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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY 28, 1900. $25 oo 4 ed down to S’ MOCHA GLOVES:; f wn to I3 < e 3 e @ L e 3 [ 6 ® ® e 3 e e « © - & e € e € e ® e € € e v e © € ® ° * © & © ® e & < e [3 ® & ® s INDIA SILK WAIS SPECIAL SALE e Ladies’ Silk and Satin WAIST ——AND-—— Ladies’ Black and Colored Kid GLOVES Commencing Monday, May 28. Marked down to Seios s2.50 & LADIES' FANCY COLORED TAFFETA WAISTS; former price @ eovs R e S E R $4.00 : A WAIST former @ n to 5 ..$5.00 ° D TA A WAISTS; former price $7 00 and wn to oh . . ! . LADIES' FANCY COLORED TAFFETA WAISTS; former price : $8 00, $0 00 and $10 00. Marked down to ’ . $6.00 LADIES' COLORED SATIN WAISTS; former price $6 50 and $7 50. ° Marked down to..... R RS e T PR s TSI 5.00 LADIES’ COLORED SATIN WAI soand8so 9 Marked down £0.......... RIS i Gl oy (T F S $6.00 LADIES' BLACK INDIAN SILK WAISTS; former price $4 30 ® DO I 80 s+ pons b s s st AR e i $2.50 BLACK TAFFETA SILK WAISTS; former price §7 50. @ ked down to o RN AL PR C VN D R $5.00 LADIES' BLACK AND WHITE STRIPED TAFFETA WAISTS: @ rmer price $7 Marked down t0 ....0..... SRR TR $5.00 : LADIES' BLACK TAFFETA SILK WAISTS: former price $7 50 @ and 88 Marked down to e it T 1 S' BLACK TAFFETA SILK WAISTS; former price $o 00 i $10 00. Marked down to AR . 8650 @ 1 S' BLACK TAFFETA SILK WAISTS; former price $10 0o B MBSt e $7.50 F\‘(("}' SILK PETTICOATS: former e $20 0o, $22 50 LADIES' AND MISSES' KID GLOVES, KID GLOVES; former price $1 00. Marked down to.. 85c ASP KID GLOVES: forn rmer price $1 s0. LADIES' 2-.CLASP KID GLOVES; former price $r so. Marked to k < e T PP PP 985¢ I IES’ 2-CLASP PIQUE GLOVES: former price $1 50. Marked 1t e 95¢ I S’ 2-CLA CFT KID —(Majestic): former price $2 oo. ed down to............. Fereaititieetitiiiiiiyaaas,, $1.25 LADIES' BLACK TAFFETA GLOVES; former price 6oc. Marked ¥n to e s e I e .. 85¢ LADIES’ BLACK TAFFE J OBRIEN &G0, 1142-1146 Market Street. TS—Evening shad former price p g $15.00 former price $1 00. Marked X 85c Marked down to 95¢ Marked 15¢ AMUSEMENTS. *TIVOLIx OHE FOR ALL AND ALL FOR ONE ! TO SHT! TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! SUPERB SCENIC PRODUCTION Of the Romantic Comic Opera, “THE THREE CUARDSMEN!" Founded on Dumsas’ Novel. Music by Varney. THE ENTIRE COMPANY WILL APPEAR. BRILLIANT NEW COSTUMES AND ACC SORIE Powerful chestrs Matinee Haturdsy at 3. Augmented and Evenings at § POPULAR PRICES—25c and 50c. tion the “14 Telephone, Bush 9 The Season’s Event. In their greatest success, ESMOND. & RICE'S FAMOUS 'F THE CITY UNANI- WEDNESDAY NEXT, 0d_reserved seat in orchestra T > FISCHER Admission 10z LUCIA” und “THE HUGUENOTS." COLUMBIA 1= N. C. GOODWIN indentically the same G EEA HOUSE PHC 532, ¥ PRAISE. DECORATION DAY, K i1 mati- LAMBARDI OPERA QUARTET AND 2 SDOLIN IN ENGLISH SONGS, BEGINNING TO-NIGHT. MAXINE ELLIOTT TWENTY-ONE 1] Knickerbocker Theater, NE MAIN 5 92 "’ | 4 IE DOORS NIGHTLY. AL POPULAR PRICES, Branch Ticket Offi®%—Emporium, S CONCERT HOUSE, S1G. ABRAMOFF, in Acts From “Eeserved Seats, 2c. Matinee Sunday, Chorus snd Or- | To-Night and To-Morrow Ni; MATINEE | First Time | | ER | THIS THE LAST WEEK OF JAMES NEILL AND COMPANY. ht and W (Memoria! Day) ‘Mulnez, s “LORD CHUMLEY.” The Play That Made Such a Big Hit Last MR. Wednesd a N needa an hursday night - BACHELOR'S ROMANCE." Thuretay’ mati. ney APTAIN LETTARBLAIR.” Friday and Baturday nights and Saturday Inee, “CAPTAIN EWIFT.”" Next Sunday night, DU E & RYLEY'S ALL-STAR CAST in Hoyt's “A RAG BABY.” STRONGER THAN EVER. MISS LILLIAN BURKHART And Company in A DEAL ON 'CHANGE.” and Last Week of EZRA KENDALL. VANDY: MIDGLEY & CARLISLE. TWENTY OTHERS. AN ENTIRELY NEW BILL. Reserved sea c; balcony, 10c; opera, chalrs and box seats, 2 Matinees Weédnesday, Saturday and Sunday. FGEEAR (WEDNESDAY) DECORATION DAY. TO-NIGHT AND ENTIRE WEEK. Here of Clyde Fitch's Domestic Comedy, A SUPERFLUOUS HUSBAND | sessmmams A TALE OF MARRIED LIFE. SALE OF SEATS BEGINS TO-MORROW FOR FLORENCE ROBERTS' '‘SAPH0.” SUTRO BATHS OPEN NIGHTS. Open daily from 7 a. m. to 11 p. m. Bathing from 7 a. m. to 10 p. m. Admission, 10c; Children, bc. Bathing, Including admission, 2ic; children 20c. w. T. HESS, NCTARY PUSLIC AND ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Tenth Floor, Room Claus Telephone Residence, $21 California st., Ean Francisco. Bldg. Below Powell, MANY INSCRIBED THER NAMES ON SEPHER TORM