The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 8, 1906, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1906. WILL LEAD PARTY FOR THIRD TIME Bryan Is Still Regarded as the Moses of the Democracy. Western States Enthusias- | tically Indorse His | Candidacy. | “Safe and Sane” Element| I.)OOkS on Nebraskan With Favor. seems MUGH BAD WATER 1 CONGUMED Health Board Sounds a Further Warning to | the Public. ‘ Many Wells Found to Be| a Serious ‘Menace to Health. Boiling Must Be Resorted To for Long Time to Come. Disregard of the regulations insisted upon by the Board of Health in the use T moment | of not only city water, but that taken wells, causes Dr. W. C. Hassler, nitary chief, to issue an addi- a ] warning to the people of San to be ncisco. Not only must all water x onditions demanded jused be boiled, he declares. but th cav ) nust be a for months ave taken hin his | precaution must be iaken y n Aim &t WS o come if the health of the residents k to preate the |y ¢, pe preserved. e Chemical anal of several wells s from which hundreas of people have| . {been using water shows that they are e dangerous to heaith, even when boiled. s 18 | The ir states that the situation - will b if people do not| orce ) ARKANSAS DEMOCRATS Wieet at Hot Springs Full Nominate a State Ticket. party of he nomi- atorial and n at the follows Jefferson Auditer, . O. Attor- Superin- voted t oner Commissioner, fate Justice, J. C STATE TICKET COMPLETED. ennsylvania Republicans Agree Upon Party Leader: —~The Re- yesterday Henry Houc ck | agreed upon Penrose and ivance of the certain cour- settled as nominated Cable Kills Mill Employe. RED BLUFF, June 7.—Coroner Len- | n left here la last night in re- | SeRNb 50 v stating that ick” Ton ve of the Sierra amber Compa s mill at Lyons- miles east of Toney was killed | ling logs : follow instructions that have been giv- | con- have -just been wells, which have been although they were at one t quaran- authorities, and par- ular attention directed to these s of water as being unfit for use. of these wells is located at 308 oke street. The chemist reports e is a growth of 5000 colonies bacteria in eve thimblefull of wa. ter taken from this well and that it is highly m alized and contains much chlorine, perhaps due to the seepage of bay water. Boiled down into every it meuns that the \\.[l)l'( by people made of the street, on Bernal Th well ha n condemned different occasion and is re being full of organic matt From 500 to 6 day language, is dangerous for use xamination wa 12 Godeau y. The water in the well in Kohl building at Montgomery and ornia streets is reported as being for use commenting on r said the report, Dr. All e waters are unfit to be used, no matter if they are boiled. Especial- he water in : well on Godeau n bad condition. reet People must pay attention to water conditions for m Investigation shows that the S Valley water at sources is absolutely pure tamination occurs after the been received in this city At our suggestion, the ; Company has discontin- of water rom Lake Mer- was not con- picious signs and that it would be upply. original the cor r has unty S 1 want ate that the people are for mselves and that water sup the all important Impure water will cause sick- 0 water, absolutely none, should »e used without first ing been boiled B RL AT S RUEF TAKES THE FLOOR. Gives His Version of Bill Increasing the Power of Supervisors. SACRAMENTO,. June 7.—The Senate liciary committee has expressed ap- oval of the principles involved in proposed constitutional amendment No. 2, which, if passed, will permit of the widening of the streets of San Fran- cisco at a small fraction of the cost that would be involved in action in eminent domain under the law as it exists. The committee, however, is considering ious changes in the proposed amendment as presented for P e, but so far as its concrete P concerned it will be re- ported back, probably today, with the recommendation that it pass. At the request of the committee A Ruef, who is caring for the amendment on behalf of the judiciary committee of the committee of forty, appeared and explained the rheasure. In an- swer to the question -as to why the provision had been included that would permit the San Francisco Board of Su- | pervisors to alter the “terms and con- dition” of franchises and permits on eets to be widened and extended he v for the distance of a block or a few blocks at the outside. | Upon these streets corporations own franchisgs.' They are unwilling to sur- | render their rights, on