The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 23, 1899, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL MONDAY. 2 JANUARY 23, 1899. JANUARY 23, 1890 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION O ICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. | Telephone Main 1865. EDITORIAL ROOM ......2IT to 981 Stevenson Street | Telephone Main 1874 ———— | THE €AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is | served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for IS cents a week. By mail $6 per year: per month 65 cents. THE SUNDAY CALL 32 pages. On= year, by mall, $1.50 THE WEEKLY CALL, 18 pages ..One year, by mall, $i OAKLAND OFFICE.................. rvere....008 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. Room 88, Worid Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE...............Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE Marquetts Building | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Represeatative. THE SPIDER @AND HIS PARLOR. ITH the cunning craft of a spider, Dan Burns W has been weaving a mesh in which he hopes to ensnare a sufficient number of legislators to bring about his election to the United States; Senate. To the snare which'he is contriving he gives | the high-sounding title of Republican caucus, and | hopes by the attractiveness of the name to delude the | unwary into his power. | It is the old story of the spider and the fly, and a | more venomous spider, even among the tarantulas of | Mexico, never existed than the one who is now work- ing in secret at Sacramento, alternately cajoling | honest men to trust to his promises and fuming with 1 rage because he is met everywhere by reminders that | his record is not one that creates confidence. | Honest Republicans who go into a caucus with the | Burns gang may as well leave hope behind. That | underhand worker and secret schemer, who kept ? his intrigues for the Senatorship in the background,} hidden from the people, during the campaign; and | who has all along been allied with such tricksters as | the exposed Wright, would not favor a caucus if he | had not already arranged for its management and | BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until | 9:30 ‘o'clock. €21 McAllister street. open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin st open until 9:30 o'clock. 941 Mission street street, corner Mission street, street, open untll until 9:30 o'clock. Kentucky streets, o cpen until 0 o'clock. 2991 Market | teenth open until 9 o'clock. NW. open until 9 o'clock. 2518 | S o'clock. 106 Eleventh 1805 Polk street, open corner Twenty-second ana until © o'clock. control. In the parlor of the spider there is always a | trap door that leads to a slaughter pen. The Senatorial contest should be continued in the | open. So many scandals have been brought to ]ight‘ that a resort to secrecy now would raise suspicions even | against theinnocent. Itisasserted that Burns has a few | weak rascals in the Legislature who would like to vote | for him, but dare not do so unlessa caucus affords them | ABIU “The Wiz A C he Wedding D: Lady of Lions.” Illis streets, Spectalties. evening, January 27. 1 Monday evening, Feb- | AULCTION ALESs. —Monday, January 30, at 12| nery street. anuary, etc. G. at 11 a. 25, WHAT THE FIGURES SHOW. RADE conditions appear about the same as for 1 weeks. In the Eastern States. we are at business is lively, as shown by the , which last week were 40.8 per cent larger than for the same week in 1898, If these figures show anything it is that trade is over 40 perj sev cent better this year than last. But there is a joker in | this that is apt to be overlooked. Out of a total of | $1,096,000,000 clearings for the week those of New Y City were $1.346,000,000, or two-thirds of the | total: andas the vast transactions of Wall street make up a large percentage of this $1,346,000,000it will readily be seen that speculation, and not trading in mer- chandise, creates most of these clearings and there- most of the g: Hence business may really be | quiet all over the country, but if there is a booming York the bank clearings may fictitiously show a lively state of ordinary trade. But there is an offset to this. If the other cities of | the country, where stock speculation plays second fiddle, also, show a large gain, it is reasonable to in- v better. This is the condi- | tian ratpresent. Last week two ~important cities—Kansas City and New Orleans—showed a loss in bank clearings, and the dozen principal cities ex- hibited an increase ra from 12 per cent to 53 per From this showing, therefore, there is| actually a great improvement in business throughout | the country. In fact, it is undeniable that the foreign trade of the country is far ahead of anything ever be- fore known, and the European balance in our (m'orl is continually growing. That the iron trade is still | in immense boom is shown by the fact that many mills, when name prohibitory prices in order to scare off this new business, or posi- tively refuse to accept it on any terms for want of Surely this is the pinnacle of commercial The number of these works is rapidly in- as the demand for material covers many months’ capacity. | The other great staples continue in fair shape. | Lumber is reported firm almost