The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 18, 1902, Page 6

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B to the Fowler bill Representative Pugsley of New York has introduced another bill de- signed “to render the currency more elastic and re- sponsive to the financial and commercial require- ments of the country.” It is said to be much more simple than the Fowler bill, and it is believed by its author that it will have the support of many who have been opposed to the original measure. A copy of the bill has not yet reached us, but a v given to the press states: “It provides that i1s deemed expedient the Comptroller of the sum: when it Currency may, by and with the consent of the Secre- | of he Treasury, issue to national banks two classes of circulating notes in addition to those now authorized by law. The first class may be issued to any national bank to an amount not exceeding one- tenth of the face value of the United States bonds on deposit by the bank with the Treasurer of the United States to secure notes issued under existing law, the same to be secured by approved notes, bonds or bills receivable having one or more indorsers, or mnotes secured, this security to exceed the f circulation secured by it by at least 50 per The second class oi notes may be issued to any T mal bank whose surplus is 20 per cent or more of its capital, and may be issued in an amount not tary collaterally amount cent. exceeding 20 per ceni of the capital stock, the secur- | ity to be the same 2s for notes of the first class.” For the purpose of providing an automatic with- drawal of the notes when they are no longer required it is provided that those of the first class are to be subject *o a tax of 3 per cent a year, while the second are to be subject to 2 tax of 4 per cent. The notes zre to be a first lien on zll the assets of the bank is- suing them, but it is believed by the framers of the bill that the security specifically set aside for the notes will be ample protection and even mork effec- tive than the lien on assets. » Of the probable effects of the measure Mr. £ ley is quoted as saying: “The bill will give some measure of elasticity to our currency. Thus, for in- stance, when the moving of the crops or an impend- ing financial panic demands a larger circulation it can at once be had, while when the occasion for the increase has ceased a contraction will follow nat- arally until the circulation shall again be brought to the bond secured currency. As to the amount of currency that might be issued if all the banks in the country took advantzge of the provisions of the bill, I should say between $140,000,000 and $150,000,- 000 additional circulation would be at once available.” Whether the new Eill in avoiding some of the ob- jections made to the Fowler bill may not be found exposed to other objections remains to be seen. is of course not to be expected thft it will find unani- mous approval. It has the .merit, however, of being one more serious effort to bring about the enactment of currency reform legislation at this session of Con- gress. Shaw has pointed out that those who have consid- ered the question are agreed as to the desirability of providing an elastic currency, and differ only upon matters of ways and means. He has also warned the | country that the existing system of regulating cur- rency tends to contraction rther than to expansion, and that we must either authorize an asset currency or provide for a permanent national debt in order to furnish bonds to be used as a basis for note issues. During the late crop moving season the national treasury had to go again and again to the relief of Wall street. The result was an indignant criticism of the Secretary of the Treasury for using the money of the nation to assist and promote stock speculations, That sort of criticism is inevitable under the pres- ent system. Those on the bear side of the market would Jike to see stocks tumble, and of course are irritated when the Secretary intervenes to prevent a money stringency. Moreover, the party in opposi- | tion to the administration joins in the condemnation, and political partisanship is added to the wrangles of | the stock market. Nevertheless, the Secretary must | act, or there would be something like universal dis- | aster, not to Wall street only, but to the whole country. Surely it is time to get rid of such a condition of | affairs. Our currency should be made elastic and automatic in its workings. Almost any system of the kind would be better than the present lack of sys- tem, and Congress can hardly go wrong in enacting | a measure to that end. i ’ Y way of avoiding some of the objections made | It | . | That reform is urgently needed. Secretary| CHINESE IN THE TROPICS, HE CALL, with that satisfaction which attends T the justification of foresight, asks attention to the situation at Washington, where Senator Burton and other members of the Senatorial commit- tec which officially visited Hawaii last summer are vainly trying to get Congress to admit Chinese labor to the islands in order to prevent a collapse of the planting and other industries. We opposed the annexation of Hawaii and warned its -advocates that our exclusion laws would'deprive them of the only labor on which the islands can rely. But the cnthusiastic American annexationists, filled with zeal and bursting for expansion, replied that the islands were needed for American white labor, which would soon expel all other forms of