The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 17, 1906, Page 2

OFFERS DOWIE PEACE. TERMS General Overseer Voliva Is Willing to Submit the Zion Dispute to Arbitration XO REPLY RECEIVED Mutineers Ready to Givel CORBIN GIVEN 'SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUES THE RANK OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL Not Become Will Give Place to Bell Chief of Staff, but Deposed Apostle Five Per| Cent of All the Property - Overseer med Dowie in t 1e whole con- gainst the 1 moral PR S TR HOURS OF LIBERTY ENOUGH FOR A VAGRANT FEW Holds Up and Robs a Man Shortly After His Release From Jail at | | | WILL | its power to assist her. 2 WASHINGTON, April 16.—The Presi- t tegay appointed Major General Corbin a lieutenant general. Corbin will'not assume the po- on of chief of staff to which his k entitles him. At his own request will give way to Major General J. nklin Bell. Corbin gave as his rea- son fi stepping aside in favor of Bell his belief that a younger man should be placed at the head of the staff. Cor- | is close to the retiring age. HELP TEACHERS ENTERTAIN V ITOR.‘} San Mateo Promotion Com- mittee to Be Active During | National Convention. MATEO, April 16—The local pro- committee is determined that nothing shall be left undone to complete the representation of this city at the head- quarters of the National I dugation As-| sociation in San Francisco In July. Miés County Superintendent of Schools, e matter in charge, and the promo- tion committee here will do everything in Chairman Roy- den of the committee has appointed F. E. Baskette, W. H. Cone, George W. Hall, | E. W. McLellan and Joseph H. Nash to | act in assoclation with Miss Tilton. Each of these gentlemen will be it atetndance | for one day at the San Francisco head- quarters. der ene { Emma Eames says of the Kimball Piano “I wish to give the Kimball Piano unstinted praise, both as an instrument and as an accompaniment for the woice. The Kimbal! Baby Grand which I purchased for the music-room in my Paris fome in 1895 has lost none of its original richness and brilliancy of tone, and I am more than ever charmed with it. It also has that marvelous quality of keeping in tune.” . The Kimball and thirty-five other excellent makes of pianos, sold exclusively by 7 Ao oo > 5 id | 1 [ PLINS CIFTS | SOLDIER WHO HAS BEEN GIVEN RANK OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL. AT EICHTY-SIX Millionaire Philanthropist Daniel K. Pearsons C(ele- brates Another Birthday PR G CHICAGO, April 16.—Danlel K. Pear- sons, millionaire and benefactor of small colleges, celebrated yesterday the eighty-sixth anniversary of his birth. His wife died a short time ago, but in spite of the absence of his life-long adviser he cvarried out his invariable custom of making plans for the year's philanthropy. Last year Dr. Pearsons aided nine small colleges in eight different States, each receiving either $25,000 or $50,000 on condition that the coliege raise three times the amount. He has placed only two institwtions on his list this year—Newbury College, in South Caro- lina, and Doane College, in Nebraska— each to receive $25,000 on condition | that it raises $75,000. “I am going to stop now,” he ex- plained, “and rest for six or eight months. I'll spend the time finding out whether the forty colleges I have aided have kept their endowments in- tact. If they have spent them or turned them over to any other purpose they will hear from me. #ut to teach the colleges good business principles, and I'm going after them with a sharp stick. I do as much &ood in teaching these people the value of economy and the sacredusss of en- dowment as I do with my money.” General Pearsons has helped forty- two institutions in twenty-four States, the endowment of which, including the amounts raised in order to meet Dr. Pearsons’ conditions, reach a total of about $15,000,000. TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS IS FOUND IN GREECE Statuettes, Ornaments and Other Interesting Relics Uncovered. ATHENS, April 16.—King Edward and Queen Alcxandra will arrive here tomor- row. The visit of the King and Queen auspiciously coincides with the announce- ment by Dr. Bosanquet, dirsctor of the British School of Archaeology at Athens, that he has discovered on the bank of the river Burotas nearest to the site of the ancient city of Sparta the famous temple of Artemis, with a profusion of statuettes, gold, silver and Ivory orna- ments and other interesting relies. Dr, Bosanquet first made known his discovery to King Edward, who today telegraphed his corigratulations. ————— RECLAMATION. ACT FOUND TO WORK SUCCESSFULLY Estimates Show the Recepits Will Ex- ceed the Expenditures by Half a Million. WASHINGTON, April 16.—The third annual general inquiry of the House committee on irrigation regarding the operation of the reclamation act was begun today. Secretary of the Jnterior Hitchcock was before the committee. The Secretary stated that, including the irrigation projects under construction, those which are contemplated, and those approved but not begun, there will have been spent on June 30, 1908, $37,000,000 and /that the estimated re- ceipts from the operation of the law up to that time will be $500,000 Smore than that amount. Besides, it is esti- mated there will be a return from set- WOULDSE THEPREPLE TOTHKN President Roosevelt Ex- plains' Why He Advancei the Suggestion as to Taxation of Inheritances HAS NO DEFINITE SCHEME IN MIND Fully Impressed With the Necessity of Regulating the Enormous , Fortunes Now Being Accumulated s SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. WASHINGTON, April 16.