The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 5, 1903, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCI SCO CALL, ONDAY, JANUARY 35, 1903. STATESMEN EAGERLY AWAIT RAP OF GAVEL AND LIVELY SESSION \.',\./n e SacramenZi= SEEKING THE SENATORIAL DARK HORSE BEHIND THE SACK AT SACRAMENTO. SERATORSHIP WILL G0 TO PERKINS | WILL HOLD UPGAGE APPOINTMENTS ( HATTON'S CARD TELLS THE STOR e —— | nued From Page 1, Column 2. | ner that be the Gover ned in con- time enough train back to m. | t the matter Judge | isit to the Gov- y different sub- ate for the posi- a w accept the Yered to him, as he pre- the Superior bench to s a Supreme Court Jus- | he wise ones, however, are wondering | d have made the hur- | n he is so hard pressed Williams B W d le engage- court to-morrow and speculation will ernoon, for Governor nce his selection, as ntments. will be launched | for it has been de- | e shall hold them up & week before taking any i tion upon them B; that time the | nations can be quietly rejected. | This plan extricates Governor Pardee | from the embarrassing predicament of | recalling appointments made by a reti rg Governor of the same political faith. CEILLY FOR SHORTRIDGE. tor C. M. Shortridge of San Jose the weather of Sucramento very | in more ways than one. His R. 2 mssociates in tbe Senate resent | it from the regular ranks to run independent ticket last fall, and nt he was guietly but firmiy cast fold and allowed to kick his he frosty outside alr while his &8 statesmen caucused within. He eclares between shivers that he did not want to caucus anyway and thinks | there’s 2 heap more fun in going it alone. e capture of the Speakership plum Arthur Fisk means the appointment f J. M. Higgins of Sacramento as chair- w@n of the Committee on State Printing. H. Olmstead of San Rafael will in ail obability t placed at the head of he Commitiee on Prisons and Reform- sign such f the district ted. s to the representative which the prisons are T. Rolley of Eureka is side over the Committee P ublic Morals Washington Speaks at Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES, J 4.—Bodker T.| b on, president of the Tuskegee ietrial Institute in Alabama, who v Los Angeles primarily to address ention of the State Teachers' spoke t to-day to enormous crowds. A ena in the afternoon he addre n audience of ) and to-night In the First Congrega- h in this bad another the famous col- remarkable re- o NGHAL_ Jan. 4.—The interior of China are d troops bhave been inorders in the province of Che-KIAng ITTEBURG, Jan. 4.1t is said that the 20,000,000 malieable casting consolidation, an- wounced Jast month as an assuréd thing, has &one to picces. 1 disturbances spreading. Five ®ent o swppress in SHA | hard to say’ CORC PR AT Continued From Page 1, t will be infinitely more easy to nominations to go through without apparently and fish of another. have been made as to to-da until | tiv Y S Rt Column 5. | Continued From Page 1, Column 6. signatures to the document at about the 1d they were all practically ne Martin and Abe Ruef came up on the evenin train together, but they £ot into diif corrals. Abe Ruef had the names of four Legigative representa- es from San Francisco in his pocket, With instruction to add them to the Per- I, and he made his way to the headquarters, where those names helped t swell the list toward the sixty- one desired. Martin Kelly wandered up- | stairs in the Golden Eagle Hotel, as did 1 courtesy. ay, opposition developed, and w over it became a cer- | that the consideration of these ap- pointments would all go over for about a week, a proceeding that would give op- portunity to mus » opposition vote Hoew fa the h: wwernor Pardee is move is not revealed. If the ex- ecutive finger is in the pie at all it does not appear. ' LAWMAKERS ARE CAUTIOUS. The extent of the feeling to inspect and winnow out the Gage nominations can be estimated from the statement of a Sen- ator who i= close to the incoming admin- h . who said: - . are twenty-one members of the Senate who will vote to postpone action upon all of the appointments which will | be sent to the Senate by Governor Gage. This being a majority of the Senate, it is certain that the appointments will go over, probably for a week. This is not intended as any discourtesy to the retir- ing Governor, but there has been much said about the recent appointments and there seems to be a desire to examine them. There is ample precedent for this move, because some of Governor Gage's appolntments sent to the last session wer not confirmed until the very last day of the session.” A Senator who is opposed to Governor