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

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1899. 3 = C+O+CHO+O+E A bly ‘without V: s, o h S L lat) untir- | were sent back ta'(he ssembly W 9 :auscus a.tm! Wolfe waz selceted to act| @M+G+C40+0+0+0+ gl}:xem;:gaco}seéhteh:ggggll;el %‘t‘dnf:erg:ig;;e: E f;‘;{'}fefl,r‘gfi,e';';fi:{g ngzs ke recommendation, while in quite flv;’r“e“‘z‘fi‘g et ag RS i “Qand of all the multitnds ot Dostes that | Tpe pill originally provided for a raise L e e A e a miform - = ONE BALLOT. it T Toe 16 amsdion. the woid of | in the salaries of the Judges of Tuol-|price for the printing of the amendments, DECEIT CONTINUED IN HIS OWN CAMP Wants to Be Elected as a Vindica- tion Before the Public. His Record Was Not Shown Up Until After His Candi- dacy Was Announced by the Representatives of the Southern Pacific. ALL HEADQUARTERS, MENTO, March rallying his own He ex- hibited to-day the first outward ence of weakening. He cflled ACRA- s busy pporters together in cau for = and sought to ch them 1 pledges of further support. At the beginning of the joint session | to-day Assemblyman Dibble went to Senators Morchouse and Bulla with a request that only one ballot should be taken. Dibble sald: “I ask it as a per- sonal favor that you do not hold us up for more than one ballot to-d 1 know that you can do it if you t After the ballot was announced Dib- ble made a motion to adjourn, and no | resistance was offered by the Bgtnes | and Grant forces. Immediately after | the adjournment Burns summoned his men to meet the Supreme Court room, and there he and Major Mc- Laughlin addressed them. Burns made one of his characteristic speeches, in which the people and the party were ignored, and his own personal feeling introduced as the chief consideration of | the hour. He spoke of the attacks of the press, remarking that his self spect and manhood required him to re- main in the contest until a caucus de- clared that he was not the choice of | the party. He seemed to be utterly un- | conscious of the great truth that the | people of California in general and the | voters of the Republican party in par- | ticular have a deep and earnest con- cern in the Senatorial contest. The fact | that C@lifornia cught to have a Senator | to succeed Mr. White seemed to cut no | D figure in the calculations of M. | Burr He thought only of hims and | his desire for vindicatic He talked of a caucu edge of party custum should teach him | that he has no right to submit to a party caucus, and a caucus, should one called, ld have no right to | -cording fol- | lower: did not enter the contest in | go0d faith to serve the people, but en- | punish the press and | Had the an- , when knowl- | ade by him f, be- | of the Legislature were vo the people, that he would be candidate for United States | Senator he might with svme degree of | fairness now ask that his name be sub- mittad with thc of other candidates | for caucus consideration. But hjs as- | pirations for the office of Senator were | not disclosed until after the election. | In fact his mctives hidden from the people. If the people had believed that the Republican Leg- islature would commit the political folly of seriously voting for him for Senator | the Repub ded by Henry | T. Gage for Governor, yn to the last | man on the legislative ticket, would | have been beaten out of sight. And | Burns has the effrontry to demand a | caucus of the people's’ representatives after he had concealed from the people the fact that he designed to become a candidat Burns to-day has made his one speech | of th enatorial campaign, and when | the people of California read and con- | sider it they will comprehend that there | is nothing in his claims for the Sena- | torship beyond a selfish desire to get even with his assailants. It is not the time in the history of this State and this nation to send a man to the United | States Senate solely because that man has emies to punish and friends to reward. Burns' own admissions testify to the low plane on which his canvass is conducted. He is now shaking his fist at the people of California and say- ing, “A caucus must be held to con- | sider my claims or no Senator shall be elected by this Legislature.” The Burns steering committee -ap- | pointed by the cclonel’'s caucus to-day | intends ito adc a manifesto to the | people of the State of California. It is | to be hoped that every man in the Leg- islature voting for Burns will sign the document. The members of the com- | mittee are Grove L. Johnson, Henry C. Dibble and Senator Frank Leavitt. As- semblyman Kenneally, who votes for | Burns in such a loud tone of voice, was | not placed on the committee. The battle for the people has been won so far as the danger of Burns’ elec- tion is concerned, but it is by no means settled that a Senator will be chosen. “Burns or nobody” is the cry of the touts and they fling the challenge de- in the face of the Republican There may be a union of the of Barnes, Grant If of the people of the State, but the Grant men believe that duty re- quires them to ' present an unbroken front in order to defeat any tricky scheme of the Burns men. Senator Currier, who has been laid up with Angeles for the last two weeks, probably return to his post of duty early next week. It Is regarded as cer- tain that he will cast his vote for Gen- eral Barnes, as he was one of Senator Bulla's gallant supporters. Mr. Bulla is in receipt of many telegrams from Southern California commending his will course in casting the weight of his in- fluence in favor of General Barnes. It is presumed -that Senator Currier is well advised as to the sentiments of the people of the southern part of the State in reference to the struggle now in semblyman La Baree, who voted for Bulla, has not been seen around the Capi vesterday forenoon. There many inquiries regarding his abouts. Burns began his Senatorial campaign by deceiving the people, and is now trying to deceive his supporters. He did not tell them the truth to-day