The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 31, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN lr.‘\ NUARY 31, 1900 RECKELS, Propv etor. ns to| /. LEAKE, Manager. _ Commun 217 to ”‘l Stevensomn St. 15 Cents Per Week. & Cents. Terms by Mail. Includinz Postage: DALY CALL (imclnding Sunday). one year. DAILY CALL (Including Si ¥). 6 months. PAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 3 month Delivered by Cnarriers, Singie Coples, DAILY CALL—By Single Month. 8..- SUADAY CALL Ome Year . 1.50 M EEKLY CALL Ome Ye: . 1.00 All postmaster) recelve $ample copies will be forwarded when requested DAKLAND OFFICE.... .ee GEORGE KROG 908 Broadway S8, wuette Bulld- NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. G. CARLTON. .. «...Herald Square NEW YORE REPRESENTA’ VE: PERRY LUKEES JR.. .29 Tribune Bullding Sherman House; P. 0. News Co.: Great North- era Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Bguare; Murray Hill Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. Wellington Hotel | J. F. ENGLISH, Correspondent. BEANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of Clay. opem until 9:30 o'clock. 309 Hayes. ope 111 9:30 o'clock. mtil 5:30 o'clock. 615 Lurkin, open until o'clock. 1941 Missl 226, Market, corner Sixteen 1096 Valencia, open enth, open vaudeville every afterncon and mpla, corner Mason and Ellis streets—S peciaities. Race k—H AUCTION SALES. By Turkish Rug Co—This day, at 11 & m. and 2 p. m., Wurkist F n street. By Tuesday, February 6, at 12 B 5 Market street THE ASSASSINATION OF GOEBEL. I MERICANS of all parties and cl: will feel \ m han ordinary indignati 4 at the crim the man or men who shot c Goe t of the Fr rs to have been a de s and is the first crime of tk k I es of Americar ¥ 1 of office. i 3 the streets of Frank ere been little or no surprise, § el ed in ¥ there & 3 b C < b . i e B ek rom the Legis- 1 2 the late electic B would trans t s lor to self. It was an 1 ve © d on that of the Demo- cr igaders m in undertaking it, but the w 1 it which in any way justified a Fesort to v e« I t of+his political oppo- | De ts are not infrequently bit- vith words calculated to ex- ns of the partisans on either side, r less danger of fights result- credit of s our people, notwithstanding their promptness to been very little violence used in the controversies. Now and then ay assination has been rare. It is s shot by a man animated largely motives, and politics also had much to the assassination of Carter Harri- those cases the criminal was hardly sbove the grade of a lunatic. Possibly the assassin® ©f Goebel may we to be a creature of a similar kind. Even in that case, however, his punichment should be swift Assassination as a political weapor one hich under our system of gov- ernment cannot | ted upon any ground what- ever ved the total at the end r exceed an average of $1,000,000 what comes of protecting home indus- American energy an opportunity to hen our shipping industries have er . c ion for a few years we will | be able t commerce of foreigners as well &8s to he goods for them. he Br Vice Consul at New Orleans has fol- Jowed the example of the late lamented Sackville West by not only opening his mouth, but by putting bis foot in it. He forgot, when he attacked Senator *RBilly” Mason, t he was making an onslaught on an Before the Senate gets through with him he will anpreciate the virtue of silence. Some industrious student of the constitution and statutes of the United States might be able to inform public what clause or section in Federal akes a United States Marshal a tout for a candidate. Marshal Shine is an interesting American an inquiring law m Senator figure at Sacramento. Even Mexican Dan Burns seems to have gained scmething through his long association with the turf. At any rate he displays 2 good deal of horse sense in shying at a caucus. Several of the British generals who have measured pwords with the Boers complain of severe illness. The pitnation certainly is bad enough to make any one Hick. PUBLICATION OFFICE I-rket and Third, s. F. 639 McAllister. open | . open unmtil 10 | over some municipal office, | ich our exports of manufac- | ‘ ABOUT HONESTY. HE revelation of the relations between the T\iayqr and the Examiner has greatly illumin- | ’ ated the political situation in San lffancnsc?) There is no controversy as to the facts. It is now in | evidence, put there by the Mayor’s friends, that he | secured the support of the aminer and its push by | ,xarmmg out to it in advance the Police ‘Department; ‘\det he sought to gild the redemption of this promise by selecting a Police Commission that could not be | | reproached with any past misconduct, public or pri- | vate; Commissioners, directly in some cases and in others by implication strong, upon their election of his can- #6.00 | didate as Chief of Police; that he then supported the 3' “5o | election of Esola, to redeem his promise to the Ex- aminer. So far there is no dispute .of these facts. The Police Commissioners, being gentlemen, under- | stood their direct or implied pledge to bind them to accept and elect a candidate whom they could sup- port without losing their standing in the comniunity. as gentlemen and honest men. They were undoubt- cd]\ programmed, but the) supposed that it was “‘a anlemen s agreement.” They -did not understand |it to bind them to a programme which meant the election of Esola and the degradation of the Police Department at the beginning of their administration. They were far from expecting that conformity to-the | condition of their appointment mieant an act that | | lifted them from the place of honor they had £illed in | the community and seated .them in the midst of the |lcw company that had abused authority and dis- | graced the city ? ; ment. That they flinched is to their credit. That the sac- rifice of their honor and character was finally pre- vented by Senator Biggy is something that gains for that gentleman the grateful acknowledgment of their friends. Senator Biggy refused - to abide by the -condi- | tions of a programme which led to the sacrifice of hs good name. One man -has no right to exact a pmnute which a gentleman can make and demand its redemption by an act of which no gentleman can be guilty. This was exactly the situation. The Ex- aminer influenced the government of this city in past years cheek by jowl with political blackguards who profited by the exercise of public authority. Under the new charter it prepared for the renewal of black- | guard government, using the Mayor as its broker {in the honor of men. His duty was to pledge honor- | able men of high standing to a blind programme, | and when it was disclosed the renewal of the Ex- aminer’s blackguard government was presented as the sole means of redeeming the pledge. Because he refused to sacrifice his good name and become a hissing and a byword in the community, Senator Biggy is now highly honored by the daily abuse of the Examiner. Its feculent vocabulary is lavished to exhaustion in an attempt to discredit him. The Examiner desired to use his unimpeachable in- tegrity and honorable standing as a cover to its pur- pose of reblackguarding the government of this city. He refused to stand as its whited sepulcher, and, having proved himself an honest man, pays the pen- in that paper’s velp that he is dishonest. The aminer never rises out of its class. It measures all others by itself: It conceives that all men are subject to the same motives which influence all that it does. It seeks in Senator Biggy’s busi- ness relations, in his personal associations and among what it conceives to be his ambitions, for a its sole existence in his sense of reason that has honor, which the more than a hog appreciates the nightingale’s gift of song. The Examiner in its debauchery thinks that every- th tc filth. So the wanton thinks others no better than they should be, and the thief believes that he differs ¢ in degree and not in kind from other men. The Call and other papers in this city which have recorded the reasons that compelled Senator Biggy's stand for his honor and good name have recorded them only; they were created by the Mayor and the Examiner. Upon them is the sole responsibility for demanding what no gentleman could give and hold his place in the community. It was their repulsive influence, and not any attractive influence from any quarter, that compelled the honorable stand taken by | Senator Biggy. The Examiner cannot harm him. He is above | harming himself by submission to its dictation, and | is on the safe and high ground occupied by all men ! who count a good name better than wealth or power. | r—————— | The fact that the people of the Mission celebrated | with fireworks and music an extension of the Mar- | ket Street Railway system in that section is an evi- | dence that the railway serves some need of the com- munity and would be generally popular but for the | habit it has of running over everything