The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 5, 1903, Page 6

© STEPHEN B. SMITH. " BRANCH OFFICES—3 6 Che Salasre Call. MARCH 5, 1903 {URSDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprielor. Communications to W, 5. LEAKE, Manager. TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect * You With the Department You Wish. rket and Third, S. F. 17 to 221 Ltevensom St. adress A1l PUBLICATION OFFICE.. ‘CDITORIAL ROOMS... Delivered by Carriers, 1 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: AILY CALL ), one year 26.00 DAILY CALL (incl & Sunday), 6 month 3.00 AILY CALL (in 2 Sunday), 3 months. 1.50 CALL~-By S e Month. . 65 INDAY CALL, One Year. . 160 . 1.9 WEEKLY CALL, One Yea: All Postmasters are authorized to recelve subscriptions. Semple coples will be forwarded when requested. ore h NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order rompt and correct compliance with thelr requert. RE NTATIVE: Tribune Bu NEW YORK SPONDENT: Herald Square NEW YORK C CARLTON C: « 1 Tnion Square: Waldor? 3 jotel and Hoftman House. Murray Hill shermen House Tremont House: Audito Palmer House. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFIC .1406 G St N. W. | MORTON E. CRANE, Corresponden ontgomery, corner of Clay, open n until 9:30 o'clock. €33 615 Larkin, open until n until 10 o'clock. 2361 until 9 o'clock. 1008 Va- 106 Eleventh, open untfl 9 Twenty-second and Kentucky, open 200 Fillmore, open until ® p. m. lock A COMING CONTEST. ests and conflicts days of Congress was one g interest, for it is some- nal or even a party fight truggle between thie House des antagonisn 1tous importance order of things was and t time 1s not y expect the issue to be joined re- e it seem e subject was for buildings bill. The “Hereafter when speaking or bur measure that we red to-day. 1is very surri g way tches that in speaking Senator referred the ent Se mon was ing a to the House. He is g what he called “leg- = 1e House conferees had ¢ Senator and g PP on because without wvhole appropriation bill would atch goes on to say: t his life might ent should sle, and he declared the issue or become the re Senate.” irely be Speaker of speech was re- great coming contest , irrespective of party, the Hov that brought about the 1d the explo- moment. In involved than an ap- v B3 issue that of late has so often t in the Senate ers of little of those ques- agonism is inevitable eeling in Washington that the wer to such a degree that to dictate to House and I'he House has the sole right but when such bills are . e te tha dy has not hesitated at trike out everything except the enacting e, and after wr n a bill of its own send it k to the Houke for ratification. Over and over gain the House has complained of some offense of once or twice there were manifesta- f a willingness to force the issue to a deci ve ortant point of contest is impend- asserted by the Senate that it can ratify the treaty and thus make it the law e hout the consent of the House. As the Tzaty affects the tariff the maintenance of the prin by the Senate would virtually put it power of the President and the Senate to over- em and force the House to revenues than to customs duties. be approved and put into force dur. ocits ple laid down row the entire fiscal s 214 the treaty 2 the vacation the issue would be raised at once. It | treaty for the Supreme Court to decide whether can be made in violation of revenue laws »ut the consent of the House. ; 14 fail and that point of conflict pass away another will surely arise. It seems the Sen- e has reached a point in its aggressiveness where House is ready to revolt, and when Cannon is Speaker he may undertake a battle that will thrill the country from start to finish. S —— By way of consoling the people of Finland for the Joss of their liberties the Russians purpose to give them a closer railway communication with St. Peters- burg, but the Finns will doubtless take notice that the road will also give them a quicker route to Siberia, —— Once more the powers are professing a great scare about China, and the next we know they will be de- manding another indemnity to pay for the cost of protecting themselves against the bugaboo. hould the treat conflict, and so long as| | { ks . = ring change of address should be | Congress over interstate commerce, finds in the con- 1118 Broadway | Deen claimed for the Federal Government. The only | | { | posed upon the exercise of the powers granted | possible curb in sight is that all legislation shall be | public injury. THE SAN FRANCIECO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1903. THE LOTTERY DECISION. HE lottery decision just rendered by the T United States Supreme Court is one of the most momentous and far-reaching of modern judgments. It is so, independently of its effect upon lotteries, the transmission of their tickets and of the people who buy them. From the time Cain and Abel put up their competitive sacrifices until now men have sought advantage by appealing to