The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 6, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1899. IBER 6, 1809 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Communications to W. S. PL Bl:lCATlON’ UFi’lC ket and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Main 1S6S. EDITORIAL ROOMS ...21T to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. 15 CENTS PER WEEK. 5 cents. g Postage DELIVERED BY CARRI hecriptions. rded when raquested. OAKLAND OFFICE.. ...908 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Adver ¢, Marquette Building, NEW YORK CORRESPOND €. €. CARLTO! . NEW YORK REPRESENTATIV PERRY LUKENS JR.. ..20 Tribune Building Herald Square CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. Great Northern Hotel; Shermen House: P. O. News Co.; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. YORK NEWS § Y NEW 2 A ‘Waldorf. t. Hotel Murray Hill Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Wellington Hotel d. L. ENGLISH, Correspondent. ERANCH OFFICES-—-527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:3Q o'clock. 300 Hayes street. open unti! 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister street. open until 9:33 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 22C' Market | of impe: { for the anti-imperialist senti i leader and exponent. 3.00 | | conscience | o | nouncing | sisti | the ti T INTEMPERATE UTTERANCE. HE Oakland Tribune praises the patience of the imperialists with their opponents, and declares that those who oppose conquest have put to hose who favor it. > test the endurance hy with any who descend to We have no symp: | personalities in the great controversy, nor with those But wh erance it is ivocates n who use it merely as a me; to get o discussion turns upon intempe not to be forgotten that it began with the The President is himself respons t. He was its fi~sf His declaration that forcible sm. ion would be criminal aggression, opposed to ional code of morals, was the most extreme 150 | expression t has been uttered. It was in plain e s terms the de The Junciation of conquest as a crime. T and who has now of accepted i red ient, ymple of extreme statement by de- not readily c with the Presi ers another s rebel ble anne who accepted the Pre r for io | | | no matter how great may be the opposition of the rank and file when the issue arises next year. Mayor Quincy of Boston has taken the trouble to enter a formal and vigorous protest against the plar and to him Mr. Callahan has replied, in effect, that if the cons tives do not like the plan they can do the other thing. Such a reply irom such a source leads the Boston Herald to declare the silver men to be a set of ompetents who do not understand the rudi- ments of politics. The leaders of a minority party, it argues, ought to try to conciliate voters in order that the party may have a chance to win. A willful irrita- ion of public opinion and a contemptuous disregard | of the wishes of those who are inclined to support | the party are evidences of asinine leadership, and the ien people who are re- | op ssachusetts the aver- led by Herald angrily adds that in citizen would rather vote for a party knaves than one led by fools. Whether that judgment be sound is not for us to say. It is certain, however, that in no State do the voters look favorably upon such political tricks as the David B. Hill tried it once in New proposed. The reason why people | York for the purpose of sending an anti-Cleveland dent’s first expression have not | delegation to the Democratic convention of 1892, and veered to his second is to be sought in the style | he succceded in getting such a delegation, but the chosen by imperi cacy of their novel policy. When G 1 Merritt admitted last January that that policy was in opposi- tion to the constitution, but declared that the country had outgrown the constitution, which was no longer worth discussing, he alarmed the people. That alarm was not lessened when Whitelaw Reid, one of the Commissioners who made the Paris treaty, said that e had come to teach the American people the W absurdity of the Declaration of Independence. The Tribune is wroth because an audience in a | ehurch in Cincinnati, facing Murat Halstead, gave utterance to sympathy for Aguinaldo; but is silent about that other audience in a church in Chicago, which last April heard approvingly their pastor, Hen- street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 1096 A Valencia street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | son, denounce the Declaration of Independence street, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twemty- | .tho mogst damnable lie ever invented by the devil to ccond and Kentucky strects, open untl! 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Caplta: Theater—Vaudeviile noon and every Speclaities. d Philippine Bx- AUCTION SALES. NEW ENGLAND BIMETALLISTS. 