when he submitted that he became a candi- | date because the newspapers assailed him. He was not assailed until he was announced by Herrin as the railroad’s candidate. He is not able to compre- hend that the Senatorship should be placed on a higher plane than mere per- sonal controversy. What right has Colonel Burns to de- mand that California shall not have adequate representation in the Con- | gress of the United States until he is vindicated? with equal rights, Wright, Simpson and Jilson might apply to the Legislature for high official honor as a measure of vindication. What Burns is pleased to speak of as vilification consists in the publication of his own official record. He made the record for himself and should stand by it or fall by it. If he desires to be vindicated why does he not pay into the State treasury the sum of $31,000 belonging to the State, which was stolen from his office while he was Secretary of State? Men had better repent and make resti- tution before demanding vindication. The course of D. M. Burns in this Senatorial contest and the deflant threat of his henchmen that this State shall not be represented in Congress until he is vindicated are calculated to arouse the people irrespective of party to a sense of responsibility in the premises. In his talk before his followers to- day Burns did not advance: any claims for promotion to the high office of United States Senator as a reward for meritorious service rendered by him- self to the State or to the Republican party. He could not put forth such a claim. For all that he ever did for the cause of Republicanism the party has given him rewards and emolu- ments far beyond his desert. It made him Secretary of State and it made him Police Commissioner of San Fran- cisco. After such reward he bolted the party nominations in San Fran- cisco and joined the non-partisan movement with his Tocaloma Club and defeated Republican candidates for the Legislature. His bolting course gave the Legislature to the Democrats 8ix vears ago and gave that party a Senator when the Republicanparty was fairly and honestly entitled to the re- ward. Again Burns is ready to defeat the will of the Republicans of Cali- fornia by placing obstacles in the way of the electicn of any Senator. Pay of the members of the Legisla- ture ended to-day, and the “Medicine men” are beginning to be apprehensive of future rewards. It is expected by | the touts that the number of votes re- quired for a choice of Senator will diminish daily until the Legislature adjourns. The Grant, Barnes and Scott men are fully apprised of the expectation and will hold their forces to the finish. high moral duty. The room was full | of noble sentiments and high ideals, and the fog of unsullied principle was so thick that it was with difficulty that such members as Wright, Simpson and Jilson could be identified. After the resolution above quoted had | been adopted Burns named Johnson. Dibble and Senator Leavitt as mem- bersof an executive or steering com- | mittee, the duty of which shall be to spread the Burns gospel among the members of the Legislature, promul- gate the proposition of a caucus and prepare an address to the people of the State.” This address will set forth the reasons why Burns should be consid- ered the greatest of living Americans; why it is that all of the misdeeds that | have been charged against him are un- | true and should be considered as pipe dreams; why he would adorn the United States Senate and lend bril- liancy to the assemblage where such men as Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Ben- ton and Blaine have sat, and whyv every one else is wrong and he {s right. At the conclusion of these interesting details of the meeting Burns delivered his maiden address. It was as follows: “Gentlemen: As you all know, I was'| not in the first place a candidate for | Senator. I qid not go into this fight un- | til forced to by repeated and .vilifying | attacks by the press. It was never my | Iintention to become a candidate until | assaulted from all sides by newspapers which, while vilifying me, insisted still that I enter the Senatorial race. | “Now I am in this fight, and I shall | stay until a majority of the Republi- | »ans in caucus shall select some other | sandidate. To me it is an hopor'to | aspfre ‘to such a° position, “the highest, I almost, in the gift of the people. It would be greater honor still should the. pecple send me to fill it. “In spite of the charges that have been made against me, every possible charge that the press could invent, I. defy any man to bring up one charge against me of any wrongdoing. As no one knows better than yourselves, my course since I entered this fight has been an honorable one. 1 have made noc secret of -my operations, but have invited the light of day into everything that 1 have gone into., “‘Although words are not necessary from me 1 want to thank you all again for the steadfastness with. which you | have stayed by me and supported me in my fight against great odds. I hear- tily indorse the agreement which you have come to here to-day regarding caucus and your future conduct, and 1 wish to repeat that I am not only willing but anxious to go into caucus in the good old Republican way, and by the decision of such caucus it will be my pleasure to abide. I thank you again. Assemblyman Kenneally was so | electrified by Burns’ eloquence that he frequently interrupted the colonel by shouting “Good boy, Dan; you're all right.” When he stated that he had been forced to become a candidate for Sen- ator by the attacks of the press Burns | forgot to state that the first intimation the newspapers had of his candidacy was when W. F. Herrin made the an- nouncement last November that Burns was the Southern Pacific Company's candidate for United States Senator. This was clearly an oversight on the part of the colonel. : Jobnson .acted as chairman of the and Scott in | sickness at his home near Los | 1 or about any of the hotels since | have been | where- | FRAGRANT COYOTE BILL HAS PASSED THE SENATE A Scathing Analysis of the Measure by One Familiar With Its Provisions. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March 2.—The coyote scalp bill of fragrant memory has passed the Senate and is now ready to be called | up in the Assembly. It carries an ap- | propriation of $287,615, and also con- tains provisions which, it is claimed. gives the speculators and synd holding bounty certificates a decided advantage over the individual claim- ants. It is acknowledged that there | are some just and honest claims mixed | in with bunches of fraudulent certifi- | | cates. | The Call has received the following opinion of the pending measure from | one who has studied its provisions: It robs the State. | It furnishes no relief to small claim- ants. 1t enriches the speculators who hayv cumulated blot of fraudulent cid...:, and in whose interests substitute for Sen- | ate bill 227 has been cunningly drawn. It would overwhelm the Attorney Gen- eral with a multiplicity of actions which he could never find time to defend; or if | he had the time it would involve' enor- mous expense and create a corresponding deficiency and be abortive as to any re- | | sults beneficial to the State or to those deserving the benefits of legislation. | 540404 040+0+040+ 040104040+ 0+ 0+ 0 +0404+0+0+ 040+ In short, the State would be at the mercy of “holders” and honest owners would be given no remedy. A volume might be written upon the iniquities apparent upon the face of the | substitute, which in some inscrutable | way has passed the Senate. | But as there is no time to read volumes | on this subject, what is here presented may be fittingly entitled “An invitation to thought and examination.” 3 First, after the facts and conditions calling for legislation upon this subject | From Kern, San Luis Obispo, Modoc, L | sen and perhaps one or two of the o[herl countles, claims have been presented in greater numbers than there are inhabi- fants and sheep sought to be protected | by the coyote bounty act of 1891. The to- tal of scalps claimed to have been taken | in the 7,523, which number is | found by dividing the sum for which | claims have been presented to_the State Board of B five ($5 being the bounty on each scalp | r the said act of 1881). r two-thirds of the certificates { sued by the County Clerks under the act are in about haif a dozen hands, in- cluding banks and San Francisco 'law firms. The balance are scattered through- out haif the counties of the State. That the larger proportion of thes “demzulds"i | are base frauds is an admitted fact. | " But the fraudulent claims are in strong [ hands, while the owners of honest claims | are in the hands of the original claim- | ants, who rejected the picayune sums fered by the sharks and junk deale: and they still hoid them. The latter. have | no remedy under the Senate substitute. Now, suppose the Senate substitute s’ and is sgpro\'ed and a_ Bakers- | section 2 e lolder offers in massive wad of | | Clerks’ certificates, which, being the very | | | evidence prescribed by law, the court must | admit it, and that makes a prima facie | case against the State; and the Attoruey | General is helpl When and how is he to obtain any competent evidence to | rebut or refute the case thus made? Let | there be remembered that there is at least | $200000 of claims so held. And the next thought is as to the effect upon State finances. The substitute makes an immediate appropriation, and provides | (section 5) as follows: “Upon presentation of a_certified copy of such judgment to the State Controller the Controller shall draw his warrant upon the appropriation | provided for the purpose for one-hailf the | | amount of such judgment payable out of | | such fund for the then current fiscal year; | | and thereafter, during the next ensuing fiscal year the Controller shail in like man- | ner draw his warrant for the remaining half of such judgment, payable out of | such fund for such ensuing fiscal year.” Now, this Senate substitute, if passed and approved, will take effect and become a law of the State before the 1st of April. The holders of great blocks of these certi- ficates will, in spite of anything the At- torney General can do to prevent it, ob- tain judgment and present a certified copy thereof to the Controller during the pres- ent fiscal year, which ends on the 30th day of June, 1899, and take out one hun- dred thousand dollars. Then on the 2d day of July, 1899, they may demand and collect the balance of their said judg- ments. So under the substitute they can | within three months deplete the State | treasury to the tune of about two hun- dred thousand dollars. But not so with the small holders, who cannot prevare for trial in so short a time, even if they could bear the expense, and they must sell at whatever price the monopoly offers. In this connection comes the suggestion ‘in defense of the substitute that they may assign their demands to one another with- out litigation in their own names. Can there be any doubt as to the class of per- sons who would busy themselves in pro- curing assignments for these purposes and at what sacrifices to the small owners? The substitute provides no actual notice to any one of his right to sue the State, nor_any safeguards against an unauthor- ized appearance for claimants who have died, removed or disappeared during the last eight years, or against claims held in wholly fictitious names; nor does it provide any fund to the Attorney General for ob- taining evidence and procuring the at- tendance of witnesses -for the State; nor does it enable him to make any defense whatever. He will be utterly powerless in the{premlses: and those who are ‘“*hold- ers” of the thousands of alleged claimants who in fact have never existed will have it all their own way. The substitute pro- vides that the ordinary rules of practice shall apply to such suits against the State, “except as herein otherwise pro- vided, with the right of appeal to either party.” The only exception therein mili- tates strongly against the small owner, and is in effect that he shall employ his own attorney and pay a large bill of costs and expenses. He would have to have depositions taken or be compelled to. at- tend court with his witnesses time and again in S8acramento. Of course, the ob- stacles to obtaining any of the benefits of the substitute by any such persons would be insurmountable. In short, they are by the substitute, as it was intended that they should be, left to the mercy of those who have already combined ‘and Jaid thelr plans to acquire the balance of the claims at their own price. e 43k SENATE ROUTINE OF MONOTONOUS ORDER CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March 2.