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2 THE SAN. FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, BOODLING SENATORS HOPE T0 ESCAPE PUNISHMENT BY PLEADING A DEFECT IN THEIR INDICTMENTS CLAIM DOCUMENTS ARE VALUELESS AS AIDS TO PROSECUTION SURPRISE FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY Special Dispatch to The Call NTO. ilarated, by newly discov- confident legal assur- are safe from the law for its breach, Sena- Bunkers, French and at their desks this morn- ve been assured that the t exh ts and t they the pe: Emmon ty Wright were ictment against them will crumble Dis At- 1s over thet rn yInour, anxic is raking the mu ave of te law library in . of precedents he hopes will maintain the position he has taken. One thing has developed to a cer- tair that is that the accused t ty and d to the charges against !x »re Judge Hart next Satur- morning, but that counsel for the ¢ se ded by ex-Senator H. V.| ¢ of & e, who is now into the law of t the indict- | s be set aside and their cliens & € If Judge Hart refuses to quas ctments, a contingency couns e defense maintain is mprobable appeal will be, taken med ¥ the Supreme Court the al delayed for months if ndeed, the case the Dis- of this county has tried not fall alto- rfect does is con- worked out be- filed The specific men- ding before the direct ney Seymour not ctments were well tter p that was the bribe was paid, the pros- 4 with author- that A question aris- no ma wh sel for th Adefense. arm the robability be the yosition might he subject of con- Legislature not °t of bribery will not lie, admit that the su brit ry used charged they CITE CONSTITUTION. which this of arti- law upon ion 3 titution gislature who hi or ac- pending before any reward or reward shall be of a felony,” ete. facts there the Legis of the alle y the prot s taken by the their action in d investigation of « »an associations that, ad not begun when the ays in matter by vote ny It is maintained £ no mat- ature that d bribery. ution ac r se that w the accused, in a matter pending slature, hence the in- 1l. They further main- relating to building jations were before com- than that of which the e members, and that in any 1ot charged that the bribe the vote of the these bills, but vestigation for influence to ion tion to Bat Vanh vet under way. the proof of the guilt of the the defense maintains that all of several marked bills that accused and sub- them having been to the csed by d is all rot e prosecution has recovered any said a friend of the ac- to-day, “it is only one. Those are all intact with the exception s of the bi cused bills @he Tyub Chas. Beilus & Co Excliusise figh-Grade Clothiers No Branch Stores and No Agents, SMART SPRING MODELS, THE HIGHEST GRADES,| FROM THE STEIN-BLOCH CLOTHES UNIVERSITY AT ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, HAVE JUST ARRIVED. PATTERNS EXCLUSIVE. g7 Paragon Pants are ert. None genuine without the label and button. are sole agents. 152 fearny Street Thurlow Block We Feb. 16.—Buoyed of one, which ‘was sent below by one of the Senators to his wife, and even she knows where that is, so they can- not baso well armed with documentary evidence as they are seeking to make the public believe in order to frighten the accused. But we would not care if| they had all of the bills.We have au-| thorities that sustain our position that matters not pending before the Legisla- ture cannot be the subject of bribery by legislator nd the accused will go | free without a doubt.” ATTORNEYS HOPEFUL. ! ““There is nothing to this case,” said ! Attorney Jacobs, one of the counsel | for the defense, to-da ‘except murder | of reputatio The first thing we will do is to knock out the indictments next Saturday and then will come a sensa- tion. Our clients will then go before | the Senate committee and tell their story. After the indictments have | falien the investigating committee can | have no further objection to permitting the accused to testify before them | under oath. When they do this things | | will take on an entirely different tone | and I know that when the accused have been heard the report of the committee and the final judgment of | the Senate will be entirely . different | from what the public believes at this | time it will be.” Whether the ruling of the Superior Court on' the demurrer to the indict- ment that will be argued Saturday will come in time to forestall the report of the investigating committee is a ques- | tion nator Belshaw, chairman of the committee, will return here Friday and the committee will immediately go into executive session to discuss what action it should take. There is much | | evidence to be gone over, however, and it is'hardly probable that a report can be prepared before the middle of next | eek. If this should prove to be the se and the demurrer to the indict- ment is sustained there is no question that the committee will then listen the