Gage's administration expressed the opin- fon that all of the nominations by the outgoing Governor should be referred to the Benate Committee upon Executive Communications and that there they should be held up until some of them could be passed upon more critically. It is not at all certain that there are enough votes In the Senate to ultimately confirm all of the appointments, but that there will be a fight upon some of these appointments is _equally certain. This delay will permit both sides to do a little work for or against the appointees who aré in danger, It is probable that an arrangement will be made that will permit the confirmation of most if not all of the appointees. This arrangement wiil include the acceptance by Governor-elect Pardee of those whom Governor Gage has named for the heads of the departments, while the new admin- istration will be given the naming of the deputies and the distribution of the gen- eral patronage. This new fight will reach a more def- inite condition as the legislators assem- ble. In the meantime the opposition wants time to get its votes together, and the fight is on. Senator Belshaw said this evening in regard to the report that some of Gover- nor Gage's late appointments are to be acted upon adversely by the Senate: “Personally I should favor adverse ac- tion on these late appointments, 1If there are those among the appointees who wouldsunder different circumstances be confirmed let them be renominated by Governor Pardee. This is my idea of the proper procedure. There is a disposition in some quarters to avoid action by de- ferring or Postponing a vote. I do not favor this. The matter i3 up to the Senate and it should not avoid the responsibilty. I understand that Governor Pardee will refuse to offer any suggestions in the premises. He considers that the issue is with the body having the power to con- firm or reject the nominations. At the present time it looks as if the nominations will at least be hung up. As to whether more decisiye action will be taken it is * to-night. The matter has been discussed only informally, but this has disclosed a sentiment which may re- sult in adverse action on the appoint- ‘ Ruef, but he merely looked into the Per- kins headquarters and turned away. John G. Burgess of San Diego, who wrote to have his name removed from the Perkins caucus call, is not included in the w0 names now on that docu- ment. Burgess did write from San Diego to that effect, but the letter was sent to the Mills building by mistake. When it finally reached Hatton his name was re moved from the call as requested, and it is not now to be found thereon. The name of Senator F. W. Leavitt of Alameda County is also missing from the call, but will probably be added to-mor- row. Leavitt told Hatton that he would sign the call on Monday after he ar- rived in Sacramento. And so the dark horse in the Senatorial fight never made its appearance, and with the settlement of both the United States Senatorial ques- tion and the Speakership by the Assem- bly in one day, all of the exclting con- tests of the session were disposed of, and | the way is cleared for the inauguration of Governor Pardee, the inaugural ball and the socifll side of the first two weeks of a new-administration, and then for the long grind of routine legislation. —_— CELEBRATED TRAVELER PLANS TO LECTURE HERE Burton,Holmes Is to Make First Ap- pearance at Steinway Hall Next Week. Burton Holmes, the celebrated traveler, is to make his first appearance here in lectures next week at Steinway Hall. His lecture eeries, famous In the East- ern citles, are already known here through a first series delivered by Louis Francis Brown, at the invitation of Hen- ry Miller, two yvears ago at the Columbia Theater. The series is remembered with profound pleasure by those fortunate enough to have heard the lectures, and this second set will doubtless be even more warmly appreciated. Magnificently {llustrated, with pictures taken by Mr. Holmes himself, to attend one of these lectures is quite the next best thing to visiting the countries. This year there is to be an entirely new part of the world covered, the lectures concern- ing themselves with “The Grand Canyon of Arizona” (this repeated by general re- quest), “Portugal,” “Denmark,” “Swe- den,” “Norway and “Norway IL" They will take place Tuesday and Thurs- day evenings and Saturday = afternoons, beginning on Tuesday evening, Jan. 13. The sale of seats opens this morning at Sherman & Clay Hall. @ iieiieiinieleleleiei el @ | ments. The idea of hanging up the nom- inations would be to give Governor Par- dee an opportunify to withdraw them, but I have every reason to believe that he would do no such a thing.. The matter is up to the Senate, and 1 do not think the Senate should avoid its responsibility."”