-—The report of the conference committee appointed to con- sider the Assembly amendment tacked on to Senator Curtin’s bill raising the sal- ary of the Superior Judges of Tuolumne County was'laid: beforé the Senate to- day, but received no favor.. The amend- ment wgs “one twice beaten in the Sen- ate when the bill was .under considera- tion. It added the Superior Judgés of San Francisco to those of Tuolumne and raised them to $3000 a year. -The confer- ence committee recommended that this amendment be ‘adopted, but thé report was voted down and the-amendment was. refused. A message from the Governor reported his veto of Serfate bills 82 and 118, and his approval of Senate bill 211. Senate bill 82, | introduced by -Senator Smith, provided for an appropriation of $7500 for the furnish- ing of the office of the State Treasurer. The Governor considered the sum too large, the necessity. for the appropriation too small, and besides it was made pay- able from the funds of this year instead from those of next year. Senate bill 118. introduced by Dickinson, appropriated - $3000 to pay the claim of Lawrence Dunnigan +for injuries received while In the service of the State. Dunni- gan was injured in the strike in Sacra- mento in 184. In his message the Gov- xaminers, namely, $287615, by | k or 2 San Francisco law firm | TI | it on a $0,000 block of County | Clerks’ certificat. A trial comes on. 1 Attorney omes into court | | “to_defend rovided i NO CHANGE CALL HEADQUARTERS, SAC- RAMENTO, March 2.—The gallery and the deep tier of green plush seats in the back of the Assem- bly were cfowded at noon to-day for the first time for thirty-eight or forty ballots. The landslide to General Barnes vesterday revived Interest in the Senatorial fight and this morning rumors of all sorts of exciting things to happen were afloat and gathered a crowd. Sacramento society was largely in evidence and everywhere the crowd .was picked out by bits of gay milli- nery. The throng was disappointed, however. There was absolutely no change, save that Speaker An- derson and Assemblyman Muenter of San Joaquin returned and add- ed two votes to the total for Barnes. La Baree is stil away, but will have a vote for Barnes when he returns, The one ballot resulted as fol- lows: BARNES ESTEE BURNS GRANT . SCOTT DE VRIES (D ROSENFELD (D.) WHITE (D.) . PHELAN (D) . HAOI04 G40+ 0+ 040+ D40 F0I040404 O 4 04 © + O4O404D 400040404 3 : g L4 : : ernor sets forth the truism that Duhni- i 8an either has a claim against the State or he has not, so he vetoed the bill and glves Dunnigan permission to sue the State for the amount. Senate bill 211, which found such exec- | utive favor, provided for the payment of the $1200 claim of Thomas Hatch for ser- i;x ‘es rendered during the Midwinter Fai Under a vote to reconsider Johnson's Assembly bill 651, to appoint an agent to collect certain war claims of the State upon the Federal Government and due nce the Rebelllon, the measure was assed by as good a majority as the one which beat it two days ago. There was some objection to pay the 10 per cent com- mission which the bill provided, for it was considered a good business proposition, particularly as the claims have been hanging uncollected for the past thirty vears, and the commission is not to be paid until thé money collected. . Shortridge’s ubiquitous horseshoe bill came up for reconsideration of the vote by which it was defeated, and just atched past its opponents. Fearing hat his pet measure would meet another defeat, Shortridge moved to postpone fur- ther consideration until to-morrow, and this was done, so his bill is still on the Senate file. e Johnson’s Assembly bill 5, providing for | the payment of fines to socleties for ihe prevention of cruelty to animals, was passed as finally amended. As originally | drawn, the bill provided for the payment for offenses against humane laws of fine: ng the arrest. This to the society caus | was amended to make all such fines pay- able to the school funds of the county, {and then it was amended again to bring it back to the present form of the law, which directs all such fines to be paid to the society first formed in the county. Rickard’'s Assembly bill 375 was passed. he measure requires Election Commis- joners to convene immediately after an election and spend at least six hours a day upon the count until it has been comnblet- e4°"rhis 18 to prevent the long-drawn-out ts which Invariably prevent those elected for the short terms from taking office. Valentine’s Assembly ,bill 62, providing for an appropriation to make a State ex- hibit in the Paris Exposition was amend- ed and passed to third roadinF. The amendment raised the appropriation from $120,000 to $150,000, and made $25,000 of this payable at once. Assembly bill 182, introduced by Mack, allowing unincorporated towns and vil- jages to equip and maintain fire depart- ments and_to collect taxes for that pur- pose, was finally pas: e SPECIAL FILES OCCUPIED TIME OF THE ASSEMBLY | CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March 2—Work on fhe third reading and ways and means special files occupied the attention of the Assembly to-day at both the day and evening ses- sions. The following bills were passed: Senate bill 165, by Dickinson, an act to pay the clalm of Willlam M. Sullivan