appeal of the accused, swear them and permit them to complete their de se it is well known that if the accused are finally permitted to take the stand before the committee the onus of the scandal will fall heavier on Joseph 8. Jordan, whose confession stands | against the disgraced Senators and brands them as bribers. Each of the accused will swear that even though Joseph 8. Jordan did receive the money he save he did and which they believe he did, he did not offer it to them, but when the ndal broke he came and demanded gold from them in sums run- ning into the thousands to protect them throughout the fight. “They re- fused to pay him, they will testify, and then Jordan, to save himself from the penitentiary, took the stand and shifted | the burden of his crime from his to their shoulders. Bunkers said when asked how things were looking: “We've got the best of | it. We are not worrying. It's the other side that’s anxious. e WAR IN ASSEMBLY. Appropriation Bills Cause Display of | Considerable Feeling. | b SACRAMENTO, Feb. 16.—An inter- esting little row, which may have re- sults materially affecting ¥he course of legislation in the Assembly, took place in that house during the session to- night. Chairman Stanton of the Ways and Means Committee arrayed himself | against the House and was worsted. The trouble arose over a modest little bill of Johnstone's appropriating $3900 with which to buy a water flow of five inches for the Whittier school. The bill had been adversely reported on by Stanton’s committee. It came up for second reading, and Johnstone saying- nothing, Stanton made a motion to amend by striking out the enacting clause, which is one method of killing | bills. | The Assembly turned Stanton down by beating his motion. He did not take the action kindly. An effokt may be made to-morrow to have a resolution adopted binding the House to accept the recommendations of the Ways and Means Committee. Failure to carry this may bring on an | agitation in the committee to follow | Stanton’s” suggestion of turning ?nck | the bills. | Rolley of Humboldt has a bill before | the committee appropriating $32,000 for | jetties on the Eel River. He declares | 1f it is reported against he will fight on the floor for its passage. Dorsey’s bill asking $60,000 for levees on the Kern | River was also reported against. He |also will fight on the floor for the | passage of this bill if the committee | turns it down. | R S AMENDS PILOTAGE BILL. | Nelson's Measure Changed to Suit Shipping Men. | SACRAMENTO, Feb. 16.—The Senate | Committee on Commerce and Naviga- | tien to-night reported out Nelson’s | pilotage bill, amended so as to leave the rates as they now stand but doing | away entirely with the so-called half- | pilotage fees. The pilots are strongly opposed to the elimination of half- | pilotage, but the shippers, who point to the injustice of being compelled to | pay half-pilotage even when they sail or tow their own vessels in, stand in | favor of the measure. Emmons’ bill making all oil pipe lines common carriers was reported out fa- | vorably by the Committee on Manu- L VR } | OPPOSES DRAINAGE PLAN. MARYSVILLE, Feb. 16.—Marys- ville, through its Common Council, a meeting of which was held to-day, has asked to be excluded from any drain- age district that may be organized under the measures pending in the tate Legislature. Resolutions to this effect were adopted after an attempt to amend the measures had failed. . | was held LAW STUDENTS |LIQUOR MEN OF THE SOUTH WIN VICTORY May Practice on Diplomas of Southern California University. SR Special Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 16.—Persistency has won for Houser of Los Angeles the passage of his pet measure, the bill admitting graduates of the law depart- ment of the Southern California Uni- versity to practice before the Supreme Court on their diplomas. Afler two defeats he called the bill up. for the third time this morning in the Assem- bly and it was carried by a vote of 51 to 14 > The debate was Interesting as it bore on the alleged strained relations that have existed between Houser and the San Francisco delegation, which | Were responsible, it is said, for the past defeats of the bill. Itiis also said that its passage to-day was due partly to the fact thgt it was understood Houser intends to be good in future. Rolley of Humboldt intimated that many members had voted against the measure simply to vote against its author. Coghlan of San Francisgo de- ried this. “If anything would recom- mend a bill from Los Angeles to me as being an honest bill it would be the fact that Mr. Houser introduced it,” he said. McGowan also resented the intima- tion by Rolley, saying he had voted against the measure and not the man. He did not think a private institution should be given the privilege that now only by the University of Dorsey also expressed his high regard for Houser, but said he was still