The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 13, 1899, Page 4

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, M NDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1899. MONDAY. ..FEBRUARY 13, 1800 JOHN’ D. SPéECKE{.S, Propr:etor. R Address: All Communications ‘to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and.Third'Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS...........2I7 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 16 CENTS PER WEEK. Sirgle Coples. 5 cents Terms by Mall, Including Postage: CALL (including Sunday Call), one year. CALL (including Sunday Call), § months. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), $ months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month. FUNDAY CALL one year .. VEEKLY CALL, cne vear: All_postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptio Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND QEFICE ............ ..., .908 Broadway DAILY DAILY NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. ...Riggs House Correspondent. WASHINGTON ¢D. C.) OF €. C. 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Gage 'on Friday sent a. message to the Legislature asserting the illegality of A claims by newspapers for the publication of the amend- ments to the State constitution submitted to the vot- | : | rs at the last election and aggregating about $69,000. | M. Burns and Ulysses S. Grant, both of whom are These claims are of two classes—those directly au- thorized by ex-Governor Budd, among. which is in- | cluded the demand of The Call, and those originating | in._publi in newspapers throughout the State, | which under former precedents relied upon legislative | justicé for compensation. | The propriety -of giving. every voter in the State a| full 6pportunity to read and to study each amendment | torthie constitution upon which his vote is to be cast | was so obvious to the Legislature of 1883 that by the express authority of Article XVIII, Section 1, of that { instrument; it directed the Governor to advertise pro- I posed amendments for three months before the elec- | tion'in at least four newspapers of general circulationl “provided no’ otlier mode is provided by law.” - By this, enactmént provision was made for the intelligent v of ‘the elective franchise in its most important | bearing on ' the ‘weliare of the State. Under tl\is} law,-on- various occasions prior to the election of 1898, proposed amendments had been published in many newspapers. and their claims had invariably been set- tled. Under sections 1194 and 1195 of the Political Code, amended in 1891, the Clerk in each county was directed-ten days before the election to publish in'two | apers ‘the nominations for office and pending amendments.. ~ These sections, while they existed in this form,.in no respect conflicted ‘with, or were in- | terrded for, or could possibly have operated as a sub- stitute “or equivalent for the educational process de- | | | | | as news in 1883, ~ For section 1194, however, as it| sted when this non-conflicting publication was directed, 'a complete substitute was made in 1893, when the publication was superseded by the mailing of sample ballots, but not amendments to the con- stitution, to'each voter. There is nothing therefore in the Political Code that by any stretch of interpre- tztion could be brought into even apparent conflict | with” the original law All these legislative, pro- re éx-Governor Budd, who. has lorig r, practicing chiefly in_civil cases, .when, with the indorsement of the then Attorney Genmeral Fitzgerald, he directed the publications of last year, the-tlaims based on which e now been rejected by the Board of Examiners 1d transmitted to the Legislature. The plain law s read as it existed by ex-Governor Budd and ex- Attorney General Fitzgerald is controverted by Governor Gage in his message, but fully sustained by his own citations, while the only case he mentions is as inapplicable as a decision by the Bunsby tribunal Mr. Justice Dogberry: His attempted argument ; therefore -is merely the fabric of a baseless guber- natorial dream. Governor Gage also-wants each claim to be pre- sented to the Legislature in a separate bill. There are about four hundred newspapers in the State, of which seventy-five published the proposed amendments in 1898, and at a rough guess a separate bill for the claim of each, in actual expenses for printing and for the usual legislative proceedings, would probably cost half of the entire amount involved. The Govemnor, therefore, who dislikes The Call and the press gener- ally for its efforts to secure the election of a qualified Senator of the United States, not only disputes an in- controvertible legal proposition and exposes his own incompetency .to discuss questions of statutory con- struction, but under a false plea of economy, proposes “to save at the spigot and waste at the bung.” The real animus of this message is too clear to be misconceived. It is apparent that our Chief Execu- tive runs on a-narrow gauge and in this State all nar- row gauges terminate in the particular broad gauge | that leadeth to destruction. visions were hed law; been a distin en wri or Sacramento -wants some of