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Hall—Song Recital to-morrow vakiand Racetrack—Races to-day. < THE CUBAN SCHEME. ROM the Ways and Means Committee of the F House the Cubzn reciprocity treaty has been presented along with an cxtgndcd piece of spe- cial pleading in its behalf. It remains to be seen whether the stalwart protectionists of the House can defeat the scheme, but the outlook is doubtful, for the voté in committee shows that a good many ats will vote ior the bill. -Still it will be worth Democ while fight as they can in the House for the sake of strengthening - protection sentiment and increasing the chances of defeating the bill in'the Senate. The argument for the bill in the report of the com- mittee is made up muinly of assertions that cannot be sustained in debate, and it concludes by saying: “It is a happy circumstance that, without any injury to our own industries, and without the loss of any- thing except seven or cight million dollars of revenue, which we do not need, we are able to extend this relief to Cuba and at the same time get reciprocal trade relations with her. Aside from the exceptional case that Cuba presents, the action of the committee is in entire accord with the reciprocity doctrine of the Republican platform znd the declarations of Presi- dent McKinley and President Roosevelt. It involves no proposed revision of the tariff or anything not entirely n harmony with the maintenance of the protective system.” There are very few genuine protectionists in the United States who will assent to any single state- ment in that conclusion.. Democrats and free traders, however, will ‘hail it with gladness. If the assertion were true that the American sugar industry will not be injured by the competition of the cheap labor on sugar - plantations of the rich island of Cuba, then it would be equally true that other American indus- tries might be subjected to extensive foreign compe- tition without injury. If it be true that this treaty is in accord with the reciprocity doctrine of the Re- publican platform and the declarations of President McKinley, then other reciprocity treaties of a similar kind would also be in accord with the platform. Finally, if the surrender of the sugar industry to foreign competition be in entire harmony with the protective system, ther the surrender of other indus- tries to competition would also be “protective.” Such doctrines in short will be hailed with joy by the op- ponents of protection, for if they be valid, “protec- tion” ceases to be reasonable and becomes a self- evident absurdity. Protectionists of liberal minds will admire the nerve of the men who have submitted to Congress an official report asserting that the reduction of du- ties on Cuban sugar is in accord with the declarations of the Republican platiorm on the subject of pro- tection and reciprocity. The platform adopted at Philadelphia, after declaring “We renew our faith in, the policy of protection to American labor,” goes on 10 say. “We favor the associated policy of reciprocity so directed as to open our markets on favorable terms for what we do not ourselves produce in re- turn for free foreign markets.” How can the report of the Ways and Means Committee be made to har-#| monize with that declaration, unless it can be shown that we do not produce sugar? The committee asserts in its report: “It can work no injury to our industry if we make this small re- duction in Cuban sugars. The enactment’ of this bill will not affect the protection of the sugar pro- ducers of the United States.” Utterances similar to that have been heard for years from free traders and their Democratic allies. It was by such assertions the people were led tc elect a Congress pledged to reduce tariff duties. Experience with the Wilson tariff soon showed what a reduction of protective du- ties meant to the industries of the country; and at the ensuing elections the people voted overwhelm- ingly for conmsistent znd comprehensive protection. Ir is strange, therefore, that some of the very men who were chosen to enact a protective tariff are now advocating a scheme which will destroy its symmetry wod revive the tariff agitation; and moreover are wsging their scheme by arguments identical with those the free traders and tariff tinkers have been wsing for years. fo the protectionists to make as strong a | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1902. WOMEN’S CLUBS INSTITUTE GUIL ! THE STATE INSTITUTIONS. N this State there is a regular recurrence of the I proposition to put all State institutions, from’ the university to the School for the }‘ecb}e-‘Minded, under the managemenz-of one board, that shall have all the patronage, make all the purchases and deter- mine the policy of the entire group, educational, penal and eleemosynary. The scheme is alluring to the practical politician. It would give control of nearly four thousand places, and of an -expenditure which runs into the millions. A rake-off artist would thrive in such a situation. But-aside_from the danger of putting all that power ’and patronage in the hands of one board, under the most honest management the inslitutions.