The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 21, 1899, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1899, CALIFORNIA’S NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES INSIST THAT TELEGRAPH AND EXPRESS COMPANIES PAY THEIR TAXES rs of national legislation which will be submitted to the consideration of Congress at its next session is a revision of the war tariff, which, -through certain inequalities and injustices, has been made Ca il ol e e ] DEFIANT CORPORATION i NE of the most important matte a question of immediate necessity. The war tariff, as it is now fixed, has worked a serious injustice upon most of the people of the country. to escape their just share of taxation. In order to remedy this evil and to establish a more equitable distribution of tax burdens, Congress intends at its next session to their just taxes in proportion to the value of their holdings and ‘the volume of their business. ifornia Congressional delegation a letter of inquiry designed to learn from each his opinions on the proposed am endment to the law. ional legislators, who represent this State, believe that the express companies and the telegraph companies are evading their obliga- nies, which have been permitted, through inadvertence, amend the war tariff law and force the shirkers to do what they reftse to do willingly—pay The matter is of such general importance that The Call has sent to each member of the Cal The answers to these inquiries are of vital public interest. Without exception they show: that the nati tions and are escaping taxation which they should endure. When the war revenue law was adopted by Congress there was of necessity considerable haste in adopted. Tt was natural, therefore, that there should be certain ambiguities of expression, and some oversights in the bill. aken advantage of the Government’s necessity to place upon the shoulders of people, already heavily burdened, new obligations. ided they should pay. They have forced their patrons to pa); the tax and where the injustice was resented the companies have de- the express companies and the telegraph companies have t These corporations have refused persistently to pay the tax which the National Government dec have made themselves liable to the forfeiture of their franchises as common carriers, but they have risked the liability and defied the National Government. the lowest to the highest jurisdiction and invariably they have been beaten, defeated by decisions which declared that they clined to accept either messages or packages. In this they This defiance has meant to them a tremendous profit. They have been made defendants in courts from and not the business men who are their patrons should pay the tax. ing of the law, has outdone perhaps every other powerful offender in the country. 1 its letter to the members of the California Congressional delegation The Call calls attention particularly to the necessity o s, Fargo & Co. and other corporations, and the opinions of each Congressman and United States Senator on the subject are requested. at the Congressional representatives of California are unanimous in their opinion that the telegraph and express companies, and not At revenue law should be revised to remedy the evil, and each pledges himself to vote for and agitate such a revision. All are emphatic Those who are familiar with the details of the legislation which resulted in the adoption of the war revenue law insist that ence is made to the persistent violations of the law by Well The answers to these Jetters are given in what follows. their patrons, should bear the tax. the law intended to tax such corporations as express and telegraph companies, and that the refusal to pay the tax is based solely upon a technicality. @ittt ot e e b e Q) i MUST OBEY THE LAWS. K L o e w w v Gross discrimination has been shown in favor of the express and telegraph compa- the proceedings. The Government needed money, and the bill providing for increased revenues was quickly drafted and The national legislators who adopted the law are frank to admit these facts and to acknowledge with regret that On this coast the chief offender and the one most impudent in its operations has been Wells, Fargo & Co. This corporation, in its contempt of the spirit and the mean- In every instance the reply shows th: Every representative of California in Congress believes that the w: in declaring that the tax burden should be borne by the companies and not by business men or private individuals. It is natural, therefore, that the representatives of California in the National Legislature should consider