1eth; is the scene of and Bimetal- learn 1 Rhode Island, ROVIDENCE, s of the New will f of the New Tillman 1e public 1 Eng- I ige Tarvin of Those ng the p and J rate were the only at any roceedings of the first day, nd ds them speak in its name and welcome visitors to the con- | of passi i cided o ; the temperate and sober mind. Chicago ience w Ity of a position that strikes | at the very vitals of republican liberty. All over the deceive men.” The Cincinnati audience was guilty of the offense \te utterance upon an issue that can be de- The favored by the ks the sentiment coun we | Tribune declared itself in contempt of the constitu- { tion and in | sen September 12, at 12 | o1 the { countless t d appear, therefore, that the Bimetallic League | Henson. good enough New Englanders to | their venom against the constitution and the Declara- of Indepen- arations were abhorrent to every imity to the Declaration Those nt of patriotism and to every aspiration They were in rebuke of the men who died :nt of the republic and of the other is fell in red war that the Union might be perpetuated. The dence of liberty. who men who were = | most moved to action by these sinister and alarming expressions of venom against the principles of ot of the school of Lin- back to the Declaration of Independence as the rock on which the repu is founded. He gloried in its statement he fundamental truths of civil government, and declared that when tyrants and traitors assailed the principle of the equality of men the masses would go back forever to that Declaration as to their title to lic of t 1 the guarantees of the constitution. We have read no apology The imperialists, i of stead repudiating tion, have defiantly adopted it into their creed. ference Having do y turn upon the anti-imperial- Another curious feature of the occasion is that the | ists and impeach their motives because of intemperate first meeting was held on Sunday, a day that New |and passionate expressions by some who believe that England decorum sets apart for churchgoing and | forcible annexation is criminal aggression, opposed meditation upon treasures laid up in heaven. A po- | to our national code of morals. lit emb, may be held in New The anti-imperialist sentiment does not need to take on that ¢ iyiby d the respect of their neighbors. ard atives who have a due re- land, but , to complete the surprises of this extraordin- ue, the convention gathered not in a hall cuss grave questions with dignity ort called Cres- e it could ut in here, as we are duly informed, the voices tors were frequently lost in the biaring of nds and the noise of “money-making at- a certain re the surprising nature of these features of nce, it may be they are but natural and revitable attendants upon such a gathering A clamor for fr in that part of the country. e silver could be hardly better located than where idle revelers go on Sunday to spend the week’s earn- and Judy shows e free silver ing. As the , the confer- a par y-go-rounds, Punch d dime museums. It is at such a pl are most likely to get a hea e will not attend silver conferenc t go to the people, and as the congregations irches would not sanction such oratory the on me itator. re in 2 manner forced to seek the picnic re- | | refuge in epithet. It represents the sober mind ry, which will final 1t decide the issue. the co | resorts to no legend nor motto beyond the words of | than a | whole case is carried. | necessary. phrase put him as the victim of criminal aggression. | In that character his personal merits and demeri s | | the country are deserving of all honor, President McKinley himself, which we have already He stated the case of anti-imperialism better other has stated it. In his statement the Eulogies of Aguinaldo are un- stand where the President’s quoted. Let him Above all things, the soldiers of They have done their best and highest in obedience to their duty and their oath. It is the President himself who has described them as engaged under orders, in criminal aggression, opposed to our national morality. No other has gone further in characterization. All the greater sympathy goes out to the troops that they are are Jost sight of! | sent to a duty so described by the same President { who orders them to it. | corts, where it may be readily supposed they find many persons eager for cheap money and plenty of it. The discour of the day were about as lurid as old I-fire sermons, and no doubt consti- | tuted ons in harmony with the two-headed iy, the African gyascutas and other nd sensations of the picn Mr. Tarvin of Kentucky made s a New Englander by the demonetization of “concentrates akes tramps and criminals of men and sui- Tillman, who rep- section of New England calf, the bearded la freaks is debut decl silver wealth, r cides as tes of women.” e South Caroli in the Sc The war of conquest should be speedily closed, for only when it is over does the experiment