the -State departments now quartered, in this city to be removed to the capi- tal. . Qf courée, this is natural on the part of Sacra- mento, just'as natural as for all the rest of the Stite to object. One thing, however, Sacramento might well do for-itself, and this is to build a hotel. At present it ean hardly accommodate the Burns touts. Seyeral people were publicly whipped in Delaware the other day, a circumstance which does not afford pleasant reading, but several people elsewhere ought to have been publicly. whipped and were not, which is not particularly pleasant either. The artists are wrong in portraying Grovel John- son as a hog. John has only two legs. The amount of kicking I does has earned him the reputation of having at least four. . TS A E Aguinaldo’s emissaries to this country acquired Dan Burns, whose record and whose character, as | that tired, feeling with more rapidity than any patent. medicine in the world can ever catch up with, THE RAILROAD CANDIDATE. HE Sacramento Record-Union, owned by the T Southern Pacific Company and its official organ, has issued an imperial ukase to the eighty-five Republicans in the Legislature to the ef- fect that the deadlock must be broken by an open council, or caucus. . Disobedience is to be followed by the direst penalties. The unpublished part of the ukase, as understood at Sacramento, is that, each day, the candidate having the lowest number of votes is to be dropped, until a choice is reached by forty-three votes, ‘or a majority of the caucus. The point of this insolent dictation is that, by the eliminating pro- cess, the contest will be narrowed down to Daniel obnoxious to the Republican party and to nearly all reputable citizens in the State, and then, by the un- sparing application of the railroad screws, its parasite and representative is to be forced into the seat, for which he is intellectually and morally disqualified. When driven into a corner it is. the habit of the rzilroad openly to slap the people of the State in the face. It.remains to be seen whether eighty-five Re- publicans, nearly all of whom were elected in 1898 under the specific pledge that the railroad was out of | politics and that they were beyond railroad influence, willconvert themselves into the hand by which the slap is to be administered. ' The Call and the whole inde- | pendent Republican press of Califcrnia has voiced the | substantially unanimous sentiment of representative citizens against the candidacy of Dan Burns, backed | almost exclusively by the railroad, and against the | candidacy of Ulysses S. Grant, distinctly proved to | have been forwarded by money. The- Mexican as- | pirant, however, is immeasurably the worst of the two. | Had the fact not been daily paraded before the public eye, it would have been inconceivable that, for weeks, a defaulter to the State, a corrupt boss of an inferior | type, defeated. in 1804 and since then a municipal | center of political debauchery, without a claim or a | qualification for official station or legislative or popu- | lar recognition, should have he!d a Senatorial election | in an iron grip. The brazen exhibition has already disgracéd the commonwealth and mantled the faces of | tions have proven so advantageous to communities that the practical common sense of the modern world has adopted- them as a potent means of promoting commerce and-industry. They are becoming one of the salient features of our civilization and are increas- ing in popularity and in profit. In commenting recently upon an impression which prevailed at one time that the: success of the great Columbian Exposition at Chicago would discourage further efforts in that direction in the United States and elsewhere, the New York Tribune said: “Fortunately, there is no likelihood of such a mis- fortune. On the contrary, the Chicago World’s Fair seems to have made the idea of expositions even more popular than it was before. The enterprising people of Atlanta organized an exposition in 1803, which was a decided success. Then came the Ten- nessee Centennial Exposition at ‘Nashville in 1896, and the Omaha Exposition of last year, each of which reflected the greatest credit on those who organized them. During the same period a number of exposi- tions were held in Europe that would have attracted world-wide attention thirty or forty years ago.- In every one of these expositions the latest and best products of the world's industry and thought were shown, and were viewed by multitudes of interested and intelligent people: As an advertising medium for merchants and manufacturers an exposition ranks next to a daily paper, though even expositions them- selves could not succeed without the publicity that is freely given to them by the daily press.” Every considerable exposition held in-this country and ‘most of those held'in' Europe have been success- ful not only as money-making ventures, but as schemes of education. Such exhibitions of industry serve as clearing houses of the world's progress and culture. They attract the attention of men to the | communities in which they are held and never fail to add greatly to t}mir prestige and industrial activity. So widely is this truth recognized that no