- VALPARAISO, Chile, Jan, 4.—The United States army trensport Hancock arrived here gx‘;fl:‘y from Mare Island on her way to New T Established 1823 WILSON WHISKEY. That’s All ! THE WILSON DISTILLING CO. Baltimore, Md. -— FOPULICE OF MRS TR Run TUpon the Bank | of Venezuela Is | Started. Revolutionary Columns Are | J | Closing on Castro’s | Small Army. Speclal Cable to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1803, by the New York Herala Publishing ' Company, | WILLEMSTAD, Curacao, Jan. 4—There as a financial panic in Caracas yester- day afternoon. A large number of small traders and private depositors went to- gether to the office of the Bank of Ven- | ezuela to exchange bank notes for sil- { ver. The bank refused to exchange more than $2 worth of notes for any one per- son, and at 4 o'clock closed its doors. The panic continued. Bills issued by the bank are now selling for 80 per cent of their face value. The leading firms in Cara- {.cas, notwithstanding the present situa- tion, have not presented notes for redemp- tion, as all are interested in supporting the bank. A partial payment to the troops made yesterday, but it is not belleved that these payments can be continued to- morrow. Forces of revolutionists are advancing in three columns on General Castro's army. In La Guaira there is already much suffering and hunger, and those who can are fleeing before the advance guard of the rebellion. A desperate fight which occurred last night within eight miles of the city of Caracas resuited fa- vorably to the revolutionists. They are cutting all telegraph lines, tearing up railroad tracks, and are hourly expected in the immediate vicinity of the city. An extreme panic prevails among those who before believed that Castro was In- vincible. A committee of the most prom- inent citizens has gone to President Cas- tro and made representations to him of how hopelessly untenable is his position; but he insists on holding on until his forces are defeated In a decisive battle. It seems that this cannot be far distant. President Castro is already planning what he shall do when the inevitable comes, but he will make a desperate fight Pefore quitting, as he has no chance to escape. The only alternative is imprison- ment. General Penalosa is In command of the advancing revolutionary forces. He has issued a proclamation, which is signed also by a half-dozen lieutenants of Kl Mocho (General Hernandez), and is being widely circulated here. It calls upon Pres- ident Castro to resign, if he possesses a spark of patriotism. It declares that his clinging to power is the only obstacle to a happy and immediate adjustment of dif- ficulties and dangers. 5T IR CASTRO’S RACE IS RUN. Washington Expects News of His Imprisonment or Flight. WASHINGTON, Jan, 4—Any hour may bring news from Venezuéla, it is be- leved here, that President Castro has been forced out of office. This may be accomplished by the revolution led by General Matos or by pressure toward Castro’s voluntary decapitation, which will mean his flight. The State Department recelved this morning a cable from Minister Bowen, the langauge of which was not divulged, | but the purport of which was to a great extent confirmatory of The Call's cable from Curacao, published this morning, which showed that a serfous crisis had been reached in Castro’s tenure of office. Minister Bowen reports a dangerous con- was | | CAOWN PRINCE WIL FORGNE Louise of Saxony and| Husband May Be Reconciled. —_— NA, Jan. 4—Reports have been received here from sources closely con- vected with the court of Saxony of a pos- sible reconciliation between the Crown Princess of Saxony and her husband. The family of the Crown Prince are especial- 1y concerned with the future of the Prin- cess’ unborn child, desiring its birth to occur under conditlons permitting of proper identification and to prevent possi- ble substitution, which it is supposed the Princess might attempt if the Crown Prince’s family attempted to claim the child. While King George angrily insists that his son’s faithless wife be cast adrift, it is understood that the Crown Prince places no obstacles in the way of a Te- conciliation should his wife be willing to come back. It is naturally to be under- stood, according to report, that it is im- | possible to permit the Princess to return | to Saxony and become Queen, but the suggestion is made that she reside in re- tirement near the frontier, where