The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 8, 1899, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 189 INCIDENTS OF THE DAY AT SACRAMENTO. DEADLOCK WILL BE BROKEN, BURNS AND GRANT WILL LOSE The Mexican and the San Diegan Both Out of the Running. OPEN FIELD FOR CLEAN CANDIDATES) Developments of the Past Twenty-Four Hours Show That a Break-Up Is Near at Hand and Both the High Men Will Be Dropped Out. ALL HEADQUARTERS, MENTO, Feb. 7.—The no Senatorial deadiog ent Legislature will elect a United States Senator Hon. Stephen M SACRA- will be . The pres- to succeed the White, and the man elected will be neither D. M: Burns nor U. S. Grant. So much has been made certain by the developments of the past twenty-four hours. Though it has been known tc others for days and even weeks, Burns has but just now permitted himself to real- ize the utter hopelessness of his cause. That he does realize it is made more than certain by the fact that he has| confided his bellef to a few of his closest friends and supporters and has enlisted their aid to assist him in sav- ing whatever he may frem the wreck of his misguided ambition. Two weeks he might have named the Senator he so desired. hope to cel To-day he can only ain such favor from the suc- sful candidate as may be given him in return for the handful of votes over which he holds a fast-diminishing in- fluence. The change in sentiment that has brought Burns face to face with defeat deals at the same time a death stroke to the waning chances of the candi- date from San Diego. like Burns, now boasts of having an agreement with the political bosses of the railroad company whereby he is to fall heir to whatever votes the corpora- tion can command in the Legislature. It is no doubt true that such a contract is being negotiated and that the date of transfer is fixed for the latter part of this week. What effect this will have on Grant’s chances of success may ed from the following recital railroad influence can command and deliver to any other candidate than Dan Burns no more than eight votes in the Legislature. This acknowledged by the corporation’s z and is well known to all familiz the situation here. There are at pres- ent in Grant’s camp just twice that number of legislators who now solemn- 1y ert that if the Southern Pacific Company or any of its agents seeks to st in the election of Grant they (the legislators) will desert him in a body and cast their votes for some candi- date who will be acceptable to them and the communities which they repre- sent. In order that he may hold his present strength until he can wheel his prom- ised railroad supporters into line Grant is burning his bridges behind him and is resorting to all sorts of subterfuges. To-day the information was confided to his supporters, confidentially, that on Thursday or Friday Senator Stratton and Assemblyman Knowland of Ala- nts themselves, with meda would change their votes from | During the past two | Barnes to Grant. days, through the instrumentality of Grant’s paid agents, th ors have been deluged with scores of telegrams from residents of Alameda County urging them to break the dead- lock, and suggesting that the best way of doing so would be by voting for Grant. In many instances these tele- grams have been followed by from the senders asking the legislators to whom they were addressed to pay no attention to the telegrams, as they were sent under pressure brought to bear by men whom the writers did not wish to | antagonize. To show how futile are these efforts of Grant to whip reluctant leg- | jslators into line it is only necessary'to state that both Stratton and Knowland unqualifiedly assert that they will not vote for Grant this week, and that they have no good reason to believe that they will ever vote for him. There are few men in Sacramento to-night who are not willing to make known their be- lief that both Grant and Burns are out of the running, and that there is now an open field for the candidates who have no blots on their escutcheons and | who are known tb be acceptable to the ! people of the State. The suspicion is so strong that Grant is seeking to augment his strength by questionable overtures for a block of votes that one man of high standing who has been voting for the San T)ieg:); candidate declared to-day that he would abandon Grant's cause if the negotiations were carried forward to a transfer of the block. Rumors are flying thick of a determined effort on the part of the Grant managers to do the boldest kind of commercial politics to finish the job which Green began early last summer. There is no disguising the fact that the Burns men are apprehensive of danger. The cause of the sudden change But Grant, un- | two legislat- | letters | last | Green from contempt may be traced to the defiant attitude of the Grant man- agers. It was a bold move on the part | of Perkins, Pardee and Grant to go into | the heart of Alameda County and in- vite respectable citizens of high stand- | ing