The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 17, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, Al JANUARY 17, 1899. ..JANUARY 17, 1899 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. cations to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Address All Communications to W. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........217 to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 e ———r———re—— AMUSEMENTS udevill Two Married Men."” nd Zoo—Pianka, the “‘Lady of Lions." Mason and Ellis streets, Spectaljles. The Steeplecha e Race Track—Races to-day. Helmont, Violinist, Tuesday January 17, at 10:30 &, m. Geary street, at 12 o'clock, THE BLACK LIST STATIONARY. HERE have been no changes in the black list T since was added to it the name of Howard E. Wright. Either Burns has polled his full strength or se who would like to break into his camp are afraid to go where odium awaits. Possibly there is excuse for this hesitation, for it is a fearful thing for a legislator to throw away his reputation. 1f Burns has the following he boasts, and if these are not ashamed to join Jilson and Wright, why do they delay and dawdle to the waste of public time and the trying of the patience? Let them come into the open, do the will of their master and receive their geward. The black list is still as follows: SENATORS. Bettman, San Francisco. Burnett, San Francisco. Hoey, San Francisco. Laird, Shasta. Leavitt, Alameda. Shortridge, Santa Clara. Wolfe, San Francisco. ASSEMBLYMEN. Arnerich, Santa Clara. Barry, San Francisco. Beecher, Shasta. Cobb, San Francisco. Devoto, San Francisco. Dibble, San Francisco. Henry, San Francisco. JILSON, Siskiyou. Johnson, Sacramento. Kelley, Alameda. Kelsey, Santa Clara. Kenneally, San Francisco. Lundquist, San Francisco. McKeen, Alameda. Miller, San Francisco. Pierce, Yolo. Rickard, San Francisco. Eugene Sullivan, San Francisco. WRIGHT, Alameda. There is a chance for this to be changed. After the | colonel has acknowledged defeat and withdrawn the | men whose names are there may in a measure redeem i oting for a good candidate. i A COBDEN CLUB SPASM. | themselves by { S NE of the oddest of the many indirect effects | Q of the war with Spain has been a spasmodic | revival of activity in the Cobden Club. That organization, once so potent and so famous, has for | a long time been in a condition of almost complete | collapse. So far from being able to perform anyi vigorous wo n the world, it has hardly been strong | ovgh for several years past to hold a respectable | meeting at its annual banquets and showed every symptom of speedy decay. The doctrine of free trade, for the propagation of | which the club was organized, long since lost all the | prestige it ever had. The policy of protection h: been triumphant everywhere outside of Great Britain, and even in that country free trade has been losing | ground. Under such conditions the Cobdenites had | no heart to carry on the fight. They continued to issue pamphlets and to deliver addresses now and | then. from a mere force of habit, but they no longer | displayed anything like the activity which once marked their crusade against protection in all parts of the world Now, to the surprise of everybody, just as it was expected to die of hopeless despondency, the organi- zation shows a spasm of activity, gathers itself to- gether and proposes to make a fight. The cause of the reawakening is the possibility of the annexation | of the Philippines by the United States, and the object is to provide for an open-door or free-trade policy throughout the Orient. ecutive committee of the club has issued a manifesto, signed by Baron Farrar, pointing out that “tre policy of territorial expansion in the East on the part of all the great powers raises the question of con- ng commercial interests and renders advisable the adoption of some common policy acceptable to all. In this situation the Cobdenites see an opportunity to revive their free-trade propaganda and are prompt te take advantage of it. After reviewing the conflict of interests brought - about by expansion in thie East the manifesto says: * "“The world is gradually recognizing that this question canniot be finally settled by any nation as a purely (domestic matter.” It then adds: .