everywhere, and | prices for several descriptions are advancing. The | exports of wheat are a fraction under those of last | stock market in New fer that business is rea on ing cent. having sent orders, remarkable something like an excuse. That excuse should not | be given. So long as the contest is carried on in the full light of publicity, honesty has nothing to fear, but | in the darkness the advantage will be with dishonesty. The issue ought to be settled before the close of this week. The people who would have been wearied by | so protracted a controversy under any circum- stances have been thoroughly disgusted by the| amount of corruption The Call has disclosed and the | investigating committee has confirmed by evidence obtained from the accused parties themselves. The | public desire now is that the Senatorial issue be deter- ! mined promptly by the election of an honest m:m,i and that the investigation committee go on with its‘ work until every bribe-taker is exposed and corrup- | tion traced to its source. ! The spider has worked in the dark, but light hasf already fallen upon a portion of his web and it re- | quires no great brilliancy of eyesight to see where | the threads lead. It is safe to say Speaker Wright | did not go into the Burns parlor for nothing. It is | equally safe to say Burns will do everything in his | | power to get a whitewashing report from the investi- | gating committee. That he may accomplish the two | dirty tasks of renovating the reputation of \\'right{ and procuring his own election to the Senate, he is | desirous of having a secret caucus. The Mexican | tarantula has spread the mesh and whoever goes into | it is a fool. | FOREST PLANTING IN MINNESOTA. ‘ INNESOTA is one of the States that was be- | /\/\ lieved by its early settlers to have “inex- | haustible forests.”” Accordingly they cut| the timber recklessly, let fires ravage it and wasted it | in every way that human carelessness and negligence can do. Minnesota is still a young State. Hardly a single generation has passed away since the first pioneers began to chop wood and start forest fires within her borders, and yet she is to-day consider- ing what she can do to restore the trees to large areas of land from which they have been swept | away. | The State at present makes provision for the su- pervision of the forests by an official bearing the sig- | nificant title of State Fire Warden, thus showing that his chief duty is to fight fire. Protection for the re maining forests, however, is not enough, and re- cently there was obtained from Dr. C. A. Schenck, | formerly official Assessor of Forests in Hesse- Darmstadt, but now superintendent of George Van- | derbilt's estate at Biltmore, a plan for reforesting a | large area of the State with a detailed estimate of the | probable cost and the profits likely to ensue. From a review of his report given by the St. Paul | Pioneer Press it appears there are 5,000,000 acres of | vacant land in Minnesota, which includes land that! has been cut over as well as land regarded as un—‘ suited to agriculture. Of that amount it is estimated | that at least 2,000,000 acres could be well and profit- | ably replanted with forests. As a good portion of | ful if it would form in our history a chapter to be proud of. The opposition to American ship-building has been more or less secret, but it has always been cffective. After fighting for such a measure for twenty-five years of in active and vigorous political career, Mr. Edmunds in his retirement stiil sees the desired legislation postponed and our merchant marine unprotected. Fortunately the prospects are that the long battle is about to be won. The demand for protection to our shipping interests is now widespread, persistent and emphatic. It comes from State Legislatures, from the press, from commercial and industrial organiza- tions of all kinds, and Congress can no longer ignore it. In fact, the expansion of our commerce by reason of the growth of our export trade has been so great of late that an increase in our shipping business has become a necessity of the time. We need ships to carry on our commerce, and we cannot with safety rely upon ships of other nations. As Mr. Edmunds himself pointed out, if any two of the great commercial nations who are now carrying our goods for us should go to war, we would be left in the lurch, and until we could build ships of our own the results would be disastrous. These economic considerations are having their ef- fect. Many persons who ignored the justice of the claims of our ship-builders, ship-owners and sailors, are keenly alive to the importance of providing the nation with ample shipping now that the necessity of it-is so apparent. There still remain some inveterate free traders who insist that the best way to build up a merchant marine is to permit the granting of Amer- ican registers to foreign-built ships. Fortunately the number of these men is not large. The great ma- jority of the people desire to have our merchant ves- sels built in our own ship-yards and by our own labor. It has been demonstrated that we are excelled as hip-builders by no people in the world. It is im- | possible, however, for our shipping companies or our builders to compete with the heavily subsidized lines of European nations. It