to send telegrams to this city re- | questing Senators Stratton and Taylor | and Assemblyman Knowland to vote | for a man who had been censured by the committee of investigation for cor- ruptly using money to secure the Sena- | torship. Many of the telegrams have been ex- hibited here. In order that the people of that county may know the citize who have been persuaded or beguiled into sending messages, The Call has obtained. the following names of send- ers Craigie Sharp, Robert P. Dey, M. J. Keller, L. H. Carver, Richard Jones, R. F. Jackson, Nicholas de Camp, F. W. | Thompson, F. C. Roberts, James M. | Chanl B. L. Fisher, John F. Meek- lem, Max Gundlach, C. L. Metzger, E. A. Randlet, G. M. Agnews, E. E. Rob- | erts, D. W. Martin, W. J. Bowman, George W. Reinhart, H. 'W. tum Suden and Al Wood. Kimball G. Easton, Nicholas de | Camp, Samuel Swift, R. F. Jack-| son, B. F. Hobart, Charles W. Emer; John C. Marsh, K. S. Foster, A. Pennoyer, M. J. Keller, | Richard J 8, L. H. rver, William | J. Bowman, George W. Reinhart, Ed. Lukens, Cr Sharp, Kimball G. Easton, F. W. Far 1, George W. Arp- er, H. 8. Rowe, H. H. Colby, Frank H. Stewart, Henry Demming, E. W. Brad- & Fembhoff, N. k [ ley, M.S.,, W. J. Wilcox, M.D., L. A. Raleigh, J. C. S Mason & Co., James F. § " lker, W. G. § , H. Davis, L I Boak and H. W. tum Suden. The Call to-night secures Information that Colonel Burns will not prolong the | contest to the end of defeating the elec- tion of a Republican Senator provided Grant goes out of the race. He indi- cated, however, that he would defeat election rather than consent to the suc- s of Grant. The inference that Burns has not parted with his political sense leads ma to believe that there will | be a readjustment of forces and a gen- | eral rally around some candidate who can defeat the San Diego statesman. No one can tell when the break will come or around whom the scattered | forc will rally. Irving M. Scott re- appeared on the ne to-night. It is belleved that the relations between D. | ! M. Burns and L. R. Ellert, the political manager of Mr. Scott. are so badly | strained that great difficulty would be encountered in bringing about an agreement to unite on Scott. When the break comes from Grant, as it must, if Burns retires, Scott may gain reinforcements. Inquiry to-night leads to the conclusion that the forces of Gen- eral Barnes will not be weakened by | the onslaught of telegrams from Ala- meda County. In the Bulla camp there is the utmost confidence that Senator Taylor will not yield to the pressure by wire. Barnes and Bulla each expect tp make substantial gains when the sup- porters of Burns and Grant begin to scatter. It is believed to-night that Burns will be the first to move and | thus gain an advantage over Grant in | joining forces with the successful man. There is a deep-seated conviction that Perkins is responsible for the Grant outburst in Alameda County. In more than one Senatorial camp there is a long knife out for Perkins. Burns has no love for him. General Barnes is not | likgly to forget the attempt to break his column of eleven supporters and Bulla is bestowing no benedictions on the head of the Senator. Assemblyman Clough’s resolution in- troduced in_the session of the joint as- | sembly to-day created some “surprise and merriment. The representative from Plumas County proposed that candidates for the United States Sen- ate should be invited to address the convention and provided that no speech should exceed one hour in the length of its delivery. Senator Flint, Presi- dent pro tem. of the Senate, ruled the | resolution out of order, but it is the judgmént of men familiar with parlia- mentary proceedings that the ruling was_incorrect. It is not unusual for candidates for the United States Senate | to address the Legislature when a con- test for election s pending. In sev- eral of the Eastern States the custom is honored in the observance. | It is not unusual in California for candidates for the office of Governor | to_address delegates of a convention | before the balloting begins. At the cele- | brated Union Hall convention in San | Francisco which nominated Willlam Ir. | win for Governor he addressed the dele- | gates, and his rivals, C. T. Ryland, Thomas Findlay and Philip Roach, also | appeared on the platform and expressed | their sentiments. At the convention in | San Jose, over which John Boggs pre- | sided and which nominated General | Stoneman for Governor, the delegates were addressed by George Hearst and i Governor Stoneman. The speeches were made immediately after the candidates | were placed in nomination and before | the balloting began. | It is said here to-night that the joint assembly of the California Legislature might be enlightened by addresses de- livered by U. 8. Grant Jr., Daniel M. Burns, Irving M. Scott, R. N. Bulla, General W. H. L. Barnes and Thomas R. Bard. The last-named candidate is not here, but if desired he could come | and meet his fellow-citizens in Sacra- mento. The story going the rounds to- night to the effect that General Barnes prompted the resolution is without foundation in fact. The general made his speeches during the political cam- paign which terminated in the triumph.