- "In our judgment the club should hereafter make more comprehensive endeavors to shape Great Brit- ain’s foreign policy so as to secure the adhesion of other nations to the ‘open-door’ policy, especially in the derelict countries now passing into the control cf strong civilized powers.” It will be seen that we are to have a revival of the cld battle in a new form. The Cobdenites will not confine their crusading efforts to théir own country. The agitation will be promoted in every nation and will be made particularly vigorous in the United States. While the avowed object of the club will be the welfare of all nations, it will be reaily to promote ‘the commercial interests of Great Britain. The stakes are sufficiently large to make it worth while for the British to risk a good deal of money on the game, and we may expect to see the movement carried on with considerable vigor. o UNCOVER THE CORRUPT. | ECAUSE of charges of corruption brought B against Speaker Wright of the Assembly a committee shas been appointed to investigate. | There are seven members comprising this body, and | they are given such power as will leave them no ex- cuse for failure to make their research thorough, while to do so must be their impulse as honest men engaged | upon a mission of importance, the mission of ex- posing crime or clearing the accused. All that can be asked of them is that they shall permit the truth | to prevail, and if they find hidden corruption, drag it into the fullest light. While the basic charge is that Speaker Wright re- ceived money from Grant, the opportunity to see if there are not other instances of attempts, whether or not successful, to debauch men sent to the Capitol, and to the grave duty of electing a United States Sen- ator must not be overlooked. All the members who have been heard profess the utmost readiness to have | their methods and motives scanned, and to scan them | without fear or favor is the only course open to the committee. The field is wide and the bars are down. The people of California do not wish any Senator to represent them if, upon his election, there rests even the taint of suspected fraud. They do not wish their State Senators and Assemblymen to support any | candidate whose hope of election is that he can buy | votes to which he has no record and no intrinsic | worth to give him shadow of title. No honest member of the Legislature need fear. The exposure of those who are not honest will clear the atmosphere, exonerate all who may have been unjustly suspected, blast the aspirations of candidates who rely on bribery, and, more than all, will go far toward clearing California of the allegation that its | Senators use venal and debasing means to secure seats, an allegation long a shame and a reproach, made more damning because not always wholly with- ! out foundation in fact. | | | ETHE WAR COMMISSION’S REPORT. TATEMENTS from Washington are to the S cffect that the report of the War Commission will be submitted to the President within the next ten days and that it will be found to censure, more or less, every one connected with the manage- | ment of the army from Secretary Alger and General Miles down to the subordinate officers in command of the various camps established during the campaign. Such sweeping fault-finding will be virtually a con- demnation of nobody. So far as fixing responsibility | is concerned, a general blackening of all in sight will { be as ineffectual as a general whitewash would have | been. It will cast discredit upon the army adminis- | tration, and to that extent stain the splendid record | of the war, but it will not make known who is to | blame for the evil. In fact, if the summary of the | | report given out proves to be correct, about the only remedy for the wrong will be a clean sweep from the War Department and the army headquarters of every- body who had any command or council in the con- duct of the West Indian campaign. The strangest part of the statement concerning the report is that which declares the commission will find General Miles’ charges that vile beef was supplied to | the army to be unfounded. These charges have been ! supported by the reports of many officers, who testi- | fied to the foul nature of the beef from their own | knowledge of it. Their statements in many instances were explicit. They saw the “green beard” upon the beei, they smelled the sickening odor when it was being cooked; they tasted the bitterness of it when it was served. They acted on commissions that in- spected it and condemned it. If the War Commission reports that charges so substantiated are unfounded | the slur cast upon the intelligence or the veracity of army officers will amount to a national scandal. The issue involved in this controversy has now be- come one of more than ordinary gravity. It has been demonstrated that there exists between the command- ing officers of the army and the War Department an antagonism that forebodes ill to the country if we should ever have a serious war on hand when like conditions prevail. The fact that Eagan should have | dared to denounce General Miles in the language of a blackguard is an evidence of the extent to which that hostility goes and the brutal coarseness with which it is expressed. It is not credible, however, that army officers, headed by the commanding general, would go so far as to deliberately fabricate testimony and issue lying reports for the purpose of discrediting he commissary department by misrepresenting the quality of food supplied to the troops. Altogether the situation is one that calls for radical | treatment. A general censure of everybody, with re- | sponsibility fixed nowhere, will not satisfy the country. If