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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1899, BURNS PLAYS A DESPERATE GAME By His Tactics He Shows to the World the Weakness of His Cause. From Daylight Until Far rents Are Abroad Spe “ Shouting That the Fight Is Over. CALL SACRA-| MENTO, big gu here playmg the Senatorial game. | morning - there has been a | nge in the political atmos- | has the gamesters. and Dan Burns has > has been bluff- e who cares The ause and | perate has inaugurated to er it up have both become apparent | in the very measures he has taken to ef- t them. From almost daybr his adherents ve been abroad in the town declaring in the barrooms and brawling from the street corners that their fight is over and their oause won, and money is being spent as though the profits of Burns' | election as- United States Senator were Iready. coming in. It has been a gay night, such a one as in the good old times when it was a new ‘thing to buy one's w ito the United 'S Senate, nd more only s self into'the who had the vote. urns’ latest scheme was begun on Sat. HEADQUARTERS, Jan. 8.—It has been a day of | ing among those who are up | | To- | has be night the take thrown down the ing on in the sight of to see. ha vy night. Friday evening most of his | . ordered to ancisco, as | cted that the of the fight for the two or three would center th 3 s session. Dan and s before Tu or three of his trusted lieutenants tarried behind and on Saturda; discovered that they had miscs the number of legislators who were bound for San Francisco, and In the afternoon sent telegrams to the gang to get little loss of time as steam and Herrin's passes wovld permit. The i1 o'clock train Saturday evening saw | the whole unsavory mob back in the Gold- | | en Eagle office, General Barnes and his forces, ing the alarm, followed on the next train. Time had been lost and Burns, Laughlin and Herrin', representativ | met at the colamel's headquarters to de cide mpon a palicy of future procedure and out of that meeting evolved the gen- | eral hurrah that has been on during the | £ | i A campaign ¢ onfidence and booze dectded upon and the Wnrd‘ and went out. it booze s been. - The heelers and grafters that make up the crowd were given an initial | grab into the sack and they have lost | 5o time. Through the same source through which his money has been flow ing Burns started the statement that he and those of- his henchmen, who have | money to burn, were so confident of their | fight that the thing offered in the line of McLaughlin was advertised i proud possessor of a cold $20,000, all of | which he would be more than happy to | lay on his good friend, the colonel, but | investigation and an interview with the | major dispelled that roseate illusfon. Grant heard the news of Burns' antici- patory su , and quietly announced | t any betting money to the extent of 0% it would be his privilege and pleas- ure to cover. This had its effect, and betting talk was stowed for the balance a cay method that a desperate man | turns to in his political misery Dan Burns | is resorting te augment the crowd of P politicians with which he has been | making his fi > has called in the | services of Rainey. That astute | statesman of odorous ory_sot into | town this cvening. Morris M. Estee has | also been impressed, and is on the with the -est, though in Mr. . favor Le it sald that it is not a matter | te, but of political and other in- debtednes that forces his association | with the gang. To-night, .acting under direct orders from Herrin, Assemblyman Cobb, chair- man of th n ancisco delegation; Assemblyman Arnerich of Santa Clara | and Assemblyman Kelsey of the same | county, have openly declared that not | only thelr influence but their votes as well are the property of Burns. Their advertisement of the fact that they have | donned the 1 livery is proving of no political fhil! he owes his nomi- For the clever work | that arch bungler .n San ncisco_he was of o o tion before it left the city for the capital, and as such he is just now under | orders to throw his influence into the | Burns fight, even at the cost of his repu- | tation. Arnerich of Santa Clara was sent to the gislat '97 by, and acknowledged ime boss who rules Cobb with an and,.but unlike the San Franciscan, His ca- | pacity run: al than men. tal and pi nts and in both | fights he has made for the Legislature the railroad has not only been forced to pro- vide him with the nomination, but the votes to win out with as well. Kelsey is avowedly a -creature of Herrin's and | makes no bones of it. He is out for the | rafiroad or anything else that will keep | him working. and he did not hesitate to declare for Burns when the order came. Since they donned the Burns collar this afternoon the trio have been loud in their | declaration can be is being claiming