The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 6, 1906, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL,. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1966, FINANCTAL QUESTION DISTURBS PEACE OF THE LAWMAKERS ONE-HUNDRED-YEAR BONDS ARE OPPOSED Objectionists Declare Right to Create Big Debt Should Vest in 'San Francisco Alone and Not the Entire State. FEAR HEEDLESS USE OF COIN SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. WILL NOT TAKE STATE'S MONEY fRemarkable_. Preceden Established in Lower - House. 'Members —ljeliberately Give Up $25 Allowed for Expenses." Special Dispateh to The Call. the purposes-for which the bonds | & g 3 be issued be limited to specific| SACRAMENTO, June 5—The Assem and there will be no opppsition. | bly this morning definitely decided to are all odf A anxious io aid s%“;sav:riflce the $25 allowed eich member rancisco, and if the proposed amend- | St 1 Jhnltel ¥o needs we will all | OF contingent expenses, but not with- and tegether.” A {out open chagrin on the part of many Gavin McNab and Code Commissioner | nabers who made a fight to secure John F. Davis then explained to the committee the absolute necessity of the [the perquisite, Assemblyman Jones, | measure. “San Francisco needs wider |who claims that in the introduction of and better streets” said Judge Davis. |(y. measure on the opening day of the 5 s “If it had not been for Dolores street | N° 2 capacity, Rowell and Van Ness avenue there would be |5658ion he was bunkoed by "t:e litkid supporter. It was none of San Francisco left. Wider |TePresentations of several members, re- streets are needed all over the city to ({USINg to vote on the proposition until prevent a repetition of.a disaster that |compelled to do so by the Assembly. A has horrified the whole world. With compromise measure allowing each San Francisco divided into fire compart- | member $10 contingent expenses was ts she will be safe for all time. The |proposed and defeated. ople have made up their minds to| The matter was brought up today :ave wider streets, but some means to | through the motion of Assemblyman J. pay for the widening must be devised. '}y Creighton to have the Jones propo- The one-hundred-year bonding plan 1s |gition to allow the contingent fund re- entatives schools an e Garden its charter to City an is- money to s expressed ¥ places essly DLESS THINGS. neverthel HEARST SUTE 1 GOMPLETED Editor Consents to Head Gubernatorial Ticket | in New York. \M_ » The Ca J - That. un- s x: i, unsurpassed ¢ us presented to pu e words, the Hearst State| ec " on ugust 1. een res hed >rmance »ster or Syracuse. per Re ended to start this pro- it agents of Mr. that it would be of the phases Hearst's arst generously a chance to was announced Hearst would before the con- for Governor. oincident announcement and emid great hammering and pounding the carpenters wi are at work erect- 2 a a portion Mr v caled the fol- . torial ticket — William iandolph York Governor — Senator Srie. 4 General—Clarence of New York Secretary of State—aA. J. Boulton ngs J of K For Comptreller—Isaac Rosenbloom of ndag urer—..x-Mayor Jo- | nothing was a Hearst ticket had been sug- design of the present ticket is o have been drafted by Max F.| who knownsas the architect | rious other Hearst structures H was reported also riearst quar- | ters that the Bryanized Democracy had| ¥ its prog e and was de- d to mak liam Church O of New York chiirman of the! State committee and Thomas Osborne, ex-Mayor of Aubt chairman of the executive comm The declara 4s made that Jus- | tice William J of Brooklyn was to be nominated for Governor and John | J. Cummins of Syracuse for Lieutenant | 5 derrick and Fran- | so the precious re- the present pro- Printers Elect Officers. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June 5.—The rnational Typographical Union to- announced the election of officers to serve for two years as follows. President, James M. Lynch, Syracuse, Y.; first vice president, John W. Minneapolis; secretary-treas- urer, J. M. Bramweod, Denver; dele- gates to the American Federation of | Labor, Frank K. Foster, Boston; Frank | Morrison, Chicago; Hugh Stevenson Toronto, Canada; Michael Colbert, Ch cago the Union Printers H , Cincinnati; Francis L. Ban : Shepard, Grand Rapids, Mich.; T. Thomas White, essey, Los on Printers’ is, Baltimore. Election VER, June 5.-—Judge John 1.