the report of the commission proves to be essentially what has been given out in this pre- liminary announcement there will be a demand for a Congressional investigation. The beef contract and the Eagan blackguardism are two offenses that cannot be disposed of by compromise. W agent of the Treasury, has just made public a report of the work performed under the Chinese exclusion act during the past year, and makes a very gratifying showing on the whole, though he discloses the fact that a considerable number of Chi- nese who should be excluded manage to make their way into the cduntry. It appears from a digest of the report which comes to us that the total number of Chinese persons other than laborers who applied for admission during the last fiscal year was only 6843. Of this number 5273 persons of the exempt class were admitted, 865 were in transit, 425 were allowed to attend the Omaha Ex- position and 280 were rejected. In addition to these 2200 Chinese registered laborers departed from the United States with the intention of returning, and 1497 such laborers did return and were permitted to enter. The total number of all classes actually ad- mitted, not including those in transit, was 7195. During the year 756 Chinese were arrested upon the charge of being unlawfully in the United States. Of | that number 220 were deported at an expense of $24,- 132. In addition to that sum there was expended $56,238 for the maintenance of Chinese inspectors to assist in the enforcement of the exclusion laws and for the expenses of other officers temporarily engaged in investigating alleged irregularities. Attention is directed to the fact that the admission of Chinese to take part as exhibitors at expositions of various kinds, now so frequently held throughout the country, is subject to great abuse and permits many Chinese to enter the country who would other- wise be shut out. Thus it is noted that 425 Chinese were admitted to take part in the Omaha Exposition, CHINESE EXCLUSION. ALTER S. CHANCE, supervising special There is one consolation: some Senatorial contests are in a worse state than ours. and it is said that long before the close of the exposi- tion nearly all of the Chinese so admitted scattered through the Union, and among them were a consid- l erable number of women, who since their arrival here have been sold for immoral purposes. Another means by which Chinese succeed in evad- ing the law is by seeking admission on the ground that they were born in the United States. A con- siderable number manage to make such a claim with success, notwithstanding the customs officers are morally certain the representations are false, by rea- son of the fact that when the applicants make appeal to the courts they are frequently admitted on the testimony of their countrymen. On that phase of the subject the striking statement is made that “one of the greatest obstacles to the proper enforcement of the Chinese exclusion laws is the belief of certain high judicial officers that they are unjust.” That is a serious charge to make against any member of the judiciary, and yet there is abundant evidence to justify it. In fact until very recently a large proportion of the people in the East regarded Chinese exclusion laws as but little more than dema- gogue legislation, and sentiment was so strong against the statutes that Judges were not very zealous, to say the least of it, in enforcnig them. Fortunately the whale country has now begun to understand the por- judicial partiality for Chinese will diminish. MR. HOWARD E. WRONG, SPEAKER. HE revelations concerning Mr. Howard E. T Wright warrant the change of his name to Wrong, for if ever a man went wrong, by de- liberation and intention, he is that man, Often and with repetition and protestation he had volunteered to his friends the assurance that he would not vote for Burns his family implorin, him not to support Burns and had shown them in proof of the fixity of his purpose. He had lifted the veil of privacy from his family shrine and appealed to the gods on his domestic altar in proof of the rectitude of his purpose. He had solicited such support as a gentleman may ask and a gentleman may give in his campaign for the Speakership, and had requited it with the pledge that he would deserve these favors and prove them well bestowed by re- fusing, under any and all circumstances, to support Burns. While he abided by these pledges and prom- ises, and in the balloting of the first two days kept his word, the Burns push attacked him. The district he represents was reviled and its people abused. It is probably one of the most respectable Assembly districts in California. It has no slums. Many public schoolhouses and the ‘State University are within its borders. A score of churches stand there for good morals, and that ineffable hope which is highest where social conditions are best. But these people, living and moving under these best influences and condi- tions, were coarsely attacked over the back