\vould suffer.. It is impossible to find -three men or five men quaiified by training and sympathy to manage a university, normal schools, insane asylums, the blind, the deaf and dumb, the feeble-minded and the criminal irstitutions and classes. Each institution re- quires on its board of managers one or more persons in touch with its purpcse, intelligent and experienced enough to know whether its policy is adapted to its purpose. On each board there should be an element that is not in pursuit of patronage or power, but has for its motive a geavine intérest in the work and purpose of the institution. The university regency requires men who will not only manage well the business of the institution, but who are 4lso scholars, au courant with university work everywhere. Qur penal institutions will not be well managed unless in their directory there be | some men who have more than dipped into penology. On: that directory business capacity and knowledge | of the latest known in the management of criminals | should be combiried. The same is true of the man- | | agement of the incorrigible. As for the insane, the | feeble-minded and blind and deaf and dumb, the same | policy is most requisite. Management of the defec- | tive classes is of a peculiar nature. The requirements of the juvenile blind are entirely different from those {of the adult blind. They sl!ou]d not be under the | same managenitent at all. | To mass all these institutions under a common | directory wonld impair their usefulness and defeat | their purpose. Their business administration would be economized and improved by abolishing our pres- ent Board of Examiners, composed of State officer who act ex-officio, and substituting therefor a board of account and audit, to do well what the Board of | Examiners now dozs defectively and inefficiently. Such a beard should enforce a common system of accounting for all State institutions, putting our | policy in that respect in line with the movement that is going on to compel, in public accounting, the same corporate business, The board should also have vis- itorial powers and pay, that it may inspect every institution and be prepared to affirm or reject the de- mands that cach makes upon the Legislature for ap- propriations, cither for special purposes or support. The State of New York has had a general board for thirty-five years it charge of its eleemosynary institutions. This State Board of Charities, in its last report, expresses the need of individual manage- ment. That report declares that “The management and control of State charitable and reformatory ini- stitutions should .be intrusted to individuai beards of | managers, composed of ghilamhropic’ci(izens of the State.. Men and women of character and- intelligence, who have time and ability to give to the service of the State, should be encouraged, as they are in other States and countries where charitable and reform work has reached-a high state of development, to devote themselves to the service of the State by act- ing as members of the boards of managers of its in- stitutions. This course not only greatly benefits the. institutions through® the enthusiasm, the - special | knowledge and the disinterested and gratuitous ser- vice which such numbers bring to the work, but also keeps theit management largely free from the semi- mechanical administration which a central board of control, having many institutions and diverse inter- ests to care for, is able to give to each. Besides helping to keep the institutions out of ‘the undesir- able routine liable to follow the administration of a central board of paid officials, it keeps their manage- ment in closer touch with the people. “This is not simply a commercial question. These institutions deal with men, women and children, and are the embodiment of the loftiest philanthropic sen- timent of the State. Their work should not be car- ried on in a mechanical way. Philanthropic services and business ability ccmbined in the management of these institutions should produce the best results. Competent boards of managers can always be ob- tained, and their powers be properly regulated by the Legislature.” i Through such institutions the State is concerned, indeed, with men, women and children, with human- ity in its powerless and pitiful aspects. The care given them should net be formal, touch-and-go, be- cause it is what differentiates the modern Christian state from the ancieat commonwealth, that took no note of its people disinherited in faculties or fortune. The State does not discharge its duty by regarding only the commercial side of such a responsibility, nor by putting such institutions among the assets of par- ties and treating them as the spoils of victory. If politics must loot, let it victimize the strong, but ileave the weak and defective to benefit by the inspira- tion of that voice which cried, “As ye have done it unto one of the least of these, ye have done it unto me. THE INJUNCTION PLAN. HILE urging Congress to clothe it with a largely increased power, the Interstate U N Commerce Commission has engaged in a vigorous fight to compel the railways centering at Chicago to obey the law. As a means to that end, the commission some time ago applied to the Federal court, asking that a temporary restraining order .be issued against six railroads entering that city. The railroads did not contest the