The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 24, 1899, Page 2

¥ S U YA SN Y S T 2 THE SAN FRANCI 1 have been loyal to him from the beginning and will remain 8o to ‘the end. This in detail is all there was to the In reciting these criminal facts of Burn ssemblyman Raub was extremely reluctant to speak, affair.” the Senatorial campaign of D. M. but his ad- missions made at the Grant caucus had in a measure becomeé public prop- erty and Mr. Raub determined to make a full explanation. As an affair of public interest the effort made to bribe Assemblyman Raub ranks with the expose of the disgraceful In some respects the latest corruption attempted by Burns’ and Simpson. tricksters overshadows the earlier offenses. conduct of Wright, Jilson This is readily explained by the fact that the Mexican's cause has become more desperate and his meas- ures to hold his own must be correspondinely desperate. Mr, Raub was also asked to explain last night what he understood by a remunerative appointive office, whether State or Federal. he believed, as a matter of course, that reference was I fice. He renlied that made to a State of- YOUNS MR. WORKS FAILED | TO FOOL GOVERNOR GAGE | HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-| ., Feb. sovernor Gage would bill for Some brick L the improv had b to the juve road has him. in which he refus one to believe the bill you b¢ full one Governo s to sign the bill of harbor his me e creatic imble-mi vielc the mendme their powers as to to the rights of the | ce of the port g dreams Works has ng does which work the . there | ps coming a vhich the guileles bill was a clause allo is by the Harbor rs. Under the mit, and in nor declares even | He comments fur- le the bill lim- hich may be it removes all limit .= Mr. ten ssage this to be said lan in quantity to ept when leased for rai , nor shall the.leases of acres in quantity at any or Iroad pur- more than d lands be :xcept ot attempt to monopolize the bor of San Diego,” the mes. is expressed in the _abov and I am| age comments on | with such a dan- it should pass both ouses of gislature without que tion in either. Its escape shows, the Gov- or says, the need of close attention, which should be paid to bills outside the ecope of legitimate legislation. Tt is strange, he says, that a bill with suc provision_shot get so far as Governor’s o i with a warning s young Mr. V fremendous_sch | Ban Diego har 222 SR Land Patents Signed. | HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- | TO, Feb. —The following land pat- vere zigned by the Governor to-day: lark, for 480-acres of land in Ven- | in Tulare County, 80 in ; and 8 in Fresno Coun- CALL ME ; Olga Suiro, for 640 acres in San Diego John T. Rutherford, 640 in Butte | George Lomenberg! 80 in Inyo Reuben Raymond, 240 in: Lake A’ H. Winship for 200 elso in Lake County. L INCOME TAX BILL "RECOMMENDED TO PASS JA n(;;;\:‘i’l‘?‘ RS SACRA- 23.—A substitu for Sena- art’s bill providing for an in- een adopted by the Judicl- has been reported CALL F MENTO, Fe tor Braun come tax has ry Committee and back to the Senate with the recommenda- | tion that it do pass. The most important change in the bill 1| is the raising of the limit over which in- s are_taxed from $50) as Braunhart The methods of procedure to tax and what to so_included in- the It is provided that 1's income there shall be Included all gains, profits and incom from all property owned and of business carried on in this State bv any person, company or corporation, .excluding In- terest on bond urities that are by the law of th 5 tion. It is I computing_the business expenses no deduction shall com d it tc $5000. finding out > alone ar substitute me in computing & | expended in permanent improvement that value of s the ¢ roperty or increases th: ¥ pital, capital estate or stock or ets of $300 is placed upon the A penalt failure of any person, company or_cor- poration to file with the Board of Equalization between January 1 and March 1 of each year a statement of his | or its income. “INSTRUCTIONS” GIVEN UNDER MISAPPREHENSION STOCKTON, Feb. 23.—The friends of Burns gleefully announced yesterday afternoon that they had secured ninety names of citizens who were delegates to the late Republican County Convention to “instructions” for Assemblymen Dun- lap and Muenter to go Into caucus. Many signed under a misapprehension of situation. It was represented to them that the move was calculated solely to insure the election of a Republican Sena- tor, and they did not take time to ascer- tain that the move was made in the in- terest of thi an from Mexico. How- ever, as there were nearly 300 delegates in the convention the signatures would not, though given with an understanding, will of the rank and file of Sentiment here is overwhelm- ingly in favor of General Barnes, as was indicated in recent interviews given in The Call. PEE T New Notaries Appointed. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 2.—The Governor to-day appointed and commissioned the following notaries public: Charles B. Lowry, Fruit- vale, Alameda County; Max W. Kcenig, Oakland; J. F. Baker, Copperopolis, Cal- averas - County; Thomas Rutledge, Co- lusa; T. H. Sallenger, Grimes Landing, Colusa County;- J. A. Coyle, Fortuna Hymboldt County; Henry Hart, Los An geles; George Gardner, Los Angeles; Wii- liam B. Heriott, Los Angeles; A. G. Hinckley, Los 'Angeles; J. C. Mac- Cable, 1os Angeles; . Abner Brown, Dos_ Palos, Merced County; W. A. Mackinder, St. ¥; 7. N. Burke, acer County; Wiltred M. Peck, Riverside; James Mill Riverside: James B. Devine, Sacramento’ John C. Turner, Victor, San Bernardino County; J. ‘Walden, Sisson; William Tormey, V: ; J. T.'Coffman, Healds- burg: Santa Rosa; George E. Noonan; Weaverville, Trinify. County; George Zarlman, Tulare; F. Murrow, big Oak Flat, Tuolumne County; E. F. well, Rumsey, Yolo County, and J. Snowball, Grafton, Yolo County. ANTI-CARTOON A POULTICE T0 CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- | MENTO, Feb. 23.—The anti-cartoon meas- |ure of young Mr. Works scratched | through the Senate this afternoon with the help of Senator Bulla. | It came up on Curtin’s motion to recon- | sider the vote yesterday, whereby it | failed of passage. There was no argu- ment on the guestion. The motion to re- consider went to the following vote: Ayes—Ashe, Bettman, Boy Bulla, Burnett, Chapman, Curtin, Cutter, Dick- inson, Doty, Feeney, Flint, Gillette, Hoey, Jones, Leavitt, Maggard, Morehouse, | Nutt, Pace, Rowell, Simpson, Taylor, | Trout and-Wolfe—24. | Noes—Braunhart, Dwyer, La Rue, Luch- Eini@r, Shortridge, Sims and Stratton—T. The rolicall on the bill was then pro- ceeded with, resulting as follow: Ayes—Ashe, Bettman, Boyce, Bulla, Burnett, Chapman Curtin, Cutter, Dick- | inson, Feeney, Hoey, Jones, Leavitt, Mag- d, Morehouse, Nutt, Pace, Simpson, jor, Trout and Wolfe—21. Noes—Braunhart, Davis, Doty, Dwyer, Gillette, La Rue, Luchsinger, Prisk, Row- ell, Shortridge, S8ims, Smith, Stratton—13. Absent—Currier, Flint, Hall, Laird, Langford=-5. The ballot lacked one vote of being car- ried after the roll and the absentees had | been called, and then there w demand for a call of the Hou It carried and the sergeant at arms was instructed to close the doors. It was then that Bul- la sacrificed himself. “Mr. President,” said he, “to prevent all this trouble and to end this matter, I will change my vote from no to aye.” This made the twenty-one. Senator Shortridge then asked permission to change hig vote so he could move for a | reconsideration, but he was told a | ond reconsideration was prohibited b, | parliamentary rules. The vote was then announced and the bill was sent back to | the Assembly for consideration of the | amendment by the Senate. | " The amendments were by Curtin, ex- empting the provisions of the act from men In public life, and by Leavitt, forbid- ding cartoons that hold the subject up to tidicule as well as ‘“thatred and contempt.” The cartoon bill came back into the As- sembly this afternoon that the Senate amendment attached to it might be con- sidered. When it came to the vote that was necessary before it went before the Governor for his signature it had jus s _against it—those of Raw of , L. Hoey of San Francisco and f Monterey. bill was brought over to the As- sembly just as soon as the'Senaté had disposed of it favorably and'it was evi- ent that the Assembly had been already notified. Bliss of Alameda and Grovel Johnson had arranged ahd directed the programme. 5 | © Just as soon as it had been read Bliss BILL BECOMES A STATE LAW The Measure Gets Through the Senate and Is Signed by the Governor. WOUNDED VANITV. Liberty of the Press Curtailed Because of Bad Temper on . the Part of Lawmakers Whose Foibles and Faces Had Been Humorously Depicted. called_to Lardner of Nevada to take his cue. Lardner got up. to say he had been out of town when the bill was passed in the Assembly, but tbat he “had voted against it when it had come up on recon- sideration. He gaid, however, he would be glad to vote for it to-day, and he did 0. Wardell of San Francisco said about the same thing. Feliz of Monterey said the Assembly was in no frame of mind to ass judiciously on any measure and that f the bill was an iniquitous measure when it was introduced it was still. Bel- shaw of Contra Costa said he was glad to have another opportunity to vote for it. Belshaw stayed in the corridors to avoid committing himself one way or the other when the bill first came up and to-day was the first time he has expressed an opinion on its merits. Mr. Cosper of Tulare also took some de- light in backing the measure and it was passed and sent to the Governor. To-night the executive sent word to both houses that he had approved and signed it and considerable applause went up forthwith. TWO MORE VETOES AND THE REASONS THEREFOR CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 23.