The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 19, 1902, Page 6

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CAESAR. and the Examiner offers as a substitute “The Lives of the Caesars,” and has introduced Domitian, Tiberjus, Caligula and Nero into the cam- paign. It sees in the labor vote the Roman Pretorian guard which made emperors, and usually got fooled in the result. As if it were not bad enough to speak of American laboring men as resembling the armed mercenaries of the Roman empire, who usurped the office of imperial ¢lectors and put the purple up at auction, the Examiner sees in Congressman Kahn 2 Tiberius and in Congressman Loud a Nero. Verily, men and brethren, we are in the midst of trouble, from the Examiner standpoint, and the city is full of armed Pretorian guards, while Caesars lurk in the midst of us, and Nero goes up Kearny street and down California putting “ros'um” on his fiddle- bow and endangering the insurance companies. The matter should be brought before the Grand Jury. Probably what the Examiner means is that the can- didate who promises much, too much, is the one who performs nothing that he promises. That paper laments that this was the trouble with Domitian and «the other gentlemen who bid for the purple and paid for it in promises when the army put it up at auc- tion. The Examiner mislocates its analogy. It is now secking to betray the Democratic party into an alliance, in the expectation that it can win out for its end of the programme and leave the Democratic end to flounder and wonder what hurt it. The Examiner is doing just as Domitian did, by making promises impossible of fulfillment for the sake of power. It should beware of too much Roman history. Mr. Frank Sullivan ran for Con- gress in this city the same year that Mr. Michael Tarpey ran for Lieutenant Governor. Mr. Sullivan is classically educated, and in a speech referred with frequency and fervor to the Tarpeian rock, in con- nection with traitors. One of his auditors said to another, “He’s abusin’ Mike Tarpey,” whereupon there arose 2 row from which the classical candidate was glad to escape with a whole skin. Roman classics are hot stuff in American cam- paigns and are not often resorted to in these days. The elder Harrison was classical and saw in Jackson, Van Buren and the Democratic leaders of 1840 all the bad ones among the twelve Caesars rolled into one. After his election it was thought best that Daniel Webster, who was to be Secretary of State, should sevise President Harrison’s inaugural. Returning to his house one day after working at this revision a friend remarked that he looked tired. “Yes,” said the divine Daniel, “I am tired. I've slain four Cae- sars and three pro-consuls, and the end is not yet.” As the Examiner has entered Caesar in California politics it is proper to show up this Caesar business even at the risk of a libel suit, for be it remembered that Caesar cah’t slosh around here unless the Pre- torian guard is here also, and the Examiner is in command of the guard, by its own admissions. After Augustus the Caesars lost the habit of dying in bed. His grest-grandson, Caligula, was assassinated; Claudius was poisoned by Mrs. Claudius; Galba was murdered by the soldiers who sold him the purple; they then sold it to Otho, who killed himself; Vitel- lius, who was a great eater, killed himself, probably as a remedy for indigestion; Domitian was mur- dered; then from Nerva the Caesars were either chosen by their predecessors or by the army and had quite an easy time. Trouble began again with Com- modus, who was strangled by his mistress; Pertinax was murdered, and Didius bought the empire and was assassinated. Then the line fell into the hands of small men, and nineteen of them were assassinated, one was skinned alive and two committed suicide. The life of a Caesar was brief, but strenuous. Surely it requires a pretty hot box to go into the Caesar business in California politics. Couldn’t the Ex- aminer find something less torrid, as it were? S — A syndicate has been formed with a capital of $1,000,000 to plant a 5000-acre orchard, and about ten years from now the news of the day will contain no- tice of its collapse. The orchard business is one of the things in which the syndicate will never equal a man who lives on his ranch and attends to his trees in person. THE Democratic campaign textbook is not out, In the German army maneuvers the army ‘com- manded by the Kaiser won a splendid® strategic vic- tory over the army commanded by General Stulp- magel—such, at least, was the decision of the ump;re. What would have happened had the umpire decided the other way? - )are great, but they are not insuperable. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1902. GENERAL APPRAISER MARION DE VRIES ANSWERS AN UNWARRANTED ATTACK HENDERSON’S RETIREMENT. N declining the Republican nomination for Con- gress in the Dubuque district Mr. Henderson voluntarily relinquishes the Speakership, to which he would have been re-elected for a third term without opposition. His reason is highly creditable to him, while his act is distressing to his party. He prefers to abide by his conviction that protection is an economic principle, and not a policy of expe- diency, and as his party in Iowa holds an attitude on that subject that is out of line with his convictions, he prefers to disembarrass it and himself by giving it a fair way in his district. He has been eleven times elected to Congress. At the close of his term next March he will have seen twenty-two years of ‘ccntinuous service in the House. A native of Scotland, under the constitution he could go no higher than the Speakership, the third office in our system, and, in some important rtespects, the most powerful. He was a soldier in the Civil War and sustained a grievous wound in battle, by which he lost one foot. This wound never completely healed, and his life since.he suffered it has been one of almost constant pain and physical disquiet. Five amputations have been necessary in consequence of an imperfect stump, and now the leg has been lost above the knee joint. The ever-present misery of this condition has been borne by his iron will without sacrificing any of his activity or impairing his ca- pacity for work, and, more than that, it has. not abridged his cheerfulness, and he has remained the most sympathetic and companionable of men. He and another Scotchman, Secretary Wilson of the De- partment of Agriculture, have long dominated the politics of their adopted State and have strongly and wisely influenced national affairs. While there is much discussion of Mr. Hender- son’s reasons for retiring, they seem easily under- stood. He denies the necessity for mutilating a pro- tective tariff in order to hit the trusts. He holds that if protection is an economic principle, necessary and beneficial to national prosperity, it logically harbors nothing that is inimical to that prosperity. This being true, the trusts exist independently of protec- tion, and to remove protection will simply admit into our market the product of ‘the. foreign trusts, which exist everywhere in the nations which aré our com- mercial rivals. So he aptly describes the proposed remedy as a proposition to “kill the child to cure its disease.” The Call has all the time warned the Republican party against treating protection as a policy of ex- pediency and not an economic principle. We believed such treatment to be sowing of the wind, that is fol- lowed by reaping of the whirlwind. If the public mind be bow disordered on that issue it is due to persistence in that course against which we raised the danger signal. Cuban free trade and reciprocity treaties which strike at home production have evi- dently reopened the tariff question at the exact point where protection as a principle is in the greatest danger. The political opposition was powerless to do this. It had neither the capacity nor the oppor- tunity to make the breach. Republicans have done this, and the consequences are now upon the party. It is best not palter with the subject. When a Republican of the prominence of Speaker Hender- son leaves Congress and surrenders the third office in the Government becatise as a consistent protec- tionist he cannot follow nor lead his party on its new path, those who do lead it therein become re- sponsible for its safe guidante and for its future. His retirement means that the party is now a party of tariff revision and modification. This work should be done by a Republican Congress, to the end that the floodgates may not be entirely swept away. Of course the Senate will remain on guard for a time, even if a party revolution result. ,But the people, who wish no industrial catastrophe, should now, more than ever, see to it that the next House is soundly and solidly Republican. As this phase of the issue has occurred in relation to the trusts, it may well be expected that remedies for trust conditions may be found and made efficient without breaching the tariff. We agree with Mr. Henderson that such breach is likely to result only in giving foreign trusts free access to our markets, to the vast injury of all our varied interests. But, if the country will not be content until the experi- ment is tried, let it be tried by a Republican Con- gress, —— Ii the report be true that a professor of the Uni- versity of Chicago has expressed the opinion that Mars is inhabited by a race of beings superior to man, we may expect