- ant election of Henry T. Gage for Gov- ernor. The general then had all the oppor- tunity any man could reasonably desire | with his views on the leading questions | sideration to address his fellow-citizens. Every of base on the proposition to absolve ‘member of the Legislature is familiar of the day. Judge Clough says that the résolution was introduced to-day on his own motion, and that he will present the same subject to the convention to- morrow. Perhaps an evening session will be called and candidates invited to address the legislators. It is acknowl- edged that in the field of oratory Gen- eral Barnes would have an advantage over his competitors, but it is also con- ceded that Senator Bulla is a fluent and able speaker. Irving M. Scott is a forei- ble and earnest talker. It is called to. mind that U. S. Grant made an elo- quent speech at the great San Diego demonstration during the late guberna- torial campaign. If the emergency de- manded another speech he could prob- ably line up with other aspirants and make a good showing. On the subject of calling a caucus Colonel Burns might wax eloquent. The sunburst of oratory in the convention yesterday, when Shortridge electrified the audience, is | supposed to be a sample of Dan’s stock. | No one can tell now when the agitation | for a parade of the orators will end. The town may be filled with telegrams hefore to-morrow night urging the Leg- islature to invite the candidaes to ex- press their sentiments and break the | ieadlock by the jaw-smithing process. perk ok R CAR FENDER BILL | GOES THROUGH Upon Reconsideration the Senate Passes the Measure. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 7.—Senator Braunhart got his car fender bill through the Senate to- day, although it had once been beaten. It was up for reconsideration yesterday, but Braunhart was afraid he had not | votes enough, and in spite of efforts to | force a vote at once he had the recon- | postponed until to-day. He | brought it up again this morning and its | consideration was responsible for an hour's oratory. Senator Leavitt rose to throw the first stone. The bill was indefinite and of no practical use, he sald, and he saw no rea- son for incumbering the statutes with any such proposition. He declared that fend- ers and brakes on street cars were mat- | ters for local legislation, and he did not | want to mix in municipal affairs from the | capital of the State. Senator Simpson thought it was purely | a matter for local legislation, and said &0 for ten minutes; but Senator Smith be- | lleved that as street cars were rapidly | stretching out from the cities into the country, perhaps it would be well to | take the matter of fenders and safety de- | vices out of the hands of possible venal Boards of Supervisors and place it within the jurisdiction of the State. Then Senator Shortridge drew his knife. | He thought such legislation was not prop- er for Senators to dally with. He thought | | the Senate should beware of all such bills, | and all such legislation. He wanted cor-J ] #OWO’OQM'OQQ00#00000;0000000400000#0#000?0‘0’0’00 H+040404040404040 NO CHANGE IN THE VOTE. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SAC- RAMENTO, Feb. 7.—Colonel “‘Jim' Smith, who, with a thousand and odd Native Sons, is just now win- ning glory for this State in Ma- nila, was the choice of the Democratic minority to-day when it came to vote for a Senator from California. He polled almost the full Democratic strength, and the mention of his name brought cheers from every throat in the As- sembly chamber, whether Repub- lican or otherwise, The vote was not changed. The impassioned and palpably inspired speech given off yesterday by Sen- ator Charles M. Shortridge created no defection, neither was it repeat- ed, as the more nervous feared it would Dbe. Assemblyman Clough broke in on the usual order by in- troducing a resolution which pro- vided that on February 8§ every candidate who up to that time had recefved a vote for United States Senator should be invited to speak for not exceeding one hour. It was very evident that Judge Clough was trying to make capital for General Barnes, and resident Flint of the Senate, who is zealous- ly guarding the two votes of Thomas R. Bard of Ventura, ruled his resolution out of order. The result of the one ballot taken was as follows: 40404048 BARNES 10 FELTON 1 BULLA . 13 BURNS ., 2 ESTEE GRANT SCOTT BARD WHITE (D.) . SMITH (D.) .. +040404040+ 04 O404040404 GREEN OBSTRUCTED ASSEMBLY WORK CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 7.