The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 5, 1899, Page 7

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ANONYMOUS LEGISLATION. /9 ANSAS, that prolific mother of reformers of all l\ kinds, from Fighting John Brown to Sockless Simpson, has another aspirant for fame, who, curiously enough, seeks it in the halls of legislation by proposing a measure which will prevent all legis- lators in future from obtaining even a mention in an account of their work. This gentleman, whose name is T. S. Elder, and who holds down his seat as a fusior has intro- duced into the House of Representatives of his be- lcved Kansas a resolution providing that all legis- lation hereafter shall be strictly anonymous. Bills are to be introduced in such a manner that no man shall know the ne of the introducer. The rea h have moved Mr. Elder to pro- P so startling an innovation are set forth by him in a preamble to his resolution, and are so well ex- pressed therein that any attempt at digest or summary The full text as it comes would be a waste of words. to us reads as follows: Whereas, The greatest enemy to legislation is rank part ship, and stands more in the way of good lawmaking than a thousand poisoned arrows, | and a member may introduce a bill of merit, one of 1 worth and one which would bring sunshine and joy to the homes of Kansas. That no sooner is a bill read and the name of the introducer made known than an odium attaches it—that’s a “Pop” or that's a Republican bill. So the matter goes, and the people, who are the bone and the nerve and sinew of the country, are beaten out of legislation which would bless their homes all because a lot of political demagogues let partisanship control their better judgment; and, Whereas, The people are looking to the legislators for good laws which will make their burdens lighter and life happier, and the members of this House know that politics and the name of an introducer of a bill, though it might be all that heaven could wish, too often defeats it; therefore, b= it Resolved, That the name of the introducer of a bill be omitted from this time on and all names thus far on bills introduced be taken off in order that we may come at a more honest disposal of all bills which may come before this House. There is more horse sense in that proposition than we usually find in the outpourings of a Kansas re- former. The language in which it is expressed is rather sinuous and contorted, like a barbed wire fence after a Kansas zephyr has blown through it, but for all that it can be readily understood. The gentleman wishes all bills to stand en their merits, and to ac- complish that he is willing to sacrifice the blooming ambition of every legislator who delights to see his name attached to a bill, and who usually thinks he has achieved much for his constituents when he can boast that he has introduced more bills than any other man of his weight in either House. Of course leghlation can never be made strictly anonymous. If the authorship of a bill were ever in doubt, it would be easy to raise the rascal or the statesman by simply moving to lay the bill on the table. He would rise at once, and the howl of him would say plainer than print, “That is my bill.” Nevertheless, the thing is worth trying, and we trust Kansas will do so. Anything that tends to obscure the average legislator is commendable, and all the more commendable if the legislator happens to be a Kansan with a wild desire to have his name on as many bills as there are hairs in his whiskers. e e e—— The Review of Reviews for this month, in a num- ber devoted to forwarding the aims of the expan- sionists, says of the Philippines that “Spain has simply given us a quitclaim deed.” This is exactly what The Call said when the treaty of Paris was signed. Having no foothold of possession, Spain at- tempted to transfer to us for twenty millions so much of her monarchical divinity as a continental re- public could receive. Salinas has just lost by death a woman 109, years of age. Desiring to do what we may toward the pro- motion of longevity as well as the betterment of morals, we add that she had been in the habit of drinking brandy copiously, and only when asleep or eating refrained from drawing at a foul old pipe. — e Probably the report that the Cubans have been offended by the offer of money from this country is not based on fact. It cannot be that the Cubans have so changed since they got their first chance at an American free ration. e Scientists are citing the strange case of a man who seems to be well and yet who has lost all sense of feeling, and they seem to regard the instance as unique. Evidently they never have heard of our ex-Speaker Wright. It was unkind of the Colorado Legislature to fire out a lot of ministerial lobbyists, but the lobbyists, reflecting that they had no right to be there, must not view their experience with bitterness. There are many people in this vicinity who would like to lose their grip. ! | gold. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5. 