is full time therefore that the long contest for justice should be bivught to an end. The present Congress will add much to the luster of its record and the value of its services to the country if it enacts a well devised shipping bill before it adjourns. l territorial expansion in Asia, is deeper than party and touches the foundation of the Government. It is hardly possible that it should become a political ue between parties, notwithstanding the strenuous cfforts of Mr. Bryan to deprive it of its patriotic dig- nity. Therefore, having maintained a uniform and uncompromising attitude against this treacherous ef- fort to revolutionize our institutions, it is gratifying to The Call to observe that, on the substantial proposi- tion, Senators White and Perkins, though elected by opposing parties, are in accord. But there, for the time at least, the resemblance between them ceases. Senator White stands by his own convictions. Sena- tor Perkins expresses similar opinions, but proposes, by his vote, to obey the conflicting instructions of our State Legislature and indorse the treaty of Paris with- out amendment. Believing, as we do, in the conscientious desire of Senator Perkins to do right and respecting his deference to the will of the people, when properly formulated and expressed, we are nevertheless con- vinced that, upon reconsideration, he will find that his judgment and his vote ought to correspond. He has certainly misconceived the extent and the application of the doctrine that a State-Legislature has the right to instruct Federal Senators. Representatives are elected by the people in Congressional districts, and, as to them, there has never been a pretense that they could be governed by iegislative direction. They are simply “requested” to vote in conformity with legislative suggestion. But, within proper limits, it has been recognized that the right to instruct Federal Senators exists and that they should either obey or re- sign. Senator Perkins has accepted the doctrine without observing its limitations. In one aspect he SENATOR PERKINS. MPERIAL colonization, or in its concrete form, | represents the restricted sovereignty of the State of California and his immediate constituency is the Legislature, but, in another sense, he is a Senator of the United States with the Nation for his constitu- ency, and beyond any State or legislative jurisdiction whatever. On those questions arising in the Senate of the United States, which affect exclusively the local interests of the State, he is traditionally bound to fol- low legislative instructions or vacate his seat. But RANCH AND RURAL LIFE. Many dairymen in this State have objected to the measures necessary to stamp out tuberculosis in their herds. all infected animals and cremate their carcasses. come a serious matter, and the interest in it is shown by a recent meet- ing in Marlborough House, where the Prince of Wales presided and Lord Salisbury and Lord Rosebery made addresses, and the Prince of Wales re- ported that the Queen had ordered the entire extermination of one of her dairy herds, in which the disease had appeared. The Livestock Commissioners of Illinois report that experiments carried on at Rockford prove that cattle infected by Texas fever, if dipped in dy- namo oil and sulphur, become incapable of communicating the disease to healthy stock. ficulties that beset fruit culture. ful. ly fed. duces only $18. STATE 200 men and 1000 horses and mules. growing on the planet. pered and made money. that end is turned up. it reaches the egg and kills it. The breeding of poultry in California presents some of the same dif- The clement climate whick makes fruit trees great, precocious and prolonged bearers also promotes the life of par- asites which sting and bore and suck to the exhaustion of vitality and the injury of the crop. So in poultry, mites and parasites, minute and appar- ent, require of the breeder constant vigilance. the same reward which the fruit grower gets, of great profit if he is watch- Too much shelter is given ‘to poultry here rather than too little. Close quarters breed insect enemies that would not appear if there were more ex- posure to the weather and the open air. It costs as much to feed a poor cow as a good one, and the profits of proper feeding of a good cow are greatly above those when she is poor- In Eastern creameries this is demonstrated. erly and well fed will yield $55 a year income; when poorly fed she pro- At Clovis, in Madera County, is one wheatfield of forty square miles, . It is put in by Mr. Clovis Cole, who employed in the plowing and seeding It is so level that the whole of it can be séen from one point of view, and it should be an object of interest to Eastern visitors, for it is probably the The greatest mushroom crop in the Union grows in California. rains have produced tons of this valuable fungus. tris, the best variety, is in evidence everywhere. import dried mushrooms from China and mushroom catsup from England when the raw material goes to waste at home. Cloverdale citrus fair will be held in February. The ‘Sebastopol Cannery last week shipped a carload of canned fruit te New Zealand, one to New York and one to West Virginia. The Sebastopol Times says that Mr. Gallagher of that place embarked in dairying at Bodega last