—Nearly the whole of the day's session of the Assembly was given over to the discussion of the case of Mil- ton J. Green, Mr. Grant's political man- ager. File and other routine work was Brarore il E4O4+040404 40404040404 0+ O+ 040404040404 040+ O+ 400404040404 | given the go-by, in fact there is a general tendency noticeable this week to slight all routine work, as night sessions are to begin next week and night sessions are generally given over to the general work of the Legislature. There was time enough, however, to pay off another bunch of employes. Speaker pro tem. Dunlap introduced a resolution to pay Ed C. Smith and W. C. Geyrie 3216 each as compensation for their work as assistant and unauthorized clerks at the desk. Walter Trefry and A. C. Vignes, who Polly Works Continues o Act as porations to g:xy a dividend now and then and anyway he set the Shortridge seal of disapproval on the bill and every one like it, and any one who would introduce it or vote for it or speak or support it or be in any way connected with it. Senator Da- vis objected to such talk and so did Braunhart, who said he would reply to Mr. Shortridge as a question of personal privilege afterward. On roll call the bill was passed by a vote of 23 to 12. The bill applies particularly to San Francisco, where fender legisla- tion has been pending before the various Boards of Bupervisors for years. The bill is as follows: An act to promote the safety of employes and passengers upon street raiiroads, by com- pelling equipment of cars and dummies with fenders and brakes and to prescribe penalties. The people of the State of California, repre- sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. No/person, company or corporation operating cars on the streets of cities or towns or on the county roads within the State, for the conveyance of passengers, propelled by means of wire Topes attached to stationary engines, [or by) electricity or compressed air, shall run, operate or tise any car ar dummy unless each car and dummy, while in use, shall have a suitable fender or appliance piaced in front or attached to trucks of such dummy or car for the purpose of removing and clearing obstruc- tions from the tracks and preventing any ob- stacles, obstructions or person on the track from getting under sald dummy or car and remove the same out of danger and out of the way of said dummy or car. And Do person, company or corporation operating cars on the strects of citles or towns or on the county roads within the State, for the conveyance of passengers, shall run, operate or use any such car unless each car, while In use, shall be fitted with brake capable of bringing such a car to a stop within a reasonable distance. Sectlon 2. Every person, com] or cor- poration which hauls, or permits to be hauled, or used on its line, any ear or dummy in yio- lation of the provisions it this act shall ba fity of sdexeanor. n&g(oon im‘}nu.m shall take effect on and after the first day of July, 1899, acted for thirty days as u*gean?.l at arms of the Assembly Judiciary and Ways and Means Committee were ordered paid $30 each by a resolution Introduced by Val- entine of Los Angeles. Owen Wade, the Representative from Napa County, made a strenuous kick against the wholesale employment and irregular payment of employes. He sald that every salary claim that was paid in an irregular manner should be vouched for by some responsible member. Mr. ‘Wade would have said more, but happily for those who hire attaches, the hour for Milton Green's apg‘earance came round | and shut him off. The second appropria- tion for the running expenses of the State printing office made its weamnca in a Elll introduced by the ays and Means Committee asking for $75,000. It was ordered to the printer. The Committee on Commerce and Navi- gation, which spent Saturday and Sunday in San Francisco ln:gectlng the property under the control of the Harbor m- mission, sent in its report recommending the passage of Senate bill 54, Senator Bra\;nhabrfi’lu ;‘sieawsuflglll" and also As- sembly s ant . Senate joint resolution mbcamng upon Congress to refuse to seat Brigham Rob- erts, the polygamona representative from Utah, was adopted without dissent, as was Senate joint resolution 7, relative to suits brought against the State Con- troller by counties for commissions. Senate biil 91 by Dickinson, an act to pre- vent deception in the sale of process or renovated butter, was passed, as was also Assembly bill 157, by Arnerich of Santa Clera. The bill regulates the uhm. ping out of the State of infected fruit trees. Assembly bil! 528, by Cobb, was the most important measure considered dur- ing the afterncon. The measure is de- signed to put the salaries of eisco school teachers out of the reach of every dishonest School Director, who is afflicted with a desire to steal everything he finds lying around loose in the treas- ury. The bill creates a speclal salary fund and ?rn\'ldcs that none but salary clalms shall be pald out of it and pro- sions. Adjournment was taken to the usual hour to-morrow. —_————— SHERIFFS ARE HAPPY OVER BRAUNHART’S BEAT C‘ALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 7.