The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 4, 1899, Page 2

2] THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1899, S R PLOT TO FORCE AN | EXTRA SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE Burns’ Latest Scheme to Break Into the United States Senate. | hopele Tt looked bright up to 5 o’clock, but as soon as the nigger in Burns' lateét woodpile came into evidence the | sentiment changed. Those who are still BETRAYED BY ONE OF HIS TOUTS Attempt to Adjourn the Legislature Without Passing the General Appropriation Bill or Fixing the Tax Levy. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-least at their own expense. As an alter- MENTO, M w Dan M. | native they are fold that the | = " ) ele appropriation “bill need not be Burns w sed until near the end of the present al vear, and that the Governor must | n call an _extra session and they receive t mileage and per “diem, be enabled to not only get the ap-| »priation bill through, but cdll up their | own pet measures if the Governor can be induced to include general legislation in call. Chey have argued that the one impor duty of the Legislature is to elect a ator, and that it is demonstrated that | o £ the present s ra session not be done. Loudly they have| g d g 1 t through the halls to-day that | Executive the adlock cannot be broken. It has| ntemplates be good day’'s work and not one Fitcan 1 in the line of persuasive argument foar been overlooked. gnd as late as b heir ck this afternoon the touts were as- 3 etoa ach other that the success of the » strongest pull that Dan P e e been but for a slip made = o 1 Re- sleaders at a meeting to- upon them for a general Re mbly Committee on Rules. n th orial question inside_of the job was | sessic > been | thrown down inadvertently to set on foot | an investigat It began among the 7 {he State it | Dem t became noised | of the Siate; ihemer abroad, ¢ few in either house atu whether the to-night of either party who are not in- | tout | formed of every detail. They all, how- disclaim Delief that Governor Gage | has hin knowingly len If to the further- | ance of the Mexican's plan, aithough he was scheduled to pi he'leading part | ind m: le scheme operative by | W m montt ourned sine die to- would have two was figured, to send , it agents to the home of every repre- | tive . State. _Every pull and | Jorate influence the Mexican controls an borrow could be quietly used to | an agreement to caucus on the Ser ial question as soon as the extra E should be called. That Dan Burns might reasonably look to such an agree- ment is demonstrated by the overwhelm- i luence he has brought to bear here | to bring men to hi of thinking at way | a time and place where every move has ] re- | been watched and chronicled. TUnder m | cover of the privacy of thelr homes they of | might be expected to sent to a plan d to | which _the dread of exposue would hold s at | them from up here in the broad light Uf: [ds. | and lost to-day. { of the Democrats and nearly a | two weeks ago to adjourn to-morroy | any ballot bear: In adjourning without the appropria- tion bill passed an extra session would be assured. The running expenses . of the State are provided for only.until July 1, and the government could not continue for two years longer without the appor- tionment of the State’s funds and the fix- ing of the tax levy An_agreement reached with sixty-one members to caucus upon their returh here and the extra session would resolve it- self merely into a scheme for the ele | tion or Burns. It is this the Mexican has worked for Dan Burns cannot be elected as conditions are now. He knows | it, and his touts know it; not only faith, Dbut hope has gone from them. They con- fess it. Not one of them to-day but will | confess himself for. the present beaten. Their fight has resolved itself into noth- ing more patriotic than a determination to win or maintain this deadlock, and they themselves concede that the latter is all they can hope to do. To-night the gang gave the fight up as and for the scheme are a fe 1 the R publicans of the San Francisco delegation One phase of the layout was blocked by Valentine, chairman of the Ways and ommittee. In paving the way n_the Burns people have for been attempting to revail entine to report back to the As- the two resolutions introduced To- day he reported them back, but with the recommendation that they be not adopted and a careful canvass of the members to-night puts bevond the peradventure of a doubt that the report will be adopted to-morrow. The motion to adjourn, how- ever, will be made unless the plan e pressed to-night by the Burns people falls to the ground. STRATTON’S PRIMARY ELECTION BILL SIGNED ready to s upon sembly CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March 3—Senator Stratton's primary bill has become a law. It was signed by the Governor this morning and during the afternoon his message of ap- proval was transmitted to the Senate. It is one of the most important of the elec- tion measures that have been before this Legislature, and according to-its author it is the best primary law in the coun- try. The most prominent feature of the act | is that it requires that every nominating convention shall be formed by a primary election, thus knocking out any commi tees of one hundred, or appointe bodies controlled by one man or set of men. It provides for an election con- ducted just as is the general election, with the same register and the same pr cautions to secure secrecy, the only prac- tical _difference being the ballot used. The ballot is printed with blank space for the writing in by the voter of the names of those he wishes to see in the State, muni convention of his par: pal, county and district conventions are | all 'down on the ballot, and there is ventio space for the cf t at le parties which ¢ st 3 per cent of the vote at the preceding election. T make sure, how that nobody vot for any candidates except those of his it is e pressly provided that it the names of candidates for difterent political conventions it shall disregarded in the count. It follows rom this that If a man starts to vot party for one coi ote for the candidates of ¢ the other conventior is vote altogether. The nt him from selectir ndidates he wishes, but own part 1 the candidates of vention he must the me party or he will lose nothing to prev whatever part having s he must abide h choice throughout the whole ballot. Thi a strict vote. in: part Tt is provided that primary elections be | fc called on the second Tuesday in the month | existed pr paguiautueteetoedataguugnutaguagntuefoetatado ot | | | | Al of each of the | | serve | ate special file in the Assembly this af- g i=8=3-3c3-F-F-3u5=3:-F=3=3 =33 = SCOTT GAINS A VOTE. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SAC- RAMENTO, March 3.—Assembly- man La Baree cast his vote for Ir- ving M. Scott to-day, raising the shipbuilder’s total to 6. There were no other changessave that Senator Langford of San Joa- quin went over from Stephen M. White to John Rosenfeld and Mr. Rosenfeld's score now foots up 4 vot But one ballot was taken and then Dibble moved an adjourn- ment, The vote was as follows BARNES DE VRIES (D.) ROSENFELD (D.) WHITE (D.) . PHELAN (D.) (eg=gegeg 3c=g-Fog g:F=FcReFug o33 fagageiugagatatutetetotetateteeutuudoguutatatufaRaeRaTed of August of each even numbered year, and the elections are specifically placed inder the control of the Election Commis- sioners. There is a constitutional amendment D >d by the Senate that makes the operation of the primary law obligatory in the large counties and optional in the small ones, and there is another bill that makes lighter the punishment provided in the bill just signed for election officers who having been regularly appointed to at a primary election fall to do so. The bill signed allows a fine and imprison- ment; the one now pending reduces this to a fine. TWO AMENDMENTS TO THE OAKLAND HARBOR BILL ALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- b 'O, March 3.—Senator Leavitt's Oakland harbor bill came up on the Sen- ternoon and Wright of Alameda offered two amendments to it, which the promot- ers of the measure and the people of Oak- land considered advisable. The first amendment so changes the de- seription of the property over which the proposed Harbor Commissioners shall have control that it does not tend to con- | firm titles claimed to certain sections of the front by private parties. Under the amendment the description is as follows: Section 5. . The said commissioners, for the rposes in this act provided, shall have pos- sion and control and jurisdiction over all the right, title and interest which the people of the State of California or the city of Oakland, or any other municipality, now has or may hereafter have within all or any of the follow- ing described lands, waters and premises, to wit: Reginning at the point of intersection of the present northern boundary line of the town of Berkeley with the line of ordinary high t: on the east shore of the bay of San Francisco, and running thence southerly along and fol- line of orc high tide as it Towing said nary’ i ‘previous to artificial filling; to the of the estuary of San Antonio; thence easterly along and following sald line of ordi- high tide it existed previous to artifi- filling up of £aid estuary to the north arm | thereof, the arm extending up to Lake Merritt; | rose eaid north arm to the line of h tide as it existed before the | > bay of San Francisco, that is, id line of ordinary high tide as It vious to artificial flling up to and shore of t % on the eastern shore of said north arm; thence along and following said | line of ordinary high tide as it existed previous | to artificial filling, easterly, southeriy and westerly to the line of ordinary high tide as it | xisted previous to artificial filling. along the | | wing around what is commonly known as the Brook- Iyn basin, and thence down said estuary of San Antonio on and along the line of ordinary high tide as it existed previous to artificial filling on its south shore to its mouth, thence due west to the western béundary line of the county of Alameda. The second amendment creates a new section to the bill as follow: Nothing contained in this act shall be con- strued to divest the city of Oakland to any title to, interest in or right of control over sald premises except so far as may be neces- sary to the exercise by said Board of Harbor Commissioners of the powers hereby conferred upon them. The amendments wére adopted and the bill ordered back to the printer. DRURY MELONE’S SCHEME MEETS WITH A SETBACK CALL HEADQUARTERS, MENTO, March 3.—Uhless Drury Melone does some heavy work among the mem- bers of the Assembly his fond dream of augmented wealth will be but a myth. This evening the Assembly Judiciary Committee reported the bill regarding the | appointment of city officials by the Gov- ernor, where there has been a failure to do 80 by the people, for the period of two years, back to the Assembly with an un- favorable recommendation by a vote of 10 to 4. town of Placerville. The story of the attempt by Drury M lone, a Napa capitalist, to gain control of the town of Placerville has been fully told in The Call. sixties the town of Placerville was in need of & railroad, and the Saéramento Rail- road Company agreed to build one from the terminus of the Southern Pacific to Placerville, providing the town would bond Itself to the Sacramento Railroad Company for half the cost of th: struction of the road. The town was bond- ed for $250,000, but the railroad failed to come up to its agreement and only built the road part way, Since then the town has virtually been incorporated, but with- out officers, as by electing them the peo- ple would be throwing the town open to suit. Drury Melone has of late been buy- ing up the bonds at about one-fourth of their face value scheme of using the Legislature to com pel the people to elect officers so that he | can make collection through the courts. The flagrancy of the scheme has been dis- covered by the committee, hence its re- port, ———— County Government Bill. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACR! MENTO, March 3.—The county govern- ment bill made its debut in the Senate this afternoon, and after being tinkered with to the extent of two amendments it went over until Monday for further consideration. It is a bulky document, | and it will take several days to get through with it. The Dbill changes the powers of Supervisors in the construction of public works_so as to allow them to order work of a value less than without advertising, and making it o tional with them a to advertising for work of greater value than that sum. It also allows bidders to submit their own | plans when bidding. This change was dpposed by Bulla and Shortridge, and w finally changed back to the present law. The present law compels Supervisors {0 advertise for all work of a greater value than %00, and compels the drawing of plans for all bidde to bid upon. The bill also allows the taxing of towns for the road work done on the roads in the same districts as the towns, and this Buila sought to amend exempting rowns from this tax. His amendment was lost. dadimd The Grip Cure That Does Cure. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets removes the cause that produces La Grippe. has L. B. Q. on each tablet; 25¢. 4 (oL TN e MEXICAN DAN: 3 ) SACRA- | The bill directly applies to the | It seems that in the early | e con- | and_has conceived the | $2500 | The genuine | BURNS DECLARES HE WILL RULE OR RUIN THE PARTY 'Makes Good His Threat to Issue an | Address to the Public. DEMANDS A “BOBTAILED” CAUCUS 'Brazen Proposition Whereby Thirty-One Mem- bers, or Ten Less Than Half the Re- publican Majority, Shall Control. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-| the Legislature, and a majority to MENTO, March 3.