| ling, in the criminal division of the | trict Court this afternoon, granted | the petition of the Honest Ele(‘lloni League praying for the calling of a Grand Jury to investigate the alleged frauds perpetrated by Denver public utility corporations in the interests of certain franchises at the election_held on Mey 1 Angle: Home, agent of the George P. | e Radke & Co., Formerly of 118 Sutter st and 65 Geary st, now running full blast at 1812 Devisadero near Bush. Their stock of watches, diamonds, wedding rings apd presents of all kinds are in- valuable souvenlrs. saved from the great fire of April 18. i the best devised, and it must be au- thorized.” OTHER PLACES INTERESTED. nator Welfe said that.so far as he was concerned, he was willing that the proposed amendment should be limited to San Francisco. Leavitt of Alameda, however, asked that he be given time to determine the feeling of his con- uents. “We may want to be de- ared in on this,” he said, “and 1 want time to find out.” It is probable Los Angeles may also desire to be vested with the one- ¥ -year right. it was . decided finally te put the questionf§over until temorrow evening, when all the Sen- ators and capitalists from various parts of the country will be given an oppor- to be heard. It is obvieus, how- that the amendment will go through so far as San Francisco is con- cerned. The only question now is, How many places outside of San Francisco will be permitted to take advantage of the plan NATURALIZATION MEASURE PASSES Adopted in House Un- der a Suspension of the Rules. WASHINGTON, June 5.—By clever tac Bonynge of Colorado, in charge of the naturalization bill, and with the assistance of a friendly Speaker, had the measure establishing 2 bureau of immigration and natural- ization throughout the United States read in the time set apart under suspension of the rules in the House today. The move surprised Cochran of New York, who began a ibuster against its consideration. He made a point of order against the bill on the ground that it be could not considered under suspension of the The Speaker overruled the nd on an appeal was sustained, e bill was debated for forty min- and, aier two amendments had ben agreed to unaniniously, was passed. An amendment was adopted praviding the requirements of section 9 shall not to aliens who shall hereafter heir intention. to become citi- who shall make claims on the public lands of the United States and comply in all re- spects with the laws providing for homestead entries. 5 The ®ill provides for naturalization at Washington, which shall furnish all blanks for use and be a record of ail naturalizations. It re- quires an applicant to file"application for naturalization ninety days before it is acted upon by a ceurt. It prohibits any naturalization thirty days befere any general elections. Tt authorizes the United States District Attorney to appear and cross-examine applicants and witnesses. It adds the additional conditions that applicants | must be able to speak English before receiving final papers and they swear that they intend to reside per- manently in the United States. It also provides a protedure for the can- cellation of fraudulent certificates. yp APPROPRIATION BILL PASSED BY SENATE NAVAL Much-Discussed Railroad Rate Measure Is to Be Sent Back to Conference. WASHINGTON, June 5.—The Senate today passed the naval appropriation bill and also gave considerable atten- tion to the conference report on the railroad rate bill. The only important amendment to the naval bill requires the Secretary of the Navy to submit plans for the proposed big warship to Congress before proceeding with its construction. propriation of $103,117,670. There is no doubt that the rate bill will be sent back to conference. Sen- ater Tillman admitted that some of the changes made in conference cannot be Jjustified under the rules, but said that they had been necessary in order to make the bill harmonious. ——0 Dunkards to Meet in California. DAYTON, Ohio, June 5.—The annual convention of the Old German Dunk- ards closed its sessions today. The society was practically unanimous in the opinion that telephones and auto- mobiles should be left severely alone. Traction cars, however, met with sym- pathy, and this method of travel may be used. The next convention will be held in California. i — o TN D Promotions in the Army. WASHINGTON, June 5.—The Presi- dent sent to the Senate today the fol- lowing nominations: Colgnels to be brigadier generals, John MecClellan, Artillery Corps; Stephen P. Jocelyn, Fourteenth Infantry; to be placed on retired list with rank of brigadier general, Colenel Sedgwick Pratt, Artil- lery Corps. % SIS T Bess SIS WASHINGTON, June 5.