labor. Well, American white labor has had the chance, and it is not known that a white American’ has ever worked a half-day in the cane fields of any.of the islands. This is simply because he can’t. The climate prevents him as completely as if his arms and legs were cut off. Only the Chinese coolie can work there satisfactorily, for the Japanese is the same unreliable quantity there that he is here. But Burton and the Senatorial committee cannot get Chinese admitted. They have tried it in the immigration bill and' the proposition was snubbed out of the committee room. To try it as an amenament to the Chinese exclusion bill of the last session will be equally futile. Upon that question we have made Hawaii’s bed and she must lie on it. But this country is getting some needed education about the tropics. They are being taken out of the imagination and put in a practical focus, and we find that our prized possessions lying between Cancer d Capricorn are just what the tropics have been 1ce the equator was buckled on as the earth’s girdle, worthless unless worked by some form of servile { 1abor. ! When Professor Kidd and d'Evelyn Ireland were | urging this country into its tropical investments they !cilcd the Dutch in Java and Sumatra as an ®xample. They pointed then to what they called a benevolent | despotismi, which made profit out of compulsory na- | tive labor. The last news from Java and Sumatra reports theé™spirit of the rebellion against the Dutch | in Acheen, which has existed for thirty years, ‘to have spread to all the tribes, and Holland stands in the | presence of the cobra of Asia, tropical hatred of a | benevolent despotism. Her apparently successful ex- | periment of compelling a tropical race to work is | threatened with a disaster which the little kingdom, can ill afford. | Inthe Philippines we are almost neighbors to Hol- land. There we have the same blood and race and | the same tropical indolence and absolute refusal to | work beyond the supgly of the simplest physical ne- | cessities. Already talk is heard about our teaching the natives to work. It is idle. As well talk about teaching an eagle to swim under water like a fish | and a salmon to fly in the air. We may force them to | work, as Holland has, with the certainty of a revolt if we do. In this pinch the Americans in the Philip- rines and the Philippine government turn to the | abundant and willing Chinese, the only Asiatic people ! rant money and are willing to work for it at | anything and anywhere between the Arctic Circle and ! the equator. But the plea for the admission of Chi- nese into the Philippines is made to Congress in vain. | We have always insisted that unless it is judicially de- cided that there may be inequality of law in different parts of this country’s jurisdiction the Philippines, Hawaii and Porto Rico must abide under equality of law with our continental territory. We have ad- justed Chinese exclusion as a national policy, and those whose enterprise has been stimulated or whose cupidity has been inflamed by the latent riches of the islands must be content to look upon them and lust for them, for only human labor, and that servile or subordinate, can develop them. American statesmen who vindicate tropical expan- | sion never fail to gild that policy with a golden picture of the wealth that swelters under a vertical sun. It is an alluring picture, for we Americans love money and have outrun the world in getting it.. We have taken hold in the tropics for fear that others miight get the good things first. By so doing we have taken a problem. It is the government of idle | tropical races, and possibly their tutelage in self- | government. Our institutions forbid that we com- [pel them to work to produce a surplus for commerce. Common sense tells us they cannot be taught to { work to that end voluntarily. Would it not be well, | under the circumstances, to quit talking about the | Monte Cristo feature of our new possessions, to let | the imagination cool off? Will we not reach a solu- | tion quicker, and a better solution of the problem, by ‘palicnlly accepting disappointment in our hope of | great gains? That will enable a calmer examination | of the cause of failure, and if that cause be found lincurable we may then consult together and decide what is to be done. The Call forewarned the country. President Dole said before the annexation of Hawaii, “A way will be found to get admission for the labor we want.” Very well; they want Chinese labor. We hope Governor | Dole is finding the way to get it. We told him there was no way. But he took counsel of hope, which was a buoyant sentiment in those days, but between hope and the flinty facts there is a great gulf. e e Our versatile and extrem interesting Board of Education has lost another case in the Supreme Court. In its endeavors to throw teachers out of the | School Department the board might save time and | annoyance by studying a little law. It might pay tax- | payers to hire a lawyer for the gentlemen. ANOTHER NEGRO PROBLEM. F old there was but one negro problem, that | O of the abolition of slavery, but in these days ! there seem to be dozens, They crop up in politics, industry, society, education and law. Now | there Las dcveloped almost simultaneously in Virginia !and in Louisiana a new negro problem that is not only. perplexing in itself, but threatens to complicate cvery other negro problem. The new question is that of determining how to tell at sight whether a given person be a