—The following mes- sages from the Governor, two in number, were sent to the Assembly this afternoon. Both were included in the Governor's category of “dead” bills, for they were returned without the gubernatorial ap- proval. - The first read as follows: “To the Assembly of the State of Cali- fornia—I herewith return to your honor- able body without my approval and with my objection thereto Assembly bill 23, en- titled ‘An act to add a new section to the Penal Code, to be designated as section 354%, making It a misdemeanor to deface, obliterate, cover up or otherwise remove, destroy or conceal the duly filed trade- mark or name of - another, prifted, stamped, engraved, etched, blown, im- pressed or otherwise attached to or pro- duced upon any cask, keg, bottles, ves- sels, stphon, can or other packages.” T disapprove of this bill amending the Penal Code because it ignores the intent with which the aet®is done of using. or filling casks, kegs, bottles, siphons; cans, cases, or other pac‘(hges‘ and would make even innocent acts crimes. To constitute a erime there must exist a minor or joint operation of act and intent, etc. (Penal Code, section 20.) “I am opposed to the misuse of trade- marks and to Hmitations of labels, and 1 am strongly in sympathy with the general CO CALL, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 24, 1899 urpose of the bill proposing to give re- ief against frauds upon trademarks, labels, etc., but this act is so broad that it would subject to_punishment the most innocent persons. Every person who for any purpose should use or fill such ves- sel with home-made catsup, olives or the like (even though the vessel , may have een bought and sold in general trade and nnocently purchased from _another), yet unless such vessel should. have been purchased from the owner, or unless: the consent of the owner should have been g‘lven thereto, such innocent purchaser, y the mere use of such afvessel, is liable to imprisonment or a heawvy fine of $500, or both such imprisonment and fine. Moreover, so far as the purpose of the bill is to protect trademarks, this bill is unnecessary, for the reason that section &4 of the Penal Code affords ample pro- tection, ‘“‘Again, there is already a law in force eovering this whole subject, namely, the act npgmved March 21, 1891 (Statutes 1891, page 217), entitled ‘An act to protect the owners of bottles, boxes, siphons and kegs used in the sale of soda waters, min- eral or aerated waters, porter, ale, cider, ginger ale, milk, cream, small beer, beer or other beverages.” ““Whether the act of March 21, 1891, be valid or invalid, it should, at feast. be tested or repealed before seeking further legislation in this direction. “If the bill be framed to properly reach the wrongs intended to be remedied by this bill, it will not meet with my disap- proval. HENRY T. G. 3 “Governor of the State of California.” The other bill is in regard to the ship- ping of infected fruits, and the message reads as follows: “To the Assembly of the State of Cali- fornja: 1 herewith return to your hon- orable body without my approval as- sembly bill 157, entitled ‘An act to prevent the shipment of infected fruits out of the State of California, with my objections N hRie 1 warml £ th * “While T warmly approve of the purpose of the bill, yet it is so unm‘.‘ppfly ‘worded as to ignore the intent of those packing, preparing and delivering fruits for ship- ment, and therefore includes within its Rensl provisions the most {nnocent acts; ence would work considerable hardship upon innocent and Ignorant employes. “HENRY T. GAGE, “Governor of the State of California.” ——— DRURY MELONE ON PLACERVILLE BONDS CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 28.