The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 10, 1907, Page 37

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1907. Legislators Hard at Work at Week’s End Th reatens to i Slice Orange Los Angeles Covets Con- tiguous Portion of Smaller County »‘ CALL BEADQUARTERS, 1007 EIGHTH STREET. R TO, Feb. 5. — Another ht has been passed up to no and Kings f the ring, but tving on the e Stanton intro- | establish & new| s Angeles County with the present ngeles yearns to e Newport own of Naples ne. A warm! it the odds are Kings County, | Assemblyman, has| two floored in the lower Hanford that made | slow-going had a a busy of Santa for mix- and against a hustling includes Phil Ham- comes Angeles s these three F. 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SACRAMENTO, Feb. $.—Governor Gillett refrained studiously from com- mitting himself in any manner on tue| bill appropriating $3,000,000 for *old- ing a world’s fair at San Francisco in 1813 when it came up for discussion by the officers of the newly incorpor- ated Pacific Ocean Exposition Company at a luncheon given at the Sutter Club | today and later before the joint com- | mittee of the Senate and Assembly. The special car bearing the San Franciscans and others interested in the project to commemorate Balbao's exploit and promote California, was several hours late in arriving here, pulling into the station shortly before 1 o'clock. Homer S., King, president of the com- pany, spoke on the project at the luncheon, and brief talks were also made by others present. The Gov- ernor asked questions, but said noth- ing that would indicate whatever views he might entertain on the matter. took He no part in the open discussion the joint Senate and Assembly committee later on. Senator Belshaw ed at this meeting, with Assem- Miguel Estudillo. Martin, the first speaker, sald Governor had remarked to him rnia had probably not shown a disposition to advertise herself until recently. Martin declared that the expo 1 would be ‘the greatest possible advertisement that the State could receive. J. P. Overton, presid of the Bay Countles Association, sald the exposi- tion would speed the rebuilding of both San Francisco and the Panama canal. In the opinion of C. H. Bently, president San Frencisco Chamber of Com- merce, it would be a certain means of attracting a desirable class of labor to California and solve one of the most vital problems now before the State. “The this project is the best recommendation 1ld have,” he added. President F. W. Bilger and Secretary Edwin Stearns of the Oakland Cham- ber of Commerce sustained everything that had been said favorable to the exposition, the latter declaring that ft was not a sectional enterprise, but would benefit the whole of California. BSenator Wolfe, who introduced the bill, explained how the $3,000,000 was not to pe asked of the State until a llke amount had been raised and guaranteed by the promoters of the exposition. Then an extra $3,000,000 would be sought from the National Government. He pointed out that the $2,000,000 asked from the State would increase the tax levy less than four cents. Senator Bel- shaw figured it out and said jt would be exactly 3% cents. Colonel H. Wein- stock spoke at length in favor of the bill. The meeting ended abruptly with- | out any action on the bill being taken by the joint committee, the San Fran- cisco visitors having to leave hurriedly to catch their train. Others with the delegation and at the luncheon at the Sutter Club were: L W. Hellman Jr., Rufus P. Jennings, R. B. Hale, Thornwall Mullally, Nor- man F. D'Evelyn, Frank J. Symmes, Willlam H. Marston, A. Sbarboro, T. E. | Chilberg, John C. Ing, Marshal Diggs, Lieutenant Governor Porter, Speaker | Beardslee, Paul Cowles and D. A. Guernsey, president of the Stockton Chamber of Commerce. PRISON REFORM BILL Estudillo’s Measure Effecting Convicts Passed by Assembly SACRAMENTO, Feb. 9.—The Assem- bly by unanimous vote went on record today as favoring prison reform. There were fortv-nine members present, and all voted for the Estudillo bill, provid- ing for the segregation, grading, ward and punishment of prisoners. Pierce of Los Angeles, who visited | San Quentin recently, as acting chair- man of the §ommittee on prisons and refdrmatories, said he had seen men put into cells at 4 o'clock in the after- noon to remain until the next morn- ing in & vitiated atmosphere. He de- plored the custom of crowding prison- ers together and lald stmess on the need of reform. Under the act proposed by Estudillo prisoners on entering a State penite: tiary would be assigned to grade N 2. For good behavior they would be -promoted to grade No. 1, for bad be- havior they would be dropped to grade No. 3. Each grade would have a aif- ferent uniform and privileges would be granted according to grades. Segre- gation would begin at once, and as soon-as possible /arrangements would be made so that prisoners would be kept In separate cells when not at work or recreation. STANDARD INSURANCE POLICY One Is Submitted by Jones to Be Used as the Basis BACRAMENTO, Feb. 9—The Senate committee on insurance reached a de- cisive vote on a standard form of policy this afternoon and agreed to have the one submitted by O. G. Jones