opposed to the bill. Stanton also spoke against it, though he said some of the faculty were friends and constituents of his. Assemblyman Perkins' measure to place the Sherman anti-trust law on the statute hooks ofsthis State so as to rcach smaller combinations that re- s(rict trade has been reported favor- ably by the Committee on Commerce and Navigation. Senator Woodward's bill providing that savings banks may be establish=d with a minimum capital of $10,000 in towns of 1000 population or less, was passed by the Assembly after having suffered defeat on January 30. A mo- tion for reconsideration was made by Cromwell and the House granted the permission. Immediate passage was asked by Cromwell. The unexpected turn in the matter brought on a debate. oo FOREST PRESERVATION. California. Feb. 16.—The bill providing for the protection and man- agement of the forests of California, urder an enlightened system, now on the files as Assembly bill No. 712 and Senate bill No. 63g8, ‘was prepared by the Bureau of Forestry of the United SACRAME Stat Department of Agriculture, under the co-operative arrangement provided by the State Legislature of The aim of the Bureau of Forestry merely to recommend that which is st for the forest welfare of the State. The most urgent need being fire pro- tection, recommendations to this end have been submitted in the form of the bill herein mentioned. “The necessity for State action in #cgulating the forests of the commorr- wealth is evident, The Federal forest reserves comprise only one-third of the forested area, leaving two-thirds, or more than ,000,000 acreg, without pro- tection of any kind and subject to all the misuses of wasteful lumbering and fire. With the timber industries third in importance in the State, future timber supply and water inter< ests dependent on these forests, the far-rcaching results of steps to secure more rational treatment of these for- ested areas are of incalculable value. It is as plainly a State duty to reg-: ulate the forests as to look after the mining interests, agriculture and fish- eries. The forested States of the East have long provided more or less per- fect systems of State forest protection on private lands. In this respect Cali- fornia is far behind. If fire protection is provided and the lumber men are taught more conser- vative methods, the forests will con- tinue to serve many useful functions and give healthful employment to many thousand men for an indefinite period. If not regulated, the magnificent for- egts of the State will soon be replaced by bare siopes of worthless chaparral; the rivers will be dry in summer and raging floods in winter, and the agri- cultural and other related interests will suffer beyond measure in conse- quence. The bill, recommended by the Bu- reau of Forestry, provides for the be- ginning of a forest system which will, through education, fire preventive laws and a corps of trained forest officers, make the forest wealth of California a permanent and pricelegs heritage. —— INVESTIGATION SACRAMENTO, Feb. 1680 far as its investigations are concerned the special building and loan committee of the Senate has completed its labors. The committee met this afternoon with the Assembly Committee on Buillding and Loan and agreed to the appoint- ment of a sub-committee of five which will' take all building and’ loan bills now before the Legislature and after considering the many suggestions that have been made by witnesses draft g committee substitute for the ‘whale, which will then be presented for the ccnsideration of both houses. This sub- committee is composed- of Senators Woodward (chairman), Curtin and Hahn and Assemblymen Transue and ‘Waste. . Laxative Bromo Quinine, world wide Cold and Grip remedy, removes cause. Call for full name and look for signature E. W. Grovej 25c. * and the) FIND FRIENDS AT CAPITAL Bill Providing for Destruc- tion of Spirits Meets With Defeat. FEBRUARY 1 PRESIDENT TELLS SENATE WHY THIS. - NATION MUST DO POLICE DUTY. War With Europe the Penalty for Delay Continued From Page 1, Column 7. their form of government, or the despoilment of their territory under any disguise. But, short of this, when the: question is one of a oney claim, the only way which re. mains finaily to collect it Is a blockade or bombardment or the seizure of the custom- houkes, and this means, been . sald above.” what is in effect a possession, even though only a temporary possession, of ter- ritory. The United States then becomes a party In Interest, because under the Monroe doctrine it cannot see any European power selze and per- manently occupy the territory in one of these republics; and yet such selzure of territory, disgulsed or undisguised, may eventually offer the only way in which the power in question can collect any debts unless there is interfer- ence on the part of the Unit=d States. One of the difficult and increasingly compli- —_— . Special Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 16.