less than five American cities outside of San Francisco are now preparing for expositions within the near future. Philadelphia intends to open one next -year. St. Louis will attempt one, on a scale calculated to sur- pass Chicago, in 1903; and New York City, Buffalo our citizens with the blush of shame. Appeals or warnings to Dan Burns or his railroad | master are vain. They are destitute of patriotism | and they perfectly understand that the question is | be represented in the Senate of the United States. | Their obstinate determination is that an independent | | Democratic Senator shall be succeeded by a Repub- | lican chattel. The fate of the Republican party is to | them immaterial. They are more than willing, they are anxious, to swallow their declarations before the election and to prove that the Southern ~Pacific Company actually owns the State. The railroad pol- icy is always broad enough to take in all parties. Itis pressed simultaneously through the most conflict- ing organizations.. Since November last it has be- come apparent that the deliberate intention is to | wreck the Republican party in California, and, in | 1000, to turn the State over to the Democrats, or more properly to the men who have usurped the name of Democracy. The undercurrents of railroad politics all point in that direction. William F. Her- rin has always been a Democrat. William H. Mills, the turgid Mercury of the Record-Union and of two or three subsidiary newspapers, was an advocate of the free silver heresy in 1896, but in 1899 assumes the functions of a railroad slave-driver of sound-money | Republicans. The removal of the mask from the face'of Dan Burns, on January 2 of this year, was a | confession of treachery to Republicanism and to the people and a distinct menace to the party. The cover- | ed advocacy of Dan Burns by the Examiner, which for six weeks has been clearly discernible, is another revelation of railroad purposes and of railroad | methods. There are a hundred straws in the air, | each of which shows the drift of the existing storm. It does not follow, because the railroad ukase has been formulated by the Record-Union, and because the Oakland Tribune, another railroad organ, has wheeled into line, that eighty-five Republican legis- lators will clap their hands and applaud this bare- backed act. The Call so far has failed to perceive any outward and visible signs of corruption or any lack of brains or manhood in the large majority of Republican Senators and Assemblymen, and it can- not believe that they will falsify their pledges and di grace themselves and their constituencies because the rzilroad whip sounds about their ears. On the con- trary, it may reasonably be expected that for once the railroad has gone too far and assumed too much | and that it will encounter resentment instead of en- forcing submission. By its acceptance of Howard E. Wright's resignation of the Speakership and its re- fusal to eject him from its ranks, the Assembly has | already placed itself in the attitude of holding that | the receipt of pecuniary aid from a candidate for the | Federal Senate and pledging to him reciprocal support, does not involve personal dishonor, whether the pledge was or was not kept. This unwise de- cision may be barely tolerated upon the ground of sympathy, even when extended to an unrepentant cor- ruptionist. But if it were followed by the election of well as the influences behind him, are universally known and condemned, then the present Legislature would inevitably go down to posterity and to history with a reputation for unspeakable infamy and unpre- cedented treachery to the Republican party of the Union. The heroism of our California volunteers in Cuba | and in the Philippines has been braided into history in bright and uplifted characters. In blood and in death they have raised themselves to the level of the immortals and woven the eschscholtziainto the chaplet of patriotism. But here, in their native State, foul and mercenary politicians, bearing the railroad brand, seek to sacrifice our interests and our honor on the altar of rapacity. The contrast is too painful for contemplation. No legislator can participate in this last conspiracy and afterward, with an unpolluted conscience, look his neighbors or his family in the face. It seems improbable, though masked with solemn plausibilities and incorrigible hypocrisy, that it should fall to pieces in the fierce heat of right- eous indignation. There is something in every human heart that scorns such utter prostitution. Let Dan Burns and Ulysses S. Grant be dropped and the dead- lock will break without a caucus. The Call repeats that it has no candidate, but that for the sake of its party and with special reference to the approaching Presidential election, and still more for the sake of the State and the nation, it once more demands | the prompt election of a Republican, a statesman and a gentleman. g THE POPULARITY OF EXPOSITIONS. HARLES L. PATTON, Supervisor Lackmann and Secretary Doolan, who, as representatives . of the Pacific Exposition Committee, visited Sacramento last week for the purpose of urging a State appropriation for the enterprise, report the pre- vailing sentiment