Rabbi Levi Conducts Cere- mony at Beth-Menachim Streisand. e ‘Master Lowsky, a Diminutive Lad, Bids the Highest Figure for the Place of Honor—Rabbi’s Remarks. e HE congregation of the Beth Mena- chim Streisand held a service ves- terday afternoon to dedicate a new Sepher Torah for the use of the can- tor. The Sepher Torah is the Testa-| ment, or five books of Moses, written in | Hebrew on parchment and is inscribed by men specially trained in the art. One of the rolls takes nearly a year to com- plete. The service of dedication is usually at- tended by all the congregation 'and 1 | looked upon as a service of thanksgi | ing | The helght of of the ambition of an j orthodox Jew is to be the possessor of | a Torah, and should he be so fortunate | he is envied and honored by all his | friends. When a Torah is presented to | the synagogue there are a number of | spaces left in which members of the con- | gregation can inscribe their names. 1In | wealth: nagogues large sums are paid for the privilege. The prices bid yester- | day were very modest, as the congrega- tion is composed of humble merchants. The attendance was not very large and | Rabbi Levy, who was invited with a | number of other rabbis to take part in | the ceremony, spoke very severely at the lack of interest shown and the light at- | tendance. | The service opened with the chanting | of a psalm by the Rev. Mr. Samuelson, | the rabbi of the synagogue. He was fol- wed by Rabbi Levy, who said in part: | am very much surprised to see such | a light attendance, but hope there will be more interest shown in the future. Your | synagogue is the orthodox place of wor- ship in the city. We have in the West- | ern Addition 'several handsome syna- gogues with learned ministers to lead the congregations. But if we were not to have the old orthodox synagogues we | would have no comparison and would have no old orthodox service to look to. In these days we do not want to forget old customs and ideas. In this service CASH or CREDIT. Better Inspect My Stock of FURNITURE, CARPETS, MATTINGS, STOVES, Efc, Before Purchasing Elsewhere, A Word to the Wise Is Sufficlent. Estimates Given on Compiete House Furnishing. BRILLIANT’S 338-340-342 POST ST, Open Evenings. NEAR POWELL. ering with Rheumaiism, ney Aiiment, Stomach Trouble, Catarrh, ! Female Complaint, ‘ Nervousness, . 1‘ | Dyspepsia or any Blood Disease ? | TAKE ELECTROZONE BN | —it wlill cure vou. At druggists, $1 bottle. WONDERFUL TRUSS, RUPTURE CURED., | IN INVENTING HIS WORLD-RENOWNED “Magnetic Elastic Truss” Dr. Pleice gave to | the public the most remarkable remedy eve: | discovered for the successful treatment of H nia, or Rupture. Thousands of sufferers have | been permanently reileved andradically CURED | Dy this great appliance and thousands of othars i | are now on the road to complete recovery. This | Truss is different from all others, It does the | k! '%rml can get our “BOOKLET No. I'" by eal | tng at the office, or 1t Will be sent on recelpt of a 2-cent stamp. It tells all about this Truss, “MAGNETIC ELASTIC TRUSS €., | 620 Market Street (Opposite Palace Hotel), San Franciecd. Eastern Office—New York City. | Corner Fourth and Market, S. F. Try gur | Special Brew team a Lager, 6. Overcoats and CAFE RO AMUSEMENTS. 'CHUTES axo ZOO EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. GATES & CLARK; HEALY SISTERS; SI BTEBBINS: MAY NEALSON; THE DOCK- MANS; GEO. TRUMP; RAYSTON & RAE- FORD; NEW MOVING PICTURES. Amatenr Nigllt,_T hursday. Cakewalk Night, Saturday. Order Seats by Phone— Park 2. | propeller s | there has been no | his wife and daughter Edith. | of the Queen are all Marshall Islanders. | hours. | but | ered the g Are you suf- [@J2 11500 tons of coal from Seattle. we are met together to dedicate a new Sepher Torah and as you are all aware there are spaces left in the manuscript for members of the congregation to in- scribe their names. For this privilege §ou can give what you can afford. Some lews pay big prices and pay as liberally as if they were buying a relic. The money will go toward payi off the mortgage on the building. nfhope you will all Yny as liberally as you can.” The sale then began. The Torah com- mences with the words “In the begin- ning,” then there is a space. This was sold to a little boy named Lowsky for §20. The spaces then began to sell live- ly, thank to Rabbl Levy, who stimulated the sale by putting in an occasional bid himself. The