The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 2, 1901, Page 2

THE SAN FRA CISCO CUBANS WANT N0 DELEGATION Proposition to Send Repre- sentatives to Washing- ton Rejected. —e— Constitutional Convention Holds Secret Session, but Fails to Come to ayDefinite Under- standing. O HAVANA, April 1—A secret session of the Cuban constitutional convention was held to-dav and attended by twenty-five delegates. Among the absentees were Senor Gibera, Senor Quilas and General Sanguilly, strong supporters of the Platt amendment. The first matter considered was the resolution from the Planters’ Association recommending the convention to accept the amendment with the proviso that the Urited States Government should make a reduction of 50 per cent on Cuban ex- ports or make a preference in their Zavor over similar products of other countries. The resolution was tabled without dis- The m jority report of the committee foreign relations, signed by Senores Gomez, Bilva and Villuendas, was read, but after a discussion, which showed that a majority of the delegates were opposed to it, a4 resolution to lay it on the table was ‘carried. A similar disposition was made of the report from Senores De | Queseda, Tamayo, Nunez and Giberga. | A motion of Senor Monteauguado to ap- ) 2 commission to go to Washington | was defeated by & vote of 13 to 12. It was | finally decided to hold a public session of | the convention.to-morrow, when an at- tempt will probably be made to recon- sider the action on the motion. Senor ndro Rodriquez, who was elected Mayor of Havana June 16, 1900, has resigned his office and the Ayuntami- ento will elect his successor to-morrow. CHOSEN TO PAINT CROWNING OF KIN Commission Is Issued to Edwin Austin Abbey, the Noted American Artist, At to-day's session an effort was made | to. elect Benor Zayas, but the action of the Ayuntamiento was declared null and | void owing to the fact that the resigna- | tion of Senor Rodriguez had not been | formally filed. Benor Zayas and Dr. ! Louis tevez, secretary of justice, are rival MAURICE BARRYMORE ‘ IS HOPELESSLY INSANE | = | Medical Men Examine the Famous | Actor and Say That His Recov- ery Is Impossible. Yda. | W YORK, April 1—Drs. Stewart, | Wildman and Fitch to-day made an ex- | tion of Maurice Barrymore, now a | ent in the Bellevue Hospital. Barry- | ore had passed a quiet night, sleeping the deep sieep of utter exhaustion. At the conclusion of the examination Dr. Stewart announced that the patient was | hopelessly insane. It was also given out | t morrow morning he will be waken | oria. Rivercrest Asylum, at CONSPIRACY OF SAMOANS AGAINST THE GERMANE | Reports of a Plan to Cause Trouble for Chief Mataafa and Kaiser’s Officers, | BERLIN. ril 1.—The Berliner Tage- | tt priz communication from Apia, Samoa, datea 1'ebruar: the writer of | which asserts that about the end of last vear @ serious conspiracy occurred Chief Mataafa and the German Sovernmen whole island of Savii, but that the skillfulness of the Governor quelied the outt k without bloodshed. ——e Death of a Literary Woman. EL PA Tex., April 1—Josie Eliza- beth Forbes, 2 writer, is dead here as the | result of received in a fall from M “orbes her horse. Miss daughter of and was th anker, was 28 vears old a Rockford, Iil., | RSP | Magnificent Gift to Hamburg. . HAMBURG, April 1.—He: Laelsz, the! irman of the board of directors of the | Hamburg-Americ hip line, who | died here March left Hamburg 1,200,000 | marks for the constructiod of a concert | to Portray a History-Making Scene ONDON, April 1.—Edwin Austin Abbey, the American artist, who has been commissioned to paiut the scene In Westminster Ab- bey, when Edward VIL is crowned. has lived smainly ir England since 1878, residing in America only at such times as . his work has re- quired his presence ‘n this country. He is one of the few Americans who have be- come members of the Royal Academy of London, to which he was elected in 1895, and is also a member of the Royal Instl tute of London. Abbey wis born in Phil- adelphia in 1852, and received his early art education at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. At nineteen he joined the art staff of Harper's, and at twenty-four became a member of the American Water Color Society. His most noted work has been in water colors and in black and white. He painted the se-ies of pictures AMERICAN ARTIST WHO WILL PAINT THE SCENE WHEN EDWARD 18 (CROWNED. . ol from the “Morte d'Arthur,” “which dec- orate the Boston Public Library. SAN JOSE AND HER SCORES OF GUESTS JOIN IN THE COAST ROAD CELEBRATION Continued From First Page. and liberal hand, to me and to mine, | i to to this State and all | have 4 together for i agnifying the dead, without de- from the living and with honor to “5 matter of regret me, and T am s to him, It niust be to t the suce Huntingtou | exidency of the S Pacific