The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 7, 1899, Page 6

: THE SAN FRANCISCO C.‘ALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1899 JANUARY 7, 1899 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. “hddross Al Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS........ 217 to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year: per month 65 cents THE WEEKLY CALL, 18 pages OAKLAND OFFICE....... .One year, by mall, $1 ....908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE ..-Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE .......... ......Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—52T Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 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 untll 9:30 o%Tlock. 1941 Misston street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market €treet, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock, 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS Columbia—'"The Man From Mexi nstrel Jubilee. 7 ‘A Midnight Bell.” | he Yellow Dwarf.” 11 Henry Minstrels. udeville. Comedy 1l Aboard.” The Chutes. Man, Vaudeville and the Zoo. Olympia — Corner Mas y streets, Speclalties. Metropolitan Temple—R Piano Recital. Ingleside Coursing Park Central Park- Recreation Parl Oakl; Race Tr: THE EXAMINER AND DAN BURNS. miner of Wednesday devoted an entire olumn of its editorial page to two extracts from The Call of Tuesday last, in one of which the following words occurred: “For obvious reasons the Examiner will never effectively resist corruption in the choice of a Federal Senator.” The comments upon the passage quoted wholly ig- ! nored this significant language and are devoted to an argument to prove the falsehood that The Call sup- ported the Republican legislative ticket in San Fran- cisco with the consciousness that it had been named by William F. Herrin and Dan Burns, and that Dan Burns was a candidate for United States Senator. re has been no evidence so far, except as to two members, that the Republican legislative ticket either here where else in this State was named by Mr. | He Dan Burns, or by both of them together. The presumption and appearances are the other way. uch combination had | have , not through the aminer, but through the Republic: It is also certain that before the election no one could have suspected, much les have known, the genuine candidacy of Dan Burns. It not certain even now that it is genuine, and the ob- ive point may be.some one else. In this respect aminer is probably more or a or by It is quite certain that, if ar tr that legislative ticket would really transpired, been e 1 press. je the information of the direct than that of The Call. It is not what the Examiner has said but what it | has left unsaid that will interest the public. There was no charge or fear of corruption in the election of | Senator Perkins or of Senator White. But before | they represented the State there were Senatorial elec- | tions in which the corrupt use of money was so well ated that even the amounts paid by success- | candidates have been repeatedly expressed in fig- s. Where was the Examiner in those compara- Let it search its own files dili- and sce if it can find any effective resistance to | time other journals de- | nounced, or whether its columns were eloquently si- lent when the public interests demanded exposure and cenviction. The “milk in the cocoanut” still remains there. It has not even been reached by the comments of the aminer upon manufactured facts and dishonest in- ferences, which evade the real issue. tively recent d gentl the bribery which at the THE WAGES OF SEAMEN. ASTERN free trade organs, in their opposition E to the proposed legislation in favor of upbuild- ing our merchant marine, have asserted that the rate of wages paid by American ship-owners is not notably higher than that paid by ship-owners of other countries. As a result there has been a sharp discus- sion on the question, and out of it there has come a letter to the Boston Journal from a typical seafaring man, the mate of a New England coasting schooner, which gives what is perhaps the most interesting evi- dence brought out on either side. The story of this seaman as condensed by the Journal is that he has been following the sea for a third of a century. He has sailed in the British mer- | chant marine, the German—he is a German by birth— and the American. Out of his thirty-three years’ ex- perience under all flags and in all the waters of the globe, he declares that “this is the only country where a man is paid and fed and has accommodations to live in.” Just by way of illustration he adds that before he canie to America he was first mate of a large German sailing ship of 1800 tons, with wages of $15 a month. He is now mate of a two-masted American schooner, and his wages are $30 2 month! The sailors on that German ship were paid $8 2 month; on the American schooner they are paid $25. “As to the food, the ‘grub’ you call it here, we got on our German ves- =el, it was not fit to live on. I could not go back and live on it