chance, and they will go on wooing the goddess of fickle for- tune and luck, in some form, in spite of courts and Congres: The decision is one that goes, in its effect, far afield from the case at bar. The opinion, written by Justice Harlan, says: “Congress has plenary power over interstate commerce, and may prohibit the car- riage of lottery tickets from State to State, and leg- islation to that end znd of that character is not in- consistent with any limitation restriction im- | to or ss. | Plenary means full, without limit, not subject to re- view. The court, by affirming the plenary power of stitution the broadest grant of power that has ever| !proval and should be promptly passed. The cost to the State will be but a small item when compared with the protection that will be secured for the State property along the water front once the patrol ser- vice is in operation. By way of testing the steadiness of .the big ship Cedric. a glass filled to the brim with champagne was placed on a table in the cabin when she left Liverpool, and she managed to make the trip to New York without spilling a drop. It was a triumph for the steadiness of the ship and also a proof that the passengers were a strictly abstemious lot. SOME PORTENTOUS QUESTIONS. T a recent meeting of the National Republican A Editorial Association at Washington Presi- dent Sleicher in making the opening address undertook to set forth the problems which the press of the country will have to study and solve in the immediate future. We have had a good many pres- entations of the kind in these later years, but that of Mr. Sleicher is by far the most portentous. It would appear from his statement that we will have no time for anything else in the next fifty years except the solving of national problems, and will be lucky indeed if we get them all out of the way in that time. for the general welfare. Under that grant Congress can outlaw the transportation of any product, the price of which is being artificially manipulated to the It can prohibit the transportation of ed in the manufacture of such , and summarily, the manufac- as well as the distribution of the output. it of this power passes up to that body | the raw material product, and theret ture itsel The dep {thc responsibility for the maintenance of competitive | manufacture and\trade. As the destruction of com- petition is already held by the courts to be against public policy and in restraint of trade, any device toward such destruction, such as rebates and prefer- | ences, or the lowering of prices at the points of com- | petition, or any form of interference with the natural law of competition, becomes at-once obnoxious to | Congressional prohibition and subject to outlawry or other punishment or preventive measure that Con-! The products of child or penal labor may be outlawed. Anything may be prohibited access to transportation. and this may go even to the extent of sumptuary regulation. Heretofore it has been conceived that the plenary | gress may provide. hat | POWer of the Federal Government over any form of that | transportation was limited exclusively to transporta- | tion by mail. So we have had the mails closed to obscene matter, graphic or written or printed, and y tickets. The case that has invoked this momentous decision arose over the right of the| Government to prohibit the transportation of lottery the | to lott tickets by express, and in affirming that right | court affirmed it in its broadest aspect and impinged the | { upon the assumption that government was weak it upon all forms of transportation and extends it to | every possible article of commerce that is being used | against the public welfare. From another point of view this decision is laden with conspicuous consequences. It is a death blow at Government ownership and transportation utilities, a theory that has pmcecdcd1 administration of | in | the instrumentalities of discipline and control and had | | | ( | | F no recourse for the correction of abuses but in | ownership. Clothed with the unlimited power given | by this decision, there no longer remains any excuse | for embarking upon the embarrassnients of owner- ship and administration. That beneficial control which the Government will not exercise over another will not be enforced by itself in its own affairs When the Government can reach out its arm vard of clothing fabric, every | as owner. to stop in transit every article of metal and of food, until the producers -or | purveyors of each go back into line with public pol- ity and the right principles of trade there is-no ex- cuse for itself becoming the producer or purveyor. | Illumination has come from the court one sentence swept away every argument upon the constitutionaliy of anti-trust legislation into the ark of the national covenant, into the con- | the It has by Reaching stitution itself, the court has laid power upon loins of Congress to bind and loose. The issue is liited out of party politics.. The court has