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THE SAN TFRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1901. ALL IS IN READINESS FOR THE PARIS INQUIRY o+ OUTSIDERS WILL HAVE | NO VOICE| e Committee Decides to! Do the Question- ing Itself. ——— Commissioners Map De-|| mand That Specific Charges Be Filed. har uali Brady says he has only two or stions to ask, but they will be Piesstons of the committee will in the afternoons only, though sessions are likeiy to follow within If the investigation takes and promises to be pre- g fons will be held. DEADLOCK ON FREE CONFERENCE STILL ON Senate Refuses to Recede, and It Is the Assembly’s Turn to Move. HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- 25.—The joint rule regard- erence committees came up the Senate this morning on the report onference Committee ap- day. The committes re- not agree, and then moved that another com- ointed, in order to reach before the session had motion was lost ssembly to make out. DQUARTERS, SACRA- , Jan. 28.—A flock of pre- defendants in the Paris i vestigation arrived , armed with vouchers and with confidenc There be held , who was in charge of horticuituret exhibi , who was in charge of t nd W CALL ENTO, free mittee be some © considered Stanford Universi ! n was amend- ed on third reading by cutting the amount in half. Oneal ed two bills, appropriating 00 for the State Normal School at San Of this $55,000 ked for to erect a library and appro- Lukens introduc $10,800 to erect a hosp t the asylum | for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind Berkeley, and another appropriating $15,000 for the erection a workshop at the same instit mith of Los_Angeles | introducea 1l appropriating $25,000 to 1d a road from Fernando to con- nect with the For n road. elson Introduced bill making it"a misdemeanor to d roleum, bitumen or other carb nces in the and rivers. He at $1000 floe THE BARBERS' BILL Favors the Licensing of Razor-Wield- ers After They Have Passed Examinations. CALL HEADQUARTER! MENTO, Jan ed this morn of SACRA- 28.—The Assembly succeed- g in passing a few more m comparativel import- es on which there Is a contest were passed on the file, on account of the small number of Assemblymen Assembly bill No. 21, appro- to pay the claims of Com- tempt to aid the com s but, im order that the d D, Second Infantry Regi- B an mElerly National Guard of California, for O revent oversealous in. | services rendered at Colusa in 1897, In de- uld prevent overzealous in- grievances, or attorneys dividuals, jumping in pective of their bear« of the invesiiga- | fending prisoners in the County Jall from mob violence, was I Schl hassed. esinger’s bill No. 210, providing fo- ensing of barbers after an appren- ticeship of three years or the completion of a regular specified course in a barbers’ school, went through. The bill was draft- ed by the Journeymen Barbers’ Union of San Francisco. The Senate bill was intrc- duced Wolfe. Assembly bill No. 137, introduced by | Knowland, appropriating $2345 75 to pay the claim of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company for loss of merchandise in the | collapse of a portion of Pier §, San Fran- cisco, was passed: also Assembly bill No. 163, by Higby, making an appropriation for the deficiency for the transportation of insane and feeble-minded children. A resolution offered by Fisk to compel | the gatekeepers and porters of the Assem- bly to wear distinctive badges was h | adopted. Irish offered a resolution that every As- semblyman should keep his own desk dusted and cleared of waste paper, but ners and thelr at- reir conduct, while in Paris, and the State which dals, tioning | it % * SENATORS PROPOUND QUESTIONS Interrogate Agricul- tural Society'sRep- | resentatives. Asocmeiy e o A A “Tm Ciman, £ S it iar Al Finance Committee Puts Off Action on Proposed Appropriation, Bhese €1, Spectal Dispatch to The Call ALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 25.