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CB4334444444444444404400420 028 R S eSS S Y Pages ottt + + + + + + LJ @ all, [ ERSS 22N FEEFFFFFFFF350100 0400000 Paoes R e R e e 028 L + * +* + + + + 2 VOLUME XCII-NO. 29 SAN 'FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JUNE 22 1902—FORTY PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CALL’S EXPOSE OF SHADY DEEDS AT SAN QUENTIN WAKES UP DIRECTORS PREMIERS OF THE COLONIES WILL SURPRISE CHAMBERLAIN Decision Is Reached to Refuse to Make Any Suggestions Until — Imperial Government’s Intentions Are Known. 1 — DON, June 2 e awaits t Joseph st g conference with the Premiers, who are 2% King Edv For ent has bees urging kind ot ity of preferential colonies, and whea intro- ires to such an end ssion on ‘the —A bit Colo Cham ter sur- any tendin, the Colonial Premiers to announce their views o ortunateiy for the Gov- e Premiers had already come ey would refuse to suggestions until the Imperial Government puts forward its own inten- s exactly what the Cabinet not only does not want to do, but cannot do Hence a perfectly tame and futile be safely prophesied for the h-advertised conference with the Colonial Premiers. NC VOICE IN FISCAL POLICY. One of the latter said to The Call cor- respondent: “We have no voice in the fiscal policy ©f Great Britain, and have not always complete control of our own. Obviously #¢ is the duty of the mother and govern- ing country to make propositions to us, instead of our making propositions to it. We might sit for months and arrive at no conclusion satisfactory to all of the lonies, and find that the results of our eliberations were flied away in some pigeonhole in Downing street. Lord Salis- bury his publicly stated his disbel'ef in the practicability of colonial preference, of attend- | it would not be fair to do or | i | | | g clusion will' be reached regarding the Bond-Blaine convention. Newfoundland is determined to have the matter settled, and while her attitude will ‘bring up al- most every question now pending be- tween the United Statés and Canada, the prospect of a satisfactory agreement ap- pears bright, though such matters as the Alaskan boundary and the re-meeting of the Joint High Commission are involved. AS TO NEWFOUNDLAND. Another noteworthy item in cozunection with the conference is that a proposition will be brought forward for the confed- eration of Newfoundland and Canada. This, while doubtless causing some stir and the usual crop of incorrect rumors, has been abortive. Newfoundland will not consent to los- ing her individuality as the oldast colony, especially in view of her present satisfac- tory financial condition, though Canada’s offer to include the island in the domain would mean a reduction by 20 per cent ot the %taxation now necessarily imposed on the Newfoundlanders. Sir Robert Bond believes that the same end can be better | | K | cellor of the Exchequer, has openly de- clared his hostility to the idea. So what is the good of our having a mock debate for the sake of holding up Chamberlain's hands into the empty air.” UNITED STATES AND CANADA. The only end likely to be achleved at this really notable meeting is one which is peculiarly interesting to the United States and Canada. It is known that Sir Wilfrid Laurler, the Canadian Premier; Sir Robert Bond, the Premier of Newfoundland, ané Cham- berlain intend to thresh out their long- standing differences of opinion, and on and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, the Chan- | all sides there is hopefuiness that a con- CHASE OF THE THIEF CAUSE OF HIS DEATH NEW YORK, June 21.—While chasing &n alleged thief across the roof of a five- story apartment house in Ninth avenue in broad & ight, Edward Dolan, a pri- vate detective, fell down an air shaft, re- celving a fractured jaw, a broken ankle, a fractured hip and internal injuries, which resulted in his death two hours later. City Detective Devinney was passing the apartment-house when Le heard groans, seeming 1o come'up from the cel- lar. Not fi p to the f of tt af latter said he d thief air shaft, y one there which led ere he found Dolan. had been chasing an the roof to ihe other, and he had attempied himself by taking hold of the The chimney crumbled with he went g base acro or The I d he fell to bottom of i part of the chimney going Gowr him. Dolan became uncon- 'y before an ambulance could be called and died in the hospital without any more of his story having been ob- nor could the occupanis of the nt house throw any light on the t to the | VOWS WILL BE SPOKEN IN ST. JOSEPH’S CHURCH NEWPORT, June 21.