—The Sheriffs, and there are many of them gathered here in Sac- ramento, are jubilant to-night, for Sena- tor Braunhart's bill to take from them a 800d slice of their fees has failed to pass the Senate. It came up for second read- Ing this afternoon and was refused a sec- ond reading and engrossment. It was snowed under, in fact, at a time in its progress toward its final passage when bills are seldom molested, but Senator Braunhart is not discouraged and says a beat now and- then does not mean that the end has come for any legislative measure, Senator Cutter was the one who start- ed the trouble. When the bill was called rollcall, saying he did not think the bill was worthy of consideration and the fight mlght just well be fought out before it had gone any further as to wait until the bill came Ix\) for final passage. Senator Rowell of Fresno rose to speak for the bill and to offer explanations why it should pass and also an amendment to it. He declared that now the unfortunates sent to insane asylums were taken there by a Deputy Sheriff who knew nothing of the handling of the insane. He said ;mrtminn of insane persons cost the State 10,000 & year, but should the hill become a law $5000 would cover the cost. Then Curtin, Morehouse, Boyce and Leavitt all drew their’ hammers and for half an hour the Senate chamber resound- ed. Boyce was particularly bitter about it. He wanted to know if that was the same bill that was before the Senate two years ago. He was informed that it was, and he got a fresh grip and redoubled his efforts. Boyce said he thought the bill was a vicious measure and had always thought s0. He believed a local Sheriff was the man_to look out for an insane person, for the Sheriff took the patient to the asylum immediately upon the conviction and or- should not be compelled to wait until the asylum had been communicated with and an attendant had been sent. Senator Doty was another who came to the rescue of the child of Mr. Braunhart’s fancy, but he whenever he saw a lot of men in organ- ized opposition to a measure he thought |1t a good thing and he would vote for it— and he did. The question came up on Mr. Rowell's amendment. It was one to provide for a relative to accompany or take charge of the patient, and Cutter declared it should be voted down, as otherwise the bill would have to ®o to the printer again and he wanted to finish it at once. He de- clared it was only a matter of transfer- r!n% the fees from one deputy to another and he thought they were good enough where they were. Senator Braunhart made a last plea for his measure. He de- clared that when a man worked in the interest of humanity he was always sub- mented upon the presence of such a num- ber of Sheriffs. The first amendment was beaten. So was the second and the third and the was laid to rest by a vote of 25 to 7. CARTOON MEASURE NOW CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 7.—The bill for the pro- tection of unlovely features, young Mr. Works' meagsure for the suppression of cartoons, caused something of an argu- ment before the Judiciary Committee of the Senate this evening. It was earnestly advocated by Senator Morehouse, who, next to killing editors, finds most sport in starving artists. Senator Ashe favored it, too, because, he said, he wanted to hear it discussed upon the floor of the Senate. Senator Curtin, however, would have made a newspaper man had he not turned his thoughts Senateward. He thought there was no harm in publishing a por- trait of a public man as well as a man convicted of crime, but his journalistic tendencies were not strong enough to car- ry him further. All the committeemen were loth to stop the pictorial end of the newspapers, but they felt that legislative dignity was best held while unaccom- panied by any views of the legislators and so they haggled over the trade of the {llustrator and just how he should ply it. There was some time spent in trying to limit pictures to simple portraits, but cartoons had their advocates, and after all it was decided to pass the considera- tion of the bill for another day. Code Lommissioner Shanahan came in to plead for Braunhart's bill establishin an income tax. The bill he wanted passe provided for a tax of incomes over $2000 a year. This was raised by the committee to a net income of $4000. Then, too, there was a graduated scale of taxation, but queerly enough it was a_back-action one. While the man with a $4000 income was required to pay a tax of 1 per cent the man blessed with an income of $8000 was twice blessed with a small tax of one- half of 1 per cent. The bill caused a great deal of discussion and was finally referred back to the Senate with the recommenda- tion that it do pass. Senator Luchsinger’s bill to provide a State Board of Charities and Corrections brought Charles A. Cushing and Osgood Putnam before the committee to explain and support. Mr. Cushing showed the enormous increase in the appropriation necessary to support the cver-growing number of orphans demanding State ai and he pointed out the lax system which allowed so many not entitled to the priv- ilege to get in under the State's financial wing. e pointed out how the board of charities provided for in the bill would practically remedy the,evils in the sys- tem and his bill" was recommended for assage. pSengtor Taylor's amendment to the constitution cutting down the number of trial jurors to nine and making less than a unanimous vote sufficient to convict was referred to the Senate with the rec- ommendation that it do not pass. g o TO HELP BOHEMIA HOLD ITS REVELS CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 7.