The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 25, 1899, Page 6

.JANUARY 25, 1809 WEDNESDAY. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. e “address All Communications to W, S. LEAKE, Manager. BLICA Third Sts., S. F. ICATION OFFICE .Market and e Telephone Main ufl; = e DITORIAL ROOMS... ...2IT to 221 Steven: £ Telephone Main 1874 DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, 5 cents. Terms by Mall, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year. 6.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 6 month 3.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 8 months. }‘:g SUNDAY CALL, one year . e Y CALL, one year. g 1l postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. ample coples will be forwarded when requested. ....908 Broadway OAKLAND OFFICE o NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Bullding DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE... ...Riggs House C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE... -Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Reprosentative. CES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, BR::ffu?\r\llqp:so o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open un_m 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. .2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh etreet, open untll 9 o'clock. 1605 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9i0'clock. AMUSEMENTS “The Wizard of the Nile. Contented Woman." Columbia Alcazar—"Men and Women." Tivoli—"The Wedding Day.'* Orpheum—Vaudeville. Comedy Chutes and Zoo—Pianka, the ‘‘Lady of Lions. Olympla— Corner Mason and Ellls streets, Specialties. Central Park—The Steeplechase. Oakland Race Track—Races To-day. Assoclation Hall—Concert Friday evening, January 2T. Metropolitan Temple—Plano Recital Monday evening, Feb- ruary 6. AUCTION SALES, ivan & Doyle—Wedneeday, January, 25, at 11 a. m., Sixth st., Horses, Buggles, etc. H. Umbsen & Co.—Monday, January 30, at 12 By G. o'clock, Real Estate, at 14 Montgomery street. THE CITY HALL PARK AND THE MONG the improvements proposed in the city are two which, while they have hitherto been PANHANDLE. fl considered separately, bear such a relation to one another they might be combined as a compre- hensive scheme for making a more beautiful San Francisco. These are the suggested plans of purchas- ing the blocks of land interposed between the City Hall and Market street so as to form a park front | for that edifice, and the extension of the panhandle f Gate Park to Van Ness avenue. her of these improvements carried out separately would of course add much to the beauty of the city, but if both were accomplished the value of each would be increased. The one would provide our principal thoroughfare with a handsome park, across which could be seen the stately and picturesque facade of the City Hall, and the other, at a point not far distant, would open a grand driveway through a park-like ex- tension to the Golden Gate Park itself. The continuity and monotony of shops along Market street would thus be broken in an impressive way and the magni- ficence of the avenue greatly increased. Of the two projects, that of redeeming the City Hall Park is the more desirable. At present the most im- portant and most superb of our civic edifices is vir- tvally upon a back street, and our great central avenue of traffic is unadorned by any stately public building or open square. The beauty conferred upon Broadway, New York, by Bowling Green, City Hall square and Union square is remarked by every visitor to the city. Their expanses of green grass, their fountains, their trees and their statues give a certain grace and dignity to what would be otherwise only a long row of shops. Market street ought to be as attractive as Broad- but it will never be so unless it is in some mea- sure adorned by parks, and no other point along its entire length is so fitted for park purposes as the area in front of the City Hall. At the present time the buildings upon the lots in front of the hall are comparatively slight and their purchase would not entail much cost, nor their de- struction much loss. The land itself can certainly be purchased more cheaply now than will be possible at any time in the future. This, therefore, is the time to undertake the improvement. Any plan for beautifying San Francisco which does not include the opening of the City Hall park can hardly be ac- ceptable to the intelligence of the citizens. sol Gunst testified that Colonel Preston was playing a nickel-in-the-slot machine at the time of that double- barreled conversation, which is destined to go thun- dering down the ages, but it is safe to suppose that particular machine will get no more of the colonel’s coin. iyl It is strange that so much goodness and purity as shown by the immediate adherents of Burns has not led them to form a Sunday-school rather than a poli- tical combination for the dissemination of gold bricks. When the people of this country are told that Schley was guilty of cowardice they do not say, “Tell that to the marines,” for they are sure the marines would never believe it. Now that the grip is coming West make up your mind at once not to take it. The year has opened up in an interesting way, and you had better live to sec it out. Jilson and Wright