—Mr. and Mrs. th their daughter, Miss Lilly Oelrichs, and FPeter D. Martin of San Francisco. Mrs. Rev. Father v, pastor of the church, to-day and some of the more important details were decided upon. ather Deady, who showed Mrs. Oél- chs and her duugh(er about the church, officiate and the service of music, which will be elaborate, will be rendered by the regular choir of the church, ac- ccmpanied by the organ and by Muilaly's orchestra of the Casino. St. Joseph's Church, which is about to be replaced- by | a larger and handsomer -ecdifice, is, be- cavse of its age, not a very attractive placs and appreciating this = Father Deady will offer every facility for deco- rating the interior with flowers. For the reception and wedding breakfast a tem- porary addition is to be built to the Oel- richs cottage in Kay street. Morgan to Make Sweeping Changes. LONDON, June 2L.—If J. P. Morgan had Chzrles M. Oelrichs have selected St. Jo- seph’s Church, in Washington Square, for wedding, on Thursday, June 24, of Oelrichs and Miss Oelrichs called on the [ NOSERM | CHAMBERL & 31t : | —- — SECRETARY OF THE BRITISH COLCNIAL-SYSTEM AND TWO OF THE PREMIERS WHO WILL NOT SUBMIT TO THE .IMPERIAL PRO- GRAMME ARRANGED FOR THE COMING CONFERENCE. — achieved through reciprocity with the United States, which is ‘much more im- portant to Newfoundland than imperial trade preference. NEWR ULE RELATING TOBILLS Significant Action Bearing on the Charges. Revising the Methods of Bookkeeping by Prisoners. No Meoere Substitute Claims Are to Be Made Out. Special Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, June 21.—“Here- after no claims will be allowed by the | toard not made out in the handwrit- } ing of claimants and upon original billheads of the creditors of the priscn. No original bill shall be | made out in the handwriting of any | convict, and all necessary corrections | | | upon billheads shall be made in red ink and in such manner as not to| obliterate the original words or fig- | ures.” The foregoing significart resolution, adopted this afternoon by the State Board of Prison Directors, indicates that | the expose in The Call of shady transac- | | tions in the management of the State | Prison at San Quentin has opened the | eves of the members. The board evi- | | dently intends to try to cut - out any| | ehance for crooked work in the future anc expert convict bookkeepers will not have so much to do in the handling of books and papers. Several hours were spent by the buard | in executive session to-night at the Fol- | som prison considering the management | of Warden Wilkinson. Charges of cruelty | charges were considered the fact was not made known. Members of the board said that, per- sonally, they were satisfied with what they had seen and heard. They would not | say, however, whether they thought Wil- kinson had done any wrong, or whether | they believed the prison was conducted |in a highly proper manner. The intima- | tion was given out that the subject might | be considered at a future meeting. Brainard F. Smith, the Postmaster of | Repressa (the prison), announced that he had resigned. The postoffice probably | will be placed in a building outside the prison grounds.. There had been com- | plaints that Warden Wilkinson had been | in the habit of stopping the mail carrier | Dbetween Folsom and the prison and open- | ing the mail bag. | RELICS OF OLD KINGS ARE NOW ON DISPLAY | o | eHICAGO. June “Relies of kings | who ruled 2000 years before.the Christian | | era, together with complaints of a chief | 0f police, written on papyrus 2000 years ago, are on display for the first time in the Haskell museum of the University of Chicago. The exhibition is given by the Chicago Soclety of Egypiian Re- search and the relics were gathered last summer. One of the relics is a flat goid bar thought t0 be the oldest piece of inscribed | jewelry in the world. It bears the symboi of King Menes, who is thought to have refgned about 3200 B. C. Another exhibit is a piece of papyrus on which is writtea a complaint by Nechthemetes to a chief of police with reference to a robbery on her premises. This relic bears the date of 190 B. C. A piece of papyrus of the third century bears a letter of Demetrius to his father, Heracleides, blaming him had been made against him, but if these [+ | for not sending baskets of fodder. S TATESMEN DEBATE PHILIPPINES BILL Son of the Famous General McClellan Makes Eloquent Defense of the Army. 4o— — TWO OF ' THE CONGRESSMEN WHO ARGUED THE PHILIPPINE BILL YESTERDAY. & L5 Congre T¢ has passed the Panama canal bill. has doneéy the Philippines and decided not Fating $70,000,000. tar West. ernment of the Philippines. sion bills. butter. about $70,000.000. ate, and kiilled in the House. It has passed appropriation