again, and the German ships live 75 per cent better than the English, for I have been on both.” That sort of testimony is more impressive than stat- istics. " It has the verve and vigor of a human per- sonality in it. It settles the discussion over seamen’s wages by the statements of actual experience. The free traders who are going to continue their opposi- tion to the promotion of an American mercham marive must get some other ground for it than that of wages. The American sailor, like the land- ‘worker of the country, is entitled to legislation that will protect his wages from the competition of the underpaid labor of Europe. D Police Lieutenant Hannah, having been found drunk on Market street, should be dismissed from the force. A lieutenant who lacks the judgment to con- fine his jamborees to less frequented thoroughfares is not fit for his position Mty S The resolution to have nothing to drink at the in- augural ball commends itself to the judgment. There tWin by corruption. AGENTS OF CORRUPTION. T the Capital City, where there is in progress the skirmish preliminary to a Sena- torial election, the ugly head of corruption has already reared itself. Bribery, intimidation and fraud are the instruments employed for the purpose of elect- ing to a station where patriotism, probity, lofty ideals and practical sense, dignity, a high conception of honor, must be requisites of any fitting incumbent. Even the circumstance that political rounders, social outcasts, gamblers and thugs are active in attempts to shape the destinies of the commonwealth to their own purposes is enough to bring a blush to the face of manhood. That they should be directed and abetted by ofiice-i holders and jobbers shows that public affairs have fallen to a low estate. There is only one remedy. These unclean creatures | must be hurled from power to which they never had a right, and which they have abused until decency, humiliated and outraged, clamors a protest. Let them go home baifled and forever deprived of their evil potency. Let the Federal brigade be shown that no set of place-holders can safely use their positions to forward base ends, or to place upon fair California a lasting brand of shame. The State has already en- dured-too much from its Dans and its Gunsts, its | Jakes and its Dennerys. That Burns is trying to buy his way to the Senate there has never heen doubt since the rising of the first suspicion that he possessed the unspeakable effrontery to thrust himself into a contest where the light of publicity would be turned full upon him. His record has been stained and spotted by crime, and there has been from him no expression of regret for his mis- deeds. He has battened and thriven until he is rich and arrogant and brazen. He defies all tenets of re- spectability, and demands that a State which failed to punish him for his crimes shall “vindicate” him by sending him to the Senate. Ungrateful to have es- caped the penitentiary, he wants an apology for the telling of the truth. As well and as logically could the State erect a to the memory of Durrant. The election of Burns would be the worst single blow the Legislature could administer to California. | It would be an insult to citizenship and to the coun- cil of the nation. The opportunity to turn to Grant has been paired by the indiscreet supporters of the gentleman from San Diego. They have permitted themselves to appear in the attitude of bribers. . Dan Cole, grov\vn gray in politics, and ever lucky at finding himself in receipt of a salary, in his enthusiasm for Grant offered monument im- to pay the campaign expenses of Assemblyman Clough, the condition being that Clough sign a | pledge to support Grant for the Senate. Cole pro- claims that this was done on his own motion and with- | out the knowledge of anybody else, but it has a sin- ister look and has hurt the cause it was designed to strengthen. Knowing Burns to be the epitome of all | that is bad in politics, the public has been inclined to place him on a plane below that occupied by any other candidate. The exposure Cole’s scheme tends to make the plane of the two a common one. Burns cannot win by corruption. Grant cannot It will be a marvel, even in the of absence of further revelations, if there shall not be | created a revulsion sweeping them both from the field. e —————— = The Sacramento Bee says that Judge Belcher is un- fit to sit on the bench, basing this assertion on the fact | that the Judge intimates a willingness to see the thieves of the late School Board hanged. Many others also would like to see them hanged, and | would deem it a duty to pull on the rope if somebody else had the nerve to provide the rope. Judge Belcher is all right. The Bee has simply failed in this particu- lar instance to know what it is talking about, with it a rare fault. The Jady who says she bought a box of candy the same day Mrs. Botkin is alleged to have bought it owes the prisoner an apology for diffidence in coming forward. A natural impulse would have been to save Mrs. Botkin the discomfort of a sentence for life. Certainly an