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PASS NO CLASS BILL. t session of the Legis- lls that seem proposition f personal property be will says pop- a meas- which all see g t re- P C to the in- g which they are aimed, Of t sort T il industry of the of oil sho be the s best resy to the use of oil, se , that the bill not pa ifornia crude Ii ¢ between the pro- apted for fuel by be true by the evidence sub-| e need of or fuel than does coal he well fit for use and the Legislature sing needless restrictions and one proposed to punish all em- 1 of 18 more than of 18 may s earnings in 2 fruit cannery, ment by working longer r what his wish and ambition, | lized if he accept his service. sons of the house work there om that kind we get our Such matters are better left to individual preference and should not be hedged about The curse of the age is voluntary ot voluntary work and the laws should not add to it by prohibiting the thrift and industry such as desire to get on in the world | There is one cheerful view to be taken of the pro-| posed fantastics in legislation. Their introduction | is evidence that the field really needful of legislation vered already and bound by statutes, and therefore certain legislators feel it necessary to justify d perhaps magnify it, by ‘proposing legislation, years old should be well dressed in proved pattern and necessity and the tions to the suit need be only such as are neces- respond to development and the occasional | jes to the treaty are under equal obligation to use PERHAPS A HAGUE CASE. Y the Hague jury, may soon appear in the appeal | of Venezuela and the powers to the same tribunal. ionals have suf- The other Governments whose na fered from the rapacity of Venezuela insist that in any adjustment made by Minister Bowén they must have a footing of equality with the concerted powers which made the blockade. To this the three block- ading powers object, claiming that they should be treated as preferred creditors, because they have been at the expense of the blockade, to which Venezuela's | disposition to settle at all is due. From their stand- | point-this preferential claim has in it an element of right and justice. On the other hand the powers stanfl, in a certain sense, for the peace of the fumrcl re Venezuelan question be dis- | by asking that the en posed of, leaving nothing to serve as the cause of It must be admitted that Venezuela 1i she guarantee the payment of awards covering all the | claims, so that the verdict has the nature of a general idated, and then prepare to finance future friction has her fate measurably in her own hands. judgment to be | the whole judgment, as she can easily do, the need of a preference will disappear. In default of some such arrangement there is but one recourse, and that is to The Hague. The powers can submit to that jury their rival claims, of prefe equality. If the tribunal decide that.the three allies shall be preferred creditors, and that its judgment in favor of other claimants is in the nature of a second mortgage on the revenues of Venezuela, all must submit to that decision. If on the other hand the decision sustain the equality of all claimants, they must accept it The present aspect of the case brings it clearly within the jurisdiction of The Hague tribunal, since it now takes the form of a dispute between England, Germany and Italy on one side and France and other claimants on the other. The preamble to, the treaty formulated peace conference to establish The Hague court re- ence and | | cites that: to an “Animated with a strong desire to come | agreement for the maintenance of general peace; resolved to promote with all their ability the friendly settlement of international disputes; recog- ; the solidarity which unites the members of the society of the civilized nations; wishing to ex-| tend the empire of law and to strengthen the appre- ciation of international justice; convinced that the institution of a permanent court of arbitration ac- cessible to all, in the midst of the independent powers, will prove efficacious in bringing about this result, with the object of preventing as far as possible re- course to force in the relations between states, the signatory powers agree to employ all their efforts to g about by pacific means the solution of inter- national differences.” Then low the provisions of the treaty far the constitution of The Hague court. The United States added the proviso that: “Nothing contained in this | shall be so construed as to require the America to depart from its tra- y uding upon, interfering with or entangling itself in the poplitical questions or y or international administration of any foreign hing contained in said convention ye construed to imply a relinquishment by the United ates of its traditional attitude toward purely Ameri- questions.” ¢ This safeguardegd the Monroe doctrine. - Lord Salis- Bu in behalf of England, said of the treaty: “In the brief space of two months a great international convention United tes of ional policy of not i t an work has been