in sight in do | ing the service. | | SOUTH AFRICAN TACTICS. f HAT England is having a hard time fighting | T men who wear clothes is sadly apparent even to the politicians who hurried the country into war. + The saying that in vain the trap is set in sight of the bird has not held true in British tactics so far. Joubert has set and baited trap aiter trap and the trained British commanders have walked into every one in succession. from Elandslaagte to Spion Kop, | with the most disastrous results. After the succes- sive failures of White, Gatacre and Buller it is ex- | as Roberts and Kitchener will have any better suc- cess in going up against warriors who pray and wear | clothes. !a long succession of conquests of weak or semi- | civilized people has not been a proper military train- ing to equip England to meet a nearly equal foe. { There is much reason in this. It seems to be the | philosophy of combat. If a pugilist in the heavy- weight class be continually matched against a feather- weight, he trains continually further away from his own class and is sure of defeat if he meet an antag- cnist who has kept his mettle hard by meeting his | equals. ; Whatever the cause, the Bri‘tish military establish- | ment proves so defective at this first serious call upon |it since the Sepoy rebellion that its prestige is slip- | ping away. It was the hope of British philosophers | that the empire so far acquired would be cemented by | justice and policy and not endangered by further ag- gressions. It is significant that while Kipling’s poetry of in perialism is vet in the bugle notes that summon Brit- ish subjects to arms, his undertone is rising as the of bloodshed and conquest. “The price of admir- alty” and the fear “lest we forget,” which have been treated as the necessary antithesis to give a saber flash to his lines, are being lifted from their subor- dinate place, and the price paid for gold and glory and the penalty of forgetting are in serious British thought. It is well that this is so. The habit of look- ing after leaping is a dangerous policy for nations. | N FRANCISCO CALL, that he conditioned the appointment of those | in the worst days of its misgovern- | Ixaminer cannot appreciate any | g is wallowing in the gutter where it adds filth | tremely doubtful whether such naked men fighters | There is spreading abroad a suspicion that | motif of opposition to the whole costly programme | WEDNESDAY, ‘ It has become habitual in England through her prac- tice of taking up the white man’s burden after taking (lhc black man’s life. From Plassy to Chitral it has no( been necessary to look ahead, beyond tumbling ‘tl-.e dead blacks into a trench and proceeding to ad- | minster upon their civil estate. But this habit has so |f1r proved England’s undoing in South Africa. Every | leap has been taken in the dark, and the landing has been upon something worse than the Scotch thistles ‘that drew blood and blasphemy from the barefooted Danish invaders. Already $125,000,000 has been poured |into a campaign that has brought not one compen- sating victory.” Added to this-is the awful sacrifice of life, the greatest that England has suffered since the Napoleonic wars. It is “the price of admiralty,” and the nation begins to wince. ‘. Unless the Ministry can soon show some substan- tial military advantage its existence: is in danger, and 'vnder the admirably flexible system of parliamentary zoxemmen’ there may. arise a leader competent to secure peace with honor and avoid the further expo- sure of the exceeding weakness of that empire as a military power. e —— Several days ago The Call asked the Police Com- missioners. what assurance they could have that the | conspirators; who wese urging Jules J. Callundan for | Chief of Detectives,’ would not suggest some one worse for the: positibn when his election became an impossibility. Fears are frequently realized in fact. Frederick L. Esola is.now being urged for the place. | THE GOVERNOR'S ADDRESS. | OVERNOR GAGE presented his views to the Legislature on Monday, not through the American method of a message, but through | the method of European loyalty, that of an address. It is not supposed, however, that the Governor had | melodies that pleased In the days o | dances were the dances of olden times and any conscious intention of imitating royalty, and | such imitation as occurred was doubtless due to un- | conscious cerebration. His object in calling both | houses together in joint session ‘and delivering an , address to them was probably no more than that of | adding emphasis to his sonorous sentences and giving | the glow of animation to pis caustic verbiage. If | that were his object he is quite justified in follpwing ‘ -it, for the thing he said needs all the graces of oratory | ‘ and the illustration of gesture to render it interest- | ing even to tho<c who would like to be interested in it We regret that having imitated the royal style of delivering his views, the Governor put into the sub- stance of what he said an imitation of Mayor Phelan's :ahcr dinner denunciation of journalism. Perhaps that also was unconscious cerebration. Certainly the Gov- | ernor himself has nothing to complain of from the press of California. [Every newspaper in the State | has shown him a great deal of consideration, and not a single one of them has published his record. It was 1 therefore an injustice and an ingratitude as well as | | | bad taste on his part to introduce into his royal debut a slur upon a profession which, whatever may be its failings, has certainly been lenient to him. B The Governor announced in his address that he is | of the opinion that the election of another Senator from California is necessary; first, to the preserva- 1 tion of the Union; second, to the expansion of our | moral influence in the Philippines and in Guam, and, ‘ finally, to the promotion of the commerce and the ma- terial prosperity of California. Those who expected that in dealing with the Senatorial issue the Gov- ernor would give at least an indirect indorsement to Burns were mistaken. The demiroyal orator flung “caustic verbiage” directly in the face of Burns with a slam by declaring it to be the duty of the Legisla- | ture to elect to the United States Senate a man who “will be unquestionably worthy of the high honor— | one whose ability and integrity cannot be justly as- sailed.” Just whom the Governor referred to in those words is not clear, but there will be suspicions that he thought he meant himself. One of the interesting disclosures of the address is the revelation that the Governor intended all along | tc call the extra session and was never in any doubt about it. In one of his impassioned flights he said: | | “In taking my oath of office I solemnly pledged my- | self to support the constitution of the United States, and I earnestly believe I would be recreant tq that | sacred oath did I fail now to convoke this Legisla- | ture for the purpose of electing a United States Sen- ator.” ‘In another strenuous sentence the Governor | thundered into the ears of the legislators that failure | to elect a Senator “is treason to the United States.” | Of course the Governor could not have intended at | any time to be recreant to his sacred oath, or to be |a party to treason to the Government, and- accord- ingly all his statements of the past denying that he | | had made up his mind to call an extra session are to ! be regarded as strictly unofficial, and his conferences \\u(h Herrin and Wright of the Southern Pacific | Rajroad on the subject were purely perfunctory, de- signed on his part to amuse the railroad officials into the belief that they are “running things.” In the aggregate the address amounts to about | 7000 words, good enough words in their way, | but so huddled together as to be mainly meaningless. There were times, however, when he became lucid. -In one of those times he uttered a plea for enlarged patronage, and argued that he should have the right to remove appointees and fill the places with men of his own selection. It appears his particular desire is to obtain control of the patronage of the lunatic asy- lums, though of course he has no objection to patron- | age elsewhere. | Since the Governor was so eager to deliver the ad- dress instead of sending in a message to be read by the clerks of the two houses, it would be a lack of courtesy, perhaps, not to notice the style in which he delivered it. It appears that the proceeding was generally regarded as an interesting novelty and drew a full house. The effects differed with differ- | ent individuals; some were bored, some were irri- tated, some were amused; some slept, some swore and some laughed. As an imitation, through uncon- | scious cerebration, of Kaiser Phelan and Mayor Wil- liam, it was a failure, and the performance is not- likely to be repeated. “Lanky” Bob Fitzsimmons says somebody drugged him on the night he fought and was defeated by Jim