMES ESCAPED FROM THE Many Cubans Believe That He Had a Hand struction of the Maine. HAVANA, Jan. 5.—Interesting revelations concerning the flight of Zacarias Bresmes, who is char the Maine, were made to-day. tures he was. His position was o and no salary, yet Bresmes was o fluence was so great that it was k. punishment. the destruction of the Maine rem In the meantime the war wa; to Spain. him conspicuous last winter. ings against him. and Blanco, issuing an order for B in hiding. 0000000000000 00 O00COOO00000000000000000000000 Bresmes was a magistrate in the pre- liminary court, having been appointed by Weyler, one of whose crea- money in Havana. His manner of conducting his court had so long been a scandal that it ceased to attract special attention, and his in- Cubans who were convinced of his criminality in connection with punishment after American occupation had been realized. and Bresmes then became nervous and bhegan preparations for a trip Judge Villalba, a Cuban who is both able and honest, then enter- tained charges against Bresmes on one of many cases. rendered him liable to General Arolas, whose anxiety to place upon Captain Sigsbee the responsibility for the Maine's destruction made Arolas interfered to save Bresmes, getting Blanco’s ear, and persuaded the latter to order Villalba to send all important papers relating to Bresmes to him and drop all proceed- Villalba refused to do this and defied both Arolas at the palace and Blanco removed Bresmes from the danger of fall- ing into the hands of the Yankees by allowing him to go aboard the transport Covadonga, on which he sailed for Spain, where he is now AMERICANS in the De- ged with complicity in destroying ne of considerable i sponsibility ne of the most lavish spenders of nown to be useless to attempt his ained silert, hoping to secure his s fought and the protocol signed, His action resmes’ arrest. This was reported C000COCOO00O0C0000000COO0OO00000 0000000000000 00 SANTIAGO 1S NOW SATISHIED Will Retain the Customs Receipts. WORK WILL BE CONTINUED TAXATION WITHOUT REPRE- SENTATION NOT DESIRABLE. Complaint Made That Havana Has Fattened at the Expense of the ‘Whole Island of Cuba. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. SANTIAGO, Cuba, Jan. 5.—The ex- planation of the War Department at ‘Washington of its intentions regarding the transfer of customs receipts from the different ports in Cuba to Havana | is met here by statements from the Cu- bans that the plan is similar to the one adopted by the Spaniards, when requi- sitions on Havana obtained less than 6 per cent of what the requisition called for. The merchants, business men and influential people here say Havana has grown rich and prosperous at the ex- pense of the rest of the island, and the Cubans and governmental officials at Santiago say the Cubans of Havana are responsible for Major General Brooke's order on this subject. The people here add that the Havana Cubans are still anxious to maintain the same system of centralization of funds that was in force before the American occupation. A dispatch was received from Ha- vana to-day saying that the customs receipts may remain in Santiago. The effects of this information are good and particularly so, so far as the laborers are concerned. Senor Bacardi, the Mayor, has as- sured the laborers that all work now in progress will go on, and therefore there is not likely to be any immediate trouble. But educated Cubans, the | members of the San Carlos Club, the Judges of the Supreme Court, the local newspapers, and Cuban and foreign merchants here agree that the situation is substantially unchanged and that any such projects as was originally out- lined simply means taxation without representation. Their argument is that General Brooke, residing at Havana, will always be antagonistic to the in- terests of the province of Santiago and likely to object to necessary expendi- ture in‘ this section. Prominent Cubans emphatically assert that if a Cuban Government should assume to issue such an order—concentrating the cus- toms receipts at Havana—civil war would break out immediately. It is hoped that a civil government may be established in every province, distinct from the rule of the governor general, who should be merely the military chief of the island. o Dr. Castillo and Mayor Bacardi have proved true in this crisis and have urged the citizens to remain peaceful while waiting the resuits of the visit of General Wood and Dr. Castello to Washington. : General Wood, accompanied by