The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 31, 1899, Page 6

TH SAN FRANCISCO CALI THURSDAY AUGUNT 81, 809 .AUGUST 31, 1 THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH, HE President in his speech at Pittsburg aban- doned his policy of indirection and uttered him- self plainly upon his intentions as to the Philip- ECKELS, Proprietor. JOHN D. SPR Address All Communicatioi PUBLICATION OFFICE .. ... Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1574 > S W. S. LEAKE, Manager. orket and Third Sts., S. F TS PER WEEK. DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 C Single Coples, B cents. Mail, Including Postage: ng Sunday Call), one year.. unday Call), 6 months, nday Call), 3 months Ter PATLY CALL (inciu DAILY CALL (including DAILY CALL luding §6.00 3.00 Month 6B ne Year. 1.50 Year. 00 sters are authorized to receiv. subscriptions. e coples will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE.. ..908 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Forcign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT : €. C. CARLTON. wireriviesenee. ... 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Slade, Saturday even —September 4 to 16. “air, Sacramento ¢ Fair and Philippine Ex- Mechant AUCTION SALES. at 2:30 o'clock, Persian clock, Horses, ember 1, at 11 o'clock, 2 o'clock, Homestead ember 2, at Tract, AGAIN, COLONEL BRYAN. EL BRYAN is impending, and we take n to extend to him the freedom of the of California. We in- ng family a good time 7N OEON the hospit and his interest ul enjoyment of the matchiess scenery of our s and valleys. We wish he could cast off political cares, but perhaps he bears them lightly, and it may be that his mind rests w He has made several speeches while coming to us, apparent that he is practicing with anti-imperialism as an issue. The New York Jou ng the flag to the Philippines,” is an earnest sup- porter of -Colonel Bryan, and recently in discussing | asing certainty of his nomination, election and the Presidency, said: “The Journal | expansion, but not in imperialism. In the 11 Democrats are anti-imperialists— that the pl uvseful service i believes true sense all are all opposed to arbitra wherever it may go. On that basis all can unite next 3 Mr. Bryan will learn the difference between ex- pansion and imperialism before that time. If there had been no expansion there would have been no Nebrask van to hail from and no Towa to furnish him an audience for his speeches. sion will be a settled fact before the next Democratic convention meets, but imperialism, the exploitation of the ruled for the benefit of the rulers, will still be a at corner | e he attends to theni. | a1, which early began “nail- | y government and | or of making our flag the symbol of freedom | Expan- | pines. His statement is in these W ords “Peace brosebt us the Philippines by treaty ce from Spain. The Senate of the United States ratified the treaty. Every step taken was in obedience to the | requirements of legislation. It became our terri- Itory, and is ours as much as the Louisiana purchase, or Texas, or Alaska.” The country has not forgotten that the treaty was grudgingly ratified, and as far as the Republican vote | of the Senate is concerned would have failed because | of the Philippine cession had not Mr. Bryan come to | the assistance of President McKinley and induced a | sufficient number of his supporters in the Senate to | give it their votes and so secure its ratification. Imme- | diately upon its ratification the Senate passed this | resolution: “That by the ratification of the treaty of ion | peace with Spain it is not intended to incorporate the | | inhabitants of the Philippines into citizenship of the | United States, nor is it intended to permanently an- | nex said islands as an integral part of the territory of | the United States.” The passage of that resolution was a legislative act, definitive of the intentions of the Senate in rati- fication of the treaty. It is the sole existing legisla- tion on the subject of the Philippines, and is a declara- tion that the treaty could not have been ratified had its purpose been to make the Philippines as much an »uisiana, Texas or integral part of our territory as I Alaska [ So far, then, the President is in palpable error as to the cession of the Philippines. In the careful elabor- ations of his speech he turns upon all who accept the Senate's declaration of what was intended by ratifica- tion. During the pinch and crisis of the Civil War Lincoln strangely preserved a non-partisan expres- President McKinley enters actively into par- | tisan contention and takes sides against the Senate. His speech mistakenly places Louisiana, Texas and | Alaska on the same moral and political plane as the | Philippines. Perhaps the future may prove that it | would have been better for his cause had he irankly stated and discussed the