to hear of his speedy dismissal. Can Chicago admit that there is anywhere in the uni- verse a being superior to Rockefeller? In Great Britain as well as in our Eastern States, the papers are complaining of a rainy summer and a dreary autumn, and it looks as if no one were happy but us. THE PARCELS POST. ATE reports concerning the arrangements L made between the British postoffice and the American Express Company are by no theans so roseate as those first given out. It appears system is to be neither so cheap as was first nounced nor so easily operated. A detailed statement of the charges agreed upon shows that the minimum charge made by the British postoffice to New York for a parcel not over three pounds is one shilling, for a parcel from three to seven pounds two shillings, and for a parcel from seven to eleven pounds three shillings. For parcels going to any other part of the United States an addi- tional shilling is charged in each class. Besides this, there is a shilling to be paid on every parcel, which is the fee charged by the United States customs offi- cials under the title of “sample office fee” or “stor- age fee.” There is also a shilling charged by the ex- press company for the clearance of parcels through the custom-house. Of course any article’that is dutiable under our law has to pay the regular customs, and it is foreseen that there will be trouble in the operation,of the system. A dispatch from Washington says the British autlor- ities have been trying to arrange some method of guaranteeing the duties, the sender in Great Britain depositing 10 per cent of thie value of the package to cover possible customs charges, and the British post- office giving bond in a general way for the entry of the articles. The dispatch goes on to say: “The business that will devolve upon the express company in clearing parcels at custom-houses will be neces- sarily slow and burdensome, it is thought, and postal officials do not expyt the proposed system to work with anything like satisfaction.” Such reports differ widely from the bright estimaies of the utility of the system when the arrangement was announced, but they by no means prove that the scheme will end in failure. The difficulties in the way the an- In fact, our (maku him sick and need a ‘rest: own Government may some day establish a parcels post, and then the co-operation of the two cotntries would be quite feasible. The latest novelty is a “house automobile.” One now on exhibition in the East contains six rooms and a bath. It is sixtysfive feet long and cost $30,000. A family in possession of such a vehicle can summer across the country in much the same way as yachting across the seas, and there is no more rent to pay in the one case than in the other. e e e : THE ROUMANIAN JEWS. S ECRETARY HAY has taken in the field of in- ternational diplomacy another of those steps which are rapidly advancing him to a higher eminence than any other Foreign Minister now-liv- ing, and which, indeed, give promise of securing for him a prestige at home and abroad greater than that enjoyed by any preceding American Secretary of State. Whether viewed from the standpoint of phil- anthropy, self-interest or diplomacy, his circular let- ter on the subject of the Roumanian Jews addressed to the powers that framed the Berlin treaty of 1878 is a superb and noble state paper. It will take its place among®the classic diplomatic papers of history and will give to the United States a stronger posi- tion than ever among the nations of the earth. Like most of hi§ illustrious predecessors in the State office Secretary Hay sets aside the formulas of diplomacy and states his case clearly and emphati- cally. The persecutior of the Jews in Roumania is a matter of concern to the United States because that persecution forces thousands of oppressed people to leave their homes and seek refuge here. Some of them on their arrival are able to establish themselves in comfort and eventually they attain prosperity, but thousands of them, strangers in a strange land, ig- norant, wronged, poor'and despondent, ate lar‘gely incapable of self-help, and as a consequence we have to undertake the burden of their support. Upon that ground we have a right to interfere and demand justice for the oppressed people. It is a mat- ter of self-defense as well as of humanity. As the Secretary states it: ‘“Whether consciously and of purpose or not, these helpless people, burdened and spurned by their native land, are forced by the sov- ereign power of Roumania upon the ¢harity of the United States. 