The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 11, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESD_AY,- APRIL 11, 1899. ............. A PRI‘L 11, 1899 Tl'!-‘_SD;\Y JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. B Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. OFFICE ..M Third Sts., S. F. PUBLICATION OFFICE ......Market and Telephone Main 1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS. ..217 to 281 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 DELIVERED BEY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, 5 cents. Terms by Mall, Including Postage: PAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year.. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 6 months. . 8.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 3 months. 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month BUNDAY CALL One Year. WEEKLY CALL, One Year. All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample copies will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE.... ....908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. Room 188, World Bullding DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE ....Weliington Hotel C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE ... 5 .....Marquectte Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—587 Montgomery streat, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 930 o'clock. 62! McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. €I5 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. P41 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2891 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street. open untll 930 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ane Kentucky streets. open untll 9 o'clock. e e AMUSEMENTS. tile every afternoen s streots, Specialties, itais, Wednesday afternoon, April 17. ~Tuesday, 1, at street April By C. ¥, April 12, at 2 and § p. m., &1 3 Geary panese goods. By A W , Apr % a m and 3:30 p. Higs AN APPLE-GROWERS' COMBINATION’ Al We: only place in America v B treet is not the ati whole mass ¢ element wut th ised throug! and th rming or trying to form orga ations line of in- of their progr value pey e no exception | ad local co-operative and now they are of organizations an | hese exceed the limit they had their origin and in- f the Union, so i when onal :o-n;§cralx\'e every field and every sage the co hese associations is that of | is now being built up in | 1de all the growers | so- | ois v Apple-grow- { undertaking, 1s vast and the | cient to form | he association are to make known | 1¢ best methods of selec , plant- | g trees and disposing of the crop. | authorities on the subject| by expert of terests in this country can apples to | ant to warrant 1 the directions indicated by the new assoc ruit as a food rather otable features of the | The rate of that | d if the marketing of the re effectively and more There are some parts of the | ed with fruit during the sea- zed towns and vil- zed life have Co-operation ducers to open and thus © combination will enable the pro- hese comparatively clesed markets er a benefit while obtaining ene for themselves. At any rate these combinations are not of a spe ve character like most that have beea iormed in Wall street. . They represent a wholesome progress in the comm d tend to the general welfare. There are m concerning the sigr but the experts a vote given Altgeld of many minds in the East ficance of the Chicago election, ec on one point: that the slight The spirit | | : : 2 | was the author of our exemption laws, releasing from | and consolidation of in- | | land. THE FIELD HE death of Judge Field leaves but one sur- Tvivor of that remarkable family. They were all born in the quiet old town of Haddam, in Con- necticut. It is not a town at all in the Western mean- ing, but a township. Within its limits is a church, and now there is a railway station, and the modern postal and other necessities have required a subdi- vision into several Haddams, designated by the points of the compass. But the parents of this family lived in Haddam as it was when it reached that eminence which formerly immortalized a place, and had a long meter tune named for it in “the book of hymns pre- pared for the public worship of God in song.” Had- dam has stood to this day in much of its primitive garb and virtue as it was when the elder Field tilled his small bit of stony land week days and preached in the quaint old church on Sundays. While the boys were young he moved over into the Berkshire Hills in Western Massachusetts and there reared his family. His income never exceeded $600 a year, and yet that sturdy. scli-denying father gave his four sons a college i education and sent them into the world physically and | mentally