—Drury Melone of Napa, one of the Placerville bondholders, arrived here last night. He avers that there are two sides to the controversy concern- ing Senate bill 648, and contends that the general law proposed is a just and equit. able measure. He desires that there shall be the fullest investigation of the pro- posed law and expresses the wish that a committee of Placerville’s leading eiti- zens may meet him in the presence of any committee or all the members of the Legislature to discuss the proposition in- volved. He says the holders of the Placerville bonds were innocent purchasers and con- tends that the contractor bullt the rail-| road. The city that issued the bonds, So Mr. Melone avers, is now recelving the is benefits of the road. Judgment has been obtained in the courts, but for" twenty years the town has had no officers on which summons may be served. When attempts aré made to compel mu- nicipal officers to leVK a tax to pay prin- cipal or interest of the bonds the officers resign, leaving no one in authority to ex- ecute the commands of the court. All of these asserftions will be presented to the | Legislature by Melone. He will glve names of the bondholders and designate the price paid for the honds b{ nno- cent purchasers. He contends that the methods of repudiation adopted by Pla- cerville are calculated to bring discredit on the State. He asks that the Legis- lature, through the proper channel, obtain all the facts in the ca: One Veto and Three Approvals. CALL HEADQUARTERS, = SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 23.—Senate bill 151, provid- ing for the release of the bondsmen of | J. N. E. Wilson, has been hit with the Governor's veto ax. The bill is to re- lease the payment to the State of $§13,000 which Wilson, as Insurance Commission- er, had collected and deposited in the Pa- cific Bank just before it failed. The Gov- ernor vetoed the bill because he said it is prohibited by the constitution to release a claim of the State. - The Governor has approved Senate bill 593, providing an appropriation of $7500 to send an expert to the South Seas after redaceous insects; Senate bill 421, provid- ng for the mailing of constitutional amendments instead of advertising them in the newspapers, and Senate bill 11 ‘Fro- Viding for an appropriation to build a road from Mono Lake to connect with the Tioga road near the Tioga mine. BO+ O+ eb R e i S Sy * © ‘0@ D A + DO DG O DI DEDEOEPEDED D »- >0 o DANINTY —-“Please come and B o S s B e aeCe SEOR SR SO SO i R o B o o SRR S o e e %N4~WWM—W%M+%MMOHHM play wiz me | i § G N ke ot STCEY SCED SRS S M S S S S S S SO =% A BAD DOLLAR - MARKED The Expased Legislator Asks Barred From the Floor MENTO, Feb. 23.—It was a somewhat | tropical afternocon in the Assembly—it had been so since the arrival of the 11 o’clock train, which brings up the San Francisco morning papers. Threats of bodily harm, condemnations and even curses, not so loud as deep, echoed through the corridors and made the at- mosphere of the Assembly murky— more murky even than is its customary condition of an afternoon. Those mem- bers whose knuckles have been rapped since the beginning of the session gath- ered in groups and squads and held council in whispers as to what might be done to rid themselves of those per- sistent monitors of the public press who refuse to shut their eyes and let the game go on without interruption. i What the Assemblymen would do— as said with bated breath by hangers- on to the outer rim of the third house— was quite dire and dreadful, and also quite different from what they did do, of which the following is an unbiased record: The Senate special file was attended to with somewhat remittent attention, and at its close Melick of Pasadena rose, and offered a resolution, prefacing with some remarks on' journalism, which, coming from one who is himself of the guild, were entitled to and received at- tention and applause. Melick’s resolution was as follows: Whereas, The caricaturing of public officials, especially of certain legislators, ha‘si passed the line of common decency; an Whereas, Such work is outside the realms of legitimate journalism which strives to ennoble and build up true manhood, womanhood and good govern- ment as against the personal malicious- ness and viciousness of yellow journal- ism; therefore be it Resolved, That this Assembly hereby puts its seal of severest condemnation on the unwise, unjust and diabolical. work of those newspapers as representing the malicious Spite of personal organs and outside the pale of true journalism; and Resolved, - That this Assembly -hereby especlally condegins and censures as ma- liclous, cowardly and brutal the treatment by The Call and Examiner of Hon. Grove L. Johnson, a member of this Assembly. Honorable Howard E. Wright of Ala- meda, who is still jndebted to U. 8. Grant to the extent of $1650, saw an ASSEMBLY HAS CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-, by the San Francisco’ Call and Examiner | ATTACK OF HYSTERICS Condemnation of Newspapers for