she could see her children occasionally No effort will be made to negotiate with M. Giron, who is regarded as a raw stu- dent, but it is thought that the Princess might be induced to accept the foregoing rroposals on account of her love for her children. MURDEROUS ELEPHANT PAYS THEE DEATH FPENALTY “Topsy,” Who Killed Three of Her Keepers, Is Electrocuted at Coney Island. NEW YORK, Jan. 4—At Coney Island to-day several hundred spectators wit- nessed the execution by electricity of “Topsy,” an elephant who had killed three men. Immediately after 200 grains of cyanide of potassium had been admin- istered, concealed in a carrot, a current of 600 volts was turned on through cop- per plates on which the animal stood. The elephant fell and at the end of ten seconds, when the current was turned off, was pronounced to be dead. An autopsy showed that the poison had not had time to take effect. JAPAN RELINQUISHES HER CLAIM TO MARCUS ISLAND HONOLULU, Jan. 4.—A letter received here from Thomas Fitch, the Washington attorney for the Marcus Island Guano Company, says that Japan relinquishes her claim to Marcus Isiapd and is willing to allow the United States to take pos- session. Japan will also deport her sub- jects now on the island, and is ready to' pay as a reasonable indemnity- $10,000 on account of the loss sustained in the trip of the schooner Julla Whalen, which was refused a landing on the island. @ttt @ dition of affairs, in Caracas especidlly. The pinch of the blockade is being felt everywhere. Payments to the army are largely in arrears. The soldiers are no longer being fed. Therefore Castro's troops, who are for the most part simple peons, ignorant of what they are fighting for, are likely to desert when they learn that there Is no pay or food in sight and go over to the revolutionary armies, which are revorted to be well equipped as the result of covert assistance rendered | by England and Germany, who are anx- fous that Castro shall be overthrown. The revolution has been greatly aided by the blockade. At several ports the revolutionists, it is understood, are per- mitted to have free access to the in- terfor and Castro is powerless to obstruct their landings because he no longer has a navy. The State Department has no Informa- tion bearing on/ recent military opera- tions, but is prepared to learn at eny | { | | | | either Perkins or Fisk. PREMIER COMBES 15 RE-ELECTED Senatorial Elections in France Pass Off Quietly. PARIS, Jan. 4—Senatorial elections were held to-day in thirty-four depart- | ments of France, Algeria and in the colo- | nies of La Reunion and Guadaloupe to select ninety-eight Senators, of whom | ninety-four will fill seats the terms of | whose occupants have constitutionally ex- | pired, while the other four will fill vacan- | cles caused by deaths. | The elections passed off without inci- | dent. The results have confirmed the | general expectation that the ministerial | majority in the upper house would be | strengthened. The Conservatives have elected five Progressive Republicans, the | Liberals have elected twenty-five Repub- licans, eighteen Radicals and thirty-four Radical Socialists. Final returns from | some seats in France and the colonies have not been received. | Premier Combes has been re-elected from the department of Charente-Infe- rieure. He also was returned from Corca, where he was only nominated Saturday. Tinance Minister Rouvier was elected in the department of Alps-Maritimes. He thus passed from the Chamber of Depu- ties to the Senate. M. Combes and M. Rouvier are the only two Ministers who were candidates. The only other note- worthy result of the elections was the | defeat of the former- Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hanotaux, in the department of Alsne. Of the other candidates elected to-day eight already were members of the Segate. The others are Deputies, ex- Deputies or new men. The Minister of the Interior asserts that | the Government gained fifteen and lost two, a net gain of thirteen seats, in to- | day’s elections. SAYS COIN WAS OFFERED. | Assemblyman Walker Tells a smry“ of Attempt at Bribery. ! By Assoclated Press. — SACRAMENTO, Jan. 4.—Assemblyman G. 8. Walker of Los Gatos, in the pres- ence of several newspapermen, to-day stated that he had not only been offered | money to vote agalnst Senator Perkins, who seeks re-election, but that the pro!