against the State of California and mak- ing an appropriation therefor. Senate bill 229, by Prisk—An act to pro- vide for the disposal of money raised by cities or towns for public improvement after the same has been completed and paid for. Assembly bill 525, by Crowder—An act making an appropriation to pay the claim of A. L. Wood for $300, being a reward offergd for the arrest and conviction of Francisco Torres. Assembly bill 594, by Burnett—An act to appropriate the sum of $25,000 to pay the claim of Claus Spreckels for money due and owing to said Claus Spreckels from the State of Califqrnia. Assembly bill 755—An _act authorizing and directing the State Board of Health to conduct examinations relative to the purity of foods, drinks and drugs, to en- force laws relating thereto and makin an appropriation to pay the expenses o such examinations. Assembly bill 428, by Belshaw—An act to provide for the payment of the bounty due Joseph Schwindel under an act en- titled “An act granting bounties to the volunteers of this State enlisted in the service of the United States, for issuing bonds to provide funds for the payment of the same, and to levy a tax to pay such bonds,” approved April 4, 1864, and making an’appropriation therefor. Assembly bill 252, by Conrey—An act to pay_the claim of E. M. Strout for services rendered as reclamation fund commis- sicner from June 1, 1873, to April 1, 1874, amounting to $2000, approved by the State Board of Examiners, and appropriating ney to pay the same. R Ernor G4 Ber Mr. Fo- ibble’s bill Governor Gage announced, ley, that he had approved prohibiting the desecration of the Ameri- can flag. S o THE GOVERNOR’S VETO OVERRULED BY SENTIMENT Assembly Adopts the Poppy as the State Flower Despite Executive Objection. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March 2.—Sentiment dwelt for a time In the Assembly chamber this morn- ing; a golden, poppy-colored emotion, that made men for a time forget their politics and the sordid things that men go in for here in this Legislature and put their hearts and thelr votes into a delicate tribute to the memory of the only daugh- ter af one of their fellow members. It was the selection of a State flower that drove out politics and clarified the usual sodden atmosphere. For years there has been a desire to select some native- blown blossom that would best typify the past, the present and the hidden future of the State, and when this session was younger and cleaner Assemblyman Bliss of Oakland offered a bill adopting the “golden poppy”’ as the floral symbol of the commonwealth. Though he did not say so when the measure was introduced, it was neither more nor less than a memorial to his only child, his daughter. The too few years of her life she had spent in the wondrous garden that nature has given California, learning by heart the stories and the mysteries of the bles- soms. She told them again to the little the hills and the gold of the sunsets, and | bore mute promise of the future. It.was | the State's natural symbol and she prayed that the State adopt it for its own. But | one day whén the suns of summmer had | burned the poppies from the hills she fol® lowed them, and left only her father to greet them when the next year came, and | urge their cause to a commonwealth not tuilded on sentiment. A glimmer of it ail went through this Legislature when Mr. Bliss offered the Bill. It went through to the Governor with | no. quéstion and no dissent; but there it | found neither sentiment nor a conception | of anything lees gross than cold legisla- tlon. "Mr. Gage veétoed it and so informed the Assembly. To-day his veto came up on the files, | and Grove L. Johnson told his colleagues just why .the bill was drafted. Said he: ‘“This is purely a matter of | sentiment. It is neither a thing this State needs nor a thing it needs not. It is sim- ply something it wants—a beautiful con- | ception. It is more: it is a memorial of- fered by our loved brother, Mr. Bliss of Alameda, to his only daughter, who died loving the poppy, and its fairest champion. She wanted this State to adopt the flower | and she never tired of urging it, and you | of us who have daughters will know what this bill means and see that it shall be- come a law.” Assemblymen Caminett of Amador and Meade of Los Angeles followed Mr. John- | son, and when the veto came up to a vote | it got nearly enough against it to nullify | it, notwithstanding there were scarce as | many in the House as were needed. But the absentees were called, and as the | tardy on began to arrive and when they | had "been retold the story they:stood up and voted for the flower. The Democrats | threw off political courtesy. and when the | as count of the vote as announced | there were more than enough to over- | rule tne s_objection and send | ate. sembly’s action was at Senate, and later Senator | Shortridge called it 'up; but politics | played a stronger hand than sentiment | in the upper house, and the Governor's | :'9[«;} was sustained there by a vote of 33| 0 2. H { once sent to the e SENATE SAYS NO | TAXES FOR STANFORD UNIVERSITY CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March’' 2.—The constitutional | amendment allowing the Legislature to | exempt property of Stanford University | from taxation passed the Senate to-day, but not without opposition or criticism. | The amendment originated in the As-| sembly, and when it came to the ‘Senate | Morehouse and Shortridge, the two Sena- tors from Santa Clara County, stood ready to support it. The recommendation | of the Committee on Judiciary, to which it was referred, was that the amendment “do not pass,” but that did,not prevent | Senator Shortridge from rising when the | measure was reached on the file and ask- ing that it pass the Senate. { Shortridge, Morehouse and Simpson | were all in favor of the amendment, and | they sald 5o to the extent of half an hour. | It was a public school, practically, wa the burden of their argument, an institu- | tion formed for the public welfare and not for profit, and there was danger that un- | less aid were granted it in the way of re- | lease from taxation the welfare of the | institution would be seriously endangered | for lack of funds. It has now an income | of $180,000 a year, and one-fourth of this | i needed for taxes. The faculty costs| $165,000, and it was remarked that be- tween the faculty and the tax there was a deficit for eagh year, without including general expenses. 