well armed for their careers. He had the | reward of his abstemious and toilsome life in living to know that he had reared four of the greatest Ameri- | cans that were ever rocked in one cradle. He lived to see his boy Cyrus prove his faith that ocean cables could connect every part of the planet by telegraph and to see his boy Stephen take his seat on the great- est judicial bench in the world, and his boys David and Henry foremost in their professions. OIld “Had- dam” is sung by the worshiping congregations, but the story of how Cyrus laid the cable is ticked back and forth between the Antipodes every minute in the year, | While it is true that at one time Cyrus W. Field | ranked as a capitalist and a millionaire, it is also true that these four remarkable brothers had all achieved eminence and reached first place by dint of quality and character before any of them had acquired even a modest fortune. Looking back to that New England fireside, the mind is impressed and depressed by the changes that fill in the space between the childhood of this family | and the close of their careers. The income of six | hundred dollars on which they were reared and edu- cated does not now seem to suffice for the support of | a single man, much less for the training of four boys in college. In their case there was more in it than the college | training. - Judge Field's career full of acts refer- | able to his memory of his early life. In California he | execution for debt all the means of obtaining a living. | He arrived here in the fall of '49 and soon obscr\'cd‘ the judicial confusion when the early courts attempted | to adjust the rival claims of miners. Going back to the ‘ principles of equity and the memory of that strait way of his fathers, wherein all food and shelter had { depended upon the judicable right to the little they had, he framed and passed in the Legislature of 1851 this statute: “In actions respecting mining claims proof shall be admitted of the customs, usages or | | regulations established and in force at the bar, or diggings embracing such claims; and such cusmms,1 usages or regulations when not in conflict with the constitution and laws of this State shall govern the decision of the action.” This was the first time in our history that a class of laborers were empowered by statute to make their own laws respecting praperty and to have them en- | forced by the courts. The principle was adopted by the Federal Government and became the law of the | Judge Field drew the statutes organizing the judi- | cial system of California, and as legislator and Judge infused into our Jaws and the decisions interpreting | nd applying them the spirit which has made them panoply oi the rights of person and property. Eveh in the legal profession there will long be con- | troversy over many of his decisions and over his opin- icns when in the minority of the bench, but the high tendency of his work as a Judge was to entrench in- idual right and liberty. In the Milligan case he decided against the right to try a civilian and condemn him before a court-martial, and extended to every citi- zen the constitutional guarantee of a trial by jury. This and the othercases growing out of the Civil War required the highest judicial courage in making the decisions, which were counter to the infuriated public opinion and the potent passions generated in that | struggle. L | i | { | { an evidence that free-silver Democracy has collapsed in Chicago and Altgeld has ’ ceased to be a leader of anything bigger than a ward | faction. in Wall street on Friday were | ighted men, nor is the result 1 j In fact, there has been an in- ated speculation there for a long time and the sooner the safety valve opens and lets out some of the steam | the better. { The flurry and unexpected by far In saying that if he had been about to engage in the newspaper business he would not have signed the anti-cartoon and signature bills Governor Gage has | applied his “cau | pretty good effect. ic verbiage” to his own record with | There is a wide difference between the position of | Kaiser William on his throne and Dreyfus in his island prison; and yet in one respect they are alike: Both have a desire to see Paris next year and both are likely to be disappointed. The London fad ¢f sending messenger boys from that city to deliver messages in the United States is the latest illustration of the proverb that a fool and his money are soon parted, and is about as good as any on record. LSRR The beef packers of Chicago have probably con- cluded that the attempt to embalm the article was the costliest experiment in the way of meat-preserving ever made in the history of the world. Since we have captured Santa Cruz in the Philip- pines, the California boys know exactly