—Senator | Broughton’s bill providing that where | in the trial of any case involving the | sale, keeping or disposition of liquors the defendant is found guilty of violat- | ing any State, county or municipal law | it shall be the duty of the court to or-! der the destruction of the liquor, was beaten in the upper house this morning | by & vote of 20 to 9. The vote on the | bill was preceded by a warm debate, | but Senators Shortridge and Keane | pointed out so eclearly that the billi’ might result in the ruin of any saloon | man who should happen to meet with ' the displeasure of some official with a pull that a majority stood against the ' nreasure and snowed it under. Ander- son gave notice of reconsideration, however, and the bill will come up again to-morrow, though it is appar- | ently beaten beyond the possibility of | revival. The Senate this morning passed a resolution introduced by Shortridge granting to Governor Pardee the right to absent himself from the State atany time he desires for a period of more than sixty days. It is understood that/ the resolution was introduced to give the Governor an opportunity to make ! an extended tour of the north during ! the Lewis and Clark Exposition. i The Senate also passed a resolution | providing for night sessions during the ! rest of the remaining legislative days. | GRANITE AT FOLSOM. i Two bills involving a great problem | were introduced . this afterncon by ' Senator Coggins. Last evening at the | meeting of the Board of Prison Direc- tors with the Senate Committee on Finance and the Assembly Committee | on Ways and Means it was announced | that the road rock at the Folsonf pris- | on is about exhausted and that within | a year the convicts at that institution ' will be idle unless some provision is | de that will permit of the quarrying ! and sale of fhe granite that is avail- | €iSco trained nurses appeared before able at the institution. As the law now stands the State is prohibited from us- ing the granite except for the erection of prison buildings and bridges and ! culverts of State, county and district roads. Should the appropriation for | the erection of new cells and walls atl ‘Ban Quentin and Folsom go through | the convicts can be employed for about five years, but at the end of this time the condition that prevails to-day lell again confront the prison officials. This probiem wili be solved if the bills introduced by Coggins pass. One | provides for the repeal of the act pro- | hibiting the dressing by convicts and | the sale of Folsom granite, the other | for the repeal of the act prohibiting the | sale of convict manufactured articles. It is probable that the bills will be op- | posed by labor and other organizations, but, say the Prison Directors, work must be found for the convicts or all efforts to reform them will fail. Senator Lynch introduced a bill tth! afternoon providing for the appropria- | tion of 350,000 for the establishment of | a California State irrigation school and experiment farm in Monterey County. Senator Markey introduced a bill making it a misdemeanor for any per- scn, firm or corporation engaged in | business as a merchant to falsely ad- | vertise goods for sale or to seek tol make purchasers accept inferior goods | upon the false statement that they are | superior in quality to those advertised. ! The agitation against the use of the ! repeating or ‘“pump” gun in the nux‘-v! suit of game again found expression | this afternoon in a bill introduced by | Nelson of San Francisco making tae | use of this arm a misdemeanor. An | crdinance of similar purport enacted by an interior county was recently de- ciared unconstitutional. : PRIZE FIGHT BILL. Senator Ralston’s anti-prizéfight will was amended in the Senate this after- noon so as to eliminate the objection- able feature, which provided that any | amateur assoclation giving sparring exhibitions must belong to the Ama- teyr Athletic Union of America. As the bill now stands exhibitions may be given by any person or corporation, providing that no admission fee is charged; that the contestan! use eight-ounce gloves and that the.contest | does not extend over a period of fif- teen minutes. If the bill is passéd as amended it will mean death to profes- sional pugilism in California. o Goodrich’s Assembly bill, prohibiting the devise by a testator of more than one-third of his property to any char- itable institution, again came up in the Senate this afternoon on reconsidera- tion, and was again defeated. | ‘Lumley’s bill to prevent travelers car- rying concealed weapons without per- mit of the authorities.of each county in which they may stay was defeated. The Senate to-night passed a batch | of code revision . s, the revisions being based on' t_to*ul ‘defects {n the code pointed out decisions of the Supreme Court. SBREE PO o DRAINAGE MEASURES. ' age of Rush’s Bill. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 16.—The joint. Senate and Assembly Comimittees on Swamp and Overflowed Lands and drainage held anothér session this aft- ernoon and by a vote of 7 to'5 recom- mended for passage the Rush Senate bill framed by the executive committee of the California River: Improvement and Drainage Association. —————————— \ jeven .of their railwav | Examiners. cated problems which often arise in Santc Domingo grows out of the violations of con- tracts and concessions, sometimes improvi- dently granted, with valuable privileges and exemptions stipulated upon for grossly inade- quate considerations which were burdensome to the ‘State and which are not infrequently disregarded and violated by the governing au- thorities. Citizens of the United States and of other Governments holding these concessions and contracts appeal to thelr respective Ge ernments for active protection and interven- tion. Except for arbitrary wrong ¢one or sanc- tioned by superior authority to persons or to vested property rights, the United States Goy- ernment, following its traditional usage in such cases, aims to go no further than the mere use of its good offices, a measure which frequently proves ineffective. On the other hand, there are Governments which do some- times take energetic action for the protection of their subjects In the enforcement of con- tractural claims, and thereupon American concessfonaires, supported by powerful influ- ences, make loud appeal to the United States Government in similar cases for similar action. They cemplain that in the actual posture f affairs théir valuable properties are prac- tically confiscated. that American enterprise is paralyzed and that unless they are fully pro- tected, even by the enforeement of their merely contractural rights, it ne the abandonment to the subjects of other Governments of the interests of American commerce and trade throush the sacrifice of thelr investment b excessive taxes fmposed fn violation of contract ard hy other devices and the sacrifice of the output of their mines and ather industries and and shiving Interests which they have estahiished In connection with the_exploitation of their concessions. Thus the attempted solution of the complex problem by the ordinary methods of diplomacy reacts In- juriously itcelf and in a measure paralyzes the action of the exccutive in the direction of a sound and consistent policy. AMERICAN TRADE SUFFERS. The United States Government is embar- rassed In its efforts to foster American enter- prise and the growth of our commerce through the cultivation of friendly relations with Santo Domingo, by the Irritating effects on those relations and the consequent injurious effect on that commerce of frequent interventions. As a method of solution of the complicated problem, arbitration has become nugatory. in- asmuch as in the condition of its finances an i award against the republic Is worthless uniess its pavment is secured by the pledge of at least some portion of the customs revenues. This pledge is imeffectual without actual de- livery over of the customs houses to secure the appropriation of the pledged revenues to the payment of the award. unon the United States Government | Thie situation again reacts injuriously upon the reldtions of the United States with other 'ward and nations. For when hn a such se- curity are thus ob in the case of the Santo Domingo Imprivement Company some fcreign Government cowplains that the n-rdl conflicts with Its rights as a_creditor to some portion of these revenues under an alleged | prior pledge: and stil other governments com- ; plain that an award in any considerable sum, | secured by pledges of the oustoms revenue, is prejudicial to the payment of their equally meritorious claims out of the ordinary rev- enues; and thus controversies are begotien be- tween the United States and other creditor nations because of the apparent sacrifice of some of their claims, which may be just or may be grossly exaggerated, but which the United States Government cannot inquire into | without giving grounds of offense to oOther friendly creditor pations, Still further illus- ations might easily be furnished of the hope- lessness of the present situation growing out of the social -disorders and the bankrupt finances of the Dominican republic where for considerable periods during recent years the bends of civil soclety have been practically digzolved. Under the accepted law of nations foreign governmente are within their right, if ther choose to exercise it, when they actively i tervene in support of the contractural claim: of their subjects. They sometimes exercise this right and on account of commerelal rivalry there is a growing tendency on the part of other governments more and more to diplomatically in the enforcement of the claims of their subjects. In view of the dilemma_in which the Government of th Urited States