1 Senator Gillette opposed the amend- ment, both because of the provision al- lowing the exemption of property and be- | cause of that clause which allows - the Legislature to confer, by special act, cor- porate powers upon the trustees of the institution. This privilege, he said, was one which is allowed no other institution | in the State, and is directly opposed to the principle asserted in the constitution | that no special acts shall be passed by the | Legislature. | Referring t6 the lack of funds, Senator | Gillette placed the hoftest. shot that struck the amendment. He said he had heard that at one time there was $12,000,- | 000 in taxable securities belonging to- the | Stanford estate in New York, and that It | had been moved from there and is no somewhere in the country producing no revenue and taxable in this State if the | securities could only be located. He sug- | gested that two or three milllons of these securities be made to produce some revenue and help the university in | that way. Continuing, Senator Gillette said there were over 85,00 acres of land in Califor- nia belonging to the university that could not be settled upon nor sold, and was practically closed to the people, and he | | 'did not think it should be exempted from taxation. Senator Smith did nbt believe in aiding the Stanford University so long as the State institution was so badly in aid of | assistance. : | Senator Rowell said the question was the entering wedge for the exemption of all property of benevolent or educational institutions, and he believed it was dangerous experiment. He believed it was bad policy to allow any institution to in- vest its funds in taxable property and | then exempt the property from taxation. | Stratton, Curtin and Boyce spoke in fa- | vor of the amendment, if, only to allow | the people of the State to ¥ote upon it. | The roll was called, and the amendment was adopted by a vote of 29 to 7, Rowell, Gillette, Smith, La Rue, Jones Luchsin- | ger and Trout voting no. Senator Gillette’s words caused all ‘kinds of a time among the supporters of the measure, and there were a great | many who were in the lobby when the Senator from Humboldt made his sensa- tional charge. There were explanations made by every one, and none explained | more loudly nor longer than the luckless Crothers, who was credited with the or-| iginal statement. | ! miained that what he had said to | Senalor Rowell was not that Mrs. Stan-| ford had hidden away all these securi-| ties, but_that they belonged to another estate, the name of which he did not| care to mention. But he insisted that | the securities were not of the Stanford | estate. 5 President Jordan also took time just be-| fore the train left for the city to declare that the statement that Mrs. Stanford had any securities hiaden away from the Tax Collector, as made on the floor of the Senate, was an absolute falsehood. What Crothers declared he did say to Senator Rowell was this: He represented that:the Stanford estate was Ipvested in poorly paying securities and'in poorly paying land, and-that if her securities were taxed there would be nothing left as an income from them to do the uni- versity any good. Her securitles were held outside this State, he said, and she | could_not bring them here because they | would then come under this tax that| would rob them of 0 much of their pos- | siblities as revenue. = To illustrate his point, he made use of the disastrous in- stance—that he knew of one estate that had securities amounting to over $12,000,- 000, but that they could not be brough here and were now somewhere between here and New York, and that they were not being taxed. When, however, Crothers and Senator Gillette’ had a conversation on the ex- emption, Senator Gillette understandin the conversation to refer to the Stanfor estate, demanded what amount in securi- ties had been *lost” on the way from New York, and Crothers would not tell, and when he was asked to deny the re- rt that they amounted to over $12.000.- | &% he refused to do so. His method of | lobbying ‘has cost the measure a good deal of dignity, and perhaps has caused it more trouble. NO AVOIDANCE OF TAXATION. The Call is in receipt of the following self-explanatory telegram: “SACRAMENTO, March 2.—The state- ment of Senator Gillette that several mil- | lions of Stanford securities were sent East | to avold taxation is absolutely untrue, originating in a corrected error of Senator | Rowell. B ‘“DAVID S. JORDAN, “GEORGE E. CROTHERS.” SAN FRANCISCO JUDGES i WILL GET NO INCREASE! CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March 2—San Francisco's Su- perior Judges must wait another two years at least before théy will get the | $1000 raise in salary for which they have. | was not a dissenting voice andsthe resolu- | _The resolition aroused the sense of hu- | stitutional amena umne and Shasta counties only. It was introduced in the Senate by Curtin and when it came into the Assembly it was amended by Dibble so as to include San Francisco. . The Senate refused to concur in Dib- ble's amendment and to-day sent a mes- sage into the Assembly asking that it recede. Judge Dibble requested the Assembly to accede to the request, as he had prom- ised Curtin and McDonald of Tuolumne that he would not insist upon his amernd- ment in case he should jeopardize the chances of the passage of the original bill by doing so. The Assembly receded. S e FITTING TRIBUTE IS PAID TO A | PHILANTHROPIST Unanimous Vote to Repay Claus Spreckels Money Loaned for Farmers. | CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March 2.