Torah was presented to the syna- gngu: by J. Woolach of 1131 Mission street. Auxiliary Schooner Queen of the Isles Arrives From Carolines. —— Group Passed From Spain to Ger- many Last January and Sea- son of Prosperity Has Resulted. —_—— The auxili schooner Queen of the Isles arrived here from the Caroiines late Saturday night after an unusually long trip of fifty-one ds She was built here in 1868 for a German trading firm and after her gasoline engines were put in she went from here to the Marshall group. Since then she has been trading between the Marshall and Caroline islands. About three months ago she began leaking through the sleeve of the t and the engines got out of order. She has therefore come here to be overhauled. Captain Hitchfield, who is in command of the schooner, says that peace and pros- perity are settling down on the Carolines. On the first of the year the group was transferred from Spain to Germany and now a German Governor, backed by a cruiser and a gunboat, deals out justice. Formerly it used to be a common thing for the chief of one island to raid the do- main of another near at hand. All such work has been stopped and offending chiefs have been severely punished. Several months ago a Japanese schooner with a load of arms and am- munition eared off the co of Pon- | ape. Th entlon was to sell or trade the cargo to the natives, but the Ger- mans spoiled the in an appearan to take ame. A gunboat put ind the Jap was ordered his cargo elsewhere. As he still hung around the coast he, was given twenty-four hours to get away and if he | was 1ot hull down on the horizon by that time the Ge 1 captain said he would ize both sel and CArgo. The | hooner disappeared and since then tempt to land arms n in the Carolines. ifield is _aceompanied and ammuniti Captain Hite by The crew Storm-Tossed Vessels Arrive. The passenger steamer Queen from Puget Sound ports, the collier Tellus from « r Harbor and the French bark Marie Molinos from Cardiff all had a hard time making San Francisco. The Queen should have been in early yester- | day morning, but did not make her dock until 5 p. m." The Tellus was due Satur- 98y and only gt in vesterday morning. e Marie Molinos was 6 days cf from Cardiff. Hed The Tellus brought down 340 tons of coal. A southeaster was the last thing Captain Pedersen expected to run into, At one time the wind blew so hard that the steamer only made ten miles in four The seas broke clean over the bridge and the smokestack could not be seen for the driving spray. For six hours a hurricane raged and the Tellus was in the middle of it. Then there was a lull the storm came up again and blew harder than ever. The storm was heaviest off the Columbia River. Captain Peder- sen says a number of lumber vessels were In It but all scemed to have weath- n_safe The French bark M: diff with 2589 tons of 898. She caught in the English channel into St. Nazalre, France, in distres: 1y a whole suit of sai s the bolt ropes, the upper tops carried away and the rudder damaged. It was November 18 when the Marie Mo- linos reached St. Nazaire, and it was Jan- , 1900, before she for se: Since then she good ather and made the voyage in 114 days. The steamer Queen was in the same storm as the Tellus. but came through it without damage. She brings down an- other big consignment cf Japanese from Seattle, all of whom are destined for the fruit ranches in the interior. An Outing on the Bay. The new tug Shelikoff. built by the Ris- don Iron Works for the Pacific Steam Whaling Com: had a large party of excursionists aboard yesterday. The com- pany placed the new boat at the disposal wrie Molinos left Car- coal on November 1, 4 terrific storm to_ put Nes nd had of its employes, and every one of them | wa present when the Shelikoff steamed from Misslon-street wharf. All the points of interest about the bay were vis- ited and the tug tested over the meas- ured mile. The machinery worked with- out a hitch. The boat logged eleven and a half knots. The Shelikoff goes north to act as a tender to the canneries. Sugar Boats Arrive. The barks Alden Bessie and Mohifan and the schooner H. C. Wright arrived vesterday from the islands. The Alden Bessie brought up 20315 sacks of sugar and made the run from Honolulu in twen- ty-three days. The Mobhican came from the same port in twenty-three and a half and brought up of sugar. The schooner H. C. ight came from Hana and made the run in twenty-one days. The voyages are fairly good ones for this time of the year. Th® bark Rod- erick Dhu, now out eighteen days from Hilo, made it last year in ten days, as did also the brigs John D. Spreckels’and Lur- line. Water Front Notes. The sailing date of the steamer Hum- boldt has been changed. She was v <tarted for Nome Wednesday. 