said impar- tially to all parties: “There is the power, use it; the weapon, sharpen it; the way, walk in it.” It is stated that the Anthracite Strike Commission is virtually agreed upon the significance of the tes- | timony submitted and wiil make a unanimous report. Should it prove true there will be general gratification. A divided report would lead to nothing, but if the de- cision be unanimous cn either side it may be possible to devise some means of dealing with similar ques- tions in the future. A POLICE PATROL BOAT. for police patrol of the waters around the ci front. thieves operating in boats and almost Many robberies have been committed by | wholly free from any chance of detection by police officers patrol- ling on land. A police boat has therefore been a ne- cessity of the time, and it is gratifying to know that at last we are within measurable distance of obtain ing one. Senator Nelson has introduced a bill providing for an appropriation of $10,000 to defray the cost of the | construction or purchase of a boat for that purpose. The bill provides that the boat “shall be ac- quired or constructed by or under the supervision of |the Mayor and the Board of Police Commis- sioners of said city and county, and shall be mainiained and operated by the Police De- partment of the city and county of San Francisco, and the maintenance and operation thereof shall be a charge upon and be paid by the city and county of San Francisco, and shall not be a charge upon paid by the State of California.” The division of the cost of the construction and the operation of the boat between the State and the city is a fair one. As the State has a large amount of property along the water front it is but fair that it should contribute something to the cost of an ade- quate control. Therefore it is nothing more than right that it provide the boat. leaving it to the police to maintain the patrol at the cost of the city. The measure is one of some urgency, for the com- missidn of robberies and other depredations along the water front by criminals who make their way by water under the wharves and operate out of sight has been quite frequent. The only way to put a stop to such robberies is to provide the police with a means of patrolling the water. The boat should be provided with a powerful searchlight, so that the police could or throw a strong illumination under the wharves and thus discover any one who might be lurking there. By means of such a patrol water front robberies will no longer be carried on ‘with the comparative safety that now attends them. The bill merits public ap- | representation of the respective States in Congress | onstrated very clearly that the American fascination | OR a long time thefe has been an urgent nced | The speaker said: “We have been congratulating ourselves that we have settled our gravest questions and firmly established our republic for all time, after | a century of struggle, turmoil and contention. But!| the new century promises to develop the grealcstt emergencies in the nation’s life. Shall the Monroe doctrine be maintained? Are existing statutes suf- ficient for the protection both of capital and labor? Shall the party that fought for free black labor in the | South refuse to stand for the freedom of white labor | in the North? Is the constitution, including all of its amendments, to stand, or to be virtually destroyed in part? Should the ignorant black vote of the South- ern plantation and the ignorant white vote of the| | Northern slums be made to balance each other at the polls, or should both be suppressed? Should the and the Electoral College be based on the equities of | the constitutional requirement, or on the inequitable | conclusions of the States? Is this a white man’s coun- try? Is America fov Americans? What shall we do with the negro in the South and the white illiterate | in the North?” There is a story that Napoleon used to take a certain class of questioning letters and file them away | for three months before replying to them. He said| experience proved that in nine cases out of ten the! ! questions were answered by time itseli much better than he could have done. The general experience of | mankind has been much the same as that attributed | The problems' that disturbed the peo-| pie of fifty years ago do not fret us of to-day, nor it'likely that the problems which appear so perplexing | to us will seriously occupy the minds of the coming generation. If we should undertake to answer all the questions submitted by Mr. Sleicher we would undoubtedly involve ourselves in desperate turmoil. It is safe to say time will answer every one of them without cre- ating any great amount.of friction. The Monroe doctrine will be enforced, the constitution will stand, | American will be for the Americans, there will be no suppression of any class of citizens, North or South. In fact, most of the issues which the speaker | deems to involve problems are problematical only be- cause they are