—The. bill which is to remunerate Claus Spreckels for the 25,000 he advanced to the State for the relief of the drought stricken farmers | of San Luis Obispo and Monterey | counties passed the Assembly this evening with no vote against it. Grove L. Johnson of Sacramentc spoke to the measure when it came up cegularly on the Ways and Means Com- mittee file. He paid a splendid tribute to Mr. Spreckels in saying: T hope every member of this Houss will vote for this bill. Were there any stronger way of expressing our grati- tude I should ask that we take it. This bill is designed to repay $25,000 which | was advanced to the farmers of this| State when they were in dire necessity | by Claus Spreckels, a great, big-hearted | man. “It was an act characteristic of Claus Spreckels. He is an honor ‘to his city and his State, to the nation and the | country that gave him birth. “I ask that every member vote for this bill and that it be at once trans- mitted to the Senate. LA BAREE WILL NOT YOTE FOR ~ BURNS OR GRANT | CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-| MENTO, March 2—Assemblyman La | Baree. who has been away for the past two days visiting his brother at his ranch | in Contra Costa County, returned to Sac- ramento to-night and was seen upon his | arrival by a Call representative. He was | asked whom he would vote for for\United States Senator, now that Bulla had re- tired from the field, and in reply he said: | “IL am_in doubt whom I wiil vote for. | Van R. Paterson is the man of my choice, | and it may be that I will vote for him. Next to Paterson I favor W. H. L. Barnes.” He was asked if anything would induce him to vote for either Burns or Grant, and he replied: | "I will positively refuse to vote for | either Burns or Grant under any circum- .stances. If there i{s any chance of Van R. | Paterson coming to the front I will vote for him. Next to him I consider General Barnes the best man. I think that this | is the proper time for Paterson to come to the front, for it seems to me to be as much_of a deadlock as ever. I don’t see | how Barnes can win uniess he gets sup- | port from some of the other camps, but, | nevertheless, I consider him the next best | man to Paterso; WORKING TO SAVE THE | MINERAL LAND BILL HEADQUARTERS, CALL SACRA- | of the Senate was broken in upon by an interruption from Washington. It was a telegram from Marion de Vries in which | he asked the California Legislature to | take some action, and take it at once, in| order that he might get the mineral land | bill, of so much importance to the miners | of California, before Congress. The end of the session was near, he wjred, and | any action that was taken muSt be im- | mediate to be of any etfect. Senator Davis was given the telegram and he fixed up the following resolution: | “‘Resolved, By the Senate and Assemoiy of the State of California, jointly, that we | earnestly urge immediate consideration of the mineral land bill now pending in Con- ress, and respectfully request Hon. T. . Reed, Speaker of the House of Rep- resentatfves, to recognize some member of the California delegation. to call tne same up faor consideration before the close of the present session. “Resolved, That the secretary of the Sen- ate be instructed to transmit by telegraph a cn&y of the foregoing resolution to the Speaker of the House of Representatives at Washington, D. C.” In submitting the resolution Davis asked that a vote suspending the ruies be taken and that his resolution be adopt~ ed and wired back to Washington at onece. It looked as if this would be done, but Braunhart arose and asked why the Legislature of California should bow down before the Czar of the House and beg him to recognize a representative from Cali- fornia. He was answered by Davis, who said he thought it was no time for ‘‘petty | peanut politics,” and he had no ‘answer | except to call for the roll call. Braunhart explained that it was to the form. .of the resolution that he objected, not to the gentiment it expressed, and so he would vote for it anyway, which he did. There tion went through in a moment. The mineral land bill now before Con- gress is one which segregates from the land granted to the Central Pacific Rail- road Company-all lands which have been found to contain mineral deposits, and lays them open-to settlement by miners, giving the railroad other lands in liet of those taken under the act. s o oty NO MORE JUNKETS AT STATE EXPENSE CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March 2.—There will be :o junket to Agnews this week, for the Sen- ate has ruthlessly sat down upon -the scheme, and the traveling element will have to stay around Sacramento or pay its own way out. Senator Laird submitted a resolution granting leave of absence to three mem- bers from each of the committees on finances, hospitals and public buildings from Saturday at 2 o'clock to Monday at half-past 11, with all the necessary trav- eling expenges between here and Agnews. mor which lies dormant generally Senate, and the Senators pracegdehd‘ 0:3 have some at its expense. Senator Smith however, injected a little hard sense intg thediscussion when he said he was a mem- ber of two of the committees which were to be représented in the junket, and he could say already that the Institution was very modest, did not want anything more than the regular appropriation n.n% was generally satisfied with what it had. He tkl'd xéot see the use of any junket, unless he enators desired to see an institution that did not wtant anything. There was such a fund of I in the sits Smith outlined ltogx‘:t the resoll‘l’(al'(t)‘!‘l)nw:: killed and the junketers had Jibes of those who we Rchadeatle the beaten plan for anrg“?