accomplished, fraught with the high- | est promise in the advancement of civilization and the good of mankind. That work consists in the production of most beneficent codes, destined to preserve the blessings of' peace and lessen the calamities of wa While the first nations to enter the doors of The | Hague court and leave it, submissive to its judgment, | were of the western hemisphere, the twenty signator- the beneficent means it provides. It may be said that the issues presented by the Venezuela case are in- tricate and difficult, but the court is intended for just such-issues, and the powers now in dispute among themselves being all signatories, will command the respect of the world if in the last resort they go to the court they helped to create. B Uncle Sam is evidently determined that everything connected with the Panama canal must be kept in the 1y i P ly 2 eTIC, H | aig . | Of ATt ..eceaess seanes family. It has been decided that only American citj- | $19,000,000 less than the record of 1900, which was | pommes cash ‘ia ‘savings b zens can compete to build the great ditch, and if the, do their work improperly they may be sure of a warm reception at home. EUROPE'S BIG BURDEN. URING the recent debate on the budget in the Chamber of Deputies Baron d’Estour- nelles de Constant declared that France could not even so much as hope to rid herself of an annual deficit, or to lighten the burdens of taxation, | so long as Europe continues to maintain such exten- sive and expensive military establishments for preservation of peace. < The speaker conceded that France is not solely to the HE benefit of the example set by the United | States and Mexico, in taking the first case to | W | country. | deal of attention was directed to the issue in the East, by the| | there any return of votes by.that party. | linois 28,000, in Pennsylvania 27,000, in Ohio 17,000, in it will be reached before very long. Ipdustrial rival- | ries grow keener and intenser every year, and nations, handicapped by burdensome taxation cannot main- tain themselves in the industrial competitions of peace. Thus they will lose ‘their wealth and their power to sustain the war taxes, and then there must | | be either a lightening of the burden or a financial col- | lapse and something like industrial ruin. R, The. interesting discovery has been made that the great State of California will soon be about one mil- lion dollars in d;bt.. This may possibly teach our political pilots the lesson our spiritual ones have al- ready learned, that ascetic habits of devotion are no more piety than avarice is economy. ————— THE SOCIALIST VOTE. HEN the returns of the elections of last fall were published there was an apparent showing of something like a total of 400,000 | votes for Socialist candidates. The vote was scattered widely and had but little effect except in Massachu- | setts. Still it had a stimulating influence on the So- cialists themselves, and there were predictions that in 1904 their party would cast upward of 1,000,000 votes and thus demonstrate, that it.holds the balance of power between the two - great parties of - the By reason of the séemingly large vote of last fall and the exultant declarations of the Socialists'a good and the vote has been carefully canvassed. It is now as appeared on the face of the figures, as many of the | candidates whose votes were counted for the Socialists | were really repr;sentativeé of fusion parties. Accord- ing to these estimates the genuine Socialist vote of last fall did not exceed 260,000 and was not formidable except in a few localities in- New. England. A review of th* vo*e shows that nearly the whulc‘ Socialist strength is 1n the Northern States, A few | Socialists voted in:Texas; and upward.of 6000 volcd; in Missouri, but from no other Southern State is In' Massa- husetts the Socialist organizations cast 39,000, in II- Wisconsin 16,000, in California 9500, in Indiana 8700, | in New Jersey 5000, and in Michigan 5000. New York | gave about 40,000 votes to the Socialist candidates, | except the candidate for Governor. Its vote in Kan-f sas was 4000, in low3 6000, in Nebraska ‘3000, in North | Dakota 1000, in South Dakota 2700, in Utah 3000, in | Washington 5000, and in Oregon 5500. An interesting feature of the «iscussion is the dis- closure that a considerable number of .persons voted with the Socialists, not because they believe in so- cialism, but because they are discontented with the existing order of things and have no faith in the policies of Republicanism or -of Democracy. One of them, writing to the Philadelphia Public Ledger, “I do not believe that the socialism expressed at the recent elections is ‘European socialism,’ but | simply a protest by men who feel that the treatment | they have received from men elected to represent them has not been just.” He adds: *“No American So- cialist begrudges .the rich man to live in his fine| mansion, to ride in his fine carriage, drawn by fine | horses; but when the rich man gr men endeavor | to become rich at extortionate prices the case is