these streets| unless similar rights that will enable | them to perform their offices are given. Under the present law if a corporation | should surrender its right to a block | it could only secure a like concession | by offering the highest bid therefor.s The fact that all permi® now have to be bid for and sold to the highest bid- der would endble obstructionists to bid for a franchise covering one block and in itself of no value in order to| cripple a corporation with which the obstructionsists are not at peace. The amendment does . not permit of the granting of new franchises except un- der the law as it now exists; it only permits of the granting of rights iden- tical with those that may/ be taken PHILADELPHIA SHOE C0. FORMERLY AT B. KATSCHINSKI PHILADELPHIA SHOE CO. from or surrendered by a corporation PHILADELPHIA SHOE_(0. 10 THIRD ST. NOW OPEN il AT Ry raanecennd | 1549 Fillmore St. [rmuaarm NEAR G EARY NAVY OFFIGERS ENJOY A LAUGH 'Comedy Enters Into.the| Court - Martial of Captain Wynne. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, June Lightning- change testimony by Surgeon Francis M. Furlong of Washington, D. C., garding a headache s suffered three go in Cuba by Captain Robert F. Wynne, in charge of the marine force on the battleship Ala- bama, who is being tried by a chburt- martial on board the Pennsylvania in { rd on charges of insubordination, constituted the feature at the continuation of the hearing. to- Te- rs the Brooklyn navy day. So sudden and surprising were the about-face movements executed by the surgeon in giving his testimony that the usual staid decorum of the military tribunal was rudely upset and the pro- ceedings were frequently punctuated by hearty laughter from the navy officers serving as members of the court. Captain Wynne is a son of the United States Consul General at London. He has seen eight years' service in the Philippines, China and Cuba and has re- ceived honors for gallantry. He is ac- cused of having disobeyed orders to appear before his superior officer on the Alabama recently, and to have used vio- lent language when an attempt was made to force him to go on deck. Yesterday Surgeon in Jay Decker testified that Wynne was irresponsible for his act because of mental derange- ment following a sunstroke suffered by him several years ago while serving in the tropics. When the.court reconvened today Dr. Decker amplified his previous statements, declaring that in his opin- fon Captain Wynne was extremely prone to irritability because of the after-effects of sunstroke, and that he ought not to be helu amenable to the consequences of violation of naval dis- | cipline. In reply Pressy, the judge advocate, the surgeon declared that the captain was not re- sponsible, even when mot irritated. After Dr. Decker concluded his evi- dence E. S. Theall, Captain Wynne's lawyer, rested his e for the accused officer, first announcing to the court that he had decided not to call Surgeon Furlong,» whom he had brought from Washington on a subpena, thinking he was possessed of certain evidence val- uable to the defense. Lieutenant Pr y promptly. asked that he be aliowed to swear the sur- geon for the prosecution. and after a long dispute the court granted the re- quest. In declaring an adjournment to to- morrow morning the presiding officer asked the witness if he could be on hand. He replied “If T had my way | would never have come here at all.” in furtherance of the street widening plan. “The right to alter the conditions of a franchise is asked for one reason: Within the thousands of acres burned over in San Francisco are miles of streets that must be repaved at a cost of many millions. We want to compel the gas, electric and water companies to lay their pipes before the streets are newly paved or else compel them to place the same later in conduits, either near the sidewalk line or” under the sidewalks. As the law exists to- day there is no way to compel them to do this, with the result that a street is no sooner newly paved than it is torn up, with the result that the streets are always in bad condition With this authority granted the streets of San Francisco could always be kept passable, instead of obstructed and cut to pieces, as in the past.” Ruef was requested to supply thc committee with a draft of the proposer amendment containing the change: suggested by the Assembly and pro posed by members of the committee after which it will be taken up, prob: ably tomorrow morning, and be ready for action tomorrow afternoon. AT oo S LAl ‘Will Hear Hulse’'s Appeal. BAKERSFIELD, June 7.