his aid de camp, Lieutenant Hanna, and Dr. Castello, representing the mer- chants and business men of this city, left here for New York to-day on board the United States transport Mississippi. They were accorded an enthusiastic send-off from the palace and during their passage down Marian street to the wharf. The municipal band pre- ceded General Wood, who was accom- panied by the Mayor and his staff and large numbers of officers and Cubans, who walked the entire distance amid continuous applause and cheers for General Wood. The latter was deeply moved. There were between 5000 and 6000 persons in the procession, and the women' wept and wished the general bon voyage. Cuban gratitude was nevet more clear- ly expressed. Men, who a few weeks ago were antagonistic to the American commander, were to-day among his most enthusiastic supporters. The members of the Supreme Court and the band of the Fifth Regular In- fantry were on board the auxillary gunboat Hist, which saluted the Mis- sissippi and bade her farewell in the usual manner. The Mississippi, which was brilliantly decorated, was also sa- luted by the Punta Gorda batterles. Dreyfus Is Very Sick. LONDON, Jan. 5.—The Daily Telegraph this morning publishes a dispatch from Cayenne, capital of French Guiana, South America. saving that former Captain Dreyfus, now on Devils Island, has had a serious attack of diarrhoea and a phy- sician has been summoned from Cayenne to attend him. ANTI-SEMITISM Former Rabbi Depre- cates Its Growth. SAYS HEBREWS ARE ABUSED ADDRESSES AN APPEAL TO THE PRESIDENT. Cites Instances Where Jews Have Been Persecuted by Roughs, While Police Refused to Interfere. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Jan. 5—The alleged | anti-Semitic prejudice existing in this country and displayed in a steady in- crease of acts of violence toward the | Jews in the pooreriquarters of Manhat- | tan and Brooklyn, was made the sub- | Ject of a lengthy letter sent on New | Year's day to President McKinley by | Leopold Cohn of Brooklyn. The writer | was once a Jewish rabbi, but was con- verted to Christian belief seven years | ago in this city and joined the Baptist | church. He is now conducting mission- | ary work among the people of his race | and has charge of the interests of three | missions. | Mr. Cohn, in his communication to the President, states that in the prose- cution of his missionary work he has had continuously thrust upon his notice | the ever-increasing hatred displayed in this city toward the Jew, until he has | found it his imperative duty to sound | a note of warning. The letter contin- | ues: Peaceful Jews walking the streets of | this city are habitually called by oppro- | brious epithets or are loudly hooted and | insulted, as though they were mounte. banks or criminals, and when the threat- ening shout will not attract response, | then the throwing of mud and stones is resorted to, and, I repeat, not in an iso- lated instance 'but cons weeks pass, and as a Ty persons have been injured, seriously. When a streetcar passes through the Jewish quarter, hooting, hissing and call- | ing of names from its platforms are cus- | tomary Incidents, and within these public cars I have seen Jews pulled by the beard and pushed from one man to another and back again like a football, in which horse- play the conductors have themselves par- ticipated, and in some cases, which 1 am ready to prove, these actions have crip- pled the victims for life. A Jew with a {\ush cart is everywhere esteemed as a | egitimate object to be mobbed and | robbed. On one occasion I saw a Jewish peddler with horse and wagon set upon by a mob of large boys with stones, the man trying to protect himself by drawing his coat over his head. On running to his defense I was myself attacked; on appealing to a group of citizens and admitting, upon their questioning, that the victim was a Jew, they laughed boisterously, adding, with an evident sneer, that I was my. of the same desplsed race; and upon m then appealing to a policeman he coolly replied, after great deliberation, that the affair was not on his beat. In the mean- time, with his head bleeding, the peddler was driven from his wagon and the wagon looted and overturned. Another case, similar except that the wares were scattered about the street, though not stolen, occurred in front of the Boys’ High School, where young gentle- men are prepared for college at the public expense, largely pald from Jewish taxes, The aggressors were the students, and the teachers