of their representative. A true man under such circumstances would have vindicated and defended them. He would right influences which had gratified his ambition and promoted his public career. Instead of doing this, he turned traitor to his people and retreated into the camp that was firing at them. Since then revelations, confessions, admissions have come thick and fast and nasty. In the first agony of his offense he reached blindly in the darkness to clutch some support that would make respectable the treachery that tarnished his fame and the high place his ambition had just attained. So he declared that four Justices of the Supreme Court had asked him to forget his honor, his friends and his family and sup- port Burns. Assuming that this was true, the press of the State, appalled by the revelation, turned upon the Supreme Court the artillery of a righteous indig- nation. It is a hard matter for the bench to go into printed reply to any attack upon it. But Speaker Wrong had forced that hard duty upon the Justices, and they appeared in unanimous denial. Every former means. No flight of imagination is required to tell what kind of an act and what kind of a motive there- for compelled him to hold the Justices of the Supreme Court as a buffer between himself and popular indig- nation. He conscripted the Justices into this service, apparently believing that they would not emerge from their ermine as a cloak for his iniquity. Their unani- mous denial was immediately followed by the ex- posure of Speaker Wrong’s acceptance of money from another candidate who threatened to oppose him in pressing debt and was put into the campaign. When Asmodeus lifted the roofs off the houses of Madrid and exposed the doings of their inmates no more startling disclosure was made than has followed turn- ing the light on this transaction. The Speaker seems in such an advanced stage of moral idiocy as to re- gard such an act as legitimate politics! His friends had proudly ascribed to his strength the absence of opposition in the convention, and he perked and plumed himself in the sunshine of this ascription. carrying in his heart the consciousness that none of it was deserved. It only needed the denial of his cpponent that a cent was paid to complete the picture. That denial puts the case in this shape: Prepledging himself in the vote market by representing his nomi- nation as unlikely unless he had money to buy off opposition. The money was paid to him, but not by him to the opposing candidate. It stuck to hi fingers, if it ever touched them. Just what the Speaker will do next it is impossible to predict, for the reason that it is impossible to see around a corner or to conceive of a straight spiral. But the scene of his fall is very pitiful, and its conse- quences to the innocent are pathetic. If it serves to admonish others to avoid devious ways the bitter story may prove to be a political tonic. = It is usually wrong to write against right, but when Wright is Wrong criticism is permissible. Just now there is one manifest contradiction of the ordinary rule that “right wrongs no man,” and substantial evi- dence that it is possible for two wrongs to make a ‘Wright. Senator Tillman has raised the point of order that the President cannot lawfully declare or make war against the Philippine islanders without the consent of Congress, and it is now Aguinaldo’s time to smile. If the reports from Washington are correct the ‘War Commission will decide that the refrigerated and embalmed beef had a better odor than anything else in the West Indian campaign. Surely we will have to elect Senators by direct vote of the people for the sake of public comfort if for no other reason. Deadlocks in the Legislatures are be- coming monotonous. No matter how Miles treats Eagan he will be for- given if he never consents to arbitrate the thing. S It is to be hoped the Examiner will permit the re- ception to Shafter. —— s Speaker Wrong won’t do it again. He won’t have a chance Mr. Green, and his most amazing explanation that | the convention and the rest went partly to pay a| himself to Grant before his nomination, he bulled | tentous nature of such immigration, and the evil of The Trouble in Which the Late Rot- He had exhibited letters from | have shown in his conduct the best results of the up- | friend of Mr. Speaker Wrong appreciates what this | the judicial reserve to protest against his seizure of | t 4 ERaE | months for their salaries? part of it was used before his nomination to buy off | | The Question Will Be Transferred to | THE GORDIAN KNOT IN CITY SCHOOL AFFAIRS Schools May Close for Three Months. ONE-TWELFTH ACT VIOLATED MERCHANT AND TEACHER MAY HAVE TO WHISTLE. ten Board of School Directors Has Plunged Them Both. Judge Belcher yesterday denfed Miss Mollie L. Sabins' order to restrain the Board of Education from dismissing her from her position as teacher in the Wash- ington Evening School. Miss Sabins is one of the two—or possi- bly all—teachers who are