The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 2, 1899, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1899. ~ UNION SAVINGS BANK ’ DEPOSITORS ANXIQUS CHLIFURMIKS HOPt President H. Ward Wright of the Defunct Union Savings Bank. CROWD THE LOBBY OF THE CONCERN Bitter Feeling Created at San Jose by Rumors of Under- hand Work. SAN JOSE. tanglement ¢ is bec average the Feb. 1.—The financial en- the Union Savings Bank mplex to the mind of the nd the outcome of the Bank Commis- with interest. The directors are reticent and will make no statement concerning the condition of the institution. This increased the in- terest in the affair to-day. and many ational stori reflecting on the it the bank are heard on the s. Nothing definite can be ob- however, and the general opin- s that in the end the stringency ances will be cleared by depositors ng paid in full and business resumed. -vertheless, before the close of hours an anxious crowd of de- positors lined the street and filled the bank lobby, and much bitterness of tained, of fi b feeling was expressed as various rg- mors of underhand work were dis- cussed. The cause of the failure has assumed the nature of a dispute between those most interested, the bank officials and E. B. Howard, fruit shipper. The bank people claim Howard brought on the difficulty by overdrawing his account and by having his drafts protested after liberal advances had been made to him. This Howard denies. -He admits being indebted to the institution in the neigh- borhocd of $100,000, but says the bank never protested any of his paper. How- ard says none of the fruit he is hand- ling is held as security by the bank. He intimates he is being “‘crucified,” and points to the fact that just before T. R. Weaver attached him for $2000 Weaver knew the bank was to fail and drew $2900 from the bank. Weaver at- tached about twenty carloads of fruit and Howard’'s home. The Union Savings Bank has always been regarded as a “good thing” by people in want of funds, and it is to this liberality that it owes its entangle- ment. Merchants, orchardists and struggling professional men could al- ways go there and get money on their note: It is said that a large part of 112 loaned on personal securities is almost worthless. It is this liberality of the bank officials that is being con- demned by the people. Authoritative news in connection with the bank failure was scarce to- day. Bank Commissioners A. W. Bar- rett and John Markley, accompanied by Secretary C. H. Dunsmoor, arrived this afternoon and assumed charge of affairs. Work was at once commenced on books and papers. Aside from say- ing the books appeared in good shape and the conditlon of the institution seemed better than they expected, these gentlemen parted with no information. They will not report for some days, and until then nothing definite will be known. The directors of the bank held a meeting, but nothing was done, an ad- Journment being taken until to-morrow afternoon. At that time a business course will be decided upon. Some of the directors fayor the bank going into liquidation, while others think affairs can be straightened out by levying an assessment. President Wright said to- day an assessment of $10 or $15 a share Would relieve the situation, as many of the real estate securities are first class and can easily be be turned into cash. About half of the stockholders can stand this, and it probably will be done. The only questionable transaction in connection with the bank failure is the filing of a deed to the bank premises on First and Fountain streets, convey- ing the property to Myra E. Wright, the wife of William H. Wright, vice president of the institution. The deed is absolute, but President Ward Wright claims it is understood to be only a mortgage. Although the transfer was made Tast June the semi-annual state- ments in July and January showed the property among available assets at| $95,000. Myra E. Wright advanced $60,- 000 on the premises and the. directors claim about $35,000 of this amount has | been repaid. This deed was * given simply to secure the money and was never intended to be recorded. As soan as the bank refused to transact busi- ness yesterday Mrs. Wright, at the re- quest of F. V. Wright, filed the deed. W. H. Wright is in the East, and had he been at home it is claimed this would not have occurred. The flling of the assignment of mort- gage given by L. A. Spitzer and wife | to the Union Savings Bank for $2500 by the Union Trust Company of San Francisco is another mistake arising out of the failure. The Spitzer mort- gage was satisfled last November and so acknowledged by the Union Bank| officials. The assignment, however. had never been returned to the local bank officials, and when news of the failure became known the Union Trust Company rushed it into the records. An assignment was filed by I. W. Hell- man to-day of a mortgage executed by J. W. Cunningham and wife to the Union Sayvings Bank for $10,175. The date of the assignment is January 18| last. There are about 180b persons repre- sented In the $791,975 due depositors. Of these about 