begin for which it was undertaken. The nature of that experi- ment is revealed in the commercial expectations of the imperialists. These have had their latest expres- sion in the utterances of Senator Carter, an earnest imperialist, who s retain the Philippines as a matter of business profit. This is a practical age. We are going to deal with this question on the basis of dollars and cents. If the American people believe that the Philippines are going to help us, they will never let the islands go. If, on the other hand, they find that the Philippines mean a constant drain and small returns, you will find the people against permanent retention. Neither re- assured his hearers he would use his | ligion nor sentiment will have much influence in de- pitchfork before the convention closes and use it with | termining the verdict. The great question is, ‘Will it “We look to New England en we sce the cringing seryility ment w sses to that plutocratic oligarchy whi garch) arbitrary and more inconsistent than any mon- arch in E R The speech of the oaccas 1s that of Altgeld. Tt showed traces of a gen ‘ngland spirit. in asmuch it 1finec wholly to a discus- cion of New E and paid but little attention to the a rest of the country. Any Lo reads it will perceive that had Altgeld been a resident of Boston itsell instead of a dweller ir such a remote suburb as Chicago he would have been a Puritan. He declared that with frec silver every mill in New England would be running day and night, there would be abundant markets for all produce, and wage rs would have money to spend as well ) save. Altogether it was o glorions picnic occasion, and the first day of th meeting of the New gland Bimetallic League Sunday picnic park in the neighborhood of Providence will be long remerr bered by all whe were present and alternated between the speeches and the merry-go-rounds. e e e z of Ohio was even more thrilling, | pay?'” We suppose the Tribune will admit that this is the first time in our history that Americans have been is | asked to go beyond seas, in a poison climate, to wage a war for mere dollars and cents and to make a con- quest in order to see whether it will pay when made, and to give it up if it doesn't. The anti-imperialists have no need to use epithets nor devise argnments, for their opponents supply all that they need to use. B T, Even the aroma of a cigar has become an agent of detection in crime. Because the mate of the Ameri ship Cyrus Wakefield has been caught ed cigars he is suspected of having murdered the gaptain, who died at sea. It is an old axiom that every evil has within it some province and element of good. Mark Hanna intends to return to Ohio and seek the defeat of John R. McLean for Governor. smoking high-pri |GETTING A@HEAD OF THE PROCESSION An attachment for contempt has been issued | against United States Navy Surgeon Lung on count of his failure to pay his wife alimony pending yosition of her suit for divorce. This is palpably an effort to make Lung “cough up.” The fighting men of San Domingo have intro- duced a novelty in warfare. After pelting the rebels with bullets the other day the Government forces sur- rendered and entertained their victors EORGE FREDAVILLIAMS, the silver leader G of Massachusetts, and C. T. Callahan, chair- man of the Democratic State Committee, to- gether with certain followers and supporters, have de- vised a scheme which is giving the conservative Dem- ocrats of the State more pain than they can cure with a bottle of Bourbon. In accordance with the scherme the Democratic State Convention called to nominate candidates for State offices in the campaign this fall elects also delegates to the National Convention in 1900. By this plan a solid silver delegation, with Williams at the head, is assured from Massachusetts, r Merritt, Reid and | of | “The Republican party will | sts in the beginning of their advo- | final result was not to his liking. | | | | | | IS A strenuous pro- test was made by other Democrats in the State, a contesting delegation was sent to the National Con- vention, and, as the world knows, Cleveland was | nominated and elected. Mr. Williams can hardly be- lieve himself an abler politician than Mr. Hill or think his machine stronger than that of Tammany, and if he and Mr. Callahan be not as incompetent as the Herald declares them they might with advantage study the experience of the New York men. It is not easy to understand why the silver men should undertake a snap judgment on the voters of the party in Massachusetts unless it be they are veri- table incompetents in authority. The Massachusetts vote in a Democratic convention will not have much weight, for no one expects the State to support the ticket. About all Williams can gain from the trick is an assurance of his election as a delegate, and if he be certain the rank and file of the party are with him 1e is foolish in not leaving the