—The Navy Department today received news of the safe progress of the drydock Dewey, through a cablegram from the com- mander of the towing fleet. The fleet wlll reach Singapore on June 21. for bills | homestead | a bureau of | must | The bill carries an ap-| moved from the table, where it had been 1afd on the first day of the sés- sion. The motion met with much op- position, but was finally carried. Creighton then moved that the Assem- |bly pass the megsure allowing the | money. This motion was amended by | Assemblyman F. A. Duryea, who pro- posed that the $25 be cut to $10. The amendment was voted down with ‘a rush and the question reverted to the original motion. = As the roll was called it was evident that many members | were refraining from voting to avold being placed on record as favoring the expenditure, while secretly wishing its adoption. | The conclusion of the roll call |showed that the Assembly was about levenly divided until the absentees’ “otes were polled. These votes de- | feated the resolution. When it be- |came apparent that the measure was defeated several of those voting aye | attempted to get from under by chang- |Ing their votes to the negative. The | final vote stood—29 ayes to 37 noes. | When the roll was called Jones re- fused to vete. +On the second calling he asked to be excused from voting. | Several members were on their feet instantly demanding that his vote be recorded. Jones insisted on his excuse and a vote was taken on the question of insisting on his vote. The members |almost unanimously demanded his vote | and he complied, voting in favor of the allowance. bers of the San Francisco delegation when the majority voted against thi |allowance was sufficiently lugubrious to provoke laughter. Before the emer- gency to Ruef to ask him how he stood on the allowance of contingent expenses. | Ruef expressed himself as against the lallowance and signified his willingness |to pay any member of the Assembly | the $25 if he needed the money. | The vote of the San Francisco dele- | sation on the measure follows: Ayes— | Atkinson, Coghlin, = Jones, McGowan, ‘.\l Namara and Pfaeffle. Noes—Anth- iony, Beckett, Boyle, Cullen, Hartman, Luce; Meincke, Mindham, -Severance, Strohl, Treadwell and Vogel. MISSOURIANS ~ BoOm BRvaN JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., June 5.— | The Democratic State Convention which [convened here today to nominate can- | didates for three minor offices devel- oped into a William Jennings Bryan lt_)\'e feast. So unanimous was the sen- | timent of the.convention in favor of the renomination of the Nebraskan for the Presidency and so enthusiastically was his name cheered whenever mentioned | that today’s gathering may be said to | have formally launched the Bryan boom |on a large 1 | Temporary Chairman T. L. Ruby made a speech declaring that the work of the convention would result in bringing the Missouri Democratic party back to its place in charge of the State. When Ruby - declared that the Democrats | would nominate Bryan for, President in | 1908 and elect him the convention wild- |1y cheered. ‘ Former Governor Francis was invited +to address the convention. He said in | part: | T wish to ask this convention to send |its congratulations to the National De- |mocracy on the disappearance of our differences. There are.no differences {between us now.. In 1904, what is | known as the conservative element of {our party askéd that it be allowed to make the platform and name the can- | didate. Right liberally did the radical | faction concede the honor to the conser- | vative element.’ You know the result. | Now, another campaign is approach- ing. Those of us who belong to what has been the conservative faction would |not be magnanimous, we would not be | worthy Democrats, if we did not say |to you that we will suppért your can- didate and your platform this time. The differences that have divided the Democracy exist no longer.” Governor Francis described Bryan ds !a “sincere lover of humanity and'a pat- riotic citizen of the United States.” He ‘euloflzed both ' Bryan a Cleveland, amid profuse cheering. Former State Senator David Ball, in a speech, pronounced William J.. Bryan thne mgreatesl. private citizen in ‘the world. “When I see Grover Cleveland on the rear end of a train in Missouri, talking for Bryan, I will take back | everything 1 éver sald against him,” he declared. . Former Governor Dockery urged the convention to stand by Governor Folk and everything he had done as Gover- nor, l h;ther lgoufilko "k 5ex}uemsn. or nof e said. € spoke of Bryan as the next President. i % An invitation was sent to the Capitol asking Governor Folk to address the convention. Governor Iolk responded and was cheered when he entered the hall and mounted the rostrum. e de- clared that Bryan would be nominated for President in 190% and would be elected. He said the’principles which Bryan had advocated in 1896 were then considered anarchistic, but are now considered the acme of patriotism. He concluded by mfl king on law enforce- uri. Arkansas Democrats Meet. l‘ment in Mis HOT SPRINGS, Ark., June 5.