1550 are in the savings department and their average deposit is $254. They may have to walt some | time for their money. Among the creditors of the institution are many fruit men and orchardists, who for the past three or four years have been helped along. The bank did a big business among these people. During the financial panic a few years ago it stood by this class of creditors when other banks refused loans and consequently it had many friends. Much of the bank’s securities are in the shape of stoned fruit and fruit contracts. Dealing with fruit men led the bank into relations with Howard. Those who know claim Howard is interested in about $250,000 worth of fruit in Sarta Clara County. He is heavily involved. The dumping of this amount of fruit on the market at this time of year would | be disastrous to fruit men and cause a | fearful slump in prices. This would do more injury to the business of Santa Clara County than a half-dozen fallures like that of the Union Savings Bank. A syndicate is now being organized to avert this and handle the fruit, and when it is completed Howard will as- sign to it. Of Howard's $100,000 in- debtedness to the bank, President Wright says two-thirds of it is secured | by fruit. If Howard was forced into | insolvency this security would shrink to almost nothing, but now that a syn- | dicate will handle Howard’s business it has been improved materially. At the first of the year there was a | change in the Board of Directors of the | Union Savings Bank, but, contrary to | rumor, this had nothing to do with the | embarrassment. L. M. Hale retired on | account of ill health, and Henry Ed- | wards because of other business. In their stead Antone Friant and N. Bow- den were selected. HIS COMING DEATH [l of Pneumonia, but Not in Any| Apparent Danger of Disso- lution at the Time. NEW YORK, Feb. 1.—Rev.+George H. Simons, of Brooklyn, pre- d his own death, which occurred yesterday at midnight ©of pneu- Last December, during a heavy snowstorm, he visited a sick Since then he has been ailing, and yesterday quite feeble, but was not apparently in any immediate danger. " To , who was sitting in the same room, he said, for no dict. ¥ monia. 5 d and caught a chill. g his wife, howeve ~ &I nt reason: & : 4 r, I do not believe that I will live after midnight.” bl Simons, 9 been an im ~ tributed to by the facts of an unusual life. 2 ye ¢ When 16 y O ne wrecked off the Cape of Good Hope. < nounce o pacity of a preacher. b= udied theology. o urch, and w: & from which place he came to Brooklyn. who was pastor of the Wikoff-Street M. E. Church, had ive figure in Brooklyn for a long time, an interest con- s of age, he took to the sea. At 27 years of age d that he had a summons from God to follow the church in the He drifted to Ohio, where he worked and at the Later he was ordained s pastor of a church at Santa Rosa, Cal, He was born in Bavaria 59 After being saved he an- in the Methodist cc“O00000000QDQQQQQfififififififififibfifififififlflfifl éHINESE PERISH IN BURNING HUTS Made Stupid by Opium, the Celestials Do Not Attempt to Escape. Feb., 1.—China- Lumber Mills center of th completely de- and a number of ! i to death. News of er reached this city late #h afternoon. The conflagration was acca panied by incidents of an ext nature. The big lumber running night and day. had just quit work and repaired to their numerous shacks when the fire com- menced. It appears that the Celestials, on reach- ing their town, were chilled and wet through. They, built weveral large bon- fires near the shacks to dry their clothds and then turned in to rest. The inevit: ble opium pipe was indulged in until t Chinese were oblivious of their surroun: ings. The day shift had left for the mil some distance away, and to watch the bonfires, which blazed fie rously close to the dwell- ings. A brisk breeze sprang up and drove the flames right on to the snacks, and in less time than it takes to tell, the whole settlement was in flames, The day workers speedily went to the reseue. Smashing in door after door, they were confronted by their haif-stupid countrymen, who apparently had no de- sire to escape. Some were carried out of the burning buildings, but others less for- tunate slept their deen sleep while the no one was left | flames crackled and roared around them. The flimsy shacks burned fiercely and soon they Te a mass of smoking ruins. It was then ascertained that at least two Chinese burned to death. A number of others were badly burned, and it was re- ported this evening that several were missing. The scene was one of the wildest ex- citement for a time. Very little damage was done to the surrounding property. The. injured Chinese, who were taken to Nanaimo, were cared for by their coun- trymen, who refused to let them go to a h};zspltla”l. Most of the Chinese worked in the mill. . e TR S INTERESTS THE COAST. Army Orders, Issued and a Batch of Pensions Granted. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1—By direction of the Secretary of War Captain Willlam W.McCammon, Fourteenth United States Infantry, will report in person to the com. manding officer of the Twenty-second United States Infantry at San Francisco for assignment to duty with that regi ment on its journey to Manila, and upon its arrival at the latter place will progeed to join his own regiment. By direction of the Secretary of War Second ' Lieutenant Edward 8. Walton, Tenth United States Infantry, is relleved from mustering duty at Chicago and will report in person to the commanding offi- cer of United: States troops on the trans- port Sheridan for assignment to duty with the troops on that transport until their arrival at Manila, when he will pro- ceed to join his regiment. The following officers will also report to the commanding officer of the Sheri- dan for duty in Manila: Ca%:ln John A. Dapray, Captain Daniel B. Devore, Cap- i ant Perciyal G. Lowe, Eighteenth United | States Infantry; 0608 0K L6 08 308 108 400 300 00 08 06 00 0 0 O tain Willlam H. Allaire, Lieutenant Her- | | bert N. Royden, Lieutenant Howard L. Loubach, Lieutenant Colonel William M. | }'an Horne and Lieutenant Samuel Seoy T. By direction of the Secretary of War Lieutenant Colonel Jose E. Maxwell, Uni- | ted States Volunteer Signal Corps, on completion of his present duties in New | | York City ®ill proceed to Manila and re- | port in person to the commanding general | | Department of the Pacific, for special | | duty pertaining to Signal Corps. On com- Rletion of this duty Lieutenant Colonel Maxwell will proceed to San Francisco and await orders. Acting Assistant Surgeon Harry L. Gil- christ, U. 8. A, is relieved from further | | duty at Albany, Ga., and will proceed to | New York City and report to Major Al- | fred E. Bradley, brigade surgeon United"| States Volunteers, commanding iae | United States hospital smp Rglief, for duty, and on arrjval at Manila will report in person to the commanding general of | the Department of the Pacific. | Major Steghen ‘W. Groesbeck, judge ad- vocate, U. 8. A., is relieved from further temporary duty in the Department of the | East and will proceed to San Francisco and resume his duties as judge advocate of the Department of California. The following named officers will upon completion of their report upon certain operations in Alaska proceed to join their respective regiments: First Lieuten- First Lieutenant Henry ourtgenth United States Original—John C. Bram, Los Angeles, $8; Edward P. Wells, Pasadena. $10; George S. Hurd, San Diego, $8; Daniel McGrath, San Fran- cisco, $8. Increase—Manuel F. Sidelinger, Grass Valley, $8 to $10. Original widows, etc.—Barbara E. Tadlock. Colusa, $8. Oregon: Original—Willlam R. Ferris, Portland, $6. ‘Washington: Original—John M. R. Scott, Castle Rock, $6. ATLANTIC LINER RHYNLAND ASHORE Driven Upon the Beach During the Gale Off the Delaware Coast. PHILADELPRIA, Feb. 1.—The {rans- atlantic liner Rhynland, Captain Hannah, from Liverpool for this port, went ashore on Cotton Patch Shoal, about four miles north of Fenwicks Island Life Saving station, during last night’s storm. At a late hour to-night she was still stranded, but lay in an easy position, and it is hoped to get her off with the next high tide. The tug North America went to her ag- sistance this morning and succeeded in n;;ov(ling ‘her a short distance. Later in the day the tug went to Del - water i.nd brofight back (h‘ca ‘lvl:‘;etegrakl- tie. Part of the steamer’s cargo will be taken off, and when this is done she will be floated. The steamer's propeller is broken and it is thogfi‘ht her rudder has been carried a;vuy. er:fare forty-two assengers and a crew of seventy- :‘len oxf board and all are well. e Fenwicks Island light'is about twenty- five miles below the breakwater, which would indicate that the Rhynland was a few miles out of her course when she grounded. This is accounted for by the condition of the weather at the ‘time, G. Learnard, Infantry. Pensions for California: A dense snow storm was prevailing and the island light could not be seen. B b v . Father Hynes’ Successor. WOODLAND, Feb. 1.—Bishop Grace has designated Father Hunt, late of Sacra- mento, as the successor of the late Father | of irrigation is wanted an SUGAR INDUSTRY Insures Prosperity in the Future. BIG PROFITS FOR FARMERS REPORT OF THE STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. Attention of Congress Is Directed to the Urgent Need of a General System of Irrigation for Lhis State, Speclal Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 1.