innocent woman would have a right to | ieel aggrieved at the experience. THE DEMAND FORCURRENCY REFORM SHORT time ago a committee representing /K\ the American Economic Association submitted a report setting forth the importance of giving to our present gold standard the validity and vitality of law and establishing our currency system upon a safe and sound basis. In the course of this report, after reviewing the monetary conditions of the country, the committee said: “In the light of these facts your committee are of the opinion that what is most needed at this juncture is a disposition on the part of the friends of reform to sink individual preferences as to details and to insist that Congress shall enact such legislation as it shall be possible to agree upon.” Furthermore, the committee added: “Never before has there existed among all classes so great an inter- est on this subject, so near an approach to unanimity of opinion, and so strong a purpose to see something accomplished.” That passage has had the effect of so arousing the wrath of the New York Sun as to move it to sarcasm, and in commenting upon the repBrt it said: “The representatives of the people in Congress, who may be supposed to know the sentiments of their constituents, declare, on the contrary, that little or no interest prevails in the subject among any class, and that there is a strong purpose not to see anything accomplished. This being so, it is not worth while to enter into controversy with the professors. We leave them to their own delusions.” From what source the Sun derived its conclusion that there is a strong desire among the people not to see anything accomplished in the direction of settling the financial issues of the time is a question to which the Sun itself offers no answer. On that subject its light is in eclipse and shines for nobody, and in the absence of any information on which to base a reply we shall have to pass the point and leave the Sun to its own delusions. There are abundant evidences to show that the Economic Association is right in asserting that the people of the country recognize the necessity of hav- ing this issue settled at once. At a recent meeting of the Chicago Commercial Club, for example, the issue was discussed and a resolution adopted declaring: “The matter of most pressing.and immediate impor- tance to the American nation aiter the impending ratification of the treaty of peace is the building of a Union similar declarations have come. = All the great business interests of the country are a unit on the subject. The Republican party owes its success in the elections of 1896 and of 1808 to its emphatic pledges in favor of the gold standard and a sound currency. Those pledges must be fulfilled or it will be hard for the party to hold the confidence of the people in the next election. It is evidently time for the Sun to borrow a light and try to. learn what is going on in the world since Charles A. Dana died. T e—— CAN NO CLEAN d@ND ABLE MAN BE FOUND? T is doubtful if history records a more vital debate [ than that which preceded the adoption of the com- promise measures of 1850 when, as a free State, California was admitted into the Union. The great statesmen of the country, then grouped in the cham- ber of the Federal Senate, were almost transfigured in the blazing light of that patriotism which extin- guished the lesser fires of sectional hatred and for eleven years averted the Civil War. This common- wealth received the most sacred rite of baptism that had ever attended the addition of a new star to the American constellation. The mighty intelligence, the passionate love of country, the loftiness of sentiment, the high aspira- tions for their race, that poured from the lips of Clay and Webster, who, like Simeon, were ready to de- part when their, eyes had witnessed the consummation of their hopes, raised the dignity of the American Senate, composed of the representatives of powerful American communities between two oceans, to such a height that it has ever since commanded the respect- ful attention of the world. “It is fortunate,” said Mr. Webster, March 7, 1850, “that there is a Senate of the United States, a body not yet moved from its propriety nor lost to a just sense of its own dignity and its own high responsi- bilities, and a body to which the country looks with confidence for wise, moderate, patriotic and healing counsels.” And on the following July 22 Henry Clay unveiled his own nobility of soul in these words, which ought to be imprinted upon every American heart: “And now let us discard all resentment, all passions, all petty jealousies, all personal desires, all love of place, all hankerings after the gilded crumbs which fall from the table of power. Let us forget popu- lar fears, from whatever quarter they may spring. Let us go to the limpid fountain of unadulterated patriot- ism and, performing a solemn lustration, return di- vested of all selfish, sinister and sordid impurities, and think alone of our God, our country, our consciences and our glorious Union.” Since this important epoch