party free to elect him in the regular way. About the only conclusion to be drawn from the performance is that the New England silver leaders are afraid to trust even their own party and are willing to resort to any tactics to obtain a temporary advantage It is announced in all seriousness that the transport Morgan City was sent on a reef under the guidance of an experienced pilot. Less experience and more care might be found valuable in Uncle Sam's transport If the pilot was perfect in experience the ight have been sent to the bottom. An Austrian diplomat is trying to find out if he has been insulted by General Roget. If the French officer had made the query for himself he might hon- estly be told that he couldn’t be. EXCESSIVE AND VICIOUS LEGISLA- TION. ENATOR MANDERSON, in giving a review of the legislation of the past year, in the course of his address at the recent meeting of the American Bar Association, summed up the results of the work of the State Legislatures in this statement: “I doubt if in any twelve months since the foundation | of our State governments has there been so much legislation. Forty-one of the States and Territories have held legislative sessions. In some of the States the session laws for 1899 fill over rooo pages, and the average number of pages is much over 500. The i not sufficient warrant for the quantity, and t be true that ‘the country is governed best which if is governed least,’ then, indeed, most of the States are in a sorry plight. A critical examination of these laws will not only force.the conclusion that we are gov- erned too much, but the character of much of the legislation, with its socialistic tendency, its destruction of individuality, interference with personal liberty, encroachment upon property rights, making of the v a fostering father but a nursing firight every true lover of liberty."” al exaggeration in the State not on mother, will There is of course a rhetori ! statement that the legislation of the year will affright every true lover of liberty. It is well understood by intelligent men that the vicious or harmful legisla- tion upon the statute books of the various States is the result of carelessness or of ignorance rather than of any deliberate attempt to interfere with liberty or to injure property. As soon as a statute is found o be bad, public opinion turns against it, and it is either repealed at the next session or left unenforced. There is nothing to affright patriots in our laws, but there is a great deal that interferes with business, prevents progress, checks development, disturbs in- dustry and engenders discontent. There is, moreover, a good deal of it that tends to incline the thoughtless into the belief that the ills of civilization, the evils resulting from individual deficiencies, can be reme- died by statute. Thus one bad law, even though it be promptly repealed, leads to the enactment of another just about as bad, and we pass from one folly to another with each successive Legislature. It will not be easy to eliminate these offenses of legislation from our governmental system. Where popular government prevails the statute books must necessarily reflect the opinions of the dominant ele- ment in politics. The majority of men elected to our State Legislatures are not fitted for the task of deal- ing with the complex problems of modern statecraft, and yet they have no hesitation in undertaking to do so. Thus we have every year a sort of jungle of statutes through which the courts have to clear a way for business. 2 The only remedy for the evil is that of ridding the popular mind of its errors regarding the scope and the possibilities of legislation. When the voters are no longer subject to the promises of agitators, dema- gogues, visionary reformers and others of that class, when they elect as legislators none but men of a high order of sagacity and a broad knowledge of the limitations as well as the effectiveness of legislation, we shall have fewer laws and better ones. In the meantime we must get along as best we can. Ameri- can common sense makes short work of silly laws, and in all the confusion of the statutes, while there is much to annoy, there is nothing to frighten a true lover of liberty. A young lady in a Massachusetts town thas been struck dumb by eating an apple. Some friend of his fellow men might benefit humanity by importing some of those apples and feeding them to a set of local street orators. s President Schurman of the Philippine Commission hopes there will be an early end to the Filipino war. It is remarkable how some people can divine the thoughts and express the wishes of the American people. It begins to look as if death will reap a rich harvest before Great Britain and the Transvaal realize that they were both wrong and that votes are not always more valuable than lives. ~==THE APPEAL. TO0 THE WerRLD ——= — FORCING AN EXTRA SESSION ON THE PEOPLE