3 alterations that are being made to insure extra comfort for the passengers cannot be completed in time, so the vessel wil not get away until Saturday, June 2. The German steel bark Henny Clement is mow out 302 days from Hamburg for Kiaochau, China, and 9 per cent is be- ing pald by the underwriters to reinsure hull and eargo. £ The big collier Washtenaw arrived yes. erday from Tagoma with 4000 (or-s of eoal. got the tail end of the storm off the olumbin River. 3 The old bark Germania also arrived with She was eleven days coming down, bu: has been outside for forty-eight hours awaiting a chance to come in. The schooner Berwick returned yester- day to port. She carried away the jaws but some | of her main boom in the heavy weather outside, and hed to put Mack. e Swedish Society’s Outing. The twenty-sixth annual day and moon- lizht outing of the Swedish Society was held yesterday at Shell Mound Park. The Swedish colony of :;Is city and Oak- nd was well represented and an enjoy- Inable time was had by all. In addition to the dancing there were quite a number of races for old and voung on the park race track. The merry-making was kept up until the departure of the last train from that part of the country. The affair Was managed by the following committee- mel - 0. F. Swanson, Fred. Nelson, Oscar Forsberg, O. Person, Alex. Olson, J. Tumblafi. Victor €jogren, Aug. Lund, H. P. Forsberg, Anton Carlson. Victor Lund- hi, Alfred Shill. John Peterson, and Charles Armstrong. —————— The affairs of the Colonial Office are mlnlfad at an annual cost to the cou of over £40,000. Mr. Chamberlain’ as Secretary is £5000. | us by this’ object lesson, ail yard was | MARION BACK ACAIN. TO HER 0LD MOORINES Sails Down From Mare Island Manned by Crew of Reserve. —— Premature Start Caused by a Mooring Shackle Breaking, but No Damage Results—Anchored Off Fol- som Street. e The United States ship Marion, bright in a new coat of paint and lively with the tread of a hundred naval militiamen on her decks, tore loose from her moor- ings at Mare Island yesterday and made her way to her old anchorage off Folsom- street wharf. Although it was well was to start some time yesterday, when she did start it came as a surprise. Her engines were getting a little pre- liminary turning over while she was still fast to the mooring bucy becoming too great the mooring shackle parted and the ship was adrift in the narrow channel. There was no confu- sion and no delay. Without hesitation Captain James ordered full speed ahead and the old ship commenced her voyage an_ hour before it was intended, but not before she was re: The guns, the old broadside smooth bores, the converted pivot rifie and the | Parrott rifle on her forecastle have all been taken out of lrer and her deck now clear and seemingly as broad a: ballroom. Sh has been painted alow and aloft, inside and on deck. Necessar: stores have been allowed to her and she | is in much better condition than at an time since she became a Naval Reserve ship. There are some things still want- ing to make her a vessel fit for = she will probably get all stores before any outside work is ordered. The men went up to the yard Saturday. A large number went on the. Markham, detailed for that duty at 2 o'clock. More went up on the first trip of the cello and still more came up with the band on the last trip of the same vessel, | which brought them to the yard about midnight. The run down was made under steam and fore and aft salls. It was uneventful and_the vessel anchored safely after a good quick run. the reserve will be taken up again at once and the officers and men wil the spirit of the organization newed zest The officers on board yesterday were: Captain b Jame: commanding sutenant Commander T. executive officer; Lieutenant George R. Kingsland, fleet engineer the reserve:; W. F. ficer; Lieutenant William Bonney, engineer; Lieutenant T. ¥. Harloe, Lieu- tenant W. B. Morrison, Lieutenant C. R. Alberger, Dr. J. J. Morrissey, surgeon; Lieutenant Junior Grade Henry Peterson, Lieutenant ‘Junior Grade George Kam- merer, Dr. Leland, passed assistant