(o‘;glincluded = TINKERING WITH THE ; ADVERTISING BILLS CALL HEADQUARTERS MENTO, March 2—The elatms of the e rious newspapers for the printing of con- ments camé before :\:isembly Committee on Ways and Me;:: s morning, and it was decided to have :mendmenu substituted for the original ills in many Instances. Those bills that and also took into consideration the circu- lation of the papers and knifed the ap- propriations accordingly. In a number of oases the amount charged was doub) that of other pflfneril for the same work. These were regulated. There has bge“n considerable time con- sumed in getting the bills in proper shape. and the committees of both houses have eason to feel reileved that the bills are in a condition to go the regular route. The aggregate amount asked for in the numerous bills_was $69.700. a_portion of which was acted upon by the Senate com- mittee and the rest by that of the Asse bly. Of the portion allotted to the D bly commiittee $14.369 was reported back to the Assembly after having been amended. : i vare reported bagk with- DI A e Drc numbers 918, 9. out recommendation wel 848, 934, 974, 929 and 969 NO PROTECTION FOR TIMID CANDIDATES CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March 2.—The woes of the last “conference” were thrashed over in the Senate this afternoon with the considera- tion of Dibble’s bill to protect timid can- didates as a basfs for argument. : Dibble’s bill provides that any candi- date who takes a pledge to vote for any particular person for United States Sen- ator or any one who asked a legislator legislative candidate to do so. shall deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. is a law alrea an offense to ex be There v on the books making it act or take a pledge, and Dibble’s bill added the question of Sena- tor to make that a sure thing. The Sen- ate had no use for the measure, hov ever, and by a vote of 30 to 4 the Dill Wi defeated. Shortridge opposed the bill in the !h’% place because he said he thought it right and just that every one should know ex- actly how a man was going to represent his constituents, and there Al way of making that sure 3 also redhot after the bill. He brought in the present situation by declaring that he felt his people had a right to know how he was going to vote on the question of a United States Senator and on other im- ortant measures, and he had pledged imself on every stump in his county on any question he understood, except those affecting the judiciar He thought that if a _man did not wish to pledge himself he should assert his manhood, to which Senator Curtin, who favored the bill, said “yes, and give up his ambition. = Curtin pointed to the present condition of affairs in the joint ballot, and declared that If it were not for the pledges taken before the election by the varfous candi- dates there would have been no deadlock and a Senator would have been elected long before this. ‘“We have been here for sixty days.” he said, “‘and have lost an immense amount of t ime balloting for Senator, and all _because of these ante- election pledges. How long is this going to comtinue? Are we going on to witness the disgraceful scenes we have witnessed day after day in the joint session? Pledges controi all political bodies, and it has got S0 now that you cannot succeed in an election unless you have been tied down v all kinds of pledge b'Morehnusg preferred to d»gx;nste the Senatorial bugbear as A. B. “If my con stituents do not want A. B. for Senato he declared, “‘they have a right to demand of me that I do not vote for A. B.. and 1 have no right to violate that pledge. I have no right to come here and vote for 2 man for Senator when I know in my heart my constituents are opposed to that man for United States Senator. I am op- sed to this bill. It is, conceived in sin. orn in iniquity and if passed will be assed wrongly P here was no fear of its passage, how- ever, and after an amendment including boards of Supervisors in the pledge pro- hibition_ had. been submitted —and with- drawn, because the bill already had such a provision, the was - snowed under. measure PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March 2.—Assemblyman Brow: of San Mateo. this evening offered in th Assembly a constitutional amendment d« signed to accomplish the Bame result as the concurrent resolution offéred by Cam inetti of Amador last, week—the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people. Mr. Brown's amendment, which was re- w | MENTO, March 2—The evening session | terred to the Committee on Federal Rela- tions, is as follows: “The Legislature of the State of Cali- fornia, at_its thirty-third session, com- mencing on the 2d day of January, A. D. 1809, two-thirds of all the members elect- ed to each house of said Legislature vot- ing in favor thereof, hereby proposes that 2 new section be added to the constitu- tion of the State of California to be known and designated as section 6, arti- cle IT thereof, as follow: “Section 6—The Legislature shall pro- vide that at a general election immedi- ately preceding the expiration of the term of a United Statee Senator from this State, the électors may by ballot express their preference for some person for the office of United States Senator. The votes cast for such candidates shall be can- vassed and returned in the same man- ner as for the State officers. —_— A BAD OUTLOOK FOR THE EXPOSITION BILLS CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March 2.—There appeared to be a diversity of opinion in regard to the bills asking for an appropriation of $500,- 000 for the big exposition in San Fran- cisco at the meeting of the Senate Finance Committee ' this morning, for the bills ‘were reported back to the Senate without recommendation after very little discus- sion. It is stated by some that when the ADVERTISEMENTS. HAVE YoU BEEN CURED! If Not, Why Not? WHEN OTHERS FAIL REMEMBER DOCTOR SWEANY, THE_OLD RELI- ABLE AND LONG ESTABLISHED SPECIALIST. Office 737 Market street, ‘Where the sick and afflisted can receiva treatment in the future, as they have in the past, from the ablest and most suc- cessful Speclalist of the age. Bome doctors fail because of treating the wrong disease: others from not know- ing the right treatment. 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