The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 23, 1907, Page 1

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Jero to Admit at MAGARTHUR SKYS 1Y0R SCHMITZ 5 4 B16 FOOL Labor Leader Delegation That Went to Washington IS MAD ALL THROUGH He Declares Representatives Were Led Like Lambs to §!aughter PRESIDENT IS SCORED Exclusion Leaders Refused to Go to White House for a Conference Archbishop Riordan Opposes Japanese ANGELES, Patrick LOS 22 Feb. w. who has Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco, heen Pasadena for a few days past, here is gquoted in an interview { com- the today om the subject of the Washington on promise at japanese question as follows: “It me - that Presi- appears to Roosevelt has made a se- us in his treatment he guestion of San Francisco's Japanese in the schools. 1 do mot believe sbould be called upon to schools for these people. come here intending Their ideals different. morals are Let provide | themselves, | that we must admit Japanese children up to 16 years I think dent mistake of provision for public that we provide do become They not citizens. Their to flerent. them for “They say of mge into our schools. that our people will mot do it. There are 50,000 Japanese in Cali- formia, T am told. They are still coming and are likely to comtinue the State not have | with to come. Sk deal these to the right people? “The prerogatives of the indi- vidual States have been slipping | a from them gradually, but I think that we shouid still guard ay zealously that inveolved in this i case. President Roosevelt is | wrong.” | “Aw for Schmitz and the other fel-| Jows, the G—d fools didn’t have sense enough to star at home when they to Roosevelt | 4 could have sent word that they did mot mske the laws o and that be would have | CoMfornis, to deal with the legislative body In the Japanese school matter. | “f am so mad that I cannot trust| myself to talk about ft. | “They had to butt in and get things | all bungled up. | «“Ihe President has shown by his scts in recent months that he is not | favorable to Japamese exclusion, and 1t looks as if he even wants to npe.lf the Chinese exclusion law. { «7 have mo patiemce with representa- | tives who will comsent to go into we- eret comferemeces with the President | ym @ matter which so vitally comcerns | thelr comstituents and then say, ‘Oh,| st's all right, boys; we kmow, but we | because we have promised | '—WALTER MAC- | can’t tell, | the President not to. ARTHUR. discussing the outcome of the | recent comference in Washington on the Japanese school question and what | the union labor leaders | take to punish the | and his Board of Education | eir capitulation, Walter Mac- | editor of the Coast Feamen‘lj Journal and recoyhized by the labor | clement as one of its stanchest sup- | porters, denounced the officials in| roundest terms yesterday. | He denounced the members of the | California delegation for consenting | to go into a secret meeting with the | President. He scored Roosevelt for asking that the matter be considered sub rosa and for trying te make al personal matter of a question which concerned the whole people, and he ja unpleasant things of Congress | giving the Presidgent the power to administer the immjigration laws| as he saw fit—power which, sooner or he said, must be taken away n he city would arth r, ot later, Continued on Page 2, Column § me Ready Denounces| - | wind INPEX OF THE { SAN FRANCISCO CALL’S NEWS TODAY TELEPHONE TEMPORARY S6 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1907 WEATHER CONDITIONS YESTERDAY—Cloudy ; maximum temperature, | ; minimum temperature, 52. | FORECAST FOR TODAY—Fair; light west Page 10, EDITORIAL { Too much noise on the front benches. Pago 6 Page 6 | Page & Blind to our own interests. Page 6 | LEGISLATURE | Diplomacy reduced to absurdity. Fire insurance and the law. Senator Leavitt says Guy Earl tricked him in inducing him to introduce Innocent measure that aimed at repeal of railroad crossing bill. Page 1 Salaries of Judges in several counties are | raised Page 3 Assembiy denies reconsideration of the spur track bill. Page 3 Redemption of Republican party pledge for primaries is finally in hands of the Page 3 | hor Senate. JAPANESE QUESTION False reports of abuse of Japanese in this city bamper President in ecarrying out setilement | with Toklo_Government Page 1| Walter Macarthur, editor of Coast Seamen's | denounces Schmitz for attitude at Jap onference in Washington and calls him a Page 1 In interview at Los Angeles Archbishop Rior- | den opposes edmission of Japanese- to sthools and says President’s polcy was wrong. Page 1 CITY Dr. Henry Gibbons Jr., newly elected presi- | dent of Cooper Medical College faculty, scores Dr. Ellinwood for his disposal of $300,000 be- quest. Page 14 Attendance st auto show sets mew record and more cars are gold than on all other preceding days put together. Page 5 Merchants subscribe to fund to keep streets permanently