fearful of losing thelr classes in that school and she and Miss Emily Dyer have brought suits for the salvation of their positions. Miss Sa- bins in her application could make no showing that the board intended her dis- missal, but alleged that, to the best of her belief, the department contemplated the abolition of her class, by which her ser- vices would be dispensed with, and she holds that the board has no power to re- move her. The order denying the appli- catlon is as follows: ON APPLICATION FOR TEMPORARY IN- JUNCTION. The plaintiff alleges in her complaint that | ever since October 10, 1897, she has been a | regular teacher of the School Department of San Francisco; that the defendant board is about to deprive her of her position as teacher without preferring charges or without having dismissed her for cause or without abolishing the school to which she has been assigned. She alleged further that pecuniary damages will not afford her adequate compensation and prays for an injunction. This is an ex parte application for a restrain- ing order pendente lite. It must be refused. The court ought not to embarrass a branch of the municipal government in the free and equal exercise of its duties upon an ex parte application, save upon the clearest showing that it is acting In excess of authofity or juris- diction or acting fraudulently, and also that the party complaining is remediless at law, that the injury threatened will be Irreparable and that the situation imperatively demands the immediate action of the court. In every other instance a restraining order ought not to be granted save in a proper case after notice of motion and a hearing. In this case, however, upon the papers, the order will be refused absolutely. The plain- ff has a complete and adequate remedy at law. If she should be Improperly ousted from her position in the School Department she can bring an action for salary due and for resto- ration to office and theréin obtain all the re- lef she is entitled to. (Ball vs. Board of Edu- cation, No. 63,479 in this department, decided December 6, 159. San Francisco Law Journal, December 21, 1893). The appiication for the temporary restrain- ing order is denled. EDWARD A. BELCHER. January 16, 1598, Miss Katherine Ball was a teacher of drawing whose position was abolished and declared vacant. She applied for a_ writ | of peremptory mandate to compel the | board to admit her to the position to vhich she was elected. Judge Belcher in his order granting her Eeutlon stated that no charges had been rought against her. neither was she in any w? isqualified. Her certificate au- thorized her to teach and in the opinion of the court the resolution by the board ousting her from her position was “mere- 1y a subterfuge to get rid of her for the purpose of making room for another ap- bointment. J. A. Spinettl, attorney for Miss Sabins, | stated that Judge Belcher’'s reference to his own decision in the Ball case pointed out the way of procedure in the Sabins case, and he would apply immediately for a writ of mandate if the Board of Edu- cation at its next meeting consolidated | her out of her class. ‘‘The two cases are identical,” said Mr. Spinetti. Their classes abolished and | they dropped from their elected position without lawful cause, their only recourse | is In the courts. Miss Ball won and Miss | Sabins will meet with the same hesult.” The somewhat three-cornered injunc- | tion proceedings against the payment of | school moneys may knot matters into a gordian tangle. Those cases once locked up in the courts when will a single teach- er—or a single merchant—be paid? The latter will be able to worry along withou his money, but what of the teachers,nine- tenths of whom cannot walt five or six | If the late | board were not authorized by the pro- visions of the ‘‘one-twelfth act” certain | of the money due merchants and teach- ers is as much lost to them as if under the Pacific Ocean. Or, in other words, the illegal debts cannot be collected. If | it is finally decided otherwise those debts, including November and December sala- ries, become legal obligations and must be settled. The payment of such a large sum will | cripple the school finances for the rest of | the fiscal year ending June to such an ex- tent that the schools will be shut down for two if not three months. This appalling prophecy is no mere the- ory or mere thought of an alarmist, but‘ comes from the statement of President Bergerot of the Board of Education. So deep is the evil growing out of the official villainy of the late board that nothing short of time and a miracle can untangle the gordian knot wound about the affairs of the S8an Francisco School Department. ““This is the condition of matters,” said President Bergerot, referring to the fore- going complication. *The unfortunate creditors of the late board hardly knew how they were victimized by our prede- cessors. Only by the utmost care and economy can we extract this School De- partment from its