Com- harles M. Hi men Praise for President Hays. young man s inviting. He & tering the meryice in railroads _had before so_largely specialized, | the departments and the profession as among the round _rafiroad men in this I dcpartments cof ratiroad chapies. and administra- s excels the world. Mr. le in his habits and a ha fond of banquet d and attractive He can make &-good e many good speakers—my f r example—he does not know it. I | e were here to speak for himself. I | sre you would ke him. and it goes with- out taying that he would like you. Mr. Hays | is mot on trial. His record is made. You may be assured of his competency, of his fair dealing, of his justice and that his published | ressions concerning the policy of the com- | pany were sincerely made. And now, what has the completion of this | coast line, the cause of our felicitation, In it | for us, for San Jose. for Santa Clara County, for the people of the State and the nation. n Jose the distinction of belng the in- itial hay point upon the original Central Pa- cific through line. The Western Pacific be- gan here, and following the route via Niles and over the Livermore pass was bullt to Sacramento. where its rails joined those of the Central Pacific proper, but immediately from the driving of the last splke of the Central Pacific, these two roads were merged | andl formed the first through line. San Jose has from the beginning been rated as a ter- minal bay point. It has enjoyed the same rates for greights and fares to and from all with a notable | 2p- becom road work had he has gone through al i esteerned by 4 ali points in the Eastern States as San Fran- cisco; yet, unl nto, Stockton and Los Angeles, ated upon a “Erough Jine. Promise of Great Prosperity. Yesterday San Jose and the lovely Santa | Ciara valley, this paradise, were established | upon the higfiway of nations. were located upon the through route between the Occident and the Orient, between the Eastern States of America and San Francisco. Henceforth trav- | elers for Europe aud the Eastern -States of | America golng to San Francisco by way of | the Southern Toutes. the popular routes for the tourist, must pass through this Eden on thelr "ey. | Mr Chairman, I believe the future for this community and for this valley looks brighter | than ever before, d though not in whole nor in grester part Gue to the completion of this | road. yet the enterprise which we are cele- | brating 4s suspicious. It will measurably | contribute to the peace and prosperity of this, | ihe farest of California’s fair lamds. 1 be- lieve that out of the experience and tribuia- tions of this season, a remedy will be found | for the discouragements and ifls of the prune | mrowers. T belicve it is the purpose of Presl- | dent Hays to address himself to the inquiry 2% to weat extent administration of the | affairs of the Southern Pacific Company can promote fhe interests and better the condi- | me of the fruit growers. 1 am persuaded at meither you nor the raliroad people wiil er have occagion to Tegret the completion of the coast lie. even as we who are your | guests to-night will bot forget your hospitality, | shall never cease to desire and work for your and good will. Peace be within thy walls and prosperity. | Sings Garden City's Praises. | Willilam G. Alexander. chairman of tha | committee on arrangements. who an- | swered to the toast, “Sar Jose.” said: Mr. Toastmesster, lionored Guests and Fel- Jow Citizens: In responding to the toast “‘San | | togetner. | who W, | Shaay | this famous line. ; this valley! Jose,” I feel like the boy who was called on by his professor o tell of the “Immortality of the soul” and v-as limited to three minutes. It is an_import nt occasion that brings us We are now on the main line. No loniger will we be told “line is busy, call again.”” Without the annoying changes or tire- |'some "waiting we can reach the Garden City from any part of the State. Long have we hoped for this, and now that It is a fact we rejoice to celebrate it. 1 do not know just why they called the town San Jose—possibly it was for the same rea- | son_that a mother named her baby Shady. “Did you siy Shady?’ asked the minister, bout to baptize the child. replied the mother. ‘‘You see our “Yesot | name s Bower and my husband thought he would like to have her called Bower sounds $o Drett However tha: may be, rightly was San Jose named the Garden City. We have but Lo look about us to verify this. As our eyes roam the hills we see a series of terraced lawns, dotted here.and there by a beautiful bunch of we look over the valley it is a sea o beyond are the noble redwoods rear- ing their giant heads, while at cur feet are the waters of the sunlit bay. Nature has smiled n us and our sofl is 45 fertile as our lo- cation is beautiful Doubtless therc are gentlemen present who came to this city by means of the old stage coach or by boat to Alviso and from there by stage. Surely, many recall the day when the first train pulled Into fown a quarter of a century ego-—I hope., however, with a different feeling and appreciation than the old st driver, who said, A hoss may run away with . I don’t deny it, but there's limits to how * he can run. Eines runs away with ve, it's Pacific Ocean, rlump! or Rocky Mounta{n, bump! so far as I can see. No sirree! Give me a hoss, but nary an ingine.” Now all roads lead to San Jose. 1f we come by way of the south, we pass through the orange groves {ragrant with blossoms; then on the cdge of the summer sea fanned by its re- freshing breezes; then through the mountains and up the fertlle valley to the metropolis of this district. Should the traveler come from the north, he finds the scenery varied. though equally interesting. After leaving the great pine forests he skirts the base of the noble Shasta with its erown of eternal snow: then through the famous Sacramento Valley and down to the Garden of the State. No more delightrul trip could be planned, no more fit- ting climax or joyful ending. We hail the offi- cers of the company which has just completed It is a happy consumma- ady, because tion of our hopes. San Jose is near enough to the bay to re- ceive the bemefit of ocean breeze with its life-giving ozone, which tempers the warmest ddy and softens the coolest weather. And it is far enough inland to escape the harsh winds or disagreeable fogs. The air is quite dry and peculiarly invigorating. more mild and uni- form than in most sections of the State. The Oxford of the Pacific. San Jose is an educational center. It is the Oxford of the Pacific Coast. No city offers supericr educational advantages. Besides our | public schools, which are the best. we have the State Normal School, the Dniversity of .the Pacific, Santa Clara College, the Coilege of Notre Dame, and the famous Leland Stanford Junior University, all easy of access, and at which our boys and girls are in endance. Ana if your mind turns to heavenly things, | ¥ou can %o to our observatory on Mounc Ham- fiton @nd through the great Lick telescope view the stars and worlds beyond. Dut our products have chiefly made us fa- mous. We are noted as being the fruit center of the State. But what can we not raise in Pruncs. apricots, peaches, al- monds, Wainuts, berries, olives, apples, wheat, ete., ete. Enumeration seems supérfluous, for it covers all that grows in the ground. This great volume of business is handled through our city, for it is the shipping center for this sreat section. Our parks. our drives, our various points of attraction &re too familiar to' need mention. No more beautiful and romantic spot can be found tham. our Alum Rock. with its health- giving waters, aid the drive thither 1= per- fect. Santa Clara County is an empire within stself and San Jose the metropolis. Notwith- standi~ the magnitude of our present pro- ductions, you need but visit the various sec- tions to be impressed with the far greater pos- sibilities of the future. Thousands of acres of rich sofl suitable for fruits and vines are yet But if one of them darned in- | untilled. Great ofl and natural gas fields | awalit development and there are large streams of water flowing to the bay that can and should be held for irrigation. Yet with only a fraction of its resources develoved it is known far and wide as one of the richest and most productive spots in the State. With the improved shipping facilities which have just been completed and with the addi: tional advantages thus afforded, we should take rapid strides forward in the near future. We are confidently expecting many visitors who, when they see our great natural advan- tages, will desire to make their homes with us. To the officers of the railroad company I might say: Our interests are mutual; you afford the facllities, we develop the resources. Visitors_are attracted and the community grows, business improves and all are pros- pered. My time has expired and I would close with the words of the poet, who safd: ““God touched the earth in kindness, and lo! it dimpled where It felt his mighty finger, and a valley nestled ere. And he told the angel artist to paint a sky more biue Than ever dainty violet or airy bluebell knew. And to stretch It o'er that valley as a promise from its God, That peace and plenty there should spring, like flowers, from its sod. And he set the mighty mountains to guard that happy vale, Where the autumns kiss the spring time and the summers never fail.” 8. F. Lelb spoke on “Coast Countles,” and then Irving M. Scott was {ntroduced to respond to ““Our Baitleships,” which he did in a manner to arouse-als hearers to great applause. Huntingtonian Reminiscences. Alfred Holman, editsr of the San Jose Mercury, responded gracefully to “The Press.” In doing so he