sur- geon; Eunsign Willlam Speck, assistant engineer; Knsign James Kelly, Ensign J F. Murphy and Ensign Oscar Smith. En- sign J. K. Burke was placed in charge of with re- Commander 4 chief | the steam launch and was sent down to the city ahead of the vessel. it b REMARKABLE OUTING IN THE MOUNTAINS Return of the Sierra Excursion Party—Resolutions Adopted on the Special Train. The excursion to the Sugar Pine forest of Tuolumne County given by the officials of the Sierra Railway Company and the West Side Flume and Lumber Comapn was a remarkable outing. The special Pullman train which took the San Fran- cisco guests to Carters returned last even- ing. At Sonora and Jamestown. on the homeward trip, the passengers were pho- tographed. The excursionists, who had the opportunity to view the obstacles to railway building which were overcome in the construction of the road from Carters into the forest, held a meeting on the ing: guests of_the Sierra the West Side Fiume on the grand excursion oads on May 25 and train and adopted the follo We. the undersigned, ny and iven ¢ 1900, ur pleasure for the entertainment and hospitality of our generous hosts, As a token of the esteem in which we hold the officials of said companies we hereby tender the following resolutions: Resolyed, The exact information conveved to the magnitude of the enterprise, the generous hospitality extended to all, renews our faith in the undeveloped riches of ‘our mountain districts as cne of the many unitis ing local capital. and_enterprise of our completion the ide Flume and the confidence and hearty support of the citizens of our State. Third— and all express our hearty good will and best wishes for the complete suc- Cess of these great enterprises and shall never forget the splendid hospitality shown us, Fourth—We desire to commend and indorse the skill, care and complete success engi afely handling the entire train under circumstances exceedingly difficult. Fifth—To the president. directors and officers of said companies we convey by these resolu- tions our unqualified thanks for an instructive, entertaining and satisfactory outing. The resolutions were gigned by all the guests aboard the special train. Among the signers are many representative men of the State, whose cabital is invested in great business enterprises. The officers of the Sierra Railway Com- pany a Prince Andre Poniatowski, president; Henry J. Crocker, vice presi: dent; T. 5. Bullock. general manager; S D. Freshman, Maurice Casey, Hall McAl- lister, W. Frank Pierce, Samuel Sussman. The officers of the West Side Flume and Lumber Company are: Henry J. Crocker, president: Wellington Gregg, vice presi- dent; Charles Gardner, secretary and treasurer; William H. Crocker, T. S. Bul- lock. Willlam H. Crocker, Henry J. Crocker and T. S. Bullock also received many in- dividual acknowledgments. AT THE THEATERS. The Orpheum has an exceptionally strong bill this week, and last night stand- ing room was-at a premium. The star at. traction t eek is Miss Lilllan Burk- hart in a clever sketch entitled “A Deal on Change.” She is supported by a clever company. The plot of the play deals with a young man in love, who is also afflicted with a mania for dabbling in stocks. He is in bad luck and ‘goes broke. His flancee at the right moment is there with the | bank roll and saves him. Miss Burkhart carries off the honors in the sketch, and renewed ,her popularity as a favorite at the Orphéum. She is one of the cieverest vaudeville actresses that ever visited this coast, Her support is £ood and well bal- anced. Sager and Carlis, in a comedy, “After School,” present something both good and popular. Ezra Kendall is still at the house for one more week. He does not grow stale, but has a lot of new stuff that keeps the audience in a continual roar of laughter. The Wilson family and their clever little children get rounds of applause for their cakewalk. Bartho, the Parisian dancer, Louise Gunning and the biograph complete the bill. $7 “Lord Chumlecy” was presented by the Nelll company at the California Theater | The play is one of the best | last night. that Mr. Neill has presented here. The title role is taken by Mr. Neill, and he plays the self-sacrificing lord with such a Clever effect that one is in sympathy with him throughout. The plot deals with a oung lord who suffers poverty to save a i,rlen from disgrace, and in the second act, where he is found in humble