The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 10, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 10 1899 Later he showed his gratitude to Eall ...MARCH 10, “JOHN D. gPRECKgLS. Proprietor. oW, S. LEAKE, Manager. | ird Sts., S- F. munications ..Market and Th Ises. PUBLICATION OFFICE.. Telephone Main EDITORIAL ROOMS ..2I7 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1574, CARRIERS, 15 CENTS “oples, $ cents. CALL, One Year. ters are author copies will be forwarded wh OAKLAND OFFICE. NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representatives WASHINGTON (D. €.) OFFICE. ...Wellington Hotel C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. Marquette Building ng Representative. ve subscriptions. o requested. .908 Broadway CHICAGO OFFICE..... C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Ad vertisil ntgomery street, corner Clay, | ‘clo 387 Hayes street, open until | ock. McAllister street, open until 9:38 | 615 Larkin street, open until 930 o'clock. ssion street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market Sixteenth. open until 9 o'clock. 2518 open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana ets, open until 9 o'clock. i AMUSEMENTS. a Past.”” , the Hero of Manila. is Opera Comp: “Faust,” Mon- and Free Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon er Mason and Ellis streets, Specialties. The Steeplechase. E AUCTION SALES. ay, March, at 12 ket Street. 1, THE BRAND OF THE BEAST. gument against the bill to prohibit treating by candidates for public office, which was justly drowned in a shower of ridicule, one of the Sena- mento is reported to have said: “I pro- irinks if 1 want to, and spend my money P.’ on my necktie.” This gentleman is ¢ supporters of Dan Burns, and, with ix associates, is engaged in the work of mis- and tors at Sa constituents dishonoring the | validity of the claim, so arrogantly ex- | not be seriously disputed, at least to the rtion of the right of subser- Every member of the Legis- and t of its proud asse I Iroad. ho persistently votes for Dan Burns | encountered that solid wall, the majestic bulwark of THE CLOSING SCENES. AST week it was announced by authority that | Burns would be elected Senator on Wednes- | day. But that day’s ballot was taken and as as far away from the prize he covets as he | was on the first ballot, last January. The Wednesday | session had features that sug- | The element in our ed from its = Burns w aliot and the gested the miscarriage of a plan. population which backs Burns was m accustomed walk and conversation, for it had all been | summoned to Sacramento. The general public was glad of its absence, but Sacramento did not rejoice at its presence. Least of all was the Legislature grati | fied, for the chambers wherein the two houses meet | are not well ventilated at best, and can stand only slight mephitic additions to their atmosphere. The plan, whatever it was, that had cause, forces to be ordered to the front failed in execution and caused an ebullition of bad temper exceeding any other outbreak of the whole session. A potency of passion was shown by the Burns forces that for a time broke down the order and discipline the House. It was a testy, gnat-like temper, under which the tide of battle rose and rolled from the Legislature into the hotels, ending in personal encounter and the challenge and threat of further blows and bruises. All this is to be regretted. But it must be added to the dry year and other passing mishaps and misfortunes all the of which afflict the State. It originated in defiance of the will of the majority. The Republican majority in the Legislature and in the State has taken a position on the candidacy of Burns from which no intrigue has moved it. That majority has patiently waited to hear what Mr. Burns proposes, and then it disposes by standing firmly against every plan laid by him to elect | himseli. Every expedient known to the art of intrigue has It was announced that he was to win in a walkover on the first ballot. The Again and been resorted to by him. majority lined up and he did not win. again it has been announced that he wWas to win at a | certain moment. Stampedes have been forecast and foretold, but when the moment came the same patient majority stood its ground and there was no stampede. Then came the Pronunciamento of the Junta, in which Burns dwelt on.the charms of majority rule in a caucus in terms of praise equal to the phrases of the Song of Solomon or the Passionate Pilgrim. But again the majority stood unmoved, declaring that only it could order a caucus and would refuse, in the interest of party character and success. So, in whatever direction Burns has turned he has party purity and trustee of the party’s future, the ma- It has not bandied epithets with him, nor blushed at his cajolery, nor paled at his threats. It bas simply stood for the highest aspirations of the