where they oould go into camp for the summer and feel at lmme.JI Hughenden was his rural home in the country, and | few weeks fell dead in the Supreme Court room be- : am 5o glad to be free. For ten years I have longed | he Milligan case was closely followed by Mis- souri Cummings. The reconstructed constitu- tion of Missouri provided heart-searching test oaths, centaining not less than thirty affirmations as to past conduct, and in denial of sympathy, personal or po- litical, with any ene who took part in the rebellion. In | a border State, where many families had sons in each army and the parental heart could not outlaw and for- get its young, such an oath was a peculiar atrocity. Yet persons who would not take it were forbidden to practice a profession, te nurse the sick, shrive the dying or bury the dead! Mr. Cummings, a Catholic priest, was indicted, cenvicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for serv- ing at the altar of his church without taking this test oath. The case went to the Supreme Court of the United States, where Justice Field's view of it pre- vailed and he wrote the opinion of the ceurt which forever struck down in this republic the system of expurgatery oaths which the spirit of vengeance had written into the fundamental law of Missouri. In the same line followed his opinions in ex parte Garland, in which Augustus H. Garland, afterward Senator and Attorney General, was the party, and who within a fore the bench where Justice Field reinvested him | with civil rights, the McArdle case, and many others in which his judicial opinions extended over the States lately in rebellion and to their people the rights guaranteed by the Federal constitution. It is all history now, and the acters have both passed from the stage, so there is no impropriety in | admitting that General Hancock drew not only his in- | spiration but the form of its expression from Judge | Field in the proclamations he issued when he became military Gevernor of Louisiana and “saluted the con- stitution.” tory of Judge Field as a judicial officer will be en- larged. It is a long record, extending from 1857 to | 1897, and is a rich mine of legal lore in which stu- | dents and Judges will search for principles and their applications, to be rewarded more abundantly than in | the record of any other Judge in this century, either | here or abroad. g Judge Field was a traveler in his childhood, saw Europe in his teens, acquired a good use of French, Italian and modern Greek. He crossed the ocean often in later life and was the guest of lawyers in | England and France. 1 It is said of Disraeli that when an adverse vote in | the House of Commons had overthrown his Ministry | and he was commiserated by a friend, he replied, “I to see the buds come out at Hughenden.” FAE"_ while ruling an empire his heart had been with what Jean Ingelow calls “the green things growing.” So Judge Field in the midst of the great labors of his office and the social exactions of his station longed always to be in the Berkshire Hills. And it was the custom of the four brothers before death broke their ranks to meet there in the midst of the scenes of their childhod and enjoy the memories of the past. GAGE ON THE PRESS LAWS. REPORT from Los Angeles states that Gov- f\ ernor Gage, having been asked whether there is any truth in the rumor that he is to enter upon the publication of a newspaper, replied with an emphatic denial and added: “Do you think I would have signed those anti-cartoon and signature bills if I had had any thoughts of descending to the news- paper level? -Another thing: my administration needs no organ to bolster it up. It will speak for itself.” Truly the administration is speaking for itself and none can mistake the meaning of the speech nor the caliber of the man whose mind it represents. By his own words the Governor makes it known that had he any intention to engage in journalism he would not have signed the cartoon and signature bills. Now the question comes: Why would he have not signed them? Clearly the Governor recognizes that the object of the two acts was the. injury of the press, the purpose of their authors was to inflict harm upon newspaper men; and the Governor is of the opinion that when in operation the two laws will have such effects. So if he were a journalist or had stock and interest in a newspaper he would have vetoed the bills. Why, then, did he sign them? The only meaning of the Governor’s words is that what he would have refused to sanction, had it af- {fected his business, he is willing to inflict upon others. He signed the bills for the purpose of injuring jour- nalists. He is willing to do that injustice, knowing it to be unjust, and to strike that blow at the freedom of the press, knowing the blow