brought in a hase of the character of Collis P. Hunt- ngton, as shown In iwo letters written from New York to O. A. Hale, who had sent him some cof the famous prunes of 8anta Clara. The first letter is dated October 31, 1599, and in it Mr. Huntington returns thanks for the box of prunes and then goes on to criticise 1t and make some suggestions which he said he believed would make the prunes more. popular in the market. This was done in_the mogt kindly spirif, and, as he.said, “‘outside of Lhe guestion of po- liteness which I disposed of in-my first g;;ragraph)‘ and because he believed Mr. ale wished to know just what he thought. The second letter was dated December 15, and was written to corPect the impres- sion his first letter had made. His og ec- tions, Mr. Huntington wrote, applied to oniy 'the. first box of prunes. When he ogened the other boxes, he wrote, he found t! egx at;?v‘e crigelsm. ¢ “Our- Neighbors” was a toast re: to by Warren Porter of ansonvll‘lg?nd“ Our Mutual Interests. ‘William Spraule, freight’ trafic man- ::ger,llex;‘t‘ a llfhter n:uchotn the proceed- ngs 'in his response to “Our Mut % terests.” He said in part: e Mr. Toastmaster, Mine Hosts, Friends: 1 beg to thank Yo for the BOROE You o s 1o asking that 1 address this most notable gath- ering, representing as it does.that which {s best in men, institytions and industry in this olden land. I like the occasion the better se it I8 ope of congratulation and of asting—when we do not have to take our- cives too seriously aud can look ] the Jocuna &ide of life. B Your warthy toastmaster informs me that I am to address you upon the subject of ‘“‘Our Mutual Interests.”” Some harbor an impres- sion that ‘‘our mutual interests” is a pleas- ing phrase devised by the rallroads-to begulle the public while lmflill\g‘m fruits of in- dustry. But the fact is the railroads merely seek & reasonable return for thelr investment and In every respest consistent wich that le: timate business desire are cage oste E:'er)' intcrest that tends to the 0drev:}o' an: of the countries they traverse: Even® the theory that rallroad securiti are tremend- ously inflated and the publie called upon to ASSHSSIN SEEKS MIBISTER' LIF Unsuccessful Attempt Made to Murder an Official at Warsaw. S o R Ccunt Tolstoi Is Reported to Have Been Escorted Out of Russia by a Couple of: Gendarmes. T Special Dispatch to The Call. VIENNA, April 1.—It is reported from ‘Warsaw that an unsuccessful attempt bas been made on the life of M. Sipyaghin, Minister of the Intericr. In consequence of the preparations of the Russian students at Warsaw Univer- sity for a demonstration in sympathy with the students at other universities the { authorities have ordered the Baster vaca- | tion to begin immediately and have closed | | the university. | Serious disorders occurred at Blalystok, | im Russian Poland, on the occasion of th funeral of a socialist. Thousands of pi sons paraded the strcets singing revolu- | tionary songs and jeering the police. Ul | timately the troops were ordered out. | They cleared the st-eets and arrested many of those taking part in the demon- stration. ST. PETERSBURG. April 1—It was, | rumored several days ago, but disbelieved, that Count 0 Tol JALL, TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1901 been banished from Russia because of the | attempted _assassination of Privy Coun- | cilor Pobiedolnostzoff, Chief Procurator of | the Holy Synod, who was shot at early in the morning of March 22 while sitting in his study, the attempt being attributed to a desire for revenge growing out of the excommunication of Qount Tolstol. Ow- | |ing to the indefiniteness of the rumor it | was disregarded. | Now, however, the Count has received a privaté letter from a usually trustworthy | source in Vilna, capitai of the govern. ment of that name, saying that Count Tolstol was reported to have passad through Vilna Kiarch 26, being escorted | to_the frontier by two gendarmes. | LONDON, April 1.—"One thousand stu- | dents of the University of Kieff have for- warded a petition to the Holy Synod,” | says the Odessa correspondent of the| Daily Express, “in which they ask to be | excommunicated with Count Tolstol.” BERLIN, April 1.—The St. Petersburg correspondent of tho Lokal Anzeiger an- nounces that an examination of the ac- counts of the Russian Imperial Controller General shows what are belleved to have been systematic defalcations between the vears 1803 and 1893. The sums not ac- counted for aggregate forty-four million roubles. . e S KARPOVICE IS DEFIANT. Denounces Minister Bogoliepoff Be- fore Being Convicted for His Crime. 2 | ST. PETERSBURG, April 1.