1899. TREACHERIES OF IMPERIALISM. Ttions. Qur developed wealth surpasses the ac- cumulations of any other country. Our undevel- oped wealth, with the resources actually in sight and vpon this continent, outstrips “the dreams of avar- ice.” We have a population approximating "eighty millions. We need a Caucasian population of five hundred millions. The statistics of 1898 show an extraordinary increase of commercial Dbusiness, accompanied by a vast accumulation of gold and an unexpected stride toward financial supremacy. This wonderful progress has been accomplished under the Federal and State constitutions, entrenching a form of government that exists with the full consent of the people, and in which the fundamental rights of man are adequately protected. It is exactly at this period, when it might have been least ‘anticipated, that we are urged to ignore our constitutional system and relapse into the im- perialism of ancient Rome or of modern Great Britain. If our experiment had failed, this retro- grading tendency could be understood. But in the midst of our dazzling success, its sinister import is teo apparent to be condoned. When to subserve the base purposes of unprincipled speculators, falsely as- suming to speak for trade and for commerce, statis- tical dreams are invented and the country deluged with lies and traitorous proposals, it is time for the “sober second thought of the people,” faithfully in- terpreted by great and incorruptible statesmen, to place the impassable barrier of patriotism before in- cipient and audacious revolution. We believe that this Government will be held to its foundation, but the effort to displace it is a mere reproduction of Roman history. When imperialism and territorial annexation have been conironted and argumentatively annihilated, we are told that the im- perial elements of the treaty of Paris will be coun- teracted by a declaratory resolution. What superla- tive bosh, and yet fraught with imminent danger! We are to accept a title to the Philippines from Spain that has no actual existence, except through the pre- tense of delegated divinity in the Spanish monarch, for which we pay twenty millions of our good red We declare that this title conveys to us the right of possession without the consent and against the will of the Filipinos. Having witnessed the pre- | monitory symptoms of imperialism in military | strifes and jealousies and in official corruption, we propose to raise our army to one hundred thousand‘ men. High officers of state have publicly referred to | our ‘“dependencies.” Aguinaldo and his troops, | wholly unfit for and incapable of American citizen- ship, nevertheless have fought the Spanish for inde- | pendence, are on their native soil, and were long ago | informed of the benevolence of our intentions. Now they are spoken of as “banditti,” and Senator Carter of Montana objects even to any definition of our projects because it might supply comfort “to those who are defying the authority of the United States.” What is this but an assertion that, politically, the Filipinos were sold to us by Spain? But this actual definite change once wrought, this retréat toward despotism fairly begun, our declara- | tion of rights and our constitution substantiaily | trodden under foot, we are informed that the repub- lic will be saved by a preliminary resolution, which reminds us of the observation of one of the candidates | at Sacramento of an opposing lawyer, that he ‘“prayed, but did not mean it.” Bah! It has been repeated a hundred times that our forefathers pledged their “lives, their fortunes and their sacred honors” against a preamble. They courted death for an idea. We are asked to sacrifice a republic for trade. It is time for the mass of our citizens to be heard and to press with irresistible force against the revo- lutionists at Washington. They have our constitu- tion, our history, our traditions, our practice, the buried ages of sacrificed humanity, to inspire them. They have great Senators and powerful orators and debaters in both houses of Congress to interpret their wishes. They have the present and the future | to hold them to American responsibility. Let slave- trading speculation, aspiring militarism and aggres- sive covetousness die that this continental and united republic may live. The gentleman at the head of the Christian Endea- vor Society says that according to the golden rule this country must hold the Philippines. Just how he | figures this out is not clear. Perhaps somebody has induced him to accept a bogus golden rule, inasmuch as nobody would try the gold brick game on one of hiz cloth. If we treat the Filipinos as we would be treated we have only the course of taking hands off and letting them have the liberty they have fought to attain. If they yearned for an American yoke to | replace the Spanish the case would be different, but as yet they have displayed no symptom of yearning. Assemblyman Jilson in the act of raiding the cor- ner grocery affords a pleasing and surprising spec- bent on moral reform. This sort of reform would be an excellent thing if Jilson would get in the way of it. it. He does not look like a reformer, and while ha was spending Grant’s $400 did not pose as one. s s s LL citizens who have an intelligent idea of the needs of San Francisco in relation to the find cause for gratification in the passage by the Sen- ate of the bill introduced by Senator Braunhart pro- the extension of the seawall. Great-as are the advantages of our spacious har- the immense commerce of the port. We must have many improvements made for increasing the facilities ocean ships. Our