to be unfair and foul. The mental caliber of the man was shown by the act of approving the bills and the moral caliber by the confession that he would not have signed them had they affected his interests. Such a confession of petty spite was never before made by an American politician, and it is doubtful if such mean motives ever before prompted a Governor in the performance of Dogberry of old made a special request that he should be written down an ass. Governor Gage makes speaks for itself. POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY. I more complex, but governed by law as plainly as the tides. Just now it is interesting to ob- stitutions, though with less intensity than a few months ago, the superficial tendency is centripetal or even in the fossilized despotisms of the East a cen- trifugal movement or liberalizing inclination, with A few words will serve to clarify these propositions. In the United States the enormous growth of monop- are plainly centripetal. In Asia and in Europe the opposite or centrifugal pressure is more deeply his official duties. no such request of journalism. His administration HE play of opposing forces in civilization is serve that in the United States under democratic in- in the direction of centralization, while in Europe and many indications of permanence, is manifest. olies and the development of imperialistic ambition marked. The Government of Japan has literally burst | loose from the cerements of ages, and that nation has fairly entered the arena of democratic rivalry and ad- vancement. In China the light of modern progress has reached the most stolid conservatism that history reveals, and the rapacity of the clashing powers has awakened the Rip Van Winkle of imperialism from its dreamless sleep. Perhaps the most saturated exponent of paternal despotism of the nineteenth century, certainly of its latter half, is the German Kaiser. His expressed con ceptions of divine right, restricted only by his in- dividual beliei in God and by his individual acknowl- THE INTER Times are so prosperous in thé New England States that the old custom of having pie for breakfast has been re- instated.—Los Angeles Express. CONDITIONS IN OAKLAND. “The women dress richer and more elaborately than ever,” was one of the comments made Sunday when the af- ter church parade was in progress. Yes, and the men dress correspondingly poorer—that is the way things are balanced up.—Oakland Tribune. THE RETORT COURTEOUS. The Los Angeles Times wastes a col- umn of what ought to be valuable space in calling the editor of the Re- publican an ass. one “you're another,” and as that re- ply is quite superfluous we will not | trouble ourselves to make it.—Fresno Republican. VOUCHING FOR INIQUITY. | The blll requiring signatures to all | articles showing up the characters of rascals is now a law, and dishonorable attorneys and publishers who have “set opinions” when called to act cn a jury will now try and breathe easier, as their iniquity must be attested by the | name of the person who would show it } up. But no law can prevent the public from condemning such rascality, sig- nature or no signature.—Vallejo Morn- | ing News. A CHANCE FE)R MR. HERRIN. Mr. Huntington says that if Mr. Her- | rin took any hand in the recent Sena- atorial contest he did so on his own be- half and not on behalf of the Southern | Pacific Company. Will not Mr. Hunt- | ington please tell Mr. Herrin to attend | strictly to the business of the law de- | partment and advise him, furthermore, | that if he then has spare time on his hands he would do well to give atten- tion to Sunday-school work down in the | slums?—Tulare Register. AN EDITORIAL PREFERENCE. An unusual amount of space is be- | ing filled in discussing the ad\'amages“ of the electric chair over the gibbet. The chief argument advanced in sup- port of electrocution is that it is the | more humane and painless, moreover. | In view of the fact that no resurrec- tions have resulted after the success- ful use of either appliance and as the | vietim would certainly offer the most convincing testimony were he permit- ted by the laws of physiology, the | question must remain in doubt, so far as pain is concerned and resolve itself into one of sightliness. In this sense the electric method certainly has the advantage.—Fresno Democrat. FLAPJACKS AND FINANCE. | The statistical paragraphers are now | amusing themselves in estimating the fluctuations of John D. Rockefeller’s | fortune between winks. Standard Oil | | Such a charge ad- | mits of no reply except the traditional | IOR PRESS. goes down two points while Mr. Rocke- feller is being shaved, and he loses four million before he comes to the sham- poo. He cannot, in fact, indulge in any of the ordinary pursuits of a tranquil life without being subjected to an enor- mous increase or a loss of wealth that makes an ordinary plebeian’'s head swim. If he takes a noonday nap of five | minutes he is liable to lose a million or | two, and he cannot butter his pancakes without running the risk of being sev- Rockefeller can possibly know how ter- ribly wearing all this must be.