made the basis of its work. Jones is the former Bastern insurance man en- gaged by Senator Frank Leavitt as expert for the committee. He has drafted his form on the standard in use in Massachusetts, but it has been amended considerably at the sugges- tion of the committee to meet the Cali- fornia conditions. Insurance Commissioner Myron Wolf. T. C. Coogan, representing the board of underwriters, and Senator John Cur- tin of Sonoma embodied their ideas of what a standard form should be in separate documents, but the vote taken | by the committee today establishes its preference for the handiwork of Jones. A bill favorable to mutual insurance will be decided upon by Jones tomor- row, after a conference with the Attor- ney General and will be ready for in- troduction on Mondoy. SMYTH'S TROUBLES INCREASE ‘Word of Legislator From Middletown Is Again Called Into Question SACRAMENTO, Feb. 9.—The word of Assemblyman Smyth of Middletown has agaln been called into question. ‘When a special committee appointed by the Assembly questioned him in regard to a signed letter in the Wil- lows Journal dealing in part with a “grunken orgy” on the Burke funeral traln he explained that the objection- able paragraph was added by a drunk- en newspaper man to whom he had dictated the other portions of the let- ter. He didn't know the name of his awanuensis, but the committee learned Parker Dinner Affair of Note Railroad Boss Liberal in Feeding Los An- geles Legislators CALL HEADQUARTERS, 1007 EIGHTH STREET. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 9.—Considerable talk is being heard about the after- dark dinner given at a French restau- rant by Walter Parker to discuss the project of swelling the payroll of Los Angeles.and enable him to provide jobs for some of his fmportuning lieutenants character of the men behind | re- | who were frozen out at the last elec- tion. The Southern Pacific boss wanted to obtain the unanimous oonsent of the Los Angeles delegation to this plan of making the county defray the ex- ypense of his political obligations, and the dinner {s declared to have been conducted in a manner that illustrated that the host did not believe in par- simony when entertaining law makers who enjoyed plenty to eat and drink when discussing municipal ' improve- ments. Senator Charles W. Bell of Pasadena was the only member of the Los An- geles delegation who cared neither for a French dinner nor Parker's schemes as a constructive politician. The exact language Bell nsed in roasting Parker was learned this afternoon, when the correspondence that was exchanged be- tween him and W. N. Thompson, secre- tary of the Los Angeles delegation, was made public. . Thompson wrote: “Senator Charles W. Bell, BSacra- mento—Dear Sir: By order of the chairman, a meeting of the Los An- geles County delegation is hereby called to be held Wednesday, Febru- ary 6, 1907, at 5:30 o’clock p. m., at the French restaurant on K street, near Fifth. This {s an important meeting, and it is imperative that every member should attend, as the new county government bill will be con- sidered. “It is equally important that each member should attend promptly, that the work may be finished, and mem- bers thereafter may attend the recep- tion to be tendered to Governor Gil- lett or the open meeting of the tax revision committee. “Bring your appetite and come pre- pared for work. Very truly yours, “N. W. THOMPSON, Secretary.” re is Bell's reply: ACRAMENTO, Cal, Feb. 6, 1907. “Mr. N. W. Thompson, Los County Delegation, Sacramento, Cal— Dear Sir: Replying to the call for a meeting 6f the Los Angeles County delegation to be held Wednesday, Feb- ruary 6, 1907, at 5:30 o'clock p. m., at the French restaurant on K street. near Fifth, I will state that I regard this an important meeting and impera- tive that every member should attend, as the new county government bill affecting Los Angeles County is to be considered at said meeting. “I have been informed that Mr. ‘Walter Parker is to be the host, and that he will also be there acting iIn an advisory capacity; and I regret to state that for two good reasons it will be impossible for me to attend said meeting. In the first place, I do not care to partake of Mr. Walter Par- ker's hospitality. In the second place, there is no good or sufficient reason why any one outside of the Los An- geles County delegation should be there in any capacity whatever. “Whatever may be agreed upon at said meeting I shall carefully consider, end if the action taken at sald meet- ing meets with my approval I shall be glad to act with the delegation; if not, I will take the matter up before the committee on county government and there state my views. “T also wish to express at this time, without any bitterness whatever, that. in my opinion, the Los Angeles County delegation should be fully competent to arrange matters relating to our county without the advice of any one, unless it might be the legal advice of some one competent to give the same. Very truly yours, “CHARLES W. BEL AN A AN AN AN PG letter declaring that Assemblyman Smyth is a liar and that every word in the Willows Journal letter was set down just as Smyth dictated it. Chairman Wyatt and his associates, Davis and Pyle, have