year with ninety cows, selling his milk to the Bodega Creamery, and notwithstanding the dry and unfavorable year pros- The apple and pear growers have an enemy in the codlin moth. eggs are deposited in the blossom end of the fruit when it is small, and Then is the time to spray with an insecticide, for After the fruit has grown and end is turned down, it is useless to spray, for the remedy doeslhr?oltflorse?cr;: the egg. Apple men in Oregon complain that their export last year was shortened by a thousand carloads by this moth. The rain has started all sorts of farm, orchard an over the State, and preparations for planting, ing make the ranches scenes of busy life. The only way to do it is to kill In England this has be- But there awaits for his care A good cow prop- NOTES. largest unbroken wheatfield now The late The Agaricus Conpes- It is strange that we Its d vineyard work all pruning, plowing and seed- AROUND THE CORRIDORS C. R. Scott of Portland is a guest at the Occidental. F. M. West, a banker of Stockton, is at the Grand. John Fox of Virginia City is a guest at the Palace. J. W. Henderson, a banker of Eureka, is at the Lick. John Bruner and wife of are at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson of Warren, Pa., are at the Palace. J. L. Copeland of Los Angeles is regis- tered at the Palace. J. H. Black and C. W. Cook of New York are at the Palace. J. C. Bull Jr., a lumber merchant from Arcata, is at the Lick. C. B. and A. O. Helfenstein of Chicago registered at the Occidental yesterday. R. H. de Witt of Yreka, who is the pres- ent Treasurer of SiskiyousCounty, is reg- istered at the Lick. E. H. Breindenback, the agent of Beck & Corbett on this coast, is a guest at the Grand. His home is in Los Angeles. A. F. Drago, the editor of Le Patria, has just returned from Mexico. He has contracts for the building of an electric railroad in the City of Mexico. Sacramento CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—W. G. McCarthy of San Francisco is at the Stuart; ex- Senator C. N. Felton of San Francisco is at the Windsor. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Two sloops of war, to be named Vestal and Shearwater, were laid down at Sheer- ness dockyard on January 2. They will be 180 feet in length, 32 feet 10% inches beam, and draw 10 feet forward and 13 feet aft, displacing 980 tons. They will be sheathed with teak 4 inches thick to a heignt of 2 feet above the water-line. The engines of 1400 horse-power will be bullt at the Thames Shipbuilding Yards, and- are cal- culated to give a speed of 13.25 knots. The Dutch Government has laid down a | coast-defense ship at Amsterdam. She | will be an enlargement and improvement of the Kortenaer, 322 feet in length, 52 feet 4 inches beam, and 4950 tons, with en- gines of 5300 horse-power, intended to give a speed of 16 knots and a radius of action |1s offered in Congress and the name of then placed between the Hyacinth, 720 feet from the latter, and eleven hawsers, each with a strain of 350 tons, were attached to the two ships lead- ing over the pontoon. A second pontoon with six hawsers was located directly | over the battleship, and the lifting and canting process began, and on July 13 last the Gangoot was righted to within kg degrees. Further righting was effected by undermining the bottom by means of compressed air and thus rignting the ves- sel at a rate of 21 degrees per week. The Gangoot now stands upright and the next step will be to pump air into the hold and with the ald of the pontoons bring her afloat. Drawings for an armored crufser to be 500 feet in length have been received at Devonport and draughtsmen in the mold- loft are working overtime laying her down. TO EXEMPT CHURCH PROPERTY Rev. Dr. Locke Favors the Proposed; Amendment to the Consti- | tution. the battleship and Dr. Charles Edward Locke's subject at | the Central Methdist Episcopal Church | last evening was, “Should the Great State of California Tax Houses of Worship? The text was Acts vill:3—"‘As.for Saul, he made havoc of the church.” He spoke as follows: “The proposition which I wish to dis- cuss to-night is the exemption from taxa- tion of houses of worship and the sites which they occupy. Our contention is not for the exemption of all property which belongs to church corporations, but for | such property as is not income-producing. All property held by the church for in- vestment and all property from which revenues are received in our judgment | should be taxable. “Houses of worship should remain un- | taxed because this is a Christian nation. The Sabbath is honored in the law, the | Bible is recognized in the courts, prayer God is on our coins. One in four of the populaton is a church member, and, | probably, one in two is an attendant of | and sympathiger with the church. “The church should not be taxed be: cause the church is for the people; is sup- ported by the voluntary offerings of the | people. It is not a means of temporal gain to its members. They willingly share | in the support of the church because of the ennobling influences which are exerted by the church. To tax church property | for which members have willingly al- ready taxed themselves is a tax on a tax, | and thus outrages the fundamental prin- it must had. The park was a sea of people g:d according