viewed the scene from the windows. These incidents—a few selected from many coming unsought under my personal observation, must not be esteemed merely as occasional disorders, liable to occur under the best procurable condition, but rather as manifestations of a prevalent, widespread, deepening and expanding public sentiment fraught with the gravest gonsequences to the wellbeing of the na- on. Copies of the letter to the President were sent to the Board of Education and to Mayor Van Wyck by Mr. Cohn, with the suggestion that the growing taint of anti-Semitism be made the subject of a series of lectures in the schools. Mr. Cohn saild he did not expect re- plies to either of his letters, but intends to address communications from time to time to the leading men of the city State and nation, calling attention to ;he threatening growth of anti-Semi- sm. Gear Has an Amendment. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—Senator Gear to-day gave notice of an amendment he would offer to the Nicaragua canal bill, authorizing the President to purchase right of way for the canal from Costa Rica and Nicaragua and providine for the construction by the Government of the United States. The amendment appro- Lpriates §140,000,000 for both purposes. N REW YORK - | Hart, | stated AGENTS OF CORRUPTION AT WORK. Continued from Third Page. cused to-day on the matter and after a conference between committees of each caucus the above resolution was agreed to and will be adopted unanimously with- out debate to-morrow. R The Republicans, however, are not like- Iy to be content with simply declaring for the ratification of the treaty, and be- fore long they may be counted on bring up a strong indorsement of the ad- ministration and a definite declaration as to the future of the Philippines, in which event party lines will be strictly drawn. - TO IMPROVE THE SACRAMENTO RIVER CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 5—Both Assembly and Sen- ate this morning gave hearty approval to the work that has been done in the two years by the Sacramento River Commis- sloners by adopting an Assembly con- current resolution calling upon Congress to use every means to bring about the execution of the plans prepared by the commission for the improvement of the river. The commission as constituted at pres- ent was created in 1897 for the purpose of deciding upon the best way of preserving the Sacramento as a navigable stream, and $300,000 was appropriated as a starter for the work. After two years of almost constant labor plans nave been drawn vhi B solve the troublesome which it is said solve el to | latter was edited by Mr. Churchill, El’":‘de as I happened to be one of the con- tributors I remember well the excitement of Aali Pasha, the then Minister of For- olgn Affairs, on finding an opinion ex- pressed about some po{?lnca(l‘h(}ll:'ishtiil(;nt;:é g or Mr. g Minister of A exclaimed the Minis Turkey P‘;Z;:x:,erand similar declarations had to be fetly “avoided. ; St iny there are many large daily pa- pers, and. although muzzled by a rigid ensure. they still go on fairly, and some of them, as the Tkdam (application). The Terajumani Hakikat (the interprefer of truth) and Sabah (morning) have a con- siderable number of readers. ‘the Turks have. besides, weekly and monthly pas Ders, treating literaty, philosophic and bhilological topics, and, what Is certain- (y most astonishing, they have got illus- plctires of living objects trated paper: were formerly looked upon as. 'l'defldly n—and_last, not least, a ladies paper alled Khanimlara Mak! s Gazeta, as well as a juyenile paper called Sibyae Bazetasi.—A. Vamberg in Literature. e ANDREW JACKSON’S LIBRARY, Autograph Letter of Byron at the Hermitage. Three members of the boz of the Ladies’ itag visited the Hermitage yesterday for the purpose of consulting with M Rachel Jackson Lawrence concerning the refit- ting of the library adjoining General Jackson’s bedroom. ~The books belongin; to the Jackson librar: fiction, history, biography, poems, and are, in fact, a very Interesting and valuable collection of miscellaneous works. There are enough to fill the five book cases purchased. In looking over the collection vesterday the ladies were attracted to a handsomely bound copy of Byron’s poems, and, opening it, found therein the following very interesting genuine autograph letter from Lord By- ron himself. It is pasted by one edge in the front fly leaves of the book, and has problem. The resolution -DD! been carefully preserved