in the Legislature to be favorable to the movement and the San Francisco delegation to be a unit in favor. of it. - o % It is not surprising that this should be so. Ny and Detroit are discussing® projects for which the dates have not yet been fixed. In all of these expositions that of San Francisco will' hold a unique place. It will be the only inter- MONG his eccentrical exhibitions in one day, | whether the State of California or the railroad shall | national exposition ever held in the great West, the only one devoted to a special development of the won- derful industrial and commercial possibilities’ of the Facific Ocean. As such it will be undoubtedly the most attractive to be held anywhere between the closing of the Paris exposition in 1900 and the vast display which St. Louis proposes three years later. L was concerned. The conditions noted the pre- ceding week continued to rule, and from one end of the country to the other it was a monotonous story. The subsidence of speculation reduced the volume of bank clearings materially from the enor- mous totals of the past fortnight, but they still showed a gain of 27 per cent over the same week last year. The failures for the week were 217, against 295 for the same week in 1808, hence business, as indicated by these two barometers, was good. Thus far there have been no evil effects from the whirl of speculation mentioned two weeks ago. The regulat trade of the country is going on as usual. Stocks are slightly lower, and that is about all. Dur- ing the first half of the week there was quite a de- cline in Wall street, but the closing three days were stronger and the tendency to rally became marked. The extreme cold weather of the past week is hav- ing some effect on the general markets. It has in- terfered with transportation all over the West, but has also stimulated the demand for winter goods. It has likewise created apprehensions of damage to the winter wheat, as the usual mantle of snow which pro- tects the plant from excessive cold was wanting in many sections. In spite of the inclement weather, however, trade reports from all over the country in- dicated extraordinary activity in the principal branches and a general business much better than at the same time last year. The staples show nothing new. SMOOTH, BUT TAME. AST week was almost featureless as far as trade cotton is active and firmer, owing to heavy foreign purchases and prospects for a smaller crop. Other- wise the foreign and domestic trade of the United States are without especial feature. It is pretty much the same here in California. Our finances are undisturbed and business is proceeding on satisfactory lines without excitement. The feature of the week was the sharp advance in meats, due to the increasing scarcity of beef, mutton and pork. The rise in live stock has affected retail prices, and house- keepers are perturbed over the increase in their table expenses. Butchers and provision packers predict still higher prices, so the outlook in this respect is not good except for the man who owns the stock, and even he is complaining of the scarcity of feed in many sections. Strangely enough, hay, which should go up under these conditions, has actually been going down for a week and the market has been depressed for some little time. The farmer has thus far made no complaint of dry weather, though we have had no rain since the 16th of January, as the rainfall during the first half of that month was heavy enough to carry the State for thirty days. But while the crops are looking fairly as a rule pasturage is deficient and most stock men are feeding hay, which is unusual at this time of the year. The leading staples of the State show no particular change. Wheat goes up and down in a mild sort of way, and the other cereals follow suit. The fruit men are encouraged by a slow but steady improvement in the dried fruit market, which bids fair to com- pletely clean up before the new crop comes forward. There has been no further advance in wine, but the market is firm. The other staples are reported fairly active in general, with no marked changes in quota- tions. Speculation in stocks and bonds in the local mar- ket continues brisk. The increase in this business during the past year is pronounced. San Francisco now has a legitimate stock and bond market befitting its position as the metropolis of the coast, and the volume of transactions is a good indication of the millions of dollars lying in our vaults ready for in- vestment whenever a chance to make money is in sight. Whatever San Francisco lacks it certainly is not ready money. It may be noted that days and weeks have passed since the time set by one hopeful lot for the election cf Burns, and another equally sanguine for the elec- tion of Grant. ~The fact is not cited with the view to blighting the happiness of either gang, but simply as an interesting circumstance. ‘While people are freezing to death in the Middle ' West it may comfort them to realize thatin the Philip- pines other American citizens are succumbing to sun- stroke. .Pulum. after all, a sober second thought is a pretty good thing to devote to a veto. Iron continues to | boom, hides and leather are firm, wool