-l fered bribe had Included the guarantee | of a four years' Government job. The latter provision was to be included in the undestanding that he vote against Fisk for the Speakership of the House. ‘When Walker was asked by the news- paper reporters to repeat his assertion for | publication he wanted to defer any state- | ment until the conclusion of the fight for | Speaker of the House and United States Senator, on the ground that the publicity at this time might affect the interests of | Although he ab- | solutely refused to divulge the name of the man who, he said, had approached him with the bribe, Walker gave the fol- | lowing account of the affair: “Four days <o, in Los Gatos, a well- | known attorney of San Jose called upon ma and afte’ an exchange of a few in- troductory remarks concerning the ap- | proaching session of the Legislature, re- | 1 marked “‘Well, are you ready to do business? | “When I sald t.at I was, not divining the purport of the fellow's business, he boldly proposed to me that my vote for Senator and Speaker be turned to the account of a candidate favored by per- | sons whom he claimed to represent. “If T would agree to vote for Dunlap for ! Speaker and a Senator to be named later by his parties, the lawyer sald I would be guaranteed a four-years' Government position and $1500 cash. If, however, I| was already pledged for Senator, and | would vote for Dunlap, the lawyer said I, would receive $500.” Walker says that he spurned the offer, but before rejecting the proposal succeed- moment that Matos has carried the revo- | ed in learning from his visitor that other lution to success and that Castro hl.\nemhlymen had been approached with either a prisoner or in flight. - a similar offer. CLEVER GOUP SMES RULER ~ OF MORDCED |Sultan Wins Favor by Giving Freedom to Brother. | Pretender Is Robbed of a Pretense for the Rebellion. TANGIER, Morocco, Jan to official news received here from Fez the adroit move of the Sultan in bringing brother, Mulai Mohammed, to the capital has attained the desired object of depriving the pretender to the thron of his prestige, and the latter has retired, discredited, to Laza. He has been desert- ed by a number of local tribes, who dis- rersed to make sure of their. booty. Buhamara, the pretender. having claimed the intention of enthroning Mulai Mohammed, his rebellion has no longzer any reason to continue, as the Sultan has publiely reconciled himself with his brother, and Mulai Mohammed has made a solemn entry Into Fez acclaimed by the ropulace. The Sultan has announced the appoint- ment of Mulai Mohammed as Governor {.—According of the province of Fez, thus disproving the rumors that Mulai Mohammed as pired to the throne. When this had be dene, according to the official authority for these statements, the tribes around Fez swore fidelity to the Sultan and de- nounced Buhamara as an impostor, whom they would prevent coming to Fez. All Immediate danger has disappeared. The routes from Fez to the coast are open. It is sald the Sultan is now pre- paring a large expedition with the inten- tion of crushing the rebeilion. WANDERS TO DEATH IN A STERILE REGION Miner’s Clot.hlnE-!onnd. but His Bones Are Probably Bleaching on the Desert. N BERNARDINO, Jan. 4—A sequel to the mysterious disappearance of John Doyle, a mining from Grays Land- ing, on the Colora River, has come over the range to civilization. Horace Muscott and C. C. Munsey have arrive here from that part of the country. Mun sey had been a partner of Doyle's for some time, but sold out. Doyle started for Salton to meet some Eastern men, (o whom he had bonded his property. Several days after he left Grays Land- ing his burros were found wanderin: along the river. A search was made for Doyle’s remains, but they were not found. Since the abandonment of the scarch. Lowever, some men who were hunting tound Doyle's clothing hidden in the brush. In the pockets of the -clothing were found eleven location notices for some valuable property south of Grays Landing which he had filed upon. It was thought at first that Doyle had been mur dcred, but the finding of the location ne tices in his clothes dispels that theory. It seems likely that Doyle while delirious frdm thirst concealed his clothes under tke brush and wandered away om the | desert. —_— Olympic Club Handball. The semi-final round-of the Olympic Club’s handbail tourhament was reached vesterday. The games were witnessed by a large and enthustastic gallery. R. Bow- man defeated W. Minahan. 21-20, & 21—15. T. I. Fitzpatrfek defeated Jjames Collins, 2114, 21-17. Max Rosenfeld de- feated W. Cavanaugh, 921, 21-17, 21— | The final match will be played next Sun- days ———— LAREDO, Tex., Jan. 4.—At Monterey, Mex.. 250 of the employes of the large Guggenheim: smelter have gone out on strike because of dissatisfaction with a new system of pay.