for Burns forty-four other votes besides his own when the time comes to | epring them, and others of the gang are setting up the same figure,-but they are also glving it out, that they do not pro- pose to show their real strength on the first ballot, nor, for that matter, on the second. the will get from twenty-seven to thirty on'the first show- ) Pacific, and to Herr! nation and tion. he has done for petty politics in made chairman del ing, and possibly no more on the second. It is quietly hinted that Buwns' reai strength lies in those votes which have come Elndgml to certain candidates, and | that they will be allowed the firsf two ballots to discharge their obligations to their constituents. After that, though, t will go Burns to the extent of forty- five for a certainty, possibly more. It's a well conceived story and has but the one drawback that it is not so. Burns can- not muster over thirty votes at any stage of the game, and in the hope of creating a stampede to his standard after the sec- ond’ ballot He is putting up this latest | fake to create the impression that he has enough strength in reéserve and that there | 4s a chance even at the eleventh hour for | “those who have not tied up to get in out of the wet. The ciaim made by Burns with the ag- giegate c'aims of his opponents.foot up | just two more votes than can be -ast on | Joint ballot. Grant claims 35, Barnes 17, Bulla 16 2pd Knight 4, a total of 122 The monst conservative figures made by those who are on the inside place Burns' actual strength at 27, Grant 30, Barnes —————————————— Pears’ A touch is enough for cleanliness. That is why ‘it lasts so. A | them was to their lking. | tunate connection 1 | its influence is nullified. 1t | with man; | that | State capital quite brief. 'TO CONTROL | lege shall bond themselves to pa: | check and not a bond to insure the collec- | Los Angeles are tied up awaitin ! doned ojl wells and unseemly holes, can | erty upon which the ntiisance occurs. | Tax Collectors in certain cities in Into the Night His Adhe- nding His Money and 9, Bulla i1 and Knight 4, a total of which leaves 8 Republican votes on j ballot una:cigned to any of torial cand'dates. Burns people are. scoffing 3, the § ‘Thouw at Grant's the son of the pretensions to a hiz father is confideat t is high man in the fight, and in this idea he is rivaled by Bulla, who js ing no claims, but quietly receiv friends 4and directing his lieutenants from his quarters at the Eagle. To-day his prospects have been made a part of burlesque conducted by the Burns gang. They have claimed in the most confidentlal” manner that Bulla has been the easiest proposition they had to go up against, and that he will Jast only until the Burns forces are called out after the‘ second ballot. The same boasts have been | made in Grant’s case, and a general at- | tempt has been made to create the im- | ression that there is no name of migh: aniel worth considering. The gang has | been out in all its unlovely strength, and | the fight that was mapped + h vote ¢f for | It was a cam- paign of the barrooms, and every gery in town, whether it made pretens to respectability or not, has had quota_of manipulators, well heeled with | good Burng cash to spend on every vote or influence that has wandered in" for a | drink. They have been rounded up in the streets and dragged from private quar- | ters to partake of the Burns cheer and | become infused with the Burns enthusi- | m. It was the same old crowd; the | ward healers, pool room habitues, tender- | loiners and worse, and they were in their | elemen The o fight was Morris M. out | Estee and his unfor- | o well known that | Politics make | strange bedfellows and Estee's personal and political obligations to Mr. Burns are his sufficient exc 3 Followers of Grant maintain that thir~ ix votes will be cast for the San Diego | statesman on the first ballot next Tue day and that the advantage will be pr ed for another ballot with the expectation that accesslons will be registered as the balloting goes on. Well-posted politicians, who are not in the confldence of Grant, Green and Brown, but who are familiar | members of the Legislature, that Grant cannot tally votes on the first ballot. They at he cannot line up more than The paper containing thirty-six names for Grant does not show thirt six signatures. at least two men wh names are on the paper have declared to close friends that they do not intend to vote for Grant. | Milton S. Green, Grant's manager, said | in his opinfon there could be no | question of the legality of either hnuse} 04040+ 0404040+ OIB+O40+T+OIT+OH0IOIOITHT+O+O4040+ DT OO+ assert pe thirty contend twenty. X th taking as many ballots separately for Senator as desired, and cited as a prece- dent the election of four years ago, when George C. Perkins was elected. “In the Senate,” said