predicament. And in the midst of our troubles we hear a few laints over the Normal School. Why, we gave enough substitute and unemployed teachers in San Francisco now to last us ten years. If all the normal schools should take a vacation for a few years the State has a sufficient supply of teach- ers for all emergencies. It's the money and not the teacher question that is both- ering us.” ASHE CL "HIS CASE. Sacramento. R. Porter Ashe completed the introduc- tion of testimony yesterday in his contest with Leon Dennery for a seat in the State Senate. Harry Dimond and Lansing Miz- ner, intimate friends of Mr. Ashe, and Hattie Stewart, the colored housekeeper at 1107 Bush street, testified regarding Mr, Ashe’s residence there. This covered a period extending from December, 1896, to April, 1858, at which time he moved to the house of a relative just around the corner. A number of election officers were called to testuy as to the returns at the various polling places. When a witness named Sulllvan testi- fied some days since as to Dennery’s resi- dence Senator Bert reserved the right to recall him for cross-examination when Dennery was present. When the witness was placed at his disposal yesterday he declined to take advantage of the oppor- tunity. He will close his case to-day with gome rebuttal testimony, when the scene of battle will be transferred to the capital city. ——————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per ib at Townsends.* ——e Bpecial information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Maln 1042. ¢ In the Divorce Comrts. Isabella Cook has been granted a di- vorce from Israel Cook on the ground of willful neglect. Susie Cavagan has been awarded a decree of divorce from Thom- as Cavagan on the ground of extreme cruelty. Linda Costello was granted a divorce from Charles Costello on the ground of willful neglect. Ella Iken was granted a divorce from Arnold Iken, to- | gether with an order for alimony in the 25 a_ month. sug‘z)&t ?\T!sitchell has sued Peter Mitchell vorce, alleging cruelty as a cause i o B f s i s a divorce from Da’ . infidelity. Suits for divorce on (grrlgundafilrm of desertion have been filed by E. Conroy against Anna Conroy; C{ules Christiansen _against Lillian Christiansen; Norman olmes against Jewel L. Holmes; and C. Gorman agalnst Caroline Gorman. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. J. D. Davidson of Fresno is at the Pal- ace, W. D. Noble of Fresno is a guest at the Lick. E. E. Condo of Sacramento is a guest at the Grand. Charles Rule of Duncans Mills is a guest | at the Lick. Colonel L. S. Babbitt, U. S. A,, is at the Occidental. 2 W. T. Taylor and wife of Bakersfield are | at the Lick. | E. W. Whitcomb of Cheyenne is staying | at the Palace. W. H. Remington of Tacoma is a guest at the Palace. | W. A. Rogers of New York arrived at the Grand yesterday. | J. A. Muir, a railroad man from Los An- | geles, is at the Palace. Dr. A. R. Bailey and wife of Seattle are guests at the Occidental. R. H. Hussey and wife of Bakersfield | are guests at the Grand. District Attorney Carl E. Lindsey of Santa Cruz is at the Grand. | Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Page of Seattle ar- | rived at the Palace yesterday. G. M. Foote, the District Attorney of San Benlto County, is at the Lick. ‘W. C. Hollister, a railroad man from El Paso, s registered at the Occidental. Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Murray of Salt Lake | City are registered at the California. Captain F. J. Burns and wife of Seattle ‘ are at the Occidental. Captain Burns is a prominent insurance man of Seattle. | W. A. Bissell has been appointed the | assistant traffic manager of the Atchison | and Santa Fe Railway, with headquarters | in this city. He will also have charge of | the company’s commercial interests on | the Pacific Coast. J. 8. and C. E. Hodson of London ar- | rived at the Palace yesterday. They have just negotiated the purchase of a gold | mine from J. C. Kemp Van Ee in the | northern part of the State. Mr. Kemp | Van Ee is also at the Palace. —_— e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—C. R. Barton of | San Francisco and R. 8. MacDougall of Los Angeles are at the Netherlands; J. S. | Leherberger of San Francisco is at the | Metropole. J. Stern and wife of San Fran- | cisco are at the Savoy. Thomas B. Bishop and wife of San Francisco are at the ‘Windsor. —————— WEATHER CONDITIONS. Professor Hammon Says That the Rain Will Cease for a While. Professor Hammon ,said last evening that whatever changes there had been in | the weather conditions during the last | twenty-four hours were in favor of clear- ing weather. “If it continues for twelve | hours longer,” he said, “we will see tne sun on Tuesday. The conditions =t the present time are so unsettled, however, that it is very difficult to make a fore- cast with the expectation of it being veri- | fied. I have changed my mind several | times this afternoon. The pressure has been above the