—River- side Press. DREAMING OF GREATNESS. The inception of harbor work at San Pedro will mark the first step in the progress of Los Angeles as a com- mercial city. ate us from the coast will be no impedi- ment. Gray-haired people of to-day will live to see Los Angeles and San Pedro a continuous city. In the boun@- less commerce that will soon develop |on the Pacific Ocean our seaport will have advantages superior to any other on the coast. Imports for the East will be dispatched by our two transcon! nental railways with a saving of sev eral hundred miles of railway haul, a compared with northern seaports.—Lo: | Angéles Herald. Customs Surveyor Spear in a com- munication to Collector Jackson recites that the commerce thé past year has during been so large that an additional force | of twenty inspectors is reguired for his division of the service. This simple statement of fact is pregnant with meaning. For many years San Fran cisco has slept by the Golden Gate, while the commerce of the Pacific, once | But at last | all her own, has drifted by. she is awake. New conditions have been evolved by the passing years, and the wave of prosperity, so often read | ar. and talked about here in California, is |at last in sight. San Francisco is once more on the upgrade, and the condi- tions which so favqrably affect the commercial metropolis of the State will exert a similarly beneficent influence throughout all of Central California. Especially will this be true of the counties contiguous to the bay, chief of which is Santa Clara Count. This theme may have been worn somewhat of late, but it will bear even more at- | tention than ha been given it. It is a live, up-to-date topic. It Interests everybody in this favored section of the State, for it speaks of an end to the long period of stand-still and do noth- ing and the beginning of a period of business activity, material progress and general prosperity. And the sooner we realize the fact that the turn in the tide has actually come, that there is | nothing fictitious about it, and that e is a substantial foundation upon to build our confidence and cal- 11 be t whic culations, the better able we to take advantage of these anged conditions, and the richer will be the harvest which we shall garner—San Jose Mercury. ATTORNEY ACH SPRINGS MORE TECHNICALITIES { | |Poolselling; Test Case? Comes Up. | [ IS COMPLAINT DEFECTIVE?V ATTORNEY ARGUES AT LENGTH | IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. | 1 COLLECTOR WILL MAKE A REFORM Bonded Withdrawals : for Export. CITY'S TRADE IS ENCOURAGED EXPORTING IMPORTED GOODS TO BE FACILITATED. edgment of responsibility, have equaled all precedents | Judge Mogan Reserves His Decision gqlonel Jackson About to Recommend and have surpassed the absolutism of Napoleon Bona- parte. Yet in the midst of his anachronistic reign he is forced to admit the existence of a constitution in Germany and to surrender his will to the Bundesrath and the Reichstag on two such important matters as the increase of his army and the suppression of strikes. The Czar of Russia, however pharisaical in connec- | tion with his brutal ukase against Finland his procla- mation may be, has nevertheless deferred to the grow- ing demands of his people by his initiative in the in- ternational peace conference, and has even suggested that quarreling nations should be governed by the code of the duello and that every cartel should be delivered by a second. The broad fact to which only the pessimists are impervious is that irrepressible education has per- meated the world and raised the standard of intelli- gence among ordinary people to a level that places the head of popular sovereignty among the imperial jewels. Even Czars and Kaisers can no longer pre- tend to unconsciousness of the existence of this uni- versal and only logical authority for government. The deepest political truth of all, which foreign potentates and domestic usurpers, even Mr. C. P. Huntington himself, would do well to learn, is that all Govern- ments exist by the consent of the masses, whether, as in our own country, expressed through the ballot and incorporated into constitutions, laws and administra- tive methods, or, as in Russia, Germany or Austria, implied from passive submissien. As we stand on the confines of the twentieth century and realize what schools and books and tongues, aided by inventive | genius and by the myriad ferms in which steam