The Mexican Candidate and the Governor Have the Law and Public Opinion Against Them, but—. DITOR of The Call—Sir: To those who read the signs of the times, there can be no question that the candidate for United with his usual 3 will, if pos- sible, throu unstinted t { the Governor” 2, endeavor to pur- threaten enougt 1to a promise sufficient to elect him if i of th: whole of the last - will agree to go into caucus. S of the ed by idiculous aspirations does not seem sclese to the mind of the would-be an any reason why there should not be another session which he may use, regardless of cost to the people, as a stepping-stone to lift himself into the saddle as a United States Senator. The hat there cajole will be no regular comes necessary to tute the extraordinary 2 the chief executive of the State and to persuade or cajole him into calling an extra session of the Legislature. This can cnly be done by a flagrant violation of the law and by trampling under foot every principle crystailized in the constitution of the State of Cali- fornia. The entire trend of constitu- tional limitation of past yvears has been in this State, as well as in othe to re- strict the powers of the Legislature and to limit the time when that body, in- stalled in the State capital, might sup- port itself from the public treasury. Recognizing that nothing is so fraught with danger, the constitution provides by the second section of its fourth arti- cle that no pay shall be drawn by a member after sixty days from the date of the commencement of the session. It also provides that no bill shall be in- troduced after a period of fifty days from the date of the commencement of the session, thereby stopping the regu- Jar business and the pay of the mem- bers for the purpose of provoking an eariy adjournment. Owing to the fact that the sessions are_ biennial, that during the long period betwe m there might arise some exigency which would require im- mediate attention at the hands of the State, the constitution, in people of the 1 Jts definition of the powers of the Gov- ernor, gives to that official by section 9 of thé nifth article the power to call by roclamation an extra session. The angua may well be repeated here atim: “He m: casions, ¢ ver! , on extraordinary oc- nvene the Legisla‘ure by proclamation, stating the pur- oses for which he convened nd when so convened it shall have no power to legislate on any subjects other than those speci- fied in the proclamation, but may provide for the expenses of the «jon and other matters inci- al thereto.” janguage would seem plain to the ing, it has been held that - which were not performed in a special ses such, for instance, as confirming an appointment made by the Governor, and, by the Burns people, it is claimed the election of a United States Senator is also not legislative and need not be embraced in the roclamation and could not be the ob- ject of a special session. So, then, the extraordinary occasion must be sought. It must be created. And because a_Superior Judge in an in- terior county has given a construction to a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, this is to be made an extraordinary occasion for the exercise of the power by the Governor under the gection quoted. It must be evident, however, even to the infantile mind, to say nothing about that of the dis- tinguished jurist who now occupies the chair ot the chief executive, a man who is a lawyer by profession and claims to rank as such at the head of his local bar. that a matter which was in exist- ence before the last Legislature convened and which as such existed through the on, cannot be an extraordi- pary occasion under section 9 of article 5 of the constitution. It would be sup- posed, when the question of extra ses- slon iz discussed, that the Norwood case of the United States Supreme Court is a recent discovery, but that is not true. During the entire time that the Legis- ature 1 1n batiot- last of f this State consumc United States & nator, se to reaa i, bee it was decided upon the 12tn day December, 1898, and appeared in pumpn- let form early in January. The bar of the State will await uon for an_extra ion in a_condition of amused expectancy, which, when the noted e 1S read will iange nto a roar of lauguter; for the rwood case does not deciGé anything which the Burns people claim for it. and it is so foreign to the prea undér which the extra session is to be calied that one need not be a lawyer to know how flimsy the pretext and to what desperate straits the politicians who attemp to adopt it must be driven. Norwood ainst Baker is not a street assessment Se, NOT is it & street improvement case within the meaning of the Vrooman act. The law relating o local a for the purpose of improving that is, sewering, paving, sidewalking, grading and regrading, has long been settled, both in this State, in tne At- lantic States and by the Supreme Court