repaired and cleaned. Page 14 Committee five, representing insurance companies, makes Interesting report analyzing San Franciseo’s billion-dollar fire. Page 11 \ Grand Jury to investigate funds of theater proprietors and saloon men which are to go to | Ruef for ‘‘protection’’ purposes, Page 9 Mrs. Oddle 2nd daughter of Tonopah nar rowly escape death in runaway in front of Pal-| ace Hotel. " Page 14 | H. J. Perazi, Schmits veteran in North | Beach campalgns, would fill vacant chair in Po- | Journal of lice Commission. Page 12 | Creston Clarke has wide range for dramatic | ability in new play Page 14 McAllister-street cer, celebrating Wasbington's birthday. tries to enter a saloon, but is stopped by wrecking car. Page 14 | SUBURBAN Maror Mott of Oakland makes appeal to eiti- 2ens to g0 to the polls. Paze 4 Legislators will visit Berkeley today and in- | spect the proposed site for the capital. Page 4 Coeds of State University celebrate ‘‘womsn’s with - regetts, basket-ball games, dance and the publication of The Pelican. Page 4 Candidates for postmastership of Oskland are numerous. Page ¢ Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley cut off from pply as result of strike of drivers. Page ¢ thur Lefkovits, retired mining man of Oak kills bimself as result of estrangement wife. Page ¢ om COAST Work of building Fresno-Monterey Railroad to commence April 1. Page 9 | DOMESTIC District Attorney Jerome ready to admit that | Harry Thaw is insane and mdy ask that White's slayer be committed to the asylum for the crim- inal insane. Page 1 President and Mrs. Roosevelt go to Boston to pay visit to their sons, Theodore and Kermit. P.8 Grover Cleveland the orator at the Union League Club celebration of Washington's birth- day In Chieago. Page § Special limited between New York and Chi- cago\jumps track, injuring @fty-four per- sons Page 5 WASHINGTON League s States to in second annual copvention | s laws as to discrimination Page 2 Congress will limit the power of special agents of the Interior Department. Page 3 | SPORTS Hartwell of the Oakland High School wins | the cross-country. run. Page 6 | Trapsbooters’ League holds initial shoot at | Ingleside. Pege 6 | “Boots” Durnell's crack colt, Temaceo, wins | the Californis Derby at Emeryville racetrack.P.7 Two exciting games of polo are. played at Burlingame between teams representing North- | ern and Southern California. Page 6 LABOR Dual orgapizetion of inside wiremen may be formed by tde Building Trades Council. Page § MARINE i Liner Clty of Panama, the finding of whose | lferafts cansed fears of a disaster, arrives from the isthmus. Page 10 MINING | President Rickey says Sullivan Trust Com- pany will bave assets of $1,000,000 after paying | el its claims fn full. Page 11 | SOCIAL { Members of polo team from south give dinners =nd uncheons at Burlingsme Club. Page & | PLACE YOUR | THIS MORNING Send them to Main Office |{SOURCE A MYSTERY { which will { | founde{l and indiscreet, and the discus- JPMNESE I GROW GHRS 15 LATEST CANARD President Is Disturbed by False Reports of Race Hostility Here HIS WORK HAMPERED Senator Flint Points Out the Harm Done by the Unfounded Rumors | Tales Regarded as Amusing to City Cause Trouble at White House An amusing lot of misinformation is running wild about the streets of the national capital regarding the attitude of San Francisco toward the Japanese residents. The source of this informa- tion is not apparent, but it is evidently causing the officials close to the admin- istration much needless worry. From recert dispatches from Wash- ington it is evident that the adminis- tration fears that San Francisco is on the verge of an anti-Japanese outbreak seriously embarrass the President. The Washington state of mind is particularly hard to under- stand from the fact that no hint of what Washington fears has made itself felt in this city. A aispateh to The Call from Wash- ington, received yesterday, says: “Members of the administration and other officials in Washington, who are interested in the satisfactory outcome of the negotiations affecting Japanese immigration, are somewhat disturbed by rumors that have reached here from San Francisco of hostility to Japanese subjects in that eity. “It was reported among other things that a sentiment was developing there in favor pf separate streetcars for Jap- Officials, while generally dis- | crediting these rumors, deplore further agitation of the Japanese question pending the settlement which the ad- ministration is now effecting. “Senator Flint said: ““It is unfortunate that reports of anese, this character should be sent out just| ° at this time. The negotiations for a successful settlement of the Japanese situation are progressing favorably. President Roosevelt has the matter well in hand, and a satisfactory solution is assured if the administration may be permitted to conduct its negdtiations without @ continuance of unwise agita- tion on the subject. The administra- tion