dii- | ferent.” It is evident from the general tone of such Social- | ists as have taken part in the public discussion of the' subject that the coal striké and the consequent rise | in the price of coal had.much te do with the big vote cast for' Socialist candidates last fall. With -us, therefore, socialism is not a philosophy, but a dis- fcontent. It was not formidable last year, but when next bad times come upon the country the politicians will have to reckon with it. e o e says: Sacramento is™up in arms against the threatened loss of the State Library. This seems to be the first | indication ever given that the capital city considers < : | that department of the State organization a neces- LOSSES BY FIRE. NE of the respects in which the last year i | made a good showing in comparison with | O‘ former years is to be found in the reports of losses by fire in the United States and Canada. The ' | total losses were approximately $161,000,000, a larg | enough sum to be sure, but still about $9,000,000 less than the loss for 1901 and between $17,000,000 and | the worst year in the recent history of fire underwriting. | | The allowance for December, $13,000,000, in arriving | at the general total, was $1,000,000 larger than that of December, 1900. | As a'rule the fires of the year were comparatively | small, so that in one instance only did the nmmhlyj | loss exceed $20,000,000. That occurred in February. I when the big fire in Paterson swept away upward of 1 $7,000,000 worth of property in one swoop. same month the fire at Waterbury destroyed property | valued at $2,000,000. With' those ‘exceptions the larg- | est fires of the year were that at Atlantic City, damage | $1,500,000, and that at the Armour-plant in Chicago "\\-nh a loss of $900,000. | Whether the comparatively good,showing of. the asserted’ that the real Socialist vote was not so large | MONUMENT TO HONOR SPANISH WAR HEROES A RELTAIXLS PRI NIRRT o+ afternoon at already gone ab pectant and greeted this new local lights. D: within, the ta's first numbe The violinist from cold hands refusing their “Rondo Cloche! had not heard which the move poised, perfect timed. casionally. most difficult m in the whole vi heard it—ard pl and never yet ki tantalizing thunderous enco! of Kopta—astonish! | | conspicuous skin BLA MERETING of the citizens' execu- |the same by the 1890, tive committee, originally appointed for the reception of the returning United States Volunteers from the Philippines- and - now having in charge the erection of a monument to the volunteers, took place yesterday morning | at the Hopkins Institute of Art. Those in attendance were James D. (chairman), M. H. de Young, W tin and the secretary, Henry C. McPike. The meeting was held for the purpose of examining a design for the proposed mon- ument. The design exhibited to the committee was by Douglas Tilden, and after a care- ful examination of it the committee de- cided to make the award to Mr. Tilden and the chairman was rgquested to enter into a suitable contract/with the sculptor for the ereetion of the monument. The price to be paid will be $24,000, and the Board of Supervisors will be requested to grant a site for the monument on Van Ness_avenue at Its junction with Pine street. The written plans and specifications are | being copied by the secretary and are to be carefully examined by an architect to be selected by the committee, with a view to procure the very best results so far as strength, foundation and material are concerned. The c fund wi mittee have on hand In the h was left over after the ex- penditures incident to the return of the | volunteers the sum of $25.000 and accru- ing interest. Following is a statement of the California volunteers’ monument fund since the deposit in the savings banks of $25,000 in the name of James D. Phelan, trustee, on November 26, 1899: DISBURSEMENTS, Red Cross Soclety ....... Stenographer and clerk, preparing and arranging. list of contributions to fund Reception to General James F th Oscar Heinroth, Company H, First California Volunteers ........ John J. Otls, Company B, First Cal- ifornia Volunteers Expenses In transportation of models and Custom-house charges Care and repairing models ument at Mark Hopkins I Total RECEIPTS, 20—By deposit in banks. Nov. 190 Jan 1 Advanced by treasurer By interest to date Total 1903— Jan, 1—By balance in savings banks.