to Captain Thompson o the mounted police the drive was the largest of six months. The music was ex- cellent and the listeners appreciative. idents, resulting in painful in. ju’fflv:: (zcgsdmany of the crowd, occurred. ‘August Malllard, residing at 117 Palmer venue, was out wheeling and collided a"ite}?uanother cyclist. He suffered a dis- location of the elbow and was removed to the Park Hospital for treatment. Drs. Green and Simon reduced the dlslocazllnn and sent the patient home. A short t! u!)e jater the physicians were called upon to set a broken arm. Clara Georgeau (‘;1“;; voung girl living with her parents at 212 Mason street, fell down an embankment and sustained a fracture of both bones o the arm just above the wrist. Afvl(‘r le; injuries had been attended to she was al:) sent to her residerce. These v:',ere i o injuries recorded during the ayi al . it is remarkable, considering the vas n&: of the crowd and the h(ilg drive, that mor eople were not injured. pl"rulsunjly large _crowds \'laltefd fl:‘t‘a_ Chutes and Sutro’s Baths. At the S(‘A‘l;;nr place the ossified man, William F. . I;‘, is the center of attraction, alt c;ugd Pianka and her lions are well patronizec: Next b Thursda; night the amateur Amazon march, in which fifty shapely young women wiudmnl‘(e t?;:\:! debut rts, will be the drawing 2 “f\‘l‘SuFra's ‘Baths the usual aquatic pro- gramme entertained the visitors, Follow ing are the results: 50-yard dash-Ottg Schultz first, W. Doyle second. 100-yar dash—Otto Schuitz first, O. Beyfuss sec: ond. Tub_race, two in a tub—O. Beyfuss and L. Harper first, B. McCann and, € Lynch second. Obstacle race—A. J. Baxtr first, B. Carroll second. Trick an ey alving—0. Schultz first, D. McCanf, seCs ond. Trapeze and high diving—D. first, F. Ra second ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDMS. JANITORS—N. N., City. The janitors for the courts of San Francisco are ap- pointed by the Board of Supervisors. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION—A. B. C., City. For information as to fll‘lile and place for civil service exs,mlna(lor;kn the gur\'Pyor General's department make application at that office. Co- GRANT'S CHILDREN—A F:eader. vina, Cal. General and Mrs. U. 8. Grant were the parents of four chlmren——Frl:xe(}- erick Dent, Ulysses 8. Jr., Jesse and Nel- lie, who married Algernon Sartoris. THE GOVERNOR'S APPOINTMENTS _§. of F. Y., Los Angeles, Cal. A list of appointees by the Governor of }E!?nmp‘;s to be found in the Blue Book of California; also at the office of the State Controller. DEFACING COIN—S§., City. No one has a right to deface United States coin except the United States (;fl‘lclalu‘ ’;n;: € of coin “light” because Al tandard welght is & defacing of the coln. GOLD NUGGETS—W. L., Oakland, Cal. The United States Branch Mint at San Francisco will recelve gold nuggets and convert the same into Coin for the dec positor. It is not necessary that the gol Ehould first be converted into bullion. HAWAITAN COIN—J. M. O, City. No coin is legal tender in the United States except it be such as is issued outhm! (h: United States Mint or its branches. “one dime Issued by the ?o]‘ker;nr}?ae‘x‘:; r;g Hawail under the reign of Kala not & legal tender in the United States, nor is any other foreign coin. PROMISSORY NOTE—R. G., Sutter Creek, Cal. The law of the State of Cali- fornia says that “it is not necessary to make a demand of payment upon the principal debtor in a negotiable instru- ment in order to charge him, but if the instrument is by its terms payable at a specified place and he is able and willing to pay it there at maturity, such ability and willingness are equivalent to an of- fer of payment on his part CITIZENSHIP PAPERS—R. H., Bur- lingame, Cal. If it appears to the satis- faction of the court to which you shall apply for your second papers that you made a declaration of intention two years prior to making the second application, and that you have resided continuously in the United States for five years prior to your final application and one year within the State In which you make appli- cation, you can obtain apers -and become a citizen of the United States. THE CIVIL SERVICE—C., City. The President of the United States has the power to extend the civil service posi- tions. Having the power to increase it, he also has the power to reduce it. The Civil Service Commission consists of three persons, not more than two from one po- fitical party, appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The rules framed by the commission for the pur- pose of carrying out the provisions of the | act are subject to the approval of the President. UNITED STATES SENATORS—C. N. W., City. Leland Stanford was elected United States Senator from California January 28, 1885, to succeed James T. Far- ley, and his term commenced March 4, 1885; George Hearst was appointed by Gov- ernor Stoneman March 25,1886,to serveout the term of John F. Miller, who died in office at Washington, D. C., March 8, 18%; A. P. Williams was elected August 4, 1886, to fill the unexpired term of John F. Mil- | ler; Leland Stanford was re-elected Jan- | uary 14, 1891, to succeed himself—died at the area has already been forfeited to the State for | Giple of taxation. Then, too, | Palo Alto June 20, 1893; Charles N. Fel- year, but