The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 4, 1901, Page 1

VOLUME L3 SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1901. PRICE F1VE CENTS: CUBANS RACE DVER ACTION OF CONGRESS Threaien 1o Revolt i the Conditions Are Enforced. Del¢ s to Constitutional Convention May Resien in a Body. SR S BETROTHED CARDINAL'S CONSENT Dis ruished Prelate Gr n to t sture - DEROULEDE IN A HURRY TO FIGHT THE DUEL ive in Brussels and Con- h Agent of the Duke of Orleans. n . to present 2 nge from I duel, owing to recent assertion meetir VILLEVARDE THE MAN FOR CABINET-MAKING Spain’s Minister of Finance Will Un- dertake the Task of Reorganiz- ingthe Government Regent to-moc- Premier, at nooa eclined to attempt e Chilean Presidential Aspirants. VALPARAISO, Chile, March 3.—The Chilean Presidents onvention to-day selected candidates by ballot in the fol- y io¥ing order: Claudio Vicuna, Fernando \ Lascano and Augusto Matte. The first vamed headed all baliots, ia Christina recelved Genera) | + “Public gambling 7 " cation and death.”—Mayor Phelan, January 8, 19 “Weought to permat racing as a dissipation. opportunity to pick the pockets of the people.”—Mayor Phelan, i blers an January 26, =% LEST HE FORGET---LEST HE FORGET! 1901. ASHINGTON, March 3—The first Sunday session of the Fifty-sixth Congress was held by the Benate to-day. It will not appear in the Con- gressional Record as a session of Sun- day, as the Senate is working under the legislative day of Saturday and will con- tinue =0 to work until the session shall be declared adjourned finally at noon to- | morrow. | To-day’s session beghn at 3 o'clock, the | Senate having been in recess sifice 10:30 o'clock last night. The galleries were packed with people here to attend the in- / + - Roep! I\ NN [ \ \f | o | i We sho Measures Will Soon Have Places on the Law Books. auguration ceremonies and by reason of | among them being that to promote the important business, there was a large at- | safety of railway employes. tendance of Senators. After a spirited fight, both in confer- ence and on the floor of the Senate, the final conference report on the naval ap- propiation bill was agreed to, the Senate reeeding from the one contested amend- ment authorizing the comstruction of three additional Holland ‘submarine tor- pedo boats. A conference report on the general defl- clency bill was agreed to without com- ment. During the afternoon and evening the Senate passed a large number of bills, The House was In session from 2 to 6 o'clock this afterncon and this evening from 8 o’clock it worked on into the night to dispose of the conference reports which crowded in upon it. Everybody was at high tension, and it required only a spark to create a scene. No sensational inci- dent, such as usually enlivens the clos- ing hours, had occurred, however, up to midnight. The galleries were packed to the doors all day and evening with in- auguration visitors. The confusion and din on the floor, with the Speaker’s gavel going incessantly to preserve a semblance of order, must have made the proceedings unintelligble to them. There was a big fight in the afternoon over the Senate amendment to the sun- ary civil bill, which linked together the fate of the St. Louis, Buffalo and Charles- ton exposition appropriations. Chairman Cannon of the Appropriation Committee led the fight against them and defeated a motion to concur. A resolution to ap- point a special committee of seven mem- bers to visit Porto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines and report upon conditions ' raised a cry of “junketing trip,” and was | | | | | I | | | | is a great evil leading to poverty, disgrace, defal- uld give gam- ' LAWMAKERS OF THE NATION HURRY THER DELIBERATIONS AND CROWDS GATHER FOR CLOSING HOURS OF CONGRESS Vigorous Debates on the Conference Reports Enliven the Day’s Session and a Number of Important debated at intervals while conference re- ports were not before the House. Lot DENUNCIATION BY HEPBURN. Representative Makes Passionate Speech on River and Harbor Bill. ‘WASHINGTON, March 3—The House resumed its session at 2 o’clock this after- noon, with the galleries packed to the doors with inauguration visitors. Grosvenor of Ohio, of the Committee on Rules, presented a speclal order provid ing that after ten minutes’ debate it should be in order to move concurrence in Continued on Second Page. WASHINGTON'S STREETS CAY WITH COLOR — s ' 'The Capital in Pos- - session of Holiday Throng. Balmy Weather Is Forecast for To-Day’s Inaugural ¥ Ceremonies. s March 3—When the sun set upon the national capital to-day everything tha an