in our national career the unbroken line of States has been stretched across the continent. The Gadsden purchasg completed the symmetrical development of our territory. Alaska flanked the Canadian Confederation and brought us face to face with the advancing progress of Russia. The war with Spain has ended, and now, whether for good or for evil, our banner floats over Porto Rico and Manila, ten thousand miles apart. Those who stand on the higher level of observation can already discern the splendors of an unprecedented future piercing the gloom that shrouds the close of the nineteenth century, and far in the East the twen- tieth century, the Golden Age of the Pacific, already dawns. The expanding life, wealth, population, in- telligence, education and enterprise of our country have brought us into direct contact with opportuni- ties and with questions that demand in the deliberative body, where forty-six restricted sovereignties, in the name of the Union, of which they are inseparable parts, proclaim their policy and record their will, such depth and vigor of statesmanship as the world has rarely witnessed. Perhaps the very crisis of our na- tional fate is at hand. Labor and capital, commerce, trade, finance, all the elements of modern civilization in its most advanced form, with the constitution as its base and American fraternity as its energizing force, are demanding adjustment, without break or disturbance of the republic, to new conditions and the solution of questions in which the prospects of hu- manity itself are involved. And, while this grand panorama is unfolding itscl(’i to our view, and California, golden in its soil, in its products, in its sons and in its daughters, proudly | awaits the magnificent destiny that is almost within | its grasp, narrow selfishness, foul ambition, filthy cor- ruption and stupid ignorance deliberately propoge that Dan Burns or his double shall be its embassador in the chamber which Webster apotheosized and where Clay immortalized American manhood! Here is a picture for our legislators to contemplate, and with the pressure of their pledges and their oaths, and of their moral and intellectual responsibilities to their constituencies weighing upon them, they are | privileged to determine whether an obnoxious Lili- putian shall usurp the place of such a man as Cali- fornia needs. We live under representative institu- tions—is it conceivable that such a Senator should represent the State? Among a million and a half of people is there no wise, conservative, broad-minded, instructed, clean-hearted, prescient American states- man to be found who will hold up the honor, the dig- nity and the interests of this commonwealth before the country and before the world? This is the immediate question of questions which the Legislature, so far unimpeached and unsullied, will have an opportunity to answer on Tuesday next. Shall Burns or his double reduce and degrade the State to the proportions of a pothouse politician, or shall a selection be made upon which citizens and corporations, all men and all bodies, in whom Ameri- can blood in circulating, can unanimously agree? [ —— Highbinders have been posing as educators in the hope of escaping the police. Such an effort to copy | the Board of Education which has just retired cov- ered with dishonors shows the imitative faculty of the Oriental mind. e Government beef, described as having green whiskers, may be all right fgom the standpoint of the | contractors, but the consumers cannot be regarded as over punctilious if they were to demand that it be shaved. — Oakland ministers have denounced Burns. The province of a preacher is to fight evil, and while he dces not ordinarily dip into politics, he could not well overlook such an opportunity as Burns affords. The politician who says “Get thee behind me, Satan,” must not have an open palm at his back, or he will be suspected of insincerity. Doubtless this country can whip Aguinaldo, and doubtless he deserves it, but we did not realize the sort of snap we were acquiring. Governor Pingree will never be happy until ap- pointed censor of the universe and umpire of the game of life. As to that treaty of peace with Spain, most of the _peace seems to have been acquired by that country. are plenty of saloons in Sacramento, without estab- lishing a jag mill at the Capitol stable foundation for the national monetary system.” From similar bodies of men in all parts of the HANNA-PAYNE On December 19, 1898, there was introduced in the Senate a bill by Mr. Hanna under the title of ““A bill to promote the commerce and increase the foreign trade of the United States, and to provide auxiliary cruisers, trans- ports and seamen for Government use when necessary.” This bill is the outcome of the labors for over a year of a comm shipbuilders, ship owners and merchants, and is supposed : tions whose antagonism has hitherto prevented effective legislation. main features of the bill are as follows: Commencing July 1, 1899, and cont: subsidies are to be paid as hereinafter follows, to all existing V é American register whose owners will build within the next five years an amount of tonnage equal to not less of tonnage to which the subsidy is paid. For sailing vessels and steamships under fourteen knots speed, eng in trade with foreign countries distant over 150 miles from ture in the United States, 1% cents pe: first 1500 miles sailed both outward and homeward bound, and 1 cent per gross ton for each 100 miles over 1500 miles sailed both outward and home- ward bound. In addition to the foregoing remuneration, steamships suitable for mail and auxiliary cruisers will receive the following subsidies for each 100 miles sailed both outward and homeward bo Vessels over 1500 tons gross register— 14 knots and less than 15 knots speed.. 