negro or not. The question bobbed up in Louisiana out of the law requiring separate street car accommodations for whites and for negroes.” The conductors of the cars were in trouble from the start and finally were com- pelled to send in a remonstrance against the law on the ground that in many cases it-was impossible to tell if the passenger on the car was a negro or a white man. In New Orleans the mixture of the races, An- glo-Saxon, French, Spanish and negro, has been go- ing on for a‘century and more, and the result is a large population whose racial characteristics are by no means easily determined, There are many people of pure white race whose fza,a'arc darker than thosé of a good many quadroons or even some mulattoes, Hovg! is a street car conductor to decide at what particular shading of complexion the line is to be drawn between white and black? In Virginia the problem has come up in the ourts by a suit ‘brought against a railroad by a man who was refused permission to ride in a negro car. The conductor deemed him a white man and put him out of the car fof negroes, but the passenger maintains that he'is colored and brought suit for damages. A report of the case says: “The plaintiff succeeded easily in proving to the satisfaction of the court that he was classed in the tax lists as a negro and that he was the descendant of two slaves. He gained his con- tention as to being officially a negro without difficulty, yet he failed to secure an award of money damages from the Coast Line Railroad Company. It seems that the “Jim Crow” law of Virginia, contemplating THE'SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18,' 1902, : STOR e } THAT X V. \THERS A SEVERE SILVERTOWN WEA’ R i BaHT CABLESHIP ENCOUNTERS TERRIFIC SEAS. N BOARD THE SILVERTOWN, Noon, Latitude 34.36 North, Longitude 139.59 West: Terrific seas all night, heavy swell to-day. Partly clo indications favor better weather. udy. Present BENEST. ‘ the difficulty conductors may have in determining the race of some blacks who are very white and of some whites who are very dark, empowers the conductor to make an arbitrary classification of his passengers to suit himself, regardless of his expertness as an ethnol- ogist. Consequently the court refused to award dam- | ages to Hawkes, although it conceded that the con- ductor had erred in thinking him a white man.” On that showing of the l‘w it would seem that a conductor on a Southern car takes rank among the most autocratic officials on earth. If he is to have the power to decide offhand and arbitrarily whether a man be a white or a negro his authority would seem to run over the whole social and political life of the great South. e — One of the oddities of the time is the announce- ment by the New York Sun that Grover Cleveland would be a strong candidate for the Presidency as a champion of the rights of property and ‘government by law. There was a time when the Sun could not | print the name of Cleveland without having an efup- tion. A the controversy now going on in Washington over the wide variation between the crop statistics given by the Department of Agriculture and the farm reports of the Census Bureau. It has been pointed out that the Census Bureau is charged with giving in a number of counties in different parts of the Union a larger area of cultivated land than the total area of the county. It is now to be noted that charges equally grave are made against the crop statistics of the Department of Agriculture. It is' stated that such reports invariably underrate the crop and that the census figures, despite their alleged ex- aggeration, are more accurate than those of the Ag- ricultural Department. The subject is under investigation by a committee of the House, and according to reports the chief statistician of the Department of Agriculture has vir- tually admitted that his figures are below the real conditions of the crops. Thus he is reported to have said: “The division of statistics of the Department of Agriculture, whatever it may be in statute beoks and appropriation bills, whatever it may be nominally, is really practically a great aggregation or organiza- tion of farmers for their mutual protection, to do for them that which they cannot do for themselves | by an association, State granges, national granges | or any other organization; that is, to protect them against the speculator.” It appears that the department employs about 240,- 000 correspondents in various localities to make esti- mates of the conditions and the promise of the crops of their locality and report them to the department at Washington. Upward of 85 per cent of the total number of such correspondents are farmers, or plant- ers or orchardists, and have an interest in getting high prices for all kinds of farm products. Conse- quently they are under a temptation to report short crops wherever they can <o as to advance prices in the markets. The Springfield Republican in reviewing the tes- timony reports the following questions and answers | on this phase of the subject: “Mr. Hyde says: ‘You might say that the entire South as a unit is interested in getting a good price for its cotton.” Asked by one member of the committee whether it was not the purpose of his crop reports to prevent the specu- lator from depressing the price of cotton, Mr. Hyde responded: ‘Precisely.’ Asked by Mr. Lovering of Massachusetts where the cotton manufacturer came in, Mr. Hyde coolly said: “The spinner can look after his own interest a good deal better than the farmer.” ” Of course this showing of misrepresentations on the part of the Department of Agricultyre will not dispose of the original charges against the Census Bureau. It still remains for the bureau to explain how the farm land under cultivation in a given county could exceed the entire area of the county. Nevertheless the Department of Agriculture has been put upon the defensive itseli. Crop reports of course should not be left to men who have a pecuniary in- terest in underrating the probable yield so as to in- duce middlemen to pay big prices finder the impres- sion that the supply may be short. As far as the evi- dence has gone it would seem that neither department e —————— . OROP REPORTs AGAIN, FTENTION has been directed by The Call to T noon yesterday the cableship Silvertolvn had reached a poi.nt about 480 miles distant from San Francisco and had met with no mishap. The daily message flashed back along the ocean’s bottom is published above. 0 sociated Press representative on the cableship sent the following: In addition to that message, an As- “Four hundred and fifty-five knots from shore and proceeding at a speed of eight knots. The terrific seas that had swept the decks for twenty-four hours subsided consider- ably at midnight. There is a heavy swell on to-day, but the weather is partly clear and pleas- ant. The indications are for better weather and calmer seas” Chief Weather Bureau Official McAdie stated that the Silvertown had run into the northern end of a slight storm, which reached the coast yesterday moming_ in the neighbor-, hood of Point Conception. The wind was accompanied by a heavy rain, a (?epth of 1.36 inches being registered at 1.os Angeles and 1.74 inches at San Diego. McAdie added that in his opinion the Silvertown was not likely to encounter any more bad weather for several days at least. Thus far the vessel has made very satisfactory progress in spite of the-heavy seas. She is but ten knots behind her schedule, and at her present rate of speed should reach her des- tination some time in the afternoon of Christmas day. When the message was dispatched yes= terday she was at a point 450 miles west and 220 miles south of San Francisco. An operator is always on duty to receive any message from her, and if anything goes wrong the Postal Telegraph officials will be immediately apprised of it. If the cable should break the trouble can be located from either end of the line by¥means ofan intricate mechan- ism manufactured for that purpose. Last night a dispatch to Clarence H. Mackay was received in this city from Attorney General Knox at the national capital, congratulating Mr. Mackay on the successful begin- ning of the cable-laying enterprise: PRESIDENT CO_NGRA’I'ULATFS MR. MACKAY. - ASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 17.—To Clarence H. Mackay, President of the Pacific Commercial Cable Company; I am directed by the President to ex- tend to you his congratulations, in which I most heartily join. ' P. C. KNOX, Attorney General. O PERSONAL MENTION. J. H. Neale, a mining man of Sonora, is at the Lick. 4 L. 3. Hohl, a fruit grower of Oroville, is at the Grand. Judge Oval Pirkey of Willows is regis- tered at the Lick. James Touhey, a horse man of Sacra- mento, is at the Lick. J. F. Humburg, a merchant of Hono-| luly, is at the California. J. M. Anderson, a well known resident of Sacramento, is at the Russ. F. O. Hihn, the well known capitalist of Santa Cruz, is at the Occidental. District Attorney John L. Hudner of Hollister is a guest at thé Lick. Professor James R. Lowe of San Jose is at the California, accompanied by his wife. F. H. Smythe, superintendent of the Langtry farm in Lake County, is at the Russ. L. Rickabaugh, owner of a smelter at Kelseyville, 15 among the arrivals at | the Russ. | W. P. Lynch of Oroville is at the Lick. Judge E. C. Hart of Sacramento'is at the Grand. Dr. R. C. Brace of New York is tour- ing the coast and has madis his head-uar- ters at the Russ. ) Francis Carolan iz up from Burlingame for a few days, accompanied by his wife and is registered at the Palace. After long persuasion on the part of the soclety Student Harry 1L Wiel of San Francisco has consented to become a member of the glee ciub of the Johns | Hopkins Medical School at Baltimore. Besides being a medical student Mr. Wiel is romewhat of a planist. T. W. Taylor, a member of the Board of Exports and a former member of the Legislature of New South Wales, Aus- tralia, who has been on a tour through Europe and the United States with the combined objects of pleasure and of col- lecting information on public and business matters, leaves for his home to-day. A T Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Dec. 17.