Mr. Green, “three | ballots were taken on the first day, Mr. | Perkins receiving a majority on the third ballot. With that precedent 1 do not hesitate to say that either house can le- gally take as many ballots next Tuesday as may be desired.” | W. B. Cluff arrived In town this even- ing. He says that he does not come to take an active part in_the contest for United States Senator, but that his sym- pathies are with Colonel Burns. The belief has been entertained in many | quarters that Dan Burns would spring Estee as a candidate when he perceived the hopelessness of his own struggle for | the place. Estee asserts that he is not a candidate. He goes further and say that if he were a candidate there would be no chance of his success. Estee, enter- taining’ this view of the Senatorial situa- tion, proposes to make his sojourn in the | GRANTS OF FRANCHISES Assemblyman Mead Will Introduce a Bill Reg= ulating Them. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. S.—Assemblyman Mead | will, within a few days, Introduce a bill | in the Assembly amendatory of the pres- | ent law controlling the granting of fran- chises by Municipal and County Councils, Boards of Supervisors, etc. The present law provides that in the granting of franchises save for steam railroads, exclusively telegraph lines, wharves and water-front privileges, there shall be a provision whereby the individ- uals or corporation receiving the priv to the ncome after the grantors a percentage of the gro received from the franchise, fifth year of its existence. This was a law Mr. Mead got through | at the last session, but after it had re. celved the Governor's signature another | bill was passed and duly signed which has been by some construed as repealing the first act introduced by Mr. Mead. ow Mr. Mead proposes to present a bill which will provide that a cash consid- eration can be paid for the franchise and the percentage of the gross revenue de- rived from the granted franchise can be taken prior to the five-year limita- tion. He also has a clause in the new bill which provides that the party obtaining | the franchisé shall furnish a certifled | tion of the percentage of the gross reve- nué that is given as a consideration for the franchise. Several street raflroad franchises in action | by the Legislature on Mr. Mead’s pro- posed bill. Councilman Toll of Los Angeles, who is | here as the chairman of the Committee on Municipal Legislation of the Los An- geles City Council, has several rather important matters He intends to have pre- sented to the Legislature in the form of bills by either Assemblymen Conrey, Vai- entine or Mead. One is a measure roviding that i- sances in the way o 5 o gravel pits, aban- be abated by the city and the expense of he abatement charged against the propf It is also proposed to change the street improvement law so as to make the minf- mum street imprgvement bond $25, instead of $50; as at present. As it is now a man | ownln(f a 25-foot lot cannot have it im- proved under the bond act. The design is to bring the small property-owners, '5.’?. V- ing under fifty feet of frontage, under the royisions of the law in order that he ay enjoy its benefits. . A clause will also be added to_the bill protecting laborers and material men from dishonest con- tractors who perform work under it. Mr. Toll also has a bill which enlarges the duties of certain county officials so as to provide for the assessment and col- lection of taxes by County Assessors and the State. Los Angeles will be one of the | cities brought within the scope of the bill. | Mr. Toll also has a measure amending | the annexation election laws so that City | Councils are not compelled to call an annexation election upon the mere pre- sentation of a petition. It is proposed to leave the matter of calling the elec- tion at the option of the Council or { | disgrace to send to that body Board of Supervisors to which it is sub- mitted. PREACHER SCORES DAN BURNS The Rev. Charles E. Locke, pastor of Central Methodist Episcopal Church, took for his text last night “Some Earthly Hell.” The eloquent divine spoke strongly against the candidacy of D. M. Burns for the honorable office of United States Sen- ator, saying it would be an everlasting a man with such a record and such a character. In part he said: “It is appropriate for me to speak to You in the discussion of this topic of the political corruption, whose foul odors dis- gust good citizens in nearly every State in our Union, and perhaps as much so in our own fair California as anywhere in our country. A republic contemplates that there shall be good and honorable men to make and execute the laws. Our forefathers never intended that a large company of men should live on politics and become professional politicians. The bane of city and State governments to- day is this unscrupulous