difference between the two | cases. We acquired Louisiana by cession from France »n from Spain and Alaska by ¢ sion from Russia. The French population of Loui- not in rebellion against France. They had tion from every place but in seli- sion. | and Florida by ces | siana wa iot expelled French jurisd v Orleans. They had not for a century been | chronic revolt and seeking independence and | government. They had not denied and disputed and | c e | by force of arms resisted French sovereignty. Nor | had the Spanish population of Florida in like manner | | revolted in resistance of Spanish sovereignty: nor had the Russian and native population of Alaska disputed the rule of the Czar. When those treaties of cession were made France, Spain and Ru: :<iun of the property ceded. They had the power to deliver it, and the garrisons of their military marched out and saluted our flag and sovercignty and we did not fire a shot to make the sale and transfer complete. The subjects of France and Spain were privileged by the terms of the cession to become at once citizens of the United States. The treaty ceding Louisiana provided that “The in- | habitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the | rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the | United States.” The treaty of cession of Florida made the same provision. Texas was an independent nation and was admitted ia were in posses- posts pressed their desire, and the stars and stripes without opposition replaced the lone star flag. In these cases there was actual possession of the | territory ceded and the power to deliver it. It is seen at a glance that there is no parallel in the Philippine The President sa; Intil the treaty was case. and harbor. Spain was still in possession of the re- mainder of the archipelago.” This is at wide variance with the facts. Before we captured Manila the native revolutionists against Spain, who defied her authority and disputed her sovereignty, had dispossessed her of every other foot Negros and Cebu. So far from | of Luzon, Panay guished and thousands of her troops were prisoners | in the hands of the victorious Filipinos, who had beaten and dispossessed her. She had no title to cede, no property to sell. directly into the Union, after its people had so ex- | ratified we had no authority beyond Manila city, bay | being in possession her power was effectively extin- We had dispossessed her of Manila and Cavite, and | live issue and upon it the Democratic party can go s A of not another foot. They were our spoil of war. The | | THE WAR REVENUE LAW. | Rl PORTS from Washi g((—m are to the effect that Secretary Gage and other treasury officials are busily engaged in considering what measurcs shall be taken to meet the large increase in expendi- tures for the maintenance of the army. All hopes that the war revenue taxes might be or diminished at the coming session of Congress have been abandoned. The tax law will have to be re- vised, but the revision will be in the direction of aug- menting and not of lessening the burden upon the tax payers. The last Congress appropriated for the maintenance of the army, including all expenses except those for the construction of fortifications, about $¢ thus giving the War Department a fund suf an expenditure of about $6,500,0002 month. During the two months which have nearly passed of thefiscal year, liowever, the army has cost more than $31,000,000. authorized the issuance of rtificates of indebtedness and $400,- It has been held by the law officers of the Government that the insurrection in the Phil- ippines is virtually a continuation of the war with Spain, and, consequently, an issue of bonds would be valid to meet the present emergency. Secretary Gage is reported to have stated, however, he does not think a bond issue will be necessary. Congress, therefore, will be asked to increase the appropriation and the war taxes. The operation of the war revenue law has disclosed a considerable number of defects. In the haste of preparing the act to meet the need of the nation errors of language were committed which defeated the intentions of Congress, and in several cases the decisions of the courts have been such as to diminish the expected amount of the revenue. Hence the necessi ion of the law under any circum- stances, and it appears likely to be one of the first things to which Congress will direct its energies. In reviewing the work of the treasury officials who are preparing the new estimates and considering ways and means of increasing the revenues, the Wash- ington correspondent of the Philadelphia Record repealed The war revenue law $100.000,000 of ¢ 000,000 of bonds. y of a re ust where to impose these taxes is the question now troubling those in charge. The imposition of a stamp tax upon all patent protected articles is sug- gested, the theory being that the value of the article is greatly