party against the lowest aspirations of the defilers of jority. | mine the course of a zephyr and the next minute find | doubtiul whether it will be sufficiently effective to put { " several chronicler by telling the “goober grabbler. facts that he learned in the Northwest. Thus he is reported to have told his folks.at home that the mention of McKinley'sname “‘evokes the wild- est applause from any popular assembly in the West, while no enthusiasm whatever is displayed at Bryan's name.” He is further reported to have declared him- seli to be “amazed and even indignant at the com- parative apathy with which a tribute to this really yreat American is everywhere received,” and finally he is quoted as saying, “The silver cause is in definite eclipse.” The Coloael, it will be seen, had to go a long way from home to learn the truth, but it is to his credit that he did learn it and confess it and not ignore it That he was and is indignant over the lesson may be natural, but the Colonel had no reason lor amaze What could he have expected? Would he in a went. this year of prosperity have the people applaud calamity howler rather than the statesman whose ad sistration has brought the prosperity? Would he with the memory of the war fresh in the minds of all have the people shout for a fiasco Colanel rather than for the President who conducted the war? * Would he at a time when gold is flowing into the country and the- aifluent golden tide is everywhere blessing the | the enthusiastic over free | silver and its howling dervish of a devotee? e Colonel's indignation is pardonable, for it is | land have people wax human. Some of the best men in the world have been rou a few have been even heard to swear at them. R to wrath by the stubbornness of facts, and not 1s0n able men, however, are not amazed or even surprised by such things. They recognize a fact when they sec it afar off, and do not have to butt up against it be fore they know what it is. Ii Colonel Graves had kept his cyes open for the last two years he would have perceived before he left | home how the political wind was blowing and would | have been spared the risk of taking personal observ tions in the Northwest. That, moreover, would h been greatly to his benefit, for it is clear the Colonel in his lecturing threw out side remarks about McKinley and Mr. Bryan to $ee how they would be received, and was immediately bowled over by the storm of Re- publican enthusiasm. It was like the case of a man who should go out with a handful of straws to deter- (- himself caught in a whirlwind and landed head down- ward in 2 remote county among rank strangers. BRIBERY IN BUSINESS CIRCLES. HILE we are busily engaged in devising legis- W lation to put an end to bribery in politics the British are trying to find some means of check- ing the practice in business circles. A bill for that purpose drawn up by the Lord Chief Justice has been submitted to Parliament and has been favorably re- ceived, although some of its strongest supporters are a stop to the practice altogether. The movement is an outcome of the scandals con- necteé with the Hooley bankruptcy case. It will be remembered that the evidence given by Hooley dis- closed the fact that he had paid out large sums of Bditor Mornlng Call—Dear Sir: Turning to the personul attack made in The Call of Monday on myself Montelth, Clough and others, T deslrs to reply that the charge made by My Gillespie that 1T was “openly canvicied of stufling the ballot hox" has but @ shadow of foundation in truth. A In cldent oceurred In 1802 about aw fol lows: A conteption arose ag tp how the officers of the commities should be elected. The ballot was Hoally resorted | to. To hasten the work I was pra posed that the ballot papers be handed to members o thele seats and after thelr cholee had heon wiltten thereon the ballots be collected and coantod 1 favored this wethod, Others declied that it was unsafe and demanded thal the roll be called and cach member march from his distant seat and de posit his ballot fn & hat at the frant. @ declared this methad (o he as unsafe as the other and desperately tedious It was, however, adopted. To demon strate (he unsafety of this method af ter | had written iy ballot and fulded it, U oalso folded another hallol pape and without a name or serateh of cil on it, going to the hat, de my ballot and the blank bothi thus demonstrating the unsafety claimed. When It appeared on the count that one more ballot—at the Instant not known to be blank-than the number of names called was ln the hat, an in- quiry arosg as to how It came there, 1 voluntarily and instantly exposed the ruse 1 had adopted to show the com mittee that the plan adopted could be abused. A ballot is a pl of paper with names of candidates written thereon. A plece of paper without the names of candidates written thereon is not a ballot. A voter must put more than one ballot