normal and the wind has been southeast and very mild at that. | It has made extraordinary efforts to veer | around to thé west, and if it succeeds in locating there for a while clear weather | will be the result. “The Sunday fains covered the State| from the nelghborhood of Santa Cruz | northward. Nearly a quarter of an inch fell in this city. The warm weather of | the past twenty-four hours is just exactiy | what is needed to allow the grain to grow, | i | i | | rulous and rambling statement. UPERVISORS FAVOR Th EXPOSITION Pledge City Aid to the Undertaking. A GAS INSPECTOR APPOINTED REDUCTION OF EXPENSES AND APPROPRIATIONS. Retrenchment Instead of Increased Outlay Is Demanded as Being Essential to an Economi- cal Administration. The Board of Supervisors at their reg- ular meeting yesterday took action fa- vorable to the proposed Pacific Ocean Ex- position, to be held in this city from June to December, 1901. The members of the board pledged themselves to aid the vast undertaking. They instructed City and County Attorney Franklin K. Lane to formulate a bill having for its purposa the asking of legislative authority for the raising of funds necessary to carry the project to a successful outcome. Mayor Phelan finally succeeded in se- curing a new gas inspector to succeed L. Taylor, who has held the position dur- ing the past two years. The position, which is considered something of a sine- cure, was given to O. L. Tupper, formerly of San Jose, but more recently holding a clerkship in the Auditor’s office. He was nominated by Mayor Phelan, Supervisor Perrault seconding it. The election was made unanimous. Before this action was taken Mr. Tay- lor, the retiring official, asked that he be accorded a hearing by the board. His re- quest was granted, and he made a gar- He said the city could not pay him enough to hold the office after the abuse he had received from his political enemies. He said he did not seek the office originally, that it had been thrust upon him. ; The law does not require a chemist to fill the position. He had qualified for it by taking lessons from Professor Price to qualify him in testing the illuminating ower of gas. He a e papers of Ea\'ing alluded in disrespectful tern 4 himself and of the office. His characte: he said, had never before been impugned in_public. 5 He accused Mayor Phelan of saying that he was supported by the gas com- pany and that he did not know his husi- ness, although, he also said, it could be learned in two hours. Mayor Phelan in reply en no part in the efforts said he had tak- to_cause him to fi | retire. He thought th ce should be ! filled by a young, aggressive man. He denied being addicted to falsehood, either i or otherwise, as claimed by Members of the former Board sors had said Mr Taylor was believed to be acceptable to the gas com pany. That was why the old board de- clined to disturb him despite the efforts of the Mayor. Mr. Taylor not quite satisfied with the exp ation of his Hon- aying he felt he had been slandered. s then closed by the el T s introduced by the Fi- nance Committee to the effect that in ad- dition to the duties now imposed upon the gas inspector by the board with respect to gas be made to apply also to electric lighting. he position of assistant clerk to the Board of Supervisors, held by Charles E. Parent, was declared vacant and F. J. Silvey was appointed to flil the position. and gives assurance of a plentiful crop 1o The change wl{l take effect on February 1. follow. It is melting the snow on the |~ Supervisor Holland presented a resolu- lower slopes, and has already sent im- | tion to the effect that if any election mense voll]umes of water down to rivers. Yesterday morning it was raining at Santa Rosa, Calistoga, Tehama, Red Bluft, Alta, Blue Canyon, Emigrant Gap, Auburn and Cisco, and snowing all along the mountain rapges. At Summit there were twenty-five feet of snow on the ground. There were 141 inches of water in the channel at Sacramento and rising. The temperature is rising almost every- where, but unless there is much warmer weather or warmer rains there is no dan- ger of an overflow. e LOST HIS ALL. John Francis Invested in a Gold Mine and Took His Life. John Francis, a salt dealer by occupa- tion and residing at 606 Hampshire street, committed suicide yesterday morning by taking strychnine. His wife was the only witness who seemed to know anything about the af- fair. Early in the forenoon she sent to the City and Countf' Hospital for a physician. 