The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 19, 1901, Page 3

e — THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1901. SENATE COMMIT FOUR MEMBERS REFUSE TO RECOR Against Bills Indofsed byl or Commissioners. % M 5 SR PR to The Call. L L L Dispate SACRA- | and these g the South- | interc f of China Howell fleld Baker . W, W Judiciary fact Senators are from the South- ak or vote in lease. When the Shortridge, Oneal If persistent ru- the silence was not supported ldwell's are onstitu- ack d dner, Muen- Kern, Taylor, ge. Oneal, Curtin and to vote, and Cutter and OF THE CODE REVISION MEASURES D THEIR VOTES e members | TEE APPROVES LEASE SENATOR LEAVITT 15 STILL ANXIoUS TO TAKE UP GOVERNOR'S . MESSAGES - | |4 !‘ Continue Other Ca or Fin s the Commission Two Years and the 1Is fi al Action This Session. - Special Dispatch to The Call. to the new bill amendme: sl Then the Code ( usly a after th. esslon of the 11d be in £ would t would of wihich went in to-day. or dification of it s soon as th | Code, shall.have » or two night s measures can be E k with a lot of ssing bot -ndments the tail of a ing after '3 SOME PECULIAR AMENDME TO BRADY'S TELEPHONE BILL itions Committee’s Changes Are Promptly De- feated on the Floor of the Assemblu. s AL Special Dispatch to The Call. t of the gross recelpts was strick- the amendment, and a clau: roviding f 2 v Iy of r th or th nd municipal Section 5, ire of certificates ess in case of fail setting forth that ate treasury = was de- Assemt being in no temper the career of cinch legislation ed, the to further by th ¥ - s ot S insertion of amendments that rostie -~ s \cate of au. | Would leave the bill mainly meaningie: S ' and for the rest vicious. The bill goes to third reading in its original form olonel” Brady sts that he had no hand in the framing the amendments; hat they were reported by the Committec n Corporations without his knowledge. i that he was dumfounded this morn- hen they were read. It is cettainly that he was speechless, and that th rmen who wusu: make his for him were s picio ¢ reluct- ave a say in the matter. man Broughton of the Corpors tions Committee was absent from the A w sembly chamber, be! confined to_ his room by an attack of the mumps. Alden Anderson was not present at the commit- meeting when the telephone bill was idered, and Schlesinger enters the plea. No member of the Corpora- mmittee was present this morn- he 1 explain the meaning of the ieoifofefordeimfoiiiedt @ XPENSE BILLS FOR COMMITTEE EXCURSIONS s R Single Dau's nd rist Aggregates Two Thousand Dollars here Are Many More in Sight, e G T enemy of the bill and parading his inten- tions to go home at his own expense to ally the opponents of the measure, did ot hesitate to g0 as a substitute’ for Chairman Brady on the committee, and | will draw down ‘more than $100 in mileage. He knew the bill was to be introduced | and could have defeated it, and the jun- | keting trip as well. by a denunciation of e scheme on the floor of the Assembly, t he chose the more pleasant method ! of fighting in San Pedro at the State's ex- pense. - DECIDES UPON NIGHT SESSIONS. Assembly Resigns Itself to After- Dinner Toil. . HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- . *Feb. 18.—The Assembly has at leavored to give an earnest of its iors for the future by deciding upon night sessions. By resolution re- ported to-day the Committee on Rules he Assembly the hours of will be from 9:30 to 12, from Tom 7:30 to 10 o'clock. Night will begin to-morrow night. On motion of Treadwell the code re- Vision bills were made a special order for to-morrew night. Webber and Feliz Vehemently against taking Up these Bille. claiming that the task was gigdntic and that more important legislatio: i'b cigwded out completelys B e Senate wil whhe Senate will hold 2 night session on ¥ to consider th ¥ meg Lils ¢ reapportion. CALL 1 committee to £an Francisco police scan- ge { ihe specia mmerce and Navi- te expense bill to San Pedro on stigating the need of issioners. The c utterly use- nowing that the troduced throwmifh the of their own number | ight be had ratic erator from beer: posing as an sessions i me BmrTan EBROUGHTON'S QOT MuMPs AN NOW ASSEMBLYMAN LEGISLATORS CAUGHT IN MR (ROMWELL - THE FRIEND OF THE FEATHERY FowL THE U COL"MARTIN BRADY TRIED TO OBSCURE RAIMSELF WHEN HIS TELEPHONE BILL CAMEUP LIFELIKE AND CHARACTERISTIC ATTITUDES* OF CHINA BA SIN | \ | | \ . GAGE'S ALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, 18.—The bill appro- | priating $100.09 to be used in sup- pressing preventing contag- fous diseases in this State was | It is an As- ; the Senate al act of gislature upon it. | overnor to-morrow and t will go to the will be signed within the week. f the friends of 1g either in fts arguments that , but when the joined in o hours of the measure to say favor or to combat | might be made aga | »sition began to | what proved L - SL0W PROGRESS Are Nearing the Bodies of} the Cumberland Mine | Victim. Special D(=p£_k:fl"rho Call. CUMBERLAND, B. ( i8.