—There was quite an audience before the Sen- ate Finahce Committee this even- ing when the question of appro- priating $100,000 for the benefit of the State Agricultural Society and fits debt came up for consideration. The bill is_one that provides for an appropriation | to pay debts and to make improvements, | but with the money appropriated to make improvements the v wishes to pur- chase lan The expectation is that it could sell certatn portions of the present tract and, with the money so obtained, reimburse the Stafe for what it may put up for repairs, put the soclety wishes to purchase the land at once. The bill was advocated by Frederick Cox, Dr. W. P. Mathews and J. W. Wil- son, members of the soclety, and Judge Peter J. Shields, who recently was its | secreta: These gentlemen were closely | questioned by the members of the com- mittee, and the needs of the appropria- | ticn were finally narrowed down to th The s v is $40,000 in debt and wishes | to pay this sum out of the appropriation, and It also desires to expend $60,000 in im- | provements. There was a great deal of misunder- | nding over the question of title to the | ands. It appears that while the society a State the property it hoid i8 in the indiy mes of the memb of the so | | STRIKES AT NICKEL MACHINES Johnson Introduces an Anti-Gambling Measure. Greer Wants the State De- partment of Highways Lexowed. i | Speclal Dispatch to The Call ALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- ME Jan. 28.—Johnson intro- duced Assembly bill No. 504 this | 1t asked. why, the property waa ot held 1a the mame ¢ tho morning to amend section 330 of | State, if the State w > debts the Penal Code, to read as follows: and the an- ate get held n value Sate to sell | & it pleased, but held in the name tution could be ca the institution } who deals, plays or carries on, ,e opened, or who condueta, | . whether for hire very persc or causes to b E rondo, b nd-a-half, twenty-one, ot machine | entage game | device. for | presentative on who plays or bets at | srohibited, games, is hall be punish- 5160 nor more :'are not w n, to trust the in the f * management of this " querfed Senator Rowell when this nation had been made. | 0 asked y the soclety h: debts to run along until th. sed such large proportions and emanded why, 1f what, the was m improve- | It was 2 allowed its ¢ j2tiom than | had Jail not ¢ | fine and mpr 2uthor of @ bill (Assembly pealing the act creating the it of Highwa approved Greer, who is well known | fa aes the president of the | believes that the Depart- | down with srovisions. should irrelevant ana g Rowell ate Grange, which the s y were indebted, the so- |, P i o hed h- | oty s ment of Highw has accomplished not y would turn over the land. ing, and his object In introducing this | ot for $0,000,” was the answer, re is to put the department on the | hen this is a speculatic satd Row- fensive and compel it to render an ac- ounting to the Legislature of its expend- itures and the resulis it has accomplished. The bill was referred to the Committee on Roads and Highways, but Greer expects it to go ultimately to the Committee on “ommissions and Jixpenditures and he an- | ticipates some Lexowing in that direction after the Paris Commission affairs shall have been duly probed. 3 Cromwell is the author of Assembly bill No. 512, another measure in line with hose previously introduced by the mem- r from Sonoma for the protection of the that the owner of a dog | be llable to the | owner of the fowl for damages and cost ! of sult; and any person finding a dog worrying, wounding or killing a fowl not | on the premises of the owner of the dog | may kill the dog and the owner of the | canine shall sustain no action for damages | under such circumstances. The Speaker | referred the biil to the Committee on Fish and Game, but on second thought decided | it should go to the Committee on Agri- | | culture. Cowan Introduced a measure empower- ing the Board of Trustees of the Home for Feeble-minded Children to create a | contingent fund from the regular appro- | priations in_order that any saving that | may be made may be appliied to perma- | nent improvements. More Coyote Scalp Claims. CALL. HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 28.—Senator Flint has added to the coyote scalp claims, and Assem- blyman Greer also has contributed. Flint to-day Introduced a bill to providing for an appropriation of $10,920 to pay coyote laborer, aged 25 vears, was found dead in | scalp claims from the counties of San bed this afternoon. He was alone In the | Benito and Monterey. Greer’s bill is to house and during the night fell from his | appropriate $10,710 to pay claims from | bed in an eptleptic fit, breaking his neck. | Tehama County. - it < Matthews, than that.” ““But if the soclety is a State Institution, not the State the right to take it any- not a speculation,’] sald Dr. but the land is wérth more ““That would be to abolish the soclety,” aild Matthews. “But has not the State the right to abol- ish the society? persisted Rowell. Dr. Matthews looked knowingly at his colleag! “1 don’'t knéw about that,” he sald. It was finally intimated that if the soct- ety would be willing to listen to a propos!