the problem of equitable taxation a vital one. f a revision of the war revenue law and the purposeof the national legislature to make the revision. Refer- N THINKS COMPANIES | PERKINS WILL VOIE KAH SHOULD SHARE THE TAX FOR AN AMENDMENT NCISCO, Cal., 4, 1899, } SAN FRA SCO, sco Ci Editor the n Francisco i ar Sir: i ging receipt of your 1st avor of recent date, W of the war which you law. I am inquiry if T w it it was | the coming s tentton of C Congress, favor it th enue bill before th t te corporations of cour should bear their share of the necessary per con- pers, war. It | &raph comr me unjust | On Mmessages that the | mitted over entire burden of the St tax should fall upon - 1 know it was the intention of tndivid- ce Committee of the Senate that | [<] ST TS TS ST TS T TS TS DT T S>> | A SAN FRANCISCO, September 1, 1899. DEAR SIR: There seems to be a consensus of opinion that one of the first things to which Congress will direct its energies after convening will be the revision of the war revenue law. the haste of the preparation of the act to meet the needs of the nation ambiguities of language twere committed which defeated the intentions of Congress and gave the express and telegraph compa- nies a pretext for refusing to pay their just share of the war tav. . THE LETTER ADDRESSED BY THE CALL TO CALIFORNIA'S CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION |METCALE IN FAVOR OF AN AMENDMENT | | SR OAKLAND, Sapt. 20, 1899. | Editor The Call, San -ancisco—My | S Dear Sir: The delay COMPANIES MUST PAY THE TAX. SAYS WATERS LOS ANGE..iS, Sept. 13, 1899. Editor The Call, San Francisco—Dear Sir: Upon my return & “In answering yours | to Los Angeles I find of the ls; gnsmm vours of September was caused by my ; poo = c IV i plying to your, absence from tOWN. | ,oq4ion” T will say g have not as vet had | o0y most as- i time to carefully e% | suredly in favor of ““'Me v | the express company ohress. If| PaY a_ war tax the last Congress. If| .00 %o oints issued gean amendment to the ipresent law is neces- sary for the purpose iof ‘compelling express and telegraph compa- to its customers, and the telegraph compa- nies to In " nies l}‘:fi ‘w‘.\' a ;1:’}“‘ believe the (o ien 1 am {0 E2 ot feie ot we of such an| yayation of the com- amendment. There panies t h emselves, however, no law that I am aware of reg Gilitins (EHOS DTicentto] be lcharged by exbi <on no0 thexpatsors; therecf, I have the 1 beg to say that in es il sthere: | SONELACIAOD, antwell ae theun ) Wells, Fargo & Co. has persistently refused to pay the war tax upon the receipts issued to ¢ s and telegraph companies, «nd any Dororit o eme iy veydaicer i g mendments as he law should ap 0 ¢ T < A\ * o Py f ooy 01O 00 110, ) o AC e o O ment to the p n the w HER s e I L S 1Q its customers, except to newspapers and a few favored shipp as required by the act of Congress. ¢ AiE U e i pecttully el oy 0 The telegraph companies have taken advantage of the defects in the act to shirk the payment of their (¢ 4 stmply ‘r‘d"s'i‘“;"‘:;'v‘;j] law which exempts 0 part of the tax and thereby force their patrons to bear the burden. ( ; A2 L raph companies from pay- % B Sz s g 5 ; 5 % ) Six R e ‘Zv&w s R Al capsider it my dm” (¢ In themrevision of the War Revenue Law, will you favor an amendment which will be de- ¢ [ Sixth Congressional District. o o vote for such an amendment as wi \ 5 i A . . ) 3 ;/ SEEiE S T . T e signed to compel the express companies to pay the war tax on reccipts issued to shippers and the ¢ | COMPEL THE COMPANIES TO Fourth Congressional District. N 3. clearaph companies to pay the wwar tax on all messages transmitted owver their lines? (¢ | PAY, SAYS DE VRIES ng X Qlor “,\5 telegrap, ) g p : T [ Gl il e ish Aour viewws ; % uly / STOCKTON, Cal., Sept. 9, 1509, NEEDHAM DECLARES FOR | /_1 The Call will be glad to receive and publish your wiews upon the subject. Yours tr uly, Y i e AMENDING THE LAW | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. X E MU e 2 3 lico, el Dear — | United States Senator. | ¢ r igressional District. |- ave your fa- MOD 2 ) | vor of the 1st inmst., TODF . Cal., Sept. 5, 1399 P TS D AP T, D DA, DD D AT DA DDA S @< S D 'which came to hand Eaitor co Call, San Fran- % during my absence. < AT r In 3 3 BReplying to the i e - quiry therein stated, i- g reve-: avor T. LOUIS, Sept. 20.