in the box before he can be chargeable with “ballot stuff- 1 deposited but one ballot and promptly explained the presence of the ballot paper in the hat. Mr. Gillespie knew all this and knew also, when he made the statement to The Call of Monday, that he was trying to deceive the public, libel me and thereby divert attention from the political rascalities recently charged against him. He declares, furthermore, that I vot- ed “against him” in the convention. This is another and more direct form of the conventional Gillespie lie. I cast no such vote. “Since then,” he de- clares, “we have never trusted him.” GRISWOLD ANSWERS GILLESPIE. The dishonest, bent on crooked work, never trl thé honest; the villain. bent op villpipy, never trusts his schemes to thoge opposed to villainy; the ihief Never takes counsel oF advice of those f ol 10 thieving; the hoedler pever thkes into bls confidence the ant boodler; the law-defying politician never comsmunicates his plans to or ashe sdvice of the law-ahbidipg politi- Chian ithe Bipne Gillesple gang of political Poguss and rascals falled to “irust cif and others who have con politigal honor and honesty i Fulli order of unconscious compliment, Phe purilty committee was not inve tigaled. 1t refpsed Lo appear before th investigation committee appointed un- der the order of the County Committe 1t defied that order, By tricky ma- nipulation and the votes of heelers made ioyal to them by baseless prom- {scs of patronage which will never ma- ierlalige, they adid, without investi- gatlon, secure a (eMpPoOrary whl.tewush from the executive committee, ‘which, by the same means, was later secured from the County Committee. When the details of that white public, as they are likely to do through ihe pending suit, they may find that white has turned to black. Mr. Kinne also delights in a mislead- fng mixture of falsity and truth. Space wits taken In the Voice of Labor by the campnign committee for three To get money for Kinne it must be filled with ecampaign matter. Dr. Cleve- land and myself were requested to fill it. We did 8o, without charge to Kinne or the committee. Kinne got the pay— an outrageous sum—and yet this infa- mous politician mendaciously intimates to the public through The Call tha't 15 used the space for my own purposes. As a pretext for pouring $580 into his own pockets through the Voice of La- bor Kinne refers to it as “the party paper.” The Voice of Labor professes to be devoted to the interests of labor and was never known as a Populist “party paper” until Mr. Kinne discov- ered it. In the remark received $150 for his 3 work” does Mr. Kinne mean to inti- mate that $150 was stolen from the treasurer of the municipal purity com- mittee and turned over to Mr. Gillespie to compensate him for services ren- dered the State Committee? W. N. GRISWOLD. San Francisco, March 9, 1899. Seeking the bubble reputation at with directions to forward it to the I want. to go home. I want to go home. glory, but to many of those at Manila it has bi things. The following poem addressed to a friend of Adjutant Gener: tell its own tale. It is perhaps the most unique o from service in the torrid and withering Philippines. CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL, CORREGIDOR ISLAND, Jan. 21, 1899. To the Adjutant General, United States Army, ‘Washington, D. C.—Sir: HE WANTS TO GO HOME. Soldier’s Poem From Manila. 's mouth may be full of rought a longing for other rfih@ writer in this city, at Washington, will f all appeals for discharge the cannon Please grant my plea And from your army set me free. There in therefore ample reason why | tended | Their ive o trust” I consider the highest | wash come to the’ weeks. | “George D. Gillesple! entire summer’s | way by having him discharged from tn office on the score of economy. Mr. Power has been delayed by the ne. | cessary arrangements for the removal of his family hither. He is expected here In ahout & week's time. | AROUND THE 1 CORRIDORS » Colonel N, L. Pearse of London, Eng- land, is a guest at the Palace. E. D. Goodrich, a jewelry manufac- turer of New York, {8 at the Lick. H. J. Mitchell, a prominent citizen of | Brockton, Mass., {5 at the Occidental wit:, ' his wife, | Joseph MeCudden, accompanied by h daughter, came down from Vallejo ye terday on a short visit to this city registered at the Grand. €, H. King, who has extensive railroad interests in Wyoming, is at the Grand with his wife. They will visit the princi pal points of interest throughout the State. At the Russ are registered two min men, J. Madison of San Diego and V ltam Leggett of Los Angeles. The lat- ter has some good claims in the KI. | dike which he will soon proceed to | velop. Herbert Myrick, the well known author- ity on beet sugar, hops and other prod- ucts, and editor of the Orange Judd mer of Chicago and the American Agri- culturist of New York, is at the Califor- nia. He is