treated as political issues. When once we dismiss them, as Napoleon dismissed his trouble- some questions, they will settle themselves and be-| come so completely merged in the general complex of things that people will forget they ever stood out conspicuously as problems demanding solution. to Napoleon. A recent sale of monarchical relics in Honolulu dem- for royalty and things attendant upon it has very lit- | tle of the romantic in it. The household goods of the deposed Queen sold for very much less than their intrinsic value. An American wants to think at least | that there is at least an exchange of values when he gives his money, even for a decayed Duke. ‘ movement, a league organized to procure a seat in a street car for every passenger who pays full fare. The movement is not a result of an agitation. It seems to have been started by a spon- taneous impulse and to be continued by the force of circumstances. According to reports that come to us | the league was originated as a joke in a little com- | pany of men, but no sooner was it announced than | | multitudes rushed to join in carnest. At latest ac—i counts the membership exceeded 60,000 voters, and | they are booming a candidate for Mayor on what | is not so much a platform a seat. One of the most significant features “of thel growth of the league is the favor with which it has been taken up elsewhere. New York does not fol- low Chicago ideas as quickly as she does the fashions of London, but in this case there promises to be something like an exception to the rule. The “Strap- hangers' League,” as it is called, finds as much favor STRAP-HANGERS' LEAGUE. HICAGO contributes to the country a new , there as in the city of its origin. In fact, it would not be surprising if the league ! swept the country and raised a new issue in many a | municipal contest within the near future. Just so! long as the street car companies can earn more by, carrying passengers who stand than they could by ! furnishing accommodations so that all can sit there | will be no change from the existing situation. In fact, as the New York Press puts it: “Strap-hangers are the extraordinary dividends. Strap-hangers fur-! nish the grease of purchasable political mnchinesl‘ when those machines grind out contracts and fran- chises, and their nickels furnish the clogs when those machines would grind out publicly beneficial legislation. Strap-hangers will continue to be strapf hangers so long as they are just as willing to hang to straps as to occupy seats.” The whole American public has an interest in the movement,” and there will be a widespread interest in the progress of the fight in Chicago. If the strap- hangers win out and can make their claims good te a seat in the street cars there will be encouragement to the reformers in other cities. It must be conceded, | however, that success is very doubtful. It would mean something like a revolution in American man- ners. It is not so much the street car companies as the people themselves who crowd the cars with strap- | hangers. So long as a considerable percentage of the American people would rather board a crowded car and hang on by a strap than walk two or three blocks the crowding will be continued, unless indeed a municipal ordinance should deny to any person, man or woman, the privilege of getting on a car when 'once a sign was up announcing that all seats are oc- cupied. COMMANDER SCHROEDER IS SORRY TO DEPART FROM ISLAND OF GUAM &3 \ OMMANDER SEATON SCHROE- i DER of the United States navy. late Governor of Guam, was @ passenger on the transport So- which arrived from the Phil- The commander, hav- is C lace, ippines yesterday. ing been relieved from his civil dutle: en route to his home in Washington. Aithough he professes to have no in- formation on the matter further than what has been sent him by friends in their letters, it is reported that the cap- tain is slated to succeed Captain Sigsbee as chief intelligencer of the Navy De- partment and as a member of the board of control. HEARS OF CHANGES. “I can give you no assurance of the truth of these reports,” sald ~Captain Schroeder yesterday at the Palace Ho- tel, where he is temporarily stopping, “al- tLough friends have written to me that| | there is a probabllity of my succession to | | Captain Sigsbee’s official title. I am go- ing to Washington to rejoin my wife, who preccded me from Guam, and untii | 1 get home I will perhaps not be ablé to| | learn just what the departmént has In| view for me. Continuing Captain Schroeder said he had never left any place with greater re. gret than the island of Guam. During his administration of affairs there, he said, a strong attachment for the place and its people had developed within him and he would have been greatly pleased to remain, NATIVES ARE SUFFERING. “The island,” sald he, “is in a sorry plight, owing to the lack of funds to con- duct the government and properly ad- minister the growing needs of its natives Guam is dependent on its own resources and they have been very small. The ter rible hurricane of November, 1900, did| | great damage, particularly to the cocoa- || nut trees, which were all destroyed and | sirce then not a pound of copra has been | exported. When 1 left the natives were heginning to gather a little of this prod- | uct, but it will be a year before the copra | | business will be resumed, for it takes) | P three years for the new trees to reach a| e A 14 | by matured state. 