parasite who gets his living at the public ¢ “‘Character and former record are not consulted, but whoever, by falr or foul means, can secure a ‘pull’ is elevated to places of trust.” Positions are bought and sold as defiantly as in the corruptest days of ancient Rome. , Franchises are stolen and men grow rich out pf the public treasury. It can hardly be worse; as a iation_we are elther to be speedily de- stroyed by this consuming cancer of po- litical corruption, or else, by one mighty assertion of our manhood and destiny, we are to lift this deadly thing, with all its festering influences, out of pur body politic. “‘Perhaps never in the politi, of the Pacific Coast States has insult been inflicted upon the law-abiding and honorable citizenship than in the present proposal on the part of certain aggressive and unscrupulous men to have the State of California represented in the most honorable body of our nation's statesmen by a man devold of those ele- ments of character which are understood to be indispensable to true manhood. The selection of such a man would (rut a pre- mium on lawlessness. It would discredit our State throughout the world. It would disparage the inculcation of highest ideals for our youth and stultify every institu- tion in the State which seeks to advance the moral condition of society. ‘“This pulpit would be criminally neg- ligent of its duty if it did not speak out 1 history a greater decent element infused into the | HHO4G4+04 04040404 C+04+04040434CH0+ 04040404 0+0+ 040+0+m DR. PARDEE IS high honor. Dan Burns. idea of becoming one. to the United States Senate, ever in politics. 4044040404 a vehement protest against the Legisla- ture sending to the United States Senate any man who cannot be pointed out to our youth as a person of noble instincts, unblemished personal character and sterling manhood.” B e Forty Hours’ Adoration . The ceremony of the forty hours’ ador- ation was begun yesterday morning at St. Mary's Hospital before an immense congregation. All of Monday and up to the time the service is concluded, spectal devotions will be held in the chapel on First street. e s Champagne Imports for 1898. Aggregated 242,319 cases, of which 86555 were G. . MUMM'S EXTRA DRY; made of choicest grapes and first pressings. {{fittlles will bear green neckband and star abel. ENacH ; HE WHQ PRESIDE) OVER. THE FREE LUNCH AT THE \ W ! W W RN A SENATORIAL CANDIDATE OAKLAND, Jan. 8—Dr. Pardee s not a candidate for United States Senator, has not been a candidate and will not be an aspirant for that Unable to wean itself from its habit of faking, which has now become its second nature, the Examiner projected the Alamedan into the Republican contest for the toga without his knowledge without the knowledge of any of his friends, and without absolutely any other foundation than what existed in its fake-befuddled imagination. In fairness to Dr. Pardee, it must be stated that even if he had had any intention to enter the lists at the Capital, the advocacy of his can- didacy by the Examiner would have served to prove an effectual de- terrent, as he fully realizes the terrible handicap under which he would thus have been placed. From Sacramento comes a hint that the Exam- iner came out for Dr. Pardee In a desperate effort to cover its support of “I am not a candidate for United States Senator,” said Dr. Pardee to-day, “and I have not the remotest I have not done anything to lead any one to suppose that I am a candidate, and there is no movement on foot to make me one. the Examiner are perfect surprises to me, and most de- cidedly I knew nothing of them till they appeared. “Beyond the fact that there is no American on earth who would not feel flattered and proud at bsing elected practicing medicine and am not taking any hand what- I have neither seen nor been called upon even by one of the members of the Alameda dele- gation, and I am certainly not seeking a Senatorship.” DD+ OIDTHOI040404 04+ OICHO40 4+ O+0404B GAGE WILL NOT DANCE AT THE INAUGURAL BALL Never Learned the -Waltz or Two-Step. COMPLAINS OF TIGHT BOOTS NOTABLES WILL LOOK ON IN GOVERNOR’S QUADRILLE. To Take No Part in the Art of Danc- ing as Illustrated by Green- way—Decorations for the Function. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 8.