8. C. Leller, an interne, re- sponded to the summons, and hurried to the house, but Francis had died before he gfll there. husband went to the stable to curry his horse, and when he returned he informed her that he had taken strychnine with the intention of ending his life. He seemed to have repented of his rash act, for he bade her summon a doctor. Francis was an_Englishman by birth and 35 years old. He had invested all his savings and had mortgaged his home for the means in a gold mine in Calaveras County that he expected would make him rich. But the mine was slow, as all mines are for poor men, and he lost his all. His home was about to be sold to the pay the mortgage and he became dis- | couraged. An inquest will be held. ASTOR BATTERY GOES HOME. Four Transports to Sail in About Ten Days. The Astor Battery departed for New York at 6 o'clock last night. The detach- ment of New Yorkers which arrived on the Mariposa a few days ago departed Sunday night. The Senator will sall again in about ten days or about the same time as the Scandia and Morgan Clty. The Ohio will most likely join iha fleet and the three regiments of regular infantry will be placed on the high seas bound for Manila. Captain Henry C. Danks is busy mustering out the threa companies of the Eighth California at the Presidio. They expect to leave the service about the last day of this month. A number of important changes have been made in army circles in accordance with. orders from Washington. Troops and officers are constently coming and é(;l:grérofi g:‘e mmtm'yl reservation here. erriam wi v v on the 24th of this mm’xfliaVe o Denien —_——— Wireless Electricity. A very large audience listened to the lecture on “Wireless Photography,” giv- en by Professor A. Van der Naillen, pres- ident of the San Francisco School of En- gineers, at the Academy of Sciences last night. The professor illustrated by means of experiments how wave currents of electricity can be transmitted by no other medium than that of the air and success- fully caught at any point. His a; para- tus consisted of machines and instru- ents at one end of the room and plate of zine, with the instru a large in no manner connected iments, at the other. When the machine was operated the waves of electricity liberated from the large coil beat ugon the plate of zinc some distance off. The professor explained that he pro- 0sed only to effect this operation on the 1gh seas as the metal and other objects which deflect electricity from its course on land are not present there. He said he had made several experiments on the Communieated § SR einis tae T sy t nts far dfs without the use of w"x_)eo et Sudden Death. Mrs. Julla Ford, an aged woman, died suddenly yesterday on the sidewalk in front of 1136 Howard street. The body was taken to the M 3 the cause of deseth S Avoviaxy was Mrs. Francis said that her | | called for the issuance of bonds to raise | money for the extension of the Park Pan- | handle that such election will include a | bond issue necessary for the construction of public school buildings and other im- | provements as may be deemed necessary in the Oull)'h!F districts. | Chairman Holland presented a resolu- tion asking that Messrs. Shea & Shea be requested to furnish an estimate of the { expenses necessary to place the City | Hall in good condition before being re | ceived by the city from the Board of City Hall Commissioners. | Chairman Perrauit presented an order repealing the authorization to the Police | Commissioners whereby they were to in- crease the police force by the addition of twenty-five men, as retrenchment instead | of increased outlays are demanded in an economical administration of muniecipal The matter went over for one affairs. weelk. Dr. Perrault, the watchdog of the treas- ury, objected to the passing of an order appropriating $6%0 for ilters in the City all. He sald the board was studyin | now how to save money, not how to spen: |it. The matter was indefinitely postponed. | Dr. Perrault also objected io *spending | $500 upon the remodeling of the Stanyan- street police station and for patrol wag- | ons, horses and furnishing for it. The matter was referred to the Health and | Police Committee. The board sustained | the veto of the Mayor of the ticket scalp- | ers’ ordinance. | " Upon_the motion of Dr. Perrault, sec- onded by Supervisor Aigeltinger, a num- | ber of bills for street lightine, aggregat- ing about $30,000, were reconsidered and referred to the present Committee on | Street Lights. A number of bills for | street work were also referred back to | the Street Committee for further investi- | gation. | “'The Fire Department Committes an- | nounced that hereafter its weekly meet- | ings will be held on Tuesdays at 10 a. m. The request of the National Athletic | Club for a permit for its boxing bout on | the 24th inst. did not come before tha meeting. The club managers are going | on with their preparations for the meet- | ing _expecting favorable action at the | hands of the Health and Police Committee next Frida California Limited. | Connecting train leaving at 5 p. m. on Sun- i days, Tuesdays and Fridays allows half a day {in Los Angeles. Solid vestibuled, electric | lighted, dining car and observation car train | Los Angeles to Chicago via the Santa Fe | Route. Finest service ever given across the | continent. Full particulars at 623 Market st. — e —————— Angostura Bitters, prepared by Dr. J. G. B. 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