that of anly the war Congresses. AR R o B AL RRAS - not been unexpectedly absent in the Med- iterranean, this week would have been marked by important developments in the _financial stages of the Atlantic shipping killed (Ile Nicaragua canal bill and It has killed the bill for a Government cable {0 private enterprise pledged to breaking monopoly. It hax passed a river and harbor bill aggre- It has passed a bill committing the Government to the policy of reclaiming the arid lands of the It will probably pass some bill gor civil gov= It has passed many thousands of special pen- It has prohibited the sale of oleomargarine as It has repenled all war taxes, The ship subsidy bill was passed by the Sen- Chinese exclusion was re-enacted, It amended the bankruptey bill (probably). Congress at its first session, except REVIEW OF THE NATIONAL' LAWMAKERS’ WORK T0O DATE What This Congress Has Done. ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASH- ‘ INGTON, June 21.—Here is a list of things to interfere with law. of the army. It has smothered all reciprocity treaties. It will probably go on record as being unable to agree on a comprehewsive measure for the sup- archy. It has considered consular reform as of no im- pression of portance. It has set its tariff reform. amounting to ate. bills exceeding tion. T combine. All the heads of the companies, including Bernard N. Baker, president of the Atlantic’ Transport line, who is now Things Congress Fails to Do. INGTON, June 21.—These are the things Con- gress has failed to do: It has failed to grant concessions to Cuba. It has turned its back on a plan to pro- l vide for national defense by enacting a militia CALL BURFEAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASH- It has refused to pa It has failed to grasp the trust fssue, and has passed no legislation for the regulation of trusts, ignoring the recommendation of the President and the Industrial Commission. It has postponed action on the bill creating the Department of Commerce, which passed the Sen- 1t has not placed restrictions of any sort, other than those now in effect, _— & a law for a general staff face against (ll’lfl revision and on European emigra- but he was unable to come and so the proposed meeting was postponed. Sweep- ing changes and economies in working ex- here, expected Morgan in London Friday, | penses will soon be put in operation. -~ ASHINGTON, June 2L—| Debate on the Philippine Government bill lagged in the House to-day. There were Seven -speakers— Reeves of ' Illinois and Bromwell of Ohio for tHe bill and Maddox of Georgia, Dinsmore of Arkansas and Thayer of Massachusetts against it. Mc- Cleilan of New Ye;:_ a son of the late General George B. McClellan, delivered a short but eloquent defense of the army. Reeves was the first speaker. Laying down. the proposition that the retention of the Philippines would not ultimately be prejudicial to the welfare of either the Filipino or American people, who should withdraw, he undertook to show that in- stead of proving harmful to either, our retention of the islands would be benefi- cial to both. 'He contrasted the condition of the Filipinos under the Spanish regime with their conditions now and with what it might be expected to be in the future under the civil government provided by the pending bill, and then proceeded to discuss at length the benefits which would accrue to the American people. GREAT MARKET IN ORIENT. In doing so he used a wealth of sta- | tistics to show that our great market in the future would be in the Orient, and that our position at the gateway of the East would be of immeasurable advantags to us. In this connection he reviewed the successful struggle waged by President McKinley with the European powers to secure the “open door” in Asia, to show that in order to get the full benefit of that great victory we must retain our present vantage ground in the East. Maddox of Georgia, who followed Reeves, opposed the bill. The question of whether we are to permanently retain the Philippines, he said, would be ultimately ! decided not by Congress,/but by the Amer. ican people. “God was with us during the war with Spain,” he continued, “and entered into the peace negotiations, but the devil stepped in and he has been running things ever since.” COST OF THE WAR. Maddox questioned Secretary Root's fig- ures as to the cost of the war In the Phil- ippines. - He said he could not understand how he got his figures. The actual | | president of the NEW LINE TO LOWER THE TIME ‘Plans Are Completed | for Connecting Railroads. iLink to Run Between | Salt Lake and Denver. | Deal That Means New | Transcontinental System. | NEW YORK, June 21.