—The work of the volunteers { mine has been carried on so successfully that now the miners are in about 40 yards and within eeventy yards of where they ex- pect to find the first body out of the six four who perished in the mine disas of last Friday. The work is necessarily slow, for it is a constant fight te force | the firedamp and gas back and carry the | air aiong by extending the brattices with | which they are making a midwall. Along | one side of this partition the air is forced, | and, after being driven againet the face | of the firedamp, it returns toward the | miners and back to the shaft The Call correspondent accompanied the | working party down No. § to-night and | went with it 10 the face where the fire- | damp is encountered. More than a thou- | sand yards was traveled until the single passage wus reached, where, to make a | midwall giving a vent to tne level, the boards are being nailed up to extend the | brattices. Wooden mallets are used as un extra precaution, in the fear that a metai hammer might cause a spark, the contact of which with gas would cause another explosion. The work Is siow, for many stoppages have to be made 1o pre- | vent leakages of the air current. | To-night the force of men is being in- creased and by to-morrow it is expected | that sufficient headway will have been | made to recover the first body. The min- | ers in the nearest workings to No. 5 in | No. 6 were Munroe and MclInnes, and it ! is expected that the bodies of these men will be the first of the sixty-four to be recovered. Seven or eight, including Overman 'D. Walker and Robert Steele, will not be recovered until the forty feet of water in the bottom of No. 6 is pumped out. Walker had just gone down in the cage when the cxplosion occurred, and Steele had jusi signaled for the cage to be drawn up. The engineer at the noist says he heard the bell ring once, the sig- nal to hoist a cage with coal, and then | within a_few seconds the explosion oc- | curred. Steele would have been right at the cage. The other five or six in the lowel level were Chinese. Some believe that the signal given may have been the first of three bells, the signal to hoist the | cage with men. Foreman Snedden was belleved to have been about to come up Jthen with his tools, he hnvlni gone down |° 0 to get them in order to leave for Nanaimo | to_bury his child, which had died there. These will be the lust bodies recovered, but many of those in the upper levels wili be taken out to-morrow and Wednesday, ard to be in readiness for the grucsome | work a number of hastily constructed stretchers are ready at the pithead of No. 5. As coal is urgently needed, a smali force will be put to work at No. %, the | largest of the three mines, employing 50 men when running in two shifts. Late (}2; afternoon the pumps began work% d it 1s cstimated that there Is forty-eight ahead for them. Eince the arrival at Cumberland yester- | | Committee on Mun | the Broughton fran. | of uniformity of legisiation arguments, good, bad and indifferent. Those who ofposed the measure were Rowell, Sims. Ashe, Belshaw and Taylor. Belshaw tried to amend by striking out a few words that, to him, seemed- to give the State power to establish a separate | quarantine service. His amendment was tabled. mith of Kern tried to have another | postponement of a week, but his motion was lost. Smith said he would vote for the bill because he believed there was contagious disease in the State. He had consulted his constituents and ascertained that they would approve such a vote. ®Ashe onposed the measure, saying, as he did so, that to pass the bill to dig the politfeal grave of the Governor and | the Republican party @ declaration which il ittt RESCUERS MAKE & day of Premier Dunsmuir, chief owner of he has, been almost continu- e mouth of the shaft or in the office. personglly inspecting ures of relief being put into force and occasionally making a sugges- ticn to the foreman of the relief gang. FILES A MINORITY REPORT. Senator Taylor7Would Amend the Broughton Franchise Bill. CALL ADQUARTERS MENTO, nator Tay filed a minority re sipal Corporations .on ise bill. In his re- port he recommends amendments strik- ing out the clause permitting open Bidding after the sealed bids have been opened; rtion of a provision allowing city s to grant (ranchises without a vertising the same upon petition of the owners of two-thirls of the Yroperty along the route of the proposed fran: chise, and a third requiring a special bond for the completion of the work guar- anteed. The first two had been voted down by the committee before the bill | was recommended for pagsage. SEeky Bills Passed by Assembly. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 15.