—The trial of Peter Karpovich, the assassin of M. | Bogoliepoff, the Russian Minister of Pub- | lic Instruction, which resulted in Karpo- vich being sentenced to twenty vears' penal servitude, with a loss of civil rights, was strictly secret. Admittance was only | by card. Among those present were the | Ministers of Justice, of the Interior and | of Finance. Only fifty cards were dis- | tributed. { | Karpovich spoke for an hour regarding | | the student troubles under Bogoliepoff and | | the disorganization of the universities. | | The prisoner characterized Bogoliepoff, | whom he knew as’ the curator at Moscow | in 1896, as the ‘‘baleful spirit of reaction.” | | Karpovich declared that he was indiffer- | ent, when shooting. wirether Bogollepofr | would be killed, desiring in any case to in- | | flict a _dangerous wound. He refused to | say where he lodged or whom he saw after his arrival from Berlin. The court | deliberated for twenty-five minutes and | | condemned Karspnvlch to twenty years at | ! hard labor 4n Siberia and the loss ef all |.civil rights _Lieuténant General Viasemiski, who pro- teSted against the conduct of the police | and Cossacks in the recent riots, has been | | excluded from the imperial council, of | | which he was a member, until the Czar, by special ukase, restores his privileges. Advices from Kieff show that the dis- | turbance there on March 24 was a danger- | ous affair. A few students and many workingmen participated in the outbreak. | The military was called out in large | force and fired on the rioters, many of whom were wounded. No details, how- ever, are obtainable here. The Novostl says that the Governor General of Kieff has again reinforced the police with 200 soldiers. @ i-iiviviololefedellefuluufuduladutulell @ | pay _therefor s being gradually dissipat- ed by the sunshine of wider knowledge, and the morbid misunderstandings of the past are giving place to the healthy aspirations cf the present. ‘And so we celebrate the completion of the coast road, and in & manner o enjoyable that I wish we could complete a road for you of- ten enough to have some repetitions of this | festival. Belleve me, however, liberal and fair treatment of the railroads you have is the best inducement for raliroads to come. Eulogy on the Prune. Reverting to ‘‘prunes and prisms’”: The truth of it s that we have been content too | iong to let the prune remain an occasional dish for dessert, We should have united to aglitate its virtues long ago. In fact, I haz- ard the assertion without fear of contradic- tion .from the first person concerned that this would have been a happler world and would | Nave been mere nearly the paradise that the | Santa Clara Valley is if in the Garden of Eden Mother Eve, instead of fooling with the apple, had partaken of the prune. I venture fhat when Paris, son of Priam, was award- { ing the prize for beauty there would fiot have beén, 60 Tuch bad blood over the rek-¥ixg in- stead of the golden apple, the award hatSeen a prize package of the Packers' prune. The Prune might thus have averted the Trofan War, and. our school days been spared the pangs of the Iliad. Gentlemen, let us hope that everywhers, from Greenland’s lcy mountains to Indla’s coral strand—from Alaska, where men seek 21, to the Philippines, where Funston found fame—the virtues of the prune shall soon be known, to the profit of this people, the pleas- ure of the partakers, and as a benefaction to the world. But, after all, this is but one in the long 1ist of your products; and Who that has_ ever get his foot in San Jose or traversed Santa Clara County has not been struck by the beauty of its situation, the fertility of its coil, and the varied refources at your com- mand. Twenty years ago I first visited San Jose as the guest of one of your early citizens, whose memory 1 revere—the father of your honored chalrman of = thls evening—the sterling, up- Tight Marshall Hale. Every since that day I have been in love with this valley, with its bowers of bloom, its fields of fig and apricot and cherry, and of vine and peach and prune— all nursed 'and guarded by clrcumjacent hills, themselves garlanded in fruit and flowers that reflect_the prismatic glories of your noon- day sun. Why men looking down upon this beautiful valley vet should hunger for the stars, merely shows that ‘‘man never is, but always to be, blest.”” And so. while arts and industries flourish in your valleys and on your hillsides, sclence keeps watch and ward up- on your hilltons, where meén day and night peer into the firmament with genius as pa- tlent, spirit as fine and eves as reverent as in any age ever sourht to ee the face of God. ‘Gentlemen, regarding our mutual interests, let me say this closing word: Great corpor- ations are ruled by men, and strong men are ruled by mind and hearf. which are the soul. It is the matural impulse of all right-minded men to work for that which is best, and you will find that carriers and producers ‘alike, the men of art and of science, the men of trans- nortation and of tollsome tillage, all are worl ing