—The Gover- nly § mend- nors of Arkan Tennessee, ery truly, Michigan, Missouri, Colorado and 2 Towa—most of them accompanied O 57 { by their Attorneys General—and A L A lcatticzeen | the Attorneys General and other rep- 4 resentatives of Montana, Indiana, Mis- £ sissippt and Washington, responded to Ses Congressional District, | the Invitation of Governor J. D. Sayers | 3 et | of Texas to meet in conference for the e = <. < <@ | purpose of discussing the trust aues tion and assembled to-day at the Plant- ers’ Hotel, where three sessions were held. The conference will be concluded to-morrow morning, when the commit- tee on resolutions will be ready to re- port. Governor his Attorney KEARSARGE'S TRIAL TRIP. Sayers present with yeneral and was chosen was Most of the.day was spent in speech- making, and almost every one of those present was afforded an opportunity to air his views on the question under dis- cussion. There were several tilts be- Beieieiebeieteisiens DREVELS S RELEASED ROV JAIL Declares That Liberty Is Nothing to Him With- racter (rep- oy fig. 1), ed with | Py e 5 out Honor. and - oftensive »alpitation of o sk Spectal Dispatch to The Call. appetite, = Pin | @444ttt 4 444444444440 nausea, tired for 32 50 RENNES, France, Sept. 20.—Captain "ces not keep HUDYAN, | Alfred Dreyfus at 3 o'clock this morn- ing left the prison here in which he HUDYAN REMEDY CO-, | had been confined since his return from Cor. Stockton, Market and Ellis Sts., | Devils Island and proceeded to Vern, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. {where he took a train bound for Nantes. | His departure was compietely un- £y | noticed. M. Viguer, the chief of the Consult the HUDYAN Doctors |secret service, and M. Dureault arrived About Your Case, Free of Charge.|at the prison after midnight, bringing Call or Write. the Minister of War’s order for the re- GOVERNORS AND permanent chairman of the conference. | @ + ~that |$ - PARIS, Sept. 20.—The Aurore 3| IEvANY “Dromutly |+ Wil to-morrow publish the fol- | corrects a sluggish or | + lowing declaration from former + : HUD. |3 Captain Dreyfus: b the abose symp- | The government of the repub- 4 toms, for MUDYAN | & lic has given me my liberty. But + its siate of inaction. |4 liberty is nothing to me without 4 m;m‘.\;}: e ‘s~}¢ honor. From to-day I shall con- 4 and permanently. | L tinue to seek reparation for the Olivie Jtve - teoanled : feiep a0 it feont ot whiAh :‘ ngerous com- |4 I remain the victim. I wish 4 . “Take|4 France to know by a definite 4 o't W4 judgment that I am innocent. My 4 e e, dizzy |+ heart will only be at rest when 4 or distressful _conditions | 4 there remains not a single French- 4 r trouble. HUDYAN is |+ man who imputes to me the abom- 3 rally vet effectively, | 2 niable crime perpetrated by an- 3 creates a clear, rosy other. ALFRED DREYFUS. ndid appetite, a glow of 3+ ale by druggiste—sic s | @HHHHHHEHEE LEEEHEH YO MEET TO DISCUSS THE TRUST PROBLEM Conference Called by Sayers of Texas the Occasion of Much Speechmaking, in | Which There Are Tilts Between Men of Opposing Polltical Beliefs. | tween speak of opposite political faith that gave spice to the proceed- ings. At the morning sesslon Governor Stephens of Missouri delivered himself of a partisan fling at the Republican national administration, criticizing its expansion policy and declaring that trusts and imperialism go hand in hand. Governor Shaw of Iowa took up the ! gauntlet thrown down by Stephens and at the opening of the answered him with a speech brought smiles to the faces of most of | those present. In turn Governor Jones of Arkansas put Towa’s Chief Magistrate on the spit and roasted him for using facetious language at such a gathering. Attor- General Taylor of Indiana also asion to rap the knuckles of Missouri's Governor. There seemed to be a great difference of opinion as to the best method of B S R SR S \lease of Dreyfus. The latter walked from the prison to the Boulevard la | Enne, where he entered a waiting car- | riage and was driven to the Vern sta- tion, outside the town. Matthieu Drey- | fus met him at the train and accom- | panied him to Nantes. | NANTES, Sept. 20.—Dreyfus arrived | here this morning from Rennes, accom- ;;.am:-d by his brother, Matthieu Drey- | fus; the chief of the secret police, M. | Viguer, and one policeman. The party traveled as ordinary passengers. The train reached the station at 8:17 a. m. The Dreyfus brothers alighted on the platform first, followed by M. Viguer, who inquired if they could have a pri- | vate room. l Inquiry was then made in regard to | the Bordeaux train, which they were | informed left at 8:58 a. m. All four | then entered a first-class compartment, |in which there were aiready other pas- | sengers. It was intended, by thus re- | fraining from any attempt to secure | privacy, to avoid exciting curfosity and this apparently succeeded. BORDEAUX, France, Sept. 20.