trade has already outgrown the docking facilities and the warehouse accommodations begin an extensive system of improvements of all kinds if we hope to hold our position as the The improvement and extension of tne seawall will be a benefit of wide-reaching importance. It will its welfare. With the construction and improvement of the wall southward, where there is ample security swift-running tides, there will come an increase in the area available for commercial houses and large business renders proximity to the water front a mat- ter of great economic importance. bill, the proposed bond issue will not entail the cost of one dollar upon the taxpayers of the interior. It the expense, so that the port could be relieved from the heavy charges imposed upon shipping. Such re- this port the State receives the great bulk of its foreign goods. Under existing conditions, however, tacle, since he is not “rushing the can,” but appears But there is difficulty in imagining him the author of THE SEAWALL BILL. fl rapidly expanding trade of the Pacific will viding for an issue of State bonds to ¢reate a fund for bor, they are not sufficient for the requirements of of docking and loading and unloading the largest of the water front. It is imperative that we should metropolis of Pacific Ocean commerce. affect the city in many ways and materially advance for shipping, free from the disturbing movements of manufacturing establishments, the nature of whose As was pointed out in the debate on the Braunhart would have beén better had the whole State borne lief would be to the interest of all, since it is through that is too much to expect, and the advocates of the HE United States is facile princeps among na- | mieasure have acted expediently in making the port improvement a charge upon the port itself. It is within the limits of possibility that with the increase of facilities for shipping which will be given by the improvements of the port there may come such a lessened burden in the cost of loading and unload- ing as will counterbalance the port charges required to pay for them. At any rate, the improvement of the seawall will benefit the city in so many ways there will be but little, if any, objection to the means which have been provide‘ for defraying the cost. e —————————— THE SPEED OF STREET CARS. MONG the bills before the Legislature which f\ have the merit of common sense and are well calculated to promote the public welfare is one conferring upon municipalities the power of regulating for themselves the rate of speed of street cars. The object of the measure is to enable the municipal authorities to make such regulations on the subject as will conform to the needs of different localities, instead of having, as at present, one in- vardable rule for all. The need for a change in the law has arisen from the change that has been effected in street car lines themselves. When street railways were first intro- duced they rarely extended beyond the more thickly settled portions of the city in which they were laid. Consequently a law fixing a uniform rate of speed for all was at that time fairly just and expedient. Gradually, however, some of the lines extended farther and farther into the suburbs, until now there are lines running for miles through comparatively unsettled districts. It is folly to require that these suburban extensions shall be conducted on the same terms and conditions as the lines downtown. A rate of speed of eight miles an hour is sufficient in the center of a city, where people have to traverse but a short distance, and where the thoroughiares are so crowded as to make it dangerous for a higher rate of speed to be used. In the outside districts, however, where the distance to be covered by the passenger is one of miles, speed is an important mat- ter, and, as the danger of accidents is slight owing to the comparatively little traffic along the road, it is desirable that a much higher rate should be permitted. If a speed of eight miles an hour is expedient within the thickly settled portion of the city, it would not be too much to permit a speed of twelve miles in the suburbs. It is clearly absurd to require a car running in the district around Ingleside, for instance, to move as slowly as one along the lower part of Market street. The question of speed in any locality is simply one of expediency, and should be determined by the needs of the particular case and not by general law. One might as well require a railway train to run as slowly through the rural districts as it does in the city as to make a similar requirement of the modern street rail- way. 2 As a matter of fact, the street railways of American cities are every year pushing farther and farther into the country, and as they extend a greater amount of speed is needed to render them thoroughly service- able to the people. That speed should be regulated by local guthorities, who know the conditions of the different sections of the goute traversed by each road | and can therefore determine what rate of speed is best fitted to meet the demands of the traffic without endangering life or property. The bill granting that authority to municipalities is in every respect a good one and ought to find general support in both houses. A POOLROOM STORY. N object lesson in legislation is furnished by f\ the cases