203 5 . 2 S R 1) [3 2 COMMANDER SEATON SCHROEDER Following closely on the disaster were the floods and the recent earthquakes, R wkich materiaily interfered with commer- | | P cial progress on the island. “The insular department Government has been unable to furnish us with necessary funds for the recon- | struction of public buildings which were destroyed, or for the repairing of injured bridges, which are greatly needed. We managed to put one courthouse and jail in fair shape and the Navy Department furnished funds for a ney naval station, | but there are still many ruins to be seen. | The loss to owners of private property in the town of Agaua alone amounted to of our home FORMER GOVERNOR OF GUAM, WHO ARRIVED YESTERDAY ON THE TRANSPORT SOLACE, HAVING BEEN RELIEVED FROM CIVIL DUTIES AND BEING EN ROUTE TO HIS HOME IN WASHINGTON. | x4 ys a change at the present 10t tend to benefit the people reign country has deem- 1 | Schbroeder | time would So far only one fe mwoney to permit ducational plan Asked concerning the trouble he experl. | the resumption of the 260,000, Several of the bridges have been | en with the American marines during | €A it necessary to ve officlal representa- | repaired so that they can be crossed, but | th& early part of hls official career in |tlon In Guam and that onme is Japan, they are in a dangerous condition. Guam, Captain Schroeder said the stories | which. while not sending a ular agen SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED. published were exaggerated. to the island, has offic destgnated The greatest losd to the people of| “The discipline enforced by me.” said | Suam as part of the jurlsdietion of its am was experlenced when the funds|fe. “was of the ordinary character, but| Gunetal o War VEpwian. for the maintenance .of public schools | W€ had a number of bad men in the bar- | an there is not a British subjec were depleted and the American teachers | F2¢ks Who would not obey orders and | %F the island, the population, in addition feturned home, 'We Nave three Engitsh | WefS uaruly in every otber vaspéet. 1|10 (he naiiven, being made wp of & o | finally managed to get rid of them and quite a Schools at Agaua and for the year they | ;00" tnen we had no trouble. whatever were maintained the results were most Satistactory. The natives took Kindly to | At Present the isiand force is composed | Captain Schroes ¥ Soxwaed S . ; L el t h p one | €@ to Washington I report, in the educatioral project and were eager o2 AP S Logre: ST, MM * = to have their children learn the English | Petter in the service.” Moo hl e language and the latter were showing| SPANISH LAW PREVAILS. | piiines oo the ' teconstction ot great proficlency. Wg still hope to per- The island of Guam is still governed | bridges and highways damaged by the | of that neighborhood. | that as soon as this settlement is made | | the company will proceed at onde with | _order have at various times within the | budget. suade Congress to appropriate enough under the old Spanish laws and ( ptain | esrthguakes and flo SANTA FE PLANNING BIG IMPROVEMENT Preparing to Reail Its Right of Way Into the City of Oakland. President Ripley of the Santa Fe, who| has been spending some weeks in Santa Barbara, Is expected in San Francisco this week for the purpose of conferring with local representatives of the road re- garding the company's entrance into the city of Oakland ANSWERS TO QUERIES.|T0 EXPLOIT STATE'S RESOURCES IN EAST ADVERSE CLAIM—Subscriber, Snell- Representatives of’Callfumin Promo- ing. Cal. If the parties are on = piece of |~ g1 6o mittae Start to Enlighten land taken up under the United States | . - laws, such party will have to go before Inquiring People of Ohio. H. P. Stice and H. C. Swain of Red the United States Land Office of the dis- trict to make proof and will have to show | Bluff started for Ohio yesterday as repre- the right to a patent. It is & matter that | gentatives of the California Prometion depends upon the claims and proofs. Committee, for the purpcse of presenting to the people of Ohio the facts concern- ing the eclimate, resources and varied advantages of California. They will be- COMIN' THROUGH THE RYE-F. P, Oakland There has been consider able disc as to whether the author | The information was given out vester- | meant crossing the river Rye or crossing | gin their work at Cincinnati and will day at the Santa Fe offices that the at-|a field of rye when he wrote: make a complete circuit of Ohlo, visit- torneys for the road have prepared a