ultimately to the same end. Our intercsts are mutu ultimate results will prove it. Rev. ¥. Wy Dinsmore, D. D., and Rev. EIf McClish, D. D., spoke in response to “The Church.” William_Hood. chiéf engineer of the Southern Paciflc. responded to ““The Coast TRoad, Its Curves and Elevations.' de- scribing the building of the road over which every one was rejofeing. Bench and Bar Heard From. Then Judge M. H. Hyland spoke for “The Bench” and Nicholas Bowden for | “The Bar.” Mr. Bowden said: It s an oft-repeated statement, hoary with age, that “‘there are no lawyers in heaven.” The calendar of saints shows, however, that one member.of the profession has been canon- jzed, and if my memory serves me right his name is St. Nicholas. Our distinguished toastmaster must have had this fact in mind when he called upon a name- sake of St. Nicholas tn respond to this toast. St. Nicholas must have been a skilled ana successful advocate, :n his own case at least, to have convinced St Peter and the other gatekeepers that he was eligible to member- ship In the heavenly choir and entitled to a place near the great wkite threne tn the com- TITUS APPOINTED WEST POINT CADET| President Rewards the Brave Young| Soldier Who Was First of Rescu- ing Force to Scale Wall at Peking ASHINGTON, April 1—The President to-day _appointed Calvin T. Titus to be a cadet at large at the United States Military Academy .at West Point. Titus was the first soldier to scale the wall at Peking. = —_— £ ' | | ' | | | | | | H GALLANT YOUNG AMERICAN SOLDIER WHO WILL GO TO ‘WEST POINT. + General Corbin to-day cabled General MacArthur at Manila to send young Titus home on the first available transport in order that he may make the entrance ex- amination to the academy. @ ettt toeeleefelefeirfeiiei i @ panionship of the saintly representatives of the church, the medical profession, the banks, the transportation companies, the trusts and | the railroad combinations. The opinion is shared and expressed by many | that the lawyer has his hands in everybody's pockets but his own, and that the term “law- yer” is synonymous with “liar.”’ But the members of the profession are not making ad- missions or concurring in these mistaken no- tions. Conceding, however, that some lawyers | are persuaded by their cliénts to lle, they al- ways do 4t in a good cause. And, besides, there are plenty of liars who are hot lawyers. We ail have great respect for the reverend | clergy; recognize their worth and absolute | truthfulness, but even the very elect of the church do not always escape the calumny of the rabble. The Boy, the Dog and the Parson. Only the other day, as the story goes, a dozen or more boys down on South M‘l.rks!tJ street had formed a ring, in_the center of which was & dog. Just abot that time a dis- tinguished clergyman of San Jose, out for his afternoon walk, epied the gatbering, and, ap- proaching, faid to a freckle-fuced, red-haired boy who seemed to be the leader of the crow “iSonny, what are you doing with that dog “The biggest liar gets him,’ the boy replied. The good man of God, in measured words of admonition, said: ‘‘Boys, when I was like you I never told a lie. There was a solemn silence for a few seconds and the boy with the red halr replied: “Hand him the dog.” That was an unwarranted reflection on the cloth which we all revere and deserves no refutation. ‘But, conceding that some lawyer might have won the dog, the great profession of the law 18 to-day and always has been the true rep- resentative of ~integrity, probity end trut] The bar stands to-day as the real conservati force in the world's great fleld of human en- deavor—as the true balance wheel which regu- lates and co-ordinates the movements of gov- ernments, States, individuals, property and wealth. This vast and controlling Influence was recog- nized and {nvoked even in barbarous and semi- civilized times. Moses, the great law-giver, announced his codes to the children of Israel, vhich resulted in the creation of the greatest nation of ancient times. The power and pro- gress of Greece resultud from the statutes of Bolon more than from the courage of her phalanx. The twelve tzbles of the Roman laws ‘were more potent in the state than were the leglons of the Caesare. The lawyers of Eng- Jand id more for tne cause of liberty than Gid the Commons and the Kings. And here in our own great land of the free, where the memory and genius of Washington and his colleagues—of Putnam, Green, Wayne. Jackson, Sherman and Grant—are glorified and the prowess of Wheeler, MacArthur, Miles, Dewey, Schley and Sampson are applauded, the bar and bench have been the great moving force behind their guns and the great and con- trolling power that made the issues for which they fought and won. Worth of the Lawyer. This Government of ours from its very foun- dation has been directed® by lawyers. Tts sta- bility and