$25,082 The foregoing is a _.complete statement of the monument fund since the setting -aside of In the @ ujueiuimimivinieieioivimilufeluintomint @ | MENTION. of Soncma s at the PERSONAL Dr. A. M. Tho! Lick. Lieuténant A. L. Week Is registered at the California. L. Ewing and wife of Sacramento are at the California. Phelan | J. Mar- | MONUMENT TO THE CALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS WHO SERVED IN THE PHILIPPINES WHICH WILL BE ER ENUE AT PINE STREET, DESIGNED BY DOUGLAS TILDE ED ON VAN tea o HENRY C. McPIKE, The monument to be erected composed of bronze upon a. pe Washington to v Students to granite, the whole to be of a total hei Students t of twenty-six feet: the bronze group Fatven = ] be sixteen feet in height and all ht ot their figures in the group of herolc size. The | cojege hall Broup consists first of an American offi- |15 The st cer standing with sword In one P E Ry revolver in the other near apros American soldier, who has evident! been wounded. Back of the standing o fallen solder is the figure goddess of war, seated upon Bellor horse Peg: The head of the godd Townsend's Cal x Is surmounted by a Greek casque. -8 candies, 50c a pound, In arti: Is leaning forward holding in boxes. A nice present for Easte Bt @-a-folded Tkines sud with aeg right T urnet ot Fulies Mt bol arm extended holds a polsed sword. prostrate soldier lles upon a cannon a is evidently expiring. The group is an} mated and very guggestive of combat. the The tions for t will atn no - cer and over the prostrate form of the nd business houses Press Clipping B fornia street. apprec atmosphere was slightly discouraging, and M was thing to warm up on Evenness itself we: ing staccatl, like strings of .dlamonds, the audience at its close, ticn of the treaty with Cuba was u - mously indorsed. The bill pr g an appropriation for experimental ‘work in the field of vitieulture at the [ rsity of California was also generally Memorials will be sent to the Le; 1 entertai Ex. strong hoarhound candy DTS Spectal information Telephone Main 1042 KOPTA’S SKILL B DELIGHTS HIS BIG AUDIENCE In spite of the untoward weather | Steinway Hall w ; the The fame of the s well filléd yester second Kopta Bohemian vielin road, and it was ative scovered audlence t amo, an ly ¢ amp outside to’ begin wi r was a. disappe vidently , his fingers occa »Mce, and the Pagar tte” s mot ‘exact But to him on Tuesday | | the number was satisfying, ‘to the ex | | tent of an enthusiastic encore. | | ‘The second group began with an | |loge™ of Nesvera, new ta loca | | grammes, and a well mac 1 | | dlous composition. With the | ber, the Laub “Polonuise de | Mr. Kopta was fully in trim t | lovely “Barcarole”” of Spehr that fol | lowed/ was rendered with ample beauty of tone and grace of reading. But the first | taste of the Bohemian’s peculiar flavor | | came with the Rles “Perpetuo Mobile,” | |a positively glittering performane the showers of shin. 14 ment is made; perfectly ly balanced, perfec It was rather good fun to see Mr. Ormay—quite the best accompanist here— | get slightly off in the accompaniment Of its kind it is one of t . ovements to accompany iolin repertoire. I have ayed it—quite trequently, nown the accompaniment to be absolutely in sympathy with the shimmer of the violin. re signified the pleast to whic A n ng person!—after the fa- tigue of the Ries number, responded with | | the Kontski ““Cascade,” another guaran- | | teed wrist-breaker! The Sarasate “Play- | [era” and “Zapateado” closed the pro- | gramme. { | In place of Mrs. Belle Haralson, who | was indisposed, Miss Anna Wilson gave 19195.\1“3]»’ two operatic numbers, No- | bles Seigneurs” and “Knowest Thou.the | Land?* Mr. Ormay accompanied with "HE PARTINGTON. gt Will Memorialize Legislature. | | | At a meeting of the directors- of the -+ | Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Associa- tion held yesterday Semator De s bill instructing the California nate n ote against the r Sing in Minstrelsy. Ignatiu Townsend's * lifornia gla supplied dally and public men by ureau (Allen’s) 230 Ca FOR DALY CAiL SUBSCR'BERS ONLY. am's Superior Atlas f the World. Pages of Maps, Satistics and Useful Information for $I.50 if you are a Sub- scriber fo The Daily Call. If you are a six months’ subscriber to The Daily Call send $1.50 to this ofiice and we will send you by first express, charges collect, our Great Premium Up-to-Date ““Atlas of the World.” on the market It is the best value $150 is the premium rate to Call subscribers, and none but Call subscribers can secure this Etlas. If you are not a subscriber to The Daily Call you should subscribe at once and get this wce of new issues incident thereto. There is| Plame in the matter, since she can hardly reduce her Fyear is due to better management on the part of fire *' M€ TFOEL L L i | h legitimate work, if carefully done, to occupy military strength in the face of an armed Europe, but | departments, to-the gradual'incréase of more carefully ' tered at the Lick. " R e "'} re in providing for the many State insti- her statesmen, he argued, should openly declare the | constructed buildings or to the prevailing “good ltick” | E. C. Gunderman of New York Is reg- ve have, and, while making such provision, | act and do their utmost to provide for at least a par- | which scems to have attended everything American 'Stered at the Russ. splendid book of reference. All Call will give you full particulars of this offet. All orders for The Daily Call’s Great Premium agents ng the rights of the taxpayers. who sup- tial disarmament. during the year ‘remains to be seen. It would be vah(.‘.