decided to sub- poena Merrill and if necessary the hand of the law will be used to bring | him here. Smyth, who complains of i1l health, has not attended a session of the Assembly for more than a week. It is understood that he has gone home for treatment Free Suffering from Piles _Unnecessary Pyramid Drug Co. Have Found a Per- fect, Quick and Painless Remedy YOU CAN TRY IT FREE ‘We offer you a trial package of the Pyramid Pile Cure absolutely without cost. There is enough in the sample to give great relief. Do not hesitate, fearing that it will harm you. = Not only does the Pyramid Pile Cure cure piles painlessly, but without in- convenlence or the interruption of your business duties. It acts as a healing balm to the irritated membrane of the rectum, giving new life to the dead- ened blood vessels and causing the ul- cerous condition to pass away. 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If.you from this disagreeable, and Tous o u "v‘(’ll continue to use he was referring to J. L. Merrill, a |5} Sacramento reporter, who had gone to San Francisco, Merrill has wu,x;un alnla ;'ii":;f-“-?:fi'hfi"" like the sam- FOUR-TRACK BILL 1§ SUSPECTED Belief Expressed That It Would Stop the Western Pacific in Niles Canyon VOTE IS POSTPONED CALL HEADQUARTERS, 1007 EIGHTH STREET. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 9.—Assembiy- man Transue’e bill permitting railroads to bring condemnation proceedings for four-track rights of way is viewed with suspicion by several legislatods, who fear that it contains some Harriman trick to make trouble for the Western Pacific. The measure cameé up for final passage today, but opposition caused postponement of the vote. Transue ex- plained that the bill ‘merely added an- other rod to the width of the way for which suit may now be brought. The object sought, he said, was to enable electric rallways in Southern California to four-track their lines. Davis of Hollister feared -the bill would enable one railroad to prevent snother from passing through a nar- row canyon. The canyon might be wide enough for two lines, but a double right of way would give one road a monop- oly. Stetson of Oakland suggested that consideration of the bill be made a spe- cial order for next Tuesday. Transue expressed willingnes to oblige, but added, “Southern California wants this rellef. We are badly iIn ueed of such a law.” “I think you can_ wait until next Tuesday,” remarked Devlin of Vallejo. Whitmore of Modesto inguired of Transue whether there was anything in the charge that his bill would shut the Western Pacific out of Niles Canyon. Transue replied that the Western Pa- cific already had its right of way through Niles Canyon. BStrobridge of Hayward Informed him that it had ob- tained right of way for only part of the distance through the canyon. This ended the discussion. The bill was made a special order for Tuesday morn- ing. . SMELLS NOT A WHIFF Darling Says He Is Close to Semators and Detects No Liquor REDDING, Peb. $.—"My conscience is clear, and I don’t care what they say about me,” said Senate Chaplain Dar- ling, who has been in Redding a cou- ple of days on important personal busi- ness. “All this newspaper talk about denying Jesus for $4 a day 1s filling the newspapers, but in Sacramento the San Francisco newspaper correspondents are not looked upon as exponents of the Bible.” Darling says that the greater part of the criticism of the Senate and As- sembly by the newspapers is simply political buncombe and ridiculous. “The stories about the orgies of the legis- lators en route to Assemblyman Burke’s funeral were a pack of falsehoods from’ beginning to end,” sald Darling. “Why, 80 far as the Senators getting drunk 18 concerned, I can say that I get as close to them as anybody, and I have not even smelled the least whiff of liquor on any of them.” randpa Clocks like they used to have in the good old golden times @ \ N Direct from Switzerland, made of hand-carved walnut wood; white numbers and hands; full eleven inches high. A very I Litigation Is Made Luxury Bill Is Presented That Would Keep Poor Out of Court CALL HEADQUARTERS, 1007 EIGHTH STREET. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 9.—A bill, which critics say might weil have been en- titled “An act to place litigation be- yond the reach of the poor,” was in- troduced in the Assembly today by Grove Johnson. 'The father of the measure, however, is not Johnson. He acted merely as a foster parent at the request of the San Francisco Bar Asso- ciation’s committee on amendment of the law. The aim of the bill is to establish minimum rate of compensation for a torneys practicing in the Superior courts of the State. Preceding a schedule that suggests a Sacramento bawber's price card, is a paragraph re- citing that a party in a civil action or proceeding entitled to or allowed costs may recover certain amounts to be ap- plied as attorneys’ fees. Then comes the minimum wage scale. Among the items are the fol- lowing: For filling first pleading, $25; for entering judgmeist, if judgment be recovered with trial on issues of facts, $50; for resisting demurrer that is overruled, $20; 'for each hour consumed in trial of case, excluding time taken by jury for deliberation, $8; for filing findings in case where trial is held without jury, $25; for motion for new trial where same is granted, .