—“I just put out the Inheritance tax idea to start people thinking,” said the President to- day to his numerous callers, who spoke to him about his proposed taxing of fortunes as put forth In his speech on Saturday on “The Man With the Muck Rake.” Nearly every public man who saw the President today referred to this part of the speech. The President told them he had no detailed plans for putting his sugges- tion into effect; that he was fully im- pressed with the necessity for some such means of regulating enmormous fortunes, and thet he had announced his opinion for the purpose of setting people thinking. He has no intention of communicating with Congress on the subject. Haviug “started the ball roli- ing,” he will watch developments. NEW. YORK, April 16.—Rich Wall- | street men who were asked today to give opinions regarding _President Roosevelt's plan for taxing-huge for- tunes out of existence on the death of their owners were loath to -speak for publication, but a number said they approved an income tax.and a pro- gressive inheritance tax, provided they were levied by the Federal Govern- ment and were equitably and carefully levied. It was pointed out that in Europe such taxes are levied and there is no troubls over them. In Germany very small Incomes are exempt and the amount of tax increases as the in- comes enlarge. Enormous fines are im- posed for any attempt to evade the tax, and there is little or no evasion. The Government has the necessary ac- cess to the business books of the tax- payers. In Great Britain there is a stated in- come tax for every one whose income exceeds about $1000. It appeared from the replies received that the Wall-street men look upon the system of “personal taxes,” as conduct- ed, as a farce. It was thought to be ratier unfortunate for the sident to have talked in his “muck rake” speech as he did, just at this time. It was pointed out that it gave an opportunity to professional Soeialists. throughout the country to ¢ up ‘the words of the President as’ paéking wup their propaganda. 4 GREAT FORTUNES A MENACE. It was generally admitted in financial circles that.a fortune of $500,000,000 in tfie hands of one man, if transmitted in bulk to single heirs, with the tremendous abil- ity for accretion such fortunes possess, could but be a public menace in a com- paratively short time. The point was made, however, that if a tax to control such fortunes were adopted it might merely result in driving their possessors to citizenship in some other country and not do away with the fortunes. John W. Gates, whose fortune is esti- mated by some at $25,000,000, sald regard- ing President Roosevelt's taxation plan: “I haven’t- got any wealth I want to give away.” CLERGYMAN DISCUSSES SPEECH. CHICAGO, April 16.—The “muck rake’ speech of President Ropsevelt was dis- cussed yesterday by Dr’ Emil G. Hirsch in his lecture at Sinai Temple. He in- terpreted it as an ‘“expression of the President’s bellef or feeling that the emo- tional exponents of the gospel of unrest are likely to rush the country into the vortex of the greatest of the world's revolutions, unless a halt is called. ““What the humanitarians, philosophers and sociologists are solicitous about :-o- day is not that a revolution shall come, but the form it may take,” sald Dr. Hirsch. “Is it to be revolution or evolu- tion? Is it to be a violent upheaval that may have the immediate effect of setting back the cause of progress, temporarily at least? Or will it be a peaceable change from industrial individualism to industrial co-operation? Those are the questions upon the answers to which will depend to a large degree the progress and pros-. perity of the American generations of the near future. That, I take it, is the thought that inspired the great address of Presi- dent Roosevelt in Washington. He in- terprets aright the signs of the times. e sees ahead for his beloved country the vision of a revolution infinitely more far- reaching than any that the world has ever known. WEALTH IS A STEWARDSHIP, “Let there be no mistake about the President’s meaning. To me it seems clear that his warning against what may be called ‘extremism’ is directed as much to the rich or so-called capitalistic class as to the critics on the incessant quest with the malodorous and unsightly rake. “The crying injustice of the individual- istic philosophy is its pretense to pay la- bor for its devotion of a lifetime with a mere subsistence for labors prime and the poorhouse in old age. If it be socialism to say that the true industrial cure is co- operation, then let us bave socialism. The true and just course for employers and capitalists Is to consider wealth not a pos- session, but a stewardship.” ———————— Co-Operative Soclety Imsolvent. CHICAGO, April 16.