Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-02

had been consigned to the custody of the Ser
geant- alarms had expired, it would not be
necessary to press the application for his dis
charge. So the whole matter went by the
board.
Seeking Legal Talent.
SAN FRANcIseo, March 1st-At meeting
of the w. P. G. Ward Presidents Yesterday
a letter was prepared and addressed to Hons.
Ben Butler and Charles O'Conor, asking
them to attend to the matter of the anti
Chinese law, should its constitutionality be
brought into question before the United
States Supreme Court.
sutrO Tunnel C0mpany-ResiSnatio of
Sutro.
SAN Francisco, March 1st.-At the an
nual meeting of the Sutro Tunnel Company
to-day the following were elected Trustees:
G. W. Brush, +. f. Low, Elliott j. Moore,
AdOlph Sutro, David Kahn, William Irvine
and W. III. Tillinghast. The new Board
elected the following officers: President, C.
w. Brush; Secretary, P. w. Ames; Treas
urer and Registers at San Francisco, Lazard
Freres Register at New York, the Union
Trust Company; Transfer Agents at New
York, Farmers Loan and Trust Company.
Mr.. Sutro's resignation as Superintendent,
rendered last week, was accepted, but his
successor has not yet been chosen, though
Thomas G. Taylor, Superintendent of the
fellow Jacket mine, Is mentioned for the
position. Various reports were read and mis-
cellaneous business transacted. Mr. Sutro
takes up his residence in this city.
The Condition at san -ConcIu.
sions Of IN Observer.
SAN Francisco, March 1st.-The threat.
fot hoe tlty
Kearney and his sand-lot follower, are again
emulating the mildness of the sucking dove
in their Sabbath-daY roarines. Vague ru-
mors of the revival Of the Vigilance Com
mittee are to be credited with their return to
reason, or what passes for it at the sand lots !;
but there is still some apprehension oftrouble
when the time comes for enforcing the con-
demnation of Chinatown. Familiarity with
the metal and methods of the sgitators leads
your reporter to take no stock in these appre-
tensions. He is convinced that neither
among the leaders nor the followers can the
materials for desperate deeds be found. They
are unanimous when it comes to legislating
other peoples rights away, and there are
enough of theEa who would willingly plunder
if somebody else could be found to get up
big disturbance. One hardly knows whether
to regard the people of San Francisco with
pity or contempt. Probably a mixture of
the two is the sentiment that animates all
who have had an opportunity of studying
the men who for now almost three years have
kept this city in constant turmoil, who have
paralyzed its business and checked its
growth. During all that time it has been
in constant dread OF mob violence, and yet at
no time has there been shadow of a doubt of
the ability of the authorities to preserve order.
The present trouble differs only from the dis
turho that hava r1racs1e1 II in tbot bac
been the result of deliberate and systematic
while former excitements have, in
great measure, been spasmOdic and spon-
taneous in their nature. The whole thing
was planned before step was taken. MyS-
terious hints of the formation of a gigantic
secret organization were given out. The
fences and dead walls were garnished with
vague threats of destruction, and in due time,
as if without previous concert, the so-called
unemployed" began their demonstration by
the streets and holding meetings.
The recognized leaders of the Workingmen
were conspicuously absent. Cannon and
Steinman and Mrs. Smith took the lead, out
there is no shadow of doubt that the pro-
gramme was arranged by Kearney and Kali
loch and their associates. Even the men who
were to take part in the procession and the
to be visited were agreed
upon. The following were to some extent
kept in ignorance of the designs Of their
leaders, but even some of them seemed to
realize that they were incorporating. The
object was simply to keep life in the party by
giving the individual members something to
talk about; to inspire vague hopes of accom-
plishing some great advance in their cause
to keep the movement in the newspapers and
in peoples mouths to irritate and excite
capitalists and business men. 1t was prob
ably known to the leaders that the order de-
claring Chinatown nuisance would be issued,
and that certain proscriptive measures would
be adopted by the Legislature. They wished
to make it appear that the Workingmen were
all-powerful TO influence legislation, and to
hatter their ignorant followers by showing
that the whole State stood in terror at their
parades. So far as irritating the business
men here was concerned they have succeeded
better than they expected to. People are be-
ginning to realize that fight and final set
tlement would be preferable to this continual
agitation. The uneasiness, the constant
dread of disturbance, the annoyance of
these repeated alarms, has damaged San
Francisco far more than an open outbreak
would have done. Pittsburg, dreadfully as
it was harried in the summer-of 1877, has es-
capped far better than we have, and not few
of the merchants have arrived at the conclu-
sion that the sooner the atmosphere is cleared
by wholesome violence the better. But the
Workingmen's leaders want nothing of the
kind. In the first place they are arrant cow
ards, and could not be induced to fight any
thing more dangerous than an inoffensive
Chinaman, and in the next it would not serve
their turn to bring things to a conclusion in
this way What they want is constant agi-
tation and disorganization. In settled times
they stand no possible show, but if the up:
roar that has prevailed for the past few years
can be prolonged, there is no telling what fat
things may fall to their share. Already they
have made themselves comfortable places in
the city government and the Legislature.
Some of them expect to get into Congress,
and they have not by any means lost the
hope of securing control Of the State gov
ernment, when, of course, the rank and file is
to be rewarded by employment on public
with short hours, easy work
and big pay as the inducements. In
pursuit of this programme these scoundrels
will keep up their agitation, giving it some
new phase as often as their ingenuity can in
vent one, threatening fearful vengeance on all
who oppose them, but always stopping short
of actual violence. 1t may be inquired, Is
there not danger that they viii lose control of
their following and be carried against their
will into not. Your correspondent thinks
not. They will always yield to display of
power by the lawful authorities, their design
being to get entire control, and when under
the shadow of law to carry out their illegal
ideas. There is far more probability that
respectable people here, disgusted with the
continual agitation, will suddenly take these
loud-mouthed agitators at their words and
erect a galows on the sand lots themselves.
The organization Of the Vigilance Committee
may have only been talk, but the city is ripe
for it, and an immediate repetition Of the
performances of the past two weeks would
probably bring it about. This the Working
men appear to understand, and it is likely
that, unless some unexpected trouble arises
within few days, they will subside long
enough to allow the public to regain its Gus
tomary peaceable condition.
Full Powers -sfrect-sweeping Machine
Discontinued.
SAN Francisco, March 1st-At the meet.
ing of the Board of Supervisors tonight the
Committee on Health and Police reported
ha Il