—The follow- ing Senate bills were passed by the As-| sembly to-day: Amending section 1238 of the Code of Civil Procedure, extending the right of eminent do- main. Amending section 8§70 of the municipal gov- ernment act. the claim of John S. Wilkins. ting $11.060 and interest to pay the al . Daly. = the act entitled “An act for the creation of a commission for the promotion in the United States, and to appropriate money for its ex- penses.” Requiring State and county officers to keep a record of all public property in their pos-- session., SR i Cost of Election Conte: CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 18.—The aftermath of the contest of Ben P. Tabor for the seat in/ the Senate held by Lardner appea; - day in 5 bl amoUnting 1o 39, the. eo- penses of the contest andattorneys’ fees. The allowances are as fallows: W. B. Lardner, $303 $5; P. Tuttle, attorney, §100; Charles A. Swisler, attorney, $100; Ben P. Tabor, §32: C. T. Jones, attorney. %50, and Elwood Brurer, $50. Jones and Bruner were Tabor's attorneys, and Tut- tle and Swisler appeared for Lardner. The expenses allowed the principais are for witness fees, mileage and transcription. Anti-Slavery Bills. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 18.—in the Assem-- bly this morning Knowland introd his two bills aimed at the lram’:: l-I$| ‘échefl nese slave girls. Railway Submits a Proposition. — ‘WOODLAND, Feb. 18—The conference between the Suvcrvisors of Yolo and Sut- ter counties and the railroad company relative to the construction of a new bridge at Knights Landing was not aito- gether satistactory. The company wants to build a bridge that will cost about 390, 000. Tt will make, it a combination bridg. on condition that each county will agree to p:{ $1000 a year rental, assume all re- sponsibility for accidents that may occur on the wagon road, keeg the floor of the bridge in good repair an. y for the ser- vices of one watchman. These terms in- :;c-le that the company prefers to go it one. ort from the Senate | HUNDRED-THOUSAND-DOLLAR HEALTH BILL PASSES THE SENATE Only Nine Votes Are Recorded Against the Measure and It Now Awaits the Governor’s Signature. brought ‘Wolfe to his feet with a | speech, in which he said that should Gov- | ernor Gage come before the people at the next election he would need no other plat- form to stand on than the fact that he had caused the pas€age of the bill under consideration. The vote was 25 to 9, as follows: Ayes—Bettman, Burnett, Caldwell, Corlett, Currier, Cutter, Dawis, Deviin, Hoey, Laird, Leavitt, Lukens, Maggard, Muenter, Nelson, Crieal, Selvage, Shortridge, Simpson, Smith of Kern, Smith of Los Angeles, Tyrrell of Nevada, ‘Tyrrell of San Francisco, Welsh and Wolfe—25, Noes — Ashe. Belshaw, Flint, Greenwell, | Luchsinger, Plunkett, Rowell, Sims and Tay- { ler—9, ’ | Absent—Byrnes, Curtin, Goad, Lardner, Nutt | and Pace—é. il e e @ GREAT SURPRISE TOCIPMLSTS lValue Blaced on Huntington Estate Larger Than ‘ Was Expected -— Speclal Dispatch to The Call. | NEW YORK, Feb. IS.—Great surprise | was expressed in financial circles to-day at the value placed upon the estate of | the Jate Collis”P. Huntington by the ex- ecutors, as indicated by the payment of the inheritance tax. The announcement | that a tax of $700,000 had been antfcipated | was accepted as fixing the value of the | estate at 3$70,000,000. The increase of | nearly $10,000,000, resulting from the | recent rise in the market price of South- ern Pacific securitles, was accepted as | equally true. | While the tax paid is credited upon the | books of the Controller as $700,000, the check which was. glven by Isaac T. Gates for the executors amounted to $665,000, there having been an allowance of five per cent because of the payment Lof the wax within six months after the death of the testater. Controller Coler to-day acknowledged the receipt of the check. Simon Strassberger and Delcour S. Potter will act as_attorneys for the appraisers. Miller, Peckham & King will represent the executors. A final agree- ment as to the appraisement may not be reached for many months. 1t 1s expected that a schedule may be sent to the State Controller in about two weeks, and with it will go a suggestion from the surrogate as to who shall act as ‘apprsuer. There are five collateral in- heritance tax appralsers in New York, any one of whom may be chosen. They are Robert Mazet, William Halpin, | Charles B. Page, Willlam Wilson and Clatence B. Lexow. The State has the designation of the appraiser. - TWO STATE UNIVERSITY BILLS PASS THE SENATE CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 18.