investigating beet sugar fac- tories for an Eastern syndicate, and also the agricultural possibilities of the Stat He was a green conductor, who | HE KNEW had just come over from thae 2 Emerald Isle, and | BUSINESS. through the good | offices of a rel tive who is a suc- cessful politician in this city had suc- ceeded in getting a position on the Ma ket-street Railway. He was assigned | a Valencia-street car, and after the usi “breaking In” process he was allowed to go it alone. ‘When the car left the barns en rout to the ferry on his first t morning. everything passed < until the car reached Lotta's fountain ox the return trip. There two ladies got on and sat down. They proved the new con- ductor’s undoing. When he asked lady for her fare she handed him Kel, { at the same time saying, “‘Please let me off at Ninth street.” The second lady likewise hand conductor a nickel and remarked to get off at Twentieth street.” The green conductor gazed at her se- verely for a few seconds and then, with an air of supreme authority, replied: “I'll do no such thing. I know my busi- ness. You both got on together and you'll both get off together.” The conductor is looking for a new po- sition. C. B. Hamilton, a hotel-keeper of Na»a, and J. R. Houghton, a Chico capitalist, are guests at the Lick. J. H. Hardin, a cattle-raiser of Santa Rosa, and J. T. Quigley, a mining man ~* Anaconda, Mont., are among the arrivals | at the Russ. W. K. Van Reypen, surgeon general, U. S. A., is at the Palace, accompanied by | his wife. He comes from Washington, D. C., to investigate the hospitals provided for sick soldiers, and will report the re- S sult of his observations to the Govern- ment. A party of prominent railroad offi- clals, with their wives, arrived here yes- terday in the Wagner private car “Cor- T've fought and bled with my comrades true, And lived on hardtack and horsemeat stew; T've slept in a trench, and that’s no lie, When the rain like bullets fell from the sky. When hist'ry’s writ 'twill then be known No wonder that his simulated hope and pre- d superiority of plans in the daily intrigues to capture the Repu itled to put ““S. P.” on his neck- 't, the general opinion is that it is a dis- Dal money to noblemen and other dignitaries of repute to induce them to act as directors in his various specu- lative companies. These dignitaries served as decoy tended patience and profe: | have hammered against this solid wall of the majority the tinctive mark, by which political character and stand- | tified. There are, however, fiity-eight blicans in the Senate and in the Assembly | ve not been lassoed and branded by the cow- 0 and by them, by the Republican 1 by spbstantial citizens of California, with- out distinction of party, it is devoutly hoped that the | Burns “n end in a “dull thud,” fol- | lowed b Should this holy aspiration | be gratified there may be twenty-seven legislators, h of whom will be deprived of his political tod- ed with his own 'money. Su even thc | The mixtures prepared at the railroad bar have a | 1wce upon living topers, but they t upon a cravat, and they ical corpse. dies, 1gh pu exciting inft tightening ef RUDYARD KIPLING’S FAME. HE convalescence of Rudyard Kipling has been observed with gratitude by the people and even by rulers throughout the world. He has emerged from the shadows of death when his fame and his influence have become resplendent and are blended with conditions that insure their enduring | His life has assumed an immortal type, for the deepest and most pervasive it has absorbed Thought that silently dwells and works in the mind of humanity until revealed by the genius and ex- pressed through the lips of a Master. The intellectual and -spiritual constellation of a cen- tury includes but a few stars, in which all that re- ns of its light is focussed. The world is tem- but through its gathering clouds, its roar- d its heaving waves the gleam of mere ¢, of mere learning, or of mere power, is never holly obscured. The generations sail on and on in their restl and endless voyage toward the un- reached Ideal, and the identity of their guides and rs, like the flitting of a bird, for a moment flashes and then vanishes into space. But here and there pure telligence, the Iuminous shape of i truth, condenses into a fixed star, and thus are formed the immovable constellations by which man is raised to the perception of the Infinite. The prophetic soul of Isaiah, the pure reason of Paul, the dramatic universality of Shakespeare, the rapt contemplation of Milton, the calm philosophy of Wordsworth, the divine sensibility of Tennyson, wiil shine through “the encircling gloom” while time and mortality last, and with thesc individualized uplifted and perpetuated lives the fame of Kipling has already been grouped. For him literature, prose and verse alike have been a means and not an end. His in- spiration forced him onward through