is dull and | AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Joseph Scott of Montana is at the Call- fornia. H. C. Ewing of Seattle is & guest at the California. George F. Glaser of Denver {s staying at the Grand. Dr. J. D. Davidson of Fresno is staying at the Palace. J. W. Willlams and wife of Baltimore are at the Grand. George H. Bartlitt of Sonora is regis- tered at the Grand. Jobn W. Coburn and wife of Victoria are guests at the Lieck. Bank Commissioner B. D. Murphy of San Jose is a guest at the Palace. W. T. Ellis, a_well-to-do merchant of Marysville, is registered at the Palace. F. W. Wilmans of Sonora, and J. M. Wilmans of Newmans, prominent mine- owners and stock-raisers, are at the Lick. J. 8. M. Crystal, a mine owner from Salt Lake City, and Charles C. Dey, an attorney from the same place, are at the Occidental. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. New court martial regulations in the British army and navy give a prisoner the privilege to testify in his own behalf. The ram of the battleship London has Dbeen delivered at Portsnjouth dockyard. It welghs 30 tons and s cast n one plece. Russia has ordered two large steamers at vards on the Clvde, for her volunteer fleet. Their aggregate cost will be about A public subscription fund for building a submarine boat for the French navy was started last month by the ‘‘Matin,” a Parisian paper, and in a couple of weeks reached the sum of $40,000. The British Admiralty has invited ten- ders for the erection of new naval bar- racks on the site of the old Anglesea barracks, Portsea. Invitations have been sent to foreign as well as to Englisn firms. The naval budget of Japan for the fis- cal year, beginning April 1. {s $7,644,58 for ordinary and $17.832,547 for extraordinary expenditures, making a total of $25477,133 to cover the running expenses of the navy and making partial payments on thirty- four vessels of all classes building abroad. The new private shipbuilding yard at Nicolaleff, near Sebastopol, is rapidly ap- proaching completion. It will be much larger than the entire Admiralty works at that place, and will accomodate two battleships, three cruisers and a number of torpedo-boat destroyers at the same time. An order for an armored cruiser of 8000 tons has already been given to the new yard. Sir Edward J. Reed, ex-chief construc- tor of the British navy, delivered an ad- dress recently at the annual dinner of the Institute of Marine Engineers, on “The British Navy.” Regarding the personnel he sald that the only blot In it was that they had not iIn this country (England) arrived at the time when the marine en- gineer and his staff were considered worthy to rank with officers of the ser- vice. ‘The British cruiser Arrogant had a strange experfence while proceeding from Vigo to Gibraltar. She was going at full speed in a calm sea and the crew were lined up to receive their dally allowance of grog, when all of a sudden a great tremer went through the ship and the saflors were thrown in all directions. It was thought that the ship had struck a sunken rock and the engines were imme- diately reversed. It was then found that the cause of the disturbance was a great whale which had been hit squarely in the middle by the forefoot of the Arrogant. It was not stated what became of the whale. The British cruiser Eclipse had a nar- row escape from destruction recently while lying at Bombay. The officers were at dinner in the wardroom when an ex- plosion was felt beneath them, followed by several slighter concussions. The sounds were located in the shellroom of the twelve pounder quick-firing gun. This was at once flooded, and after pumping out it was found that three twelve- pounder shells from the top tier had ex- ploded, the fragments being scattered all over the room, but having done only slight damage to the fittings or to the other shell The only explanation of the mystery is the theory of spontaneous explosion. Admiral Makaroff of the Russian navy, in a discourse on the relative merits of armored cruisers and protected cruisers, favors the latter. Lord Charles Beresford takes a contrary view and declares that | he would rather have something on the side that would cause the shells to burst on the outside rather than Inside the ship. The United Service Ggzette, commenting on these opposite views, sides with Lord Beresford and says: “We believe this is the view held by the vast majority of naval officers; for although all combus- tible material may in future be carefully excluded when buflding warships, and the danger of fire be thus reduced to a mini- mum, still the tremendous wrecking power of a high explosive shell is much too terrible to make it a desirable visitor between the decks of a cruiser. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A PROMISSORY NOTE—A. O. 8., City. In the particular case cited in the letter of inquiry, what steps should be taken in regard to the promissory note would de- pend upon the wording of the note. SENATORS AND’ ASSEMBLYMEN— Trilby, Sonora, Cal. The pay of State Senators and Assemblymen in California is $8 per day during the session of sixty days. The Speaker of the House receives $10 per day. A LOST DISCHARGE-Old Soldler, Oakland, Cal. A soldler of the United States army who has lost his discharge from the army can obtain a certified copy of the same by writing to the War De- partment at Washington, D. C. MR. AND ESQ.