—Judge Bethea in the United States District Court to- day ordered that the Cash Buyers Union First National Co-Operative So- clety be declared insolvent and that the assets of the company be sold. The company, which became embarrassed several months ago, has many stock- holders in different parts of the coun- try. Judge Bethea declared that the sale of the assets was the best method of protecting them, and the. order was entered after an extended conference with the attorneys representing the different interests in the case. ARMY ORDERS, WASHINGTON, April 16.—Ai or- ders: Captain Frederick R. Day, pay- master, relleved of duty at Portland and will proceed to San Franecisco and report in person to the commanding general of the Department of Califor- tlers on f{rrigated lands amounting to [nia for duty with the station in San $1,000,000. ) Some time was spent in a discussion | quart: tel iting ordersat of the method of doing the work in the ;’-nlfl, e:r‘i?:‘prm‘ ) [ construction of the Gunnison tunnel in |for duty, relieving R Colorado, & Francisco. Captain Jesse M. Baker, Port- Seventh Inf: A " 5 antry. Y, APRIL 17, 1908, accept it. as with joyous hearts and smilint%l —and how conducive to health the California Fig Syrup Co. ckage and If any dealer offers any other than the regular Fifty cent size, or having printed thereon the name of any other company, do not If you fail to get the genuine you will not get its beneficial effects. Every family should always have a botile on hand, as it is equally beneficial for the parents and the children, ‘whenever a laxative remedy is required. 8 - e R —— e 8 ® © faces they romp and play—when in health e games in which they indulge, the outdoor Iife they enjoy, the cleanly, regular habits they should be taught to form and the wholesome diet of which they should partake. How tenderly their health should be preserved, not by constant medication, but by careful avoidance of every medicine of an injurious” or objectionable nature and if at any time a remedial agent is required, to assist nature, only those of known excellence should be used; remedies which are pure and wholesome arid truly beneficial in effect, like the pleasant laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs, manufactured by Syrup of Figs has come into general favor in many millions of well informed families, whose estimate of its quality and excellence is based upon personal knowledge and use. Syrup of Figs has also met.with the approval of physicians generally, be- cause they know it is wholesome, simple and gentle in its action. We inform all reputable physicians as to the medicinal principles of Syrup of Figs, obtained, by an original method, from certain plants known to them to act most benefici- ally and presented in an agreeable syrup in which the wholesome Californian blue figs are used to promote the pleasant taste; therefore it is not a secret rem- edy and hence we are free to refer to all well informed physicians, who do not approve of patent medicines and never favor indiscriminate self-medication Please to remember and teach your children also that the genuine Syrup of Figs always has the full name of the Company— California Fig Syrup Co. —plainly printed on the front of“every bottles of one size only. that it is for sale in CHINESE RV " DENIES A Says the Oriental Officials Are Not Responsible for the Bogus Certificates WASHINGTON, April 16—S8ir Chen Tung Liang Cheng, the Chinese Minister, has taken issue with Representative Denby of "Michigan on the question of the responsibility for the issuance of fraudulent certificates of admission to the United States. Denby stated to the ouse Committee on Foreign Affairs ring the hearing of the Foster bill amending the act that,the fact that so many of these certificates were found to be fraudulent was pretty fair evidence of the fraud of the Chinese officials. To this charge the Chinese Minister has replied in a letter which has been made a part of the record in these hear- Ings. During the three years he has been in charge of the legation here, the Minister says, he has kept a record of every certificate that has been issued in the provinces of Kwangtung or Fukien to Chinese subjects departing for the United States, the Philippines or Hawali; that the emigration from all other pro- vinces {8 insignifcant and that 527 certi- ficates represents the total number is- sued. However, he says the figures of the immigration office for these three years shows the total number of appli- cants for admission bearing certificates numbers 6500. The number bearing cer- tificates from the Chinese Government, he says, is but 8 per cent of the total number seeking admission. CALLS IT IMAGINATION. “Where did the 92 per cent get their certificates?” he asks, and then proceeds to answer the question by stating that under the regulations of the immigration service officials in the following citles and countries are permitted to issue these certificates: Vancouver, Victoria, New Westminster, Ottawa, Cuba, Ger- man protectorate of Kiautchou, Guate- mala, Hawail, Hongkong, Japan, Hok- kido, Formosa, Mexico, Philippine Islands, Portuguese province of Macao, Soclety Islands, Straits Settlement, Trin- idad and