of the United States, and no one may question it, not even a political lawyer. Ihy treet law has Leen framed under a section of the consttution which has been In_existence ever since California was a State, copied from the constitu- of the older States, repe: tently construed judicial the Vrooman act i8 as good and streef improvements are as constitu- tional as they have ever been in the State of California, and there is nothing to question the doctrine in_the case of Nor- wood against Baker. Norwood against Baker is not a stieet improvement case; it was an action for eminent domain for the condemnation of land, by which the estate of the defendant was sought to be taken from him and appropriated to the purposes of a public street, and it was attempted to charge him not only with the benefits which it was said his remaining land would receive by tak- ing away from him one piece of his land, but it was also sought to tax him w(;h the very costs of the condemnation sult. When you divest a citizen of his prop- erty by condemnation or under the doc- trine of public use, the constitutional questions at once become very grave and serious, because from the early days of the English-speaking race, from the time that the common law received its recognition in England, the Anglo- Saxon has at all times been jealous of the rights of personal liberty and his right of properiy. It is easy to see that the taking away of a piece of land from a man and causing him to pay a sum of money for having his land taken away from him, should naturally jostle and jar the ldeas of the average Anglo- Saxon about property rights. And so when the Governor of the State, should he decide to call an extra gession, comes to look at the question, he will find, first, that the conditions called ‘‘extra- ordinary” existed before the last ses- sion convened, and that an entire ses- sion of the Legislaturé passed without taking any notice of what is now called an ‘“extraordinary occasion.” He will also find, if he takes the trouble to read the case of Norwood against Baker, that there is nothing in it which in any wise changes or checks the existing street law of the State. If he will stop to think and read the handwriting on the wall, he will conclude that the tem- per of the d’venple will not permit the using of a flimsy pretext like this, un- founded in law and fact, to place the Legislature of the State at the service of an unscrupulous politician. In conclusion 1 would respectfully re- fer the Governor to the last two para- graphs of the decision rendered by the upreme Court In the Norwood case, which are as follows: The judgment of the Circuit Court must be affirmed, upon the ground that the assessment against the plaintiff's abutting property was under a rule which excluded any inquiry as to special benefits, and the necessary op- eration of which was, to the extent of the excess of the cost of opening the street in question over any special benefits accruing to the abutting property there- from, to take private property {:»r public use without compensa- on. It is so ordered. A MEMBER OF THE BAR. San Francisco, Sept. 5. LOS ANGELENOS PLéASED WITH THE RECEPTION Sincerely Thankful for the Courtesies and Hospitality Shown Them ‘While in the City. ANGELES, Sept. 5.—Rditor Call, San Francisco—Dear Sir: On behalf of the organizations whose delegates attended the magnificent reception ten- dered by your city to the Califor- nia_soldfers who returned from the Philippine Islands last week, 1 am di- rected to express to you our sincere thanks for the many courtesies and the hospitality shown us by the Executive Committee and the people of San Fran- cisco. We desire to compliment you upon the thorough arrangements that characterized the entire programme of the entertain- ment, and we assure you that we fully appreciate the patriotic — spirit that prompted the people of San Francisco in so ably and liberally supporting the ef- forts of your committee. We are unani- mous in our expressions regarding the success of the demonstration. Respectfully yours, F. J. ZEEHANDELAAR, Secretary Merchants' and Manufactur- ers’ Assoclation. —_———— PORIOIS T RO POSTAGE ON SUNDAY CALL. SUNDAY CALL wrapped ready for mailing—postage 2¢ to all points in United States, Canada and Mexico, and 4c to all for- eign points. P A e A e CHAPLAINS BANQUETED. LOS The clericus of the Episcopal church entertained as guests of honor at a dinner glven Monday evening in the Occidental Hotel Chaplain Flemming of the Colorado Regiment and Chaplain McAljister of the United States cruiser Philadelphia. The dinner was an excelient one and the even- ing was pleasantly passed in listening to reminiscences of the great happenfng: that have fllled the country with thefr glory during the last eighteen months. Bishop Nichols and Bishop Moreland both were present, as was almost every prominent Episcopal clergyman in the city. The