is thus- placed it must either | adhere to its usual attitude of non-interven- tion In such cases—an attitude proper under ncrmal conditions, but ome . which, In this particular kind of case, results to the dis- advantage of its citizens in comparison with those of other states—or else it must, in order o be comsistent In its pollcy, actively inter- vene to protect the contracts and concessions of Its citizens engaged in agricuiture, com- merce and transportation in competition with the subjects of other states. This course weuld render the United States the Insurer of all the speculative risks of its citizens in franchises of Santo Domingo. TASK NOT DIFFICULT. Under the plan in the protocol herewith | submitied to- the Senate, insuring a faithful | collection and anplication of the revenues to | the specified objects, we are well assured that this diffieult task ecan be accomplished with the friendly co-operation and good will of all the parties concerned, and to the great relief ©0? the Dominican republic. The Dominican debt owed to European cred- itors is about $22,000,000 and of this sum over §18.000.000 is more or less formally recog- nized. The representatives of European Gov- | ernments have several times approached the | Secretary of Stute, setting forth the wrongs | and intolerable delays to which they have heen subjecied at the hands of the successive gov- | ernments of Santo Domingo and Intimating | that, unless the Dominizan Government should | receive some assistance from the . United | States in the way of regulating its finances, | the creditor Governments of Europe would be | forced ta resort to more effective measures of ccmpulsion to secure the satisfaction of their | ctatms, 1t the United States Government declines to take action and other foreign governments re- sort to action to securs payment of their claims, the latter would be entitlad, according to the decision of The e tribunal in the Vpnezuelan cases, to the ferential payment of their claims; and this would absorb all the Tominican revenues and would be a virtual sacrifice of all American claims and_Interest outstanding. If, moreover, any such action should be taken by them, the only method to - NURSES AS LOBBYISTS. Appear Before Committee on Public | Health and Quarantine, SACRAMENTO, Feb. 16.—San Fran- the Assembly Committee on Public Health and Quarantine to-night in re- | gard to the bills for the registration of ! nurses. A delegation from the alumnae of the City and County Hospital Training School succeeded, thraugh Assemblyman McGowan, in having stricken from the bills introduced by Duryea and Beckett the provision that the Regents of the State University who are to appoint the examining board shall choose its members from | the California State Nurses' Associa- tion, leaving the field open to all. After the nurses had been heard the committee listened until midnight to the physicians of the allopathic, home- opathic and eclectic schools on Me- Gowan's bill placing the eclectics on an | equal footing with the other two schools on the State Board of Medical The homeopaths and allo- paths vigorously opposed the bill. e iaT b T ~ NINETY-DAY SESSION. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 16.—The steer- ing committee of the Assembly, ap- pointed to frame a constitutional amendment changing the laws cover-) | ing sessions of the Legislature, report- ed at a caucus of the Republican mem- | | bers of the Assembly this evening. Its report suggested a ninety-day session, | a total expense per day of $600 and $10 a day as the pay of members, the ses- sion to open upon the date now fixed. It afterward developed that the ninety- day propesition was made merely that | the members of the caucus might have! | plenty of room for amendment. | Dorsey moved an amendment pro- viding for an, eighty-day session, and during the squabble that followed a motion to adjourn was carried, so the <eucus resulted in nothing. SN A JUDGE SMITH'S CASE. Assembly Committee Hears Evidence Against Accused Jurist. SANTA CRUZ, Feb. 16.—H. B. S. Mc- Cartney, T. E. Atkinson, J. J. Burke, R.' L. Beardslee and A. G. Lumley, the committee appointed by the Assembly to investigate the charges against Judge L. F. Smith, commenced the in- vestigation to-night. Judge Smith was represented by Matt Sullivan of San Francisco, H. A. V. Torchiana of Wat- sonville and former Lieutenant Gov- ernor Jeter. Peter Paul Hartman, once a Socialist candidate for the Assembly, testified enable them to secure the payment of thelr claims would be to take possession of the custom-houses, and, considering the state of the Dominican finances, this would mean, very possibly, permanent occupation of Dominican territory, for no period could be set to tha time which would mecessarily be required for the payment of the obligations and unliquidated claims. The United States Government coull not interfere to prevent such