effort could do to | make the second McKinley Inauguration a success had the_troops and already in the city Some thousands m ous railroads hurry rd ton, and the Weather Bureau predicted “fair weather for March 4, in a special bulletin issued by its chief, Protessor Moore. Inauguration eve was a quiet one, but & crowded Sunday The weather opened threatening, with a s ast wind and a clouded sky, but t noon it cleared and the sun set fa tion of a good day morning till tow | in the downto The local church day and evening worshipers at ev visitors being in ; WASHINGTON, been done. A majority of ¢ organizations were every street tion was crowded. kept open doors both crowded with churches in keeping open house and they were equally well pa zed. For such as sought spiritous er than spiritual | consolation there was a rather dry and unprofitable time. The local Anti-Saloon League had appointed a large vigilance committee to see that the Sunday closing law was enforced, and their efforts met with considerable success. There was but little sign of dru ess on the streets. The milittamen, who usually furnish « good natured but rather turbulent ele- ment at inaugurations, were dry and decorous and up to a late hour there had not been the name of a single regular entered upon the biotter at the statiom house. Like an Easter Sunday. The crowd had a distinctly holiday atr | on the street. The weather was mifld enough to permit a large display of fem- inine finery, and this, with the mixture of uniforms, gave the ets In the fash- fonable section of the Northwest much the appearance of an Eastér Sunday parade. Seldom has an Inaugural gathering brought out such an assortment of uni- forms as were met on every streetcar and every street corner. The dark blue serv- ice uniforms were relieved by the red caps and facings of the artillery and the yellow of the cavalry. The Porto Rican contingent, in sombre- ros and tereador jackets mixed with the | | jackies of the naval contingent, and the lighter blue of the Nati everywhere In a large majority. There were not lacking strange combinations of uniform that distinguished several of the crack volunteer cavalry trrops, while the variety among the members of the vari- ous civic marching clubs was almost end- less. The soldlers and visitors swarmed about the capitol building where the legislators were struggling with the remnants of Congressional work. Throughout the day and well into the night they paced the | Capitol corridors. To-morrow all the doors will be closéd except to those holding tick- ets of admission. But to-day everything was open to the public. It is not often | that the Sabbath calm of the buildings .3 disturbed by such a popular invasion. Soldiers Invade the House. Early in the day several hundred blue- | coated soldiers from one of the near-by | States took possession of the House and of the Capitol. The .louse was in recess until 2 p. m., but the emblem of legisia- tive authority, the mace, stood In position as a warning that the dignity of the House must not be invaded. But the sol- | dter boys were obitvious to such congres- sional fictions. Before the weary door- | keepers were aware of it the chamber | was in possession of several hundred blue- | coats. Some of them ascended to the | Speaker’s rostrum and hammered for or- der. Others occupled the seats of mem- | bers and for the time being the floor of | the House of Representatives, for the first time In its history, presented a completely | martial aspect. The soldiers were after souvenirs and some of them got them, to the discomfiture of members. The officers of the House finally came on the scene and expelled the intruders. When the two Houses met during the afternoon there was an added attraction to the throng. Many of the visitors were ladies, the bright spring day bringing them out in all their radiance of color and costume. With them mingled jack tars from the big monitor Puritan and the many other warships anchored in the Po- tomac, and troops of soldiers representing the State organizations of all parts of the country. Seldom since the Civil War have so many uniforms been seen at the Cap- itol. The Capitol police were instructed to exercise every consideration for the vis- iting throngs and there was no disorder and no arrests. Size of the Parade. The final estimate of the size of the - augural parade as given out at military headquarters to-night was: Military, volunteer and tegular, 22240; veteran or- ganizations, 12,000; civic "socleties, 7500. Out of this number a total of about 17,500 arrivals had been officially reported to Guard was