—Inquirer, City. It s a matter of choice if a correspondent in addressing a person in the ordinary walks of life addresses him as Mr. or Esq., but he should not use both, for it would be improper to write “Mr. J ohn Smith Esq.” A FOUNDATION—A. 8., City. A man owning a plece of property, upon which he wishes to build and desiring to dig a basement which will be deeper than that of a house on an adjoining piece of prop- erty, is hI)o‘\’n-ui to secure that house agalnst the danger of to | SF"the ‘toundation being bhdesmines: o he must also leave the house as secure as he found it. .CITY HALL PARK—J. B. K., City. The committee that was appointed to look into the feasibility of purchasing property on Market street for the purpose of re- moving the bulldings therefrom and add- ing the realxX to City Hall Park to in- crease it held one or two meetings, but no action was taken as a result of such mut'hlxa, and the whole matter is dor- mant. POSTAL INFORMATION-N. L. R., San Jose, Cal. A letter sent to a postal clerk on duty in the postoffice at Manila, P. I, needs only domestic postage, for the postal law is that ‘“Mail matter for Hawall, Cuba, Porto Rico, and to United tates possessions in the Philippine Isi- ands, if addressed to persons in the serv- ice of the United States, should be pre- paild at domestic rates, and at postal unlon rates if addressed to other per- sons.” Ordinary létters for countries in | the postal union (exce?t Canada and Mex- 1co) will be forwarded whether any post- age s prepald or not. All other mallable PR L S e etter ntly p nten or be and not held NEW PASTOR FOR ST. JOHN'S. Presbyterian Clergyman Chosen’ to Guide the Destinies of [ R e S T T T . e % ! ; i the Church. B e e S A 4 D T R o R R B B e e $ 3 1 & + ? + | REV. W. A. HUTCHISON, D.D. I a meeting of the congregation held is understood that Dr. Hutchison wi to his church in Yellow Springs, O., but of his new pastorate. HE Rev. W. A. Hutchison was unarimously extended the call as pastor of 8t. John’s Presbyterian Church, corner of California and Octavia streets, at yesterday after the regular services. It 11 accept the call. He {s now.on a visit will return at once to assume the duties Rev. Alexander N. Carson, of Trinity Presbyterian Church, acted as modera- tor of the session when it assembled to make a selection moved that the pastorate be offered to Rev. W. A. The motion prevailed and Dr. Hutchison will guide the voked some discussion. destinies of St. John's Church. Judge J. D. Thornton Hutchison. The motion pro- The members of the congregation have had occasion to become thoroughly acquainted with Dr. Hutchison, as he filled their pulpit for the last four: Sundays in January. He has proven himself a good preacher, and it is confidently ex- pected that the church under his charge will make rapid upward strides. Dr. Hutchison is a man of 5 work with young people. Jackson, O., and is now at the head of will resign to accept the call at St. Joh er, his lectures on the Holy Land havi of all who have heard them. He has been pastor of a church in St. vears, and has been eminently successful in his Paul, one in a cultured church in Yellow Springs, but hn's. He is regarded as a forceful speak- ng met with the unreserved approbation At the morning service Rev. Dr. Carson preached a sermon on “The Model Church and the Model Pastor,” and spoke of the should at all times exist between the latter and his flock. ing tribute to Dr. Hutchison, whom he the ministry on earth.” The fact that St. John's is to have a harmonious relations that He also paid a glow- termed “my dearest personal friend in permanent pastor is a pleasing one to the congregation, as no one has been regularly installed in the charge since Rev. S. Kennedy sent In his resignation two years ago. THE JANUARY WARRANTS ARE ALL MUDITED They Will Be Paid This Morning. NO MORE INJUNCTION TIE-UPS A BATTLE MAY RESULT OVER FEBRUARY CLAIMS. Merchant Creditors Will Seek to Hold | ex-Auditor Broderick Respon- sible for Illegal Payments During His Term. All things may not come to those who | wait in this disappointing day and gene- ration, but to some who walit enough, things have been known to come. This has been verified in the case of the school teachers of San Francisco. After three and a half-months they will get thirty days' pay, less 20 per cent, and the claimant who gets his or her warrant cashed before 10 o'clock this morning will avold possible trouble, The Superior Courts open at that time and if any legal tie-ups are to come they can only appear after that hour. Auditorr Wells’ pew' in church was empty at yesterday’s service, but he sat in his office most .all day auditing the teach- ers’ January claims. ten very faintly in the Book of Records and will fade and be forgotten In the light of the good deed done instead, There were just 1279 warrants signed and turned over to Secretary Simpson of the Board of Education in the afternoon. They call- ed for $78,202 15. - The 20 per cent hoidback amounts to $19,5650 