The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 26, 1903, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, PRATT SAYS PILOTS ON BAY OF SAN FRANCISCO HINGS TO SUIT THEMSELVES SENATORS DENOUNCE THE BOARD Say the Barbers’ Commis- sion Isa Humbug and Abolish It. /< Al HEADQUARTERS, SACRA MENTO, el Senator ‘ rench’s bill 1« lish the Bar- 7 ber Comm as adopted by e upper house after an interest g The author of the bill made " sa atements about the n and backed them up with fi s drawn up by an expert accou harged tha member; mission hed secured money fr State illegs and that there was due State from the commission the sum of %7 1 these statements that in- w6 members of the upper house to £ e bil 1at repeals the . hing & Barber Commissor USUALLY MANAGE T i Go On and Off Duty When! They Please, and No | One Objects. A letter was read from a barber named | s Wolfe, who was ALILL. HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-| boa '“fj"“ ¢ MENTO, Feb. The distress- | an 3 ing subject of the guilt or inno s cénce of Pilot Commissioner Wil entire liam G. Leale was avoided this " morning by the Senate Committee on | Commerce and Navigation when it as- | » sembled for the purpose of taking furth er testimony as to “the revelations of parts | bribery and corruption made by The ~| The first thing done was to revoke the . does away | order for the warrant of arrest for J N so-called barbere’ colleges and | . Campbell for contempt for hav bat Shapetore Sa Sevar of (ha Sommis- | failed to appear before the committes and against the bill to repea | 1ast nignt in obedience subpena is- COMMISSION IS ATTACKED. sued by the committee. It was felt that Sepator John Nelson of San Francisco was idle to paint the lily or to add the floor to speak on a bill, | another hue to the whit that whe does he saye sh things. | the testimony of Campbell was not s speech favoring the paesagg of the [ wanted »w. The committee placed said Captai Pratt on the witness stand and pre him as to his knowledge of A the affairs of his office. Senator Em mons put the stions. - “During the four vears that you have ssior 5 iried to compel the C ! Pilot Commissioner, what rules .. have you had with regard to excusing » ake pilots from their duties? 0 > It is customary for the majority of e pilots to send in a petition asking . - leave of absence be granted to some ot Gobl Ene f their number,” replied the witness h You heard the statement of Captain rber to the effect that he only had ’ Z lots at sea on the day of the in- - £ n in San Francisco; where el i bt e Bavor ab others?” was asked. | 1 had ) NO CONTROL OVER PILOTS. Commi ploen ‘A \at's up to Captain er.” re- A Befare the Sem. |plied the Commissioner, with an apolo- getic smile Have you, as Commissioner, no con- J over the pilots to compel them to ¥ 59 70 responded the witness N 1901 ’ prom t o | “Were on duty that day?” | xXpens asked Senate rtridge. | E I could mot tell you, sir. Captain s according own figures due the State as from the cashbook: | collecting $5 for each certificate, it would | A erarawn mileagey, £ ther behind this year by collecting | R 43 00| - certificates. He was opposed to the | - = which he thought was as == |l usel commissions proposed for | $1,357 00 | plackemiths and other employments, He sl amount due the State as figured out [ did not believe in a commission that dragged dollar pieces out of the hard- | CHARGE EXCESSIVE MILEAGE. | working barber. Lardner stated that the | Senator French stated that the Barber | commission was established to give some | Commission had charged the State exces- | nice and clever men a chance to live oft fleage and had drawn salaries for holidays and Sundays, which was regard to the mileage, he was indistinctly and unintelligibly carried out on the books of the commis- sion. He stated that he foudd one item on the book which charged $18 for a trip San_Rafael ench said he asked ADVERTISEMENTS. Pears’ What is wanted of soap for the skin is to wash it clean and not- hurt it, Pure soap does that. This is why we want pure soap; and when we say pure, we mean without alkali. Pears’ is pure; no free alkali You can trust a soap that has no biting in it, that's Pears’. Esublishsd_ over 100 years. seasonable 4 reasonable orce 7180 | 44 00 | Lardner called attention to the fact that Barber takes care of all that : Two were at sea and Six were with | our committee?” pursued Senator Short- | ridge | Is it possible that you had no knowl- | edge of what the other twelve were doing ommissioner Drake where he started »m and the latter said San Francisco. | enator claimed that one could go | San Francisco to n Rafael any 50 cents and he said the charge ive. In closing his speech i the barbers were desirous of | rid of the commission, as it was us growth tor Selvage favored the bill on the | ground that the barbers in his section of e desired such