—Al Hul convicted and sentenced to lifz impris- onment for the murder of Will Tibbe when McKinney, the outlaw, was pur. sued and Kkilled in this city in 1905 will be permitted to take his appeal t: the Supreme Court. Judge Mahon thi afternoon decided against the peoplc in the objection to the settlement o- the Hulse bill of objections and set to morrow morning as the time for set- tlement of the bill. e X L SRR Calaveras Big Trees. Good trout fishing. Good table. Low hote rates. Splendid scenery over the Sierra Ral. vu{ and ouly $15 for the round trip. Get you ticket from Santa Fe or Southern Pacific agent.* TWO BIG BUILDINGS THAT ARE id to have been | to questions by Lieutenant | THE STILL STANDING AMID THE RUINS MOCNT EGOMERY CKERS FEAR THE LOSS OF TRADE. Say Foreign Orders Have Been Cut in Half Sincit_he Investigation. NEILL TAKES WITNESS STAND ‘WASHINGTON, June 7.—The House committee on agriculture continued its hearing on the Neill-Reynolds meat| inspection repert today. Thomas E. Wilson, manager for Nelson Morris & Co. and representing the large Chicago packers, continued his remarks on the Beveridge amendment providing for meat inspection. Aside from the objections he had pointed out yesterday. Wilson said, the only ‘other serious objection was the provision placing. the cost of inspec- tion on the packers. Before discussing this objection Wil- | son was questioned closely by Repre- sentatives Henry of Connecticut and Haskins of Vermont about the sections intervening between those he found ! fault with last night and that regard- ing the cost of inspection. “Have you been advised since we adjourned yesterday not to make fur- ther objections?” asked Haskins. “No, sir. It so happens that most of the objections are in the first sec- tions,”- replied Wilson. As to cost, Wilson said the packers had serious objections to having this expense placed on them. Representative Henry suggested that the delinquencies of the packers had placed them in the present and inquired why should the packers object to paying if the Government is to “pull you out of the hole.” FALLING OFF IN TRADE. “What is the result on your foreign | trade of $he present agitation?” asked | Wadsworth. { . “The result is very disastrous”™ re- BLOCH. HOUSE DEBATES DRAWBAGK BILL Democrats Try to- Make Cap- | ital Out of Relief * Mcasure. | Special Dispatch to The Call. | CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, | WASHINGTON, June 7.—The question [Ol giving a drawback on building ma- |terials to be used In construction work |at San Francisco led to a spirited de- bate in the House this afternoon. The matter was precipitated by the appar- ent desire of the Democrats to make political capital out of this particular measure of relief. for some time that the leaders on the minority side have been waiting for the California delegation to press the |subject upon the House for considera- |tion with the idea of offering amend- | ments tending to open up the whole tariff question. Representative Need- ham, in fact, could not get assurances from Williams, the Democratic leader, that the relief measure would not be thus embarrassed. When it was evi- dent that the California Republicans would not walk into tne trap the Demo- crats decided to press the issue anyhow. Representative Gaines. of Tennessee started the discussioa today by direct- ing attention to a bill he had intro- duced giving a drawbdck on building materials for San Francisco and twitted the California members for not having urged the adoption of such legislation. Williams also said that the Gaines bill nad not been passed because the mem- bers had been negligent. He proceeded to point out that in the case of Boston and Chicago fires such relief had been secured, while Baltimore failed simply yecauseé she was a Southern city. Representative Kahn replied with a vigorous defense of the delegation. He said that while not only Chicago, but ilso Portland had been given relief, when Boston came up for similar con- ‘ideration it was found that such leg- slation was unconstitutional and- it was for this reason atso'that Baltimore was refused. Kahn said that the peo- »le of San Franciscuy were convinced hat drawbacks for one year, as pro- »osed, would do no good and that the olicy would have to be followed for wo or three years tu be effective. The ‘alifornia. delegation, he said, finding hat they could not have a bill passed hat would result in practical benefit, leclined to ‘“‘chase rainbows.” v Kahn called attention to the fact ‘hat San Francisco had been assured hat orders for structural steel would se given first place by the steel cor- jorations and prices would remain the ame and that similar assurances were ziven that the price of native cement hould remain, as before the disaster. Jn the other hand the prices of im: rorted- cement -had already been ma- .