--Californians in New York—San Francisco—A. K. Andri- ano, at Hoffman; Miss F. Walker, Mrs. C. Cox, at Park Avenue; Mrs. G. F. Shields, at Manhattan; C. Toohey, at Al. bert. San Jose—A. L. Lye, at Cadiliac. Snn' Diego—C. P. Mink, at Broadway Cen- tral. PREPARE TO DESCRIBE 4 THE BASIN OFFICIALLY Commissioners Meet and Discuss Re- port to Governor Concerning Big Tree Park. The Big Basin Commissfon met yester- day, W. H. Mills presiding, for the pur- pose of deciding upon the form of the re- yort to be made to the Governor concern- ing the park In the Big Basin that has has made reports approaching such a degree of ac- curacy as the public has a right to expect. We have thus another illustration of the incapacity of Govern- ment and those who have been inclined to extend governmental interference into all lines of business will do well to ponder the lesson. According to a recent statement of the Treasury Bureau of Statistics the total_yealth of the country was but $7,000,000,000 in 1850, while in 1900 it was es- timated at $94,000,000,000. That was 2 good half cen- tury for growth, but we will break the record in the first quarter of this one. In our recent international arbitration experiments we won out against Mexico on the pious fund case and against Russia on the seal fisheries, but we lost the ‘Samoan case to Germany; so we may now con- clude that up-to-date arbitration is just about two- thirds right. Our local inspector of water and lighting merits the distinction due to a man who discovers a new idea. He believes the time is opportune for the city to adopt some measure to prevent the asphyxiation of people througl/ defective lighting apparatus. President Roosevelt has at last decided that he will accept our good offices and come among us the most honored guest we may receive. And when he comes let him read our past in hospitality as a pledge of what our efforts in the future will be. Mr. James J. Hill announces that he did not say the alarming things credited to him in the recent dispatches from Chicago, but at the same time he ad- mits that he advised people to be a little bit careful about speculating on the present boom. 3 It Hid & Luxuriant Sult of Straight | 1 Leen acquired by the State through the agency of the commission under the law authorizing the purchase. Professor Dud- iey, the secretary, was absent, being at Palo Alto, the matter was talked over in- formally. The report will contiin a general state- Jent concerning the proceedings of the commission from the beginning and will also serve as a description, in a general way, of the vegetation, which is the crowning charm of the place, the preser- vation of ‘which was sought when the park was created. There are many ques- uons that may come before the commis- #lon in the near future. It is the intention of the commission to permit the use of the park by the pub- lic durlng the coming year under such regulations as may be prescribed. The law gives the Commissioners absolute control. In the summer, when there fs danger of fires, owing to the carclessness of campers, it will be necessary to have the park guarded. vurrlzu'mn- st- €d to the Commissioners have ken under advisement. - W Mindanao {s part of the Sultanate of Sulu; slavery exists there. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS e GEORGE wuxmm&mm QUEUE and Very Dark Hair. The Father of his Cquntry concealed a luxurfant suit of halr bencath his queue wig., Many now wish the old fashion were in vogue to conceal hinned hair or baldness. Yet no one need have thin hair nor be bald, if he cure the dandruff that causes both. Dan- ‘druff cannot be cured by scouring the scalp, because it is a ‘flfl‘ .£|-=nu. and the fems has to be Newbra's Herplcide kills the dandruff germ—no oth- er hair preparation will. *“ estroy the cause, you remove the . cre’s cuuytar dandruff but to kill the germ, i S e e el LOWERS THE SCHEDULE FOR PHILIPPINZ GOODS House Ways and Means Will Report Favorably on Act Reducing WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The House | Ways and Means Committee to-day au- | thorized a favorable report on the bill in- troduced by Representative Cooper, chair- | man of the Insular Affairs Committee, | amending the Philippine tariff act so as | to provide for a reduction of the tariff | on products of the Philippines coming | into the United States to 25 per cent of the existing schedules. . The bill further provides that the rates of duty which are to be levied upon Phil- ippine products shall be less than any duty pald upon shipments from the archi- pelago under the acts of the Philippine Commission; also that articles the . pro- duct of the Philippines admitted into the United States free of duty and coming di- rectly into the United States for use and consumption here shall be exempt from any export duty in the Philippines. The Democrats sought to have amend- ments reported which would provide for free trade between the Philippines and the United States, but the Republican majority prevailed against them. I Pension Appropriation Bill. WASHINGTON, Dee. 17.—The Senate to-day passed the pension appropriation bill without discussion. It carries $139.- $17,000. An urgent deficlency appropriation bl aiso was passed. The amount carried Dby this bill is $1,148,400, and includes an item of $500,000 to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to stamp out the foot and meuth disease, which .has now beconfe epidemic in the New England States. i st Marseilles Strike Ends. MARSEILLES, Dec. 17.—The strike is at an end. The sailors have voted to re- sume work to-morrow. - A CHANCE TO SMILE. “Young man,” began her father, “what is your object in life?” “To become your daughter's subject.” he replied promptly.—Philadelphia Presa. “What made you seem 30 upset the day e became engaged? You knew I was 8qing to propose—didn’t you?” “Oh, dear me, yes! But I had no idea I was going to accept you."—Brooklyn fe. Biggs—Is Wright a man whose word one can depend upon? Diggs—Well, I wouldn’t care to say any- thing against him, but in the Janguage of the poet it might be safe to remark that | to him “truth is stranger than$fféfon.”"— Chicago Daily News. “And so you have a little baby at your house. 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