—The annual meeting of the State Board of Agri- culture was held this afternoon, but owing to the absence of several mem- bers very little business was transacted. Resolutions were adopted expressive of the board’s respect for Directors Chase and Boggs, whose deaths occurred since the last meeting. The board approved the annual report as prepared by Secre- tary Edwin F. Smith, to be presented to Governor Gage. The resolutions in respect to the death of Director Charles M. Chase refer to his twenty years' service as a member of the board and speak of him as a public-spirited citizen, ever ready to advance the interests of his adopted State, and one whose character was a standard for the emulation of his fel- lows. Speaking of Director Boggs the | .resolutions recognize that in his-death the State has been deprived of one of its ploneer and foremost citizens, whose early occupation in this State blazed the way for the successful workers that have followed. The resolutions charac- terize the deceased member as a man who was alive to progress and favored improved methods in every line af his extensive enterprises. The annual report of the board to the Governor deals with the abnormal climatic conditions which existed dur- ing the year 1898; refers to the impro- vision of methods for irrigating lands | and for the purpose of saving stock. The business of the State, however, is declared not to have suffered as much as it would have under similar condi- tions ten years ago. inasmuch as other productive industries and trades have advanced to such an extent that Cali- fornia is not wholly dependent upon grain growing, as in former years. The total wheat yield for the past year as figured at the office of the agricultural society was 12,480,088 bushels, which was a much larger amount than was expected at the close of harvest. The largest and best yield | is declared to have come from the river | lands and upper part of the Sacramento Valley. 3 The report refers to the attention Congress is giving to the question of irrigation, and adds: It should be plain to every soil producer of California with the experiences of the season just closed that a general system which would be of incalculable value to our agricul- tural resources, thereby insuring an an- nual output and reducing to a minimum the chances of croK failures that appear periodically through lack of moisture. The idea i to our mind most practicable and should be pushed to completion with- out delay. There is at the present time more idle capital available for permanent investment than for many years past, ow- ing to the absence of large enterprises for its employment. The report expresses the belief that the beet sugar industry will eventually make California prosperous in all sec- tions. The report says: Land adapted to sugar beet growing will average fourteen or, fifteen tons to the acre, from which the farmer will realize about $60. The cost varies with varying conditions and location, but will in general range from $30 to an_acre. The farmer will thus net $20 to $30 per acre on his season’s crop. The above is figured on a basis of $4 a ton, which was the fixed price for the season of 1888. With an increase of 50 cents per ton, the contract price for the coming season, the outlook is extremely bright for the beet ralser. The report calls upon the Legislature to aid in the development of the good- road idea in this State. Mention is made of the cattle and sheep interests, and figures are given relative to the fruit crop. The establishment of a free market in San Francisco for the dispo- sition of the soll products of the State is indorsed. Of the State fair, the report remarks that it well serves a purpose, and could not be substituted by any other plan of a public nature for advertising the possibilities of the state. The financial statement of the board shows that the total indebtedness of the society at this date is $25,505 13. During the year past the indebtedness was reduced $2,593 96 by the practice of economy, and the board believes that in two yvears the present indebtedness practically will have been wived out. The Board of Agriculture has under way the disposal of the agricultural park property in this city, the proceeds to be devoted to the purchase of a new site. Recently a citizen of Sacramento filed a suit to require the board to re- invest the sale proceeds in this county. Peter J. Shields, the secretary, who will assume office next spring, has received a letter from President A. B. Spreckels, in which he says that personally he fa- vors the contention of the citizen bring- ing the suit. Director J. W. Wilson said to The Call correspondent to-night that every member of the board was in favor of relocating the Agricultural Park in Sacramento. * CLARK’S PLEDGE TO THE REPUBLICANS DENVER, Feb. 1. — A special to the News from Helena, Mont., says: In re- sponse to published criticisms of the course of the Republican members of the State Legislature in voting for W. A. Clark for United States Senator, Senator Hobson of Fergus County to day issued a statement defining his position, which divulged a hitherto unpublished and in- teresting matter of detail concerning the condition of the support of Clark. The interesting part of Mr. Hobson's state- ment, which is a lengthy one, is: At the time Mr. Clark had shown his full Democratic strength, it became apparent that he could not be elected without Republican vVotes, and as the Democratic following was about to leave him and name another candi- date who was much fnore objectionable, the Republicans secured a written pledge from Mr. Clark that he would, if elected, vote for a high protective tariff and refuse to be bound by any caucus to do otherwise. Fine Ouflook for Crops. WOODLAND, Feb. 1.