Keeping Tah on° Crookedness. WRIGHT'S SQUAWK That Call Representatives Be of the Lower House, but Gets No Sympathy From Other Members. opportunity in Melick’s resolution to swing his little ax, and he got to work with the follewing amendment: The representatives of The Call are hereby denled admission to &nd privileges of the floor of this Assembly. Wright's amendment precipitated a general epidemic of cold feet. So long as the censure was general most of the House was willing to stand for it, but when it was about to become specific there was a general retreat. Grove Johnson called from his seat and de- manded that the ex-Bpeaker withdraw his proposal. Melick seconded hira and the dollar-marked ex-Speaker senten- tiously announced that in deference to the magnanimous request of Grovel he would do so. Then Assemblyman Burnett of San Luis Obispo County made an attempt to play even for the scoring he got for trying to introduce Willie Hearst of New York as the Senatorial choice of the minority. In a speech of no small dimenslons he said that the freedom of the press has come to be the license of the press and that it _was high time it was curbed. Mr. Burnett thought, however, that it should be curbed only so far as The Call was concerned and he offered an amendment to Melick’s resolution striking out the word Examiner, leav- ing The Call to stand alone, the censure that the southerner’s amendment em- bodied. Melick objected and asked why The Call should stand alone when all of the San Francisco newspapers had been guilty of exaggerating the facial blemishes that characterize the Assem- bly. Burnett declined to answer, and sim- ply insisted upon his amendment. It was put to a vote and nct one voice was raised in its faver. Then Melick got up to make some further remarks upon newspapers in general and the vote upon his resolu- tion followed. It was adopted almost unanimously, and The Call and Ex- aminer retired for the half hour fol- lowing for the purpose of feeling mor- tified. Cowan of Santa Rosa fittingly wound up the afterneon’s” hysterics with the | following resolution, which was adopt- ed: Résolved, That the members of the As- sembly do hereby espress and reaffirm thelr- confidence. in the .integrity, ability and untiring energy of ‘the Hon. Grove {‘S,”Johnson as a member of the session of EXPOSITION RESOLUTION FAILED OF PASSAGE CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 23.—Assembly joint resolu- tion 12, submitted by Sf§pator O'Brien, failed to pass the Senate’ this afternoon. The resolution was one providing for a request to the Federal Government to make some appropriation for the Pacific Coast Exposition and to provide a GoOv- ernment exhibit. The resolution was be- fore the Senate some days ago, and was passed on file because the"bills providing for a State appropriation had not yet been considered. The resolution came up again to-day and failed of passage by a vote of 19 to 17. Braunhart, who had voted for the reso- Jution, wanted to reconsider the vote, but he had not changed from aye to no before the result was announced, so he was de- clared out of order. Senator Chapman came to the relief of the resolution by giv- fng notice of a motion to reconsider. Chapman had voted against.the resolu- tion. The question of reconsideration will robably be held in abeyance until the tate measures have been passed; then it can be taken up again and put through | without the objections urged against it to- FAONT DOOR OPEN TO MOUNTAIN COUNTIES CALL HEADQUARTERS SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 23.—One of the happiest | men in Sacramento to-night is Senator Davis of Amador. He has made a most effective single-handed fight for the bill for the construction of a State highway from Tioga mine to Mound Lake basin, thus giving a front-door entrance from the counties of Alpine, Monogsand Inyo into the remainder of the State. The road will, for a large. portion of the way, Rave to be carved out of the solid granite of | the Sierras, and is one of the most meri- torious measures of public improvement b%fore the Legislature, Under Senator Davis’ able management the:bill encountered but one vote against |4t In either house, and to-night received the signature of the Governor and became a law. It carries an appropriation of Commissioner of Deeds. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MBENTO, Feb. 28.—The Governor to-day appointed _and _commissioned | Arthur Brossman Commissioner of Deeds of Cali- fornia, to reside at Philadelphia, Pa. Any Kind - only; %.Voad::rfy a,y full variety. Swift's best pure; limit 1 case. day. 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