—The Petite Gironde says that three travelers | arrived here to-day on the train from | Nantes, one of whom was recognized as former Captain Dreyfus. They went to a hotel, intimating their intention to | proceed by the Nice express. LONDON, Sept 21.—The Times pub- | lishes the following dispatch from Liv- | erpool: A quantify of luggage has ar- | rived here from Havre and Folkestone .. | | addressed to Mme. Dreyfus, and rooms | have also been taken at a local hotel. The lugrage is marked for New York, and it is supposed that Dreyfus is going | 'to America. | The Paris correspondent of the Daily | Telegraph says: Dreyfus is 5o ill that | he can live only a few months. The | Government has promised to watch over and protect him and has recom- mended that he live on the Riviera. It is not unlikely that he will accept the villa offered him during the trial by the Prince of Monte Carlo. PARIS, Sept. 20.—On his arrival at the prison, M. Guerin, the president of the Anti-Semitic League, after having surrendered to the police this morning, was subjected to a brief excmination for the purpose of establishing his iden- tity, the President of the High Court being present. The High Court to-day continued its ternoon session | that | remedying the so-called trust evil Some of those present thought that the State laws now in vogue were sufficient to control the operations of the com- binations complained of, while others were of the opinion that uniform law: should be enacted by the several States and by Congress. Some were for the complete annihilation of the trusts, while others favored their regulation. Governors Sayers and Pingree, in the speeches delivered to-day, showed themselves strongly in favor of the first idea, as was also Governor Jones of Arkansas. Governors Thomas of Colo- | rado and Shaw of Towa favored the en- actment of laws to restrict the com- bines. The: ference of opinion among the Attorneys General who were heard. Governors Shaw of ITowa and Thomas of Colorado and Attorney General Taylor of Indi- ana left for home to-night. Governor Sayers read a somewhat lengthy address, setting forth his views secret examination of the documents in the conspiracy cases, S il DECREE GRANTING PARDON TO DREYFUS PARIS, Sept. 21.—The Journal Offi- ciel to-day publishes the decree grant- ing pardon to Dreyfus. In a report preceding -the decree the Marquis de Galfifet, Minister of War, points out that Dreyfus has already undergone five years' deportation, but that as the law does not assimilate his deportation with seven years' solitary confinement, the prisoner would have to undergo ten years’ detention. The Minister also calls attention to the fact that the health of the prisoner is serlously compromised and that he would not be able, without great dan- ger, to undergo prolonged detention. The report of the War Minister con- cludes thus: “The/Government will not have met | cently, haunted by the idea that the the wishes of the country, which de: sires pacification, if it does not haster to efface all traces of the painful con- flict. It belongs to you, M. le Presi- dente, by an act of lofty humanity, to give the first pledge of the work of ap- peasement which opinion demands and the good of the republic commands.” PASSENGER TRAIN DERAILED AT MILLBRAE Traffic Delayed for Several Hours, but Fortunately No One Was Injured. MILLBRAE, Sept. 20.—Passenger train No. 12, due in San Francisco at 9 o'clock this morning, was derailed In the vard here by a broken wheel under the baggage car. The entire train of three passenger cars left the rails, and the baggage car was overturned, but fortunately nobody was hurt. The passengers were transferred to another train and arrived at their des- tination two hours late. The train was in charge of Conductor Engwicht and Engineer Alger, to whom no blame is attached. It Is considered fortunate that the {rain was slowing down when the wheel broke. All the pas- Sengers were more or less shaken up and momentarily scared, but they accepted their unavoldable deiay good naturedly. vas almost as much dif- | | P S S S D S SO S SO S S S S8 S BB SR G G e e e aUE e e e ele e e ale oo o ] | “Anti-Juif,” just outside the town. He my opinion it was the and companies the war | In the revision of ithis act I should cer- tainly favor an amendment which wouid be designed to compel express companies to pay the war tax on the receipts issued to shippers and the telegraph companies t0 v the taX on_messages transmitted over their lines. Such action should be en at an early day. Very respectfully yours, on the question of trusts, which was |and with