a commission. He claimed it promoted cleanliness and el vated the busine Shortridge delivered a speech in which he appealed to the members not to abolish the commission. f the commission was going to be $1500 $802 00 | behind in its account with the State, after me one else. DENIES THE CHARGES. Wolfe was not in favor of abolishing the commission. He called attention to the | fact that a week ago he suggested that ! a committee of three be appointed to in- | vestigate it. He sald he had great re- spect for Senator French and his figures, yet he was not going to abide by an ex parte statement without giving the mem- bers of the commission a chance to be heard. *“I deny that the Barber Com! mission has overdrawn $1357. I believe in giving every man a fair chance. If the | Commissioners are gullty of felony they should be removed from office. I want them all to be glven a fair and impartial investigation.” Senator Nelson called Wolfe's attention to a petition signed by 500 barbers who de- sired the commission abolished. Wolfe said he had not heard of if. Wolfe then argued that the commiss! did _away with the barber colleges, and Nelson came back with the statement that it was of common talk that the graduates of the so-called barber colleges could obtain a certificate from the commission upon mere application. Wolfe said he knew nothing about the matter, Upon roll call it was discovered by French that there were not enough vétes to abolish the board and he demanded a call of the House. After some delay the sergeant-at-arms brought in Senators Raiston, Willlams, Savage and Devlin, All these but Devlin voted aye and the Board of Barber Commissioners was abol- ished by & vote of 23 to 12. A similar bill i# in the Assembly and another lively bat tle is anticipated In the lower house. e St COMMITTEE IS DIVIDED. Members Are Not Able to Agree on Glen Ellen Home Report. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, Teb, 25.—The special Assembly committes which has been conducting an investiggtion jnto the affairs of the State Home for Féeble- minded Children et Glen Ellen, is far from being & unit as to what its final report shall contain. On some of the features of the re- port the members are agreed, but as to others there are members of the committee wWho do not want to take any middle ground, but wisi 1o severely eriticize the trustees of the home for what they consider their dereliction of v and the careless manner in which the financial affairs of the institution bave been Mmtmnfl;mh.t'l'l;‘:n are those who would recommend that the present Board of Trustees be displaced and that an entirely new board e sppointed, but others of the committee do not consider such a recommendation Within the province of the committee. They would | prefer passing the matter up to the Governor and letting *such action as may to him_ seel remises As to it the present | Boara « onally for the agreed and that recommendation will be made. It will, however, lack the force which would | otherwise follow 1t because of a statement | e Chairman Drew of the committer, | stated that he would be willing to | prosecute (he claim against the trustees on | a contingent fee. He made that statement to- day when asked whether he was certaln that the trustees can 4 to be legally respo sible for the t Which was misap- propriated. 7 investigation was | started by Drew on a resolution which he introduced and throughout the hearing he | prosecuted it relentlessly, It would be im- possible, of course, for him to be assigned 1o the case, for that comes wholly within the province of Attorney General, and if the recommendation s adopted the Assembly that official will be directed to forthwith bring the suits. | As to the alleged misapplication of about | imburse 1803. =L S | ~. 7 N RS ) v L ! | | | | | | | | I I | | | | | At e - LL KNOWN MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE, WHO HAVE IN- RODUCED MEASUR OF IMPORTANCE AND PERFORMED GOOD WORK ON COMMITTEES TO WHICH THEY BELONG. M E Bl et N s o0, ®ir They might be off in the country somewhere for all that you know? “Yes. T remember of one occasion on which a pilot left here and went East and I didn't know anything about it at the time and there was a great hulla- baloo about it What legal record have you of the movements of the pilots “None whatever; that is up to Barber to report to us every month who is sick and who is on duty “The position of Pilot Commissioner is a mere sinecure?”’ inquired Senator Shortridge; “a mere figurehead?” g sir; there is nothing in the law “In other words” suggested Emmons, “the pilots run things?’ PILOTS RUN EVERYTHING. was the candid “We He th gives us any “They run everything. acknowiedgment of Captain Pratt have no check on Captain Barber. was appointed Port Captain by us and we made him our treasurer. Barber had been there for a good many years when we came into the office and we were satisfled to let him alone.” Sestodfeetefenfecto ot the $3676 of the Jessup tr which- was found 1o | have been misappropriated, the committee is $16,000 of the contingent fund some of the members of the committee have demanded that the recommendation be made that suits | stituted for the recovery of that money but such a recommendation is not ex- pected to be made In the committee's report. There is a bill before the Asgembly for an | appropriation from the State treasury to re- | the depleted Jessup trust fund, but | bill will not be passed at this session the Legislature b it will be vigor- | ously opposed by the members of the com- | mittee, ! that oSS REVISION OF THE CODES. Assembly Defeats Constitutional Amendment Proposed by Soward. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, —Assemblyman Soward's plan for an manner of incorporating into the laws of the State the codes as revised by the Code Commissioners so as to overcome the objections of the Bupreme Court as indlcated in its fa- mous decision of about a year ago, did not meet with favor at the hands of the Assembly to-day | and lacked the requisite number of votes to carry it. His plan was that the constitution be amended so that the Legislature would be glven authority to amend the existing codes, not section by section, but, as was unlawfully done two years ago, take the whole codes and pass them @s a whole. Speaking to his pro- posed amendment, Soward declared that there is little probability that the pfoposed code laws wili be passed at this session because of the opposition of certain of me attorneys in both houses. That the State needs revised codes was admitted, he said, by every practicing at- torney and unless some means were adopted by which the action of two vears ago in pass- ing them as a whole can be legalized it would be practically impossible without an extra ses- sion of the Legislature to bring about the much needed reforms. The SBupreme Court had held that the present provision of the constitu- tion that ail bills must contain but one subject in the title precluded the adoption of any one of the codes except section by section and his amendment was to give authority to the Legislature to take them up as a whole. Assemblyman Allen stated that there was now too much legislation and that an amend- ment of that character would give more powet to the Legisiature than it was safe for it to have. He thought the present safeguard which the constitution threw around the legisiative mctions and the manner in which those actions are now restricted were good provislons and should not be tampered with. Other members #poke in a similar vein and on final roll call the vote tood 32 to 23. The proposed amend- ment not having received the requisite 54 votes was declared lost. Soward gave notice of a motion to recongider and that will be consld- ered to-morrow. APPROPRIATIONS ARE CUT. Depleted Condition of the Treasury Makes Intrenchment Imperative. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, Feb. 25.—Because of the.present depleted cond!- tion of the State treasury several members had to gonsent to-day to the cutting of proposed appropriations for the benefit of public institu- tione in their respective districts. Similar re- ductions will be made in near I the bills carrying special appropriation: Barnes' bill 4o appropriate $107,000 for the completion of the State Normal School at San Diego was amended in the Assembly to-day 50 &8 to pro- . Senator Shortridge then suggestea that it was high time to have Captafn Barber before the committee Senator Welch, the chairman de jure of the commfttee, said that as a matter of fact there were eighteen pilots not on duty at the time of the committee’'s in- vestigation in San Francisco. Six were present before the committee. “Of we whereabouts of the remaining twelve you knew nothing?”’ queried the uld not know.” repeated Captain Pratt. "L left it all to Captain Barber. He must have known from the Mer- chants' Exchange that there was noth- Ing to do outside. If there had been anything to do and it had beeh neglected we would have had him wp on the car- pet.” “It seems to me,” said Senator Em- mons, “that it is necessary to bring the pilots here t5 investigate thelr man- agement. I therefore ask for subpenas for Captain Barber and as many of the pilots as can be spared from San Fran- cisco.” he motion carried, and the meeting adjourned subject to the call of the chalr. Joofemiefooforforfoer) ool g [ ] vide for only $85.000. The bill by John carry- ing an appropriation of $46,000 for the improve- ment of the State Polytechnic School at S ended 50 that the proposed to §13,000. The pro- 000 for the fmprove. t) he Affillated Colleges San Francisco was cut to $6000, with the consent of Allen, the author of the bill, Before the Ways and Means Committee there Luis Obispo was am on was ro riation of $2: grounds of | have been vigorous objections made to many of thees Fedubtions it was explained o fhe members who have introduced much- bills duced appr e Few = bills in which special 1 for will go through form. it having been ex- ve ailowed one-half of the thed for In adaition to what is s of the general appropria- tion bill Would Lave made necessary a State tax rate of more than 70 cents, which is of course out of the question. e andr o SR, NEW UNIVERSITY BUILDING. Assembly Votes in Favor of a Big Appropriation for Berkeley. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 25.—Without opposi- tion and with very little discussion the Assem- bly passed to-day the bill introduced by Waste of Alameda for the appropriation of $250,000 for the construction of a new university build- ing at Berkeley. The bill was introduced early in the session and for a time there was a prob- abllity that it would be so amended as to re- duce the amount of the appropriation asked for, but Waste insisted that that sum was neces: sary and succeeded in having it passed through the Ways and Means Committee. To-day he gave the Assembly the assurance that the Sen- ate Committee on Finance will not attempt to reduce the appropriation and_therefore there will be no amendments to the bill. Johneon made a short but earnest speech, not in opposition to the bill, but simply to remind the members that they were wot dealing equit- ably with all the branches of the schools of the State. He said he intended to vote for Waste's bill, but the Assembly should remember that it 15 paying too much attention to the top and ot enough to the foundations; that the Legls- lature had been called upon to pass appropria- tions of more than $600,000 for the benefit of high schools, colleges and universities, but nothing whatever has been done to improve the conditions of the primary or intermedlats rades of the school system of the State, Much as he belleved in higher education, he thought provislons for 1t should be in proportion to that for the kind of education which the great body of the people were obliged to be content with for their children, although it was these same people who in a great measure willingly paid the bills of the universities and high schools by incomplainingly paying thelr share of the axes, Thers was not a dissenting vote when the roll was called upon the final passage of the blil, 52 votes being cast for it. QUALIFIES LIBEL LAW. Bill Introduced by Houser Is Passed by the Assembly. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 25.—Housers bill to repeal a law which has been gn the statute books since 1§72 and which qualifies the law with relation to actions for libel or slander, discussion or division. Early in the session was passed by the Assembly to-day without Houser tried io have this law placed in the code, where he said it properly belonged, but his blll for that purpose falled of passage. Then he stated that he would try to have the law repenled, and accordingly he introduced a bill to that' effect. It was that bill which passed to-day. ‘The law Which this bill repeals provides that before any person can begin an action for libel or slander he must first flle with the clerk of the court a bond of not less than $500 to pro- tect the person sued from loss in the event of * judgment adverse to the plaintiff. The pur- pose of the law Is to prevent irresponsible per- sons from bringing such suits. JUDICIARY BILL PASSES. Measure Receives Unanimous Sup- port of Members of the House. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, Feb. 25.—The Assembly to-day reconsidered and finally passed McMartin's bill providing Superior Court Judges for the city and county of San Francisco. When the measure was considered several days ago it received 46 votes for to 16 against, and it was announced that the bill been carried. Assemblyman 3 igin: plained that to appropriations required by the VETERANS VISIT THE GOVERNOR| Commander of the Grand| Army and His Party : at the Capital. i ALL HEADQUARTERS, MENTO, Feb. 24, J. Stewart, commander chief of the Grand Army of the | Republic, and members of = his | staff were presented to fhe Governor and | both houses of the Legislature this morn- ing. A special committée from the Sen- ate, composed of Senators Savage, Rals- ton and Williams, met the distinguished visitors on their arrival in this city and escorted them to the Capitol. After be- ing greeted by the Governor, General Stewart and party were escorted to the Senate chamber. The members. of the | upper house arose and remained s'xndlnflv while the distinguished visitors took | seats. Upon motion of Belshaw, General | Stewart was escorted to a seat beside | the Lieutgnant Governor. In introducing the general the President of the Senate sald: ¥ It 1s & pleasure to have such a distinguished visitor with us to-day, who