—The ‘Governor's quadrille” will not be a feature of the inaugural ball. Governor Gage does not dance. Neither, for that matter, does ex-Gov- ernor Budd. Mr. Budd can, but rheu- matism forbids. Governor Gage simply cannot. In the days before he was ad- dicted to the law and political aspira- tions, he failed to learn the “waltz and reverse,” history saith not whether or no his inherent tendency to boots inter- fered, but the fact remains ha does not dance. This, at any rate, {s the excuse made by Master of Ceremonies George H. Clark for this departure from time- honored gubernatorial custom. There are other excuses, however. There are those unkind enough to say that the + NOT and The articles in I am nota candidate. Iam $C4O+ 040040+ 04O DO+ CHTHTHICHOIOIDIC+ CHOICHOH OO0 Governor won’t dance because he is mad. He wants the glamor of gold lace | | and brass buttons, and the committee | has declined to extend certain courte- | sies in the way of free cards of admis- | sion, and the gold lace people are al- | | most unanimous in the opinion that | | gold lace was not shown its mede of respect in that decision. Those who are not unanimous will be on hand to lend tone and color, but the others are, at | the present, undecided. But among those who are in the con- fidence of the executive, it is whispered | that those new boots are—well, they bind a bit across the instep, and that | the leather in the right boot is just a | mite too tight across the toe. But then, | all these things are rumor, and the | plain fact remains that the Governor's quadrille will not be danced. Instead, the party will stand in the usual formation before the stand of musicians while the dance goes on, and after that will hold formal reception in the right-hand corner of the Assembly chamber, where, accompanied by those of the staff who do attend, the Governor will be introduced to the guests by Major Wein- 'stock and Mayor Land. The gen- eral introduction in the Assembly over, the party will proceed to the Senate chamber, and there the same ceremony will be repeated. It is the.intention of Master of Ceremonies Clark to keep Governor Gage and his party hand- shaking and getting acquainted until 12:15 o’clock, when the official ceremon- ies will be finished and the general good time will begin for those who care to remain later than that hour. Those who are to compose the Governor’s party have not as yet been fully decided on. Mr. and Mrs. Gage will, of course, oc- cupy the place of honor—just before the musicians’ stand and facing the assem- blage in the chamber. Ex-Governor Budd and Mrs. Budd will be directly across from them, for, whether they dance or not, they will be drawn up in quadrille formation. To the left of the Governor will be Lieutenant Governor Jeter and Mrs. Jeter of Santa Cruz, if Mr. Jeter’'s health will permit of the festivities, and on his right Lieutenant Governor Neff with his lady. During the dancing of the quadrille they will refrain from the charms of the waltz god, and at the end of it will retire to the cozy reception corner that is being made ready by the decorators, there to meet the muititude. The regular order for the grand march that of necessity introduces the general festivities has not vyet been fully arranged. The legislators with their wives and ladles will gather in the State library. They will be accom- panied by State officials and the mili- tary. Still another group will form in the quarters of the Surveyor General, near the Assembly chamber, and an- other in the Attorney General's rooms, adjoining the Senate chamber. The procession will form in the main cor- ridor on the second floor, and will pro- ceed to the door of the Assembly cham- ber, countermarching to the Senate, Where Governcr Gage and his party will join it and take the lead back to the Assembly, where the opening cere- monies will take place. The Senate chamber is to be used this year only as an overflow dancing hall. On the lower floor of the Capitol in | charge of treachery made agalnst Mr. Columbus and Queen Isabella the tables are set, and at promptly 11 o’clock the first of them, the Governor’s table, will be served. Its hospitality will be dispensed only to him, his party ‘and the officers of his staff. The rest will dine later. Talbot H. Walis, who is superin- tending the decoration of the Capitol, has already effected a transformation in the picture and curtain hung assem- bly halls. The desks and chairs have been removed and stowed away until Tuesday. The carpets have been cov. ered with canvas ready for the dancing, and the halls seem rather conserva- tories than the haunt of lobbyists. Potted palms and blossoms are every- where; in the corridors, the rotunda and the halls. Graceful strings of smilax and fern are pendant from everything to which they could be artistically suspended. The weneral color scheme of the Assembly chamber is pink and green; the windows are draped in buntings of the house, the galleries festooned in it. Baék of the Speaker’s desk the national colors break harmoniously into the general scheme, and the drapings of the mu- sicians’ stand built over the clerk's desk are in accord. In the Senate the prevailing colors are red and yellow, and the effect is Oriental in the extreme. To carry it out there has been built into each corner the coziest of Turkish booths. filled with soft cushions and other things that make a loun~ing place of comfort. As