both pleaded guilty and have thrown themselves upon the mercy of the ¢ourt, but they do not manifest a proper penitence. Burns swears that he has not tried to influence anybody to vote for him, but still he has not been ob- served chasing any members away. Bk The witnesses for Burns displayed as well trained memories as ever soothed and sustained during the ordeal of examination on the stand. It is good to hear the talk of retrenchment on the part of the Supervisors, but don’t bet on it. The broom is new yet. = SRTSTAS Assemblyman Works should have left the regula- tion of the cartoon business to some professional beauty like Mellick. =Ll gl L The people vote for their Congressmen, and scan- dals in connection with Congressional elections are rare. Perhaps the country will some time witness the novel spectacle of Depew delivering a before-dinner speech THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1899. WHAT HAS DAN BURNS DONE? UT of two hundred and fifty thousand votes O ten thousand cast dishonestly or under im- proper influences will often—indeed, usually— determine the result of a State election. Then, while the mass of the people are sound, the State is cor- 1uptly governed. Out of a hundred and twenty mem- bers of a Legislature, if twenty are held together by bribery, in any of its multitudinous forms, they can frequently determine legislative measures or Sena- torial elections, in respect to which a hundred mem- bers are honestly divided. Then that Legislature goes down to history with a pestilential reputation. In the one case two hundred and forty thousand citi- zens, with their families and their material, intellectual and moral interests, have to suffer. In the other case a hundred legislators, through their own fatuity, wear crowns of infamy they do not deserve. These are compressed illustrations of principal causes of discontent throughout the Union and es- pecially in this State at the present juncture. We pre- sent them to the members of the Legislature now struggling to elect a Federal Senator. Can they not recognize their truth and their bearing upon the im- portant question that is blocking legislation against the will and to the extreme detriment of the citizens of California? These gentlemen at Sacramento have at least average intelligence and education, and they are American citizens and represent American con- stituencies. Do they not absolutely know, without precise legal proof, that the influences working for the success of two of the candidates must be sinister and corrupt? Can they not read the faces and appre- ciate the characters of the men who are most conspic- uous in their advocacy of these particular aspirants? Do they not realize the astuteness, the secrecy, the dia- bolical ingenuity, that must be behind any effort to elect a Senator through low political combinations and without regard to qualifications? Purblindness alone could account for answers to these questions that would prove unsatisfactory to the decent citizens of this respectable State. Let our legislators apply ONE test that is demonstrative and conclusive. Who is Dan Burns and what has he ever done that he should be singled out as a proper man to be a Senator of the United States? Is he a scholar? No. Has he ever made a speech that in- dicated his knowledge of the history of his country or capacity to handle any of the great subjects that are considered in the upper chamber of Congress? No. Has he ever participated in a debate or shown his ability to encounter the great minds of the na- tion? No. Has he ever written a paper or done any- thing in literature, in statesmanship, in finance, in commerce, in manufacture, anything of any sort, from which a million and a half of people or a hundred and twenty State Senators and Assemblymen can infer his possession of brains, knowledge, experience, power, energy, any single quality, that would enable him for five minutes to stand for the State of Cali- fornia and for seventy-five millions of Americans in | the Senate of the United States? | What qualifications, then, does he possess for the | highest office within our gift? None; literally none. And the only pretension he can make is his participa- tion in sotten municipal politics, in which he has | usually failed. But he, the insoluble mystery of the | hour, has himself put forward one claim, and only one, to be the successor of Stephen M. White. And | what is that? He says that he became a candidate | and should be elected because he was attacked by The | Call and the Chronicle. This is the sole avowed ground of his candidacy, determined upon by him January 2, 1899, and it is the complete measure of | the man. What a farce, if it were not the revelation | of a tragedy, that in a continental republic as the | twentieth century dawns a citizen should be elevated | to the Senate of the United States for no other rea- scn than that he was assailed in The Call and in the | Chronicle! But Mose Gunst, the immaculate Police | Commissioner, offers a more solid and more plaus- ible argument. He asserts that Dan Burns should | be elected because he contributed fifteen thousand dollars toward Republican success in 1898. There- | fore, the possession of fifteen thousand doliars, taken from the bowels of Mexico, no matter how, and its | expenditure in a