The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 14, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XOIlI-NO. 45, SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS POLITICAL FIGHT OVER THE POSTMASTERSHIP IN STOCKTON STRANGELY DECIDES ELECTION OF UNITED STATES SENATOR — ( , PRETENDER IICTORIOUS N BITTLE Sultan of Morocco Is in Refreat From Fez. Tribes Meet in Coinbat at the Gates of Tangier. ; ty's Populace Makes an ppeal for Protection by Warships. reports He says and that he g outside of Fez & the Br T £ & is pr = ng he s g ¢ rd in the ci t g ¢ alarmed and f warships force to restore ssible to pro- ngler age def attacking the num- may be oes not but nment is incapable com- EUROPEANS IN DANGER. Anxiety at Rabat Over Threatened Attack by Rebels. ® proceed e at Tangier d to the Sultan MAY INVOLVE THE POWERS. Fea a Clash Between Great Britain and France. . END Aligemeine Ze SR £ S : €. v rmed on poiical. Secrets of a Mysterious Ci French inte: aper sa , SBAC- Jan, 13.—The po- sacion of the season developed to-night. It consists in the astounding fact that a small local fight for the Stock- ton postmastership practically decided the election of George C. Perkins as United States Senator, insures the appointment of Congressman Woods of San County as ['nited States val Officer at and alsd the ritated by the disturbance of e of power in Africa by Great conquest in the Tr: 1 opportunity the restoration of the balance Moroceo. paper, “sees an In this connection seems to be isolated until of Germany, the port of San ¥ appointment of J. 1 anc ° Rose Phelps, editor FAVORS THE CREATION of the Stockton Independent, as chief OF A deputy naval officer in place ‘of E. W. iy FINE FOBUTION | yooiin, the present deputy for Colonel Bill Will Be Introduced for Appoint- | John P. Irish. ment of Secretary to Chief Justice Beatty. HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- Jan. 12.—A bfll providing for the office of private see- hief ice of the Btate | be introduced into | lature at an early t the position shall of $1800 per an- Large political oaks from small political acorns grow and the evolution of the small acorn into the large political oak is the talk of the town to-night. The news clears away a great fog bank of mystery that overhung tne political at- titude of Assemblyman Duniap of San | Joaquin and the manner of the removal of the last shred of the opposition of { Colonel Dan Burns and Martin Kelly to | the re-election of Senator Perkins It will be remembered that Assembly- man Dunlap refused to sign the call for the Republican caucus, while, at the same time, he admitted that his preference was for Senator Perkins. It will be remem- bered also that there was much hurrying and scurrying over the reason for Mr. Dunlap’s disinclination to expedite mat- ters for the Perkins adherents. Back of this lies the history that has just come { to light and has set the politicians agog large number of the members of the | in the capital city. It Is the history of a Just Beatty feels that he must © an assistant fqr the proper trans- of the business of his office. Work | he Supreme Court is constantly |in- | reasing in volume and the Chief Justice attend to several classes of ap- ale, which under the laws cannot be | vsidered by the Assoclate Justices. 111 med that & private secretary is al- | wed to the Chief Justices of most of the | i more progressive States of the legislature have been sounded on the | little fight for the postmastership of the proposition and all favor the proposed | city of Stockton. improvement ‘When Congressman Woods first entered Joaquin | % oy YED STRTES SENATOR. ombination the Sensation in the State Capital. Special Dispatch to The Call. | the field as an aspirant for Congressional | | benors he was backed by J. La Rose Phelps, editor,and proprietor of theStock- | ton Independent—backed both personally | and journalistically. *Mr. ‘Woods in re- turn, being ‘grateful for the substantial ]aid thys rendered him, publicly and fre- quently announced his intention of sup- his friends Pheips for the post- ip. Postmaster Nelson’s friends | came again to the front and Inaugurated a bitter fight on his behalf, carrying it | into the San Joaquin County Republican | convention, when Woods announced.that | he declined to be a candidate for re-elec- tion. | The Nelson people even held up Con- | gressman Needham on the postmastership | issue, and'the waves of the political sea around the Stockton postoffice were lashed into foam. Dunlap and Hender- son were the solid front of the Nelson battering ram. In this contingency Congressman Woods, earnestly desiring the re-election of his friend Senator Perkins, staved off the postmastership appointment, not wishing 1 injure the prospects of the Senator, Nelson's term having expired some time ago and no