and | electricity have brought the human race together, have accomplished it is too obvious for discussion that despotisms rock on the disturbed waves of suffer- | ance and endurance, and that the aroused sovereignty | | of man is only restrained by concessions and by its | preference for the slow but regular methods of peace. The American citizen who observes and who com- | prehends the signs of the times will be filled with |, | gratitude as he appreciates how they were anticipated ' ment of | by the founders of this-republic, who opened to Tib- | Dela Elsewhere and more in detail the facts in the his- | €7ty and order the highways of the constitution that | forward, The Judge thercupon | have been safely trbdden for more than a century and : 5".“‘;“‘;" h.hvi::g beena '.’u:&fiiia'i.?l’?hfi; | that lead directly on toward the ineffable light and | beauty of a perfected fraternity. He will walk on those roads and escape the thorny labyrinths of im- perialism and of anarchy on either hand. It will be | well for the false guides who have sought to turn their countrymen from their march toward the heights of | Americanism if they drop their misleading lanterns and again take their places in the advancing proces- sion of man. The thing that grinds the King of Sweden just now is that he cannot deal with Norway as the Czar did with Finland and get himself in good shape to talk benevolently at the coming peace conference. It is permissible to be pleased a little bit by the report that the end of the Dreyfus affair is in sight, but it would be Tisky to bet on it. | and the Police Are Prepar- | | ing for Emergen- ‘ cies. | “ The test case of H. L. Jones, charged ‘with selling pools at the racetrack in vio- | 1ation of the new ordinance, came .up for | hearing before a jury in Judge Mogan's | court yesterday afternoon after M. Hart, | one of the jurors, had kept the court | waiting for over half an hour. He made an apology, but the Judge was inclined | to deal severely with him for contempt | of court till Attorney Ach and Prosecut- | | ing Attorney Joachimsen interceded for him and his apology was accepted~ When the first witness for the prosecu- | tion, F. H. Green, secretary of the Pa- cific Coast Jockey Club, was called to the | stand Attorney Ach said he objected to | the swearing of any witness, as the com- | plaint on fille did not allege any public offense, and was therefore defective. He | | read from the complaint, which slleges | that the defendant “did u 1 | willfully make a bet wherein m s | staked on & race between horses then and | there about to be run, and then and there | after the making as aforesaid of said bet, | actually run in_ the aforesaid city and | | county of Ban Francisco.” | _He also read the preamble of the ardi- | nance, ‘and claimed that the words “‘race- | track inclosure™ or “‘coursing park” made | & limitation to se particular places. The complaint did not allege where the bet was made. or where the race took lace, and therefore was defective. Inci- entally he attacked the validity of the ordinance on the ground that piural nouns were used as make “‘pools,” “bets’ | or “wagers,” instead of make a ‘“‘pool,” “bet” or ‘“‘wager.” His principal argument against the | complaint was that it did not allege when and where the race was run nor who the | defendant made the bet with, which he contended was essential. He quoted nu- merous authorities in support of his con- tentions. He asked that the case be dis- missed on the ground that the complaint was defective. Prosecuting Attorney Joachimsen argued that the language of the ordinance had | £ | plaint, but he was only stepfather to it, and he reluctantly confessed that there was a deal in Ach’'s argument. The Judge thought 8o also, unless som uthorities were guoted ageinst the argu- Ach. e asked Joachimsen if admitted that he had none to bring e Judge thereupon said he the argument till that iime. Captain Wittman, who had listened to the ‘argument, saw Attorney Joseph J. | Dunne, who had assisted Joachimsen in | drawing up the complaints, and Dunne | called upon the Judge. He said he would | stake his reputation on the validity of the | complaint, and was surprised when told | it Joachimsen had not referred the ) Judge to a case in the Supreme Court of ’nmu:hn-em. where it was heid that in a complaint it was not necessary to insert the name of the other person to the bet. e was | furious that Joachimsen had disclaimed | drawing up the complaint and said that idned upon by Joachimsen there would not have been any chance for any quib- bling about it. Chief Lees was not put out by Ach's ar- | gument, and said that if the Ju de- | cided that the complaint was defective | they would draw up another one, and if | Ach contended that his client had