in the Assembly chamber the windows are draped in the gen- eral color, and the seat of the Lieu- tenant Governor is set in a background of palms and potted plants and blos- soms of every variety. Senator Cutter's resolution, passed | through both houses last week, placed | a limit on the refreshments, but lemon- ade and other passive drinks will be in abundance, and will be served’in the offices of the Attorney and Surveyor Generals, which will be decorated in rich accord with other sections of the Capitol. The decorations will not be | complete until the last moment, but | thanks to a resolution passed through the Assembly on Saturday they bid | fair to remain. | Assemblyman Wade was struck by the garish splendor of the pink and | green curtains in his chamber, and of- | fered a resolution that they be allowed | to remain hanging during the rest of the session. Notwithstanding that the | decorator owns the decorations. the | resolution was passed, and as a resolu- | tion a bill providing that the treasury be drawn on to the extent of three or | four hundred dollars will have neces- | sarily to be passed in payment for all | bunting the ~ vari-colored the | Capltol. GRANT MEN MUST PAY TRIBUTE If Claims Against Gage of | Treachery Are Shown to Be True. [ CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-| MENTO, Jan, S.—It is proposed by some of the friends of Governor Gage and | Colonel Dan Burns to endeavor to compel | James Brown, one of the Grant man- agers, to confribute the $1000 he has agreed to give to a local charity It proof | was furnished that U. S. Grant Jr. or | his_friends in San Diego County were gullty of treachery to the Republican | State ticket at the November election. | Several telegrams were to-day sent to San Diego requesting certain friends of Governor Gage's there to at once pre- pare affidavits tending to prove the | in Grant and his friends and forward them to Sacramento at once. If they are pre- | pared at onge they will arrive here not later than Thursday morning, when it is supposed they will be presented to Mr. Brown and a demand made upon him to | yield up the $1000 he has offered to a | charity when this proof is furnished. | “ANY OTHER MAN EXCEPT BURNS" The Call printed interviews yesterda with thousands of Republicans through: out the State of California in which there is unqualified denunciation of the candi- | | dacy of Colonel Dan M. Burns for United States Benator. The protests still con- | s the following expres- sions of opinion indicat. Cal, oy cisco Call: for United Stat. ing M Senator. I believe Mr. Irv. Scott would be the choice of Republi- cans at large."—FRANK A KGAN, Chairman | blican County Committes, | of the State adminis | Golden Eagl SACRAMENTO FILLS WITH MOTLEY CREW Politicians Return Refreshed for the Impending Senatorial Struggle. The Vultures Await the Unloosening of the Purse Strings of Colonel Mazuma--Grant’s Managers Express Confidence. CALL HEADQUARTERS, BSACRA- MENTO, Jan. &—The trains this evening brought back to Sacramento not only the | members of the Legislature who left Fri- day and Saturday, either for San Fran- | the evening. Mose Gunst was the first of the throng to register. Hervey Lindley | the epublican boss of Los Angele d not have time to get his name down before Jake Steppacher pulled him off to Colonel Burns' room for consultation with clsco or for thelr 'homes, Dut also auite | the great mogul himself. Jake Shaen a consignment of statesmen and would- | came in on the last train as did also Mar- be statesmen, who figure in the third | tn Aguirre, heriff of Los Angeles | County, w warden of F John Daly Francisco aiso it is said, Is to be the new om prison. s and Ed Donnelly of San ived to-night. ONE NAME FOR ALL ITS LINES house. Politicians of more or less repute and notoriety; people looking for jobs, either in the Legislature or at the hands tion; soclety folk who are here to attend the inaugural ball, and a miscellaneous collection of | humanity who are visiting the capital for various causes and reasons. The Senatorial “push’ returned almost to a man, for the battle is growing warm, | and the prospect for the vultures to real- ize on the various sacks which it is| thought will be loosened within the next | few days, is about to become a realiza- | tion. At least that is the way many of the crowd feel and they are of course gathering to be In at the time of the di- vide. Of course there are others who expect to figure in the Senatorial contest to a more or less extent, not directly for coin in hand, but for future advaniage of a Santa Fe Railroad Wants to Work Under One Corporate Name. pul\llx}{fu‘vh . Grant's chief adviser, ar- | CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- rived at 10 o’'clock and proceede MENTO, Jan. 8.