enhanced by the protection of the patent laws of the United States, and that, as a war measure, purely, the Government would be justified in demand- i ing a fractional part of the profits secured through the establishment of a monopoly by virtue of the patent laws. It Iso proposed to place a stamp tax on all slot machines in which there in any element of | chance. It has been found that the manufacture these machines has attained great proportions. each of them the percentage of profit to the of pro- prictor is enormous, and the tax would not be oppres- | sive. which dispense chewing gum, for in them there is no element of chance, and the gum already pays a tax te the Government. Another proposition that has met with favor at the Treasury Department is one to put a stamp tax on all firearms except such as are used for national, State or municipal purpose This would in all probability be a heavy tax and would yield A similar ta is suggested in connection with fireworks.” It will be seen from these estimates that aiter paying large revenue. only less burdensome, $20,000,000, or about $2 a head, for our Philippine | fellow citizens we will have to pay about $40 more a head to herd them up. The expense is not too much | for so rich a nation, but the people will demand that in the revision of the war revenue act care be taken to avoid any ambiguities of Janguage that will permit tax-shirking on the vast scale now practiced by the telegraph and express companie clause which would compel the shirkers to pay the back taxes would be both just and popular. The issue is an important one. If the people are to be harassed with taxes upon | almost everything they use and upon every commer- cial transaction, it is imperative that fairness and im- partiality be exercised in imposing the burdens. GOEBEL TACTICS IN }(ENTUCKY. O bel has been the disclosure of the methods re- sorted to by the Democratic machine under the Goebel law to carry elections. The revelations show i”‘m under Goebel management political contests in | Kentucky would be as farcical as anything ever de- | vised for the plot of a comic opera. Last year W. E. Thompson, a prominent Democrat of Frankfort, was appointed one of the Election Com- missioners for Franklin County. The chairman of the In | Of course this would not strike those machines | af NE of the first good results of the revolt of the | decent Democrats of Kentucky against Goe- | united to victory.” We wish not to be taken as offensive when we ex- press surprise that one of his supporters should ad- .nit that Mr. Bryan has anything to learn. Their support of him heretofore has been based on the be- lief that he knew it all. But the Journal kindly gives him a year in which to learn that expansion is right, though accompanied by our forcible conquest of the Philippines and by violation of our pledge as to Cuba. So far, the Journal says, all Democrats are agreed. Therefore all Democrats agree with President Mec- Kinley. The Journal thinks it right to expand and to rule the people over whom we expand, but that it will be imperialism and wrong to exploit the ruled for the benefit of the rulers. The lesson seems easy, and our faith in Colonel Bryan's intellectual capacity is so strong that we are willing to bet a reasonable sum that he can master the lesson staked out for him by the Journal and so put himself in line with all Demo- crats. Perhaps he and the Journal will point us to any example in history in which the rulers have failed for their own benefit to exploit the ruled. some have always Tt is the germ, be- ginning and foundation o. the desire of some to sub- ject others to their rule. It is the reason why ex- pansion as defined by the Journal is favored. Every reference to commerce following the flag, to expan‘— sion for trade's sake, to the alluring opportunities for capital, is simply a proposition to exploit our newly acquired subjects. In the tropics there is no profit in ownership or sovereignty without such exploita- tion. Therefore expansion and imperialism are as in- separable as Colonel Bryan and the silver issue. But we beg pards this reference to politics puts a fly in the amber California. He is a Democrat and therefore, accord- ing to the Journal, is an expansionist. whether he is aware of it or not, and we have only ventured to call attention to his tag. e e e e nted to rule. The German naval maneuvers have resulted in something like actual war. The Aegir, steaming ahead without showing lights, ran into the Aberfoyle, and each ship demonstrated its fitness for hostile con- flicts by wrecking the other. As a maneuver the zffair was a complete success, and it is to be hoped the Kaiser will have it repeated for the benefit of other nations. The fact that St. Louis is reaching out after our trade ought not to discourage us. This is a free -country, and we can retaliate by reaching out after hers. That