Jeffries. Everybody will agree with him that the champion must have given him several knockout drops. - The British military men in South Africa have be- gun a cannonade of talk. They should have learned before this that something more effective than Sam- son’s weapon is needed to conquer the Boers. Some public men are to be congratulated. It is not every one who can receive the compliment of the Examiner’s abuse. Police Commissioner Biggy is having honors thrust upon him. War has broken out among the members of the Los Angeles brick trust. Both sides ought to be pro- vided with weapons enough to accomplish mutual | terday at the University Club, that was | Ruth MeNutt, Miss Mamie Josselyn, Miss | thorities can, | 1900, in San Francisco. | on that day, | tice {s an unreasonable one. annihilation, 12essnssesenss JANUARY 31, 1900 COLONIAL ASSEMBLY Ladies of the California Club Turn Back One Hundred Years. In powder and patches and dresses that were the height of fashion more than 100 years ago, the ladies of the California Club received their guests in their club rooms in the Y. M. C. A. building last evening and bade them join In such fes- tivities as were popular in old Colonial days. A Colonial assembly was an inspiration of Mrs. J. H. Jewett. Alone she under- took to see the entertainment through, and the success of the affair is due to her excellent taste, sure tact and splen- did executive ability. Although the edlcl went forth that la. dies and gentlemen alike were to wear the dress of the Colonial period, the ladies alone saw fit to follow the letter of ths law. A few gentlemen braver than the rest appeared in powdered wigs and satin breeches, but they were the very few ex- ceptions’ to a general rule. ~Prominent among the men In ‘‘costume” was “Un- cle” George Bromley. Magnificent in wi, and black satin, he led the grand march and was the center of an miring host of ladies. The costumes of the ladies were for the most part elaborate and elegant, although a few elected to, appear in {Iay home- sg n and snowy 'kerchlef. e spirit of e Colonial days hovered over the entire entertainment. The musical programme, which opened the entertainment, was made up of the The Puritan fathers and Washington. even the refreshments served were simi- lar to the plain daintles the belles and beaux were ‘wont to nibble at many, many years ago. More than 200 invited guests enjoyed the hospitality of the ladies of the club. i e Miss Follis’ Luncheon at the University Club. Miss Lillian Follis gave a luncheon yes- in every respect a most elegant affair. The guests were seated at five round ta- bles, which were decorated, respectiyvely, | with American Beauty roses, lilies of the valley, bridesmaid roses, violets and daftodlls Luncheon was served at 1:30 . m., and the menu was in keeping with the bee.utllul surroundings. Seated at table were: Miss Helen Hop- kins, Miss Georgianna Hopkins, Miss Edna Hopkins, Miss Alice Hager, Miss Ethel Hager, Miss Caro Crockett, Miss Leontine Blakeman, Miss Bessie Ames, Miss Margaret Salisbury, Miss Mollie Thomas, Miss Cora Smedberg, Miss Ber- nie Drown, Miss Brigham, the Misses Smith, Miss Linda adwalader, Miss Anna Voorheis, Miss Ethel Cooper, Miss Fannie Baldl’ln Miss Alice Hoffman, Miss Addie Murphy, the Misses Kane, Miss Sarah Collier, Miss Edith McBean, Miss Laura M(‘K!nstry, Miss Jessie Watte, Miss Ella Morgan, Mrs. Therese Morgan, Mrs. James Keeney, Mrs. Rob- ert Oxnard, Mrs. James Flood and Miss Carrie Tayior. il PO ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE DEAD FROM MANILA—O. S., City. The reason The Call has not pub- lished a list of the soldier dead from Ma- nila that were brought here on the trans- | t recently arrived, is because no | prepared, and as the coffins are | being removed thé history of each is dis- covered on the coffin lid. The military au- when all the inscriptions shall have been read, givé information to those interested. BORN ON THE FIRST—A subscriber, City. Your baby boy is not the only one that was born on the first of January, It is impossible, at this time, to tell how many were born | as the register of births for | that day is not complete, but there are several already reported as being born on that day. Selecting a name for & baby | boy that was born on that day is a mat. | ter of taste with the parents. If it Is the desire to give the little fellow an odd | name, by reason of being born on the | first day of the last year of the century, | why not call him