| erially advanced. “In concluding Kahn aid the delegation had determined not o hold out false hopes to the people £ San Francisco, but would let them tnow the true situation so that they ould proceed Wwithout further delay vith their plans for rebuilding. Kahn vas_frequently interrupted _by. ap- Jlause. The debate may coatinue to- MOTTOW- K S . 1t has been evident | MGALLYS TIME GROWING SHORT Commandant of Mare Is- land to Retire in Few Days. Special Dispatelr to The Call. VALLEJO, June 7.—There is: much speculation among Vallejo people who are deeply intérested and among . the naval colony here as to the successor to | Rear ‘Admiral McCalla as commandant of the Mare Island navy yard. McCalla is due to leave Mare Island on the 19th inst., when his term of service will ex- pire by reason of his having arrived at the age limit, 62 years. It is believed that McCalla will hold on for a few months longer, as no one has as yet been assigned to this position. As he has applied to the department to be kept on active duty for two years longer it is the gerferal opinion here that he will hold on until August, when Rear Admiral Goodrich's term as com-’ mander of the Pacific squadron shall have expired, and that Goodrich will be assigned here. Captain B. F.- Tilley, who has the support of the entire Cali- fornia delegation, it is believed, stands a chance of getting the billet. Another officer who is said to have eyes on this most admirable berth is Captain Rich- ardson Clover, who has been on the waiting list since last:December, and who is at present at his country place in Napa County. ST ARGUING REBATE CASES. Counsel for Packing Companies Present _Their Side of the Controversy. KANSAS CITY, June 7.—Arguments in the cases of the Armour, Swift, Cud- ahy and Nelson Morris Packiag com- panies on charges. of accepting rebates on export shipments had not been con- cluded when court ddjourned this after- noon. The Burlington had signed a contract with the packers giving them a rate of 23 cents a hundred from Mississippi River points to New York. During the life of the contract the railway re- ceived its tariff of 35 cents. Counsel for the defendants, in their arguments to- day, took the ground -that when their contract with the railway was signed at the 23-cent rate it was legal, and that the rallway was bound to carry it out. It was necessary to protect their ‘business interests, it was contended, by making contracts of ‘this nature, and the packers were not responsible for the fact that the railway, after agree- ing to ship its products at one ‘rute, which at the time was legitimate, had changed its rates‘later. . “During the day the case against the Chicago and Alton and J. N. Faithorn and F. A. Wann, former officials of that road, charged with paying rebates on packing-house products, which had pie- viously. been: set for trial this month, was contipued until next'fall. SOUTH. — Internal LYNCH _ GOES John C. Lyne R“"‘(: Ls:xke: es to look into ? P ne .0 lool! n '~ :’:l rovonuc'nlfln in’that vi = jeinity, - ]Dlied the witness. | mand for fresh meats and manufac- | tured ' products has been practically | cut in two. Our foreign competitors | are all’ making the most of this and | are getting the benefit of the agita- tion, and we are standing the loss. Under the Beveridge amendment, ‘Wilson said, it would be possible for the Secretary of Agriculture to put an inspector at the elbow of every work- man and charge the cost to the packer. MIGHT CREATE A TRUST. Representative Lorimer of Illinois | suggested that the Beveridge amend- | ment would put out of business thous- ands of slaughterers doing an inter- state commerce business and would result in creating a beef trust in re- ality. Dr. Melvin, chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, was asked incident- ally to state the numbér of Govern- ment inspectors in Chicago. He an- swered seventy-seven veterinary, fifty- nine stock examiners and fifty-five taggers, making 181 in all. In the whole service, he said, there are 733. Neill was then put on the stand. He | said he had worked in a Chicago pack- ing-house for six months while living in a