—The crop pros- pects for the lands along the Sacramento River from Knights Landing to Sycamore are very good this season. The rainfall has been generous for that section of the State, there does not seem to be any pres- ent danger of an overflow, and the farm- ers are rushing the work of seeding the land with a view of getting in as large an area as possible. The water in Sycamore slough recently ran over the banks and overflowed about 500 acres of land between the Miller and €urtiss places. The water is now rapidly receding. On the Sutter side an unusual amount of land will be J. J. Hynes. Father Hunt is one of the most learned and popular priests in the dlocese. I% sown to alfalfa this year, as the farmers believe it will be more profitable to raise ay than wheat. 3 CONGRESS Independe ald sends the following: ence to the Philippines. tion of .the House. but the effect would be the, same policy toward the Philippines. commission before anything in thi: cles to the ratification of the Pari: to-morrow, a vote on the Sullivan to-night that he will withdraw hi: be adopted. Foreign Relations will vote for it. guuuuULLRRLLRYLEN s e e ks e e A It can be authoritatively stated that the President is personally opposed to any declaratory resolution at this time touching future He wants a report from his policy publicans in the Senate have deemed it expedient to permit a vote to be taken, believing the adoption of the Sullivan resolution will not do any harm, while it will be of immediate benefit in removing all obsta- But for the objection of Senator Carter, who ostensibly desired that Senator Spooner, temporarily absent, should be allowed to speak to-day. It will be voted upon to-morrow, as Senator Carter announced I understand that the majority of the Committee on WILL PUT THE PRESIDENT ON " RECORD dT ONCE Compelling a Declaration of His Intentions With Regard to the nce of the Philippines. NEW YORK, Feb. 1.—The Washington correspondent of the Her- President McKinley may be forced to go on record for or against the independence of the Philippines before his policy commission has had a chance to report. make it practically certain that the Senate will pass the olution, which, while vague in terms, nominally promises independ- This resolution, although originally intend- ed to declare simply the sense of the Senate, was to-day offered as a substitute for the Bacon resolution, with the title of the latter re- tained, thus making it a joint resolution, which will require the sanc- Should it be passed by both houses, as now seems probable, the President will be forced to approve or disapprove it. He can, of course, allow it to become a law without his signature, Developments today ullivan res- as approval. s direction is done. But leading Re- s treaty. resolution would have been taken s objection. In all probability it will OB s es e et an g onanonananananasanannananeenetes BURRURUVRANNIRER WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. — Senators Teller and Hoar were the speakers in | the executive session of the Senate to- | day. Mr. Teller made a set speech in ‘support of the treaty and Mr. Hoar re- | plied. Both went over much ground | that had been covered before, but some ! new points were brought out. Mr. Teller devoted special attention to the capabilities of the Filipines for self- | government. He contended that they | had not yet reached the stage where they could be considered capable of taking care of themselves, and he based much of his argument upon the inca- pacity demonstrated by their leader, Aguinaldo. He read extracts from the Philippine leader’s proclamation, con- tending that they demonstrated beyond question that he was ignorant of the first principles of popular government, especially a democratic form of govern- ment. He referred to the fact that the Filipino leader had in some of his pro- nunciamentos -spoken as a dictator, which the Colorado Senator said did not accord with the professions of de- | mocracy made for him. Mr. Teller also referred to the general situation in the Orient, enlarging upon the necessity for the United States to hold a footing which had been secured through what almost must be regarded as providen- tial means. He dwelt upon the reports of vast coal deposits in the Philippines, and said they were invaluable on this account to any nation, for, in the fu- ture, the country which controlled the coal deposits of the world would domi- nate the other nations, both from a commercial and military point of view. | At the present time the United States, | Great Britain and Japan control the { principal coal supplies, and he predicted that so lofig as they continued to con- trol them and were friendly to one an- other they would hold the reins of power. Other European nations appre- | ciate the importance of the coal supply, | and this fact, more than any other, ac- counted for the desire of Russia _and Germany to get a foothold in the Phil- ippines. Russia was, he said, especially grasping, and it behooved this country to be on its guard against the encroach- ments of that power. In conclusion Mr. Teller referred to his antagonism