is why | i Colone! Bryan's enjoyment of | rest was the spoil of the Filipinos, whose valor had conquered it. Here, then, is not only a moral but a legal, a poli- tical, difference between the cases which the President represents as exactly alike. A cession is a sale which passes title and is subject to the same principles as those which govern the sale and purchase of land or personal property. No rights are conveyed by a sale or cession unless there is peaceable and not adverse possession and delivery of what is sold. Lacking the power to deliver, there is no power to cede or sell. The Spanish title to everything outside of Manila and Cavite had been extinguished and sovereignty had passed from her to the conquering Filipinos. Therefore we bought from Spain what she did not own and could not deliver. The laws of nations, the laws of war, the principle of title by conquest recog- nized by both, nullify our title to the islands resting on Spain’s conveyance, for she had none to convey. These are facts that cannot be disputed and recog- nized principles that cannot be ignored. We hold Manila and Cavite by the valid title of conquest, but in morals and law we have no title to what Sp quitclaimed without possessing. Let us all be frank. The cession by treaty is in- valid. We are engaged in a war of conquest. Wa are invaders upon a soil to which we have no title, It will be ours by the laws .of war when we conqu=r it, and not before. The President will do himself credit and his party a favor by putting his case on its proper footing and by not descending from the dig- s of his office to rail at his countrymen who claim { the right of free speech in discussing the policy of i conquest. They have been pleased to agree with him when he said, “Forcible annexation is criminal ag- gression and opposed to our national code of morals.” | If he now have determined that the national honor, | commerce or other attribute or interest of the repub- lic requires the conquest and forcible annexation of the Philippines, let him trust his countrymen far enough to admit that his characterization of such policy was a mistake, or was subject to modification by our own interests or necessities. The issue must be tried out on its naked merits, and the President's speech has presented in their stead reasons that are unsound and facts that have no exist- ence. If there be war in South Africa it will be the fault of the British, for it is a sure thing if they keep out of A Oom Paul’s country he will keep out of the’ Democratic County Committee, who was a friend of | | Thompson, wrote to that gentleman advising him not | to accept the appointment, and giving reasons why he should not. The letter has now been made publi:’, and as an exhibit of the tactics of the Goebel Democ- | racy it deserves to be read in full. It runs thus: | “You were indicated by the County Committee as !r,ne of the Election Commissioners for this county. No better man could have been appointed, but it is | an unenviable position and one you should not ac- | cept. Our county is all right, safely Democratic, but | city elections cannot be won by a fair count, and you | know that as well as T do. Incompetent, unreliable | Republican judges will have to be appointed. The | right of the Republicans to indicate who shall repre- | sent them as judges, etc., will have to be ignored and | the Election Commissioners will have to do this or re- | ceive the ill will of the city Democrats. I would not do it, for I could not conscientiously do so, and I | know you would not. Therefore, my advice to you is to refuse to act. I had a talk . | the subject, and he said if you would refuse to act he | would appoint any one that we might name, which | would be ‘Ben’ Marshall. You know ‘Ben’ is so par- | tisan that he thinks that anything is all right so that | it helps the Democrats.” Thompson acted upon the advice given in the letter and declined to serve on the commission. A good | partisan Democrat was put in his place. Little or no | | complaint was made of the elections that year, for the | issues and the offices at stake were small and com- | paratively little popular interest was taken in the con- test. This year, however, a Governor is to be chosen | and large issues are involved. By the aid of his ma- chine and his peculiar methods of doing politics Goe- “bel won, or stole, or extorted, the Democratic nomina- | tion for Governor, and now the Democrats of the i Thompson class have revolted. They were willing to | keep silence last vear, when Goebel laid his plans for | counting Republicans out, but now that he has under- ‘tnkcn to cqunt out Democrats as well their natural and virtuous indignation breaks the bonds of silence | and the world is invited to see what villainy is done in the name of Democracy. Kentucky is to be congratulated upon having Democrats who will not serve the uses