of Henry Walker and Francis Dunn, two young men who were held for trial in one of the Police Courts a few days ago on a charge of burglary. Walker is 19 and Dunn 21 years of age. They were charged with breaking into a room in a Market-street lodging-house and stealing a coat and vest, which they sold to a pawnbroker for $3. Thex police officer who arrested them traced them from the scene of their burglary to a poolroom on Stevenson street, where, with the proceeds of their crime, they were endeavoring to win on the horse races. When brought before the Police Court the boys at- tempted no defense, but resigned themselves calmly to a term in the State prison. They said they had lost all their money “playing the races,” and that they had stolen the coat and vest for the purpose of pro- curing funds with which to continue the practice. There are two or three bills before the Legislature which provide for suppressing these poolrooms. They are being antagonized by a numerous lobby, and efforts will undoubtedly be made to smother them in committee, or if their authors succeed in getting them before the House to kill them upon the floor. We do not see how any conscientious, self-respecting man who has been elected to represent a constituency in the Legislature, however, can contribute his in- fiuence to the defeat of any measure which will put an end to such stories as will ultimately have to be told of Henry Walker and Francis Dunn. The poolroom lobby at Sacramento may raise a “sack” and influence a few degraded legislators to en- compass the defeat of this legislation. But if there is a man in either House who would yield to influence exerted in such a cause, neither his arguments nor his interests should receive the attention of his self- respecting colleagues. There ought to be a moral /sense in every community sufficiently strong to sup- press dens such as are here under discussion. Both these young men were willing to work for a living until they fell within the baleful influence of a bucket- shop poolroom. Their lives are now ruined, since they are bound to serve a term in the penitentiary. We sincerely trust that this Legislature will not ad- journ without passing a law so stringent that under it the police of this city will be able to close up every one of these dens forever. One Stallard has just been sent up for three months, his crime having been an attempt to kill his wife, evidenced by the fact that he shot her twice. There have been juries who would have regarded Stallard’s act as reprehensible. So far as justice is concerned, he might as well have been given three minutes as three months, for such a finding was a farce. —_— There should be in law a new distinction between the hard-working man out of a job and the idle vagrant. Such distinction as there is at present is all in favor of the vagrant. When the Examiner gets tired of the silly war it is waging against Shafter it will be in precisely the con- dition its readers reached some time ago. oo The peculi.lr row that occurred at a revival meeting in San Rafael shows that the meeting was needed and ought not to be allowed to languish. Sausalito has an element which desires the reten- tion of poolrooms. Evidently they need reform and more police across the bay. When the offending of the press has been its ex- posure of rascals there does not seem to be any reason for honest men to roar : 96080609090 ©00090 9090090 ® § VITH ENTIRE £ { FRANKNESS & % BY HENRY JAMES. % 990006090609 0® 000®0 ©0090® “A Friend": Your first letter was not forgotten, although I made an honest effort to forget it. The truth is that while I have a rule not to notice anony- mous communications, there is occa- sionally one so superior that the temp- tation to break the rule is great. No, I have not attended any Christian Science meetings, because I do not be- lieve that prayer knits a bone nor that faith subdues the microbe of tubercu- losis. In a weak, human way, I still cling to quinine and eastor oil, to a foot bath, a mustard plaster, with cat- nip tea for the youngsters. The man who carries a potato in his pocket for rheumatism or ties a red string around his neck to defy the nose-bleed seems to me to have all the logic of the Chris- tian Scientist, who, by the way, may be a Christian all right, but is no more a scientist than a steam radiator is a sign of spring. . * “H. J. A.”: These may be the wrong initials, for your chirography is nearly as bad as your morals. Nobody but a blackguard sends an abusive letter to a stranger and nobody but a liar after the qualification “With Entire Frank- ness” signs a fictitious name. You will therefore excuse me for not devoting space to you. There are respectable rogues who need attention. P There can be no objection to sub- mitting to the people the proposed amendment to the constitution exempt- ing church property from taxation. There could be no valid objection to submitting to them an amendment for the burning of politicians at the stake or the boiling in oil of cartoonists. None of these amendments would be acceptable, and one would be about as acceptable as another. When a church i§ not willing to pay taxes it would bet- ter dispose of its realty and do its worshiping under the shade of a tree. A church may be useful to the com- munity, but so are street cars and gas works, this