—The Democratic State Convention convened at 10:30 o'clock this morning and after effecting an organization adjourned un- til tomorrew. What it was su would result in a test vote the | strength of Gavernor Davis and Senator The tone and attitude of the mem- | session was a day old Assem- | blyman Stanton of Los Angeles went | WOULD GONPEL " STOCK REISSUE Owners of Lost Certifi- cates to Be Aided by _New Law. Ralston Introduces Pro- tective Measure in Senate. Special Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, June 5.—The third house of the Legislature grows with each passing day. Edward Miils Adams arrived from San Francisco this morn- ing, commissioned by a general meet- ing held in the metropolis to frame a measure under which owners of lest and destroyed certificates of stock may ‘compel a reissuance to them of cer- tificates, At the meeting held in San Fran- clsco Walter W. Kaufmann presided and Edmund Tauszky acted as see- retary. Attorney George C. Sargent drafted a measure to be offered for in- troduction for the consideration of the Legislature and to put this bill through Adams came to Sacramento. His com- ing was anticipated, however, for early this morning and before his arrival Senator Ralston introduced a bill ‘of similar import. This bill provides that owners of stocks, bonds and other se- curities may maintain action and, upon establishment of proof that their se- curities has been burned or lost, may compel the reissuance of the same. As the law now stands, cerporations may renew certificates if they desire, but there are many that are unwilling to assume this responsibility unless so directed by the courts, a decree from which would operate to invalidate the original issue, in event the certificate believed to have been destroyed should turn up in future years. It is belleved that lost and burned stocks and bonds in San Francisco amount to'many millions of dollars and the law proposed by Ralston is abso- lutely necessary that the owners may recover those things which are theirs. This morning the Senate passed the contingent bill appropriating $5000 for the mileage of the members. . The finance committee reported favorably on the bills appropriating $5000 a year for the maintainence of the insurance | commissioner and $3000 to cover the | deficiency in the traveling and con- tingent expenses of the insurance com- nissioner. It also reported favorably on the bill appropriating $28,000 for | the repair of the State Normal School | building at San Jose. The committee on revenue and tax- | ation recommended the passage of the | bill appropriating $4605, with which to | repay 921 corporations. who were penal- | ized $5 .each for non-payment of the | corporation tax prior to August 8 last, the penalty having been erroneously collected through a misunderstanding f the law. Senator Wolfe introduced a bill appropriating $5000 to enable the State Board of Pharmacy to restore its | properties, that it may continue with its work. | The most important work of the | morning hour was the passage of the ! bill. providing for the relinquishment |to the Federal Government of a right of way for canal to divert the waters of Mormon Channel into the Calaveras River east of Stockton and to take the same along the channel of Calaveras | River in the San Joaquin. This bill | was hurried to the Assembly for its action. | The judiclary committee reported an amendment . to Senate bill 35, provid- ing that Justices of the Peace shall | have power to grant stays of execu- | tion of not exceeding ten days in all cases, including cases of unlawful de- tainer and forcible entry. The amend- ment was adopted and the bill went |to third reading. !" The committee also reported the sub- stitute for McEnerny's bill to restore !land titles in San Francisco, which | was also adopted and passed to third | OIL WAR BEGINS ~NEW N SOUTH Trust and RaTfl;;d in League Against the Inde- pendents. Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, June 5.