of such a po- litical machine, nor submit to its domination. The protest they have made can hardly fail to be effective, and Goebel's men will have to count hard and count fast if they succeed in counting him into office in spite of the array of stanch Republicans and honest Democrats who are opposing him. » th Judge Pryor on i odd drawings which were submitted. Americas. American sisterhood. The beautiful emblem adopted by the publicity committee of the Pan-American Exposition, which will be held at Buffalo during the summer months of the year 1901, was the work of Raphael Beck, a Lockport artist, whose design was by all conceded to be the most beautiful and comprehensive of the four hundred and The design tells the hopes and aspirations of the management of the coming fair as no words can, for the high and noble underlying purpose of the Pan- American Exposition is to show to the world the progr by the peoples of the western world during the fleeting century and also to bring about closer trade and social relations between all the peoples that has been made of all the Nothing could more beautifully express the idea of a binding together of the people of the North, Central and Southern divisions of the Western Hemisphere | than Mr. Beck's picture, which shows the sweet-faced nvmph of North America smiling a welcome as she looks down and extends & Snowy arm across the isthmus of Yucatan in greeting to her sweet-faced sister of the south, who, by the way, seems fully as eager to clasp the extended hand and do her share in the effort to bind together the north and south in the holy bonds of an all- 0006066066060 06060006000 : COMMUNICATIONS : PRCRCRRORORCRCRCER R R R R A g AN EXPANSIONIST. | On leaving church last Sunday the fol- ! lowing letter was placed in my hands: SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19, 18%9. Mr. Dexter: Is It not about time for reb- els and traftors, or what might be more prop- | erly called ‘*‘copperheads,” to stop talking against the policy of the McKinley Govern- ment as concerns the Philippines? Let me tell you, sir, that men like yourself will not e allowed to utter such sentiments as have emanated from your pen in The Call and other publications. Newspapers publishing | such articles should be suppressed, and those uttering such views should be made to suf- fer the torments of a Dreyfus. Yours, PAUL S. DE KOVEN Frequently 1 receive unsigned letter: consigned to the waste e it is different. In a | sense the epistle is amusing. It sho the | | tone. temper and intense feeling possessed s some imperialists—I cannot beleve all. | Certain it i, no true, genuine son of | America would be guilty of uttering such sentiments. It Is very strange that some men do not feel like allowing a different opinion to be expressed from their own. | Is it not also true that the tendency of | imperialism is to shut everybody’s mouth, suppress every letter, paper, pamphlet, ete., unless favorable to the imperialistic faea of expansion and power? I belleve | 20 much must be conceded. Allowing the | point to be well taken, is it not a fact that | as a nation we are t nearing an abso- lute despotism, leaving behind the tradi-| tions of a once happy republic? Such be- ing the case, may we not with propriety | turn back to history and read the fate of | ancient Rome? Mr. de Koven is presumed to be a rep- resentative )m[wrl:\h.flt. If so, let me say to him, and to all men of like thought, that the spirit of Samuel Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and the liberty-loving hosts of American inde- pendence is not dead nor asleep, but quite alive to the exigencies of the present day. There are men all over this broad land. from the Atlantic to the Pacific, who will hd for right and righteousness at all and who cannot be intimidated by or the semblance of imperial pow- er. We are not living in the time of Moses, Caes or Napoleon, but in the light of a better and brighter da when wars ghould cease among civilized peo- ples. Sermons drawn from the tribal | wanderings of the children of Israel, “‘for- ty vears in the wildern " can hardly be made harmonious with this era of American expansion as relates to the ands. It is strange how some expansion clergymen can see in Old Testa- ment history any relation of times, sea- sons or conditions from which to take a text and try to prove therefrom that “it is God's will” that America should subju- ate and if possible annex the Philippine When a statement is made “that that America should possess that country,” I must y it Sounds to me like an insult to Almighty God. To drench a land in blood without one really good or reasonable cause can- not be the will of our gracious all-loving Father. A people desiring freedom, lib- erty and a government of their own are told by the Government of the once boast- ed liberty-loving America, you cannot have that right. Shall