Bishops made a few remarks and ‘then gave way to the peaceful men of war, who entertained the guests with stories of adventure by flood and field. A number of complimentary things were said by the different fintlemon resent ot the appointment of Rev. D. C. Garrett to the pastorate of St. Luke's Church. That gentleman replied to these kindly words of welcome and in a few well- chosen sentences assured those present of the appreciation he felt for the compli- ments they had showered him with. | court had nothing to consider. CHANCE FOR DISBARRED ATTORNEY PHILBROOK OFFENSIVE PETITION STRICKEN FROM THE RECORDS. Horace W. Philbrook, the disbarred at- torney, is waiting for the verdict of the Supreme Court to find *“where he is at.” As published recently, he has made an effort to have the disbarment judgment set aside, <o that he may follow his pro- fession again. This is now in the court under advisement. It will be remembered that in 188 Philbrook was prohibited by the Justices of the higher court from practicing hereafter because of his cone duct in the Levinson case. Last January he made a motion to have the case re- heard, but his petition was in such lan- guage that the Justices refused to con- sider the matter, whereupon he filed his petition formally in court. Then he set about to prepare a brief in support of the position he had assumed. he brief was a rabid attack upon the court and many attorneys of this city. While he presented a copy to all inter- ested parties he has not gled the docu- ment in the court as yet. This was com- piled to be made use of in the event of the court giving him a chance to discuss his case. esterday the motion calendar was heard, but Philbrook’s case was not down on_the records of the day, so the “However, on, to Philbrook made an ex parte moti which attention was given. In his pre. ambie he recited the nature of the judg- ment of disbarment and applied to have the same declared null and vold and set aside. In sulzistqnciz it was very similar 0 the one made in January to the one ry, but In milder Chief Justice Beatty stated thal motion as it was presented was ntutul‘: such form that it could be immediately considered by the court, which, however. would take the matter under advisement. He then directed that the clerk strike from the records of the court the pet! tion made by Philbrook in January. s is the one to which the court found such objection regarding the language. A NATIVE SON—J. R., City., A man born in the State of California is a na- ll'\'e son of the State, but he cannot be a Native Son of the Golden West unless he becomes a member by initiation of the organization of that name. As native of the State he would not be allowed to wear a badge of the Native Sons of the Golden West unless he belonged to tfat order, and if he did, not being a member, he would be liable to punishment for a mis- demeanor. NAVIGATION—Reader, Santa Cruz, Cal. This department has time and again announcedqthat it does not advertise any business or firms and that those who re- quire information the answer to which amounts to an advertisement, if printed, should send a self-addressed and stamped envelope and the answer will be sent by mail. The schools of na tion in San Francisco are private institutions, and for that reason will not be advertised in the department of Answers to Corre- spondents GOLD AND SILVER—H. W. Valley, Cal., and Reade no premium offered f coined after 1834, nor offered for half-dollars coined in 1861 and in 18 he dealers sell $5 pleces of 1850 for $7 30 and those of 1860 for $7. Half. dollars of 1961 and of 1862 sell for 8 cents. FALSE NAMES—H. W City. If a man and woman should mutually agree to procure a lices to marry and each give a false name the sake of secrecy | and both should be sworn while obtaining ch would be guilty of per- ury and lable to prosecution within three vears. It is probable that a court would hold that such a marriage would not be valid for the reason the parties at the time of obtalning were not generally Know the parties named in the license. H., Grass is ' $ gold any prem c e lic OREGON—W. M. M., Sacramento, Cal. The Nootka treaty of 179 between Spain ane Great Britain only gave the latter | somie wraaing ana_fishing rights in ihe | viemity of ruget Sound. The discovery | ana_expiorauon of the Coiumbia River | by Capeain Hopert Gray, an American, who 4hve the name of nis vessel to the | Pver 5%he burcnase of Louisiana and all fhat belouged to it to the Pacinc from the \Beir ciuim being the best the expioration of krench |1}] JNY.