Primo del Omega, which | means the first of the last. i NOTICE TO QUIT—OId Subscriber, City. A tenancy at will is one where there is no lease, either written or verbal, ‘no matter how created, and it may be terminated by the landlord giving notice in writing to the tenant to remove from the premises within a peri- od of not less than one month, to be specified in the notice. A three days’ no- If you find that the premises occupied by you are not in a sanitary condition the easiest way out of the trouble is to secure other quarters if the landlord will not make the necessary repairs. The law will not justify you in withholding your obliga- tion to pay the rent on the ground that the premises are not in a sanitary condi- tion, for no one is authorized to take the | | law in his own hands. If it is a serious | inconvenience for you to move you can | resort to measyres to compel the landlord | to put the prenfises in order—that is, lodge | a complaint with the Health Board. 000»0—0“0»0 THE CALL’S HOME STUDY CIRCLE. SEYMOUR EATON, Director. CONTRIBUTORS —TO0 THE— SPRING TERM COURSE, 1900. Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D. D., Boston. Jesse Macy, A. M., LL. ., Towa College. Professor Paul Elmer More, Harvard University, Thomas Mare Parrott, Ph. D , Princeton University. Charles Forster Smith, Ph. D., University of Wisconsin. Isaso N. Demmon, A. M., LL. D,, University of Michigan. Arthur H. Palmer, M, A., Yale University. Maurice Francis Egan, LL. D., Catholic University of America. Charles Horswell, Ph D, Northwestern University, l.u Vida D. Soudder, Wellesley College. Charlotte Brewstar Jordan, Philadelphia. Jobn Leverett Moors, Ph. D., Vassar College. Joseph Villiers Denney, A. M., Ohio State University. Lucius A. Sherman, A. B., Ph.D University of Nebraska. Charles Flint McClumpha, A. B., Ph, D., University of Minnesota. John Carleton Jones, A. M., Ph. D., University of Missouri. Amos Noyes Currier, A. M., LL. D., University of Towa. August Hjalmar Edgren, Ph. D., University of Nebraska Charles W. Benton, M. A., Litt. D., University of Minnesota. William J Hopkins, i i z And cthers whose names appear in con- nection with the programme of studies. | { | ] i A THE TRANSVAAL SITUATION. Told in Pictures.. THE LION-THAT LOOKS LIKE A SOFT SPOT. GUESS I'LL APPRO-| PRIATE IT. “COME, NOW, GET A MOVE ON YER; I WANT THIS PLACE.” 7 J’-fi THE BOAR—I WAS HERE FIRST, AND YOU DON'T GET IT. | | | | | | | - THE BOAR—-NOW, THEN, [ HOME AND THINK IT OVER. RUN | THE LION—BLESS ME! BUT I MUST GET OVER THIS AWFUL HABIT OF THINKING I CAN LICK EVERYBODY. | —Life. | e | AROUND THE CORRIDORS Dr. E. M. Palette of Los Angeles is at | the California. Dr. J. B. Clayton, U. S. A., is a guest at | the Occidental. | Lieutenant Colonel C. R. Edwards, U. S. V., is at the Palace. | John T. Rowntree is registered at the | Palace from Denver. E. D. Beylard has come up from San | Mateo and is at the Palace. Nicholas Boden, a leading attorney of | San Jose, is at the Palace. Dr. A. M. Gardner of the Napa Insane Asylum is at the California. Mrs. Frank McLaughlin has come up from Santa Cruz and is staying at the Pal- ace. Robert Brown, one of the leading mer- chants of Petaluma, is a guest at the Grand. W. Forsyth, the Fresno raisin grower and capitalist, is registered at the Occi- dental. D. N. Anderson, a traveler from Ha burg, Germany, is registered at the Palace. Dwight Hollister, a prosperous rancher of Hollister, is among the recent a.rrl\all at the Grand. F. A. Wickersham, a wealthy land own- | er of Petaluma, is registered for a short | stay at the Lick. | George E. Goodman, the Napa banker and capitalist, is at the Palace, accom- panied by his wife. Dr. and Mrs. F. H. McNeel of Santa | Rosa are staying at the Grand, where | they arrived last evening. Dr. A. E. Baldwin, one of the lendlng\ medical men of Chicago, is among the | recent arrivals at the Grand. } H. Wotton and J. Dean, two English | globe-trotters, are regisiered at the Ocei- dental, where they arrived yvesterday. Mrs. John A. Logan, who came home | | with the body of her soldier husband, is at | the Palace, where she registered yesterday with her little son and daughter. —_—— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Jan. 30.