- tion for an appropriation of $0,000, the SO to deed the land in Sacramento t. nd fhe State to take a hand n e falr ventures, some consid- eration mi; be given it and then the question lald over until next Friday. The committee is not satisfled witk the land-purchase scheme, and probably w li not accept the bill in anything like its present shape. | ! Provides for ‘“State Agents.” CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 28.—Senator Nelson intro- duced a bill to-day designed to do away | with claims fer the transportation of work in the hands | of * s.” The bill provides that its provisions shall apply only <o citles having more than 200,000 inhabitants, which means San Francisco. The State agents, the bill provides, shall recelve $12 a month. GILROY, Jan. 28.—George M. Bevans, a | duty of Inspecting and making forr | Ing_system in the name of the r'ed | bining the best featur: { line of the Yo<emite , or by both such | ¢ | tems of ymfort there. Ross, son of ell of things Melick talked of the West- said that w pch’s posses- h could Gppear at the ok out for Truman's erwise. Lynch could appear t his own expense, not willing to place the k out for the in- Truman had = which he wanted n, but Rice said be disclosed un- before the com- d not afford to ter of their evidence re It would be prop- problem was to oon the com- present Lynch Chairman Bliss Runyon and Gaskill ngness to appear 2 o’clock to-mor- will begin mmissioners on the jeved the n gett ormmittee will Jose s been devoting all 1 days past, = to the contribu. to the galety of s to lead W, commissioners reer e in the task of well i earnest and ibition and legal to know at every things were done reg- prover legal warrant. has been a detective as statesman, and, better still, he 1 a primrose path in the dark. If iderable porifon of California’s 1 to keep corks popping and to fan beauties a_proper regard a's gallants, Brady will find tion of paying the | ner from South- | sent | with | stand, | the Speaker declared it out of order be- | s fore irish had a chance to explain that he did it in view of inability to get the porters appointed under the liberal pat- ronage scheme to do that work. Savage introduced his proposed consti- tutional amendment, fixing the minimum time for the use of a textbook in the pub- lic schools at six instead of four years. PROTECTION AGAINST ANONYMOUS WRITERS Devlin Would Make the Circulation of Unsigned Attacks a Mis- demeanor. HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- 3 NTO, Jan. 28.—Senator- Devlin® has in- troduced a bil', taken from the Massa- chusetts election law, which is designed | 1o stop the circulation of anonymous and | personal circulars. The provisions of the | bill are as follows: on who inientionally writes, prints, tributes, or causes to be written, posted or distributed, any circular, letter or poster which is designed or intended to injure or defeat any candidate | for nomination or election to any public office by refiecting on his personal character or politi- cal action, unless there appears upon such cir- cular, pamphlet, letter or poster, in & consplcu- ous place, either the name of the chalrman and secretary or the names of two officers at least of the political or other organization issuing the same, or the name and residence, with the street and number thereof, of any, or some voter of this State, and responsible therefor, ghall be gullty of a misdemeanor. Bvery person who prints any circular, pam- phiet, letter or poster of the Kind or character Inertioned in section 63 of this cpde (the Penal Code) without sdding thereto hik name, show- ing the printing office at which the same was printed, is guilty of a misdemeanor. S it DEFINES THE POWERS RESTING IN THE STATE Proposed Amendments to Prevent Conflict With City Charters and Ordinances. CALL HEADQUARTERS, BACRA- MENTO, Jan. 28.—Assemblyman Savage has introduced the following constitu- tional amendment, designed to prevent conflict between the constitution and the State law and city charters or ordinances: Scotion 3. The protection and eafety of life, liberty, property, health and morals; the se- curing of freedom and fairness in and at all elections; the administration of justice; th protection and regulation of commerce: th maintenance and execution of measures for the suppression of vice awd ecrime (subject to any exclusive vower of jurisdiction of the United Statex) are functions and affairs of State; and mo restriction of legisiative power as to muuicipal affalrs shall deprive the Legislature of power to provide by law for such protection, safety, security, regulation and execution. The W AN\ ///I enumeration of the for shall mot Te construed o exclude any other power, Jurie. diction_or sovereignty ng or pertaining to the State. < 279 BUTCHER. FRom™M CREEK, AWAIT) THE ARRIVAL OF Hi5 FAMILY S 3 == ) ) ~ e ASSEMBLYMAN NE WU_LW'?;IALNU‘E REPORTS ON MINING MEASURES Assembly Committee Sanctions Three Bills. A One Abolishes Debris Com- | mission as at Present Constituted. s PR Bpecial Dispatch to The Call ALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 28.