comes from a far away State, but it is a still greater pleas- ure to have the gommander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic with us, for he represents as the chief authority that nobie | band of men who aided so materially In adding the proudest chapter to the pages of American | history. Whiic the Grand Army of the Re- public is with us the people of this nation will ever extend to the veterans the greatest honor and the most distinguished considera- tion. They are coming next August to visit | this State and the visit of General Stewart at | this time is preliminary to_the campment which will be heid in San Francisco. I will | again present General Stewart to you and ask him to address a few remarks to you. (Ap- | plause.) General Stewart iz a splendid talker | and his remarks were appreciated. He thanked the Senate for the courtesy | shown himself and comrades, and also | thanked the members for sétting aside such a large sum to aid in entertaining | the organization during their coming en- campment. ompanied by the special committee, ing of Senators Savage, Ralston and Willlams, the visitors then left the Senate chamber and proceeded to the As- sembly. On motion of Prescott the As- sembly had extendéd the time for the noon recess until the guests could bé re- | ceived. Their arrival was announced by Sergeant at Arme Stafford, and the mo- ment the announcement was made the members of the Assembly arose and greeted the distinguished party with vig orous applause. General Stewart was es- | corted to the Speaker's chair and for- mally presented to the Assembly. He | then delivered a stirring speech. He | thanked California for her welcome, for | her preparation for the coming encamp- ment. and the Legislature for having ma- | terially assisted in the effort to make that encampment a success. He promised that 150,000 visitors would come to the State next August and would carry back to their homes a grateful remembrance of the hospitality of the Golden State. General W. R. Shafter was called upon and spoke briefly. Mrs. Hall of the La- dies of the G. A. R. and Mrs. Taylor | of the Woman's Relief Corps were next | escorted to the bar of the House and both | spoke briefly but feclingly of the manner | in which the party had been treated by | the people of the State, PERRRERRBIRR R BRI R R RN Dorsey of Kern made the point, howaver, that A mere majority was not sufficient to carry a bill of this character, but that a two-thirds | vote of the entire Assembly was necessary. Such a bill is virtually an amendment of the constitution by legislative enactment. The con- | stitution fixes the number of Superfor Court Judges at San Francisco at twelve, but pro- | vides that this number may be increased by a two-thirds vote of the Legislature. It was | this latter provision which was overlooked, and | which made a reconsideration necessary. 4 The matter came up te-day on Johnson's no- { tice of a motion to reconsider, he having voted against the bill In the first Instance. He made a strong speech in favor of the biil and read letters from prominent attorneys in San Fran- cisco urging that the bill be passed. | Brown of San Mateo and Allen of San Fran- | clsco alsp supported the measure and asked that the vote be made unanimous. On rolicall | there was not a dissenting vote and sixty mem- bers voted for the bill, which was immediately | transmitted o the Senate. el | House Attaches Shirk Their Work. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, Feb, 25.—If the attaches of the Assembly de- sire to continue to draw pay they will have to appear for duty at least every day and answer for morning rollcall. Speaker Fisk sald this morning that he thad been informed by the | sergeant at arms that many of the employes of the House had not uppeared for duty for several days. He had ascertained, however, that they never falled to be present on pay day to draw thelr warrants upon the State treasury. The Speaker announced that he pro- posed 1o exerctse his authority in the matter vy immediately dlsmissing those attaches who failed to report for duty every day during the remainder of the session. ———n Proposed Amendment Is Lost. | CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, Feb. 26.—The proposed constitutional amend- | ment by Houser fixing an age limit for those who shall be eligible to hold judiclal posltions will not be submitted to & vote of the people at | the next election. It came up this morning In"regular order, and although there was no | discussion of it, the fact became evident that Some of the oldér members of the lower Houss $ad been working actively against It and had lined up sufficlent votes to prevent its recetv- ing the fifty-four votes necessary for its adop- tion. On final rolleall the vote stood 45 to 22 | 4nd the proposed amendment was declared to be lost. ST Investigating the State Prisons. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, Feb, 25.—The special Assembly committee, to whom was assigned the task of investigating | the affairs of the State prisons at San Quentin ana Folsom, has returned from the former in- stitution and will proceed to Foisom Friday. The members of the committes decline to make any statement, saying that it will bs impos- sible for them to glve any anticipated version of their probable report until they have con- duoted their investigation at Folsom. They will not say what thelr opinlons of the strait- | jacket are nor what reforms they may rec- ommend. MORE NOMINATIONS ARE SENT TO SENATE President Roosevelt Transmits Names of Men for Several Im- portant Positions. | WASHINGTON, Feb, %.—The President | to-day sent the following nominations to the Senate: Nelson F. Handy, Surveyor of | Customs, Denver; Frank L. Campbell of Ohio, Assistant Attorney General; Mel- ville W. Miller of Indlana, Assistant Sec- retary of the Interior; Louls A. Wright, agent of the Indians of the Mission Tule River Agency in California. ‘Navy—Passed Assistant Paymaster Wil- liam T. Gray, to be & paymaster; Medi- cal Inspector James R. Waggener, to be a medical director. —_— Against Borax-Treated Meat. BERLIN, Feb. %.—In the Reichstag to- day Herr Oertel, editor of the Deutsche Tages Zeltung, urged the Government to enforce with the utmost stringency the regulations against meat treated with borax, especially against meat so treated in the United States, Ll B I To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money it it falls to cure. E. W, Grove's signature is on each box. 25¢c. * 3 3 $ | i § : $ § : + } % : 3 | + $ z : . $ * | ana | gave me permanent relief. | intellect and manly fiber. ADVERTISEMENTS. DAINTY Miss Hertha M n, 508 Atlantic siree *e sesesrcsssssrssrs st sccce aaes WOMEN DREAD CATARRH: Hacking, Spitting, Coughing, Sneezing and a'l Other Disagreeable Symptoms of Nasal Catarrh Cured Promptly and Permanently by Pe-ru-na. P e sessesrevee t, Appleton, Wis., writes | tried catarrh remedies, some of which guaranteed a curs or monay re- funded, and havs taken as high as eig | had mads up my mind that all were worthless, so it look a great benefit. | deal of persuasion to get me te try Peruna. ht bott/es of some without any material But | bless the friend who persuaded me, as | had not taken one bottle before my head and throat be- Head Stopped Up—Offensive Breath. M Annie Catron, $13 Main reet, neinnati, 0., writes “As 1 have found for a severe case of catarrh throat which I suffered number of years, I am only to give it my personal endorsement. Catarrh, such as [ suffered from, made life a burden to me My breath wa offensive, stomach bad., and my hea stopped up so that T was usually bled with a headache, and tried many Peruna a blessing of the head from for a d trou although so-called remedies, nothing | I I was rath.r | discouraged with all medicines when Peruna was suggested to me. “However. I did buy =a bottle, and be- s a mark- Much en- fore that was finished there w ed change in my condition. 100 plzased | | gan to clear up, and the hacking and spitting soon ceased and when four | bottles had been used thers was not a trace of catarrh in my body. Itisa | great relief to'be clear of it.”"—Miss Hertha Munn. ycouraged I kept on unit pletely cured in a month’s find that my general heaith cellent.”"—Annie Catron. | Whatever form the cata ma assumed; whatever symptoms nay produced; whatever damag a accomplished, Peruna is the only hope the only cure. Peruna cures all cases of chronic ca | tarrh promptly and permanently. There If you do not derive prompt and satis factory results from the use of Peruna write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a | full statement of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable ad- vice gratis. | | need be no failw | Dr. Hartman, Prestdent Sanitarium, Columbus, UNION VETERAN WARMILY GREETED |G. A. R. Posts Salute Commander in Chief and Staff. Just on the hour of 9 o'clock last even ing Thomas 'J. Stewart, commander in chief of the entered B'nai B'rith Hall, rades and ladies of ‘San Franeisco had assembled to give him welcome. He was accompanied by his staff, together with General W. R. Shafter, U. S. A, and De- partment Commander Hawley and staff. The guests were escorted to the stage, where they were joined by W. R. Smed- berg, C. Mason Kinne, E. S. Salomon, Sol Cahen, J. C. Currier, Horace Wilson, N. P. Chipman and C. T. Masteller. The greeting extended to the commander was Masteller in- o a brief speaker of T commander cordial and prolonged. ( troduced the department the audience, and the latter in speech introduced as the firs the evening Charles Burrow: master general. Thomas W. Sample of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Taylor, an’s Relief Corps, and Mrs. Hall, national quarter- president