fact being no reason why they should escape a share of the com- mon burden. To whimper over taxes is small business for a church. As a rule ministers are poorly paid and even their meager salaries are grudg- ingly advanced. People want bargain rates on salvation. Many churches are wealthy, and many have indivi.ual members who could pay all the taxes, the salary of the preacher and the run- ning expenses of the concern with less hardship than is entailed upon an or- dinary citizen in yielding up a street- car fare. Of course, some of them have no more piety than there is poetry in | the emotions of a cow, but their bluff | would work better if they did not groan every time they reach into their pock- ets. They evade taxes enough when they hide their riches from the Asses- sor, and they should not be permitted by statute to evade more. The churches have police and fire protection. In many places they are guarded against | the encroachments of the saloon. Let them pay for this protection, partly be- cause they are able, but more because to do so is just and right. i e Whatever may be the wisdom of en- larging the army such nonsense as Con- gressman Maguire projected into his argument against it does not appeal to any but the Maguire judgment. Ac- cording to this statesman the change is in token of a desire on the part of the Federal government to subdue and terrorize the government of the several States, which is so manifest an ab- surdity as to'create no excuse for de- voting time to refuting it. It may be designated as tommy-rot or any old rot. e “Our paragraphs,” says the Santa Cruz Sentinel, “are meant to be witty and thoroughly up to the times.” I am glad to learn this. My impression has been that part of them were stupid and the rest stolen, and there was no method of ascertaining by inspection what any of them were for. o el The community must be getting tired of the silly and venomous war on Shafter. The man is to be judged by results rather than by the remarks of a disgruntled journalist whose repre- sentatives were bounced from Cuba by Shafter's orders, they having been there for the purpose of making mis- chief and nickels. The fact is plain that Shafter led an army which achieved a remarkable victory, against odds, and did it quickly, with compara- tively trifling loss of life. Against this record the oreheads may rail as long as they find enjoyment in it, and each new attack will but emphasize the ac- | Jknowledged truth that they are a lot of braying asses. . The gentleman at the head of the Christian Endeavor Society, a very worthy gentleman, whose purposes are presumably lofty, says that the Golden Rule constrains this country to keep the Philippines. The Golden Rule is a sublime guide to human action, the most benign and the perfect rule. It is not lived up to much. If it were earth would be a paradise and earth is not a paradise. Yet I cannot see the force of the reverend enthusiast’s reascning. The natives of the Philippines have long been fighting for liberty as our own forefathers did. We go there and say to them: ‘“You don’t want liberty. What you want is the privilege of wearing a new yoke in place of the Spanish yoke of which we have so gen- erously relieved you.” Then we proceed to fashion the new yoke and persuade the Filipinos that their fresh burden is light. If there is any essence of the Golden Rule about this I fail to see it. It seems to me to be hoggishness and nothing less. If the Filipinos can be made to think that American rule would be preferable to Spanish, as in- dubitably it would, all right, but let us not be hypocrites about it nor try to justify by Holy Writ a course which has its rise and progress in selfishness. That there would be profit in holding the Philippines I do not doubt, but so there is profit in holding up a stage. I do not believe that which must be done at the point of the bayonet toward subduing an inoffensive people gains color of propriety by any Golden Rule palaver. If we keep the islands let us be honest enough to confess that we do 80 because we have the chance and are sufficiently strong, but let us not slaver the operation v:lth a bogus sanctimony, . a d . It 18 my fortune to be famillar with that part of Stevenson street extending Ltrom Third to Fourth, and a more in- A PATI( BARGAINS! ADVERTISEMENTS. 000000000000000000000000C000000000C0 SIEN'S PARLOR FURNITURE. 125 Parlor Rockers, in the beautiful Rory O'More style, worth up to $ 7, will be sold for ... B An all-over Stuffed Parlor Suit, 5 will_be sold for Box Couches, 6 feet long, 80 ind de, deep box for clothing: sale price.87.50 5-plece Parlor Suit, upholstered in silk ta- pestry; sale price 25 Roman Chairs, upholster: sale price ...... 3.50 pleces, $35 $12.00, Regular prics $18.00, This fine Solid Oak Dresser, handsomely carved ahd hand-polished, case has large pattern French-plate mirror 24x30. You save $6 on"this plece of bedroom furniture. 