to the administration, saying that he expected to oppose the party in power in the next campaign, but strongly as he felt on the questions which separated him from that party, he was, nevertheless, willing to sink party questions and subordinate parti- san advantage to what he believed to be a much broader view—a -patriotic rather than a partisan view. Rising to reply, Mr. Hoar said that there could be no doubt of Mr. Teller's attitude toward the Republican party after his anxiety to have the treaty ratified had been made so evident, for he could not possibly do anything that would go further toward encompassing the disorganization and defeat of the Republican party than to make certain the ratification of the pending treaty. Mr. Hoar devoted the greater part of his reply to a defense of Aguinaldo, whom he compared to Simon Bolivar, the South American patriot. It would be remembered, he said, that Bolivar also had, upon occasion, taken upon himself the title of dictator, and vet who, on this aceount, should ac- cuse the Bolivian liberator of being false to his people or to their aspira- tions for freedom? Aguinaldo had so far been a shrewd and able leader, and he had not by any act of his shown himself to be in- capable of the highest degree of lead- ership. During the course of his remarks Senator Hoar said the argument had been advanced that the United States should be near at hand to participate in the predicted partition of China, and proceeded to say that this argument indicated a disposition to grasp even more territory than had yet been taken. Such a policy, he thought, should be nipped in'the bud, as he was very con- fident the people of the United States would not profit by joining the Euro- pean powers in their efforts to distrib- ute among themselves the 'possessions of this ancient empire. This last remark brought Senator Davis to his feet. While his name had nat been mentioned, it was evident that Mr. Hoar alluded to a remark of the Minnesota Senator. The latter said he had not adverted to any participation by the United States in the process of dismemberment, but that he had only alluded to its probability and had said merely that the United States should be on hand to protect their own in- terests. HOUSE PROCEEDINGS. Hepburn of Jowa Attacks the River and Harbor Bill. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—The House en- tered upon the consideration of thé river and harbor bill to-day and made rapid progress. ~ Fifty of the eighty-eight glnges had been completed when the ouse adjourned. The bill appropriates directly about $12,500.0000 and authorizes contracts to the extent of $18,000,000 addi- tional. The general debate was unusual- ly brief. Its feature was a speech in op- fosmon to the bill by Mr: Hepburn of owa, who has fought every river and harbor bill for the last six years. TREATY TALKS BY SENATORS WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—For a few minutes in the Senate this afternoon it seemed likely that a vote might be taken on one or more of the pending resolutions relating to expansion. "An unusually large attendance of Republi- can Senators was in attendance, all of them having been notifled to be pres- ent, in the event of a critical vote on the pending question. Mr. Bacon of Georgia had called up his resolutions, had withdrawn his motion to refer them to the Committee on Foreign Re- lations. Mr. Sullivan of Mississippl had .en- tered a motion to substitute his reso- Mr. Davis, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, had announced be taken immediately. lutions and amendments could not be taken before 2 o’clock—the hour fixed by unanimous consent for the Senate to go into executive session—Mr. Bacon asked for vote be taken at 12:30 to-morrow. To this request Mr. Carter of Montana ob- Jected, and the whole question was left suspended. Mr. Rawlins of Utah addressed the Senate upon the Vest anti-expansion resolution. Referring to the contention of Lodge and other Senators that the labor prod- uct of the Filipinos would not be per- mitted to come into competition with American labor and its product Mr. Rawling pointed out that if Congress possessed this authority it could im- pose duties which would prevent the wheat grown in Oklahoma from com- peting with that grown in Kansas or other States of the Union; or the min- erals produced in New Mexico and Ari- zona from competing with the like preducts of Colorado and Utah. He maintained that if the inhabitants of | the Philippine archipelago may be de- | nied the liberty of locomotion, not as| a punishment for any crime of which they may have been duly convicted, if they may be lawfully forbidden to come | | to America, then we may deny them the | right of passing from cne island to an- | other or from visiting their neighbor's | house, and if we may do this we may throw them into Spanish dungeons, | there to await the incoming tide to end | their troubles and place them beyond | American tyranny. Allusion was made | to the contention that until the treaty | is ratified the truce between the United | States and Spain must