it _must be remembered that they were phenomenally large in 1898, Wool is also behind 1808 | in point of movement, but the clouded situation in this staple is slowly ¢learing. Hides and leather and boots and shoes are reported in satisfactory condi- tion, and prices for the former are firm. The cotton trade is better than last year, and the tendency in prices is somewhat upward, with increasing attention being paid to the market. All these indications are favorable, and are accentuated by the continueéd de- crease in failures, those of last week being 262, agai 300 for the corresponding week in 1898. In California there are few new features worthy of note. The rain has come and gone and left in its wake general confidence and cheerfulness. The farm- érs are busy putting in what promises to be one of the Jargest cereal crops ever harvested, and with the usual rains from now on present anticipations will doubtless be realized: ~ Scanty stocks of everything all over the State promise large returns for this com- .'ing crop, and with this prospect in view there is a disposition- to expand in all lines of business. In fact, the State never looked better than it does to-day. Money is much more accessible than it has been for a twelvemonth, failures are few and small and the situa- tion is one of comparative ease all around. While- the entente cordiale between England and America is doubtless in good working order, it has . not reached the point at which McKinley can appoint a British subject Governor of the Philippines, as has been intelligently suggested from London. When such a point has been reached he will elect the Prince of Wales to the Presidency A ball-player hasjust been sentenced to seyen years' for stealing something beside bases and 'sliding to homes when a policeman happened to be acting as umpire. ¢ There must be great indignation in Nevada. Think of the disgrace involved in the sale of a vote for $30. No Californian legislator has ever been accused of stch a crime. imprisonment Colonel Berry of the late Seventh California’ has returned a balance to the Red Cross people, but he will never be accused of having exercised undue haste il the matter. — . It'is a shameful thing that a Jack of funds should cause the closing of any school, and still more shame- ful because none of the rogues who wasted the funds are in jail. While there can never be pleasure in agreeing with i “Eroker, when he says that 16 to I is a dead issue there ‘seems no way to avoid doing so. taxes, and the rest is virtually abandoned, it is be- lieved the whole 2,000,000 acres could be purchased at an average of 25 cents an acre. The further estimates are given as follows: The cost of planting per acre, with pine, is esti- mated at $11 25; adding which to the cost of the land makes a total of $11 50. Added to this must be he loss of taxes, the cost of protection and admin- {straflon, which, assuming the two million acres to be acquired gradually, are estimated at $50,000 per annum. The various items of expenditure, dis- tributed over a period of eighty years, are thus seen to foot up as follows: Cost of land, 2,000,000 acres at 25 cents per acre ..... Expense for planting 25,000 acres per year, at $11 25 per acre, $281,250, or in eighty years . . -..e0 22,500,000 Taxes, protection and admi = 000 per year for eighty years............ 4,000,000 TOtAl .econvasaes scooensnnes saneeeses..$27,000,000 When to that sum is added interest on the money expended during the eighty years, it is calculated the reforesting of 2,000,000 acres will cost Minnesota the sum of $42,400,000. That is a very heavy fine to pay for the neglect to take care of the forests in the first place. The penalty, however, will not have been paid in vain, for it is estimated that at the end of eighty years the land will be covered with timber averag- ing 12,000 feet board measure to the acre, worth in the aggregate $72,500,000 at present prices, and ca- pable of yielding to the State a yearly revenue of many millions of dollars. The moral for California to draw from these esti- mates furnished to Minnesota is that an ounce of pre- vention is worth a pound of cure, and that it would be a great deal better for her to preserve the forests she has than to let them burn and then replant the land at a cost of millions and wait for years to get a return. A LONG FIGHT FOR JUSTICE. X-SENATOR EDMUNDS in the hearing be- fore the Senate Committee on Commerce stated that during his public career he had been en- gaged for twenty-five years in trying to procure the enactment of legislation that would serve to protect and promote our merchant marine. The statement serves to recall popular attention to the long period in which earnest and able statesmen have been trying to do this justice to our shipowners and sailors, but have been baffled by the opposition forces. An accurate and comprehensive account of the means by which all efforts toward legislation favor- able to our merchant marine have been defeated, would be interesting and instructive, but it is doubt- | the affairs of the Nation, matters relating to constitu- | tional interpretation or to our intercourse with for- } eign powers, issues of peace or of war, every subject | within the scope of Congressional action in which the | entire people