—Pursuant to the agree-| gecide now, as in the past, who ment entered yesterday, Dan Burns to- | . | day, through his -supporters, issued an| should be the choice of our. party | address to the public, for United States Senator. in which he m-l of our vietory of 1898 will be turned to d and in every respect is just such a docu- | ment as might be expected to emanate from these gentlemen, who are the recog- | nized leaders of the Mexican's forces in | the Legislature. In a speech made to his supporters terday Burns pledged himself and h lowers to force Republican legislators into & canblil, of tu the cvent oF ADRE Fe-| rTYTon NHI LR B fusal, to prevent the election of a United | necessary antagonisms in our organi States Senator, and thereby Injure the| Weakening our lines and disorganizing our Republican party : | Caifiornta will be only. nalf rep | tempts to justify the position he now oc- Without good reason our respectful | cupies before the people as a candid;\tel quests for a caucus ve been refused | for tha office of United. States Senator.| Urgent appeals have heen dg | The address was drawn up by Assembly i elected; If none is elected at men Johnson and Dibble and Senator | the electlon of 190 will have | Leavitt, Burns’ new steering .-nmmmeru! traneous issue forced into it; the bes | in our grasp and the Democratic party be given another opportunity to secure Senator lost by them in fair battle that the r History teaches us political contests can never be ac foretold and that victorles in electi California frequently change with the quent recurrence. The loss to our party of a.Senatc two years will be incalculable, injur ad jeopardize the wel-| 1 a for fare of the entire State. | two years in the United States ate, a To-day he insults the Republican legis- | result unpleasant to contemplate and most lators and the people of the disastrous in ns-lmm-re The varied inter- i - ¢ sts of our loved commonwealth n the | ting those threats in writing ests ! P | Ing them to the world. He Dlainly | fostering care of the National Government, | that the Republican legislators must| 20d with only half a delegation they will or e ven e en 0 oW | > 1 honored head of © voting for him will continue to so vote | ,The honored heaf Of CUr an at receives our hearty approva prived of one supporter whose Ve needed at the regular sessions of Cong and particularly needed if an extra is_called. For these, thus prevent the election of a Sen- e who read the address of the Can- ia candidate will remember that his ndidacy was announced by W. F. Her- rin, political manager for the Southern | mong other reasons, Pacific Company, many weeks before th persistently called upon our fellow convening of the Legislature, as well lican members of the Legislature to meet before any newspaper in the State thought | with us in _open caucus, where every Re- of mentioning him as a Senatorial po publ nn‘ll:h!:\:-wr‘v\mxld - onv'm. »;h;rg bility; that his acts 4 candidate ha y vote would be openly cast, and X been 'marked by e trick and conf RET BALLOT BE HELD, and whers 3 ority of the Republican members of dence scheme known to politics, and now that he s himself defeated he seeks to | = justify himself and his acts by setting tinued on Third Page. forth a state of alleged facts that do not and have not existed, and by threatening | to disrupt the party and injure the State | if his commands are not complied with. His address is as follows: When the results of the Pl’r!l;‘n hla!d' in € 1898 we ained, it was found that t R P R very Pa t of a total membership of | lature, | a heen elected. When the Legisla- | Hath a Puddle.”’ The puddle in the pathway of most lives is a defective circulation due to a blood sup- ply that instead of growing | clear and strong like a moun- tain brook, is stagnant and impure. Puddles may be puri- ture convened Janua 899, it became its highest duty to elect a_United States Sen- tor to succeed Hon. Stephen M. White, whose term expires March 4, 1889, Upon the Republican members, numbering twen- ty-four more than a majority, rested the colemn obligation to_select a Senator who would represent the Republlcan party, and be a firm supporter of our Republican President and his administratfon. For over eight weeks that obligation has been unperformed, that duty mneglected. The blame rests upon the Republican ma- jority and must be bgrne by them though the consequences of this unfulfille duty will fall upon the Republican party at large, That the members of our party may understand our position and put their condemnation on the proper persons, we issue this statement: candidate, Hon. We ‘Mave supported a o 53 Daniel M. Burns, who, in our judgment, ffd D e e macestary qualifications to | 11€ds hOWever, and Decome make a good official and properly repre- limpid streams. That is what s»’—nlhfiurl.