'This Government cannot be a tacit party to such an international wrong.” In addition to our right to protest against a tyranny that makes the United States a charitable asylum to which European despots may drive their indigent and helpless people, we have a right to pro- test in the name of humanity itself. At the time the powers created the kingdom of Roumania and estab- lished its government they exacted of the new gov- ernment a guarantee of respect for the rights of its people. For a time that guarantee was observed, but little by little it has been set aside and ignored until now the Jews of Roumania have been virtually deprived of the right to live in the country. Secretary Hay recites’ a long array of cruel laws enacted against them and closes by sayifig: “In short, by the cumulative effect of successive restric- tions the Jews of Roumania have become reduced to a state of wretched misery. Shut out from nearly every avenue of self-support which is open to the poor of other lands, and ground down by poverty as the natural result of their discriminatory treatment, they are rendered incapable of lifting themselves from the enforced degradation they endure. Even were the fields of education, of civil employment and of commerce open to them as to ‘Roumanian citi- zens' their penury would prevent their rising by in- dividual effort. Human beings so circumstanced have virtually no alternatiye but submissive suffering or flight to some land less unfavorable to them.” Americans of all classes, parties and creeds will support the Secretary in this stand for the protection of the oppressed. The issue has been presented to the great powers in a way that cannot be evaded. “You created the Government of Roumania,” says the Secretary to Great Britain, Germany, France, Austria, Italy and Turkey, “now it is your duty to compel your creature to refrain from oppression.” European diplomacy will of course shudder at such a note. We shall hear much caustic comment on “shirtsleeve diplomacy.” 1In the end, however, Europe will have to act. Roumanid must behave herself. A MASSACHUSETTS CASE. FROM Boston to San Francisco is a far cry in more ways than one. Journeying across the continent from one ocean to the other the American people moved upward as well as onward, and now when we would gaze upon New England we must look downward as well as backward. It is sometimes wise to take that far off look in order to note conditions there so that when disturbed in our Elysium by some rumpled rose leaf, we may not be tempted to think that things are better back East and that men are happier there. Here is a Massachusetts case whose facts we di- gest from the reports of the newspapers of Boston concerning a libel for divorce brought by a merchant of Salem. The petitioner alleged that his wife tore the sign from his store, put into his tea something that made him vomit, threw his clothes downstairs, filled his shoes with cold water, put swill in his over- coat pocket, threw water over him as he went down- stairs, put pepper in his bed, made him sleep in an attic, kept in her bed an iron bar eight inches long and threatened him with it when he approached her, wouldn’t do his washing, wouldn’t mend his clothes, made him darn his socks and sew buttons on his shirts, spat on his toast when he was getting his breakfast, rocked in a squeaky chair for hours at a time to annoy him, put grease on his Sunday clothes, wouldn’t let him have a fire on the coldest evenings so that he often had to go to bed at 7 p. m. to keep warm, and finally “she rubbed a butcher knife over his neck once and threatened to blow out his brains.” The petitioner in testifying in court said: “I neither drink, chew, smoke, nor gamble. I have been married thirty-three*years. I left my wife four years ago a physical wreck, but now I am not a bad looking man.” The Massachusetts Judge heard all that testimony, and then refused to grant a divorce. 'California life is never like that. 3 . e Dr. Dixon of Philadelphia, president of the Ameri- can Academy of Sciences, says that the protection accorded to the bears in Yellowstone Park 'has ren- dered them so tame that they threaten-to become a nuisance. They hang around the hotels to eat.gar- bage, and it is said that a small boy with a rock can drive away a grizzly. 