of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, were presented to | the audience, and each made appropriate | response. GENERAL STEWART SPEAKS. C. A. Partridge of the department of | Tllinois was unexpectedly brought to the | front as a speaker. He remarked that | his State had given to the country Abra- ham Lincoin, Logan. U. S. Grant and John ,A. organization its first might give it the next. commander and plause. It is obvious that the cisco to advocate the election candidate for commander in chief. Commander in Chief Stewart made one of his characteristic speeches. It rich in its story-telling humor, tender in pathos and lofty in patriotic sentiment. | He Is surely entitled to high rank in the army of spellbinders. marked by the lamented General Barnes that the Grand Army of the Republic had selected for its first station men of strong It is the judg- ment of the California comrades that General Stewart ranks in this regard with his jilustrious predecessors. Along about 1%0, when Sample’s exuberance Is soft- | ened by time, Pennsylvania may intro- duce another gifted commander. TAKE DEPARTURE TO-DAY. The commander in chief referred to the delightful and eventful day in Sacra- mento and the pleasure it afforded him to meet the chief executive of California and the members of the Legislature. The true eloquence of his speech was reached when he deseribed the response to Presi- dent Lincoln's call for volunteers in 181 Appomattox was designated as the spot where civilizatién raised its ensign on the temple of human liberty. The victory ac- complished after the battle was done was referred to as a great American achieve- ment. He described the volunteers turn- ing their faces, feet and hearts toward home and giving In their garb as civilians the highest example of citizenship ever recorded in the eternal granite of history. Grand Army of the Republic, | where com- | The next speaker was national president of the Wom- He said the Grand Army had its origin in Illingls—that the State gave the The mention of | the name of John C. Black elicited ap-| Tlinois posts are coming in force to San Fran- of their was | It was often re- | ahY5 LEPROY 13 DECREASING Dr. W. C. Wile Studies | the Terrible Disease in Hawaii. | Dr. W. C. Wile of Danbury, Conn., for twenty-five years editor of the New Eng- land Monthly, and former president of the American Medical Editors’ Associa tion, arrived yesterday from Honol and is registered at the Occidental. The | gentleman spent more than a menth on the islands, during which he devoted a great deal of tilge studying the leprosy situation and the“Molokai settlement. In discussing the condition of the disease in Hawali last night Wile said there s no doubt that leprosy is decreasing among the islanders. He praised the methods of conducting the Molokal settlement and deplored the proposition now being agi tated to have it placed under the Federa Government's charge. He said further | The unfortunates at Mokolal are being | healed most scientifically and humaneiy and disturb’ its present management would be d ing a terrible wrong. I bele at we should let the Hawaiians take own lepers as they have bee: years and we should would - be unfair for us to the territor government to care for lepers found in ti country, as recommended by one Congressiona committee. and certainly unjust to the fair ne of Hawail to designate ent as | a haven for ail jepers. nmen: would find it a difficuit m: replace t experienced people now and all medical men who sited the pla will join in this expression of opinion | Dr. Wile saia many erroneous | statements have been sent ou | from the tslands concerning the lepro: | conditions there. The I one,” sald he | “was circulated by a man who cailed him n that lately self Dr. Colin Hamilton and clalmed 1 hall from Minnesota. Investigation de veloped the fact that he had never vis fted the settlement and a search amonsg the medical directorfes failed to find physician named Colin Hamilton. | —— Midnight Express to Fresno and | Bakersfleld. This is for your accommodation | Ferry Depot at 11:28 p. m. for points down the aitd convenience for manmy wh d evening. Is In wa atter 8 p. m . ——————— King Leopold May Visit America. BRUSSELS, Feb. 2%5.—The rumor whit | was current last fall that King Leopoid will visit the United States is revived ! day In the Etolle Belge, which says that the King will go to America for the Eas- | ter holidays. @ e @ In closing the commander in chief paid an eloguent tribute to peace. The closing speech of the evening was uttered by C. Mason Kinne. In the course of his remarks he mentioned the name of Barnes and was appiauded. The Eastern guests leave San Francisco to-day for Southern California. There should be no good | reason for failure to obtain a copy of The Sunday Call, with Art Supplement, from news- dealers, train news agents, eto.