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They represent for the most part the back elevation of struct- ures which put up imposing fronts on Market or Mission, and are somewhat careless as' to the rear view. From my window I see tailors at work, book- keepers making long rows of figures, and in going In either direction am obliged to pass a number of saloons and poolrooms. There is a sausage fac- tory, too, which éalutes the olfactory senses with a suggestion of things long live because they have not the enter- prise to die, and tow-headed urchins who thrive on dirt. But all these are mere incidents. The street itseif is the study. ‘There are sidewalks on either side, but few venture to tread them be- cause they are devoted to the storage of goods. Not long ago a boy, led by the rashness of youth to walk on the walk, had a case of goods fall on him, whereupon he died, as might have been expected. Presumption of this sort does not go in Stevenson street. The pru- dent take to the middle of the road, but there they find that a pit has been digged for them. It is a peculiar road. It has a cobble surface, subject to sud- den and violent changes—that is, when it has a surface. Ordinarily the bow- els are being torn out of it, and sur- face is one of the things it lacks. One day there will be necessity for secret- ing a pipe of some sort in its depths, and the next day a new set of men spy out and disinter the ~ipe with all | the air of having made a great discov- ery. After each convulsion the cob- bles are replaced with care. They are noble -cobbles, each one standing out like the sore thumb of the lamented Nye. I do not see why they are ever put back, for as sure as they are, they | are yanked out again. They simply serve to make the passing beer wagon more vociferous, and having done this are straightway disturbed by the picks of a fresh lot of vandals. There have been some buildings erected at the Third street corner, and the brick and lumber from these has taken all but the space necessary for a strictly sober man to use in threading his way. In dry weather the dust is a foot deep, in wet weather the mud is two feet deep. The saloon-keepers tell me confidential- 1y that their business is being ruined, and even the tramps wont to thrive on the odor of sausage are getting discour- aged almost to the point of hunting a | job. Altogether Stevenson street is a :joy and an inspiration. Those who in- | vade it, and get as far as The Call brainery, may think they hear the | whirr of dynamos, but no. That sound is the editorial organ of thought athrob, and it is aided and abetted in volume by the charm of environment. Steven- son street is a daisy. There is not an- other like it in the whole municipal (arden. N . .. . San Francisco should be proud of the distinction of being a port of call for a line of steamers, for some reason not explained, running to San Diego. Aft- er awhile we may grow to the dignity of being declared a suburb of Mill Valley. would counsel the bright man of the Fresno Watchman not to be nasty. He doesn’t need to be. &0 Le The fact that Edward Atkinson does not want the United States to keep the Philippines 18 the strongest argument vet advanced for doing-so. Atkinson dead and partly cooked. There are| tumble-down rookeries in which people | has been before the public a long time, | generally by means of print. He has an opinion on all questions, invariably | backing it by a set of trained figures | which defy the old belief that figures | do not lie. I never heard of his being | right on any proposition, and if he is right this time, he will, upon discover- ing it, regard the circumstance as a | regrettable accident. Atkinson is the | statistical Keel.y. I regret that the lady who sends an advertisement to be paid for in poetry, and also sends the poetry, does not seem to have made a hit with the busi- | ness office. Were it possible, I would | help her, but my influence there is meager, and even on the editorial end of the' paper it is insufficient to get the poetry published. The truth is that a lot of crushed geniuses are about every newspaper office ready to/ bust into song at the slightest provocation, and the printing of the lines submitted would, I am assured, give them undue encouragement Py A A lady writes in Sincerity and indig- nation of the abuses to which sick sol- diers have been subjected in Manila. Hush. Our soldiers were abused in Cuba, too; killed there by rotten ra- tions furnished by a lot of contractors who should be hanged for it, yet men- tion of the fact.is displeasing to the ‘War Department. For every man ac- cused and found guilty there is ready a coat of whitewash, which but adds to the national shame. And then when we reflect that that noble patriot and vaMant soldier, Aleer, is at the head of the concern, it is not supposable that the whispered word of a dying private is to be taken. If there are abuses at Manila, nobody will ever be punished for them, and an attempt at exposure will only add the crime of perjury to the crime of cruelty. It is as well to let the matter rest, and leave the of- fenders to settle with their God, pray- ing that they may be called upon to do this without delay. Liberal With Stolen Whisky. Robert Dempsey was yesterday con- victed by Judge Mogan on charges of petty larceny and battery and will be sentenced to-morrow. He stole a case of whisky from the saloon of Gus H. Monk, 243 East street, and went_ around the front treating every one he met to a drink. He was captured by Policeman Con Donahue after a desperate struggle, during which he kicked a civilian who went to the officer’s assistance. ' —_——— Divorce Suits Filed. 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