—Bitter war, with the independent producers on one |side and the Associated Oil Company, | the California representative of the Standard Oil Company, backed by the railroads, on the other, has broken out erritory and one aimost cer- ’L:n:n:-:mtxu will be the closing for a time of hundreds of oll ‘wells in Los Angeles, Kern, Orange, Ventura and other counties. The Associated recently completed a pipe line’ through this city, with branches to many big power plants, and simultaneously Wwith its comple- tion the railroads announced a. rais of 400 per cent in the rates for switch- ing oil tank cars, or from $2.50 per |car to $10 per car, for each switch. The Associated having no switching to do is thus enabled to underbid the independents, who have no means of overcoming this handicap. They are looking to Commissioner Garfleld for some kind of relief. , Garfield recently passed through this city and left here a representative in the person of Special Agent Eddy of the Department of Commerce and La- bor, who has been making an investi- gation. The conditions here will be made the subject of a special report to the authorities at Washington. »_Colonel Tim Spellacy of Bakersfield s making the fight of the independ- ents, and on his advice the independ- ents have begun closing down thelr wells so that there can be no renewal of the,existing contract with the As- sociated to take the independents’ product at 16 cents per barrel. Ojl production in many fields may be at a standstill for months. = i b R b Téwn Wiped Out by Flood. IRONTON, Ohio, June 5.—Scott-town, 'a’village twenty miles north of Iron- ton, with a population of 200, was wafhed away today by a cloudburst. Not a house was left standing. Mrs. Sayre and daughter were drowned. Bridges were washed away and tele- phone lines are down. 5 Bur;"v for lhal h::ggtormltn 'doy;lm_‘d nothing more Proof of the strength of John 8. Little, who ¥ Y for Gove! COLLINS AFTER JUDGE BURNETT Perjurer Asks the Legislature to Impeach the Santa Rosa Jurist. o o Makes an Urgent Appeal to the Speaker of the Lower House. Special Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, June 5.—Whether at his own election or by a decree of fate, Speaker Thomas E. Atkinson is the champion of the self-styled persecuted. After busying himself all day yesterday circulating a petition for the release of Stuffers Rebstock, Steffens and Wy- man an additional burden on behalf of the convicted was thrust on Atkinson today when he received a petition from George D. Collins demanding that Judge Burnett of Sonoma, before whom Collins was convicted of perjury, be impeached for alleged misconduct. In his petition Collins demands that Burnett be impeached on the ground that he committed a willfully malicious and illegal act against the petitioner when he set aside the writ of probable cause presented to the Supreme Court by Collins and sent the comvicted sat- torney to San Quentin prison. This action was taken by Judge Burnett the morning of the San Francisco earth- quake and was aimed to prevent ‘the escape of the defendant during the ex- citement of the conflagration. Collins further alleges in his petition for the impeachment of Judge Burnett that the Judge arbitrarily refused to give him a hearing on the settlement of the bill of exteptions from which Collins took his appeal from the judg- ment of conviction. Collins asserts that Judge Burnett accepted the statsment of the District Attorney entirely in the settlement of the bill of exceptios and asserts at this, as well as other al- leged wrongful acts of the Sonoma jur- | ist, are grounds for impeachment. As the right of appeal is the one that cannot be denied any one, Atkinson will present Collins’ petition tomor- row. A committee will then be ap- pointed to determine whether or not the allegations are sufficintly based onj| fact to warrant the impeachment of the Judge. % It is the prevailing opinion here that before this committee and that officially |the Senate will never hear that it has been filed. MURDER CHARGE 15 NOT PROVED Her Husband Is Released. Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, June examination which consumad twe days Mrs. Alberta Storrs, who was accused of Storrs, at Monrovia, was from custody today. discharged felt that she was either guilty directly or had a guilty knowledge of the crime, of securing a conviction the case was not carried to the Superior Court, Storrs was the black sheep son of an English family, and had been a remit- tance man. fects of a pistol shot about three months ago it was first supposed that he had committed suicide, but suspicious cir- to the arrest of his wife murder. on a charge of society. Storrs drank heavily and his wife was not averse to the cup. On the night of the killing there had been a which several men participated. The couple quarreled and Mrs. Storrs went to bed, leaving the men in the | kitchen. ‘Storrs came to her room, it is lmm.musd for the purpose of making her she refused. Then, she says, he dis- played a revolver and threatened to kill her and himself. The weapon was dis- charged and Storrs was killed. The prosecution sought to show that the woman desired to rid herself of her husband because of her alleged liking for others, but in this effort the District Attorney was not successful. The dis- closure of the private life of the Storrs made anything but a pretty picture. All of their shortcomings were aired in court, but no direct. evidence was pro- duced to connect the woman with the crime, jf crime it was. BOAT AND RAIL -~ LINES COMBINE VALLEJO, June 5.