\'lm;‘. I = E Other Repu an legislatorg, reasons | . P suffi )¢ their judgment, have sup- | Ported ‘otner persons equaily” it for the | Hood’s Sarsaparilla does position. or eight weeks the conte: has . Cont now, | with st ‘wtfl; human blood, few day aining of the s < \\-c“are 1 B e It clarifies, purifies and strengthens 4 the blood, and when this is accom- plished the vital organs, liver, lungs, kidneys, bowels, are all braced and in- vigorated. It never disappoints. g ed every: ht A RSP With ayspepsia. | Nacning relieved mie until I took Hood's Sars: Why is this s The answer is plain. Because the time honored custom of all political partles of nolding a caucus to select a candidate has been abandoned. This country has & rep- resentative government; all selectlons of officials are decided by a vote of the per- ons entitled to act thereon, and the selec- tion of a majority, no matter how small jumerically, becom by the force of law, - P etlcation of all.This law of the iand | Tilla and it wmade and kept me . Can has become by usage the law of political | eat 1\7\\'["1}1’1? 1 wish. MRS. GENE D e o8 1Y ensential fo the perpetuity | MURPHY, Hull's Mili, Danbury, Conn. of our free institutions that this law should Impure Blood—*Five years T suffered T i the natton. for Withnt, | JTSTIRID BDOR- WING yeaty b anirers chy would reign, petty princ! ' | with pimples on face and body. Hood's e :All‘r‘r\l :f,.'-*"mk-“irll.‘f\‘-em:n Sarsaparilia cured me permanently. It Erates and the Federal Union become a | &lS0 cured my father's carbuncles.” AL- meanihgless phrase. It is absolutely neces- | BERT E. CHAST, Tustin City, Cal. sary to the preservation of a political party Erysipelas — My little girl Is now fat govern the delibera- and thy on account of Hood's Sar: hould that this law & tions of its members, for without it a | parilla curing her of erysipelas and ecze- party becomes a mere mob, without cohe- |ma, It is our family medicine, as we all EiVe power, @ tope of sand only powerful | faice jp° MRS, H. 0. WHEATLEY, Port to injure ftself and its friends when sought to be used to benefit the party or advance its principles. From the commence: jal struggle to the present hour our can- didate and ourselves have continuously asked for a caucus of the Republican mem- bers of the Legislature. | That caucus.to be one where no secret ballot would be used, that caucus to consist of not less than sixty-one members, a majority of Chester, N. Y. t of this Senator- Never Disappoings Hcod's Pills cire liver {lls; the non-irritating and only cathartic to take with Hood's Sarsa- parilla. SUN BONNETS 25. These are the late golf style, so popular in every city and hamlet of the whole country, in fact they are right. "For children 1 to 8 years we have white, tan, blue, pink, lilac and figured, at 25 cents, for ladies and girls 12 years and over tan and blue only at this price. Ladies’ of best quality and finish at 50 cents. Complete line next week. FUR COATS. .. ........$5.00 These are men's for Klondlke wear; a few left from 1898 boom; $20 garments for $; fine for stage drivers or those in ex- posed_situations; Klondike outfits at tak- ing prices. STEEL DOLL BUSGIES.. ... 3175 These have largely taken the place of wicker -work, and all other styles; they are handsome and serviceable. MEN'S SUITS...........$5.00 This is. positively the best suit for the money to be had anywhere; 300 sults in the Baldwin lot; clean-cut, serviceable goods, and suitable for Sunday wear. MEN'S UNDERSHIRTS. ... . .25¢ These came to us a bargain; sizes 36 to 40; for either summer or winter wear: drawers to match are out; a few dozén boys' drawers, medium weights, 6, 8, 12, 14 years, at 15 cents, to close; drop in and see our clothing bargains. CLOSING LOTS. Men's Smoking Jackets, $3 50 Kind......$1 50 Men's White Barber Coats, $2 kind. 50 Men's Waiter Coats, $2 Kind. 1% Men's Brown or Light Hats,, §2 kind.. 75 Boys' Derby Hats, colors, 2 kind. 50 Heavy Stylish Wallpaper, Tsc kind. 40 Little Boys' Worsted Sweaters, §2 kind. 1 00 Men's Shirts, Sunday, colored, 17, 17%.. 25 Sizes 17, 17%, large, in §125 Shirts. & 1 | | LADIES' SHIRT WAISTS. .. ..50¢ This s our new season’s stock; dark or light wash goods, fine fabrics and prettily mlazle: call or send while the stock is com- plete. FANCY SKIRTS..........$L00 And even cheaper; everybody says ‘“‘must have them’'; goods made on purpose for ekirts; ruffled or corded; tell the colors preferred; $100. $1 $150, $2350, $300; never saw anything prettier. LADIES’ SLEEVELESS VESTS -10¢ These are a littie better than is usually turned out at this figure; then for sum- mer wear we heve them at 1oe, e, Boe: also a complete line of spring and winter welghts at % and 50 cents, to close. MEN'S KLONDIKE BROGANS $3.00 These are hob-nailed, large thongs for laces, and made to stand the strongest wear; for lumbermen or miners; we know of nothing better. SMITHS THS . CASH STORE 28-27 Market St., S.F.