peti- | 1¢ 4 body meet a body comin’ through the | ing all towns and cities and distributing tion, which will be presented shortly to rye, | literature and bank applications to be the Oakland City Councll, asking that |If a bedy kids a body need a body ery? | filled out by those whom they succeed the streets which are surveyed through | But it is generally believed that he had | In interesting and who wish to settle the ten blocks of property recemtly ac- | reference to a field of rye. | in California. The Promotion Comm »d by the road in the vieinity of —_— | has received a large number of inquiries ‘ll':‘::::»r(;-\-lfie be closed. As the district is MAN—Subscriber, City. Anthropology, | !n‘wm Ohio. There are six men in « thinly populated the closing of the streets | which is the science of man, is divided | fleld who are exploiting Califorma i the East, covering the States of ka, Kansas, Missouri, lowa, [llinois, Michigan and Ohilo. el Indiana, into three departments — somatology, psychology and ethnology. Somatology, or the blology of man, includes the study | of man as an animal and the classifica- | tion of mankind in the zoological system. | Important Rule Regarding Firemen. Somatology deals with man in So far as| [n accordance with a rule of the Fire he is considered an animal in the origin | Commisstoners announced at their meet- and develonment of the human race. BY | ing yesterday firemen who are proficient the new school of biology, with Darwin | in work at fires and drill will be given as the great leader, it is maintained that | a special rating. which means that they man has developed from lower form or | will stand in line for promotion. The par- forms of the animal kingdom. In the | ticular secticn of the rule reads: reaim of organic life man is classed as a | “All members of the department will vertebrate animal, belonging to the diyl- | hereafter have a rating giving their stand- sion of the mammalia and the order of | ing and efficiency. according to reports of primates. In this order he belongs to the | drillmasters and battalion chiefs on tower highest family, that of the hominidae. | drills and actual work at fires. will not in any way affect the residents The ground is in- tended for local yards, freight sheds and | other raflroad terminal buildings. H It has | also been announced that the Santa Fe | is prepared to pay over to the heirs of the | late A. A. Grant $100,000 as their share In | the California and Nevada Railroad and | the construction of about ten miles of road that is to connect this line with its main system, near the proposed terminus in Oakland. Another piece of work which the Santa | Fe will soon undertake will be the build- ing of a high bridge near Point Rich- mond, which will be the means of permit- ting the Santa Fe trains to cross the Southern Pacific right of way, thus avoid- ing possible collisions. 1t was reported yesterday that the con- ductors and trainmen of the Southern Pa- cific Company would call upon the of- ficlals of the Southern Pacific early next week for a final anewer to their demand for a 20 per cent increase in wages, which was filed with the company last Decem- ber. Although the conductors and train- men, In ‘view of concessions recently made to telegraph operators and other employes of the road, believe that their demands will be granted, it is the opinion of the higher local officials of the South- ern Pacific that Manager Agler will de- cline to concede and that the whole mat- ter will have to pass from Mr. Agler to General Manager Kruttschnitt and (henxe to President Harriman before it is defi- nitely settled. ———————— ‘Will Plant Poppies. Alta Parlor of the Native Daughters of the Golden West at its meeting on last Saturday deeided to purchase several pounds of California poppy seeds and plant these in Alta plaza in various posi- tions gelected by the head gardener, This will be done on the first fine day under supervision of a committee of the parlor. A number of the interfor parlors of the Frank Norris’ Cleverest Short Story The Ghosl of the Cross Trees This masterpiece of fic- tion Ry the author of “The Octopus,” “The Pit,” etc., etc.,, has been secured especially for the next Sunday Call And don’t fail to read Gaston’s terrible struggle to win beautiful Sallie Worth in the third installment of THE LEOPARD’S SPOTS past few months planted trees for orna- mental purposes, but Alta is the first in this eity to do something that will per- petuate the glory of California’s flora) emblem. ——————— Preparing for Tax Levy. Auditor Baehr yesterday transmitted a request to the heads of various city de- partments that they prepare a statement of the appropriations necessary to con- auet their offices during the next fiscal year, so that he may prepare his estimate upon which the Board of Supervisors may fix the tax levy and compile the next city —_———— Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's. 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