—A bit of legislation for the Bohemian Club of San Francisco, and for similar organizations, passed the Seriate this morning in the shape of a bill by Ashe, to amend the Civil Code so as to allow benevolent corporations to hold timber land to the extent of 160 ®Gection 5% of the Civil Code outlines the limitations of benevolent oorporations, among them being a clause prommung such organizations from holding any lan except such as is necessary for their use. The Bohemian Club -has for years been in the habit of seeking the depths of the forest, there to hold revels and bury care. The first forest meeting was held near Cazadero, but after a year or so they had to move near Guerneville. Then the lum- bermen, minding neither revel nor care, came with their axes. The club could not buy under the law, but could lease; the lumbermen would not lease, but would sell, and so the club had to move again. Senator Ashe's bill allows such organiza- tions as the Bohemian Club to hold 160 acres of timber land to be used only for the purposes of the organization. Should he Bhi become a law the club may buy a forest home as deep in the redwoods as it pleases. —_—— Employes Can Run Around. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 7.—Assemblyman Dibble's Assembly bill 468, which was designed to rohibit State officials and employes com- ng to Sacramento during legislative ses- sions, was killed this evenini b; the Com- mittee on Commissions an 'ublic Ex- penditures. The committee decided tha. the measure was unconstitutional and rec- ommended that it do not pass. Action was also taken on bflls 200 and 350, by Assemblymen E. D. Sullivan and Dibble. ~Both bills were designed to cre- ate a State board of charffles which shail have charge of the State's charitable in- stitutions. The committee declaed to draught a substitute bill comf the best features of the original bills ang | some ts incorporated in neither ] vides penalties for violation of its provi- | for its second reading he demanded a | that under the present system the trans- | der of commitment, and the unfortunate | dld so because he said | Jected to abuse, and then he sharply com- | fourth, and fifth, and then the bill itself | TELEPHONE TO BE monopoly. follows: m’d’o*&w#OW?OGWQO}O*OQ—O#O’O?OQOWO*OW&OO#O#000#000000000&0#060000‘01‘000#0*0?0;‘0* tions. actual capital invested. “Section 4. in each month.” expedite its passage. H40+010+04040+0+040+0+0+004040+040+0+0+0+0+01010¢R CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, Feb. of San Francisco proposes to reform the-telephone bill introduced by him in the Senate to-day will worl formation and if he succeeds in securing its passage and 1l tion by the:Governor he will find his reward in the blessings of thou- sands who have suffered and are suffering under the grasp of this glant The bill fixes the rates to be charged by the telephone companies in cities, towns and villages in the State, and provides for the creation of a commission which shall have the power to force the corporations to live up to the letter and the spirit of the law. under the proposed law are set forth in the first section of the bill as “Section 1. Upon and at the expiration of six months after the pas- sage of this act the charge and price for the annual and monthly use of the telephone communication and connection, together with such instruments and electrical apparatus necessary to transmit vocal messages between subscribers or customers of any telephone company within the limits of this State, which charge and price shall be pro rata for shorter periods except as provided in section 3 of this act, shall be, in cities of one hundred thousand inhabitants and over, not to exceed a rate of $2 per month; in cities of thirty thousand inhabitants and less than one hun- dred thousand, not to exceed a rate of $2 80 per month; in cities and places of fifteen thousand inhabitants and less than thirty thousand in- habitants, not to exceed a rate of $3 per month; in cities and places of ten thousand inhabitants and less than fifteen thousand, not to exceed a rate of $3 25 per month; in cities and places of three thousand in- habitants and less than ten thousand, not to exceed a rate of $3 50 per month; and in all cities and places of less than three thousand in- habitants not to exceed a rate of $3 75 per month, and the population