—-Two of the three bills pertaining to the income of the State university were passed by the Senate to- day, but the third, providing that, begin- ning two yeark from now, the support of the university shall be provided for in the eneral appropriation bill, was referred B Tapecial committee composed of Sen- ators Devlin, Lukens and Smith of Kern for revision. The committee has still to report. © | e bill appropriating §200,000 and that | appropriating $50,000 more went through | without trouble, but the form of the third | one was objected to by Smith of Kern as ;an attempt to bind succeeding Legisla- tures to make biennial provision for the university, a_thing he did not believe this Legislature has the power to do. He wished to have the allowance put in the general appropriation bill at once. Short- ridge opposed the bills on general prinei- ples. e bill was finally referred to the &pecial’ committee mentioned, to 0 amended as to make it merely a declara- tion of principles. I | | ernor H. T. Gage: GOVERNOR UR Delmas Address Epecial Dispat CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 18.—In both the Senate and Assembly the presorvation of the giant redwoods of California formed an im- portant ‘part of the legislation to-day. In the Assembly D. M. Delmas made a plea for the preservation of the trees of the Big Basin in Santa Cruz, and to both houses the Governor sent a message rec- | ommending some action regarding co- | operation with the Federal Government | In the preservation of the big trees ol the Calaveras grove. The Governor's message was as follows: “I have the honor to inform your hon- orable body that I have this day received the following telegraun from United States Senator Bar | WASHINGTO! D. C., Feb, 18, 191.—Gov- The bill providing for the ypurchase or condemnation of the Calaveras Sequola grove, having been passed by the Sepate, is opposed in the House, but perhaps 1. can be passed with an amendment provid- | ing_that an appropriation shall be available | yrovided California assumes the management and expense of maintenance and protection Is it, in your opinion, advisable and prac- ticable for the Legislature to take early action in the matter? THOMAS R. BARD. “In view of the imnortance to California of the preservation ot its splendld sequoia forests. which command the admiration of the ‘world, I respectfully suggest that your honorable body pass_ appropriate resolutions instructing our Senators and requesting our Representatives at Wash- ington to assure Congress in the event of the passage of a bill_making an appro- | priation for the purchase or condemna- | tion of the Calaveras sequola grove that | the State of California will assume the management and expense of its main- | tenance and protection.’ Senator Flint had | ing telegram which, with the Governor's | message, was referred to the Committee | on Federal Relations: | WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—Hon. Thomas ¥ ELECTIONS COMMI ON A NEW CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 18.—The Committee on Elections of the two branches of the Les- islature held a joint meeting to-night and approved a primary election bill reported Cutter and Devlin and Senators Dav idan. It will be introduced in both houses to-morrow as a committee bill and re- ported back to the Elections committees. After the committees have whipped it into shape still further, substitute bills will sage. The bill agreed upon is based on the Stratten law, with modifications in line with the Supreme Court findings. It pro- vides for one primary election. all parties to ballot on the same day, at the same olling places, and to use the same ballot gnxes. Separate ballots are supplied to by its color. The test of party afiiliation is a declaration of intention to support the nominees of the party for the dele- gates to whose convention the elector is voting. Parties that polled less than 3 per cent of the total vote at the last general elec- tion are enabled to obtain an official bal- lot by petition. PAWNBROKER BILL PASSES. San Francisco Assemblymen Opposs ‘ the Muenter Measure. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- 7, making it a misdemeanor for a pawn- broker to fail to present a register of his pledges and purchases to an officer for inspection or to refuse to exhibit to such officer all articles recelved by him as pledges or purchases was the subject of an acrimonious contest in the Assembly this afternoon. It was finally passed by a vote of 50 to 23. Some of the San Francisco members, notably Hourigan, Gullfoyle and Frank- lin, with Schiesinger to speak for them and steer them right in a parliamentary way, were the backbone of the opposition. favored the bill as an aid to the detection of crime and the recovery of stolen goods. The vote was taken when there was a small attendance. 2nd a call of the house was resorted to by friends of the measure to obtain its passage. e i SRR Ford’s Bill in Proper Form. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 18.