—David H. Moffatt, First National Bank of Denver, who has been in this city for the past sixty days, has concluded success- fully the financial arrangements prelim- inary to the building of the Denver, | Northwestern and Pacific Rallway. Sen- |ator W. A. Clark has entered into am | agreement with Moffatt by which the San Pedro, Los Angles and Salt Lake Rail- road will connect at Salt Lake with Mot- fatt’s new road, and the latter will con- nect with the Rock Island and the Bur- | lington at Denver. | The new road, it is expected by its pro- moters, will reduce the time between Den- |ver and Salt Lake City by ten hours. | Work on it will be begun at once, large | orders baving been placed for S0-pound | steel rails. Moffatt, day, said: “I have made the necessary preliminary arrangements looking forward to the | building of the Northwestern Pacific Rail- | way and this railway enterprise has now advanced to the point where we can go on and build it. In addition to the $2,500,~ | 000 subscribed in the city of Denver, out- | side capital has been secured to build the |line. Ralls have been ordered and tha work is-going on. At the proper time the | public will be made acquainted with ths details of the enterprise. We purpose to | 1ssue $20,000,000 of bonds and $20,000,000 of | stock. The stock will be preferred and common. “This road, running, you may say, north | and northwest from Denver to Salt Lake | City, ts not built for the purpose of enter- |ing Into a competitive fleld, or for the purpose of making another road to the Pa- | eific Coast. It does this, however, simply because in connecting these two cities it | forms a link in a railroad chain. What | we chiefly want is a first-class, well-built | road between Denver and Salt Lake City. “The importance of this undertaking | has been apparent to the business inter- ests of Denver and Salt Lake City for some years. All over leading men have advocated the building of a road and or- ganized industrial and financial bodies— notably the Denver Board of Trade—not only advocated a closer connection be- tween the two cities, but have from time 10 time endeavored to create a sextiment among the people for it. This important connection established, not only will the region traversed be developed, but it will lead to a better connection with the entire Northwest as far north as Idaho, Wash- ington and Oregog.” | L e ] before he left for Denver to- amount appropriated on accoun: of the war with Spain and the subsequent op- erations in the Philippines, he said, ex- ceeded $1,000,000,000, or about half of the cost. of the Civil War. He declared that the cost of the army In the Philippines, including transportation, had been in ex- cess of $100,000,000 annually, and with the reduced force would not fall muck below $85,000,00. If the army in the Philippines for the last fiscal year cost only $40,000,009, as Secretary Root alleged, he wanted to know what had become of the remaindes of the $115,000,000 appropriated in the army appropriation bill for that year. Dinsmore of Arkansas made an earnest speech, appealing to both sides to weigh well the tremendous issue which was to be decided in the-pending legislation. De- cided one way It meant, he said, free government and independence for the Fil- ipinos; decided the other way it meant colonial subjects and a perpetual colonial policy. He severely criticized General Wood's course in using Cuban funds (o influence legislation in the United States. McClellan of New York in a brief speech defended the army. There may have been instancesof crueltyin the Phil- ippines, he said, but there should be no difference among Americans about up- holding our soldiers while they are under fire. “The army is not and never has been | and never will be the asset of one polit- ical party,” said he, amid a round of ap- | plause. The last speaker of the day was Thayer of Massachusetts, who made a strong anti-imperialistic speech. He sald that the military had encroached ugpon the civil authority, but insisted that the op- | position to the present Philippine poliey | was making no attack upon the army in the fleld. At 5 o'clock the House took a recess until 8 o’clock. At the evening session Palmer (R.) of Pennsylvania, in support of the bill, de- | nled that an imperial design lurked in the | minds of the American people or of thoss respensible for the conduct of affairs in tke Philippines. Conrby (D.) of Massachusetts Insisted that the heavy loss of life and *he enor- mous expenditure in the Philippines were direct evidence of the imperialistic teme dency of the party In power. At 10:30 the House adjourned. -~

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