—One of the important ant headquarters, whe closeted with James Brown, Walter B con and their candidate. Mr. Green wore a more confident air than he did when he departed. His two days in San Fran- cisco seemed to have imparted an air of confidence to him. Mr. Green, howe: refused to specifically state upon what h to the G items of railroad legislation that will be presented at this session Is the bill which will be introduced to enable the consoli- | dation of all of the Santa Fe lines in Cal- ifornia with the Valley road under -one corporate name. The oblect of this con- : ! : solidation is to enable the conduct of al based his assertion that Crant would Win | these Santa Fe lines with its recent pur- : | chase, the Valley road, as one corpora- tion, thereby avoiding the expense of the | conduct of separate corporations, whica | are required to be separately officered.and , United States Marshal of Southern Californi for " the . came in and was enrolled among the Fec district i}r.:',!n:”fl;l:x(id:slwl:! Hx‘t\x’;;‘:!filv\';. PROTUNE | 1o have separate accountings under each Morris_M. arrived on an early | corporate name. If the Santa Fe lines now operated un- der four separate corporate names are consolidated all of this trouble will be avoided, and all that wiil be required will 1 with the throng at the ving all of the kind words he could for Burns, thereby manifesting | his appreciation of past political and other ‘ favors extended to him by the man from | ;oo get of officials and one set of books am Rainey, Phil Crimmins and Martin | for the California lines. ; Kelly made up an interesting trio that | The title of the bill which it is pro- came in on the evening trains. They all | posed to enact to effect this consolidation held court at the Golden Eagle for a |is as follow while and received the homage of their 'An act amending the Civil Code of the subjects who are gathered here in_the | State of California, adding thereto three inte t of the candid of Mexican Dan. | new sections, authorizing the purchase Jack Terrlll, the gray eagle of the Burns |or lease by raflroad corporations created push, came with Keliy and Crimmins. under the laws of this State, or_other Thomas V. Cator got in on the 7 o'clock | States or Territories of the United States, train and put in the evening looking on, | which are now,or hereafter may be, doing, but refrained from any tears. Later the | business as common carriers in this State situation may be such as to cause Mr. | of any or all of the property and fran- Cator to weep, but existing conditions owned, situated, held or used will not warrant him in so_doing. v or partially in this State by any E. 8. Torrance, Superior Judge of San |railroad company created under the laws o County, arrived from the south, | of this State, or of any other State or will be enrolled among the support- | Territory of the United States, which Is Grant until the fight is over. |now, or hereafter may be, doing business tor W. E. Dargie came in from | as a common carrier in this State, and train and min Di an ers of Mr. Ex-Sen eg d Oakland, but he s that he will take | authorizing the sale or lease by any such no pert in the Senatorial fight. | corporation as above mentioned of any B. Hotchkiss, attorney for the |such property or franchises, or both, Southern Pacific at Los Angeles, came in | which it may own, use or hold, wholly or at 7 o'clock, and at.once entered the |partially in this State.” for Burn The bill is in three sections, as follows; Jabez Swan, §0 soon as the train ar-| Section 1. A new section i hereby added rived, made directly for Burns' head- | to the Civil Code of the State of Callfornia, quarte; and was closeted with the | numbered 4, as follow Any railroad_company created under, the laws of this State or under the laws of any other State or Territory, or under the laws of the United States, which is now, or may hereafter become engaged in the iness of a common carrier, wholly or tially within the limits of the State of ifornia, shall have full power and au- - to purchase or lease of any other colonel for quite a time. Among the returning members of the iture were Semator E. I Wolfe Sig Bettman and Senator Shor The first thing they did. was to | on what transpired while | Senato: ridge. post them they were Paris K bourne was in the throng of arriving statesmen, as was also_ Jim | ad corporation aoing business in this 2 San Jose and *Smi i State as a common carrer, o fii;m?f,,,. milogs iy portion, or all, of the property of any the 10 o’cloc i kind or description, including franchises AL e o e frain, arrived the | ownea” by wuh other raiiroan company: e ha Tivallont which is or are being used, owned or hel Hotel presented the liveliest scene t wholly or partially within the limits of the has yet been witnessed since the sess| State of California. of the Legislature opened. Everybody | Sec. A new section is