greatness are their work;- they | framed its constitution and enacted its laws. It was the skill of a Webster that pointed the | way and the genius of a Marshall that con- strued that constitution and made this orig.nal confederation of States one d inseparable. Twenty_of the twenty-four Presidents of our | country have been lawyers; three-fourths of | the members of Congress and of the Legisla- tures of the different States are of the bar: its representatives hold the secrets of 'th. State, the family, the merchant and the banker, and never have they betrayed their sacred trust. Thelr duties and obligations are great indeed, but their honesty of purpose and in- tegrity of character ave been recognized | through all the ages and have stood the test of time. That same courage which executed the great charter and bill of rights yet ma:atains; that fame spirit which breathed the breath of life | into our comstitution and into the laws of the States is still here to shape and direct. The lawyer may be bold and radical, but he is not an andrchist or a wrecker. His mis- sion is to find the way for the solution of all | the great problems which now confront us. To stand between the contending forces of | capital and labor and preserve the equilibrium of liberty and law, ana in that mission he shall not fail or falter. | _There were more speeches and more speakers outside the regular programme, and among them was W. F. Herrin, who }al}xed very briefly in a vein of congratu- | ation. All this extended far Into the night, but no one begrudged the time or the hour, and when morning was coming fast and the guests began to disperse there was a fecling that after all the “closing of the gap” bad been auspiclously accomplished and with its new railroad San Jose could | fearlessly and confidently face the futurs, !'Guests at the Banguet. Those who were at the table were: J, C. Stubbs, J. Kruttschnitt, William %Qmule. E. 0. McCormick, W. F. Herrin. fliam Hood, Trving M. Scott, A. H. Vail, Sherwood. A, ° Sbarboro, R. B F. J. Coster, T. Wililams, James Horsburgh Jr. L. Frazler, | of San Franelscoi C. A. Starke, | F. Brooks and R. E. Jack, San Luls Obispo; Willlam Steinbeck, Stock- ton; L. H. Garrigus and E. A. Eaton, Salinas; 37D, ‘Armstrong, Paso Robles: Louis McLean nd Warren Porter, Watsonville; C. N. Haw- kins and R. P. Lathrop, Hollister; T. A. Work, Pacific Grove: L. P. Behrens and Louls Trank, Redwood; Hon. S. O. Houghton, Los ngeles. . From Santa Clara County—O. A. Hale, Judge J. R: Lewis. Willilam G. Alexander, Thomas A. Graham. 8. F. Lefb. Mitchell Phillips, Rev. J. W. Dinsmore, D. D.: N. J. Rogers, G. Vachell, A. Block, M. E. Datley, Thomas Der- by, K. H. List, G. F. Gray, J. F. Parkinson, Dr. 1. A, Frazer, Dr. C. A, Wl&llnd. J. H. Rucker, H. D. Matthews, W. H. Haydock, A. Parknurst. G. M. Cozzens, E. C. Henry Hale, Single- tary, J. J. Miller, F. E. Ensign, R. W. Her- sey, Philo Hersey, G. L. Barker; Delos Smythe, B. J. Moore. F. J. Ledvard, David Henderson, J. W. Findlay, L. L. Morse, L. S. Moulton, J. D. Gressim, T. Ellard Beans, L. A. Spitzer, E. A. Wilcox, W. P. Lyons, M. O’Brien, B. Bllls, D. D. Brooks, G. A. Muirson, R. R. Syer, W. W. Fraser, John C. Miles, E. W. Watmore, H. A. Delacy, H. L. Warren, A. B. Post, A’ McDonald, C H. Phillips, A\ Greeninger, T. C. Barnett, C. M.. Shortridge, J. D. Radford, E. H. Hazel- ton, M. H. Hyland, W. G. Hawley, A. E v W. S. Walker, B. T. Sterling, A. L. J. M. Pitman, L. Sonniksen, J. L. 'W. D. McDougall, C. H. Brown, N Bowden, John F. Brooke, L. E. Bontz, B. D. Merchant, J. R. Patton, C. A. Hall,' A. K. Whitten, ' C. M. Wooster, L. Callisch, A. A. Brown, J. L. Buell, O. D. Stern, Dr. H. B. | Gates,” A. Topham.” W. L. Woodrow, B. J. Wilcox, Paul A. Mabury, E. C. Flags, A. T. Herrman, W. J. Wilcox, Elmer Chase, K. H. Plate, J. Loeb, W: S. Orvis, B. Knickerbock- er. G_ Loeb, B. Radovich, I Ryland, Cap- tain Wells, Henry Doerr, H. A. Alexander, G. P. Snell,: C. W. Quilty, A. G. Col, J. P. Jar- man, Alfred Holman, J. D. McKenzle, H. V. Dinsmore, P. F. Gosby, J. W. Rea, JI. Chambers, J. Turel, W. Andrews.” . Coppock, J. W. Blaver, J. H. Camobell, W. Crossman, H. F. Lord, Willlam Binder, G. McKee, D. J_ Porter, H. L. Cotte, A. Bacon, J. D. Miner, A, L. Chambers, V. A Scheller, D. Goodsell. 'F. P. Russell, W. S. Clayton'and C. P. Bailey. The banquet was in charge of the fol- lowing committee of arrangements: Willam G. Alexander. chairman: Thomas A. Graham, secretary; Judge J. R. Lewis. O. A. Hale, George M. Bowman, Mitchell Philiips, Alfred Holman, L. E. Bontz, C. W. Willlams, W. E. Crossman, C. M. Wooster, A. T. Herr- man, J. D. Radford, J. E. Augerals and George P. Snell. mwHaR Cable to Land at Alberni. VICTORIA, B. C.. April 1.