been | once in pardy they would take th: | matter before the Superior Court. There | are about tweaiy complainis aitogether | of the same nature. been followed in drawing up the com- | any such authorities, but the at- | if it had not been for the aiterations in- | e | a Much-Needed Reform in the Work of the Custom House. Customs Broker P. W. Bellingall has taken the lead in a very much needed re- form for the benefit of the mercantile | community. He has made a strong ap- a oms Collector Jackson, and it is understood that the appeal is in the line of the Collector's opinion on the sub- ject matter. Mr. Bellingall filed yester- &33‘ with the Collector the T Believing that you are desirous of en- ¢ improvement in the customs ce which may serve to promote, while t all the rights of the Govern- suaded to lay before you to the expediting of ex- Many importations of x tin piate and other arti- cles, either in bulk or in nearly uniform packsges, paying absolute specific rates of duty, are sold for export at 80 close a d ed upon such prompt th t vessel that the ex- delay incident to the hauling m the importing vessel to the warehouse thence to the export vessel pre- Jents @ sale, and I am of the opinion that &) terests would be amply protected with- added work to your office were export drawals afioat from the import vessels allowed upon the completion of the ware- house entry and permit. The inspector will deliver only after weighing and after the examiner has checked the permit confirming the rate of duty as absolutely specific. The letter was flled at so late an hour yesterday that Collector Jackson had no opportunity ton which it deserved, but it is believed that he will adopt a course which will be consistent with the best interests of the merchants of this city and the State. At the present time and for many vears past importers have not been allowed to make withdrawails of merchandise f { bonded warehouses prior to hquidse'_iorr‘ocfl, the warehouse entry until the actual weight or quantity has been ascertained from a prellminary report of the weigher or gauger and noted on the export with- | drawal, so that tiere will be no change | after final liquidation on the ware bond and ledger account of the amefil&uz? duty credited for the merchandise ex- ported. B This s nce to brokers on account of the limite ime on “Tush” Withdrawals, Treqiestic Teventing & compliance with the meth- | ods suggested, and ause * exporters claim that their business is hampered and retarded instead of being fostered and fa- cilitated, some not understanding the i modus operandi required in. the Custom- house, many even chiding their broker ‘fcé‘ngishgggmai:g lna}‘::fli!y to have things {2 y uickly v ‘b\ism%ss transactions.” O ° ordinary 0 the case of merchandise payi ~ w”fi'u esp;:gg rates gg duty it is geiiéggdwm’:t | T can v N§ i ey treated in a very sim- { uppose the warehouse entry consi | of 1000 mats of rice. It is entered uipsg: | an estimated weight of 48 pounds for each. | mat; total, 48,000 pounds at 2 cents; esti- | mated duty, $980. estimated Quty | futs no particular figure except to gov- ‘fimcme Ppenalty named in the warehouse nm; . Which is'double the estimated duty, | 8nd as a basis for requiring a deposit to '(:i\;r duty on withdrawals for consump- | | Pending the receipt of the weigher's re- ate of weight a )-nbdnwfl for expo?i‘ ;m E the present/system, cannot be al- sc;we -_although, if the importer s5 @e- res, a withdrawal for consumption of all or any portion of the mercha:ltfil' may | be made when the estimated duty is Qe | posited upon the basis of the entered (es- | timated) weight. As a matter of fact rice :dnl::ts ri'u.}‘ wbeextgh fortfv-eighx pounds per g ween and forty- seven pounds. e % Suppose, however,that the Importer @e- eral millions better off. No one but Mr. | The few miles that separ- | | growth of San Francisco's | FOR THE STATE following let- | 1y to consider it in the delibera- | ystem has caused much annoy- | o withdraw for export 100 mats be- ?Q’é’ :he receipt of the weigher's report, and that subsequently the weigher's re- port is recelved, reading: One thouga.gd Mmats rice, weight 46,500 pounds. Al'hlt e weigher arrives at the weight by welghing | only a percentage of the rice, which he finds to be 46% pounds per mat, 1(( is | claimed that the matter can be “lt:s ac- | forily disposed of by liquidating the en- | try in the following manner: | 100 mats (exported), 4800 pounds, at 2¢...... $96 900 mats (in warehouse), Total liquidated duty..... e varehouse ledger and the bond it- e dited gwl(h 39 as duty on orted and Xh;]z ha\an?reiinogi 537 can be coliected when the rema ;ortion is withdrawn ffogrc:;n:;rr?pt%%nihcln; i wn A credited if withdra s 2 g teqn‘:;gly as well protected as by the presen - od and ‘t’he commerce otd lhbeyport will be facilitated and increase exporters to ship promptly g00ds 'zhatl :[1}1;: sold for export, and it wil pre\exxx i loss of sales contingent upon the im: diate shipment of ggods. This a:%umem, ad‘{'anced_ by the brok- ers, applies not only to rice, but to ¢ ment, caustic soda, olive oil. tobacco, tin {and a host of other (aéflslcs subject to urely specific rates of duty. 4 P the case of merchandise paying ad | valorem rates of duty. | be_treated in a similar mann | only valid objection that could against such a practice would vent of the appraiser adva tered value by more than 50 per cent, hich case the merchandise would be lias le to confiscation; and if any )jal"! [2 had already been exported the portion ex- ported could not. of course, be confiscat- ed. Instances of where the ap raiser | Taises the declared value more than per cent are extremely rare, and it 18 | Claimed that the Government would be amply protected if exports of merchandise ubject to ad valorem rates of duty were allowed prior to liquidation amounting to 55 per cent of each class of goods nam ) the entry. as the remaining 75 per cent )t the merchandise would be sufficient t0 insure the p: t of any additional or .Iw'ml dutles when the entry is iquidated. 1qUIdated. ce, suppose the entry entered at nds, at 41,850 pounds, 53 | 3 | | manner the Govern: he matter could s ner, and the be urggd a) , accruing consist- For ins a valu- 4 of 100 boxes of sauce. ation of $5 per 3 the Tt ed duty would be $200. he importer has an Op- i 5 boxes of this he export wit! | ing appraisemen impe | portunity to sell twenty e ise for export. T he merchandine o nen be credited on the Cravenouse ledger thus; Twenty boxes, | e %100, at 4 per cent, amounting to se the Appraiser comes to hat the entered value ig | to6 low, and he advances the value to [ por o ®Fhe tariff levies an additional Huty in such cases of 2 per cent for each 1 per cent of the increase in value. In | this ci the entry could be ljquidated as | tollow: 20 boxes (exports ce: {in warehouse), | $40. Now suppo { the conclusion t at 49 . value §1 | " per cent . | Adattional dut; i lled to pay | importer could be compelle 4 | o R onal ‘uty of $240 before any | more of his goods were permitted with- | drawal from warehouse. Again, suppose some parti | merchandise is reported b and assessed for du valorem, the entry at this rate. The im: to the Board of Ge | leging that the er cent, and in is_contention sustal Appraisers, which other liquidat the decision of | | Apprats importer may_have export ot }ihep(’goods and the warehouse ledger and | bond would necessarily have already been | credited with duty at 50 per cent. In ad- justing the matter it would have to be treated in a manner jlar to the exam- ples outlined above. ; While the plan of allowing exports be- ¢ 1o ad le, cular class of he Appraiser at per cent ad ing duly liquidated porter may appeal ral Appraisers, al- should be only 40 due course of time have by the General d necessitate an- Pending on fore liquidation of goods subj valorem rates of duty is entirely feas drawing goods prior to liqui tended to goods paying absol | duties and about which ther | contention whatever that the ibly be subject to ad val ranting by Collector Ja v e desired by the brokers w received with much satisfact | porters in this city, and it | would increase and foster of this port. {AROUND THE { ; CORRIDORS T by ex- is believed he commerce Dr. T. E. Tagart of Bakersfield is reg- istered at the Grand. J. C. Woifskill, a Suisun rancher, | making the Lick his headquarters. Dr. W. D. Rodgers of W: ville regis- | tered at the Occidental yesterday morn- | ing. { C. M. Martin, a storekeeper of Wats | ville, is at the Lick, accompanied by wife. E. Trudo, who owns extensive borax deposits at Big Pine, Inyo County, is here for a few days, and is registered at the Russ. C. W. Hall and wife of Eureka are reg- istered at the Russ. They will shortly proceed to the Klondike to join Humboldt Gates, a nephew of Mr. Hall, and assist him in developing some valuable mining claims. Thomas H. Houpt, inspector of the free rural delivery, arrived from Washington, D. C., vesterday and registered at the California. Mr. houpt has already estab- lished free delivery of malil in several of the interior cities throughout this State and has come to extend the service still turther. is —_—————— | CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, April 10.—H. B. Mon- tague of San Francisco is at the Arling- ton; R. S. Towsen of Los Angeles is at the Raleigh Hotel. | CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, April 10.—Miss Florence | Coleman of San Francisco is at the Hol- land; L E. 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