15 knots and less than 16 knots speed. 16 knots or over........ o . Vessels over 3000 tons gross— 17 knots and less than 18 knots. 18 knots and less than 19 knots. 19 knots or over.......... Vessels over 8000 tons gre 20 knots and less than 21 knots. 21 knots or over, Vessels over 10, 1SS 22 knots and less than 23 knots. 23 knots and over.... subsidy $18,030. say 28,000 miles, would receive a subs FOREIGN BUILT VESSELS Will obtain right to receive subsidies Vessels actually owned by American citizens on December 1, 1898, and those which have been contracted for copies of the contracts have been file prior to February 1, 1899. These vessels cannot engage in co: our navigation laws exclude vessels o American owners before being granted a register for such vessels must give penal bond for $50,000 that they will build within five years a vessel or vessels of gross tonnage of the foreign built ve: requested. DEEP SEA FISHING VESSELS ‘Which are engaged in fishing for thres months will receive a bounty of $2 pe third of the crew are American citize Each American member of the cr month during the time of the voyage. MISCELLANEOUS. All vessels receiving subsidy must At least one-fourth of the navigating crew must be American citizens. One apprentice must be carried for vessels except deep-sea fishing vessels. Tests for speed to be under supervision of a board of naval officers, and must include not less than four hours’ continuous steaming at sea in ordi- nary weather. Subsidies to continue for a term of twenty years, under contract made between Secretary of the Treasury foreign trade. All former acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this new shipping act are repealed when the latter becomes a law. The zeneral opinion expressed in re become a law early in the present sess| to work a revolution in the steamship tended to supersede all present acts, a mail service. Its provisions as regard: placed on size and speed. As an example, Francisco and Hongkong, via Yokohama: Peru, 3528 tons, 14 knots, would rece! An 8000-ton 20-knot vessel would receive for the same voyage $32,880. This illustration tells its own tale, within a short period the time across least four to five days, and the same s colonies. It means that vessels below cannot hold their own in competition, for San Francisco. amount of travel from the Suez route more frequent. There will have to be a general re! as it now leaves San Francisco. The fo by the Occidental and Oriental line wil vessels as soon as the latter can be procured. It is in expectation of this that C. P. Huntington is :about to lay the keels of two immense steamships for the China trade. The Oceanic Compa without the co-operation of the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand, and must find American tonnage either requisite number of steamships required for the service. In general, the proposed law will create an immediate demand on our shipyards and kindred industries that will have a most beneficial effect on all lines of business, and under it San Francisco will become of still greater importance as a shipping port. EXAMPLE 1. A 5000 ton gross register steamship of seéventeen knots, rating on a voy- age of 7200 miles outward and 7200 miles homeward, would receive as a EXAMPLE 2. A sailing vessel 2000 tons gross register, on voyage from San Francisco to Liverpool and return, total distance both ways by most direct course, Shortening the voyage, with magnificent ocean grey- hounds from the Orient and South Sea ports, SHIPPING BILL. ittee of to unite all fac- The i eriod of twenty years, Rk g essels of than 25 per cent of the gross amount aged port of depar- r gross ton for each 100 miles for the und: ton. ton. ton. 1 cent per gross 1.1 cents per Eross .2 cents per gross gross gross gross ton. ton. ton. 1.4 cents per .6 cents per .8 cents per ton. gross ton. gross cents per .3 cents per ton. cents per ton. ents per Bross gross idy of $8850. under following conditions: in foreign shipyards, and for which d with the Secretary of the Treasury astwise trade, or in trade from which f foreign flag. in American shipyards at least 50 per cent of the aggregate ssel or vessels for which registry is e months during twelve consecutive r gross ton, provided not less than one- ns. ew will receive a bounty of $1 per carry United States mails free. each 1000 gross tons