fears that reports of proposed dis- crimination against Japanese in San Francisco, even if these rumors be un- sion of them, may jeopardize the settle- ment which the President is now bring- ing about and might result in an indef- inite continuance of present condi- tions.” " The words of Senator Flint were re- celved in this city with much surprise by those who have interested them- selves In the school segregation is- sue. No city, under the circumstances of the somewhat bitter passage of arms between the school board and the Fed- eral authorities, could have acted more fairly toward its Japanese residents. There has been nothing in the way of a demonstration against the Japanese beyond the hoodlum acts of a few boys: the “Jim Crow” cars have never been mentioned so far as any one in the pub- lic_eye has knowledge. The Anti Vapanese and Korean League has expressed opinions on the | school question and Japanese immigra- tion, but it has never gone beyond mere expression of sentiment. Some of the league are beginning to suspect that an ulterior motive lies in the' sending o@t of false news from this city regarding the segregation ques- tion. ‘When the President issued his mes- sage on the Japanese question the stand of this city and State was grossly mis- represented in the Eastern press, inno- cently enough no doubt; so far as the papers themselves ‘were concerned. Since that time reports have found their way to Washington and else- where about San Francisco gentiment that have been altogether wrong. The anti-Japanese sentiment here is undoubtedly strong and it cannot be downed, but it is not a sentimfent born of malice. The city and State, so the league members say, were not intent upon doing bodily harm to the Japanese or interfering with the business of those of the Mikado's race who were here behaving themselves. ‘The Japan- ese mingle with our people as freely as Ha rry Thaw Is Insane o+ ISTRICT ATTORNEY JEROME probably will aid in estab- lishing Harry Kendall Thaw’s insanity ih order to secure hi committal to the asylum for the criminal insane at Matteawan. SUY EARL TRIES 7000 A TRIGK is | 4 | | May Move to Commit Slayer o 0 Matteawan Asylum § FOR BALACKDS |Such Is Senator Leavitt’s Accusation Regarding + White t Crossing Bill ’ FRAUD IS DETECTED :Innocent Measure Aims ‘ Repeal of Undesirable at Provisio ;SOLON VERY ANGRY . ns i Feels That He Was Handed a Lemon by Oakland Compatriot CALL HEAPQUARTERS, 1007 EIGHTH STREET. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 22.—Uncon- ditional repeal of the anti grade rail- road crossing law is provided by a bill which was introduced by Senator Frank Leavitt of Oakland, but which Senator Leavitt now declares was mis- represented to him by Guy C. Earl, a {San Francisco | figured prominently in the promotion |of fruit transportation projects that havg been assimilated by the Armours. According to eLavitt, who will insist “hat the bill be so amended that it will serve its ostensible aim, Earl fsked him | to introduce a Dbill amending section 1240 of the Code of Civil Procedure, | which relates to the subject of eminent | domain. Thé allegea purpése of the bill was to provide a new section au- attorney who had | thorizing the condemnation of lands { owned or held in t by the United | States for purposes highways, to- | gether with a final section providing | @ method of proc | Leavitt says t was a red |that this beneficent provision was the jonly new matter in the bill and that, lacting on this assurance, he introduced | the measure, which was referred to the | committee on jud ¥ 14 | Today it was called to his attention | that the bill as introduced-did contain | exactly the new matter outlined by hi | informant, but also that by the omis- | sion of several hundred words of mat- ter now contained in the code it re- lleved the railroad of the necessity of providing either undergrade or over- head crossings. | LEAVITT HANDED A LEMON | Leavity was convinced that he had been handed a lemon and promptly pre- | pared to have the bill amended to In- ' | clude all of the present provistons of the code, as well as those provisions for FLORENCE) EVELYN,. NESBIT THEW, Photograph of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw in Her Pose as Mary lkngdelena This portrait is strikingly signifi- cant when viewed with reference to her pitiful testimony under the ruthless cross-examination of Dis- trict Attorney Jerome. NEW YORK, Feb. 22— District Attorney Jerome has informed members" of his staff that Dr. Deemar and Dr. Bingaman, Thaw family physicians, can supply all the | which the bill was ostensibly drawn. i The Oakland Senator is a bit warm under the collar over what appears to have been an attempt to slip through a repeal of an important law, for which he would not willingly be made to stand sponsor. He says that he believes that the law should provide for the con- | demnation of Federal lands for High- | way purposes, and that with