Venezuela. The Minister then comments as fol- lows: » % 3 “None of these officers has been au- thorized by the Chipese Government to issue required certificates, and none is subject to the control of the Chinese Government. When Mr. Denby says that China is the most flagrantly guilty party in this matter, does he mean that the above-named countries are parts of the Chinese empire, and therefore the offi- cers of these countries are Chinese of- ficials?"" ' Minister Cheng says that during the three years of his embassadorship to this country not one case of issuance of fraudulent certificates by Chinese officials has been brought officially to his notice, and the inference, he says, is therefore plain that Chinese officlals cannot be blamed for frauds of this kind. “Consequently,” he continues, “I con- sider the tntimation of Mr. Denby that but for the vigilance of the immigration officers there would have been ‘a traffic in bringing in illegal Chinese which would have enriched thousands of officials, and our country would have been overrun with them as If there had been no ax- clusion law,’ as an emanation from a fertile imagination rather than a trust- worthy judgment founded on cold facts.” “DENBY RENEWS CHARGES. Representative Denby, who is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, made this statement tonight: “It was to have been expected that his Excellency would' not admit that the Chinese officials have been guilty of fraud, because he is the Chinese Minister, My statements were based on facts and fair inference, Every assertion can be easily proved. The Minister's statement {s painfully though, I hope, unintention- ally misleading. The records of the Bu- reau of Immigration show conclusively that during the period referred to 8% ap- plicants bearing certificates issued in China by Chinese officials presented themselves at various ports in the United States. Will the Minister admit that 368 certificates not reported to him were fraudulent? He becomes the best wit- ness in proof of my assertion, “The Minister also says that there were 6500 admissions and rejections at San COUNEL LEWIS 1S 1N CONTEMPT Judge Humphrey Sentences| Chicago's Legal Represen- | tative- to- Sixty-Day Term | —_— SPRINGFIELD, Ill, April 16—Judge Humphrey, in the United States Circuit Court, foday declared = Colonel James Hamilton Lewis, corporation counsel of Chieago, in contempt of court in the Alton water works case and sentenced him to sixty days’ imprisonment in the | Sangamon County Jail. The sentence | is to be remitted if Colonel Lewis dis- misses suits which he brought in the | county court in behalf of the Boston Water and Light Company against the Alton Water Works Company and others to foreclose on second morigage bonds. | Judge Humphrey had held that the Alton ‘Water Works Company was the property of the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Com- pany, as holder of first-mortgage bonds, and had issued an injunction restraining any one from interfering with the opera- tion of the plant. CHICAGO, April 16.—When Mr. Lewis heard of the sentence that had been pronounced against him by Judge Hum- phrey, he said that he would be gov- erned entirely by the wishes of his clents. e e . New Plan to Save Niagara. ~ WASHINGTON, April 16.—A plan to afford plenty of water for commercial purposes as well as for preserving the scenic value of Niagara Falls was pre- sented to the House Committee on Rivers and Harbors today by H. L. Cobper, an engineer. The plan pro- vides for the deepening of the bed of the river above the falls, thus divert- ing water from the Canadian side. The Canadians now, it is sald, et more than half the water of the river. ———— Burglars Visit Napa Stores. NAPA, April 16.—The stores of 8. Mayfield and F. L. Brown and the meat market of C. Knox were robbed this morning. The burglars got $15.50 from the three places, which adjoin one an- other on Main street. i Francisco during the three years, and asks when the others got their certi- ficates. Is It possible that his Excellency does not know that most of those persons did not have to require any certificate from China or other foreign Government? They were persons who were, or claimed to be, native born, Americans or other citizens, returning laborers, returning merchants, merchants’ wives, merchants’ children, etc. Applicants with section 6 certificates numbered only 1245, and those are the only ones with whom this state- ment deals, as they were the only ones who 'had certificates issued by foreign goyernments. “Of those 1245 certificates 8% were is- sued in China and the balance by offi- cials in other countries. The rejections were 277 .in all, of whom 246 bore certi- ficates issued in China by Chinese offi- clals. More than 83 per cent of all re- Jected certificates were therefore issued by Chinese officials. “I do not believe there is any man in Congress more friendly to Chinese or more eagerly anxious to see the relations on a permanently friendly basis. This cannot be brought about, however, by the United States supinely and needlessly as- suming all the.blame for any ccuses of irritation that may exist. 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