petition, and it was duly granted by Judge Grosscup with the statement: “But for the compliance of the defendant I should have required the fullest possible hearing. The matter is one of extreme importance and not to be decided without the most mature deliberation.” It is reported from Chicago that it is believed the six railroads named in the restraining order agreed not to contest the petition for injunction at this time in order that other roads may eventually be brought into court and compelled to live up to the require- ments of the law. The new move on the part of the commission is looked upon as one of far-reaching importance. That view was taken by the Judge, who, in issuing the order, said: “Personally, 1 believe freight rates should be as steady and equal as postage rates, and that no dis- lcriminlfion should be made. The person who turns over freight to a common carrier for transportation exactness and system that are the rule in private and | should be made to feel that he will enjoy the same rates as every other shipper. The kind of traffic on which these bills are based is much more complicated than mailible matter, and the rates, therefore, should be subjected to that much stricter regulation. But the question here is what power the Government has to enforce the provisions of this interstate com- merce act. If this application for an injunction can be maintained, it will make the courts%f equity the mastérs of the maintenance of rates. Such a finding might also prove to be the vitalizing principle of the act.” The possibility that the process of enjoining rail-- ways from violating the law may prove “the vitaliz- ing principle” of the interstate commerce act and the Sherman law. renders the case one of supreme interest. It may go far toward solving the whole problem th-at is so perplexing in its complications and avoid the necessity for new legislation. In issuing the injunction, the court said: “If any departure from the established rates is made by any of these railroads during the pendency of these or- ders, the court will t:ke great pains to seek out the offender and provide against further violations.” With that declaration to go upon, it would seem the commission has now a chance to accomplish good results. The railroads have often invoked injunction | jto stop the enforcement of law, and now we shall see if injunction can prevent them from violating it. The recent report that King Edward has taken to the use of snuff and will make it fashionable has led to an investigation of the snuff trade in Great Britain {and the discovery that the use of the article has been | steadily declining for many years, consequently if the fKing takes the matter up he will be helping not an infant industry, but a decadent one. _THE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN. FTER much pulling and hauling: the Demo- | A crats of Congress have m%maged to get their political machine out of the mud and patch it up for work in the approaching Congressional cam- paign. Moreover, they managed, by one means or another, to accomplish the feat of pulling all to- gether. They terminated the long dispute over the chairmanship of thé campaign committee by the elec- tion of Representative Griggs of Georgia by a unan- 1imous vote. It is announced that the executive com- mittee to -be appointed later will have for its { chairman Ben T. Cable of Illinois, and the finance | committee will be headed by Lewis Nixon of New {Yeork. As neither Cable nor Nixon are members of Congress it appears the Democrats of Congress do not feel able to take care of themselves and are reach- |ing out for help to the country at targe. . The unanimous election of Griggs gives evidence of the active pulling of a good many hidden wires during the last two or three wecks. At the first meet- ing. of .the Democratic Congressional campaign committec an attempt was made to elect Griggs, but | it was defeated. It was stated at that time that the nomination of Griggs was the first open movement of*the Bryan faction of the party to head off the work of the reorganizers and his defeat was hailed by the conservatives as a victory. The opponents of Bryan were so much encouraged by the vote that they un- {dertook to bring forward a candidate who would rep- resent the demand for a new leader and a new de- parture. Then came reports of the probability of the election of Senator Martin br of Senator Gorman or even of some Democrat still ntore pronounced in his antagonism to the Chicago platiorm. All those reports have proven ill founded. By some | eans the wrangling factions have been brought into | harmony, and the man who could not command a bare majority at the first meeting has the satisfaction of obtaining his election by a unanimous vote. Some- thing has been doing in the Democratic ranks, though it is not yet quite clear what mind has direct- ed the doing. The fact that Cable is to be the chairman of the executive committee and Nixon is to have charge of the finance committee seems to imply that Griggs will be only a figurehead. If that be so the Bryan- ites have the husk and the reorganizers the kernel. The. selection of Cable to takesactive charge of the campaign is especially notable. During the time of | the wrangle over the chairmanship