&.t_ S next to that of Spain; the Columbia Kiver by Lewis and Clarke by order of the United States in 1804-05, and the treaty of limits between Spain and the United States in 1819, by which all the territory north of 42 uefirees north {atitude was expressly declared to belong to the United States, were held sufficient proofs of the title of the United States to that territory. Still, Great Britain laid claim to a large portion of the region. The United States claimed that the “Ore- gon country” included between 42 degrees and 34 degrees gnd 40 minutes formed a part of the Louisiana cession, but Eng- fand refusea to recognize the claim. In 1818 the United States and England agreed upon a Jjoint occupancy by _treaty, and that was renewed in 1527. "There was a dispute as to the boundary line between the United States and England, which for a time threatened war. It was ami- cably arranged by treaty in 1846, but there was still a question as to where the boun- dary line was to run. the United States claiming that it should run through the Canal de Haro and England through the Rosario Straits. It was left to the Em- peror of Germany to decide. and in 1872 he decided in favor of the United States. AROUND THE CORRIDORS Olney Robbins of Boston is at the Pal- ace. W. Stuart of Pasadena is at the Palace, accompanied by his family. James McCudden, the ~Vallejo tractor, is registered at the Grand. State Senator Thomas Flint Jr., arrived vesterday and is at the Palace. Drury Melone has come down from his home at Oak Knoll and is staying at the Palace. Among the recent arrivals at the Occi- dental 18 C. L. Wilson, a capitalist from Antioch. F. W. Wilmans, a wealthy mining man of Sonora, {s among the late arrivals at the Lick. George Thompson, one of the leading attorneys of Bakersfleld, is registered at the Lick. Lieutenant and Mrs. M. C. Gorgas have come down from Mare Island and are at the Occidental. W. J. Berry. the Bakersfield man who made a fortune in the dike, is registered at the Lick. J. M. Johnson, third vice president of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, is a guest at the Palace. William Tkle, a wealthy manufacturer of New York, is staying at the Grand, where he registered yesterday morning. Dr. Henry C. Watt, one of the best- known medical men in the Hawaiian Isl- ands, is a guest at the Occidental, where he arrived last night. Dr. V. Gisner, a leading physician of Balem, Or., Is registered at the Lick, where he arrived last evening. Dr. Gis- ner is accompanied by his wife. W. J. Dorin, contracting freight agent of the Southern Pacific at Los Angeles, is a guest at the Occidental. He is visiting the city on business connected with his position. J. B. Overton, the Nevada County mill- fonaire and mining man, is at the Russ C. E. Lindsay, the District Attorney of Santa Cruz, is at the Russ, He arrived yesterday morning. —_— ce——— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Sept. 5.—A. C. Paulsmeir of San Francisco ig at the Imperial Charles Sinclair and wife, G. H. Murphy of San Francisco, are at the Bartholdl ——————————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON ‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.—H. H. North of San Francisco is at the Wellington. William H. Small of Los Angeles is at the St. James. e PURGED OF CONTEMPT. Dr. Lung Did “Not Refuse to Pay His Wife Alimony. Dr. George A. Lung, surgeon of the Philadelphia, appeared before Judge Mu- rasky yesterday in obedience to an order citing him to appear and show cause why he should not punished for contempt of court for having failed to pay his wife Elizabeth alimony pending the outcome of divorce proceedings. Dr. Lung said that he had no desire to disobey the or- der of court and was anxious to pay his wife allmony and that for some time money had been on deposit in the navy pay office for her use. The order was then dismissed and Dr. Lung retired. —_————————— Cal.glace fruit 50c per lb at Townsend's.* —————————— con- mining Kion- Best eyeglasses 1) to 40 cents at Sl Fourth st., nr. 5¢c barber and grocery. * L e —— " Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping lureau (Allen’s). 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main losz * —_—e———— Barkeeper in Trouble. Buswell Harrison, a barkeeper, was ar- rested yesterday by Patrolman McGov- ern of the California-street police statfon on a charge of grand larceny, preferred by J. B. Smith, a visitor from the coun- try. Smith alleges that he was drunk and that Harrison got away with $10 of his money that he had left with Harrison for safe keeping. — e « Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup " Has been used for Afty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the phild, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regu- lates the Bowels and is the best remedy for whether arising from teething or For sale by druggists In every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. ‘Winslow's Scothing Syrup, 2ic a bottle. —_— e HOTEL DEL CORONADO-—Take advantage of the round trip tickets. Now only $0 by steamship, including fiteen days' board at ho- tel; longer stay, 230 per day. Apply at = New Montgomery street, San Francisco. 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