—Carter to-day intro- duced a bill to replace the one fathered by Attorney General Ford, which fell in- gloriousiy under the Governor's veto. The object, as before, is to give the Attorney General an additional clerk, but this time the bill is properly codified, its title pro- claiming it to be an amendment to section 475 of the Political Code. received the follow- | T to it by the sub-committge, consisting of | Assemblymen Macbeth, Carter and Sher- | be Introduced and hurried to flnal pas- | each party, the ballot being distinguished | PO R R LR TR ERER) Brown of San Mateo, Johnson and Sutro | GES ACTION TO SAVE THE BIG TREES Sends a Message to Both Houses and D. M. gs the Assembly. ch to The Call. Would the Legisiature pass an act pledg- la: u Tre N | ctase? - Kindly answer JULIUS | The £enats and Assembly were both | fairly represented in the Assembly cham- | ber this_afternoon after adjournment to hear Du M. Delmas’ plea for the glant red- | woods of the Big Basin. Many citizens were present in the lobbies and the gal- lery. ‘Mr. Delmas- was introduced by As- sembiyman Schiesinger. He spoke effect- ively, ranging from an argument based on economics to an impassioned plea for the preservation of the most venerable living specimens of the handiwork of { nature. Said he: the request of th Torests of red- wood which are indigenous to Californta. [ Tepresent o private interests and expect no fee except that reward which comes of lending aic to achleve a nabie pu We appeal to your ap) terial interes ¢ the S ciation of { t | d to your @ generatione, to your wisdom, to your loyalty to Calffornia Shall thcse groves, finding no counterpart in any portion of the world—shail they disappes ad be blotted out r? Long befors the hefore oliscum was rearsd the columns on the banks of the were pointed skyward these trees were When you stand in_ thelr preses an awe long Nila old | | eum ean be resto: might be destroyed and anoth Angelo might build it again the woodman’s ax be lald upon thess | ¢ the forest ou have destroyed | God's handiv lefles man to re- | produee it d. The dome of w if an invading y were dcwn this Capitol you would cue; you would take up arms to repel | invaders. The enemy of the beauty and the | worth of the gem of California .is at your ur protecting £ the works of TEE AGREES PRIMARY MEASURE | Will Report the Bill to Both Houses and Later Make Such Alterations as May Be Deemed Advisable- Special Dispatch to The Call. | The law is to be made mandatory in all | citles containing more than 7500 popula- tion, and in order that there may be no quibbling over population. those cities | are named In the act. Elsewhere the op- | eration of the law is optional. How that 1 option shall be a problem yet | to b ved. As the bill is framed tenta- tively, that pow vested in the boards of Supervisors, but it probably will be | changed by providing that a petition for | a_primary election under the provisions of the law, signed by a majority of the electors, will make it mandatory upon the | Supervisors to call such election. | _The Assembly Committee on Publie Buildings and Grounds decided this aft: noon to report adversely on Assembly bill 65, appropriating $240 for the pur- chase of a strip of land containing a spring. to add to the grounds of the Vet- erans’ Home at Yountville. Assembly Corporations Committes | reports favorably upon the Tyrrell-R erford bill, compelling full payment of f insurance 'policies when there Is a total o - 5 3 o he Assembly Committee on Education recommends that Bauer withdraw his two bills ircreasing the powers of county su- perintendengs of schools, known as the Webster bills. H bill fixing the salarfes of deputy county superintendents in San Francisco at $3000 is recommended for | passage. ) GOVERNOR GAGE IN RUNAWAY ACCIDENT | Executive’s Carriage Is Wrecked, but i s MENTO, Feb. 15—Muenter's Senate bill | He Escapes With a Severs | SACRAMENTO Feb. 18. — Governor | Gage haa a fortunate escape from serious | injury this afternoon. The horses at- | tached to the carriage in which he was | being driven to the Capitol became_ un- | manageable and started on a run up K | street. The carriage collided with a heavy | truck and was wrecked, but beyond a | severe shaking up the Governor was not {Injured. The frightened team was stopped |and Governor Gage reached his office in | another conveyance. - " Ons More Apportionment Bill. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- | MENTO, Feb. 18.—Another apportionment | bill has been dumped Into the cauldron. ’ Ralston 1s its author. Tt makes no change in the Senatorial districts of the Cutter | bill, but in the Asembly districts there | are several modifications. Sacramento is | given three Assemblymen instead of two, {and the mountain district of Alpine, | Mono and Inyo is not on Ralstop’s map. | He puts Alpine in with Am#dor and Calaveras in the Twelfth District. Mono {he includes in the Twenty-seventh Dis- trict with Tuolumne. Mariposa and Stanislaus. Inyo and Tulare compose the Twenty-eighth District. ' for coffee and tea. aroma. cereal coffee. grocers. Is a satisfying substitute Delicate, delicious flavor, Fragrant, appetizing Take a cup of Figprune and a cup of any other One sip of - each will clearly demonstrate just why Figprune has so quickly found favor. Free samples at your Ask for one. . Boil from 5 to 10 minutes only. . ALL GROCERS SELIL Figprune Cereal.