and shortly after 1 | the defeat of Griggs at the first meeting Cable’s name was frequently mentioned by the reorganizers as the proper man to take charge of the campaign. He managed the Western canvass for Cleveland in 1892 with marked success, and whige he did not publicly i bolt Bryan's nomination he ®as.not a worker for him. Consequently he is looked upon as anything rather than a Bryan man, and the fact that he is now to be chief of the executive committee implies that the reorganizers have been able to force a compro- mise on the Bryanites and virtually capture the com- mittee. AND FLEES T o NEW club has been formed in San Francisco which bids fair to be- come popular. It is composed of women and will be known as the “Club Women's Guild." The new organization is composed of the leading women's societies of San Francisco, Oak- land, Alameda and Berkeley, the purpose being to bring the different associations neater to one another and thus promoting the intérests and welfare of club women at iarge. The guild has its office in room 207 Heargt building. The old English style of furniture has been employed in fitting up the room, and huge oak tables and dark-wood chairs give it a picturesque ap- pearance. An etching of “Old Queen Vickey,” by Edward Gorden Craig, son ot the actress, Ellen Terry, occupies a prom- inent place on the wall. Miss Toby, a local artist, had charge of the work of decorating the office. The guild is to publish a journal called Club Life, a neat little paper of sixteen pages, in old English type, which will be issued monthly, beginning May 1. The paper, as well as the organization, is to be Californian in every respect. It will contain reports of the various club meet- ings and business, articles of interest to womankind by leading women writers. Club Lite will also contain articles by leading medical men on subjects of hy- giene and kindred topics of importance. The cover for the initial number will present a redwood grove, drawn by Miss Lilla Tautphaus, a student of Mark Hop- kins Art Institute. The officers of the club are: President, Mrs. J. R. Tautphaus, 1529 California o+ WILL PUBLISH A ’MONTHLY - OFFICERS OF THE CLUB WOMEN'S GUILD WHICH HAS BEEN OR- GANIZED TO BRING ABOUT CLOSER RELATIONS BETWEEN THE ' VARIOUS FEMININE ASSOCIATIONS ON BOTH SIDES OF BAY. street; secretary and treasurer, Miss S. P. Thomas, 1611 Gough street; Miss Lilla Tautphaus, artist and designer for Club Life, 1520 California street; Alameda County secretary and treasurer, Mrs. Seib; assistant secrgtary, Miss Bernice Scoville. The clubs of San Francisco embraced — in the guild are the California, Century, Corona, Forum, Laurel Hall, Mills, Philo- math, Puerta Del Oro, D. A. R. Sketch, Serosis, Spinners, Wimodausis, Women'’s Council, Porteous and Women's Press Association. Those in Oakland are the Ebell, Woman's Club; Alameda, Adel- phian, Tea Club; Berkeley, Berkeley Par- liamentary Club and Town and Gown. L i P I s 1 CONCERNING CITI ES OF THE DEAD The arguments in the constitutionality of the ordinance prohibiting burials in the city and county of San Francisco were completed before Superior Judges ‘Cock, Dunne and Lawlor, sitting in. bank, yesterday. The mattér at issue was sub- Another feature of the situation is worth noting. Mr. Cable is not only a very rich man, but is a large stockholder in the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, a corporation that is supposed to exert a strong influence on the politics of several of the Mis- sissippi Valley States. It is believed he will be able to swing the railroad influence to the Democratic side, and that fact gives him a good deal of prestige in the Democratic camp despite the loudness with which the party denounces plutocrats. Taken altogether, the composition of the Demo- cratic Congressional campaign committee is decid- edly variegated. It was accomplished by a unani- mous vote and the thing looks harmonious, but— wait till you hear from Bryan A hot discussion is raging between New York and Boston as to which of the two cities has the larger number of paintings by the old masters in the hands of millionaires, and whether the collectiun of J. Pier- pont Morgan or Mrs. Jack Gardner is the finer. There seems to be no interest on either side as to which of the two is the mote liberal patron of Amer- ican art. In fact, home art doesn’t seem to count in either city. 2 John D. Rockefeller, b'eing a millionaire, mourns and laments because he has no hair on his head, eye-. brows, lip or chin; but were he a poor, impecunious cuss it would be a source of rejoicing that he could make a living in a side show as a hairless freak; and thus perverse nature deals out as a curse to one man what would be a fortune to another. — Colonel Watterson’s assertion that Roosevelt is trying to make, himself a rough rider «dictator Has now been sufficiently reviewed by the press of the country to make it evident that the universal opinion is that Watterson was altogether too exuberant an i slopped over, face a threatened punishment of seventy-seven years’ imprisonment will probably feel like accepting the congratulations of his friends if he is let off with ! carceration for life. : -~ The local burglar who pleaded guilty rather than |- mitted to the court