successive phases until he sounded the prophetic generalizations of his race. In the early part of his carcer, as no cther man has ever done, he saturated his mind with the abstract mysticism of India, and in striking phrase and with powerful illustration poured the clear pre- cipitate into the treasures of knowledge. Later he widened his range and struck the chord of reverential memory until before the God of nations the splendors of imperialism dwindled and its arrogance was hum- bled. The depth and the simplicity of the “Re- cessional” are only matched by the Invocation that on the margin of the Pacific restored earnestness and truth to a national anniversary and filled the channel of pessimism with the spirit of optimism. And when, before these incomparable appeals to the latent sublimities in man had wrought their perfect work, war and victory for the moment submerged our judg- ment and the delirium of imperialism seized our na- tional imagination, the revived prophet of civilization blew his blast of warning to which the heart and the intellect of mankind have responded. Thus his in- dividuality has become fixed in the constellation of the nineteenth century. Before him may lie even greater triumphs, but already he has won that highest greatness which is unsoiled by low ambition or by mai pe tuous, until, mad with many bruises, temper, and very bad temper, expressed in unprintable language, displaced | all pretense and left the Burns fight standing in its natural colors. The majority meantime can only stand where it | planted its feet and formed its line when the session | began against the election of Burns. And to prevent | that it should not relax its vigilance nor forget thc} challenge and password until the gavel falls and the houses adjourn without day. SENATOR 7MOREHOUSES WISDOM. W E note with considerable gratification the fact | that Senator Morehouse of Santa Clara | County has concluded to withdraw his bill for the indiscriminate slaughter of journalists. This | measure, it will be remembered, provided an open season for newspaper men; that is to say, it author- ized any person who felt aggrieved at the publication of an article intended to injure his feelings to kill the | writer. The fact that the article contained criticisms calculated to make him angry justified the deed of the murderer. We do not know what reason Senator Morehouse assigns for the withdrawal of his bill, the official an- | nouncement of his intention not having conveyed to the public the required explanation. But we pre- sume that he has been influenced to some extent by the arguments leveled at his' creation by the press of the State. We remember having pointed out to the honorable gentleman the possibility that his open sea- son for newspaper men might possibly be turned into | an open season for lawyers and politicians, but we cannot say whether this consideration affected his course. The fact remains, however, that if this bill were passed it is extremely possible that a larger num- ber of “irate subscribers” would be killed than news- paper men. One effect of the measure could not fail to be the | prompt and complete arming of the journalistic pro- fession. Every scribbler in the State would become a walking arsenal, since all of them would know that | anybody could kill them for real or fancied grievances | on sight. The result of this wuniversal arming of | | journalists would certainly be indiscriminate i slaughter. Readers of newspapers would have to carry their hands high in the air or be shot down everywhere, for it could not be expected that the | journalist would take any -unnecessary chances. Every man who inadvertently dived into his pocket for his handkerchief would be sure, if a journalist | were in the vicinity, to receive a bullet for his care- lessness. We are glad, therefore, that Senator Morehouse has | withdrawn his bill. Tt was an unnecessary and dan- gerous measure—not dangerous for newspaper men, but dangerous for lawyers, politicians and lobbyists. It belonged to a species of legislation concerning the effect of which there was no problem. Like the crab, it was bound to go backward, and, like the boomerang, it might at the very first have resulted in a large funeral in Santa Clara County and the disap- pearance lror_n the public stage of a very distinguished lawyer and statesman. COLONEL GRAVES’ EXPERIMENT. OLONEL JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES is a Georgian of repute. There was a time when the people of that State thought he would step into the shoes, fill the hat and wear the mantle of the gifted Grady, but they were disappointed. Neverthe- less the Colonel has managed to achieve much. For example, he has acquired such a repute as a lecturer that he has been called to make a tour of States so far away from his native soil as Towa, Nebraska, Minnesota and the Dakotas, and, having made the