of the country are equally interested, are | beyond the powers of any: State Legislature, and in relation to them an instruction is a plain usurpation. . In respect to the proposed acquisition and reten- | tion of the Philippines, Senator Perkins represents | forty-five States and all their inhabitants. He is not | an agent of the State, employed merely to record its }legislati\'e decrees on subjects of Federal cognizance, | but a statesman, chosen to protect the special interests | of the State, but independently to employ his intel- lect, his knowledge and his broad patriotism for the equal benefit of seventy-five millions of people, who rely for the preservation and the development of American institutions and American civilization upon the Federal Government, administered under the Constitution. This is the broad and the accurate view, conforming to our political system, of the relation between a Senator of the United States and the republic. Any other construction of his duties and of his obligations would reduce him to the insignificance of a legislative clerk. "The disgraceful struggle now proceeding at Sacramento and the moral and intellectual degrada- tion of .the two leading candidates convey no true idea of the proportions to which an American states- man is expected to attain when he reaches the Senate of the United States. We may love the common- wealth in which we live, but we must not imagine that the State of California is the United States of America. The proposition is unanswerable that, on national issues, Mr. Perkins is a Senator of the United States, and that, in that capacity, his allegiance is due to the nation and not to a majority in a State Legislature. It is his brains, his sagacity, his inde- pendent and manly action, and not blind subserviency to a void resolution of instruction, that the Union demands at his hands. If in his opinion territorial expansion in Asia is inconsistent with our institu- tions, then he should express and vote that opinion, for the benefit of forty-five States, held together in indissoluble unity. Senator Perkins, without a legislative instruction, and in the face of the last preceding action of the Legislature, voted for the annexation of Hawaii, in response to what he conceived to be the public senti- ment in this State. We differed from him then, but respected his evident desire to keep the Government under popular control. We hope now that he may take that broader view of the broader question before him, that will lead him to display before the world the august figure of a national Senator, true to him- self, true to his country and true to mankind. of 6000 miles at 10 knots. Three protected cruisers—the North Brabant, Utrecht and Gelderland, of 3936 tons— are building at the dockyards at Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Flushing. The Coquette, torpedo-boat destroyer, built by Thornycroft, had a preliminary trial on December 14 and made 30.371 knots under 215 pounds of steam, develop- ing 5740 horse-power. The boat was draw- ing 6 feet forward and 7 feet 7% inches aft, being 5 iInches light. Her contract speed is 30 knots for a continuous run of three hours. The German navy personnel list for 1899 provides for 1118 officers of the executive branch, 142 surgeons, 1119 deck officers, 5193 non-commissioned officers, 18,079 men and 1000 cabin boys. This is an inecrease over 1898 of 545 officers of all classes, 90 men and 250 boys. The use of torpedo-boats as dispatch- boats proved a failure during our recent war with Spain, but German navy offi- clals have come to a contrary conclusion and strongly recommend torpedo-boats as sea-messengers. .wo boats of 125 tons and 25-knot speed went with the Hohen- zollern when the Emperor visited Norway and were frequently used as dispatch boats. They encountered heavy weather, but performed their service with the greatest punctuality, and when the cruise was over the lieutenants in command were decorated for their good work. The boats had no regular engineers, skilled machinists serving instead. Last May irregularities were aiscovered in the dockyard administration at Malta and the comimission appointed to investi- gate has just submitted its report. It found that Secretary Vela had been using forged vouchers for his own benefit, and that the frauds, extending over several years, amounted, to a large sum. Torpedo-boat No. 28 recently stranded in Kalb Bay, South Africa. She was got off, but found to be so badly damaged as to be beyond repairs, and was towed into False Bay and sent adrift. The admiral of the station then obtained permission to use the boat as a target and four ships opened fire with 12 and 3 pounders on the craft. Of the first three shells fired by the Doris, two passed through the spaces in which the engines and boilers had been located and one shell penetrated the con- ning tower. As the swell heeled the dere- lict the Tartar sent a shell through her bottom and the boat went down almost immediately. The performance occupied only about five minutes. The Russian battleship Gangoot, which sank in the Gulf of Finland June 24, 1897, has not yet been raised. The contract for recovering the ship was given to the Nep- tune Wrecking Company of Sweden and operations were begun June 1 last year. The first