—To take over into one corporation the Monticello Steam- ship Company, organized several years ago by Hatch Brothers, and the Vallejo, Benicia and Napa Valley Electric Rail- road Company, a new corporation knawn as the San Francisco, Vallejo and Napa Valley Railroad Company has been organized, with a capital stock of’ $1,500,000, divided into 150,000 shares. The directors of the new company are W. F. Botsford of Los geles, Z. J. Hatch of Oakland, L. J. Perry and J. T. York of Napa and C. N. Hatch of Vallejo. W. F. Bots*ord has subscribed $75,200 and the other directors $1000 each. . The company is allowed by its ar- ticles of incorporation to extend its present line from Vallejo to Napa to St. Helena and to Calistoga, with branches into Lake and Sonoma coun- ties. The total length of the lines, which will be operated by electricity, will be seventy-two miles. Manager L. J. Perty of the road announced defi- nitely today that the work of the ex- tension would positively be commenced on July 1 and that cars would be run- 'ning into Calistoga by the first of next 2 The Monticello Steamship Company ‘was started eleven y_ars ago with the mall steamer Monticello, in opposition to the Southern Pacific Company. T i company ‘now has three passenger among the Woman Accused of Slaying | cumstances were discoyered which led | The life led by the couple was | not the kind most approved in good | drunken revel at the Storrs’ home, in | accompany him to a friend’s house, but | | ! | tor Perkins to the President. case the examining magistrate stated | gIns will endeavor 1 that he was not convinced of the in- duties of the office with credit to him- nocence of the defendant; in fact, he|Self and to the satisfaction of the peo- | | i f When he died from the ef- | 1 ¥ COBGINS HEARS " FROM PERKINS Senator Informs the Man From Siskiyou County About " Marshalship. He Makes M;ion of Flints Efforts in Behalf of Elliott. Special Dispateh to The Call. SACRAMENTO, June 5.—Neither the convulsions of the earth nor the sweep of flames can wholly divert the mind of statesmen in the California Legisla- ture from political adjustmenis in which our United States Senators, Per- kins and Flint, are intimately con- cerned. There is a buzz of comjneut in whispered tones over a letter which State Senator Clifford Coggins reccived today from Senator Perkins. An ama- teur in the political arena would be wild with delight over the reception of such- a document, but Coggirs, who is a gradutae in the school of politienl adversity, treats the Perkins lctter as mere guff. The opening paragraph of Senator Perkins' letter to Cozgins 1 eaas “With this I hand you copy ¢f my letter written the Presideat racom- mending your appointment as United States Marshal to succeed the incum- bent. Farther along the Senator sa presented the letter to Senafos FII asking him if he would join me in rec- ommending your appointmer. He said tLat for reasons several tim explained he could not see his way clear to do S0, not because of any personal objec- tior, but becaus= he felt uador gre: peiitical obligations to other friends. I think‘if you had seen him hefor2 he| left Califor ‘ia for Washington !ast No- veriver, as 1 advised you, you woull have found him uncommitted, and if such had been the case he would have | consented without doubt to your ap- pointment.” Still farther along the senior Sena- tor says: “He (Flint) has not yet in- formed me if he has filed his recom- mendation of Mr. EHiott, but I think he will do so, and I learn that several members. of our congressional delega- tion have written letters to the Attor- ney General commending the appoint- ment of Mr. Blliott. He is a warm per- Collins’ petition will meet its death | Sonal and political friend of Congress- man Needham, and also of three other Congressmen.. Whatever may be the outcome, you cannot blame me, as I have Kept the promise I voluntarily made you in my office last November.” In conclusion Senator Perkins ex- presses his regret that there should have been a dlvision in the delegation relative to this appointment. The beauty of the whole scene is the carbon copy of the letter from Sena- It bears date of May 28, 1906, and explains that | John H. Shine has held the office for eight years. “I desire,” writes the Senator, “to recommend for appointmént as his suc- cessor Hon. Clifford Coggins of Igerna, Siskiyou County, California.”