tour, he has gone back to Georgia and proven him- sordid aims. Sic itur ad astra. self to be an observant traveler and a veracious ducks for the public, and by reason of having their names the wily promoter was able to sell almost any kird of stock at high prices. Further investigation of the subject showed that Hooley was by no means the only adventurous specu- lator who practiced the art of getting prominent men to give the sanction of their names to risky enter- prises by paying them large sums of money. In fact, it ‘appears that for a long series of years British pro- moters have been using dignitaries to boom their schemes in much the same way that actresses and opera singers are used in this country to advertise soap or complexion powders. The deception thus practiced has been carried to a point where it amounts to downright fraud, and as, in the opinion of the Chief Justice, the law at present is not capable of dealing with the evil, new legislation is asked for. The London Chronicle, which, with the British press generally, favors the bill and recognizes the | need of remedial legislation, does not, however, ex- pect it to be wholly successful. It says there are many fcrms of business bribery which can hardly be reached by law, and cites two cases as examples. In one of these a gentleman of high social standing was given a position at good pay in a new company, and was then required to make with his wife a summer holiday visit at the seaside palace of the promoter. In the other case a woman of rank was induced to assist in the promotion of various companies, receiving there- for nothing in the shape of money, but an astonish- ing amount of jewels and other valuable presents at Christmas time. Tt would be difficult to prove bribery or fraudulent intent in these cases. In the first it appeared the pro- moter simply desired social recognition for his wife, and in the other there was nothing more than a Christmas remembrance shown by a merchant to good customer. Many other illustrations might be given of forms of such practices which no law can | reach, and yet which effectually serve to emable in- genious rascals to get into society and from that vantage ground delude the public. Notwithstanding the many forms of the evil which the law cannot reach, the Chronicle holds it will result in considerable benefit, for, as it says: “It will catch a great army of corrupt agents and buyers and of the equally corrupt firms who bribe them. It is, in fact, a bill to punish bribery in business life, and even if it does not destroy that insidious evil it will largely circumscribe its range.” a The inquest on emhbalmed beef proceeds, and the jurors are now in Chicago watching the process of packing. Possibly a packing establishment while in operation for the edification of men empowered to ruin it by a hostile verdict does not run on the plan in vogue when a hurry order is being put up for shipment to Cuba. The real question seems to be less’ as to what the packing houses do now than as to the character of the stuff that poisoned our soldiers in the tropics. On general principles the powers have no more right to divide China than to steal the canary-colored shirt of Li Hung Chang. Nevertheless, if all of the reports of butchery and outrage in that country, per- petrated on, missionaries, be confirmed, the only fear is that the powers may fail to divide the antique bar- barism into pieces small enough. Mr. Chinn of Kentucky recently -advised a man whom he did not like to go and get a gun. The man did so, but when he returned with all due haste Chinn was not there. Nevertheless Chinn's reputation of being a gun-fighter will cling to him, and his pros- pects for living long to enjoy it are good. dvialfers Bt Foreign critics are now kind enough to tell us how our little war should have been fought. They are somewhat handicapped in pointing out any fatal de- fects, since one of the objects sought in fighting is to 1 want to go home. Very respectfully yours, That I did my share.. Now I want to go home. 1 want to go home a battle-scared “Vet.”, To tell of scenes which I'll ne'er forget, How when the battle raged fierce and high I made the blistering Spanish fly; How, armed and eager for the fray, 1 led the charge at Malate, Right in the teeth of the hellish crew And captured the guns and the gunners too. Of scenes of strife I've had enough to last my life. I want to live far from sounds of war, The rifles’ crash and the cannon’s roar, In some small place to spend my days In quiet pursuits and peaceful ways: No more to wander,.no more to roam; Mr. Adjutant General, please send me home. THOMAS P. COSGRAVE, Private, Hospital Corps, U. S. Army. CAAND JURORS STILL PURSUE THE LD BOARD Are School Matters Investigated. ATTEMPT TO HASTEN ACTION | A COMMITTEE REPORTS ON THE BRANCH COUNTY JAILS. Finds Much to Commend in the Office of Sheriff Martin, but