party campaign, is another con- | vincing proof of statesmanship! ? | And these are the evidences that the State of Cali- fornia is permitted to furnish of its high standing before the Union and the world and of its fecundity | in the production of American statesmen! - Mose Gunst for Police Commissioner and Dan Burns for | Federal Senator! These are the standards and these | the types by which American manhood and American | power and influence are to be measured throughout a continent! We again commend them to the scruti- nizing examination of the voters at Sacramento and of the voters of the State, and again we repeat that the State of California, on its own behalf and on be- | half of the republic, repudiates the corporate insult | that has marred the opening weeks of the legislativei session and demands the prompt election of a Repub- lican who is both an American statesman and an American gentleman. . The Legislature can quickly determine, by its vote, whether, after the evolution of nearly forty-eight years, Dan Burns is California’s best and most avail- able representative citizen. e —————r— e FOR SOUND FINANCE. O the advocates of sound finance there is some- Tthing of encouragement and good cheer in the report that the House Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures has decided to report a bill fixing the standard of value upon a gold basis by ex- press declaration of law as it has long been by fact. According to a summary of the bill given in re- ports from Washington it appears that the measure provides in substance that the standard of value in the United States shall be the gold dollar; that all contracts now existing or to be made in future shall be computed on that standard; that there shall be es- tablished in the treasury a department of issue and redemption; that greenbacks now in circulation shall be retired and gold bills substituted therefor. For the purpose of carrying out these provisions the bill declares no silver dollars are to be hereaiter coined except from bullion now in the treasury, the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, to coin silver into subsidiary coin as public urgency demands, such coinage of bullion to be concurrent with the re- tirement of treasury notes the same as if coined into silver dollars, and the coinage of such subsidiary coin td be limited to $50,000,000. There is to be a separa- tion of treasury accounts between issue and financial transactions; a gold reserve of 25 per cent of out- standing notes and treasury notes is to be maintained; also 5 per cent gold reserve of the aggregate silver dollars; a common fund for the redemption of all notes. In arranging for the withdrawal of greenbacks from our currency it is provided that the amount retireds each year shall.equal the increase of national bank notes issued subsequent to the taking effect of .the act; 20 per cent to be retired annually during the next five years, and greenbacks to cease to be legal tender-at the end of ten years. Gold and currency | certificates to be canceled as paid, and not reissued; no national bank notes under $10, and no silver cer- tificates over $3, are to be issued. The tax on national banks is to be changed from the circulation to one- tenth of 1 per cent on the capital, surplus and undi- vided profits. While the details of the measure adopted by the committee may not be in every respect satisfactory to all the advocates of currency reform, the fact that Congress is now directing its attention to the sub- ject will be gratifying. There has been strong oppo- sition to any kind of currency legislation either .by this Congress or at an extra session of the incoming one, and for a time it seemed probable that this an- tagonism might seriously block the way of progress. It will be remembered that a short time ago Con- gressman Walker of the Banking Committee declared that in his opinion there was no chance of currency reform either by the present Congress or the next. That despondent statement, coming from a strong supporter of sound finance, so far from discouraging the advocates of reform, served to arouse them to a consciousness of the danger ahead. Since that time their efforts have been more vigorous than ever, and there is now a probability something will be ac- complished. The settlement of the issue ought not to be post- poned under any consideration. Currency reform can be best carried out while the country and the people are prosperous. If the friends of the measure wait until over-speculation or over-production causes another panic or temporary suspension of industry, they will then have to periorm amid excitement and distress what can now be achieved without disturbing business in any way whatever. SOME THINGS NEEDED. O matter what may be the fate of the expan- N sion policy, there is coming—indeed, there is upon us—a great access of commercial interest in the Pacific. This requires a corresponding increase in the costly activities of the Government on this side of the continent, and especially an increase in naval operations and all that pertains thereto, and in Gov- ernment transportation. In this situation some things are needed to make sure of San Francisco’s position. Since the building of the Mint here this city has had the benefit of practically centering the gold bullion