seizure and occu- pation of Dominican territory without either itself proposing some feasible alternative in the way of action or else virtually saying to the European governments that they would not be allowed to collect thelr claims. It would be an unfortunate attitude for the Government of the United States to maintain at present. It cannot with propriety say that it will protect its own citizéns and interests on the ome hand, and yet on the other hand refuse to allow other governments %o protect their citizens and interests. As the resuit of chronic disorders. attended ‘with_a constant increase of debt, the state o= things in Santo Domingo has become hopeless unless the United States or some other strong Government shall interpose to bring order out of chaos. MUST MAKE A CHOICE. The ordinary*resburces of dipiomacy and in- ternational arbitration are absolutely impotent to deal wisely and effectively with the situa tion in the Dominican republic. which ca H only met by organizing its finances on sound basis and by placing the custom houses beyond the temptation of insurgent chieftains. Either we must abandon our duty under our traditional policy toward the Do minican people: who aspire to a republican form of government. while they are actually drifting into a condition of permanent anarchy in which case we must permit some other Gov ernment to adopt its own measures in order to safeguard its own interests, or else we must ourseives take seasdnable and appropriate ac t Again' and again has the Dominican Govern- ment. invoked on its own behalf the ald of tha United States: It has repeatedly done 3o in recent years, It is perhaps unnécessary to state that ne step of any kind has been taken by the admin istration under the terms of the protocol which is herewith submitted. The republic of Santo Domingo has by this protocol wisely and pa- triotically accepted the responsibilties as wel as the privileges of liberty and 9 showing with evident good faith its purpose to pay al that its resources will permit of its obliga tions. - More than this it cannot do, and when it has dome this we should mot allow it to be molested. T call atttention to the urgent need of prompt action on this matter. We will have a great opportunity to secure peace and stability the island without friction or bloodshed by act ing In aceordance with the cord! invitatic of the governmental authort 1selves from every standpoint opportunity, for such fail ure will probably mean increasing revolution- ary violence in Santo Dominge and very pos eibly embarrassment in regard to foreign com plications. This relief affords a_practical test of the efficiency of the United States Govern- ment In maintaininz the Monroe doetrine . THERPORE ROOSEVELT Washington, Feb. 15 1005, Accompanying the President’s mes- sage Is a letter from John Bassett Moore, formerly assistant Secretary of State, which gives a statement regard- ing the award under the former proto- col, and the award of the commission which settled the claims of the San Do- mingo Improvement Company. n s that he called on Judge Smith in re- gard to a will contest and that the Judge said to him: “I think you are unfortunate in having such a drunken lawyer to defend you. You ought to have hired Mr. Cassin. He 13 a friend of mine.” IR YA Compulsory Vaeccination Biil. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 16.—The As- sembly to-day defeated the anti-com- pulsory vaccination bill, which the Senate had passed. The vote was 39 to 34. Waste, who had voted against the bill, moved, by request, to recon- sider to-morrow. —e— Of Interest to Coast. WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—A. W. Bogg of Los Angeles is the lowest bid- der for the comstruction of the stone mess hall and kitchen at Nice Station Indian School, Arizona. His bid Is $12,- 760. Thomas B. Frazier has béen appoint- ed substitute for George A. Bryant on route No. 2, Palms, on the rural carrier force. —_——— NANTUCKET, Mass., Feb. 18.—Oniy three berrels of kerosene remain on Nantuoket Isi- and, which is biockaded by ice, and many homes are in darkness. Butter i being sold in halt-pound lots. Some of the dealers ara without sugar, molasses and beans, but thers are enough necessaries to withstand an ice v longer. v _are but few suits ~ . 1f you reside out of town write for new 1905 our Catalog. SN ADVERTISEMENTS. Special Sale of Sailors Closing Out, Some Boys’ Suits for $2.60 At the closing of the store last night we only had left ages 3, 4 and 5 in these sailors. If your boy requires a suitin any of these sizes ‘you can get a $5.00 sailor for $2.60. The garments‘are made from a éood quality serge in red, royal, blue, navy and brown; each suit is trimmed with rows of braid on collar. - See the suits in our windows. Buy early—there left. 740 Market Street 0D §| You will find our cat- alog of assistance in ordering clothing, hats or furnishing goods by mail.