Con- siders the Jails in Bad Condition. Chairman Buckingham of the Grand Jury committee on schools precipitated a heated discussion at the weekly meeting of that body yesterday. He objected to the slow progress made in the investiga- tion of the department as managed by the last board. He wanted additional experts employed, with the object of getting at the bottom of the dishonest practices of the men who involved the educational in- stitutions of this city and caused so much suffering among the teachers. The present administration came in for criticism from Mr. Buckingham. He told of visiting an evening school unannounceq and finding two teachgrs in charge of one class of less than twenty pupils. He urged his fellow members on the jury to take steps to press an investigation in an effort to right the wrongs already done and prevent turther abuses. Captain of Police Gillen marshaled a host of witnesses, who testified against Policeman Cassius M. Blackman. The lat- ter was implicated with a saloon-keeper in the Mission named Rood in the robbing of Cornelius Cronin, a miner from Ne- vada. Cronin was inveigled into the sa- loon on the night of December 13 and was robbed of some $160. Blackman disap- gcnrcd soon after and no trace has ever een found of him. It is believed he left here in some ship bound for a foreign port. The effort to have him indicted gy the Grand Jury is to provide against the contingency of his being heard of in other lands. No definite action was taken. Sylvain Levy, chairman of the eommit- tee having charge of the Sheriff’s office and County Jail. presented an elaborate report. e complimented the present Sheriff. Henry Martin, upon the high class character of the men in his employ and on the manner in which his office is con-~ ducted. The condition of the branch jails near Ingleside was examined and the in- stitutions were found sadly in need of re- airs throughout. The plumbing is de- lick the other fellow. i ective, and many inconveniences ari lacking. according to the investizators. 2 MAJOR MODRE RECENES HIS WALKING PAPERS Channing Now Holds the Fort. AGENT POWER ON HIS WAY WAS FORMERLY CONNECTED WITH THE OFFICE HERE. How the Major Economized by Bor- rowing Mr. Gassaway’s Room for His Revels. Special Treasury Agent Moore fis no longer a Federal official. Yesterday morn- ing such of his personal effects as he cared to take with him were removed from his late office, the major not put- ting in an appearance. He had been ad- vised by letter from Washington on the previous evening that he was free of all Federal obligations and no longer on the payroll of the Government. G. E. Channing, special employe in his office, recefved a note from the Secretary | of the Treasury yesterday morning re- questing him to take charge of the office and cu\:lducl its affairs until the arrival from New York of Major Moore’s suc- cessor, J. D. Power, a special agent, for- merly on duty at this port. Mr. Channjng Is cne of the major’'s closest friends and stoed by him through all his trouble, but the evidence against the major was too strong to pass unheeded and an army of friends could not have saved him. Major Moore is a peculiar character. | Not even his most bitter enemies have ever intimated that he was not honest {and industrious in the discharge of the duties of his office. He had only two faults, and those were as wide as a | church door and as deep as a well. By | his persistent interference in small thisgs in and about the Custom-house he arew upon himself the deadly enmity of almost all the otficials who were subject to his | surveillance. That was the one fault | that made him unpopular. The other was his indiscriminate.love for indiscriminate women. It was impossible for a iady | typewriter with any pretensions to good looks to remain in his office, owing to his improper conduct. Outside of the office | he was often seen after dark with young | women of free and easy manners ?nlclqg to_some resort of checap beer and tamales. |, Sometimes the major entertained the | ladies of his choice in his own apartment, but when he dwelt with church people and_wore a sanctimonious expression he used to borrow the room of his special employe, Will Gassaway, for an evening occasionally to entertain his lady friends. sair,’ and engaged apartments at California. The party comprises W. B. Kniskern, general passenger agent ©f the Chicago Northwestern Railwa; with headquarters at Chicago; W. V. Chase of Chicago, general superintendent of the gner Palace Car Company, and C. K. Wagner of New York, superintendent of the Eastern division of the fatter com- -, Their visit to this coast has no o i They_ are here for especial significance. pleasure, and will go to Monterey to- orrow, after which they leave for Port- land. —————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, March 8.—C. A. 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