trade here. That business has been carried on eco- nomically for the Government and profitably for the miner. The sub-treasury has been the means of dis- tributing the coin widely throughout the West, and the fact of the sub-treasury and Mint both being here is responsible for the presence in the banks and in circulation of gold coin in actual, hourly use through- out this region, and making it accessible to all the people. By this means our wage-earners have had the handling of their wages in gold coin, and that it has directly and favorably affected their habits of thrift and economy is in daily evidence. When the Klondike and other Alaskan gold | became an important factor in the bullion movement Congress was induced to establish an assay office at | Seattle, and the effect thereof is being felt unfavorably in San Francisco. The original purpose of an assay office was to pig the bullion and certify its fineness, receiving a fee therefor. That is to say, for a fee the Government prepared the miners’ bullion for the mar- ket and certified its fineness. At the Seattle assay office, however, the practice has arisen of.not only preparing the bullion, but buying it on Government account, shipping it to the Philadelphia mint and paying for it by exchange on Chicago. The miner is not profited, for he must discount his exchange, but the banks profit largely by it. It is obvious that the proper system, and we think that required by law, would be to pay for the bullion by warrants on the nearest sub-treasury and ship it to the nearest mint, which would bring both warrant and bullion in San Francisco. It will be seen that, pursuing the opposite course, the Government is competing with itself, to the sole advantage of bank- ers in Seattle and Chicago. The bullion is sent to the Philadelphia mint, which is so crowded by the coin- age of small change to supply the Eastern demand that it has no time nor facilities for coining the gold, which is now piled up there in volume to the amount of nearly $150,000,000. All of this business is a dis- tinct blow at San Francisco, and it requires attention lest it be followed by another, in the estab- lishment of a mint on Puget Sound. There has also recently been sent from Seattle to Washington a demand for the exclusive placing there of the ocean transportation service of the Govern- nient. The reasons given are that ship and car come | together, which is forbidden in San Francisco, and that therefore the business can be handled quicker and cheaper there than here. Behind this last showing lurks another propogition | to establish the great navy yard of the coast on Puget Sound, facing Esquimalt, the Pacific Gibraltar of Great Britain, the reasons being the lack of water supply, cost of coal and other real or fancied disabili- ties at Mare Island. Now, there is no doubt but what | the great navy-yard of the nation is to be on this coast. There should also be no doubt that it is to be Mare Island. In the first place, such an estab- lishment, being so intimately connected with our de- fensive power, should be as nearly as possible inac- cessible to an enemy. The equipment of a great navy-yard is costly, as its facilities are important to national defense. To expose it to assault and capture is not only to risk the destruction of millions of prop- erty, but to expose a vital spot in the national body to a paralyzing blow. Mare Island is so situated that every dollar spent on our harbor defense makes it safer from assault. In preparing those defenses the Government is not only protecting the property of our citizens from attack by an enemy, but guarding its own property and another prime means of defense. The Mint, sub-treasury and navy-yard were estab- lished here by the far-sighted men like Senator Gwin and his colleagues, to whom was first committed the public care of California. This State cost the Federal Government nothing for territorial novitiate. It was at once admitted into the Union, and at once began contributing to the support of the Nationial Govern- ment. It has paid in Federal taxes nearly $400,000,- 000 since it was admitted, and has received back a very small percentage of that sum in Federal salaries and public works. Our people need something more practical than ecstatic dreams of a great future predicated upon a great past. They must understand that there are com- petitors in the field, and that our position cannot be held by indulging in reveries, however pleasant. With an amendment providing that every legislator be equipped with a barb wire trocha for the baifling of reporters, Boyce's measure would indeed be a thing of beauty. S R I Perhaps the Eastern capitalists who affirm that there are no openings for investment have never tried tc get into the Senate. Ii Eagan receives no penalty more severe than a mere hounce, from the army he ought to consider him- self lucky. Spitting in the eye of a man is an act which would naturally suggest a sequel. A WILL COLONEL MAZUMA OF ILLINOIS COME Two Bills That May Interest Him. TO BAR RECTIFIED SPIRITS A PURE-FOOD MEASURE THAT PROMISES TROUBLE. A “Single-Stamp” Law That Would Deprive the Spirit Trust of an Enormous Business—Whole- salers Won’t Xight It. Thera is something doing in Sacramento these days besides balloting for United States Senator and