3 The latest story from New York is that Mr. Schwab gets only $100,000 a year and perhaps it is this rapid shrinking in the public estimation of his salary that - N general public interest, as it illus- trates completely the methods of alleged journalism employed by the Examiner in its irresponsible, un- warranted and maliclous attacks upon public men: NEW YORK, Sept. 11, 1902 Editor Call, San Francisco—Dear Sir: In compliance with your request for a statement of facts concerning on article appearing in the Examiner August 31, 1902, entitled “Goes on a Junket Whilé Business Must Wait,” and in which it is charged I made and broke appointments to hear cases in San Francisco, etc., on the occasion of my recent visit to the Pa- cific Coast, I will thank you to publish what follows, which shows that article absolutely baseless and false. In order to fully understand the situa- tion I will say preliminarily that the work of the Board of United States Gen- eral Appraisers is divided into two classes, classification and reappraisement, The former includes decisions of matters of law and fact relating to the rate and amount of duty upon appeals from the decislon of the Collector. The latter con- cerns the determination of values upon appeals from the appraisements by local appraisers. Different members of the board are assigned to one class or the other, or both branches of this work, un- der th® law, by order of the Secretary of the Treasury. Until August 1, 1902, I was assigned to classification work only. Five members of the board are assigned to such work. ‘When local hearings -are requested in classification cases at any port other than New York the president of the general board, at the suggestion of the chairman of the classification board, recommends that the Secretary of the Treasury give authority that some General Appraiser, member of the classification board, pro- ceed to the particular port for the pur- pose of conducting hearings in the classi- fication cases pending and authorizing payment of their expenses. When local hearings are desired in re- appraisement cases that fact is made known to the Secretary of the Treasury, Who requests the president of the board to designate, and who in turn designates, 2 member of the board assigned to reap- praisement work to proceed to the par- ticular port “for the purpose of holding the following and such other reappraise- ment cases as may be pending at sald port”—enumerating them. The classes of work are thus kept distinet. On the occa~ sion of my recent visit to San Francisco, on request of the chairman of the board of classification in the way stated, I was autherized by the Secretary of the Treas- ury to proceed to the Pacific Coast ports to conduct hearings in classification cases. Accordingly the chief clerkof the board, as is customary in such cases, under the supervision of the chairman of the board of classification made up a docket of the classification cases pending at and to be heard at each port to be visited, and transmitted the same, with the official records in each case, to me in care of the Collector at the respective ports. At the same time a letter wag addressed to the Collector at each port advising him of the sending of the records and the time and place of such hearings. A copy of the letter sent the San Francisco Collector is as follows: Office of the Board of United States General Appraisers, 641 ‘Washington street, New York. Collector of Customs, San Francisco, © il etk @ PERSONAL MENTION Dr. Kelsey of Santa Paula is a guest at the Grand. ‘W. H. Bray, a mining man of Nevada, is at’the Grand. J. A. Trost, a wefl-known resident of Tacoma, is at the Palace. Fred Searls, a mining engineer of Ne- vada City, is at the Palace. Charles Monroe, an attorney of Los An- geles, is registered at the Palace. James P. Adair, a furniture manufac- turer of Grand Rapids, Mich.,, is at the Palace. ¢ R. A. Eddy of the Hammond-Eddy Mer- cantile Company of Missoula, Mont., is at the Palace. Count and Countess de Pourtales are at the Palace. The Count is French Min- ister to Central America and is en route to Europe. Cayetano Romiero, Mexican Minister to Central America, and Ricardo H. de Fer- rari, a banker of Chile, are among the ar- rivals at the Palace. F. Ayer, a manufacturing druggist of Boston, is at the Palace with his family. He has spent several months in Southern California visiting the seaside resorts. Passenger Trafic Manager E. O. Mec- Cormick and Assistant General Passenger Agent James Horsburgh of the Southern Pacific left for Los Angeles last evening. They are expected back the early part of next week after they have arranged a new time table. st [ Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—J. Langenberg, at the Herald Square; A. P. Winchester, at the Astor; B. M. Green, at the Navarre; J. Lugsdin and wife, Miss Lugsdin and L..V. Wood, at the Manhattan; T. E. Young, at the Grand Union. From Los Angeles—S. E. Adair, at the Imperfal; E. H. Dart, at the Herald Square; W. E. MacCoy, at the Grenoble; 8. P. Young, at the Grand Union. ——— Californians in Washington. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 18.—The following Californians registered here to- day: At the Raleigh—M. F. Gilmore and wife of San Diego. At the Ebbitt—H. Wil- son of San Francisco. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. NEBRASKA BLIZZARD—A. S, City. The great blizzard which Nebraska, during which a Miss Minnie Freeman, a school teacher, came near perishing, occurred on the 12th of Jan- uary, 1888, SAVINGS BANKS—Enq., City. first savings bank was Instituted in Berne, Switzerland, in 1787, under the name of *‘Caisse de domestiques,” being intended as a place in which only ser- vants could deposit their savings where such would draw some interest. One, open to all classes of depositors, was opened at Basel, In the same country, in 1792. —— e NEW ADVERTISEMENTS, A CLEANLY AGE. Twentieth Century Ideas Incline Toward Sanitation and Preven- tatives. Nowadays scientists belleve that in cleanliness lies the secret of prevention of diseases. To prevent a disease, remove the cause. Just as unclean habits breed many dis- eases, so careless habits will breed dan- druff.” Improper use of another's orushes, combs, ete., will surely cause dandruff and, in time, will just as surely cause baldness. - It’s microbe infection, nothing more nor less. . Newbro's Herpicide kills the dandrufe and causes hair to grow luxuriant- y. Herpicide is absolutely free from grease or other injurious sul ces. THE following communication l{ of The swept over| =2 UNITED STATES GENERAL APPRAISER = MARION DE VRIES. - r: General Appraiser De Vries Wwill be in your city on the 13th proximo, and will hold hearings at the office of the Appraiser of Customs at your port.- The various importers or their attorneys have been notified as to the time and place of hearing. The papers pertaining to these protests are this day forwarded under separate cover, direct to the ap- praiser’s office, addressed to General Ap- praiser De Vries. Inclosed please find list of protests. Respectfully yours, * (Signed.) W. B. HOWELL, Acting President. Then follows a list of classification cases Or protests by title and number which were to be heard by me in San Francisco, being exact duplicates of the docket made up ard sent with the papers. This dock- et bears indorsement of the chief clerk: “Notices sent May 19, 1%2.” The copy files of this office show that each of the importers whose cases were thus docket- ed were on May 19, 192, duly notified to appear at the time and place stated at 10 ¢'clock a. m. We had previously held hearings at the pqrts of Chlcago, Seattle and Portland, and were due to call the calendar at Los Angeles on Monday, June 16, 1502, at 10 o’clock a. m. Owing to the delay in the arrtval of the train from Portland to San Francisco, on the morning of June 13, our party did not reach the Appraiser’s office in San Fran- cisco until 11 o’clock of that day, but previously sent a message to Appraiser Dare, who notified those present of the occasion of the delay and that we would arrive by 11 o’clock. It may not be out of place to state that in order to reach San Francisco at that time and to avoid any disappointment to the importers there, I heard both the Seattle and Port- land dockets and traveled to San Francis- co during an illness and at a time when my physician advised I should remain quiet in Seattle, At 11 o'clock on the day appointed I called all the cases on the San Francisco docket, thirty-seven in number, prepared and transmitted as stated, and proceeded to the hearings in the regular order. The cases of all importers appearing on that day were heard and submitted, or continuances granted on request of the importers or the Government counsel present. Fourteen cases were completed aud submitted. The hearings were con- tinued on the folowing day, when four further cases were heard and submitted. Every importer who appeared was heard and had all appeared all would have been heard in these two days. Ordinarily the default of all those not appearing on these two days would have been entered. The rext day, June 15, being Sunday, we proceeded to Los Angeles to take up the docket there pursuant to notice, which we did and concluded. Before departing, however, from San Francisco to Los Angeles, in order to give any of the importers further opportunity to be heard who had not been heard, or whose cases had been continued, a third day of hearings was directed. According- ly June 30 at 10 o'clock a. m. was set for such hearings and due notice glven every importer having classification cases pending who had not appeared or been fully heard before. In that day every one of such cases was called and fourteen more cases heard and submitted. Of the five remaining cases each was notified and signified by phone that they did not care to appear and accordingly their cases were submitted upon the record for sub- sequent decision. Of the thirty-seven cases on the San Francisco docket, each and every one of them not only had two