54. The office of the secretary of the board will_ be opened at 8 o'clock this morning for the dellvery of the audited warrants, and - the Treasurer will pay off at 10 o'clock. Principals of schools in sending down for the warrants of their teachers must have the order signed by each in- dividual. These orders will be retained by the secretary as receipts for the delivery of the warrant to the messenger. Auditor Wells, by the advice of Gen- eral - Dickinson, signed the warrants in obedience to the order of Judge Seawell, but with ‘some misgivings as to the final outcome of the action. He makes the following etatement in regard to the mat- er: “‘After cunsultlng with my attorney, and owing to the demand for immediate action that the teachers may be relieved, temporarily, at least, and being in line algo with Judge Seawell’s intimation, I have decided to audit and issue January demands, relying upon the November and December demands, upon which [ can now act, as the restraining order has been modified, to recoup the tréasury for mon- eys illegally paid out of this year's funds. !¥ they should be insufficlent, the balance, which I think will be small, can be de- ducted out of February demands. “I am glad to do this, as it will relieve many most deserving teachers, and I'hope all difficulties between them and the mer- chants will be settled before February de- mands come along 1 have wanted to pa; these demands, but the litigation whicl has arisen, and without my consent or previous knowledge, has developed the points upon which I was compelled to seek legal advice and act upon it.” The merchants have decided not to re- strain the payment of January salaries to-day, but will look for relief to ex-Aud- itor Broderick. It is claimed that this official was in error in regarding teachers’ salaries as statutory, and by this mistake is legally responsible. They assert that he also !ure arded the one-twelfth act in auditing obviously illegal demands, and will be held liable for such payments. Several years aro the mercnant cred- itors of the cl $300,000 by this slip- pL ost shod manner o inmeleflng, and do not g:opou to submit to a second loss. The: W to the dictum of public opinion, bul long | : Doubtless the omis- | sion to attend divine worship will be writ- | | the holders of February warrants may | find them held back in litigation. About 300 of the January warrants have been assigned to brokers, and the adjust- ing of these claims will delay the settle- ment of these warrants. !VALENTINES AND [ FINE MUSIC Delightful Entertainment at the Bella Vista ‘ To-Night. | Mrs. Collier's valentine * entertainmeiit to be given this evening at the Hotel Bella Vista promises to be the society event | of "this the closing week of the festive | social season. | _ The affair is for the benefit of the new | Mission Church at Lakeport, Clear Lake. | Through Mrs. Collier's efforts $2000 has | already been raised for the church, and the way soclety is taking hold of the. *‘valentine h;\r‘i" it is more than proba- | ble t the lady will raise the sum still | due—$200. | Among the young people who will pose | a8 human valentin are the Misses kata !and Margaret Salisbury, Miss Bernie Drown, Miss Coleman, Miss Strong, Miss Hawes, Miss Moore, Miss Spofford, Miss Sara_Collier; - Messrs. Percy. King, ac- donald and Dietman. In addition to the valentines there are to be refreshment |'booths, fortune-telling booths and a post- | oftice, a promenade concert and an ex- cellent musical programme. - There is no-truta in the statement' that Mrs. Salisbury has sent out invitatons for a_fancy dress ball to-morrow: even- ing., Mrs. Salisbury has no-intention ‘of- giving such an entertainment either now: or in the future. —_ ee—————— Sunday at the Park. Perfect weather yesterday forenoon drew the advance guard of the regular | army of pleasure seekers to the park anu ocean beach, but early in the afternoon a. dull, heavy fog drifted in from the west, sending the shivers through those who had been tempted out by the early sun- shine, and keeping most of the others within_deors, or driving them across the The park ‘habitues are a peculiar lot. A week ago, although the sun shone brilliantly, the . temperature was near | freezing - point, . but park and beach swarmed with people; while yesterday, ith the thermometer 25 degrees highe! but the sun obscured, the popular resor were comparatively deserted. At the baths the usual Sunday swimming matches were held, and at the Clff House-the balco- | nies held a few people; but the sea was | altogether too smooth to prove interest- | fng, and the visitors soon returned to- town. ‘At the bandstand in the park less than half the usual Sunday crowd was gath- ered, while few teams and wheelmen were on the road, and the police had a verita- ble day of rest. — Benefit for St. Vincent’s Convent. A grand entertainment will be given ‘n Metropolitan Hall Tuesday evening for the benefit of St. Vincent's Convent, on Missfon street. A portion of the proceeds will be devoted to the repairing of the old building and the construetion’ of the additional exits recently ordered by tha Fire Department. 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