expediting the trial of Speaker Wright and other members with lax ideas of the propriety of accepting or considering bribes. as the single-stamp bill, and applies wholly to the sale of whiskies in Cali- fornia. & To the layman who goes up and down the line and around the block, taking his toddy in good faith, asking no questions, it really means nothing. To the whole- sale whisky dealers, of whom about 9 per cent are rectifiers of spirits, it rep- resents divers and sundry things of an un- pleasant nature. This proposition will be better understood when it is realized that the business of these houses is rectifying of spirits, and that this bill prohibits the sale of such goods within the boundaries | of the State. The effect of the adoption and enforcement of such a measure, pro- viding that only double-stamp whiskies, | or those pure from the States of Ken- tucky, Pennsylvania and other whisky- producing States, can be sold, would be | to revolutionize the business in this State and largely reduce the number of whole- salers, as only the stronger houses would be able to profitably handle the straight, or guuble-swmp, Boods at a satisiactory profit. As an {llustration of what kind of an insurgent the introducer of this bill is, it is only necessary to state that the av- erage annual receipts of spirits in San Francisco are 21,000 barrels, of fifty gal- lons to the barrel. These goods are 19 proof, and, when incorporated with whis- kies, represent about two gallons to one Of Spirits. As the imports of spirits amount to a million gallons a year, the immensity of the trade can be realized. On the other hand, the importation of straight whiskies for the year 1898 aggre- gated over 18,000 cases and 24,000 barreis. However, a large portion of the latter w%m into rectinication with spirits. Chis scheme is a sort of Banquo's ghost to the rectifiers, who denounce it as a plain cinch bill, and who have become ap- athetic and not disposed to put up sub- stantial reasons why the bill shouid not become a law. However, this may be the occasion on which the unexpected will happen. This single-stamp bill is along the lines of pure-food legisla- tion, and will trip gayly along with As- sembly Bill No. 73, to create the “Bureau of State Inspection of Foods, Drinks and Drugs in the State of California.” _Section 2 of this bill provides that “said commissioners are charged with the en- forcement throughout the State of Cal- ifornia of all laws against fraud and adulteration or impurities in foods, drinks or drugs, and all laws against uniawful labeling.” It shall be the duty of said commissioners to inspect all articles of food or drinks or drugs manufactured or offered for sale or held in possession for purposes of sale in this State. This com- mission is given power of search, and is required to prosecute all violation$ of the law. In fact, it is given the broadest scope for action and is to co-operate with the State Board of Health in its labors. In view of the fact that the Manufact- urers’ and Producers’ Assoclation, the Merchants' Association and other bodies are strenuously urging the passage of a stringent measure of this nature, it is probable that, in the event that the Leg- islature finishes politics in time to get down to lawmaking, this long-sought-for pure-food legisiation will be successfully accomplished. On account of the pure food movement the situation is an awkward one for the whisky men, for v.xe reason that it would be necessary to défeat both measures in order to prevent interference with their business, It appears, however, that the most_influential local houses are not in- clined to enter the fight against the pro- posed legislation. 1In speaking of the mat- ter yesterday. Joseph Loewe of the Wil- merding-Loewe Company said: “No, %‘ not intend to have anything to do wich the proposition. It is the same old smr{: there are about three big houses in San Francisco that are ex- pected to make all the fights for the rest of the trade and let them enjoy all the benefits without an{ trouble or expense. This single stamp bill is a cinch game, anyhow, and I propose to let matters take their course. am sure of the fact that I can stand the pressure under the pro- posed change if those dealers can who al- ways expect others to take their inter- ests in hand and care for them. That is Just where I stand.” The same sentiment seemed to prevail in the office of the Crown Distilleries Company, an institution that is usually very active in promoting the interests of the trade. Mr. Haas stated that his firm regarded the movement with a large de- gree of apathy, and that they would prob- ably remain cnlookers and let matters take their course. “It does not matter so much to us in any event,” said he. There is an institution, however, that would have paralysis of the financial nerve center if such a measure should become an operative law, and that is the Spirits Trust, which has its monster distilleries in Peoria, Ill. There are about $2,000,000 worth of spirits sold in Califor- nia_annually, and the greater portion is sold by this corporation. Inasmuch as they have been known to influence na- tional leg‘filnion in the interest of their business it is reasonable to augfmn that if they thought they were liable to lose this valuable market they would take very