we have charity for those who preach and belieye In sucl a doctrine? Certainly, charity toward all men, and especially fo those of the house- | hold of faith. But, my friends, do not try to prove your position from texts taken from *‘the wilderness,” but select from the teachings of J s, and see how far you are able to prove your position from what the Master says. Shall we be kind to our brother who differs with us? By all means, but very plain, that the error may be not in the Jeast covered; kind, so that Christ may point the way, and hot Caesar. D. GILBERT DEXTER. San Francisco, Aug. —————————— A WELL-EARNED VACATION. Fire Marshal Towe Granted a Six- | Weeks’ Leave of Absence With Salary to Visit the East. Sinca Fire Marshai Towe commenced his dutles some thirteen years ago he has re- fused to take a vacation, as he was too snuch engrossed in the difficult work which he had to undertake. That his en- ergy, faithful discharge of his duties and ability have been fully recognized and ap- preciated by the Board of Fire Under- writers is evidenced from a letter he re- celved a few months ago, signed by Wil- jiam J. Dutton, chairman of the Fire and Water Committee of the board, as fol- lows: It gives me pleasure to advise you that at_a meeting of the Fire a Water Committee of the Board of Un. derwriters, held this day, it was unani- | which are alway: basket. In this time threat Philippine ! country. | God foreordained % B mously decided to grant you a six weeks' furlough, on salary, for the purpose of visiting the East, a trip which the committee understands you have thus far not_found time to take since you assumed the duties of Fire Marshal some thirteen years ago. The committec prefers that you would make your own selection of the time of vour trip, as you are best able to judge when you could most conveni- ently be absent from your duties and when the trip would be of the greatest benefit to you in the way of securing information. ‘When you advise the committee of the proposed date it will take pleas- ure :n making due recommendations tg the I)ro er board for the providing of the funds for your expenses, which the committee is unanimously of the opinfon should be borne by the under- writers. ‘The Fire Marshal, accompanied by his wife, will leave on his much-earned vaca- tion for the East by this evening's train, and expects to return with much valu- dable information acauired during his trip. sesses. I a private act of the $tate Legislature. In LATEST STORIES of the FUNNY MAN. Who Has the Button? There is a good story told of a magi- cian who has passed the great divide. He was a world-traveled player, and his wanderings set him upon one occasion in faraway New Zealand. It was ar- ranged that he should give an exhibi- tion of mind-reading before the King of the Maoris. After some parleying it was decided t)};ut the king himself should conceal t e article which the magician was to | discover. The mind reader left the room and after a time was brought back blindfolded, as is the custom in such performances. After some time the ma- gician declared that the hidden article Wwas in the king’s mouth. His Majesty shook his head savagely In the negative. The magician insisted upon his point and demanded that the king's mouth be opened wide. The king refused. The magician insisted, and the excitement became very great, until at last the dusky king reluctantly Jjaws. The article was not there! The next instant, however, the king was taken with a violent fit of cough- ing. He had tried to swallow the lost article, a button, but could not, and was compelled to cough it up. The Maoris were uproarfous with mirth. They did not know which to admire the more— the wisdom of the magician or the heroism of the king.—London Tit-Bits. . - Overheard at Mme. Sarah Bernhardt's recent Shakespearean performance: First Fair Spectator—Why is Hamlet so angry with his mother? _ Second Fair Spectator—Oh, because—it's in the play, you know. You've read Ham- let, haven't you? First Fair Spectator—Oh, yes, of course; but it was long ago. and my French was never very good.—Punch. “Is there, after all, such a thing as an inexorable law of heredity?” mused the Lay Figure. The Unconscious Tmbeclle felt sure that there was. “For who,” he urged, “having an ancesfor drawn and quartéred for stealing sheep could help but feel more or less cut up?” The others were by no means convinced, for mere subtlety is not argument.—De- troft Journal. “Are you afraid to o downstai look for that burglar?® M asked Mr. Meek- ton’'s wi (‘Al “Certainly not. I am perfectly willin to go and look for him. sut, Henrlcmfi you have been making a mistake with me all these vears. You ought to have de- veloped my conversational powers more. After I find the burglar I won't know what to say to him. You'll have to stand at the head of the stairs and do the talk- ing.”"