—The steamer Quadra, which made a survey of the coast for a landing for the Pacific cable, has returned. It /s understood that a more favorable place for landing than that at San Juan was found in Barclay Sound and that the cable station will be in Alberni. Engineer Peake will go to Australia b?’ the steamer Miowera Friday to select a landing place there. ——— To Cure a Cold in Ons Day. Take Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets. 25e. ——iege May Purchase Park Grounds. SAN JOSE, April 1.—The City Council to-night acted upon Mayor Martin's sug- gestion that the Agricultural Socilety's ounds be purchased for a city park by nstructing to investigate the matter and to_report next Monday night the price for which it could be bought. STEEL TRUST'S FIELD EXPANDS {Stock of More Companies Goes Into the Gigantic Corporation. | One Billion and a Trifling One Hun~ dred Millions Now Represents the Capital of the Morgan Syndicate. ——— NEW YORK, April 1—It was an- nounced to-day that practically all the stockholders of the constituent companies have turned over their holdings of the United States Steel corporation, the ex- tension of time having expired Sunday. A member of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co. sald that on account of the absence in Europe of a few stockholders the ex- | changes would not represent all the omE Standing stock, but pledges from some o these insured a practically unanimous ac- ceptance of rhelterms qffered by the sur- viving corporation. e TRENTON, N. J., April 1—The United States Steel Corporation this afternooa flled with the Secretary of State articles amending its charter and increasing its capital stock to $1,100,000,000. The s:-tlm- | fee for the fliing of the papers was $220,000. The original articles fled some time ago were only amended in one particula This amendment was made for the pu pose of taking advantage of an act passed by the recent Legislature. Originally the corporation could not mortgage or pledge its real property or any of the stock of any other company except by the affirma- tive vote of the owners of two-thirds of the capital stock. Under the amendel charter, it is necessary to have only tha | afirmative vote of two-thirds of the stock represented in person or by proxy at any meeting of the corporation. The reason for the change is the fear that the stock will become so scattered that it will be impossible to get two-thirds of the entlie stock represented at a meeting. — WANT EXPOSITION GATES ALL CLOSED ON SUNDAYS Church Members in Buffalo Ask That Sabbath Be Observed at Pan- American Display. BUFFALO, N. Y., April 1—A mas: meeting, attended by about 1000 person was held at the Delaware-avenue Baptist Churca last_night, at which rwqhnlutlonl adopted protesting against the open- Ing of the Pan-American Exposition on Sunday. The Rev. J. W. Hathaway of er New Yerk, general _secretary of _the American Sabbath Union, and others spoke. pDr. Hathaway called attention to a mass of signed petitions containing. he said, over a million signatures. asking that the gates be closed on Sunday. He also read a letter from Secretary Cortel- you in reply to one Hathaway had written to President McKinley on the subject. Tt enclosed an abstract from a letter from J. H. Brigham, chairman of the Govern- ment board, reading as follows: “Tt has been the invariable rule of the Government Board not to open the Gov- ernment buildings on Sundays. It will be entirely safe to inform persons inter- ested that this rule will not be departed from at the Pan-American Exposition. REMEY WILL PARTICIPATE | "IN MELBOURNE'S FESTIVITY Commander-in-Chief of the Asiatic Squadron Ordered to Australia on the Brooklyn. WASHINGTON, April 1.—The Navy Department has sent orders to Admiral Remey, the commander-in-chief of the 1 forces on the Asiatic station, to Proceed aboard his flagship. the Brooklyn. To Melbourne, Australia, in time to take part in the exercises commemorative of the opening of the first Federal Parlla- ment, from May 6 to May 9 next. It is possible that the Naw York or the Oregon, en route to and from the Asfatic station, also may be authorized to stop and take part. SUEZ. April 1—The steamer Ophir, bearing the Duke and Duchéss of Corn- wall and York on their tour of the world, arrived here at 10 o’'clock this “morning after being detained through the blocking of the canal by a dredger. o STATIONS FOR REINDEER ESTABLISHED IN ALASKA President Issues an Order Defining the Limits of Reservations for the Animals. WASHINGTON, April 1.—The President has issued an executive order reserving for reindeer stations two tracts of land In Alaska, one on Norton Sound and the other on Unalaklik River. They are made subject to any legal existing rights to any land within those reserved Ilimits. The first reservation occupies the entire peninsula of which Ca enbigh forms the northwest extremity, approximately five miles wide and fifteen miles long. 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