active steps to put numbllni blocks in the way of these bills. If it becomes necessary for the trust to do this kind of business they w.il be represented bK a Colonel Mazuma the like of which has never been seen in Sacramento. On the other hand, the allied distillers of Kentucky and Pennsylvania, who man- ufacture double stamp goods, are wildl desirous that such a measure be adopted, as it would at once open up an immense new market for their goods. If the bood- lers in the Legislature could get these two great interests at loggerheads over these bills they would certainly come home with “money to burn.’ whichever way the fi~ht went. As a cash producer it would beat the business of making Senator in a walk. The movement .is of particular mo- ment to the small retail dealers, who handle only rectified goods, and would also prevent the sale in tnis State of the most famous brands bottled in this eity. This is due to the fact that blended whis- kies of different ages, although not mixed with spirits, could not be sold. Whether or not the powers behin. the pure food bills are strong enough to securé the legislation they seek, to the violent dis- orfnnlznflon of the business of the whole- sale whisky dealers, remains to be seen. More Poolsellers Arrested. ‘Warrants were sworn out in Judge Treadwell's court yesterday for the arrest of Abe Schwartz and Joseph H. Smith, 27 Leidesdorff street; 8. Nichols, 33 and 35 Ellis street; 8. Osterhouse, 64 Ellis street; Meyer Cohen, 33 and 35 Ellis street, and E. Wilson and Sam Reynolds, 9 Ellis street, on charges of violating the pool- selling ordinance. They were arrested and each gave $100 bail. ——————————— Suicide of a Chinese Woman. Toy Bing, a Chinawoman residing with her husband at 811 Clay street, commifted suicide early yesterday morning by {ak- 1n1 opium. She had been despondent for a long time. iy yoima T D L Woman’s work in the war by the leaders, in next Sunday’s Call. It is @ measure known | CONSOLIDATION FOR THE SCROOL JANITORS ALSO Fourteen Knights of the Broom to Go. RECLASSIFIED LISTS MADE JUDGE SEAWELL’S DECISION IS ANXIOUSLY AWAITED. Unpaid Teachers May Be Compelled to Bring Suit Against the Bondsmen of the Old s Board. Not only over the heads of fifty or sixty teachers will the official ax swing, but the cruel instrument will be used on other victims as well. Fourteen janitors—ten male and four female—will be ‘‘consoli- dated” out of their positions. These will | not come from any certain schools, but will be gleaned from all. In their original way of making places for friends the late Board of Education did not stop at material for teachers’ jobs, but made places freely. Laborers and janitors were added to the salary rolls at pleasure. These facts have come to the notice of the present board, and fourteen ianitors will therefore be stricken from the pay- rolls, On Monday evening tfie Elementary Committee considered the reports and rec- ommendations of the principals. The list | of teachers employed in December was | compared with the prepared list, less the number whose classes were consolidated out. In many cases the reports of rhe principals were approved, but in others there was an apparent hesitancy to rec- ommend the cutting off of able tenfihers. On these the committee “acted,” and many times the blue pencil marked out that class, Scemingly there is no hesita- tion on the part of the Board of Educa- tion to carry out the provisions of the cel- ebrated “‘act of January 4.” In the consolidation” of the evening school classes the list is complete for the work of to-night, and the spirit of reform will move rapidly. A member of ihe Finance Committee, ‘who has put in his time studying out the mohey problem, makes the following statments: “The funds of the School Department are in very much of an unsettled state | and will remain so untll Judge Seawell has answered the question as to whether the one-twelfth act applies to the Board of Educatlon, as it admittedly does to the expenditures of the Board of Supervisors. If the court holds that it does apply the | Board of Education will have control of six-twelfths of the total appropriation of | the fiscal year of 1888-1899. Then if the | board’s action regarding the reclassifica- | tion is carried out and something like or e hundred teachers are cut off from the sa ary rolls there will be money enouga to | pay the remaining teachers for six months, ending June 6. “‘After these payments a small balance will be left for the absolutely needed sup- plies and regah‘s of the department, but there will be no money for the new houses and furniture or for the one hun- dreddand one things purchased by the old board. “'If Judge Seawe]l decides that the one- twelfth act does not apply to the Board of Education and that body is legally compelled to pay bills contracted prior to 1899 there will be a huge deficit in the school fund, approximating a quarter of a million of dollars. Then will come tho question of how to run the department six months on a sum barely sufficient for half that period. The board has no pref- -erence in regard to creditors and is of | the general opinion that the teachers and merchants should share alike. ‘It is very distasteful to the members of the board to assume the position that | thev cannot recognize any claims con- tracted