university settlement. Mr. Neill then related a parting inter- view with Dr. Dyson, consulting vet- erinarian in charge, representing the packers. Dr. Dyson, he said, had sug- gested that Messrs. Neill and Reynolds go to Washington, make no report, but inform the packers of the conditions found and suggestions for remedies, then to wait thirty days and come back and see if conditions had not been bet- “Our foreign de- position | |tered. This, he indicated, was to pre- | vent injury to the trade. | SOUGHT TO HOLD REPORT. Mr. Neill said he replied that he was [not authorized to make any trade or |deal: wat he did not know what the President’s plan was, but had come to secure an adequate legislation. Neill followed this statement with a letter he | had received from Dr. Dyson, in which it was suggested a sanitary committee be appointed and that it be given thirty days to accomplish improvements, pend« ing which no reports should be made. Neill denied tne statement of Wilson | that the floors were scrubbed daily. The dirt in some of the rooms was caked on the floor, which had not been washed for weeks. There were some dirty and some clean roor but a clean room | seemed to be accidental and gave the impression that sanitation was net a matter that was looked after in those plants. Representative Haugen of lowa want- ed to know the objection to artificial light. ARTIFICIAL LIGHT INJURIOUS. “We are working right here in this room with artificial light and have fifty | others right in this Capitol.” “My opinion is,” replied Neill, “that no one should be required to work eight hours g day by artificial light.” | Chairman Wadsworth took up the | statement in the report that “we saw | meat shoveled from dirty floors into rotten boxes and pushed from room to room.” | “How do you know they were rotten? Did you test them?” “We felt them and smelt them. There re floors there,” he continued, “which all 't seas could not wash the dirt from. When Lorimer asked the witness if he had any complaint to make as to his treatment as a witness Neill replied that the treatment of the witness (Wil- son) yesterday by certain members of the committee and the treatment of himself today by the same members was strikingly different, especially when the testimony of Wilson, tended to raise a direct question of veraeity between himself and Reynolds and Wil- | son. “That's just what I think, too,” as- serted Representative Lamb of Vir- ia, warmly. this point Henry of Connecticut declared that this report came directly |from the President, who is responsible for it and stands spomsor for it. In view of this it is, he believed, highly discourteous to question it. FAVORS FEDERAL INSPECTION. Neill said. “Some of the questions have been asked an attempt to lead me into statements which I absolutely do not intend to make.” Neill denied that the girls sit down. | “They only have permission. but there is nothing for them to sit on,” he as- serted. Asked to go into the details of his in- structions from the President by Rep- resentative Cromer of Indiana. Neill replied that he was not told to g any- where except Chicago. However, he refused to go into this subject further, a2s he might be compelled to refuse to answer some questions. “Did you have any objection to the manner in which the meat was handled in the girls' room?” asked Lorimer. “I must sa after a pause, replied Neill, “that I was so interested In ob- serving the condition of the workers in that room that I &id not take notice of the produc Neill commended the Government in- spection, but would not commit himself on the State inspection. “It was a mistake to state, as Mr Wilson did yesterday,” he said, “that |the packing houses are open to the | publie. He then described the hog sticking process and said: ‘One man sticking hogs was nearly as clean as [ am; another was covered with blood.” The committee adjourned unmtil 10:30 tomorrow. -o- MAYOR SCHMITZ INDORSED BY TEMPERANCE WORKERS * Closing of Salooms Weets With Come tion of Officers of State Anti-Liquor Organization. RIVERSIDE, June T7.—Stats officers of the W. C. T. U. today in State con- vention elected the following offices President, Miss G. Stickney, Los An- geles; vice president. Mrs. Stella Ir- vine, Riverside; corresponding seere- tary, Mry Mary C. Sampsen, Los An- geles: recording secretary. Mrs. Char- ity E. Way, El Modena; assistant re- cording secretary, Mrs. Emil Schulte, | Fullerton; treasurer, Mrs. Sophia Wood | Plimpton, Riverside. 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