lodgings, it is very funny. In the third act every- thing is set flg:nt and he wins the girl of his choice. njamin Howard has the thankless task of assuming the role of the typlcal villain, who stops at nothing to win the girl he loves. eorge Bloom- quest has a small part as the stoker on a train. He only appears in the second act, but makes a who}: l;t‘:‘f hlil part. E:d"h? Chapman plays the of a er o a merchutl:‘m loves Lord ey with grace and earnestpess. The rest of the cast are good. understood she | still and the strain | Monti- | The regular routine of | enter into | A. Nerney, | Burke, navigating of- | of the | AMERICAN POLI VIII. EFFECTS OF MEXICAN WAR. | BY JESSE MACY, LL. D. The New Territory. The final settlement with Mexieo the close of the war gave to the Un States another enormous addition of te at { ritory, which included lifornia, Texas, | Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and parts of Wyomi “olorado. Shortly | before th aty with Great Britain adjusted our northwestern bound- ary and secured an undis; ed title to the | States of Oregon and Washington. This, | with the Gadsden purchas Mexico in 1853 of a strip lying south of Arizona | the United States as they still remain. | While ratification of the | treaty was still pending oceurred the | covery of California, whic amid great excitement to the pouring in of {a flood of adventurous population, geneous in character,but much of 1d lawless, and all moved by the over- mastering greed of gold. The whole of t | territory acquired from Mexico (Texa 1 cepted) w inhabited by Mexicans, Sp: iards and Indians, none of them capable without long training of appreciating and | hete e accepting the principles of free govern- | ment as understood by Anglo-Saxons. | Here were conditions to tax the rength, the wisdom and the vital assim- ilating force most experic State But the United S | ened by sectional {lem of sta hip which arose now compl v the inevitable slavery question, and its discussion embittered by the of nced and the most united of m st powerful, the es was weak- divisions: every pr the personal feeling which every allusion | to slave roused. Thoughtful patriots looked = into the future. Should sions be licated to f o ) siavery? th and South agree upon a division? Texas was con- ceded to ery; what should be done with the rest? The Wilmot Proviso. At the outbreak of the xican war it was foreseen that the result would be an addition to the possessions of the United Stdtes and that such accessions would unavoidably involve divided opin ions respecting the extens slave {to the new soil. A bill was before :h--‘ House in 1846 to appropriate money for the purchase of territory from Mexico, when | | David Wilmot, a Democratic member from | Pennsylyv: a and a warm friend of the administration, moved to attach to the bill a proviso Torever excluding slavery from any territory so gained. Von Holst | | likens the proposal of such a measure to | of a mine which shook | nd slavery to their very - amendment passed the “the springing both the Uni foundation: | @ ® +- DD+ Deb e e | | | | | | > ve PO Pebe @+ ieieieieieieies el House, but, though repeatedly brought up, | it never passed the Senate. Still the bare suggestion was sufficient greatly to inflame the South, while the principle embodied in it was at first eagerly adopted in the | North by men of all parties. | The settlement of the status of the pur- | chased territory in respect to slavery was seen by North and South to be imperatiy and Southern Democratic leade: de- termined to pose the principle of the Wilmot prov Many Northern Whig newspapers red for it. and, while the untempered zeal and Liberal party,” strove to commit the Whig to its support. Anti- | sl Whigs hoped by supporting the Wilmot proviso in the election of 1848 to | draw all the anti-slavery forces to a| union within the Whig party. But, as we | have seen, the Whigs were again too | timid to_promulgate definite party princi- | ples. and once more shirked the real isSue, | hoping to appear as the opponents of sla | ecking to | fanaticism of the very extension while placing at the head of their ticket the name of a [.Olnsli\nz.. sugar planter and slave owner who should attract Southern vot | The panacea_for the national disorder pre- posed by the Democratic nominee was the principle of “squatter sovereignty,” which would leave the people of each territory | to decide for themselves