the assistance of an intelligent frequently applauded. He said regard- | €xperience, it cannot be reasonably ex- fhehis calllagiot the conterence: pfm\‘oxi that the prosperity will long sur- the desire to induce, if possible, con- | “Next to the war itself and the ncidents cert of action among such Governors and | girectly connected with it. the wonderful | Attorneys General of all the States as | roygiution that has occurred In business might attend, in an effort to suppress an | jige g calculated to arouse the gravest evil, which has become gigantic in Pro- | ynyjety in all thoughtful minds. For th portions and which, in the opinion of a | pbagt quarter of a century we have Dr:ea ’§ very large number of good and patriotic | much of trust formation, and notes - of | citizens of the republic, threatens the | gjarm have sounded again and again to | most serfous and diSastrous CONSeqUENces | marn the people of the danper that theeas. | to the country | ened them in that direction. But during | | the past two years that which was previ- | ously but a shadow on the horizon has | become a dark and portentous cloud, and | on every side and from every quarter are | aITangements was composed of Rev. Dr. | heard warnings of imminent danger that | Kerr. Rev. F. E. Doane and Rev. F. W. should no longer pass unheeded. | Reynolds. Manioh S ours — Second Congressional District. P T TS TSSO S S Seminary were held here to-day, the prin- cipal feature being an address on the ad- vantages and dangers of seminary life, delivered by Rev. Dr. J. H. Kerr, presi- dent of the faculty. The committee of It is true that in some sectlons money is plentiful, trade active, speculation rife, | and that certain products have largely and rapidly increased in selling value. This prosperity, however, is born, in a great measure, of war, and is largely at- tributable to the enormous expenditures that have been and are now being made by the General Government for special purposes and in particular localities, and so long as war shall continue this unusual activity will be maintained. Considering the situation conservatively, impartially —_——— The committee on resolutions held a | Closed Against Plague. session far into the night. Special Cable to The Call and New York Her- wld. Copyrighted, 189, by James Gordon SoE Bennett. Seminary Opened. PANAMA. Sept. 20.—A dispatch from States that the Ecuadorean SAN ANSELMO, Sept. 20.—The opening | Guayaquil exercises of the Presbyterian Theological | ports have been closed against all ships and merchandise coming from India and plague-infected .ports in Portugal. EW BAITER CAISES RIOTS LY ALCIERS Bloodshed Follows the At- tempt of Regis to Imitate Guerin. - Allwool tailor- made stits'ld* “Pleasing the buyer fosters continmal patronage.’’ Soeclal Dispatch to The Call. ALGIERS, Sept. 21L.—Max Regls, former Mayor of Algiers, and a noto- rious Jew baiter, who returned here re- (Government intended to arrest him and Jjealous of the notoriety of Jules Guerin, shut himself up for four days with a party of adherents in a village, labeled laid in a stock of provisions for a siege. Yesterday, apparently annoyed at the absence of any move on the part of the police, he issued forth and entered the town, stirring up anti-Jewish demon- strations, during which the windows of several shops owned by Jews were smashed. The Jews responded by fir- ing revolvers and the mob raised the cry “Death to the Jews.” The riots continued throughout the evening and finally the troops charged with drawn swords and dispersed the rioters. Regis regain the villa and bar- ricaded himself and his companions. During the affray nine persons were stabbed or shot, among them three po- lice agents and two inoffensive citizens. Especially Is this true in sslling clothes. From the start we do all in our power to re- tain the patronage of every customer by giving him absolute protection. We furnish samples of cur tailor-made suviis, assure a satisfactory fit, return the money on any purchase where the customer is not pleased, or kesp the suit in repair free for a year. Ceuld we do more to please customers? These iiberal privileges ars tringinzy us mor: customers every day. 'S. N. WOOD & CO., 718 Marie: St. and Corner Powell and Eddy. Took Strychnine by Mistake. SAN DIEGO, Sept. 20.—Mrs. M. D. Sun- nocks of this city, wife of a prominent contractor, died from strychnine poison this evening. She was suffering from a cold and wished to take a dose of qui- nine. By mistake she filled a capsule with strychnine and swallowed it. Death resulted in fifteen minutes. She was 53 years of age. | | i Ty