all these many Haiipdithe A-“S“’:‘,};},’,'(,:,‘;‘;{’:,“‘s‘:,fl“f;"‘é‘?,% years. The volume of poems has written Sofiate: Whire it was calied up by, Cutter | 98 the fy lea the name of MW, B W, of Yuba, author of e Meiny as in the | The letter is very interesting and is as cae ettt e ‘ ollow: e and is now in the hands of | gty vorioug numbers of your jour- the Governo! = et el Rl e Its provisions are as follows: ‘Whereas, the Sacramento River Commission, 1 0f Federal engineers appointed by the t of the United States, have, in ac- with the duty devolved upon them, the Congress of the United States e of Represe Whereas, the S priated the sum of 330 i the improvement and rectification of the navi- gable waterways of this State, and has thus shown its willingness to assist in the work S0 imperatively demanded by the needs of com- merce and which cannot with safety be longer delayed, and which of right ought to be un- dertake nd A forward to completion lifornia has appro- , to be expended in D nditions ' of said river are action is necessary to le stream for the pur- the to secure the appropriation aid commission for the pur- id plans into effect; and respectfully request the bd 3 that do " furth we said Committee on Rivers and Harbors of the id Sacramento River ‘The Vampire,' with addition of my name as that of the author. I am not the author, and never heard of the work in question until now. In a more paper I perceive a formal annunciation of “The Vampire,’ with tt ition of an account of my residence Mitylene,’ an island which I have occa- sionally sailed by in the course of travel- ing some years ago through the Levant, and where I should have no objections to reside, but where I have never yet re- sided. Neither of these performances are mine, and I presume that it is neither unjust nor ungracious v will favor me by contradicti: r tisement to which I allude If the book is clever, it would be hard to deprive the real writer, whoever he may be, of his s, and if stupid, I desire the respon- ullness but my own. xcuse the trouble I give you. The imputation is of no great importance, and as long as it was confined to surmise and reports, 1 should have received it as I have received many others, in_silence. but the formality of a public adver ment of a book I never wrote, and a resi- dence where I never resided, is a little too much, particularly as I have no notion of the contents of the one nor the incidents of the other. House of Representatives to make the appro- o i, priation recommended by said Sacramento E L res. River Commission, conformably to their report | and the little 2o on file with the Chlef engineer of the United | them would I means in s o s Corps of Engineers at Washington. rulge their sécrets. You did me a mu That the Govergor be and he is Ived, u cause acertified cop Representatives in Congress thereof by telegram immed assage of this resolution to Hon. of the Committee on the House of Repre- D c IS LYING VERY ILL DQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 5.—A rumor ‘was circulated around the streets to-night that E. C. Superior Judge of this city and county and secretary of the Republican Central Committee, had suffered a para- Iytic stroke and was lying at the point of death at his residence, 23 K street. A Call correspondent visited the Judge's home and was told that while he was ill his condition was not as serious as had been reported.- His brother, S. R. Hart, that the Judge had been taken k three days ago, and although he was in a weak conditjon he attended the initial session of the Legislature and ad- ministered the customary oath. The at- tack was aggravated by a touch of rheu- matism, and he thought his brother would ot be out for a few days. Another brother, Dr. A. C. Hart, is at- tending him, and every effort is being made to alleviate his suffering. Judge Hart has gained prominence not only on the bench but as secretary of the local State Central Committee. He has worked hard for the party, and it is feared that his illness is the ‘outcome of his untiring efforts in its behalf. Gen- eral A. L. Hart, the well known attorney now_ practicing in San Francisco, is also his brother. HE. 5. ATRTNG LI No More Work This Week. CALL , HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 5.