the bill | put in honest shape he will support it | The measure which Leavitt Intro- + evidence that is required to prove that Harry K. Thaw suffers from hereditary insan-|ducea was. with the exception of the ity, and that his malady has progressed to such a stage that his recovery is impos-| | added sections, apparently the existing law. A vursory examination would fail sible. On the authority of one connected with the office of the District Attorney the|to disclose anything unusual about it | beyond the new sections, which were statement was made tonight that the prosecution stands ready at a moment’s notice prominently emougn in evidence ana to make a quick switch and ask that® Thaw be committed to the asylum for the criminal insane at Matteawan. also became known that the real cause for much of “the dlssension in the ranks of counsel for the defense arises from the fact that the relaiives of Thaw hold Delmas responsible for laying the foundgjion on which Jerome may proceed to haye the slayer of Stanford White declared insane. Tt has been against the advice of some of his associates that Delmas has introduced much of the testimony tend- ing to show that Thaw was insane | when he shot White. ~The feeting is| held by at least two of his associates’ and as well by the relatives of Thaw. that Delmas went entirely too far along the line of insanity. Few will be sur- prised if Jerome early next week de- wm‘ulqn{ of Dr. Deemar and Dr. Bingman, announcing his in- tention of having an inguiry into the i do 'men of any nationality and the. are not subjected to insult or abuse. 4 \ 1t} There are those who counsel the rela- {tives and friends of the defendant to joffer no objection if the District At- itorney moves to have a committee ap- ! pointed to inquire into the mental con- {dition of Thaw. They believe Jérome | will succeed in so discrediting Evelyn | Nesbit Thaw as a witness after he jintroduces in rebuttal a reputabie witness to testify that at the time the | young woman says.she was made the | victim of Stanford White the latter was not in New York that the effect upon ‘the jury will be dangerous to the suc- ess of the defense. { Thaw has so great a horror of the insane asylum, however,/that he will demand every chance to be taken in open court rather than submit himself to a committee of alienists. Jerome would not admit or deny to- day when asked whether he would move on Monday to have the trial ad- journed while Thaw's sanity was be- ing determined. It was only after his consultation with his assistants that it became known finally that he had de- termined when the right opportunity presented itself to take advantage of the testimony. introduced ' by | the defense and endeavor to force Thaw +* | which were bréught out in the title. !into_the seclusion.of the Asyjum for|But a closer examination disclosed that |the Criminal Insane. | the major portion of the present sub- |~ ‘The opinion was expressed by law- | division 6, which is the anti grade cross- vers that Delmas and his assoclates!ing law so desperately opposed by rail- | have Succeeded far better than they in- | roads, was missing and that emactment i'tended in proving the insanity of Thaw. of the bill would leave the railroads One ‘who has a ‘reputation as a wholly free to 'bulld their crossings ac- medico-legal expert declared he was | cording to their own sweet will. ' The {firm in the belief that Harty Thaw will | matter ‘stricken out of the subdivision | be forced into an insane asylum in the | is as follows: {near future, regardless of the autcome; LAW LEFT OUT OF BILL | of the present trial. 't “No rallroad; main track crossing, 3 i For the first time since his drrest % }last: June Harry Thaw today was able Outside tha limits of any incorporated k;o greet Els wife ‘with no intervening | town, city or city and county, shall be ars.’ -Following early reports that she | a¢ grade, unless the party propesing ~ Thaw appeared at the Tombs in the|Sole cost and expense protect such afternoon,-looking no. more’ wan-‘and crossing by the operation and main- Weak than she dld on the witness stand | tenance of an Interlocking plant with tm Thursday. | sultable signals and deralls; but efther o ——— PIONEER OF 47 DIES |party to such crossing may insist upon ~ SALINAS, Feb. 22.—Wilson Whitlock, |2 separation of grades, in which case :{m \e&:n&uveh:f Maine and Mexican | the cost of constructing such crossing ar Veteran, who had been in Califor- hall b nla since 1347, died at his home near | . iy.s batwor Ende S e e Jolon last night.. For the last twenty ¢ SLAGE Netwasn EecrRINund EatkEtIIY years Whitlock had been justice of the|concerned; and provided further, that :elce there. - In.-the early '60s he had | where any such crossing has been con- ¢ cinco. * Ho'was Jater a deputy sheri SUricted at grade, ciher company may of San Mateo. He leaves a grown-up 2t a0y time thereafier require a sepa- family. - fration of the grades at sush crossing .