hereby | that had heen away wanted to know | to the Civil Code of the State of C what had transpired in their absence and | nia, numbered 9. Any raflroad corpora- those who had not been here before | tion created under the laws of this State, wanted to be ‘‘placed next” to the situa-| or of any other State or Territory, or of tion. the United States which is now or may hereafter be engaged in the business of a r in this State, may as to any of its property of any kind, rights or franchises which are situated, used or held slly or partially within the limits of the State of California, sell or lease the same, Among those who_arrived to attend the inaugural ball are Mrs. Miss Mills H. Mills and | ancisco and Major Off of Los Angele r friend of Mrs. Governa of San F W a ne Phelan and Mayor the rotunda around the statue of| ‘Conier on the Charter. 1 do not favor the election of D. Burns as spent the afternoon as her | or any part thereof, to any other railroad United States Senator, Better have none thar corporation authorized to purchase the he."—THOS. G. PEACHER, Notary Public. |~ Mrs. Frank McLaughlin and Miss Mc-| same by the provisions of this act. Any other maq, from the' Unfted State | Laughlin, of Santa Cruz, were among the | Sec. 3. A new section is hereby added to not D. M. Burns."—JOHN H. CARLEY als this evening to attend the ball. | the Civil Code of the State of California, dertaker. 3 County Clerk Willlam A. Deane of San | numbered 46 Before the sale or lease of (Apy other man for the United States Sen- | prancisco arrived at 11 o'clock, and was | Any broperty or (ranchies owned by any LT T : "\ DARCET. | sgon thereafter in'confefence’ with the | alrond coruration, and held orchecd on “D. M. Burns, v opinion, would Burns leaders. et State of Calltor & the Froper. sepésentative i he Tnjied Siates | HAIT Wagner of San Diego came from | lmits of fhe Stafe of Caliiornia, as oro; Senate.”'—GEO. STUKLER SR., Postmaster. | the south to-night to try to ' help out | yote ' Sriting must be executed ‘California, in my opinion, should not d | Grant. 5 | containing the terms and conditions of the D. M. Burns to the United States Senat The midnight train brought the last| gaje or lease, which must be authorized by C. L. ADAMS, News Dealer. consignment of Senatorial workers for | the board of directors and ratified by three-fourths of the stockholders of such compang. According to the terms of the act it is to take effect immediately upon its pass- | age. So far as known at this juncture | thereé will be no opposition offered to the passage of this bill. A. G. Maginnis is | there as the representative of the Santa | Fe Company to present the matter to the | Legislature. In speaking of the bill this evening Mr. Maginnis said: ““There is absolutely nothing in the measure bevond what appears on the sur- | face. We desire to consolidate all the lines we are now operating in California, or may operate hereafter, and that will take in the Valley road, under one cor- porate pame. This will cause a great say. iug in expense, and will greatly simplify the system of accounts we are now com- pelled to keep. I can see no reason why there should be any opposition to the measure from any source, and I do not anticipate any.” THE END OF THE CENTURY. It Will Be Refig{é&iy“ Commemorat- ed in the Roman Catholic Church. From the pulpit of every Catholic church in the city announcements will be made next Sunday morning of the in- tention of the church to celebrate special religious seryices during the course of the entire year in honor of the close of the nineteenth century. What the form of the service will be has not been settled upon, but it is indicated that it will consist of the special solémn- {zation of mass in the morning, followed by an appropriate ceremony in the even- ing. e e Saw a Century of Life. BEVERLY, Mass., Jan. 8—Willlam Endicott, aged 100 years, dled to-day. He was an eye witness of the engagement between the frigates Chesapeake and Shannon, June 1, 1813, and was of the sixth generation from Governor Endicott of the Massachusetts Bay colony. — e An Old Art Revived. ‘Within the last year fencing has been revived with additional vigor by the feminine ‘sex. In the fencing rooms where swell New York society girls | gather to practice the art of fence and parry there is to be heard the collision of their rapiers. The exercise is an admirable method | of developing the figure, and is taken for the purpose of cultivating the | health and grace. | While the Italian masters have kept | to this day the long foil with its bell- | shaped guard—much like the old Span- | ish_rapier—the French have modern- ized the weapon, and the foil of the French school is, for the most part, the one used by society women. It is said that fencing will be more {°f & fad than ever this winter, Major McLaughlin