the question of | freedom or slavery. The Whigs gained the election through the defection of the | anti-slavery Democrats of New York. but nothing was settied t and both the | abolitionists and the slavery faction grew only the more determined. i Meantime anti-slavery sentiment had been growing stronger in the Democratic | party as well as among the Whigs. Vari- ous Democrati¢ county conventions held in the Narth during the campaign of 48 passed regolutions demanding the support | of the Wilmot proviso. The revolt of the | New York “barn-burners,” or free-soil Democrats, was followed by a similar par- ty defection in Illinois and Wisconsin, while several other Northern States were in represented by Democratic delegates the New York State Convention at U and in the National Convention at Buffa Which both nominated Van Buren as tha | | Free-Soil candidate for the Presidency. | | Throughout the campaign the anti-slavery | | Democrats protested loudly against !h'i | opinion announced by Cass that Congress | | had no constitutional power | slavery. » There were Whig ant also, though in many maintained a gloomy a | At the same time ceriain newsp | of Tavlor ceased not to proclaim | the Whig party North is the true | anti-slave: party of the republic” and that the Wilmot proviso n nd ev has been the doctrine of the Whigs of the Ty free State Other Northern newspapers made frequent allusions to “the Whig principles of the Wilmot proviso. | A large number of the members of the party solemnly pledged themselves to vote for no man who-was not a_declared | opponent_to_the introduetion of slavery |into the Territories. True to this pledge, | the Whigs of the Western Reserve in Ohio | formally repudiated the party nominee | | and averred that the Whig party had been | | “basely betrayed—ay. sold to the South- | ern slaveholder.”” 'But they were dis-| pleased likewise with the nominee of tle | free-soil party. Many felt that they were | tricked and insulted by the effort to force | them to vote for a life-long Democrat and a man of Martin Van Buren's princi- les. | P'he Wilmot proviso had dealt a blow to | | national politics which was ultimately to | tupture the Democratic party permanent- Iy, to kill the Whig party outright and to create (In 1%6) a new Republican party. | But all this could not have been accom- plished without the lamentable failure of the Whigs in party wisdom, as well as in true statesmanship, after their second rise to power in 1818 The Situation in 1850. California presented herself for State- hood in December, 1849. She had a popu- lation in excess of the requirement. ost of it was from the Northern States; some came from Europe, much from the South- ern States. The conditions were such as llmmmti"ely demanded a settled govern- ment. President Taylor, the leading hero of the war, was thoroughly conversant Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. | from Southern gra R R RN to prohtbit | ¥ TICAL PARTIES. with the situ tion and urged on the move= ment for entering the Union. _Slavery was exclu d, by fexican law m the whole of the newl purcha territory and the constitution adopted by the C: fornia convention expressly prohibited I South. under a Democratic admi on, had brought on the war for the f maintaining and extending South: power through the ext m of slave rritory. The outcome had been the ac= quisition _of a domain far exceeding its hopes. ¢But now it appeared that dom might more than slavery, after all, ar Californi th richest province of 'the whole, thre > at united with the Democ th admission of California vernment wou protection to the rest of the new lled upon the Pre r pu the Cal rn old warrior answere n any comsti- tutional I B and led his questi he favored the application of th t proviso to the Ter T by South: Congre ould_dissolve the Un aring himself | ready t in person to en- force his laws and to hang without statesmen to hey be taken in e no tool of the it Indeed, his ow chief counselor was the young and ardent Willlam H. Seward of New York, whose far-sight it was to make the Whig party the t exponent and agent of the opposition to slavery extension. This ment had alw existed in all the North and South; it had al- en strong in the Whig party and S gaining ground in the Democratic party. Northern abolitionists (with the xception of the extreme Garrisonian wing, which was always numerically small) would have been 1 by a sincere