as ascertained in the United States census of 1890 shall be the basls of population upon which such rates are fixed in the cities and places of this State; but when the rates have been fixed under the provision of this act they shall not be thereafter increased by reason of a decrease in population in any city or place in this State, provided that if the rates now charged in any town, city or city and county are less than those fixed herein the same shall not be raised.” Section 2 of the act provides that the charge at public pay stations shall not exceed 5 cents for the first five minutes and 5 cents for each suc- ceeding five minutes while the telephone is In use. who pays for the use or rental of a telephone at his residence or office shall be required to pay for the use of a telephone at public pay sta- In order to identify subscribers a card or certificate shall be issued to each and upon presentation of this card at any pay station the holder shall be entitled to the free use of the telephone. If the scale of prices fixed by the proposed law are deemed by any telephone company to be too low such company may, within sixty days after the act becomes a law, set forth the facts before the commission which is empowered to inquire into the facts and to afford relief by fixing a rate that will pay the company a return of 7 per cent on the The section creating the commission is as follows: The Attorney General, the Secretary of State and the State Controller are hereby constituted within thirty days after the passage of this act shall meet for the pur- pose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act at the State Capi- tol at Sacramento, Cal, and thereafter at the same place at least once The bill will be introduced in the Assembly to-morrow in order to PRICES REGULATED 7.—Senator Wolfe companies. If the k the desired re- d final ratifica- The rates to be charged both by day and night, as shall be the patrons, exchange Also that no one a telephone commission, and 4040404040404 04 040+0400+04+04040 404040+ 0+ 04040+ D+0+04040+0 40+ O+ 0+ OHO+O+ 0400404040+ O +O+O4O+0O4+0+ TUOLUMNE CITIZENS AGAINST THE PARK CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 7.—A voice of protest ‘against the maintaining of a National Park around the Yosemite Valley comes from the residents of Tuolumne County, introduced in the Senate this afternoon by | S8enator Curtin of Sonora. | Mr. Curtin's resolution instructs the | California delegation in Congress to fa- | vor or introduce legislation to reduce the size of Yosemite National Park and to repeal some of the stringent laws which now govern it. Within th nfines of the 000 acres of alid titles held | by men who cannot use the land. The | cannot drive cattle upon their property | within the park, and grazing is the prin- cipal industry there, and they cannot keep their cattle on their property even for the troops which guard the park dur- |ing the spring, summer and fall would drive out the cattle, arrest the owner and | destroy his houses and his barns. The law against allowing cattle to graze with- in the park is supposed to be a protectios | to the forests, but Senator Curtin and his and has crystallized in a joint resolution | should they be able to get them there, | WORRIES THE SENATORS ; HO4O+0+0404 0404040+ 040404040404 04040 4040400404040 constituents declare that cattle and sheep do not hurt a forest, and anyway they say | that out of the 1500 square miles of the | park there is but a comparatively small proportion which is covered with forests. he idea in keeping out the cattle is to prevent the underbrush from being tram- pled down, yet a year or so ago when there was a disastrous forest fire there it was_the underbrush that gave ail the | trouble. | _According to Senator Curtin's resolution the park could be reduced nearly a third, and probably more without loss to scen- | ery or trees, and to the inestimable bene- fit of the grazers of Tuolumne. B e No Chief Deputy Clerk. | CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- | MENTO, Feb. 7.—Belshaw's Assembly bill No. 287 met defeat before the Senate this | afternoon, and the prospect of a raise in | pay for one of the deputy clerks of the IS\Jpreme Court and the addition of chief | to his title is correspondingly dim and distant. The act is one to create the office of chief deputy clerk of the Supreme Court and to increase his salary $600 a year, and to provide a stenographer for the clerk’s | office. Senator Dickinson supported the { bill in the Senate. He sald it was neces- Continued on Page Seven. HUDYAN cures pains in the face, pains in the shoulder, pains in the joints, pains in the back, pains over the kidneys, pains over the liver, pains up and down the spine, bearing-down pains, dizzy headache pains, racking headache pains, pains over the eyes, pains in the arms, pains in the muscles. Why don't you try Hudyan and join the army of cured ones? 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