continue, and then Mr. Rawlins said: “Is it possible that the end of the war with Spain, accomplished by the ratification of the treaty, is to be the inception of a new war with the in- habitants of those islands; that we are to turn our guns from the Spaniards upon them, although guilty of nc crime except the desire and aspiration to be free? “We can retain Subig Bay and suffi- cient territory around it or some other suitable place as a military and naval base, recognize the independence of the people of the rest of the archipelago, let them go in peace and give them the assurance of our protection. “What do we want the Philippines for? Do we want them to furnish homes for our own people? No. Do we want them to furnish an outlet for our sur- plus labor? Do we want them to add a wholesome element to our popula- tion, that our sons may find wives and our daughters husbands? The blight- ing curse of the Almighty would rest upon such miscegenation. Do we want them in order to practice upon ‘heir thropy which applied to the aborigi- nal inhabitants of this continent have led to their extermination? says no. Do we want them in order to send thither swarms of office-holders. carpet-baggers, to riot among them like slimy worms, eating out their sub- stance? Ah, there’s the rub. But for this, this perplexing problem I doubt would to-day be seriously confronting the American people. No; there is no conceivable good which they can bring to us. Their retention bodes nothing but evil. N “We cannot afford to go over half way down to the Asiatic level in order to proportionately lift their civilization: ‘We have enacted laws which stand like cherubim with flaming swords at the gateways of the republic to drive back the hordes of the dark and degen- erate races of the east, lest they might enter into and degrade us. The Sen- ator from Connecticut (Mr. Platt) twitted the Senator from Massachu- setts (Mr. Hoar) with seeing constitu- tional obstacles, lions in the pathway leading to the House Beautiful. Would the Senator from Connecticut have us, like Samson of old, destroy the lion at the gate in order that we might en- ter in to wed the daughter of the Phil- istine? It behooves us to take warning by that example lest we, too, by such ‘benevolent assimilation,” have our locks shorn and the strength of our institutions taken away.” Succumbs to His Injuries. COLUSA, Feb. 1.—Samuel Simmons, a farmer, died this morning from the ef- fects of injurles recefved In a runaway ‘lut Monday. MEMORY FOUND AFTER LONG YEARS Marvelous Result of Brain Surgery. REASON MAY COME BACK THE MIND OF A SMALL BOY DESTROYED. He Takes Up the Thread of Life and Mr. Chandler of New Hampshire lutions for those of Mr. Bacon., while | that he was willing that a vote should | As it was evi-| dent, however, that a vote on the reso- | unanimous consent that a| Where It Had Been Broken Abruptly Many Years Ago. Special Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 1.—Eleven yvears ago Charles Burrell of Chebanse, IlL, while engaged in a childish quarrel with a playmate, was struck on the left side of the head with a brick. The mo- ment he was struck he began to run around in a circle. He was taken to his home and a physician called, but® the boy never recovered his reason or his powers of locomotion. While able to walk, he was unable to control hig movements, and had a constant ten- dency to move in a circte, Some time ago his parents, learning of an operation by whicn the reason of Attorney Frank Collier was restored. set about to have their son, now 19 | years of age, operated upon. In 1896, believing him to be incurable, they had taken him to the State Hospital for the insane at Kankakee. The desires of the parents were made known to Dr. Stearns, superintendent of the institu- tion, and on Monday the experiment was begun. He was placed under the influence of an X-ray, generated by | 1,000,000 volts of, electricity, and a skia- graph of the skull taken. This showed a thickening of the bone near the top of the skull on the left side. To-day an | operation was performed by which the | thickened bone was removed, relleving the unnatural pressure uvon the brain at that point. The first words uttered | by the young man, upon recovering | from the unconsciousness caused by the { anesthetics used during the operation were: “What made you hit me?” The question has been hidden away | in the unfortunate’s memory since the | fateful day, eleven years ago, when he | received the wound, and the boy picked | up the thread of his life where it had | been snapped by the-careless act of a playmate. “There is great improvement,” said Dr. Stearns, ‘‘and I hope for still bet- ter results. The dementia has gone so far, however, I am afraid the young man’s brain will never be perfectly healthy.” | The patient spoke thankfully to the surgeon when he finally realized what had been done for him, and when per- mitted to talk he immediately asked how long he had been ill. His mind went back to the day when he and an- other boy were romping at Chebanse, | I1l. 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