register on all and owner of any vessel registered for gard to the proposed bill is that it will ion of Congress, and its effect will be trade of the Pacific Ocean. It is in- nd abolishes special appropriations for s subsidies are such that a premium is taking the route between San Under the new law the steamer ive as subsidy $10,187 60 per voyage. and it is apparent at a glance that the Pacific Ocean will be shortened at tatement applies to the Australian | 5000 toms, 17 knots, for long voyages and therein lies the bright prospects will divert an immense to San Francisco. The service will be habilitation of the steamship service reign steamships now being operated 1 have to give way to American built ny will have to perform the service by charter or building to make up the AROUND THE | CORRIDORS S. W. Blakeley of Stockton is at the | Lick. L. W. Buskett of St. Helena is at the Grand. George P. Harlow of Chicago is at the Palace. Paul Faber of Baltimore is a guest at the Lick. E. S. Johnston of Seattle is a guest at the Grand. B. N. Fiske of Chicago is registered at the Palace. C. D. Fontana, a miner of Copperopolis, is at the Lick. Dr. F. R. Day and wife of Honolulu are at the Palace. Dr. Grace' Puler of Lorington is a guest{‘ at the Occidental. | W. G. Hannam, U. S. N., is registered | at the Occidental. H. A. McChesney of Kansas City is a guest at the Lick. Edward McCauley Jr.,, U. 8. N, is a guest at the Palace. T. Kirk, wife and daughter, of San Jose, are at the California. William Scallon, a miner of Butte, is staying at the Palace. Ex-Judge J. M. Walling of ‘Nevada County is at the Russ. A. W. Kline Jr. of New York was among | the arrivals at the Palace. State Senator John J. Boyce of Santa Barbara is at the Occidental. John Sparks, the cattle king of Nevada, | arrived at the Palace yesterday. H. N. Williams and Harry Francis of San Rafael are at the Occidental. V. M. Clement of London and Melville Gray of New Zealand are guests at the Palace. | Gerome Helmont, the youthful violin- | ist, with his mother and Miss Grace Pres- ton and Ida Simmons, all of New York, are at the Palace. —————————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—J. M. Jones and | M. Freedman and wife of San Francisco | are at the Imperial. E. N. Taber of Oak- | land and C. R. Faulkner of Sacramento | are at the Cosmopolitan. ——————————— Generous Brokers. A consignment of old wearing apparel from Alfred Cooper of Chefoo, . China, came through the Custom House to his sister, Mrs. W. W, Fuller. It was valued at $20 by the consignor, but the appraisers here valued it at $14 50, and assessed duty at $27 66, part of the clothes being rated as 44 pounas of manufactured wool at 44 cents a poend. The woman could not pay the duty and the brokers and clerks on the floor generously contributed the re- quired amount. Bruntsch & Wheeler did the brokerage gratis and the woman went her way smiling. ——e——————— Dalton Brothers’ Failure. Frank and T. B. Dalton, composing the firm of Dalton Bros., commission mer- chants at 817 Davis street, filed a petition in bankruptcy yesterday in the United States District Court. iney place their liabilities at $47,814 39 and have no avall- able assets, —————————— Sacred Heart Convent Alumnae. A meeting of the Sacred Heart Presen- Dan Cole may look like Lincoln, but his political | tation Convent Alumnae will be held at methods are different. the convent on Taylor street Sunday, Jan- uary 8, at 2 p. m. | December will never be paid, and there SCHOOL DEPARTMENT AFFAIRS INVOLVED DIRECTORS FIND MATTERS IN A STATE OF CHAOS. Restraining Orders and Injunctions | Together With Acts of the Last Board Place Them in a Quandary. What with restraining orders and in- Jjunctions the new School Directors are in a quandary. Business of the board is almost at a standstill, and will appa- rently remain so until such time as the legal tangle in which the board finds it- self is unraveled. The Elementary Schools Committee of the department met yesterday and dis- cussed at some length the resolutions presented at the meeting on Wednesday night, and the proposed reorganization of the department on lines more in keep- ing with its requirements than those fol- lowed by the unsavory Waller-Ragan regime. The more consideration Dr. Gedge, chairman of the committee, and his as- sociates, Directors Brandenstein, Kemp and Holbrook, gave the matter the more involved it, seemed for a time to grow. They formulated no recommendations and, in fact, did not see clearly their way out of the difficulties that beset their of- ficial path. There is a spirit of unrest among the teachers, as many of them believe the salaries for November and is doubt when payment on other | will be resumed. There 1510 probaniiss | of the schools being closed, as has beey | proposed at different times. The teach- ers’ salaries are supposed to go on, so there would be nothing saved in the way of money, while the children w 4 the penaities of the harvest that has Leoh sown. The Directors express belief in -their ability to bring order out of this chaotic condition, and