—The Assembly Committee on Mines and Mining this afternoon decided to recom- mend for passage three bllls affect- ing the Debris Commission. are Assembly bills 297, 403 and 435. The first and last are measures introduced by Irish and Raiston, which will in effect abolish the Debris Commission as at pres- ent constituted and give to the Governor the right of appointment—immediately if he cares to exercise it—of a new Deb: Commissioner, who fnust be a competent civil and mining engineer, Ti omm sfoner will serve for four years and will recelve a salary of $600 per year, accord- ing to the terms of Rglston’s bill. The supervision of the construction of the debris Impounding system will be in charge of Government engineers, and the Debris Commissfoner wili have only the re- POris to the State. The miners say that a nrst-class mining engineer will'accept the oftice for the honor there is in It. John F. Kidder of Grass Valley has held the office for eight years past at a yearly salary of $3600. Assembly bill 403, by Schillig, merely provides 1or vesting the title of ail sites purchased for the works of the impound- 1 Government. The Irrigation Committee of the Assem- bly to-day appointed a sub-committee to take in hand seven bills, providing a legai method for the disorganization of Irriga- tion districts formed under the Wright act, and to draft from them one bill com- :s of the seven. ‘The committee dec to recommend for passage Broughto:u's bill compelling the capping of artesian wells, the flow of which wouid go to waste. The Assembiy Committee on Roads and ¥§ recommended to-day that the foitowing bills pass: Duryea’s bill, ap- propriating $36,000 for the Lake Tahoe oad; Ray's bill, appropriating $50,000 f a road from Merced Kuits to the bounda Natlonal Park: Hal- ey’s bill, appropriating 330,00 for a road from Lick Observatory to the San Joa- in River; Merrfit'’s bill, appropriating 000 for a road connecting the road s Santa Barbara and Kern coun- ties, and Haley's bil! tur the construction of a road from Holllsrr to Los Angeic amended, however, to carry an appropria- tion of $10.000 Instead of $20,00. The Assembly Judiclary of bills. Schiesinger's bills, Nos. 239 and 17, relating to the liability of employe for injuries inflicted through the carel ness ot employes, were under considera- tion for some time, but were finally left over tiil next Thursdav night. Schlesin- ger was present and explained his bilis the purpese of which is to legalize puni- tive as well as actual damages. He read a letter from Judge Dafingertield, express- ing interest in the projosed law and say- ing in explanation that his political death and that of Judge Van Fleet were due to the statute in its present form. The Judiclary Committee recommends that the following pass: Cowan’s bills 23 and 285, making the changiug of the brand on a sheep, hog or goat a misde- meanor instead of a felony; James' con stitutional amendment and the corre- sponding bill, No. 250, establishing a court of Is: 'Sheridan_and Bauer's kid- Grove ills. The Assembly Committee on State Prisons and Reformatories decided to- night to visit Folsom on Wednesday and to leave on Friday for its trip to the Whittler State School. The Senate Committee on Banks and Banking will recommend *hat Muentner's bill repealing the act creating the Bank Commission do not pass. The Senate Committee on Elections will recommend for passage Cuttar's bill_repealing the .urity of election laws. Cutter's theory = that all the valuable provisions of that system are already in the codes, and as for the others, among them that requir- ing a statement of election they better be left out, them but so many incentives to perjury. —_—— . — STRONGLY OPPOSED TO THE FRANCHISE BILL Los Angeles Improvement Associa- tion Urges That the Measure Be Defeated, LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28.