successor having been recom- | mended. But in the usually mysterious | political way it came to the ears of the Nelson people that the Congressman cov- | eted, or rather would not decline, the rather easy berth of United States Ngval Officer of the port of San Francisco, with its salary of $5000 a year. They argued that If the Congressman could secure this plum through their efforts, directly or in- directly, he might be induced to ‘transfer his allegiance from Phelps to Nelson, and Continued on P;g: 4, Column 4. GEORGE C FERAIN 3. WHO HAS EGISLATURE LECTION TO EINAT \Legislature Accords| | Perkins Nearly | All Votes. e }Balloting for High! Honors a Tame Proceeding. ‘ BALLOT FOR SENATOR | IN THE TWO HOUSES | OF THE LEGISLATURE | Total | i [ \ |l ; | Epecial Dispatch to The Call. | ALL HEADQUARTERS, SAC- | | RAMENTO, Jan. 13.—C | nia has bidden George C. kins to keep his old seat warm in the United States Senate for another six years. Both houses of the Legislature got down to business at noon to-day and by a sfrictly | party vote presented the Senator ‘with a | handsome majority, all bound round wnh‘ a woolen string and neatly labeled before- | hand. There were thirty-three Republi- | cans in the Senate and fifty-eight in the | Assembly, and every last one of them | spoke for Perkins when the roll - was | called. Only one was absent, and ke | couldn’t get there, but he, t0o, shouted | for Perkins over the wire. | The presentation was preceded by the | usual speechmaking and conventional ob- | | servance of constitutional forms, but | there was a conspicuous absence of fire- works to the oratory and a general lack | of enthusiasm all around. In other words, | the speeches were prosy and florid, as most speeches are when written in ad- vance and read'at long range or delivered | from memory, while everybody knew how | it was all going to end anyway, and there | is never any excitement about a sure thing. Even the Democrats .and Labor | men had counted noses many days before | and knew just what they were going to do. It was an unblemished programme and most loyally presented. So much for the caucus as a time-saving, slumber- producing device in the machinery of government. VOTES WITHOUT TUMULT. In former years the election of a United | States Senator has been an event of great interest, signaltzed by much dignity and ceremony, and sometimes a scrap, but always by grandiloquent praise of the Continued on Page 4, Column 5. | UNITED COLUMBT | 1_ | e EONL TRUST 70 PAY FON TSGR ‘Congress Will Sus- pend Duty for One Year. >-— Bill Is Favorably Re- ported by House Committee. Sendte Stands Ready fo Pass the Measure With- out Delay. [ WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—-The Ways and Means Committee of the House to- day reported a bill providing for a re- bate—equal to the duty now imposed—on | all kinds of coal and coming from all countries for a period of ene year trod s a substitute for the one | od by Represel ve Hill of Conne which provided for a rebate until June next. The bill will come up for action to-morrow, and its prompt passage is ex- pected. The bill adopted provides “that the Sec- retary of the Treasury be and he is here- by authorized and required to make full rebates of duties imposed by law on ail coal of every form cription im- ported into the 1 tes from for- cign countr iod of ome year from and after the passage of this act FINAL VOTE UNANIMOUS. Representative Richardson of Tennessee | | proposed an amendment striking out the words ‘““for a period of one year,” which was yoted down. He then proposed an s for the | i . amendment placing all coal on the free ] ist; which also was voted down. The final vote on the adoption of the bill was | | unanimous. Representatives P e, Dalzell and Grosvenor held a c¢ rence with the President this morning relative to the ac- tion which had been taken by the com- mittee. : Representative Dalzell mittee on Rules, providing for the co from the Com- ted a Jeratl resolation 1 of the co: rep bill in the House to-morrow, limiting de- to one a vote then to be taken without inter ing motion. PROMPT ACTION NECESSARY. The report the Ways and Means Committee, Itted by Chairman Payne, after recommending the passags of the bill, says: “This is an emerge measure, de- ided because of the and high price of coal, prolonged strike in mines. m the recent ithracite coal “Precedents for s found in the Chica r Eastport, Me. 1 the rebated the deman . | | bulldirg in the burn ricts. Whether the legislation w increase the importa- tions or reduc e s a question on which men di all Congress can do in th | | will satisfy the demand of ’ citizens. While th ( coal famine In any part Ureat Shoewer of New Makes Labor for the Lawmakers. Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. ALL HEADQUARTERS, SAC- RAMENTO, Jan. 13.