—Beyond the passage of the Printing Office emergency bill noth- ing whatever in the way of legislation will be accomplished during the first week of the sesion. As the Capitol building will be in the hands of the inaugural ball com- mittee all day Mond the Legislature | will adjourn over from Saturday till Tues- d It would adjourn from Friday to Tuesday were it not that it is prohibited from adjourning over three days. The majority caucus to-day _decided that no bills would be allowed to be intro- duced before 2 p. m. next Tuesday, con- sequently the sessions to-morrow and Sat- ay will amount to nothing more that formal rolicalls with the possible adop- tion_or rejection of a few unimportant resolutions; Condition of Sick Statesmen. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—Ex-Secretary of State John W. Foster was somewhat worse to-day, a restless and nervous con- dition during the night contributing to make him weaker. The loss of strength, however, is not so radical as to occasion any immediate alarm, and his tempera- ture is reported this forenoon not to have been affected. To-day he is resting easily and gained a little rest during the fore- naon. Hon. Way MacVeagh steadily and is convalescing. A R e Turkish Newspapers. years ago there were only two papers in_Constantinople, viz., the official Takvim-Vekal (register of events), and e is the Djeridei Vavadi§ (the list of news.) gaining | less injury by your paragraph about my devotian and abandonment of society for the sake of religion, which appeared in vour ‘Messenger’ during last Lent, all of which are not founded on fact, but you see 1 do not contradict t because personal; where: the confuse the read- they ar,e morvl,\I : s, in some degree, ot s will oblige me by complying with my request of contradiction. I assure you that I know nothing of the work or works in question, and have the honor to be (as the correspondents to mu;nzis{g | say) your constant r ader and very '8“\' i- ent_‘humble ser m.l'w\ BYRON. At i, 18 Rue Vivienne, The Lady and the Lion. vithout a doubt a comforting re- fie&fcfi“y‘;{‘ we of the closing nineteenth century have emerged from the unsightly chrysalis of an earlier stage, and that the demoralizing gladiatori hows _of Roman arena, round which thronged un- emancipated mankind in its thousands to witness bloody struggles between and man and listen in rapture to dying roars of mangled beasts, are the afl but iori:n(t(-n I:'-:mn.lnls of the various ours of a darker age. h\"‘:lh :\'P‘! now a Danish lady has been “doing_ immense busin; at Earl's Court by thrusting her head within the open jaws of a fierce lion, while others of these terrible brutes are made by this dauntless Amazon to leap over flaming bars and to fire toy pistols. And one of these days the end will come. The lady will lose her nerve; one of the lions wiil note the change; and there will be a_panic of horror-stricken spectators, who, they could but own it, came whispered hope of something sensational, something over and above the ‘‘triumph of mind over matter” promised in return for their shekels.—The Saturday Review. ————————— England’s Postage Stamps. For the imperial penny postage to come into operation on Christmas day it is not intended to produce any special stamp, and Somerset House can meet the Increased demand out of its large reserve. The Controller is authorized by law to keep a stock of £10,000,000 worth in the various strong rooms on the Thames em- bankment, and, lest the outbreak of a fire should by any mischance destroy the stock, they are divided among several separate parts of the great building, just as it is usual to separate a stock of gun- powder into several small detachments. The explosion of a powder magazine would create hardly more topsy-turvying in the world around than a general flare up of our whole stock of postage stamps. Postage stamps are not made at Somerset House, though at one time they were all brought there to be perforated. De la Rue & Co. are the contractors. Our pres- ent set of stamps were adopted in Janu- ary, 1887, and_no forgeries have ever yet been known—London News. Stk Copper Roofing. er has been used for roofing very Tn New York there Co; little In this country. are a few buildings having copper roofs. | Ivrhu best known is Trinity Church, in Broadway, opposite Wall street. which | was built over fifty years ago. The Sub- Treasury building In Wall street also has a copper roof. Both have lasted many | Vears with very little repair. Copper has been used in Europe from the earllest times, and it far outlasts lead or any other metallic roofing, but the other metals answer the purpose and are cheaper, So are more generally used. 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