-4The Angeleno Heights Improvement Association to-day presented a petition to the Council strong- 1y urging that body to take prompt action to obtain such alterations In the present L. Johnson's com- franchise law as to correct defects and| permit citizens to obtain the sale of str. raflway franchises. The communical fon asserts that citizens of the Second, Fourth | and Sixth wards have been striving for years to obtain additional street-railway facilities, and have uniformly failed. Now a bill is pending before the Legislature which will greatly increase the difficulty of obtalning street-rallway franchises. The petition urges a prompt movement by the Council to avert the threatened action. Chairman Bowen of the Board of Public ‘Works explained that he was acting in conjunction with the City Attbrney’s of- fice n preparing amendments that secmed desirable to the franchise bill now pend- ing, known as the Broughton law. — JUNKETING COMMITTEE AT WHITTIER SCHOOL Legislators Learn From the Board of Trustees the Needs of the Institution. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28.—The Legisla- tive Investigating committee which ar- rived here last evening visited the State Reform School at Whittier to-day. Most of the party remained at the school over night. The $15.00 appropriation for the building to replace the dining-hall, burned some- time ago, has already passed the lature, but the committee listened patiently to the representations of the trustees that a num of other exten- sions were imperatively needed. The com- mittee promised to recommend an appro- priation for the improvement of the car- penter and blacksmith shops. The com- mittee will go to San Diego to-morrow. e cor Tt s PROVIDES FOR LEGAL - LEASE OF CHINA BASIW | Text of a Constitutional Amendment Proposed by Senator Davis. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 28.—Senator Davis intro- duced in the Senate to-day several bills 8o amending the codes as to wer boards of harbor commissioners to lease portions of the water fronts or tide lands under their control to rallroad companies that will use the lands so leased for ter- minal purposes. The code amendments are to make pos- sible the legal leasa of the China Basin to the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad and to ratify the same. The lease has already been made, but it was necessary to obtain legislative sanc- tion and to make aGoubly sure that all would be right Davls introduced his con- stitutional amendment of to-day. They | | Committee met | to-night and consideréd a large numober | I expenses, | as he considers | < 24 SCASSEMBLYME ATHERTON < | RECEWES: ALETTER_ [ FRomM THE BOYS .UP T' HUM -= ¥ - - | TAXPAYERS OF YUBA been ralsed. No deaths ease have occurred in the t 3 case has been re- WANT SALARIES CUT Lively Argument Occurs Befors the Joint Committee on County Government. CALL HEADQUARTER! MENTO, Jan. 25.—There wa: before the joint committee government this afternoon were some taxpayers of ¥ ed official sala , and on the other Senator Cutter, who is one the officials, and Mr. Forbes, who came to help C: ter. The row over a bill so amend- ing the coun ernmenc as to re- duce salaries in Yuba Co It was shown that the assessment was growing smaliler., while = were at the same standard, and th - paying contingent thought all should go down together. Cutter and Forbes sald the roll was going down because people were dodging taxes and the visiting dele- gation retallated by ing Cutter and crbes were of the “Courthouse” ring. A call from the Senate intervened to break up the meeting. and the question will be fought out later. BURGLARS FAIL TO GET STOCK OF DIAMONDS | Poiled by a Small Spring in the Safe of a Seattle Manufacturer of Jewels. ported The railey. e «the Yukon hic at cold w Telegrap SACRA- a lively row on county On one side damage t ip Senator, which went ashore at the southeast end f Shelter Island on Januar; slight. DYNAMITE EXPLOSION. Buildings at a Calaveras County Mine Demolished. ANGELS CAMP, Jan. 2. —About two hundred pounds of dynamite exploded at the Lone mine at West Point, and loss of life is 1¥ sl The powder had been distributed on the benches of the hanging m to thaw out while the men were at roll ries in ed ar: r ished and severs ported. shoe in a window frame Huntsman Badly Wounded. SAN JOSE, Jan. 38.—C. pressman of this cit; a cape from death while hunting in the Ca averas Valley vesterday. As it was he received a bad gunshot wound in the SEATTLE, Jan. S.