—The les- islative reservolrs that contam the flood of new laws and amendments have already ~ split a hinge and are pouring | a volume of proposed regulations and statutes on the busy lawmakers. Here are some of them: 5 Assembly bill No. 18, ‘introduced by Brown provides for the creation of State Board of Charitles and Corrections. The board shall consist of six members, who shall be appointed by the Governor, not more than three of the ap- poinites shall be of the same pollucnl" faith. The Commissioners shall hold | office for the period of twelve years, the | first appointes to arrange by lot their tenure of office, two to go out of office at the end of four years, two at the end of eight years and two at the emd of | twelve years. It is provided that women may be ap- | peinted members of the board. No of- ficer of any charitable institution shall | be eligible to appointment. The commis- | sicners are required to perform their | ties without compensation, but will be al- lowed necessary traveling and other ex-| penses. A secretary is to be appointed | | | a and by the board and his salary is fixed at| $2400- per year. The sum of $10,000 shall be Appropriated annually for expenses. The commissioners will be required to exam- | ine and report upon charitable, correc- | tional and penal Institutions of the State, includirg State hospitals for the insane and such private institutions of similar | character that receive public funds. All| plans for new bulldings for the use of the aforementioned institutions must be sub- mitted to the board. The bill was re- | this act the Governor shall appoint three we cannot turn a deaf the pecple. “The committes did not consider it b | to make any changes In the tarift on coal after the period of one year had expired, Bills in Both Houses preferring to bring in this as a purely | emergency measure and not desi | g0 Into the question of tariff even upon this one a can eome to the pe lation it will be amp period provided for in the bi SENATORS FAVOR BILL. After the adjournmerti of the Senate | to-day the lican members of the Committee on Finance held a conference on the various resol before the ate for the re of the tarift thracite coal had before them text of the ferred to the proper committes without comment. FRIEND OF THE POULTRY. The poultry Industry will lift up Its red comb and crow lustily on all the fence | pusts around Petaluma if Assemblyman Cromwell’s bill, 'No. 23, becomes a law. It provides for the establishment of a poultry experiment station to be situated In or near Petaluma, for the purpose of studying the diseases of poultry and to Rep on an- They the House bill granting a rebate of the anthracite duty for twelve months make proper experiments to, ascertain the | 240 o cveally agreed to accept It with value of' the iInnumerable varieties of | oyt alteration, if the Demoecratic com- poultry food in tl production of flesh, ould be induc to mitteemen d to allow fat, eggs and feathers. The commission | be so reported without de The opin will be intrusted also with the duty of | jon was quite unanimous that the sit studying the question of sanitation in the | tion called for prompt action and the poultry yard. ate committee will be called together, The bill then goes on to provide that | perhaps, to-morrow afterncon immedie within thirty days after the passage of ately after the House passes the bill - - SMALL DEALER BOYCOTTED. Would Not Maintain Price Fixed by " the Coal Combine. persons—two from the staff of professors in the agricultural department of the University of California and the third to be a practical poultry raiser—the three : CHICAGO, Jan. 13.—Proof of how the to constitute a board or commission to 2 select and securd a site of not less than !arge coal dealers sought to compel the | five acres for such station, which shall Small dealers to sell coal at the pr be under control of the Regents of the «auoted by the alleged combine rea University of California. The bill pro- | the special Grand Jury this vides that an appropriation of $6000 shall = when Henry F ' be made for the purpose of securing the | dealers, testified. According to Peterson, necessary site, etc. The law governing the inheritance and he vi ed the offices ¢ oal com- t pany some time a was given a disposition of community property will be | [iee list. He had been purchasing coal | materially changed if Duryea's bill, from this company and was Instructed, 16, should pass. It amends Ction 1402 of | he declared. to sell the enal at %20 a ton the Civil Code, and provides that upon | He had a number of cust.mers who coull the death of cither spouse one-half of the community property shall go to the rice, and he sold t price without not afford to pay that them {fe ceal at the e Continued onr PAge 8,‘65;;:; 3’.% I i(:ux;t;ued on Page 8, Column L.