$100; for resisting motion for new trial where new trial i{s denied, $50. Modesty must have dictated the next paragraph. “It provides that attorneys’ fees be limited to 20 per cent of the amount awarded to the plaintiff. In cases where the defendant wins he will not have to pay more than 20 per cent of the money Involved or a similar percentage of the value of the prop- erty at stake. Where the judgment does not determine value, the attorneys may go into court and learn what they want to know by making & motion to tax costs. That is not all. There is another schedule of prices, which applies only to practice in the District Court of Ap- peal and Supreme Court. In these places they must get $50 for their first brief, $25 for a reply brief, $25 for a petition for rehearing and $26 for oral argument. The closing paragraph prescribes the require the Best TheGreater San FranciscoCloak Co. competent Fitters-and Alteration Hands on Suits, Coats, Skirts and Costumes Steady Positions-and TheGreater San Francisco Cloak Co. services of Pay formalities which the attorney must observe in order to get the minimum scale. No limit is set on what he may be paid. The bill sets forth merely what he must be given. Legislators representing country dis- tricts, also a few from the citles, think the schedule is designed perfectly to| promote the mortgaging of small homes involved in litigation, and for that reason they are likely to make an organized fight against it. At present the measure is in the care of the committes on judiclary. Grove John- son is chairman of that committes. He sald today that he had not read the bill. It was sent to him by mail, and he introduced it merely &s a courtesy |to the San Francisco Bar Association. Another bill introduced today pro- vides that attorneys appointed by the court to represent indigent defend- ants shall receive from the public funds $25 in misdemeanor cases and $50 in felony cases. SHORTRIDGE ILLUMINATES Beaming Presence Casts Effulgence on Semate for Too Brief Perfod lent Charlle Shortridge, whose thin- inimitable aura, was given | SACRAMENTO, Feb. 9—The excel-| ning blonde hair does not detract tr:hm will ind the lar h privilege of the floor of the Senate t day and admitted he was a His address followed the pra chaplain and had all the tints which are characteri. ridge’s personal equation. the carnations to Lieutenant Governor Porter and his estimable friends, & - ators Eddle Wolf and Frank Lea Then he strummed a plaintive s drawing from his extensive dep reminiscences to illustrate how differ- ently the Senate ehamber was from the one in which he had sat and la- bored. Stenographer and other fair ones on the State payroll almost beamed Charlie when he defended the patron- age grab. The Senators should know their own wants better than the public he declared, and what California need ed above all things was legislators who were impervious to criticism. Short- ridge has not lost the trick of comcoct- ing a forensic pousse cafe. Everybody ‘Wwas refreshed by his address. The only | regret expressed was that rare beings {like this former Senator did not visit the Senate oftener to entertain and irradiate. R S Gotng Up Fillmore street, just above Sutter, you st stock of cutlery in Imore street. - Stoltz's, 1835 Fi too long. “SMITH’S PRICES The subject most discussed today by people who are buying Furniture, Carpets, Draperies, Stoves, etc.,-for the Home, Hotel, Rooming-House or Office. GreatSpecial Sale of Dishes We have 450 sets of these dishes that will be put on sale this week. They may all be sold in one day; don’t wait 40 Pieces Worth $6 TO BE SOLD AT The set is guaranteed to be of superior quality and 89 SET 52 handsome ornament to any room; also keeps correct time. Bought to sell for the holi- days; just received them. $ Rather than keep them for the next holiday season we have finish, decorated with a delicate pattern of roses arranged in wreaths and interwoven with a dainty trace of smilax. The set is composed of the following pieces: 6 6-inch Plates, 6 4-inch Plates, 6 Cups, 6 Saucers, 6 Fruit Dishes, 6 Butter Dishes, 1 Creamer, (2) Sugar Bowl and Cover, i more than cut the price in two. Real Worth $1.00 Jewelers’ Price $1.50 We don’t always sell goods }:elow cost, but here’s where we lose, . For tomorrow, and as long as quantity lasts, No-more than two to a patron. l Joe Rosenberg, ‘ The Price Cuffer, : VanNessatO FarrellSt: Platter. selling Furniture, Car- pets, Draperies, Stoves, Trunks, etc, to the people of San Fran- cisco for man{ uniformly a less price than others. It has paid us in the steady increase of business. Growing! Growing! years at Growing! looking for volume in our business—not a few sales that pay big. We are not the biggest fur- niture house in San Francisco, but we have more friends and cus- tomers than any other. The “Smith Prices” are big trade getters. A. B. SMITH CO. 700-714 Van Ness Ave. Corner Turk Street We Will Be the biggest house in every way if our efforts to sell at “Smith’s Prices” continue to be so substantially appre- ciated. If you “must” trade somewhere else don't pay more than “Smith Prices.”