and the promise made that an early decision would be rendered. Attorney McEnerney, who represented the Board of Supervisors, summed up his argument briefly. He .discussed the va- rious points made by the other side and declared that the term regulation under the constitution meant ‘in fact an ordi- nance, so that the conténtion that the Board of Supervisors might regulate but not prohibit, was not proved. The speaker conténded further that the police power of the Supervisors was not limited to the regulation of nuisances, but that it, extended to the limits of abate- ment and suppression. The rights.of own- ers of plats in cemeteries were subject to the prohibition by the municipality of burials in such plats. In closing the speaker said the matter at issue should have been taken to the Supreme Court in the first instance in order that valuable time might have been saved to all con- cerned. Attorney Robert Harrison, one of coun- sel for the appellant, George R. Fletcher, superintendent of Odd Fellows’ Cemetery, who_is contesting the validity of the or- dinance in question, addressed the court at some length. He denied that the con- stitution conferred in clear terms abso- lute police powers upon the Board of Su- pervisors, but that such power was con- ferred by the charter. More than 30,000 cemetery lot owners are complaining of the attempt made by the Supervisors in this instance to deprive them-of the right to bury their dead in established ceme- terfes, and on this ground the ordinance is unreasonable and therefore void. The speaker read a report of the com- mittee of the Board of Supervisors filed in March, 1899, in which it was declared that “the cemeteries in this city were garden spots, and that there was no valid reason why they should be closed in response to the petition of the Western Addition De- velopment Club. According to the speak- er, the cemeteries were operated to all in- tents and purposes as public parks and inflicted no harm upon any one. > Referring to the term “regulation,” the speaker Insisted that its use necessarily _implied the comtinued existence of ..at which Is to be regulated and not its sup- pression.. It was conceded that tne muni- cipality had inherent police power to pro- tect itself, but even that power had its limitations. It had power to regulate in all matters when in doing so it did not with general laws. It couiu not |} eonfiscate nronertv without due process of law; it could not with tle mere stroke of a pen confiscate the property of 30,000 citi- zens without providing for their compen- sation. Attorney W. 8. Wood followed with a brief argument, in which he said the burial ordinance was in conflict with the general laws of California and therefore veld. Decisions in support of this conten- tion were read to the court. The sub- stance of these was that when a man bought a cemetery plat the ownership thereof was vasted in him and his heirs- at-law forever, and that no municipal legislative body could deprive these of the rights of ownership. In support of the claim that it was a custom as old as the fabled hills to re- spect cemeteries as sacred, and that the rights of owners thereof were perpetual, the speaker read a portion of Genesis xxiii, in which is recorded the negotiations of Abraham with the sons of Heth for the purchase of a burial place for Sarah. ‘This decd vested in Abraham and his de- scendants absolute owmership forever- more. The claim of the other side that there was no available land in this city and county was declared to be erroneous, and the argument was advanced that the need of burials in adjacent eounties did not exist. This practically closed the argument. Attorney McEnerney asked leave to make a reply to Woods on the ground that he had ralsed issues which were not pre- sented by counsel for the appellant in the opening argument. This being granted in opposition to the objection of Woods, who suid McEnerney was bound to have the last word, he proceeded to say that the sections of the Penal Code relating to cemeteries conferred police powers upun the Supervisors for their regulation and suppression. The other side contcnded that a cemetery could only be cioszd by repealing the law under Which they wre estatlished and not by a municipal-oody, suen as the Board oY Supervisors. The case was then submitted, Judge Cook « ‘ nounc:ng that a decision might be reach ed befere the close of the current month. — News in Army Circles. The Second Battalion, Twentieth Infan- try, now in camp at the Presidio, has been ordered to Columbus Barracks, Ohio. Captain W. L. Simpson, Sixth Infantry, has been ordered to Angel Island -for duty to_relieve Captain Americus Mitch- ell, Fifth Infantry, who will leave shortly for the Philippines. Captain E. W. Apple dered to Columbus ks, Ohio. -uml.!.mm;:‘mb.fil | business houses and public men by the of the medical department has been or-| Ex. streng hoarhound candy. Townsend's.* — i Cai. glace frui: 50c per I1b at Townsend's.* ot il abadi. s Speclal information supplied dally to Press Clipping Bureau (Alien's), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042, - ——e———— Townsend's Callfornia glace frult, S0c a pound, in fire-etched boxes or Ja bas- kets. 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