—A little spring, re- | per left arm, from the elbow to the shov Lcen: ¢ introduced into the mechanism of | der, and suffered greatly from loss blood. As Aikens and a_companion wera driven over a rough road his gun, which rested at his left side, was exploded by the jolt of the wagon and the charge en- tered his arm. He will be laid up for ome tim: “burglar-proof" sal®s, proved a stumbling black to expert robbers who were after $10,000 worth of uncut diamonds and other jewelry owned by Henry Hensel, a man- ufacturing jeweler in the Hinckley block. The burglars left most of thelr tools be- | hind, a seven and a half pound sledge | hammer, a thirty-inch crowbar, eight | steel drills, two punches and a wood bit being found in frout of the safe. The attempted burglary was unusually bold. The Hinckler block is on Second avenue and Columbla street, in the heart | | of the business district, where there are many passers-by at ali hours of the night. The burglars began their attack on the safe by attaching ciamps to the combina- tion knob and tearing it from its socket. The force necessary to do this was so great that three small holes were gouged in the front of the safe at the points where the clamps rested. After remov- | ing the knob the burglars, with the aid | of a steel punch and sledge hammer, | drove the combination pin out, exposing the combination. ! | The safe itself was up to date in fts | fittings and besides being unusually strong contained a burglar proof contrivance in- troduced only recently by the manu- | facturers. There i3 a secret spring con- | tained in the mechanism which operates | the lever that falls and locks the bol ADVERTISEMENTS. Have a charm of their own when are not weak and feeble, but hale after the tumblers have been released any violent manner—that s, unless they are released by properly working the combination. After the robbers had succeeded in pry- ing out the knob and releasing the tum lers In_the same this spring fell and held the bolts despite th> efforts of the safe- | crackers, who probably were not aware of | | | fts existence. - LOCKS UP CASHIER AND POCKETS THE COIN | Daring Robbery in Kansas City Of- fice of Standard Oil Com- pany. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 28.—At the of- fice of the Standard Oil Company in the southern part of the city this afternoon a young man forced Cashier Irvin, at the point of a revolver, {iuto a closet, and af- ter locking him in made off with between in cash, Irvin was preparing his cash for the bank when, at 2:45 o'ciock, a young man, probably 24 years old, entered the offico quietly and, placing a revolver at the | cashler’s head, ordering him to retreat to | a small closet a few feet away. Irvin complied promptly and the robber turned | the key on him. Then, placing the money | in sight in his pocket, the robber walk.d | from the office a hundred feet to the ral- | road tracks, where he boarded a passing freight train. Irvin/was alone and it was | some time before he attracted passers- | by to release him and made the robbery | known to the nolice. id Ralph Myer were Ched Coverdale arrested near the Union station on sus- icion of being gullty of the robbery. Lner Cashier Irvia positively identified | Coverdale as_the man_ who entered the office and robbed him. It is supposed that Myers was a confederate stationed near by. When arrested the men had $174 and they tried to bribe their captors. The police believe they have the right men and that the rest of the money will be recovered. Myer Is well known to the police, having been arrested here several times. Both men are young. gt 5o s | TRAINS ARE RUNNING ON WHITE PASS LINE Snow Blockade Is Raised and the First Train Out Brings Daw- sonites With Gold. PORT TOWNSEND, Jan. 28—The| steamer Victorian, which was reported disabled in All'::a.v:rflv'ed last night {rom Skaguay. e Victorian reports t! snow blockade on the White lg:."’lfi Yukon Railroad has been ralsed and trains are running through. A train ar- rived from White Horse on January 2 bringing fifty Klondikers. most of :rmm came down on the Victorfan. Sixty thou- sand dollars in dust was in the steamer’s safe, and It is estimated an equal amount was brought by the ngers. Returning passengers report that the Ipox and the Klondike is from hearty, enjoying the sports and pleasures of youth though they cannot participate in them. The whole secret of a sturdy old age is this: Keep the stomach and organs of digestion and nutrition in per- fect order. The youn, not think of his stomac! think of it as he gro *weak ” stomach, incapable of + the adequate nutrition for the body, which causes the weakness and feeble- ness of old age. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical cures diseases of the stomach and other organs of digestion and mutrition. It makes the " weak ” strong, and 50 enables the body to be fully nourished and strengthened by the food which is eaten. Doctor Plerce’ k‘l‘:fl ?’;finm les of the * lfl:;my 1 aki . was able to do light work, andhbue been im- proving ever since. T am tow heaith or one of my age—6o years. 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