that all would be well shortly. The case of a creditor suing the department to restrain certain other pay- gwms.];rhich lwns set for trial in Judge eawell's court yesterday, w: e SRR Y, was continued For Labor Legislation. | At a meeting of San Francisco Labor Council a committee was appointed to work in co-operation with a similar com- | tura Bitters Is the WILL TRY T0 KEEP WITHIN DOLLAR LIMIT Supervisors Discuss City Finances. POSTPONE PAYMENT OF BILLS RETRENCHMENT PROVES TO Bx THE ORDER OF THE DAY. Over a Hundred Thousand Jollars in Bills Contracted in Excess of the One-Twelfth Act Go Over Until June. The Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors met twice yesterday for the purpose of discussing the situation that confronts the men who will govern the city for the next twelve months. They are between two fires, as they cannot meet the obligations left them by the last board and run the city on the dollar limit as they pledged themselves to do. At the same time they feel they cannot be nig- gardly in expenditures, as the claim will be made that they are neglecting the wants of the city and thus retarding its development. According to a' report filed with the committee by its expert, Mr. Williams, the retiring board repeatedly violated the one-twelfth act, thus creating a deficiency for the past six months of $114,300. Accord- ing to the rate at which money had been expended during that period it was esti- mated the deficlency at the end of the next six months would be increased by $133,900. In view of the condition of the city’s finances it was declded to postpone payment of bills totaling over $112,000, which are in excess of the allowance made by the one-twelfth act, until the end of the fiscal year in June. At that time they can be paid out of the surplus fund. Thirty-seven thousand dollars of the amount is due for labor and material used in the office of the Superintendent of streets. Superintendent Ambrose exceeded his allowance by that amount, which is included in the inheritance of debt which the old administration left the present one. In addition to these drains on the treas- ury, which the Supervisors find it impos- sible to guard against, there are extraor- dinary expenditures, such as the Botkin trial, court orders and judgments, over which they have no control. Under these conditions it is difficult for them to keep within the dollar limit. They affirm their intention of endeavoring to do so, and ex- press the belief that they can when re- lieved of the deficiency in the funds cre- ated by the outgoing board. In addition to the morning session the committee, consisting of Dr. Perrault | (chairman), Attridge and Collins, held a protracted session again in the afternoon. Various plans_were discussed for reduc- ing the expenditures as much as possible. The members seriously discussed the pro- posed new police station for the Mission district. A At the meeting of the Health and Police Committee in the morning it was agreed to report in favor of readvertising for bids in accordance with the modified plans. Dr. Perrault questioned the need of a $50,000 building, saying that $20,000 should be sufficient. It was explained that in addition to the police station there would be a stable for the sixty horses used in the patrol wagons of the department. These horses are at present boarded out at various stables, the city paying 325 a month for their keep. It was finally sug- gested that the matter regarding the re- quired outlay be discussed shortly at a conference between members of the Finance, Building and Police committees. The new Board of Supervisors is going on record early in its official career as not being friendly to boxing clubs. The Health and Police Committee met yester- day and passed upon the request of the National Club for permits for two box- ing bouts during the month of January. The entire committee was present, con- sisting of Collins (chairman), Phelps, Att- ridge, Heyer and Lackmann. From the vlews expressed by the members it was apparent that they do not look upon box- ing as one of the arts they should foster. The committee finally decided to grant one of the desired permits. This will cover the meeting between Jeffries and Kennedy during the last week of thi month. According to Supervisor Heyer, if the fight should develop any evidences of a job he will vote against granting any permits hereafter. Menager Groom was not altogether happy over the outcome of his petition to the board, and meeting Supervisor Perrault was telling his grievances to him regarding the fact that he had secured but one of the two permits desired. He received no consolation here, as he was told that the board had not yet passed upon the recommendation of the commit- tee and might not confirm its action. The Supervisor said the chairman of a com- mittee was not the whole committee and a committee was not the board, and inti- mated strongly that the permit would not be granted when it came up for final ac- tion at the board meeting on Monday. 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