—J. G. Ralston and W. R. Marmion of San Francisco are at the Manhattan. L. W. Schwartz of Los Angeles is at the Empire. —_—— Judge Bahrs hnl handed down a decis- fon determining the right of the various heirs under 18)1: trust clause of the will of the late lomon Heyd, was filed by Elizabeth X.flii‘l(::":i'énnsl‘;‘!l! decedent’s widow, Sunshine O.. r O., | R e against Zella O Hellings, H'yd""“"" Frederick O. and Ine O. Heydenfuldt. M. H. Barkley, G. Ma H. Kauf- nun. Charles Alhton. Julits Jacobs, ro] Beach. Judge Bahrs holds thztoll.lho oro- visions of the trust clause do not bar denfeldt from sharing in the pro r!!. holds that she, together With (h ehilaran of Solomon. Heydenferdt, avs ton: ants in common and own equal imdivided int In the property. In the same | gociion gpe coue oo fhe SaBest arkley, trustee t o Qenfeldt children. - Will Test the Charter. The section of the charter fixing the salaries of stenographers ian the criminal departments of the Suj Court $200 a x!’;onth ‘will be test. through lh‘u‘ me- dium of a suit flled yesterday by Luke Kavanagh, stmompher of Den-nment 8, "?" $60 nll mlomed. The gvalnm! i rtprem ed by | resolutions declaring it to be the int | sling people just | taxes all doubts shouid be | ranted in proceeding upon the ass FREEDOM DUE THE FILIPINOS Senator Bacon’s Plea for Justice. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—For more than three hours to-day Bacon (D.) of Georgia occupied the attention of the Senate with a discussion of the Philippine question His argument, which had for its basis his own resolutions declaratory of the Gov ernment’s policy toward the Philippines, was listened to carefully by his fellow- Senators and by a large gallery audier Bacon maintained that the United State owed as much to the Filipinos as it did to the Cubans, to whom, by resolution of Congress, self-government had bee promised, and he strongly urged that h tion of this Government to confer t fhl of government upon the Filipinos be opted as a means not only of terminat ing the war but of extending to o Strus- 1 freedom. CITY A’!'!'OBNEY‘S OPINIONS. He Advises Begardlng Appraisers’ Fees and License Taxes. The City Attorney yesterday sent following opinion to City Treas Brooks: Regarding the payment of fees of a appointed by the court for the dete of amounts due collateral taxes, I beg to say that you are paying the fees of such ap rullr certificate of the Superior Court In an the city and county at the rate of $ for every day actually and necessa: ployed in the appraisement, together appraiser’s actual and nece Such fees may be ¥ of said inheritance tax. 1563, section 11.) The City Attorne: ing opinion to Tax Collector Scott: In the matter of the collection of of the validity of the license and of the city. If there be dc at any time as to whethe: particular state of facts a from the payment of a lice! such person is not exempt. but is I such person contends otherwise and refuses t pay the license the courts must e calied u to decide the matter. In so deci: will of course be treated separa cording to its own part eral rule can be laid d | all cases that may ai decide each case in advance dence which may be shown upon a trial would be but an aftempt to anticipate the decision of the court before the facts are pregented. —_———————— WENSINGER'S WILL FILED. Widow Is Beqnuthed Entire Estate. Antonia Bandman Asks for Letters. The will of the late F. S Wensinger, | who died at the Occidental Hotel on Jaau- | ary 24, leaving property valued at abeut | $200,000, was filed for probate yesterday. Decedent bequeaths his entire estate to his widow, Teresa Wensinger. In his will decedent confirms some deeds made man | months ago conveying pmperw at 6 4 m 624 Sacramento street and 519 a. S erciol street, to his miece, Ella Brod- erick, and a plece of property at 1017 to 21 Polk street to John Wensinger, a nephew. Antonia Bandmann, widow of the late Juls Bandmann, apfilltd for letters of ad- Tuinistration upon the $100,000 estate of her | deceased husband. Ban m was a pilo- neer and well known in this city —_—— i Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® —_—————— Special information supplied dally to business houses and publlc men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 102 ¢ —_—————— Insolvent Mechanics. Albert Moss, a mechanic of Broderick, Yolo County, filed a petition in insc | ency yerterday in the United States Dis- trict Court. His liabilities are 3368 03 and his assets $125. Arthur H. Myers, a me- chanic of Sacramento, flled a similar pe- tition. Liabilities $280 77, assets $73 0. —_———————— ‘Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. 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