and straightforward rse on the pa of the WHhigs to a hearty alleglance to that Had Taylor lived and had the oth- aders been able to see that now ver before there lay before them an opportunity to make their party a truly national party—a compact, fully organized political orce based upon an issue in the broadest sense popular and national; had they but held ca principles already ly and firmly to ociated with the party name, the principles of non-interfer- ence with the affairs of the individual € es and unfline! = sistance to slav- ery in the ritories—then, indeed, would the aftercourse of our history have been different. The times were ripe as never before for the final triumph of national | ism over the threatened sectional disrup- tion and the great parties were the bonds, the only bonds, which might have been made strong enough to hold the Union in- tact. The Compromise of 1850. But once more Henry Clay came forward to smooth the troubled surface of the po- D R e R e e o ] R A B e o S B B A e e e ] ] litical waters with the oil of compromise. He tru » heal all wounds, adjust all differences, save the Union and unite in brotherly harwony the distrustful factions by th aal cone ns which he demanded from N »uth. The gist_of the eight resoiations which were to effect all this w: as stated by himself, forbearance by the North to insist upon the application of the Wilmot proviso to Utah and New Mexico; forbearance by the South to insist upon the express in- troduction of slavery into th Territo- rie.. The particnlar points were “only the feathers to fly the arrow.” California was to be admitted as a free State: the slave trade should be abolished in the Dis- trict of Columbia. but slavery should re- mam;: a ingent fugitive-slave law, which the siaveholders hzd long demand- ed, should be enacted; t7~ claim of Texas te large part of New Mexico should be quieted by a large mow-v indemnity. No interference with the Missouri compro- mise was suggested and no application of the doctrine of pe r sovereignty was to be made to the new Territories. After long debate and various changes in form the measures were finally passed. Tres doom of the Whig par was now the great tragedy of our his- drew on. JESSE MACY. If vou have a camera. of course you will trie it with you on your vacation. We ant to sell you the films and suppiies and we would like to develop and mount yur pictures. If you haven't a camera we want to sell you one. We have a full line of Eastman and Montauk cameras from $1 00 to $45 00 each. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 41 Market street. . SMALL ATTENDANCE AT THE PARK AND BEACH One Arrest Made for Fast Driving. Results of Swimming Events at Sutro Baths. There was a rather small attendance day at the park and beach. though was pleasant. Late in the after- noon quite a strong wind came up and on | that account only a small number of ve- hicle far as the CHff. There s y the Park Band and the benches and surrounding grassy slopes were well filled by pleasure-seekers who keenly enjoved the musical selections. Captain Thompson said that the erowd 2 dingly well behaved and but was made during the da: Lennon, who was driving In a es McHugh, made by rly colliding He wound affairs up main road at a Jemes E. single buggy with J himself objectionable wi several teams. by tearing down the breakneck speed. He narrowly missed three or four buggies and Officer Kava- nagh chgsed him and finally rounded him up at the last turn of the beach. Len- non was turned over to Officer Hamill, Who took him to the park station and placed two charges against him for fasg driving. Sutro the aqu aths were well patronized and tic sports excited great interest. Th its are Fifty-yard dash, juventle: First, J. An- W. nnan. Special derson; second, T fifty-yard race between F. A. Walse and a | R. Riding was a tie and will be decided B. Wells: next Sunday. Tub race_First, Hign second, J. Lewis; third, F. Rankin. diving—First, J. Ritter; “second, J. An- derson. Spring-board diving—First, R. Irving: second, F. Carroll. Swimming contest under water—First, J. Johnson: second, L. Finney. The Chutes had a large crowd. The new miniature railway came In for a big share of patronage. —_——————— Bottled Beers Labeled “Budweiser.” “Faust.'' ‘Black “Exquisite” or ‘“Pale-Lager"—if ‘‘Anheuser- Busch™ is on the label they are purest beers. E. G. Lyons Co., Wholesale Dealers, San Francisco, Cal. >,