legal notices of a time and place to appear for hearing, but in addition, by courtesy of the local Ap- praiser, was phoned that a general ap. pralser was sitting and would take up his case. If any Importer under these facts did not get a hearing, it certainly wa not the fault of the Government offcials That.docket now before me sho of the thirty-seven parties thirty-two a tually appeared and were either heard submitted their cases on the record. Three days were devoted to the hear. ings of these cases. The hearing are nec- essarily summary in character. In New York at such hearings from 150 to 250 cas are set at an hour certain. But writtef notice, such as was sent to t importer in San Franecisco, 18 sent to tr importer. The hearings of that man cases are disposed-of-in a day and if th importer is not present when his name i called or before the conclusion of. th day’s calendar his default is entered This ‘must necessarily be so when members of this board, constituting classification board, must dispose of over 20,000 such cases in a year to even keep up with the current work. It will be seen that every courtesy p s sible was shown to the San Francisce im- porters and at least two opportunitics given that they be heard and the same time given them that Is accorded from 5 to 750 cases at this port. To say the least they were given due notice, ample oppo; tunity to be heard and they and every#® witness offered were actually heard. The case of every importer who was notified to be present was. called twice, every im- ported whom the Collector was notified would be heard was given the opportunity twice at a time and place at which both such importer and the Collector had due notice, and every such imperter lacma;l;. appeared in person or by counsel, or be- fopre his case was tlosed signified his in- tention of not appearing. hr Moreover, in addition to the above, counsel for the importer in one reap- praisement case appeared and requested 2 hearing. He was Informed that I was not detailed for that class of work, that no notice had been sent of the hearing of such cases and that none of such records were forwarded and that without such in- telligent action was impossible; but if he would appear with his witnesses at 2 p. m. of that day I would take his proofs and forward them to New York for early action. We were present at that hour and long thereafter, but he failed to appear. Another delinquency is alleged that I did not call on the Collector. It is no part of the duty of a General Appraiser to call on the Collector and official duty does not necessitate such. The General Appraiser hears appeals from the decision of the Colllector. These hearings, as the Col- lector was notified in this case, are al- ways held at the local Appraiser’s office, and the General Appraiser has no more official business with the Collector than has the Justice of the Supreme Court with the Superior Judge at the hearings in Sac- ramento or Los Angeles. During two years’ service on this board I have never met the Collector of this port and I doubt if any member of this board sees him once a year. As a matter of fact, I telephoned Collector Stratton while in San Francisco that I wished to see him on personal matters, but I was unable to do so. It was neither his fault nor mine. He has always extended every courtesy to me while in San Francisco. Now, as to this alleged junketing trip to the Yosemite. Mr. Dowsing, my secre- tary, and Mr. Washburn, the Govern- ment counsel, hoped to visit the Yosemite while in California after concluding their official duties there, charging such time to their annual leave. Owing, however, to the exhaustion of the trip and the sec- ond hearing granted the San Francisco importers that was Drevented. The only junket I took was in visiting my mother -and father four days near Lodi and Stock- ton friends one day, which time was charged to my annual leave and cost the Government nothing; in faet, it was a saving of hotel expenses, which would have been a legal charge had I remained in San Francisco during the interim of the San Francisco hearings. It may not be proper to say since this charge is of negelect of duty, that while in California I had with me a leave of absende for sixty days’ vacation granted | by the\Secretary of the Treasury, but ow- ing to the stress of business returmed to my desk here after having used but six- teen days of that.time, five of which were spent in a sick bed. Due regard for this office prevents me from branding this pub- lication in satisfactory langauge. To say the least it is entirely and imexcusably false. Very respectfully yours, MARION DE VRIES. —_———— Prunes stuffed with apricots. 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