™ Coggins is commended as a leading lumber merchant of Northern Califor- nia, having the confidence and respect of the people of his State. It is even mentioned in the letter that the dis- 5.—After an |trict which Coggins represents in the State Senate compriges Siskiyou, Mo- doc, Shasta and sen counties. In closing our senior Senator says to the having murdered her husband, Rowland A President: “I believe if appointed to the posi- In dismissing the | tion of United States Marshal Mr. Cog- to perform the ple and our Government.” The special telegram to The Call from but owing to the manifest impossibility | Washington, published this morning, conveys to the politicians the intelli- gence that Flint is fighting for El- liott. The Aght promises to be pro- longed and racy.. Many leading men of the State are wiring to Washing- ton asking for particulars and lodging protests. George Hatton and Walter Parker are here. Coggins’ references to-Sendtor Perkins’ attitude are full of blanks and dashe: COST AFFNRS AT THE CAPTAL House Passes Some Measures of Interest to Cali- fornians. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, June 5.—Under the suspension of the rules, the following House and Senate bills wére passed by the House today: House bill. to "provide for a recon- noissance and preliminary survey of a land route for a mail and pack trail from the navigable waters of the Tanana Rover to the Sewarl Penin- sula in Alaska. House bill ratifying and confirming soldiers’ additional homestead entries heretofore made and allowed upon lands embraced in what was formerly the Columbia Indian reservation in the State of Washington. By unanimous consent the following bills were passed by the House: Releasing the right, title ani inter- ést of the United States to the piece or parcel of land known as the Cuartei lot in the city of Monterey, Cal Authorizing James A. Moor, or his assigns, to construct a canal along the Government right of way connect- ing the waters of Puget Sound with Lake Washington. For the preservation of American an- tiquities within foreign reserves. Establishing regular terms of U States circuit and district courts ited the Northern District of Caljfornia at Eu- reka, ‘"flm of $1,500,000 for the trans- at Fort Mason and th 50,000 for the manufacture of small arms at Fort Benicia are in the army appropriation bill, the confer- ence report on which was adopted by the House today. ——————— . Morocco Must Apolog!ize. PARIS, June 5.—The departure of a French wirship to Tangier to demand satisfaction for the assassination of a French citizen is expected to bring an immediate lpolog! from Morocco. The Government is ermined to up- hold' French prestige in Northern Af- rica, but there is no thought of ulter- for m’ § Vallejo, Benicia and Napa Valley Elec- tric Railroad Company has been operat- ing its cars between this city and Napa less than a year anc has been a most pronounced success. Its stock is largely capitalists. GLUB AGANST PROPOSED LW Mission Improvement Body to . Fight Street-Widening Amendment. ‘Re?rmntafivm—wm Present Me- morial to Legislature Today. The representatives of the Misston Improvement Club will make a fight to= day on the floor of the Legislature against the bill recommended by the committee of forty providing for the widening, lengthening and creation of strects. The ohief reason for the op- | position is that the club does not believe it a time to tax the people of this city, and to support their arguments the foi- loflnx memorial will be presented to ead member of the Legislature before that body is called to order: To the Honorable, the Senate and Assembly of the State of California— Gentlemen: The undersigned, the ex- ,equtive committee of the Mission Pro- ‘motion Association. a body of citizens and taxpayers of the Mission district. | within the city and county of San Franeisco, most respectfully ask the Legislature of the State of California to oppose and defeat the proposed amendment to the State constitution conferring on the Board of Supervisors of sald city and county for the peried of two years the rights and powers specified in proposition No. 32, included in the Governor's call for an extraor- dinary session of the Legislature. Said proposition No. 32 was included in the Governor's call at the instance