“ax:‘c‘ififll‘;:hflu::d e headias Outside of that the field of legislation mited to serve the purposes of legislative s and contoftions, he know-nothing, craftily stupid heathen Chinee is the very soul of frankness in comparison & e Kaiser when it comes to telling what blunt peo- ple I the truth. What the Berlin Government n't know about the gonduct of German boats in zuela waters would not be worth telling, reports contrary notwithstanding. | Colonel Arthur Lynch took steps to indi-| he was willing to die for the Boer cause, he espoused, he probably never thought that he would have the excellent opportunity which now faces him. He certainly has exercised every endea- vor to show his coyness at actepting the result of his cate wh own actions. By way of distinguishing from the flesh eater and also from the strict vegetarian the man who eats no meat but does eat fish, eggs and milk, it is proposed to call- him an “anti-sarcophagist.” That is giving him a hard name, but doubtless he deserves it. Cuba intends to secure, i f possible, a gigantic loan. And this probably means 2 row with everybody else on earth if Cuba succeeds in her scheme. He is quoted as saying that armed peace absorbs 54 per cent of the resources of France, and is driv- ing her into a colonial policy. It compels France to increase her navy to defend her colonies against Great Britain and Germany. The Franco-Russian alliance has done nothing to diminish French arma- ments, and in other respects it has failed to ‘achieve what had been expected of it. the In conclusion speaker declared that no successful policy, financia],' social or colonial, is possible under the burden of armed peace. The warning is pot a new. on€, but it -seems it can never be uttered too often. harassing one. No man can suggest a solution for. it. en in this country, strong as we are in the numbers, in the fighting qualities of our men, in our wealth, an in our distance from any formidable foe, we still find it necessary to improve our army, strengthen our fort- ifications and expand our navy. Every argument ot wisdom that prompts us to expend money for mil- itary or naval purposes applies with tenfold force to any nation in Europe. It appears, therefore, that the struggle is to go on until the taxpaying power of the | people can stand it no longer, and one after another | l(hc weaker governments are forced to disband their | | armies and trust to the justice of their stronger neigh- that we will have to get into | bors as Switzerland, Denmark and Holland are doing -paper compared them to a bunch of jackrabbits. i now. Whatever may be the end, however, it scems certain Still the problem is a | { z pleasant 'to believe that we' are gradually working ourselves free from the menace of extensive fires, but before the year is over we may have a dread ;ll'sson_ to convince ‘us to the contrary. Still. the | newer structures of our cities are designed to be at | least partially. fireproof, and it is indisputable that |dhe equipments for fighting fire are improving, so it (smay well be:that we shall have a record for safety ere long that will justify a decrease in insurance rates. While the American people deprecateany sugges- tion of war with a foreign power, particularly Ger- many, it certainly is encouraging to know that if we had to fight even Germany would be compelled to malke a better showing than she does to inspire in us ! anly feeling other than supreme confidence in the re- sult, —_— A measure has been introduced in the Legislature at Sacramento to reform the many evils of child labor in California.' Worthy as this endeavor unquestion- ably is, something more than a law is necessary to chieck the/greed which feeds and fattens upon the 1ives of children. . The legislators of Utah have raised their voices to | high heaven in a howl of indignation because a news- This | unwarranted assault upon dumb creatures of the earth cannot but excite sympathy., s S. A. Guiberson Jr. of Halfmoon Bay is registered at the Russ. A. J. Jarman, an attorney of San Jose, is registered at the Grand. Among the arrivais at the Russ is R. A. Hutt ot Cleveland, Ohlo. Among the arrivals at the Lick are Dr. E. W, Biddle of San Jose. John L. Hudner, an attorney of Hollis- ter, is registered at the Lick. Among the arrivals at the California is H. F. Anderson of Ben Lomond. Among those- registered at the Palace is B. U. Steinmann of Sacramento. J. B. Curtis, a mining man of Tonopah. | 1s among the arrivals at the Grand. Colonel and Mrs. Harrington of Mare Island are registered at the Occidental. Byron Waters, the attorney of Los An- eles, is registered at the Occidental Ho- 1. H. S. Denning, cashier of 13 te! the Santa Cruz Bank, Santa Cruz, is registered at | the California. Lieuténant Governor Alden Anderson arrived in the city yesterday and reg- istered at the Grand. H. A. Wilder of the firm of Wilder & Co., Honolulu, who has been traveling north, returned to the city yesterday and s registered at the Occidental. W. A. Clark Jr. of Butte, Mont., arrived at the Palace yesterday. Mr. on the coast on a visit to his brother, Charles Clark of San Mateo. 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