prior to January 1, 1899, and they only do so because of the belief that the | one-twelfth act applies to all depart- ments of the city government, and as they had nothing to do with the contract. | ing of these bills which, if allowed, will | be legally in excess of the act, they can | see no reason for considering the payment | of the same.” | The general opinion .in legal circles is | that Judge Seawell will either decide that act does not apply to the finances of the School Department or that a teacher’s salary is provided for by statute, and in either case those salaries will be paid. Public sentiment leans to this view, and to legislate teachers out of their money largely because of the criminal extrava- gance of the late board would be an in- Jjustice and a hardship. In case of an ad- verse decision their only course will bei is to bring suit against the bondsmen of | the old board, as those ex-officers are sup- | posed to be liable for the excessive ex- penditures of the old board. Even this possible good fortune to the teachers may be long in coming, if it ever does. The merchants threaten to bring up the matter of paid vacations and may hold that question over the heads of the educators for the purpose of bringing about some kind of a compromise. A number of mandamus suits by con- solidated out teachers will immediately follow the publication of the fatal list this evening. SpS g A FIGHT FOR THE SCHOOL. Friends of the City Normal Will Meet the Board of Education This Evening. The Taxpayers’ Educational League of San Francisco, having for its object a protest against the abolition of the City Normal School, met last evening in the Phelan building and effected a permanent organization. W. G. Jobson was chosen chairman and W. H. Bodfish secretary. | They, with D. R. McNeil, M. Cooney and | John W. Moflit, were_ appointed a com- mittee on rules and by-laws. Bert | Schlesinger, J. W Moffit and Tax Col-| lector E. I. Sheehan were selected as a committee to invite the Mayor and City Attorney to become members of the ex-| ecutive committee. This committee will attend the meeting of the Board of Edu- cation this evening. Judge Cooney and W. H. Bodfish will address the hoard. _ E. 1. Sheehan, Judge Cooney and Wil- liam Henderson were appointed a commit- tee on legislation. They will go to Stnr,- ramento in the interest of the Normal | School and_legislation for the .establish- | ment of & smh(ie in‘stluutlon of that de- cription in this city. SLJé ‘n W. Moffit, finanelal secretary, and D. R. McNeil, treasurer of the league, will receive the promised contribution from the Normal students for the support of their school for the remainder of ?.hv term, ending June 30, providing the Boam of Education will accept their offer. ’l“ e resolutions adopted by the protss‘t rl;g mass meeting of Mondiy evening wi lmL evening, together w! 5 Safing The establishment of the City Nor- | mal Sehool. AROUND THE CORRIDORS, Willis Pike of Fresno is at the Lick. Chris von e Ver of Brussels is at the Palace. James McNeil of Santa Cruz is a guest at the Palace R. L. Ennis of Rochester, N. Y., is at the California Mrs. F. E. Ford of St. Paul Is a guest at the Palace. Mrs. Phillip Hart of Boston, Mass., is at the California. Charles B. Owen of Stockton is a guest at the California. R. E. Habir of Seattle registered at the Palace yesterday. Dr. Boetzkes and wife of New York are registered at the Lick. Attorney Frank Willard Kimball came up from San Luis Obispo yésterday'on some legal business in this city. He will be here for a few days. A. J. MacNab and daughters of Salmon, Idaho, are at the Lick. J. G. Davis, a miner from Juneau, Alaska, is at the Grand. M. D. Coffeen and wife of Chicago are registered at the Grand. John A, MclIntire, a miner from Sacra- mento, is a guest at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Carlisle of Chicago were among the arrivals at the Palacs Yesterday. Revs. C. Linsley of Sonora, George Wallace of San Mateo, Albert Ennor of Los Gatos, J. O. Lincoln of San Mat William H. Stewart of Virginia City, G. Mackinnon of Stockton and Edward Parsons of Menlo Park are at the Ocei- dental. They are here as delegates and to be in attendance on the Episcopal con- vention. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—W. H. ( of San Francisco is at the Mu B. F. Murdock and J. S. Robbins ot Francisco are at the Imperial. A. Tenny and wife, of San Francisco, the Girard. H. E. Hall and wife, of Francisco, are at the Manhattan. NEW YORK, Jan. 24.—Dani of San Francisco is at the Windso K. C. Brown of San Francisco is Netherland. George Larrabes Angeles is at the Hoffm Waterhouse and mother of S are at the Imperial. John C. wife of San Diego are at the ough. MecLe Ia In the Divorce Courts. Marcelle J. Maire has been g divorce from Edmund ground of desertion. M Harry Bates for a divorce, allegl tion as a cause of action. e Cal. glace fruit 5c per Ib at Townsends.* —_—— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, ® —_————— Held for Burglary. Alfred Howe, George Hall and Al Big- ger were yeste s held to wer before the Superior Judge Conlan on a charge of b 7 in 33000 each. Th broke into Shre gunstore on Market | street. Willlam ¥ another of the gang, will Know hi e this morning. 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