of the so-called “committee of forty,” here- tofore lpg})ln(ed by the Hon. E. E. Schmitz, Mayor of the said city and | county, for the purpose of proposing certain measures for the reconstruc- tion and improvement of San Fras- cisco. | Prior to the issuance of said ‘cal said committee prepared its report am | submitted the same to the Board of Supervisors, and said board duly ap- proved the same. Should said consti- tutional amendment be proposed by | your honorable bodies and be ratified | by the vote of the people of the State of California, the plan formulated by | sald committee of forty in its said re- port will be carried out. | * We' hersby specify the following reasons why said proposed amend- ment should be defeated. and why the alleged improvements provided for im | the report of said committee of forty should not be made: 1. Said plan of alleged Improvements provides for the creation, widening and extension of many streets and avenues | almest exclusively in the northeasterly | portion of the peninsula. the expense of which will be sustained by the gen- }erfil body of taxpavers resident within the city and county of San Francisco. The land that will be benefited by said improvements is in the business sec- |tion and is now the most valuable | property in the city. Said plan. if ca: | ried out. will render said property more valuable at the expense of a great ma- jority of citizens. The improvements, t such they can be termed. will add | to the weaith of the rich at the ex- | pense of the great body of small pro | erty-holders living in the Western A { dition, Richmond district. Sunset dis- triet, the Mission. Potre.J, Francisco and Ocean View, recefve no benefit whatever from sald rovements. . The report of said committee of | torty contalns no estimate whatever of the cost, approximate or otherwise, of the contemplated improvements; dut | we aver that the actpal cost of said improvements to the general body of taxpayers will amount to tens of mil- lions of dollars. 3. Any attempt to carry out the plan | as recommended by said committee of { forty will unsettle for many years to | come the titles to lands to be affected | by said improvements; will result in lon and expensive litigation, and wllf materially retard building opera- tions in San Francisco. 4. The charter of San Francisco now \ln force provides ample means | methods for the improvement of th { city, for the creation. widening and ex: | tension of its streets and avenues. { | | 5. Before considering any pr - tion for bonding the city for the fabu- lous amount of money required te carry out the contemplated improve- should be bomded for clent to furnish it with water for the ments, the cit an M;lounl su : |an adequate supply o use of its inhabitan for the cofi- struction of cisterns and reservoirs, for the storage of water—fresh and salt—necessary for the extinguish- ment of fires, flushing of sewers, sprinkling of streets and other pur- poses. . Equal in importance with the water supply is the reconstruction of public bul ldlng. including a City Hall, Court- house, Hall of Records. fire engine houses, jails, police stations. and prin- cipally our public schools—high, gram- mar and primary—most of which were destroyed in the recent calamity. For this purpose alone many millions of { dollars will be necessary. | To the recent disaster there should | not be added the infliction upon our | eity of an enormous debt for the sole purpese of improving or beautifying a small portion of .its territory for the benefit of a few, when other absolutely necessary improvements will in them- selves involve an expense to our eiti- zens which will require generations to liquidate. : MATT SULLIVAN B CANFIELD MUST PR MAN WHO COLLECTED O GAMBLING NOTES New York Court Decides Suit Agiitui Owaer of Caming * Pla ce. Special Dispateh to The Call. NEW YORK, June 5.—John D.b-v hunty won complete vindication of his elaims for counsel against Rich- ard A Canfleld when the jury this aft- ernoon at 0 o'clock found a verdict for the plaintiff in Beth actions of the suit.” The total amount awarded is $65,000, from which must be deducted 35000 which Delahunty collected cash and $14,500 due Canfleld money borrowed by Delahunty. Each action was for $32.500; the first for 25 per cent of the collections 'UIRE. pay $406 court expenses. Neither Canfleld nor Delahunty was in court when the jury came in after being out about an hour and a half. Wil Sell Comfpany's Stock. WICHITA. Kans., June 5.—The tee of the bankrupt J. P. jute Company today was dispose of the company's merchandise at Seattle and San'Fran- cisco. Claims agalmst the : §