procedure was to right the sunk- en ship, to accomplish which the steamer Hyacinth of 3200 tons displacement was loaded with 2400 tons of stone ballast and sunk 970 feet distant from the Gangoot and parallel with her. A pontoon was everywhere be recognized that attractive | church architecture is an adornment to any city; it enhances the value of con- tiguous property, makes a city more de- | sirable for homes and is an important ad- | junct to all educational forces operating for the refinement and elevation of our citizenship. A handsome structure con- tributes to the liberal education of our people, and particularly if such a bulld- ing is monumental to the loftiest impuises | of those who have cheerfully contributed toward its erection. “Again, the church is for the pubHc\ good—pro bono publico. It stanas for | obedience to law, respect for the author- | ities, and good order. It is the exponent | of the ten commandments, and in propor- tion to its growth and support lessens the prison and asylum population. It is | against all criminality, and seeks the transformation of the lives of those who would otherwise become a burden on an already overtaxed people. “The church is a conservator of morals; an inculcator of reverence. The State needs these high moral influences and should exempt houses of worship from taxation not for the church’'s sake but for the sake of the State. It would be a just recognition of the invaluable service ren- dered by the church if the State should decline to accept a tax from the church. California is the only State which taxes church property. Surely our citizenship cannot occupy @ very defensible position | as the ignoble exception in the sisterhood | of States. It is certain that with our Sab- bath-breaking people, our race track | gambling and bribe-taking politicians, and i our vast product of criminals, there is evidence that much needs to be done for | the moral and religious elevation of our | State. “The church is a citadel of manliness. | It is a_great common school, where hon- esty, chastity, temperance, the home, the | Sabbath, personal honor—in_ short, char- acter—is emphasized as the principal thing. Do we need men in California? Let ‘Wanted—Men’ be hung in large let- | ters upon the assembly halls at Sacr;\-" mento. -Alas! Is it possible that the State’s most honorable offices are to go begging for want of truly great men? It | is certain that old Diogenes, with his | lighted torch, would not have an easy task in the Capital City. “For these and many other reasons we submit that the time has come for the present Assembly to grant to the people an opportunity to amend our constitution and exempt from burdensome taxation an institution which in a thousand particu- lars is an indescribable good to our citi- | zenship.” At the conclusion of his sermon Dr. Locke read the proposed’amendment, which is as follows: 3 “Section 1lg. All buildings used exclu- sively as church and chapels, and the real property on which they are situated, shall be free from taxation. On this proposed amendment he called for a rising vote of such members of the congregation as favored his signing the Yetluon, which was sent to him represent- ng_ his ‘church on the subject. The vote in favor of his doing so was unanimous. ——————— AT THE PARK AND CLIFF. A Tremendous Crowd Enjoys the Magnificent Day. It seemed that San Francisco had poured her entire population out over the various car lines to the pleasure grounds yesterday, so vast were the crowds that | I prayed for congregated wherever amusement was to ton was elected March 19, 1891, to succeed George Heal Stephen M. White was elected January 21, 1803, to succeed Charles N. Felton; George C. Perkins was appointed by Governor_Markham to suc- ceed Leland Stanford July 26, 1893, elect- ed January 23, 1895, to serve out the term of Leland Stanford; re-elected in 1887 to serve until 1903. ¥IVE SUNDAYS IN FEBRUARY—E., City. The Department of Answers to Correspondents has been furnished . the following in answer to tne question “How often does February have five Sundays and when will it next occur?’ There were five Sundays in February in 1824, 1852 and 1880. There will be five in 1920, 1948 and 1976. This occurs during the century once in twenty-eight years, which is a solar cycle. It occurred in the years giv- en, but prior to 1824 it was forty years' space or 1784. The same number will intervene from the year 1880, so the next date for the occurrence will be 1920. The reason that it will not occur in 1908 is that the year 1900 is not a leap year. It | will be noticed that all the years in which it has occurred or will occur the domini- cal letters are D. C., and 1900 not being a leap year us v one letter. This causes the letters to spread, and it will take until 1920 before D. C. comes in for leap year. From that time on it will run through two centuries without inter- ruption, once in twenty-eight years, be- cause the year 2000 will be a lran vaar. So it will fake until the vear 2100 before the solar system is disturbed again, Then the forty years will be repeated. The 'dth of March for the inauguration of the President and Vice President of the Uni- ted States occurs on Sunday precisely in the*same order. 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