—Washington Star. ————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A CROWN OF OAK LEAVES—S., Oak- land, Cal. In ancient times the Romans gave a crown of oak leaves to him who saved the life of a citizen. EFFIGY—J. F., City. This department has not been able to find any record of “people in Dublin having Dburned Em- pesor William of Germany for baving up- eld President Kruger in the Transvaal.”” City. THEIR FORMER NAMES-J. W. E., The United States vessel Grant was formerly the Mohawk, the Hancock was formerly the Miselesippl and the Warren formerly the Arizona, the Sheridan was was formerly the Scandia. THE MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE-J. H. 8., City. There is always some one on duty at the Merchants’ Exchange in San Francisco and at the lookout sta- tion at Point Lobos. As soon as a vessel, incoming, is sighted the fact is reported. A MISDEMBEANOR—S. M., City. A man who sneaks out of a lodging-house in the night-time with all his belongings, with intent to defraud the owner of the place, i€ Jiable to punishment for a misdemeanor, which is a fine not to exceed $500 or im- risonment not to exceed six months, or oth. WOMAN'S EXCHANGE-M. I, City. The following named are the officers of the Woman's Exchange of San Franelsco: Mrs Edwin S. Breyfogle, president; Mrs. Henry Schmiedell, Mrs. Louis Sloss, Mrs. John Currey and Mrs. Henry Wetherbee, vice presidents; Miss B. Grace Unger, treasurer: ) Sophie Lilienthal, record- ing secretary; Mrs. R, E. Bunker, corre spon(“nfi secretary; Mesdames E. S. Bre; fogle, Henry Schmledell, John Curre; Louis Sloss, Henry Wetherbee, W. P, Morgan, Sands W. Forman, Alberi T. Spotts, H. L. Dodge and S. Lillenthal and Miss B. Grace Unger, directors; Messrs. W. E. Brown, Dr. Edwin 8. Breyfogle, John Currey, H. L. Dodge, B W, Rhcibin: stry, Henry' Heyman, H. E. Highton Henry Crocker, Irving Scott, J. F. Hough- ton, Charles Holbrook, W. P. 'Morgan, Sloss, Lewlis Gerstle., Sampson Tams, . _McCreary. William B. Hooper and F. E. Beck, advisory board. ALIENS—T. J. J., City. *T. W. Dwight, a well-known law writer, on the subject of allens in the United States says: The principal disability affectin the United Statea concerns”the Aéquisition of title to real estate. There are two general sition by purchese and by de- N INay acquire title urcl {moluaing conveyance and devise) in"the sence of statutes to the contrary, and can hol it subject to a proceeding by the S ““office found.” This Is in su by an officer to examine into the f age, and 1f that be found, the land Is adjudged to belong to the State. 'An alien can convey no.better title to a citizen than he himself poe- The defect in the title can be cured by the Louls opened his | 'cn-e of descent no title passes to the alien and no Inquest of office is necessary. A citizen brother can inherit from a brother, though thelr father be an alien, owing to the common law rule that inheritance never ascends and it is accordingly not nece to trace through the alien father. This disability is wholly re- oved in some States and modified in others. TWhen the MaatANsYs iy aoe demorpd Jegislation is almost universal .in favor of resident alléns, if they intend to become citizens, to acquire Jand for a limited period and to dispose of it and transmit it to heirs. In California the Constitution provides that “foreigners of the white race or of African descent, eligible to become citi- zens of the United States under the nat- uralization laws thereof, while bona fide residents of this State shall have the same rights in respect to the acquisition, possession, enjoyment, transmission and inheritance of all property, other than real estate, as native born citizens, pro- vided that such aliens owning real estate at the time of the adoption of this consti- tutional amendment may remain such owners: and provided further, that the Legislature may. by statute, provide for the disposition of real estate acquired by stuch aliens by descent or devise. (Amend- ment adopted November 6, 1584.)" AROUND THE CORRIDORS State Senator J. C. Sims is staying at the Lick. Dr. R. F. Rooney of Auburn is a guest at the Palace. P. H. Griffin, an attorney of Modesto, is at the Lick. E. J. Larson, a journalist of Lodi, is a guest at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Stevenson are at the California from Seattle, S. Young, a wealthy cattle man of Lovelocks, Nev., Is a guest at the Russ. Attorney Bert Schlesiriger will leave for Washington to-day on legal business. J. H. McKenzie, 2 mining man of Mari- posa, is one of the late arrivals at the Lick. | M. B. Beuford of | transport Grant is Palace. E. O. Miller, the Visalia banker, is reg- istered at the Palace for a short stay in San Francisco. J. W. Greely Jr., a wealthy mill man of Marysville, is among the recent ar- rivals at the Grand. Dr. Clara E. Cook, one of Cincinnati's best-known female physicians, is a late | arrival at the Lick. C. P. Shaver, a well-known Iumberman and prominent politician of Fresno, is staying at the Grand. Sheriff A. C. Busch of Downfeville is registered at the Russ. He comes on a short visit of pleasure. Edgar T. Wallace, one of the best- known and most influential of Yreka's citizens, is a guest at the Palace. Mrs. Vanderbilt of New York is stay- ing at the Palace, where she arrived yes- terday from the southern part of the State. Ira G. Hoitt, ex-Superintendent cf Schools, 1s a guest at the Occidental, where he registered yesterday from his home in Menlo. J. R. Miller, a big stage line owner of | Ukiah, is a guest at the Grand, where he arrived vesterday on a short business trip to the city. G. C. Hyatt, a prominent and wealthy foundryman of Stockton, is at the Grand, where he will remain during the short v he purposes making in this city. | Mrs. Alexander Baring, wife of one of | the world-famous Baring Brothers, is | registered at the Palace from London. She is here on a pleasure trip that em- braces the greater part of the United States. General Ovenshine, Major L. A. Ma- tile and Surgeon J. A. Cabell, who are among the officers who vesterday re- turned from Manila on the transport Grant, are registered at the Occidental. to sa the TUnited States registered at the }oo——-——OO Should vou glance around the WAS WITH PICK- Palace Hotel ; these days vou ETT AT will notice a little white-haired gen- tleman sitting in | o o one of the chairs | that run around the walls of the office and taking in everything that is going on about him. The characteristic which will impress the stranger's individuality most strongly upon vou will be the gentleness that the small gentleman seems to exhale, the kind- liness and general good will toward men that beam from his eves and seems to be written in every lineament of his fea- tures. It is only the very close observer that will notice that the lips that meet between the gray mustache and white goatee meet with a firmness that belie the general impression that is at first created. The gentleman is Colonel J. W. Jones, who went to Manila in command of the Idaho Regiment and who was invalided home because his advanced age would not allow of his remaining in the sickly tropical climate. He Is now here to meet his old command and bid it a welcome home. Though the colonel wore the army blue for the first time when he went out to | the Orient with his regiment, it was not his initial experience as a soldier. He had been there before, but the other time his | uniform was the gray butternut, and he wore it from Sumter to Appomattox. When the South called her chivalry to the field he was there as a private in the ranks, When Lee's army surrendered Colonel Jones laid down a sword that commanded a brigade; and in all the i termediate ranks there was not a pro- motion that was given him that was n bestowed for courage and received eith: on the field or in the hospital. The S of five wounds attest to the justice of his advancement. The colonel is inclined to view the Span- igsh and Filipino wars a little cynically. “Sho,” he says, “‘the’re not so flerce as | they air painted.” As the colonel's experience includes Gettysburg, where he led Pickett's ad- vance, going into the fight with 1246 men under his command, of which number only 328 returned, his opinion of what constitutes a battle should certainly carry some weight. When the famous Con- federate charge was rolled back the colo- nel did not go with it. He was left on the field, the nearest living man to the Union lines, with a bullet through his body. He Jay there helpless until night came and his men had a chance to steal forth under cover of the darkness and bring him in. —_—e———— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Aug. 30.—Thomas R, Bond of Los Angeles is at the Manhat- | tan. Charles G. Drown Jr. of Rawlins | and Henry Dwight and wife of San Fran- cisco are at the Astor. —————————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—E. P. Bebky of San Francisco is at the Raleigh. John C. Aldrich of San Francisco is at the St. James. ——————————— Why He Is Jubilant. Chicago Commercial Union. C. George Krogness, Chicago represent- ative of the San Francisco Call, is jubi- lant over the fact that The Call was the | first ssyfler in the United States that pub- H‘ahe the report of the Samoan Commis- ston. GETTYSBURG. —_— e Cal.glace fruit 50c per b at Townsend' iy, Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by th Press Clipping BurenuDLA.llfln's). 510 ‘I[on(g gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, . 3 Supreme Court to Close. On account of Monday being a legal holldn{l. the regular motion day of the a court has been postponed until Tuesday, the day following. i ’ Angostura Bitters Is known as the great reg- ulator of the digestive organs. Get the genu- ine. Made by Dr. J. G. B. Slezert & Sona